Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1877 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THE WAR IN THE EAST. A telegram from Erzeroum says “the following intelligence has been received from Kars : On the 19th inst. the Russians attacked Fort Ahenz, before Kars, and were repulsed. Ismail Pasha arrived at Zeidekan on the 23d inst. He is expected to join Ghazi Mukhtar Pasha at Zewin. Gen. Tergukasoft is pursuing Ismail Pasha.” A Russian official dispatch, dated Tutchenitza, before Plevna, Oct. 25, says : “Yesterday, after a desperate engagement of ten hours' duration, Gen. Gourko’s detachment, co-operating with a portion of the Imperial Guard, captured a strong Turkish position between Gurnji-Dubnik and Teliche. Gen. Gonrko then stationed himself on the Hofia road, strengthening his jiosition with new - fortifications. This engagement also resulted in the capture of Achmet Ewsi Pasha, together with his chief-of-staff, and many other Turkish officers, about 3,000 foot soldiers, and an entire regiment of cavalry. Four cannon and a quantity of rifles and ammunition were also captured.” There is a general belief in London that the Russians are about to make a desperate effort to capture Plevna and pulverize Suleiman’s army, and that if successful in these undertakings they will retire most of the forces beyond the Danube for the winter, leaving only sufficient garrisons at the bridge-head at Sistova and in two or three other strategic positions that will be essential in next year’s operations.

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. Cable dispatches make brief mention of a terrible mine explosion near Glasgow, Scotland, by which 300 or 400 men lost their lives. Advices [from Cape Town, South Africa, state that war has begun in Trauekei between the Galekas and the British and their native allies There has been some severe fighting. The principal buildings for the Paris Exhibition of 1878 have been completed. Advices from Havana report that the Spaniards have captured the President and one or two other dignitaries of the Cuban republic. Gpn. Grant left England on the morning of Oct. 24, and arrived in Paris the same evening. Turkey, securing the release es £280,000 Egyptian tribute, is about to negotiate a new loan of £5,000,000, the interest to be secured by the £280,000. Dom Pedro and his wife, the Emperor and Empress qf Brazil, reached their home at Rio Janeiro on the 25th of September, and were received by a magnificent popular ovation. The city was grandly illuminated, and the people were evidently much delighted at the return of their wise and venerated ruler, after a year and a half’s absence seeing the world. President MacMahon, when receiving Gen. Grant, in Paris, said he was much gratified to make the acquaintance of ho illustrious a soldier. He offered to open all the military establishments to his inspection, and to furnish the means of knowing everything concerning military affairs. Gen. Grant accepted the offer with thanks. A London dispatch states that “complete access has been obtained to both pits of the High Blantyre colliery, and it has been ascertained that 250 persons perished.” Late advices from the City of Mexico state that “ Diaz shows an inflexible determination to extradite criminals on the Rio Grande, l>elieving extradition necessary to preserve national' decorum. Several regiments of infantry and cavalry have marched for the border. Th* Lcrdoists are actively organizing to co-operate with Etcobcdo on the Rio Grande.”

OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE SITTING BULL COMMISSION. Camp on the Milk Biver, M. T.,) Oct. 20, 1877. f To the Hon. Secretary of War and the Hon. Secretary of the Interior, Washington: The commission met Sitting Bull and his Chiefs at Fort Walsh on the 17th inst. The instructions were carried out literally. Sitting Bull and his chiefs declined the proposals. The address of the commission and the answers of the chiefs have been telegraphed to the New York Herald, and it is deemed unnecessary to repeat them in this telegram. After the conference was over, the Canadian authorities had a conference with the same individuals. In reply to a request of the commission to know what transpired in the conference, Col. McLeod, Commissioner of the Northwest Territory, addressed to us the following letter : Oenti.e'mkn : In answer to your note I beg leave to inform you that, after the interview of the Commissioners with the Indians, I had a talk with the latter. I endeavored to impress upon them the importance of the answer they had jnst made; that, although some of the speakers to the Commissioners had claimed to be British Indians, we denied the claim, and that the Queen’s Government looked upon them as American Indians who had taken refuge in our country from their enemies. I pointed out to them that their only hope was the buffalo; that it would not be many years before that source of supply would cease, and that they could expect nothing whatever from the Queen’s Government except protection so long as they behaved tlemselves. I warned them that their decision not only affected themselves but their children, and that they should think well over it before it was too late. I told them they must not cross the line with a hostile intent; that if they did they would not only have the Americans for their enemies, but also the police and the British Government, and urged upon them to carry my words to their camps, to tell all their young men what I had said and warn them of the consequences of disobedience, pointing out to them that a few indiscreet young warriors might involve them all in most serious trouble. They unanimously adhered to the answer they had given the Commissioners, and promised to observe all that I had told them. Ido not think there need be the least anxiety about any of these Indians crossing the line; at any rate, not for some time to tdhic. In haste, most respectfully yours, James F. McLeod, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding N. W. M. P. Alfred H.’Terry, A. G. Lawrence, Commissioners.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. Mrs. Gilman, wife of the convicted New York forger, is hopelessly insane, and has been sent to an asylum. Nineteen persons are reported at the New York police headquarters as missing. They average all the way from 5 to 75 years old, and have disappeared since the beginning of the month. The Bay State Iron Company, of Boston, has failed. Liabilities, $501,626 assets. $1,279,727. Gallagher and Murray, two of the Pittsburgh rioters, have been sentenced to terms of six and three years in the penitentiary. The manner in which Senator Blaine’s daughter met with a serious accident (brief mention of which was made in a telegraphic dispatch) is thus related in a letter from Augusta, Me.: “ Talking with a gentleman in the parlor of her father’s house, she toyed and played with a tiny pistol that belonged to her brother. I he visitor begged her to put it away, although it was unloaded, and spoke gravely of using even empty pistols as playthings. When he ardse to go away, she laughingly ran up stairs

THE Democratic sentinel.

JAS. W. MoEWEN, Editor.

VOLUME I.

to her brother’s room, got a cartridge and put it in the cylinder, and came bounding down, calling to her friend, who was passing out of the front yard, to see her shoot; but, before she had leveled the weapon, in her gleeful hurry she pressed the trigger, and the ball struck between her eyes, passing upward. Miss Blaine clasped her head with her hand, and crying ‘Oh! lam shot!’ fell to the floor. Burgeons have probed for the ball, but cannot find it. The child suffers terribly. Inflammation of the brain r is feared, but the surgeons give the family hope.” The Grand Jury of Philadelphia has indicted John S. Morton, Samuel B. Huhn, B. F. Stokes, John R. Nagle, and George N. Vickers, on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Market Street Railway Company out of $200,000. Edwin Adams, the well-known actor, died at Philadelphia last week of consumption, after an illness of several months’ duration. He was 43 years old.

West. The Chicago papers report that the wholesale trade of that city continues brisk. Gen. Howard reports 68 citizens murdered and 179 uoldiers killed during the whole campaign agninst the Nez Perces Indians. A dispatch from Fort Walsh, British territory, says: “To-morrow night Sitting Bull’s force sets out for their old camp on Wood mountain, but it is probable that a settlement will be found them on Souris river in the Dirt Hills region. The Canadian Indians, who hung around the fort during the conference, are delighted with the way Sitting Bull talked back at the Commissioners, and express great confidence in him. He told me an hour ago that he would live quietly on Canadian soil, and would, on no consideration, violate Canadian neutrality, and before he died he hoped to * make the Americans cry.’ The Nez Perces are scattered all over, and are inclined to rest. Walsh says there will be no more trouble until the Indians feel themselves strong enough to begin another campaign, probably in the spring. The police regret the failure of the commission, but are satisfied that they can make satisfactory arrangements with Sitting Bull.” Dispatches from Red Cloud Agency describe the breaking up of the Indian camp there. One of the largest fleet of vessels that ever entered Chicago harbor in one day arrived in that port recently. In nine hours, from Ba. m. to sp. m., there were 143 arrivals, and tho total from 3 a. m. to 9. p. m. was 161. There were 6,000 or 7,000 of the Sioux at that point, all of whom have started quietly on the long tramp of some 200 miles, to their new homes at the confluence of the White and Missouri rivers. Chicago has one less place of amusement, Wood’s Museum having been almost entirely destroyed by fire. For some reasons the burning of the Museum may be regarded as a benefit, for, by its destruction, one among several fire-trap theaters in Chicago has passed out of existence. The only place of amusement in the city where all the contingencies against fire are provided is McVicker’s Theater. In this place a spectator is as safe as he would be in his own house. W. K. Ackerman has been elected President of the Illinois Central Railroad Company. Lewis Meyers, Treasurer of Auglaize county, Ohio, has been sentenced to three years in the penitentiary for embezzling $47,000. South. The Confederate Gen. Forrest is slowly dying of chronic diarrhea. He weighs less than 100 pounds.

POLITICAL POINTS. John Morrissey has received the anti-Tam-many nomination for Senator from the Seventh District of New York, the home of John Kelly, the chief of the Tammany organization. It is reported that a syndicate, composed of prominent New York banking firms, has been formed for the purpose of funding the Southern bonds. Since the beginning of the war no interest has been paid upon the Southern State, county or municipal indebtedness. These bonds aggregate $500,000,000. The proposed syndicate Ijas matured a plan which, by the Legislatures of the several States, will secure the funding of the debt and the payment of interest. WASHINGTON NOTES. The bill introduced in Congress by Senator Jones provides or the coinage of silver dollars of the weight 412 X grains Troy, at any coinage mint or the New York assay office, in exchange for silver bullion upon the same terms and conditions as gold bullion is deposited for coinage under existing laws. The bill also provides that no charge shall be made for the coining of standard bullion into these dollars, and proposes to make them legal-tender for all sums. Capt. Daniel Hall, of New Hampshire, has been appointed by the President Naval Officer at Boston. Congressman Smalls has gone to South Carolina to attend his trial. An appeal, probably a vain one, has been addressed to the President in his behalf by Northern Republicans. An effort is making in Washington, on behalf of the Supreme Court Judges, to secure them mileage while traveling their circuits. These officials are the only public functiona ries not included in the provision allowing trav eling expenses while proceeding to and from points of duty. From the official report by the Patent Office of the fire which destroyed two wings of the model-room it appears that the total loss was $1,500,000, including the amounts necessary to restore models, drawings, etc., and to put the building in a flre-proof condition.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The [letter-carriers of the country wish to ascertain whether they can have their salaries increased, and are sending petitions in great numbers to Washington. Gen. Ord’s latest report in regard to the Mexican border troubles is quieting in its tone, the writer evidently believing that there will be no war between the two countries interested. The presence of troops, says the General, is a guarantee of peace, since the only way in which a collision couldjie brought about would be in permitting the local Mexican and Texas elements to attempt a settlement of the difficulties in their own way. This the troops will prevent until a quiet conclusion shall have been reached. It is stated that negotiations will shortly begin between Canada and the United States for a new reciprocity treaty. The great running race at Baltimore, last week, between the celebrated flyers Ten Broeck, Tom Ochiltree and Parole was won by the latter horse. Betting before the race was at large odds on Ten Broeck, and a large amount of money changed hands on the result Earnings of twenty-four railroads have been published for September, and amount to $lO,048,557, against $9,196,320 for the same month last year, a very handsome gain of $852,237. Samuel J. Tilden bas returned home from Europe. Enterprising Chicagoans have engaged all

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the spare tonnage of steamers that will sail from Boston for Liverpool in No’vember, for shipments of grain to that port without the intervention of Eastern “middlemen.”

FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.

Monday, Oct. 22.—Senate. —A number of bills were introduced and referred, among others She following: By Mr. Jones (Nev.), to authorize the coinage of a dollar of 412 W grains, standard silver, and for other purposes ; by Mr. Back, to repeal section 3 of the act to provide for the resumption of specie payments, approved July 14, 1875; by Mr. Hereford, to repeal the act to provide for the resumption of specie payments ; by Mr. Howe, to amend the Revised Statutes relating to the transportation of live stock; by Mr. Ingalls, to establish a pension agency at Topeka, Kan.; by Mr. Paddock, to divide the State of Nebraska into two judicial districts. House.—The Colorado case was debated, but no action taken... .Mr. Schleicher offered a resolution for the appointment of a select committee of eleven members to consider the subject of the civil service of the United States and measures to promote its efficiency. Adopted.... Mr. Southard offered a resolution for the appointment of a select committee of eleven members to take into consideration the state of the law respecting the ascertainment and declaration of the result of the election of President and Vice President, and to confer with a like committee on the part of the Senate. Adopted.... Mr. Oox offered a resolution directing the Secretary of the Navy to report to the House what action had been taken, if any, in the navy-yards of the United States in regulating the hours of labor, and whether such action has been in'derogation of or in compliance with Sec. 3,738, Revised Statutes, which requires that “ eight hours shall constitute a day’s work for all laborers, workmen and mechanics who may be employed by or on behalf of the Government of the United States.”... .Mr. Cox presented a petition for increased compensation to letter-car-riers.. . .Adjourned to Wednesday, Oct. 24. Tuesday, Oct. 23.—Senate.—Bills were introduced and referred: By Mr. Coke (Tex.) — Amending the Revised Statutes of the United States in regard to the militia; it makes an annual appropriation of $1,000,000 for .he purpose of providing arms and equipments for the whole body of militia, either by purchase or manufacture. By Mr. Ingalls, to enable Indians to become citizens of the United States. By Mr. Wallace, to provide a lawful note and coin currency for the United States, and a bill to authorize a long bond for the investment of savings; this bill directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue in Heu of an equal amount of 4 per cent, bonds authorized by the act of July 14,1870, a sum not exceeding $100,000,000 of United States coupon bonds in denominations of $25, SSO, and SIOO, in equal sums, each denomination redeemable in coin of the present standard value after sixty years from the date of their issue, and bearing interest payable semi-annually in such coin at the rate of 3.65 per cent, per annum, these bonds to be exempt from all taxation. By Mr. Ingalls, to equalize the bounties of soldiers who served in the late war for the Union. House.—Not in session. Wednesday, Oct. 24.—Senate.—Not in session.

House.—Consideration of the Colorado case was resumed, and Mr. Harrison made an address advocating Patterson’s right to a seat. Mr. Garfield supported Belford as having the prima facie right.... Mr. Brentano introduced a petition of the central body of trades unions of Chicago, which was also signed by 10,000 persons in different Western States, asking for an amendment to the Homestead law, in order that the poorest people may better enjoy its advantages. One of the requests of the petition is that the United States shall give the actual settlers small sums of money at low rates of interest for ten years, until the land is improved. Thursday, Oct. 25.—Senate.—Mr. Conkling presented the petition of citizens of Now York against the repeal of the Bankrupt law, and praying that it be amended... .Mr. Mitchell submitted a resolution authorizing the Committee on Privileges and Elections, in the cases of Messrs. Kellogg and Spofford, claiming a seat from Louisiana, to send for persons and papers, and administer oaths and that the committee may decide upon the merits of the title of each contestant.... Bills were introduced and referred: By Mr. Garlann, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to adjust and settle the debt due the United States by the State of Arkansas. By Mr Beck, for the relief of distillers of spirits by refunding and repayment of moneys expended or paid and deposited by them for Tice meters. By Mr. Kernan, establishing the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, and for a redistribution of the unappropriated moneys... .Adjourned until Monday, Oct. 29. House.—The Colorado case was disposed of by referring the papers to the Committee on Elections. This was carried by a strict party vote—--137 to 130.... Mr. Garfield presented a petition of 210 colored men, asking assistance from Congress to enable them to go to Liberia. It sets forth the difficulty under which the colored people labor in sustaining families in the face of competition from white labor, and asks that an allowance of SIOO each be made to emigrants to Liberia under the auspices of the Colonization Society. Mr. Cox thereupon presented a petition of white mechanics and laborers protesting against the unjust discrimination made in fixing by law the compensation of Government clerks, and leaving that of mechanics and laborers to be estabHshed at the whim of individuals. Referred.. Mr. Wright presented a petition of 21,000 workingmen of the Twelfth Congressional district of Pennsylvania for a Government loan to aid settlers on the public domain. Referred. Mr. Kelley—l desire to present the petition of a citizen of the United States asking Congress so to change the financial system of the countfy [interruptions by laughter] as that laboring people shall not appeal to the Government for means of expatriating themselves and their posterity, and that they may continue to live in homes of their choice, and pursue the calUngs to which they have been trained. [Laughter.] The Speaker—Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor. [Laughter.]

Envious Changes.

The other day a grocery man at Vallejo gave a large party, at which the daughter of the carriage painter who lived next door created a decided sensation. It was not that she was more handsomely attired than the other ladies present, but that when she gyrated in the ‘ ‘ dance of death” she was observed to display the only pair of pink silk stockings in the room. She le‘t the house for a few minutes at the expiration of the dance, and in the next waltz exhibited a pair of light-blue dittoes. An hour later her crushed and exasperated female friends beheld these supplemented by further hose of a delicate chococate shade. And so it went on, until her miserable rivals determined to follow her the next time she disappeared. They traced her to her father’s paintshop in the backyard, where she was discovered brush in hand and about ornamenting fier nether extremities with a final artistic coat of light salmon. The exulting spies rushed back with the damaging news, but it was too late. The men were all too tight to understand, the music had gone home and the lights were being put out. Thus it is that fraud and duplicity triumph, while honest simplicity walks around with a darn on its calf and a hole in its heel.— San Francisco Post.

Mathematics and Medicine.

Among other talks to-day it came out that whale-ships carry no doctors. The Captain adds the doctorship to his own duties. He not only gives medicines, but sets broken limbs after notions of his own, or saws them off and sears the stump when amputation seems best. The Captain is provided with a medi-cine-chest, with the medicines numbered instead of named. A book of directions goes with this. It describes diseases and symptoms and says: “ Give a teaspoonful of No. 9 once an hour,” or “Give ten grains of No. 12 every half hour,” etc. One of our sea Captains came across a skipper in the North Pacific who was in a state of great surprise and perplexity. Said he: “There’s something rotten about this medicine-chest business. One of my men was sick—nothing much the matter, I looked in the book; it said give him a teaspoonful of No. 15. I went to the medicine-chest and I see I was out of No. 15. I judged I’d got to get up a combination somehow that would fill the bill, so I hove into the fellow half a teaspoonful of No. 8 and a half a teaspoonful of No. 7, and I’ll be hanged if it didn’t kill him in fifteen minutes! There's something about this medicinechest system that’s too many for me I” —Mark Twain, in Atlantic for November. The Boston Councilmen have voted not to pay for alcoholic beverages in any municipal entertainment.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

SITTING BULL.

He Denounces Gen. Terry as a Liar, Rejects the Terms of the President, and Proclaims His Intention of Living in Canada——An Interesting Account of the Council at Fort Walsh. [From the Chicago Times.] Gen. Terry rose and addressed the Indiana, through the interpreter, as follows: We are sent as a commission by the President of the United States, at the request of the Government of the Dominion of Canada, to meet you. The President has instructed us to say to you that he desires us to make a lasting peace with you and your people. He desires that all hostilities shall cease and that all the people of the United States shall live together in harmony. He wishes this, not for the sake of whites alone, but for your sake as well. He has instructed us to say that if you will return to your country and hereafter refrain from acts of hostility against the United States Government and people, a free pardon will be given you for all acts Committed in the past, no matter what those acts have been. No attempt will be made to punish you or any man among you; what is past shall be forgotten, and that you shall be received in the friendly spirit in which the other Indians who have been engaged in hostilities against the United States, and have surrendered to its military forces, have been received. [Smile by Sitting Bull.] We will now explain to you what the President intends to say when he promises that in case you accept these terms you will be treated in as friendly a spirit as the Indians who have surrendered. These same terms are now offered you. The President cannot and will not consent that you should return to your country armed, mounted and prepared for war. He cannot consent that you should return prepared to inflict injuries similar to those which you have inflicted in the past; but he invites you to come to the boundary of his and your country, and there give up your arms and ammunition. [Spotted Eagle and other Indians laughed outright.] Thence to go to the agency which he will assign you, and there give up your horses, except those required for peaceful pursuits. We ask you to take these propositions into consideration, to take time, to consult together, and to weigh them carefully. When you have done so we shall be glad to meet and receive your answer.

Sitting Bull rose slowly to his feet, threw the robe off his shoulders, and displayed a blue calico shirt which was worn over his leggings. His leggings were made of dark blue cloth, with a dark stripe extending down the side, and around his neck was tied a red-banded handkerchief. Hia first sentences were uttered in a sha , vindictive manner, and his sentimei • n were re-echoed by his followers. The close of each sentence was followe by “How!” from all the Indians in the room, showing how closely they sympathized with him. As I watched the swaying body of the Indian and saw his mobile face light up as he spoke of the great wrongs of his people, and uttered his contempt and hatred for the American nation, I could not but admire the natural oratory which enabled him to speak so strongly. Every thought was expressed in a gesture more powerful than his word a could possibly be framed to read. When he cried, “You came here to tell us lies,” he advanced to the commission, and shook his forefinger at them with force and fury, and stood there until the translation had been made. When he told the commission to take it easy going back home, he essayed the only smile during his speech, and the irony was undoubtedly very fine. He spoke as follows :

For sixty-four years you have kept me and my people, and treated us bad. What have we done that you should want us ? We have done nothing. It is all the people of your side that have started us to do all these depredations. We could not go anywhere else, so we took refuge in this country of the British. It was on this side of the country that we learned to shoot, and that is the reason I came back to it again. Why do you come here ? In the first place I did not give you the country ; but you followed me from one place to another, so I had to leave and come over to this country. I did not give you any country, but you took it away from us. I was born and raised in this country, with the Red river half-breeds, and I intend to stop with them. I was raised hand-in-hand with the Red river half-breeds, and we are going over to that part of the country, and that is the reason why I have come over here.” [Shaking hands with the British officers, he proceeded :] That is the way I was raised in the hands of these people, and that is the way I intend to be with them. You have got ears to hear, and you have got eyes to see, and you see how I live with these people. You see me. Here I am. If you think lam a fool, you are a bigger fool than I am. This house is a medicine house. You come here to fell us lies, but we don’t want to hear them. I don’t wish any such language used to me, that is to tell me such lies in my great mother’s house. Don’t you say two words more. Go back home where you came from. This country is mine, and I intend to stay here and to raise this country full of grown people. See, these people here were raised w’iththem,” [again shaking hands with the British officers,] that is enough. See me shaking hands with these people. The part of the country you gave me you run me out of. I have now come here to stay with these people, and I intend to stay here. I wish you to go back and to take it easy getting back.

On concluding his speech, Sitting Bull advanced and took Col. McLeod by the hand, and walking past the members of the commission, shook the hands of the other officers of the mounted police in the room, and, addressing a few words to his own people, sat down among them. • The Chief Nine, a Yanktonnai Sioux, who was concerned in the Minnesota massacre, shook hands with the Americans and Canadians. Nine is a finelooking savage He was dressed fantastically, and his face was smeared with black paint. He spoke as follows : I have shaken hands with everybody in the house. I don’t wear the same clothes that these people do. You came over here to tell lies on one another. I want to tell you a few, but you have got more lies than I can say. Sixty-four years ago you got our country and ?romised to take good care of us. Did you? ou ran us from one place to another, killing us, fighting us. I was born and raised with these people over here. I came here to see the council, to shake hands with you all. I wanted to tell you what I think of this. There are seven different tribes of us. They live all over the country. You kept part of us over there, and part of us are kept on this side. You didn’t treat us right over there, so we came back here. These people sitting round here you promised to take good care of them when you had them over there, but you did not fulfill your promises. They come over here to this side again, and here wo are all together. I came unto these people here, and they give me permission to trade with the traders. That is the way I make my living. Everything I get I buy from the traders. I don’t steal anything. For fourteen years I have not fought with your people, and that is what I have to say by waiting in your country. I come over here to these people, and these people, if they had a piece of tobacco, they give me part. That is why I live over here. I have a little powder in my pow-der-horn and I gave you a little fourteen years ago. Since then I have been over in this country. [Shaking hands again.] We came over to this country and I am going to live with these people here. This country over here is mine. The bullets we have over here I intend to kill something to eat with—not to kill anybody with them. That is what the people told me—to kill nothing but what I wanted to eat with the ammunition they give me. I will do so. Flying Bird, an Agolalla Sioux, wrapped in a white blanket strapped at his waist, and displaying a large revolver, advanced and said: These people here God Almightv raised, and together we have a little sense, and we ought to love one another. Sitting Bull here says that whenever you found us out wherever his country was, why you wanted to have it. It was Sitting Bull’s country. There are his people sitting all around me. What they committed I had nothing to do with. I was not in it. The soldiers find out where we live and they never think of anything good. It is always

something bad. [Shaking hands with the mounted police officers.] When Flying Bird ceased speaking the Indians rose to leave, but were stopped by the Canadian officers, to allow Gen. Terry to ask the following questions : Shall we say to the President that you refuse the offers that he has made to you ? Are we to understand from what you have said that you refuse those offers ? Sitting Bull, without rising from the floor, said in reply: I could tell you more, but that is all 1 have to tell you. If we told you more you would not pay any attention to it. That is all I have to say. This part of the country does not belong to your people. You belong on the other side. This side belongs to us. Sitting Bull inquired whether the commission had anything more to say, and was told that they had not The Indians then filed slowly out of the room. During the evening which followed, Col. MacLeod and Maj. Walsh met the Indians in their room and informed Sitting Bull what would be expected of him if he stayed on this side of the line. He was informed that if he went over on Americna soil he would make an enemy of the great mother, which is supposed to mean Queen Victoria. Sitting Bull replied that he was done with wars and intended to remain quietly among his friends. He also said that he intended to move his camp within a few miles of Fort Walsh to remain during the winter. The conference is ended. Whether the result is a diplomatic triumph for Mr. Evarts in compelling Canada to be responsible for the acts of this Sioux cut-throat will probably be determined in the future. Sitting Bull does not desire peace. At present he is suffering chagrin in being driven across the line and in being compelled to stay there. He was driven into Canada by Miles, and he knows that Miles will whip the daylights out of him if he comes across the line. Sitting Bull’s camp is filled with restless spirits, and they will cause plenty of trouble for either Canada or the United States yet. The disposition which the Canadian authorities will make with Sitting Bullis not yet known. The matter will necessarily have to be decided by the Secretary of State of the Dominion. The Canadian officers have an abiding faith that he will remain quiet, as also all the other Indians within their territory.

THE LABOR QUESTION.

Petitions to Congress—Representative Kelley’s Bit of Facetiousness. [Washington Cor. Chicago Times.] After the close of the Colorado case in tne House, a perfect flood of petitions was sent to the Clerk’s desk. Among them was a lengthy petition, presented by Mr, Garfield, from 210 colored men, asking for assistance to enable them to embark to Liberia. This petition recited the condition to which the colored man had been reduced in this country by his long servitude, and the disadvantages to which he had since been subjected, especially in competition with laboring white men, and the advantages to be derived in Liberia, where the competition would be confined to his own race. After the reading of this lengthy document Sam Cox arose and said that he now had a petition to offer on behalf of the poor white laborer, and accordingly a protest and petition, which he alleged to be from a large number of mechanics and laborers, were sent to the Clerk’s desk to b« read. These documents set forth that the 'signers protested first, most energetically against the unjust discrimination made by the laws of the United States in fixing the compensation of the clerks in the different departments of the Government, leaving that of mechanics and laborers to be established as the whim of individuals might dictate; second, against the assumption of authority on the part of the heads of the Executive Departments under which the clerks of the Government are worked seven hours a day and mechanics and. laborers ten hours a day; third, that it is unjust that Government employes are allowed leaves of absence with pay when absent because of illness, when another branch of industry is deprived of like privileges. The petition asked that all classes of employes in the civil service be subjected by law and custom to like treatment in all respects, and for the abolition of such undemocratic and un-American usages as now exist in the civil service. This petition was followed by one, introduced by Springer, of Illinois, from a large number of citizens of the District, asking for a restoration of impartial suffrage, and one by Mr. Wright, of Pennsylvania, who said he had a petition in his desk, signed by 20,792 workingmen, asking for an appropriation for small loans to enable men to locate on public lands, said loans to be secured by mortgages on the lands and to bear interest. Mr. Wright thereupon took out of his desk a huge roll, which was about as much as a page could do to carry to the Clerk’s desk, the transaction being received by a burst of laughter from the House. Whereupon Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, arose and asked permission to present a petition in addition to the others which seemed to have been precipitated upon the House to counteract the effect of Garfield’s petition in favor of the colored man. Mr. Kelley, in stentorian notes, which secured the attention of the whole House, then said: “ I desire to present the petition of a citizen of the United States to Congress that it so change the financial system of the country that laboring people shall not apply to the Government for means of expatriation, but that they may continue to Eve in the homes of their choice, and pursue the calling to which they have been trained, William D. Kelley being the petitioner.” This bit of facetiousness was received with uproarious laughter, which did not subside for several minutes.

A Horse’s Adventure in a Deserted Shaft.

Over three weeks ago a gentleman living in the Third Ward missed a pony, and after a long search gave it up as stolen. Twenty days after the loss of the animal a number of children were playing in some old deserted shafts, when, upon looking into one about six feet deep, a horse, reduced to a mere skeleton, was found. Their discovery was soon made known, and in a few minutes a number of miners collected at the spot and soon had the poor animal on the top of the ground. The person who had lost his pony so long before recognized his property in the emaciated animal before him. For twenty-five days had the animal been in that shaft, without food and water, and from appearances it could not have held out many more. It had eaten all the hair from its sides and tail, which, if any, was all the nourishment it had got during that long period. After being taken out it commenced to eat, though it could scarcely stand on its feet. The animal is gaining rapidly in flesh, and will soon be as strong and useful as before its strange adventure.— Joplin {Mo.} News.

AN EXCITING TURF EVENT.

The Great Race Between Ten Broeck, Parole and Tom Ochiltree. [Baltimore Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.] The judges, the Hon. August Belmont, Ex-Gov. Bowie, and Senator Beck, took their places in their stand. The timers, Capt. J. H. Smith and Price McGrath, pulled out their watches, and Capt Connor dropped the flag on as pretty and even a start as was ever seen, at precisely eight minutes past 3 o’clock. Ten Broeck at once jumped to the front, with Ochiltree a half length behind, and Parole in the rear. At the lower turn Ten Broeck had increased his lead to over a length, while Parole had fallen back somewhat The excitement was now terrific. Men pushed and jostled as if mad, while ladies stood up on their seats and craned their necks like swans in their eagerness to see every jump of the gallant coursers. On they came, Ten Broeck still in the lead at the first quarter; and, as they thundered down the quarter-stretch and passed the grand stand, it was seen that Ten Broeek was scouring and purging as if afflicted with diarrhea. “By Jove !” said Joe Elliott, the Nestor of the turf, “ look at him. He is clear amiss, and scouring 1” It was, alas ! true; but the fact was learned too late. Still he kept the lead, wilh Ochiltree close up to him, and Parole going along at his ease about four lengths’ distance. They maintained these positions until well up the back-stretch, when Ochiltree lapped Ten Broeck, and they ran side by side for awhile, and then, just at the beginning of the lower turn, Ochiltree’s head showed in front of Kentucky’s pride. The shout that went up at this sight was enough to awaken the dead.

Ten Broeck soon regained the lead, and as he did so the hearts of the Eastern men fell, for they thought now it was all day with their chances. Ochiltree held on well, however, and still kept lapping Ten Broeck, while Parole moved up a bit, and lessened the gap between himself and Ochiltree. In this way they ran well around the upper tarn for the last time, and then Parole made a dash, lapped Ochiltree, and then went after Ten Broeck on the home-stretch. “Parole! Parole!” screamed the crowd. “ Parole wins !” Not yet, however, for the jockey of Ten Broeck was plying whip and spur on his horse. The noble animal strained every nerve to respond, but nature was unequal to the task, and at the distancestand Parole took the lead, amid shouts and yells that would have done credit to Bedlam. From there to the string he increased his distance with every jump, and landed a winner by three open lengths. The scene that ensued upon the return of the horses to the judges’ stand beggars description. The crowd broke down all barriers, and, rushing out on the course, surrounded Parole, and cheered and yelled for him until they were hoarse. They then pulled the jockey, Barrett, off his seat, and carried him in triumph on their shoulders. The police made a break and rescued him from his admirers, but he was a second time captured and a second time placed on the brawny shoulders of a friend. Finally he was permitted to mount his horse, and rode to the stable, being cheered meanwhile as if a conquering hero. Such a sight has not been seen on a race-track since the days of Eclipse and Sir Henry.

The President Interviewed.

The President, in conversation this morning, referred a friend to the difficulties encountered during his administration, and pointed out how it would have been impossible for him to take any action which would have satisfied the entire Republican party. He found himself confronted with three questions of great importance : one related to the civil-service appointments, one to the currency, and the most important of all, in his opinion, was the Southern question. Upon this question, as well as upon the others, it was necesiary for him to take immediate action. Others could talk and consider, an 4 criticise ; but he must act. Concerning each of these questions there was a large difference of opinion within the Republican party, and whatever he did was certain to meet with opposition from one source or another. He had no resort but to act in such a way as seemed to him to be his duty, and to leave the wisdom of his action to future demonstration. The President seemed to emphasize very strongly the point that the criticisms and opposition which had come from within the party were a necessary result of his being compelled to act upon questions of great moment, while others had only to judge and approve or condemn, which involved much less responsibility. He regarded the Southern question as of immensely greater importance than the other two, because it affected daily the peace and happiness ot hundreds of thousands of people, both white and black. In regard to the financial question, he remarked that, if there was no President and no Congress, he thought the action of natural laws would settle that question.— Washington Cor. New York Times.

The Grant-Sumner Quarrel.

Still another version of the GrantSumner quarrel is given to the world. Maj. Ben Perley Poore, the veteran newspaper correspondent, who was a guest at Mr. Sumner’s house at the time of the misunderstanding, and heard the conversation which occurred on the occasion of the President’s visit to Mr. Sumner, contributes his recollection of what, then occurred. The Senator was in a bad humor on account of the removal of a personal friend, ex-Congress-man Ashley, of Ohio, as Governor of Montana, and at this inopportune time the President called. The latter is said to have denounced Ashley in heated and contemptuous terms, and when, in the course of the talk, the San Domingo matter came to be discussed, Sumner retaliated by freeing his mind about Babcock’s connection with the scheme. Maj. Poore’s understanding of what ensued was, that Sumner thought the President wanted to enlist his services in defense of Babcock’s misapplication of the secret-service fund, whereas Gen. Grant only desired to obtain the Senator’s support of the treaty for the acquisition of the Dominican republic. It seems the conference ended without a clear conception by either party of the other’s views and intentions, and that is about all the light that Maj. Poore has succeeded in throwing upon the controversy.—Chicago Tribune.

The Petroleum Supply.

Fears of the early exhaustion of the Pennsylvania petroleum fields seem to be quite general. Thomas McDonough, one of the largest operators in the State, says that the present oil territory will be exhausted in ten years, while there is no prospect that any other sources of

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supply will be discovered. The wells of Bradford, Clarion and McLean counties furnish the largest quantities, while the Oil creek region, where the famous oil fever broke out, has nearly run dry. The demand from Europe is increasing rapidly, 25,000 to 30,000 barrels per day being exported out of the daily production of 32,000 to 33,000 barrels.

The Southern Policy.

There was a meeting at Holyoke, Mass., on Friday night, says the New York World, to approve the policy of the administration, and President Seelye, of Amherst, delivered an address on the occasion, which is remarkable for the fact that it justifies the Southern policy of President Hayes on the simple logical ground that this policy is just in itself and should have been pursued from the beginning. This position involves the acknowledgment that the reconstruction policy originally chosen by the Republican party, and maintained so long at such cost was essentially wrong and unwise. We think that President Seelye, in taking this stand, shows his usual honesty and strong common sense. It is useless for the supporters of the administration to attempt to show that its Southern policy would have been wrong a year ago, while it is altogether good and wise to-day. It is absurd to maintain that a sound system put in operation six months beyond a certain limit becomes unsound. Therefore, all who are heartily in ascord with President Hayes should fling aside the pretense that his course is a mere matter of expediency or a piece of political experiment, and adopt the manly and honest reasoning of President Seelye, even though they are in consequence obliged to concede that the Republican party has been wrong in the past and the Demoocratic party right. The theory of Stevens, Sumner and their compeers, that the Southern States had forfeited all their rights by rebellion, was a narrow and a bigoted one. Its consequences—the establishment of military governments, the attempts at reconstruction by means of the negro vote, the erection of the color-line and the strife and corruption incident to carpet-bag government—were political evils that threatened the whole country with ruin. Let this be conceded, since the supreme test of all policies, time, has proven the weakness of the Republican reconstruction policy. Let it be conceded that those who maintained that the war was waged to restore the authority of the constitution in all parts of the Union, and not to deprive any portion of its due representation—for the life of States and not for their death—were right from the first in acknowledging that they are right now. As coming from an opponent of the Democracy, we quote with a satisfaction free from any mixture of malicious triumph this plain statement by President Seelye: “If we were right in resisting the Southern rebellion and in treating it as a rebellion to its close, then when those rebels were conquered the States in which the rebellion had been waged had just as much right to a representation in the National Congress and just as much right to partake in all the privileges of the National Government as they ever had. And this I not only now believe to be true, but I believed it at the time, and publicly declared it then, and, had it then been taken as the public policy of the nation, I still believe we should have escaped both the blunders and the crimes which have made our reconstruction of the Union so painful and so perilous. But we did not take it. Had Mr. Lincoln lived it might have been otherwise, but, when the lines of administration dropped from his hands, there was no one to take them up and hold them wisely. We said these States were no longer States in the Union. We remanded them to a quasi territorial condition. We sent them military governors from Washington. We contradicted all our doctrine in the war. We thus took a false position in the eyes of the world, and a position which the South itself felt to be bitterly and keenly unjust. Instead of proceeding in the course fitted to allay the prejudice which had been engendered and the passions which had been excited in the war, and which might have shown us that ‘ peace has her victories as well as war,’ we co aid hardly have devised a better way than the one adopted to keep up the hatred and increase the hostility which had already brought such lamentable results to both sections of the nation. ”

Colored Men in Congress.

The day of colored representatives in < Congress is numbered. It has been a matter of very general remark that there are but three colored members in the present House—Cain, Rainey and Smalls, of South Carolina, all of whose seats are contested by white men. In the last House there were seven colored members, and in the Congress before that more. It is the general impression that hereafter, unless colored members are elected in the Northern States, none will ever again be seen in Congress. As the three in the present Congress have only been admitted on prima facie cases, on certificates manipulated by the notorious Chamberlain and Cardoza, cooked up by the fraudulent Returning Board of South Carolina, it would not be at all strange that the House Elections Committee, after a consideration of their cases, should give their seats to the contestants in each instance. The colored Congressman has been a very decided failure, Elliott, of South Carolina, was the most prominent one that ever held a seat. His speeches were remarkably good, and it was generally believed that they were prepared for him by Ben Butler. Smalls, who now represents a South Carolina constituency, has just emerged from jail, where he was confined for frauds in that State. If the juries of that State do their duty they will have him in the penitentiary before long. Southern States will not elect any more colored Congressmen, as even the negroes are opposed to them.— Hartford Tinies.

The Advantages of a Tunnel.

They were what the world calls “ engaged,” and they were going to visit some of her relatives thirty miles distant Two railroads ran to the home of the latter, and the lovers were undecided which one to take. “ There is a long, dark tunnel on theQ road, isn’t there ?” she innocently asked. He said there was. “And none on the B line ?” she further inquired. He said there was not. “Then let us go by way of the Q road,” she softly murmured. Anq they went, — Harristown Harald.

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IN THE OLD SOUTH CHURCH. Hoston, 1677. BY JOHN G. WHITTIER. She came and stood in the Old South Church, A wonder and a sign. With the look the old-time sibyls wore, Half crazed and half divine. Save the mournful sackcloth about her wound. Unclothed as the primal mother, With limbs that trembled and eyes that burned With a fire she dared not smother. Loose on her shoulders fell her hair With sprinkled ashes gray; She stood in the broad aisle, strange and weird As a soul at the judgment day ! And the minister paused in his sermon’s midst, And the people held their breath; For these were the words the maiden spoke Through lips as pale as death: “ Repent, repent! ere the Lord shall speak In thunder and breaking seals ! Lot all men worship Him in the way That his light within reveals. “ Thus saith the Lord ! With equal feet All men my courts shall tread ; And priest and ruler no more shall eat My people up like bread I”, She shook the dust from her naked feet, And her sackcloth closer drew; And into the porch of the awe-hushed church She passed like a ghost from view’. They whipped her away at the tail o' the cart (Small blame to the angry town I), But the words she uttered that day nor fire Could bum ncr water drown. To-day the aisles of the ancient church By equal feet are trod ; And the bell that swings in its belfry lings Freedom to warship God. And now, whenever a wrong is done, It thrills the conscious walls ; The stone from the basement cries aloud, And the beam from the timber calls. There are steeple-houses on every hand, And pulpits that bless and ban ; And the Lord will not grudge the single church That is set apart for man. For in two commandments are all the law And the prophets under the sun, And the first is last, and the last is first, And the twain are verily one. So, long as Boston shall Boston be, And her bay tides rise and fall, Shall freedom stand in the Old South Church And plead for the rights of all I —A tlantic Monthly for Kovem her.

WIT ATiD HUMOR.

Matches are still on a strike. A matter of form.—Fitting a dress. The center of civilization—Cologne. The sun is the oldest and best tanner. A rifle team—A gang of burglars. It was a backward debtor who said : “ The dues you say.” Better to have loved a short girl than never to have loved a tall. This is the time to roast chestnuts and pop corn and the question. Give us the dollars of anybody—what’s the use of being particular ? Is a man who accepts a free ticket to a party necessarily ball d’eadhead ? A householder advertises rooms to let to gentlemen furnished with gas. About the most uncomfortable seat a man can have, in the long run, is self conceit. “Yes,” said the old reprobate, “I always recognize water when I see it—it looks just like gin.” Ten years from now stealing will have become a thing of the past. There will be nothing left to steal. “My child, what is an erring man ?” said a clergyman at a school examination to the brightest pupil. “ The fish-mong-er, sir,” was the reply. A grave old man told his son that if he did not grow less dissipated ho would shorten his days. “Then, dad,” said the boy, “ I shall lengthen my nights.” It was observed of a philosopher who was drowned in the Red seathat “his taste would be suited, for he was a man of deep thinking, and always liked to go to the bottom.” The Oil City Derrick says: “We don’t care a cent what becomes of the last man, or the first one either. It is what is to become of the intermediate fellows that interests us.” “Why,” asked Pat, one day, “why was Balaam a first-class astronomer?” The other gave it up, of course. * ‘ Shure, ” said Pat, “’twas he had no trouble in finding an ass to roid.” the cossack’s lament. Oh, Kara me back to Old Bulgary, To Old Bulgary’b shore; I feel quite strange in this Balkan range, And I want to go home, what’s more. On the Danube strand I’d like to stand, I’m sick and tired of the war; Then Kara me back to Old Bulgary, To Old Bulgary’s shore. —-Vev> York Commercial.

“My dear boy,” said a mother to her son, as he handed round his plate for more turkey, “that is the fourth time you’ve been helped.” “I know, mother,” replied the boy, “but that turkey pecked at me once, and I want to get square with him.” “ How would you make a believer of an incredulous man ?” asked one gentleman of another not long since. “ I think the surest way would be to set him over a beehive,” was the reply; “ and I calculate that after he’d been stung once or twice he would become a bee leaver in earnest.” A medical student who got very drunk one evening told his father next day that he was “ suffering from cephalalgy induced by the ductility of a glandiferous stopper placed in the mouth of a vitreous vessel containing distilled grain. ” The old man gave him an order for a new suit of clothes, to still further encourage him in his studies. A School Board Inspector asked a small pupil of what the surface of the earth consists, and was promptly answered: “Land and water.” He varied the question slightly, that the fact might be impressed on the boy’s mind, and asked: “What, then, do land and water make?” To which came the immediate response: “Mud!”

Shooting Her Sweetheart.

A shooting casualty, which came near proving fatal, occurred in the upper part of the city on Tuesday night. Two young gentlemen called at the house of a lady acquaintance. After conversing for awhile, one of the visitors drew from his pocket a small silver-plated pistol, and asked his lady friend if she didn’t think it was a beauty. She replied, taking it in her hand, “ ¥es, but it is harmless; it can’t hurt anybody.” “Oh, yes it can,” replied the owner. “ Don’t point it in this direction, for it’s loaded.” “ Let me see how close I can come to your head without hitting it.” The young man, thinking she was, of course, only jesting, said, “Fire away.” Simultaneously with his words was heard the sharp report of the pistol. The young lady had taken him at his word. She was a more accurate pistol shot than she imagined, for the ball penetrated the left ear of her beloved, and made a pretty little round hole.— Columbia (S. C.) Phenix. __ Sir John Lubbeck says that flies fertilize dull colored and strong smelling I flowers, while bees love the brilliant ones.