Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1878 — Page 1

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FOREIGN NEWS.

Cable dispatches of th«27th alt stat® that negotiations between PnHtej*were eonclndod, and the barfs of a permanent peace agreednpon, and that Russia had no intention of relinquishing any of her advantages to please either Austria of England, but was refight rather than abate onojot of her intentions. Of the 1,200 churches in Constantinople at the time of the Mohammedan conquest, that of St. Sophia was the riohesl and most imposing. The Russians now propose that St. Sophia erected at a cost of $5,000,000, be restored to the Greek Church. The British army is said to be in excellent condition for war, should that emergency come. Were war declared to-day it is claimed that 400,000 well-drilled men would fall into line. Lord Napier will be appointed Commander-in-Chief in case of a conflict with Russia, and Sir Garnet Wolseley is to le bis Chief of Staff. Ad rices from China state that a terrible disaster occurred at the Tienstin Rouge House, in which the famine-stricken refugees from the Northern Provinces had assembled. The building took Are, and of nearly 3,000 people in the building only about 100 escaped. Cable dispatches of the Ist inst. say that a greater part of the Russian conditions had been accepted by the Porte, though the qnes--1 ion relative to the surrender of the Turkish fleet was still unsettled. It was rumored in several Eoropean capitals that there would be no conference, and that Russia, England and Austria would be left to settle their differences among themselves. There was much excitement in St. Petersburg over the active war preparations in England. A London letter-writer rays that the police have to guard Gladstone’s residence, so great is the popular anger against him. The exI’remior was walking down the Strand a few days ago, when he was hustled by a mob cryig “ Traitor! traitor!” and was obliged to *teek refuge in Ooutts’ bank. A Ire ity of peace has at last been signed at San Stefano. A correspondent there telegraphs that the Grand Duke will advance on Feri-Keiii, two miles from Pera, immediately, and will pass through Constantinople with a large portion of the army before returning to Russia. The . cession of the greater part of Armenia is said to have been accepted in lieu of a money indemnity, except the sum of £40,000,000 sterling, which will be paid partly in money and partly in bonds, Eecurod by the revenues of Asiatic provinces and customs dues at Constantinople. The coronation of Pope Leo XIII. took place Romo March 31 in the Sistine Chapel without other accident than the breaking of a few windows by an eager and curious crowd. The usual distribution of blessings followed as the Pontiff was carried back to his apartments. Paul de Cussagnac, editor of the Le Pays, of Paris, recently mortally wounded a member of the Chamber of Deputies, M. Thomson by name, in a duel.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. A blackmailing story was written and printed tn the New York Sun, the intended victim being no loss a personage than the high Russian Princess Sovaroff, now sojourning in New York, and who is said to be in high favor at the court of the Czar. The Sun publishers refused to divulge the author’s name. Count Kalonorat, nephew of the Princess, went to the Police Court to obtain a warrant for the arrest of the publishers of the offensive article. He was informed that a warrant could not be issued. Upon subsequent legal advice the Princess resolved upon an entirely different course, and one that will tend to make the case not only celebrated, but of international importance. The blackmail having been attempted through the postoffice, the offense comes within the jurisdiction of the National Government. The attention of the Russian Government will be called to the publication, and efforts made through it to have the United States Government take the matter up. Three embezzling savings-bank officers and one defaulting custodian of public money received sentences of imprisonment for various terms in Trenton, N. J., last week. The Vanderbilt will case is again occupying the attention of the New York courts. There seems to be no hope of a compromise. C. P. Markle <t Son’s paper mill, at West Newton, Pa., has been burned. Loss, 1100,000. West. The bank of Temple & Workman, at Los Angeles, Cal., now in the hands of the United States Assignee in Bankruptcy, was burglarized one night last week of SIO,OOO. Duncan, the defaulting President of the Pioneer Bank of San Francisco, Cal., has been arrested in that city, where he had been hidng all the time, and will be prosecuted for his crime. Chicago elevators contain 1,334,876 bushels of wheat; 549,984 bushels of corn; 257,622 bushels of oats; 169,546 bushels of rye, and 710,877 bushels of barley, making a grand total of 8,022,905 bushels, against 6,289,620 bushels at this period last year. Zachias C. Mitchell, a hitherto prominent and respected lawyer of St. Louis, Mo., has fallen into deep disgrace. He has been arrested on a charge of forging a note for S3OO. The proof against him is positive. Cameron, Amberg A Co., well-known printrs and blank-book manufacturers of Chicago, ave sustained a severe loss by fire. The damage to their establishment is estimated at 60,000. Arthur Noyes, lately bookkeeper of the swindling Commercial Life Insurance Oomany, of St. Louis, has committed suicide. F. . Bowman, an attorney of the company, is awaiting the sentence of the. Circuit Court, and Zacheus Mitchel], another of its lawyers, is under arrest for forgery. M Two murderers were executed in Missouri on Friday,the Ist inst.-John W. Daniei.M Warrensburg, for the murder of a farmer

named John Miller; and Richard Green, at Kansas City, for the killing of Deputy Marshal Hughes, who had undertaken his arrest near Independence. During the four months ending March 1, 2,470,000 hogs were slaughtered in Chicago. Reports from the Upper Missouri river country represent that three couriers from Gen . Miles heta Rifled by tome of the runaway savages from the Bed Cloud agency,'and there s something of a scare at Buford. It is also eported that Sitting Bull has visited a Yankon camp, near the boundary, for the purpose of trying to buy provisions for his people. He said there were no buffaloes across the line, and hat the Sioux in Canada are starving. South. In the Superior Criminal Court of New Orleans, last week, Thomas O. Anderson, the convicted Returning Board member, was arraigned before Judge Whittaker, and sentenced to two years at hard labor in the penitentiary. The petition was presented for the transfer of the. Wells, Casanave, and Kenner cases to the Circuit Court. De, uty Collector Davis, of Nashville, has just made a successful raid among the moon-

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shiners of DeKalb and White counties, in East TenWissee. He destroyed fourteen illicit stills and captured a number of moonshiners. The State Geologist of Georgia asserts that its gold region is richer than that of California, and says that the yield must very soon become enormous. A bill just passed by the Virginia Legislature, embodying the scheme of the State debt repudiationists, has been vetoed by the Governor. POLITICAL POINTS. The Executive Committee of the Independ- , ent Greenback party of New York State has issued an address saying that shortly a joint call will be made for a State Convention by the officers of all independent State organizations, to meet unitedly as the National party. The address says : “We can prevent the re-election of every Congressman and Assemblyman in this State who directly or indirectly opposed the remonetization of silver, and it is our duty to do so. The President has settled the contest over the Boston Collectorsbip by nominating A. W. Beard, the candidate of Senator Hoar, for the place. The backing of Simmons for reappointment was remarkably strong, and Massachusetts politicians say the failure to nominate him will cause a rupture in the Republican party in their State. WASHINGTON NOTES. Roliert Walker Taylor, First Comptroller of the Treasury, was stricken with paralysis while sitting at his desk, was carried home and died in a short time. Information having reached the President that numbers of colored men in Florida have been kidnapped and transported across the gulf to Cuba and sold into slavery, he has dispatched Congressman Leonard, of Louisiana, to Havana, with instructions to obtain all the facts in the case, and report at as early a day as possible. The Senate Finance Committee has postponed further consideration of the bill to repeal the Resumption act for the reason, it is said, that the Committeemen desire to observe the workings cf the new Silver bill. Dr. Jdnderman, the Director of the Mint, seems to have taken it for granted that the Silver bill was certain to become a law, as he has already submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury the design of the new dollar of grains. He has also ordered the mints to clear the decks for action, and be ready to take hold of the coinage at their full capacity as soon as the dies can be prepared and forwarded to them. By the middle of April it is expected that silver will be turned out at the rate of J'3,500,000 per month. The March statement of the public debt is as follows: Six per cent, bondss 748,666,850 Five per cent, bonds 703,266,650 Four and a half per cent, bonds 200.000,000 Four per cent, bonds 75,650,400 Total coin b0nd551,727,782 500 Lawful money debts 14,000,000 Matured debt $ 7,235,760 Legal tenders 348,680,426 ty Of deposit.. 28,555,000 Fractional currency 17, 1V,698 (Join certificates 48,456,000 Total without Interests 442,882.124 Total debt 52,191,900,381 Total interest 22,700,666 Cash in treasury : Coins 131 318,156 Currency; 2,690,765 Currency held for redemption of fractional currency 10,000,000 Special deposits held for redemption of certificates of deposit 28,555,000 Total in treasury.s 172,563;931 Debt less cash in treasury. .. $2,042,037,129 Decrease of debt during February.... 2,250,237 Decrease since June 30. 187? 18,121,094 Bonds issued to Pacific Railroad Companies,interest payable in lawful money: Principal outstanding 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 646.235 Interest paid by the United States 37,896,334 Interest repaid by transportation of mails, etc 9,159,131 Balance of interest paid by United States 28,737,203 The House Committee on Pacific Railroads has decided to report the Texas Pacific Subsidy bill and recommend its passage.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. A proposition is before Congress to grant a charter to the New York and Mazatlan Air-Line road, from New York to the Rio Grande ; capital, $200,000,000. Kate Claxton, the well-known actress, has gone through the bankrupt court. Liabilities, $65,000; assets, $8,500. Several heavy failures occurred in Montreal last week. The new popular 4-per-cent, loan is going off like hot cakes. Large amounts of the bonds are being taken in the West. It is confidently predicted that $100,000,000 of these bonds will be absorbed by the people in the way of savings investments within a year from the time that they were first Offered. During the month of February there were 44 commercial failures in Chicago, the total liabilities aggregating $2,391,005. In New York the failures for the same period numbered 67, with liabilities of $2,658,958. Kate Claxton, the actress who recently secured a divorce from her husband, Dore Lyon, in the New Jersey courts, has been married to Charles Stevenson, formerly a member of Mr. Wallack’s company. Ex-Senator Ben Wade died March 2, at his home in Jefferson, Ohio, aged 78 years. He left no will, being willing to leave his property at the disposal of his friends. The estate is worth about SBO,OOO, all in good condition. Gen. Grant has arrived at Constantinople. The proposition to erect in Washington a building suitable for a national museum meets with favor in the House Committee on Public Buildings, which has agreed to recommend an appropriation of $245,300 for the purpose, the building to be in plan and character similar to that erected at the Philadelphia Exhibition Th e trial of the suit of the Lee heirs for the rgjovery of the Arlington estate, has been comrßnced in Washington. The property was sold for the direct tax, and bid in by the Government. If the tax.sale is held invalid, the estate, noW'used as a national cemetery, will doubtless be repurchased from the heirs and retained.

THE VETO MESSAGE. We print below the text of President Hayes’. raw giving his reasons so/ ExKCuTivnMASiBBPii, Feb. 28, 1878. To the Home of Representatives : After very careful consideration of House bill 1,093, entitled “An act to authorize the coinage of the standard silver dollar, and to restore its legal-tender character,” I feel compelled to return it to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, with my objections to its passage. Holding the opinion, * expressed in my annual message, “ that neither the interests of the Government nor the people of the United States would be promoted by disparaging silver as one of the two precious metals which furnish the coinage of the world, and that legislation which looks to maintaining the volume Of intrinsic money to as full a measure of both metals as their relative commercial values will p > -nit would be neither unjust nor inexpedioi. , ’ it has been my earnest desire to concur with

RfcrfesEilifc, thHWMINDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1878.

Congress in the adoption of such measures to increase the silver coinage of the country as the pubhc credit. It is only upon the conviction that this bill does not meet these essential requirements thaj I feel it my duty to withhold '■■H. it my approval. My present «'<■ :i -.1 lirty as t<> the bill permits only an attention to specific objsiptwnt ID ■arawfisagek which eeenrto mo ho importalit as to juHtifyrne masking fiftm the wisdom and duty rtf Congress that further conskjeritiSnlf the biR bot whiclithe constittu- <*■.*£ dollars of the weight of 412>< grains each, of standard silver, to be a legal tender at their nominal value for all debts and dues, public and private, except where otherwise expressly stipnlated r fn conttDotS. It is well knpwn that the market value of that number ofgrains of standard silver during the past year has been from 90 to 92 cento as cepparedwrith the stand; ard gold doM&r. Ttes tile advex dotiar attthori zed by 'is gotth eSq, legal tendCT for did not recognize such coins as lawful money. The right to pay duties in silver or in certificates of silver deposits will, when they are issued in sufficient amount to circulate, put an end to the receipt of revenue in gold, and thus compel the payment of silver for both the principal and interest of the public debt. Of the bonded debt now outstanding, <1,143,493,400 was issued prior to February, 1873, when the silver dollar was unknown in circulation in this country, and was only a convenient form of silver bullion for exportation; $583,440,850 of the bonded debt has been issued since February, 1873, when gold alone was the coin for which bonds were sold, and gold alone was the coin in which both parties to the contract understood that the bonds would be paid. These bonds entered into the markets of the u orld. They were paid for in gold when silver had greatly depreciated, ana when no one would have bqught them if it had.been understood that they would be paid in silver. The sum of $225,000,000 of these bonds has been sold during my administration for gold coin, and the United States received the benefit of these sales by a redaction of the rate of interest to 4 per cent. During the progress of these sales a doubt was suggested as to the coin in which payment of these bonds would bo made. The public announcement was thereupon authorized that it was not to be anticipated that any further legislation of Congress, or any action of any department of the Government, would sanction or tolerate redemption of the principal of these bonds, or payment of interest thereon, in coin of less value than the coin authorized by law at the time of the issue of bonds, being the coin exacted by the Government in exchange for the same. In view of these facts, it will be justly regarded as a grave breach of public faith to undertake to pay these bonds principal.or interest in silver coin worth in the market less than the coin received for them. It is said that the silver dollar made a legal tender by this bill will, under its operation, be equivalent in value to the gold dollar. Many supporters of the bill believe this, and would not justify an attempt to pay debts, either public or private, in coin of inferior value to the money of the world. The capital defect of the bill is, that it contains no provision protecting from its operation pre-existing debts in case the coinage which it creates shall continue to be of less value than that which was the sole legal tender when they were contracted. If it is now proposed, for the purpose of taking advantage of the depreciation of silver in payment of debts, to coin and make a legal tender a silver dollar of less commercial value than any dollar, whether of gold or paper, which is now lawful money in this country, such a measure, it will hardly be questioned, will, in the judgment of mankind, be an act of bad faith. As to all debts heretofore contracted, the silver dollar should be made a legal tender only at its market value. The standard of value should not be changed without the consent of both parties to the contract. National promises

should be kept with unflinching fidelity. There is no power to compel a nation to pay its just debts. Its credit depends on its honor. The nation owes what it has led or allowed its creditors to expect. 1 cannot approve a bill which, in my judgment, authorizes the violation of sacred obligations. The obligation of public faith transcends all questions of profit or public advantage. Its unquestionable maintenance is the dictate as well of the highest expediency as of the most necessary duty, and should ever be carefully guarded by the Executive, by Congress, and by the people. It is my firm conviction that if the country is to be benefited by a silver coinage it can be done only by the issue of silver dollars of lull value, which will defraud no man. A currency worth less than it purports to be worth will in the end defraud not only the creditors, but all who are engaged in legitimate business, and nonfc more surely than those who are dependent on their daily labor for their daily bread. R. B. Haves.

FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Monday, Feb. 25. — Senate. —Vice Presiden Wheeler, who has been suffering recently from neuralgia, gave notice of his intended absence for several days, and asked that a President pro tern, be designated .. Mr. Conkling presented the petition of Jamei Gordon Bennett asking Congress to aid him in seeking new discoveries at the North pole. He had purchased the Arctic vessel Pandora, and intended to man and run her at his own expense. The petitioner desired the vessel to carry the American flag.... The House joint resolution to authorize the Secretary of War to issue certain arms to the Washington Light Infantry, of Charleston, 8. C., was taken up and passed after considerable debate....A large number of petitions were presented on various subjects.. . Several amendments to the Military Academy Appropriation bill were offered and referred. Houbb. —A bill was presented proposing to give Dr. Mudd, of Maryland, $3,000 for aiding cholera sufferers at the Dry Tortugas. Dr. Mudd was the surgeon who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth, and who was sent to Dry Tortugas for it.... Mr. Shelley introduced a bill authorizing the issue of United States notes, and providing for the redemption of certain United States bonds....A number of bills for issuing certificates of silver bullion deposited n the United States mints were introduced and referred.... The following bills were also introduced : By Mr. Southard, proposing an amendment to the constitution relating to the election of President and Vice President; by Mr. Fort, to gradually retire the circulating notes of national-banking asscciatiops and replace the same with United States treasury notes; by Mr. Bland, for the free coinage of the silver dollar; also, to utilize the product of the gold and silver mines and provide for the issuing of certificates for gold and silver bullion deposited in the mints; by Mr. Blair, authorizing the Southern Pacific railroad to extend its line westwardly to El Paso; by Mr. Crittenden, to reduce the pay of navy officers, and reduce the number of such officers in the line and staff... Mr. Goode, Chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor, reported a bill applying the proceeds of the public lands to support free tchools. Recommitted Mr. Turner asked leave to offer a resolution for the appointment of a select committee of thirteen members to inquire into the the causes of the pecuniary depression throughout the country. Mr. Conger objected... Mr. Roberts, Chairman of the Committee on Accounts, moved to suspend the rules and adopt a resolution for the appointment of experts to aid the committee of investigation. Defeated—yeas, 78; nays. Jfil. ...On motion of Mr. Hewitt, of Alabama, the House, by a vote of 174 to 51, went into committee of the whole, Mr. Southard in the chair, and resumed consideration of the bill granting pensions to soldiers and sailors of the Mexican and Indian wars. Tuesday, Feb. 26.— Senate.— The Senate proceeded to the election of a presiding officer, Vice President Wheeler having been compelled, on account cf ill-health, to temporarily vacate the chair. The Republicans nominated Mr. Ferry, and the Democrats Mr. Thurman. Result: Ferry, 29 • Thurman, 28. Judge Davis, of Illinois, voted for Mr. Thurman. No other business of importance was transacted in open session.... In executive session the Senate considered the nomination of exGov. Parsons. of Alabama, to be District Attorney for that State. After some discussion the case was postpinea without action. The nomination of W. F. Wheeler for reappointment as Marshal for Montana Territory was rejected. House.— A pettflon 700 yards long, and signed by 60,000 names, forth# repeal of the law in rela- «<¥ to the transmission of matter through the mails, was ref er red.... Mr. Rice, Chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported a bill providing that, in case of death or resignation of a Pension Agent, the President may temporarily appoint his successor. Passed.... Mr. Chalmers, of Mississippi, obtained the floor and addressed the House in reply to a speech made by Mr. Garfield some days previous. In reference to that speech, he said the voice was the voice of Jacob, but the hand was the hand of Esau. While declaring his ardent desire to see peace and harmony restored in the ifeion, that gentleman made an appeal io the passions of the North by a feigned description of the ingratitude of the South that would have “moved the stones to mutiny.” The object of the gentleman from Ohio (Garfield) as well as the gentleman from Maine (Hale) was too clear to be misunderstood. It was a cunning and carefully-prepared assault on the Bouthtm policy of the President. They had intended either to drive the President from his policy of conciliation or else to drive the Republican party farther from the President. Another object had been to draw from Southern gentlemen some declaration of hostility toward the title of the President, in hopes that that would not only alienate

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him frois them, but stop an another evidence of Southern Wlcfratitato. Me said that the Dew* oratic putytud.jMjftoteed to build, tip lican pdK ■on the FreeiOeML DemodMb 'WWFDte eetisfiea with Patoidapt was wfaethet he had obtained it bjHwd, Referring?* the prosecutton <rf thft Eetnrnfng Board, he • the f gitljltiiijyfcgia sf*ie (Hate) had condo the Sonttt, He (Chalmers) thought the whQte country -with the belief that twJF*w*vuTTniig Board could not be trusted, end that adtne of the visiting statesmen were not worthy cf trust. Referring again to the policy of President Hayes, he said that the gentleman had shown himself to be an honorable, upright and honest man, and while he (Chalmers) did not think the President deserved any ; special credit for doing his Constitutional duty (except that it stood in marked contrast to the action of his predecessor), he was unwilling to see any movement in the South that looked like an act of ingratitude toward the President, and If he (Chalmers) were Governor of Louisiana he shdtald not hesitate to pardongeqjry, one of the awmbfra W ,Belyingßoardy jrr as they were convicted.... Mr. Butler addressed the House oi MMfiMraU question, adVecatfitti# full rea>yMwW WWa M to® JTM W country "mH •' Wq|ta> WVW !•' vor of a greenback currency. He said “we want the greenback for our currency, and mean to have it.” Thursday, Feb. 28.—Senate.—The House bill to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri river at Glasgow, Mo., was reported favorably and placed on the calendar... .Mr. Whyte submitted a resolution calling upon the Secretary of the Navy for information relating to the Huron disaster. . At 3 o'clock the Clerk of the House appeared with the President’s veto message, and announced in the constitutional way the action of the House upon i». The opponents of silver endeavored, by technical objections, to delay the measure. These were speedily overcome by the silverites, and the message was received and read. The President pro tempore—Shall the bill be passed 7 A Senator Notwithstanding the objections of the President? The President pro tempore—The Chair uses the words of the constitution. The Clerk then proceeded io call the roll, and the bill was passed over the veto—yeas, 46; nays, 19. This vote was stronger than the silver men had expected. All the original silver men were held, together with the doubtful ones, and there was, besides, the gain of the vote of Mr. Hill, of Georgia. House. —The President sent to the House a message vetoing the Silver bill. The reading of the message occupied only ten minutes. Great confusion on the floor ensued when the reading was concluded. The Speaker said the question was whether the House would pass tfie bill, notwithstanding the veto. Mr. Stephens was recognized to move the previous question <m passing the MU. This was sustained by the House,, by an almost unanimous vote, and the icll-call ww ordered. Mr. Forf asked that the message be again read. Mr. Cox objected, saying that the message was “a charge of fraud by a fraud.” Mr. McCook called Mr. Cox to order, and demanded that these words betaken down and read from the Clerk’s desk. Much excitement ensued. The Speaker said that Mr. Cox spoke out of order, and that his words would not appear in the record. Mr. McCook said he was satisfied with this. The vote was then taken, and resulted: Yeas, 196; nays, 73. The Speaker announced the vote and said: “In obedience to the requirements of the constitution, two-thirds have voted in the affirmative, and the bill has passed, the objection of the President to the contrary notwithstanding.” The announcement was received with general hand-clap-ping and other marks of jubilation. The bill and veto message were thereupon sent to the Senate Not a man who supported the bill on its original passage voted to ’ sustain the veto, while one—Mr. Townsend, of New York—who voted against it at that time, on this occasion voted with the silverites... .The House passed the bill requiring estimates for appropriations needed by the Navy Department to be made in fu11.... The Naval Committee made a favorable report on the bill approuriating $50,000 to aid Capt. Howgate’a Arctic exploring expedition,.Some houi> were spent in debating the bill pensioning soldiers Of the Mexican and Indian wars. Friday, March I.—Senate.—Not i*s session. House.—Mr. Shelley introduced a bill to aid the Great Southern Railroad Company to construct a. line of railway in ’ Georgia and Florids. Referred, ....Mr. McCook, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported back the bill authorizing the Secretary of War to purchase the site of and attach to the Vicksburg National Cemetery tbe GrantPembcrtoq monument. : Btoem-ed.... Mr... Crape, from the same committee, repfcpn allowing Lieut, B. F. Tozier, U. S. N., to accept a gold medal from the President of the French republic. Passed.. .Several bills of a private nature were passed.

Ben Wade,

Wade was born at Springfield, Maas., in October, 1800. His father was a soldier of the Revolutionary army, and in poor circumstances. Benjamin received a very limited education, and in his youth was employed in digging the Erie canal. Removing to Jefferson, Ohio, in 1821, he taught scho 1 for a period and then studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1826, and seven years later was made Prosecuting Attorney for Ashtabula county. Two years thereafter he was elected State Senator, and in 1847 he rose to the presiding Judgeship of the Third Judicial District. In 1851 he was sent to the United States Senate, where he served three full terms, rising in 1867 to the Acting Vice Presidency. In the earlier part of his national career he was the leader of the anti-slavery wing of the Whig party, and became equally powerful in the Republican organization. He advocated the Homestead bill, the repeal of the Fugitive Slave law, and the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. He bitterly opposed the Nebraska bill of 1854, the Lecomption constitution for Kansas in 1858 and the proposed purchase of Cuba. Naturally enough, his attitude on the question of reconstructing the Southern States was exceedingly radical. After his retirement from the Senate he served on the commission sent by President Grant to report upon the practicability of the annexation of San Domingo, and afterward as one of the Government Directors of the Union Pacific railway, of which corporation he became attorney. He participated prominently in the convention which nominated R. B. Hayes for the Presidency, atwhichtime, it is believed, he so disordered his system as to cause his lengthened illness and death,-— Chicago Times.

Nationality of Recruits.

Prior to the rebellion the United States army was filled up, in a great measure, by Irish and German immigrants, who, after a brief sojoffrn in ort crowded cities, drifted to the recruiting rendezvous and were easily persuaded to enlist, fee rocruiting.SOTgeaut taking care that the rosy side of army life was presented to a hesitating applicant, Since the war, however, the proportion of native-born citizens in our army has very much increased. The latest official record of enlistment shows that out of 183,659 men who have joined the service since 1865 more than half were Americans. This record, which bears interesting evidence of the mixed complexion of our national forces, is as follows : United States 97,066 At Bea 75 Ireland 38,649 Newfoundland, 68 Germany 28,127 East Indies 47 England $,887 Australia .....41 Canada 4,703 Prince Edward’s Island.Bo Scotland 2,466 Brazil 25 France 1,593 South America 22 Switzerland 1,562 Cuba 17 Denmark 719 Greece .16 Sweden...... 598 Portugal....’. 11 Austria 581 Chili H New Brunswick.... 635 Africa 5 Nova Scotia 492 New Zealand....".'..’.’.'’ 5 Holland .. 395 Arabia „ 3 Norway 847 Argentine Republio.... 3 Italy 198 Gibraltar 3 Spain 142 Malta.., 2 Russia in Sandwich Islands 2 Poland 131 Egypt 1 West Indies. 118 Turkey 1 Mexico 80

Exit Keely.

Keely, of “ motor” fame, after absorbing about SIOO,OOO from credulous people, and, after faring sumptuously, wearing diamonds, »nd drinking champagne for over three years, has at last been declared bankrupt. The Cleveland Herald remarks that if Keely gets bin deserts he will furnish motive power for stone in a penitentiary.

GREENBACKS VS. GOLD.

Spicy Colloquy in CongreM Between Messrs. Chittenden and Butler. * ' [Fom the House Proceedings.] Before Mr. Butler had taken his seat, Mr. Chittenden rose to ask him some question?. Chittenden’s first question waft* What would become of the poor men and women who owned $500,000,000 of savings-bank deposits when the United States bonds were returned from Entope, and when their price fell, as Butler desired them to fall, to 50 per cent/of their par value ? Mr. Butler—This will be what will hiippen them: They will be just where they are now, with their deposits not in 6-per-oent. bonds, but in tumble-down real estate in New York that is not worth 15 cents on the dollar when the taxes are paid. MfiU^hittenden —Does the gentleman mwya.fcy HriEt that every pavings -bank inMassaonusetts and New York will be bankrupted ? Mr. Butler—They are, so far as the United States bonds are concerned, bankrupt to-day. They have not got them, they sold them. Mr. Chittenden— That is not an answer. Does the gentleman mean that all the savings banks of New York and Massachusetts will be and ought to be bankrupted by the return of these bond*? Mr. Butler—They will be, but ought not to be, bankrupt. They will be bankrupt because the value of their securities in real estate, in railroads, and in everything else but Government bonds has been sunk three times by their infernal lust for gold. Mr. Chittenden (excitedly)—l wish to hold the gentleman to the point. Mr. Butler—Well, I am content. Mr. Chittenden (with his voice at the highest pitch)—lf you, as an advocate of the unlimited remonetization of silver, force back on this country the many hundred millions of bonds now held in Germany, and thereby break down every savings bank in Massachusetts and New York, who will be responsible? Will not you be fairly entitled to be hung to a lamp-post where you desired the Secretary of the Treasury to be hung ? Mr. Butlei—l will take my chances with the rest when the lamp-posts come round. I have no fear on that subject. But it will not be the return of bonds that will break the savings banks, because they are breaking; they are rotten, and are sinking. Mr. Chittenden (without waiting for Mr. Butler to come to a stop)—l know a savings bank that has $10,000,000 of Government bonds, and if it shall be obliged to take $5,000,000 for them it Will be ruined, and its 20,000jd§positp£B with it—-the poor people for whom you profess to speak—the laboring men and women. There.are 20,000 of them depositors in that one bank, and they will be sent to beggary forever. Mr. Butler—And the directors should be hung to a lamp-post and roasted afterward. Mr. Chittenden—l am no joker. -Mr. Butler-JESmow Mr. Chittenden—l believe that the gentleman from Massachusetts has moments of seriousness, and now I wish to appeal to his possibly serious temper. Mr. Butler—l never was in a better temper in my life. Mr. Chittenden—l wish to ask the gentleman if he fhinks that there will be any more prosperity in this country, prosperity to the laborer, to the farmer, to the man who works in the blackpmithshbp, in the shoe-shop, until confidence is restored to capital ? Will your everlasting, irredeemable, miserable greenbacks restore that confidence ? Mr. Butler—ls the prosperity of this country depends upon the 2 per cent, difference between gold and greenbacks, God help the country. Mr. Chittenden —Now come right down to the work, my friend. If you have a house to build or a horse to buy you know what practical business is. I ask ydu to come up to the work. You have spoken disrespectfully here of bankers and brokers. Out of the 290 members of this house 250 are lawyers. Mr. Butler (parenthetically)—l wish fifty were. Mr. Chittenden—Now I ask you to doff your gown and tell me whether, without confidence to capital, you can restore prosperity to this country ? Mr. Butler—l should a great deal rather have a better basis of prosperity to this country than the confidence which has been eo fully bestowed on capitalists that the country is ruined. Mr. Chittenden—Then you think that the basis of eternal miserable greenbacks is'better? Mr. Butler—Yes, but not quite eternal. say again, and I want you to understand, that I look upon greenbacks (based on the strength, the power and wealth of the country) as a great deal better basis than any one product of the country, whether wheat, corn, gold, silver or confidence.

Remarkable Phenomenon.

About twelve years ago Mrs. Weis, an estimable lady aged about 60, died at her home near this city, and her remains were interred on the farm of a relative, Mr. Jacob Kocpf, about two and a half miles north of Fort Wayne. As the farin was about to pMBRmt of the hands pf the ..family, the body was yesterday disinterred for the purpose of being-re-moved to lindenwood Cemetery. The coffin,which nad been wasting in a damp place, was found to be well preserved. When .opened the remains presented a most striking appearance. The features were unchanged, having altered in no respect since death. The body waa completely petrified, every portion of it being as hard as a rock. When struck with the hand the resulting sound was as loud as if a stone wall had been hit. Mrs. W. was a very large woman in her lifetime, and when she died weighed about 200 pounds. The weight of the body yesterday was so great that it taxed to the utmost the strength of six large men to move it The lines of the face were hardened, and the entire body was as rigid as a bronze statue. The remains were complete, with the exception of the feet, which were gone, there being only two small bones left, which were detached from the ankles. The body was brought to this city yesterday and reinterred in Lfcldenwood Cemetery. Mrs. Weis was Tne motner-in-law of John Vondermark, Esq.— Fort Wayne {lnd.) Sentinel.

How He Got a Square Meal.

A ragged, shivering, middle-aged man called at a house on Sibley street and asked for food, but the lady of the house called out, * ‘ Why don’t you work for your food?” “I would if I knew where I could find work,” he promptly replied. ' “ There’s a place down town where you can saw wood and earn your dinner,” she continued. That seemed to stick him for half a minute, but he finally said, with great solemnity,

“Madam, let me state a parallel case. There is a place ip heaven for you, but you don’t want to die till you are driven right to it.” She pondered over his philosophy for a few seconds and then called to the cook to pass out half a loaf of bread and Some meat.

Napoleon’s Prophecies.

The rapid march of events during the past year in Eastern Europe recalls to mind the prophecy of Napoleon, that in fifty years Europe would be Cossack or republican, and supplies some enrious verification. The conversations which he held with the Englishman o‘Meara, as' he paced back and forth in his restricted quarters at St. Helena, have been preserved by the latter and recorded in book form. We cite a few of them, as showing how closely the great Emperor looked into futurity. Upon one occasion he said to O’Meara : “In the course of a few years. Russia will have Constantinople, the greatest Eart of Turkey, and all Greece. This I old to be as certain as if it had already taken place. Almost all the cajoling and flattering which Alexander practiced toward me was to gain my consent to effect this object. I would not consent, seeing that the equilibrium of Europe would be destroyed. In the natural course of things, in a few years Turkey must fall to Russia. ‘ The greatest part of her population are Greeks who, you may say, are Russians. The powers it would injure, and who could oppose it, are England, France, Prussia and Austria. Now, as to Austria, it will be very easy for Russia to engage her assistance by giving her Servia and other provinces bordering on the Austrian dominions, reaching near Constantinople. The only hypothesis upon which England and France will ever form an alliance with sincerity will be in order to prevent this. But even this alliance would not avail. France, England and Prussia united cannot prevent it. Russia and Austria can at any time effect it Once mistress of Constantinople, Russia gets all the commerce of the Mediterranean, becomes a great naval power, and God knows what may happen. She quarrels with you, marches off to India an army of 70,000 good soldiers, which is nothing, and 100,000 canaille, Cossacks, and others, and England loses India.” In another conversation O’Meara asked Napoleon if it was true that Alexander once intended to seize Turkey, to which Napoleon replied : “ All his thoughts are directed to the conquest of lurkey. We have had many discussions about it. At first I was pleased with his proposals, because I thought it would enlighten the world to drive those brutes, the Turks, out of Europe. But, when I reflected upon the consequences and saw what a tremendous weight of power it would give to Russia, in consequence of the numbers of Greeks in the Turkish dominions, who would virtually join the Russians, I refused to consent to it, especially as Alexander wanted to get Constantinople, which I would not allow, ass it would have destroyed the equilibrium of power iu Europe.”

Tight Boots.

I had on new shoes. They were number seven when I started, but were no more than fives now, and still diminishing. I walked two hours in those shoes after that before we reached home. Doubtless I could have the reader’s sympathy for the asking. Many people have never had the headache or the toothache, and I am one of those myself; but everybody has worn tight shoes for two or three hours, and know the luxury of taking them off in a retired place and seeing his feet swell up and obscure the firmament. Few of us will ever forget the exquisite hour we were married. Once, when I was a callow, bashful cub, I took a plain, unsentimental girl to a comedy one night. I had known her a day; she seemed divine; I wore my new boots. At the end of the first half hour she said, “ Why do you fidget so with your feet?” I said, “Do I?” Then I put my attention there and kept still. At the end of another half hour she said, “Why do you say, ‘Yes, oh, yes,’ and ‘ Ho, ah, certainly, very true !’ to everything I say. when half the time they are irrelevant answers ?” I blushed and explained that I had been a little absentminded. At the end of another half hour she said, “Please, why do you gaze steadfastly at vacancy and yet look so sad?” I explained that I always did when I was reflecting. An hour passed, and then she turned and contemplated me with her earnest eyes, and said, “Why do you cry all the time?” I explained that very funny comedies always made me cry. At last human nature surrendered, and I secretly slipped my boots off. This was a mistake; I was not able to get them on any more. It was a rainy night, there were no omnibuses going our way, and as I walked home, burning up with shame, -with the girl on one arm and my boots under the other, I was an object worthy of some compassion, especially in those moments of martyrdom when I had to pass through the glare that fell upon the pavement from street lamps. Finally this child of the forest said, “Where are your boots?” and, being taken unprepared, I put a fitting finish to the follies of the evening with the stupid remark, “The higher classes do not wear them to the theater.” —Mark Twain.

Too Soon.

A poor woman lay very ill, in her scantily-furnished home in Sheffield. The doctor was sent for and came. He at once saw that hers was a very grave case, and that she had, as he thought, little chance of recovery even if she could get the nourishment her illness required. As he was about to leave, the question was put: “ When shall we send for you again, doctor?” “Well,” was the reply, as he looked at the poor woman, and then at her wretched surroundings, “don’t think you need send for me again. She cannot possibly get better ;[and, to save you further trouble, I’ll just write you out a certificate for her burial.” Ana he did. After the doctor departed the woman grew better rapidly. She has now completely recovered, and goes about carrying her burial certificate with her.— Sheffield Telegraph.

Heavy Damages.

An accident occurred at Arlesey, on the Great Northern railway of England, in December, 1876. One of the passengers injured was Mr. Warschawski, a professor of legerdemain, popularly known as Bosco, being a relative and former pupil of the conjurer of that name. The muscles of his hand were so hurt that he can never again practice his art, and in a suit against the railway company he has just recovered $7,500 damages. Right Hon. Sib Edward Thornton has been a diplomat in this country and South America for a quarter of a century.

$1.50 oer Annum.

NUMBER 4.

A GREENBACK CURRENCY.

Gen. Butler Defines and Describes the Kind of Money the People Want. [From his Recent Speech in Congress.] Mr. Butler declared himself for the full restoration of silver to the coinage of the country, and that every debt of the United Statss now existing which could be paid by the silver dollar now proposed was by the very terms of the law under which the debt was contracted to be paid by silver dollars of the same weight and fineness. In regard to the point of dishonesty toward public or private creditors, he asked whether it was immoral, dishonest or wrong to provide by law that the debtor shall pay back back all he received with interest in discharge of a money debt The same dollar which pays the poor man’s debt should equally cancel the rich man’s demand. Both should stand before the law alike, and right and justice be done at the hands of Congress, in spite of Executive recommendation or Executive power, whether in the Ishape of a veto or otherwise. Mr. Butler denied that $60,000,000 of bonds, or anything like that amount, had been returned from Europe, but wished, for the financial and business prosperity of the country, it were true. He wished Europe would send back every bond of ours it holds, and the lowt r the price at which they sell here the better. If he could hear our 6-per- ■ cent, bonds were coming back at 50 cents on the dollar, to be exchanged for our merchandise, our gold, or our silver, he should look upon it as the brightest and happiest financial fact the country ever knew. He wanted to see both silver and wheat sent abroad to pay our debts, and bring the balance of trade in our favor. He saw neither wisdom nor statesman' h p in locking our silver up in vaults. He reprobated the withdrawal of the paper fractional currency and substitution for it of subsidiary silver coin, saying that the pe< pie were to be taxed the enormous sum represented by the 5 per cent, compound interest on $50,000,000 for thirty years, and that, if the Secretary of the Treasury who framed that measure had ever sat down and made the calculation, and then foolishly cast that enormous burden on the people, he ought to be hanged to the nearest lamp-post for malice toward all mankind. If he had not done so, he ought to be hanged at all events for getting into an office which he could not fill. Mr. Butler concluded as follows: We want the greenback for our currency, and mean to have it. But Ido not desire that greenback currency should be made to serve the country as it has done —vilified, insulted, depreciated by act of Government itself, being refused not only to be received for all debts due the Government, not even paid for all demands due from the Government. The American system of finance which will obtain in the near future, and I hope at once—which I desire—is: 1. A dollar that shall have at all times a certain fixed and stable value below which it cannot go. 2. I demand the dollar shall be issued by Government alone in the exercise of its high prerogative and constitutional power, and that that power shall not be delegated to any corporation or individual any more than Charles 11. ought to have delegated his prerogative of stamping gold coin for the benefit of his paramours as a monopoly. 3. I want that dollar stamped on some convenient and cheap material of the least possible intrinsic value, so that neither the wear nor its destruction will be any loss to the Government issuing it. 4. I also desire the dollar to be made of such material for the purpose that it shall never be exported or desirable to carry out of the country. Framing an American -system of finance, I do not propose to adapt it to the wants of any other nation, and especially the Chinese, who are nearly one-quarter of the world. 5. I desire that the dollar so issued shall never be redeemed. I see no more reason why the unit of tne measure of value should be redeemed or redeemable than that the yard-stick with which I measure my cloth, or the quart with which I measure my milk, shall be redeemed. 6. For convenience only I propose that the dollar so issued shall be quite equal or a little better than the present value of the average gold dollar of the world, not to be changed or changeable. If the gold dollar grows lower in value or grows higher, not to be obliged to conform itself in value in any regard to the dollar of any other nation of the world, keeping itself always stable and fixed, so that when the property of the country adjusts itself to it as a measure of value it shall remain a fixed standard forever. But if this is ever changed, it shall change equally and alike for creditor and debtor, not as the dollar based upon supposed gold, whose changes have always given the creditor the advantage. To give the greenback currency thus desired a fixed and stable value, I would make it fundable at all times at a sufficient number of places, convenient to the people, in coupon or registered bonds of SSO and multiples thereof up to SIO,OOO, bearing interest at 3.65 per cent., payable semi-annually, which bonds should be reconvertible into currency at the pleasure of the holder at every public depository. Thus I would have a currency better than a gold currency, unalterable in value, because founded upon wealth, power and property, together with all the gold and silver of the country, to keep it ata steady measure of value, to which all the property would soon accommodate itself, and ultimately the whole national debt would be brought home from abroad and funded into this national bond. This would give to America a non-exportable currency, better than any other, capable at all times of being invested at home at an equal rate of interest with the gold of the world, which is now in the best Government securities invested at an average of 3 per cent, only.

Let the Bond be Fulfilled.

John Sherman rules that, as he has sold seventy million dollars’ worth of bonds for gold, they must be paid in gold, no matter what the bonds themselves say they are payable in. The contract for payment is a specific contract, and is plainly expressed on every bond. What a man buys his bonds with has nothing, in law, to do with what he agrees to receive in payment. John Sherman did not apply his present rule to the five-twenty bonds. They were made payable in “lawful money, and were bought with greenbacks, “lawful money.” John Sherman’s present rule would make them payable in greenbacks, even though the bonds said they should be payable in coin.

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for the Government sold them for greenbacks. They must be paid in money of the same kind of money for which they were sold, says the Secretary. The following tabular statement of the issue of bonds sold for greenbacks, and the gold value received for them, is in point : Gold Film Bnnrtu ftxnuK>, Rx-rivcd. 1862 $6.1982 450 $44 630.649 1863 160,987,550 101.890,854 1864 381,292,260 189,697,636 1865 279.746.150 208.214.090 1866 124,914.400 88,591,773 18(7 421,469.550 303,215,603 1868 425 443,800 312,826,823 T0ta151,874,836,150 $1,248,466,828 Here we have the amount of the robbery committed by the Coin act of March, 1869, in which Sherman aided and abetted. It is $626,370,322. The interest on the bonds was paid in gold. That is, the purchaser of the bond for S4O, SSO, or S6O could draw about 10 per cent, interest in lawful money on SIOO, and his bonds were exempt from taxation beside. It is high time for the people to say to the bondholder that he shall now have no more than is nominated in the bond. “Not a drop of blood.” There shall be no repitetionof such robbery.—Cincinnati Enquirer.

The Veto.

We have been informed from day to day by the wise men in the East that the veto would come. The veto did come, was solemnly read, and the President heard something drop. Had he been intent or anxious to know the wants of the people who elevated him to power—to aid instead of embarrass them—he could have heard the voice, for it has not been whispered in a corner. And he will bave in the future abundant opportunity to hear and understand it Tlio President speaks of “ bad faith,” and that the “standard of value should not be changed without the consent of both parties to the contract.” The truth is, the bad faith was shown when silver was demonetized. There is small demand fur the sympathy of the Executive for the other party, vhose interest he appears so anxious to protect, for they have grown rich and proud and imperious. While commerce has been consumed, labor prostrated, and every interest beggared day by day and month by month, wealth has flown to the coffers of a few capitalists who to-day raise the howl of bad faith and broken pledges, which the President of the United States magnifies, and attempts to dignify, by supporting with his veto. The President has but a small conception of the deep feeling which pervades the country upon’this subject. And we wish to assure him, and the gold aristocracy he so ably represents, that they are not only contending against the feelings, but also against the earnest opinions of honest men, who keep their pledges, fight the battles of the country, and are the source of its honor and its wealth. The redress they ask is not in “bad faith” or broken pledges, but a restoration of tbeir rights and the privilege of living, without forever being within sight of the auctioneer and the terrors of bankruptcy. Congress, which is nearer the people than the President, and are responsible for the law, have taken the burden from his shoulders. If he had any desire to keep in sympathy with the people, he would have been wise to make no such test. The right to exercise the veto at any time is a doubtful prerogative. Upon a measure of this character, with a nation groaning under its burdens, it is an net. showing cold blood, want of sympathy, justice or wisdom. By this action the President has widened the breach between himself and the people, and struck a most disorganizing blow at the party that placed him in power. What the ultimate result may be is uncertain. For years the people had urged their complaints upon the authorities at Washington only to be ignored or jeered at. They became angered—well-nigh disparate. With stagnation in business, bankruptcy nil about them, and financial embarrassment in almost every household—wifli the possibility of bread rioti in the midst of plenty, they went into the silver fight determined to make their influence felt The bitterness thrown into the contest by the gcld-bugs has had no tendency to assuage their intense feeling, but rather to intensify and embitter it. Elated with victory, and assured of power, the popular tide may run far beyond what was at first dreamed of, and the bitter and unreasoning opponents of silver may find too late that having sown the wind the whirlwind will follow after. —Chicago Inter-Ocean.

A Murderer’s Confession.

A man in the northern part of the province of Rio Janeiro has confessed upon his deathbed that he was the real author of the murder of a family of eight persons in 1852, for which a wealthy planter, by name Motta Coqueiro, and three of his slaves were executed in 1856. The house in which the victims lived was set on fire after the crime had been committed. Suspicion having fixed itself on Metta Coqueiro, he and three of his slaves were brought to trial. The evidence was weak, but so strong was the feeling against the planter that the jury found him guilty, and the Court c f Relation at Rio confirmed the sentence of death. He and his friends strenuously asserted his innocence, and, when it was found hopeless to obtain bis acquittal, every possible effort was made to induce the femperor to grant him a pardon. It is even said that sums amounting to $250,000 were promised to persons around the Empress to induce them to t nlist her sympathies on behalf of the condemned man, and thus, by means of her intercession with the Emperor, to attain the object in view. All, however, was in vain. The Emperor was firm; the Empress declined to interfere; the Government sent a vessel of war to Macahe to prevent any attempt at rescue, and Motta Coqueiro and his three slaves were executed for a crime which it now turns out they never committed. The man who lately died acknowledged that he, assisted by some of his dependents, deliberately murdered all the .inmates of the house, which they afterward burned. The doubts which arose as to the justice of Motta Coqueiro’s fate and of those who suffered with him, alteir their execution, are supposed to have raised an uneasy feeling in the Emperor’s mind, and he has since, it is stated, shown a great disinclination to allow sentences of death to be carried into effect.

Poetical Ages.

Dr. Frederick R. Marvin, himself a poet, lecturer and preacher, has prepared a table, which we give below, of the ages of poets:

Philip J. Bailey 61 James R. Lowell 58 Walt Whitman 58 Jolla Ward Howe 57 R. H. Stoddard 52 Bayard Taylor 52 Matthew Arn01d.,,,,,, .51

William Cullen Bryant.Bo Victor Hugo 76 H. W. Longfellow 71 John G. Whittier 70 Alfred Tennyson 67 Oliver W. Holmes 67 Alfred B. Street 65 Robert Browning 64