Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1878 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOBEIGN NEWS. A correspondent at Calcutta telegraphs that “untoes Shen? Ali gives us [the British] satisfaction the present occasion will be seized to wcure for ourselves the passes piercing the mountain ranges along the whole Afghanistan frontier, from the Kuyber to the Bolan.” The opposition of the Magyars to the Austrian occupation of Bosnia has culminated in the resignation of the entire Hungarian Ministry, who allege their inability to provide the money required as Hungary’s contingent of expenses of the occupation. Count Andrassy desires to reduce the expenses by withdrawing a groat part of the army from Bosnia, but the military party oppose this measure. The occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina has already cost Austria over 4,000 men. Gen. Grant is back in Paris, where he was dined in grand style the other day by Minister Noyes. A negro insurrection has broken out at Santa Cruz, in the West Indies, and murders and other atrocities are being committed. A dispatch from Rome says “ the negotiations between Germany and the Vatican have failed. Germany will yield nothing, and the Vatican cannot yield all without alienating its most faithful partisans.” A Simla dispatch reports that “no communication has yet been received from the Ameer of CabuL The natives bring down word that the Ameer is collecting his forces from all quarters to oppose the advance of the English. ” >Smith, Fleming & Co., of London, East India merchants, and Potter, Wilson <fc Co., of Glasgow, ship-owners and colonial merchants, have failed, the former for $10,000,000 and the latter for S3,(XM),(XX). ment was brought alxrnt by the failure of the City of Glasgow Bank. Saad Getden Pasha announced to the inhabitants of Podgoritza, in Albania, that the Turkish Government had ordered that the town bo turned over to the Montenegrins, whereat the enraged populace fell upon the luckless Pasha and the 15(1 officers and men under his command and slew them. The Porte has sent a circular to the powers requesting them to compel Austria to conform to the declaration of her plenipoten - tiaries at the congress, and to stop the advance and excesses of her troops pending the decision of the powers. Unless this is done, the circular says, the Porte will consider Austria a violator of international law. Kingston, Jamaica, advices give some particulars of the negro insurrection in Santa Cruz: “The tiring of cane-fields in Santa Cruz has been renewed. A large number of insurrectionists have been shot. A French frigate has arrived at the island and landed troops. Fugitive women and children have been shipped to St. Thomas. Forty estates have been burned. Only fourteen are left.”

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. The Gregory House, at Lake Mahopac, N. Y., has been destroyed bvfire. Loss, SIOO,OOO. West. Recent forest Mires in Oregon have done a vast amount of damage. The fire has swept over a large section of country, destroying houses, crops, fences, and bridges. The recent heavy rains have extinguished the fires. Chicago papers chronicle the death of Lewis E. Meacham, of the editorial staff of the Tribune, one of the most reliable authorities in sporting matters in the West. Dispatches from Topeka, Kansas, re port that a band of the runaway Cheyenne Indians attacked a party of cattle men not far from Hayes City. A fight ensued, in which eighteen citizens were slain and five wounded. The Indian loss is not stated. The tiroops had a fight with the Indians the following day. Corporal Stewart and five soldiers of the Twen-cy-third Infantry were killed, and laeut. Broderick was wounded. Dispatches of the sth inst. from the M ost report the troops in hot pursuit of the raiding Cheyenne Indians. The trail of the savages was marked with blood, at every step, he number of settlers who have fallen victims to their treachery is estimated at between sixty and seventy. It is said their objective point is Red Cloud Agency, and that the plan is to capture and massacre the garrison. Henry Greenebaum, late President of wo leading banks in Chicago, and at one time considered one of the soundest bankers in that city, has been arrested on a criminal charge of stealing $225,000. There seems to be serious danger that the scattered settlements of the Black Hills will be raided by Indians. ASt Paul dispatch says: A band of about 200 Arapahoes and Cheyennes are coming down from their reser-* vation in Northern Wyoming toward the Hills, with hostile intent, and it is not improbable that a dash in the same direction may be made by some of the savages from Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies. Dispatches from Topeka, Kan., give a summary of the outrages committed by the Indians who went north some days ago: “After crossing the Kansas Pacific, they started northwest zfo Decatur county, and raided the settlements there. Their main depredations were on Sappa creek. Every residence for twelve miles was plundered and almost everything destroyed. All the cattle were stampeded, and what of the crops was left by the Indians has been oaten up or destroyed by the stock. The number of people killed is not yet known, but the following bodies have been found and brought to Oberlin and buried: H. P. Humphrey, James G. Laning, William leaning, Thomas Miskelly, Mr. Tnle, Marcellus Fell, M. F. Abernathy, Mr. Irwin. Two other members of the Laning family have been killed and their mother brutally outraged by several Indians. John Marshall and a man named Stedman are badly wounded, and Fred AV alters and Mr. Wright are missing. The house of H. D. was surrounded by Indians, but he and his wife, with a shot-gun and revolver, defended their house till they drove the Indians away, killing or wounding several of them. Other cases similar to this have occurred. Nearly all the settlers along Sappa creek have taken refuge in Oberlin, and are being cared for. They have literally been stripped of everytliing they possessed. Seventeen men are known to have been killed by the Indians in the vicinity of Sappa. There were 28 deaths from yellow fever at Memphis on the 30th ult; at New Orleans the deaths numbered 35; at Vicksburg, 7. The Howard steamer Kate Dickson, sent out from Vicksburg to relieve the sufferers along the river, reports a great deal of sickness aU e way from Vicksburg to Greenville, at which place there were but about one dozen well people to be found. A Baton Rouge (La.) dispatch of the 30th ult reports the fever extremely virulent there; 125 new cases and 6 deaths occurred the previous twenty-four hours.

The Democratic Sentinel.

JAS W. McEWEN, Editor.

VOLUME 11.

There was some abatement of the pestilence at nearly all the towns in the interior of the feverinfected region. A Little Rock (Ark.) dispatch reports that “Deputy United States Marshals Woodard and O’Donnel have returned from a successful raid on the illicit-whisky distilleries of Sharp, Baxter and Izard counties, in Arkansas. The Marshals’ posse consisted of twenty men. Ten prisoners were captured.” Advices from the yellow-fever infected points of the South, on Oct. 4, give the following reports: New Orleans, 51 deaths and 111 new cases; Memphis 33 deaths and 133 new cases; Vicksburg, 8 deaths; Holly Springs, 9 deaths and 26 new cases; Hickman, Ky., 2 deaths; Brownsville, Tenn., 2 deaths and 15 new cases; Chattanooga, Tenn., 4 deaths and 10 new cases; Greenville, Miss., reports “1,350 people here when the fever broke out, 260 deaths to date (Oct. 4), 600 convalescents, and 120 down;” Baton Rouge, La., 10 deaths and a large number of new cases; Biloxi, Miss., 20 new cases, no deaths; Osyka, Miss., 3 deaths and 7 new cases; Thibodeaux, La., 16 new cases, no deaths; Jackson, Miss., fever just broke out and rapidly spreadirig, great panic; Bay St. Louis, Miss., 3 deaths and 18 new cases; Tangipahoa, La., 2 deaths and 6 new cases. At nearly all these points the weather was reported warm, with no near prospect of frost, the only enemy that Yellow Jack fears. Rodney Green (colored) was hanged at Magnolia, Miss., on the 4th inst., for the murder of his brother-in-law.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Attorney General Devens, in response to questions submitted to him by Secretary Sherman, has rendered a decision to the effect that the subsidiary coins are not legal tender in any sum exceeding $5. The publie-debt statement for Oct. 1 is as follows: Six per cent, bonds $713;494,900 Five per cent, bonds 703,200,050 Four and a halt per cent, bonds 250,000.000 Four percent.bonds 151,500,000 Total coin b0nd551,818,201,550 Lawful-money debts 14,000,000 Matured debt 12,524,090 Legal tenders 34* 743,090 Certificates ot deposit 4c.710.000 Fractional currency 10.297,429 Coin and silver certificates 34,'174,070 Total without interests 438,425,195 Total debt „$2,283,211,435 Total interest 28,039,290 Cash in treasury, coin $ 232,059.040 Cash in treasury, currency 1,972.593 Currency held for redemption of fractional currency 10,000,(MX) Special deposits held for redemption of certificates of deposits 40,710,000 Total in treasurys 285,342,240 Debt, less citsh in treasurys2,o2s,!K)B.4Bs Decrease during September 3.190,534 Decrease since June 30. 1878 9,878,345 Bonds issued to Pacififrailroad companies, interest payable in lawful . money; principal outstanding 04,023,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 909.352 Interest paid by United States 39,835,039 Interest repaid by transportation of mails, etc 10,279,181 Balance of interest paid by United States 29.555,858 The President has appointed O. H. Irish Chief of. tho Bureau of Printing ami Engraving, vice McPherson, resigned. The President and family will move into the Executive Mansion from the Soldiers’ Homo next week. The White House is being prepared for their reception. Secretary Schurz appears to think that it is not good civil-service reform for him to make campaign speeches, as he lias steadily refused to repeat his Cincinnati speech. A general order, just issued from the War Department, calls the attention of officers of tho army to a section in the Army Appropriation bill passed at the last session of Congress prohibiting tho use of the army as a posse comitatus except in such eases as may be expressly authorized by the constitution or acts of Congress.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Texas Republicans have nomi nated A. B. Morton for Governor and Richard Allen for Lieutenant Governor. The Colorado election, held on the Ist inst., resulted in the success of the Republican ticket, Pitkin being elected Governor and Belford chosen to succeed Patterson as Representative in Congress. The Republicans of Gen. Butler’s district (Seventh Massachusetts) have nominated William A. Russell for the next Congress and demanded of Gen. Butler the resignation of his seat in the present Congress. The Republicans of the Hartford (Ct.) district have nominated Gen. Joseph R. Hawley for Congress. The Nebraska Republicans have nominated AlbinusNance forGovemor, E. C. Carnes for Lieutenant Governor, E. K. Valentine for Congress (long term), and T. J. Majors to fill the unexpired term in Congress of the late Frank C. Welch. Senator Bayard, of Delaware, is reported, by a New York paper, as saying that he “ thought it probable that three Presidential candidates would be in the field in 1880—a Republican, Democrat and Greenback candidate. It was possible, too, the House of Representatives would be called upon to elect the next , President” Hon. N. P. Banks has been laid on the shelf by his Republican constituents in the Fifth Massachusetts district. The convention, after fifteen ballots, nominated Hon. S. man, of Somerville, for Congress.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The contest between the six. clubs composing the “League” for the base-ball championship of the United States has ended in the success of the Boston Club, which, with the ex- ' ception of one year, has held the championship I uninterruptedly since 1871. The following table shows the result of the season’s play between the respective clubs: Clubs. Games Won. Games Lost. Boston 41 19 Cincinnati ...37 23 Providence 33 27 Chicago 30 30 | Indianapolis (U .. 30 Milwaukee .‘IS 45 Totals 180 180 The death of Cyrille Dion, the wellknown billiard expert, is announced. The boat race between Hanlan, of Canada, and Courtney, of New York, rowed at Lachine, Ont, was won by the Canadian by two boat-lengths. Ten thousand people witnessed i the contest I Immense fortunes have been made in | California in the rise on the stock of the Little i Utah and Sierra Nevada mines within the last . three weeks, the stock having gone from $6 to | S3OO per share. Flood, of the firm Of Flood & i O’Brien, has made $5,000,000. Senator Jones, | of Nevada, who went West in the spring broken I in fortune, has made $1,500,000. The Pension Office in Washington gives notice to whom it may concern that the services of pension-lawyers and claim-agents are of no value whatever in advancing the interests of applicants for pensions. The bureau furnishes blanks that cover the whole business, on application, and they can be filled by any notary public, without help of the professed experts.

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11,1878.

THE CITY OF GLASGOW BANK.

Reckless Gambling with Other People’s Money the Cause of the Great Failure* [From the Loudon Times. Oct. 4.] The City of Glasgow Bank had 133 branches. It has paid a progressively increasing dividend for several years past, until it reached 12 per cent. It would be incorrect, to say that the disaster was unexpected. On the contrary, it created in banking circles no surprise, for the bank had been losing credit gradually for ten years past, yet the Scotch banks in London were not in possession of information which showed that the end was actually near until Tuesday morning. Rumors of the bank being in difficulty had been so often circulated before, within strictly banking circles, that the repetition of them did not excite particular interest on this occasion. The business of the bank had been conducted, for years, upon very unsound principles, and, from the fact of the other Scotch banks having decided to let the bank stop, it is inferred that it is a very bad case. Operations upon an enormous scale had been indirectly entered into in Indian produce and Australian wool, some $14,000,000 of bills having been accepted for account of three firms. Very large advances had been made to firms in the iron trade in the North, and an utterly reckless support appears to have been given to builders. The immediate cause of the failure was the impossibility of any longer getting bills draw from India on the bank in Glasgow discounted in the London market—a circumstance which explains, to some extent, the feverish oscillations for some months past in the rates demanded for loans. These bills had been sold in India to the Indian banks, ostensibly against the shipment of product, and ultimately came upon the discount market. The terms demanded for negotiating them having steadily advanced, instructions were at length telegraphed to the Indian branches to take no more bills, and as soon as it was no longer possible to keep the open-credit system going and the paper afloat, the bank closed its doors. The liabilities of the bank are estimated at $50,000,000; acceptances, slightly below $15,000,000; deposits, $40,000,000. The unlimited liability of the shareholders may, perhaps, secure the depositors. The authorized note circulation was only £72,000, but, according to the last accounts, the issue was between £600,000 and £700,000, against nearly all of which the law compels the bank to have gold. We believe we are correct in saying this deplorable catastrophe is, with reference to the Scotch banks as a whole, entirely an exception, and that no other banking institution in Scotland is in any way mixed up with the City of Glasgow Bank, or has been engaged in business of the kind which led to this failure. Altogether the City of .Glasgow Bank lent £5,823,000 to four firms, the reputation of one or two Of WIIICII lias been anything but good for years past. The opinion expressed by the bank managers is that a more reckless course of gambling with other people's money has never been pursued by any body of managers or directors, and that such engagements as these could never have been entered into had there not been either the weakest or most willful sanction of the speculations of these four firms, coupled with a negligent system of supervision which is hardly short of criminal. The bank, it is estimated, will show a deficit of -some £3,000,000 sterling, which to the knowledge of the managers had been accumulating for years past, yet the dividends' had been increased.

Death of a Gallant Officer.

The news of the death of Col. Lewis, of the Nineteenth Infantry, killed by the Cheyennes at Monument Station, Kansas, was received here at military headquarters and among old officers of this department with deep sorrow. He had fought the Cheyennes, Dog Soldiers, the Sioux and the worst savages of the plains in many battles, and with marked resolution and bravery. Old settlers who remember the days when he was Adjutant of the Fifth Infantry, and when, also, he went out in the expedition of 1866 in the Mormon troubles, joined in the sorrow. In the face of numerous strong bands of hostile Indians he marched across the plains with a column of the Eighteenth Infantry from Fort Leavenworth to Utah, a distance of 1,100 miles,, requiring over two months in the march. A question rising during that famous march' through the American desert as to which route should be taken, he unhesitatingly chose the Pole creek, then an unknown and in some places almost invisible track, through an unknown country, where old guides were unknown. In many hardships and untold dangers the command accomplished that wonderful undertaking, which stands almost without a parallel in history, reaching Utah without the loss of a man or an animal. In his command at Camp Douglas his promptness and energy at a time when Brigham Young was at the height of his power saved the lives of many Gentiles and did much to sap the strength of the Mormon power, notwithstanding the lack of the Government’s support. He went thence to Gen. Terry’s department, Montana, afterward serving with his usual cool judgment and daring on that officer’s staff. Himself the commanding officer, he was at the head of his soldiers, pursuing a hot trail, struck the Indians unexpectedly, and with three men was shot down before relief could come. No officer of his rank, long service and reputation has been killed since the Custer massacre.— Omaha Bee.

Play People as Auctioneers.

It was thought in San Francisco a good idea to sell the tickets for a yellowfever benefit entertainment by auction, with popular actresses as auctioneers. Mrs. Scott-Siddons, Mrs. Oates, and several local favorites volunteered, and an immense audience assembled in the Stock Exchange at the appointed time. Much amusement was expected by those who did not reflect that stage performers are only witty with other folks’ words. The result was a failure. The sprightly Mrs. Oates mounted the desk first, but did not know what to say, stammered some utter nonsense, and only succeeded in selling a box to herself for sllO. Mrs. Scott-Siddons tried it next. Mr. Cobb, a regular auctioneer, stood close by her, and prompted her in whispers. “I am now prepared to receive offers,” she said. “No, no—bids,” Cobb suggested. “Bids, I mean,” the actress continued: “how many bids am I offered ?” Then she was awkwardly silent. The bidding was spiritless. At length she cut off one of her curls, and said: “How much for a seat and a lock of my

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

hair?” A premium of $5 was all that the hair brought, and she gave up the task. Other actresses did no better. Then Crane and Robson, the very comical actors, tried to be originally funny, and failed. The business was then relinquished to the practiced auctioneer.

Suggestions for Fat People.

It is Brillat-Savarin, we believe, who, in his immortal book on gastronomy, avers that no one is entirely satisfied with his weight; every one wants to be somewhat fatter or somewhat leaner; or, if he or she really is just about as he would be in this respect, he imagines a tendency one way or the other which he feels he must be on his guard to correct. There is enough truth in this to make it an object for that enterprising class of individuals who make their money out of the weaknesses of their fellows to advertise pretty constantly various secret fat-producing and fat-decreasing nostrums. The extraordinary sale of Banting’s famous pamphlet, which reached 60,000 or. 70,000 copies, attests the same, and almost every year there is some new remedy offered to the regular profession, either to make fat or to disperse it. The larger class, or, at any rate, apparently the more anxious class, are those who are too fat, and who wish to grow leaner. Of the various drugs proposed to accomplish this, acids, in the form of vinegar, and alkalies, especially liquor potass®, are the best known. No doubt both these produce the effect desired, but they both do it at the cost of profound disturbances of the nutritive functions, and, in many cases, serious danger to life. Recently Dr. Tarnier has called attention to the success of a milk diet in these cases. He commences by allowing three-fourths the usual food and one liter of milk the first day; one-half the usual food and two liters of milk the second day; one-fourth the food and three liters of milk the third day, and thereafter four liters of milk daily and nothing else. Often, however, it is better to allow a small proportion of the usual food each day, to prevent the patient becoming tired of the milk. Should diarrhea set in, the milk should be suspended for a while and then resumed. The treatment may be continued until the fat is reduced. Dr. Tarnier claims that this treatment is always successful, and entails no danger whatever.—Medical and Surgical Reporter.

Death of Sheridan’s Famous Steed.

The famous charger that carried Gen. Sheridan to Winchester, “twenty miles away,” died in his master’s stable, on Michigan avenue, at an early hour on yesterday morning. The part played by this animal in one of the bloodiest battles of the Rebellion has been respectfully recognized in books of history and patriotic verse. Read, the poet, by a few strokes of his pen, lifted the beast into a fame Illinois t US enduring no tliat which has been earned by its rider. “Winchester,” the cognomen by which the horse has been known since the war, was jet black in color, with a small white star almost in the center of the forehead—a sort of “lucky star.” He stood sixteen and a half hands high, and was trim built and active, and proud-spirited. When Sheridan took command of the Second Michigan regiment in 1862, Capt. Campbell presented him with the animal, which was then spoken of as a 3-year-old colt. His owner dubbed him ■ Rienza, after the Mississippi town of that name. History describes the ride to Win- ' Chester as a furious and headlong race. The General said that the actual distance ridden was sixteen miles, the poet, Read, having used about four miles of “poetical license.” He spoke feelingly of his old black steed, saying he had been unexcelled in speed, courage, docility, and nobleness of nature. The General said he had not been upon “Winchester’s” back since the war closed. He has required his hostler to give him the tenderest attention. i The skin of old “Winchester” is to be prepared and preserved in the best art of the taxidermist. Prof. Ward of Rochester, N. Y., will set him up.— Chicago Times.

A Duel.

A young man by the name of Tracey, near Owensburg, Ky., felt that the attentions of a Mr. Spright to his sister were rather unwelcome to the family, and-accordingly challenged Mr. Spright to mortal combat. Mr. S. is a cool, calculating man, and had read medicine a few years since in Cincinnati, but did not practice. On receiving the challenge he selected his weapons, and proposed an immediate settlement of the difficulty. His antagonist, with his second, was on the ground at the time, looking brave enough to take a small city, but, on seeing the weapons chosen by the challenged party, their very knees shook with terror. Here sat the unterrified lover, with two plates of green cucumbers cut in slices, with vinegar, and a full dozen of green apples to each plate as dessert. “Take seats, gentlemen,” said the obliging second of Mr. S., “and take choice of plates; in ten minutes we commence.” Tracey looked at his second, and he looked at Tracey back again, no doubt thinking that if Tracey did thus fight the chance of his dying with the cholera was a good one. Finally the two seconds -went into the Clerk’s office and adjusted the matter satisfactorily to all parties. Mr. S. continues his visits to his ladylove without intermission.

“Publicans and Sinners.”

Gov. Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, in a recent speech at Greenville, in that State, relates the following: I was told the other day by a distinguished clergyman that he had had a discussion with one of his old colored friends, and had asked him, among other things, why he was not a Democrat. The old man said that he had been taught that it was contrary to the teachings of the Bible. The clergyman wonderingly asked where that doctrine could be found, and the old man replied that the Good Book only only spoke of two political parties—the ’publicans and the sinners—he thought he must choose between them and be either a ’publican or a sinner, which was but the Bible name for a Democrat. Gen. Fremont says that his Indian policy, as Governor of Arizona, will be to interfere with those agreeable gentry as little as possible so long as they do nothing to retard the development of the Territory,

BEN BUTLER’S BRICKS.

A Hitherto Unpublished Chapter from the History of the Late Electoral Conflict. Unmistakable Evidence in Writing of the Perjuries of the “Visiting Statesmen.” [Washington Cor. Chicago Times.] One of the most remarkable chapters of inside political history connected with the Presidential count investigation has been related to the Times correspondent by a gentleman visiting in this city. It is a full explanation of how were obtained the dispatches which the New York Tribune has been publishing in small installments from day to day, showing Tilden’s alleged attempt to manipulate the vote of Oregon. The gentleman referred to above has accurate and complete information concerning the publication of these secret dispatches, and he also says that the publication of this lot is only a small part of the story to come. In discussing the dispatches obtained and published by the Tribune, the gentleman, who is a Democrat, says that nothing will be shown by the Democratic dispatches published beyond the fact that money was legitimately used by the Tilden people. Every one of the Tribune dispatches published has been translated, and this informant claims that they will prove only that $6,200 was expended by the Democratic National Committee in Oregon, $3,000 being paid to a firm of Oregon lawyers who controlled the Portland Oregonian, $3,000 to Cronin for his expenses in coming on to Washington, and S2OO to pay the expenses of the Democratic electors in Oregon to and from their place of meeting. He says that there was no other expenditure of any character whatever. There was no attempt to purchase any electors. The man Patrick, who was sent out as an agent of the Tilden people, proved to be an irreclaimable idiot. His dispatch that an elector must be bought was enough to show the great mistake that was made in sending this jabbering, impudent man upon so delicate a mission where common sense and a decent reserve were at least essential. It is claimed that none of the dispatches captured will show that auy encouragement was given to this proposition of Patrick’s. Another evidence of the idiocy of this man Patrick is cited in the fact that he used a cipher he had formerly employed with a firm of business men of Detroit, who were able alinpojj at uiiuc to txanolato oraizy messages. The dispatches that have been published came from Ben Butler, and he exchanged them to his political advantage with the paper that published them, while he, at the same time, got a further price from John Sherman for allowing these dispatches to be published in a partisan organ. How Ben Butler obtained them, and the small arsenal of dispatches yet unpublished in Butler’s possession, to be produced later, is thus graphically related by the gentleman interviewed. Said he: “You remember when Morrison’s committee was orgauized in 1876, and sent to New Orleans to investigate how the vote of the State of Louisiana was stolen, that the Senate hastened to empower Morton’s Committee on Privileges and Elections to also make an investigation to counteract anything damaging in the disclosures that might be obtained by Col. Morrison. When Morrison arrived in New Orleans he served a subpoena upon the local officers of the Western Union Telegraph Company to produce all dispatches received and sent bearing upon the election. The local managers refused without the consent of those higher in authority. The matter was referred to Mr. Orton, then President of the Western Union Telegraph Company, and he, to make delay, said that he could not give up the dispatches without referring the subject to the Executive Committee. This gave the Senate committee time to serve its subpoena, also calling for the same class of dispatches. Morton himself - had sent a great many dispatches when he was in San Francisco looking after matters upon the Pacific coast, and he was very anxious that they should not fall into the hands of the Democrats. It was for this reason that he stopped issuing subpoenas. Orton came over to Washington and, it is understood, had a consultation with the Republican leaders. At any rate, when the Executive Committee decided to give up the dispatches, under protest, they were shipped in a trunk to the Senate committee instead of to the Democratic committee, who were entitled to them first by right of prior subpoena. Ido not care to charge that Orton had an understanding with the Republican leaders to send them these dispatches first. At any rate, the dispatches were as I have said. The Republican members of the Senate committee sorted over the dispatches and took out all that had been sent and received by their party leaders. They also sorted out carefully the Democratic dispatches. Of course, in the great mass of dispatches, filling a large trunk, were many unimportant ones from nobodies and containing nothing new. The Democratic members of Morrison’s committee nominally had access to these dispatches, but they never saw any of the Republican dispatches so carefully taken out by Morton. Now, to gallop ahead with the story, when the dispatches came to go back to the Western Union Telegraph Company it is a fact that only the unimportant ones were returned. All of the dispatches from and to the Democratic and Republican leaders were retained, making a compact bundle nearly two feet square. Whether the telegraph company ever noticed this or not I cannot say—at least I have no knowledge of their making any complaint or attempting to recover them Now there comes the most important and highly interesting ipart of the story. Two hours after the trunk was reshipped to New York the bundle containing all the important dispatches mysteriously disappeared from the Senate committee room, and it has been since found that it was conveyed to Butler’s private office and placed upon his desk. This mysterious transfer, it is claimed, was without any knowledge of Butler, and is surmised to have been the work of some mischief-loving person who desired to

furnish Butler with a hatful of bricks. ( Butler, like most men, was not disposed ' to look a gift horse in the mouth, and was quite content to have these imporI tant documents without being too par- ■ ticular from whence they came. They bore marks of authenticity upon their I face. Later in the session it came to the knowledge of John Sherman that Butler i had these dispatches. This occasioned I great demoralization in the Republican ■ ranks, as it was not known just what shoot 1 Butler would take. After some talk with . Butler, he allayed some of the distrust !of him by promising to give out the i Democratic dispatches as they were for publication, but he drove a sharp bargain. He was then an aspirant for the Governorship of Massachusetts and the Presidency. He regarded John Sherman as the most vital and powerful element in the administration. He therefore made Sherman agree not to fight him whichever course he (Butler) might take politically. This Sherman has strictly observed. In a quiet way Butler’s hold upon the treasury management in Massachusetts has been very strong. Butler’s compact with j the New York Tribune, the hard-money I organ of the administration, was that if 1 he gave the dispatches to it it should 1 not abuse him in its editorials during j the political campaign. This, too, has 1 been strictly observed by Mr. Whitelaw Reid, as can be testified to by anyone who has taken the trouble to read the : Tribune. Now, as to the dispatches in Butler’s hand, he does not care to drive ■ any bargain with them, but will put 1 them in as a closing chapter of Potter’s ; investigation. It will make a chapter that will prove startling to even the most hardened. These dispatches, in the first place, will convict some of the visiting statesmen of downright perjury, for it will be remembered that all of the visiting statesmen have sworn that they did not know one thing about the work of the Returning Board in Louisiana until the result was declared. Now, these dispatches show that every act and step of the Returning Board in its perjured track of crime was known at the instant of its accom.plishment, and telegraphed to Gov. Noyes in Florida every day by these visiting statesmen. Dispatches in their own handwriting show the greatest intimacy and exact knowledge of every detail of the most gigantic crime of the century. More than this, all of the details of the conspiracy in South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana will be shown by these dispatches. Talk about the revelations in the Democratic dispatches ! Sift them to the uttermost, and you will only find money sent to pay expenses actually incurred in legitimate work. When / Butler’s second installment of dispatches comes in, the revelations will be so astounding that there will no longer be any talk about the ones the Tribune is publishing. Of course, Butler wants to get all the good ho nan nnt, of his Tribune bargain; so it is possible this second batch will not Ise published until the campaign is near an end.” 1 A Poor Investment. Secretary Gorham says the Republican Executive Committee is again running short of funds. He also says that the money thus far subscribed by persons not holding Federal offices will not exceed SI,OOO, which, if true, indicates that the Republican “outs” believe that the Republican cause is hopeless, and that there is no use contributing money in its behalf. It is only a few weeks, however, since Secretary Gorham cheered his party with the news that there was not a time in its history when money poured more freely into the exchequer of the Executive Committee than it then did. What has become of all this superabundance of cash ? Was the bulk of it expended in Maine ? If so, what do the party managers think of the investmerit? If they do not realize more extensively on other ventures than they did in Maine, it will be extremely cruel to turn on the screws again.— Detroit Free Press. Result of Republican Legislation. The total value of exports from the United States increased from $269,389,900 in 1868 to $680,683,798 in 1878, an increase of $411,293,898,0r 158 percent. And yet all the profits and rates of transportation for all this immense and constantly-increasing carrying commercial trade, saying nothing whatever of the import carrying trade, is in the hands of foreign ship-owners, and Americans are prohibited by law from purchasing or navigating foreign-built vessels. In other words, the greatest producing and export nation in the world is completely at the mercy of a foreign marine for the transportation of its export and import products to market, and all this is the direct result of Republican legislation.— Exchang e.

The Chicago Whisky Cases.

An event of great importance to the I small army of delinquent distillers cap- . tured in Bristow’s raid upon the whis- ! ky-thieves occurred yesterday in the i decision of their cases by Justice Harlan, of the United States Supreme Court. The decision is also of general interest by reason of the law poifits involved. tn effect it is only a partial victory for the Government, Justice Harlan holding that the granting of immunity and pardon operated to relieve the distillers from the enforcement of all penalties and forfeitures incurred by reason of the violation of the internalrevenue laws, and accordingly the suits for double-tax penalty and condemnation and forfeiture are dismissed. On the other hand, the decision sustains the claim of the Government for all unpaid taxes, overruling the plea of the defendants that they were relieved of this demand through the granting of immunity to some and of pardon to others. The Court lays down the broad principle that the power to remit taxes is lodged only in Congress, and cannot be [lawfully exercised by any officer of the Government; so that, even if a pledge of this kind had been made, or a i provision to that effect had beei> inserted in the pardons, neither the pledge nor the pardons would be recognized as valid and binding, and the debt of unpaid taxes must still be paid unless released by act of Congress. From the text of Justice Harlan’s opinion it would appear that the probability of an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States w r as held in view, and notice of appeal was promptly filed by the Assistant District Attorney on behalf of the Government.— Chicago Tribune,

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NUMBER 35.

GREENBACK CURRENCY.

A National Paper Mtoney—lta Importance— Coin and Specie-Redemption Currency Costly and Necessarily Dishonest. The institution of a national paper money, redeemable only in and by the exchanges it makes, to contract and expand at the will of those who pay for and use it, in strict agreement with the laws of economic science, at cost, is the money which an advancing civilization imperatively demands. Inasmuch, therefore, as all laws derive their qualities from the government principles which underlie them, and the law which institutes a money being the most fundamental law in a nation, it becomes all-important for the people te know upon what basis of justice, or otherwise, such laws are instituted. Money is not a mere commodity, but an authenticated medium or instrument of exchange clothed with sovereign power, as much so as a judgment or decree of court. If wisely instituted, by it labor is compensated and property economically and justly distributed. But if a mere corporate wealth-gathering power, labor will not be compensated nor property equitably distributed; and this wrong increases in a geometrical ratio in every exchange subsequent to the first. Coin and coin-redemption currency necessarily cost very much in excess of the value of their use. As the object of an exchange through a money medium is to make commodity pay for commodity, and labor pay for labor at the least cost, an absolute paper money redeemable only in and by the articles it exchanges, can and will be, if properly instituted, a reliable money, at less than one-tenth the cost of a coin or coin-redemption currency. The latter moneys, therefore, being unnecessarily costly, are dishonest, because they impose burdens on the people not required for the purpose of making for them an honest, reliable money, blit to create the greatest gains to a money-monopoly class. Hence, freedom, advancement and civilization demand the institution of an honest, economical, non-coin-redeemable paper money —that of serfdom, barbarism and despotism, non-improvement and nonadvancement coin and coin-redemption currency. On the proper solution of this important financial question largely depends the future well-being of the industrial and business classes of this nation.

Currency-contraction and gold-fund-ing by the National Government, under the specious but false pretense to inaugurate specie payments, has brought on a financial crisis or crash of unprecedented severity. Such ever has been and are the bitter fruits of this wicked financial system. A crisis is the natural result or end reached when it ’is not possible for the people longer to subsist under civil or ooclooicmtioo.! ortlai* previously existing. This end, when reached, is called a crisis. It is a judgment or winding up of a bankrupting government system. These crashes, therefore, are a general judgment day upon and against the labor* and business classes and in favor of the money kings of the corporate class. For ten long years the pirate chiefs of this barbaric specie-gold-bond-funding-and-currency-contracting system, by all the wicked appliances which the concentrated wickedness of the ages has devised, have been gathering their harvests, but, ana-conda-like, they have not been able to digest the prey with which they are gorged. At length, however, there are symptoms that we are nearing an end of this carnival; the Bankrupt act has been repealed, the lords of the treasury and gold-room are remodeling their fiscal contrivances, and business and labor classes are being leveled down to a common serf or proletaire herd. This new role of syndicate despotism was in augurated by McCulloch and is now being relentlessly carried out by Sherman.

Hence it is that our political struggle has just this significance: the Government regime, which had its origin in the Declaration of Independence and the constitution adopted upon our final separation from England, was brought to a close by the slaveholders’ rebellion. Their despotic reign has ended. But the twin relic of African slavery, the guild corporate branch of feudal slavery and heir-loom of English despotism, has mounted the vacant throne and seeks to found an oligarchy of corporate dollars. The slaveholders’ dynastic rule was a divine-right institution which originated with Moses, and was sanctified by laws coeval with the creation of man, and was deliberately incorporated into the constitution of the United States. But the oligarchy of corporate dollars are not to be outdone in traditionary legends. Their money, too, is of divineright origin, for the Supreme Being, it is impiously claimed, placed this royal gold and silver deep in the bowels of earth, that man, by hard digging, might find a divinely-ordained representative measure and standard of value by which all other values are to be measured. If Moses did not institute it Aaron did, and, like African slavery, it is sanctified by laws and customs of all ages and nations, and was a divinity measure; enthroned in the constitution, to be regulated by Congress and ornamented with the likeness of a calf, or beast, or bird of prey, as may be thought bestsuited to the genius of our free institutions. Hence the intense desire of the money changers or the clothes-selling Jews of modern times has nothing mercenary in it. It is only and purely the love of justice, divine-right gold and silver, honest, royal value • measures, which makes them so ardently desire the precious metals—with only a little variation—their immaculate specieredemption wild-cat national currency. But notwithstanding the supereminent merit of divine, right, royal money, that our financial distress and ruin has come from this source, through Congressional enactment and treasury administration in line with the despotisms of the European world, is a truth so plain that the wayfaring man, though a fool, need not err therein. Hence the pretense that the efforts of the Government to perpetuate this iniquitous system, under the guise of an effort to create an honest money, is a disguise so thin that nobody ought to be deceived by it. It is not true, and the people ought by this time to understand that the Lombard and Wall street and specie-redemp-tion-gold-bond-syndicate of McCulloch, Sherman & Co. is to rob by, while the honest, national paper money, which the people desire to take its place, is a cheap, honest medium of

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exchange, invaluable because it gives to them as human beings a reasonable chance to live and enjoy the fruits of their labor, and is in fact the only secure foundation upon which the money ;of a free nation can be based. They, i the people, do not want to escape Scylla —the State wild-cat-redemptioq system —to perish in Charybdis—this national wild-cat maelstrom, engineered by the i Secretary of the National Treasury of bondholders. 41 Hence comes the howl of the syndicate, through its Government agencies, reiterated by the corrupt leaders of the old political parties and a venal public press, against our inflated national paper money. Oh! what untold wickedness there is in such vile, worthless rag-money. How it has cheated the people! True; it enabled them to receive the fruits of their labor to an extent unknown in the history of the world. They bought, paid for, and improved more land, built more miles of railroad and more houses, made more improvements in cities, towns and country, in the period of about eight years, than was ever done in any other period of twenty-five years since we were a nation. But then, it is said that the increased prices, which were the product of increased demand and decreased sup|>iy of commodities, was all inflation. These lands, railroads and other material improvements are all gross inflated things, all dross as compared with the precious metals and specie-redemption currency; and it is therefore necessary to take the inflation out of these gross substances, that royal gold may reign supreme and rule. Hence the people are told their lands are drossy, and they must be content to come down to the hard-pan of specie payment quit this extravagance —and pay off their honest debts, by a surrender of their lands, their homes, goods, wares and merchandise into the hands of the saviors of this world—royal gold and silver—engineered by the Kings and potentates, bank presidents, gold gamblers, and stock jobbers, and that a national paper money which is not enthroned on their gold and silver gods by specie-redemption laws, and coin legal tender, will defraud the people as badly as did the specie-redeemable Continental or the land-dividing-assignat-redemption scheme of the French Revolution, or the cotton-planting-land-emi-gration - and - stock - jobbing - bubble-act scheme of John Law—never intimating, however, that all these were but revolutionary and speculative branches of their own immaculate specie-redemp-tion-swindling scheme; nor do they ever mention that other important item touching the coin swindles, to-wit: that outside of the fact that the history of coinage is for a thousand years a history of counterfeiting and cheating by the European Governments; that the boasted uniform-ly-high prices of gold and silver in the norma] condition of the industries of IIHtIODS 1b fn mu 20 Lu <lO per ooikL. on gold and silver and more than 75 per cent, on copper, nickeland bronze above the market value of these metals —if divested of their coinage Dagon laws—all which will in a subsequent chapter be more fully shown and demonstrated, being only mentioned here to present a correct outline of this barbaric, despotic system. Hence, then, I unhesitatingly declare that specie and specie redemption is a serf-Government money, in perfect unison with the clumsy, bruteforce, royal, man-worship Governments of the Old World, and answers well all their designs, viz.: the centralization of power and the robbery and brutalization of labor—from whence has come the enormous wealth of the few and the grandeur and despotism of the state.

BISHOP SIMPSON.

Hi- Condemns the Financial Policy of the Government. IBinhop Siiupßon'H Tjctter to the Christian Advocate. Aug. 29. J I believe the masses have cause of complaint. I think the Government has not done its duty. While seeking to conciliate foreign capitalists, who care nothing for our country, the interests of our people, who seek a safe investment for their earnings, have been neglected. Their savings have been lost in banks, which, had they been placed in small bonds, would have made a richer community and stronger friends for our Government. I believe our financial leaders, in overlooking the masses of our people, have committed terrible blunders, and have showed themselves incapable of directing aright the finances of a free people. Congress has spent in party contention the energies that ought to have been employed in establishing savings banks, or in issuing interconvertible bonds, where the laborer could have placed his scanty means. Yet the remedy is not to be found in violence, but in more light and in seeking for men for office, not so much for party affiliation as for their unquestioned honesty, and for their true sympathy with the masses of the people.

Solid.

Judge Campbell, from his seat in Congress, laid down this proposition: Suppose A should render a thousand dollars’ worth of labor in the mines to bring out a thousand dollars’ worth of metal, which the Government puts its stamp upon, and it becomes money; and If should render his labor not in digging “ rat holes ” in out-of-the-way hills, but should render his thousand dollars’ worth of labor upon some public improvement, for the benefit of the whole people, and should simply ask for a treasury certificate, stamped a full legaltender the same as gold. Would there not be as much labor to produce the paper as the gold, and would not the paper be as much an equivalent and as much money, under the law? And would not the people receive the benefit and a proper equivalent? For his public improvement has not cost them one cent of taxes, and they now have the money to facilitate exchanges. And would not labor have the first chance ? And would not this be as “honest” money as to allow a few to charge interest on their own promise to pay ? Let the doubting read the history of Gournsey island, and study the first principle of political economy, and learn that money is a creation of law, and law is “ the perfection of reason.” The people are fast waking up to one thing, viz.: that they must have something that will buy “ butter” and pay taxes, if they have to make it themselves, through the agency of the Government and law.