Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1878 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. United States Minister Seward writes «of the famine in China that the actual famine is preßßing upon 16,000,000 people, while 60,000,000 are Buffering more or less diHtreßß. The crops, he Bays, have been good immediately around tho stricken districts, hut, as the food can be transported only on wagons or pack animals, it ■cannot be taken thither in Buflicient quantities to save the lives of the people. There has been serious rioting in Constantinople. The troops fired on the mob, killing twenty-one and wounding seventeen. Property in Caracas. Venezuela, to ttlie amount of SIOO,OOO, was destroyed by the ■earthquake of April 14. The water in the rivers became so hot that the fish sought refuge «n the shore—a cane of jumping from tho JtyjWig-pan into the fire. A London dispatch says it is now more than probable that the congress will meet during the first fortnight of June; also that, oiving to tho unsettled stale of public affairs in Constantinople, tho English licet will probably movo to the Princes’ islands. Count Schouvaloff returned to London last week, and it is believed his mission to Bt. Petersburg has been highly successful. The insurrection in Laz : stan against ■iho Russians is spreading. It is estimated that 'between 10,000 and 15,000 Lazis are under arms. These are prosecuting a guerrilla warfaro against the Russians about Artvin and Batoum. Servia has placed her army on a complete war footing, at tho request of Russia, and sent large forces to the Bosnian frontier. The Czar is sending monoy to the Servian capital, to pay for tho supplies rendered necessary by the general mobilization. The Russians affect to be confident of 'peace, and yet they have given their war preiparations a sudden acceleration that would almost make it appear that they are really certain that the conditions which Count Schouvaloff takes to London wi 1 bo rejected, and war will follow. A Loudon dispatch states that the Russians are concentrating an immense army on the frontier of Austrian Poland.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

Eust. Mrs. Leon Lewis, the novelist, died in Rochester, N. Y., a few days ago. The Rev. Samuel S. Isaacs, editor of tho Jewish. Messenger, and the oldest Jewish minister in the country, died in New York last week, aged 74. Cardinal McClosky has returned from Europe. Harvard students have been recently discovered by the collego authorities having knowledge of the examination papers before boing regularly issued, and two members of tho Junior class have been expelled, and one or two employes removod. John Hughes, of New York, has clialonged Daniel O’Leary to a six days’ pedestrian match for the Astley belt and #SOO a side. During the progress of a fire at Hartford, Ct , last week, an explosion blew down a wall, killing three firemen. The magnificent woman’s hotel, constructed by the late A. T. S ewart, and recently opened in Now York, lias proved a great fail lire, and is to he transformed into a general hotel/ West. The Senate of Minnesota, sitting as a high court of impeachment, is engaged in the trial of Circuit Judge Sherman Page, for official misconduct. The Coroner’s jury which has been holding an inquest on the victims of the mill explosion at Minneapolis, Minn., has retnrned a verdict that the disaster was tho result of an explosion of mill-dust floating in the air, kindled by fire in the woodwork of the Washburn A mill, originating in a spark from the stories running empty. No evidence is found to chow negligence on the part of the mill-op eratives, hut the open purifiers in use in mills are condemned as generating an unusual amount of dust. The Southern Hotel, at St. Louis, the burning of which created such a horror throughout tho country a year ago, is to be rebuilt. It is estimated that fifty people were killed and over half a million dollars’ worth of property destroyed by the recent terrible cyclone that swept across the State of Wisconsin. Six or seven hundred Nez Perces Indians who took part in war under Chief Joseph last summer have sent a request to the authorities at Washington to be allowed to leave Fort Leavenworth, where they are how dotaiuod, and return to their old reservation in Washington Territory. After several consultations between the President and Secretary of War, and Secretary of the luterior, it has been d cided not to grant the request. Hontli. Collector Woodcock telegraphs the Commissioner of Internal Revenue from Nashvillo, Tenti., that Special Deputy Collector Davip, with one companion, attempted to seize an illicit distillery on Saturday in Grundy county, 'rhey were attacked by seven men. Davis killed one, wounded one, and captured ono of his assailants, but had to leave the distillery without completing its destruction.

POLITICAL POINTS.

Tho committee appointed by Speaker Randall to conduct the investigation of the Louisiana and Florida elections, provided for by tho Potter resolution, is constituted as folows : Clarkson N. Potter, of New York ; William It. Morrison, of Illinois ; Eppa Hunton, of Virginia : John A. McMahon, of Ohio ; J. C. S. Blackburn, of Kentucky; W. 8. Stenger, of Pennsylvania ; Thomas R. Cobb, of Indiana—democrat a. B. p. Butler, of Massachusetts; Frank Hiscock, of New York ; J. D. Cox, of Ohio, and Thomas B. Reed, of Maine—Republicans. lho Nationals of Indiana met in State Convention at Indianapolis on May 22, and nominated the following ticket: Secretary of State, Henry James; Auditor, Jacob F. BirdTreasurer, R. P. Main; Attorney General, David Moss; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Prof. John Young. The Republican Convention of Vermont met at Burlington on May 23. Col. Redheld Proctor was nominated for Governor, E. P. Colton for Lieutenant Governor, and John A. Pago, present incumbent, for State Treasurer. The resolutions declare that “the motives and general oourse of the administration of President Hayes have our hc'.xity approbation,” and condemn as un I uir and revolutionary the measure of tho Democratic House of Representatives to investigate a part only of the facts pertaining to the I residential election, and consider that all < fforts to reopen a question of such magnitude, after it has onoe been lawfully, and we

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believe justly, closed, are detrimental to the prosperity and .perilous to the peace of the country, deserving the reprehension of all good citizens.” The Democrats of Pennsylvania held their State Convention at Pittsburgh last week. Andrew H. Dill was nominated for Governor, H. P. Ross for Supreme Judge, and J. Simpson Aprica for Secretary of Internal Affairs. The platform adopted declares that the Republican party, its measures and its men, are responsible for the financial distress 'and misery and want that now exist; that its present hold upon the Federal power was secured by fraud, perjury, and forgery; that further contraction of the volume of United States legal-tender notes is unwise and unnecessary; that treasury notes issued in exchange for bonds bearing a low rate of interest is the best form in which the credit of the Government can be given in paper currency; that the public lands are the common property of the people, and they should not be sold to speculators, nor granted to railroads or other corporations, but should be reserved as homesteads for actual settlers; that “thorough investigation into the electoral frauds of 1876 should be made; fraud should be exposed, truth vindicated, and criminals punished, but we oppose any attack upon the President’s title as dangerous to our institutions and fiuitless in its results.”

WASHINGTON NOTES.

The House Committee on Expenditures in the State Department has agreed to report articles of impeachment against Consul General Bradford at Shanghai. The Republican members have doubts that the office is impeachable under the constitution. A Washington dispatch says “the sale of tho 4-per-cont. bonds has already reached such an amount as will shortly justify tho issue of a call for five million 6 per cents., which will be replaced by 4 per cents. Sherman denies that the Syndicate has made an offer for six hundred millions of 4 per cents, at par, provided it was given a monopoly of the sale. Ho says that under no circumstances will ho give any bankers a monopoly of the fours. They are, he considers, the people’s bonds, and he intends they shall remain so.” The President has appointed William P. Chandler, of Illinois, Surveyor General of Idaho Territory. Secretary Sherman submitted a financial statement to the Cabinet, at a meeting the other day, showing that there is a falling off in the revenue receipts of the present fiscal year, thus far, of $11,000,000, as compared with the corresponding time last year ; also, showing a decrease of $8,000,000 in the Government expenditures. Numerous localities in Illinois and Wisconsin were visited on the evening of May 23 by' the storm-king, and suffered vast destruction of property and serious loss of life. At Mineral Point, Wis., tho tornado appears from the results to have been tho severest, fully a score of dwelling-houses and other buildings being utterly demolished and as many more unroofed and otherwise injured. The contents of some were blown fully half a mile avray. Eight persons were killed outright, and many others wounded, some of them beyond hope of recovery. The loss of property is estimated at over SIOO,OOO, without reckoning horses, cattle, etc. Everything in the line of the tornado is laid low, huge trees being carried hundreds of feet, huge rocks being misplaced, the ground plowed up, etc. At Paoli, Oregon, Mount Vernon and other towns west of Madison the liurric&ne was nearly as severe as at Mineral Point. Houeeß were unroofed, barns and fences prostrated, and many persons injured. On the same day a tornado swept through the town of Barrington, Cook county, 111., making havoc wherever it struck tho earth and killing three persons. Another tornado swept through Brown county, 111., and three lives are reported lost. Tlio President has nominated Charles Payson, of Massachusetts, Third Assistant Secretary of State : S. A. Brown, the present Chief of the State Department, to be Consul at Birmingham, England; O. M. Spencer, of lowa, to be Consul General at Melbourne, Australia. Consuls, Charles M. Murphy, of New Hampshire, at Moscow, Russia ; John F. Hazelton, of New York, at Genoa, Italy; Charles E. Jackson, of Wisconsin, at Antigua, and John B. Gould at Marseilles, France. The customs agents of the treasury havo discovered an extensive scheme for smuggling cigars into Now York by throwing them overboard in rubber bags from incoming steamships outaido of Sandy Hook. This practice has been conducted with great success off tho Florida coaßt on cigars imported from Havana.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS.

A telegram from Ottawa, Canada, says the Dominion Government is in receipt by cable of a statement from the Imperial Government to the effect that war between Great Britain and Russia is inevitable. Several miners were killed by an explosion of gas in a colliery near Halifax, N. S., last week. A telegram from North Troy, Vt., says: “A correspondent of the Associated Press visited several of the principal towns on the Canadian border, and finds everywhere the moat intense excitement prevailing. The Dominion militia are supplied with arms and ammunition, and are ready at an hour’s notice to concentrate their forces to repel invasion on the Canada border. The soldiers say no doubt exists in their minds that an invasion is imminent, and that tho Irish Nationalists are now in large numbers, with the greatest secrecy possible, making their way into the interior of Canada, with orders to concentrate at different points for an onslaught on Montreal, Quebec, Ottawa and other prominent Canadian towns.” The Bennett polar ship will soon sail from London for Havre, where a temporary crew will be shipped, when she will leave for San Francisco. Mr. Bennett hopes the expedition will sail for the north in June, 1879, It will go by the route through Behring’s straits. The pleasure steamer Empress of India, with a party of about eighteen persons on board, became unmanageable and capsized over a dam on Grand river at Galt, Ont., a few nights ago. All the passengers were plunged into the river below and eight of them drowned.

FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.

Monday, May 20.—Senate.—Mr. Thurman, from the Judiciary Committee, to which was recommitted the House bill to provide for the admission to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States of any woman who has been a member of the bar of the highest court of any Btate or Territory fortheperiod of three years, reported it back with the amendment of Mr. Sargent, providing that no person shall be refused admission to the bat of the United States court on account of sex. There was no law prohibiting a court from admitting women to the bar, and therefore, there was no necessity for this legialai tion....Mr. Christiancy introduced, by request a bill to reorganize the Court of Claims. ... rhe Senate indulged in a long and animated debate upon the House bill to place the name of Gen Shields on the retired list of the army, with the rank of Brigadier General. Mr. Sargent

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moved to amend the bill by adding the name of Gen. Grant. This was agreed to—yeas 30, all Republicans with the exception of one (Lamar); nays 28, all Democrats except Oglesby.... Mr. Morrill addressed the Senate in opposition to the bill to repeal the Resumption act. House. —The following bills were Introduced: By Mr. Harris, repealing the law imposing a tax of 1 per cent, on State banks; by Mr. Shelley, of Alabama, giving the guarantee of the Government to the payment of 6 per cent, interest on the bonds to be issued by the followingnamed companies to the following amounts: The James River and Kanawha Canal Company, $60,000,000; Atlantic and Great Western Canal Company, $50,000,000; the Florida Coast Canal Com pany, $12,008,000; the Fort St. Philip Canal Company, $10,000,000; the Rock Island and Hennepin Canal Company, $13,000,000; the Oswego Canal Company, $25,000,000* the Lexington and Big Sandy Railroad Company, $5,000,000; the Niagara Ship Canal Company, $14,000,000; by Mr. Garfield, for taking the tenth and subsequent censuses; by Mr. Atkins, requiring all appointments in the civil service to bo distributed equally among the Congressional Districts; by Mr. Crittenden, providing that the claims of militiamen or non-enlißted persons on account of disabilities received In battle with rebels or Indians shall be valid if filed previous to July, 1682... The 4rmy Appropriation bill was discussed. Tuesday, May 21.— Senate. — Mr. Conkling, from the Committee on Commerce, reported adversely on the Senate bill to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi river at Memphis, and it was indefinitely postponed... .The Senate resumed consideration of the bill to place the name of Gen. Shields on the retired list of the army. The question was on concurring in the amendment of the committee of the whole placing the name of Gen. Grant on the retired list, and It was defeated— 32 to 28 —a strict party vote, the Republicans voting in the affirmative and the Democrats in the negative. After debate, Mr. Thurman moved to strike out all after the enacting clause of the bill as an amendment, and insert in lieu thereof a provision authorizing the Secretary of tho Interior to place the name of Gen. Shields on the pension lißt, at the rate of SIOO a month. A lengthy debate ensued, which was participated in by Messrs. Thurman, Blaine and Hill. The amendment of Mr. Thurman was rejected—yeas, 31 ; nays, 83. The question beina on the passage of the bill, a vote was taken without further diecussion, and it was rejected—yeas, 30 nays, 34. Mr. Teller entered a motion to reconsider the vote by which the lull was rejected. House. —The House devoted the entire day, in committee of the whole, to the consideration of the Army Appropriation bill. Wednesday, May 22. — Senate. —The Senate discussed the resolution of Mr. Davis authorising an investigation of the books and accounts of the Treasury Department. .. .Mr. Paddock’s bill for the relief of settlers on the public lauds was passed. It allows pre-emption settlers who have changed their title to homestead entry the benefit of the time the land was occupied under the pre-emption entry... The remainder of the day was occupied by a speech by Mr. Lamar on tho Texaß Pacific Railroad bi 11.... The Senate, in executive session, confirmed tho nomination of S. B. Packard as Consul at Liverpool, by a strict party vote. Lucius Fairchild was also confirmed as Consul General at Paris. House. —Mr. Harrison, of Illinois, offered a reso lution extending the Potter investigation to Oregon and South Carolina. On a vote as to whether it was a question of privilege no quorum responded, and Mr. Harrison withdrew his resolution. Mr. Wilson then offered a resolution extending the power of the investigating committee to any State where there may be any well-grounded allegation of fraud, which was adopted.... Articles of impeachment were reported against O. B. Bradford, late Vice Consul General at Shanghai. China, and referred to the Judiciary Committee... .Mr. Butier’s bill for the publication of ihe Official Advertiser of the United States was passed after a good deal of discussion... .The Houso indulged in another lively debate over the Army Appropriation bill.

Thursday, May 23.—Senate.—Bills were passed to provido for service of process in caees of inter-pleader in courts of the United States, and authorizing the erection of headstones over the graves of Union soldiers interred in private cemeteries.... The resolution of Mr.- Davis authorizing the select committee to investigate the books of the Treasury Department to continue the investigation during the recess was adopted.... The bill providing for a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia occupied a large share of the day’s session.... The Senate, in exeentive session, confirmed a large number of appointments. The nomination of John B. Frothiugham to be Assistant Appraiser of Merchandise at New York was rejected. House. —Mr. Robertson, rising to a question of personal privilege, stated that charges had been made against citizens of the parishes of East and WeEt Feliciana, which, if true, would compel him to retire in shame from his seat. He sent to the Clerk’s desk and had read that portion of Secretary Sherman's letter to Clarkson N. Potter, in which he refers to the election in those parishes. Mr. Robertson then proceeded to make a general statement as to tho election in East and West Feliciana, but was interrupted by the Speaker pro tern., who reminded him that all .hat was remote from a question of personal privilege. Mr. Burchard— Unlesß the gentleman connects himself with the frauds he speaks of. Mr. Robertson—l do connect myself with those frauds by denouncing them and branding the charge in lhat letter as a viio calumny. There was a conspiracy in those parishes, and I believe that John Sherman was connected with it.... The House devoted the balance of the day and the entire evening session to tho consideration of the Army Appropriation bill. Friday, May 24. — Senate.— Mr. Edmunds, from the select committee to take into consideration the state of the law respecting the ascertaining and declaration of the result of the election of Presidents ana Vice Presidents of the United States, said that he was directed by the committee to make a report in part, in the form of a bill to amend sundry provisions of chapter 1, title 3of the Revised Statutes of tho United States, relating to Presidential elections. The bill reported by Mr. Edmunds provides that, when there is ojily one return of the vote of a State, it shall not be rejected except by the concurrent action of both houses. Ii more than one return is received, the vote of the State is not to be counted unless both houses agree as to which is the legal return. It also names the first Tuesday in October for Presidential elections, and the first Monday in January for the meeting of the electors. The bill was placed on the calendar... Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Education and Labor, reported adversely on tbo House joint resolution to provide for the enforcement of the Eight-Hour law, and also adversely on the Senate bill to regulate the hours of labor. Placed on the calendar... .The Senate then discussed the bill to provide for a permanent government for the District of Columbia. House. —The House spent another day upon the Army Appropriation bill. Saturday, May 25.— Senate.— Mr. Oglesby, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported, and the Senate passed, the House bill which provides that tho notice of contest now provided for by law under the Homestead Pre-emption and TreeCulture laws of the United States Bhall be published in some newspaper printed in the county where the land contest lies, and, if no paper be printed in the same county, then in a newspaper printed in the county nearest to such lands. The object of this bill is to protect the interests of all parties to contests.... Tho bill to provide a permanent government for the District of Columbia was discussed. House.— Mr. Goode, the Chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor, reported a bill to apply the proceeds of the sale of public lands to the education of the people... .The House spent the day in committee of the whole on the Army Appropriation bill. There was an animated debate over the provision to reduce the salaries of the General of the Aitny and Lieutenant General, but tho reductions as fixed by the committee were sustained. Mr. Scales offered an amendment transferring the Indian Bureau to tho War Department, but action upon it was postponed.

Education in France.

They may well say in France that the schoolmaster is abroad—in Germany, probably. The recent reports presented to the Assembly show that in full sight of Paris is a town only one of whose Municipal Councillors can read; of 1,200 inhabitants in another in Charente-In-ferieure only six can spell and four read writing; only a few rich landholders in another of 2,000 souls in Vienne can read, and so on. Before compulsory education can be attempted to be enforced, it will be necessary to build 17,320 parish schools, to enlarge 5,458, to repair 3;781, and to put ordinary furniture into 9,857. Of the existing schools thousands are literally hovels and caves in tne earth. Some have no light save what comes in at the door; in one of these it was impossible to hold recitations on thirty-nine days in a session of fifty. Another had to be entered on allfours; a third had earthen seats and desks. In another case, not even a cavern being handy, the master used to lead his flock across the line into Spain, where an eligible nook existed. There are schools kept in wineshops, police stations, dancing-rooms, under a church porch, in a stable (held there for warmth), in a kitchen. In one case the schoolmaster’s wife had been confined in the sole room, which was academy and dwelling; in another his pig occupied part of the apartment. And yet ia grande nation wonders why Germany beat her I

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

MYSTERIOUS TELEGRAMS.

A Call Upon Mr. W. E. Chandler to Explain Them. [From the New York Herald.l In connection -with the proposed Florida investigation there are some telegraphic dispatches sent during the period immediately after the election the meanmg of which puzzled a good many innocent souls when they were brought out in the investigation of last year, and which it will be well now to have explained, merely to satisfy an idle curiosity, as it were. Here, for instance, is one sent on election day by-Mr. Purman, candidate for Congress, to Govin, then election manager and now United States Consul: Tallahassee, Noy. 6. To C»l. Manuel Govin, Key West: Draw on Gov. Steams and myself for 200 more. W. J. Purman. Here is another from the Chairman of the Republican Committee, two days after the election: Nov. 8, 18?6. Judge J. M. Edmunds, Chairman Republican National Executive Commitiee, Washington, D. C.: In order to prevent frauds we must have money. If Florida is important, authorize me to draw on you for $2,000. Answer. M. Martin. Chairman Republican Campaign Committee. W. J. PUBMAN. Here are several mysterious cipher dispatches from Mr. W. E. Chandler: Tallahassee, Nov. 12, 1876. M. A. Clancy, Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York: Doctors plenty; rainy weather. Is sea smooth ? Have Jones ready. W. E. Chandler. Clancy was the stenographer of the Republican National Committee. But who or what was Jones ? Chandler appears to have been anxious about him or it, for he telegraphed again the next day: Talla., 13. W. A. Clancy, Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York.: Florida swarming with prominent Democrats. Send some Republican lawyers and eminent men. Send Jones to E. A. RclUns, Philadelphia. Have Arthur William warm. Men acting cold. W. E. Chandler.. Chandler’s mind was set at rest about Jones the same day by this dispatch from Z. Chandler: Washington, D. C., 13. Hon. W. E. Chandler, Tallahassee, Fla. : Dispatch received. Jones gone to Philada harney all along the line—sea safe cotton high stiffen oranges men coming. Z. Chandler. Chmn. The price of cotton seems to have interested most of the Republican statesmen, for on the same day Mr. W. E. Chandler, at Tallahassee, was anxious about the j rice, and telegraphed to that eminent cotton factor, S. B. Packard, now Consul to Liverpool:

Talla., 13. S. B. Packard, New Or'eans : Has Kellogg my letter? Must know positively about cotton. W. E. Chandler. Mr. Chandler got satisfactory assurances the same day thus: New Orleans, 13. Everett Chase, care Gov. Stearns, Talla., Fla. : Just received your letter. Think cotton high: how there ? K. New Orleans, Nov. 15. Everett Chase, care Gov. SternH : Confident cotton high, only keep it firm (here. K. There is also the following assurance about money, a week after election, it will be observed : Nov. 13, 1876. To Col. Manuel Govin, Key West, Fla.: Will have funds from Washington iu ten days. Draw only fifteen days’ sight. Our success certain. W. J. Purman. On the same day following to somebody in Columbus : Talla,, Fla., 13. A. E. Gee, Columbus, O.: William S. Matthews, and other of high character, rainy. W. E. Chandler. On the 15th of November, another mysterious character is added to “Jones” in the following dispatch : Washington, D. C.,Nov. 15. Hon. W. E. Chandler : Cook and others leave to-night Robinson will accompany Jones if necessary Cotton high Doctors plenty You must not leave. Z. Chandi.eb, Chmn. Nine days later Robinson and Jones have Smith added to them, to increase the myßtery: Washington, Nov. 24. Hon. W. E. Chandler: Cotton high. Robinson in riiiladelpha Smith went with Jones to Florida. Z. Chandler. Finally, on the 27th, we find that Robinson’s first name is William, otherwise Bill we suppose, and that Mr. Chandler has need of Bill in “smallcherries,” as also of some apples : Tallahassee, Nov. 27, 1878. Z. Chandler, Washington, D. c.: William Robinson iu small cherries ; probably shall not need him ; apples about twenty ; best to be ready for any emergency. W. E. Chandler. The day before Mr. Chandler described to his friend, Gov. Kellogg, a new kind of fever:

Tallahassee, Nov. 26, 1878. Gov. W. P. Kellogg, New Orleans: Cold reports here; doctors scarce ; cotton fever spreading ; raining here. Answer. W. E. Chandlek. All this is very mysterious and eminently calculated to excite curiosity. WilLnot Mr. Chandler tell a mysteryhating American public what it all means? Who was Jones? and why should Mr. Chandler, at Tallahassee, with his hands full of election business, have been so anxious that Jones should go to Philadelphia to see E. A. Rollins ? And who was Smith, who was added to Jones and with him went to Florida ? And who was Robiuson, sumamed William, who, after sojourning in Philadelphia, was finally wanted in Florida in the shape of “small cherries,” and with “ apples,” apparently of the “twenty” kind, added to him, to be ready for any emergency ? It is tantalizing to read so much and know so little. When he was examined before the House Committee, Mr. Chandler refused to testify on the ground that he was the attorney for nearly all the Republican politicians in Florida. Was it as their attorney that he demanded Jones, Smith, and Robinson, sumamed William ? By the way, Mr. Chandler ought to tell ns whether his instructions to “have Arthur William warm” were obeyed ? Did they set him on a gridiron ? or put him in the oven? or what?

The Shorter Catechism Without Answers.

Why did Hayes nominate Wells to be Surveyor of the port of New Orleans? Why did he make Anderson Deputy Collector there? Why did he make Keener and Cazenave Custom Clerks there ? Why did he make Steams, of Florida. Commissioner of Government property at Hot Springs ? Why did he nominate McLin for Chief Justice of New Mexico? Why did he nominate Cowgill for a United States Marshalship? Why has he just appointed Packard Consul to Liverpool ? Did he do these things, which debauch the civil service, for nothing ? Is it only a coincidence that these are the very persons who stole the Presidency ? Is it only another coincidence that Noyes, Kasson a»d gherjuan, who told these

fellows that, if they put Hayes in, then he should take good care of them, have themselves been placed as Ministers to France and Austria, and Secretary of the Treasury, respectively ?— Brooklyn Eagle.

SCHEMING SHERMAN.

At> Extraordinary Interview Between the Treasury Secretary and a Louisiana ExSecretary. [Washington Telegram to Chicago Times.] Nothing more extraordinary has been developed since the Tilden-investigation movement began than the sensational scene that took place to-day in the private office of Secretary Sherman, where James Anderson, formerly Supervisor of East Feliciana parish, openly defied the Secretary and even went so far as to shake a cane in his face. Anderson is understood to be the chief witness in the case against the Secretary, and it has been often stated that he Was the witness who could prove the authenticity of Sherman’s letter to Webber, the other Feliciana Supervisor, and who was afterward killed. Anderson reached Washington in the morning and was at once set upon by Maj. Marks, of Louisiana, who wants to be Internal Revenue Collector of New Orleans, and who insisted that Anderson must have an interview with the Secretary, hinting pretty broadly that it would be more advantageous to him than to testify before Potter’s committee. Anderson finally consented, and they went together at about half-past 1. o’clock. They were shown at once into the Secretary’s private office. Maj. Marks advanced toward Secretary Sherman and said : “ Mr. Secretary, here is the gentleman of whom we have spoken, Mr. Anderson. ” Secretary Sherman was seated at his desk, with his attorney, Mr. Shellabarger, at his right. Mr. Anderson did not know at the time that Mr. Shellabarger was the attorney of Mr. Sherman. After the formalities of opening ihe conversation, Secretary Sherman said to Mr. Anderson: “ Do yon know me ?” Mr. Anderson said: “I do.” “ Have you ever met me before ?” “ I liave,” was the reply. “Where have you met me?” said Sherman. “ In New Orleans.” “Do you know of any particular transaction that took place between us during my visit to that State ?” Anderson was about to reply to this when his quick eye caught sight of a short-hand reporter opposite the Secretary busily engaged in taking notes. He started back at once and saw that he was in a trap, and that it was the intention of the Secretary to commit him to some statement in the presence of his lawyer and to go with it before the investigating committee to refute any statement that he might be presumed to make against Mr. Sherman. Anderson then spoke out in a very angry tone of voice, saying, ‘‘ I did not come up here to talk to a short-hand reporter. I did not come up here at my own request, but at the request of Maj. Marks, and I do not think this is fair treatment. You ask me if anything peculiar took place between us. You know as well as I all about that, and you are just as capable of answering that question as I am. If you want it answered you will have to answer it yourself.” Mr. Anderson is a man of very fiery temper, and he hardly waited for a word from the Secretary, when he continued in a very loud tone of voice, ‘ l l suppose this trap is only one of your many schemes against me. You know that I know all about that letter that you wrote to Webber, and which is now in the possession of Mrs. Webber. I suppose that you would like to put me out of the way in the same fashion that Webber was, who was guilty of the crime of knowing too much.” At this outbreak from the infuriated Anderson, Secretary Sherman sank back into his seat, and did not appear to know what to do. Marks finally endeavored to restrain Anderson, but the latter was beside himself with rage, and would pay no attention. He shook his cane in Sherman’s face, and defied him. He said to him, “You have endeavored to intrap me, and, so help me God, I will never speak to another member of this administration, or have anything to do in any way with any of you.” After several more passages of a severely denunciatory character, he went out of the room with Maj. Marks, who endeavored to pacify and quiet him down, but it only resulted in a violent quarrel between them.

Why Hayes is Worried.

All this agitation of the question of Mr. Hayes’ title is greatly disturbing the occupants of the White House. Notwithstanding the Associated Press agent here was kind enough to send off' a statement dictated by John Sherman to the effect that Mr. Hayes was not worried in the slightest over what was going on in the House, or what is being said about it in the press of the country, Mr. Hayes is worried over these Florida developments, and very considerably so, and has done all he could to keep an investigation resolution ont of the House, directly and indirectly. It can be proved that, during the past three weeks, he has requested more than one Southern Democrat to use all the efforts iD his power to prevent further agitation of the matter. It can be shown also that very close friends of the administration have made promises of office to certain Southern gentlemen, provided they could persuade their representatives to vote “no” on this resolution, and it is a fact that three-fourtlis of all the talk heard about the hotels in advocacy of “letting up” on Hayes comes from persons who expect to be paid for it by office or otherwise, in-case Mr. Hayes passes over the stream safely. Stanley Matthews and John Sherman are also worried over it, Sherman especially. He knows that just as certain as an investigation is ordered, and thoroughly made, he will appear in such a bad light that a howl will be raised from one end of the country to the other so loud that he can only stay it by stepping down and out. Mrs. Hayes also feels uncomfortable, and has said so to more than one person, male and female, who can be named, if necessary. There is nothing said about the matter in the White House among the secretaries or clerks of Mr. Hayes. Dr. Rogers, the poet-secretary of Mr. Hayes, keeps a sharp lookout for the comments of all the leading papers. These he abstracts and reads for Mr. Hayes’ benefit every day. Hayes feels this thing so badly that he does not go on the streets as much as formerly, because he dislikes the idea of being pointed at as the great fraud. —Hartford Times,

COMMUNISM VS. NATIONAL BANKS.

Money is power. Men are everywhere forced to admit it. Every crisis in public affairs proves the fact. Combined power is often dangerous, and always to be watched, for it grows as it combines and combines as it grows, till, gathering the force of the whirlwind, it sweeps all before it. Money in private hands for personal purposes often becomes oppressive, never dangerous; but money gathered into corporate magnitude, governed by corporate will, free from all personal individuality, rolls its way eyeless and soulless, like the wheels of Juggernaut, over obstacles in its way. It poisons nature into tyranny. Speaking all languages, it buys servants, witnesses, Judges, ministers, Kings and States; corrupting all power, remorseless as the grave, and devilish as the devil, it is the deity of the gambler, the god of the Jew, the idol of the banker. Such is its p wer. The national banks form in each community, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the concentrated money power of the United States. Not satisfied with the general power of money incorporated into intensified strength, they have formed a kind of leviathan corporation, whose constituent elements are already made up in unified powers—a corporation of corporations—which they te.m the “Bankers’ Association.”

Its machinery covers the whole empire of financial action. Its wheels roll through every S*ate and Territory. From center to circumference it rules the whole. Its aim is universal control. Its means 2,000 banks, wielding the combined capital of 300,000 capitalists, the deposits of 800,000 business men, aggregating more than $2,000,000,000, with $160,000,000 of surplus profits, and $30,000,000 of annual bounty robbed from the people without an equivalent or consideration. With recruits wherever there is a usurer or a gambler in money, they have formed and combined a power so leviathan in its proportion, so colossal in its centralizing strength, and so self-confident in its omnipotence, that' it boldly and openly declares that its machinery is so oiled and greased that, on a single day’s notice, it can concentrate a political power no power of Congress can resist. If the Bank Association is to rule as it has combined to rule, all property is at its mercy, all labor is its slave. * For it can make and it can break ; it can rule and it can ruin ; it can build up or it can tear down. Defiant and implacablo, as all corporate and impersonal responsibility is, it has no guide but greed, no god but usury ; as ruthless as the Boman plunderers, it controls the torch that destroys and the sword that robs.

What is the purpose of this huge combination of moneyed mom polies ? It is to make monopoly immortal, and robbery endless ! It seeks to take from the Government its sovereignty in money. Its purpose is t,o kill the greenback as a currency. Its aim and object is to assert and maintain the highest prerogative pertaining to freemen. It would issue the currency, and control the currency. It would make the $7,000,000,000 worth of our annual production subject to its own valuation. It would make progress its slave, commerce its subject, manufacture its dependent, labor its hireling, Congress its puppet, and the Government its plaything. It would make the bonds of the Government its basis to rob the people of a double interest on its money. It would make the bonds exempt from taxes, to exempt their capital from taxes, creating an oligarchy of privileges, and a nobility of aristocrats. It would make the producing farmer, the creative mechanic, and working laborer its subject slaves, to pay the taxes of the rich, and do homage to wealth. Such are the exact purposes for which the Bank Association was created. It finds it legal to combine, centralize, and unify the power of money, to tyrannize over values, to avoid taxation, to impose burdens on the people, and to crucify labor. But it will tolerate no combinations but its own. J&fef When labor combines to prefect labor, it anathematizes the people as a brutal herd of agrarian Communists. It consolidates the rich to force the people to grant the rich privileges, monopolies, and powers, and call its unions Bank Associations.

Is this battle to be endless, or, seeing and knowing the infamy of the object, will the people end it ? The Roman patricians were never more insolent than the aristocracy of the Bank Association. In the old battle, patrician wealth, patrician monopolies, and patrician aristocracy were on one side; on the other were plebeian producers, plebeian manufacturers, plebeian labor, and plebeian poverty. The Roman aristocrat pursued his way to grandeur and wealth regardless of human suffeiing. Man, as an individual, if outside of the privileged order, was a thing, a slave, only fit to labor for the rich, pay taxes, and starve. Conquest, rapine, and slavery were his policy. We have got to root out this oppressive insolence, or it will root out liberty, equality and justice. We have got to conquer the Bank Association, or the Bank Association will conquer the people. The issue is definite, palpable, and irresistible. The living and the coming generations of men are bound up in its solution. With the Bank Association there is. nothing sacred or respectable but money; in its philosophy power belongs to the few; the great public heart of the populace is but the laboring rabble. Its vital life is oppression; the very spirit of its existence is an antagonism to equality of rights. It is an iron-shod oligarchy, combined into monstrous wealth to march over the very tendrils of human welfare, crushing all it cannot seduce, and conquering all it cannot control. The birth of Christianity was the birth of Communism. Religion was charity, and mercy, and hope. “Love thy neighbor as thyself,” “Do unto others as you would that others should do unto you,” created Communism, built up the Church of the Messiah, and laid the foundation for those equalities of eternal justice which formed the type, and, after centuries of struggle, grew into 'political Communism. Communism in France was the first practical assertion of the political rights of the people. In the Pantheistic Governments of Greece and the Democracies of Athens, political equality was never admitted as a principle, as the history of those States attests, and as the learned Balmes proves to demonstration. In France Communism created free cities; out of. the free cities, originated the Third Estate; out of the Third Estate, liberty. It took centuries for the principle of equality to battle down the iron bulwarks of tradition. Kings,

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feudal lords, the aristocracy were its antagonists. They had gathered up the power of oppression out of “the divine right of might," and they held it The people were denied all rights; they were slaves to power. This principle pervaded through all Grecian history till it killed Grecian power. It annihilated Roman ascendency. It drove civil and political civilization from the shores of the Mediterranean to the shores of the Atlantic. Civil liberty was manacled and in irons till the French Communes asserted and maintained the political equality of the people. The Bourbons associated to defeat equality in politics as the Bankers’ Association have associated to defeat liberty in America; and, weakened ns Bourbonism was, it yet combined the capital of Europe, and for more than 800 years it kept up the savage reign of “ might makes right." Printing finally became the ally of right. Yet it took centuries to tear a way the fetters of ignorance and flood the world with the illuminations of education, justice, hope and equality. Ignorance with the masses was essential to power with the privileged. The revolution of 1776 was the first national revolt. The revolution of 1789 waß the revolt of humanity. The Bank Association would drag the American people back to the black ignorance of night, to slavery, to subjugated dependents, to lordly masters, to cringing taxpayers. To do this it bribes capital to join capital; it feasts intellect, suborns ta'ent, buys legislation, rules money, and demands with Iladrianic ostentation that the American people shall ignore their sovereignty, and give up to this association of the money-bags the management of the finances of the nation.

These aristocrats of money, the barons of the puise, the foster-brothers of lailroad monopolies, stigmatize every asso ciated effort of labor as Communism, and Communism as the license of murder, robbery and theft. They have no appreciation of that community of effort and energies which originated free cities, or of that highest and noblest of purposes which, while battling for equality of rights, battles for the civilization of the poor, for the uplifting of the downtrodden andthesupportof theoppressed; for homes won by labor; for bread earned by toil, but denied by greed; for education for children, secured by industry and provided by the State; in one word, for the respectability of oom • fort. Labor associations have become essential to repress the insolence of capital. Labor unprotected is crushed to slavery. It is the declaration of the Bank Association that they will put their screws on labor until they have brought it to submission to the dictated prices of capital. Labor has learned to know its power, not to abuse it, not to trample on the rights of others, but to protect its own. It has come to know that it is the architect of progress and the originator of wealth. Always inventing, and creating, and producing, its Communism is this : It says to Capital: “In the past you made me your slave, for the future I make myself a freeman.” Heretofore, especially prior to 1776, the producer was the mere servant of the consumer. In an age when mind is an essential element of labor , and humanity an element of the mind, the only rank for man to recognize is that which is foremost in producing for the body and for the soul. The laborer's life is his nobility. To create is to be noble. He who creates the best to elevate labor by labor, unto the enjoyment of equality, illuminated by education, radiated by justice, purified by charity, and refined by religion, is the most of a man. This is the Communism of the laborer. Franklin was a Communist, Guttenberg was an agrarian, Arkwright a civilizer, and Morse a leveler. They were each laborers to level up, not down; to civilize, not to heathenize; to feed, not to starve. From their toil-worn hands they built into light, not into darkness; to health and strength and intelligence, and not into decrepitude, weakness and ignorance.

What these sovereigns of toil were to progress the Bank Association is to slavery, to despotism, to the centralizing power of wealth. Its policy is to subjugate and enslave the people by controlling the money power of the nation. It is now robbing the people annually of $30,000,000 of a subsidy, for which it gives no pretense of an equivalent, and for which the people receive no semblance of a This annual robbery the Bank Association would make perpetual. Their means is corruption. They bid for a corrupt and purchasable press, and corrupt and villainous Hessians, vile panderers to mammon, advocate their monopoly. They would bribe Congress to tax the producer, and State Legislatures to sustain their unholy and infamous purpose. With a reserved fund of $166,000,000 of reserved profits, wrung from the industries of the nation, they have leagued themselves into a moneyed oligarchy to rule or ruin the country. By attempting to kill the greenback they have prostrated labor to want, busim ss to bankruptcy, and prosperity to ruin. There is one thing certain—the people must kill the Bank Association or the Bank Association will kill the equalities of liberty. There can be but one sovereign power in finances. It must be the greenback as the money of the nation, sovereign, absolute and irredeemable, because it is sovereign and absolute, and adequate, because the nation can measure and supply its wants without usury, without interest, without bonds, and without cost; or it must be the national-bank money, created by a combination of individuals to rule the nation, a money dependent upon the fluctuations of gold, the greed of usurers, the will of aristocrats—to be doled out as speculators may choose at high interest, at usurious compounds, and at such times and places as the Shylocks of the money market may choose. There can be no independence if the people and the nation are to be dependent for money on banks. The banks must yield or the people must yield. The banks have money; the people have the ballot; the laborer's vote weighs as much as the banker's vote. There are one, two, maybe three hundred thousand bondholding, tax-exempt, bank-monopolist aristocrats, who would tear down the flag of. the free, make slaves of the laborers and dependents of the producers under the standard of Shvlock, waving his scales and brandishing his knife, as the emblems of mammon and the ensign of the moneypower. But the people can count their hosts by the millions, and each one of this host, marching upward and onward to labor recompensed, to education secured, to comforts won by industry, to independence obtained by the equalities of law, and to that civilization where want is a stronger and crime a foreigner, will bear aloft the ballot, on which,

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in letters of living iight, the world can read : The sovereignty of the people is education. 4 The sovereignty of labor is progress. The sovereignty of the nation in the sovereignty of the greenback, is independence, prosperity, and the death of ll monopolies, subsidies, and privileges. The national banks would have us pawn our future to the Jew. They would hang around us the remorseless skeleton debt, forever gnawing with its vulture-like greed upon the vitals of our prosperity. Let us cut the cable. Let the people commune together as the burghers and people of Cambray, and Mefz, aud Arles, and Narbonue communed. Lot us swear ns they swore to be free, to submit to no monopolies, to permit no privileged exemptions, to allow no Bankers’ Association to regulate, control, or dole out individual money to take the place of national money. Let us be sovereign to secure education. sovereign to protect labor, sovereign to make the greenback sovereign. To do this, the people must use tho bnl--1 t, and through it reign. Their souls, though separate, must have but one prayer, acting to one end, inspired by one purpose, and ascending into uuity as the wings of the bird bear it into the heavens, moving ever apart and yet ever in unison to secure the reign of equality and the prosperity of justice. Labor, long docile, ir.ust learn the logic of political logic. It must use the ballot. It must demand tho light and ask no more. It must reason to secure it, but it must prepare tq resist oppression. Capital says, “ Work at my wages or we will starve you to it.” Power, whether it is clothed in the impersonal impudence of corporate strength or in the self-elated tyranny of brief authority, says, “ You yield or we shoot;" “ You submit or we kill;" “ You work at our wages or you get no work." “You are getting too comfortable ; you can eat as the rich eat; you clothe your children'as if you were independent. You educate them an if they had a right to hope. You are getting proud. You have a home. We must stop this ! You must be contented to live as the European laborer lives." Yes. capital says this, and capital, to carry out its purpose to make labor its slave, combined its power in the Bankers’ Association. It is the duty of every laborer, of every producer, of every thinker and of every human being who loves God and humanity better than he loves gold, to put it down, down, DUWN. Let us do it.

STEPHEN D. DILLAYE.

INDIANA NATIONALS.

Tlie State Convention at Indianapolis. The Convention of the National Greenback party, which assembled at Indianapolis on the 22d of May, was one of the most intelligent political gatherings that ever convened in the State of Indiana. The following ticket was nominated : Secretary of State— Henry James, of Grant county. He is Master of tho State Grange, a former Republican, aud will poll tho full vote of the party. Auditor —Jacob F. Bird, of Gibson county, formerly a school-teacher, now a dry-goods clerk. He is an old Democrat. Treasurer— lt. PI Main, of Floyd county, a wholesale grocer in New Albany. He was a Douglas Democrat, hut has since, until lately, acted with the Republicans. . Attorney General— David Mo -n, of Hamilton county. Ho is an old Democrat, a lawyer in Nohlesville, and attorney of tho Indianapolis, Peru and Chicago railroad. Superintendent of Public Instruction —Prof. John Young, of Marion county. Ho is well known in tnis State, having been connected tor many years with educational interests, and having served one term as Consul at Belfast. In 1858 he made the race for the same office on the Republican ticket. The platform adopted by the convention demands the abolition of all bank issues, the free coinage of gold and silver, and the issue of lull legal-tender paper money in sufficient quantities to do the business of the country ; is opposed to all measures looking to the resumption of specie payments ; proclaims uncompromising hostility to the system of Government bonded indebtedness, and calls on the Government to use the money now hoarded for resumption to pay and cancel bonds, and that it should make new and liberal issues of money to be applied to the same purpose, and that the issue of future interest-bearing bonds should be prohibited by a constitutional amendment; demands that all legislation should bo enacted and so administered as to secure to each man as nearly as possible tho just reward of his own labor; denounces all lawlessness, violence and fraud that refuses submission to the will of tho people honestly expressed through the ballot; denounces the red-flag Communism imported from Europe, which asks for an equal division of property, and the Communism of national banks, of bond syndicates, and of consolidated railroad corporations, which have secured and are enforcing an unequal division of property, having already divided among themselves $10,000,000,000 of the property of the people by corrupting the representatives and servants of the people; calls on the State to reduce the rate of interest until it shall not exceed an average increase of wealth by productive industry; favors tew laws and rigid enforcement; few officials and the payment of just compensation by a fixed salary wherever practicable; denounces as unfair and unjust the district apportionments in the past, and pledges its members of the Legislature to an apportionment that will secure a full and untrammeled expression of the political sentiments of the people.

Coal in the British Islands.

Last year the output of coal in Great Britain and Ireland was 132,000,000 tons. A cubic mile is equal to 147,198,000,000 cubic feet,and, allowing 29 i cubic feet of coal in the solid to weigh a ton, we have 5,000,000,000 tons of coal in a cubic mile, and this is a greater weight than has yet been raised in the British islands. According to the most trustworthy statistics, the end of 1878 will just complete the first cubic mile of coal, exclusive of waste in mining.— l*on (London). A gentleman recently returned from a winter residence in the South of France was much struck with the total absence of bird life in those localities— Cannes, Nice, Mentone, etc. You may walk for miles in the pine woods and olive groves around without ever hearing a solitary bird sing. The cause of this is readily explained. Thousands of little birds (thrushes and other song birds, and also songless birds of different kinds) are slaughtered every day to supply the tabie d’hotes of the different hotels in the above resorts, and no menu is considered complete without a dish of them.