Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1878 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. The wife of John Bright, the English (Radical statesman in dead. It iff reported from Constantinople that the Turks are apprehensive that Gen. Todleben intends to seize their capital by a midden movement, either as a guarantee for the surrender of (he fortresses, or as a measure of precaution to iff set tho increase of the British forces in (ho Mediterranean. There has been serious rioting among fim cotton operatives in Blackburn, England. A Belgrade dispatch says the Servian •corps of observation, hitherto consisting of 15,000 men, has been increased to 35,000. ’This was caused by fear of a Turkish attack. The Turks have been concentrating under Hafiz I’asha on the Servian line of demarcation. A Vienna dispatch says the passes taken by the Mussulmen insurgents are Dorbend, Balkan, and Trajan’s Gato. All attempts to dislodge them have be unsuccessful. The Turkish Commissioners have Unis far failed to •accomplish their mission. The diTerences between tho cotton masters and operatives in England, growing •out of tho strike, are productive of much disorder. Several large mills have beon burned, presumably by incendiary strikers. There is considerable excitement and some Rlarm in East Lancashire and other cotton centers. The presence of military and large Ixslics u s police alone hold tho population in check iu several large towns. During a performance in the theater at Ahmednuggor, iu India, the building caught lire, and forty persons burned to death. A dispatch from St. Petersburg, referring to Count Schouvaloff’s departure, says * there can scarcely be a doubt that he goes bark to London empowered to make concessions in accordance with the British point of view nay, more, as iH believed in St. Petersburg. to offer great concessions.”

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

lklHt. Gen. Thomas S. Dakin, of'New York, Captain of the American riile team, is dead. Ira B. Wright, ten years Town Treasurer of South Hadley, Mass., lias appropriated #25,000 of the town funds. A manufactory of arms iu Providence, It. 1., lias received orders for 100,000 rifles for tlio Turki.-h Government—being part of a lot bargained for under a contract suspended some time ago on ace >uut of the close of tlie war. Mrs. Lydia Sherman, the Connecticut prisoner, died in the State prison at Haitford last week. All the steamers leaving New York for European ports are crowded to their fullest capacity. The New York Syndicate, which recently contracted wi h the Secretary of the TrcnHiiry to dispose of #50,000,000 of tho new 4! j-per-cent. Government bonds by the Ist of next January, has now taken tho entire amount of the bonds. West. Reports from numerous points in the Northwest indicate a very general damage to fruits and garden stuff by the late severe frost. William M. Fisher, a, wholesale jeweler of Providence, stopped at the Planters’ House. St. Louis, Engaged a room, stepped out for u few minutes, and, upon returning, discovered that the doorof the room had been forced open and #7,000 worth of jewelry carried off. They have a sensation in Indianapolis It is alleged that the Judge in the celebrated case of Mrs. Clem, charged with tho murder of Young, received #I,OOO for dismissing the ease. There are thirteen men in tho Chicago jail awaiting trial for murder, and two moro under sontence of death. There was a Communist parade in St. Louis last, Sunday. Nearly 5,000 men were in the procession.

POLITICAL POINTS.

The Republican Htato Convention of Pennsylvania met at Harrisburg on the 15tli Hint., and nominated Henry M. Hoyt, of Luzerne county, for Governor. A platform was adopted, in unbalance aB follows : 1. Adherence to the protective policy and hostility to free trade in all its aspects, and especially to the Wood Tariff bill. 2. That, lal or being the source of all wealth,.it is the duty of the nation to protect and encourage it, so as to secure profitable employment to both labor and capital. 3. That it is the duty of Congress to aid In* developing American commerce, and to promote the prosperity of the manufacturing and agricultural, mining and industrial interests of the country. 4. That public lands beloDg to the people, and bhonld be reserved to actual settlers, to tl:at the landless may bo encouraged and aided in occupying them. 5. That Congress should extend its constitutional power to regulate internal commerce so as to prevent discrimination in freight rates. 6. Denouncing the payment of Southern rebel claims, and holding the Democracy responsible for tlio present ai ion of such claims, amounting to •f 300,000,000. 7. Indorsing Gov. Hartranft’s administration. The Democrats of Ohio have determined to hold their State Convention at Columbus on June 26.

WASHINGTON NOTES.

Prof. Henry, the world-famous scientist, died at Washington last week. Ho was buried from the Smithsonian Institute, with which he was connected for yoars. The report of Gens. Barnard and Wiight, United States Engineers, to whom the petition of Capt. Eads for the modification of tho Jetty act was referred by the Secretary of ar, states that tho works are permanent, and their success is so decided as to make it important to prosecute them with vigor. Ihe President has removed Gen. Weiteel from the Collectorship at Cincinnati, and appointed Amos Smith, Jr., as his successor. The President has also nominated Gustavus St. Gem. Surveyor of Customs at St Louis; John H. Smyth, of North Carolina, Minister Resident and Consul General at Liberia. Africa; and Charles Tuttle, of Now York a, member of the Board of Indian Commis'sionem. The President has appointed ex-Con-gressman Rapier Collector of Internal Revenue in Alabama. The President sent to the Senate last week a message inclosing a communication from the Secretary of State on the subject of tki letulf of the deliberations of the Fishery Commission appointed under the treaty of au lington. The President, in his message, recommends the appropriation of the necessary sum, with suoh discretion totheßxeoutive Popart ipent in regard to its payment as, in the

The Democratic sentinel.

JAS W. McEWEN, Editor.

VOLUME 11.

wisdom of Congress, public interest may seem to require. Vice President ‘Wheeler and Mrs. R. B. Hayes left the Oapital last week for Malone, N. Y., the home of the former, where they will rusticate for several days.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS.

Some excitement has been produced in Montreal, Canada, by the circulation of a rumor to the effect that an attempt will be made by the Fenians to visit Montreal on the 12th of July, should the Orangemen conclude to have a procession on that day. The Syndicate have anticipated their options for August and September, and taken auotber #IO,COO,GOO of the *54 per cent, bonds. The total amount thus far taken is #36,000,000. Information has reached this city that the adherents of Lerdo in Mexico have abandoned their efforts to incite revolution.

FORTY-FOUBTH CONGRESS.

Monday, May 13.—Senate.— Mr. Johnston Introduced a bill to levy, by the Moffatt bell-punch, a tax on liquors in all places in the District of Columbia whore Intoxicating liquors are sold by the drink... .Tho Postoffice Appropriation bill was discussed, a lew bills of no general interest passed, and the Senate adjourned. House.—Tho. proposed investigation into the alleged Presidential election frauds was sprung upon the House by Mr. Potter, of New York. He obtained the floor and announced that he desired to submit certain resolutions, as a question of privilege. The resolutions were then read for the information of the House, all points of order being reserved. The resoluions recite the action of the Maryland Legislature in calling for an investigation; refer to McLin's confession, and allege that the so-railed frauds were perpetrated with the knowledge of ex-Gov. Noyes, of Ohio, and Hon. John Sherman. The resolutions then say that three al egations ought to be inquired into, and to this end a select committee of eleven members shall be appointed to take testimony regarding the alleved fraudulent votes in Florida and Louisiana ; to send for persons and papers, and to sit in those States during such Investigation. Messrs. Conger, Hale and Garfield all made points of order against the resolutions being a question of privilege. The Speaker decided that tho resolutions presented a question of the highest privilege, and must be received. Mr. Conger appealed from the decision.... Mr. Potter moved to lay tho appeal on the table, and the motion was agreed to—yeas, 128; nays, 108—a party vote, with tue exception of Messrs. Fort, Mitchell and Butler, who voted with the Democrats, and Buckner and Mills, who voted with the Bepublicans. A general debate ensued on the resolutions. Among other objections raised. Gen. Garfleld insisted that the majority of the House could not authorize a committee to sit during its rccees, because when the House adjourned it carried its committees with it, and the committee could only be allowed to sit during a recess by the suspension of the rules of Ihe House. .Speaker Randall ruled, on the point of allowing the Chairmen of the subcommittees to administer oaths, that it belongs with tlio committee itself, and not with the House. Mr. Potter called for the previous question. The Republican side of tho House hereupon resorted to the parliamentary expedient of withho ding their votes, so that when the question came to be tested by tellers there were only lie ayes to 1 no—no quorum voting. So tlie question went over aw unfinished business, the Speaker ruling that it would remain before the House until disposed of. Tuesday, May 14.— Senate.- —Mr. Flumb, from the Committee on Military A flairs, reported favorably Ihe Senate bill authorizing tho Secretary of War to have head-stones erected over the graves of soldiers who served in the regular or volunteer army of the United State*, during the war for the Union, and who have been buried in private, cemeteries.. . .Mr. Christiancy, from the same commit tee, reported favorably on tho Senate bill io amend the Revised Statutes in regard to embezzlement- by internal-revenue officers.... Consideration was resumed of the Fodofficc Appropriation bill, ilie pending question being on the point of order raised by Mr. Edmunds that the amendment submitted by Mr. Maxey in regard to a semi-monthly Brazilian mail steamship service, and to pay #lO a mile, therefor, could not be received, as it proposed new legislation, and was not germane to the subject. After a brief discussion the question was submitted, “Is the amendment proposed by the Senator from Texas in order under the twenty-ninth rule?” The question was decided in the negative —yeas, 28; nays, 32. The bill was then passed.... Mr. Davis, of Illinois, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported, with amendments, the Senate bill providing the times and places of holding United StatCH Circuit Courts iu lowa, and the appointment of au alditional -Judge... .Mr. VoorheeH gave notice that when the bill to repeal tho Specie-Re-sumption act should be taken up again he would insist on its consideration from day to day until a vote is reached. House.—The Republicans refusing to vote on the investigation resolution introduced by Mr. Potter, no quorum appeared to be present, and the House adjourned without transacting any business. Democratic Caucus.—lmmediately after the adjournment the Democratic members met in caucus. The question of adjournment was discussed, and during the debate it was claimed that the present state of public business would not permit a day to be fixed for adjournment. Tho Potter resolution to investigate the alleged frauds in Florida and Louisiana was taken up. Representative Wilson offered a resolution allowing the Republicans to offer an amendment to the resolution, but this, after debate, was rejected. The caucus resolved, by a large majority, to stand by the Potter resolution, and instructed him not to yield to any amendment from tho Republican side. It was unanimously agreed that tlio resolution should be 11 wally acted upon before any other business was done. On motion of Representative Wood, it was resolved that ail Democratic members out of the city be notified to return to Washington, aud, after due notice, all existing jvairs will be declared at an end.

Wednesday, May 15.— Senate. —Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Postoffices and Post-Roads, reported a bill regulating the compensation for the transportation of maiiß on railroads, i>roviding for the classification of mail matter, and for other purposes.... Mr. Fustis introduced a bill to provide for tho establishment of mail steamship service between the United States and 8razi1....Mr. Voorhees presented a petition oL business men of Boston favoring the immediat *and unconditional repeal of the Specie-Resumption act. Laid on the table, the bill being before the Senate.... Mr. Kirkwood submitted a resolution to print 20,000 extra copies of the message of the President and accompanjing papers relating to the diseases of swine and other domestic animals. Referred.... Mr. Morgan called up his resolution touching the relations between the United States and Mexico, and spoke at length in favor thereof. The resolution was then referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations... .The Senate in executive session ratified the treaty between France and the United States, providing for a convention at Paris the present summer with a view to the adoption of the metrical system of weights and measures.... Objection was made by Mr. Sanlsbury to the confirmation of < x-Gov. Packard as Consul at Liverpool, and by Mr. Thurman to George A. Sheridan as Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia These nominations consequently went over... William H. Hunt, of New Orleans, was confirmed as Judge of the Court of Claims. House.— A mot'on so postpone further consideration of the resolution providing for an adjournment of Congress on tho 10th of June until the 29th inst. was agreed to by a vote of 130 to 106.... The question then recurred on Mr. Potter's resolution tor an investigation into the late Louisiana and Florida elections, and the vote revealed the fact that tho entire Democratic strength w r as only 119. or twenty-nine less than a quorum. The Republicans persevered in their filibustering tactics, and, after a two-and-a-balf hours’ struggle, tho Democrats gave up the fight for the dav and yielded to a motion to adjourn. Republican Caucus. — After the adjournment of tho House the Republican members met in caucus to discuss the situation and determine their future course of action. It was unanimously resolved that the Potter resolution was calculated to reopen the question of the President’s title which had been settled by the action of lhe Forty-fourth Congress, which alone had jurisdiction to settle that question ; that the resolution was therefore revolutionary and calculated to seriously affect the general business of the country, and should be resisted by all means which are authorized by the rules of the House. Thursday, May 16.— Senate.— Mr. Butler, of South Carolina, submitted a concurrent resolution providing for a commission to whom shall be referred the subject of the reform and reorganization of the army.... Mr. Thurman offered a resolution calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury for information as to what discrepancy, if aDy, exists to the prejudice of Thomas Worthington’s claim, mentioned In the reports of the Third Auditor, and the reason for such discrepancy. Agreed t 0.... The House joint resolution to print 300,000 copies of the report of tne Commissioner of Agriculture for 1877, and 6,000 copies of the Colonial charters and constitutions, pissed after considerable discueThe Senate resumed consideration of the bill to repeal tho Specie-Resumption act, aod Mr. Matthews read an argument upon the general financial policy of the Government, and gave notice that be would hereafter submit to the Senate a proposi*l°P of own afl a u amendment to the pending bi 11.... Adjourned to Monday. e House.— The dead-lock in the House continued, the Republicans steadily refusing to vote on the Potter resolution for the investigation of the elections in Florida and Louisiana. An attempt was made by Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, to offer a compromise, in the shape of a proposition to admit the amendments extending the investigation to Missis-

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sippi, Alabama and Oregon, but he was unable to obtain a hearing. Mr. Banks proposed a postponement of the question until Saturday. The Democrat* offered to accept this on condition that the Republicans would agree not to resume their filibustering, but the condition was rejected. At length an adjournment was moved, and, this being made a test question, 142 Democrats voted, being within five of a quorum. Friday, May 17.—Senate.—Not in session. House. —After a stormy session and repeated calls of the House the Democrats succeeded in getting a quorum, and sustained the previous question on the Potter investigation resolution. Mr. Goode, of Virginia, who was paired with a sick member, had given notice that he would no longer be bound by the pair. When he cast his vote, Mr. Conger, of Michigan, questioned the honor of the proceeding, and the Virginia gentleman asserted his intention of holding the gentleman from Michigan personally responsible for any assault upon his honor. A scene of excitement and confusion ensued, hot words were exchanged, aDd the language of the irate members was “taken down." Speaker Randall ruled that it was all unparliamentary, if not used “iu a Pickwickian* sense.” On the final vote ordering the previous question the Republicans adhered to their policy of silence, and Mr. Harrison (Democrat), of Illinois, cast the only vote in the negative. When the roll was called on ihe adoption of the resolutions. Mr. Harrison voted m the affirmative. Messrs. Milis, of Texas, and Morse voted in the negative. Ihe Republicans did not vote, and tho resolutions were adopted without them, yeas 145, nays 2. Saturday, May 18.— Senate.—Not in session. Howse. —Mr. Kills, from the Committee on Elections, reported a resolution declaring that there had been no fair, free and peaceable election in the First Congressional District of South Carolina, aDd that neither Rainey (the sitting member) nor Richardson (contestant) was entitled to the seat.... The House devoted nearly the entire day to the consideration of tho Army Appropriation bill.

Dreadful Murder by a Somnambulist.

A shocking tragedy occurred recently iu Glasgow, a man named Simon Fraser, while in a state of somnambulism, having killed his own child. Fraser who was employed as a saw-trimmer in Stevenson’s saw-mill, lived with his wife and a child 18 months old in a house of oue apartment at 44 Lime street. On Tuesday night, about 11 o’clock, the three retired to rest. Shortly after 1 o’clock in the morning Fraser, as he relates himself, got up in bed under the impression that there was a wild beast moving about the bed. Jumping out to the floor, he seized hold of what he thought was the animal, and, with all his might, dashed it against the wall. The noise wakened Mrs. Fraser, and she was horrified to see her husband standing in the room, holding a large body iu his hands. She called out to him, and her screams appeared to bring him to his senses. Then the awful facts were discovered—it was their child the father had pulled from their bed aud dashed against the side of the room. The head of the infant seemed to bo crushed in—blood was streaming from it-, but life was not extinct. Assistance was immediately obtained, and medical aid sent for—Dr. Thomson, Main street, arriving speedily. Jt was then found that the infant had received such injuries that it could not recover. The fears were realized but too soon, death occurring within an hour. Some time afterward the matter was reported to the Southern police office, and Detective Davidson was dispatched to make the customary investigation. Both Fraser aud his wife were in a sad state, and the former at once gave himself up to the officer. Later on, Dr. Chalmers made an examination of the body on behalf of the authorities, and his report is to the effect that the frontal bone had been fractured—the forehead, in fact, having been smashed in. Fraser, it is stated, has been for a long timo subject to taking fits of sleep walking. On one occasion he attacked his wife while in this somnambulistic condition, and he had frequently awakened in the night-time and found himself working at some saws or walking about the apartment. Having finished the preliminary inquiry, Detective Davidson reported the matter to Mr. Brown, the Procurator Fiscal, who has taken up the case. In the course of the day the piisoner was brought before Sheriff' Murray, examined on a charge of murder, and committed to prison for further examination.

The Late Prof. Henry.

Tke death of Prof. Joseph Henry, at Washington, D. C., removes one of the most distinguished scientific men of America. Born in Albany, N. Y., on the 17th of December, 1797, he received a common-school education, and, after a course of academical study in his native city, accepted, in 182 G, the appointment of Professor of Mathematics of the Albany Academy. Becoming intimately conne«ted with the study of electricity, he was the first to prove that in the transmission of electricity for great distances the power of the battery must be proportioned to the length of the conductor. He was also the first actually to magnetize a piece of iron at a distance, and invented the first machine moved by the agency of electro-magnet ism. Other original and important demonstrations of electrical power followed in 1829 and 1831, and among others was one similar to that afterward perfected in Morse’s magnetic telegraph. In 1832 he was appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy in the College of New Jersey, where he continued his important and interesting experiments in electricity. In 1837 he visited Europe. When the Smithsonian Institute was organ--'jed, in 1846, he was appointed its Secretary and intrusted with its principal direction, maintaining this position, we believe, until his death.

To Rid a Dog of Fleas.

The American Agriculturist says: “If a dog infested with fleas is made to lie for a tew days upon a bed of fresh litter from a horse stable the fleas will leave him. He must then be washed with soap and water, and supplied with a clean bed. A common cocoa-fiber door mat makes a good clean bed for a dog, and is repulsive to lice, especially if the bottom of it is occasionally smeared with common pine tar. Soft soap and water used frequently is the best preventive of fleas.” From a Western journal we clip the two following: “ A weak tincture made with Persian insect powder and alcohol is safe and effectua. when applied once a week with a sponge.” “Mix one-sixth of its weight of spirits of turpentine with soft soap ; rub the mixture well iuto the dog’s skin, and, after remaining an hour, wash all out. The fleas will be all killed, but the process must be repeated in a week or two.”

Alaska Thieves.

Alaska is a wonderful place for thieves. A correspondent of the San Francisco Chronicle says one merchant in Sitka hires Indians to steal for him, and recently shipped away a ton of copper that they had taken from the flooring and walls of a Government building for storing furs. The candlesticks and other silver articles were long ago stolen from the chuych, and even metal crosses have been taken from graves in the cemetery. There is not a constable nor a Justice in the Territory, and there is no attempt to enforce any law,

“A Firm Adherence* to Correct Principles.”

AWFUL HOLOCAUST.

Fourteen Hundred People Burned at Tientsn, China—Terrible Scene* of Agony and Death. A letter from Tientsn, China, gives the following particulars of the fire in that city, by which 1,400 people lost their lives: The number of refugees wjio have been collecting at this point has been augmenting by daily additions until the aggregate was variously estimated at anywhere from 50,000 to 150,000. A few weeks since, an additional soup dispensary was opened on a piece of vacant ground known as the Flower Garden of the K’ang family. When this relief depot was established, the whole premises were surrounded with a strong fence of reeds and millet stalks, plastered with mud. As the place was to be occupied only by women and children, the greatest care was taken that all communication between the inside and outside be prevented. The alley on the west side was fenced up at its north end, and the only gate of the soup-yard was at the south end of the same alley—a gate about six feet wide. About 10 o’clock on a bitter-cold morning an alarm was given that a fire had broken out in this relief yard, roofed with inflammable mats, and crowded with human beings. Crowds of people began to gather on all sides of the yard and tear down the strong fence. The moment that communication was established between the inside and the outside, a considerable number of outsiders leaped into that part of the inclosure forming the alley to attempt to rescue those that were still straggling to escape. The scene within was awful. The long sheds had already melted into smoke and ashes, and only the poles were still burning—yet not the poles alone, for beneath stretched long lines of something only indistinctly seen, and which, between the gusts of flame and smoke, could be recognized as the heads, arms and bodies of human beings, all huddled within the limits of the former compartments, and just as they were caught by the fiery sirocco. Not one in twenty had time to move a yard before they were met by flames and suffocated where they chanced to be. In of the locked gate a large number of poor wretches were caught and imprisoned by the flames. Their wadded or skin garments caught fire and could neither be taken off nor extinguished. Scores of poor women were reduced to a condition too horrible to be described-—ab solutely roasted on one side, and utterly helpless to escape. The greater part of those who were burned must have perished instantly. Within five minutes of the time the fire broke out, it is probable that those who failed to escape were suffocated by the flames. Long after every scrap of mat and wood had been consumed, the bodies of the victims continued to burn and smolder. The corpses were most of them reduced literally to cinders, utterly beyond recognition. Many of the survivors, on the day of the lire and the three following days, while the bodies were being taken out, wandered about, uttering the most piteous lamentations, striving to discover their children ; husbands came to institute a hopeless quest for their wives. Nothing was left upon the ground but hundreds of horribly mutilated corpses, fragments of halfburned clothes and broken pottery. It is definitely ascertained that the Dumber who perished is somewhat more than 1,400.

“Little Classics.”

It was along about the kalends of May when Coriolanus went into the hall closet at the head of the stairs and brought forth a pair of his last-summer trousers. The mailed hand, that, “like an eagle in a dove-cote, fluttered the Voices in Corioli,” dropped with a gesture of despair when he beheld a yawning postern gate in the raiment, wkere breack or fissure there should have been none. To him, his true and honorable wife; the fair Virgilia, said: “Now the gods crown thee, Coriolanus, what appears to be the trouble with you?” “ Now the gods mend these trousers, oh my gracious silence,” replied Coriblanus. “See what a rent tho envious tooth of time has made.” Virgilia dropped her tender, beaming eyes and drew a heavy sigh as she turned and dived mournfully into the rag-bag to hunt for a patch. “My lord and husband,” she said, wearily dragging up bits of red flannel, tufts of raw cotton, scraps of calico, tags of carpet-rags, and finding nothing that would match the lavender trousers any nearer than a slab of seal-browu empress cloth, “ I’ve patched those trousers till my eyes and fingers ache at the sight of them. I would the immortal gods would send on Rome and to our house the one unending blessing of eternal piece. ” Coriolanus looked at her steadily for a moment, but couldn’t tell from her unrippled face whether she meant it or not. “And I, too, thou noble sister of Publicola,” he said, “I, too, thou moon of Rome, for my great soul, to tear invulnerable, is weary of the restless god of wore. ” Virgilia dropped the rag bag and looked up at him quickly, but he never smiled. “ Keno,” she said. “ Put it there,” he said, and then they both promised they would never bebave so like mouthing paragraphers again.— Burlington Hawk Eye.

An Understanding Arrived At.

About 10 o’clock this morning a tramp went into a C street saloon and devoted ten minutes in a very zealous manner to the lunch table. By the time he had masticated about a pound of corned beef the barkeeper stepped up and re marked : “ This table is for drinkers.” “ Then why don’t yon bring on your drinks ? I’ve been here ten minutes, and haven’t seen a drop of anything. If it’s a drinkin’ table, where’s the fluid ?” “ I mean it’s for the patrons of the bar,” said the barkeeper. “ Then why ain’t they here ? I s’pose you mean that a man must spend money at the bar before he eats?” “Exactly.” “That takes me in. I took a drink here last summer and didn’t eat a mouthful, and if I ain’t entitled to a lunch on that drink then this system must be a failure all round.” “But the place has changed hands since then,” said the barkeeper, picking up a bung starter. “Ah, indeed?” replied the urbane bummer; that fact, as your gesture would imply, raises a new and embarrassing complication in our diplomatic relations. I will, therefore, recede, as it were, from my original position and await the assembling of tiis Peace Congrees. He liad been gradually backing toward

the door as he spoke, and he dodged out just in time to evade the projectile hurled at him by the indignant saloonatic. — Virginii (Ncv.) Chronicle.

FORECLOSURE.

An Important Supreme Court Decision. In the case of Brine et aL vs. The Hartford Fire Insurance Company, appealed from the Northern District of Illinois, ihe national Supreme Court has just rendered a decision of great general importance. The Illinois statute provides that, in casesjof Bales under foreclosures of mortgages, the debtor shall have twelve months, and his creditors fifteen months, in which to redeem from the sale, by paying the sum for which the property was sold, with interest at 10 per cent., and costs. The State courts have entered decrees for sales directing the master to issue a certificate to the purchaser, aud, if redemption be not made within the time, to give a deed upon surrender of the certificate. But the United States Circuit Court has been in the habit of decreeing that, if the money found due be not paid within 100 days, then the master shall sell and give an absolute deed. In effect, this practice ignored and cut off the statutory right of redemption, and the consequence was that the national court was chiefly resorted to in foreclosure proceedings. The mortgagee, obtaining an absolute decree of sale, was enabled to bid in the property at almost any sum he might choose to name, and in many instances get a decree over against his debtor for a remainder of tho debt which the sale of the property mortgaged did not satisfy; whereas, in the State courts, the statutory right of redemption practically compelled the mortgagee to bid at least the full amount of the indebtedness. The Supreme Court has now reversed one of these decrees by the national Circuit Court, so far as the mode of sale was concerned. The ground of the reversal must have been that the right of redemption under the State law should be treated as not cut off by the sale, and that in this respect the practice in the State courts should be followed. The statutory redemption right has been held to be a part of the mortgage contract, agreed to by both parties when the mortgage was given, and therefore as binding as any other covenant in the instrument. This, undoubtedly, is the view which the national Supreme Court has embodied in the present decision. The importance of the decision, both to mortgage debtors and mortgage creditors, is therefore manifest.

The Senate iu the Forty-sixth Congress. The present Senate consists of 70 members—39 Republicans am. 37 Democrats. With the close of the Forty-fifth Congress on the 3d of March next the terms of office of 25 Senators will expire. Of these 17 are Republicans and 8 Democrats. The' “ hold over” Senators are. therefore, 51 in number—Democrats, 29 ; Republicans, 22. Five of the 25 States have already chosen the successors of the present Senators—namely, California, Farley (D.) to succeed Sargent (R.); Kentucky, Williams (D.) to succeed MeCreery (D.); Maryland, Groome (D.) to succeed Dennis (D.); lowa, Allison (It.), re-elected; and Ohio, Pendleton (D.) to succeed Matthews (R.) Total 5, and a clear gain of 2 for the Democrats. Senate, 56 —33 Democrats, 23 Republicans. The Democrats will unquestionably elect successors to Spencer (It.) in Alabama ; Dorsey (R.) in Arkansas ; Conover (R.) in Florida; Gordon (D.) in Georgia; Eustis (D.) in Louisiana; Armstrong (D.) in Missouri ; Merrimon (D.) in North Carolina ; and Patterson (R.) in South Carolina. Total 8, and a gain of 4 for the Democrats. Senate, 64—Democrats, 41; Republicans, 23. The Republicans are sure to elect successors to Chaffee (R.) in Colorado ; to Oglesby(R.) in Illinois; to Ingalls (R )in Kansas; to Jones (R.) in Ne-. vada ; to Wadleigh (R.) in New Hampshire ; to Morrill (R.) in Vermont; and to Howe (R.) m-Wisconsin. Total, 71— Democrats, 41; Republicans, 30. By conceding the Senators in the remaining five States to the Republicans, the Democrats would still have a working majority of six in the Senate of the Forty-sixth Congress. New York Graphic.

The Great West.

When good Bishop Berkeley wrote the famous line, Westward the star of empire takes its way, he hardly would have realized how literally the poetic prophecy would be fulfilled within a few generations of his own time. He was thinking only of the narrow strip of territory along the Atlantic coast of America, behind which lay thousands of leagues of primeval forest, where the red man was sole master of the soil, and where the great lakes and rivers, now teeming with commerce, and bordered by populous cities and thriving villages, laved shores which the foot of white man had never trod. His ‘imagination would have been appalled had a vision of the present day flashed upon his eye ; had he seen the vast wilderness filled with a mighty people, enterprising, intelligent, intellectual, with great cities, universities, colleges, schools, churches, newspapers, steamboats, railroads; a country compared to which his own little island is but an insignificant patch on the map of the world; a country which gathers to itself the literary and artistic treasures of the Old World with a prodigality of expenditure unsurpassed by any nation of Europe. Less than fifty years ago the great West was a “ howling wilderness,” but to-day it rivals the East in culture aud intelligence, and nowhere in the world is there a more eager demand for books of the highest order of literary excellence. — Harper's Bazar.

An Excuse.

One teacher in the Twelfth Ward Public School received, the other day, an excuse written in belialf of a delinquent pupil by the father. It runs in this wise: “Miss Teacher—Dot poy of mine vos absent de oder day ven he sthaid out. He got one big colt in his neck vot make him much trouble all de vile. Please don’t give him some bunishment ven he vas late in de morning. He would got there shust in time every day, but he is not himself to blame; he is got no mother. She vos dead ten years ago. lam this poy’s parent by his mother before she vos dead.”

Reformed Episcopalians.

The Reformed Episcopal Church Council has just held its annual session at Newark, N. J. The annual report shows an increase of parishes during the year. There are 17,057 regular attendants, 5,808 communicants, and SBOO,OOO worth of church property. The collections during the past year were $280,785. The meeting next year will be held jo Chicago.

AN OPEN LETTER TO SECRETARY SHERMAN.

Hon. John Sherman: The New York papers report that you have recently negotiated with the Syndicate in Wall street for the sale of $50,000,000 of 4i per cent, fifteen years’ United States Government bonds, the interest and principal of which are to be paid in coin. Have you carefully and thoughtfully estimated what this transaction will cost the people of this country ? The interest on $50,000,000 of bonds at 4j per cent, for fifteen years is $33,750,000. At the end of the fifteen years the principal will also have to be paid, which, with the interest, lays a burden of taxes upon the people amounting to $83,750,000 in coin. Now, what is your object in doing this? Is it not for the avowed purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Specie Resumption act of which you are the author, and which you persistently insist upon enforcing ? Is it not a part of your present programme to enforce that portion of this act which authorizes the withdrawal and destruction of all the legal-tender notes before January next, that are in excess of $300,000,000? Are there not $46,000,000 of such notes still in circulation among the people as their lawful money ? Do you not propose to take this $46,000,000 of the people’s money and destroy it ? Have the people too much money now ? Are they not burdened with debt, oppressed with taxes and impoverished for want of sufficient money with which to free themselves from these burdens ? Would not each dollar of this $46,000,000 whicli you propose to destroy sell in Wall street or any of our markets for 991 cents in gold ? In destroying this amount of the legal money of the people, do you not actually destroy more tlian $45,500,000 of money value in gold ? If you add this amount of gold value which you take from the people to the amount which the principal and interest on the bonds will cost, does it not count up to about $129,220,000 in gold? Do you not propose to take from the people this $46,000,000 of legal money and issue notes to the national banks to the extent of SIOO to every SBO of United States notes you destroy ? Are the notes of national banks of any more value for use as money than tne notes of the Government of the United States?

Are not the bank notes redeemable in the very kind of money you destroy ? Do you not issue bonds for the purpose of destroying legal-tender notes? Do not the people have to pay interest on the bonds, which interest would be saved if the legal money was left as it is? What reason can yon assign for destroying the people’s money and forcing a burden of taxes upon them equal to $129,000,000, other than for the purpose of destroying the people’s money and substituting bankers’ money therefor? Are you running the Government of the United States for the sole benefit of the banks ? Please tell us in what way the mass of the people arc to be benefited by transactions of this kind ? Is it to get our currency on a specie basis that you make these expensive changes ? Will changing United States notes for bank notes aid you iu getting to such a basis ? Is a bank note of any more coin value than a greenback ? Could you bring the paper circulation of the country to par with coin any sooner if it was all in bank notes, which is not lawful money, than you could if it was all in United States notes, which is alwful money ? Does not the destruction of the Government money diminish the volume of lawful money with which the people do their business and pay their debts? Have you been able thus far to put coin in the place of the legal-tender notes you have destroyed ? Can you put coin in the place of the $46,000,000 of legal money you propose to destroy between this and the Ist of January next ? If not, will you not diminish the volume of legal money just that amount? If you destroy that amount of money, will it not be a fearful damage to the country, sending tens of thousands of them into bankruptcy ? Who are the parties who are demanding the enforcement of the Specie-Re-sumption act for the purpose of getting to a specie basis ? Who is it that is so exceedingly anx--ious to use coin instead of greenbacks ? Is it the workingmen of the country ? Is it the business men of the country ? Is it the great mass of the farmers of the West or the manufacturers of the East that are asking for this change ? Will any or all of these parties demand coin in exchange for the $300,000,000 that you propose to redeem after Jan. 1, 1879? If they do, have you made provision for the redemption of all these notes in coin, when presented? In your examination before the committee of the House you stated that you did not expect $1 in SIOO would be presented for redemption after resumption begins. If so, why drag the business men of this country through eight months more of bankruptcy and business distress, for the purpose of supplying an imaginary . want of the people for coin ? Are you not, by enforcing the Resumption act, creating an unnecessary demand for coin when no demand now exists for its use for such purposes ? Does not the Resumption act create a demand for $300,000,000 of coin, that does not now exist, and will not exist if that act is repealed ? Can you create a demand for such an enormous amount of coin without raising the price ? If you raise the price of coin in attempting to resume, will it not defeat resumption ? Did you not say to the House committee that if there was a quarter of 1 per cent, difference between coin and greenbacks it would defeat resumption? Can you place the currency of this country upon a specie basis and retain it there with only $1 of coin to $4 or $5 of paper ? Has not every specie-paying country in the world more ooin than paper in circulation among the people ? Has not England to-day nearly $3 of coin to $1 of paper currency ? Has not France more than $2.50 of coin to $1 of paper notes ? Did not this country, when on a specie

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basis, have as much as $5 of coin to $4 of paper notes ? How, then, do you expect that this country, with an enormous foreign debt drawing away its specie to pay interest annually in "coin, can maintain specie payments when you have at least four times as much paper currency as you have of coin ? As a citizen of the United States! have a right to demand of you a satisfactory answer to these questions and an explanation of your action with reference thereto. As I view the matter, for you to enforce the Resumption act is to pursue the most effective means to defeat the resumption of specie payments; while, if that act is repealed, resumption will take place without any difficulty whatever. Every act passed by Congress from the time the war closed, for the purpose of forcing a specie basis, has directly tended to prevent or retard resumption. Remember that all revolutions are developed by an attempt to enforce unjust and oppressive laws upon the people. It will be difficult to find in the history of nations laws that are more unjust and oppressive, or that have brought more disastrous calamities upon the people than those that have been forced upon this country for the purpose of resuming specie payments, every one of which has not only been useless for the purpose, but has actually hindered the accomplishment of that object. Respectfully yours, E. P. Miblbr. Bath Hotel, 39 and 41 West Twenty-sixth 6treet, New York.

THE EARNINGS OF LABOR.

Hon. S F. Cary on the Creation ami Distribution of the Products of the Worker. How can the joint earnings of labor and capital be equitably distributed—labor and capital each getting its share ? Upon the proper solution of this great problem depends the material and moral grandeur, the strength and perpetuity of free government. That there is no such equitable distribution, that capital appropriates the lion’s share, will not be questioned or doubted. The problem is becoming more complex and difficult of solution by reason of the many improved processes for increasing product, which processes require a large amount of capital. involving combinations of men of wealth, and the crowding together of a great number of laborers under a common direction. Men of small means, however skilled, cannot compete with the rich firm or incorporation which employs machinery. Individual enterprise must either retire and seek some other employment, or become a factor in the aggregated mass. Dependence and helplessness are the result, and capital, always a tyrant, becomes despotic in its power over the toilers. Our problem may be properly subdivided, or rather involves two propositions: First, how to produce wealth, and, second, how to distribute it. Wealth or riches consists in the raw material and whatever skill and labor can add to it for the useful purposes of mankind. If wealth is created rapidly by means of machinery, and is badly distributed, the result must be great opulence in one direction and extreme poverty in another. Over-grown fortunes and general destitution are hardly possible, if the means of distribution (legal tenders) correspond with the increase of production. The study of the statesman should be to maintain tho equilibrium, that tho general welfare may be secured and established. The problem is not solved by an equal division of property, as by that means all emulation is destroyed, and labor is virtually abolished, because no man will work without a prospect of reward. It is not an equal, but an equitable distribution of the products of labor that is desirable. We would not abolish property, but universalize it, so that every citizen, to the extent of his unassisted production, will be a proprietor. Every man is entitled to all that he individually creates without aid from others. He can accomplish little with empty hands; he must have tools and implements with which to work. When he lias paid a fair rent for the use of these tools he is entitled to the residue of his product, and this rent should not be disproportionate to the results ; otherwise the laborer is robbed, and the man who furnishes the tools is the robber. The rent or rate of interest paid for the use of capital is in excess of the ability of labor to pay, or, in other words, is not in proportion to the market value of the joint product. Labor is at still greater disadvantage, and inequalities in condition are magnified when machinery is employed involving a large expenditure of dear capital. An increase in production, however brought about, can never injure labor, if an equitable distribution is secured. In every normal condition of society, consumption and production will always be the counterparts of each other. An increased production of the necessaries of life enlarges the number and magnifies the wants of consumers, if the instrument of distribution (money) is ample and within the reach of the laborer. New wants are created with increased facilities of gratification. The skill and ingenuity of man have added enormously to the product of the farm, the mine, the manufactory, and the workshop, while the avarice and selfishness of Shylocks have dictated the financial legislation in such a way that these vast products remain undistributed, presenting the singular phenomenon of millions starving in the midst of plenty. The function or office of money is to distribute or circulate the riches of a people. If it is insufficient in volume to distribute products, barns and warehouses will be crowded with needed but unused articles of consumption. Every new machine, by means of which wealth is created, demands an increase of money to carry it to the people. As well attempt to deliver at a railroad depot, with one pair of mules, 10,000 bushels of wheat, when their capacity would be taxed in moving 5,000 bushels, as to carry on the commerce of the country with a wholly inadequate volume of money. It is worse than a blunder—it is a crime—to delay the march of civilization until other gold and silver mines are discovered, and those metals are melted into coin. With an insufficient volume of money, rates of interest will be usurious, or labor will be unemployed. The creation and distribution of wealth will bath be crippled. This is the oonditiou of thing?

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our country to-day ! Educated labor is doing wonders in the production of riches, but vicious legislation is hindering its distribution by withholding a proper instrument of exchange. This is a land of bankrupts aud beggars because of the determination of the money lords to adjust the business of this great country to tho available amount of gold and silver! Labor must be unemployed and business be suspended unless the precious metals can be obtained 1 France, iu her financial policy, demonstrates the correctness of our theory. She had to pay an enormous amount to : Germany for getting whipped in tho late struggle. She furnished a large amount of paper money which she did not discredit by refusing to receive for her own dues. Full employment was thus given to all the producing classes, and an immense surplus was created, which was sold iu the markets of Germany, and France soon had back again all she had paid. Germany became as poor as the last heir of Lazarus, while France has been greatly enriched. Instead of following the example of France we have adopted the policy of England after the Napoleonic war. It needs no prophet’s ken to foretell the end. A yawning gulf is before us 1 Men of business who, by patient industry and praiseworthy enterprise, have made large accumulations must see them melt away, and the only consolation from the Shylocks is that they have been extravagant and have been over-trailing. The millions of unemployed workingmen must go backward and downward urtil starvation and rags drive them into tlie highways to become tramps, to beg or steal or starve. These are insultingly told that they have brought ruin upon themselves by improvidence ,in lazess and vice. There is only one way out of these difficulties, and that is to inaugurate at once the policy of the National party as clearly set forth iu the Toledo platform. S. F. Cahy.

THE BENNETT-MAY DUEL.

A Veracious History ot the Hostile Meeting. The New York Times prints the true story of the Bennett-May duel, given on the authority of George Wilkes, editor of the Spirit of the Times, who received it direct from Dr. Phelps, the surgeon on the occasion. The story is entirely creditable to Bennett. Dr. Phelps says it was plain on the morning of the affair that Bennett was there to fight. Both parties had their own pistols. Bennett’s wero new, with all tlie latest improvements. May’s were very old, and, as it turned out. hard upon the trigger. The one that Bennett got was so, fit least. The party took their places, aud the word was given to fire. Tlie directions wero to fire at tlie word “ Fire !” and not alter the word “Three!” Almost instantly upon the word “Fire!” May shot. “ One, two, three,” followed, and Bennett, who pulled at liis trigger evidently with the best will in the world, did not succeed in getting his weapon off. He was baffled by the stiffness of the lock. It was an exciting moment. No one who looked at his eye as it bore straight across the angry woun d which his opponent had inflicted upon his face a few days before could doubt what Bennett then meant to do, but the pistol exhausted the “One, two, three,” by its reluctance, and dropped harmlessly by his side. His second interposed, and claimed that, as Bennett had suffered his risk and disadvantage, through no fault of his own, he was entitled to a return shot at May. Tho claim, being according to rule, was allowed, and May took his place emptyhanded before Bennett’s pistol. The disk of the avenging weapon covered him as the word was given, but Bennett’s face changed as ho saw his opponent at his mercy, and, before the signal words wero counted cut, ho had forgiven him and fired in tho air. This terminated the proceedings. As ilio party left the ground Bennett said to the surgeon : “ Well, doctor, do you think I did right?” “I should have been very sorry lo have killed any man at my mercy,” was tlie answer. “But,” glancing at the shining fresh scar across Bennett’s nose, he added, “But with such a pistol iiand ns yours I should have beeu terribly tempted to wing him.” “At any rate,” said Mr. Wilkes, “his conduct was generous, and his opponents should liavo been glad to take any responsibility of prosecution, if that is what governed them, to savo him from being defamed and branded as a coward. 1 The gift of a life was worth certainly as much as that.” It may bo added that Bennett still wears the red mark left by the scar on bis nose.

Singular Scene in Ohio Legis Iature.

The Legislative trial of John O’Connor, member of the Ohio House of Representatives from Montgomery county, is described by the correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette as “beyond question the most remarkable scene ever witnessed iu the Ohio Legislature.” At the evening session, when the trial was concluded, every inch of standing-room was occupied. Gov. Bishop sat besido the Speaker. Senators filled the spaces on the floor not required' by members. The galleries were crowded with ladies, and the lobbies were lined by men. O’Connor had at his elbow two lawyers and an unknown Catholic priest. Tho chief question raised by the prosecutors was whether O’Connor should be expelled or his seat be declared vacant.* Dr. Norton argued for expulsion, because he feared that, if the seat were declared vacant, all the bills which O’Connor’s vote had passed might be declared invalid. Menser and several other members combated this view, holding that the acts of an official were valid until he was declared ineligible by proper authority. This view finally prevailed, and the seat was vacated by a vote of 64 to 18. Before the vote was reached, O’Connor, who viewed the arguments for the two methods of punishment with equal indifference, obtained the floor and made a pathetic appeal for mercy. He contended also, on the prompting of his lawyer, that the House had no right to go back of the election. The plea was listened to with curiosity and patience, but had no effect on the final result. The history of this O’Connor case is now familiar to the people. O’Connor was elected to the Legislature from the Soldiers’ Home at Dayton. After he had been sitting some months it was discovered that he had formerly been an inmate of the Michigan State prison, his term of imprisonment beginning Sept. 30, 1869, and ending three months afterward. He had no pardon or abridgement of his term of imprisonment which operated to relieve him of his political disabilities. These facts were proved before the Legislative Committee, though O'Connor strenuously denied them.