Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1877 — Page 1

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THE WAR IN THE EAST. Plevna is said to be provisioned with six weeks’ provisions. The Turkish losses are estimated at 200 to 300 daily from the concentrated fire of the Russian artillery. The prospectus has appeared of a new Russian 5 per cent, loan of 75,000,000 roubles, which is to be issued for subscription in Berlin, Amsterdam and Paris at 76%. Nearly 70,000 Russian soldiers are officially stated to have been put hors du combat since the beginning of the war; the Turkish loss during the same time is estimated at 200,000. The increased mortality among the Moslems is attributed to the wretched condition of the medical department; the insufficiency of the commissariat; the aversion of the soldiers to the amputating knife of the surgeon, and a meagerness of pay which prevents the purchase of little delicacies for the sick. Constantinople dispatches state that “ the Russians have been repulsed near Kars after prolonged fighting. There has been a heavy snow in Asia. A council of war under the Presidency of the Sultan decided to largely reinforce Mehemot Ali. Rumors of peace negotiations are denied.” A dispatch from Poredin says the Russians summoned Osman Pasha to surrender, and the latter refused. Cable dispatches express the opinion that the Russian forces operating against Erzeroum are inadequate to its capture by regular siege, and that the place must be taken by assault or the Russians retire to the Soghanli mountains. • The Russian losses in killed, wounded and missing since the beginning of hostilities to Nov. 7 are officially stated as 64.863. The Russians captured Kars on the 17th of November, after a twelve hours’ battle.

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. Henry W. Stanley, the African explorer, with 120 of his followers, has arrived at the Cape of Gjod Hope. A number of Spaniards, armed "-ith rifles, have crossed tire Pyrenees and entered Spain. A rising is expected. It is reported that Germany is urging Belgium to accept a German protectorate, and make her military system conform to Germany, in return for a guarantee of independence in all other respects, and for territorial compensation. A London dispatch says the master-builders unanimously declare against a conference with the masons on the strike, and decide to continue the importation of foreign labor. I’ongo, the gorilla, which has recently been exhibited in London, is dead. A Romo dispatch announces that the Marquis Antinori, leader of the Italian exploring expedition in Africa, is dead. Signor Chiarini, who wa s engaged with the deceased in the work of exploration, is a prisoner in Abyssinia. In polling for the Lord Rectorship of Glasgow University, W. E. Gladstone received 1,153 votes, and Sir Stafford Northcote, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 609. A Paris dispatch of the 17th announces the resignation of the MacMahon Ministry. Gen. Grant visited the tomb of M. Thiers, and placed upon it a wreath of immortelles. A special from Alexandria announces that the King of Abyssinia has written to Gen. Gordon accepting the terms of peace proposed by the latter.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. The fight over the estate of the late Commodore Vanderbilt has opened in earnest in the Surrogate’s Court of New York. A married daughter of the dead hundred-millionaire, Mrs. Le Ban, who was cut off with a pittance of $500,001), now comes forward to assert her claim to an equal division of the enormous estate, the bulk of which was bequeathed toWm. H. Vanderbilt. The lady has for her counsel Scott Lord and Jere Black. Newman & Capron’s hardware manufactory, on Twenty-ninth street, New York, has been destroyed by Are. Loss, SIOO,OOO. A terrible explosion of fire-damp occurred last week in a colliery near Scranton, Pa., by which four or five miners were killed and Bevern! badly injured. Three savings banks in Reading, Pa., closed their doors simultaneously the other day, creating the greatest excitement among the depositors. Their total liabilities amount to $2,000,000. Leprosy has I een added to the list of ills that flesh is heir to in New York. The heathen Chinee is suspected of importing the plague along with his josses, chopsticks, and other peculiar institutions of the Flowery Land. Jonathan Edwards, the eminent Presbyterian theologian and preacher, died last week at Hartford, Ct., aged 75. A Fall River (Mass.) dispatch announces the destruction by fire of the Borden City Mill No. I. Loss, $450,000. Conrad Poppenhusen, the owner of all the railroads on Long Island, N. Y., has filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. The ascertained liabilities amounts to $3,500,000, while the assets are put at $7,300,000 in round numbers. West. Shaffenburg, ex-United States Marshal of Colorado, who was convicted of stealing $40,000 from the Government, and sentenced, a short time ago, to the Kansas penitentiary for the term of two years, has been pardoned by President Hayes. A fire in St Louis, last week, destroyed Steinberg’s hat-store and John Brunet’s restaurant, on Fourth street. Loss, over SIOO,000. A San Francisco dispatch announces the destruction by fire of the North Point warehouse. Loss, $310,000. Hon. William F. Coolbaugh, President of the Union National Bank, and an old and highly esteemed citizen of Chicago, committed suicide on the night of the 13th inst. His body was found at an early hour in the morning at the base of the Douglas monument, in the southern part of the city. A bullet hole through his head and a pistol beside the body gave certain proof of the manner of death. Domestic infelicity is reported as the cause of the rash act. The sad event created a profound sensation throughout the city of Chicago.

Chicago has been the scene of another destructive conflagration. At 8 o’clock on the evening of Wednesday, the 14th inst., flames broke out in the palatial dry-goods store of Messrs. Field, Leiter & Co., the third largest house in the United States and the second largest in the retail business, and in a few hours the magnificent structure, with its vast stock of goods, was reduced to a mass of ruins. During the progress of the conflagration two firemen were killed and four badly injured by the falling of *ne of the floors of the burning structure. The total loss by the fire is estimated at about $1,000,000. The stock was valued at nearly $1,250,000, a considerable portion of, which was saved in a damaged condition. There was an insurance on the stock of $950,000. The buildingwus «the spring of 1872 by the Btog-

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er Sewing Machine Company, at a cost of between $750,000 end SBOO,OOO. The first story was mostly of but the remainder was of limestone. ( It had a truss roof, the girders of iron, overlaid with wood, and this sheathed with tin. The center of the roof contained a skylight, and an open court or well, surrounded by a railing on each floor, extended down to the main floor. During the progress of its erection a scaffolding upon which a number of men were standing at work on the skylight gave way, and they were precipitated through the court, a distance of eighty feet, to the first floor. Three of them were killed outright, and a fourth escaped by clinging to a portion of the scaffolding that remained until he was rescued. Shortly before Messrs. Field & Leiter took possession of the building a fire broke out. It was extinguished after about $50,000 damage had been done. The origin of the last fire will perhaps forever remain a mystery. It commenced in the sixth story, near the roof, and is believed to have been the work of an incendiary.

The Coroner’s jury, in the case of the Hon. W. F. Coolbaugh, of Chicago, rendered a verdict of suicide while in a state of temporary insanity. That the dead banker was insane at the time of committing the deed is undoubtedly true. Insanity, it appears, was hereditary in the family, and a brother and sister of the deceased are now afflicted with the dread malady, the latter being an inmate of an asylum. The Union National Bank, of which Mr. Coolbaugh was President, is the leading national bank of the West, and is in a sound condition. The deceased leaves an estate estimated at $1,000,000. His life was insured for SIOO,OOO. Portions of lowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Dakota experienced quite an earthquake shock on the 15th inst. At Omaha and other points in Nebraska the shock was quite severe, producing quite a panic among the people. The duration of the shock at Fort Randall, Yankton Agency, and Springfield, Dak., was about one minute, and the direction west to east. At the Indian agencies the tepes were <>v»4iir>wA and ttoods on shelves in traders’ stores shaken off. There was great excitement among whites and Indians. At Yankton the glass in many of the windows was broken by the shock, and many people rushed from their houses in great fright. T. B. Keator, formerly of the Western Gun Works, of Cticago, has turned up in Yokohama, Japan. There is no extradition treaty between the United States and Japan.

Frank Rande, the desperado who plundered and murdered near Galesburg, and later at St. Elmo, 111., has at last been caught. In St. Louis, Mo., one day last week, a pawnbroker named Wright sent one of his clerks to notify a policeman that a man who was wanted was negotiating the redemption of a valise pawned some time before. Officers White and Heffernan, both heavy, strong men, responded, and as they entered the shop Wright pointed out the man. As they reached for their prisoner he pulled a pistol from a holster. Heffernan grabbed the pistol hand and White the other. With the agility of an athlete the desperado made a lunge forward, partially freeing himself, and fired. White was shot in the leg, the ball severing the femoral artery, and the blood gushing out in a stream. Wright and his clerk, a man named Hess, joined the fight, both using revolvers. The clerk, watching his chances, so as not to hit the policeman, fired several shots, one taking effect in the desperado’s leg. Wright had attempted to take care of a man who had come in with the desperado, but he took flight on the entrance of the officers, but not before firing on them once or twice at close range. The man who had made such a plucky fight finally fell, shot through the left lung. As he lay on the floor he looked up coolly at Heffernan and said : “ A half minute more w r ould have cooked your goose.” The prisoner gave his name as Frank Rande, said he was 25 years of age, and that he came from the East. When asked where he lived, he told the officers to go to h—l. He had gotten in his work, he said, before they could put the rope around his neck, and that was satisfaction enough for him. The policeman who was shot in St. Louis by the outlaw Rande, while resisting arrest, has since died of his wound. Field, Leiter & Co., of Chicago, have engaged the great Exposition building for their new store, and in a few days will be ready for business.

Soulh. A report comes by way of Galveston that “Lieut. Bullis, with a small party of scouts, crossed the Rio Grande near the mouth of the Pccoh river, and was attacked by a body of 500 Indians and compelled to retreat. Loss not stated. Col. Young has left Fort Clark with 200 cavalry to reinforce Bullis.” Ex-Congressman Smalls and ex-Revenue Collector Carpenter, on trial at Columbia, S. C., the former for bribery and the latter for forgery, have been found guilty. By way of Galveston we get the following news from the Texas border: Several large parties, one of them composed of thirty-five bucks, have crossed into Texas to raid. It is rumored that Col. Villareal has invaded Mexico, fifty miles above Matamoras, in the interest of Gen. Escobedo and Lerdo, and to stir up a revolution in Tamaulipas. Lieut. Bullis destroyed an Indian camp at Saragossa. A party of Mexicans and Indians from Chihuahua and Northern Mexico have crossed into Texas on the war-path, jn revenge for the invasion by Lieut. Bullis. The latest from El Paso county is that the entire region is under the control of a Mexican mob backed by Mexicans south of the river, defying the United States authorities, and claiming allegiance to the Mexican flag. The trial of Gen. Escobedo, at Brownsville, for violation of the United States Neutrality law resulted in his acquittal.

WASHINGTON NOTES. An order has been issued by the War Department directing that, until further orders, the names of battle-fields shall not be printed in the army register at the head of the regiments which took part in them. The commission appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury to inquire into the conduct of and the business transacted by the Bureau of Statistics have submitted their report to the Secretary. It is very severe on Dr. Young,who is accused of serious irregularities, while his tables of commerce and navigation are grossly incorrect'. The commission recommend a thorough reorganization of the bureau and radical change in the manner of gathering and publishing statistics. The President has appointed Effingham Lawrence Collector of Customs at New Orleans, vice John E. King removed; Chauncey I. Filley Postmaster at St. Louis; and Alenander Reed Postmaster at Toledo, Ohie. Secretary Sherman’s annual report will set forth a reduction in revenue receipts of about $3,500,000, and a considerable reduction in expenditures. The nr in falling-off is under the head of miscellaneous receipts, and the chief items reduced are the premium on sales of gold and falling-off in coinage receipts. In round numbers the receipts of internal revenue and customs will each show a decrease of about ©600,000. From a commiujiwtioo seat to Coagreas it

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appears that the Spanish Government paid $77,000 as indemnity for the execution of Gen. Ryan and other Americans in Cuba. Of this sum about $40,000 has been paid to claimants, and balance invested in 5 per cent, bonds. A curious circumstance is that the heirs of Gen. Ryan have been unable to prove that he was an American citizen, and consequently no portion of this money has gone to them.

POLITICAL POINTS. The following is the official vote of Pennsylvania cast at the recent election : Supreme Judge—Sterrett (Republican), 244,480 ; JTrunkey (Democrat), 251,000; Bartley (Greenback), 51,582 ; Winton (Prohibition), 2,899 ; Trunkey’s plurality, 6,520. State Treasurer—Hart (Republican), 241,816 ; Noyes (Democrat), 251,717; Wright (Greenback), 52,854 ; Cornett (Prohibition), 2,827 (.Noyes’ plurality, 9,901. Auditor General—Passmore (Republican), 242,288 ; Schell (Democrat), 251,256 ; Emerson (Greenback), 52,988 ; Barker (Prohibition), 2,997; Schell’s plurality, 8,968. The Greenbackers hold the balance of power in the Wisconsin Legislature. The Republican United States Senators were again in caucus last week. The purpose of the caucus was to hear and consider the report to be made by the Caucus Committee, which visited the President, and to determine what future action if any should be taken. All the Senators at the interview expressed themselves to the caucus convinced that the President was thorougnly sincere in his belief. They also reported that the President said he was very desirous to be in harmony with the leaders of the party, and was gratified to have had the opportunity of ascertaining thus definitely and clearly the views expressed. Advice and candid criticism would always be welcome to him, and he hoped and believed there would be less cause for complaint in the future. In any event, if there should be differences of opinion, there need be no occasion for ill-feel-ing, and he trusted there would be none. Free discussion followed as to the propriety and presumable effects of the President’s policy in n.a.oA it atinnld be pursued by him and acquiesced in by the Senate. The interchange of views developed the almost unanimous opinion that tke policy of appointing Democrats to office in the South is not wise or sound, and Senators known as friends of the administration expressed doubts whether its pursuance would have the effect of which the President is sanguine.

FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.

Excerpts from the House Debates on the Living Resumption Repeal Bill. Mr. Chittenden, of New York (holding up a $lO legal-tender note), said he was very much mistaken if the bill before the House was not downright repudiation. The note in his hand was the promise of the Government to pay him $lO. but no date was fixed for payment. The note was issued in 1875, and, on the 14th day of that year, Congress had enacted a law declaring that this debt of the Government should be paid on the Ist of January, 1879. The Government must keep its promise faithfully, or it would become the leader of all the repudiators in the land, including every defaulting town, city, and State. The question of honor was the central and vital point in the discussion. He criticised the opening speech made by Mr. Phillips, saying the contraction of the currency under the Resumption act had no more to do with the present sufferings of the country than it had to do with the frozen feet of the Turks in Schipka pass. The limitation of paper currency should be left to adjust itself under a free banking system guided by the eager, intelligent, aggressive enterprise of the people. There was but one alternative, an exclusive greenback currency subject at all times to the caprice of Congress. The pending bill was hurtful, discreditable, and without excuse. The country was now shaken' by the wild blasts of a grand currency illusion which had swept over the plains of the South and prairies of the West, carrying the House by storm and threatening to ingulf national integrity. The greenback was the most powerful enemy the country had ever encountered, slavery alone excepted. It was a fraud, it was a, sham; it familiarized the individual and public conscience with shams. It had muddled all the springs of honest thrift and solid enterprise, had confused and misled public judgment, had sapped the courage and wisdom of the Federal treasury, and had given immense comfort to demagogues. Mr. Felton made a speech in favor of the repeal of the Resumption act. He bitterly denounced the capitalists of the East. Addressing himself to Mr. Chittenden, he said: “ And yet you undertake to comfort the country by telling it that all these things will right themselves. Yes, I know that these things will right themselves when they have touched the bottomless pit of despair and poverty. Look yonder at that storm-driven ocean ! Hurricane and darkness are upon the deep. Signal guns are firing every minute. Ships are going down by the hundred. Thousands of precious lives are being ingulfed, and, in the midst of all ruins there (pointing over to Chittenden) stands the wrecker waiting for the spoils, and assuring those in perd of destruction that all those tilings will right themselves.” Mr. Townsend, of New York, said resumption has come within a hair’s breadth. The national imports of last year had been less than the exports by $183,000,000. It was this that had carried down gold toward greenbacks by some 8 per cent. The crops of the year would next year bring $250,000,000 from Europe and that would do the rest of it. There was an abundance of crops in this country, such as it never had before. North and west of Ohio, north of Missouri, and north of Kansas there were millions of bushels of corn. The country had a crop of wheat such as it never had before, and a crop of cotton equal to the best. Europe must have it, and must pay for it. The country must enjoy this prosperity in spite of mistaken politicians, of political harpies, and of self-styled friends of the people. Mr. Eames said, in his judgment, it was practicable to redeem at the time named, and it ought to be done, and he was therefore opposed to the bill before the House. It was of no consequence how or why the law was passed which fixed the Ist of January, 1879, as the date of resumption. Since that‘law had passed every contract which had been entered into throughout the country had been entered into with the view of resuming on the day fixed, and any change in that law would affect every business in the country. He entered his protest against the passage of the bill, as hasty, ill-advised, and fraught with great evil alike to the credit and honor of the country at home and abroad, and to labor, capital, trade, and commerce. Mr. Ballou declared his belief that the repeal of the Resumption act would be pernicious and detrimental to the business interests of the country. Mr. Hubbell declared himself in favor of the resumption of specie payments, because in his opinion the country had reached that period when its commerce and general business should be provided for. He explained and advoerted the amendment offered by himself to the pending bill. Mr. Kelley read from an article in the North American Review, over thesignatureof “ Hugh McCulloch,” which he said exhibited an ignorance discreditable to the country whose Secretary of the Treasury the author had been, and a mendacity which invoked all the opprobrious epithets that ever had been hurled from the reporters’ desk. He went on to say that Congress, in legislating for the resumption of specie payments, was legislating an impossibility. The laws made could not be controlled by the wisest Government. Greenbacks had been denominated as the curse of the country, and yet it was greenbacks,,the “rag baby,” that had saved the Union. When gold, deflowered, had left the country, then the “rag baby” had stepped forward, and had kept in the field the armies, and had supplied munitions, food and transportation. That which served so well in war was not deserving of the contempt which was being heaped upon it in peace. That which gave the nation credit to the amount of $2,700,000,000 was certainly enough to sustain the credit of ©2,000,000,000. He predicted, to. spite of the jeer and scoff, that if the act'm to he

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tained the sufferings of tne last two years would be (when compared with the sufferings yet to come) as light as the chill that blights the tropical plants when compared with the Arctic cold that builds up the mountainous iceberg. At this point his hour expired, but unanimous consent was given to him to finish his speech. Resuming, he asked the House to wipe out that ruinous statute. It stood a menace to confidence, the steady destroyer of credit. It was a notice to every capitalist that the body of the money was to be contracted ; that the banks must hoard specie for resumption ; that prices must fall; and therefore the best use of money was to bury it either in their own cellars or in the vaults of the banks. In conclusion, he said : Repeal that act, restore confidence, allow the tramps and millions of workingmen and women who are now living in despair to go to work on your raw material and supply each other’s wants. No nation, no individual, was ever freed from debt by idleness and want of industry. Set the miners of Pennsylvania and other coal States at work in producing power. Let the coal they mine quicken your machinery. Let wages be earned by working people to enable them to pay their debts, and to consume dutiable and taxable commodities. We have gone at this thing bullheaded, and have thus effectually disabled ourselves, deprived ourselves of confidence, impoverished our people, diminished the revenues of the Government, and put ourselves in a position that in the midst of abundant crops our people are hungry. With our cotton (the largest crop that we ever produced), they are naked or in rags. Remember that you are to deal with five thousand millions of indebtedness. You are to provide a reservoir from which every old woman in Berks county can fill her stocking. You are to provide a fund from which every boarder may draw for boarding. You are to say to every European creditor : We take the risk of your markets, of your necessities for gold. We will go it higher. We have got $10,000,000 or $15,000,000 to do it with. Mr. Hartzell said the Resumption act had destroyed all the business transactions of the country, and had taken money from the pockets of the people and placed it in the possession of the Shylocks and moneylenders. He defended the action of the House in passing the Silver biil and declared that history would erect for the projectors of the bill demonetizing silver a monument immortal in its infamy. The financial policy of the last ten years had been to kill the people and sustain the national banks, so that Wall street might prosper. “Repudiation” was now the cry of the rich, but wholesale robbery was tne well-Buotained charge by the poor. The people demanded the repeal of the Resumption act and the remonetization of silver. In conclusion, he entered his protest against the whole financial policy of the Republican party. Mr. Hanna declared himself opposed to the Resumption law as it now stood. He was not in favor of wild and reckless inflation. That was the other extreme, equally unwise and disastrous as enforced resumpiion and contraction. He was in favor of keeping the legaltender cui rency intact until it should have the same purchasable value as gold. As a Republican he scorned the idea of repudiation. In behalf of an honest constituency, who would bring their all if necessary and lay on the counter of the treasury as a free offering, in order to sustain the honor and credit of the country, he hurled back the charge that the projectors of the present bill were taking a step toward repudiation by demanding the repeal of the Resumption law, and he branded it as unwarrantable and untrue. The opponents of the bill characterized the legal-tender noter as rag-money, and called upon the people to listen to the sweet music of jingling the single standard. Rag-money, indeed! When that charge came from the Bourbon Democrats who opposed the issue, and the Government who issued it, it was at least comisteucy, but he would not attempt to disown the offspring of the Republican party. It was with these rags that the Government had been enabled to build ships which carried the United States flag over every ocean. It was with these rags that the grandest army that ever battled in defense of law and right was equipped. It was by virtue of these rags that the flag of the Union floated to-day over the Capitol of the nation. These same rags every member gladly received from the Sergeant-at-Arms. The ’ people bad not asked for the demonetization of silver nor for the Resumption act. The practical effect of the Resumption act has been to foster distrust, to impair confidence, to lock up currency, to paralyze industries, to shrink values, to swell the dTickets of the State courts with suits for coLection, and to swell the dockets of the United States courts with petitions in bankruptcy. It bad wrought ruin enough, and therefore he was in favor of its repeal. He appealed to all sides and sections to aid in removing from the statute-book a threat by means of which labor and enterprise had suffered quite enough.

Regular Proceedings. Monday, Nov. 12.—-Senate.—Mr. Conkling made a personal explanation touching an alleged interview with him printed in the New York He> ala of the 9th. He stated that the report contained many statements which he never uttered, even in private conversation, and expressions of thought and language that never came from him.... Bills were introduced by Mr. Windom to establish a Department of Commerce, and by Mr. Matthews for the enforcement of judgments and decrees in States other than tho.-e where rendered or made... .Mr. Maxey submitted a resolution instructing the Committee on Military Affairs to inquire into the expediency of constructing defensive works on the Rio Grande frontier... .Mr. Booth was. appointed Chairman of the Committee on Patents, in place of Mr. Wadleigb, who was recently appointed Chairman of the Committee on Privileges and Elections.... Mr. Voorhees was sworn in as a member of the Senate from Indiana... The Senate, in executive session, confirmed the appointment of John M. Stevens, of Maine, as Minister io Norway and Sweden ; John Defrees, of Indiana, as Public Printer at Washington; Kenneth Rayner as Solicitor of the Treasury; and Robert H. Chittenden, United States Attorney for lowa. House. —The Clymer amendment to the Army bill, limiting the number to 20,000 men, but providing for stationing four full cavalry regiments on the Mexican border, was concurred in by the House on a call of the yeas and nays, by a vote of 133 to 127. The amendment providing that officers, when assigned to staff duty, shall receive no higher rank or pay than their lineal, rank or pay, was defeated. The bill was then passed without division.... A large number of bills were then introduced and referred, includi g a bill to amend the laws in relation to mailable matter of the third class ; the existing Linking laws ; designating the time for the meeting of Congress on the first Moiiday in January; to reduce the number of military cadets; for payment for all cotton seized after the 29th of May, 1875; also, to refund the tax on raw cotton collected from 1863 to 1868 ; to prohibit by constitutional amendment the payment of claims arising out of the late rebellion ; for the payment of import duties in legal-tender notes as soon as they are quoted at par with legal-tender coin of the United States.

Tuesday, Nov. 13. —Senate.—The following bills were introduced: By Mr. McDonald, in relation to distilling and rectifying spirits. By Mr. Garland, to authorize the election of a Delegate to Congress from the Indian Territory. By Mr. Cameron (Wis.), to aid the Winnebago Indians of Wisconsin to obtain subsistence by agricultural pursuits, and to promote their civilization.'... Mr. Chaffee called up the resolution submitted by him last week in regard to the management of the Pacific railroad, and spoke at length in regard to the subject.... The Army Appropriation bill was read by its title and referred. ..The Senate adopted a resolution, offered by Mr. Booth, of California, calling upon the President for information as to the cause of the Nez Peaces war, its cost, the number of Indians and soldiers engaged therein, the number of lives lost, and the disposition made of Chief Joseph and the Indians who surrendered with h : m. House. —The House further debated the Resumption act. Mr. Chittenden, of New York, made a pronounced hard-money speech. He denounced the proposed repeal of the Resumption act as practical repudiation. He attacked the Silver bill with equal bitterness.. .The House passed the Deficiency bill.. .The following bills were introduced: By Mr. Banks, to extend, facilitate and cheapen land and water transportation of freight and passengers, and to promote industry and labor without further appreciation of the public aebt; by Mr. Townshend (Ill.), a resolution instructing the Committee on Banking and Currency to inquire into the expediency of winding up national banks, withdrawing their circulation, and substituting in lieu thereof greenbacks and other similar currency. Wednesday, Nov. 14.—Senate.—The Army bill was reported to the Senate, with the limitation of 20,000 men, and the mandatory provision for four full regiments of cavalry on the Texas frontier stricken out. Instead of this, the Senate committee inserted a clause providing that cavalry regiments may be recruited to a hundred men in each company and a sufficient force of cavalry shall 'be employed in the defense of the Mexican and Indian frontiers of Texas.”....A communication was received from the President, covering a detailed statement of recent outrages on the Rio Grande and of the proceedings taken by this Government ill consequence. Referring to the proposed negotiation of a new treaty, the President expressed a doubt whether it would ba most expedient to commence negotiations- immediately or wait until cirommrtances Jrotafiea the recugnitwEi of tb'a (Jover|uubiir... i .Mr. ligmls, fitiu

the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported, with amendments, the Senate bill to enable the ’ndians to become citizens of the United States. Placed on the (alendar.... The Vice President was authorized to fill the vacancy on the Committee on Pensions occasioned by the resignation of Mr. Davis, and on the Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard, occasioned by the resignation of Mr. Saunders. He thereupon appointed Mr. Voorhees to fill both vacanrii s. House. —Mr. Townsend offered a resolution instructing the Judiciary Committee to inquire into the facts of the imprisonment of Robert Smalls (colored), a member of the House from South Carolina, and to report whether such imprisonment is or is not a violation of the constitutional privileges of the House.... The House devoted the day to discussing the Resumption Repeal bill. Thursday, Nov. 15.—Senate.—The Senate passed the Army Appropriation bill as it came from the House, with the exception of an amendment fixing the army at 25,060 instead of 20,000... .The Deficiency bill was also passed without amendment and without discussion. ..Mr. Dawes presented the remonstrance of the forty-five national banks of Boston against the passage of the bill for the remonetization of silver. The petitioners set forth that they are required by law to hold many millions of United States bonds, and are apprehensive that the passage of the bill will greatly depreciate their value and have a bad effect on the business of the countrv... .Mr. Eaton introduced a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution providing for a tribunal by States for the decision of all contested issues arising in the choice of electors for President and Vice President.

House. —The following bills were introduced and referred: By Mr. Haskell, providing for the payment of duties on imports in gold, silver and legaltender notes; by Mr. Schleicher, providing for cheap transportation between tide-water on the Atlantic and the Ohio and Mississippi valleys; by Mr. Sapp, for the construction of a railway from New York to Council Bluffs, 10wa... .Mr. Cobb, from the Committee on Mileage, reported back adversely the bill allowing members mileage for attendance on the extra session. Laid on the table.... The House indulged in another long debate on the finances. Friday, Nov. 16.—Senate. —Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, occupied almost the entire time of the Senate in delivering a speech on the subject of alleged discrepancies in the Treasury Department. .... Mr. Ingalls introduced a bill repea.ing the act authorizing the coinage of the 20-cent silver piece. .. .Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, introduced a bill fixing the salaries of Judges of the District Courts of the United States. House. —Mr. Swann reported a bill relative to the Paris Exposition. It accepts the invitation from France to take part in the Exposition, and appropriates $150,000. Mr. Cox, of New York, offered a substitute appropriating $50,000. Both were referred. . Mr. Singleton reported a deficiency bill. The total appropriations asked for foot up $1,560,623. The principal items are; Postoffice salaries, $681,681; Treasury Department, $125,000 ; library of Congress, $22,600... .The House had a lengthy debate, extending far into the evening, on the subject ot repealing the Resumption law. The speeches were delivered by Messrs. Garfield and Hewitt in opposition to the repeal. Saturday, Nov. 17.—Senate.—Not in session. House. —Mr. Atkins reported back the Army Appropriation bill with the Senate amendments, recommending concurrence in some of the amendments and non-concurrence in others. Mr. Atkins explained that the Senate amendments were mainly immaterial, the chief point of difference between the two houses being the clause limiting the army to 20,000 men and limiting it to 25,000 men. The House then proceeded to vote upon the amendment. The Senate amendment reducing the appropriation for the expenses of the Com-manding-General’s office from $3,000 to $2,500 was concurred in. The next amendment was one striking out the clause providing that four full cavalry regiments shall be kept up ou the Texas frontier, and inserting, instead of it, a proviso that cavalry regiments may be recruited to 1,000 men, aud that a sufficient force of cavalry shall be employed in the defense of the Texas irontier. The recommendation of the Committee on Appropriations was to non-concur, but Mr. Foster moved to concur. Agreed to—yeas, 140; nays, 120. .... b. S. Metcalfe was sworn in as Representative from the Third District of Missouri, taking the iron-clad oath.... Mr. Stephens introduced a bill for the financial relief of the country, and to facilitate the return to specie payment without injuriously affecting the commercial business and general industries of the people.

THE “ POLICY.”

A Conference at the White House—The President Explains. [Washington Cor. Chicago Inter-Ocean.] The committee appointed by the Republican caucus, consisting of Messrs. Edmunds, Howe, Kirkwood, Don Cameron, Dawes* and Christiancy, called at the White House and had a three-hours’ talk with the President. Senator Edmunds was the spokesman-in-chief for the Senators, and related at length the caucus proceedings and the demands the Senate made upon the Executive. The President replied at length. His remarks were mainly a defense of his Southern policy, his efforts toward pacification, and the beneficial results which he expected to come from it. He was very frank in expressing his relative position toward the Senate as he understood it, and insisted that he had the right to nominate to office whomsoever he chose, admitting that the Senate had the right to reject his nominations when they could not approve them. The Senate had no right to demand of him reasons why he removed men from office any more than it was his right to demand their reasons for rejecting his nominations; but he would concede his right in this matter, and hoped the Senate would feel perfectly free to call upon him for information at any time, and he would cordially furnish it, as he had already instructed his Cabinet officers to do. In regard to appointing Democrats to office, he said he feared he had been misunderstood, and he was sure if the Senate were aware of the circumstances which had governed him when he had made such appointments they would admit the wisdom in each case, and the cases were few. He had selected men who were represented to be fit men from the Democratic party when he could not find fit men in the Republican party. Peculiar circumstances had governed him in each case. The President expressed the hope that the Senate would reject any nominations he made which they did not consider fit. He had not so much confidence in his own judgment as to suppose that his selections were all wisely made, and, it was often the case, when a man came publicly before the country as an official, reasons appeared why he was unfit which would not appear where he was only a candidate. He had made with great care all the nominations he had sent to the Senate, but if any of them turned out to be unwise, he certainly would not be disappointed if the Senate rejected them. There was much more in this same strain, and after the President’s remarks the conversation became general. The President said he desired to consult Senators as far as possible in regard to appointments, and hoped they would feel perfectly free to make recommendations, but he must reserve his right to make such selections as he chose. He knew of no obligation compeDing him to apportion appointments among the Congressional representatives of any State, but his common sense taught him that it was always advantageous to know the opinion of such men as are usually selected as Senators in regard to the fitness of multitudes of candidates that sought his patronage. Some of the Senators consider the interview satisfactory; others do not. Some think that the President rather defied them than otherwise. Others think that he is yielding, and is at least disposed to be fair.

Important Decision.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, after hearing arguments, pro and con, has decided that the Governor and other State officers cannot be compelled to attend the court at Pittsburgh which is trying the railroad rioters, as witnesses. This maintains a very important constitutional principle, namely, that the judicial department of the Government cannot exercise jurisdictrau over the dejWtoent,

THE CUSTER MASSACRE.

Graphic Account ot the Fight as Told by Sitting Bull—How the Brave Custer Met His Death. Sitting Bull has been talking with a correspondent and telling the story of the Ouster massacre. He says: “The fight was hell. A thousand devils—the squaws—were like flying birds; the bullets like humming-bees. We thought we were whipped; not at first, but by and by. Afterward no. Your people were killed. I tell no lies about dead men. These men who came with the Long Hair (Custer) were as good men as ever fought. When they rode up their horses were tired and they were tired. When they got off their horses they could not stand firmly on their feet. They swayed to and fro, so my young men have told me, like limbs of cypresses in a great wind. Some of them staggered under the weight of their guns, but they began to fight at once. But by this time our camps were, aroused, and there were plenty of warriors to meet them. They fired with needle guns. We replied with magazine guns—repeating rifles.” Sitting Bull illustrated by patting his palms together with the rapidity of a fusilade. “ Our young men rained lead across the river and drove the white braves back, and then rushed across themselves, and then they found that they had a good deal to do. The trouble was with the soldiers. They were so exhausted, and their horses bothered them so much, they could not take good aim. Some of their horses broke away from them, and left them to stand, and drop and die. All the men fell back, fighting and dropping. They could not fire fastjenough, though. They kept in pretty good order. They would fall back across a gully and make a fresh stand beyond, on higher ground. There were a great many brave men in that fight, and from time to time, while it was going on, they were shot down like pigs. They could not help themselves. One of the officers fell where the last fight took place, where the last stand was made. The Long Hair stood like a sheaf of corn with all the ears fallen around him. ” “Not wounded ?” “No.” “ How many stood by him?” “A few.” “ When did he fall ?” “He killed a man when he fell. He laughed.” “ You mean he cried out ?” “No; he laughed. He had fired his last shot.” “ From a carbine ?” “No; a pistol.” “ Did he stand up after he first fell ?” “He rose up on his hands and tried another shot, but his pistol would not go off.” “Was any one else standing up when he fell down ?” “ One man was kneeling—that was all; but he died before the Long Hair.” Sitting Bull says there were only squaws, old men, and little children in front of Reno, keeping him in his strong position on the bluff aud preventing him giving aid to Custer.

SUICIDE OF W. F. COOLBAUGH.

A Fear of Physical and Mental Decay the Cause of the Rash Deed. [From the Chicago Tribune.] Among those who were questioned concerning the reasons which led Mr. Coolbaugh to commit suicide was a person who, having been intimately connected with the family for years, was in a position to give as accurate an opinion as can be obtained. “To what do you attribute the act?” asked the reporter. “ To the fact that Mr. Coolbaugh had felt for two or three years that he was a failing man, both physically and mentally; that that robust body which .had borne so mucli, and which he had tasked so severely in his younger days, was beginning to give way, and that his mind was beginning to share the afflictions of the body.” “ Was this so, or did he imagine it?” “I have no doubt it was so, but that he took a gloomier view of it than he should have done. Mr. Coolbaugh was a very ambitious man, and a very sensitive one. He was ambitious of political honors. There had been a time during his residence in lowa when he was on the verge of going to the United States Senate. Prior to that time his political advancement had been continuous and rapid. It was stopped by his removal from lowa to Illinois, but he never abandoned those aspirations which he held in his younger years. It was, perhaps, during the latter part of his life a sort of morbid craving for political preferment which was, looking at it calmly, beyond his reach. He began to see latterly that these dreams were hopeless. “He had also been very proud, prouder than most men can imagine, of his peculiarly high standing in the community. He was intensely proud of being considered the leading banker in the Northwest, of being the man whom everybody consulted, and whom everybody looked up to—the man who guided the financial policy of Chicago and the West. Of late years he had been losing that high standing, and he knew it. “He could not trust himself, and he looked forward at some times to an old age of imbecility and decrepitude. He had had premonitory symptoms of paralysis of the right side. Whenever these intimations came to him, they plunged him into fits of melancholy lasting sometimes only a very short period, and sometimes for days. He tried to fight off these premonitory symptoms by pleasure trips and other forms of recreation. He brooded over Senator Morton’s case. He was horrified at the idea of becoming a paralytic and helpless man, of being an object of nursing and commiseration. I have no doubt that it was under the influence of one of these attacks of melancholy, which came upon him perhaps yesterday or the day before, that he killed himself.”

Judge Davis’ Joke on Senator Ferry.

Senator Ferry is a pious man. He is an elder in the Presbyterian church. As far as I can see, and I watch him pretty closely, he is bound for the kingdom. Of all old bachelors he is the most irreproachable. He feels very deeply the dignity of a Senator and maintains it on all occasions. He is polite, courteous and cold as ice. No one ever saw him do a natural or improper thing. Every act is studied and prim and solemn. Yesterday the Senator sat at breakfast glancing, as even deacons and Senators will, over his paper, at the women. He was taking the fiftieth stolen glance at a pretty, golden-haired little saint from Georgia, when Senator David Davis, two tables away, startled the dining-room, by roaring in his lusty Vofce to Mr. Ferry, “ I wa&t to

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see you before you go to the races, Ferry. Afraid I can’t go. If it’s possible for me to get through my work, I shall be happy to accept your invitation.” The saint turned her big, blue, reproachful orbs on Ferry. The women all looked at him and whispered. The model Senator blushed scarlet, stroked his beard nervously, and smiled in a feeble way at the jolly giant, who sat shaking his fat sides, and bending his late judicial head over the thimbleful of gruel Banting allows him. His looks told that he had got even with Ferry at last. The tables are turned. Ferry owes him “one.”— Washington Letter to Chicago Times.

CURRENCY REFORM.

4 Texts for the People. “Exorbitant rent (commonly called interest) is silently but surely devouring the substance of the people.”— Peter Cooper. “ However fertile a country may be, interest, even at 2 per cent, will inevitably oppress the producers.”— Edward Kellogg. “ Bank paper must be suppressed and the circulation restored to the nation, to whom it rightfully belongs.”— Thomas Jefferson. “If the bond-holder refuses to take the same kind of money with which he bought the bonds, he is an extortioner and a robber.”— John Sherman. “ The amount of money needed in a country should be determined by the wants of the people, and can only be done by a national paper money.”— Henry Carey Baird. ‘ ‘ When the country will realize the glories of a ‘ gold basis’ and learn what is meant by ‘irredeemable trash,’the fallacy and cheat of a ‘ gold basis’ will have been demonstrated for the thousandth time.”— Samuel F. Cary. “ President Hayes’ salary is paid in greenbacks, so is Gov. Robinson’s. Why, then, should we pay gold to the bondholder, seeing that the bondholder lent greenbacks to the Government and not gold?”— Bichard Montgomery Griffin. “That millions of people should be idle, and in many cases absolutely starving, not because there is no work to do, but because there is no medium of exchange, is a disgrace to our Government. ” — A New York mechanic.

“ While our present monetary system, which is a shameless fraud, continues, the poor man will become poorer, while fraudulent money-brokers and bank-note manipulators will absorb the products of labor.”— F. Hughes, of Pennsylvania. “Foreign debt, carrying gold interest, is what is crushing the hearts and hopes of the laboring people of our country. It is that indebtedness which is filling our almshouses with skilled mechanics, and stripping the thrifty laborer of his earn-ings.”—-Judge Kelley. “We should do foul injustice to the Government and the people of the United States, after we have sold these bonds on an average for not more than 60 cents on the dollar, now to propose to make a new contract for the benefit of the holders.”— O. P. Morton. “ What is a government good for, if in such a country as this, with all its material resources and vast extent, it cannot prevent a large part of its people from the distress of want of work and of bread. This seems to me the first duty of government.”— Peter Cooper. “ When the bill was on its passage (the bill for the payment of the 5-20 bonds), the question was expressly asked if the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, and as expressly Answered by him, that only the interest was payable in coin.”— Thaddeus Stevens. “ The gold gamblers have manipulated Congress so as to discredit its own paper, that they might swindle the people. They accomplished ,that end, and now they would destroy the money of the people that they might largely appreciate their ill-gotten gains.”—Thaddeus Stevens. “ Gold and silver are not intrinsically of equal value with iron. Their value rests chiefly in the estimation they happen to be in among the generality of nations. Paper money has great advantages over gold and silver, as it is not likely to have its value reduced by exportation. ” — Benjamin Franklin. “ I look upon this contest [the discussion in Congress as to whether the interesbon the public debt should be paid in greenbacks or gold] as a contest between the curb-stone brokers, the Jew brokers, the money-changers, the men who speculate in stocks, and the productive toiling men of our country.”— Henry Wilson. ‘ ‘ The people are the sovereign power, and no man can question their right (through Congress) to make as much of the medium of exchange (money) as will be necessary for the wants of trade. Paper money is better than either gold or silfer, as its volume cannot be contracted by using it as merchandise.”— John Magwire, of St. Louis. “I am convinced that when a true American system of finance is adopted which shall put all that circulates as money entirely and exclusively under the control of the Government, making it receivable for all dues and debts, employment for all the working classes, and prosperity for the whole country will be natural and permanent. ” — Peter Cooper.

“ One great purpose of the money power, who have brought about contraction, is to control the mass of the people, that they may further enrich themselves, and pander to their lust of power. Further impoverishment may render further resistance hopeless, and they who would be free from this great money despotism must strike the blow before it is too late. ” — F. Hughes, of Philadelphia. “Money should be a thing of or belonging to the country. An exportable commodity is not fitted to be money. And nothing could be more monstrous than England’s principle, followed by the United States, of forcing people to be buyers of gold, and making their possession of gold—one of the sacredest articles in the world—the condition of being able to furnish themselves with bread and clothing.”— lsaac Buchanan, of Canada. ‘ ‘ No single interest touches the domestic comfort and prosperity of the people as this one of the currency, and in the present condition of the country none is of such immediate importance, or calls for more immediate solution. To put off this question, therefore, with vague expressions of reform, and the desirableness of ‘ specie payments,’ is to ignore the ruling interest of the houy, It is to jtarea&T pedrte to tjttoir

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without any promise of remedy. ” — Peter Cooper. “ We boast of having liberated 4,000,000 of slaves. True, we have stricken the shackles from the former bondsmen, and brought all laborers to a common level, but not so much by elevating the former slave as by reducing the whole working population to a state of practical serfdom. While boasting of our noble deeds we are careful to conceal the ugly fact that by our iniquitous monetary system we have practically nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is only less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.” —Alexander Camphell, of Lllinois.

Ben Butler on Finance and Taxation.

Gen. Butler was invited to address a public meeting, under the auspices of the Legal-Tender Club of New York city. Other engagements making it impossible for him to be present, the General writes : “I am unable to comprehend, appreciate and much less admire that system of Government finances which has so wrought upon the business and production of the country that over 2,000,000 workingmen and women who desire productive employment have not had it for the last two years, and by which the production they would have added to the wealth of the country during that time is lost. Assuming that each one in that number, skilled and unskilled, could have averaged two dollars per day for the working days of the past year, then we have lost $1,200,000,000, or about equal to half the national debt, by their enforced idleness, to say nothing of the loss of the morals of workingmen and women. How long men in active business, and property-holders, and holders of those kinds of property which are open to tax-gatherers, will permit a system of financial administration tb go on, by which their property shall depreciate 33 per cent, in its value, while the holders of property, such as notes, mortgages and bonds, which are untaxed because not open to the tax-gatherer, have their property appreciated and escape taxation, is a problem which the good sense of this country will solve at the coming Presidential election. ***** “lam informed that Mr. Duncan, of Duncan, Sherman & Co., went to Washington when the Currency bill was before the President and advised him to veto it because it was necessary to depreciate values. The President did veto the bill, values have been depreciated, I trust to an amount entirely satisfactory to Messrs. Duncan, Sherman & Co., however little their creditors may relish the process. ”

SILVER AND GOLD DOLLARS.

Letter from Thurlow Weed. To the Editor of the New York Tribune : In your issue of yesterday, on the silver question, you say: “We make a broad distinction between them and the bi-metalists. The latter think specie payments can better be sustained by the use of the two precious metals than by one.” This is precisely what I have earnestly urged in letters which you were kind enough to publish, but which, I regret to say, found no favor with our leading journals. And this is precisely what can be accomplished with the consent and co-operation of such journals. In taking ground for constitutional money standards, the press would disarm the “inflationists,” “repudiators,” “demagogues,” etc., whose malign influence is always to be dreaded. Let the friends of resumption content themselves with the money standards of the constitution, and a solution of that question will soon be reached. Resumption without prosperity will prove alike temporary and disastrous. Our specie basis should be as broad as possible. Congress is invested by the constitution with full power. The silver and gold dollar can be m*do of equal value. Neither has any money value without the “superscription” of the Government. Silver was “ degraded” by its demonetization, while gold was appreciated by the passage of the law of 1873. Repeal that law, and authorize the coinage of the silver dollar equal in value to the gold dollar, and we shall soon realize the truth of the proposition winch you deny, namely, that silver and gold will “find a common level.” Resumption with one standard will signally fail. The basis will be too narrow. But by availing ourselves of the double standard both previously equal in the language and spirit of the constitution, resumption and prosperity, twin financial hand-maidens, will scatter their blessings bountifully amidst a rejoicing people. It is urged against the double standard that the single one has been adopted by the Latin Governments, and that for this reason we should voluntarily deprive ourselves of one-half of the money power of our country in working out the resumption of specie payments. To this I reply, that our first duty is to be just and true to ourselves. Silver and gold coin are the monetary standards of the constitution. We agreed to pay the national creditors the interest and principal of their debt in coin. We have for twelve years been paying interest, in gold, upon more than $2,000,000,000. The bondholders, while gold is at a premium, receive largely more than the 6 per cent. “ nominated in the bond.” And these premiums, as has been truly said, were “ squeezed, drop by drop, from the sweat of lanor. Now, labor has borne, with exemplary patience, quite enough of injustice and oppression, and it vbehooes Congress and the administration to bring their best judgments and their paternal sympathies to the consideration of this question. When the insidious law of 1873. demonetizing silver, shall have been repealed we shall be prepared to confer with other Governments in relation to the double or single standard. International congresses have been convened for the consideration of far less important subjects. Meantime, let us hope that our Government will mature ana establish a financial system which ’will equally protect the credit and honor of the nation with the prosperity and happiness of the people.

THURLOW WEED.

Thanksgiving Cake.

Three cups light bread sponge, two cups sugar, one cup butter/ three eggs, one-third cup of milk, in which is dissolved one teaspoonful of soda, two cups currants, one cup chopped raisins, onequarter pound sliced citron, "I** the hands thoroughly. Baise till light, and bake in a moderate °y® n » 7* There should be no flour added, -this is the style of half a century ago, but will be found very good, and compare , w’ell of cake.