Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1878 — Page 1

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!’•* r pv; ypßgiGNjnrws. Th* marrioges dlttfie Princega Charlotte, daughter of the Crown Prince of Germany, and the grand-daughter of Queen Victoria of England, to Bernard, hereditary Prince of the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen, and of the Princes* Elizabeth, daughter of Prince Frederick dharleu, to Augustus, hereditary Prince of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, were solemnized at Berlin on the 18th of February. A London flspateh says: Conflicting explanatipps are given of the reason and character of the German intervention which seems to have tided over the recent crisis. A dispatch from St. Petersburg sdys there is the greatest disappointment there, because the people expected-the motxd support of Germany, whereas now they hear thu Emperor ct Germany, in his speech from the throue, referred to the programme of the Constantinople Conference Me the basis-for settlement.”

The Thessalian insurgents are not inoMned to fall in with the general peace movement which has been acquiesced in by all the other powers, great and small. The insurrection in that province is rapidly growing more formidable. Greek has met Turk, apd the Moslem, collectively numbering some <6,000, has been defeated in a desperate battle, with a loss of COO in killed alone. In the German Parliament, last week, during the discussion of the Eastern question, Prince Bismarck discussed the separate provisions of the preliminaries of peace, and showed that Germany’s interests are not «ffectefi in meh * manner as to oblige her todeviate from her tiravious attitude. He did not believe in a European war. He rejected emphatically all suggesbOns that Germany should intervene, and declared she was willing honorably to mediate, but did not wish to exercise the office of arbiter of Europe. In the Austrian Parliament the President of the Council of Ministers stated that the Austrian Government considered the basis of the peace ccnditious detrimental to the interests of the monarchy, and could not be accepted as final. If advices from Havana, Cuba, are to be beievod, the insurgent resistance to the Spanish authority is over, and peace one* more reign* in that long-afilicted island. All the rebollftjuli chiefs have acknowledged their allegiance and subscribed to the peace conditions. Thesoare, in substance, as follow’s : Ihe island of oUba to receive the same political organization and administrative concessions as enjoyed Iry Porto Hico; ample pardon for all political offenses committed since 1868, and liberty for those persons under sentence and political prisoners, and a general pardon to deserter* from the Spanish lines ; liberty to be given to slaves and Chinamen within the insurgent lines ; all persons desiring to leave the island to be furnished means to do so, without touching either village or city if so desired. A letter from Beyrout, Syria, says: ‘-Turkish soldiers killed thirty and wounded twenty-two Druses in th« village of Mtiilleh. The attack was made under tba.pngtenae of Mating the head man of the villag* for trespass.” The Governor of Erzcrouni has telegraphed the Porte that the evacuation of that .place is impossible, as, owing to the interruption of communications by the snow, the troops could not obtain supplies outside of the city. The choice of Cardinal Pecci as Pope appears to be entirely satisfactory to all except the Ultramontane*. In France and Germany, a* well as in Italy, the choice gives satisfaction. The new Pope, on assuming the Potilicate, blessed an audience of 20,000 people. It is said that Pope Leo will carry out the policy of his predecessor. It is reported from Vienna that the speeches of Bismarck and Auersperg have had the effect of increasing the general apprehension. It is said “ there is much disappointment over the selfish character of the German Chanceflor’s speech, and his strongly-expressed friendship for Russia. The Russian demands arc such that Austria cannot submit to thorn, because they would .certainly end in a disruption of the “Austrian empire. In view of these, facts it is believed that the wdrst is likely-to* happen, and hence Austria is making preparations to meet any eventuality.” A London dispatch of Feb. 22 reports thaX there was 'Considerable excitement over a report that the Turkish fleet was to bo surrendered to Russia. . Buleinwi Paella has been will, be court-martialed. One pomt in relation to the European ‘conference has been settled. It will be .at Baden Baden. The effort to have it meet in the first week of March failed, and the date of meeting is not yet fixed. England will be represented by an Ambassador, not the Premier or Minister for Foreign Affairs. It. is also understood that neither Bismarck nor Gortschakoft will attend;— ———- - Dispatches of Feb. 25 sty,te that Russia and Servia are at loggerheads regarding. the occupation of the territory in what iMnWAn Olcf Servia which the troops of Prince Milan held at the time of the suspension of hostilities ; the anti-Russian demonstration in London was a success as to numbers nnd brute force, IQP,OOO persons being” present; and that clause ifi . the jkaco conditions which contemplates the occupanu.. of Bulgaria by Hussum troops for two years after the reconstruction of the province into a principality is likely to meet with a vigorous protest from Austria. An explosion of dynamite at Parma, Italy, recently, killed six and wounded sixty-three person*.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. The difficulty between Thomas Lord, Sr., of New York, and his children, growing out of the marriage of. that gentleman to Mrs. Hicks, has been amicably TJj6£prfl|>erty of the old gentleman, vaOd at $1,000,000, is to be placed in the hands.of. | strusteo, |he children each to a year from the proceeds, and upon the death of the father the estate is to be- divided equally among them. Mrs. Lord surrenders all right of dower to the estate, and agrees to receive nothing from it after the death of her hueband, <ouM »e survive him. Mrs. Lord possesses a fortune of over $500,000. A. G. Cattell, ex-Unitefl States Senator from 1 Kassas The annual report of the New York Fire Department shows that during the past year there were 1,450 fires in that city, causing a loss on buildings of $1,008,446, and a damage to property of $2,202,249. The people in the vicinity of Dr. Le Moyne’s cremation furnace, at Washington, Pa., threaten to tear down the institution, and only the thought that the Dsctor. will probably sortietime be burned in it deters them. ‘ J- F. Thornton, Clerk of the BL Louis Circuit Court, and hitherto an honored citizen of St. Louis, is a defaulter to Hie amount of SIOO,OOO. 'T West. ■■■'>■ The Lindell Hotel, the leading hostelry of St. Louis, has been the scene of a sensational tragedy. A young man and woman called at registered John and Maggie Gum-

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binger, and engaged a room. The next monw ing pistol-shots were heard in the room dertrpied by the coople, Mid upon investigation the shocking discovery was made that the young man had. shot the girl and then taken life. They were both residents of the ‘ belonged to respectable families. Tiro Me of the tragedy was the refusil of the' girj «j parents to sanction the marriage of tl»julg| man with their daughter. Heavy rains and destructive floflus are reported tn California. Chicago elevators, as per official record, coptain 1,363,684 bushels,t|f wheat; bushels of corn; 259,326 bushels of oats; 187,043. bushels Of* rye, arid 723,934 bushels of barley, making a grand total bushels, against 7,922, aflpjQ«iO last year. jSjjljJ The Indians hart been a long tiiWqlßF for so mild a winter Beaton, but a fresh raid is now reported from-Fort MeKrftett, T<txas, AdjL Gen. Vincent, via San Antonio. No details are given, except that troops have been sent in

pursuit of the hostiles. v Three man were instantly killed,-snd-another mortally wounded, by the explosion of a boiler in a Palmyra (Mo.) saw mill, a few,day* ago, • John J. Moore, a postal cleft, was recently arrested at Fremont, Neb., for robbing the United States mails of a. package containing $5,000. The robbery was Augmt, 1877. The money has been recovered, and Moore makes full confession of his crime. He has been taken to Chicago for trial. A fire at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago, last week, burned the large slaughter- house of Nelson Morris, involving"a loss of $l2O, (jOO; • ; | By the Immhigof-tlxs Wisconsin Insane Asylum in Sheboygan county,Wis., a few days ago, four of the unfortunate inmates—two men and two women—lost their lives. The two murderers of Hugh McConville, who committed the crime at Chicago some weeks since, have been found guilty and sentenced to death. Chicago pork-packer* have handled and packed 2,374,310 hogs from Nov. 1 to date, being 838,581 more than for the corresponding period last season. Frank Rande, the Gilson (Ill.) desperado, has been found guilty of murder and sentenced tb the penitentiary for life.

South. A warehouse in which-was stored 4,000 bales of cotton, worth 00(1, was destroyed by fire at Savannah, Ga., last week. J. Madison Wells is out in an open letter in regard to the Returning Board prosecutions. It is written in Well*’ characteristically vigorous style, and gives what purports to be a personal history of the men prominently engaged in the prosecutions. He asserts that Maj. E. A. Burke, one of the leaning witnesses, is a fugitive from Illinois and a villain ; that the Sheriff and some of the other witnesses are murderers and villains ; that Judge Whittaker is a defaulter and a drunkard ; that Attorney General Ogden is a deacon in the church and a villain; that Assistant Prosecutor Egan is a murderer and a vifiate; that ChArfttf Cavarac, a leading instigator of the prosecution, is a liar, thief and villain, and that the whole prosecution is conducted by rebels in the interest of Samuel J. Tilden. The Tennessee State Grange, recently in session at Nashville, adopted a resolution that the best interests of the industrial classes deI mand the repeal of the Resumption act, the remonetization of silver, free banking, limited only by the demands of trade and uncontrolled as to volume by the General Government, and the payment of all its interest bearing obligations according to the strictest construction of the original contract.

WASHINGTON The postoffioe authorities complain that the revenue of the department suffers to tbe extent of $500,000 a month from the sale of stamps at offices which receive large percentages in lieu of salary. The Senate Finance Committee, at a meeting last week, to report the Home bill for the repeal of the Resumption act by the following vote : Ayes—Ferry, Jones of Nevada, Allison, Howe and Wallace—s. Nays—Morrill, Dawes, Bayard and Kernan—4. It is said, the friends of thq bill in ths Senate will press it to a passage at the earliest day possible. The Committee on Banking and Currency in ( the- H ouse of Representatives have agreed I upon a billfe) substitute a new sort of treasury I notbs for national bank notes. The CompI troller -of the Currency objects that the bill Will be an infringement upon vested rjghtaj and that the Government has no power, 'tinder i the constitution, to take this action in regard to national banks while their charters continue in existence ' The House Committee Lands has decided to. repqrt several bills, the effect of which is to cause all land grants to railroads whicß np to thMtime have not conppßed with their charteae to revert to the States. The effect would bo to cause to revert'uw,odO'' 000 acres. a ; g ‘ The President has notmnated William H. Greenleaf for Receiver of Public ‘ Moneys, at Benson, Minn.; William B. Mitchell, Receiver of Public Moneys at St. Cloud, Minn.; John C. Uogjgter of the. Land Office l at Santa Fe, New Mexico; Charles* s !*. itaitfe--1 dell, United States Marshal for the East Dis- ! trict Of Virginia • Anthony Q. Keasley, United States Attorney for the East District of New Jersey ; John W. Howell, Collector of Customs for Fernandina, Fia.

By a vote of 33 to 21 the Senate has voted to re-establish the franking privilege. Mr. Hamlin was the mover of the amendment and-the. vote stands recorded as below: : Allison, Edmunds, Lamar, Beck, Garland, McDonald, Burnside, Grover, . Matthews, I Hamlin, £ BfcrgaM, U £ i ■Pwg.yp*a.), Barris, Paddock, ’ 5°* e > Ransom, ? oa \’. Maunders, rErftvT’ teßkHs, , Spencer, Chaffee, Johnston, Teller Dawes, Jones (Fla ), Windom, Dorsey, Kirkwood, Withers —33. NAYS. Bailey, Eaton, Oglesby, Bayard, Eustis, Piumb, Booth,. Ferry, Sargent, Cameron (Wis.), McCreery, Saulsbury. Cockrell, McMillan, Voorhees, Cfflke, Merrimon, Wadleiab,»Davis (HL), Morrill, Wallace—2l. Mr. Pattersen, who would have voted for the was paired with Mr. Armstrong, who would have voted against it. The National House c f Representatives has passed, by a large majority, a bill giving . women lawyers the right to practice in United I States Courts. Secretary Sherman embraces the earliest opportunity to declare that he will execute the Silver bill in the spirit in which it was passed. The Postmaster General has appointed and 1 commissioned Joseph H. Blackftn~W^& f I tendent of Foreign Mails, and J. N. Tyner, | First Assistant Postmaster General, Commisj sioners on the part of the United States to the; General Postal Convention to be held, at Paris ! on the Ist of May next. 'l3l * J ‘ ( > The ri&r popular 4- p* cefit. loan is going off at the rate of about $1,000,000 a week. - There Is no change in the position of the , Government on the Mexican question. '.Voile : u friendly feeling is expressed toward Mexico,

MSfEWOUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 1,1878.

there are no greynt of an imuteßßate ilffrgifcfiUffifowiWKrlWrntirn of Diaz. JKr* I l n frfrff 1 8 *-^ rou aF o wt I Bffi. thaPeaMprats canYbwottstowßjuWy I wifiCity, Williamscarried NorIKstclOfi, Oncaster, Lebanon and Erie. The Greenbackers carried Shenandoah, Bellefonte, Titusville and Scranton. The Independents carried Bethlehem andPottsthe Republicans were successful in a very light vote; 75,000 being pl&U tne expense or doib| The Indiana Democratic Stat 3 Convention 'met Mb InduMMtoliN fp Feb. 20, and organized by the selection of ex-Gov. Thomas A. Hendrioks, as Chairman. The following ticket was nominated: For Secretary of State, Jbhh G. BhlHkJfh; 'for Auditor of

■State, Mahlon D. Manson; for Treasurer of state, VlillttW, Fleming; . for Attorney General, Thomas W. Woollen; for Superintendent of PuWjc . Instruction, J. Smart, present InQqmbent. ado P ted demands retirement of national-bank notes and the issue of greenbacks, instead of legal-tender notes, for airdebts, phblic and private, except where coin is stipulated; the remonetization of a -^PJ’8 r te I «^Ul er uolhnited coinage, under tie r 0w ; M 18 ’t 8 * 8 co^ne d; hirers ofHoHlsmn this country instead of abroad by means of a syndicate; demands the punishment of those Republicans who were engaged in the Presidential fraud; favors the most rigid economy in ditures, and pfolests against subsidM®y Federal Government. Ikl The Ohio Prohibitionist’s have placed In the field a fulf ticket for State offices. Hon. Stanley Matthews, in an interview with a Washington reporter, the other day, said he knew of no pledge on the part of Gov. Nicholls, of Louisiana, in relation to amnestying the members of the Returning Board. The Illinois Democratic State Convention has been called to meet at Springfield on the 11th of April. 7 , T Judge Whittaker has refused the application of Anderson, of the Louisiana Returning Board, for a new trial.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Hugh Mathewson A Co., wholesale grocers, of Montreal, Canada, have failed, 'Liabilities $170,000. „ A National Convention of Uniieti States Export Traders was in session at Washington last week. Gov. Lippet, of Rhode Island, presided. There was a large attendance of delegates, Boards of Trade, Chambers of Commerce, Merchants’ Exchanges, City Councils and variow ‘ manufacturing associations being represented from ajl sections of the Union. Among the resolutions adopted was one declaring that all the | interests of the country demanded the establishment and maintenance of steam ship Stines' between the United States and all places that can offer a market for our products. The Director of the United States mints places their present capacity for the coinage of silver dollars at $1,000,000 monthly, which can be extended to $>2,000,000. He thinks the first ‘ year’s coinage will probably reach>3o,%s, 600, Designs have already been the | new silver dollar. w IL. '* \ * Two more centenarians have diedCatherine Jarvis (colored), of Halifax, N. 8., o ' B “ ,ton ’ Our own Cardinal McCloskey had ro voice in the electioiypf the Pope, he having failed to reach Rome in time. Ftur ddvertimeirt vessels arc to be dispatched to France with full loads of American goods for the exhibit at the Paris Exposition. All the spade allowed to the United States has been already assigned by the Chief Commissioner.

FORTY -FOURTH CONGRESS, Monday, Feb. 18.—Senate.—The hill to en able Indians to become citizens was taken up, and Mr. Whyte spoke in opposition... .Mr. Bayard presented the petition of the National Liberal League, signed by the officers thereof and 10,660 persons residing in every State of the. Union, favoring the adoption or an amendment to the constitution separating church and state.... The Resolution of Mr. Beck io have an inquiry into the legislation needed to * prevent the introduction of yellow fever into the country was adopted... .Mr. (Cameron,. of FejHi®'lVanf% introduced a bill to re* instate curtain officers d£stfi United States armyf lu The bill sit«ho rehef ofsrill&s on public lands? under the Pre-emptfen MW#Whs passed. House.—The Silver bill, as passed by the Senate, was returned to the Houre and placed upon the Speaker’s table. Bills were introduced and referred : By Mr. R6bertson, a resolution of the Louisiana Assembly in favor of the Texas Pacific bill andtfie Bland Bfiver bill; by Mr. Southard, a joint WtKlution of tlrn Ohio Legislature declaring United States brinds payable, principal fast interest, in silver at ' the option of the Government, and declaring fitrthetthat afid Secretary Sherman, in their opposition to the > Silver hall, . du vata-represent tbe views of the people-of* Ohio; bySNlr. Riddle, to prohibit the organization of National Banking Associations unsr the existing laws, and re-charter those now Jfc operation; by Mr. Bnrobard to promote the deposit of savings, and the refunding of the national debt; by Mr. Cabell, to incorporate the National Paqjflc railroad; by Mr. Garfield, to; provide for a’ nwe.th oßMtgh investigation of railroad accidents ; hy TWr. Batiks, grsTittffg-the’piwHege of the floor to one representative or cyoi* newspaper having daily telegraphic coipmum&iktion with Washington. Tuesday, Feb. 19.—Senate.—Mr. Spencer, from -the Committee on Military Affairs,'reported favorably on the bill for the relief of William A. Hammond, late Surgeon oeneral in the army.... Mr. Ferry called up the Senate bill to regulate the compensation of Postmasters, and for other purposes, which was discussed at some length. During the qeptiment in favor of the , restofcillßh <«. ife frankirig privilege was developed among the Senators.... The Senate devoted the afternoon to the consideration of a bill bo amending the laws granting pensions to the soldiers of the war of 1812 as to pension all who served for fourteen es t or , ia^( W® pension-rolls the <“ a '' surviyota,. sjtnch were stricken froth* the Toll# idr -xoiweqnence of participation in the rebellion. Senator Oglesby op- , nosed the bill, He had voted to pension those soldiere of the war <sf JBl2 who had served sixty.days, and was willing to pension those who had only serve,, fourteen days; but he will not aid in restoring tc the rolls those who had been pensioned by a grateful country, but who had deserted that country in its hour of need, and who would not now ask to be forgiven. It was Unfair to the Southern meaF * 0 Ji a^ cce P ted the situation, and who had asked their disabHitWar ; removed Senator restoration of the Southern on? ti to Oglesby moved to strike out the section wf the bill which restored disloyal ieM^caimfcsoMavf lo^ 11 waß loß ‘ by * Tote ° f 7 ..x2* * yß - yeas were: Anthony, rlll^ftotoßto&S^n Sin ’ E£m undß - McMillan, Mor--51 House.—The feature of the House proceedings was the delivery of a Speech by Eugene Hale, of Maine, in which he made a sharp attack on the President’s Southern policy, the occasion being furnished by the-bringing up of the eternal Louisiana querilon through the contested- election case of Acklin vs. Darrell. Gen. Garfield vigorously defended the President against the attackiof Male. Wednesday, Feb. 20.—Senate.—MF. Cockrell instructing the Commissioned of AgrfeftltureWfur&sh.the Setaateaiich iflformation and facts as may be in his possession relative t^e , J 1 > hogs, commonly called hog cholera, , with inch suggestions as he may deem pertinent. Agreed t0...*Mr. Sargent, from the Committee on Naval Affairs/ reported. With an amendment, t»e Senate bUI Senate, by a vote of 32 to 21, put an amendment - M> the bill regulattM the salaiMs of Postmasters, restoring the franking privilege to the President, Vice President, Senators, Representative, the Secretary oi the Senate and the Blerk of the House. The amendment allows all matter bearin# th« of any of the above ofitodw/w

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nfSifc pass through the was passed. SSHBit--— The HoußdftvJkd the entire day to the of case of Acklin 1 Louisiana District—the t deoidekJKtit was not in order to those voting yea : were Ohio. Allthe nays were Republicans. - Thubsday, Feb. 21. —Senate. —sfr; Bpencer introduced a bill to provide fpr a military post-T or the protection of the citizens of the Black Hills... F Mr. Windom presented a memorial in favor of Hire improvement of the Ohio river...;The Senate spent four hours in executive session over contested nominations. The three -which caueedjno-t of the debate were Williamson, Collector of Jiew Orleans; North rum —District Attoniey bapolipa Collector of Mo- - him, and only fifteen Republican*,' supßW-' in? the nomination. In the case of Northrup, the friend of Wade Hampton, the Democrats voted solidly for him, while aU the Republicans opposed him except Paweg, Hoar, Burnside, and Matthews. Mr. ChrisUaney who generally votes to sustain the President, on this occasion opposed Northrup, and he was barely saved by the four mentioned. The result of the day was to show that the five Republican* last named constitute all that can be fairly counted as Administration strength in the Senate. Smith was confirmed as Collector of Mobile by a vote of 26 to 23. vji.,.-. - j

House. —The House, after a six hours'” struggle, passed the Senate Silver bill without amendment. The most determined fight was made against the bill by a feW”greenback-silver men and the opponents of silver, but at every stage they were defeated by a vote of 204 against 72. The first hpposition came from the extreme silver men under the lead of Mr. Springer. The point made was that the amendment providing for an international commission, in that it made no appropriation of money, must be considered first in committee of the whole. The purpose of this motion was to force the bill where it would be open to unlimited debate, A protracted debate followed upon this parliamentary -. technicality, with the result that Speaker Randad ruled that the point was not well taken ; that inasmuch as the majority could ultimately decide, it was unjust to j&ceNßs afiqMtf poM| ofSobjection witji one ruejber. New'Aorfc, who finally voted forßhe from the Speaker’s tHHEr was s>t*tained by 222 to 26. Tbd" previous question wa* then ordered without difficulty, nnd an aebate followed. Probably there never were so many speeches in one hour. At the end of the debate a desperate effort was made by ttie opponents of the silver measure to defeat it by sustaining Mr. Hewitt’s motion to table, ihe result was to show their complete helplessness, the vote standing yeas 72, nays 204. The 72 votes were almost exclusively east by Eastern men. Voting then proceeded on the Senate amendments. They were all concurred in, in rapid succession, by about the same majority cast in the final passage. The amendments having been diapered of, tbeJAU waaputtoa votq yeas, 204 ; YEAS. Acklin, Evans (Ind.), Neal, Aiken, Evans (S. C.), Oliver, Aldrich, Ewing, Overton, Atkins, Finley, Page, Baker (Ind.), Forney, Paitereon (N.Y.), Banning, Fort, Patterson (CoJ.), Bayne, Foster, Phelps, Beebe,. Frankto, Phillips, Bell, Fuller, . Pollard, Benedict, Garth, Pound, •Wckncll, Gause, Price,, Blackburn, Giddings, Pridemoro, Bland, Glover, Rainey, Blount, Goode, Randolph, Boone, Gunter, Rea, Bouck, Hamilton, Reagtiri, Boyd, Hanua, Reilly, Hartiidßr,. S Robertson, (La.), Hfe-tMS f I 'itobinsdSi (Ind.), Brogden, Haskell, £ j Ttvdn, •Brown, ■ Eatopson, BuLrtiy,’ HfcletOD, Bnyln’r, BurAiwS, 'Heiiderwrti.eS* Scales, Burdick, Henckle, Sexton, Butler, Henry, Shallenberger, Cabell, Hewitt (Ala.) Shelley, Cain, Herbert, Singleton, Caldwell (Ky.), Hiscock, Slemons, Caldwell (Tenn.),Hooker, Smalls, Calkins, House, Candor, Hubbell, Snarks, Cannon, Hunter, gß r l«B er > .JCttltele, Hunton, i. Caswell, Humphrey, Stophens, ■Chalmars, Ittner, stone (Mich.), Clarke Jones (Ala), Stone (Iowa), C ark (Mo.) Jones (Qhio) Strait, Clark (Iowa) Kelfer, TTiompson, Clymer, Kelley, Thornburgh, Cobb, Kenua, Throckmorton, Cole, Killinger, Townsend (0.), Collins, Kimmell, Townshend (Ill,), Conger, Knapp, Tucker, Cook, Knott, Turner, ,f'. ~ Cox (Ohio), Landers, Turney, Cox (N. Y.), Lathrop, Vance,- '’'Vl Cravens, Ligon, Van Varhes, ’ £ Crittenden, Lilttrell, Waddell, 5 ■* Culbertson, Ljmde, Walker, , Cummings, Mackey, Walsh, 1 Cutler, f -mO C 2 Danford, Maisn, White (Pa.), Davidson, Mtwttjg/ /. T White (Ind.), Davis (8. C.), McGowaq/ . Deering, McKenzie, Wigginton, rtougftfts, -Mills, ■ - vrttftams (Ore.), ' Dunnell, Mitchell, Willis (Kv.), Eden, Morey, WilletsTMich.), Elam, Monroe, Wilson, Ellis, Morgan, Wreu, Ellsworth, Morrison, Wright, Errett, Muldrow, Yeates—2o4. NAYS. Bacons • Fryd, O’Neill, Bagley, , Garfield, Peddie, Baker (N. Y.), Gibson, Potter, ttr- *■- ’ WJce T Harmer, Reed, Sdfa’ Hams (Mass.), Rice (Mass.), i glßo^Bß-)’^88 -)’ Camp, Hungerford, Schleicher, Campbell, James, Sinnickson, Chittenden, Jones (N. H.), Starin, Claflin, Jorgensen, Stenger, Clark (N. J.) ; Joyce, Stewart, SS: ■ v®WlsW,- Liadeey, "Ward, Dwight, Lockwood, Warner, Eames, Lering, Watson, Eickhoff, McCook, Williams (Mich.), Evahs (Pa.), Metftalfe, Williams (N. Y.), Field, Morse, Williams (Del.), Freeman, Muller, Wood—72.

PENSIONS.

Debate in the House of Representatives ou the Hill Restoring Ex-Pensioners to the Rolls—Mr. Hlaine Creates Another Surprise. [From the House Proceedings.] . jkt tb.9 expiation, of the morfling 7 ..h<jur, J&. Withers called up for consideration the Senate bill amending the laws granting pensions to soldiers’ tftid sailers of the w* of 1812, and their widows. The committee reported ah amendment to the section authorizing the restoration to the pension rolls of all persons now surviving heretofore pensioned on account of service in the war oflßl2 or of any of the Ihdian wars, whose names were stricken therefrom on account of disloyalty, so as to provide that all such persons should be restored whose disabilities had been removed or who had made application for such removal. Mr. Ingalls said there were not more than 100 men affected bj thia provision of the bill. was no possibility of national unity Without having such obliteration complete, the bill should be passed. It occurred to him as a small thing for a great nation to admit to its counsels those who Were leaders in the rebellion, and exclude from the benefits of that Government the poor old man who had received a pension of $8 per month, and could taid Hemd Bcftotthatbe wka fijipoado to restoring these old men to the pension roll, but such amendment might be taken as a precedent for the compensation df property lost during the rebellion. ° IngaJ!s eaid he was opposed to the whole survivors of the war of 1812, who served in the military or naval service for fourteen days. He was in favor of pensioning those who were wounded and disabled in the service, but could not favor granting pensions to persons merely because AW entered the servi®. f # J Mr. Mohffl iftid he feared fids bill was the fore runner of what was to come hereafter, and would tesnlt in taking large Sums of money from the treasury, ,t, r, Mr. Oglesby opposed the restoration to the pension-rolls of those persons whose names were stricken therefrom on account of disloyalty, and moved to strike it out. He argued that the men whq fought for the Goveruraent in

1812 should have been the last to attempt to destroy it In after years, Mr. Blaine said every soldier who served in the war of 1812 must have beeixat lea*t6o years of age when the rebellion broke out, and they were Inow nearly 80 year* of age. It was impossible that these men could have done anything active against the ' Government of the United States during the late war, and it Waenot to be expected they would ijteak their family ties hud come North when the war broke out. He (Blaine) had not laid awake at night considering hoy? to restore men of the rebellion to privileges, bqt.these old men did their part in upholding the country in the war of 1812, and he wdnld -hot exclude one of them from the pensioshroUM. Men who were engaged actively in the rebellion had been pardoned, and many sos „tbem were now holding office and drawing ‘ large salaries from the’Government of the United States. They- were doing so by the vote nf thn Snnnfnr frzan Illinnia (Qglpsbv) Mr. Oglesby—For the services they are renjgartLiv- f i ! ."1- fl L Mr. Blain*- Yes, tin y«re in office all through ,'jpy sad anticipar tien js that they are pretty nearly cmjlroliiiig this Govertfceht. But he could not say that old veterans south of the Potomac who fought and bled in the war of-1812. Should be excluded from the generosity of the Go vernmert. Mr. Oglesby said it -was wise statesmanship to remove the political disabilities of those engaged in the rebellion who had asked to have them removed; Somd of * the men who had their disabilities removed were now rendering valuable service in the Government* Ninety-nine one-Iranrlredths of the men who were in the rebellion had come forward and frankly asked to have their disabilities remoyed. But there, another class of persons in the South who would not ask to have their disabi’ities removed. These vary persaflls who were pensioned could be restored to Se roll* by coming forward apd having their sabilities removed. In reply to Mr. Blainp that the pensioners were too old to render active service in aid of the rebellion, he said that age did not affect patriotism; age did nojt affect courage. Mr ..Blaine salfi he had in his eye now men who'affer - thp war, and Congress, looking a€ tile fourteenth amendment, said : These, men intend to be citizens. We will give back to them jhat, winch is above pripe. Wc will give back citizenship, afid’ open to them every honor of the Republic; Was it possible that the son who i had taken an active part in the rebellion against the Government should have all restored to him? But the pocr old father, who did nothing more than sympathize With his son, could have nothing back. The widow of Gen. Zack Taylor was on the pension-roll. Her son took an active part in the rebellion. Was her name to be stricken from the roll because she bound up the wound of Dick Taylor, her son ? Mr. Kirkwaod said im for-one was perfectly ‘willing to take hilMWf any odium which might come from restoring these old men to the pensidn-rolls. He thought a great Government like ours could forgive past offenses. Mr. Blaine said if Congress was going to legislate so as to exclude old men and widows from the generosity of the Government, it was taking a ground which dishonored the magnanimity of the Government. Mr. Ingalls said an attempt to array the American Congress against a few old men was indicative to his mind of the spirit whicu would lead a man to strike a woman or kick a baby. The bij d was passea ais amended, by yeas 47, naysß-—Messrs. (Wis.), Edmunds, Hamlin, McMillan,'’Morrill and Oglesby constituting the nayp. g

Mrs. Titian’s Dust.

The calcined rimains of Mrs. Benn Pitootm, whetfthcywere taken from the reijprt of the furnace of Dr. Le Moyne’s crematory, weighed a fraction over four pound.". two ounces. Their appearance grffCrtilly, as defined by a correspondent present, was that of a clear white bone ash, as of a thoroughly burned bone pulverized by. a heavy weight, intermingled with flakes resembling fish scales, of an extremely iiglit pearl color. Mixfewith the bfeeaslrwere the hardly distinguishable qpe^ahc^shreds of the casWfere 'fspchthe body was wtefejpfed, and of -tire hlunj- soaked sheet wi-& yererered, distinguishable by the difference of texture, and what were also believed to be the petals of*the flowers placed upon Mrs. Pitman’s beectaf; but’. alt these were reduced to an'-iinpalpable dust* in "handling the reon the bottom of the distributed in almost exact proportion to the quantity of bones that go pctke up the human skeleton.

Buried Alive.

./A, Mr, Davis, of Medford, Mass., a .ghort time ago, while shaving, fell ward upon the floor, and was pronounced dead. As he had expressed fears that lie might be buried alivd, the ' body was kept several days in the house and carefully watched. The remains were finally buried at Malden. After the funeral the widow and her daughter, who reside in different houses, on a certain night dreamed that the deceased #aa alive and was trying to release hinujolt lrom the grave. They ‘told tiieir' dreams to each other, and caused , the grave to be opened. To the horror of all the corpse was found lying on its side, and the top of the casket broke, showing that the man atrenppijs efforts to escape death by shflocatibn.

An Indian War Feared.

At the War Department there is a fear that when spring opens there will be another general Indian war with the Sioux. Several hundred lodges have left the Spotted Tail and Red Cloud agencies, and are now roaming in Northern Dakota, where it is expected they will be joined by Sitting Bull in the spring, or air least a part of his band. The expedition now putting out at Fort Laramie by Gen. Orook is intended to invasion of the Black Hills country, and will leave at once to strike these roaming bands from the agencies before the snow is off the ground and the grass lias grown sufficiently for the Indians to fatten their ponies.— Washington Cor. Chicago In-ter-Ocean.

Married in Haste.

An interesting event in the history of the Disk University, for colored youth, in Nashville, Tenn., was the recent sending out of four black missionaries to Africa. The American Missionary Society, having called for this number to proceed immediately to Sherbro island, j ust off the coast of Africa, the university selected Albert P. Miller and Andrew E. Jackson, who in turn selected wives in Miss Ada J. Roberts and Miss Ella M. Hildrage, respectively, thus making up the needed quartette, all being students of the Fink school. The marriage ceremony was performed, a farewell reception was given in the evening, the couples started off to. New York, wljgre they took the steamef for stheir damnation.

The Czar’s Lease of Life.

It is rumored from St. Petersburg that the Czar is seriously indisposed—weak and. so thin that he sits on pillows and soft cushions to prevent the bones from coining through the skin. He is said to be depressed also with a presentiment of his approaching death. No Romanoff has Jived beyond 60 years, and lie will pe 60 in April. When his sister died, some two'years ago, she reminded him of this and told him he must be prepared th go before he was 60. They say that hbr Tjfefcds ffiade a great impression upon him then, and now that he is not well, they constantly recur to hirq.—’ Chicago Tribune,

THE FINANCIAL ISSUE.

A History ot the National Bonds-Wnat the People Demand. [Extracts from Mr. Voorhees’ Speech in the Senate.] The act of Feb. 35, 1862, is the beginning of our bonded debt. The precious metals were found to be unequal to the emergency Of war. Specie payments were abandoned as soon as the hour of trial came, and gold and silver cowered in the rear, while the legal-tender dollar went to the front with the flag and staid there. I was among those who doubted our right to issue it, but experience has shown it the best money, all things considered, that ever circulated on American foil. By this act of February, 1862, and by similar legislation at subsequent periods, every bond issued- by the Government which did not on Its for payment in coin was male payaWe.by the express words of law Tn legal-tender, notes. It was plainly in the statute that these notes, now Known as greenbacks, “/hall be receivable in payment of all taxes, internal duties, excise, debts, and demands of every kind-due to the unitea States, except duties oh imports; and of all clairiis ard demand* against the United States of every kind whatever, eicept for interest upon bonds and notes, shall.be paid ip coin and shall alto be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except ditties on imports and interest as aforesaid.” This simple, explicit, and at the same time comprehensive enactment guaranteed to the American people the right to pay three-fourth* of theft national debt in national currency. It was the law of the contract when all the 5-20 bonds, amounting to over $1,500,000,000. xyere purchased from the Government by the bondholders and paid for in 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. The act ol Feb. 25, 1862, first passed the House without any provision at all for the coin payment of interest. That feature of the law was attached here in the Senate as an amendment, and-when the act, thus amended, was ieturned to the House, a violent conflict at once arose. An examination of the Congressional Glol>e for the second session of the Thirty-seventh Congress, at pages 821 ana 900, will show that' both Mr. Spaulding; of New York, and Mr. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, the leading members of the Committee of Ways and Means, and one its Chairman, united in denouncing the Senate amendment in the bitterest and severest terms. They contended, in stern, and determined language, that even the payment of interest in coin was an odious and unjust discrimination in favor of the bondholder and against the soldier, the sailor and the citizen, who were compelled to receive the legal-tender currency, greatly depreciated by this very discrimination. No one by a single word in that entire debate made the slightest pretense or intimation that the principal of the bon Is was payable in coin. During the full term of seven eventful yeai s that followed there is not a platform of either, political party in any State of the Union which makes such an assertion. No claim for such a construction of the law in behalf of the bondholder ever fell from the lips of a leading member of the party in power during the same length of t me in either branch of Congress, or anywhere else, so far as the public is advised. On the contrary, in many States, and notably in Ohio, the home of the President and his Secretary of the Treasury, the dominant partyin its State Convention in 1868 expressed its deliberate “conviction that according to the laws under wlftch. the 5 20 bonds were issued, said bonds be paid in the currency ot the country w hich may be legal tenders when the Government sha l l,e prepared to i edeem such bonds.” Ou this doctrine the present Chief Magistrate and his Secretary took their stand only nine years ago, and told the people that the doctrine was true. Not only so, but Secretary Sherman, who now in his recent report warns us against repudiation, then gave in a letter, dated March 20, 1868, and widely published, his idea of what constituted a repudiator. Speaking on this subject, he says: “United States Senate Chambkb,! Washington, March 30,1868. ) “Dear Sir: I was glad to receive your letter. My personal interests are the same as yours, but, like you, Ido not intend to be influenced by them. My construct on of the law is the result of careful examination, and I feel quite sure an impartial court would confirm it if the case should be tried before a court. I send you my views, as fully st tied in a speech. Your idea that we propo eto repudiate or violate a promise when we offer to redeem the “principal” in legal tenders is erroneous. I think the bondholder violates his promise when he refuses to take the same kind of money he paid for the bonds. If tide case is to be tested by the law I am right, if it is to be tested by Jay Qcoke’s advertisements, I am wrong. I hate repudiation x>r anything like it, lilt we onght not to be deterred from what is rTgnrfqr*fear of undeserved epithets. If under the law- as it stands the holder Of five-twenties can only be paid in gold, the bondholder can demand only the kind of money he paid, then he is a repudiator and extortioner to demand money more valuable than he gave. “Truly yours, John Sherman.” When it is remembered that the bondholder never paid a dollar in com fora bond of an> description, but purchased them all with Government currency, which the Government itself had depreciated by refusing to take it for custom dues and interest, the full meaning of thia letter becomes vety plain and forcible. It is not the offspring of impulse or inexperience. Its author was Chairman of the Finance Comof this body, and he wrote, as he says, after “ careful examination.” By the light which he here throws upon the subject we may see the exa<?t beginning of repudiation and behold the furtive and ravenous movements of the actuul repudiators as they hurry up and dbwh the precincts of legislation during the last nine years of our history. By its light too we behold the present Secretary of the Treasury, judged by his own words, as the chief of repudiators, foremost among the violators of contracts, and a leader among those who have in no instance kept the good faith of the Government with its own people a moment after they found that bad faith would bring them richer gains. In less than ten months after this letter was written, and offer the denunciation of the Ohio platform, Hom John Silexman, then a SouaAor, advocated and procured the passage of the act of March, 1869, for the payment of all the bonds in cpin which he had declared payable in currency, thereby establishing an open repudiation of" a solemn and binding contract ana fastening 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 parallelcan be found to this audacious deed of brokenfaith, deliberate treachery to the people; and national dishonesty. It stands odt by itself, towering high above all oommorf frauds, and dwarfing them in comparison with its own vast proportions. It will bear the names of those who enacted it to distant generations amid the groans, the curses, and the lamentations of those who toil on the land and on the 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 crimC*of repudiation and exortion. Do I state the case too strongly ? Does any Senator think that ‘I am not justified in the language I use or in the conclusion I state ? If ro, I pray him to recall the utterances of my lamented and distinguished predecessor in this body. When this monstrons act of repudiation was .on its passage here in March, 1869, Senator Morton pointed out in the plainest and most explicit manner four distinct acts of Cofigress under which the people had to pay the &30 bonds in legal tender notes, ana which were to be broken and set aside by the measure then under discussion. Among other things he said : “And now I propound the question. It Is either intended by this bill to make a new contract or it is not. If it is intended to make a new contract I protest against it. 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 make a new contract for the benefit of the holders.” Again he says: “It gives to those laws a construction that I do not beiieveia, and that 1 have shown is contradicted by at least four acts of Congress,” And again Stenator Morton exclaimed, with that power of ! statement which always so greatly characterized him: “ Sir, it is understood, I believe, that the passage of a bill of this kind would ba vet the effect in ElU'opp, where our financial questions are not well understood, to increvo the fienwnd, and that wifi enable the operators

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to sell the bonds they have on hand at a profit It is in the nature of a broker’s operation. It is a bull movement intended to put up the price of bonds for the interest of parties dealing in them. This great interest is thundering at the doors of Congress, and has been for many months and by every means attempting to drive us into legislation for the purpose of making money for the great operators. That is what it means snd nothing else.” These are words of intense and overwhelming force. Where in the whole range cf de bate can be found a more revolting picture of bad faith inspired by base cupidity than is here portrayed by the greatest party leader perhapu ever known in the American Congress? He has passed away, his voice is rilefit and he rerts after life’s fitful fever, but this accusation hurled against criminal wrong-doing survives, and will continue to survive as long as it re mates to be determined who have repudiated the sacred obligations and the plighted faith of the American republic. In the far distant times generations now unborn, while examining the sources of the burdens that have descended to them, will read the charge made in this presence to the late Senator from Indiana, that a combination of stock-jobbers, as destitute of conscience as pirates, and inspired alone -by greed for money, successfully thnndered 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. ‘Five hundred millions made by great operators and five hundred millions lost to the plowman and the mechanic who have it all to pay ! Sir, thus far I have spoken in pointing out what I conceive to be the vicious legislation of this country on the great and paramount question of its finances. There are two opposing ideas on this subject now thoroughly art,used into vigilance and activity. On the one band is the vast money-power in all its various developments of bonds, banks and loaning associations, and on the other are the gr< at industries, the active business, and the laboring people. The issue has been years in making up, but it is now joined. Nobody need be deceived. All the widespread influences of capital are organized and combined. The holders of public securities in America and in Europe work together. They think and act in concert. The national banks of the United States have a solid organization to protect what they have and get as much more as possible. They are asking now to be relieved from paying taxes on their circulation and deposits, in order that they may enjoy their enormous profits free from all burdens for the support of the Government. Associations of capitalists, engaged in obtaining mortgages ac 12 per cent, interest on Western farms, on account of the scarcity of money in that section, are not only striving to make all such mortgages, payable in gold a year hence, but they are threatening those in pecuniary distress that they shall have no further favors at the same rates, unless they agree in advance to pay gold in return for greenback loans. The power of money in the midst of times" like these is very great, but I am much deceived in the people if they have not turned at last in defiance and bold warning upon thoir oppressors. They are not in favor of repudiating a single dollar of their public or private debts. They intend to pay everything they owe, but they intend to submit to no more changes of contracts, violations of obligations, and breaches of public faith, in order to increase their indebtedness or to take away their menns to pay it. They demand, too, that certain specific wrongs shall be redressed. First, those for whom I speak demand the restoration of the silver dollar exactly as it stood before it was touched by the act of Feb. ruary. 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, pub - lie and private, as it was during eighty-one years of American history. Second, they demand the repeal, unconditionally, of the act of January 14, 1875, comp Hing a resumption of i-pacie payments in January, 18/9, holding that the question of a return to a specie basis for our currency shou’d be controlled entirely by the business interests of the country. They do not believe that the countiy 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.

Third, tb< y declare that the national-bank-ing system be removed and a circulating medium provided by the Government for the people, without taxing them for the privilege of obtaining it. And they a k that the anlbunt thus placed in circulation shall bear a reasonable and judicious proportion to the business transactions and the population of the United States. Fourth, they demand that the currency circulated on the authority of the Government shall be made a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, including all duos to the Government, well Knowing that it wil then be at par with gold, or more likely at a premium over it. And fifth, they demand 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 incomes to retired capitalists, shall be the primary duty of the Government. In my judgment, these demands are just and moderate. 1 implore Senators not to suppose that they can be disregarded with safety. If they are rejected now they will be renewed hereafter with still greater detenninaiion, and perhaps with others added. I plead for the financial credit of ti e Government. It rests on the popular will alone, and that will can no longer be defied or menaced with impunity. The people are sovereign, and they oan bind and they can loosen. If the money power is advised with wisdom it will stop and retrace its steps. It confronts a power now mightier than itself ; a free people at the ballot-box, inflamed by a sense of injustice and oppression. If, however, it is joined to its golden idol; if its heart is hardened and its by its vast possessions ; if the burning lust of avarice has made it deaf to the voice of reason and blind to all human experience, it will push on its career until it works its own destruction; for, sooner or iater, the people, irrespective of party names, will unite in their own defense and establish justice.

THE NATIONAL CONVENTION AT TOLEDO.

The convention of the National Greenback party, held at Toledo on Friday, Feb. 22, was largely attended, and the proceeaings were uunstially harmonious. Judge Francis W. Hughes, of Pennsylvania, presided. In taking the chair he briefly thanked the body for th# honor conferred on him, and reviewed at some length the history of the national-banking system from the first feeble and fruitless attempts to inaugurate it in 1789 to the prebent time. He then discussed at considerable length the pioblem of labor and capital, and declared that it would not be solved by either great political party, and would remain unsolved unless the party bom here to-day should settle the question in the future. Regarding protection, he declared that the State of Pennsylvania had been misrepresented. The 54,000 Greenback votes of Pennsylvania came from a party which advocates the broadest kind of protection—the protection of labor against capital and against the extortions of usurers; the protection of miners and their families against transportation monopolists. He said protection should be applied to the agricultural interests of the Mississippi valley; that they should be shielded from the combinations of trunk lines, and remarked incidentally that he and the party favored eminent domain in respect to cottagers as against railroads. Mr. Harper, of Illinois, made a speech, and Mr. AUis presented the views of the Greenback State Central Committee of Wisconsin on the financial question. He read a lengthy speech, in the course of which he promised that Wisconsin, which was already a strong Greenback State, would cast an overwhelming Greenback vote at the next national election if the platform adopted by this convention should be wisely formed. He arraigned the financial policy of the Government in past years as being in the sole interest of the rich and against the poor, and denounced the Secretary of the Treasury and his present policy, contrasting it With his former utterances, and said that, in brief, Wisconsin, demandea the enfranchisement of labor, through a plentiful supply of Government money. Labor asked this from capital not as a charity or as a mercy, but demanded it as a right, and she will have it peaceably. The following platform ww read: Wh«*«ab, Throughout our entire country the value of real estate is depreciated, industry paralyzed, trade depppiißßd, buainMg income* and wages redwd ( unpft|iaUeled distress inflicted lipop the

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poorer and middle ranks of our neoplc, the land filled with fraud, cmbezz’ewnt, b#iArtip‘cy, crime, suffering, pauperism and starvation; and Whxbkas. This statiof things has been brought abriut by legit liltion in? the interest of and dictated by money-lenders, bankers and bondholders ; and Whereas, While we recogniz? the fact that men In Congress connected with both the old political parties hair stood up manfully for the rights of the people, and m<t the threats of the money power aud the ridicule of an ignorant and subsidized press, yet neither the Republican nor the Democratic parties in tbeir national aioUcics propose remedies for the existing evils: and WiiEHEAK, The Independent-Greenback party and other affectations more or less effective have been unable heretofore to make a formidable oppoi ition to the old party organ-rations; and W HEH> as, The limiting of the legal-tender quality of greenbacks, the changing bf currency bonds into coin bonds, the demonetization of the silver doi ar. the exception of bonds from taxation, the contraction of the circulating medium, the proposed forced resumption of specie payments, and the prodigal waste of the public lands were crimes against the people, and as far as poss.ble the results of these criminal acts must bo counteracted by judicious legislation, therefore we assemble in National convention and make a.deciaraSoa of our princ pics, and invite all patriotic citizens to unite in dn effort to secure financial reform and iufiiwtria) ethtneipution. The organization shall be known as the “ National party.” and under this name we will perfect, with out delay, national State uud local associati-rns to secure the election to office of such men only as will pledge themselves to do all in their power to establish these principles: 1. It ia tbe exclusive function of the General Government to coin and create money snd regulate its value. All bank issues designed to circulate as money should be suppressed, their circulating median. whether of metal or paper, should be issued by the Government and made a full legal tender for ail debts, duties and taxes in the United States at its stamped va’ne. 2. There shall be no privileged class of creditors. Official salaries, pensions, bonds, and all other debts and obligations, public or private, shall I e discharged in. the legal-tender money of th l ' United States, strictly sqcordliig 4° the stipulations of the laws tender Whieh'they were contracted. 8 That the wteage of silver be placed on the same footing as that of gold. 4 Corfgress shill provide said money adequate to the full employment cf labor, the equitable distrlbution of its products, nriiTthe requirements of buafnewi, ntirig'# niiniffiinii amount per capita to the. population us year as may be, and otherwise regulating its volume by wise and equitable provisions of law, so that the rate of interest will secure to labor its just reward. 5. It is inconsistent with the genius and spirit of popular government that any species of private property should lie exempt from beating its just share, of the public burdens. Government bonds and money should be faxed precisely as other property, and a graduated income tax should be levied for the support of the Government and the payment of its debts.

6. The public lands are the common property of the whole people, and should not bo sold to speculators nor gambled to railroads or other 'corporations, but should lie donated to actual settlers in limited quantities. 7. The Government should, by general enactments encourage the development of our agricultural. mineral, mechanical, manufacturing and commercial resources, to the end that labor may be fully and profitably employed, but no monopolies should be legalized. 8. All useless offices should be abolished, the most rigid economy enforced in every branch cf the public service, and severe punishments inflicted upon public officers who betray the trusts reposed in them. 9. As educational labor has devised means for multiplying production by inventions and discoveries, and as their use requires the exercise of mind'as well as body, such legislation should be had that the nuruber of hours of daily toll will be reduced, giving to the working clasßes more leisure for mental improvement and social enjoyment, and saving them from premature decay and death. 10. The adoption of an American monetary sj stem, as proposed herein, will harmonize all difference in regard to to tariff and Federal taxation, reduce and equalize the cost of transportation by land and water, distribute equitably the j >int earrings of capital and labor, secure to the producers of wealth the results of their labor and skill, muster out the vast army of idlers who, under the existing system, grow rich upon the earnings of oth ers, that every man and woman may, by their own efforts, secure a competence,so that overgrow n fortunes and extreme poverty Wi’l be seldom found within the limits of our republic. 11. Both National and State Governments should establish bureaus of labor and industrial statistics, clotlwd will, tho power of gathering and pnbliebing the same. 12. That the contract system of employing labor in our prisons and reformatory institutions works great injustice to our mechanics and artisans, and should be, prohibited. 13. The importation of servile labor into the United States from China is a problem of the most serious importance, and we recommend legislation looking to its suppression. Each resolution was received with applause, but vociferous and long-continued cheering greeted the first plank, which bears more directly on the finance question. The whole platform was Adopted without debate, and by a unanimous vote. The foltowing National Executive Committee was appointed: Massachusetts, Charles McLean : Rhode Island, J. C. Vallett; Connecticut, Alexander Tronp ; New York, Ralph Beaumont ; New Jersey, John J. Drew ; Pennsylvania, F. Dewees; Maryland, Jesse Gfmore . Virginia, Moses Stearns; West Virginia, John A. Thompson ; Ohio, D. B. Sturgeon; Michigan, Moses W. Field; Indiana, O. J. Smith ; Illinois, Alexander Campbell ; Wisconsin, Edward P. Allis; Nebraska, Allen Root; lowa, Daniel Campbell; Missouri, Britain A. Hill; Kentucky, P. L. D. Dnppy; Tennessee, Henry Richmond; Arkansas, Charles E. (.'tinningbain; Louisiana, D. Forney; Alabama, J. Woodall; Georgia, Daniel H. Pittman: Kansas, U. F. Sargent ; Texas, left vacant by request until the State Convention meets ; Colorado, Joseph Wolf ; Oregon, Thomas 8. Durant; California, left vacant for the present: .. . * A resolution was offered and unanimously adopted denouncing theßilveM>ill just passed in Congress as a dejusim, and indignantly condeuming it as a financial measure. The Hon. 8. F. Cary made'an eloquent fiveminute speech, in which he urged an active aggressive, forward movement; express! <1 hopes that the Silver-League in Washington would feel the moral pressure of this convention and constitution, and would break away from parties that have been binding them so firmly. Blanton Dur.can said he had advocated tli« name of National paarty thatihe name might indicate that it was a party of the whole Union, and that, while he had been a Confederate soldier, he was now a trues Union, man. He predicted that the countiy would at the next election be astdnPsticd at the strength of this party, which would become the first party instead of the third party, as it is now called. Other speeches were mMo by Hill of Missouri, Trevellick of Michigan, Emerson of Pennsylvania, Bane or Ilirnois, Selby of Kentucky, afid Beaumont of New York.

Chinese Money.

Coined money wrh Jmown among the Chiilf se as early as the eleventh century before flhriat, hut their inability to comprehend the principles upon which a currency should be based has led them into all sorts of extravagances, which have been attended by disorder, famine, and bloodshed. Coins came at last to be made so thin that 1,000 of them piled together were only three inches high; then gold and silver were abandoned ; and copper, tin, shells, skins, stones, and paper were given a fixed value, and used until, by abuse, all the. advantages to be derived from the use of money were lost, and there was nothing left for the people to do but to go back to barter, and this they did "more than once. They cannot be said pow to have a coinage; 2,900 years ago they made round coins with a square hole in the middle, and they have made no advance beyond that since. The well-known cash is a cast-brass coin of that description, and, although it is valued at one mill and a half of our money, and has to be strung in lots of 1,000 to be computed with any ease, it is the sole measure of value and legal tender of the country. Spanish, Mexican, and our new trade dollars are employed in China; they pass because they are necessary for larger operations. —Popular Science Monthly for March.

Not Down in the Bills.

At a London theater recently a disgraceful scene took plaee. A man in a stage box amused himself by fishing for the ankles of the ballet girls with the crook of his cane, causing one of them to retire in tears from the footlights. He then commenced abusing one of the actors, who came over to the box and slapped his persecutor’s face. The man climbed out of the box to the stage and went for the actor.; a real stage fight MWied, during which the curtain was dropped and the disturber of the peace given into custody.