Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1878 — Page 1

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FORBIGN NEWS. Lore’, Salisbury, the new British Minister of Foreign Affairs, has addressed a circular to the pow irn, giving England’s reasons why she cannot enter the proposed congress. Nearly every ar'acJe of the San. Stefano treaty is condemned, aa tending to establish a dangerous Russian supremacy in the East. Lord Salisbury claims not only the right to discuss each clause of the treaty in detail, but to raise objections to the treaty in the aggregate. In a word, England wishes to set aside the whole treaty, and begin, de novo, th e work of settling the Eastern question l>y d xecussions in a Congress. Queen Victoria’s message in relation to mobilizing the reserves was read to both houses of the British Parliament last week. It states Very briefly that the present state of public affairs in the East constitutes a case of great •emergency, within the meaning of the acts of Parliament, and that therefore the Government is about to direct that the reserve force and the militia reserve force be forthwith called out for permanent service. Debate on the message was postponed for a week. A London 'dispatch states that “ Russia is irritated by the rebuff from France. The latter, being approached for a separate recognition of the Treaty of San Stefano, replied that she •would not participate in a combination against England.” Drnught and famine prevail to a disastrous extnnt in Morocco. Prince Bismarck has revived the hope of a congress of the power?, by proposing a meeting for a revision of the treaties of 1856 and 1871. Ron mania is bitterly opposed to the cession of Bessarabia to Russia, as well as several other provisions of the treaty of San Stefano, and a rupture between the Russians and Roumanians is exceedingly probable. The prizes in the late London pedestrian match have been distributed. O’Leary received $3,750 ; Vaughan, $1,300 ; Brown, $525, n ad. other contestants got smaller sums. A special from Berlin reports that mobilization han been ordered in the four remaining Russian military districts. Advices from Cettinje state that Russia has requested Montenegro to prepare for a renewal of hostilities. Prince Nikita ft taking measures accordingly. It is reported that the Khedive of Egypt has announced that he will declare his independence should Turkey form any alliance against England. A correspondent at Pera understands that Austria has assured the Porte that she will oppose any effort to enforce the San Stefano treaty.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. I'Juist. Failures: Booth A Edgar, sugar refiners, Boston, liabilities $750,000; Joseph Poulks’ Sons, shipping and commission merchants, New York, liabilities $450,000; Manning & Bears, cotton brokers, Boston, liabilities $200,0)0. There ilts a terrific explosion and conflagration on the Lehigh Valley railroad, at Slatington, Pa., the other day. An oil train, going at •a speed of twenty miles an hour, dashed into •a freight train preceding it. An oil tank exploded with terrific force, killing four persons and wounding twenty-one. Nineteen oil cars and four merchandise cars were destroyed in the conflagration that followed. The loss is estimated at $200,000. A shocking tragedy was enacted on the stage of a theater at Pawtucket, It. 1., a few nights ago. One feat of the company consisted of the shooting of an apple from the head or hand of a pel former. Mlle. Volante, trapeze performer, belli an apple on her head, and Mrs. Jennie Fowler, known on the stage as Franklin, was to isheot the apple. With uncommon recklessness the shooter stood with her back to a mark, taking aim by the reflection in the mirror. The rifle was discharged and Mlle. Volante fell dead on the stage, shot through the forehead. Mrs. Franklin was arrested. » One of the most sickening hoirors of the year occurred at Bath, N. Y.. a few nights since. L. C. Ford, an insane man, sent to the Steuben County Poor-House from Hornellsville, set fire to the building used for the insane department of the County House, in which upward of sixty insane people were sleeping. The fire spread rapidly, and made the rescuing of the imates a matter of great difficulty and danger. About forty were rescued by officers and citizens, and some others escaped ; but fifteen of the crazed unfortunates perished in the flames, and one was Injured shockingly, and probably fatally. At Cambridge, Mass., three men were killed, one fatally injured, and three others more or less injured, by the explosion of a boiler in beavey & Co.’s stamping manufactory. West. The great drama entitled “A Celebrated Case,” written by the authors of “The Two Orphans,” is the regnant theatrical sensation in Chicago. It is produced in that elaborate style and with those fine scenic effects for which McVicker’s Theater has become famous. The play will run another week, and will then be succeeded by “The Exiles,” which has had a great run in the Eastern cities. Chicago elevators contain 1,127,438 bushels of wheat; 724,983 bushels of corn; 226,311 bushels of oats; 169,074 bushels of rye, and 549,686 bushels of barley, making a grand total of 2,798,092 bushels, against 8,970,868 bushels at this period last year. Henry Crouch, his wife and two children were drowned in a pond near Augusta, Mich., by the capsizing of a boat, a few days ago. Joseph P. Bugbee, hitherto one of the most honored business mon of Indianapolis, has been arrested for forgery. The amount of his forgeries is somewhere in the neighborhood of $150,000. The first annual conference of the Mormon church since the death of Brigham Young has just been held at Salt Lake. The saints appeared to be well pleased with the new administration, which is in some material respects an improvement upon that of Brigham. South. Returning Board Anderson is again at liberty. Ihe Louisiana Supreme Court having refused a rehearing of the case, Judge Whittaker ordered bis discharge from custody. The Bank of Jacksonville, Fla., was recently robbed of $7,500. A man engaged the attention of the cashier while a confederate entered the rear door, stepped into the vault, and secured the money. The safe of the Treasurer of the Eatontown Branch railroad, at Eatontown, Ga., was lately robbed of $6,000 in cash and $20,000 in notes and mortgages. Another train robbery is reported from Texas. An express train in the Texas Pacific was stopped by road agents at Eagle Ford Station, and relieved of all the treasure it carried. The amount stolen is not stated.

POLITICAL POINTS. The President nominated Joshua G. Hall us United States Attorney for New Hampshire ; Milfo . J. Williamson, as United States Marshal for th j Western District of Tennessee : Harrv H. JJcilillen, as United States Marshal for the

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District of Delaware; Dewitt Clinton Baker, as Collector of Internal Revenue for the Third District of Texas ; Robert A. Sidebotham, as Secretary of the Territory of Idaho. Gov. Van Zandt, the Republican candidate for Governor of Rhode Island, has been reelected by 3,309 majority. A private meeting of the Republican National Committee and old Congressional Committee was held at Washington one evening last week. John A. Logan presided. There were present Z. Chandler, E. Hale, W. E. Chandler, Charles Foster, and others. The object of the meeting was to consult informally about the organization of the party for the fall campaign. It was decided to ask the Republicans in Congress to reorganize the Congressional Committee, and to make arrangements for an earnest fight to carry the next Congress. The Attorney General of Maryland is of the opinion that tbe Blair resolutions for the reopening of the Presidential question are wholly inoperative.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Secretary Sherman has again been before the House Banking and Currency Committee to answer interrogations and express his views on the subject of resumption. He is confident that, with the 4 per cent, bonds put in the form of a popular loan, and with the assistance of the proposed savings-bond system, the Government will be perfectly able to resume Jan. 1, 1879. Following is the public-debt statement for April 1: Six per cent, bonds $7.38,620,200 Five per cent, bonds 703,266,650 Four and a half per cent, bonds 200,000,000 Four per cent, bonds 79,850,000 Total coin bonds $1,721,736,850 Lawful money debts 14,000,000 Matured debt."s 8.060,780 Legal tenders 347.911,054 Certificates of deposit 25,215.000 Fractional currency 16,950,115 Coin certificates 57,883,400 Total without interests 447,959,570 Total debt. 52,191,7577200 Total intere5t.*.22.290,773 Cash in treasury: Cotas 138,357,608 Currency 751,851 Currency held for redemption of fractional currency 10,0)0,000 Special deposits held for redemption of certificates ot deposit 25,215,000 Total in treasurys 174,324,459 Debt less cash in treasurys 2,039,723,514 Decrease of debt during March....... 2,313.614 Decrease since June 30,1877 20,434,708 Bonds issued to Pacific Railroad Compapanies, interest payable in lawful money: Principal outstanding 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 969,352 Interest paid by United States 37,896,334 Interest repaid by transportation of mails, etc 9,159,143 Balance of interest paid by the United States 28,737,190 The President and a large number of other dignitaries went to Chester, Pa., last week, and witnessed the launching of a steamship at Roach’s yard. The case of the United States against exAssistant Secretary of the Treasury Sawyer, ex-Commissioner of Customs Haines and F. W. Brooks, charged with conspiracy to defraud the Government of $57,000, resulted in a verdict of not guilty.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The Canadians are driving forward the work on the Manitoba section of their Pacific railroad, with great energy. Several thousands of laborers are employed upon it. FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Monday, April 1. —Senate. —Mr. Mitchel], from the Committee on Railroads, reported a bill to extend for eight years the tune for completing the Northern Pacific railroad. Placed on the calendar. Mr. Windom dissented fiom the report, and Introduced another bill. Referred to the Committee on R . llroads.... The bill to regulate the advertising of i .ail lettings was passed... .Messrs. Beck and Ch: i itiancy addressed the Senate in support of the Pacific Railroad Funding bi 11... .The Senate, in executive session, confirmed a number of appointments, and rejected the nomination of Alex. Reed to be Postmaster at Toledo, Ohio. House.—Bills were introduced and referred: By Mr. Stephens, for the financial relief of the country, and to facilitate the return to specie payments without injuriously affecting the commercial business of the people; by Mr. Money, to regulate contracts for carrying the mails; by Mr. Bright, to prevent the reduction of the national currency by fraudulently withdrawing legal-tender notes from circulation ; by Mr. Fuller, declaring the waters of the Hot Springs of Arkansas forever free to the people ; by Mr. Williams, of Michigan, granting jurisdiction to the Court of Claims upon the claims of officers and soldiers of the late war ; by Mr. Harrison, to provide for a more efficient civil service in the United States... .Mr. Hartzell introduced a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution forbidding the assumption or payment of claims for losses growing out of the destruction of property within the limits of the Statesengagedin the rebellion. Referred... .Mr. Durham reported back from the Committee on Appropriations the bill providing for temporary clerks in the Treasury Department, and for deterring trespassers on public lands, recommending nonconcurrence in nearly all the Senate amendments. Tuesday, April 2.—Senate.—The Senate spent the day in discussing the Pacific Railroad Funding bill, and Mr. Burnside's bill to remove all restrictions in regard to the enlistment of colored men in the army and navy r without reaching a vote on either. House.—The proceedings in the House were of an unimportant character. Mr. Harrison, of Illinois, explained the report of the majority of the Civil Service Committee,which recommends the adoption of the resolution declaring the office of Doorkeeper vacant. On account of frequent interruptions, and from the excitement of manner in which he met these interruptions (chiefly from Luttrell, Franklin, Clark of Missouri, Crittenden, Eden and Ellsworth), the delivery of his speech was attended with great uproar, confusion and merriment, but Harrison himself was very resolute and determined in urging on his own side of the House the propriety of expelling the Doorkeeper. Wednesday, April 3.—Senate.—The Senate devoted another day to the Pacific Railroad Sinking Fund bill. Speeches were delivered by Messrs. Booth and Dawes, after which there was a long running debate The Naval Appropriation bill was reported to the Senate and placed on the calendar. House.—Mr. Banks, from the Committee on Rules, reported back the resolution admitting one representative of each public journal which employs a permanent correspondent for reporting proceedings of Congress to the halls and passways around the House. Adopted.... Mr. Reagan, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the River and Harbor Appropriation bi 11... .Thecase of Doorkeeper Polk was the subject of another long discussion in the House. Thursday, April 4.—Senate.—The Senate indulged in an animated debate over the Pacific Railroad Funding bill, Messrs. Thurman, Matthews, Blaine, Hill and Conkling being the chief participants. The contest finally narrowed down to Messrs. Thurman and Hill, neither of whom seemed disposed to let the other have the last word,, and, even after the adjournment, the disputants continued their arguments as they left the Capitol.... A resolution was adopted authorizing the appointment of a select committee of seven to consider the subject of taking the tenth census... .The Senate authorized the printing of 25,000 copies of the report of the Commissioner of Agriculture. House. —Mr. Butler introduced a bill to authorize the reissue of fractional currency of the denominations of 25 and 50 cents.... The House finally disposed of the case of Doorkeeper Polk by adopting the report of Mr. Harrison, Chairman °5 ( ' Service Committee, declaring the office of Doorkeeper vacant. Friday, April s.—Senate.—The Senate passed the Naval Appropriation bill, discussed the Pacific Railroad Funding bill, and adjourned until Monday. House.—Messrs. Butler and Cox furnished considerable amusement by a wrangle over the election of Doorkeeper, in which they indulged in a good deal of wit at the exnense of each other. It was brought about by Mr. Butler nominating Gen. James Shields for the vacant Position, and insisting upon going into an elec: ion before a caucus had been held by either par” The House decided to postpone the election to kiSuduv .... After spending some time on the private calendar, the House adjourned till Monday.

- RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, APRIL 12,1878.

ENGLAND’S ARMAMENT.

The Military Forces of Great Britain. [From the New York Tribune.] The military forces of Great Britain, as now organized, are composed of (1) the standing army, (2) the first-class army and militia reserve, (3) the militia, (4) the volunteers, and (5) the secondclass army reserve. The regular or standing army—about 132,000 strong—corresponds in organization and duties with that of the smaller regular army in this country. The first-class army and military reserve have no counterpart in the American system. They are composed respectively of men who have served three years or thereabouts in the regular army and the militia. These men now form part of the civil population, but, as soon as Parliament sanctions the royal order, they will be expected to repair to the brigade depot at which they are enrolled. The militia—Bs,ooo strong—corresponds in some respects to the National Guard of this State, but the discipline is nearly as stringent as in the regular army. The militia is only intended for home defense, and cannot be sent out of the United Kingdom. The members of this branch of the service are paid a small sum annually. The volunteers—--180,000 strong—correspond more closely to the State troops in this country than the militia. The regiments are composed mainly of young men engaged in business occupations, and they are commanded by officers selected by themselves and approved by the Government. The second-class army reserve—lo,ooo strong—is composed of old pensioners, who are now off duty, but who are expected to repair to military depots and serve when called out. In a recent article on the British army, Sir Garnet Wolseley gives interesting information which throws light on the contemplated measures of the Government. “According to our existing military system,” he says, “upon war being declared the militia is called out, and hands over its reserve at once to the line, who, together with our firstclass army reserve, would give us about 40,000 good men to bring up our line battalions to war strength. Our secondclass army rese.rve, consisting of old soldiers, although past the prime of life, would supply us with about 15,000 bayonets quite fit for garrison duty. The four companies of regular infantry now at each of the seventy brigade depots would at once be formed into cadres of seventy depot battalions, and begin recruiting loc Jly. To them would be dispatched all tho men who last year joined the battalions it is intended to engage in active service.” Regarding the forces which England may call into requisition, Sir Garnet Wolseley makes an interesting statement: “At no previous period,” he says, “of our history have we ever been so strong, in a military sense, as at present. In 1854 we were very weak in field artillery ; the military force in these islands was under 70,000 men, and there was no reserve whatever beyond some pensioners, who were too old for field service. Were war declared to-morrow, about 400,000 drilled men would fall into line if required, supported by 372 field guns, manned and horsed by the Royal Artillery. That number would roughly be made up as follows : Standing army (at home). 99.006 Army and militia reserve 40 o<’o Militia 85,000 Volunteers 180,000 Second-class army reserve 10,000 Total 414,000

The Irish Murder.

The assassination of the Earl of Leitrim can not, of course, be excused by any reference to his harshness as a landlord ; but it is a comfort to know that the cause of it was peculiar to him and to his estates. While human nature remains what it is, it can not symj athize fully with a landlord who carries his legal rights to the extent of oppression and cruelty. Particularly is this true of an Irish landlord exercising almost absolute power over thousands of people who have neither the means to pay their rent where they are nor to move elsewhere. The Earl of Leitrim had the character of a hard man. The press dispatches, which are always conservative in tone, report that he was shot opposite a ccttage from which he had recently evicted a widow ; that eighty-nine of his tenants were under notice to quit; that his Lordship was very particular and exacting in his dealings with his tenantry, visiting with unsparing severity the slightest infraction of “the rules of the estate;” and that the Ribbon Society have a strong hold upon the county, owing chiefly to his severity. All the evidence thus far in points to the conclusion that he made “the rules of the estate” supreme, and ofdinary humanity subordinate ; it is not surprising that inhumanity, having so illustrious an example to follow, at last rose against him and destroyed him. This shocking affair is an indication that land-reform in Ireland has not been carried to the point which it was supposed to have reached. It is true that no Parliamentary measures can make landlords merciful, and Mr. Gladstone’s bill was not intended to accomplish so sweeping a change; and it was believed that the public sentiment which demanded and supported that bill had by this time taken firm hold of the Irish*landlords. It was supposed that the policy of wholesale eviction had been generally abandoned, and, the evils of absenteeism having been cured, that relations of mutual confidence and esteem had been, for the most part, established between landlords and tenants. This may still be true of the mass of tbe people, but the development of so shocking a case of barbarism on both sides seems to show that a good deal remains to be done.— Chicago Tribune.

Statistics of the Russian Losses.

The Courricr des Etats Unis gives some official statistics of the Turco-Rus-sian war, from which it appears that the Russians slain or wounded, during the conflict just ended, amount to 89,304 officers and soldiers. The number of Generals represented in. tnis sum is twenty-one. A Prince of the imperial family and thirty-four members of the higher Russian nobility died on the fields of battle. Of the wounded, 36,824 are already completely cured, and 10,000 others will be able to leave the hospitals in a few weeks. There were 121 men prisoners in the hands of the Turks at the time the aimistice was concluded. Of all the Russians who fought in the war, one-sixth were either killed or wounded—» rather large proportion. This was, however, about the proportion of the killed and wounded in.the FrancoGerman war. In the ‘ battles of Worth and of Spickeren, it. was one-sixth; it was one-eighth in the battles of Vionville and’ Mars-la’-Topr, while at Gra velotte it was only one-eleventh. Some may be surprised to be told that, in some

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of the great battles of the early part of this century, the losses relatively to the number of combatants were considerably greater. Of the Russian wounded admitted to hospitals, one of every eleven died of his injuries. In the course of the whole war only two Russians were punished by death, one for desertion and one for robbery with violence—a remarkable showing.

THE STATE OF TRADE.

T e New York “Public’s” Review. The Clearing House returns from twenty-one leading cities of the United States, for the month ending March 30, as compared with the corresponding month last year, show a loss of 9 7-10 per cent. The cities that have lost are : New York, 11 7-10 ; Boston, 8-10 ; Philadelphia, 14 5-10; Chicago; 12 7-10 ; Cincinnati, 15 3-10 ; Baltimore, 6 ; St. Louis, 16 7-10; Pittsburgh, 6 8-10; Providence, 4 2-10; Cleveland, 14 8 10; Kansas City, 44 5-10; Columbus, 15; Syracuse, 14 3-10. The cities that have gained are : New Orleans, 11 4-10 ; San Francisco, 21 1-10; Milwaukee, 15 4-10; Louisville, 4-10; Indianapolis, 3 7-10; Springfield, 9; Worcester, 22 ; Lowell, 7 8-10. The four cities of the largest trade show losses, though at Boston the loss is insignificant. Of five cities of the second class, New Orleans shows a real increase in business, and San Francisco an increase partly real and partly apparent only. The three others lose, but Baltimore less than the decline in prices during the year. At the head of seven cities of the third class Milwaukee gains much more than it lost, in consequence of the slender wheat movement last year, and Louisville reports a slight gain, while Indianapolis gives evidence of substantial growth. At Kansas City the failure of banks has caused part of the difference, but real losses remain there and at Pittsburgh and Providence. Of seven cities reporting less than $10,000,000 each, Springfield, Worcester and Lowell show that the condition of manufactures in Massachusetts has improved, and the imperfect comparison for New Haven is not discouraging. Wnatever improvement appears may be traced to wheat, cotton, some branches of manufacture, and success in mining the precious metals. A large share of the export trade has gone to Boston and Baltimore, and a larger portion of interior trade to Louisville. But as a whole 'the business of the country has been less active and less prosperous than it was even in the dismal first quarter of 1877.

Fashion Notes.

Pocket handkerchiefs are very small. Black satin is becoming fashionable again. Gold trimmings never look well by daylight. Back draperies grow beautifully less and less. No overskirts are seen on fashionable costumes. Belts are worn with pleated or Grecian corsages. Pleated waists with and without y®kes are coming in vogue. Cutaway jackets will be worn by young women this spring. There will be much costlier toilets worn ah the balls and receptions given after Lent than were at those before the penitential season. Long, narrow trains, either perfectly square at the end or rounded to describe a lozenge pattern on the floor, are de riguer at the moment. Ball dresses are either long trained fourreaux, or Princess or Empress dresses ; or if made with basques they simulate the dress in one piece. Gauntlet gloves, with the monogram on the back of the hand embroidered in silk and picked-out gold threads, are among the novelties in gloves. Fringes of raw silk chenille, with strands of beads of the same color, appear on many of the handsomest ball dresses intended to be worn after Lent. Crepe batiste is one of the novelties for summer dresses. It is a thin linen fabric woven in crape effects. It comes in all delicate shades of pure bright color for evening wear. Opera mantles of raw silk bourette, in delicate shades of color, are threaded with lines of gold and silver, and trimmed with chenille and gold and silver fringes to match. Wide galloons of silk, and velvet, and plush mixtures are seen on ball toilets in delicate colors, shot with threads of silver and [ old, or seeded with Roman pearl or fine glass beads.— New York Sun.

The Zuni Indians.

An Arizona correspondent writes: The Zuni Indians are located in New Mexico, a few miles east of the Arizona line. They are an industrious, economical people; are kind and hospitable to strangers, live almost wholly within themselves, raise cattle and sheep, weave blankets and cloth for their own clothing. They live in four-story buildings, the entrances being in the top story, which they enter by means of ladders which they take up after them at night, and then consider themselves secure from enemies without, and, so far as the rude implements of war the Indians use are concerned, are undoubtedly correct. These Indians have no traditions of the past that connect them with the ancient people who once densely populated this Territory, but from their mode of living, the architecture of their building, etc., they are undoubtedly the last remnant of that great people who had large towns and cities and who carried on extensive agricultural enterprises.

Failures in New York.

The record of failures reported in this city during the past month shows a decided increase, both in the number of mercantile misfortunes and also in the aggregate amount of liabilities, as compared with the preceding month. In all there were eighty-five failures reported during March, against sixty-seven in February, being an increase of eighteen for the month. The total amount of liabilities on account of the March failures, including that of the Six-Penny Savings Bank, foot up to about $7,000,000, in round numbers, with assets valued at about $3,000,000. The total liabilities in February were about $4,000,000, making the increase in last month’s indebtedness to be about $3,000,000. — New York Daily Bulletin.

Bankrupt Egypt.

A correspondent of the Philadelphia Press, writing from Alexandria, Egypt, says everything is at a stand-still in that country. The government have neither money nor credit, and are in great distress. Discontent prevails among all classes, and all suffer alike. The Khedive is at the end of his resources, and the Mussulmans would be perfectly content if England should take possession of the country,

THE “HONEST" MONEY LEAGUE.

A National-Bank Swindle. Half a dozen national-bank officers, and a few money-shavers at Milwaukee and Chicago, have organized what they call “The HardMoney League,” which is to be addressed as the “Honest-Money League of Chicago.” This organization, like the Bankers’ Association, is a fraud. Its object is to swindle the public. It has so little faith in its own honesty that it finds it necessary to herald itself as “honest,” well knowing that the organization is created to deceive the people, cheat the public, and propagate the old lies by which hard money has so long enslaved labor, crippled industry and bankrupted nations. I propose to take up each of the resolutions through which it appeals to the public, and dissect its fallacies, its cheats, its frauds and its lies, hanging the guilt of its purpose on the gibbet of public opinion, for men to stare at. These wise Shylocks unanimously adopted as the platform of their principles: “ Opposition to all paper inflation and consequent depreciation. In favor of coin and paper of equal value and equal purchasing power, and convertible into each other at the will of the holder.” Here is concentrated, as the basis, as much bosh, utterly without meaning or definition, as hard-money impudence could well crowd into five lines. Opposition to all paper inflation and consequent depreciation ! This, as applied to the present condition of affairs, is about the coolest piece of red-shield impudence ever undertaken to be designated as principles. For six years we have had nothing but contraction. Our own money, through foreign and Wall street influence, has been robbed from the people and burned, for the sole purpose of making money dear. Every man who has education enough to read, and brains enough to know that withdrawing circulation and burning it is contraction, knows that we have had the exact opposite of inflation. And that we have no depreciation is proved by the fact, printed and heralded every day from a thousand presses in every quarter of the nation, that our paper money has constantly appreciated from a point when, as compared with tbe fictitious value of gold, it stood as 100 to 247—that is, one dollar in gold would buy $2.47 in greenbacks—to where it stands to-day, but 1 per cent, below g»ld. And those differences have always been based upon the fictitious value of gold, not its real value. For nothing but the absolute inability and impossibility of gold to perform the offices of money gave it a fictitious value. No man dare say that the Government of the United States, in the darkest hour of the Rebellion, was not sound in its credit, honest in its faith and reliable in its resources; and that in its entirety of property, honor, credit, and faith, it was rot worth as much, as a measure of value," as one of its inferior products. To say so is to lie and cheat and defraud the people. Gold and silver were not to be had. Usurers had bid them to make tyrants of them, and we had to yield to these tyrants, or give up the ship, or find a better, a safer, or more reliable money. We found it in the greenback. There has never been an nour . when its issue was inflated beyond our necessities; never a day it has not appreciated since the people knew that they were the money of the people; never a day that it has not teen worth more than specie; and nothing but the repudiating halter hung round the neck' and printed on the back of the greenback, “ Not receivable for revenue duties or for interest on the public debt," has kept them from being at a premium above gold. It is false, then, to say that we have had and have an inflated currency. It is equally false to say it was, by consequence of inflation, depreciated. A cause which is driven to announce a lie as the principle of its action needs to call its adherents “honest," for no one else will. These honest-money men resolve: “First. — Theindustrial interests of the country, and consequently the welfare and happiness of the i eople, require stability in the standard of value and uniformity in circulating mediums of exchange.” There is not a doubt but what the people require stability in the standard of value and uniformity in their circulating medium. It is for this reason they demand the greenback; for this reason they demand national ’.esources, national stability, national responsibility, instead of individual liability, on a pretended gold basis, which has eternally failed whenever it has been called for. Gold and silver are held by the few. The few control them, and the few make them scarce or plenty, just as suits their greed. A pint measure can’t fill the office of a hogshead, nor can gold and silver give us a stable currency. The quantity of coin is as inadequate as the pint measure. Haid money resolves: “Second. —The experience of all civilized and commercial nations proves that gold and silver possess stability of value in a greater degree than any other commodities, and are, therefore the best standard of value, and in connection with paper representatives convertible into them on demand, the only safe and uniform circulating medium.” This is a fallacy tyrants have lived on since the flcod ; but it is so mixed with truth as to readilv deceive the unthinking. Admit gold and silver possess value. They are products of labor. So are wheat and corn and cotton, and all the tndless products oi our country. It is false that coin is stable in value. Nothing has varied so much ; and its utter inadequacy in amount makes it the most dangerous, the most unreliable, and the most tyrannical measure of value that it is possible to adopt. England had to discard it in 1694 or lose her liberties. She had to adopt her own credit in the notes of the Bank of England from 1796 to 1822, or be swept from the nations of the earth. In 1825, in 1848, and in 1857, the attempt to rely on gold cost her more than her present national debt. The paper of the Bank ot England saved England. * France, in 1789, 1830, 1848, and 1871, and to this day, has had to discard coin or lose her national existence. She had to adopt her own credit, her own paper money, or lose her liberties. She trusted herself, and is to-day, financially, the most stable, reliable, and prosperous government in the civilized world. The United States in the Revolution would have been crushed by the Hessians of George 111. if we had been forced to rely on gold. From 1811 to 1816 we should have been crushed as a power if we had trusted to gold. In the Mexican war we conquered Mexico, liberated California, and established the vigor and energy of our arms on our treasury notes. They won the battles, they discovered California. From 1861 to 1865 there was not gold enough in the country to pay for our soldiers’ boots. Silver there was none. We should have been enslaved by slavery, lampooned and derided by England, and whipped as a people and as a nation if we had been forced to fight our battles with gold. Gold was the tyrant to enslave us. It would have starved our armies; it would have allowed our army to have gone naked, unsheltered, without hospitals, into inhospitable graves, if it had had the power to control. It is a cheat; it is a fraad; it is a lie ! It flies the moment it is demanded. It disappears the hour you require it. It is a cut-throat usurer. So much for its “ stability” and “measure of values” in “the experience of all civilized nations.” But these “honest-money” men resolve : “ Third.— lt is the duty of the Government to establish and maintain a sound and uniform currency system. The establishment and maintenance of such a system was one of the ends contemplated by the founders of our Government in framing the constitution, and, to secure the advantages of such a system, requires only a firm adherence to tbe principles and spirit of the constitution.” For a resolution this is a good one. We agree with every word of it The Government has established and maintained the greenback and the national currency system. They established it as a constitutional measure. Just such as the founders of the Government, in framing the constitution, contemplated; and we have only to adhere to the greenback to keep sacred the obligation of constitutional liberty. Let me prove what 1 say. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Benjamin Franklin and George Washington sustained the. treasury-credit system. Hamilton, with his clear head, his great brain, his comprehensive intellect, felt and saw at once that we must have a currency of our own—a currency which was free from the intrigues, interferences and impudence of foreign control. His report on the United States bank and on American coinage comprehended and expounded the phi’o ophy and settled the principle, Madison, and Jay,, and Franklin, and Jefferson and Washington agreed with him. Jefferson said : “ Treasury bills, bottomed on taxes, bearing or bearing interest, may

be found necessary, and, when thrown into circulation, will take the place of so much gold and silver. Bank paper must be suppressed, and the circulation be restored to the nation, to whom it belongs." Mr. Calhoun declared that the Government must establish a paper credit, totally separate from gold and silver, as a medium of circulation, based on ite power of taxation, the resources of its people and their products. Mr. Webster fully concurred with Mr. Calhoun. Mr. Olay was of the same opinion. Judge Story, Judge Kent, Chief Justice Jay, Marshall and Chase —commencing with our constitutional history and coming down to the Rebellion, when it was a question of national existence—have each and all settled the constitutional power. The exercise of the power was so essential that we could not exist without it. Public welfare demanded it. Public prosperity cannot exist without it. Labor s dependent upon it. Industry is its child. Independence cannot exist without it. It has saved our national life. The people created it. The people will sustain it. It is stability itself. “ But,” say these half-dozen Shylocks of the West (where they could not, to save their pecunious souls, get a corporal’s guard of the people to sustain them), by way of resolving : “Fourth.— The constitution contemplates only the use of precious metals as a standard of value. These principles were strictly observed by the Government until a great national emergency comnelled a temporary departure from them. That departure was solemnly and repeatedly declared to be only temporary and only justifiable on the ground of extreme necessity in time of national peril, and most positive assurances had been given by the legislative and executive departments of the Government that’when the exigencies of the war should pass away the Government would- as soon as practicable return to the constitutional and stable metallic standard and measure of value.’’ I have just shown that the first assumption of this fourth proposition is false. Our whole history is a lie, or it is a lie. We have never relied on coin. Five or six. times we have tested it, but we always found it was wanting. It wasn’t there. In 1816, 1825, 1837, 1842, 1857, 1861, and all the time since, it has been a minus quantity—a fraud, a delusion. Any basis that can not stand a test is a false basis. Gold and silver have never stood a test. They can’t; there is not enough of them to do it. In ’6l the Government would have been totally swamped if it had not bottomed' its circulation on taxes and national credit. Balky horses won’t work ; they always stop at the foot of the bilk A basis that always fails is no basis. Currency bottomed on taxes and national credit in the United States can not fail. It is impossible. It is stable as government and as certain as time. These wise heads (honest hard-money Shylocks) resolve: * ‘ Fifth. — The emergency that made it necessary for the Government to force upon the people an irredeemable paper currency having passed away, to now perpetuatejthat system as a permanent financial policy would be a violation of the spirit of the constitution and of the spirit of the laws under whi«h our war currency was issued, and, as the experience of the world has proved, would necessarily be followed by still further depreciation, to the great injury of all legitimate business and to the suffering of the laboring classes upon whom the evils of depreciated currency inevitably fall most heavily.” The Government never forced a dollar on any man. Everybody but knaves and usurers welcomed the greenback as our savior. It came when the battle for life and dqath came. It fed our soldiers. It made our guns. It clothed and paid our army. It built our transports. It made our powder. It saved us from having our throats cut when gold and silver gave out. I stand by the currency that stood by us. Itapbold the nation’s money that saved the nation. If it was created by the emergencies of the war it was because gold and silver failed to answer the emergencies of the war. They deserted us in the time of need. They were tried and -were found wanting. They were traitors to liberty. We will depend on the traitor coins' no more. No ; never more. We have national credit—the grandest in resources, tho purest in faith and the moat abiding in its stability the world ever knew. The greenback represents it. The nation gave it birth in its hour of trial. It cradled it in the blood of rebellion. It chris • tened it with liberty. It sanctified it by victory. It will stand by it as long as the nation stands. The man or men (hard money, imperialist, honest or dishonest) who say that the greenback has or can depreciate know 'hat they deliberately fal-ify the truth. Its basisls the $40,00'), 000,000— making S4O of resources for every dollar issued, even if we had what the necessities and prosperity of the people demand—but now $65 for every dollar issued. Indeed, the yearly accumulated profits ofi the nation, which go into the accumulated wealth of the nation, are larger" by $500,00o,00() yearly than all the currency demanded by the people. The nation may die out, its population may diminish, but the national liability and property.cannot be exported or dissipated or exhausted so as to endanger the absolute security of the greenback. To talk about depreciation is worse than false. It is wicked, it is infamous, and these “honest,” hard-money bank monopolists know it. But they resolve : “ /Sixth— National honor and both national and individual prosper ty demand a return to the standards of value recognized in the constitution, and, with our present paperfcurrency almost at par with coin, to delay such return and authorize new issues of irredeemable paper would only add to further depreciation, until, as in all past experiments of the kind, paper will become worthless, leaving us without any reliable circulating medium, anil' entailing destruction on all industry and misery and poverty on the masses of the people.” This is the weakest delusion of red-shield twaddle, this appeal to national honar to create national dependence cn usurers and moneygamblers, ever invented. It is like old Shylock with the scales in hand, sharpening his knife, impatient to cut out the pound of flesh—the very heart-blood of Antonio, when he says: “ The pound of flesh is mine. I have bought it, and in honor you must give it me.” ’Tis mine, tnd I will have it. If you deny me, fie upon your law; There is no force in the decrees of Venice. I stand for judgment. Answer: Shall I have it ? This was the same kind of national honor Shylock demanded that his hard-money followers now demand. It was their honor to demonetize silver by a contemptible fraud, and so make resumption impossible; and then, by a baser fraud—a fraud which, if they could have succeeded, would have banKrupted onehalf the nation, and, by forced sales and collections, have robbed the debtor class of their property at a quarter of its value—getting a forced law of resumption. They got it. And then these honest men feloniously went to work to make the bonds, payable in legal money, payable in gold. It was a swindle; but they were guilty of it. It was an attempt to steal hundreds of millions from the taxpayers to place it in the pockets of these honest usurers. This is the kind of honor they prate about. It is the thief crying “Stop thief!" And, thank Heaven, the people have made up their minds to stop the thieving felons from carrying out their games ! They have been the chief ornaments in the train crying “Rag baby!” and “Contraction!” They have plunged the countiy in doubt, in misery, and in idleness, and now charge the crimes their own selfish greed has brought upon the land to the money which has saved it. They resolve :

"Seventh.— We have now an abundance of money to supply all the wants of trade. Our paper currency is rapidly approaching the uniformity and itxbility of the coin standards. If left, free from further legislative change it will soon, by force of natural laws, go into general circulation, and general confidence and prosperity will be restored to the country.” They reiterate the cry of Wall street and Boston capitalists that “ We have an abundance, of money to supply the wants of trade.” If they know enough to be disputed, they know this statement to be false. They know that contraction has been going on’ here (precisely as it went on in England in 1819,1825,1847- 8 and’ 1858), under the alarm created by the approach of tbe time for “ specie payment”—a cry which cost England at her four crises more than her national debt, and yet ended in the acknowledged incapacity of England to pay' in specie. Centuries have proved the fact that specie cannot be relied upon as a basis, and that the moment it is understood that it is to be. demanded contraction commences—just as it* did in 1870, going on and on until the country - has less than $8 per capita of circulatiQn. France has S4O per capita. France is prosperous. We have SB, and 3,000,000 of our laboring population are without labor, homes—almost without bread. The Sheriff is the only man with more business than he can attend to. Money is plenty in the hands of the capita ists, but all faith is dead, all credit is gone, ami one might us wall undertake to stop the plunging waters of Niagara as to attempt to borrow unless he can give United States stocks, or their equivalent, as security. The fact is, capital is determined to bulldoze the people into doinn as it bids. It says, •* become my slaves; anq

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then, if you will give us security which suits us (like the pound of flesh), we will accommodate you, and not without.” Money is the tyrant. All tyrants shall be put down. The people swear it. The people mean it. Finally, the “Honest-Money League” resolve: • ‘Eighth -We invite all our fellow-citizens, who concur in these views of the nature of money and the medium of exchange and the functions of the Government in relation thereto, to unite with us in an effort to maintain the honor and welfare of our common country, and in a protest against the adoption of an irredeemable paper-money policy, which would certainly, sooner or later, be followed by all the evils of fluctuation and depreciation, ending only in ultimate repudiation and general financial min.” That is they, like the spider, invite the fly into their parlor. They invite the 40,000,000 American people, with an accumulated capital of $40,000,000,000, and with an annual profit of $2,000,000,000, to admit that they are slaves to $200,000,000 of specie. They invite the American people to acknowledge that they are fools, and not competent to create a financial policy of their own. They invite them to become the subjects of the Rothschilds and German Jews, who hold our bonds ; and to permit them to dictate to us what shall be money, and how much we shall have. It is enough to make an American’s blood boil with indignation to hear these money-bags, and panderers to gold kings propose that the United States shall yield up its independence and walk into the Jew's parlor to be chained with usury, hungered by want, and be killed by the oppression of the money power. The American people will not do it. Revolution, anarchy, bloodshed—any disaster is better than financial slavery. The greenback is the money of the people. It redeems itself, precisely as the gold.dollar or the silver dollar. It is the nation, and therefore not to be swapped off. It is sovereignty in money, and therefore has no superior. It is E Pluribus Unum — may God bless and protect it! One word more: This Hard-Money League originated, as it appears, in the West, where it cannot, with drum and fife, get out 500 adherents in the States it pretends to represent. It is a mere blowing the wind to keep up courage. Its real origin can easily be traced to the Bank Association, that league of cormorants, who are stealing $30,000,000 of bounty annually from the overtaxed people; that league of monopolists which, with $135,000,000,000 of surplus profits now in reserve to battle liberty and defy government, proclaim through their Jay Gould organ, that “No act of Congress can overcome or resist the decision of the Amer - can Bankers' Association." They lie. They know they lie. Congress has just told them so. If Congress cannot resist them the people can. And if Congress does not cut off the last dollar of their stealing monoply, the people will—fairly if they can, forcibly if they must.

STEPHEN D. DILLAYE.

J. Mad. Wells, on `the War-Path.

J. Madison Wells, President of th Louisiana Returning Board, writes to the Philadelphia Times, giving notice of his intention to bring snit for defamation against it on the ground that it has charged him wPh defalcation and receivieg stolen mules. His note reads: New Obleans, March 29, 1878. To the Editor of the Philadelphia Times Newspaper, Philadelphia, Pa : Before instituting suit against you for defa’nation, I send my reply to your scurrilous article, as it fully fits your case. J. Madison Wells. Accompanying this letter is the following card : New Oble »nh, Feb. 21, 1878. To the Public: The reports going the rounds of the newspapers of my being a defaulter, and an accomplice in a disreputable mob transaction, comes from the fruitful imagination of the brains of the progeny of a harlot, and it would seem that those engag.-d in their reproduction are but worthy scions matured in a similar bed of Infamy.

J. MADISON WELLS.

The publication to ■which Wells referred was a satirical editorial in defense of the theory that Wells is insane.

Half-Breed Buffaloes.

The apprehensions hitherto entertained regarding tbe untamable nature of the buffalo, and that the characteristics of this branch of the bovine family would be certain to’crop out through indefinite crossings, appears to be totally groundless. The buffalo, or more properly the American bison, is being used extensively in portions of the State of Nebraska, bordering on the wild plains of the far West, for stock purposes, and half and quarter-bred females of the bison family yield an abundant supply of rich milk. A remarkable feature connected with this cross of the bison with domestic cattle is the fact that the color of the bison, and the majority of its distinguishing characteristics, disappear after successive crossings. Its outward conformation is also, in process of time, in a great degree lost sight of. The hunch or lump of flesh covering the long spinous process of the dorsal vertebrae becomes diminished with each successive cross, and will, doubtless, disappear entirely as the original type becomes merged in the domestic animal.— Turf, Field and Farm.

Terrible Realization of a Dream.

The family of Mrs. McConnell, of this town, have suffered in a heart-rending manner during the past fortnight. Jesse McConnell, brakeman, was killed ten days ago at Harwich by falling between the cars, and was brought home terribly mangled. The mother took it to heart., and it was feared she would lose her reason. After partially recovering, she dreamed she saw two coffins, in which were her two sons, and fearing for the safety of the other, also a brakeman, she telegraphed to him, asking if he was all right, and wishing him to come home. He replied that he was all right and would be home in the morning, and intended to quit railroading. On his return trip he was crushed to death coupling cars at Brigden. The body was brought home the night before last, and buried yesterday. The two daughters are almost helpless, and it is not expected the mother will recover her reason. The deepest sympathy is felt for the family in their terrible calamity, and is being manifested in a tangible way by the citizens generally.— St. Ihomas Cor. Toronto Mail.

Canadian Statesmen at Fisticuffs.

In the Canadian House of Commons, while Mr. Bunster, member for British Columbia, was speaking, Mr. Cheval, a Canadian member, began playing a jewsharp, and imitating the cry of a cat in distress. The British Columbian became enraged, and dared the owner of the musical instrument to meet him outside. They met shortly afterward in one of the corridors, when the hirsute British Columbian struck Cheval a savage. )>low on the side of the head. The plucky little Frenchman seized his burly assailant by the beard With his left hand and vigorously struck out with his right. The noise attracted the members, who ruSehd out and separated the pugilists, the Frenchman carrying off as his trophy a huge bunch of Bunster’s hair. Bunster is the member who brought in the resolution that no one whose hair was over five and a half inches long should .be employed pn the Canada Pacific railway.— Ottawa (Canada) telegram. Clock-work has been successfully applied as a motor to sewing-machines by a mechanician of Vienna. It can be wound up in a few minuteß, and it will run for several hours,- its speed being meanwhile fully p.Jlder the control of the operator, •.

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BILLS BEFORE CONGRESS.

Mail Contracts.— Representative Money offers a bill to regulate the contracts for carrying mails. It provides that when any contractor shall sublet his contract the Postmaster General shall can cel such contract and make a new contract at rates not to exceed the old one, and defines subletting as the employment by any contractor or any person to perform the service at his own expense and care, no part of the service being borne by such contractor. Specie Resumption. — Congressman Stephens has introduced a bill for the financial relief of the country and to facilitate tile return to specie payments without injuriously affecting the commercial business of the people. It directs the Secretary of the Treasury when the amount of coin and bullion in the treasury shall exceed $100,000,000 to redeem the present outstanding United States legal-tender notes when presented in sums of SI,OOO and upward with coin, full standard value. Abandoned Lands.— Senator McMillan has introduced a bill providing that it shall be lawful for homestead settlers, where the crops were destroyed or seriously injured by grasshoppers in the year 1876, »nd who left their lands in said year, to return thereto within three months from the enactment of this bill and perfect their settlement, provided that no other settlement shall have been made thereon, and no right or interest acquired therein by any other person since the date of abandonment. Civil-Service Reform. — Representative Harrison, of Illinois, has introduced , a bill, in the lower house of Congress,-to provide for a more efficient civil service in the United Slates. It would,’ if passed, create a new department in the United States Government, to bp called the Department of Civil Service, to consist of five Commissioners, who shall be appointed by the President. It would be the duty of these Commissioners to prescribe the qualifications requisite for appointment to the several branches of the civil service, and to examine all applicants for appointment. The bill further provides that no assessment shall be levied upon any officer of the United States for political purposes, and the payment of any such assessment shall be cause for immediate dismissal from the service.

A Consulting Naturalist. — Senator Edmunds has introduced a bill providing for the appointment of a Consulting Naturalist to be attached to the Department of Agriculture to investigate the following subjects : “The better preservation of army and naval stores; the cause, prevention and removal of infectious and parasitic diseases of men and animals, such as diphtheria, Texan-cat-tle disease and hog cholera, and to conduct such other investigations as may lead to the destruction of the cotton worm, the weevil, the Colorado beetle, the grasshopper and the curculio.” He is also to set on foot investigations looking to the efficient preservation of butter, cheese, eggs and fruit. This new officer is to be’appointed by the President, subject to confirmation by the Senate.

Anti-Lock- Lp Bill.— The bill introduced in the House by Representative Bright provides that, if any national bank shall aid and abet any person or corporation, or, if any officer of such bank shall certify any check, having reasonable cause to believe that the check is to be used to aid and abet any person or corporation in any attempt to withdraw from circulation orretain legaltender notes cf the United Slates in any bank or elsewhere, for tbe purpose of raising the /ate of interest on money, or to affect the price of any article to be sold, or for causing any change in the money market by either of such means, such national bank shall forfeit its charter, and the officer so offending shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for five years and a fine not let s than SIO,OOO, and it shall be the duty of the Comptroller of the Currency to prosecute any violation of this act before any court of the United States having competent jurisdiction to try such offenses. Fractional Currency.— Mr. Butler, of Massachusetts, has introduced a bill to “supply convenient currency with which the minor business transactions of the people may be done.” It provides for the issuing of 25 and 50 cents in fractional currency, and that any person paying into the treasury legal-tender notes or coin should receive such amount of fractional currency as he may desire, and directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay out one-sixth of all payments made from the treasury in redemption of national-bank notes by the United State legal-tend er notes of the denominations of sl, $2, $3 and $5.

Manitoba Weather.

They have genuine cold weather in Manitoba, where the thermometer marks 30 degrees below zero for days together, and frequently drops to 50. A correspondent says that what is called a poudre day is exceedingly dangerous for the traveler—not because the tempera ture is then lowest, but because the air is filled with fine snow, so that sight is entirely obscured at a distance of a few feet. A. wind sifts the snow over the paths, obliterating all guiding marks, and the chilled traveler is lost. The almost unconquerable desire to rest is not the least important part of the danger. The coldest days are still “so magically still that all the usual t ounds of nature seem to be suspended; when the ice cracks miles away with a report like a cannon ; when the breaking of a twig reaches one like the falling of a tree ; when one’s own footsteps, clad in soft moccasins, come back from the yielding snow like the crunching of an iron heel through gravel; when every artificial sound is exaggerated a hundred fold, and nature seems to start at every break m the intense silence. The atmosphere is as clear as crystal, and the range of vision seems to be unlimited.” On such days a nose freezes with wonderful quickness, and it is reckless to expose that organ for many minutes. *

Laughter.

Laughter very often shows the bright side of man. It brings out his happier nature, and shows of- what sort of stuff he is really made. Somehow we feel as if we never thoroughly knew a man until we had heard him laugh. We do not feel “at home” with him till then. We do not mean a mere, snigger, but a good, hearty, round laugh. The solemn, sober visage, like a Sunday’s dress, tellsmothing of the real man. He may be verysilly or very profound, very cross or very jolly. Let us hear him laugh, and we can decipher him at once, and tell how his heart beats An exchange asks: “(Jan we drink with impunity ?” Certainly you -can, if Impunity invites you, .. •