Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1878 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. It is said that a formidable conspiracy exists in Constantinople for the overthrow of the ftultsn, and that it will bo carried into effect ms soon os the Russian army is withdrawn. A fire in Manchester, England, last week, destroyed $260,000 worth of property. Much importance is attached in London to the fact that the Russian Minister to England has gone to St. Petersburg. The fact is construed as favorable to a satisfactory result of the pending negotiations. A Vienna dispatch states that anarchy reigns in the newly-annexed districts of Montenegro. The Albanians, Christians, and Moslems refuso submission to the Prince of Montenegro, and war may break out at any moment. It is reported that a portion of the Turkish garrison is to be withdrawn, in consideration of the removal of the Russian heacfqnaitenj a few miles further from Constantinople. The steamship Sardinia, of tb» Allan line, was destroyed by liro in the harbor of Londonderry, Eug., on the 10th mst. The tire was caused by an explosion, of generated gas. from the effects of wbi jft several persons were killed and many worked, A number of Hteerago passengers wfy o cu t off from help by the ilamos, which burst out immediately after the explosion, and lost their lives. Ex-President Grant has arrived iu Paris on hi* travels. A number of heavy business failures are reported from London. Pope Leo is ili with inflammation of t Jao liver. The city of Berlin lias been greatly -excited by an attempt upon the life of the Emperor William. As he was driving in tho avenue Uuter den Linden an assi.ssin lired two shots into his carriage without effect. The would-be murdorer was arrested. His name is Hoedol. a tinsmith by trade. An accomplice, one Kruegor, a laborer, was also ariosted.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

East. In the case of Oliver P. CummiDgvvs. the Grand Trunk railroad, tho jury gave a verdict of $15,708. Cummings was an engineer -and was injured by a collision with a wild engine. The Mayor of New York b us appointed Georgo Jonos, publisher of goo Times Police Commissioner for that city. Luther Red field, lfVoe President of the Tarrytown (N. Y.) Bank, has been indicted for perjury for making false roports to tho Comptroller, Alexander Barton, ex-cashier of tho I 1 .shhill (N. Y.) National Bank, has been indicted for embezzlement. A party of Russian nnval officers arrived ia Now York a few dsys ago. They were interwiowed by the irrepressible reporter, and, in • answer to inquiries regarding the mission of '“he Cimbria to America, stated that she had ►on board a number of Russian naval officers who are to take command of a certain number of privateers, which thoy intend to purchase and fit out, if thoy cau find suitable vessels in this country. The oil and ohemical mill of Shoemaker & Co., Philadelphia, has been destroyed by Are. .Loss, $160,000. Two more claimants to a slice of the groat A. T. Stewart estate have begun suit in the New York courts for the estate’s partition. Jason Scribner, a small farmer near Augusta. Me., killed three of his children, and itben attempted suicide, his wife and oldest obibl escaping him. Edwin W. Hall, ex-President of the Merchants’ National Bank, Whitehall, N. Y., ' has been arrosted on tho charge of embezzling of funds.

Went, The South Chicago Woolen Mills have been dowtroyod by fire. Lose, $150,000. A dangerous counterfeit note of the denomination of SIOO on the Merchants’ National Bank of Bedford, Mass., lias been put in circulation in the Western States. The existence of a formidable whisky ring, which bids fair to rival in the extent of its frauds the famous St. Louis ring, has been unearthed at Cincinnati. Frauds to the amount cf over $1,250,000 have already been discovered. It is alleged that Gen. Weitzel, Internal ltevenue Collector at Cincinnati, is badly mixed up in the crooked work. The city of Cleveland, Ohio, had its long-anticipated “wedding in high life” on the 9th inst. Hon. J. Donald Cameron, United States Senator from Pennsylvania, was married to Miss Sherman, a niece of the Secretary of the Treasury and of the General of the Army. The Pawtucket (R. I.) tragedy was re-enacted at Roskport, Ind., the other evening. A performer attempted the feat of shooting an apple from the head of a woman, the aim misoa tried,and a little boy was shot through the hoad and killed.

Lightning has at last descended upon the Cincinnati whisky ring. By orders from Washington a number of distilleries and rectifying establishments that have been defrauding the rovenue were seized last week, and the owners placed under arrest. Gon. Weitzel, Bevenue Collector, has been requested to step down and out. There were thirty commercial failures in Chicago daring April, 1878, with liabilities aggregating $518,000, against eighteen failures, with $218,000 liabilities, for the corresponding month in 1877. South. The band of highwaymen that has for a long time been engaged in robbing trains on the Texas railroads has been broken up, and nearly all of the gang are in jail. Charles Morghn, of New Orleans,owner of the Morgan line of steamships running between New York and New Orleans, and prominently identified with the Texas and Louisiana railways, is dead. His fortune is estimated at $10,000,000 or $12,000,000. Isaiah Evans, colored, was hanged for murder in the presence of 2,000 people, at Amite, La., on Friday, May 11. The Texas-cattle drive this season is estimated at 300,000 head. Three horse-thieves were hanged by vigilantes, a few days ago' fifty miles west of Caddo, Indian Ter. Porter Brown was hanged in Sabine parish, La., on the 11th inst., for the murder of Dr. Evans in March, 1877.

WASHINGTON NOTES.

Federal appointments: Ex-Gov. Lucius airchild, °f Wisconsin, to be Consul General to Pans; ex-Goy. S. B. Packard, of Louisiana, T^^° n r to Liver P°°l; Horace E. James, of Indiana, Consul at Turk’s Island. The House Committee on Education nd Labor have agreed upon the bill ™*irm C

The Democratic sentinel.

JAS W. McEWEN, Editor.

VOLUME JI.

a misdemeanor for the master of a vessel to take more than fifteen Chinese passengers, male or female, to the United States after Jan. 1, 1879. The Syndicate has taken $25,000,000 of the $50,000,000 new 4% per cent, bonds which it contracted for. The Secretary of War has appointed the following visitors to the West Point Military Academy at the annual commencement in Juno: Prof. A. 8. Venable, University of Virginia ; the Hon. John C. Itoper, Boston •, the Rev. F. B. Wheeler, Poughkeepsie, N. ’i.; David A. Wells, Connecticut; Capt. 8. Franklin, United States Davy ; the Rev. J.ames Lewis, of Howell, Mich., and Brig. Ger„ o. C. United States army. , During President Hr fl r *t year in office he granted 245 par'' jWI& , Following is a of the amount of outstanding circ of legal-tender notes and fractional c jrr**iey. United States Betas, new issue, ; United State* notes, series series ' x sn, $39,516,182 ; Upi««l States notes, seiiea 1875, $134,554,255 ; United States notes, Series 1878, SBOI,IOO. Total United States notes, $346,081,016 ; fractional currency, $16,804,981; grand total, $363,485,997.

POLITICAL POINTS.

Indiana municipal elections: Indianapolis Total voto, 13,180 ; Republicans, 6,220 ; Democrats, 5,748 ; Nationals, 1,212. Lafayette—The Republicans elect four Councilmen and the Democrats two; total vote, 2,783, of which the Nationals cast 465. South Bond —Republican candidate for Mayor elected; Council a tie. Fort Wayne—Democrats carried seven wards, Republicans two. Terre Haute —Nationals elected the Mayor; Council stands four Democrats, one Republican, one National. New Albany—Republicans chose a majority of the Councilmen. Richmond—Republicans elect four Councilmen, Democrats one. Jeffersonville—Four Democratic and one Republican Councilmen elected. Greencastle—Entire Republican ticket elected. Logansport—Democrats elect nearly all the Councilmen. Kokomo - —Two Democratic and two Republican Counriimen elected. The Nationals of Pennsylvania met in State Convention at Philadelphia last w eek, and nominated 8. R. Mason for Governor, Christian Sherer for Lieutenant Governor, and James L. Wright for Secretary of Internal Affairs. The convention was largely attended, every county in the State being represented. The platform adopted generally ro-enun-ciates the principles adopted in the National Convention at Toledo In February. Hon. Stanley Matthews, of Ohio, the present United States Sena' or, whoso term expiresin 1879, has written a letter, in which he declines a nomination for Representative in Congress from tho Second district of that State.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS.

Gen. J ohn C. Fremont is in indigent circumstances, and petitions havo been forwarded to Washington asking that his name beincluded in tho bill placing Gen. Shields on tho retired list of the army. Advices from Moxico state that an unsuccessful attempt was made by the revolutionists to overturn the Diaz Government in the State of Chihuahua. A number of the conspirators were arrested. Grain in sight in the States and Canada: Wheat, 7,923,000 bushels; corn, 9,768,000 bushels; oats, 1,770,000 bushels; rye, 570,000 bushels; barley, 1,676,000 bushels. Look out for counterfeit SIOO bills on the Revere National Bank of Boston, Mass., and the Second National Bank of Wilkesbarre, Pa.

FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.

Monday, May 6.—Senate.—The House bill to forbid the further retirement of United States legal-tender notes wag brought before the Senate, and temporarily laid aside... .The Pension and Indian Appropriation bills were reported from the respective committees and placed on the calendar.... The bill to repeal the Bankrupt law' was before the Senate, but was laid aside and the bill to repeal the Specie Resumption act was taken up. Mr. Gordon, of Georgia, spoke at length in favor of revealing the 1aw.... Mr. McDonald presented a petition signed by a large number of persons praying that Gi n. John C. Fremont be included iH the bill now pending to place Gen. James Shields on the retired list of the army. Referred. House. —An effort was made in the House to suspend the rules and pass the bill reducing the tax on tobacco from 24 to 16 cents, but it failed. The yeas were 120 to 115 nays—not two-thlrdß.... Mr. Thompson introduced a resolution declaring that all propositions to change or modify the Tariff law arc injurious and detrimental to the general welfare of the people, and that it is unwiso to waste time at present in the discussion of the Wood Tariff bill. Referred to the committee of the wbolo on the state of the Unicn... .Mr. Jones introduced a bill providing for the appointment of a commission to have charge of the investigation of the oontagiouß diseases of farm stock, their causes, means of prevention, cure, etc.... The following bills were also introduced and referred: By Mr. Fort, to Indemnify Illinois and other States in regard to swamp lands; by Mr. Phillips, to enable soldiers of the late war to preempt land to the extent of 160 acres; by Mr. Morrison, to amend the law relative to a tax on native wine.... The House spent much time upon the bill establishing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia.

Tuesday, , May 7. — Senate. —Mr. Cockrell moved to take up the House bill to forbid the further retirement of United States legal-tender notes, which was read a first time yesterday, and said that he moved to take it up now, so that it might be read a second time. The motion was agreed to—yeas, 33 ; nays, 25. The bill having been read a second time, Mr. Morrill moved that it be referred to the Committee on Finance. Fending the discussion, the morning hour expired, and consideration of the Pension Appropriation bill was resumed. The bill, after some discussion, was read a third time and passed.... The Indian Appropriation bill was called up and discussed.... Mr. Voorhees presented a petition of citizens of Camden,N.J., favoring the passage of a law making six hours a legal day’s work for all workmen employed by the Government... .The Senate, in executive session, confirmed the nomination of Sanford 8. Blodgett, of New York, as Consul at Prescott, vice C. 8. Sims, recalled. There was a long discussion over the nomination of D. C. Baker, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Austin (Tex.) District, but it went over without action. House.—After three hours’ discussion the House passed, without calling the yeas and nays, the bill establishing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia. The bill provides that the General Government shall pay 60 per cent of the expenses.... The House, by the close vote of 109 yeas to 108 nays, decided to take up the Wood Tariff bill, and Mr. Bankß delivered a long speech in onposition thereto. 1

Wednesday, May B.—Senate.—Mr. Cockrell called up the House bill to forbid the further retirement of legal-tender notes, und it was on his motion referred to the Finance Committee... .Mr. Morgan submitted a concurrent resolution touching tne relations of the United States with Mexico. ....The Indian Appropriation bill was discussed. House.—The Speaker announced the Committee on Census as follows: Cox of New York, Mills, Stenger, Digon, Smith of Georgia. Carlisle, Hatcher, Ballon, Jorgensen, Ryan, and Williams of Oregon .... The Committee on Elections reported in the contested-election cases from the Second District of South Carolina, the Sixth District of Mississippi, and Oregon, declaring the sitting members, Cain (colored), Republican; Chalmers, Democrat, and Williams, Republican, entitled to their seats. The report was adopted.... The House discussed the Tariff bill and the bill to regulate inter-State commerce. Thursday, May 9. Senate. After the transaction of some routine business of an unimportant nature, the Senate went into secret session ** «!^ alderati i >n °* the hill for the payment of the Mexican awards of 1868, and certain alleged fraudulent claims connected therewith. The doors were thrown open, the bill read a third time and passed.... The Bankrupt-Repeal bill was then taken up, and a long discussion ensued touching the date at which the repeal shall go into operation.... The Indian Appropriation bill was ; assed. Hoube.—The House passed a joint resolution for the enforcement of the Eight-Hour law for employee

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MAY 17,1878.

in all departments of the Government.... A bill was passed to restore certain lands ’in lowa to settlement under the Homestead 1aw.... Teter Cooper, who was In the city on his way to South Carolina, was voted the privileges ol the f100r... The Tariff bill was taken up, and Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, addressed the House in opposition to the bill. Mr. Harris, of Georgia, followin a speech advocating the measure. -*d

Fbiday, May 10.—Senate. —Tb' adopted the House Joint resolution * Senate 000 of the appropriation for ♦’ - |3o ’* Washington National M r •«* ecmpietion of tne foundation of that -eminent to strengthen the consideration of structure, and then resumed Bankrupt If - the bill to modify or repeal the ary 1, Mr. Dawes advocated fixing Janufeo* vi». as the time for the repeal going into es- ... Mr. McCreery made a short but spirited speech m favor of immediate repeal, and Mr. Hoar spoke In favor of the Bankrupt law and against its repeal. Sept. 1 was finally agreed upon as tne date for the repeal, and the bill in that shape passed.

House. —A bill was passed providing that the notice of contest, under the Pre-emption, Homestead tmd Timber-Culture laws, must be printed in newspapers in the county where such contest lies. ..Beveral committee reports of a private nature were presented.... A bill for the relief of Richard Heater, of Virginia, for stores and supplies taken by the United States army during the tate war, led to a hfalrd pafUsan dlscuesion. The claim was finally. allowed-.-:-. .Mr. Durham, from the Coinmitteo on the Department of Justice, reported a bill regulatiDg tbe salaries of United States District Attorneys. It fixes the salaries of such officers at from $2,000 to $5,000, except the salary of the District Attorney for the Southern District of New York, which is fixed at SIO,OOO, and provides that the fees and perquisites heretofore received fey those officers shall be covered into the treasury. Saturday, May 11.— Senate. —Not in session. House.— The following bills were passed: To restore to the market certain lands in Utah ; for tho relief of settlers on public lands, providing that any person who shall plant and maintain for eight years ten acres of timber land shall be entitled to a patent for such quarter section; permitting Nebraska to cede certain territory to Missouri; providing for the sale of timber lands in California, Oregon, Washington Territory, Nevada and Colorado, in quantities not exceeding ICO acres to any one citizen, at a minimum price of $2.50 per acre, and nmkiDg it unlawful to cut any timber on public lands... .Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported a bill providing for tbe loan of SSOO to every person who shall settle on tho public lands under the Homestead law, the act to be in operation till $lO 090,0(0 has been expended. The bill was reported without recommendation, and referred to the committee of the wh01e.... Tho House had a long debate on Mr. Reagan’s bill to regulate inter-State transportation by railroads.

Our National Cemeteries.

Gen. D. B. Sacket, Inspector General of the Military Division of the Missouri, has just returned to Chicago from a tour among the national cemeteries in the South. He made the trip under orders from the President, and the cemeteries at New Orleans, Mobile, Baton Rouge, Port Hudson, Natchez, Vicksburg, Memphis and Mound City were embraced in his inspection. Gen. Sacket reports finding all the cemeteries in first-rate order. The one at Vicksburg is a magnificent necropolis. The citizens are proud of it, and strangers visiting the city are shown through it the first tliiug. It is beautifully terraced, and already three growths of grass have been mown from it this season. In a building on the grounds are preserved every article of value found on the persons of the thousands who fell victims to the siege of that city. In this collection are watches, finger-riDgs, coins, knives, locks of hair, and similar trinkets without number, and some of these may yet serve in enabling friends to identify the remains of their dead relatives. The General gathered complete statistics of the dead in all the cemeteries visited by him. He learned that the Clialmette Cemetery at New Orleans contains the remains of 12,131 soldiers, of which number 6,731 are known and 5,400 unknown. In the cemetery at Mobile only 841 bodies were buried, 749 of which are know n and 92 unknown. At Baton Rouge 2 ; 943 soldiers were buried, of wham 2,459 are known and 484 unknown. The necropolis at Port Hudson is packed full of the remains of darkies, who were led to the slaughter by some blundering General. The number interred there is 3,804, of which only 596 are marked “ known.” The grounds at Natchez contain 3,088 bodies, and of these the superintendent has the names

of only 308, the other 2,780 being recorded among the “unknown.” But the greatest collection of dead men’s bones is at Vicksburg, where 16,596 were buried, and of whom only 3,893 are known, the word “ unknown” being inscribed on the headstones of 12,703. At Memphis, of the 13,972 graves 5,755 contain “known” deposits and 8,817 unknown. There are 5,225 graves at Mound City, 111., and 2,463 of these contain soldiers who are knowm and 3,762 are marked unknown.

The Saber to Be Abolished.

The saber is about to be ruled outruf the cavalry regulation as a useless weapon for the soldier. It is found that soldiers do but little killing and not much wounding with the saber, and they are unhandy things to dangle at the side unless they are of use. The medical statistics of Germany show that, in the recent war with France,.out of 65,000 wounded, a little over 200 only were injured by the bayonet; out of 2,236 killed, 138 only had any signs of saber wounds. According to American statistics, out of 252,000 wounds received during the War of tbe Rebellion, 906 were given with the ’ 'ayonet. Gen. Benet, Chief of Ordnar Bureau, United States, says: “ In my mind there exists not a doubt that the days of the saber and bayonet are numbered, and that the only question to be decided is whether the time is not already at hand when they should be discarded.” Gens. Sherman and Sheridan are said to indorse the sentiment; if so, the days of the saber will come to an end.

A Human Monster.

A short time after the ship Ilio quitted Callao, Peru, the Captain discovered two stowaways on board and put them in irons. During the following night a Chilian, who had hung his hammock in the quarter of the ship where the prisoners were, accused one of them of having stolen his food. The accused explained that this was impossible* as his chain prevented his reaching it, whereupon the monster of a Chilian struck him down, and deliberately proceeded to cut off his head and throw it into the water. He then wished to dispatch the trunk after it, but was prevented by its being attached by an iron ring fixed to the bridge by a chain. Whereupon he hacked away at it and cast it piecemeal into the sea. The other stowaway was meanwhile in such an agony of terror that he did not cry out. The assassin was placed in the hands of the authorities at Iquique.

Cost of Colonies.

The British colonies are not always self-supporting; the British exchequer pays nearly $1,000,000 a year to the aßcotfnt of Bermuda, $400,000 for Jamaica, $112,000 for the Bahamas, $50,000 for Honduras, and $750,000 for the other West India islands. Here are nearly $2,500,000, while Canada does not cost England $20,000 a year. The British Government maintains five or six regiments in the West Indies,

A Finn Adherence f 0 Connect Principles

THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.

Kobeso ’ rjjjg ,d’l Monstrous Corruptions. Committee on Expenditures in Navy Department made their report to Congresß. They say that extravagance and disregard of legal restraints have been recognized at almost every step of their inquiry previous to the beginning of the present administration of the department. At the outset they were staggered by the immense sums apparently owing by the several bureaus, reaching a sum of more than $7,000,000, and this, too, notwithstanding the enormous appropriations made annually from 1869 to 1876, both inclusive, aggregating in amount $149,000,000. There is nothing to compensate this vast outlay save a navy, contemptible even in comparison with those of third and fourth-rate powers. Notwithstanding the plain terms of the law, open purchases have been the chief mode by which the Navy Department has been supplied with materials, not in obedience to expediency, but vastly in exoess of its means. This violation of law, without warrant in precedence or authority, has depleted the treasury to the extent of millions of dollars, and has been the food on which pampered favorites have fattened, while it has prevented the payment of moneys due a meritorious class of creditors to such an extent that many have been involved in bankruptcy and all of them subjected to irreparable loss. The amount of open purchases and bureau orders withiL the last few years aggregates more than $20,000,000. All advantages of an open market have been ignored, fair competition avoided, and both the letter and spirit of the law disregarded. A large share of the indebtedness of the department is due on account of contracts for repair, more properly for rebuilding tbe Puritan, Amphitrite, Terror, Monadnock, and Mian-

tonomah, intended to be double-turreted monitors. The contracts contain clauses providing for the exchange of new for old material. This involves a violation of law on the part of the Secretary of the Navy. The sum which has been paid or remains due on the contracts for the construction of said vessels is $1,316,250. One of the largest contingent liabilities of the Government grows out of orders for timber and iron clads and boilers suspended by the present Secretary of the Navy. The majority of the committee report that the indebtedness which they have mentioned is owing to certain parties in amounts set opposite their respective names: In the Bureau of Engineering, aggregating $1,423,876; in the Bureau of Construction and Repair, $929,534; amounts due for timber in Bureau of Construction and Repair, $416,392; Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, $447,935; making the total $3,217,738. In conclusion, the committee recommend the adoption of the following resolution:

“That the Committee on Appropriations be, and is hereby, instructed to report an appropiiation in the sum of $3,217,738, or so much thereof a; may be necessary to enable the Secretary of tho Navy to pay the claims mentioned to the respective persons; that the Secretary of the Navy be and he is hereby instructed to cancel the contracts dated March 3, 1877, with Phineas Burge.ss for the completion of the Monadnock, $95,000; with Wm. Cramp & Sons, for the completion ®f the Terror, $578,000 ; with Harlin & Hollinsworth, for the completion of the Amphitrite, $578,000 ; with John Roach, for the completion of the Puritan, $1,417,642 ; also contracts with the South Boston Iron Company, dated respectively March 7 and 10, 1877, for the construction of boilers, together amounting to $3,600,263.”

Genuine and Spurious Economists. Now that the nominations for Congress are near at hand, to. be followed by elections this fall, members of both parties in the House of Representatives profess extraordinary zeal for economy and remarkable affection for the interests of the dear people. The effrontery with which the Republican leaders have come to the front to claim that they favored retrenchment while holding the pursestrings would be astounding if any credit attached to their declarations. While De Golyer Garfield was Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations the scandalous plunder of the treasury exceeded all former experience, and it was proven incontestably before two committees of investigation that he was a personal beneficiary of the money voted to the Washington ring, as he was shown to be one of the purchased creatures of the Credit Mobilier villainy by Oakes Ames’ diary and accounts. During the sharp debate on the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial bill, in which the Speaker took a prominent part to defend his work in the last Congress, Garfield said: I point with satisfaction to the fact that in 1872, and from that time forward, the expenditures of this Government have'been on a descending scale, and that, too, by the action of Congress, not only before the present Darty came into pywer. but since. The official reports of the treasury, all from Republican hands, give a flat and explicit contradiction to this daring statement, as will be seen from the following figures, which, in a condensed form, present the estimates and the expenditures, exclusive of the interest on the public debt and pensions. We take the year 1872 as the starting point named by Garfield, and follow it down to the advent of the Democratic majority in the House, to include their legislation on the expenditures so far as is returned.

Estimates. Expenditures. 1872.. $125,748,077.13 Repub1ican..5124,668,453.43 1873.. 166,594,921.69 Republican.. 161,129,210.04 1874.. 172,165,026.40 Republican.. 165,080,570 34 1875.. 186,648,976.03 Republican.. 142,073,632.05 1876.. 181,530,103 00 Republican.. 136,600,417.67 1877.. 189,524,344.63 Democrat,... 116,246,211.01 It is thus seen that the “descending scale of expenditures ” elaimed by Garfield from 1872 forward was an increase of $36,500,000 in 1873, and of $40,500,000 in 1874, as compared with that point of departure. The passage of the Sal-ary-grab bill, and the large appropriations to rings, roused the public indignation in 1874, and then Garfield and his associates, in fear of worse to come, reduced their expenditures for 1875, but still kept them above the figures for 1872 to the extent of $18,000,000. And when they found their majority of nearly a hundred swept away by the tidal wave they made a further reduction of $6,000,000, but this was still $12,000,000 beyond the expenditures of 1872. These are the naked facts, and they utterly demolish the false figures given by the Credit Mobilier statesman. When the Democrats took possession

of the House in the last Congress, the appropiiations were already made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876. They set to work with remarkable vigor, under the lead of Mr. Randall, then Chairman of that committee, who is fairly entitled to most of the credit for the first great blow at extravagant expenditures. At a single dash the retrenchment exceeded $20,000,000, and, as compared with 1872, there was a reduction of $8,000,000. The administration of Grant put every possible obstacle in the way of this measure, and the Senate succeeded, after a long struggle, in striking out $10,500,000 of Mr. Randall’s budget, which experience has demonstrated could have been saved without the least derangement of the public service. One of the ffitfkt valuable reforms introduced by Mr. Randall was the rule requiring that all amendments to appropriation bills proposing to change existmg r ?aws should be in the interest of retrenchment. Previously, under the Republican dispensation, the rule allowed offices to be created, and salaries to be raised, and new legislation involving large grants to be enacted, but forbade any changes on the side of economy ! No wonder De Golyer Garfield complained bitterly of the rule whicn closed the gate against extravagance and shut out amendments for jobs. We quote: Mr. Garfield—l believe it was a fatal mistake to put into the hands of that committee the power to change all the laws i any of the laws, anywhere as they pleased. 1 have always believed that. Mr. Randall (the Speaker)—ln the direction of economy ‘i Mr. Garfield—ln the direction of economy.

A Republican Organ Rebuked.

The Springfield (Mass.) Republican, the leading Republican journal of New England, says: ‘‘The Augusta (Me.) Journal, Senator Blaine’s home organ, fairly dances for joy through a leading editorial of nearly a column, over Jeff Davis’ letter to the Confederate-monu-ment dedication, at Macon, Ga., last week. ‘The real voice of the solid South,’ this organ has the supreme impudence to term a document which has met absolutely no popular response. With still more outrageous disregard for facta, this stirrer-np of strife declares that ‘ his sentiments meet with the warmest approval by the Southern papers.’ A Southern journal might, with equal truth, attempt to incite its section against the other by declaring that the wild cries for vengeance to which Wendell Phillips occasionally gives utterance meet with the warmest approval by the Northern papers. There are, of course, Bourbon papers in the South as well as the North, but the representative organs of Southern opinion—such papers as the Richmond (Ya.) State, the Raleigh (N. C.) News, the Charleston (S. C.) News and Courie?, the Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution, the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle and Constitutionalist, the Memphis (Tenn.) Avalanche, the New Orleans (La.) Picayune and Times —so far from “warmly approving” what Jeff Davis said, have passed it by with utter silence. Jeff Davis’ letter only appeared in Saturday morning’s papers, and the Augusta Journal, though nominally issued on Wednesday, must go to press Tuesday, as it reaches this office Wednesday forenoon. The newspapers of Saturday in only the nearer Southern States could by any possibility reach Augusta before the editorial iu question must have been written. The Journal must therefore have been almost entirely ignorant of the tone of the Southern press when it made this statement, while whatever the mails could have brought it absolutely disproved the charge. In other words, it deliberately lied to its readers, and lied purely for partisan purposes, in the hope of stirring up the smoldering ashes of sectional fires for benefit of the Republican party in the approaching campaign. One feels a sort of contemptuous pity for the soured old man who wrote that letter, but no rightminded person can entertain any other feeling than that of utter .loathing for the Maine editor who thus lends his pen to the devilish work of sowing falsehoods, in the hope of reaping further bitter fruits of sectional hatred. ”

Death Penalties in Scotland.

Under the law of Scotland there are at least five-and-twenty different crimes that are punishable with death. The list includes assault with intent to rob tbe house of a clergyman, importing poisons into Scotland, “theft bote,” or the taking of rewards by Justices and Sheriffs from thieves, striking or injuring a Judge sitting in court, stealing linen to the value of 10 shillings from a bleacking-green, “houghing” cattle, killing young trees or crops, living in notorious adultery, pulling down any place of worship where the sovereign or the Prince of Wales are prayed for, the sayiDg of mass by Jesuits, priests or “trafficking” Papists, engaging in a duel without the royal license, etc. This Draconic code is evaded by a clever legal quibble, whereby the Advocate General and his deputies are given power, at any stage of a trial, “to restrict the pains of law,” so that in reality prisoners are only hanged for the same crimes as in England—murder and treason.

Trade Industry in Rum.

A New York correspondent writes: “ There are in New York 10,995 retailers of drinks, seven-tenths of them selling hot liquors. The proprietor of the Metropolitan Hotel told me last night that his bar receipts were $175 a day. If we suppose that the average receipts at the bars to be S2O a day, about $220,000 would have been spent every day for liquor in New York by tipplers alone. This is equal to $70,000,000 a year. It is computed that 1,260,000,000 drinks are taken in New York, and a tariff of 2 cents on spirits and half a cent on ale will aggregate $9,100,000 city revenue. We spend for liquors in the United States $735,000,000 a year, er nearly four times the cost of running the General Government; and yet the English exceed us in guzzling by $59,000,000.”

Population Returns.

The Registrar General, in making his annual return for 1877, gave an estimate of the population of the several counties (the “registration counties”) of England and Wales in the middle of that year, assuming the annual rate of increase since the last census to be the same as that enumeration showed to have been the average rate for the then preceding ten years. He estimates that Lancashire—premier county in population—had 3,117,049 inhabitants in the middle of the year 1877, and that Middlesex had 2,767,148, and Yorkshire 2,736,078, of which last number 2,089,076 were in the West Riding. These three .counties together have more than a third of the whole population of England and Wales. —London Times.

CONTRACTION.

How Mnch Has There Been ?—lnquiry Fully Answered—The Lying Statements of a Pap-Fed Press Refitted—The People Robbed of Their Money to Enrich the Rondlords—Facts Taken from the Official Records. [Compiled from Toledo National and Indianapolis Snn.] In again making a correct statement of the volume of circulation in 1864, we are enabled to strengthen the view of the character of the 7-30 notes, com-pound-interest notes, treasury notes and certificates, which we have heretofore presented, with testimony of a very forcible kind. The amount of money in circulation Sept. 1, 1865, as taken from the official records (not from dictionaries or encyclopaedias), was as follows: United States notes $ 433,160,569 Nati anal-bank notes 185,000 000 State-bank notes 78,867,575 Fractional currency 26,844.742 Compound interest legal-tender notes 217,024 160 Temporary loan certificates 107,148,713 Certificates of indebtedness 85,093,000 Treasury 6 per cent, legal tenders 32,536,991 7-30 Treasury notes 830,000,000 Past-due legal tenders 1,603,020

Total Sept. 1, 1865 $1,996,678 770 Now for the proof that the different items of the above statement constituted a part of the currency at the time named. About the first four items there can be no dispute. That the 7-30 notes constituted a part of the currency at that time we submit the following testimony: 1. Hon. F. E. Spinner, then Treasurer of the United States, says: “ The 7-30 treasury notes were intended, prepared, issued and used as currency.” 2. President Grant, in his message of December, 1873, said: “ During the last four years (from ’69 to ’73) the currency has been contracted by the withdrawal of the 3 per cent, certificates, compound-interest notes and 7-30 bonds outstanding on the 4th of March, 1869, all of which took the place of legal tender in the bank reserves to the extent of $630,000,000.” 3. Hon. W. P. Fessenden, Secretary of the Treasury in 1864, in an official communication, says: “ This statement also shows the currency items operating to inflate prices as follows,” (And here follows a list of all the disputed items in our statement, including the 7-30 notes.) And Secretary Fessenden concludes with these words and figures: “Up to June 30, 1864, total inflation paper issued, $1,155,877,034.” (See Spaulding’s History of Legal Tender, p. 198.) 4. Hon. E. G. Spaulding, author of the “History of Legal Tender,” and Member of Congress in 1862-3 and for years afterward, in the above-named work says: “All of tho channels of circulation were well-filled up with greenback notes. Compound-interest notes, certificates of indebtedness, etc,, before the National-Bank act got fairly into operation.” 5. The following is the testimony of one of the members of a prominent New York firm, in response to a specific inquiry from the editor of the Inter Ocean, Chicago:

Office of Traphagen, Hunter & C 0.,) Nos. 398, 400 and 402 Bowery, - New York, Aug. 9. J Referring to your note of the Bth inst., asking if in my experience the “ so-called 7-30 treasury notes, did or did not circulate as money in the ordinary transactions of commerce,” I have to say that they did so circulate, and were received and paid with the same freedom as the greenbacks were, and to all intents and purposes formed a part of the circulating medium of the country. Chas. E. Hunter. 6. The following is the testimony of a gentleman of large experience as merchant, mannfacturer, banker and Member of Congress, elicited in the same manner as above : First National Bank,) Elizabeth, N. J., Aug. 12. / In compliance witn your request of the Bth inst., that 1 should define the relative position of the 7-30 treasury notes to the general volume of currency in 1865, I have to say that I was then daily in the habit of receiving and paying out the same in the conduct of my ordinary business, the same as greenbacks, and I esteemed their peculiar characteristics (being conducive to elasticity) as not only forming a currency but a currency of especial merit. Amos Clark.

We think this array of testimony with r< gard to the character and use made of the 7-30 notes as sufficient to convince any one less stupid than an ass, that they constituted a part of the currency. These 7-30 notes have all been converted into coin-bearing bonds, and most of them now lie in the vaults of the foreign Shylocks. With regard to the compound-interest notes, in addition to what is above adduced, we have only to say : 1. They were made a legal tender for the express purpose of qualifying them to pay debts and circulate as money. That is what legal tender means. 2. They did circulate among the people. There is scarcely a merchant who, if in business in 1865-6, did not handle them, receive them, and pay them out as money. The 5 per cent, certificates were also legal tender for the same purpose, were used in the same manner by the people and were so considered by officials of the Treasury Department, in their official communications. The latest official figures we have at hand in regard to the circulation are those given below: AMOUNT OF CIRCULATING MEDIUM SEPT. J, 1877. Greenbacks outstanding $ 358,040,097 National-bank notes 315,620,217 Fractional currency, including silver.. 39,172,114 Total Sept.' 1, 1877. $ 712,833,258 Contraction from Sept. 1,1865, to Sept. 1, 1877, (12 years) $1,283,845,412 In the face of the figures and testimony we have presented it seems impossible that any one should declare that there has been no contraction of the currency—but such declarations are made and we are required to meet them. And here is the other side of the picture which will show for whose benefit this systematic robbery of the people is being made: The bonded indebtedness of the United States on the 31st of October, 1865, was:

Six per cent, bonds $ 945,562,512 Five per cent, bonds 218.207,100 Total bonds $1,163,769,612 On which the yearly interest, the greater part of which was payable in legal-tender notes, and not in gold, was as follows: •On 6 per cent, bonds $56,733,750.72 On 5 per cent, bonds 10,910,355.00 Annual interest on bends $67,644,105.27 According to the public-debt statement for Aug. 31, 1877, the total bonded indebtness of the country was as follows : Six per cent, bonds $Bl4 341,050.00 Five per cent, bonds 703,266,650.00 Four-and-a-half per cent, bonds 185,000,000.00 Total $1,702,607,700.00 On which the-yearly interest is : On 6 per cent, bonds $48,860,463.00 On 5 per cent, bonds 35,163,332.00 On 4>tf per cent, bonds 9,325,000.00 Total $93,348,495.00 RECAPITULATION, Bonded indebtedness May 31, 1677. $1,692,064,750.00 Bonded indebtedness Oct. 31,1865.. 1,163,760.612.00 Increase in bonds since Oct. 31, 1865 $528,196,<08.00

$1.50 Her Annum

NUMBER 14.

Annual interest May 31, 1877 $93,120,219.50 Annual interest Oct, 31, 1865 67,544.105.72 Increase in nniniijijhr in I $25,476,106.78 Total increase iy bonded indebtedness from Oot. 11, 1865, to Aug. 31, 1877 538,938,088.00 Total increase of annual interest from Oct. 31, 1865, to Aug. 31, 1877.- 25,704,698.78 How any intelligent man, after reading the above, can fail in seeing and denouncing the infamous policy of contraction is what we cannot comprehend.

LETTER FROM PETER COOPER.

The Specie Basis a Delusion and a Snare. We print below tho letter of Peter Cooper, of New York, in reply to an iuvitation to appear before the Committee of the House of Representatives on Banking and Carrcncy: To the Hon. A. H. Buckner, Chairman of tho Committee on Banking and Currency: Deae Bib — l thank you for the honor you have extended to mo in the invitation to appear before you, as the Committee of Banking and Currency appointed by the House of Representatives, to recommend the best financial measures for the consideration of Congress and the people. I cannot hope, however, to throw any new light on these questions of finance into the minds of men trained as you have been, and having such wide sources of information as are open to you from all sides on this momentous question. But I can express to you my convictions, which I believe to be those of tho majority of the voters of this country. The events of the last few years, the quick revulsion from a state of unparalleled prosperity in this country to one of suffering and industrial and financial ruin, has opened the eyes of this people to the causes ; and they are convinced that these causes are neither natural nor uncontrollable, but the direot effect of bad legislation on the part of Congress, and the vicious principles that have hitherto governed legislation on the subject of finance. The people are determined that they will no longer allow their representatives and their executive officers of the highest grade to make laws and administer them in such a way—whether ignorantly or with intent—as to promote the interest of a certain class, at the expense of the prosperity and happiness of the large majority. This is a simple question of fact, and it is a cruel aggravation of the fact to be told by our political doctors that “ it cannot be helped, and must be borne as a natural evil ” —such as extravagance, over-trading, overproduction, etc.

The American people are determined to take their financial interests into their own hands, by using their own accredited agencies, and not leave their management in the hands of those who are not directly responsible to tne people. The entire control of the volume of currency, or what shall be legal tender in this country, the exclusive issue and coinage of such money, the chief source of the capital and of credit necessary to keep the whole population usefully and profitably employed, can no longer be left to private corporations, and those general and uncontrollable 3auses that will operate in the absenco of a wise, provident and paternal legislation in behalf of the people. As far as I can learn from the most careful attention to the signs of public sentiment, I must give it as my conviction that the people of this country arc determined on two things as respects the future financial policy of this Government. 1. As the present CoDgress has already partially remonetized the silver, they intend to complete that work by making silver a full legal tender for all debts, public and private, except those now under a special contract, and have a free and unlimited coinage, with the silver coin and bullion certificates made into a legal tender and a common currenoy. 2. The people intend to remonetize all their paper. All that passed current as money at the end of tho war, and was issued by the Government for material, labor and service, and “full value received,” and hence became the “ people's mone;/ but which was unrighteously absorbed in bonds, or destroyed by taxing it out of existence. All this money must be restored to the people, as full legal tender, and thereafter not made redeemable by gold alone, or a specie basis exclusively, but ever redeemable in taxes, gold, silver, or bonds, at the option of the Governlaent.

The people are willing to take every means to make their paper as available as gold or silver, in every market of the world, and on a “par with them,” but will not subject it to the dishonor of either limiting its legal tender, or compelling by law its conversion to coin before it is accepted as money. They look, now, with complacency upon the fact that the national money is regarded in the market, as “good as gold ”but they look with dread upon a compulsive legislation that, in the shape of the “Resumption act,” puts the whole credit of our national paper into the hands of those who can. at any time it may suit them, bring discredit upon it by removing the few millions of specie upon which its whole credit is based. This specie basis is a “delusionand a snare.” The people have found it so in the past, and they are determined no longer to trust to it in the future. Alabama has latelv proved that the credit even of a single State'is better than “ a specie basis.” In saying this much to the committee, I am only asserting what I believe to be the simple truth ; for I know the large and constantly increasing conviction of the intelligent people of this country—those who will rule public sentiment, and make and unmake the administration and laws of the country. I will do myself the honor to appear before your committee at the earliest day possible, before the expiration of the present month. I herewith send you, and recommend to your notice, some carefully prepared documents that may assist you in your deliberations, which I pray God may be directed to the restoration of the condition of prosperity to our beloved country, which the unwise legislation of the past has taken away. With great respect, I remain your obedient servant, Peter Cooper.

Puppets.

Great Britain is triumphantly pointed at as an example of a nation maintaining for half a century a specie-based currency, thereby securing a steadiness in values which could not otherwise have existed, which premise and conclusion are not corroborated by facts. So far from Great Britain having a speciebased currency, she has floated for the last 180 years *£14,000,000 ($70,000,000) bank notes based solely upon a Bank-of-England leger debit against the Government, and by the Peel act the following issues, regardless of specie basis, were authorized : tEnglish country banks....X 8 090,000 ($40,000,000) Bank of Ireland 3,706,000 ( 18,530,090) Irish country banks 2,565,000 ( 12,825,000) Scotch banks 3,041,009 ( 15.205,000) Total currency without specie basis X 17,312,000 ($86,560,000) Notwithstanding this enormous amount of irredeemable currency, the Government has from time to time bridged over its emergencies by the issue of exchequer notes, running as high, in 1856, ’57 and ’SB, as an average of *£21,000,000 ($105,000,000), which, added to she other figures, gives a total, during those three years, of £52,312,000 ($261,560,000), without pretense of specie basis. 8o much for the premises ; now for the conclusion. It can be further shown, from official records, that so far from Peel’s Bank act meeting the claims of its authors that the putative gold basis would steady production and commerce by preventing momentary spasms, the Bank of England, in thirteen years and five months from its passage, changed its rate of interest fifty-six times, her rental for the use of money being sometimes 2 per cent, and sometimes five times that rate ; in fact, during one period of five weeks, she changed the rate five times. And yet our trusted agents at Washington insist that this nation—idle, poor and in debt to the foreigner—shall attempt full specie liquidation, with the demonstrated fact before them that Great Britain—active, rich and the creditor of the planet—miserably failed to accomplish only one-half the task !!! •Alison’s History of Europe, vol. 1,2 d series, p. 38. t Annual Register for 1845, p. 204. Encyclopedia, article Exchequer.

Bond Farming.

That is the kind of farming that pays! The crop comes twice *a year, and comes without an effort. No labor, no toil, no anxiety, and no taxes. And the weather does not affect it. Rain or shine, the crop comes right along, and it comes in money, too. No loading np and hauling to mar-

ipr? §ijenwcrntiq JOB PRINTINB OFFICE Hm bettor facilities than any office in Korttrweeten Indiana for the execution of all branches of JOB DPBIKTTIJXTa. PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. Anything, from a Dodger to a Price-List, or from a Pamphlet to a Potter, black or oolored, plain or fancy, SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

ket, no higgling over price, no trading and dicker, but the clean, bright gold. While the ordinary farmer is working and wearing himself out, using up his teams, and plows, and wagons, the bond farmer sits in his easy chair and waits for his crop which is sure to come every six months. While the common farmer is paying out his last dollar for taxes this bond farmer looks coolly on, and jingles the money in his pocket. F > has nothing to do with tax-paying. The kind of farming that brings two crops a year in gold, and pays no taxes, is the kind of farming that pays. Farming that only uses a pair of scissors in cutting coupons is the kind of farming to work at. Farming without land, or teams, or labor, and harvesting without work or bams, and living without paying taxes is the kind of farming that would suit you much better than the toil, and sweat, and drought, and frosts and storms that you now have to oontend with. You cannot sell your furm for half it cost you, but the bond farmer can sell out at any time for two or three times ia gold what he originally paid. Farmers, tillers of the soil, you feed all the world except yourselves, how do you like it? The liard-money men erected the bond farmer and they are trying to extend his lease forever. * The Greenback party propose to stop his lease, pay him in money, and thus make him use it and pay his own taxes. Farmers, join thiß Greenback party and have a little legislation for your selves. —Portland (Me.) New Era.

SAD TRAGEDY.

Tlie Sister of the United States Vice Consul at Bucharest Assassinated by a Discarded Dover. The Bucharest (Roumania) correspondent of the Edinburgh Scotsman writes as follows * “ A sad tragedy has just taken plade here. The sister of the American Vico Consul, a gentleman well known and much respected, haß been cruelly murdered by a young man who fell in love With her about three years ago. For Various reasons the young lady’s family refused their consent to the match, although One toarriage bad already taken place in the family—the lady’s sister being married to W. Stladecker, the elder brother of the suitor. After some stormy scenes it was resolved that young Stladecker should go to Paris, where he has been staying until the last two weeks. Returning to Bucharest,lnrfound married to another the lady whom he loved, and at nee seemed to lose His reason. Going into the room, a few days after his arrival, where the lady and her sister were alone, he commenced upbraiding her, and, scarcely waiting for an answer, plunged a dagger into her breast. The wound was mortal, and, with one shriek,

she fell to the floor, her sister trying to shield her from the fury of her assassin, who, unable to strike again to her heart, stabbed right and left into limbs and body, it is said, screwing the dagger round in the wounds he inflicted. Then, his object accomplished, he rushed off and tried to commit suicide by cutting his throat with the dagger, breaking it, however, and failing in the attempt. Help coming when too late, the poor lady, who had been but four months married and was only 26 years of age, was laid upon a couch. The murderer was also secured and taken to a hospital, and guarded by a gendarme. During the night he made an attempt to escape, which was frustrated, but on Tuesday the 16th he committed suicide. Saying he was unwell, he was allowed to leave his chamber, followed by his sentinel. On entering a closet he drew the cord of his dressing-gown off, attached it knotted to a beam above him, and ended his life by hanging himself. H 6 made no noise nor uttered a sound, and was discovered dead when the door was opened. This has been a grievous blow to all the relatives, who are Jews. Dr. Stern, the lady’s brother, is well known hero, both as Ailing the place of Consul for tho United States, and by having translated Sliakspeare’s ‘ Hamlet’ into the Ronmanian language.”

An Equine Man-Eater.

The Hambletonian stallion “Risingham,” one of the finest-bred horses in Orange county, N. Y,, was recently killed by his owner, Dr. J. A. Schultz. This horse was 21 years old. An offer of $7,000 was once refused for him. Nineteen years ago he began to exhibit signs of viciousness that increased as he grew older. Finally he became almost unmanageable, and since then he has been known as the “Man-eater.” He has killed three men and wounded and disfigured twenty others. For fourteen years no one dared to put him in a wagon, until, a short time ago, Dr. Schultz, with the aid of several men, got him in harness and to a wagon and tried to drive him. The stallion broke everything to pieces, and the doctor was himself saved by the merest chance. Many of the leading horse-trainers of the country had tried their skill at subduing him. He conquered them all, and nearly killed one of them. One of his latest exploits was the seizing of a negro groom who had undertaken to keep him, tearing oil the man's right cheek and destroying the eye, and stripping the flesh from his right arm. The groom became blind and paralyzed. The three men who preceded the negro as grooms all narrowly escaped with their lives. One lost an ear, another had three fingers and a thumb taken off. It became impossible to get a groom for the stallion. No one knew at what moment the biute would attack him. Dr. Schultz at last made up his mind that Risingham was chronically insane, and concluded to kill him before he claimed another victory. As Risingham stood in his stall glaring at the spectators who had entered the stable to see the man-eater die, five large pistol-balls were shot into his head, directly between his eyes. They failed to bring him down, and, uttering the fiercest neighs, he ’"iade frantic efforts to get over the manger among the bystanders. As a man drew the attention of the horse away, Dr. Schultz, by a skillful thrust of a long knife, severed his jugular vein. Horsemen say that but for the temper of this horse he would have been worth $30,000.

A Boy’s Prevision.

A Minneapolis boy was sent by his teacher, a woman, to the superintendent to be whipped. The lad suspected the contents of the note and hired a boy he met on the street to deliver it, giving him 10 cents. The superintendent did not discover till after the castigation was over that the boy he had flogged had not seen the inside of a school-house for a month.— Pike County (Minn.)Express.