Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1878 — Page 1

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NEWS SUMMARY

THE WAR IN THE EAST. The Turks have bombarded the town of Theodosia, southeast of the Crimea. They filmed ten houses, killed one person and wounded twelve. They have also bombarded Anapa, on the Black sea, in Circassia, but did little daraago to the town. One person was killed there. A battle is reported between the Russians under Gourko and lladetsky and the Turks under Suleiman Pasha, at a point between TatarBazardjik and Philippopolis The fighting lasted two days. Buleiman Pasha afterward took up positions near Philippopolis, and ordered the inhabitants to leave that town, which was subsequently ordered to lie burned. A corro.?]X>ndent who left Erzeroum just before its investment telegraphs that the town is now little better than a huge hospital. Abont 100 soldiers die daily, and two or tlireo are frozen to death every night. Typhus fever is raging. As the corpses buried are barely covered with oarth, the consequences must be terrible when a thaw commences. The official account of the capture of Schipka pass states that four Pashas, 280 officers, 25,000 prisoners, and eighty-one guns were captured. The Russian loss in killed and wounded was 5,404 men. 1 lie Turkish delegates met tho Grand Duke Nicholas at Tirnova-Semenli, and preliminary notes were exchanged. The Grand Duke then announced that he had decided to treat only at Adrianople, which should bo immediately evacuated. The delegates having assented orders were tologrnphod to Djemil Pasha to evacuate Adrianople. Upon this decision being communicated to tho foreign Consuls, they telegraphed their Ambassadors for instructions, and were ordored to remain and protect tlieir countrymen. The London Times' Bucharest correspondent, telegraphs from Giurgevo as follows : “ The mortality among the Turkish prisoners at Frateshti is fearfnl. The station of Froteshti In * ♦«r»vw +/•» <waw*l«.w« tcWoon Bucharest and the Danube. Even if there is nothing worse than ordinary typhus, the mortality evidenced by the numerous graves in tho plain surrounding the prisoners’ camp justifies the apprehensions of travelers. I saw Russian soldiers digging huge graves, and noar them fifty Turkish corpses lying in confused heaps as they were emptied from deadcars. Tlieir ragged, half-starved forms, and the frost-bites visible on their naked limbs, gave ovidonee of the hardships they had suffered on tlieir dreadful march from Nikopolis.’’ It is reported from Constantinople' that, in consequence of decisions taken at the Great Council of t lie I7th, lzzod Bey was sent to tho Russian headquarters with fresh instructions to the Turkish Plenipotentiaries, giving them full . powers to sign, whereas they, at first, were in'structed to refer conditions to the Porte. It is said that this resolve was taken in consequence of the pacific tone of England at tlic opening of tho British Parliament, and also because Russia lias given notice that slie will insist on the immediate acceptance or rejection of tho terms. Mnkhtar Pasha, notwithstanding tlic defeats which he suffered in Armenia, has been appointed to tho chief command of tho Turkish forces at Constantinople. It is reported from Athens than an insurrection lias broken out in Thessaly. Five hundred insurgents are concentrated midway between the villages.of Vizitza and Pinacotes, near Yolo. The Turks have taken refuge in the fortress of Yolo. Two hundred Christian • families have arrived at Athens.

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

A Paris correspondent says that “circulars have been issued from tho French embassy in London to all the French Consuls iu Great Britain aud Ireland charging them to report exact information concerning the popular feeling on tho Eastern question and intervention. This confirms the roport that France has interrogated Lord Derby in* regard to England’s intention in regard to Egypt. It will be seen, therefore, that this action of the French republic further complicates England’s relations with the continental powers.” It is said ihat Russia, when informing England that armistice negotiations must bo conducted directly with Turkey, declared her readiness to discuss with the English Cabinet the special points whioh might affect English interests. ThiH reply was the cause of repeated Cabinet Councils in London. Tho accumulation of war materials in England continues with much vigor. A large order for coal has been given to a colliery in Walos. Gen. Garibaldi has written to King Humbert, of Italy, begging him to follow in bis father’s footsteps. A Paris dispatch says : At the request of the Chamber of Commerce of Marseilles, Stanley gave a detailed account of his explorations from a geographical and scientific point of view. Mr. Stanley dwelt upon the commercial advantages to bo secured by an opening up of tho Congo river. The Chamber of Commerce congratulated Mr. Stanley, through its presiding officer, and gave him a large gold medal in token of its appreciation. This is tho first recompense ever awarded by tho U*v.<UU, Ok.mho. ct Ooimupw In fhp evening Mr. Stanley delivered an address before the Geographical Society, the audience being composed of the elite of Marseilles The President of the society also gave the journalist and explorer the grand gold medal, together with a diploma oi honorarv membership. Tho British Parliament assembled Jan. 17. The Queen’s speech contained a brief history of England’s connection with the Eastern difficulty thus far, and stated that up to this time neither of the behigerents have infringed the conditions upon which the British policy of neutrality is founded. The possibility, however, of a different phase of the situation, requiring the armod intervention of. England, was plainly adverted to, and confidence expressed that Parliament would promptly furnish the means to carry such measures into execution. The funeral of the late King Victor Emmanuel took place at Rome, Italv, Jan. 17, and was very impressive. Tho body of the late monarch was placed on the funeral car at 9 o’clock in Iho morning, and the procession started from the Quirinal about 10. It was headed by fifteen military detachments with three bands and clergy bearing tapers. Tho car used at the funeral of King Charles Albert of Sardinia, Victor Emmanuel’s father, was used on this occasion. It was surmounted by an iron ctowd, the ancient diadem of the Lombard Kings, which was brought from Monza for the occasion. A London dispatch says the Arctic steam yacht Pandora has been bought by James Gordon Bennett. It is stated that the veFsel is to l’® use d for another Arctic expedition. The weekly statement of the Imperial Bank “kqys an increase in specie of 7,200,000 xxuurkfl. Alexandre Republican member of t :o Chamber Juries, is dead Ihe budget of ‘he Russian empire shows an

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exact balance between the revenue and expenditures. both amounting to 600,398,425 silver roubles. A Dublin dispatch of Jan. 20 says : “ The funeral of the Fenian McCarthy took place today. It is estimated that 60,000 persons followed the remains to the cemetery. There were forty bands in the procession, which was the largest since the burial of Daniel O’Connell. The other Fenian convicts recently released were among the principal mourners.” Cleopatra’s Needle has crossed the Bay of Biscay, and been safely conveyed into the Thames river. Recent shipments of American goods to Ceylon have been so successful that orders have been sent for more. A great sensation has been caused at Pesth by tho conviclion of high treason and sentence to five years’imprisonment of Dr. Svetozai Militics, a member of the Hungarian Parliament of the Servian nationality, head of the Omladina or Young Servian party, and the leader of tho PanslaviSt agitation. Dr. Militics has appealed. A special dispatch says the conviction iB likely to be quashed. Henri Regnault and Antoine Becquerel, distinguished French physicians, are dead. It is reported that tho Chinese have Captured the City of Kashgar.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

East. It is reported from New York that a fire on tho steamship Hermann, during the trip from Bremen, damaged tho cargo $5,000. The crew wore working many hours before the fire was extinguished, the passengers in the meantime being greatly alarmed. It is reported from New York that “Downer A St. John, drag brokers at No. 20 Cedar street, have failed, and made an assignment to G. W. Alcott. Liabilities estimated at $200,000. The house is well known, and has done an extensive business. The failure w r as precipitated by the recent suspension of E. J. Dunning, Jr., note broker, who held a considerable amount of the firm’s paper. Alcott says Dunning now owes tho fiina 006,000.” A Hartford (Ct.) dispatch, of Jan. 15, reports a serious railroad accident on the Connecticut Wostcm railroad just boyond Tariffville, about ten miles from Hartford, at 10 o’clock that evening. An excursion train returning from the Moody and Sa>-.key meeting at Hartford fell through a trestle bridge into the Farmington river. Two engines, one baggage and threo passenger oars went down. The bodies of two men and three women had been recovered, and others were supposed to be in the wreck. Gen. ’George B. McClellan was inaugurated Governor of New Jersey, Jan. 15, at Trenton. About 15,000 persons assisted, the procession being quite imposing. When Gen. McClellan had taken tho oath of office of Governor, and delivered his inaugural, which was frequently applauded, he returned to the Executive Chamber, when the Veteran Association of Philadelphia presented an address, signed by 2,036 members. Tho same party also presented him with a silver medal, made from a half-dollar picked up on the field of Antietam. Samuel Bowles, editor of the Springfield Republican, died Jan. 16, after & lingering illness, during which hopes of his recovery were at times entertained, but which latterly left no encouragement for the anticipation of a favorable result. His age was 52 years. Seven freight cars and one passenger car wero thrown from tho trestle of the Ggdensburg and Portland railroad at Fisher’s crossing recently and wrecked. Several passengers wero injured. An order has been issued by the Now York Supreme Court postponiug for sixty days the sale of the Erie railway. Simultaueously, another suit has been commenced by a number of stockholders, who wish to oust Mr. Jewett, tho receiver, upon allegations of improvidence and mismanagement. A grand banquet was given to Secretary Bristow at Boston, last week. In Boston, last week, an immenso mass meeting, attended by 8,000 workingmen, was hold upon the historic Common, and resoliftions were passed demanding the opening up of public works, iu order that immediate employment might be given to the needy, the extension of out-door relief to all who could not thus bo assisted, the repeal of the law disfranchising those who receive relief from the city within twelve months preceding an election, the prohibition of prison labor from en tering into competition with honest labor, and tho presentation of a petition from the City Government to Congress asking an appropriation to pay for the transportation of workingmen to the Eldorado of the West. West. The National Convention of the Bricklayers’ Union assembled at Quincy, 111., on the 14th inst., Charles Eihl, of Indiana, presiding. Tho banking house of Chesnut & Dubois, at Carlinvillc, 111., has suspended. A lire in the stock sheds of Holman A Fairbanks, at Terre Haute, Ind., burned 237 head of cattle, and badly injured 175 more. The loss is abont $25,000, fully covered by insurance in fifteen companies. A Salt Lake dispatch says : “In November a man named Rhoden was killed by the Bannock Indians at Ross Fork, Idaho. The Indians have been threatening trouble since. Tho murderer was captured, Jan. 9, by Capt. Bainbridge, commanding Fort Hail, since wmen tho Indians were more hostile than before. Col. John E. Smith, of the Fourteenth Infantry, was sent to Fort Hall some time ago to induce the surrender of the murderer, but was unsuccessful. Maj. Hart, with three companies of tho Fifth Cavalry, arrived at Ross Fork, and, together with three companies of the Fourteenth Infantry, surrounded the encampment of the Bannocks on Snake river, and demanded their surrender, which they acceeded to quietly. Fitfcv-five bucks, some arms, and 250 horses were taken. Ex-Gov. Washburn, of Wisconsin, has just made a tender to the State of his beautiful residence property at Edgewood, two miles from Madison, and valued at SIOO,OOO, as the site for an industrial school for girls. A decision has been rendered by the Illinois Supreme Court, in the long-litigated matter involving the title to Christ Episcopal Church, Chicago, of which Rev. Dr. Cheney (now a Reformed Episcopal Bishop) was rector, and which was claimed by Bishop Whitehouse, on account of Mr. Cheney’s heresy. The decision fully sustains Mr. Cheney. A Pueblo (Col.) dispatch says: “One of the richest of discoveries was made on the 12th inst. at the Routa mines, a short distance west of this city. Mr. Munn, an old prospector, struck a lode, the ore from which assays the enormous Bum of $12,600 in gold and $l,lOO in silver per ton. There is great excitement in the camp, and everybody is rushing to the scene of the new discovery.” Mark M. Parmer’s private banking house at Yankton, D. T., has closed its doors. Liabilities $60,000, which Mr. Parmer claims can be fully met by the assets. A Virginia City (Nev.) dispatch says the threatened hostilities ht Atlanta and Justice mines were stopped by the Miners’ Union, which visited both mines in a body and ordered the miners to quit work on the disputed ground, and disarmed and removed the hired fighters!

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1878.

Assignee Brown, of the Bunn estate, at Springfield, 111., has filed in the County Court a statement in detail of the assets and liabilitieaof Jacob Bnnn’s bank, etc. The liabilities are $912,000. Assets: Real estate, $430,000 ; bills receivable, personal property, stocks, etc., $416,000 ; cash on hand, $42,000; total, $838,000. Estimating these last items at $325,000, and deducting SIOO,OOO from the real-estate valuation, there will still be enough, the assignee states, to pay the creditors 75 cents on the dollar. South. Trouble has again broken out in Kentucky between “ moonshiners” and United States officers—this time of a more serious nature than ever before. The resistance they have offered hitherto has been only when several officers were trying to arrest them. In Wayne county an armed force of thirty officers and assistants was compelled to flee by illicit distillers. The Government posse caught six offenders and lodged them safely in jail at Monticello, Ky.; but, on seeking for more, was driven off as described—the leader, Storekeeper Logan, being wounded and several horses shot from (under riders. The Marshal’s posse consisted of thirty men. The number of the moonshiners was unknown. The death is reported of Hon. Wilson Primm, of St. Louis, Mo. He was for thirteen years Judge of the St. Louis Criminal Court, and had attained the age of 68 years. The persons on the Louisana Returning Board were arraigned Jan. 18, in the Superior Criminal Court. The indictment was on the charge of forgery and altering the returns of Yernon parish. Counsel made a motion to quash tfie indictment on the grounds that the proceedings were irregular. It was overuled without argument. The members of the board then pleaded not guilty, and’were admitted to bail on the old bond. The day of the trial was not fixed.

WASHINGTON NOTES.

A Washington dispatch says : “ The Committee on Foreign Affairs to-day heard Lieuts. Hullis and Shatter, the two army officers who bad been summoned Ucio /i Ju Uic Bio Grande border, together with "the commercial agent stationed near the scenes of the troubles. Their statement is substantially the same that was made to tfie Military Committee. The most noticeable fact of the testimony seems to be that, while there is no doubt of the desire of Diaz to be entirely friendly to the United States, there is great doubt as to his ability to so strengthen his administration as to execute his friendly purposes.” The opinion of President Hayes having been asked as to the policy of negro emigration from Florida to San Domingo, he replied in the following letter: Executive Mansion, Jan. 14, 1878. The Rev. Mr. Sturks: Dkar Sir : I have given some consideration to your question as to the emigration of colored people from Florida to San Domingo. lam not well informed as to the advantages offered by San Domingo to immigrants, but my impression is that your people should not be hasty in deciding to leave this country. The mere difference in climate is a very serious objection to removal. The first generation, in all such removals, suffer greatly. It is my opinion, also, that the evils which now affect you are likely steadily, and, I hope, rapidly, to diminish. My advice is, therefore, against the proposed emigration. Very truly yours, R. B. Hayes. The Attorney General, in the matter of tho contest between the Pacific railroads over prorating, decides that additional legislation will be necessary to enforce the law which requires tho Union Pacific to prorate with the Kansas Pacific. The contest over the appointment of Collector of Customs of the port of New Orleans has been settled by the President, who sent to the Senate the name of George Williamson, the present Minister Resident at Guatemala city, Central America.

POLITICAL POINTS.

The Legislature of Ohio has elected Hon. George H. Pendleton Senator. The New Hampshire Democratic State Convention met Jan. 16, Col. Henry O. Kent presiding. The Committee on Resolutions reported a number cf “planks,” which may be summed up as follows : First, we cordially reaffirm the National Democratic platform of 1876 ; second, that we denounce upon ;he Republican party stern retribution for the great crime by which the people were defrauded of their right to be governed by the rulers of their choice ; third, that we congratulate all good citizens upon the happy results which have ensued through the adoption of Democratic principles by the national administration in reference to Southern States; fourth, that we are in favor of a stable currency, honest payment of the public debt, and are opposed to ail measures by which public credit may be impaired ; fifth, we reassert our unqualified opposition to all schemes for depleting the public treasury or bestowing the remnant of public lands in aid of private corporations or monopolies ; sixth, that we declare our abiding faith in the principles of the Democratic party ; seventh, that we demand thorough revision and reform of the Federal tariff; eighth, that we tender our thanks to the Democrats and Conservatives in the Forty-fourth Congress for their refusal to appropriate money for the army while used in illegal and despotic oppression of citizens in any portion of tUo i-opublio , ninth, that the publio interests demand a thorough revision of the laws relating to taxation ; and, tenth, that we demand more complete protection for the savings of industrial classes by stricter supervision aud control of savings banks, insurance companies, and other institutions in which the people’s money may be invested. Frank A. McKean was nominated for Governor, and Hadley B. Fowler was nominated for Railroad Commissioner. ’ In Memphis, Tenn., John R. Flippen, Citizens’ candidate, has been re-elected Mayor by about 1,000 majority over John Johnson, the Democratic nominee, and J. W. Anderson, Wor’angmen’s candidate. Gen. John S. Williams has been elected by the Democratic majority of the Kentucky Legislature as United States Senator to succeed Thomas *C. MoCreery, whose term expires March 3, 1879. In Maryland the Democratic caucus nominated James B. Groome to succeed George R. Dennis, whose term expires March 3, 1879. The Hon. Galusha A. Grow, ex-Speaker of the House, is announced as a candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. It is stated that Owen Murphy, the fugitive New York Excise Commissioner, is dangerously ih iu Ottawa, Canada, and that his wife is insane. Judge Giles, of the United States District Court, has appointed the Hon. William Frederick Haynes Smith, the Colonial Attorney General, and William Busey, Esq., member of the Baltimore bar, Commissioners to take testimony in British Guiana in regard to the sugar imported to this country by Baltimore merchants and seized by the customs authorities. The New York Boat Owners’Association have resolved that the immediate extension of the free ..list to all up freights on canals is the

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most important step in advance to reform the canal policy of the State. Mayor Bryant, of San Francisco, refused to permit the assembling of a convention of AntiChinese agitators which was called to meet in that city, believing that the violent and inflammatory speeches certain to be made at such a gathering would be an element of danger that he was justified in repressing.

FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.

Monday, Jan. 14.—Senate. —Mr. Edmunds submitted a long amendment to the preamble of the resolution introduced by Mr. Matthews before the receas, declaring the right of the Government to pay its bonds in silver, etc. The amendment sets forth that the silver dollar of the United States had been long obsolete when the existing loans of the United States were authorized ; that gold coin had been the only lawful coin, and that Congress should not legislate to make money at the expense of its creditors; that it was the highest obligation of the United State* to pay its debts in such coin a* its creditors they wohßd be paid in, and that it would be unjust to compel them, or laboring men either, to receive silver dollars or any debased money. Laid on the table and ordered printed.... A large number of petitions, resolutions and bills were introduced and referred, among them the following : By Mr. Mitchell, a resolution instructing the Committee on Indian Affairs to inquire into the propristy of setting apart four large reservations for all the Indians of the country, and that the lands now occupied by them be open to settlement; by Mr. Thurman, a resolution instructing the Committee on Military Affairs to inquire whether any, and if any what, legislation iB necessary or expedient to increase the annual appropriation for arming and equipping the militia of the States and Territories to correspond with the increase in population since the passage of the act of 1808, such increase to take immediate effect.. . Mr. Bailey then made a set speech upon the Matthews silver resolution, after which the Senate went into executive session. On reopening the doors the Senate adjourned. House.—Under the call of States, bills were introduced and referred, fixing rates to be paid for public advertising ; providing for a commission on the subject of the alcoholic traffic; amending the revenue laws; increasing the special tax on wholesale liquor-dealers; increasing the tax on distilled liquors ; repealing the law imposing a tax on friction matches, and repealing the law requiring stamps on bank checks; for the removal of the tax on deposits with State and national institutions and trust companies; restoring to either House of Congress the power to punish for contempt; to enable the Secretary of the Interior to make a final settlement with the Pottawotomie Indians; forbidding Territories to incur indebtedness in aid of railroads or other private corporations; to prevent the overloading of vessels carrying freight and pasoongers; to assign certain credits to the sinking fund, and to make their equivalent available for the redemption of United States notes; providing for the purchase of tho best movable torpedo; authorizing the purchase of gold dust and gold and silver bullion at the mint at Denver and payment therefor by draft.... A resolution, by Mr. Kelley, giving the session on Saturday, the 19th, to the woman-suffrage delegation for the presentation of petitions was rejected by 107 to 140.... After Borne other unimportant business the House adjourned. Tuesday, Jan. 15.—Senate.—A number of bills were introduced and referred. Among them were the following: By Mr. Dorsey, to authorize the payment of fees of counsel for the defense of poor persons in the courts of tho United States ; by Mr. Davis, to promote immigration to the United States, and for the protection of immigrants; by Mr. Winelom, for the restoration of wages in tho Government printing offices.... Mr. Christiancy presented a resolution of the State Grange of Michigan, in favor of the construction of a ship canal across the lower peninsula of Michigan. Referred. .... At the expiration of the morning hour, the resolution of Mr. Matthews in regard to the payment of bonds in silver was taken up as unfinished business, and then laid aside informally, in order that Mr. Voorhees might address the Senate on a resolution submitted by him before the holidays, declaring it of the highest importance that the financial credit of the Government be maintained. In order to be so, the Government itself, in all its departments, should, in good faith, keep all its contracts and obligations entered into with its own citizens. Mr. Matthews, in expressing his willingness to have his resolution laid aside for the present, gave notice that he would ask the Senate to vote it on Monday next. Mr. Voorhees then addressed the Senate upon the resolution submitted by him.... After the conclusion of his remarks the Senato adjourned. House.—The following bills were introduced and referred : • By Mr. Dunnell, to declare jurisdiction of the United Stales over harbors and navigable waters of the United States; by Mr. Blair, for the reduction of postage; by Mr. Springer, to prevent the farther contraction of the currency... .The House then went into committee of the whole on the state of the Union, and discussed the silver question.... The committee rose and the House adjourned. Wednesday, Jan. 16.—Senate.—At 12:30 a vote was taken on the pending question, to refer the resolution of Mr. Matthews, in regard to paying bonds in silver, to the Committee on the Judiciary, and it was rejected—yeas, 19; nays, 31.;..After some discussion, further consideration of the Matthews resolution was, by unanimous consent, postponed until Friday next, at 1 o’clock, to-day being assigned for eulogies upon the late Senator 80gy.... At the expiration of the morning hour business was suspended, and Mr. Cockrell formally announced tho death of the late Senator Bogy, of Missouri, and eulogiums were made by Senators Cockrell, Maxey, Christiancy, Johnson, Kernan, Merrimon, Sargent aud Armstrong. The Senate then adjourned as a mark of respect to the memory of the Senator. House. —A gift to tho Government of Carpenter’s painting of “ The First Beading of the Emancipation Proclamation ” was received and accepted.... The Judiciary Committee, reported bills to provide for stamping unstamped documents, aud making persons charged with crime competent witnesses in United States courts.... The House went into committ.ie of. the whole and passed some internal-im-provement bi 115.... The committee rose and the House adjourned. Thursday, Jan. 17.—Senate,—Bills were introduced aud referred as follows: By Mr. Howe, to punish the forcible obstruction of interstate commerce by railways; by Mr. Ferry, providing for the classification of mail matter and rates of postage thereon.... Mr. Wadleigh said that the family of the late Senator Morton found among his papers his views as a member of the special committee in regard to Chinese immigration, and he now presented Buch views, and moved that they be printed. So ordered. ... .After the morning business had been disposed of Mr. McDonald submitted resolutions of respect to the memory of the late Senator Morton. Eulogies were pronounced by Messrs. McDonald, Thurman, Conkling, Morgan, Bruce, Voorhees, Edmunds, Burnside, Booth, Anthony, Wadleigh and Paddock. The Senate, then, as a further mark of respect, adjourned. House. —Bills were introduced and follows : To restrict Chinese immigration; extending the operations of the Lighthouse Board over the Illinois river.... Mr. Hewitt reported a bill granting pensions to the surviving officers, soldiers and sailors (or their widows) of the Mexican, Creek, Florida and Black Hawk wars. Ordered printed. Mr. Watson introduced a bill to extend the provisions of the laws relating to soldiers and sailors ofjthe war of 1812... .The House then took up and passed the bill to make persons charged with crimes and offenses competent witnesses in United States courts... .Mr. Banning reported to bill directing the Secretary of War to pay to the officers and soldiers engaged in the war with Mexico the three months’ extra pay already provided for by the act of Congress. Passed... .Mr. Cox reported back the joint resolution extending thanks to Henry M. Stanley, which was unanimously passed. Adjourned. Friday, Jan. 18.—Senate.—Mr. Voorhees, by request, introduced a bill reviving and continuing the Court of Commissioners of the Alabama claims, and for the distribution of the unappropriated moneys of the Geneva award. Referred to the Committee on Judiciary.... Mr. Ferry presented a memorial from the Michigan State Grange in favor of the construction of a ship canal across the lower peninsula of that State. Referred.... Mr. Cameron presented a resolution of the Wisconsin Legislature in favor of the improvement of the St. Croix river. Ref erred.... Mr. Christiancy, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported adversely on the Senate bill to enlarge the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims, and it was indefinitely postponed....At the expiration of the morning hour, the Senate resumed consideration of unfinished business, being the resolution of Mr. Matthews declaring the right of the Government to pay the interest and principal of the bonds in silver, and Mr. Merrimon and Mr. Maxey spoke in favor thereof.... The Vice President laid before the Senate a report of the Attorney General that he found no authority in present laws for the President to oblige the Union Pacific railroad to prorate with the Kansas Pacific, and that additional legislation is necessary. Referred.... After executive session the Senate adjourned till Monday. House.—Mr. Durham reported the Military Academy Appropriation bill, appropriating $372,156 and it was made the special order for Tuesday next.... Mr. Singleton introduced a bill extending the jurisdiction of the Southern Claims Commission. Referred.... Mr. Springer, from the Election Committee, presented a report in regard to the contested election case for the Fourth District of California. The report declares that Peter D. Wigginton, is entitled to the seat. Mr. Hlscock submitted a minority report, declaring ftomualdo Pacheco, entitled to a seat. Printed and recommitted.... Mr. Mills, of Texas, introduced a bill donating lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the education of females. Referred... .The House went into committee of the whole on private bi 115.... Afterward, Mr. TTaim. called up the Senate resolutions in regard to the death of Senator O.P. MortoD, and eulogies on the life and public services of the dead Senator ware pronoonoed by Messrs. Hanna, Browne, Hunter. Calkins, Wilson, Hardenbergh, Garfield, Dunnell, Williams (Wia.) and Haze)ton. The resolutions were adopted, and the Boose adjourned till Monday.

JUSTICE.

Senator Voorhees,of Indiana, Makes a Demand for It. Justice for the People as Well as for the Bondholders. An Exhaustive Review of the Whole Subject. In the Senate, a few days since, Mr. Matthews gave way to Senator Voerliees in order that he might address that body on a resolution submitted by him before tine holidays, declaring it of the highest importance that the financial credit of the Government be maintained. In order to be so, the Government itself, in all its departments, should, in good faith, keep all its contracts and obligations entered into with its own citizens. Mr. Voorhees said the agitation of the question of finance will never cease until the people are satisfied that the vast debt is in process of extinction on principles of justice to tax-paying labor, or until, on the other hand, they are subjugated into silent submission, and the Government itself becomes a moneyed aristocracy. Denunciation is now the principal weapon used by those who are ranged on the side of grasping wealth. There is no epithet, however base, that is not in daily use against all who venture to believe, as I do, that to a great extent our whole financial system is organized crime against the laboring, tax-paying men and women of the United States. The great plea of the present hour for the continuation of wrong and injustice is that good faith requires it. Those who, finding a monstrous evil imbedded in the laws of their country, seek to eradicate it by peaceful legislation, are at once, and with the utmost fury, assaulted as violators of public faith, enemies of the national honor, and worse, if possible, than common swindlers. This plea, so loud now in our ears, has been invoked in behalf of every wickedness that has ever cursed the world. The usurper invokes it to protect the throne lie has stolen as soon as he is seated. The tyrant invokes it to shelter his prerogative, and his nobility in turn invoke it in order to live in ease and splendor off the labor of others. Mr. Voorhees reviewed the financial legislation since 1862, and said experience had shown the legal tender to be the best money that ever circulated. Every Government bond which did not on its face stipulate payment in coin was made payable by the express words of the law in legal-tender notes. This enactment guaranteed to the American people the right to pay three-fourths of the national debt in national currency. It was tlie law of contract when all the 5-20 bonds, amounting to over §1,500,000,000, were purchased from the Government by bondholders and paid for in this currency at par, when it was quoted at from 40 to 60 per cent, below par in coin. Every one understood the law to be as I have stated it at the time of its passage; in fact, the great struggle then was whether even the interest on the bonds I have mentioned should be paid in coin. No one in debate made the slightest pretense or intimation that the principal of the bonds was payable in coin. During the full term of seven eventful years that followed there is not a platform of either political party in any State in the Union which makes such an assertion. Mr. Voorhees alluded to Secretary Sherman’s letter of 1868, favoring the payment of bonds in the same kind of money as bought them, and his subsequent action in procuring the passage of an act for the payment of bonds in coin, which he said was open repudiation of a solemn contract, and fastened an extortion of not less than §500,000,000 on the staggering industries of the country as the speculative profits of the operation. In the whole financial history of the civilized world no parallel can be found to this audacious deed of broken faith, deliberate treachery to the people, and national dishonesty. It stands out by itself, towering high above all common frauds, and dwarfing them in comparison with its own vast proportions. It will bear the names of those who enacted it to distant generations amidst the groans, curses, and lamentations of those who toil on land and on sea, and more deeply engraven than any other name will be forever found that of the Secretary of the Treasury, as the author of what he himself said constituted the twofold crime of repudiation and extortion. Mr. Voorhees, in support of his position, quoted the language of Senator Morton in 1869, as follows : “ A combination of stock-jobbers, as destitute of conscience as pirates, and inspired alone by greed for money, successfully thundered at these doors, and finally drove this Government into the most stupendous act of bad faith and legalized robbery ever practiced upon any people since the dawn of history.” He next took up the Funding act of 1870, charging it was the offspring of an apprehension that the work of repudiating the contract for the payment of the 5-20 bonds might not be quite complete. Thus it was provided that an issue of new coin bonds should be made in place of the original ones. The amount saved in interest is trifling when compared with the loss by the whole transaction. Mr. Voorhees then argued that by the laws of March, 1869, and July, 1870, bonds outstanding and afterwards to be issued were payable in coin, not in gold alone, nor in silver alone, but in coin. He quoted Mr, Sherman in 1869 as explicitly favoring this view. Mr. Voorhees commented at some length on the passage of the law of Feb. 12, 1873, which he said doomed the dollar of our fathers, and its enactment was as completely unknown to tlie people, and indeed to four-fifths of Congress itself, as the presence of a burglar in a house at midnight to its sleeping inmates. The silver dollar was eliminated from our money system under tha cover of false pretense. Mr. Voorhees proceeded to show that, of the entire trading and commercila populations of the earth, more than four times as many people have chosen silver as have chosen gold, and more than five times as many have chosen silver as have chosen gold and silver together. The laboring classes desire money to be plentiful, while those who wish to fasten their idle wealth on productions of labor

clamor for scarce and dear money. It was in the interest of the latter powerful class that silver was demonetized. He referred to the act of Jan. 14, 1875, for the resumption of specie payments, and said the law of February, 1873, taking away silver money from the people, and the law of January, 1875, fixing the day now less than a year in advance, when greenbacks shall also perish, are twin monsters of evil, bom of the same parentage, and linked together for the destruction of all money save gold. He vividly portrayed the effect of such legislation upon business and labor. He spoke of the impossibility of resuming January, 1879, and attributed the vast shrinkage in the value of property and universal distress to the policy of contraction, and said during the four years when the volume of currency averaged §1,000,000,000 the business failures of. the entire country reached only 2,167, less in number than occurred in any three months of the year jnst closed. During the period which is now stigmatized as one of inflation, the windows of business houses were not darkened, and business men did not go as mourners about the streets. The laborer did not go home without bread to his wife and children. Helpless millions did not cower and tremble at the approach of winter for lack of food and shelter. The public peace was not broken by riots in resistance to starvation wages. The courts were not principally occupied in enforcing collections, foreclosing mortgages, ordering Sheriff’s sales, or in punishing the destitute outcast. The speaker next turned his attention to the national banks, and said the system of national banking now in use is the most elaborate and complete scheme for making people pay tribute to wealth, in order to obtain a circulating medium, ever known in the financial history of the world. There is not a dollar in the hands of the people on which they have not paid a tax for the privilege of having it put in circulation by the Government. The national bank is the middle-man between the Government and the people, and is enormously paid for doing what the Government ought directly to do itself. On Oct. 1, 1877, there were -2,080 national banks, with resources of §l,741,000,000, and on these resources the interest paid by the people was §130.000,000 per annum. Mr. Voorhees said he represented those who demanded—1. The restoration of the silver dollar exactly as it stood before it was touched by the act of February, 1873. They desire that it shall have unlimited coinage, not fearing that it will become too plenty for their wants, and that it be made a full legal tender, believing that it is as good now with which to pay all debts, public and private, as it was dur - ing eighty-one years of American history. 2. The repeal unconditionally of the act of Jan. 14, 1875, compelling the resumption of specie payments on Jan. 1, 1879, holding that the question of a return to a specie basis for our currency should be controlled entirely by the business interests of the country. They do not believe that the country should be dragged through the depths of ruin, wretchedness, and degradation in order to reach a gold standard for the benefit alone of the income classes. 3. That the national-banking system be removed, and a circulating medium provided by the Government for the people without taxing them for the priviledge of obtaining it, and they ask that the amount thus placed in circulation shall bear a reasonable and judicious proportion to the business transactions and population of the United States. 4. That the currency authorized and circulated on the authority of the Government shall be made a legal tender in payment of all debts, public or private, including all dues to the Government, well knowing that it will then be at par with gold, or more likely at a premium over it; and, 5. That hereafter the financial policy of the country be framed permanently in their interest, that they shall not be discriminated against in future legislation, as in the past, and that their prosperity and not the mere growth of income to retired capitalists, shall be the primary duty of the Government. In conclusion, Mr. V< orhees quoted from articles he had noticed in cerlain Eastern newspapers in regard to the rights of the bondholders, the duty of the laboring classes, and the policy that should be pursued by capitalists to counteract the effects of anticipated legislation on the silver question, and said: Sir, I have no word of menace to utter on this floor, but, in behalf of every laborer and every owner of soil whom I represent, I warn all such as value their investments that when these doctrines of despotism are sought to be enforced, this fair land will again be convulsed in agony, and the fires of liberty will blaze forth again as they did 100 years ago in defense of the natural rights of man. May the wisdom of our fathers and benignity of our God avert such an issue; but, if it shall come, if infatuation has seized our councils, the result will only add one more instance to the long catalogue of human crime and folly, where avarice, like ambition, overleaps itself, and in its unholy attelnpt to rob others of their possessions loses its own.

THE UNIT OF VALUE.

History of the Legal American Dollar from 1771 to 1878—The Gold Dollar Horn In 1849. [From the Essex County (N. J.) Press.] The following is the history of the “ dollar ” in this country from its establishment by the Colonial Government to the present time: The Congress of the Confederation, by act passed Aug. 8, 1776, and ordinance passed Oct. 16, 1786, authorized and established as “ the unit of account ” a silver dollar, to consist of 375.64 grains of pure silver, but none of these coins were ever made. The constitution of the United States was adopted Sept. 17, 1787. On the subject of money it provides as follows: “Congress shall have power to coin money and regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin;” also, that “no State shall coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coins a tender in payment of debts,” thereby plainly reserving this latter right to Congress. Now commences the history of the dollar under the present Government: The act of April 2, 1792, provides for “dollars, or units,’’ which shall contain 371.25 grains of pure, or 416 grains of standard Bilver. It also declares that every fifteen pounds weight of pure silver shall be of equal value in all payments with one pound weight of pure gold ; that the money of account in tfcs

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United States shall be expressed in “dollars, or units” and decimals thereof. It creates gold coins, which are enumerated as follows ; Eagles, half eagles and quarter eagles, the value of which it expresses in “dollars or units.” It does not provide for a gold dollar. The act of Feb. 9, 1793, declares that all foreign coins, except Spanish milled dollars, shall cease to be a legal tender. The act of April 10, 1806, establishes rates at which certain foreign gold and silver coins shall pass current as money and be a legal tender for the payment of debts. The act of June 25, 1834, makes the silver dollar of Mexico, Peru, Ohili and Central America a legal tender when weighing 415 grains each. The act of Jan. 18,1837, provides that “The standard, for both gold and silver coins of the United States shall hereafter be such that of 1,000 parts by weight 900 shall be of pure metal, and 100 of alloy, and the alloy of silver coins shall be of copper, and the alloy of the gold coins shall be of copper and silver; provided that the silver do not exceed one-half the alloy.” It then fixes the weight of the silver dollar at 412} grains 900 fine, and subsidiary silver coins in proportion, to wit, a dime 41} grains. It then declares that all the silver coins, from dollars to half-dimes, shall be legal tenders of payment according to their nominal value for any sums whatever, after which it makes the same provision respecting the gold eagle, half-eagle and quarter-eagle, that they shall be a legal tender for all sums. The act of March 3, 1849, provided for the first coinage of two new coins, the double eagle and the gold dollar, both to be a legal tender for all sums, and to be of the respective value of “twenty dollars, or units,” and “one dollar, or unit.” This is the first gold dollar. The act of March 3, 1851, created a new silver coin, to be of the legal-tender value of 3 cents, and to be a legal tender for all sums of 30 cents and under. The act of Feb. 21, 1853, reduces the weight of the subsidiary silver coins from the half dollars down, and limits their legal-tender function to sums not exceeding $5. It also creates a new gold coin, to be of the value of “three dollars, or units.” The act of Feb. 21, 1857, repeals all former acts which made foreign gold or silver coin a legal tender. The act of April 22, 1864, makes the 1-cent coin a legal tender to the amount of 10 cents, and the 2-cent coin for 20 cents. The act of March 3, 1865, provides for a 3-cent piece oi copper and nickel, which shall be legal tender to the amount of 60 cents, and limits the legal-tender function of the 1 and 2-cent pieces to sums not exceeding 4 cents. The act of May 16, 1866, creates a 5cent coin of nickel and copper, and makes it a legal tender to the amount of SI. The act of March 3, 1871, provides “that the Secretary of the Treasury is required to redeem in lawful money all copper, bronze, copper-nickel, and basemetal coinage, of every kind hitherto authorized by law, when presented in sums of not less than S2O. The act of Feb. 12, 1873 (commonly known as the Demonetizing act), provides that "the gold dollar of the United States of twenty Jive and eight tenths grains shall be the unit of value.” It creates the trade dollars of 420 grains weight, 900 flue; and changes the weight of the half dollar, quarter dollar, and dime, by use of the French word “Gram,” making the half dollar 12} grams, which is said to be about 164 grains (Troy) although according to Webster a gram is one-twenty-fourth of of an ounce, is silent about the 4121grain dollar, and the half dime; and reduces the legal-tender function of all silver coins of the United States to sums not exceeding $5. The act of March 3, 1873, declares the legal value of the English pound sterling shall be deemed equal to $4.8665, and all contracts made after the first day of January, 1874, based on an assumed par of exchange with Great Britain of 54 pence to the dollar, or $4.44 4-9 oents to the sovereign or pound sterling, shall be null and void. The act of March 3, 1875, creates a silver coin of 20 cents, containing 5 “ grams,” and makes it a legal tender to the amount of $5. The act of July 13, 1876, especially demonetizes the trade dollar of 420 grains, 900 fine, in the following words; ‘ * That the trade dollar shall not hereafter be a legal tender, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to limit from time to time the coinage to such an amount as he may deem sufficient to meet the export demand for he same. This brings the question of what is and what was a dollar down to the prestenttime.

Death of a Distinguished Editor.

In the death of Mr. Samuel Bowles, the proprietor and editor of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, the country loses one of its ablest and most successful journalists. He passed away at his home in Springfield, most peacefully, and conscious of his approaching dissolution, after an illness of several weeks’ duration, in which paralysis was the prime symptom of disease. The great success of Mr. Bowles’ life was the building up of the Republican, a paper, which, under his control, became a recognized power in the politics of the country. In a city of comparative obscurity, the journal which was daily lighted by the newspaper genius of Samuel Bowles became a beacon-light which could not be hidden from the world. His paper became as famous for its news condensations as for its bold and fearless expression of opinions, and achieved a solidity in circulation unequaled by any other New England publication. Mr. Bowles was bom in Springfield, Mass., the scene of his life successes, Feb. 9, 1826, and inherited the Republican, then a weekly paper, from his father. At 18 years of age he became virtual editor of the Daily Republican, which position he filled for over thirtythree years. Mr. Bowles traveled extensively in his own country, especially in the "West, the result of his joumeyings being the production of his only works in book form, “Across the Continent,” “Our New West;” and “The Switzerland of America,” all pertaining to the natural beauties of the great West. He was a hard worker, a man of sleepless conscience, and possessing a spirit of manly independence which even the threats of ostracism and the destruction of patronage could not repress. —Chicago Journal. The new Methodist church in Calcutta can seat 2,000 people. The South India Conference recently held ite session tJjeje,

HJkf jfcmotrxHq Sentinel JOB PRINTIMO OFFICE Has better (aoiUtiea than any office In Northweatem Indiana for the exocution of all branches of JOB PRINTING. PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. Anything, from a Dodger to a Prioe-Liet, or from a Pamphlet to a Poster, black or colored, plain or fancy. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

RAILWAY WRECK.

The Accident Near Tartftvllle, Ct.—Some Details of the Calamity. A Hartford (Ct.) dispatch giving particulars of the terrible railroad disaster near that city says: Over 500 residents of Winsted, Canaan, Salisbury, and other places in the western section of the State had visited the Moody and Sankey retival meeting, and embarked for home after services, leaving Hartford by a special train of eleven cars and two locomotives. The party had enjoyed a rare feast of religious communion witn the great evangelists, and little did they imagine the fearful catastrophe so close at hand. There was no wamiug—nothing to lead to apprehension. Crossing the Farmington river bridge, one mile from Tariffville, the train was just entering upon the trestle-work Btretching across the meadows when an ominous crash was heard ahead of the train. The west span, 100 feet long, on the Howe truss principle, had yielded to the overweight of two engines, and, parting near an abutment, caved into the stream, crushing through six inches of ice with which it was covered. The first engine cleared the woodwork of the bridge proper, and, turning over, landed bottom up, irretrievably damaged. Its mate went down, enwrapped in the wreck of the bridge, both landing upon solid ground, but the baggage-car crashed through the ice into six feet of water, and deposited its dozen occupants in the icy flood, mixed up with the myriad of splinters into which the woodwork was shattered. The first passenger-car was next crushed to half size. Swinging around at right angles, into its weakest spot, the side, came like a catapult the heavy front platform of the next car, the rear end of which remained upheld against the central pier of the bridge. The fourth car, striking its predecessor, swung off diagonally, and pitched head-foremost into the chasm. This ended the crash, for the remaining cars were saved from going off by the ends of the two cars resting against the pier as described. In a moment the shrieks of women and groans of men rang out upon the piercing cold air—the shrieks of crushed, mangled beings, struggling to obtain release from the meshes into which the shock had hurled them in the ends of the overturned cars. The unhurt hastened to help the endangered, and additional aid came from the villagers of Tariffville, who were aroused by the noise) of the crash. A merciful Providence preserved the passengers from the usual terrible feature of fire originating from lamps and stoves, but the occupants of the first two cars were brought face to face with death by drowning, as the cars forming their prisons settled gradually down in the water and sand. Measures for relief were well organized by a few leading spirits, and soon the workers hewed and tore away timbers with a will until, in less than two hours, every car was cleared of its living occupants, the wounded being borne away to the river bank on sledges hastily improvised from saplings and car-cushions, and thence to the genial warmth of the cars which had remained on the track, and where friends were ready to minister to their needs. Telegrams were dispatched to Hartford and Winsted for aid, and special trains arrived soon after, Hartford contributing a dozen surgeons under the excitement occasioned by the report that at least fifty deaths had happened and wounds were innumerable. The worst injured were removed to hotels and private dwellings, people throwing open their doors and offering every accommodation. Two hours later the members of the party able to travel were sent home by a special train over other roads affording connection beyond the break. Meantime search for the dead began, and five corpses of women were taken from tho wreck, all having died from drowning. Further search yielded the bodies of six young men who met death in the same way, having been standing on a front pletform when the car went down, and being pushed under the water. Strange to say, of an aggregate of thirteen deaths reported, all but two are by drowning, only one passenger, Fred Hotchkins, and engineer Hatch, dying from injuries usually incident to such a disaster as this. The wounded number about thirty. Nearly all the dead were in the first passenger car, which was almost a complete wreck, although one body was taken from the second car, where it was found caught under a broken seat. Five young men from New Hartford, among the killed, were of a party of six who were on the platform of a car enjoving a. moonlight ride and whistling in chorus. The only survivor of the six was inside at the time.

Demetrius Bulgaris.

Demetrius Bulgaria, Chief of the Greek Revolutionary Society, is dead. He was bom in 1801 in the island of Hydra, of which his father was Governor. In 1833 he was appointed a Minister, during the regency of Otho, and subsequently sat in the National Assembly. When the Crimean war broke out he was made President of the Council. From this position of trust he was compelled to resign in 1859 on account of the stubborn resistance of the King to the liberal measures demanded by the people, but in 1862, when the revolution broke out, he was recalled to power and became President of the Provisional Government. The triumvirate of Bulgaria Canaris, and Rouphos ordered an election of a King by universal suffrage, and Prince Alfred, of England, was chosen by an immense majority. Neither England, France, nor Russia, however, would permit any of their Princes to accept the throne, and Prince George, of Denmark, was finally elected. Bulgaria was appointed President of the Council and Minister of the Interior, but in 1865 again resigned when the King refused to dissolve or prorogue the Chambers. During the present Russo-Turkish war he has been prominent, as the leader of the revolutionary party, which aims to acquire for Greece tne provinces of Macedonia, Thessaly, Epirus, and Crete. — Chicago Tribune.

Chicago Failures in December.

The footings of the failures in Chicago during the month of December, as reported by Tappan, McKillop & Co., were as follows: Agricultural implement*!, .iron, etc $1,560,000 Banks and bankers 1,228,940 Boots and shoes, clothing, hats and caps.. 33,113 Coal 451,204 Cigars, liquors and saloons 88,710 Crockery .$!>??? Commission ' • • • • Furniture... Groceries Lumber 28,661 Millinery, gloves, etc 77,690 p&p er 29,000 Beal estate and contractors ’??? Old matters 176,666 Total