Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1877 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THE WAR IN THE EAST. A detachment of Ilusriann is scouring the country south of the Balkans. The Russians continue their victorious advance in Asia, the Turks evidently being too demoralized to oppose any serious resistance. The Russians are also slowly but surely lessening the distance between them and the coveted town of Plevna, and the fall of the place seems only a question of a few days.

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. The Spanish soldiers and volunteers who have completed their terms of service and settled in Cuba, and insurgents who have submitted to the Government, will be granted a portion of the forests belonging to the state, or other national lands, the recipients to be tenants for three years, when, if the land is properly cultivated, they become absolute owners. They will be exempt from taxation for five years. , The Queen has pardoned Alice Rhodes and commuted the death sentence of the other i’enge poisoners to imprisonment for life. The hurricane which recently swept over the Island of Curacoa, in the West Indies, caused a loss of property estimated at $2,000,000. The .'loss of life was large in the city of Curacoa. Many of the most solid structures were ■crushed by the waves, and many persons were buried in the ruins. The people were made paupers in an hour. An attempt was recently made by a crazy priest to assassinate the President of the South American republic of Guatemala. In the battle between the King of Abyssinia and Meuelk, the commander of the Egyptian forces, the latter lest 23,000 in killed and wounded. A dispatch from Alexandria says the King of Abyssinia again threatens to invade Egypt with 120,000 men. Gen. Gordon is expected at Mausowah to negotiate with him.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. I'lOHt. A railroad collision on the Philadelphia and Erie railroad, near Ridgeway, Pa., caused the death of the engineers and firemen of both trains. A brakeman was also killed and another fatally injured. A. Oakoy Hall, ex-Mayor of New York, who suddenly and mysteriously disappeared some months ago, has again turned up in that city. Ho denies Tweed’s charges implicating him in the ring robberies. The wife of Stephen May, of Mechanicsville, N. Y., left her house, taking four children, and threw them into a creek, following herself. Tire oldest child, aged 9, got ashore, raised an alarm, and the mother and one child were rescued. West. A terrible tragedy was recently enacted at East Liverpool, Ohio. A highly-esteemed citizen named Ralph Wintergill deliberately cut his wife’s throat with a razor, and then his own. His wife is dead, and ho cannot live. He leaves a large family. Domestic troubles of some kind are supposed to have caused the deed. Chicago is in luck again. A wealthy citizen named Lewis, who died a few days ago, bequeaths to the city SBOO,OOO for the founding of a polytechnic college. The Deadwood and Cheyenne coach, containing a United States Marshal and six other passengers, was robbed near Cheyenne, a few nights ago, by two road agents. Indictments have been found by the United States Grand Jury of Idaho Territory against thirty-two Indians, principals and accessories in murders of white people in connection with the Nez-Perce outbreak. A fire in a woodpile on the Virginia and Truckee railroad, near Carson, Nev., last week, destroyed about 15,000 cords of wood. Loss,. $90,000. Insured for about two-thirds its value. Incendiary. SOXltll. Gen. N. B. Forrest, the well-known ex-Con-federate cavalry officer, died last week at the residence of his brother, in Memphis, Tenn. L. Cass Carpenter, late Collector of Internal Revenue for the District of South Carolina, has been indicted at Columbia for forgery. Congressman Robert Smalls (colored) has been indicted by the same Grand Jury for accepting a bribe of $5,000 to vote as State Senator for the passage of a fraudulent printing appropriation. Four members of the Louisville Base-Ball Club have been expelled for selling games and general misconduct.

DEATH OF SENATOR MORTON. Hon. Oliver P. Morton, United States Senator from Indiana, died at Indianapolis, aftcf a protracted and painful illness, at twenty minutes past 5 o’clock on Thursday, Nov. 1. About noon, says a correspondent describing the death-bed scene, Mrs. Morton and her sons, by her request, were loft alone with the Senator for about an hour. What passed between them is not for ns to inquire. Before 5 o’clock it became evident ho had entered upon his last horn - on earth. He had rested the greater portion of the day in a half-lying and half-sitting position. As he grew weaker, the supporting pillows were withdrawn so that he lay prone upon the bed. A deep silence now pervaded the room, and remained unbroken except by an occasional question to the dying man. Once, when the Senator exclaimed “I am dying,” his sister-in-law, Mrs. Holloway, inquired, “ You are not afraid to die, Oliver?” He indicated “no” by shaking his head. Soon after a similar exclamation, a question and answer passed between him and Dr. Thompson. At ten minutes past 5 o’clock he exclaimed “I am dying. I am worn out,” and these were bis last words. From this on it was difficult to discover that life remained. On the doctor’s announcement, “He is going,” the gaze of the wife and sons became fixed on the « face of the husband and father, with now and then a piteous look of inquiry toward the doctor, until his further announcement, “It is over. The widow clasped her sons to her, exclaiming quietly, but in tones never to be forgotten, “My darling boys.” The friends withdrew, leaving them for a time, when they were all led tenderly from the room. biographical. Mr. Morton was born in Wayne county, Ind. on the 4th*of August, 1823, and was, a little more than 54 years old. He graduated from Miami University, at Oxford, Ohio, in 845. Studied law, and was admitted to the bar at Centerville, Ind., in 1847. He at once took a prominent position at the bar, and launched into a large and lucrative practice. In 1852 he was elected Circuit Judge on the Democratic ticket. He was an ardent Demo* crat, but, in 1854, he, with many others, left that party in consequence of the repeal of the Missouri compromise, and was one of the three delegates sent by Indiana to the Pittsburgh Convention of February, 1856, from which the Republican party dates its political existence. In the same year he was nominated for Governor by the Republican State Convention by

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acclamation, but was defeated by Ashtel P. Willard, the Democratic candidate. In 1860 he was elected Lieutenant Governor by the Republicans. Lane, the Governor-elect, was sent to the United States Senate, and Mr. Morton assumed the gubernatorial chair, which he occupied the ensuing four years, and thus acquired his title of “ the Great War Governor.” His career during that stirring period is familiar to nearly all newspaper readers, and requires no recapitulation here, even had we the space to elaborate upon it. In. 1864 he was re-elected Governor, and a year later was first stricken with the disease (paralysis) which finally carried him off. In 1867 Mr. Morton was elected to the United States Senate. In 1867 he was re-elected to the Senate. During his ten years’ service in the Senate he has filled a large space in the current history of the country. During all this time, despite his physical infirmity, he has been an active and frequent speaker, making campaigns in various States, besides participating largely in the debates of the Senate.

THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION. President Hayes has issued a proclamation, printed below, setting apart Thursday, the 29th day of November, as a day of national thanksgiving and prayer: The completed circle of Bimmer and winter, seed-time and harvest, has brought us to the accustomed season at which religious people celebrate with praise and thanksgiving the enduring mercy of Almighty God. This devout and public confession of the constant dependence of man upon the Divine Father for all the good gifts of life, and health, and peace, and happiness, so early in our history made the habit of our people, finds in a survey of the past year new grounds for its joyful and grateful manifestation. In all blessings which depend upon benignant seasons, this has indeed been a remarkable year. Over the wide territory of our country, with all its diversity of soil and climate and products, the earth has yielded a bountiful return to the labor of the husbandman. The health of the people has been blighted by no prevalent or widespread diseases ; no great disasters of shipwreck upon our coasts or to our commerce on the seas have brought loss and hardship to merchants or mariners and clouded the happiness of the community with sympathetic sorrow. In all that concerns our strength, and peace, ahd greatness as a nation ; in all that touches the permanence and security of our Government and the beneficent institutions on which it rests ; in all that affects the character and disposition of our people, and tests our capacity to enjoy and uphold the equal and free condition of society, now permanent and universal throughout the land, the experience of the last year is conspicuously marked by the protecting providence of God, and is full of promise and hope for the coming generations. Under a sense of these infinite obligations to the Great Ruler of times, and seasons, and events, let us humbly ascribe it to our own faults and frailties if, in any degree, that perfect concord and happiness, peace and justice, which such great mercies should diffuse through the hearts and lives of our people, do not altogether and always and everywhere prevail. Let us with one spirit and with one voice lift up praise and thanksgiving to God for His manifold goodness to our land, and His manifest care for our nation. Now, therefore, I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States, do appoint Thursday, the 29th day of November next, as a day of national thanksgiving and prayer, and I earnestly recommend that, withdrawing themselves from secular cares and labors, the people of the United States do meet together on that day in their respective places of worship, there to give thanks and praise to Almighty God for his mercies, and to devoutly beseech their continuance.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Supreme Court of Missouri has rendered' a decision in the Congressional contested case of Frost vs. Metcalfe from the Third District of the State, affirming the decision of the St. Louis Court of Appeals, and declaring Metcalfe, Republican, entitled to the certificate. Frost declares that ho will not abide by the decision of the court, but will continue to prosecute his claim before the House Committee on Elections. . THE PUBLIC DEBT. The public-debt statement for October shows a reduction during the month of $4,236,554. Appended are the official figures : Six per cent, bondss 758,776,850 Five per cent, bonds 703,266,650 Four and a half per cent, bonds 200,000,000 Four per cent, boubs 55,000,000 Total coin b0nd551,717,043,500 Lawful money debts 14,000,000 Matured debt 27,062,880 Legal tenders 354,554,594 Certificates of deposit 37,620,000 Fractional currency 18,352,574 Coin certificates... 33,543,200 Total without interests 444,176,369 Total debt $2,202,070,749 Total interest 29,711,996 Cash in treasury—coins 131,022,843 Cash in treasury—currency 15,950,632 Currency held for redemption of fractional currency 9,444,569 Special deposits held for redemption of certificates of deposit 37,620,000 Total in treasurys 194,038,015 Less estimated amount due military establishments for which no appro- . priations have been made; 9,500,000 Debt less cash in trea5ury52,051,587,524 Decrease of debt during October 4,236,554 Decrease since June 30 12,807,522 Bonds issued to Pacific Railroad Companies, interest uayable in lawful money; principal outstanding 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 1,622,470 Interest paid by United States . 35,957,629 Interest repaid by transportation of malls, etc a 8,756,413 Balance of interest paid by the United States 27,201,215

WASHINGTON NOTES. E. Av. Stoughton, of New York, has been appointed by the President Minister to Russia. The President has appointed„John Baxter, of Knoxville, Tenn., to succeed the late Judge Emmons as United States Judge for the Sixth Circuit. The President kas appointed John Welsh, a wealthy citizen of Philadelphia, Minister to England. The President, Mrs. Hayes, Webb C. Hayes, Burchard Hayes, Miss Platte, Secretary Evarts and two daughters, Secretary and Mrs. Sherman, Attorney General Devens, and others paid a flying visit to Richmond last week. They were enthusiastically welcomed by the people of the Virginia capital. Clarkson N. Potter declines the Chairmanship of the House Pacific Railroad Committee, on account of his connection with Tom Scott’s railway enterprises. The House Committee on Banking and Currency has agreed upon a bill for the remonetization of silver. It authorizes the coinage of the dollar of 1837, containing 412% gtains, and making the coin a full legal tender for tne payment of all debts, public and private. The President issued the following proclamation on the occasion of the death of Senator Morton : I lament the sad occasion which makes it my duty to testify the public respect for the eminent citizen and distinguished statesman whose death yesterday at his home in Indianapolis has been made known to the people by telegraph announcement. The services of Oliver P. Morton to the nation in the difficult and responsible administration of the affairs of the State of Indiana as its Governor at a critical juncture of civil war can never be overvalued by his countrymen. His long service in the Senate has ebown his great powers as a legislator and as a leader and chief counselor of a political ty charged with the conduct of the Gov.

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ernment during that period. In all things, and at all times, he has been able, strenuous, and faithful in the public service, and his fame with his countrymen rests upon a secure foundation. The several executive departments will be closed on the day of his funeral, and appropriate honors should be paid to the memory of the deceased statesman by the whole nation. R. B. Hayes.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Fifteen hundred Mormon converts have been landed in New York from Europe within the past twelve months. The last lot, something less than 150 in number, arrived last week. John Welsh, the newly-appointed Minister to the Court of St. James, is 72 years of age. Hon. A. B. Foster, Canada’s railway king, is dead. Jeff. Davis and Jacob Thompson were among the pall-bearers at the funeral of Gen. Forrest in Memphis, Tenn. On the announcement of the death of Senator Morton, President Hayes sent the following telegram of sympathy to Col. W. R. Holloway, of Indianapolis: I desire, through you, to offer to Gov. Morton’s widow and family my warmest sympathy in their great affliction, Amid the general and sincere manifestations of sorrow at the public loss, of which no one can be more sensible than myself, my long friendship for Gov. Morton makes me wish to be counted among those who feel in his death the grief of a personal bereavement. R. B. Hayes. The whole country from Montreal and Ogdensburg, and east to the Atlantic, was seriously shaken up by an earthquake on the morning of the 4th in st. Ex-President Grant recently stated that but for Senator Morton’s ill-health he would have appointed him Chief Justice at the time Senator Conkling declined the appointment.

FORTY-FIFTH COSGRESS.

Monday, Oct. 29. —Senate. —The following bills were introduced and referred : By Mr. Matthews, to amend the Bankrupt act. By Mr. Ingalls, to fix the date of the meeting of the first regular session of the. Forty-fifth Congress on Nov. 1. By Mr. Hereford, providing for the coinage of silver dollars and for making the same a l«gal tender. By Mr. Saunders, to establish the Territory of Lincoln, and to provide a temporary Government therein. By Mr. Booth, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to declare the forfeiture of railroad grants in certain cases. By Mr. Chaffee, to create a customs collection district in the State of Colorado and Territories of Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico. By Mr. Garland, to amend so much of the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill for the present fiscal year as provides for paying mail contractors in the Southern States before the rebellion... The President sent to the Senate a large number of nominations, mostly of the persons nominated during the recess of Congress. Among tne nominations were E. W. Stoughton, to be Minister to Russia; Theodore Roosevelt, Collector, S. A. Merritt, Surveyor, and Bradford Prince, Naval Officer, at the port of New York; John D. Defrees, to be Public Printer ; William Henry Smith, Collector at Chicago ; Jewett Palmer, Collector of Internal Revenue in the Fifteenth Ohio District; John Baxter, of Tennessee, United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit; Romanzo Bunn, District Judge for the, Western District of Wisconsin... .The Senate, in executive session, confirmed a number of nominations for small offices, but took no action on those for important places.

House.—The House was flooded by a perfect avalanche of bills. There were introduced, placed upon the records, and ordered to be printed, the enormous number of 845 bills, an average of almost three to each member. The following are the titles of a few of them : Providing for uniform certificates of the election of members of Congress ; reducing the postage on letters; to repeal the law taxing deposits in savings institutions; for the removal of all political disabilities; declaring the Department of Agriculture one of the Executive Departments ; for the establishment of a Department of Commerce ; to repeal the act for resumption of specie payments; for the restoration of wages in the Government Printing Office ; to make United States notes receivable for import duties; also, to consolidate the bonded debt and to reduce interest; to abolish the tax on liquors distilled from fruits; to abolish the iron-clad oath; for mail steamship service to Brazil; repealing the law forbidding the appointment in the army or navy of persons who have served in the army or navy of the Confederate States; also, to transfer the conduct of Indian affairs to the War Department; to reform the civil service, also, to provide for counting the Presidential vote ; in relation to votes for President and Members of Congress; for the issue of national savings bonds; for a national savings depository as a branch of the Postoffice Department; for the admission of Utah as a State ; for the admission of Dakota as a State ; establislung a land district in the Black Hills; to organize the Territory of Pembina... .Speaker Randall announced the House committees. The Chairmanships are assigned as follows: Elections, Harris, of Virginia ; Ways and Means, Wood, of New York ; Appropriations, Atkins, of Tennessee; Banking and Currency, Buckner, of Missouri; Pacific Railroads, Potter, of New York; Ciaims, Bright, of Tennessee ; Commerce, Reagan, of Texas; Public Lands, Morrison, of Illinois; Postoffices and Post Roads, Waddell, of North Carolina; District of Columbia, Williams, of Michigan ; Judiciary, Knott, of Kentucky; War Claims, Eden, of Illinois ; Public Expenditures, Hatcher, of Missouri; Private Land Claims, Gunter, of Arkansas ; Manufactures, Wright, of Pennsylvania; Agriculture, Cutler, of New Jersey; Indian Affairs, Scales, of North Carolina ; Military Affairs, Banning, of Ohio; Militia, Miles Ross, of New Y’ork; Naval Affairs, Whitthorne, of Tennessee ; Foreign Affairs, Swann, of Maryland; Territories, Franklin, of Missouri; Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, Mackey, of Pennsylvania; Invalid Pensions, Rice, of Ohio; Railways and Canals. Schleicher, of Texas; Mines and Mining, Beebe, of New York; Education and Labor, Goode, of Virginia; Revision of Laws, Walsh, of Maryland ; Co nage, Weights and Measures, Stephens, of Geoirgia; Patents, Vance, of North Carolina; Public Buildings and Grounds < Cook, of Georgia; Accounts, Roberts, of Maryland; Mileage, Cobb, of Indiana; Expenditures of the State Department, Springer, of Illinois; Expenditures of the Treasury Department, Glover, of Missouri: Expenditures of the W’ar Department, Blackburn, of Kentucky; Expenditures in the Navy Department, Willis, of New York ; Expenditures in the Postoffice Department, Williams, of Alabama; Expenditures in the Interior Department, Sparks, of Illinois; Expenditures on Public Buildings, Lynde, of Wisconsin; Expenditures in the Department of Justice, Bragg, of Wisconsin ; Reforms in the Civil Service, Harrison, of Illinois ; Mississippi Levees, Robertson, of Louisiana ; Rules, Stephens, of Georgia; Revision of the Law Regulating the Counting of the Electoral Votes, etc., Southard, of Ohio; Printing, Singleton, of Mississippi; Enrolled Bills, Hamilton, of Indiana ; Library, Cox, of New York. Tuesday, Oct. 30.—Senate.— The Senate was in session but fifteen minutes. A number of bills were introduced and referred to appropriate committees. Nearly all were of a private nature.... A resolution authorizing the presiding officer to appoint a select committee on the subject of ascertaining and declaring the result of the election for President and Vice President of the United States was agreed t0....Mr. Coke introduced a bill making an appropriation to pay over to Texas the residue of the $5,000,000 reserved for the satisfaction of that portion of the public debt of the late republic of Texas for which the duties on imports of said republic were especially pledged, being tne balance remaining after the payment of such debt. Referred. He also introduced a bill to reimburse Texas for expenses incurred by repelling invasions of Indians and Mexicans. Ref erred.... The Senate then went into executive session and confirmed the following nominations : E. F. Noyes to be Minister to France ; E. W. Stoughton, Minister to Russia; Thomas Osborne, Minister to the Argentine Republic; James M. Comley, Minister to the Sandwich Islands; Jamesßussell Lowell, Minister to Spain; John A. Kasson, Minister to Austria; Romanzo Bunn,United States Judge for the Western District of Wisconsin. A number of other nominations of minor importance were confirmed. House.—Not in session. Wednesday, Oct. 31. Senate.—The following bills were introduced and referred: By Mr. Burnside, to remove all restrictions regarding the enlistment of colored citizens in the army. By Mr. Ingalls, to provide a building for the Postoffice; courts and other public offices at Topeka. Kan.... A number of unimportant bills were introduced... The Vice President announced the select committee to consider the question of making a change in the method of counting the vote for President and Vice President, as follows: Messrs. Edmunds, Conkling, Howe, McMillan' Teller, Davis (of Hlinois), Bayard, Thurman and Morgan—five Republicans, tlfree Democrats and one Independent... .The Senate was in executive session over an hour, and confirmed several hundred Postmasters, but took no action on important nominations. House. —Mr. Ewing, from the Committee on Banking and Currency, reported the following bill: “ That the third section of the act entitled ‘An act to provide for the resumption of specie payments,’ approved Jan. 14, 1875, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.” Air. Fort presented the views of the minority of the committee in the shape of an amendment to the bill as follows: “ A bill to repeal all that part of the act approved Jan. 14, 1875, known as the Resumption act, which authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to dispose of United States bonds, and redeem and cancel the greenback currency. Be it enacted, etc., That all that portion of the act which reads as follows (quoting as above from the third section), be, and the same is hereby, repealed,” Mr. Ewing moved that tly> bill be printed

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and recommitted, which was agreed to without division, and he then moved to reconsider that vote, his object being thus to retain control of the bill and be able to call it up at any time. Mr. Conger moved to lay the motion to reconsider on the table, which was rejected—yeas, 116; nays, 138. Thursday, Nov. I.—Senate.—The desk of Senator Morton was marked by a bouquet of white flowers. The Chaplain alluded to the illness of the Senator, saying: “We unite our prayers to beseech Thee to give to the dying Senator the prospect of a better life, to open to him a new career and another journey beyond the stars.”... .The proceedings in the Senate were brief and unimportant. Mr. Armstrong presented a memorial from the Kansas City Board of Trade favoring the repeal of the Specie-Resumption act and the remonetization of silver; also, a resolution of the St. Louis'Merchants’ Exchange favoring the repeal of the Bankrupt law. House. —Mr. Goode, of Virginia, offered a resolution indorsing the Southern policy of L resident Hayes. Mr. Phillips objected. Mr. Butler suggested its reference to the Committee on Education and Labor. The resolution was not received.... There was a spirited fight over the motion to reconsider the vote referring the bill repealing the date for the resumption of specie payments. The result was that the measure was left in the same parliamentary position it occupied the previous day.

Friday, Nov. 2.—Senate.—The reading of the journal was dispensed with, and the death of Senator Morton was announced by Senator McDonald. A resolution submitted by him, providing for the appointment of a committee of six Senators to attend the funeral, was agreed to, and the Senate then, as a further mark of respect to the memory of Senator Morton, adjourned till Tuesday, Nov. 6. House. —In the House, Air. Ewing withdrew his motion to recommit the bill. repealing a part of the Resumption act, accepted Mr. Fort’s bill as a substitute, and moved the previous question. Mr. Hale moved to lay the bill and the amendment on the table. The motion was defeated—yeas, 108; nays, 140. The Fort bill was then made the special order for Nov. 13.. . .Mr. Hanna offered the following resolution, which was agreed to unanimously: “ Rewired, In view of the sad intelligence of the death of Oliver P. Morton, late distinguished Senator in the Congress of the United States from the State of Indiana, that the Speaker of this House, as a mark of respect for the memory of the man whose death is the nation’s loss, appoint a committee of seven members to represent this House at the funeral obsequies. ’.... Mr. Atkins, Chairman of the Appropriation Committee, reported the Army Appropriation bill, which was referred to the Committee of the Whole. The bill appropriates $25,723,000... .Mr. Wood asked leave to offer a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish the House copies of contract made with certain syndicate American and foreign bankers for the negotiation of the 4-per-cent. bonds of the United States, together with copies of all other papers relating thereto. Mr. Pridemore objected. Saturday. Nov. 3.—Senate.—Not in session. House. —Consideration was resumed of the bill for the repeal of a part of the Resumption act. After discussion as to the proposed terms for the management and consideration of the bill, Mr. Kelley proposed to offer a resolution making it the special order for Tuesday, the 6th, and until Thursday, the 15th, when the previous question should be ordered, but Mr. Willis objected absolutely to the resolution being received, inasmuch as he regarded the bill as an assault upon the national credit.... The bill for a free coinage of a standard silver dollar was introduced by Mr. Buckner, and was, on motion of Mr Stephens, after discussion, referred to the Committee on Coinage, rather than to the Banking Committee.... Two other bills were introduced for the remonetization of silver—one by Mr. Clark and one by Mr. Townsend... .Mr. Finley introduced a bill to amend the constitution so as to elect the President and Vice President by a direct vote of the people.

The House Committees.

The Ways and Means Committee appears to contain nine revenue-tariff men and two protectionists, classified as follows : Messrs. Wood, Tucker. Sayler, Robbins, Harris, Gibson, Phelps, Garfield, and Burchard; and two protectionists, Messrs. Kelley and Banks. The Banking and Currency Committee is said to be composed of four hardmoney and seven who are not bullionists. Among the latter class the various shades of silver-money men and greenback men are represented. If the distinction of hard and soft-money men only is maintained the hard-money men are Handenburgh, Hart, Ames, and Chittenden, and the soft-money men, Buckner, Ewing, Yeates, Hartzell, Danford, and Phillips/ The Pacific Railroad Committee is larger than the others, and has thirteen members. It is made up of seven opposed to subsidies in general, namely : Messrs. Potter, Morrison, Luttrell, Landers, Blair, Casewell, and Rice; and six who are credited with being friendly to the Texas Pacific enterprise, namely : Messrs. Throckmorton, House, Chalmers, Elam, O’Neil, and Cole.— Washington Cor. Chicago Tribune.

The Silver Bills.

The New York Herald's Washington correspondent says the silver people think they have a pretty sure thing of it in both houses, and yet they are probably mistaken. There are a good many silver men, but they are of many minds. Some of the most eccentric would vote with Senator Jones to make the dollar unlimited legal tender,and have it coined at the mint like gold. Others, however, are vehemently opposed to this as extremely impolitic, and dangerous as well as dishonest, but they would agree to a measure such as Secretary Sherman is also believed to favor, recalling all legaltender notes under §5 and issuing silver dollars in their stead, making these dollars legal tender up to §lO, or perhaps §2O, and receivable for public dues up to that amount. Between these two kinds of silver men there is an irreconcilable difference, for the latter believe the former seek for a measure which is in its nature fraudulent anl injurious to the country.

Senator Morton’s Terrible Sufferings.

Dr. Kitchen, who attended the dying man, said that Senator Morton was suffering intense pain, and that, though the effects might in a degree be neutralized by the chloroform, it was plain that he endured dreadful agony. Death heralded its slow approach upon the seat of vitality by inflicting untold torture. The agony experienced was the actual disintegration of the atoms that help to make up animal life—a dissolution of particles which is but a certain precursor of decomposition and death, a separation of the soul from the body. Strong constitutions carry with them the power to endure pain that seems greater than mortals can bear, and it frequently occurs that they are called upon to endure to the uttermost limit. The Senator’s case is just such an one. The lines of his face were drawn and pinched. He suffered in silence, and retained enough consciousness to indicate his wishes. — lndianapolis Journal.

Fire Insurance in New York.

The sworn returns of the business done in New York city by the fire insurance companies exhibits a startling decrease of earning. The amount of premiums received on New York city business by New York and other companies during the first six months of 1874,1875, 1876 and 1877 were : 1874. 1875. 1876. 1877. N.Y. co. ’8 ...$2,856,462 2,563,738 2,185,561 1,845,329 All other co.’s. 2,303,013 1,188,178 1,085,458 979,842 Totals.... $4,158,475 3,761,914 3,271,020 2,825,171 The condition of the insurance business has been much like that of the railroads. The number of companies has notjdecreased; the competition in rates has been exhaustive; at the same time the amount of business to be done has decreased greatly. Public executionshave been abolished in Sweden. They are to take place in prison interiors in presence only of a few functionaries and of a dozen citizens chosen by the people of the district where the execution may take place.

SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.

A Seaman from Hudson’s Bay Recovers Articles Bearing Evidence of Having Belonged to the Brave Explorer. [From the New York World.] Thos. A. Barry, second mate of the bark A. Houghton, which was cast away, on the 12th of June, upon the coast of Hudson bay, a few mules southwest of Cape Fullerton, has brought to this city some interesting relics of the Franklin Expedition, which he obtained from a native tribe near whose homes the last of the brave explorers are said to have perished. Barry appears to be an honest sailor, and the relics which he has in his possession confirm the correctness of his story as told to a IFbrW reporter. Just a year ago, while the bark was laid up at Marble island, a well-known station in Rankin’s bay, they were visited by a large party of Esquimaux from the Nachille settlement, near Cape Inglefield, who told of the mounds which marked the graves of the white men who had come among them many years before. Two old men of the tribe remembered distinctly the appearance of the strangers, but none of the other natives could speak except in regard to the mounds, and the relics which were still in their possession. The old Esquimaux told Barry that a long time ago a large party of white men had come to their settlement and lived for a long time among them. The old men told how cold the winter was which followed the arrival of the whites. No game of any kind was to be had, and the settlement was reduced before long io the last extremity of destitution. The natives crouched in their huts without fire or food, except some miserable seal skins, pieces of which they chewed. The white men were unable to endure the miseries of winter. The natives were inured to hunger and cold, but many of their tribe perished. One after the other, the remnant of the English expedition died, until all the men had perished in the huts of the Esquimaux settlement. The Esquimaux wrapped the bodies of the dead in skins, and buried them near the settlement, under little heaps of stones. Before all the expedition had starved to death, a cairn was erected among the huts, and the books and papers belonging to the explorers were carefully placed within it. Other valuables were stored in the cairn also, whieh the natives told Barry had been left untouched. They looked on the deposit as sacred, and feared to break into the mound or disturb the relics. They had a number of articles in their settlement, however, belonging to the expedition, made of silver, copper, and iron, and many pieces of wood which had been used to construct boats or sledges. Some of these articles they brought with them to the ship, and Barry was able to procure three large silver spoons, which were unmistakably the property of the Franklin expedition. One of the spoons he has now in his possession. The other two were given to the American Consul at St. John, Newfoundland. The spoon now belonging to Barry is a heavy silver table-spoon, engraved with the Franklin crest, a fish’s head surrounded by a wreath. The natives were willing to guide the crew of the whaler to their settlement, but, as the journey was nearly 1,000 miles in length and. the crew were whalemen and not professed explorers, the offer was not accepted. It is proposed by Morrison & Brown, shipping agents at No. 109 South street, to make an attempt to recover the relics of the Franklin expedition next spring. Mr. Morrison was the agent who fitted out the Polaris. He estimates the cost of fitting out a vessel for a cruise of eighteen months at §15,000, and if this sum can be raised he will endeavor to provide what is necessary. It is understood that the British Government have offered a standing reward of £20,000 for the recovery of the books and other records of the expedition, and if this offer is still open Messrs. Morrison & Brown are prepared to defray the cost of the expedition, which will probably be under the charge of Mr. Barry. He proposes to enter Hudson bay and land at Repulse bay, on its western coast. From thence the journey to Inglefield, about 500 miles, can be made with sleds and dogs, which can be procured at the point of landing. Traveling at the rate of forty miles per day, the settlements of Hachelli can be reached in about two weeks. Here Barry expects to find the cairn untouched, and to bring back the relics of Franklin’s memorable expedition.

The Duello.

John M. Binckley, who was Assistant Attorney General of tne United States during the administration of President Johnston, and a resident of Chicago, recently sent the following challenge to Dr. J. W. Tope : Dr. J. W. Tope, Mont Clare, Cook County: Sir : Last Sunday a week past I called at your lodgings about sunset, and was invited to await you in your room. I chose not to stain a blameless (?) fireside with your blood, and left word for you to meet me at the depot, where knowing you always carried arms, I intended, to make you fight. The police protected you. Since then I have beei> dodging night and day. On the 22d I wrote you offering to meet you at the house of one of your Masonic brethren, unarmed, for a private personal interview. You have not responded. No living person knew my object. I reveal it to you. It was to make an unlawful proposal. If you are cowardly you will now have my liberty in your power, for, finding no other way, I avow hereby my proposal, which is for a mortal combat. As I can invite no friend to expose himself in Illinois, it must necessarily be a secret meeting between us, which is not prescribing terms. This Ido prescribe, and, nothing else, viz. : The fight must go on until one is dead. Now all the rest is with you, and as you know yourself to be uncommonly deft and skillful, you perceive your immense advantage over bungling strength. Make everything to please yourself ; but I limit the time to ten days after notice. If you evade this, I will, if I must, adopt another way. No person, as yet, has ever heard from me the reason of my hostility. An answer to this will reach me, directed to the eare of the Hon. 8. F. Norton, No. 69 Dearborn street, Chicago, who will not imagine the contents. Respectfully. John M. Binckley. ' Being a man of peace Dr. Tope did not accept this challenge “for a mortal combat. ” What he did do was to swear out a warrant for the arrest of the bellicose Binckley, and have him put under bonds to keep the peace. The cause of Binckley’s hostility was a belief that Tope haff been unduly intimate with his (B. ’s) wife, from whom he had recently separated. Friends of the family claim that Binckley is laboring under a hallucination, and that his mind has become clouded on account of domestic as well as pecuniary misfortunes.

Bights of Railway Passengers.

The following decision has been rendered by the United States Supreme Court: “ Shields vs. State of Ohio, error to the Supreme Court of Ohio. In this case plaintiff in error, who was a conductor on the Lake Shore and Southern Railroad, between Elyria and Cleveland, put one Ulrich off a car for

refusing to pay more than three cents per mile under the general law of the State limiting fares to this rate. Suit for assault was sustained against the conductor, the court instructing the jury that he had no legal right to demand more fare than was tendered by the passenger, and the judgment below is here affirmed.”

LINCOLN TERRITORY.

Senator Saunders’ Proposition tor the Government of the Black Hills. Senator Saunders, of Nebraska, introduced a bill in the for the establishment of a portion of Dakota under a Territorial form of government The geographical boundary of this proposed division is as follows: Commencing at a point where the forty-third parallel of north latitude intersects with the twentyfifth meridian of longitude west from the city of Washington; thence following a due westerly course along said parallel to its intersection with the thirtieth meridian of longitude; thence north along said thirtieth meridian of longitude to its intersection with the channel of the Yellowstone river, to the center of said channel; thence following the center of said channel to its intersection with the forty-seventh parallel of north latitude; thence easterly along said forty-seventh parallel t* the western boundary of Dakota Territory; thence due south along said boundary line to the forty-sixth parallel of north latitude; thence east along said forty-sixth parallel to the twentyfifth meridian of longitude; thence south along said twenty-fifth meridian to the place of commencement. The territory thus mapped out, it will be seen, comprises the present southwestern portion of Dakota, together with a slice of Montana and Wyoming. On three sides it has natural boundaries; on the south the line of Nebraska, on the west the Big Horn divide, and on the north the Yellowstone. The eastern is arbitrary, and runs through the barren lands of the Sioux reservation. In area the district is 70,000 square miles, and the population, which chiefly consists of miners, is about 35,000, or four-fifths of the entire population of Dakota. A plan for the Territorial government of the northern portion of Dakota, under the name of Huron, is also to be brought forward soon. Should both succeed there will still be enough of Dakota left to make a State as large as Ohio.

Japan.

By the arrival at San Francisco of the last steamer from Yokohama we get the following news from Japan : ‘ ‘ Peace is completely restored at the South, and the troops are returning home. The Prince Arionyana, Com-mander-in-Chief, reached Tokio, Oct. 5, accompanied by leading Generals and Admirals, and was received with high honors. A policy of conciliation and forbearance was proclaimed, and severe punishments only for those whose crimes were other than political. Thus, Avama, the former Governor of Kagoshima, was executed for betraying his trust and converting public moneys to rebel use, and others for participation in wanton massacres. Those who merely fought in insurrection under misleading guidance were to be leniently dealt with. Saigo’s body and head were found, but under circumstances which still leave doubt as to the exact position which was held by him in the rebel movement. It is probable uow that it will never be known to what extent he is responsible for the outbreak, or whether he instigated it at all. His active participation at the end, however, is placed beyond doubt. “ The imperial infant Prince received the name of Yuki Hate, with the customary ceremonies, Sept. 29. He will be popularly known as Take-No-Miva. “ The first serious railway accident in Japan occurred Oct. 6. By the collision of two night trains, three Japanese were killed and several persons wounded, among them two foreign enginedrivers. “ Cholera continues in a mild form, the death-rate being exceedingly small.”

Gen. Grant Dines with President MacMahon.

President MacMahon gave a dinner at the Elysee this evening in honor of Gen. Grant. Among the distinguished guests present were the Dukes de Broglie and Decazes, Gen. Berthaut, Viscount de Meaux, MM. Fourtou, Caillaux, and Brunet, and Admiral Gicqueldes Touches, all of the members of the Cabinet, some of them with their ladies; the Marquis d’Alzac, M. Mollard, and members of the Marshal’s military household; Mrs. Grant, Mr. Noyes, the American Minister, and lady, and Gen. Tobert and lady, and Mrs. Sickles. Gen. Grant sat on the right of Mme. MacMahon, and the Duke de Broglie on her left. Mrs. Grant sat on the right of President MacMahon, and Mr. Noyes was seated between Mrs. Sickles and Mrs. Tobert. The banquet was a very brilliant and animated affair. It began at 7:30 and terminated at 9 o’clock. After dinner Gen. Grant and President MacMahon had a long conversation in the smoking-room, M. Vignaud of the American Legation, acting as interpreter. The Marshal invited Gen. Grant to breakfast with him as a friend, and also to witness some of the sittings of the Chamber of Deputies. The General accepted the invitation. He is much pleased with his cordial reception. - Cable Dispatch.

Forrest and Kilpatrick.

Summer before last, -when Gen. Judson Kilpatrick was canvassing Indiana for the” Republicans, he spoke of the late Gen. Forrest in such a way that the latter challenged him to fight a duet As soon as the challenge was sent Forrest wrote to Gen. Basil Duke, of Kentucky, that in case his invitation was accepted—which he did not doubt for a moment — he would call on Duke to be his second. The letter further said that in the necessary arrangement he would like Gen. Duke to insist that the duel should be fought on horseback with sabers, as that was the proper way for two cavalrymen to meet. Gen. Duke at once engaged for his principal a steed for the encounter—a horse recommended by his owner to go over a church steeple if necessary —and awaited Gen. Kilpatrick’s reply. Kilpatrick, however, declined to fight, on the ground that he and Forrest “ did not move in the same social sphere.” Had this duel taken place it doubtless would have been conducted in a style delightfully dramatic. -New York World. The average annual increase in population per 1,000, among the chief nations of Europe during the years 1872-1875 was: In Switzerland, 7.5; in Italy, 6.3; in France, 3.8; in Austro-Hungary, 6.2; in Germany, 12; in England 13.9. A Cornell Sophomore, O'. reading ‘ Daniel Deronda,” remarked that the President of Harvard was a good writer.

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NUMBER 39.

THE PRESIDENTIAL FRAUD.

An Extraordinary Letter from Judge Strong, of the United States Supreme Court. [From the New York Sun.] The Hon. William Strong, of Pennsylvania, is one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was one of the fifteen members who constituted the Electoral Commission through whose action Rutherford B. Hayes was declared to be elected President of the United States. Had Judge Strong, as a member of that commission, voted the other way, Mr. Hayes would have been excluded from the office of President. It is therefore to the vote of Judge Strong that Mr. Hayes owes his office. The commission consisted of fifteen, of whom, leaving Judge Strong in doubt, seven were for Mr. Hayes and seven were against him. The grand result depended upon the way Judge Strong should vote. Under these circumstances, and with such consequences hanging upon his vote, Judge Strong made up his mind to vote for Mr. Hayes. It now appears, however—and it appears by a letter under his own hand—that in arriving at this conclusion Judge Strong was governed by a strictly technical rule, and that, although he cast the determining vote in favor of Mr. Hayes for President, he does not believe, and never did believe, that Mr. Hayes was lawfully elected to that office I The view taken by Judge Strong was that Congress has no right to inquire into State elections for State electors; that the Electoral Commission had no more power than Congress had; and so he voted for Hayes although he feared a great wrong had been perpetrated by the Louisiana Returning Board I All this fully appears in a letter addressed by Mr. Justice Strong to an old personal friend of his, the Hon. George W. Jones, of Tennessee. This letter, being entirely upon a public question of overshadowing importance, has been forwarded to us by Mr. Jones for publication, and -we print the two letters, which are as follows, in full: Fayetteville, Tenn., Oct. 16, 1877. Hon. Charles A. Dana: Dear Sir : During the sitting of the Electoral Commie bion in Washington last winter, I wrote to Mr. Justice Strong, of the United States Supreme Court, and a member of the commission, with whom I had been associated formerly in Congress. I did not keep a copy of my letter, but, addressing him, I wrote in substance as follows :

“ When you and I were in Congress together you were a Democrat, and regarded as an honest man. Do you believe that the people of Louisiana elected or voted for the Hayes electors?” I inclose herewith a copy of Justice Strong’s letter in response to mine. If you think his letter worth publishing, you are at liberty to give it to the public. In my reply to Justice Strong’s letter I wrote : “ By the constitution of the United States it is provided that Presidential electors shall be appointed in such manner as shall be prescribed by the State Legislatures ; but the returns of the electoral votes are to be returned to the President of the Senate, and shall be opened in the presence of the two houses of Congress, and be then counted. Congress clearly has the right to inquire and determine whether or not the electors of the several States had been appointed in the manner prescribed by their respective States.” I never write secrets nor keep copies of the letters I write. And Ido not believe that the official acts of public servants and the reasons for their acts should be regarded as private and secret. Very respectfully yours, G. W. Jones. Washington, Feb. 26, 1877. The Hon. George W. Jones: My Dear Sir : I was a Democrat when you and I were together in Congress. lam a Democrat now. I hold to all the opinions the State-Rights Democrats have always held, and which the acknowledged leaders of the party have avowed up to the present winter —never more clearly than in 1873 to 1875. I do not believe that Congress has any constitutional right to inquire into State elections for State electors. Congress has, of late years, interfered quite too much with the States. The Electoral Commission has no more power than Congress has. and I think it would be a most dangerous usurpation were it to do what the States alone have a right to do, even to cure what I fear was a great wrong of the Louisiana Returning Board. I can not doubt that such will be your opinion when you reflect to what the assertion of such a power would lead. It would place the right of the States, respecting the choice of electors, at the mercy of the Federal Government, and be the greatest stride ever made towards centralization. Better suffer a present evil than open such a door, better than abandon all the time-honored principles of the Democratic party. I am yours, very respectfully, W. Strong. The letter of Judge Strong is in one sense very creditable to him. It shows that he acted from conviction. We can not give our assent to the correctness of his conclusion, but we can understand that his view is one which might be honestly taken by a technical lawyer, not much addicted to equity and to going to the bottom of things. The great and momentous fact which appears from the correspondence, and w hich presses itself, by its gigantic magnitude upon the serious consideration of the whole country, is that Rutherford B. Hayes occupies the office of President of the United States by force of the vote of a man who doesn’t believe he was legally elected. From this conclusion there is no escape. It stands forth now, and will stand forever, as an historical fact, established by conclusive and unquestionable evidence. To urge that every other vote in the Electoral Commission had the same potency as that of Judge Strong does not all detract from the strength of our argument. Conceding that, because it is undeniable, the stubborn fact still remains that without Judge Strong the members of the commission were equally divided, and that if Mr. Hayes had not received the vote of this member of the commission, who did not believe he was legally elected, he would never have been declared President. Evidence Against the Louisiana Returning Board. [From the New Orleans Times.] Soon after the information against the members of the late Returning Board was filed, the Times made the statement that the original returns of the parish of Vernon were not in this city, but were in possession of David Dudley Field, who managed Tilden’s case in Congress. It seems that the returns of that parish were never in the possession of the present State authorities. In fact, STI of the evidence relating to the altering and forging of the Vernon parish returns was collected by an agent of Mr. Tilden, under the direction of Col. Pelton, Mr. Tilden’s Private Secretary. The authorities here, as far as can be gathered, knew nothing of Littlefield or his evidence, or the manner in which the return of Vernon had been tampered with, until Littlefield appeared pei'ore the committee fit Washington. Yesterday ex-Gov. WicKlifife from New

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York, where he had been for the purpose of getting these original returns of Vernon parish. He succeeded in getting them, and they now are under lock and key, in the safe of the St. Charles Hotel. Gov. Wickliffe executed his mission very quietly, and his return to this city was perhaps the first intimation to the public that he had been engaged in looking after these returns. Of course it would hjve been impossible to have proceeded with the tnal without them, and it is reasonable to suppose that the delay in arraigning the accused parties was caus’d by the absence of the evidence, since it is hardly probable that the Attorney General cared to have them plead to the charge against them until he was sure of his ability to proceed with the case. It seems that Gov. Wickliffe had some difficulty in securing the returns, not because there was any objection to give them up, but because Mr. Field had permitted them to pass out of his keeping, and it was only after diligent search and inquiry that they were discovered. Gov. Wickliffe succeeded in getting them, however, and it is not probable that they will be lost sight of until the trial is over. The returns show very clearly that they have been altered. Originally they showed 400 Democratic and two Republican votes. The alteration makes the returns show 149 Republican votes. It was said when the change was first noticed that it had been made for the purpose of assisting one of Wells’ cronies, who was a candidate in the district of which Vernon parish forms a part. Gov. Wickliffe expresses the opinion that with these returns no great difficulty ought to be experienced in securing a successful prosecution.

Gov. Morton’s First Attack of Paralysis.

It was in the fall of 1865 that the late Gov. Morton was first prostrated by the insidious disease that finally proved fatal. His attack is thus described by himself : “During the latter part of the summer and first part of the fall of 1865, I felt an indisposition to read or study. I didn’t care to read so much as a newspaper. My mind felt dull and clouded, and I found many little things escaping my memory. I was confused easily, and took little or no interest in what was going on about me. Even the duties of the State no longer engaged my close attention. These feelings continued until the 10th 'of October. I never shall forget the air was crisp, and I walked a very long distance. In the evening I retired somewhat fatigued, but in other respects apparently in my usual health. The next morning I woke early, but as I attempted to get out of bed I discovered I was unable to lift my limbs. Again and again I made the effort, when it suddenly flashed through my mind that I was paralyzed. I felt little pain, but from my hips downward I was unable to move myself.” But the strangest part of the story is to come. His mental activity had returned. “My head seemed as clear as a bell, and involuntarily I recalled to mind incidents which I had forgotten, although previously I had charged my memory with them.” So sudden and complete was the work of this subtle disease for five years the powers of his mind and body had been taxed to their utmost, and it is not strange, perhaps, that a person of his build should be thus attacked. It is said that his father suffered as a paralytic in his later vears, and that an aunt was similarly stricken. It is probable, therefore, that the disease was latent, but in considering the powerful, muscular frame which he inherited from his mother, whom he greatly favors, it is doubtful if he would ever have been prostrated had his labors been less severe and protracted.

Capture of Western Road Agents.

A Cheyenne (Wyoming) dispatch gives the following account of the operations and subsequent capture of a couple of bold highwaymen: “The coach that left Deadwood Tuesday morning, coming south, was stopped and robbed last night within three miles of this post, by two armed men, supposed to be Blackbum and Wall, the notorious road agents. There were seven passengers on the coach, among whom was United States Marshal Sweesy. The robbers took everything of any value that could be found—money, jewelry, blankets and overcoats. The same men, about daylight this morning, robbed a freight outfit, consisting of four wagons, taking all the blankets they had. They took from a Chinaman who was with the train everything he had, and then administered a sound thrashing with the teamster’s whip. Lieut. Chase, with a detachment of the Third Cavalry, accompanied by William Reid, an experienced man at tracking thieves and catching them, started this morning at daylight in pursuit of the thieves, and followed them nearly all day, hearing of them often just ahead, they having robbed six different men during the day. They finally captured the men twelve miles above the Government farm and about thirty-six from Fort Laramie. A hot chase was kept up for about five miles after the robbers discovered their pursuers. They threw away a gun and some heavy articles in their flight, and were finally brought to bay by several shots being fired at them, and surrendered. They are now in the guardhouse at this post. One of them is identified as Webster, the murderer of Deputy Sheriff Cuney. They would not give their names, telling the officer of the day that they had a dozen names each, and that there was no use in giving any names. The two gray horses they rode are identified as two horses that belonged to the Cheyenne and Black Hills Stage Company, and were stolen from them some time ago.

Improved Thief and Robber Trap.

The object of this invention is to provide for use in banks, stores, etc., a thief or robber trap, so constructed that it may be tripped by the cashier, proprietor, clerk, or other person stationed behind the counterpor in any other convenient place, and thereby precipitate the thief or burglar into the cellar or apartment below. The tilting sections constitute that part of a banking-room which is in front of the counter. On removing the support of levers from the tilting sections they will tilt and precipitate anyone standing thereon into the cellar or apartment below. It is hence within the power of the cashier, clerk, or other person having access to the tripper, to tilt the sections whenever a robber has gained r< Jess to the bank or store, and thus precipitate him into a place of secure confinement without incurring the danger of personal encounter and injury.— '.entific American. Girds in Georgia wear hats made of | natural leaves and flowers.