Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1878 — Page 1

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NEWS SUMMARY

FOBBIGN JTEWS. By the stranding of the British steamer As tarte, on «ft o| thirty of the crew j>sriih*B,'only men being saved., I \ fit i,l The marriage of thff-Eerl of Itoseberry |o .Miss Hautmh de Rothschild, only daughter of Baron Meyer de Rothschild, was celebrated at London, on the 20th of March, first civilly .at the Registrar’s office and again in Christ 'Church, Mayfair. Advices from Tilt is state that typhus is raging among the Russian troops in Asia, Gens. MelikoiT, HolowefT and Rohelkoffnikoff are reported to have died. It is believed that more men have been lost by sicknes since the cessation of hostilities than on tli •> battle-field during the war. A dispatch from Paris say work is suspended in the printing-houses and the publication of books Is stopped in consequence of the printers’ strike. The newspapers continue ‘ their regular issues. The London Times' editorial on the fisheries award says: “ The reckless language of Blaine and Gen. Butler is not only throwing discredit on tho country, but damaging the system of settling international disputes by arbitration/’ London dispatches of March 23 state that "the feeling of irritation between the British and Russian people is increasing, and the opinion is generally expressed throughout Europe that the prospect* for the meeting of a congress have boon largely diminished during the past three days. Russia has sent, or is about to send, a formal request for the withdrawal of the British fleet from the Sea of Marmora.” The most horrible cruelties are being committed by the Turkish soldiery in Thessaly. Cities are being sacked and burned, and women, children and old men massacred like wild beasts. The insurrection is said to be gaining ground. A formidable fleet of German men-of-war is on its way to Nioaraugua for the purpose of|enforcing the claims of the German Government in the case of Consul Eisenstuck. The groat international walking match at London resulted in a signal victory for the American contestant, Daniel OLeary, who has unquestionably demonstrated bis right to the claim of being the champion pedestrian of the world. O’Leary covered 520 mi'es in 139 hours, tho greatest walking feat on record. By his victory he wins the bandsomo sum of -1*8,500. A Constantinople dispatch says the Sanitary Commission, which lately arrived at Erzeroum from Tiflis, found 20,000 corpses buried two feet under ground, frozen but not decomposed. The commission were deliberating whether tc j cremate the corpses or use quicklime. England and Russia are both making big I preparations for war, and at this writing the chances of war aH against peace seem largely in favor of the former. A teriiblo niarino disaster occurred in the British channel last week. The British training ship Eurydice was capsized by a sudden equal], and over 300 people drowned.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

East. O \ ing to the recent panic among savingsbank dejiohitors, the Massachusetts Legislature has enacted a law to prevent •depositors from drawing their mouey. It is entitled “an act for tho better protection of depositors in savings bauks,” and an idea of its provisions may be obtained from a Boston dispatch, which says “the Brighton Five-Cent9avings Bank promptly availed itself of the law, aud the Bank Commissioners directed that from March 21 to Sept. 21 not over 10 per cent, be paid each depositor ; 10 per cent, additional be paid between Sept. 21 and March 21, 1879. No further additional amount <o be paid after tho latter date except by orde* of tho Commissioners.” Two negroes, Samuel Chambers and George Collins, were hanged at New Castle, Del., on the 22d of March, for the crime of rape. National Bank of Tarrytown, N. Y., has fai ed. Liabilities about SOO,OOO in exoess of assets. Isaac Adams, the printing-press manufact uror. died at Sandwich, N. H., last week, leaving a fortune estimated at from $4,000,000 to $6,000,000. He bought what is known as the Adams printing press from tho inventor for an old gun. A young man was knocked down in the streets of Brooklyn, N. Y., the other day, and robbod of $3,500. He had just drawn the money from a bank for a large manufacturing firm, for the purpose of paying tho workmen. Tho highwaymen, four in number, escaped. Mrs. Lucy L. Day, an old woman aged 80, was murdered near Syracuse, N. Y., the other day, by her daughter, a married woman aged 46, who stabbed her at the dinner-table with a knife. West. Oliver A. Willard, for the past five years oditor-in-chief of tho Chicago Evening Post, is dead. Chicago elevators esntain 1,351,601 bushels of wheat; 252,225 bushels of corn; 225,938 bushels of oats; 167,877 bushels of rye, and 612,107 bushels of barley, making a grand total of 2,609,743 bushels, against 8,572,279 bushels at this poriod last year. Cleveland had a $200,000 blaze last week. The victims were the Non-Explosive Lamp Company. Reports that seem to be trustworthy from the region on both sides of the Dominion line, north aud northwest of Fort Benton, leave little room to doubt that the hostile Indians are preparing for a general war upon the Montana and Dakota settlements. More than a dozen large bands of Indians are roaming about, ostensibly engaged in hunting, but with supplies of ammunition so abundant as to prove their hostile intentions. SJoouts who have visited the camps of these savages, just across the boundaijjy, estimate the number of warriors at 6,000 or 6,n00. ' t

South. A New Orleans dispatch says that, in the case ot the State vs. Thomas C. Anderson (oil an appeal for a new trial), the Supreme Court reversed the verdict of the jury, and ordered the prisoner to be released. The oourt held that the alteration of the Vernon county returns dirf 5 not constitute forgory. Texas highwaymen have been at their again. A train on the Texas Central t*ilroad was robbed by four masked men near Hutchins Dali s county. The express matter wak taken the mail plundered, and the express messenger •rounded. A horrible crime was committed last week near Wheeling, W. Va. Tho bodies of Mrs. Oeorge Wallace, her 4-months-old child, and her niece, aged 14, were found murdered, and theii bodies shockingly mutilated. The hus band of the murdered woman and his brother are under arrest, charged with the deed. A Richmond (Va.) dispatch says three men named McFadden, one named Moody and a colored man were drowned recently while attempting to cross the James river, near Patterson’s landing. j). the explosion of a saw-mill boiler near

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Richmond, Va., a few days ago, five people were killed, two fatally wounded, and five seriouriy injured. Three negro brothers, Jerry, Isaac and Jacob Childs, were executed at Abbeville, Ala., on o| nypder of Mrs. Ton

WASHINGTON MOTES.

Mies Ada Sweet has been reappointed Pension Agent at Chicago. The President expressed much gratification at the release of Thomas C. Anderson, and said the entice Union would applaud the lection of the Louisiana Supreme Court as patriotic and in the interest of reconciliation. A. Washington dispatch says : "A change in the eagle on the new Qobar, which has met such unusual and severe criticism, ie-seriously contemplated by the Director of the Mint. None of the patterns drawn for this bird were satisTfctory, birtt, as the law of Ifi&l requires’afl eagle on one side and the effigv of Liberty pn the othor, nd option existed, and ww* of the lot was picked out and put on the dollar. Another attempt to draw an eagle will b* made, and, it ishoped, wjth better success.” The Judiciary Committee of the House has authorized its Chairman to report a bill repealing the Bankruptcy law. Secretary Sherman has given his views at length before the Senate Finance Committee regarding the House bill repealing the Resumption acts. He sftld he thought It tinwise and inexpedient to repeal the Resumption act. Not that it would have any influepqe jit home, bnthe thought it would beleeplng m with the creditor and the people abroad if we resume in 1879, as we had promised. He thought it was entirejy practicable, and that resumption could be effected without the slightest injury to onr commercial prosperity. The Secretary gave the amount of gold and silver now in the treasury vaults, stating the sum to be about $60,000,fl00„ or $70,000,000 outside of all demands. He was questioned in regard to the effect of the Silver bill on the resumption question, and said that he had to admit that the effect of the bill generally had been good, and that in connection with resumption it had been a decided advantage. Orders have been issued from the Treasury Department, authorizing the purchase of silver bullion in lots of 10,00*0 ounces or less, at the mints ; the price to be equivalent to the market rate in London—.payment to be made in silver dollars as fast as they are coinedi and in gold when silver is not available. The death of Hon. John Allison, Register of the Treasury, is announced. He died suddenly of apoplexy. Mr. Allison was 86 years of ago. He was appointed Register of the Treasury by Gen. Grant in 1860,

POLITICAL POINTS.

The Pennsylvania Democratic State Conven- ' tion has been called to meet at Pittsburgh on the 22d of May.x The GreerSbackers of Rhode Island held their State Convention at Providence, on the 20th of March. William Foster was nominated for Governor; Jason P. Hazard for Lieutenant Governor; Henry Appleton for Secretary of State, and Andrew P. for General Treasurer. Complete returns of the New Hampshire election foot np as follows: Piescott, Republican, 39,377; McKean, Democrat, 37,863; Kendall, Greenback, 251; Flint, Temperance, 223; scattering, 99. Prescott’s plurality, 1,514; majority, 941. The Republicans have a large majority in the Legislature. The Republicans of Rhode Island have nomi nated all the State officers for re-election. The lowa Republicans will hold their State Convention at Dos Moines, on the 19th of June. A bill granting female suffrage at municipal elootions has been defeated in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. The Democrats of Rhode Island have nominated J. B. Bamaby for Governor. The lower house of the South C> olina Legislature has passed a resolution, by a large majority, requesting the Governor, in case he deems it expedient, to instruct a nolle prosequi to be entered in any of the prosecutions against former State officers. Montgomei-y Blair is authority for the statement that a bill will shortly be introduced in Congress proposing to reopen the Presidential question. There are rumors at Washington of contemplated Cabinet changes. Some of the gossips claim that Secretary Evarts is to go out; others assert that Messrs. Schurz and Key will retire, and some have it that all three are to receive the “grand bounce.” MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. In the House of Commons at Ottawa, Canada, a motion to prevent the employment on the projected Canadian Pacific railway of ftny person whose hair may be more than five inches in length has been defeated. The measure was aimed at the Chinese. The appearance of O’Donovan Rossa, the well-known Fenian leader, was the occasion of a serious riot in Toronto, Canada, one day last week. The hall where! he was lecturing was stoned, a couple of taverns where Irishmen had congregated were attacked, and. numbers of shots and showers of stones were exchanged by the hostile forces. Some twenty persons were perforated-with bullets, and the number hurt by tb£ flying stones were too numerous to name. The police had considerable difficulty in quelling the riot. Gen. Sir William O’Grady Haley, Command-er-in-Chief of the British troops in North America, died at Halifax, N. S., last week. It now turns out that the mission of Congressman Leonard to Havana, where he died of yellow fever, was a purely private one, and not as an agent of the Government, as lias been stated. He went there for the purpose of seeing a young Cuban lady whom he had met in New Orleans, and to whom he was engaged to be married. Her parents opposed the match, and, to hearJHHHbr, and txJ lieving wag forbiddqp to |bld communication with him, he determined to go to Cuba an*s<*i*fthtaißelfc • The United States steamer Wyoming, which recently sailed from New York with a cargo of articles for the Paris Exposition, was found to be in a leaking condition when about a fourth of the way over, and was compelled to put back.. % '& John Wallace, suspected of the murder of his wife, child, and niece, mention of which has ljjjt week, taken from fhl jftl ff%jt« leton, W. Va., and hung by a mob of infuriated citizens. The fiend made a full confession, which cleared his brother of complicity in the crime, but implicated one George Villiers, who is now in custody.

FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Monday, March 18. —Senate.— Mr. Edmonds, from the Judiciary Committee, reported adversely upon the House bill admitting women to Dractice law In the Supreme Court or other United States coui ts, because it is discretionary now with those courts to decide who shall practice before themed this bill would Compel the courts to admit women when it would not admit men to that privilege Mr. MoCreery inquired of the Chairman of the Jul diciary Committee what progress was nu' i-g in regard to the repeal of the Bankrupt law. A: .. Edmunds replied that the committee was making pro.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY. MARCH 29,1875.

gress, and he hoped that there would be a report 500 n... .Mr. Windom called up the HonM but poking appropriations for fortifications and other Wbrks of defense. It was passed without dieenssioc.'The MU spproprfetes *27»,000... .Mr. Thurman called np the Senate bill to prohibit member* of Congress from becoming sureties on certain bonds. Paused. The Senate resumed consideration of the ‘Pacific Railroad Sinking Fund bill, and Mr. Ohristiancy, of Michigan, made a vigorous legal argument in support of the Government's right to enforce ths collection of the railroad’s debt. : Hops*.—Mr. Springer tried to get before tbe Home, for action, the bill providing fp* the ties coinage of silver, as provided in the original Bland bill. The opponents of the bill, by filibustering, prevented him from succeeding.... The following bills were introduced: By Mr. \Mnce, granting pensions to soldiers who enlisted out of prisons-, also, for the payment of certain Southern mall contractors (this bill provides that no claims shall ba paid which have heretofore been paid by the Confederate Government) ; by Mr. Gibson, for the appointment of a commission to ascertain on what terms a treaty of commerce with Mexico can be arranged; by Mr. Monroe, relating to telegraphic communication between the United States and foreign countries; by Mr. Willis, of Kentucky, establishing a mint at Louisville; by" Mr. Sampson, proposing an amendment to the constitution providing that the President shall be elected by a direct vote of the people; by Mr. Conger, repealing the law appropriating 1375,000 for the payment of certain Southern mail contractors; by Mr. Ewing, to grant to the B'.atc of ‘hio tbe unsold public lands remaining in that State; by Mr. Cox, of New York, for the erection of a monument over the grave of Thomas Jefferson. Tuesday, March 19.—Senate.— I The day was an extremely animated one in the Benate. When the Deficiency bill came up there was a long, heated, bitter, personal discussion upon the timber question. It was a renewal of the contest of last week, in which Mr. Blaine, the Massachusetts Senators and the Secretary of the Interior, by his acts, were the central figures. Mr. Blaine renewed hu attack upon Mr. Schurz. An exceedingly lively debate followed, the Interior Department and the administration being defended by Odessrp; Christianoy, Dawes ana Hoar. Mr. Christianity charged the opposition to Schurz with having espoused the. cause of the poor settler who carries li.s flag along the frontier only for the purpose of attacking Secretary Schurz. Mr. Sargert declared that Schurz, by the enforcement of obsolete laws, was seeking a cheap reputation as a reformer. An angry colloquy ensued between Messrs. Sargent and DaWes. Apologies were demanded by both and given by neither. Senator Dawes charged the people of the Territories with being thieves and depredators, and Sargent accused the people of Massachusetts of stealing Plymouth reck.... Mr. Morgan addressed the Senate in support of the Thurman Pacific Railroad Sinking Fund bill. He drew a forcible picture of the tremendous power of corporations in this country, which is greater than the power of same kingdoms, and declared that the country either must ultimately succumb to these corporations or become their masters. The time had come, he said, when the Pacific railroads should pay the debt of justice or be unmade by the power which had made them. House. —Two reports were made from the Committee on Civil-Service Reform in the case of Doorkeeper Polk, charged with carelessness or malfeasance in the duties of his station. The majority report was to the effect that evidence showed Pqlk’s un fitness to hold tne office, and recommended his dismissal. The minority report claimed that the evidence did not sustain the charges, and recommended the retention of P01k..,.Mr. Smith, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported a bill making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensioners. It appropriates *29,289,000.. ..Mr. Durham, from the same committee, reported back the West Point Acadtmy bill, recommending concurrence in some of the Senate amendments and non-coneurrenoe in others... .Mr. O’Neil presented the remonstrance of printers, electrotypers, book-sellers, engravers and others against the action ofthe Committee on Ways and Means in not imposing duty on imported stereotype and electrotype printing plates. Referred... .The following bills were introduced aDd referred: By Mr. Blackburfl, for the better protection of plays aud dramatic literature ft provides that the Copyright law shall cover all plays purchased from a foreign author for the purpose of playing or publishing in the United Str.tes) ; by Mr. Springer, to authorize ihe coinage of gold and silver on the same term*, and to promote the deposit thereof.... A resolution proposing that there should be no further action on the tariff, and recommending that the Ways and Means Committee be discharged from tho bill, was introduced in the House, but could not be acted upon, owing to a single objection which was interposed.... A new movement was made in Pacific railroad matters by the adoption of a resolution calling on the Attorney General for information as to what proceedings are pending against the Kansas Pacific Toad at the instance of the Government.., .The remainder at the day was passed upon the Deficiency Appropriation bill, few Changes being made in it.

Wednesday, March 20. —Senate. —Mr. Mitchell introduced a bill for the protection of homestead settlers... .It was ordered that there be printed for the use of the Finance Committee the statement made by tbe Secretary of the Tieasury in regard to the repeal of the Specie Resumption aft, and the tables submitted by him on the snhlcct. 77 Mr. Allison introduced a bill to repeal the Pre-Emp-tion laws and provide for the sale of timber on the public lands... .The Senate bill to amend section 2,464 of tbe Revised Statutes, relating to the cultivation of timber on the pnblic domain, was discussed briefly and passed—yeas, 39; nays, 12.... Messrs. Windom, Blaine and Withers were appointed a conference committee on the part of the Senate on the Military Academy Appropriation bi 11... .Mr. Howe offered a resolution asking the President to inform the Senate whether Judge Whittaker, who presided at the trial of Thomas C. Anderson, in New Orleans, was ever in the employ of the Government whether he was a defaulter, and to what amount, and, if so, whether legal proceedings had ever been taken against him. Mr. Howe said that at home and, elsewhere he had been accused of not yielding very cordial support to the President’s policy, and, if it would suit the convenience of the Senate on Monday next, he would like to take up this resolution and " submit some remarks, by way of excusing, himself, bo far as he was able.... Consideration waß resumed of the Pacific Railroad Sinking Fund bill, and Mr. Mitchell spoke in favor of the bill reported by the Committee on Railroads. ... .Mr. Teller, of Colorado, obtained the floor, and, in a long speech, arraigned Mr. Hoar for having called the people of the Territories thieves and plunderers. Mr. Hoar responded that he could not conceive the mental condition of a man who put such a construction upon his remarks. HousE.--In the House the bill regulating advertising for mail contracts was passed. It requires advegtissineiit* to -be brief, and to,ref« fur details to the p^etoffice Department. U aRo jiroflifits tho subletting of mail contract*, and declares sqch con- ‘ traete annulled... .ilia House thou werfi lino com- I mittce of the whole on the Deficiency Appropriation bill, and, after a few unimportant changes, it was reported to the House and passed... .Mr. Ellis offered the usual resolutions in regard to the death of the Hon. J. E. Leonard, of Louisiana, and gave notice he would call them up for action Saturday, April 6. Thursday, Marcji 21.—Senate.—Mr. Hereford offered a resolution calling upon the Finance Committee to report .the House bill rejpeahng the Resumption act within one week. Mr. Morrill objected, and it went over.... Mr. Teller spoke one hour in the Senate on the Pacific Railroad Funding bill, and then the Senate resumed the discussion of the Timber bill. Mr. Jones, of Florida, made a strong attack on Secretary Schutz, claiming that he was not pursuing the policy of his predecessors, but one which would work disastrously forjuA large number, pf citizens.... lands had been ovasive and not candid. Mr. Mat* thews defended Secretary Schurz. He said the real gist of the accusations against the Secretary of the Interior was not that usually heard about the negligence of a public officer, but that, according to his sense of duty he was enforcing the law. Because of that he was arraigned as oppressive to inividuals, as being un-Ameriean. He (Matthews) thought it was one of our cherished maxims that the best way to secure the repeal of obnoxious laws w f t4 j4t fi°l ‘tla - House.—Mr. Waddell, Cttisi rmancf the Committee on Postoffices and Post Roads,’ reported a bill ta establish a postal savings depository as a branch of the Postofflce Department.... Mr. Chalmers introduced a bill providing for the orgaaisaHon of the ■iSKSS.stffi'vs’Ssasirljfcs passed. The amount appropriated is f 14,018,684. Friday, March 22.—Senate, —Mr. McDonald addressed the’ Senate 111 favor of the Thurman Pacific Railroad Sinking Fund bill, after which the Deficiency bill was taken up, and, after adopting the amendment appropriating $20,000 to assist Secretary Bchurz in prosecuting the timber depredators in the public lands, the bill was nut to a vote afifi passed, V House.—Mr. Ward, of Pendsyltraf W. introduced -»Hill supplementary to tieTlomellAa^ qJwfe of the United States, providing that persons bona fide intedding to make actual entry and settlement under the Homestead acts shall revive, through the * Secretary -of tho ‘ f inferior, free transportation for themselves, families, farming utensils, and personal effects to their new homes, and also seeds for two years’ cultivation. .. .Mr. Atkins Introduced a bill to provide for the more economical survey of the public lands.... Mr. Hunton introduced a bill to reorganize a system of superintendence of railroads.... A large number of private bills were passed.

Friends and Money.

* “ -C. have many friends when I have money;” said the unknown German whe attempted to drown himself to escape the paDgs of hunger, and was rescued by OffioerMoylan. "I fcave none now.” What a message of misery is this pa • thetio speech! Whaf an poho of that underworld of the great metropolis, whose reality is more marvelous than any roihance \—New York Sun.

“A Firm Adherence to (?Qrrre(s Frinciples”

PUBLIC FINANGE.

Peter Cooper on die Great Issue of the;Bay."' -i .’n {.,.!• ?|jiliiipiii 'i r An Address to the V«QPIc or the v Country by the Venerable Philanthropist.

This appeal is made in behalf of the suffering , millions of the American people whose money and ptopMiyteave been wrongfully taken from them by a course of legislation in-direct violation of the first and most important requirement of the constitution of our country. That constitution has declared in those ever to be remembered words, that " V> e, the people, in order to establish justice, secure domestic tranquility, provide for the cotamon defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the bless logs of liberty to ourselves, and ear posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution for tbe Unite d Stages of America.” This {.ream, le and constitution, covering as it does, the whole field of a nation’s wants, has bound every member of the government by the solemnity of bis oath of office, to use his beet judgment to make all proper laws necessary for the «s----tabliehment of justice and the promotion of the general welfare, which tbe people in their individual op state capacity cannot make for themstlces. No state or individual has a constitutional “ right to coin money and regulate tho value thereof, or to establish a eystem of national weigl (s and measures, or make laws for the regulation of commerce with foreign nations and among the several states.” Skis power is reserrod to the congress of the peoe by the constitution. The constitution has declared that “congress shall have the power, (and where power is given duties are implied) to lay and collect taxes, duties, imports, and rtfcfees; to pay the debts and provide for the common detente, and the general welfare of these United States." The constitution has also declared that congress shall have power “ to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper, for carrying into execution the lortgoiog power* vested by this constitution in the government of the United States, or any departJhe fathers Sad founders ol our country and government had gat .ered an amount of wisdom that enabled them to frame f.r us a constitution and form of government based on those eternal princ'pieS of truth and justice by which they saw that natur/a God had entitled all, men to the '• inalienable right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Tbe declaration of independence expressly says that it was to “secure these rights, that governments are instituted among men,” and that “ whemver any form of government becomes dedeetructive of theFe ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it. and to institute a new g -v----enment, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its power in such form as to them shall seem most likely effectually to' promote their safety aDd happiness.” And further, that declaration states “All experience has shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than they are to right themselves by abolishing the firms to which they ore accustomed.” “ But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the aaraeobject, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism,4t is their right, it is their dntvto provide new guards for their futnxe security.”

-Such has been the patient sufferance” of the American people; they have borne with a course of financial laws that were as cruel as they are unjust. By these laws there has been taken from ihe people the very money which the government bad authorized and paid oHt in exchange for &U the.fowns of labor aud proper-y used and consumed by the government in a lour years’ struggle Tlnminoneyfilvas actually paid. outdo, the people sot “ vllueagpefred” by the gOaefcftilpC It was cldthed&vito alMthe legal attribifteo qf money,' ah A, sanctionedSfiswiich by the ot tifp United State*. It had become the peoplete money for all intents and purposes, as effectually as though|Miarir.ajjygg«n mid to them in 501 d.,, Xije j pr perfjr, to meft the cufTefit expeDqfes of Ihg gov- | t rumeut. ThisXndbey Had, been usecl for yeai shy the govOrnuieub and aha people as a nitumal currency costing the government nothing but the pa!l:r yu ahicli it was made;-it had been .allowed to circulate as until, as the prgscut jeerpiflry of hib 1 1 PHTOfy"' wIMMi *. “ That every citizen of the Uuited States had conformed his business to the le g>l tender law” reguating the currency of the country, j This present secretary, when a senator in 1869, I gave to congress and the country a mosi fearful | to shrink np the vclI “It is not possible to take this voyage wiibout l the sorest distress to every person except a capi- | t" 'ist out of debt, or a salaried tffleer or annuitant, j It is a period of loss, danger, lasritude of trade, lril of wages, suspension of enterprise, bankruptcy aud disaster “ To every railroad it is an addition of one-tbird to the onrden of its debts, and more than that deduction to the value of iti stock.” * * * * “It means the ruin of all dealers whose debts become twice their (busiuess) capital, though one-third less than their actual property. It mean the fall of all agricultural productions, without any great reduction of taxes.” “ 'What prudent man would dare to build a house, a railroad, a factory, or a barn, with the certain lact before him that the greenbacks he puts into his improvement will iu two years be worth 35 per cent, more than his improvement is worth.” * * * Whfin that day comes, all enterprise will be suspended, «vary bank will have contracted Its cur • reucy to the lowest limit, and the debfr compelled to meet in eo.n a debt contracted in currency, he will find the coir, hoarded in the treasury, no adequate iepresentaifbn ot coin in circulation, his property shrunk net only to the extent of the appreciation of the currency, but stiil more by the artificial scarccty made by the holders of gold.” * * * * “To attempt this task by a surprise on our people, by arresting them in the midst o ' their law. jl business, and applying a new standard of value y,their property without any reduct'on to tirttr oebts, or giving t>em ah opportunity ( j conff.oind witli their cjredftare, or to distribute thetr lossea, would bean act of folly wiihout an example of-evii in modern times.” It woifld be literally impossible for Secretary Sherman to have drawn a mote perfect piefurd of the scenes of wretchedness and ruin that the policy he 'so manfully opposed in the senate in I" 69 has b ‘ought on tne country, a policy that he then deared “ was an act of folly without an example in ancient or modern times.” And now, the very Bdme manfthen senator, and now secretary of thertredtury of the United 'States, Is believed to have drawn the resumption act, and is now using all the powers of his mighty mind to consummate a ruin that he has so well described as an aot of folly without an example iu ancient or in modern limes.” Those frigntful evils predicted by the once Senator, and now secretary of the treasury, are being painfully verified by the many thousands of failures that are annually taking place as the result of the unjast and unconstitutional laws that have been passed. Law! promising to psy some four or five hundred millions in gold which the government did not possess, and could not command. The constitution has never given to congress any such unreasonable power. It has made it the duty of congress to “coin the money and regulate the value thereof,” without saying whether money should be coined out of gold, sliver, copper, nickei, or paper. if * gold which t|ey further made |u oceasfcoi sos qtnferfikslto listen! to,' and adopt,Wha'adnme of fheyi<A/wtte control the moneyed pfower cT our owirancr oTffSr countries?* These men nave, by theft arts, succeeded in obtaining from our government a oonrse of financial legislation to advance their own interests as a cLs*. They have doubled the expenses of the war by their influence n defeating a financial Jaw in the senate that had passed the house of representatives after the most mature consideration. It was an cct making provision in the following words, for “ a lawful mortey and as uU legal tender in payment of ill debts, public andTf>fiv«er, within the United States.” This class interest succeeded in defeating the bill as it bad passed the house of representatives, and by introducing the little word “except” into the bill, they depreciated and deprived the legal money of its power "to pay duties on imports, or Interest on bonds.” This same class interest has prevailed on onr government to so changw the law* as to make the bond* ta at were aUfiztt made payable in national moneyffo be paid ft coin. They next got the law so altered as to make chin mean gold. They than suoceeded in getting the gold bonds relieved from being taxed for any part of the burdens of the state or national government. It shonld be remembered that all bonds were originally issned to be payable in currency. This currency our government had deliberately depreciated by refusing to receive It for duties on imports, or interest on bonds. And then our government allowed war taxes tit continue until ttusy had taken from the people the very money Che government had stamped aud paid, out, aB so many dollars of real value, made legal money, to be used as a a national currency to euable the people to exchange commodities, and furnish all the supplies that were actually needed In a four years’ struggle for the nation’s life. When that life was saved, the people h*s become t thrir r ffi£?* £,, '? f ‘* *^- thei ® Our government has no constitutional right to invalidate contracts by lessening the volume of the optional currency, after ffie fame had Wen issued and allowed to circulate as legal money in the payment of debts. Such money having been paid out by the government ffir “ jaktatf-eanved,” cannot be lessened In volume?tfcUfyiel ihvalidaftng contracts, (his our government has done by having drawn from the people their* money, which represents all forms of labor and property which had been used and consumed by their servants, employed and paid by he people, and all the supplies peeded to put down a rebellion that then threat-

ened destruction to fill they held door as i, n»Waa it not A most absurd and unpatriotic act of legislation to inylte foreign capital, in the shape of gold, to take np our good money at 40 and 1 0 cents on the dollar, and turn that money into a government bond at par, payable both principal and interest in gold ? Was ever a nation more deliberately and ftrfielly put under a heavy yoke of bondage bp its idlers 7 All these unjust acts must be rescinded. The people will not submit tp them when they come to know their true nature and purpose. The constitution has never given to congress (as I have before stated) the right to promise to pay hunoMaa«f millions in gold, which they djdjgot possess, and could not command. It must be man! est to all that commerce can not be regulated with foreign nations, and among the several slate , without a national system of money as a standard, over which congress can c xerclse an entire control, under constitutional restrictions only. This Can never be done by the use-of gold, while congress allows local banks to expand and contract, appreciate and depreciate the money of the countrytlp task own. interests as p class I Thotrfias Joffeiion was right when be said that “ Bank naper must be suppressed, and tbe circu--1 sting medium must be restored to the nation to whom it properly belongs.” He wisely declared that “it is the only fund on which the government can rely for loans; it is the only resource which can never fall them, and it is an abundant one for every necessary purpose."

I find It impossible to frame an apology for a congress that could m»W an unconstitutional promise to pay hundreds of millions in gold which they could not command, instead of promising to reeqive such money as ; the government was compelled '.o issue as “the only resource which eau never fail them.” Money so issned and accepted by the people shonld have been considered, as it was, the most saerrd treasure 4fiat our country had ever pos sessed. It should have beem held as more especially precious after it had fed and clothed onr armies, and had carried our country sa*ely through a most terrible war, proving to the world that President GraDt was right when be declared the money so issued by tbe government was tbe “best currency.our country bad ever possessed*” and that “there was no more in circulation than was needed fjr the dullest period of the year.” ft our government bad taken the advice of Franklin, Jefferson, Calhoun and Webster in the enactment of financial laws to “provide for the common defence,' and the general welfare,” they would have saved to our country the one-half cf the cost of the late war, and the d sgraceof being compelled to sell onr nation’s bonds at some fifty and sixty per cent, below tho face value of the bonds. senator Beck, of Kentucky, in the senate of the United States, has drawn for the American peop'e a most frightful picture of the course of special legislation that has taken from the people, as I have before elated, the peoples' money, and has converted- the same, into a national debt. The following startling amounts have been wrung from the toiling masses of the American people leaving the debt in the .main as large as ever. '*■* *"* \ e. Jl*. -j i IJJm The senator says : t‘Tbe bondholders had, up . to 1> 69, received 1100,000,000 of profit before thay got the principal of their bond 3 made payable in gold.” “ It can be shown by the treasurer's reports, from j ear to year, giving the amount of bonds sold each year, aud the premium on gold from 1862 to 1869, that the purchase of the bonds with paper at its face value, and the purchase of the paper at ihe discounts, gave a profit to the bondholders as follows: An account of the bondholders’ clear profits arising from no investments at all may therefore be stated in the following tabular form:

m 2 $ 28,138,989 1863 94,586,713 1864 306,551,682 1865 110,169.367 1866 53,757,183 1867 . 167,915,741 -1868 25345 ‘.765 On account of 5 per cent bonds 98,297,864 T0ta1...., $1,612,536 204 Tbis most remarkable statement-was, as Senator -Seek declared, “carefully and truthfully pre- ! Jared.” Tlnj proof 13.1 p the officjl records.- *• It will satisfy the country,” said the renZTor, “ and # gupht to satisfy the bondholders and their advo* «ates that they ofifebt not to iulult a suffering peo<jle whose hard ai|uings have Jone to enrich them, by any complaiigof want of good fajth to them in the effort wo nrjnSalring to save t|e,country from pankruptoy. Our government, in addition to jjt the other acts Of class legislation; has taken froin the American people theirsmallcurrency that was cot tine them ■bthing, TJ* in i,s place, unsolicited by the people, are or inconvenient currency, thereby creating a debt of some forty miliiou of dollars lo be paid by the already overtaxed people of our country. With regard to the demonetization of Jlver, every intelligent man must see that inasmuch as silver now forms more than one-half of the coin. money < f the world* that thg effect of demonetiz luff sliver must not only lessen the volume cf the wood's Jfeoney, but must appreolatotfce value of gold to proportion as the value of silver has been ■w for demonetizing silver is slid to' have been firtt presented to the great bankers of Europ#. assembled*»t the great Paris exposition. It required but little exanrnation to show them that the demonetization of silver wonld appreciate the value of gold, and add hundreds of millions to their wealth, if they could only persuade the American government so join with them in the demonetisation of c.lver. THcW bankehi sppointed a committee to viait our government for the accomplishment of their object, which, as the “ Congressional Record” states—“ the suggestion to the house committee made by the gentlemen from England in regard to the deiaoßetizitlon of stiver, was incorporated into the hotße bill and passed.’.’ It is the duty or cur government to remonetize rilveri and also to do ail that is possible to be done to induce those governments that have dtmone iized Mffrer to-reraonetizs the same; as that is the smal.eat atonement they can make for the wretchedness and ruin that are now being ixdieted on the unsuspecting-toiling masses »f those countrits where the demonetization of silver has teen taken by law, from the volume of the world’s money, and has thereby caused gold to appreciate in value In Its purchasing power to nearly double the rmount of real estate that he same a i ount of gold would have purchased four years ago. Nothing can be more Important for ns as a cation than to ascertain and remove a cause that is . shrinking the values without shrinking deb;B in the Bame proportion. Our national policy in try* lug to force specie payments on a debtor country, is now producing a similar eondltirn of wretchedness to that which Was brought on England by their attempt to _rpy»»en on that country, after a sMpeiiuoß of more than twenty years. During all that, time their paper money had not only carried their country through their wars with Napoleon during more ihan twenty years of suspension of specie payment, but that same paper money had secured to England the greatest national prosperity ever known in that country. This policy, according to §ir Archibald Alii* on, brought on England a greater scene of wl< espread bankruptcy and ri®n than all the warn, pestilences and f. mines that had ever afflicted that country. Notwithstanding the warnings of such an example, Mr. McCullqogh in his address made at the banquet given by the chamber of commerce in New York, spoke boastingly of his earnest efforts, both personally and in wilting, with met b< rs of congress, In try ngto persuade them to allow him ti take out of circulation the people’s money, which in his address, he states “had all the legal attribntes of money.” He stated that in the very year In which the war closed the reduction of the debt was commenced, and this reduction has been steadl y continued, to the amazement of foreign nations. He adds: “In none of the treasury statements which I have seen, since ihe advent qf the administration, has any mention' been made of the reduction of ihe debt, previous to the presont one.” * * * “ A pepoiilooking at one of these statements wouid ewppostfUhat the reAtiWn the d>/bt was commeuced with SeUeVk) Gran's administration, while, in fact, the previous reduction had been reported of two huhiirod and fifty millions of dollars, aecordlae to tfio. boots antipublished statements of the treasury, wWHeTi fhrger sum even than this was p>id to the war and navy department, which did not yet appear on the books of the department. ” Thus does Mr. McCullough speak of having contracted and taken out of the currtnoy of the country, during his administration, some five hundred mil'ions of d liars, that had been paid out by the government, and received by the people as money; possessing, be declared, “ all the legal attributes of Secretary McOallotigh’s great mistake consisted in his regarding the money actually authorized and pa'd out by the government for value received, as sorre.hiug to be Rot rid of as soon as possible Mr. McCullough stated at the banquet that this legal money that was then serving the country as well, “gave him more anxiety than all the rest of national debt.” It seemed that it cost him mueh writing and, a great deal of personal effort to persuade senators and members of congress to allow him to take from the American people by a continuation or war taxes, the very money that the people had received as dollars in payment for all the labor and property that bad been consumed in the prosecution of war. I do not wonder that Mr. McCullough found that "It required the stronger kind of personal and written arguments ” to persuade senators and members of congress to allow him to take from the people their money, and convert the same into a national debt after the same money had been allowed to cir- ««>»# tiotil (as,l hate ftzid) it had bonght and sold Hones more in valne than the whole property of tm nation* - r If crime is to be measured by the misery it produces, the act of taking from our people their money, and converting it into a national debt, mud rank as one of the most unjust and crnel acts ever known to any civilized legislation. I do most heartily unite with Senator Jones, when Be Bays “ the present is the acceptable time • to on>lo the unwitting and blundering work of 1878 and to render our legislation the subject of money, conformable to the constitution of onr oountry.” * * "We cannot, W 6 dare not, avoid speedy action on the subject. Not only does reason, justice, and authority unite in urging ns to retrace eur steps, but the organic law commands us to do so; and the presence of peril enjoins, what the law commands. The claims of a common humanity with all tbat can move the manhood of the Anierloan citizen demand of onr government the return to the people of their currency. In the year 1r65 there was in the hands o' the people, as a oorrency, (fig per head; in 1675 the cur-

reucy of all kinds was oaly a little more than *l7 per head. You may this currency a vast debt of the peopTe, as it WAS Incurred by the"government to »ave the life of tbe nation. Rot it was money—every dollar of » L It wgs paid by the government "for value received;” It was used by the people tb pay their debts, to measure toe value of their property, and, as your present secretary ot the treasury sold in his seat in the senate, "every citizen of the United States bad conformed his business to toe legal tender danse.” This currency was also tbe creature of law, and under the entire control of the government, but held in trust lor the benefit pf the people, as are alkjjs functions. Was it either just or humane to Slow $1,100,000,000 of this Currency, a large part bearing no interest, but paying labor, and fructlfyißgevejyi business enterprise, to be absorbed into ]bonds in the space of eight bf aring a heavy Interest, or which the bondholder bore no share 7 (See Spaulding's* 'History of the Currency.” The government seemed t" administer this vast currency as If there w ere 1 but one interest in the nation to be promoted, and that the profit of those who df slued to fund their money with the greatest security, and to make money scarce and of high rate or interest! This is the issue of the hour, this is the battle of the people and for the people, in which the present administration is called upon to declare which side it will take. If this policy was unjust and ruinous at the first, it is unjust and ruinous now. If it has led ns from prosperity Into adversity, the

only coarse is to retrace our steps, to stop this funding any loDger, and give tbe people back their money, justly earned, and hardly Wpn by the toils, perils and sacrifices of the people. But 88 this vast and Hfe-giving currency has now gone irretrievably into bonds, and the bonds have gone largely abroad for importation, that have still further depressed the industry of our people by buying abroad what we coqjd and should have manufactured at home, I see no way to establish justice without au act of government that will give back to the people as per capita at one per cent., iheir jnst proportion of the people’s money actually found In circulation at the dose of the war. This can be done by an Issue of legal money at a per capita proportion o( said money to every state, on the condition that the state will loan to every township a per capita proportion of their amount; said amount to be loaned to the townships at two percent per annum; to be loaned by the townships at three per cent, on unincumbe red real estate to ball the amount of its value—to be estimated by the valuation upon which taxes have been paid during the last three years I would re pectfully suggest the following policy in the present emergency and for the future prosperity cf thepeople of this country; First, Let the government place the mothod of giving back to tha people their money as proposed as the best means to give immediate relief to unemployed labor, either through such definite methods of help, giving to settlers of unoccupied lands in the west, or by great and obvious public improvements which a e seen to be necessary to the prosperity and safety of the country—such as a northwestern and a southwestern railroad. Both these methods might be used, in view of the great distress, now, of tbe laboring classes. The rail roads will invite aettlemen'S, protect the country from Indian wars, more costly than the railroads themselves, aDd give employment and the money which will enable the poor man to settle the lands. Even state and municipal help might be evoked to this end of employing labor, by issuing currency, for the bonds of states and municipalities that could employ labor profitably in any local lm provements. Secondly, Restore the silver coinage as a legal tender; and while it swells tbe currency, it may bn made as light as paper, for transportation, by “Bills of Exchange,’’ or by a currency that represents silver. The demonetization of silver wos a trick of the enemies of ihe poor man’s currency. 7he remonetization of silver will be a great relief now, in the degression of all business, if not the final and best measure.

Thirdly, Let us adopt a permanent policy, of public finance that shall herea,ter control botn the volume and the value of the national currency, iu the interest of the whole people, and not of a class. Let us have a national currency fully honored by the government, and not as now, partially demonetized—the sole currency and legal tender of the country, taken for all duties and taxes, aDd inter convertable with the bends, at a low but equitable rate of interest. This will forever take the creation of currency, and its extinction, out of tire hands of banks and (hose in making it scarce and high, and put it completely under tbe control of law and the intensts of Ihe people, who ran always b ink on their own money. Fourthly, Let us promote and lnstfucHndnstry, all over tlie laud, by found ng, UDcier national, stats and tour ic pal encouragement, Ikdustiiiau Scboous of every kiud that can advanoe skill in labor, the rich need the literary aDd profc sional school and ci lieges, and they should have them; but the poor need Ihe industriil school of art anti science; and it should be made tbe duty of the local governments to provides practical educ a'ion for the mass of the people, as the best method of “guaranteeing to every state a r publican form of government,” Fifthly, The government can do much towards promoting the industry of this people, and encouraging capita* to enter upon works of manufacture, by a judicious tariff upon all in portations of which we have the raw material in abundance, and the labor ready to be employed in the production. It iB no answer to this to sao, “ Buy where you can cheapest.” I have said before, “We cannot, as a nation, buy anything cheap that leaves <ur own good raw materials unused, and our own labor unemployed." Sixthly, Let us have a civil service as well organized and specific as the mili'ary or naval service. Let us take tbe civil service out of m re political part kinship, ard put such appointments upon tho ground of honesty, capacity and educational fitue-s, so that so man can hold his office aud receive its > mclament* without a faithful d'scharg" of the dnths prf scrib." , d by the 1 -w. By these method* of immediate relief and future admin ist rathu, we m»y pats safe y, I tnink, the great crisis through wcich our Leloved country is now laboring.

“ The produa’ng causes of all prosperity,” say* Daniel Wrbster, is‘‘labor, 1-bor, labor.” * * * “ The gove nment was made to protect this industry—to give both oncourag-ment a> d security. To this very ci d, with this prtcrie object in view, power was given to congress over the currency, and over the money of the country. Though the influences that are now working against ihe rights of labor and the true intereet* of a republican govern:nekl, are iLsidious and concealed under plausible re.-sons, yet the danger to our free institutions now, Is no less than in the inception of the rebellion that shook nr republic to-*te center. It is only snotht r oligarchy, another enslaving power that is asserting itself against the interest of’the whole people. There is fast forming in this country an aristocracy of wea'th—the worst form of aristocrat that can curst the prosperity of any c untry For such an »r stocracy has no country —“absenteeism,” living abroad, while they draw their income from the country, is one ot its common characteristics Such an aristocracy is without soul end without patriotism. Let us save onr country from this, its most pots nt, and, as I hope, its last enemy. Let me, fellow citizens, beseech you to consider well what the erisis of the country demands of you and your political action, not losing sight of ihe fact that there are great wrongs that must be r'ghted in the administration of the finances of this country for the last twelve years. Old issues of north and south are in a great measure passing away, and patriotism and far-sightedness, we hope and trust, will find a way to relieve the present distress of the country. There is no section of our common country that needs so much the reviving influence of au abundant and a sound currency' as the south. The f outkern people have the finest natural resources that eur country tffords; every facility for manufacture- the material, labor, and waterpower indefinite* They need only mot ey, wisely distributed among its working and enttrprising p pu’ation ; and it was well said, lately, by one of the southern ttateamen. that, the “ Government had impoverished, discomfited, and crushed the south more by its financial policy, since peace was declared. than by its arms during the whole war of rebellion!" If the people can look for no relU f from tho present congres and administration—if those who now sway the financial interests of the sountry cannot see their their great opportunity—then new men mnst be chosen by the people whom they can trust to make laws, and execute measures that “ shall secure the blrfsings of liberty to themselves

and their posterity.”

THE NATIONAL PARTY.

An Address to the People of the United States. Owing to the pressing demands from ail parts of the country for the immediate organization of the National party, the Executive Committee of the National party of the United States has adopted the following plan of action, out of which, it is believed, will grow a perfect and uniform organization of the party in the different States. Upon the application of ten or more voters who have organized a oounoil of the National party in any locality, tod elected officers consisting of a Chief, Vice Chief, a Scribe and a Treasurer, and reported the State, postoffice, towssmp and county, or elty and ward, in whiob it is organized, together with the names of the said officers, the National Committee will issue to such organization an engraved charter emblematic of the principles and objects of the National party, and a constitution and directions for the organization and government of the council. Each application mu <t. be accompanied by the sum of sl. This sum will cover the expense of issuing the charter and will secure to each council the privilege of obtaining printed documents, badges, campaign song books and other campaign goods from the National Commtttee at cost, or as near cost as practicable. The National Committee will also issue charters to young men’s councils, to consist of youths under age, upon the same terms and with like privileges to those granted to the councils of voters. The object of the formation of young men’s councils is to inspire the youths of the country with a realization of the great s'ruggle upon which the nation has now ntered, and to educate them jn vital

questions of political economy and good government. It is not the design of the National Committee to interfere with the State organisations of the National party, hut to assist them in forming a perfect ana aniform organization. To this end the National Committee will furnish weekly lists of councils chartered ia each State to the Executive Committee of that State, it there be a State organisation: and, by the instrumentality of this system of councils, secure the organization of States now unorganized. From these , local councils the organization of counties, cities and States will be developed as the necessities of each locality may demand.

The National Committee will publish promptly a campaign song book, and it invites eontri buttons from song writers. The songs should be accompanied by the music, or should be set to popular airs. The committee feels that this crisis should bring forth such songs as similar struggles in behalf of hnman rights have inspired. The committee urges that local organization be perfected rapidly, and that tickets be nominated in localities where there are spring elections. A success in a city, or town, or township, or in a village, is often a key to more important victories. The reoeut gratifying successes of the National party in local contests in New York and Pennsylvania are encouraging to the workers in the cause everywhere. These gains in tbe East may be equaled aud surpassed elsewhere by active and zealous work. Tbe committee respectfully requests that Greenback and Labor local organizations now in existence apply for charters as national councils, that the unification of interests secured with such harmony and enthusiasm by the Toledo Convention may be utilized. The National Committee invites communications from the executive officers of all State organizations of the National party, tbat there may be co-operation and harmonious actiou. All communications should be addressed to

Chairman National Executive Committee, Toledo, O.

There its a great fear, on the part of some amiable person b who write for the public, lest, in certain excited movements of reform, there should be those who will take steps for which they will be sorry. They argue, from this, that it is not best to have any excitement at all, and especially that nothing should be done Under excitement. It so happens, however, that tire path of progress has always been marked by sudden steps upward and onward. There are steady grow th and steady goiDg, it is true, but the tendency to rut-making and routine is so great in human nature that it is often only by wide excitements that a whole community is lifted and forwarded to a new level. Men often get into the condition of pig-iron. They pile up nicely in bars. They are in an excellent state of preservation. They certainly lie still, and, though there is a vast capacity in them for machinery, and cutlery, and agricultural implements,— though they contain measureless possibilities of spindles and spades—there is nothing under heaven but fire that can develop their capacity and realize their capabilities.

There are communities that would never do anything but rot, except under excitement. A community often gets into a stolid, immobile condition, which nothing but a public exeit-mtnt can break up. This condition may relate to a single subject, or to many subjects. It may relate to temperance, or to a church debt. Now it is quite possible that a man under excitement will do the thing that he has always known to be right., and be so.ry for it or recede from it afterward; but the excitement was the only power that would ever have started him on the right path, or led him to stop in the wrong one. It is all very well to say that it would be a great deal better for a drunkard, coolly, after quiet deliberation and a rational decision, to resolve to forsake his cups than to take the same step under the stimulus of social excitement, and the persuasions of companionship and fervid oratory, but does he ever do it? Sometimes, possibly, bnt not often. Without excitement and a great social movement, very little of temperance reform has ever been effected. Men are like iron; to be molded they must be heated; and to say that there should be no excitement connected with a great reform, or tbat a reform is never to be effected through excitement, is to ignore the basilar facts of human nature and human history.— Dr. Holland, in April Scribner.

As You Sow so Shall You Reap.

The season for gardening is close upon us, and the following hints are useful: Pins need a light sandy soil. Sow broadcast. Hoop-skirts should have a top dressing of waist material. Seaweed needs a good deal of irrigation with salt water. Cook and parlor stoves may be set out in about five weeks. Umbrellas need a good deal of irrigation before they will open. Eggs should be sown broadcast in a rich loam, and well harrowed. Now is the time, also, to plant your hogs, so that yon may have baked pig for the Fourth of July. If you have a hot house, try and raise a light spring overcoat. This, however, needs great care. Few succeed. Sow mortgages in about your house. A summer cottage covered with mortgages has a very striking effect. Trim the sausage bushes and see that they grow in a cool, shady spot, so that the fruit, when ripe, shall not fry out in the hot sun.— Graphic.

The Japanese take strange and unaccountable fancies. At one time a mania for rabbits dominates the country, and speculators pay exorbitant prices for lop-eared or other ugly varieties of the rodent. This is succeeded by a dangerous liking for large foreign dogs, followed by a less romantic attachment to pigs, which in its turn gives way to a more aesthetic, taste for tea-roses, varied by a taste for pisciculture. In Tosa we hear that dog-fighting is the passion of the hour, and public exhibitions of the sport are paying speculations. —Japan Mail.

PETER COOPER.

Ship Towed by a Whale.

A Maine schooner, while fishing off the banks of Newfoundland, with some 200 fathoms of cable out and sails clewed, was suddenly found to be under headway. It was soon discovered that a huge whale of the finback species had got his tail entangled in the cable and was hauling the craft at the rate of fifteen knots an hour, and, growing mere and more excited, was keeping his course to the sea. The whale finally tore away by breaking the cable.

Lightning Shattering a Monument.

In the terrific thunder-storm yesterday, the splendid marble monument erected in the old Methodist cemetery several years ago to the memory of the Confederate dead was struck by lightning. The marble eagle surmounting the monument was shivered into fragments, and the entire monument, from top to bottom, so badly damaged as tc render it dangerons to approach it, as it is liable to fall at any moment. burg News.

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NUMBER 7.

D. B. STURGEON,

Acting Under Excitement.

The Japs.

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UNDIGNIFIED SENATORS.

Sharp Debate in the Senate on the Bill to Punlah the Timber Depredators. The bill making an appropriation for detecting trespass on the public lands being under consideration, Mr. Blaine, said: A labored attempt had been made to impress the country with the belief that in this Senate chamber the timber thieves of the conutry found defender* and apologists, a fid under this cloud of misrepresentation real issue which he’raised against the Secretary of the Interior was sought to be obscured. lam for prosecuting the timber thief, and Tam f< r protecting the settler, and this amendment, if it prevails, will force the Secretary of the Interior to do the same. The amendment only guaranteed to the settler in the Territory precisely wbat he had enjoyed from the foundation of the Government, precisely what the early settlers in Ohto,and Indiana, and Illinois, and Michigan, and Wisconsin, and Alabama, and Mississipui, and Arkansas had all in turn eujoyed, aud that privilege was simply only that until the timber ands were surveyed ard offered for sale the actual settlers might cat timber for their own use, and not for export. Mr. Eustis said he would vote against any appropriation to pay special agents of the Department of the Interior who were engaged in the business of (H oovering and prosecuting persons who were Charged with trespassing on the public lands. People absolutely knew noth ing of the proceedings ordered by the Department of the Interior, which were of a despotic character. The seizures were made on informal legal papers. Mr. Dawes argued that, if the proceedings were irregular, the Judge who issued the writs was responsible, and not tbe agents of the Interior Department. He was glad this discussion had taken place. It would teach tbo Secretary of the Interior that it was his duty to inquire into the conduct of his special agents charged with delicate duties. It would teach him that this was a Government of law, not of men.

Mr. Chriatiancy argued tbat tbe course pursued in Louisiana had no bearing whatever upon the course pursued in Montana. It was not to be expected that the Secretary of the Interior conld have knowledge of every act of the timber agents. The Senate would not have beard all these charges to-day had it not been tbat there was moro feeling against the Secretary of the Interior than for the pear settlers. Mr. Sargent said when Western Senators got up here, and asked for the people of the West privileges wh ch had been enjoyed by the people of Massachusetts, Vermont and other States, they were sneered at, and their wants measured by some county of Massachusetts. This provincialism he was opposed to. It was unworthy of debate like this. Western Senators were not to be turnc d from their convictions in this matter by sneers and statements that they desired to attack the Secretary of the Interior. No one thought of attacking the Secretary of the Interior until the people of the Territories were dragged before the courts, their property seizedj and they themselves charged with being thieves and plunderers. The policy of the present Secretary of the Interior was contrary to the whole policy of the Government in regard to the timber lands. Ho (Sargent.) would go as far as any man to protect the surveyed lands and punish men for stealing wood therefrom. The action of the Secretary of the Interior was caused by a desire to gain cheap reputation as & reformer. A considerate Secretary, instead of -turning the Interior Department into a huckster shop to peddle out wood, would have called the attention of Congress to the matter and asked for remedial legislation. Mr. Dawes said the remaiks of the Senator from California (Sargent) were as much uncalled for by the debate as they were by good breeding, and his allusions to Massachusetts— Mr. Sargent—Will you please quote anything I snid against Massachusetts ? 1 deny that I said anything. * Mr. Dawes—l have the floor and will not yield.

Mr. Sargent—As I yielded to the Senator from Massachusetts so frequently, I see his good breeding does not cori espoud. Mr. Dawes—The Senator’s memory is as bad as hi* manners. Continuing his remarks, Mr. Dawes said thousands of cords of wood were cut from the public lands in the Territories and ready for market, and it was that pluuder the Secretary of the Interior sought to stop, uo matter how much he might bo deuounoed for being over zealous. Mr. Sargent said the Senator frouvMassachusetts in his original speech spoke of the people of the Territories as thieves and plunderers. Did the Senator think that remark consistent with good breeding? He thought he was entitled to an apology from the Senator for questioning his manners. Mr. Dawes explained his remarks, and said be had no disposition to indulge in any remarks offensive to the Senator from California. Ho did not mean to speak of the people of tbe Territories as plunderers, bufe lie did meau to say that those who were taking property from the public domain were plrmd< ring it. Mr. Hoar argued tbat it was a bad thing for either branch of Congress to undertake to condemn a public officer for doing his diity, the neglect of which would have made him liable to impeachment. Mr. Matthews said it had been tbe practice of the executive officers of the Government to punish those trespassing upon the public lands for fire-wood or any other purposes, and he challenged the Senator from Maine (Biaine) to point to any statute authorizing settlers to cut fire-wood from public land. Mr. Blaine asked if it was a proper policy to charge $1 a cord stumpage. Mr. Mrtthews said it was not, but it was policy of law, not the policy of the Secretary of the Interior. Mr. Blaine challenged the Senator (Matthews) to point to an instance where settlers had been charged stumpage. Mr. Ingalls—l can do it. Mr. Blaine—Well, let us hear it. Mr. Ingalls then quoted from the instructions of J. M. Edmunds, the Commissioner of the General Land Office, in 1864, issued to public land officers, to punish timber depredations, which instructions were submitted to the Senate with the report of the Secretary of the Interior for that year. In reply to The question of Mr. Blaine, Mr. Ingalls stated the report showed that since Jan. 1, 1856, the sum of $199,608 had been paid into the treasury on account of titter depredations. He was not assailing or advocating the policy of the Secretary of the Interior, but he believed in giving the devil his dues, no matter whether it be the Secretary Qf the Interior or any one else. The Senator from Maine (Blame) reminded him (Ingalls) of the snake in “Hudibras,” that “wired in and wired out.” Mr. Christiancy inquired if anything had been paid into the treasury on acccuut of timber depredations'onder the late order of the Se rotary of the Interior. Mr. Blaine said yes, about $5,000 had been wrung out of the people of Montana. Replying to the argument of Mr Dawes, in regard to plunderers, he spoke of that portion thereof as a hole through which the Senator might esoape. Mr. Dawes—ls tbe Senator thinks anybody can beat him in dodging from hole to hole in this debate, he very much mistakes public judgment

Shot for a Piece of Candy.

“ If you don't give me a piece of candy, I’ll shoot you,” said Robert Patton to John McAdams, while a party of boys were playing on a lot back of Thirteenth and Cambria streets. Both were about 12 years 6f age. McAdams refused to comply witth Patton’s request, and attempted to run away. Patton took aim at the retreating form of his companion, and fired. The ball struck McAdams in the head. He fell to the ground mortally wounded. The shooting was done with a large revolver. —Philadelphia Record.

Preparation for Princeton.

A young man was arrested in a New Jersey town a few days ago on a charge of carrying concealed weapons. On searching his person a bowie-knife was found in each boot-leg, a seven-shooter in his hip-pocket, a slung-shot in his inside ooat-pocket, a cavalry sword slid down his back, a “ billy” in each coattail pocket, and a dagger up each coat sleeve. That was all. Fe was discharged when he explained that he was on his way to Princeton College to enter the Freshman class, and had merely taken some precautions to protect himself from the attacks of the Sophomores. —Baltimore Bulletin.