Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1878 — Page 1

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HEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Beaeonsfield has received the decoration of the Order of the Garter. Spain will graciously permit Cuba to be represented in the Cortes by forty Deputies ui'd ten Senators. A London dispatch says * * active preparations are apparent for a favorable change 5n commercial affairs. Reports from various centers of the iron industry are decidedly more encouraging.” In the second match between Capt. Rogardus, the American pigeon-shot champion, Capt. Pennell, of London, for SI,OOO a side, lßogardus won by two birds. Tho betrothal of the Duke of Connaught (Prince Arthur) to the daughter of the Prussian Prince, Frederick Charles, has been officially announced in the British Parliament. Great fires in Thessaly, supp sed to bo incendiary, continue to devastate the country. A Vienna dispatch announces that the ■attempts to organize resistance to the Austrians in Herzegovina liavo collapsed. There was a riot in Yokohama, Japan, recently, in consequence of two Buddhist priests preaching that the suu moves and the earth stands still. They were ridiculed by students, who hi turn were attacked by a mob. One of the students was mortally wounded. All the powers except Turkey have ratified tho treaty of Berlin. The Marquis of Lome will succeed Lord Dufferin as Governor General of Canada. A dispatch from Calcutta, India, reports that tho Government of Madras has telographed for extra famino officers immediately, because of the ravages of locusts. London society has just been stirred liy one of tha most brilliant and fashionable weddings that it has witnessed for several ■seasons. The contracting parties were Arthur Henry Paget, Captain i:i the Scots Fusilier Guards, fifth son of the first Marquis of Anglesey, to Miss Minnie Stevens, daughter of tho Ip lo M:\ Paran Stevens, of New York. DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Host. Tho Boston Belting Company has suspended payment in consequence of a deficiency of #BOO,OOO in the accounts of the late treasurer, John O. Tappan. Little Minnie Warren, the well-known dwarf, died in child-birth at Fall River, Mass., a few days ago. Several heavy commercial failures are announced in New York. The New Hampshire House of Iteprcsenlatives has passed a bill to punish tramps by imprisonment from iifteon months to five years. The vicinity of Utica, N. Y., was visited by a severe snow-storm on the 25th of July. Miss Abby Hodassa Smith, one of the famous “Smith sisters,” of Glastonbury, Ct., is dead. She was 81 years old. ©nly ono of tho sisters (Julia) is now living. There wore five of them, aud all were active in temperance and anti-slavery work. The most notable feature in tho history of Abby has been her resistance tip the payment of taxes on the ground of non-representation. Mrs. Tilton has been offered SIOO a night to go on the lecture stage. West. Twenty thousand people attended the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ reunion at Newark, Ohio, ast week. M. C. Hickey has been bounced from the Huperintendenoy of tho Chicago police, and is succeeded by Capt. Y. A. Seavey, who is said to bo the first native American to occupy tho place in a period of fifteen years. Reports from Indian sor rees say that Bitting Bull lately visited the Sioux aft Standing Rock agency, and romaiuod there in disguise several days. It is added that eight different bands of Sioux are pledged to join in a general war whenever the signal is given, the bands now in Canada coming over to open the ball. Judge Alexander McTntosh, ope of the most prominent men of Allen county, Ind., was recently kicked to death by a vicious horse at his stables near Fort Wayne. Fires are reported to bo destroying the Holds of grain in some parts of California. E. S. Smith, a messenger accompanying a mail coach between Cheyeuno and Deadwood, recently eugaged single-handed in a combat with six road-agents, and, after tho discharge of about fifty shots on the part of tho road-agents and twenty by Smith, tho road-agents left without molesting tho coach A cloud-burst in the Silver Lake Mennonito sottlemont, forty miles north of Yankton, D.ik., drowned seven persons and caused much destruction of property. A dispatch from Portland, Ore., says: 1 ‘ Lorenzo D. Perkins and wife were attacked by Indians near Rattlesnake springs, on tho lively U.UU uuLxi niaroAirea. jliig rendezvous for all the unfriendly Indians, both on the Oregon and Washington Territory side, is at the foot of Priest rapids, where they axe collecting in groat numbers. Chief Moses says ho cannot control his young men and warns settlers to look out for themselves.” South. Sam Bass, the notorious Texas train robber, is dead. He refused to the last to inform against his accomplices, saying it was against his profession. The entire business portion of the town of Cattlettsbnrg, Ky., has been swept away by fire. The loss is estimated at #250,000, upon which there was but a small insurance. A liorribie tragedy was recently enacted in Flewauna county, Va. A man named Howchins murdered his wife, mothei-in-law and ono child, and then committed suicide. Yellow fever has broken out in New Orleans. Gen. Wm. H. Lee, a son of ihe late Robert E. Lee, is a prominent candidate for Congress in the Alexandria (Va.) district, now represented by Eppa Hunton. The latter has rendered himself unpopular by his quarrol with Columbus Alexander, of Washington. Duiling is not so popular in the Old Dominion as in the ante-bellum days.

THE PRESIDENTIAL INVESTIGATION. 1 lio Potter sub-committee, consisting of Repnscutatives Totter, r.utler, Hiscock and Springer, met at Atlantic City, N. J., on the 23U<,f July. Representative Dauford, of Ohio, .T** , firßt wltnUßo examined. He testified ‘ff.vVT? member ° f the Morrison committed bat vis.ted New Orleans, and he there met Jakes E. Anderson aud talked to him about EiiAT'ehciana; Anderson said it was the worst bullied parish in the State, and related how

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he had teen Bhot at one night by concealed assassins. He spoke of having put in circulation the story that during the period of registration he came to New Orleans and informed the Republican committee, including Gov. Kellogg, that bis parish was going Democratic, the colored vote being largely on that side, and that he bad been advised by Kellogg and the Republican committee that he should either not return to the parish at all or come away and make such a protest as would throw tho parish out. He said he had put the story in circulation in the hope that the Democratic committee would make him an offer of money, and when by the offer of money he had them good and fast, he would expose the authors and blow them sky-high. The witness did not hear Anderson question the truth of the protest. Hon. William D. Kelley, of PenasyL vania, testified before the committee on July 24. Said he visited New Orleans to witness the Returning Board count at the request of President Grant. A committee of distinguished Democrats proposed to the Republican “ visiting statesmen ” that the two bodies of visitors organize and pari ieipate in the business of the Returning Board, but the Republicans declined, on the ground that they were there as private citizens, with no official power. Witness said ho nevor heard any conversation among tho Republican committee involving an interference with the official duties of the Returning Board; never heard of any suggestion to manipulate the parishes, nor that affidavits were signed with fictitious names... .Cortlandt Parker, of New Jersey, was the next witness. He testified that he visited New Orleans solely at the request of President Grant. He did not, while in Louisiana, hear doubts thrown on the protest made by Anderson as to East Feliciana, or that it was interlined, or that Anderson wished to withdraw it.... Representative Eugene Hale, of Maine, testified that all tho Republican visitors maintained the position that they should be careful to abstain from any attempted influence on the Returning Board. Witness thought if Hayes was elected President, Packard - was elected Governor of Louisiana.... Ex--. Congressman J. Halo Sypher, of Louisiana, testified that he was in New Orleans during the sittings of tho Returning Board, and that ho was shown by Weber the alleged Sherman letter to Weber and Anderson, and had no doubt of its genuineness. Witness did not read it carefully, and could not swear positively either as to the handwriting or the substance of the document, hut believed the copy that has been printed is correct... .Secretary Sherman was called to the stand, and testified jliat ho went to New Orleans at the solicitation of President Gfant. On his way ho stopped at Columbus and saw Gov. Hayes. Said his conversation with Hayes was general about the election, all then being in tho dark. The examination of Secretary Sherman was resumed on the 25th. Tho witness stated that, while in New Orleans, he was never, privately or alone, with any member of the Returning Board; that he treated the members the same as he would have treated any other court or tribunal before which he appeared as a witness or advocate. He denied emphatically the truth of the testimony of James E. Anderson aud E. L. Weber, and certain conversations alleged to have taken place botween them aud him (Sherman); said ho never suggested to these men payment for any services that they might render in connection with the Returning Board, or in any other way, nor was any promise of reward even intimated. In regard to the celebrated “Sherman letter” to Anderson and Weber, the Secretary asserted positively that he did not write it, although “there wore things in it that he would have written to these or any other men who were engaged in the performance of their duty.” In reply to a question, Mr. Sherman said that while in New Orleans he wrote a letter to Mr. Hayes, in which he said : The action of the Returning Board liaß thus far been open and fair, aud only confirms the general result as known before. We are now collecting testimony as to the bulldozed parishes. It seems more like a history of hell than of civilized and Christian communities. The means adopted are almost incredible, but were fearfully effective upon the ignorant and superstitious people. That you would have received, at a fair election, a large majority in Louisiana, no honeßt man can question ; that you did not receive a majority is equally clear; but that intimidation of every kind aud nature provided against by Louisiana law did enter into and control the election in more election polls than would change the result and give you the vote, I believe as firmly as I write this. Ti e truth is palpable that you ought to have the vote of Louisiana, and wo believe that you wiil have it by an honest and fair return according to the letter and spirit of the law of Louisiana. Very truly yours, John Sherman. This letter was dated Nov. 23, 1876, and on Nov. 27 Gov. Hayes responded as follows : I am greatly obliged for your letter of the 23d. You feel, I am sure, as I do about this whole business. A fair election would have given us about forty electoral votes at the South—at least that many—but we are not to allow our friends to defeat one outrage and fraud by another. There must be nothing “crooked” on our part. Let Mr. Tilden have the place by violence, intimidation and fraud rather than undertake to prevent it by means that work doing by the Republicans who have gone South, and am especially proud to acknowledge the honorable conduct of those men from Ohio. The Democrats made a mistake in sending so many exBepublicans. New converts are proverbially bitter and unfair toward those they have recently left. ' R. B. Hates. The witness was interrogated by Gen. Butler in regard to the part he and the President played in the appointment of certain Louisiana Republicans t? office. The Secretary replied: “You trench on delicate ground. I ought not to tell you what the President Said to me, or what I said to the President.” Gen. Butler—“l don’t ask you for Cabinet secrets, but I have come to the conclusion that there ought to be no secrets in a free Government.” The Secretary—“l will give you the exact facts when we reach Washington.” .... Gen. James A. Garfield was the next witness examined, but nothing of importance was elicited. He was questioned at length as to the testimony of E. L. Weber, denying the general statements of the witness in regard to events in Louisiana in connection with the visiting Republicans. Many of his statements wore utterly inconsistent With truth. Ex-Congressman J. Hale Syplier was a gain before the committee on the 26th. The witness said that, to the best of his recollection, he thought that when Weber showed him the Sherman letter it was in the handwriting of John Sherman, and was therefore genuine. Mr. Potter asked whether the allegations of fraud aud intimidation were not made after the election, and the witness replied affirmatively. The charges of intimidation were made by the Republicans in the parishes where their vote had fallen off. Mr. Hiscock asked whether the Democrats sought to conciliate the colored people to vote their ticket. A.—-Yes, in various ways. They did as you do in New York, buy voters. They were very affectionate to them. The Democrats organized a unification movement, for the purpose of giving negroes equalities with the whites in the street cars

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and in the public schools, outstripping and beating us a little Ex-Congressman Frank Morey, of Louisiana, was the next witness. Was one of the Republican counsel before the Returning Board. Said the fact of intimidation in the bulldozed parishes was not disputed. From personal inspection, was satisfied Eliza Pinkston had been dangerously wounded. She was carried into the room of the Returning Board on a sofa. The impression prevailed that this exhibition would have a good effect, and his own impression was it would be an excellent thing to do in furtherance of the cause. Witness said on the face of the returns Nicholls and the Tilden electr ors had the majority; that the Returning Beard threw out enough votes to elect Packard, and after this threw out 1,512 votes to elect the Hayes electors. This condition of things was discussed by prominent politicians, the visiting statesmen, and the Republican counsel. Witness made some figuring as to what results would be produced if certain parish returns were thrown out. The result of the calculation was sent to Florida so as to come to the knowledge of the Florida officials. Ex-Congressman Morey was called before the committee again on July 27. The witness said that he had one or two interviews with the President, at great length, during which the witness argued that the withdrawal of troops from New Orleans and not maintaining the Packard Government would be the destruction of the Republican party in the South. The President took the position that tho Republican party could no longer retain that policy which had lost New York to tho Republicans, and the party had become weaker in consequence, therefore, the good of the Republican party demanded change. The President treated the subject as of national concern.... Ex-Senator Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois, was the next witness. He testified that he visited New Orleans at the invitation of Mr. Hewitt, to witness the count of the Returning Board, in company with other gentlemen similarly invited. The visitors were not present when the board retired Jfor deliberation; they did not see the compilations of the returns by which tho board arrived at results, nor did he know whether any affidavits presented to the board were read at all. This closed the sittings of the committee at Atlantic City.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Greenbackers of Ohio, in State Convention at Columbus, last week, nominated Andrew Roy for Secretary of State, Clinton A. White for Supreme Judge, and J. R. Fallis for Member of the Board of Public Works. Political gossips say that Senator Simon Cameron is to be a candidate to succeed his son Don to the United States Senate. This report is based upon the allegation that in the selection of candidates for the Legislature likely to be elected there aro quite a number hostile to young Cameron who will give their support to the father, but will not give allegiance or votes to the son. The Texas Democrats, at their State Convention in Austin, balloted for nearly a week in a vain attempt to nominate a candidate for Governor under the two-thirds rule, tho votes being nearly equally divided between Gov. Hubbard and ex-Gongressman Throckmorton. On tho Bixth day Chief Justice Roberts, of the Supreme Court, was trotted out, and he was nominated by acclamation. The Greenbackers of New York, at their State Convention in Syracuse last week, nominated Gideon J. Tucker for Judge of the Court of Appeals. It is believed in Washington that Mr Devens, the Attorney General, will be appointed Judge of the United States Circuit Court, in place of Judge Shipley, of Massachusetts, who died recently.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Official synopsis of the Agricultural Department crop reports show the average condition of rye and barley a3lOl. Oats, general average, 101; Tennessee and Nebraska, 112. Fruit on the whole is favorable to such crops as escaped the spring frosts. Grass and clover remarkably fine. Tobacco acreage reduced 25 per cent. The condition is as folows : Kentucky, 93; Virginia, 93; Missouri, 101; Tennessee, 89; Ohio, 104; Maryland, 102; Indiana, 92; North Carolina, 94; Pennsylvania, 100; Connecticut, 100: Illinois, 93; Massachusetts, 101. The Treasury Department has just issued a call for the redemption of #5,000,000 5-20 bonds of 1865 ; #2,500,000 registered and $2,500,000 coupon bonds, the interest to cease on the 233 of October. The total receipts of the Government from internal revenue for the year endiug June 30. 1878, were $111,089,319.91, or $7,905,864.34 less than the year preceding. It is expected at the Treasury Department that the silver dollar coinage for August will be between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000. It is stated that all the Canadian railway liaes interested in securing a Chicago connection are likely to combine for the purpose of building a joint line to the Baltimore and Ohio road. The wool clip of 1878 is about 3 per cent greater than that of 1877. So reports the Agricultural Department at Washington. A schooner which arrived at San Francisco a few days ago reports falling in, about 100 miles north of that port, with a Japanese junk with not a living person on board. A dumber of corpses were found, some of them shackled together. Thoy must have been dead at least a month. No food was on board, and some of the bodies were dressed in costly material. James Smith, of the village of Rockford, Canada, killed his father and sister, and then committed suicide. The New York Tribune professes to have information to the effect that a general strike is to be precipitated throughout the country on the 15th of August. The bark Palestine, from Portland, Me., for Havana, Cuba, with a cargo of lumber, was recently wrecked in the West lndier. The Captain and crew of nine men were lost. The grasshoppers have appeared in Central America, and crops are said to be disappearing before their ravages in Honduras like grass before a prairie fire. Minister Noyes has returned to his post of duty in Paris. The recent turf meeting at Cleveland, Ohio, witnessed a remarkable racing event. The celebrated horse Rarus trotted three mile heats, without® skip or a break, in and 2:14. The race was the fastest three consecutive heats on record, beating Goldsmith

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Maid’s 2:16, 2:153*', 2:15, at Buffalo, in 1876, by 2% seconds. Thus Barns has in one race lowered the record for a first heat, third heat and three consecutive heats.

THAT “BARGAIN.”

History of the 'Wormley’s Hotel Conference. Maj. E. A. Burke was the last witness examined at New Orleans by the Potter sub-com-mittee. Burke testified that he was sent to Washington in January, 1877, by Gov. Nicholls to represent the interests of the Nicholls Government. His instructions were to represent to the President the state of affairs in Louisiana in the interest of the said Government, and to keep Nicholls posted in regard to matters transpiring at Washington. The witness produced a number of telegrams to Nicholls showing the state of affairs at Washington, and then the following : Wobmley’s, Feb. 17. E. A. Burke, Esq.: Mi Dear Sib : In answer to your note of this morning I beg to say that I see no objection to your conferring with Hon. Randall Gibson on the subject discussed between us. Very truly, Stanley Matthews. The witness then read the following : Willard’s, Washington, Feb. 18, 1877. Hon. Stanley Matthews: My Dear Sir : In accordance with your request 1 called seveial times to submit a “mem” of the points which, if understood, would doubtless aid in the solution of our State affairs. The notes indorsed represent the policy and determination of the Nicholle Government. As to the question heretofore discussed, every member of the Government and our people are pledged to the faithful carrying ■ out the same in case the Nicholls Government should be acquiesced in. Should the only government in the State which commands the respect and support of the people be overthrown of course Gov. Nicholls’ power to preserve peace or order ceases, and the possibility of remitting the State to anarchy and each parish thereof to tho control of local factions must rest elsewhere. Respectfully yours, E. A Burke. The following telegram was then read : Washington, Feb. 26,1877. To Gov. F. T. Nicholls: We have been one week organizing a force io compel guarantees securing your Government. We had a conference to-day and to-night with Sherman, Matthews, DennisoD, Garfield and Foster. We asBure peace, order, protection of law to white and black, no persecution for past political conduct, and no immunity for crime. On the other hand they agree by a gradual process to adopt such methods as will result in your full possession of the Government of the Sta e by the withdrawal of the troops and non-interference. As to the Senate it is so close and party lines are so tightly drawn that our friends believe that if Kellogg and a Democrat present credentials on the 4th of March there is great danger of Kellogg being seated. .Could we agree as a part of this arrangement to let the longterm Senatorship remain now and call an extra session about the 10th of March to elect the short-term Benator, deferring the long-term Senator until the extra session could elect 7 Our leading Senators assure us that Kellogg’s admission'can be prevented until the extra session of our Legislature can elect. This arrangement would not prevent the immediate lection of Eustis as the short-term Senator. There may be favorable action immediately, Gibson is sick. . E. A. Burke. John Ellis. Wm. L. Levy, The witness said he visited the House of Rep resentatives and Mr. Ellis there stated to him that he had received a letter from Lamar, stating that Matthews, Foster and friends of Hayes had made a statement in regard to what they believed to be Hayes’ views on the Southern question, and what would be his course toward Packard. He (Ellis) thought it necessary to go to Columbus, Ohio, with a view to verify the statement that had been made. Ellis stated that he had communicated the substance of the statement to Gov. Nicholls, and had telegraphed to Hayes, asking if he had been fairly represented by those claiming to be his friends. The witness disagreed with Ellis and telegraphed to Nicholls, .stating that the ultimate solution of the Louisiana question to the benefit ot his (Nicholls’) Government rested more with the strong, powerful leaders of the Republican party than with Hayes. The witness then suggested a conference of gentlemen who felt that they represented the views of Mr. Hayes with those representing Liui iana, so that there should be no misunderstanding, and, on this suggestion, the conference at WormlCy’s Hotel was held the next night, the 26th of February. There were present at this conference Messrs. Matthews, Garfield, Foster, Sherman, George Carter, Levy, Ellis and the witness, and, as there was no person actively representing South Carolina, they invited Mr. Watterson, of Kentucky, to be present in the interests of that State. The conference was held in Mr. Evarts’ room, but that gentleman was not present. The condition of affairs in Louisiana was thoroughly discussed. The Louisiana representatives read a statement of the policy of the Nicholls Government. Upon the other hand, the most positive assurances were given by Matthews, Sherman, Garfield and Foster, neither of whom, however, stated that he was authorized by Hayes to speak, but they spoke from their knowledge of his views from their past associations and from the fact that they were conversant with his views, upon that question. They assumed to guarantee that the policy indicated in the dispatch authorized by President Grant would be carried out by Mr. Hayes. A number of dispatches were hern read, in reference to the guarantees of the protection of law to white and black in Louisiana, and the understanding that no Senator be elected for the long term until the extra session. Then the following telegrams were read : Washington, D. C., Feb. 27, 1877. In an interview with the President this morning, in the course of conversation on tho subject of Louisiana affairs, he stated to me that as soon as the Presidential count was finished, and the result officially declared, it was his intention to notify Gen. Augur that the military orders issued for the purpose of preserving the status quo of the political situation were rescinded, except bo far as to simply require the use of the troops when necessary for the preservation of the public peace. He authorized me to communicate this declaration to Mr. Ellis, of the Louisiana delegation. Stanley Matthews. A true copy: Wm. L. Levy, E. A. Burke. Washington, March 1,1877. Gov. Nicholls : We have authorized ihe statement of the President concerning military orders in writing and confirmed by the President to be sent to feur different parties. We have the guarante3s of Sherman, Dennison, Matthews, and Foster, representing the views of Gov. Hayes, confirming the matters submitted to the caucus with the action of the caucus committed to writing, copies exchanged and satisfactory, and written assurances from Hayes that he is correctly represented by his A-.‘. n/ |nV«nna, Footer a Till fAuu. nLoui -v%-o have written guarantees. E. A. Burke, E. J. Ellis, William M. Levy. New Orleans, La., March 1, 1877. E. A. Burke, Washington: Fully understood. No election of Senators until the 10th. F. T. Nicholls. [Oonfidential.] Washington, D. 0., March 3, 1877. F. T. Nicholls, New Orleans : Gen Sherman, in conversation, said: “ Tell Nicholls for me, go slow,” explaining that Hayes would have great difficulties to overcome, but that your matters appeared to be working in the right direction. Gen. Sherman said that Augur would not interfere with the execution of the process of courts. E. A. Burke. Washington, March 4, 1877. Gov. Nicholls, New Orleans: We have had an interview with President Hayes. He assures us that his policy will be conciliatory, and requests that opportunity be allowed him to remove the difficulty and prepare the way. He seems anxious and earnest in the proper direction.

Home Decoration.

Just as quick as farmer Jones painted his barbed-wire fence blue, plain blue, farmer Smith’s wife swore she wasn’t going to be out-done, and the fence around the Smith farm soon blossomed out red, picked with white. Mrs. Jones wasn’t going to have any of the Smith family put on airs over her, and their blue fence was soon trimmed with gold-leaf stripes. Smith trumped over by putting a gilt ball on every barb; and Jones, when last heard from, was painting weather vanes, gilt horses, peacocks, and lightning-rod tips all over his fence, and swearing he’d beat the Smith family if he had to put a cupula and a bay window at every post, and hang a chromo every two feet along the line. We should all pay mere attention to the decoration of our homes. —Keokuk Constitution.

Among the mechanical toys of the Paris Exposition are dolls that swim, dive, and tread water, after the approved human style.

THE RESULTS OF INVESTIGATION.

What Has Been Proved So Par by the Potter Committee. [From the Washington Post.] The Potter committee have proved, beyond successful rebuttal, things believed to be true, but not absolutely proven to be true before, to wit, that the electoral votes of Florida and Louisiana, which were given to Hayes, belonged to Tilden. Leaving out of consideration the State of Florida, which no honest man will deny to have been stolen, we will take up Louisiana. As to this State the Potter committee have clearly proved: 1. That a conspiracy was entered into by certain Republican leaders, the object being to hold no election in East Feliciana, Grant and other Democratic parishes. 2. That the fact that no Republican votes were cast in East Feliciana was not due to intimidation, as alleged, but was owing to Anderson’s advice to the Republican leaders not to vote, as it would have a better effect than all the affidavits that could be produced; 3. That for a period of two days after the election the Republican leaders admitted that Tilden and Nicholls had carried the State by a heavy majority. 4. That when it became evident that the election of Hayes depended upon the result of the State, deliberate preparations were made for the purpose of defeating the will of the people as expressed at the polls. 5. That, in pursuance of this plan, protests forged and altered to suit the occasion were made for the parishes of East and West Feliciana, whereby a Democratic majority of over 2,800 was changed to a Republican majority of 500. 6. That the Supervisors of the abovenamed parishes were prevented by promises of reward made by John Sherman and others from exposing such forgeries. 7. That on the 27th day of November, when the Returning Board proceeded to sum up the result of their labors, it was discovered that, while Packard aud a Republican Legislature were elected, Hayes was defeated. 8. That after the above date, and in order to secure the electoral vote for Hayes, forged protests were made for Richland and other parishes, and the returns from Lafayette and other parishes so changed as to increase the Republican vote. 9. That affidavits bearing fictitious names, and the names of dead men, were manufactured in the Custom House, and upon such affidavits various Democratic polls were thrown out. 10. That the acts above recited were known to some of the visiting statesmen, and received their approval. 11. That the electoral vote of the State, as counted before the two houses of Congress was a forgery. 12. That John Sherman, now Secretary of the Treasury, and at the time the personal representative of Mr. Hayes, was guilty of subornation of perjury. 13. That the leading parties necessary to a completion of the fraud were promised by him protection and reward. 14. That the fraudulent President, in fulfillment of Sherman’s and Noyes’ promises, has rewarded with office every scoundrel connected with the great crime in both Florida and Louisiana. 15. That Stanley Matthews, a Republican lOenator from Ohio, and Justice Harlan, a Judge of the Supreme Court, had guilty knowledge of the fraudulent transactions by which the vote of Louisiana was stolen, and personally interested themselves to reward and protect the criminals. 16. That Senator Morton and Gen. Garfield, both members of the Electoral Commission, knew when they voted to count the vote of Lonisiana for Hayes that it was both fraudulent and a forgery. 17. That Senator Kellogg, who assisted at the forgery of the Louisiana returns, has since been guilty of secreting the witnesses. 18. That not one of the criminals who assisted to perpetrate the colossal crime of the age has been punished ; but that all but two —numbering over a hundred —have been provided with offices by Mr. Hayes’ direct order or request, and in some cases by and through his continued and persistent interference. With few exceptions these facts are proved, exclusive of the testimony of either Anderson or Weber, notwithstanding that the committee has only fairly entered upon its task.

Civil-Service Reform and Despair. The Republican struggle for the possession of the House of Representatives in the next Congress has already partaken of the desperation of despair, if tautology will emphasize the statement. The administration has tossed aside almost all pretense at civil-service reform, and the Republican managers clutch at the straw-like hope of this one victory, the only one for which they can hope, with the reckless but determined longing that is just this side of hopelessness. The Republican party has issued a wail —and an assessment. It is for the old flag—and some contributions. The Republican Congressional Committee present their plea, and their tax. Eugene Hale is Chairman of the Executive Committee. George C. Gorham is Secretary. William B. Allison, Stephen W. Dorsey, B. K. Bruce, Charles Foster and Mr. Hiscock are among the members of the committee. The mad address which Eugene Hale sent to the country about “ Mexicanization” and “revolution” will be remembered. The appeal of Postmaster General Key to the people of the South, to make this an issue, and its motive, are not forgotten. The attempt of the entire Republican press of the country to create a false issue is fresh in the recollection of all. But the Executive Committee of this Republican Congressional Committee have levied a tax upon all the Government employes, in the face of that civil-service order, to which it is ostentatiously announced the administration will still adhere. Mixed with the demand for money is the wail of despair. The terms in which the as : sessments upon Government employes is couched are the emphatic thing: “ This committee, charged with laboring for the success of the Republican cause in the coming campaign for the election of members of Congress, call with confidence upon you, as a Republican , for such a contribution in money as you may feel willing to make, hoping that it may not be less than Why is this phrase, “as a Republican ? ” Is it an intimation that the assessed indi-

R. T. GIBSION. E. A. BURKE.

vidual, if a Republican, is expected to make the contribution, and if not a Republican is expected to make way lor a Republican who will contribute ? A noticeable thing in this letter of assessment is the fact that the blanks for the number of dollars below which the committee hope the contribution will not fall are filled out with scrupulous care. It is announced to each employe of the Government that the committee hope his voluntary gift will not fall below a named number of dollars. We have before ns one of these assessment letters addressed to a servant of the Government who receives a poor pittance of S3OO a year for his services. The starving salaries, even, do not escape taxation. It was necessary to advise the em-. ployes of the Government that they could not hide behind any civil-service rule to avoid paying the assessment. And so the amercing epistle reads: “The committee deem it proper * * * to inform those who happen to be in Federal employ that there will be no objection in any official quarter to such voluntary (?) contribution.” This is not the action of President Hayes; it is the action of the Republican managers. The vicious system of political assessments has never, in our history, been carried further than this. It has never been more bald and bold. The assessment has never been more bluntly made. Nor has it ever been made so hypocritically in the eyes of the country. The Republican committee do not fail to make known the reason for this, under the circumstances, extraordinary procedure. It is found in these words: “ The importance of the pending struggle cannot easily be exaggerated. That the Senate is to be Democratic after the the 4th of March, 1879, is very nearly a certainty. In view of this the election of a Democratic House of Representatives would precipitate upon the country agitations which would inevitably add to present distresses.” „Tho letter points out the possibility that the House may elect the next President, and all this is a Bag of distress. Lest it be asrerted that it is only “voluntary contributions” that are solicited, we quote the peremptory concluding words of the invitation: Please make prompt and favorable response to this letter, and remit at once by draft or postal money order, to Sidney F. Austin, Esq., treasurer, etc., German American National Bank, Washington, D. C. By order of th 9 committee. Geo. C. Gobham, Secretary. This is Eugene Hale’s civil-service reform. Along with it comes the a bandonment of the Republican hope of capturing the next House.— Cincinnati Enquirer.

Civil-Service Reform as Administered

by Mr. Haves.

Judge McLin, of Floiida, testified before the Investigating Committee that previous to his appointment as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Mexico he had been informed, “ at the instance of the President, by Mr. Cowgill, of the Returning Board, that he would be appointed, * * * the President having told Cowgill that he was under both political and personal obligations to Cowgill and witness.’ About this reform there is very much of the odor of the old doctrine, “To the victors belong the spoils.” Judge McLin further testified as follows: Among the prominent actors in the Florida election in 1876, the following had been rovided for as stated: Gov. Stearns was appointed on the'Hot Springs Commission. J. W. Howells, who got up Driggers’ return, in Baker county, is now Collector of Customs at Fernandina, Fla. Joseph Bowes, election inspector, charged with manipulating votes in Leon county, is ir the treasury at Washington. William H. Vance, e'erk at Archer Precinct No. 2, has a Federal position at Washington. B. H. Black, inspector at the same precinct, has a Federal clerkship in Philadelphia. Bell, inspector in Jefferson county, received a Federal appointment. George EL Leon, inspector in Leon county, is a elerk in the treasury at Washington. Dennis, of Alachua county, had recently a position in the treasury. Moses J. Taylor, one of the Returning Board of Jefferson, is in the Land Office at Washington. This is a forcible commentary on the platitudes of Hayes himself, and of journals like Harper's Weekly, on civiiseivice reform under the present administration. Those who did little and those who did much'in aid of the fraudulent returns, almost to a man, have been rewarded by official appointments. How inconsistent for an administration conducted in this manner to set up a pretense to a higher standard in the making of appointments than had ever been observed before! Men have been selected on account of political services as muen as under any previous administration. The principal difference is that but little regard has been paid to the more elevated and reputable kind of work for the party, while most of those identified wish the success of Mr. Hayes in the States which were carried by fraud have been rewarded.— New York Sun.

Profit is Wheat.

Mr. J. P. Thompson, Secretary of the Michigan State Agricultural Society, writes to the Country Gentleman : “The profit on wheat is relative. If a farmer can sell his wheat early at a fair price, and thereby save interest, save hazard, save waste, he can make money by selling rather than holding. If he can sell wheat even at a cheap price and bny lumber, nails, labor and building materials at a cheap price, he can make money by selling rather than by holding. All farmers want capital. If a farmer can sell his wheat even at a low price, and take that money and put it into more wheat, into cultivation and fertilization of land, into labor on more land, then he perhaps does better than to hold his wheat. He keeps his money busy. He keeps his capital employed. If a man sells wheat at a low price and buys land at a low price, which is sure to double in value, then he has not lost money by selling his wheat. Idle capital at the present day is winning no laurels. Idle wheat in the granary is dead capital. The farmer does* not want any dead capital about. The man who keeps his capital turning, even at a small margin, is the man who is making any money. The day of large profits is not now. The men who have been waiting for large profits in wheat are the men who have lost money. The men who are making money in farming are the meh who turn their capital often, who employ labor, who make improvements, who put money into crops and stock judiciously, and who do business satisfied with small profits. * Without big words some people would find it impossible to say small things,

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NUMBER 25.

BANKS.

What la Their True Function, and What Are Their Abases ? The reflective reader of history will have reason to observe that the greatest agencies in the interest of mankind—the most necessary to their happiness and progress—have also been subject to the greatest abases, thns becoming the source of much misery and wrong to mankind. The church, as the chief promoter of an exalted and a pure religious life; the state, as the bulwark of life, liberty and human prosperity—the very principle of association to attain objects essential to human welfare, but impossible to the individual—have each been wrested from their proper use, and made instruments of the greatest public tyranny and wrong. To this reflection the banking systems of all countries form no exception, but a remarkable illustration. It may well be said that, next to the invention of letters and the various instrumentalities for the spread thereof, money and its instrumentalities is the greatest invention and promoter of civilized life. As one spreads the power and light of thought, which, like sunlight, gives life and fecundity to the mind and moral nature of man, so the other is the means, the stimulus and the force that spreads all physical comfort or material prosperity which mankind can communicate to each other. Civilization could not have passed the lowest state of savage life without the help of money; and its progress in “liberty and the pursuit of happiness ” depends upon the rightful administration of the institutions arising out of the use of money. Let the American people be assured that they are now fighting the last and greatest battle for natural freedom and progress against the greatest enemy of both—the moneyed institutions "of the world. The spiritual despotism of the church and the military despotism of the state have, in a great measure, passed away among civilized nations; but whatever is left of these, and whatever feudalism and slavery remains to be dispelled, is intrenched in the moneyed institutions of society. The sword and the purse have in times past ruled the world; the purse and the sword ruleitnow. Twin brothers of barbarism —like the Siamese twins—if one dies the other must also depart. The people have only to understand the theonr and the practice of the banks that administer their fiscal affairs* to perceive at once that, under great and indispensable uses, they cover great frauds and oppressions; that their whole system involves certain abuses to which poor human nature will fall inevitably, unless guarded by the provisions of law underlying the whole system of banking. As in slavery, noble and good natures caught in the meshes of a false system, yet administered the same in the spirit of truth and kindness, to the best of their ability, while the selfish and the base had every opportunity to exercise their worst passions, protected by the system itself. So the banking systems of the world and of this country; while they naturally and beaetieially arose out of a system of things in the social order, now in a great measure past, and, while they are still administered, for the most part, in the spirit of fairness and of kindness that belongs wholly to the natures of the men who control these institutions, yet they are now out of logic with the times; they are an oppression and a hindrance, as a system, and give ample opportunity to the designing and the base to work great wrongs to the people who trust them. But it is not in this latter point of view that we wish to discuss banks, for all institutions are all more or less liable to abuse. But the institutions of banking, in the fundamental principles which regulate their functions, are obnoxious to the charge of being “ remnants of barbarism and feudalism,” opposed to progress and the interests of a people aiming at the best administration of republican principles and institutions. A system of banking—not any one bank, which may only show a part of the system, but a system of banks—is analogous to a pond of water, or any natural body of water, from which is drawn the power to set some practical industry into operation. It must be a “safe deposit” of all the water that finds access to it—not liable to break and overwhelm town and country with ruin. It must have an unfailing “issue ” of water for the wants of the machinery dependent upon it, and not dry up when it is most wanted. It must be so arranged as to “ let on ” or apply its power according to the demands of the various industries that require the power. So every system of banking must furnish a “ safe deposit ” for savings, an unfailing “issue” of real money, and a judicious “ discount ” of this money to all the industries that need its use and working power. Banks of safe deposit and savings, banks of issue, and banks of discount make up this whole system. The bench of a “money changer” in old Jerusalem, Venice or London illustrates all these functions of banks, for they arose out of the use and necessary means for the distribution of money. His bench was the depository of his own and the money of his fnends; he was ready to loan on all kinds of pledges, pawns and securities of personal property, and a large part of his business soon came to be the giving of “ redeemable notes ” to traveling merchants, by which they - could carry money, in the shape of credit , to foreign countries. All this system of money exchange depended simply upon the faith and honesty of the parties concerned. There was no interference on the part of Government or the law, except to punish fraud. If the banker of olden times loaned or sold his deposits and trusts, his pledges and his pawns, so that he could not return them when called for by the owners; if he issued more “notes” than he could “ redeem,” swift punishment came upon him as a cheat and a liar. Or, suppose he extorted “ruinous usury ” out of the distress and need of his customers, there was redress in the law against usury. But suppose some tyrant of the times had connected his power and moneyed interests with one or more such bankers and brokers, and allowed them to rob and oppress the people by the very means on which they depended to carry on all the trade and commerce of the country. Would not such a tyrant be the execration of all subsequent history ? When Julius Csssar stood upon the bank of the Rubicon with his conquering army, and was deterred from crossing by the positive law and prohibition of the Senate of his country, and by his traditional respect for the republic \ylrish'he could thus overthrow, the tax-

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gatherers and commissioners of the time, who were also the bankers and moneyed men of the country, to whom was sold or farmed out the privilege of assessing and gathering the Government taxes—these came to Cmsar and—having failed to get their oppressive and unjust demands from the Senate, where the “ virtuous Cato ” exposed tlieir designs—these very men offered to support the army by loans and give C»sar their immoral support, if he would grant them the privileges which the Senate had refused. He consented, and—- ‘ ‘ Home was free no more /” The enormity and wickedness of this conduct can only be measured by the greed, the selfishness, the oppression, and the traitorous spirit of these moneyed men, and much more in the miserable and unjust system of taxation under whioh these men weje acting, which placed them under every temptation and gave them every opportunity to oppress and spoliate the people. Thus has it ever been with any organization of the moneyed power, when it could ally itself with the civil power of the state; not in the interests of the people at large, but to obtain the sanction and power of the Government to grow into still greater wealth and influence at the expense, the toil and the confiscation of the property of the people. “ But these things,” you say, “are the actions of bad men. ” So they are ; but it is a bad system of administration that gives every advantage and temptation to the cupidity or bad passions of men. It is the design of these articles, not to attack men, but unwholesome systems of administration. The American people have no need to change the principles of thqir Government, for they are founded on a constitution, the sole object of which is to “ promote justice and secure the general welfare.” But they must see to it that the “administration” are not turned to the exclusive advantage of any one class while the rest of the people groan under their burdens. This is the case in reference to the whole system of banking existing in this country. That system is an exotic from England, whero it oppresses the people still more than

it does here.

Mr.Troxell Gets on His Legs.

“ Hello, Troxell, how do you do, anyway ? ’ said one gentleman to another on Fourth street yesterday, stopping to shake hands cordially. “Oh, I’m about sc-so,” replied Troxell. “ I suppose you’ve heard the news?” “Yes; and I was mighty sorry to hear of your failure. It actually stunned me, but I hope you’ll soon pull around all right again.” .“I don’t know, Timmons; it was a clean wipe-out with me,” said the bankrupt merchant, dolefully. “ Oh, pshaw ! Troxell. You’re not an old man, and have lots of energy and hard work in you yet, besides any amount of experience to help you along.” “Perhaps so; but it takes money to make money, you know.” “Never bother; you’re bound to come out solid yet, Troxell; I know you will. You’ve got plenty of friends who will help you to a starter, and credit is as good as cash. It wasn’t your fault that you went under. It was John Sherman and the blamed uncertainty of the times that knocked you, along with thousands of others. But never mind—don’t get down in the mouth. I predict that you’ll be on your legs again before six months, and you know I’m a pretty certain sort of a prophet in business matters. ” “Yes, I know,” said Troxell; “you make some mighty close guesses once in a while. But I’ve got a little surprise for yon—l'm on my legs already.” “You don’t tell me ! But I knew it, though—a man of your grit ain’t the one to stay long in the dumps. But tell me—bow’d it come ?” said Timmons, with a manner warmer than the weather. “ Well, you see,” said Troxell, slowly, with a cross-eyed wink: “I was so completely scooped out that I had to sell my carriage, and so now, of course, I’m obliged to hoof it, you know.” Timmons said it wasn’t bad, and the mans who could joke like that over his own misfortune couldn’t be kept under. —Cincinnati Breakfast Table.

Humanity to Animals.

Having seen Bergh’s various conrtivances for the prevention of cruelty to animals in New York, 1 could not refrain from calling at the pavilion containing similar exhibits here. The various improvements by which the animals are allowed to shake off the mortal coil are numerous. By means of winkers and a hole in the center a child can fix a marlinspike and drive it with a blow into the brain of an ox; and this is equivalent to painless extinction. A Dutchman exhibits a cart for conducting cattle to the slaughter-house; it is far more luxuriously fitted up than that in which Marie Antoinette was conveyed to the scaffold. The guillotine has also been reformed by the abolition of the steps. There is exhibited a special traveling bag for cats. There are files to blunt the teeth of dogs, and to prevent the virus of hydrophobia entering the flesh. From London there is quite an Oriental process for getting rid of unclaimed, wandering dogs; here they are simply strung up. The new process is to allow the dogs to walk in ; allow them to play and smell around, and, when they are dreaming of mutton bones, turn on an extra stream of laughing gas, and in a twinkling they are enjoying the sleep that knows no waking. —Paris letter.

Curious Nest of a Poisonous Insect.

The nest of the tarantula, occasionally found, excites the admiration of both old and young, and, indeed, nothing could be more ingeniously contrived. It is a subterranean house about the size and shape of a coooanut of medium growth, and is made of small pebbles and grains of sand glued together with some viscid matter. Its interior is lined with a silky material as fine and white as satm. Just at the surface of the ground is a circular opening nearly an inch in diameter. Into this fits a little door or lid made of sand and fine gravel glued together. This lid is lined with the same silken stuff as the nest proper, and at one side has a hinge made of many strands of the same. This door the tarantula can' open and close at pleasure. When the lid is closed it is almost impossible to find the nest, as owing to the sand and gravel on its upper side it presents the same appearance as the surrounding ground, from which were gathered the materials of which it was constructed. —Virginia City (Nev.) Enterprise. _ Thu artesian well of Charleston, S. C., furnishes more water than the city requires.

Cadmus.