Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1877 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THE WAE IN TffE EAST. A telegram from /i Ama, reportu a sixkours’battle n'* r Tuf* 8 # 11 ’ “ whi ch the Russian?, accord, 1 o{ £kinh accounts, were repulsed with th<?<. men. Disease is rapid! ann v I 1 the ranks of the Russo-Roumanian \ The total strength of the invaders in%.ilgaria, including all the reinforcements, is only 230,000. Russia has agreed to pay Scrvia 1,000,000 roubles a month from the time the Servian army assumes t|*e offensive, A dispatch' frpm the Russian headquarters on the Danube the Czarowitz has declared it impossible to winter his army iu Bulgaria unless Rustchuk or some other fortress previously surrenders. The sentence of death passed on the Geshoffs, the English merchants at Philip|x>polis, has been commuted to one of exile. The Hungarians have made a hostile incursion into Roumania. Turkish reports from Schipka represent military operations as entirely suspended by tne weather. Intelligence from Biela states that Suleiman Pasha’s army is decimated by typhus, GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. Advices from the City of Mexico report that the Mexican Congress “has authorized the Government to expend $300,000 in the construction of a factory for breech-loading arms. The Government has contracted for $200,000 worth of Remington arms. The Government has ordered the Collector of Customs at Vera ’ Cruz to remit monthly to the United States $25,000 on account of the payment of the American debt.” ' D. D. Spencer, the absconding President of the collapsed Htate Havings Bank of Chicago, is living in Paris. . In order to check the outflow of gold to America, the Bank of England has raised the price of its gold eagles a half-penny. The Spanish Government has paid the American Minister at Madrid $570,000 on account of claims for losses incurred by American citizens in Cuba through the revolution. Another terrible colliery explosion has occurred in Lancashire, Eng., causing the death of forty miners. Henry Meiggs, the railroad-building millionaire of the Andes, is dead. An American named Bedel took a conspicuous part in the electoral contest in France, and has been expelled from the country by order of the Government. A Paris telegram says that “ Gambetta ha& been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of SBOO for placarding his recent address to the electors of his arondissement. The printer of the address was sentenced to fifteen days’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of $100.” DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Eastt. The statement of, William M. Tweed, submitted a short time ago to Attorney General Fairchild, is made public, and contains the names of twenty-one Senators paid for votes or silence. Col. Forney has sold his paper, the Philadelphia Press, to Col. W. W. Nevin. The price paid was SIBO,OOO. The remains of the late Gen. Custer were interred in the cemetery at West Point, on the 11th inst. One of the heaviest banks in New York is reported to have just taken out $2,500,000 of circulating notes. This move will necessitate the retirement of $1,800,000 in greenbacks. This is said to be part of a scheme on the part of the New York banks for the contraction of the currency. Gilman, the swindling New York insurance broker, has been sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. New York pity has raised SIOO,OOO to defray the expenses of transporting that other needle of Cleopatra’s to this country, the Khedive of Egypt having agreed to donate it to any American city that would take it off his hands. West. The business part of the town of Vacaville, Solano county, Cal., has been swept away by fire. Loss, SIOO,OOO. A singularly horrible tragedy was enacted in a Chicago hotel a few days ago. A mannamed J. M. Gladden, hailing from lowa, murdered a married woman, the wife of one Bell, with whom he had been criminally intimate, by cutting her throat, and then ended his own life by the same means. The Kansas City Times states that grave doubts exist as to the guilt of Joel Collins, who was recently killed as one of the Union Pacific robbers, and his father, a wealthy citizen of Dallas, Texas, has employed counsel to investigate the matter. It is claimed thaj; Collins could not have been present at the train robbery, that he was returning from the Black Hills, where he had sold a drove of cattle for $20,000, and his conduct when captured is accounted for on the hypothesis that he supposed ho had fallen in the hands of robbers, and was determined to resist to the end. Dan O’Hara, a prominent citizen and leading Democratic politician of Chicago, is dead. James Berry, supposed to be one of the Union Pacific train robbers, has been arrested in Callaway county, Mo. The Milwaukee papers report the mysterious disappearance from that city, where he has resided for a year or two, of John M. Binckley, Attorney Genetai of the United States under President Johnson. His mental faculties have been seriously impaired of late. South. Colored Congressman Small, of South Carolina, has been indicted for bribery by a Columbia Grand Jury. The Mayor of the fever-stricken city of Fernandina, Fla., has addressed a piteous appeal to the people of the Northern cities for aid. Internal Revenue Collector Mott and six deputies lately arrested two illicit distillers and seized a large quantity of whisky in Burke county, N. C. While the revenue officers were descending a mountain with their booty they were constantly assailed by a party armed witfi rifles, and all but one wounded. The Odd Fellows’ Hall at Little Rock, Ark., X one of the finest buildings in the State, has been destroyed by fire. Loss heavy. WASHINGTON NOTES. Attorney General Devens wants an appropriation of $225,000 to cover the deficiency in his department during the past fiscal year. The commission appointed to investigate the origin of the Patent Office fire very unanimously agree that the fire was not the work of an incendiary. Ihe demand by business men for silver currency seems to be increasing. The Treasury Department the other day received a telegram from a prominent firm in New York, offering to pay greenbacks to the amount of $30,000 for so much silver coin. The department replied that the Government could not spare so large s snm in silver.

The Democratic sentinel.

JAS. W. McEWEN, Editor.

VOLUME I.

The President has accepted an invitation to attend the Virginia State Fair on Oct. 30. The President and several members of the Cabinet attended the Maryland Fair, at Frederick, last week. An important decision has been rendered by Secretary Schurz, which confirms the title to their lands of many thousands of settlers on the line of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad, and firmly fixes them in the possession of the homestead which they have cultivated and improved. The Democratic caucus for the nomination of officers of the House of Representatives was held on the evening of Saturday, Oct. 13, Hiester Clymer, of Pennsylvania, presiding. For the Speakership, Randall, Sayler and Goode were nominated, the names of Morrison and Cox having been previously withdrawn from the contest. Randall received the nomination on the first ballot, the vote standing : Randall, 107 ; Goode, 23 ; Sayler, 12. The caucus made the nomination unanimous. John G. Thompson, of Ohio, was renominated for Sergeant-at-Arms by acclamation. Adams was renominated for Clerk on the first ballot. There were three ballots for Doorkeeper, resulting in the choice of Col. Polk, of Missouri. J. M. Stewart, of Virginia, was nominated on the first ballot for election as Postmaster. Rev. Dr. Poieel, of the Southern Methodist Church, was nominated for Chaplain. POLITICAL POINTS. Senator McDonald, of Indiana, in an interview the other day, stated that Democratic Senators generally, he believed, would vote to confirm Hayes’ nominations, and that Butler will be seated from South Carolina without much opposition. The Democrats have carried Ohio by a majority of about 25,000, and secured a majority in the Legislature of about forty on joint ballot, which insures a Democratic United States Senator in place of Stanley Matthews. In lowa the Republican majority is between 40,000 and 50,000, and the Legislature largely Republican. A large meeting of New York Republicans, called for the purpose of indorsing President Hayes, was held in Cooper Institute one night last week. Prof. Dwight, of Columbia Law School, presided. George William Curtis was the principal speaker. Resolutions strongly indorsing the national administration were adopted. • At a meeting of the Georgia Republican State Committee, held at Atlanta, the other day, the members almost unanimously voted to disband their organization. The German and Independent Citizens’ Committee, of New York city, have resolved that neither the Republican nor Democratic parties are worthy of confidence, and placed in the field a separate ticket for State officers. MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. A recent dispatch from Mesilla, New Mexico, says : “An armed mob of 400 Mexicans — 100 from the Mexican side of the river—have possession of the county of El Paso, in Texas, fifty miles below this place. The mob threaten to massacre all the Americans. They have arrested and imprisoned the county officers. Several prominent citizens have fled from the county. A small detachment of the Ninth United States Cavalry started for the scene of the trouble to-day, to protect the United States Custom House and Government property. The Mexicans claim that El Paso county belongs to Mexico.” The authorities at Washington have information touching this alleged invasion, to the effect that it is not an international quarrel, but a purely local affair, growing out of the disputed rights of the parties in reference to tho possession of some salt mines in that region. A New York dispatch says “the new schedule of freight rates on all Western-bound traffic,as agreed to by all the railroad lines, abolishes all special classes, which are merged into the fourth class. The rates established are on a sliding scale, and will shortly be increased, as they were not fixed for any definite period. Among the special instructions to freight agents are that 20,000 pounds will constitute a car-load, unless otherwise specified, and where special class rates are made on articles or carload lots, they must be understood to mean 20,000 pounds or more of each article named, and freight must be delivere 1 on the same day and be all for one consignee.” The managers of the railway trunk lines, at a conference in New York, the other day, decided to advance rates on West-bound freights 33X per cent. One hundred stone-cutters have sailed from New York for London. Tho men are engaged for one year, their pay being 9d. an hour. Another company of 100 is to follow. The Woman’s National Congress was in session at Cleveland last week. Miss Abbey W. May presided. Tucson (Arizona) telegram : “ A most serious and threatening state of affairs exists at El Paso, Texas. The entire lower portion of El Paso county is in possession of the mob, and Americans throughout the county have afikndoned their homos and fled to El Paso for safety. Judge Howard, who killed Louis Cordis, succeeded in making his escape to Messilia, where he still remains. Cordis is said to have been the leader of the mob, who are all more desperate and threatening in consequence of his death. A largo number of outlaws are encamped near the county-seat. They declare they will fight the troops if the latter attempt to make arresst. Judge Blaker isen route from Fort Plavis with troops to restore order.” Hon. Edwards Pierrepoint, United States Minister to England, has tendered his resignation, to take effect Dec. 1.

How the Czar’s Soldiers Obey.

Of the Russian peasant’s military discipline and unquestioning submission to his superiors, says the Examiner, a characteristic proof was afforded to some correspondents with Col. Yolschine’s troops on their way to Warsaw after the rout of the Poles under Lelewel, at Batorsch, in August, 1864. One of the officers was especially loud in his praises of the discipline of the Russian soldier; and, to prove the truth of his assertion, he called one of the men out of the ranks, and saying, “Ivan, it is my pleasure to punish thee,” dealt him a sounding box on the ear and sent him back again. The man simply saluted and obeyed. At the remark that it would not be surprising if the officer were to be shot in the back at the first engagement, he laughed, and called Ivan forth again, and said to him, “Ivan, why did I punish thee just now?” “I don’t know,” was the reply. “But you know I must have had a reason for it.” “Of course,” the man answered, you must have had an excellent reason *3 j -1 x * es >” observed the officer, “I did it to prove to these gentlemen here, our old enemies of Sebastopol, that the Russian soldier is unapproachable for discipline by any other nation Was I not right?” “By God! master, you were,” replied the man, with a broad grin of triumph. There is no exaggeration in these incidents. The endurance —a sort of submissive fatalism—of the

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common Russian is most remarkable. It is, in fact, more or less a special feature of Tartar and Sclav; and, being thus indifferent to suffering themselves, they are indifferent to it in others. END OF THE NEZ PERCES WAR. Details of the Defeat and Surrender of Chief Joseph’s Band—The Savages Surrounded and Compelled to Lay Down Their Arms. The special correspondent of the Chicago Times sends from Fort Benton, Mont., the following particulars of the surrender of Chief Joseph’s band of Nez Perces savages: ‘ ‘ The capitulation occurred at 2 o’clock on the afternoon of the sth. The savages gave up' their guns and ammunition, passing in silent review before Gen. Miles, and accepting an unconditional surrender. The troops at once occupied the Indians’ intrenchments and the first victory over the redskins during the past two years was signalized. In the charge upon the Indian camp on the first day sixty-four officers and men were killed and wounded. After the camp had been surrounded, and the soldiers had secured defensive positions, only four casualties occurred. The soldiers closed in upon the savages slowly but surely, after the first day all the time extending their line of rifle-pits. It was the purpose of Gen. Miles to lose no more men in the attack. How admirably the plan succeeded is already known. On the last day of the fight the troops had succeeded in securing a position which commanded the stream which flowed in front of the rifle-pits occupied by the enemy, and had the battle lasted another day their supply of water would have been exhausted and a surrender have become imperative. On the fourth day of the fight Joseph raised the white flag for the third time, and, through an interpreter who advanced toward the camp, offered to surrender, provided they Were allowed to keep their guns. Miles sent word back that he must surrender without any reserve, and the battle was taken up again. The white flag was displayed again on the fifth and last day of the engagement, when Joseph appeared in front of his lines and advanced to meet Gen. Miles, to whom he tendered his gun. He was followed by sixty warriors who also turned over their arms and shook hands with Miles as they passed. When the troops entered the'rifle-pits forty warriors were discovered disabled by wounds. They were removed to the camp hospital, and received all the attention which was given to the troops. The number of Indians killed is not known, as they had already buried their dead. It is supposed that they lost an equal number with the Sioux. Gen. Miles left at noon yesterday for Tongue river, taking with him his dead and wounded and the surrendered band. Gen. Sturgis did not arrive in time to take a hand in the fight, and the glory of the magnificent attack rests with Miles. “ Gen. Howard with an escort of seventeen men arrived on the field on the morning of the surrender. His presence there was not understood, and he made no attempt to assume command. He left his small force of infantry at the Missouri river, and with his small escort of cavalry proceeded to the scene of battle. The intrenchments occupied by the Indians were admirably constructed for a defense. They occupied iu all over 160 rifle-pits, which communicated with each other, so that assistance would be rendered if necessary. The squaws fought by the warriors, took care of the wounded, and buried the dead. When the history of the unparalleled march of the Nez Perces is written they will be accredited with great gallantry in the field and a wonderful humanity. Their defense could not have been excelled by any body of men, nor their generosity. Seven wounded men lying under the intrenchments during the entire battle live to corroborate this. They took away the guns and ammunition from the disabled troops, but did not offer to molest them. ”

Enormous Timber Thefts. The Land Commissioner has, during the last year, made a thorough investigation into the timber depredations upon public lands. These thefts have taken place almost without punishment ever since the abolition of the timber agencies in 1855, and up to last year there has been no practical attempt to put an end to the wide-spread abuse. The in-, vestigations of last year have resulted in 200 criminal indictments in Minnesota, the most important of which was a test case decided on yesterday in which the Government recovers a judgment of half a million of dollars in one case, and in others sums amounting to nearly a million. Reports from the special agents show that depredations of this character have been committed on the Pacific coast to the extent of fifty or sixty millions of dollars. This report bears the date of San Francisco, Sept. 29, and merely gives a general outline of the results already obtained by this special investigation. The agent in his report says : “ The depredations in and around Puget sound, Washington Territory, will aggregate $40,000,000 since 1855. Those at the mouth of the Mendocino, Noyo, and Little rivers and at Coffey’s cove, all pointe on the coast north of Point Arenas, will sum up not less than $20,000,000 in the same period.— Washington Cor. Chicago Times. Death of a Noted Man. The announcement is made that Henry Meiggs died at Lima, Peru, Sept. 29. He had been sick for some three months, having had two strokes of paralysis, and his final malady is said to have been softening of the brain. Mr. Meiggs was born in 1811, at Catskill, N. Y. He made a fortune in the lumber business in New York city, but lost it in the panic of 1837. In 1848 he went to San Francisco and engaged in the same trade, employing a large number of men. His immense business was prostrated by the panic in that State in 1854, and to save himself he resorted to questionable proceedings which obliged him to secretly leave the State. He next turned up in Chili, South America, where he took an enormous railroad contract, making a profit in two years of $1,326,000. Subsequent enterprises connected with railroad building in Peru increased his fortune, and he settled his indebtedness in California. The Legislature of that State, by special act, restored him to citizenship, and invited him to return. His South American railway contracts were on a stupendous scale, exceeding the most famous builders of Europe or America. In 1870 he contracted with Peru to build six railways for $125,000,000, and was engaged in completing the last of them when prostrated by sickness. His demise may increase the financial difficulties under which Peru is now laboring.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

NO GREAT STANDING ARMY.

This Country Will Never be Governed by Military Power. [Judge Black’s Letter to the Editor of the Pittsburgh Post.] James P. Babb, Esq. : My Dear Sir — It is quite out of the question, with my present engagements, to write fully on the labor question, or even to give, as requested, a few thoughts which arise from a superficial look at the situation. I have barely run over the article of Col. Scott, which is characterized by his remarkable ability as a practical man. He means business, no doubt. I should like much to hear from Mr. Gowen. He has all of Scott’s fidelity to the interests of the corporation he leads, is his equal in energy and force of character, while he looks through all human dealings with a more learned spirit. Besides, there are others who ought to enlighten the public mind. Have you read the article entitled “Fair Wages,” by a “Striker,” in the last number of the North American Review ? He makes some suggestions that ought to be considered and thought of before they are altogether rejected. Of course I have no conception who the writer is, but, judging by ins production, I expect to see him a power. It cannot be necessary to tell you or any other sensible man that this country will never consent to be governed by a standing army until the people make up their nunds to abandon republican institutions utterly, and submit without murmuring to an absolute despotism. The enemies of liberty on both sides of the water have offered many excuses for maintaining large armies in time of peace, but never anything so weak as that they set up now. Hundreds of thousands of laborers find themselves unable to protect themselves and their families from starvation, and they become turbulent, as every other people has done under the same circumstances. To maintain a standing army for the purpose of keeping them in order is the worst remedy that could be devised for the evil. This reduces the workingman to a state of mere slavery, where the bullet and the bayonet of the soldier come in place of the overseer’s lash. If they submit they will be fit instruments to make slaves of us all. If they resist, civil war will become the chronic condition of the country. The United States has no right to intermeddle with this business except in certain contingencies, well defined and carefully provided for in the constitution. The old excuse that these limits ought to be disregarded because they confine the powers of certain persons within limits inconveniently narrow, is not one which ought to find acceptance in the judgment of a free people. But if the General Government must settle the controversies between the railroad corporations and their laborers, let its interference take any shape but that of a standing army; for that would be not only cruel and dangerous, but the most expensive that could be adopted. I believe none of these corporations think that less than a hundred thousand men would serve their purpose ; and that is a gross miscalculation, for three times the number would hardly be sufficient. It would be much better, easier, and cheaper to take out of the Federal treasury as much money as will pay the railroad employes fair wages and let the corporations have the fruits of their labor as clear gain. Of course, I don’t say that we ought to be taxed to free the railroad companies from the burden of paying for the labor they employ, so that they may increase their profits or be saved from losses, but we had better do that than worse. Yours truly, J. S. Black.

THE OHIO VICTORY.

[From the Cincinnati Enquirer.] The Democracy of Ohio send glad greeting this morning to the National Democracy, and proudly lay upon the Democratic altar, as their nobly-earned and joyfully-tendered gift, their garland of everlasting, the Empire State of the West. We sound the loud timbrel this morning, and send the glad tidings to more than 4,000,000 of Democrats in the land that yesterday laid securely the foundation of permanent Democratic dominion in the Union. Three hundred thousand Ohio Democrats have fought the battle bravely and have won a glorious victory, whose far-reaching and beneficent results cannot be hemmed in by the border lines of any State, and will not cease with this generation of men. We have elected our State ticket and chosen a Democratic Legislature, and carried the county of Hamilton for nearly or quite the whole of our ticket. Mr. Bishop is probably elected by a plurality of 20,000 votes. The Democratic majority in the Legislature cannot be stated exactly, but it is easily Democratic. The Republican vote, as we predicted it would, has fallen off largely everywhere, while the Democrats have brought out Mearly their vote of last year. It has not been a battle between leaders; it has been the more significant struggle between ideas. The Republican party, plethoric with ill-gotten spoils, kingly by a patronage which nothing but lofty patriotism and intelligent suffrage can resist, appeared before the people of the State pleading for a popular perfecting of the Presidential title, and an indorsement of the Returning Board method of choosing Presidents as a precedent; and Ohio—Hayes’ own State—indignantly refuses, in the name of civil liberty, to sully her lips with the atrocious verdict. The Democrats of Ohio, taught last Navember, or last March, almost to believe that suffrage was an empty bauble, which fraud, in the name of law, could at any time dash to atoms, with heroic hate, sometimes a sublime passion, swore a lasting revenge at the polls for the wrong that was done, and made one page in our history glow with the record how that oath of hate was kept. This was the nature of our battle against odds, and the significance of the triumph must be measured by these facte. The fruits of the victory are the permanent possession of this people’s realm. This is Ohio’s gift to the Democracy on this continent. Men saw in 1873 the power of 817 Ohio votes. The people’s branch of the Congress followed ; a majority of States swept into line; but that triumph was not complete. It was the first soft sunny day that announces the breaking up of winter and the noiseless coming of the spring-time. Some shivering days were inevitably to be dropped down after ward, but the summer was surely to come when all the valleys, like vast basins, should be filled with golden sunshine as with wine. The Ohio idea has conquered at last, and lastingly. The

full summer of power is at hand. Th long dominion of the national Democratic party is secured. Not only this, but Ohio herself is lifted to a place of command in our national affairs. She sits between the lake and the Ohio, empress of our politics, with the assurance of long-continued power. She has earned the laurels of the land in the great councils of the party, and her bugle note from October to October through the rolling years will marshal the States to the prolonged and kindly sway of the true Democracy. She has redeemed herself, and, in so doing, has redeemed the nation and given it back to the Democratic idea in which it was conceived, born, baptized, and in which its robust youth and early manhood were nurtured. Ohio will presently send another Democratic Senator to Washington, worthy to wear the mantle, and Ohio’s real voice will be heard in the higher branch of Congress.

A Massachusetts Democrat on M Fraud.’’ By the votes of the people Samuel J. Tilden was elected President of the United States. And yet to-day another occupies that office. It is needless to discuss the means by which this great defeat of the popular will has been accomplished—it is all written in our country’s history. There it will stand forever, teaching its sad lesson, sounding its solemn warning. 1 will not revive issues upon which, for anxious weeks of discussion and distress, and alternate hopes and fears, the peace of the country and the perpetuity of her institutions seemed to hang. Those issues have been decided; they concern us now only as they bear upon and shape our present duties. By a tribunal abnormal, springing from the terrible exigency of the moment and sanctioned by the people, Mr. Hayes has been declared President. He has been in due form inaugurated. However sharply we may criticise the proceedings of the Electoral Commission, however deeply we may deplore and abhor the palpable and disgusting frauds which made that commission necessary, it seems to me that its action must be regarded as final and conclusive. Mr. Hayes is and must be accepted as President. Failing so to recognize him, the Democracy as a party would lose that patriotic and grand position, rarely surpassed in history, which its past action has secured. Whose heart has not swollen with just pride and deep emotion as he has contemplated our country emerging out of this Presidential controversy without revolution, without civil war, without anarchy, disorder, or confusion —without even derangement of administration—and with hardly more of external excitement than attends any hotlycontested election ? And to whom is the country indebted for this result ? To the Democratic party.— Hon. Charles T. Russell, President of the Massachusetts Democratic Convention.

Blighted Statesmen. How unfortunate these railroad jobs are to Republican statesmen. How recent is the sad fate of that model of goodness and grace, Schuyler Colfax—how his lies and tricks found him out, and how ho is now out in the cold with none to do him reverence except Young Men’s Christian Associations and a few of the kind that believe in Henry Ward Beecher. He came near being President, too—would have got the next nomination of the Republican party but for the premature exposure that blighted his blooming prospects. There was Fremont, another Republican favorite son. He came nearer being President. He got the nomination, but the party oould not poll votes enough to seat him, and at that early day had not learned the counting trick. He got a sentence of condemnation from a French ccurt for putting forged and fraudulent railroad bonds upon the market, and if he •ver sets foot in France he will have to serve out his time within a prison’s walls. And there is the favorite son of Maine. He, too, got into trouble about railroad bonds, and had to steel the.papers wliich convicted him of malfeasance in office tom Mulligan, after begging Mulligan on his bended knees to spare him and his innocent family. Now honest John, the last hold of South Carolina Republicanism, the “last button on Gabe’s coat,” and the thorn in Hampton’s side, and about the last of the Republican majority in the United States Senate, is in danger of losing his liberty.— Wilmington (Del.) Gazette.

A False Guide’s Fate.

Lieut. Robert Black, in the Philadelphia Times, relates the following incident of Col. Dahlgren’s famous raid around Richmond: “We now learned we were about three miles from Dover Mills and ten miles below Columbia Mills. Our guide, the negro spoken of in the first part of this narrative, and who had been assigned to this expedition, misled us during the night, and, to obviate the delay of retracing our steps, Col. Dahlgren, on the representation of the guide that an excellent ford was to be found at Dover Mills, concluded to cross at that point. After two hours’ halt we again moved on and reached Dover Mills, but only to meet disappointment. The negro had 'deceived us; no ford existed at this point, nor was there any means of crossing the river. He then stated that the ford was three miles below; this was most obviously false, as the river was evidently navigable to and above this place, as we saw scows and a sloop going down the river, and it would seem impossible that he should not know that no ford existed in the neighborhood, where he had seen vessels daily passing. Col. Dalhgren had warned him that if detected acting in bad faith or lying we would surely hang him, and after we left Dover Mills and had gone down the river so far as to render prevarication unavailing, the Colonel charged him with betraying us, destroying the whole design of the expedition and hazarding the lives of every one engaged in it, and told him that he should be hung in conformity with the terms of his service. The negro became greatly alarmed; stated confusedly that he was mistaken; thought we intended to cross the river in boats, and finally said that he had aone wrong and was sorry, etc. The Colonel ordered him to be hung; a halter strap was used for the purpose, and we left the miserable wretch dangling by the road-side. His body was afterward cut down by the rear-guard.” Why is a man who has got up an hour after 7 like a man with a vegetable time-piece ? Because he has got a potato clock (got up at eight o’clock).

EXPERIENCE. AGAINST CONTRACTION.

[From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.] Frequent reference is made to the French financial system in connection with the wonderful recuperative powers of that nation as shown in the events since the close of the war with Germany. Starting after a disastrous war, and with all departments of Government disorganized, France, during an interval of great financial depression in Germany, England and the United States, not only anticipated the extraordinary demands made upon her, but maintained the industries of the people and made a better financial record than the nations that had been prosperous when she was prostrate with industrial and manufacturing interests paralyzed. The extraordinary spectacle of a nation rallying so promptly from disaster, and devoting itself so earnestly to the work of building up all interests that contributed to substantial prosperity, has invited study while it has called forth admiration. The inquiry as to the causes of prosperity in France, when all the circumstances seemed to point to a period of great distress and depression, has been an interesting feature of financial discussion in this country for two or three years. Among the more recent and most interesting contributions to our knowledge on this question is a carefully-prepared paper by the Hon. Wm. D. Kelley, published in the Philadelphia Times, Among the essential facts preliminary to the general discussion, Mr. Kelley calls particular attention to two : Under all changes of dynasty and forms of government the labor of France has been protected by the most elaborate and ingenious tariff and system of prohibitions ever devised. The patronage of art by the Government, the diffusion of a love of art and the knowledge of its laws among the producing classes, secures a market for French fabrics and wares when the home and foreign markets of other nations are shrinking. This blending of art with utility not only secures France universal markets, but enables her to sell abroad imponderable things, such as genius, taste, art, and skill. Mr. Kelley believes that the distinguishing characteristic of the financial policy of the French Government is found in the fact thatit assumes the duty of preventing alternate periods of inflation, and their inevitable consequent intervals of contraction. To accomplish this end, whenever war or other exigency has caused the issue of irredeemable paper, it has invested such issue with the character of legal tender, or, in other words, made it available for all purposes to which money could be applied in France., In such cases the Government has also taken measures to prevent the withdrawal of the paper money until a continuous balance of trade had brought into the country metallic currency enough to supply the channels temporarily filled by the paper money. The Government maintains its power over the money of the country by demanding a slight tax upon circulation, whenever it authorizes a bank to issue notes, and pays the bank but 1 per cent, on the amount of notes loaned it when first issued. Great Britain and the United States restrict the volume of legal-tender money to the narrowest possible limits available as a basis for bank circulation. “France seeks to give the whole people money; we, following the example of England, seek to compel them to use credit or currency obtained through banks at such rates of discount as may prevail. ” The fact that France has been prosperous, while England and the United States have experienced periods of financial depression, speaks well for the French system. The last war experience of France was peculiar. In April, 1870, three months before war was declared, the circulation of the Bank of France was $288,750,000, and it held of specie and bullion $261,550,000. In August the Government required the bank to suspend specie payments, and by the same decree made its notes a legal tender. The first statement published after peace had been restored showed a circulation of $442,000,000, with $110,000,000 of specie. The decree of legal tender fixed the maximum of the issue of the bank at $480,000,000. This was increased by law of Dec. 29, 1871, to $560,000,000, and finally, by the law of July 15, 1872, to $640,000,000. This is the bank record, and the question at once occurs, what effect had the issue of this vast amount of paper money on the premium on gold ? In November, 1871, when a large payment on the war fine was due, the premium on gold rose to its highest point, 21 per cent. It remained at this but a few days. When the irredeemable circulation had been increased from $460,000,000 to $490,000,000, the premium fell to 1 per cent, and in October, 1873, when the volume of notes had actually reached $614,000,000, the premium was merely nominal, and was only demanded on large sums. Legal tender, gold, silver, and paper money were then circulating in common, and at par with ea«h other. This in itself answers many of the arguments of the contractionists, but there is another important point, a striking illustration of the harmony of the interests of the Government and the people, a something that very many people lose sight of in this country. The war fine amounted to $1,100,000,000; the total cost of the war to $2,000,000,000; the direct loss to agriculture was about $800,000,000. Yet the last payment on account of the war was made Sept. 5, or in two years and four months after the conclusion of the treaty of peace. The Bank of France is now burdened with an excess of gold, and holds in addition, it is said, $100,000,000 of silver, which, like gold, is legal tender; yet the law will not permit the bank to resume specie payments until Jan. 1,1878. The bank pays now, and has paid for nearly two years, in gold or silver, sums of 1,000 francs or less, and, to escape the tax on circulation, would have resumed more than a year ago had the Government consented. The latest returns as to specie held by the different nations show that France has, by the aid of paper currency, by which the industries of the nation were kept active, accumulated nearly $100,000,000 of gold more than the united stock of the banks of England and Germany. It has been the fashion lately among the contractionists to quote largely from the past financial history of England. Mr. Kelley seems to have given them a sweeping broadside by quoting from the financial history, past and present, of France. He concludes his article with the following pertinent question: In view of these facts, may not the stricken

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people of the United States wisely order a halt in the work of contraction, and, following the example of France, demand the repeal of the Resumption act, the remonetization of silver, and the maintenance of the existing volume of our legal-tender paper money, which measures will enable them to go to work at honest wages, and to earn the gold and silver with which, in due time, we can, if desirable, resume specie payments ?

KEELY’S HUMBUG.

The Motor Pronounced a Delusion by Scientists and Experts. [From the Philadelphia Record.] For the past.six years the Keely motor has gained no little notoriety, but never, as yet, has an opportunity been afforded the curious scientist for a critical examination of the machine ; so that many have been led to believe it was destined at some day, not very far in the future, to supersede steam as a motive power. Recently several of the most- eminent mechanical engineers have been consulted on the subject, among others one who has been employed by Keely, and who does not hesitate to declare the whole thing a delusion, utterly devoid of scientific merit. • One of these gentlemen states that in 1871 John W. Keely inserted in a newspaper in this city an announcement to the effect that he had discovered a new motive power, consisting of a hollow sphere, which revolved rapidly, as he declared, automatically. As it was well known that Keely was not a practical mechanic, his statement was received with considerable caution, and, being finally found to be of no practical use, it soon dropped from the public mind. The next thing he attempted was a hydraulic motor, which he termed a “hydro-pneumatic pulsating vacuum engine.” In this he claimed that the only force exerted on the machine was water from an ordinary hydrant; that this water had to create a vacuum in the machine, had to actuate a pulsating diaphragm, had to operate a piston in a cylinder, to raise weights and to turn a crank shaft, which was to give out more power than the water itself possessed ; but this scheme was pronounced utterly fallacious, being based on a contradiction of all physical laws. About this time Keely applied for a patent on the “hydro-pneumatic” engine, but from the fact of his never having produced the required working model it was abandoned as impracticable. Then followed what he termed the “Keely motor,” evolved by expulsion from a multiplicator or generator, without the aid of any chemical compound, heat, electricity or galvanic action. The only means he employed, according to his own account, was the introduction of atmospheric air and a limited quantity of hydrant water. By this simple process he claimed to be able to send a train of cars from Philadelphia to New York, the sole motive power being a quart of water in his multiplicator, which produced a vaporic substance. This scientists declare to be nothing more than the compressed air, compressed by the hydrant pressure, which it made powerful by proper machinery. But mere pressure is not motive power—it is a resultant of it. According to the best accounts Keely’s motor does not possess any power whatever, and can never be applied to any practical use. The pressure is not continuous, and onlv exists for a short time, while the machine is not automatic in the same sense that a steam engine or other motor is, and he has so far utterly failed to show a continuity for more than fifteen or twenty minutes at a time.

Harbor Estimates.

Gen. Humphries, Chief of Engineers, has submitted his estimates for appropriations for river and harbor improvements for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1879. The 'entire amount asked for is $13,302,600. The following are the estimates for river and harbor improvements in the Northwest: Improving Missouri river at St. Joseph, SBO,OOO ; improving Missouri river at Nebraska City, $75,000 ; improving Missouri river at Yellowstone river, $30,000 ; improving Mississippi river between Illinois and Ohio rivers, $500,000; improving Upper Mississippi river, $91,000; removing bar opposite Dubuque, $25,000 ; Burlington harbor, lowa, $25,500 ; Des Moines rapids, $135,000 ; Rock Island rapids, $50,000 ; Illinois river, $145,000 ; improving Mississippi river above St. Anthony, $50,000; Minnesota river, $60,000 ; Fort Madison harbor, lowa, $20,000 ; Red river of the North, $30,000 ; Ohio river, $525,000 ; Wabash river, $100,000; Superior bay, Wis., $7,000; Duluth harbor, $50,000; Ontonagon harbor, Mich., $30,000; Eagle harbor, Mich., $10,000; Marquette, Mich., $20,000 ; Menominee, Mich., $25,000 ; Green Bay, Wis., $15,000; Sturgeon Bay canal, $5,000 ; Ahnapee, Wis., $22,000; Two Rivers, Wis., $20,000 ; Manitowoc, Wis., $20,000; Sheboygan, $6,000 ; Port Washington, $12,000 ; Milwaukee, $30,000; St. Joseph, Mich., $31,000 ; St. Mary’s river and falls, $300,000 ; Harbor of Refuge, Lake Huron, $330,000; St. Clair river, $1,500 ; Detroit river. $200,000; St. Clair flats, $5,000; Saginaw river, $50,000 ; Cheboygan harbor, $20,000; Monroe, Mich., SII,OOO ; Toledo, Ohio, $140,000 ; Port Clinton, Ohio, $20,000 ; Sandusky. Ohio, $55,000 ; Huron, Ohio, $1,000; Vermillion, $9,000 ; Cleveland breakwater, $200,000 ; Grand river,. $5,000 ; Racine, $21,000 ; Kenosha, $17,000 ; Fox and Wisconsin rivers, $750,000 ; Chicago harbor, $150,000; Calumet, $50,000; Michigan City, $30,000; Charlesoix, Mich., $22,000 ; Frankfott, Mich., $30.000; Manistee, Mich., $30,000; Ludington, Mich., $26,000; Pentwater, Mich.. $39,200 ; White river, Mich,s32,ooo; Grand Haven, Mich., $27,600: Black lake, Mich., $32,000; Saugatuck, Mich., $10,000; South Haven, Mich., $25,000 ; Ashtabula harbor, $5,000; Erie, Renna harbor, $41,000; Dunkirk harbor, $31,000; Buffalo harbor, $200,000.

Troublesome Tramps.

The tramps have become unendurable to the inhabitants of Eastern Pennsylvania. In a petition addressed to Grand Juries, the “ Citizens’ Executive Committee of Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery counties” declare that 500 tramps are now roaming over the territory included in the counties named, and that the loss to the people through their idleness amounts to fully $75,000 yearly. They then make the following suggestion in regard to workhouses for the tramps : “ Your petitioners would respectfully suggest that a few farmhouses, or other buildings, in different parts of the country, might be hired at a small annual cost, to which frame sleeping apartments could cheaply be added. With lodgings thus provided at four or five points in the county, your petitioners believe that work could be found upon roads, quarries, and bridges, which would save the county much yearly outlay, while by truck and housework each of these houses could be made self-supporting.”

Peru’s Silver Mines.

The Cerro de Paxo mines in Peru are attracting general attention. The works are being pressed forward with all possible dispatch. A distinguished engineer has given his opinion that above the present water-level of the mines there are 250,000,000 tons of metal that will yield six marks, or S6O to the cajou of three tons—that is to say, S2O per ton. He says the Cerro de Paxo will produce more silver than all the mines in the world, ' - '

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HOW THE JURY AGREED.

•* Guilty, or not guilty, pris’ner 7” he said. The prin’ner said not, only hitched in hie chair ; But I seen in his eye and his face, which was red, That ’twas very tight papers for him to be there. Twas a plain case of forgery—so they said— The wrong man's name to a note-of-hand ; And they opened law-books, and several read How the thing was felony all through the land. But the pris*ner, he sat there still and mum, With his eye on the Judge in a way to deceive, And—sure as the Gospel of Kingdom Come— On his right-hand side was an empty sleeve I “ How say you, gentlemen, guilty or no ?” “ Guilty!” said some, and “ No!” I said. “ Not agreed !” said the Judge. “ I’d better go Over again with the law you heard read.” “ Your Honor” —’twas the foremanthere is no hope Of a proper verdict, as I can see, When one man to eleven can easy cope, And this man (that’s me) says he’ll not agree.’ Then I felt just like fightin', but choked it back When I seen how the prisoner give tears a clear track. • “ If your Honor so please, law is law, as you show; But the truth ought to win, whether good law or no. If your Honor allows, I'll just make that bold, For not nigh all the truth in this case was told. It was one day at Corinth, when the rebs made shell Just rain red-hot, like a shower from hell, I got hit. ’Twas him carried me out o’ harm— This man—and when doing that lost his arm. He fit in my company 7 Yes, ho did so; And he hadn’t then learnt to write yet, I know. Ho that is just why I’m bound to believe No forgery is done with an empty sleeve.” It was queer, then, the shake that prisoner give, With his single hand and empty sleeve. And even that Judge, he went round, too, Shaking the prisoner, then me or you ; And said he felt like the good time was near. When wrong was made right, and everything clear. “ Jurymen, you’re discharged. The prisoner can leave.” So the jury agreed on that empty sleeve.

WIT AND HUMOR.

Time flies—Fly time is over. Domestic pets—Matrimonial sulks. Garden bugs and humbugs are thriving. An air of importance —One’s first breath. The oldest lunatic on record—Time out of mind. The bashful man who asked his girl if her favorite beverage wasn’t “pop,” was referred to her popper. What is the difference between a girl and a night-cap ? One is born to wed and the other is worn to bed. “There isn’t a vegetable,” says the enthusiastic Worcester Press, “ that can catchup with the tomato.” “ You have only yourself to please,” said a married man to a bachelor. “ True,” replied he ; “ but you can not tell what a difficult task I find it.” Stage-Manager (to call-boy}: “John, see if the ballet are all dressed. ” John (returning}: “Yes, sir, about ready; they’ve nearly got their clothes off. ” “ How to tell a mad dog,” is the title of an article that is going the rounds. We haven’t anything to tell a mad dog that we couldn’t send to him on a postal card. A popular clergyman in Philadelphia delivered a lecture on “Fools.” The tickets to it read : “ Lecture on Fools. Admit one.” There was a large attendance. A book agent, the other day, talked half an hour to induce a lady to buy a book. She handed him a slip of paper on which was written : “ Ime defe and dum.” “Gentlemen, I introduce to you my friend, who isn’t as stupid as he appears to be.” Introduced friend, with vivacity —“That’s precisely the difference between my friend and myself.” An exchange remarks: “The only jokes women like to read are those which reflect ridicule on the men.” Yes, on taking up a paper a woman invariably turns to the marriage column. “That’s our family tree,” said an Arkansas youth, as he pointed to a vigorous hemlock, and added, “ A good many of our folks have been hung on that tree for borrowing horses after dark.” It was a Boston man who went home early in the morning, and, meeting the sad, reproachful eyes of his wife, apologised, “My darling, I think you’ll be sorry for this when you git shober. ” “A soft answerturneth away wrath,” yet a man caught by his wife dealing soft answers to a pretty widow next door says he can show scars to prove that the proverb didn’t work well in his case. An old-school philosopher remarks that if bread is the staff of life, pound cake must be a gold-headed cane. Doubtless it is true, and two ice-creams and a girl are a regular two-wheeled velocipede. Oh ! there’s beauty in the morning, In the bluey. bluey blue, , In, the rosy golden dawning O’er the bluey, bluey blue; But the winter’s chill is creeping, With its blewy, blewv blew, To set your nose to weeping, All so bluey, bluey blue. “ You can’t drink so much brandy with impunity,” said a New York physician to a gouty patient. “ Perhaps not with impunity, doctor, but with a little peppermint I fancy I can go it,” was the serene reply. “Pa,” asked a boy, “ what is meant by paradise ?” “ Paradise, my son,” replied Mr. Stanton, gloomily, “paradise is the latter part of next summer, when your mother goes on a visit to your grandfather.” The architect who discovers a plan whereby a double house may be built so that you can hear all that is said next door without the people being able to hear a word uttered on your side, will have no reason to complain of stagnation in business. The second night after her first husband died she sat by the open chamber window, five hours waiting for the cat to begin fighting in the back yard. Said she: “ This thing of going to sleep without a quarrel of some kind is so new that I can’t stand it. Let me alone till they begin; then I can doze off gently.” Ye gods! Imagine my surprise To find, on coming home last eve, The neatest thing in pumpkin pies— A gift from charming Genevieve. The crust was short and white as enow; The pumpkin gleamed like golden sands; Th# whole presented such a show, It seemed the work of fairy hands I And when the prize I came to eat, As the bee some new-found honey sips, I fancied nothing else so sweet, Save the nectar of the giver’s lips!

Two Bullets in His Brain.

The case of J. Herbert Browue, who while intoxicated shot himself twice in the head, near Burrillville, R. L, is a most interesting one for the surgeons. Two holes made by the balls of a Smith & Wesson revolver of small caliber lead directly through his temple into his brain, into which probes have been run several inches without touching the bullets. He still goes about, and suffers, seemingly, no inconvenience. The surgeons think that the balls are imbedded in the skull on the side opposite that in which they entered.