Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1878 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. A dispatch from Constantinople says it is reported that a convention has been arranged between Austria and the Porte. latter accepts the occnp.itiqp of Bosnia and Horz-govina. Austria engage* to prevent aj»V future alliance between Russia and Montnu - gr<> and Her via, and to preserve order in Bui garia be'wecn the Mussulmans aid (hiitians. even, if necessary, during Russian occu pad n. Lord Beaconsfield’s reception by t\, Engfi-h nopulace, on hia return to iJinJd* ‘ From Berlin, was of the most, enthusias m 'character. His journey from Dovtr to the British metropolis was one grand ovation. The Greeks arc maintaining a state o' insurrection and anartihy in Thessaly and Epirus, fearing that pacification there would enable the Turks indefinitely to postpone a compliance with the directions of the treaty of Berlin. The Ambassadors of the powers are delaying the dispatch of Turkish troops in ironclad’s to the Greek coast, pending the efforts • et by dip'omacy in motion. A great strike of miners is in progress at Anzjn, Franco. Higher wages and eight hours for a day’s labor are demanded. In the shooting contest at Wimbledon for the Elcho shield, between Ireland, England and Scotland, the Irish team won with ease.

The health of the Emperor Willi elm s steadily improving. All the members of Nobeling’s family have, chang’d their name to “Edeling.” The Official Gazette, of Havana, publibhes a royal decree, dividing the Government .and administration of Cuba into six civil provinces, named Pinar Del Rio, Havana, Matanzas, Santa Clara, Puerto Principe, and Santiago de Cuba.

The programme agreed upon by the Liberals in the English Parliament is outlined in the cable dispatches. The plan is to attack the Ministry upon the policy of neglect and indifference pursued toward the Greeks by En gland in the congress, as well as to criticize the terms and liabilities upt n which the acquisition of C prus was .secured, upon Ihe ground that grave responsibilities have been incurred without lhe previous knowledge of Parliament in the undefined engagements relative to a bett r administration of the Asiatic provinces. While Disraeli is quite certain to ■carry the day in both houses, it will not be without receiving some hard knocks in the course of the frav.

Gen. Grant, at last accounts, was traveling in Norway. Great dissatisfaction exists throughout Servia regarding the stipulation made by the Berlin Congress requiring Servia to contribute towards paying the Turkish debt. It is estimated that Servia’s share will be 5.000,ouo piasters.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. James Gordon" Defines, ui uic York Herald, has returned from Europe, where he has been sojourning ever since his duel with young May, near Baltimore. Several cases of yellow fever, some of them fatal, have occurred in the Brooklyn navy yard. Peter Bresnaham, now confined in the Canton (N. Y.) jail, awaiting execution, has confessed to having murdered four men. A. M Ac R. Davies, umbrella manufacturers, New York, have made an assignment for the benefit of their creditors. Total liabilities, $300,000. Andrew J. Kerwin, a prominent New York builder, has failed for $2,000,000. The workshops of the new State prison, at Concord, Mass., have been destroyed by fire. Loss, $150,000.

West. Oregon advices report another battle between the soldiers and Indians. The fight took place on the Umatilla reservation, a luge number of people of that tribe watcliiog the progress of the affair, without taking auv pa t in it. The troops engaged were inf-ntry, under the command of Capt. Miles, and numbered about 300. The Indians were estimate-d at 400 or 500. The latter were put to rout with the loss of about a dozen braves. Capt. Jules’ loss was ins'gmticant. The city of St. Louis has been suffering a season of phonominal y hot weather, the thermometer ranging from 90 to 105 degrees in the shade for several days in succession. Business was > lmost wholly paralyzed, people being afraid to venture out bf doors. Hundreds of people were prostrated by the heat, and a knd of a panic seized upon the coinmdfiity. In one day there were 150 ca-esof sunstroke, forty-nine of which were fatal. Other Sections of the West and Northwest have suffered from the extreme heat, cases of sunstroke being reported from many tpwris and cities in Illinois, lowa, Wrioonsiu and other States. In many instances farmers have been prostrated by the heat while working in the fields. No-such weather has been experienced within the memory of the oldest inhabitant.

Georg© Leggett, the best known gambler in It dianapolin, was murdered, the other day, by J.ihn Acbey, another gambler. The monument to the memory of the lamented Stephen A. Douglas, which was begun by citizens of Chicago, shortly after his death, has just been completed. It-is located on the grounds of the Chicago University. There were 159 fatal cases of sunstroke in St. Louis in one week. The boiler in Davis’ planing-mill, at Barnesville, Ohio, exploded a few mornings ago, destroying the entire building, and killing three parsons outright. Three more were fatally and several badly injured. A sad accident happened near Johnstown, Tnd.,afewdaysago. While moving a steam thresher on the farm of John Shackley, the boiler exploded, killing John Shackley, Frank Jones, Patrick Johnson, and John Clauhence, and dangerously wounding Albert Shackley, Henry Ashler, James Dixon, Alex. Humphrey, Thomas Smith, and two others. Rich placer diggings have been dis covered on Colorado river in Arizona, about twenty miles above the town of Aubrey. A Baker City (Ore ) dispatch reports a battle between friendly Umatilla Ind ans and a band of hostile Bannocks. Seventeen of the latter were killed, and twenty-five women and children and seventy head of horses captured. St. Louis has had a fatal case of yelow fever.

SOUtll. The first white man was whipped, under the new law which has just gone into operation in Virginia, at Hampton, on the 14th inst. Williams, the negro constable of the town, executed the sentence of the court. The man was a sailor named McCormick, convicted of stealing an anchor. Farmers about Alexandria, Va., have Veea greatly byroads of tramps

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u[Xij their pjrtuni-as, and a few .nigh tg|go one Of their favorite rßiaezvoM waX surrounded by special police from Alexandria, aad seventeen tramps capttjred, nearly all ijpf, them -trong and able-bodied. Th'ey were taken before the authorities of the city and committed to jail for seven days, where they were orders I to be kept in close confinement and fed on bread Andvrater. There is a conflict of authority in Horith Carolina between the State and United •fates courts, the former refudng to transfer <> the Federal Courf the cases of some reveIV < fficers chargeoynth murder., ’’Parker, at New Qrieans, a i fl bi other-in-lai -'iff ©en Bdtler,haft be«n.re- i moved. ■ The Potter 'sub-committee in Louisiana has signified its willingness to summon <vnd hear all the witnesses on intimidationr® quested by Secretary Sherman.

POLITICAL POINTS. Ch ariei Foster has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Toledo. (Ohio) district. "• ’ » - The Democrats the Thiri Copgressional District of Illinois have nominated James R. Doolittle, Jr. (son of exfifemftor Doolittle), for Congress. The Democrats of Golova do have nominated W. A. H. Loveland for Governor, and Thomas M. Patterson (present incumbent) for Congress. WASHINGTON NOTES. George W. Fish, of Michigan, has been appointed United States Consul at Tunis. About sixty female employes of the Patent Office were discharged, last week, because of the reduction in the appropriations. The resignation of J. B. Dodge, Statistician of the Agricultural Department, asked for by the Commissioner some weeks since, has been accepted. v The United States Treasurer has written to the Assistant Treasurers authorizing them lo use the standard silver dollars in their vaul ‘ npa yment to persons presenting check s, to ies desiring them, upon the disburseme of pay-rolls, and ih exchange, in moderate amounts, for greenbacks and national-bank notes, and for payment in lieu of $1 and $2 notes.

Commissioner Williamson, of the Geneml Land Office, has prepared a statement of the disposal of public lands during the last fiscal year, which shows a very marked increase in the number of emigrants moving into the Western States. The figures which he piesents show an increase in the occupation of lands in Dakota during the last year of 1,225.000 acres : in Kansas of 1,360,000 acres; Minnesota, 761,000 acres ; Nebraika, of 363,000 acres ; making a total increase in these four States of 3,700,000 acres.

Tne President left Washington last week for a trip to Ohio. Attorney General Devens is of the opinion that resumption cannot be legally attempted before Jin. 1, 1879.

about the probability that a collision will occur between American and Mexican troops, whenever Gen. Ord next finds occasion to send an expedition into Mexico in pursuit of cattlethieves. Representative Eppa Huntou, of Virginia, challenged Columbus Alexander, of Washington, to meet him on the “field of honor.” The latter replied ’in a tart letter, neither accepting nor refusing the challenge, so the matter rested at last accounts. The affair has caused some excitement at the capital. The case of disputed jurisdiction which has arisen in South Carolina relative to the indictment in a State court of four inb rnalrevenue officers upon a charge of murder was considered at a Cabinet meeting a few days ago, and it was determined that firm and vigorous measures be taken to assert the supremacy of the Federal over the State law.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. An English steamer sailed the other day from New Haven, Ct., for Constantinople with arms and ammunition for the Turkish Government. She has on board 20,000,000 cartridges, 47,000 rifles, 54,000 eaber bayonets and 10,000 scabbards. The total value of the cargo is $1,035,000. The Orange war in Canada is being carried into trade, the loyal Protestants of Ontario and other parts of the Dominion, it is said, having resolved to buy no more goods in a city where mob rule prevails. The people of Eastern Canada are suffering from the discomforts of a protracted drought. Crops are suffering greatly in consequence. The leaders of the Orange order at Montreal, Canada, have determined to make no further demonstration until the question of the legality of their organization has been decided.

A Wedding Without Words.

An interesting occasion yesterday was offered in the religious services in the chapel of Christ Church, corner of Thirteenth and Locust streets, by the Rev A. W. Mann, of Detroit, a deaf mute, before a congregation of deaf mutes. There were about sixty deaf mutes present who comprt hend no vocal language, but converse through the organ of sight by means of signs and the spelling of letters with the fingers. Among the mutes were'adults over 40 years of age. The preacher was clothed in his Episcopal robe, and appeared to be a dignified clerical gentleman, and, with the exception of the multiplicity of bis gestures it would not otherwise appear to a persbn at a distance but that he was discoursing in the ordinary vocal manner. He vent through the customary Episcof service and delivered a brief sermon. giving out the text and quoting from scripture he spelled the letters with his fingers and thumb, but otherwise he spoke mostly in signs. The mute audience listened throughout to all that was said with earnest attention. *

The afternoon service was made particularly interesting by a little surprise, being a wedding ceremony, the happy pair being two deaf mutes, who were united through the medium of a mute language. The name of the groom is Mr. Adam Suttor and of the bride Miss Barbara Marshall, all of Fairview, on the Missouri Pacific railroad, some seven miles out from the city. Of course mutes marry and are given in marriage. Their affections are mutual. Love speaks a silent language, and it is not essential that its expression should be through the throat, assisted by the tongue, lips and teeth, as among ordinary mortals. The lady’s trousseau was simply elegant, and there were no bridesmaids nor groomsmen. The parties joined hands, the groom placed the ring on the bride’s finger, and the ceremony, though in pantomime, was in accordance with the usual custom.— St. Louis Republican.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 26,1878.

WONDERFUL TWINS.

Two Little Girl* Strangely Joined Together [Ftom the New York Tribune.] A pair of twins is now on exhibition at the Aquarium, and is attracting much attention from physicians and others. The two children are girls, and were born Dec. 28, 1877, at San Benoit, a .town about forty miles north of Montreal, Can. From their heads to the first lumbar vertebrae, the children are possessed of perfectly-formed and en-tirely-distinct members, but below that point the bodies become one. There is not the slightest deformity about any of their organs. They have two distinct nets of internal organs and four arms, but only one abdomen and two legs. Each child controls one set of organs, but only one leg. Piercing one leg with a pin will produce signs of pain in the face of one child, while the other will be perfectly free from any sensation. They do not act in While one laughs and plays, tire othe/ sleeps■or cries from hunger. Sometimes they both sleep awake they have the greatest jd&sire to play With each other’s hamts. The features are very regular, and thejfitße of each child is 'very pretty for ajiabyonly 7 months old. The limbs a/U. hs large as those of ah' 'drcfln’tlry, the two bodies grow into one the.bulk is not increased, -but gradually decreases into the usual size. They were'exhibited to a number of physicians on Saturday, who pronounced the pair to be one of the greatest, freaks of nature they had ever seen. They thought the two bodies were merged into one most naturally, and believed the children would live to the average age. The children have been named Rose and Marie.

The parents are Sinn apd Anne Drouin, who were born in Marseilles, France. Their grandparents are still living there. A few years ago Mr. and Mrs. Drouin emigrated to San Benoit and engaged in farming. They are both 26 years old, the husband being four days older than They have only one other child, a girl who is 2 years old, and who enjoys the best of health and., suffers from no deformity. The father is tall and stout. He weighs 180 pounds, is 6 feet high, and has the appearance of a farmer. The mother is short and stout, and weighs about 30 pounds less than her husband. Both parents are of dark complexion. They speak no-Euglislk One chiid.lQoks very much like its mother, while the other bears a striking resemblance* to the father. A very neat cradle and canopy covered with blue silk have been constructed at the Aquarium for the twins. Several elaborate silk dresses have also been prepared for them. Two rooms have been fitted up in the Aquarium for the residence of the parents.

The Failures of Great Men.

Brother Gar Iner.of the Limekiln Club, Detroit, recently made the following remarks in introdwni»er G-mpnaiini Qnnm. 1 11 GeTii ifh, "tus exfiueuistieci ’ poet, leckturer, housepainter, filosopher, and shoemaker am arreve heah on his way to Montreal, where he am gwine to fill a first-class engagement. He was received at the depot iu due form; he hez lin booked heah in reglar order, an’ at my earnest solissytasbum he will no deliber a speech, de front name of which am ‘ De Failures of Great ftjen !’ ” After the applause had subsided the gentleman came forward, with a boil on his neck and a broad grin on his face, and began : . “Fiens, I am befo’ you on dis occashun to inflate a few suspicious remarks gleaned from de broad pages of history. You hev all heard of Socrates. He was a great man. He wore No. 10 butes, carried a silver baccy box, an’ he wiped his nose on a handkercheef with stars printed on de co’ners. He advised de world; he made rules for society *he whooped up filoeophy till de folks had de nightmare in tie day-time. Yit, my dear frens, Socrates didn’t invent de long-handled shovel, de garden spade, de clothes pin, nor de padlock, which stan’s between de tramp and de hams in the smoke-house. He war a dead failure.’* [Applause, during which Waydown Be bee bit his tongue.] “An’ dar was Napoleon de fust,” continued the speaker. “He killed off heaps o’ men, made trouble for lots o’ nashuns, learned de world how to sharpen a lead pencil wid an old case-knife, an’—but he stopped right dar. He didn’t invent de peach-basket which kin be made to hole eight quarts or only two, just as de peach man strikes a customer. He didn’t invent doze long, flat brandy bottles, which kin be car ed in de pocket widou*. suspicion. He didn’t build de fust ice-house, turn de fust cider-mill, nor put up de fust sign of ‘Sample Rooms’ in de door of a low-down dive. Cato was a great man. De hotel folks cut down de price of board for him, he got his shirts washed for 10 percent, off, and when he went up to see de races he was posted so dat he could bet on de winnin’ boss. Yet dat man Cato couldn’t mend a pig-hole in de fence; he couldn’t sharpen an ax; he couldn’t put down a carppt, an’ he neber voted but once on lelshum day. Shakspeare writ - books, but he couldn*t cord up a bed, hor oil up a clock, nor splice a rope. ’* De woruld hez known of dozens of odder great men —de woruld hez witnessed deir failures. What am de moral ? What am de lesson ? It am this : Bein’ great am simply fillin’ out cloze. Bein’ industrus, perseverin’ an’ pashient am what puts poetry on de tombstun an’ mem’ry in de public heart.” - After the usual applause accorded to all eminent men, Brother Gardner said : “We will now inflict homewards. Keep de ha’r short, de eyes open, de ears up whar’ natur’ growed ’em, an’ time wjil give us de best seats in the parkay circle.”

The English Scientific Farm.

The famous English experimental farm Of Ruthatbsted, 1,000 fertile acres in Hertfordshire, twenty-five miles from London on the Midland railway, is described in an interesting manner by Prof. Silliman, who has recently visited it; John Behnet Lawes inherited the property in 1834, a fine old English estate, with its park of oaks and ancient mansion, and for nearly half a century, in company with Dr. J. H. Gilbert and a |arge corps of assistants, Mr. Lawes has devoted himself to agricultural chemistry on a large scale; he has also set apart a fund of £IOO,OOO and a section of land for the continuance of theso investigations after he is gone. The purpose is to discover wk at crops are best for different soils, what fertilizers will best assist their growth, and to experiment on such a scale, both as to area and time, that the fundamental principles of farming may be made as plain and sure as those of any other business. In 1855 Mr. Lawes was presented with a

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

laboratory by public subscription, and there Dr. Gilbert and a considerable staff of assistants have been at work since, superintending experiments, making and applying manures and analyzing soils and crops. - The results of this long and careful investigation have established that barn-yard manure can only carry the production of hay to a limit about half the maximum that can be reached with mineral manures alone, which have produced five and a half tons to the acre. On unmanured land the farm yields fourteen bushels of wheat to the acre, but with barn-yard manure the yield has risen to thirty-five bushels, which is as well as the mineral manures can do.

The United States Fearfully Cut Up.

I met him in the cars on my way from Albany. He was* pleasant looking old man, and his better half sat beside him. The car was as full as an election-day politician, and I was compelled to take a seat immediately in front of the happy couple. There was something about him, however, that made me feel sorry right away. He had more talk in him ■ than a schoolboy’s bead has of some'wing else, and I hadn’t fairly settled Ik-fore he began to unload some of it: “ Nice day!” “Beautiful I” “ Fearful road.” “ Fearful.” Here was a small opening for him, and he got the wedge in. Oh! if I’d only made believe I was deaf and dumb ! “ I’ve traveled all over this country, and never saw worse roads in all my life. Why, the road over the Rocky mountains ain’t half so rough.” “Summit better,” I responded. He looked at his companion, whom he called Minnie, winked, and said : “Funny man! Wonder who ’tis. Looks like Mark Twain—”

Then he paused, and, just as I was bracing up and endeavoring to put on a Twainish look, he continued by saying : “ Around the feet.” This made me mad, “ You’ve been all over the United States, have you ? Then of course yon New York. How is he getting along ?” “Oh! he Kentucky way as much whisky as ever. ” “Much Florida, in consequence, I suppose,” I suggested. “ Utah thought so if you’d seen him when I did—” Here the passengers began to look worried, and one of them asked the conductor how far it was to the next station. Another ventured that maybe we weren’t going far. “ Yes,” continued the old party, ‘‘ he tried to make love to Minnie when I saw him last.” “Arizona foolin’,” blushingly remarked the old woman. “Minnesota liked it, didn’t she?” I asked and gave Lima look that intimated that I guessed that would settle it. “You mustn’t call her Minnie. It makes her mad. She’d have Georgia if H . l !? a heard you. She Kansas back “If it Illinois her, of course I’ll refrain,” I answered. Here one of the passengers was carried out to the rear platform, and ninetenths of the others were tearing the lining out of their coats for wadding to put in their ears.

“Perhaps lowa an apology,” I continued. “No, I guess not,” he said, without moving an eyelash. “It Texas English people to understand folks. I don’t a Montana thing, Tennessee sary.” I felt for my pistol. At this moment the cars stopped at a station, and most of the passengers got out and waited for the next train. The majority had their heads tied up. I was determined to fight it out to th e bitter end, if it took every State in the Union. As the train moved out of that station, the conductor came up and asked me to kec-p still, for God’s sake. He said the wheels were getting weak, and the coal had refused to burn. The passengers had all departed to the other cars, with the exception of six. I here looked determined. They were not over pale. I was satisfied to give it up if he was. Just as I had made up my mind that the whole thing was settled : “Ohio!” yawned the fiend, “I’m getting tired of this journey. ” I think it has been very pleasant. Wouldn’t Michigan for SIOO. Jersey?” Without noticing the last query he said: “ Hope we’ll meet again. I Nevada pleasanter time. Hope I Maine never have a worse.”

At this point one of the passengers fell off his seat. He died in a few minutes. Before the conductor could get to the water tank another one had breathed his last. Two of the remaining ones were staring at each other, and it was found that they had both gone crazy. The remaining two were deaf and dumb. I grasped my valise as the train reached Jersey City, and started for the boat. As I was passing out of the door the fiend yelled after me. “ Yes, I New York and Jersey and New Hampshire, I’ve Rhode Island, Connecticut, Idaho-le lot of land in Colorado. I Missis” * * * The doctor says I shall be better in a week or so.

Wanted Taney.

Several years before Chief Justice Taney’s death, the Government Printing Office at Washington had occasion to send him same proof slips of an important decision, and they were intrusted to a printer boy, who appeared at the Judge’s office and before the Judge with, “Is Taney in ?” “I presume you wish to see the Chief Justice of the United States ?” “ I don’t care a cuss about him. I’ve got some proofs for Taney. ” “I am the Hon. Roger B. Taney.” “You’re Taney, aren’t you?” “I am not, fellow. 1 am the Hon. Roger B. Taney.” “ Then the proofs are not for you,” and the unceremonious messenger would have gone off with them if the Judge had not admitted himself to be Taney simply. .

New York Charities.

It appears from the official report that during the past year the people of New York State have paid, in whole or in part, for the keeping of 43,095 persons in the various public charitable institutions. Of these 2,174 were insane, 356 blind, 922 deaf and dumb, 230 idiots, 61 inebriates. The house of refuge had 1,347 inmates; the county poor houses, 6,841; the city almshouses, 9,203 : the orphan asylums and reformatories, 15,990”; the homes for the aged, 3,907 ; the hospitals, 2,064. In addition, outdoor relief was given to a great number, the overseers of the poor alone relieving 114,893 persons, while the dispensaries give medical relief to 254,497. The statistics show an increase of insanity, which is doubtless to be referred in part to the hard times.

BONDS, SYNDICATES, TAXES.

It is always a good thing to count the cost of any luxury before indulging too extravagantly in it, especially so when one has to mortgage himself, his farm, his future, his life, and his daily earnings to pay that cost United States bonds, it was thought when they were issued, were absolutely essential as a means of raising money. Men had not comprehended the great truth that a people who will not rely on themselves will not be trusted by others. Bonds had long been the means of loaning money, and the past not only favored the plan, but the men who had money to loan favored it. They knew the United States would pay all they agreed to pay. They knew that the demand for money was so urgent, to meet the alarming expenses of the war, that capital, by holding back, by magnifying dangers, increased by the daily increasing necessities for money, and by hourly coij uring uptl e difficulties and dangers of civil war, could demand any usury the wildest apprehension of a bankrupt treasury could justify. Gold, as it always does when it is required, at once disappeared, even what there was of it; but there was not gold enough in the United States, or which could have been forced from all the coin resources of England, to meet the war expenses of 1862-3 4 for two months. Money had to be raised. It was the price of constitutional liberty, and, whatever the cost, it must be procured. No difficulty was found in using and negotiating our treasury certificates or interest notes; and if the statesmen of the time had possessed the courage to defy and put down the senseless clamor of capital against paper money there would have been no necessity for the issuing a single bond outside of the United States. With the money held by savings banks and the disposition to invest in United States securities by men of moderate means, if we had dared to have relied upon ourselves, and issued greenbacks as absolute money, to meet any and every emergency, we should have saved to the United States more than 53,000,000,000, and would have been stronger as a Government, more united as a people, more prosperous in our enterprises, than ever before ; but we dared not trust ourselves, and the question comes up, Why was it that the people of the United States dare not trust themselves to issue their own money ? In answering this question I shall hope to show not only the exact fallacy of the fear, but the enormous cost the yielding to the derisive clamor of capital has imposed upon us. The old idea upon which capital has made labor its slave was that gold and silver were the only safe basis as a medium of exchange ; that all bills issued, and circulated as money, must be redeemable in gold and silver, and that vowar oi dangerous ; that to issue bills to meet the war expenses, and to pay for all we required, would soon create an excess of paper—an excess so great as to preclude any possible idea of finding gold and silver to redeem it; that this excess would create distrust, distrust depreciation, and that the result of the depreciation would be that the money issued by the Government of the United States would become as worthless as the French assignat—the paper money issued by Fiance during the F etich R solution—or as valueless as the Continental money issued by the colonies before they had consolidated into governmental unity and power, or again as destitute of reliability as the paper money issued by the Southern Confederacy while rebels were attempting to disrupt the Union.

Timid men, ignorant of all the reasons which led to the failure of the assignat of the French, the Continental currency of the colonies, and the baseless bills of the Southern Confederacy, placed the United States in the exact position of the Revolutionists without Government, constitutional power, or resources. As France, at the time the assignat was issued, was without a Government, the colonies were united by no political or governmental obligations, and, as the Southern Confederacy was a mere revolutionary experiment, the bonds given by either of these merely revolutionary combinations would have been as utterly valueless as the currency they issued. With the United States Government it was admitted that the bonds would be good, while at the same time it was insisted that the bills they might issue as money would be as worthless as the French assignat, which at first had no foundation for a basis but jobbery, which was killed by forgery. It was upon this baseless fallacy that the bonds of the Government were forced up?n the market at the price of gold. To convince the communitiesand to create a political excuse for issuing bonds, gold, which could not be obtained and which by no possibility could be procured, was made the standard of value by which the standard of the value of the greenback was to be measured. Gold at one time went to a premium of 247 for 100, so that, according to the standard, the greenback was 40 -to 42. They then fixed the value of the bond at the price the greenback would bring in gold. Congress was duped into aiding this trick to reduce the value of the bond to the standard of the greenback measured by gold in that way. If the greenback was issued as a full legal tender for all purposes, it would be absolute money. If absolute money, then it would do what gold would do. Bankers and brokers and usurers and capitalists combined to prevent this. They appealed to the Senate. They said: If the greenback is issued as a full legal tender, you will soon destroy its value, for you will have to issue so many bills and so large amounts that ycu will glut the market, and they will depreciate and become as valueless is the assignat. To prevent this they provide that they shall not be received for revenue duties, nor for interest on the public debt, for unless you do this you cannot sell your bonds, for to make your bonds available you must make the interest payable in gold, and you cannot get the gold to pay the interest unless you require your revenue duties to be paid in gold. The Senate was duped by this cut-throat argument. The result was just what was anticipated. As the Government repudiated its own money, anl would not receive it for duties, and as it would not pay interest on the public debt, bankers, brokers, and usurers depreciated the greenback till they reduced its comparative value, as measured by gold, down to 42 up to 65. This, these same Shylocks made the measure of the value of the bonds. Then everybody who had money bought

the bonds, getting $2 for sl, in bonds made payable in coin, with interest payable in gold. A more monstrous swindle never was imposed c n the people. The credit of the Government, forced down by depreci atiog the greenback, was so low flint capit 1 also forced Congress to exempt the bonds from taxes before it would consent to take them. And yet, all the time, while the whole brood of Wall street sharps was at work to depreciate the greenback, they insisted that the bonds was the tiue way of saving the credit of the Government; they slandered the greenback, and lied it into depreciation, to get the bonds measured in value by the greenback at half their nominal anJ absolute value.

Keeping up their assault upon the greenback, continually prophesviog that they would be as worthless as Continental money, and declaring that they were being printed by steam power, and in such quantities as to have to keep all the paper-mills in the country at full head to supply the paper for the rag money, these same bankers, brokers and usurers finally said; “ Well, we will not take your bonds unless you will make them the basis for banking, and give us an issue of bills equal to the amount of the bonds, and grant us a mom poly of banking privileges. Your greenbacks will soon be good for nothing, and unless you enlist the banking capital of the country to give character and credit to the p per money of the country, the credit of the nation will be ruined.” Again Congress became the dupes, and added to the purchasers of bonds the further inducement of giving them S9O of bills, guaranteed by the Government, with every SIOO of bonds, to lend out as money at con p mnd interest.

Thus the bankers, brokers and usurers, by depreciating and causing the Government to repudiate its own greenback money—every dollar of which was intrinsically as good as gold, as they represented absolute solvency and absolute ability—they got for every $42 SIOO in bonds, an interest payable in gold, and equal to 9j per cent, and equal to 25 per cent, on the investment, and 90 per cent, in bills at compound interest, which facts show have earned 9} per cent, which would be 19 per cent, more, which, added to the 25 per cent. , makes 44 per cent. Add to this the interest received on bank deposits, which averaged the full amount of the capital of the banks in bonds, and equals 18 per cent, more on the actual investment, and aggregates 62 per cent, annual income on every dollar invested, so that the amount stands as follows: Amount actually invested $42,000. Amount realized in bonda bearing gold interest SIOO,OOO Amount national-bank bills to lend 90,1.00 Amount of deposits, on which banks made loans 150 000 The $42,000 realizes the use of $310,000 Amount of income on above: Interest, payable in gold, average 50 per cent, premium at 6 per cent, in gold $ 9,000 Interest on bills loaned, being compounded on 30, 60 and 90 day paper, equal to per cent 8,550 " *> J • l>eeu equal to the whole capital, at 9% per cent 9,500

. To 1 al annual income (on original $12,000).527 150 Thus showing that an investment in United States bonds by the bank usurers of $42,000 earned an annual profit of $27,050, and that without taxation, or about 62 per cent, dividends to be paid by the tax-burdened people, without the slightest earthly benefit, to a monopoly of bank aristocrats, who now proclaim it to be their duty and mission to reduce American labor to the lowest standard of European pauperized wages. All of this time the standard of responsibility of the Government was exactly the same for greenbacks as it was for bonds, except only that the bonds bore interest and the greenbacks did not.

The banks have in this way filched from the people of the United States, in the fourteen sum of $1,559,285,941.34, making an aristocracy of prwer, of wealth, and of associated impudence and privileges which to-day defies the Government and threatens civil liberty. Every dollar of this monstrous leech would have been saved to the people and to the Government if the Government had issued greenbacks as full and absolute legal tender for all debts, public and private, in place of issuing bonds.

Again, if the Government had issue-1 greenbacks instead of bonds, and made a sinking fund of the sum paid for interest on the bonds, we should to-day have gold enough in the treasury or its equivalent to have redeemed every dollar that would have been issued, and have thus been free from any national debt. These are not random statements, they are concrete facts. The interest-bearing debt, April 1, 1876, was as follows: Principal. Interest $lB4 999 65U at 6 per centss9.i 99.979 00 ■s7l* .037 090 at 5 per cent 35,!M 1,850 00 $23,181,360, miscellaneous at 6 percent. 1,391,0i1. 0 Total annual interest;s9>.992,B>o 60 This is about the present amount of annual interest we are paying for the enjoyment of the bond luxury. The in-terest-bearing debt has been steadily decreased since 1866, and is now $482,431,080 less than it was then; so that, taking the aver ge for fourteen years, the interest has been at the rate of $111,494,779.20 yearly in gold. Had this sum been funded it would have been hundreds of millions more than our national debt. This is a proximate estimate of what it has cost the Government to build up a bond-banking aristocracy at the expense of every interest but money, making the laborer a slave to capital, industry a h reling to money-bags, and the Government a dupe to usurers. But this is far from all. The taxes on $1,600,000,000, at 2 per cent., is $32,000,000 annually, which has been taken from the bond-aristocracy to be imposed on the betrayed and insulted producer. All of the capital and all the profits—all the exemptions grown, by fourteen years of outrage, into immense proportions of capital and power—are now consolidated to secure the continuance of bond and bank monopolies. It is the absolute duty of Congress to put an end to the infamous extortion from the people. It must be the issue in every Con gressional district: Bank monopolies or no bank monopolies; tax exemptions or no tax exemptions; syndicates and bonds or no syndicates and no bonds; the sovereign money of the people—the greenback—absolute as a universal legal tender and irredeemable, or nationalbank sovereignty. These are questions and issues that cannot be skipped over or neglected. We want no more bonds; we want no more syndicates. The American people can get along without any red-shield dictation as to who shall buy bonds,

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or who shall dictate the expenditure of their money; and they will not submi* to any system of finances which will place the Government or the people in sul j action to Jews, to syndicates, or to corporations. Bon Is and syndicates are the curse of the land. The people demand an issue of greenbacks as absolute money adequate to pay all the bonds—adequate to sweep*away all the national banks, al) monopolies, all privileges, all syndicates, and if the present Congress does not understand the demand we will elect a Congress that does. It is such outrages that give birth to revolutions. The outrage must cease or it will be made to cease. Stephen D. Dxllaye. Tbknton, N. J.

The Pivot Man.

Like Figaro in the opera, John Sherman appears to have been in every part of the Louisiana conspiracy. He was recognized by the chiefs and their subordinates of all degrees as the master spirit and director of the work to be done by them ; as the responsible agent of Hayes, and as the man of all others who knew the situation best, and was ready to meet its demands, of whatever kind they might be. Hence he was looked up to by Wells, Anderson, Kellogg, and the rest of that crew, as the pivot upon which the whole machine turned.

From the highest to the lowest, they all knew him, and his word was law to their acts and movements. That he was entirely familiar with every part of the operations of the Returning Board, when in secret session, and sometimes singly, as when Wells ordered the original return of Vernon parish to be destroyed, they falsified figures, forged returns, inserted manufactured protests, and rejected whole parishes upon affidavits fabricated by the cart-load at the Custom House, is no longer doubtful. In the part he played then ignorance was impossible, and the part he has played since that time makes it certain, when taken in connection with the proofs that have been produced in a variety of forms, that he must have had intimate knowledge of every phase of the conspiracy, as he certainly had acquaintance with the actors who appeared on the stage, and the machinists who shifted th* scenes behind it. No detail was too small for his attention, and, from the day he entered New Orleans as a visiting statesman until the hour when the great fraud was consummated, he was the head and front of the conspiracy to steal the Presidency. When it. was achieved, he got the reward which he chose to ask, and nas utilized it, as he did the Chairmanship of Finance in the Senate. After Tom Anderson returned to New Orleans in December, 1876, with the irregular and illegal certificate of Louisihe carried there as a meswas necessary, without delay, to get up another in due form. That was done, as has been proven, in the case of Levissee, by forging the names of some of the electors who were not present and could not be reached within the time allowed by law. Charles Hill, a carpet bagger from New Jersey, and an officeholder of course, was detailed to take the forged certificates to Washington, though he had no legal appointment to that effect. Hill was examined by the sub-com-mittee in New Orleans on the Ist of July, and he was required to relate his experience in delivering the forged certificates to the President pro tempore of the Senate. After stating that he had seen Zach Chandler, to whom he bore a letter from Kellogg, he testified:

I went at once to Mr. Ferry, who was in his ofii le at the Capitol. His secretary was there; Mr. Moses, I think, was his name. No one else was in the room. I to'<4 him I had brought the returns from Louisiana. Mr. Ferry asked me if I had any one to witness the delivery of the document sto him. I told him I knew Mr. Sherman, for I had met him there. In a few minutes Mr. Ferry, after stepping out, came in with Mr. Sherman. I then delivered the documents. This delivery was witnessed by Mr. Sherman. He then went to the room of the Finance C >mmiitee and there wrote me a letter to Gov. K Uogg, acknowledging that the returns had been delivered to the Vice President. The letter was a private letter, and I don’t know what the contents were. Q. —How was it Mr. Sherman was handy to witness the receipt of the returns when you gave them to Mr. Ferry? A.—l don’t know except that he was in the Senate chamber or room adjoining. Q. —How often did you see Mr. Sherman when he was h- re with the visiting statesmen ? I saw Mr. Sherman some five or six times here. y —Did Mr. Sherman say anything else to you in Washington? A.—When I was coming away I called on him to bid him good by, and he gave me to understand that the party would stand by us. Q. —D d you inform Mr. Sherman or any one else of the fact that the second returns or certificates you had carried on had cured the defects of the old ones? A.—l did not indicate to either Mr. Sherman, Mr. Hale, or Mr. Frye anything about curing the defects of the first. Mr. Sherman knew that better than I did. Q. —Sow did he know that? A. —He must have known. Q. —Have you got any ground for supposing it? A.(Hesitating)—l’ve not got any ground for supposing it. Hill was undoubtedly right. Sherman knew better than he did what his agents had been doing in Louisiana; for no move was made and no act of importance was done without his knowledge or advice. From the beginning to the end he was the mainstay of the conspiracy; and it is now made clear that but for his presence in New Orleans, and the support given to the Returning Board after their first false count, which left out two of the Hayes electors, the iniquity would never have been completed. By promises of reward and of protection the second count was made.— New York Sun.

“ I Know All About You, Capt. Dennis.”

Of all the persons who have given testimony concerning the frauds in Louisiana and Florida, Dennis seems to have had no motive to testify untruthfully. Some of the “ squealers” have involved themselves in tangled nets in which they have been convicted, not only of inexplicable contradictions, but have laid bare a personal animus concealing a little disappointment. Dennis’ testimony there is neither an intrinsic nor extrinsic reason to doubt. He had “ been taken care of.” He wanted less than he got. He wished to work and to be paid for it; he was paid handsomely for doing nothing, and his only complaint, if he made any, was that the administration insisted on supporting him in luxurious but disagreeable idleness. The manner of Dennis’ employment, told by him with great simplicity, and with unfeigned anxiety not to censure Ms. Hayes, is one of the most explicit of many of the condemnations

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which the latter has placed upon his own professions of civil-service reform. It is a fundamental principle of civil service that fi’ness for specific duty shall be the prime reason for appointment under the Government. When Dennis called on the President, the latter said to him: “ I know all about yen, '"’apt. Dennis.” What did he know? That Dennis was a linguist, and would he useful in the State Department ? No, Dennis’ literary attainments are limited to one language, and are meager in that. That he was familiar with army matters, and would do good work in the War Department? There was no pretense of that, on either side. He was not an expert in anything. There was no reason for his appointment so far a« intellectual qualifications went. The President did not profess to be misinformed; he added: “You are one of the few men whom this administration can afford to take care of.” Why? Simplv because he had rendered effective service in defeating the wishes of the people of his State in their choice of Presidential electors. For this reason, and this only, Mr. Hayes considered Dennis “ one of the few men whom this administration can fff>rd to take care of.” The President made a personal request of Secretary Sherman to give Dennis “the first good place,” and subsequently wrote to Sherman that Dennis would make “ a capital special agent of the treasury,” although the duties special agents are called upon to perform require sagacitv, experience, and technical knowledge of treasury workings. It was evident, however, that Capt. Dennis was not expected to do any work. Sherman had friends of his own for the vacancies in several of the divisions, and Dennis, although as ignorant of architecture as a mnle, was made assistant to the Supervising Archih ct, with a salary of $7 a day. He had nothing to do; he could do nothing. He was expected to do nothing. But this is a civil-service reform administration I He was given a leave of absence —perhaps on account of his long and ardent toilor for some other reason,’and went visiting to Massachusetts, where he remained three months, drawing $7 a day, Supervising Architect Hill doubtless signing the pay-roll which lyingly declared that this man was giving the people of the United States an equivalent for their money. Dennis grew tired of idleness, went back to Washington, was given a commission in the Secret-Service Bureau, although who’ly unfitted for its duties, and went home to Florida, with nothing to do except charge the Government his expenses, and continue to draw his pay. Then he was transferred to the Internal Revenue Bureau, although innocent of all knowledge of the Revenue laws, and his pay went on regularly as usual. He, therefore, had every reason to thank Mr. Hayes, and no reason whatever to testify to aught which would reflect on the President or his advisers. On the contrary, he had the strongest motives for coloring his testimony in the'oitseueßß SJ • vVedmiV or the visiting investigating committee, and as soon as his description of tne manner in which the electoral vote of Florida was stolen for Hayes reached Washington he was notified —but not until then that his pay should be forthwith stopped., “1 know all about you, Capt. Deems,” was a most unfortunate speech for the President to make, since all that he could know about Dennis was his part in the coir option of that scandalous period. “You are one of the few men whom this administration can afford to take care of ” is still more unfortunate, in view of the indefensible manner in which the President proceeded to take care of him. — Chicago limes.

All Hands Provided For.

It was John Sherman’s prom se to the hesitating Anderson and Don Weber that if they would only “stand firm,” and make false returns, a grate ul party would never forget it of them, and they should be well “cared for.’ All hands have been provided for. Let us see. There are a good many of them, first and last, who were concerned in the Florida and the Louisiana iniquity, but they have all been, quietly looked after and “cared for. Only look at the lists, for the two States: FLORIDA. Noyes, of Ohio .ui-ister to France. Kawon, of lowaMunster to Austria. Up r , n Justice in New Mexico. O >v Stearns ’Com’r of the H >t Sprinp , Denms . 'n Sup. Arcluucl’soffic . “Ju Ijze ” Cessna Postmaster. Ria,.k in the treasury. Vance. .7.7.7.5 n P >stoffic - D partment. Clerk HoweliConec'or of Cuitoms. Bowles, of Le<>nln the treasury. J.idite” BellGovernm’t Timber Agent. Elector Humphreys Collector, Pensacola. Stearns’ Secretaryln ’he treasury 8 riker MaxwellLl-uteuant in the army. Commissioner to P»> s. Varmim.7.7.’:: I i i:7 R- ceiver Land office. Taylor, County Clerkln Land Office. Truly a good list; and here are a ttw of the Louisiana arrangements : LOUISIANA. Kellogg.XLi.ted State- Senator. Com AndersonC iliec’or of Customs. Marks Tax c ’Hector. Br-wster yor G neral.

(’l„ r )£ In the treasury. Campben.7.7.7.7".’u. 8. Di-trict Attorney. There are others. And now not one of them cun remember how the returns were forged. But they have been “ well cared for. ” John Sherman seems to have taken a liberal share. We find no fewer than eight that he has taken under his wings. He might, on a pinch, take the whole lot. In that case he wquld. be like the hen that was made the subject of a boy’s experiment. Having gathered all the eggs in the barn and put them in the nest of a sitting hen, and being asked what he was doing, he re plied that he “just wanted to see the old hen spread herself.” Sherman can spread himself, and is ready to do it, rather than have any more of his eggs addled. But what a picture these lists present! And it looks as if Mr. Haves had “ had an eye ” on things.— Hartford Times.

Whisky Explodes and Kills a Boy.

A most remarkable accident occurred recently in Steubenville, Ohio. A little son of John Dougherty, a saloon-keeper, was playing in his father’s bar-room, when he happened to jostle against a barrel containing two or three gallons of whisky. A frightful explosion followed, the barrel being blown into fragments, killing the boy instantly. The bairel stood beside a window through which the sun shone very warmly,and it is supuosed that the sun’s heat generated an explosive gas. z

The steamer Seine has picked up the lost Atlantic cable of 1866, which she was sent out to look for. Who would have ventured to predict fifteen years ago that after twelve years men could go out to hunt for and infallibly recover a rope no thicker than one’s thumb from the depths of the mid-Atlantic ?