Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1878 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. The Sultan has authorized Baller Pasha to employ 40,000 mon to complete the defensive lines of Constantinople. A dispatch from Alexandria, Egypt says “the inundation from the Damietta branch of the Nile is advancing. It now covers 120 square miles. Twenty villages have been submerged, and from 000 to 1,000 lives lost.” The cable announces the death of Cardinal Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin. He liad been suffering from delicate health over since his return from Rome, where ho attended the conclave last February. Heart disease was the immediate cause of his death. A cable dispatch states that “affairs near Constantinople are more and more assuming the same semi-hostile phase as before the meet«*>4F X-UiniCU HUUyq have been moved into positions vacated by the Russians, and the earthworks are being repaired and armed before Constantinople and Gallipolis. The Turks are arranging to increase their forces, and are summoning half-pay officers to active duty. A special committee for the defense of the capital has boon formed at the Seraskieratc. ” The persons on trial in Paris for connection with the Socialist Congress have been comh Mined to various penalties of fine and imprisonment for six months or more, except two women, who were acquitted. Alfonso, the young Spanish monarch, while driving through the streets of Madrid, a few days ago, was fired upon by a Socialist assassin named Juan Moncasi. The aim of the a sassin was bad, however, and the King escaped without injury. Moncasi was promptly arrested. Bulgaria is threatened with a serious religious war. The Clyde (Scotland) iron-workers ■are on a strike against the 7% per cent reduction of their wages. The iron-workers number 20,000. It is believed the call for $2,500 per share will exhaust the means of the smaller shareholders of the City of Glasgow Bank, and throw the burden of the assessment upon the few wealthy. Baker Pasha has undertaken to complete the fortifications of Constantinople within two months. The Sultan has ordered Osman Pasha and the Minister of War to give him the most ample assistance. Juan Moncasi, who attempted to shoot King Alfonso, when arraigned in Madrid was asked, “What was your object in leaving your home on the Mediterranean and coming to the capital?” to which ho replied, defiantly, “I came here to kill the King!”

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. IRnst. Benj. H. Latrobe, the famous civil engineer, has just died at Baltimore, aged 71. His father built the National Capitol and many public buildings in leading cities. It is believed that the little vessel Florence, commanded by Capt. Tyson, which recently returned from the Arctic regions and touched at Newfoundland, en route for New London, Ct., has been lost at sea, together with all on board, consisting of thirteen persons. Nothing has been heard of the vessel since she left Newfoundland, several weeks ago. A storm of frightful violence passed over a large part of the Atlantic seaboard on the morning of Oct. 28, doing a vast amount of damage to property, and causing no inconsiderable loss of life. Philadelphia seems to have boon tlio chief sufferer, where property valued at over $1 ,(XX), 000 was destroyed, several persons killed, and a large number wounded. Something like a thousand dwellings wore unroofed, scores of churches damaged more or less, the Pennsylvania railroad left in ruins, and the whole water-front of the city submerged. Great damage was done in other places in Pennsylvania; and in Washington and Albany, in fact all along the track of the gale, the effects wore most disastrous. The hurricane originated in the West Indies. The storm that passed over Pennsylvania and Now York, playing such wild havoc in Philadelphia, wis even more destructive on water than on land. Eight vessels wore sunk and twenty-two damaged in the harbor of Philadelphia, while all along the Delaware river innumerable wrecks mark the track of the gale. An oyster fleet, bound up the river, was scattered like chaff, nearly every vessel beng either sunk or driven ashore, and several lives lost. On Chesapeake bay the storm was the severest experienced for years, and many vessels were driven ashore. The steamer Express foundered at the mouth of the Potomac, and fifteen lives were lost. Along the Atlantic coast the wind attained a velocity of eighty to ninety miles an hour, and for over a hundred miles the coast is dotted with wrecks. The most stupendous bank robbery that has startled the country for many a day occurred in New York city on the morning of Sunday, Oct. 27. Between 0 and 7 o’clock of that morning masked burglars entered the Manhattan Savings Bank building, at the corner of Broadway and Bleecker street, and, after handcuffing the janitor, made him, under threats of instant death, reveal the combination of the safe to them and deliver up the keys of the bank. They then proceeded to rifle the vault of nearly everything it contained, consisting of about $3,000,000 in cash, securities and jewelry. The property lost, nearly all of which stands in the bank’s name, and is therefore not negotiable, consists almost entirely of United States bonds and local securities, only SII,OOO in cash being secured bv the robbers.

Went. Bishop Rosecrans, of the Catholic Church, diod last week at Columbus, Ohio, of hemorrhage of the lungs. Dodd, Brown & Co., the largest wholesale dry-goods merchants iu St. Louis, have failed for $1 ,'500,000. Their creditors are principally in New York. Ihe Sapna valley, in Kansas, recently raided by Cheyenne Indians, has been devastated by prai ie fires, and nearly everything not destroyed by the Indians consumed. Several persons are said to have perishod in the flames. A shocking murder occurred near Vincennes, lud., a few days ago. John D. Vacolet, a farmer, his wife and two sons were murdered in cold blood while sleeping in their beds. The deed is supposed to have been committed by a hired man on the premises for the purposo of robbery. A dispatch received from Capt. Johnson by Gen. Crook, at Omaha, dated at the camp of the Third Cavalry battalion on Chadion creek, announces that Capt. Johnson had effected the capture of almost the eutire band of renegade Cheyennes, beside 140 head of live stock. Among tho 150 prisoners was Dull Knife, tho head chiof. Katio Mayhew has secured a bonanza m “ M’liss,” her new play, and gives an excellent delineation of tho peculiarities of “ the waif of Smith’s Pocket.» It was presented last

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at McVicker’s Chicago Theater, and was received by large audiences with so much enthusiasm as to demand its continuance for another week Miss Mayhew is a plucky little woman, and deserves the success she is achieving in her present venture, after having successfully defended it through the courts. Provost, the fiend who was arrested for the murder of the Vacelet family, near Vincennes, Ind., committed suicide in hisx-ell, in the Vincennes jail, by hanging himself with a towel. Mouth. John S. Carlisle, a prominent Virgin ian and ex-United States Senator, is dead. The yellow fever is dying out in the South, and refugees are returning home by the thousands. The Memphis local physicians are now attending to the few remaining cases in that city, and the relief committee has closed out its charitable work The Peabody Subsistence Association of New Orleans has taken similar action. In the inteliux 4.1. • » m/llvj U similar encouraging state of affairs is reported, the cold weather seething to have checked the march of the pestilence everywhere. Residents of Memphis returning to the city are making discoveries jhe reverse of pleasant Many of them realizw'that their private residences have been broken into, and robbed of every portable article that could be carried off, in some cases the marble mantels having been taken down and removed.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The official estimates required for the postal service for the next fiscal year aggregate $36,551,900. The estimated total postal revenues will fall short of supplying this sum by $5,907,876. It is stated from Washington that the decision of Attorney General Devens overruling a former decision of his, in which ho now decides that banks, in making up then - statements for taxation, may deduct the amount invested in United States bonds, including premium as well as face value, is exciting much discussion at the ■ Treasury Department. This decision will probably have the effect to take at least $2,000,000 out of the treasury. Postmaster General Key has returned to Washington from his protracted visit to the Pacific coast. •

POLITICAL POINTS. Sam Cox and Fernando Wood have boon renominated for Congress in Now York. Abram 8. Howitt was defeated for a renomination by Orlando 8. Potter. The Tammany Democrats of New York city have nominated Augustus Schell for Mayor. In opposition to him the anti-Tam-manyitos and Republicans are supporting Edward Cooper, Democrat, a son of Peter Cooper. At the recent election in Indina the Democrats polled 194,990 votes, the Republicans 179,049, and the Greenbackers 39,156. Democratic plurality, 15,941. Secretary of State Evarts went over to Now York, the other day, and made a talk on the finances in Cooper Institute. The President and Secretary Sherman attended the Cumberland (Md.) Fair last week, and delivered brief addresses on the financial situation.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. A St. Louis paper reports that Samuel J. Tilden will shortly wed a noted belle of that city. A large vessel built for the Russian Government by Messrs. Cramp Sons, has just been launched at Philadelphia. A national convention of those inter; ested in the building of narrow-gauge railroads has just been held in Cincinnati. The delegates, some sixty in number, engaged in an extremely interesting interchange of views respecting the best methods of operating the nar-row-gauge system of railroads. Henry W. Tyler, a well-known desperado of Parkersburg, W. Va., shot and killed his wife, and then put a bullet through his own head, dying a few minutes after. He is supposed to liavo been under the influence of liquor at the time. The steamship City of Houston, from New York for Galveston, Texas, foundered off Frying Pan shoals, during the recent terrific gale. The passengers and crew were rescued, and landed at Fernandina, Fla. The steamer Gen. Barnes, from Savanuah for New York, was lost iu the same storm. Fortunately, as in the case of the City of Houston, her passengers and crew wore all saved. The schooner Florence, of the Howgate expedition, which had been almost given up as lost, has turned up safely,

Foreign Commerce of Mexico.

By a recent mail from Mexico later advices have been received relating to the foreign commerce of that country. According to data furnished by the Mexican Treasury Department, the total export from Mexico during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1877, was $28,764,756, and the total amount of duties received on imports was $0,429,951. No statement of imports into Mexico for that year has yet been made by the Mexican authorities. As tho average rate of duties on imports under the existing Mexican tariff has been officially stated as 43 per cent., with about $3,500,000 entering free of duty, the total foreign imports into Mexico from all countries during the last year are therefore estimated, from the amount of duties collected, to have been about $21,900,000, the statements that have recently been made in this country that foreign imports into Mexico amount to $75,000,000 per annum prove to be very wild exaggerations. It is not probable that the total foreign commerce of that country, both imports and exports, and including the contraband trade, now exceeds about $65,000,000 per annum.— Washington telegram.

Languages of Finger-Rings.

In case of a gentleman wishing to marry—literally “in the market” with his heart—he wears a plain or chased gold ring upon the first finger of the left or heart hand. When success attends his suit, and he is actually engaged, the ring passes on to the third finger. If, however, the gentleman desires to tell the fair ones that he not only is not “in the market,” but that he does not design to marry at all, he wears the signet upon his little finger, and all the ladies may understand that he is out of their reach. With the fair sex “ the laws of the ring” are: A plain or chased gold nng on the little finger of the right hand implies not “engaged,” or, in plain words, “ ready for proposals, sealed or otherwise.” When engaged the ring passes to the third finger of the right hand. When married the third finger of the left hand receives it. If the fair one proposes to defy all siege to

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her heart, she places the rings on her first and fourth finger, one on each — like two charms, to keep away the tempter. It is somewhat singular that this latter disposition of rings is very rare.

Finance Catechism.

Republican—Why do the Greenbackers oppose the national-banking system so bitterly ? National—Because the national-bank-ing system is the most stupendous swindle ; the most outrageous scheme of robbery, ever legalized by a free people. Republican—lt is often so asserted, but will you make it plain so all can see it as you do ? National—We will try; let us go into the bank across the street, and prove it by the banker himself. National—Mr. Banker, hnw mneh money did you loan to the Government ? Banker—One million dollars, sir. National—What security did you take for the loan ? Banker—l took the Government’s bond, payable in twenty years, drawing 6 per cent., gold, interest. National—Do you still hold that bond ? Banker—No; I pawned it to the Government, and received on it $900,000 of national currency. National—What did you do with the $900,000 of currency. Banker—l paid it out to the people for property. National—What security have the people that the currency you paid them is good? Banker—My bond is on deposit as collateral for its final redemption by the Government. National—Then you have parted with nine-tenths of your claim against the Government by passing it over to the people in exchange for their property? Or, in other words, the people have refunded to you 90 per cent, of your loan to the Government, and taken a lein on your bond ? Banker—Yes.

National—Do the people draw from the Government nine-tenths, or their proportion, of the interest on the bond ? Banker—Oh, no, I still continue to draw’ the entire interest, without being taxed; while the people who own ninetenths of the claim draw no interest, and are taxed to pay mine. National—-Then really the Government owes you but SIOO,OOO of the million, you having transferred $900,000 of the claim to the people, and at the same time the latter are taxed to pay you interest on the whole? Banker—Those are about the facts under the law. National—To what extent does the law allow you bankers to carry this system of speculation? Banker—We are not limited by law. We can carry it to the extent of the bonded debt of the nation; and,as John Sherman is obliged to increase the bonded debt from, year to year to obtain gold to pay interest, we can carry it to the extent of our opportunities for speculation. It is one of the nicest schemes ever invented. It is like a ratchet wheel —it takes all and gives nothing The whole people are taxed to pay ns interest on what they do not owe, while w r e are exempt, even from our own burdens.

National—Do you expect to hypothecate more of your bonds for currency, ami transfer them to the people for property ? Banker—Yes, as soon as we can get the infernal greenbacks out of competition, and property values are depreciated enough to enable us to rope in $3 worth for $1 of currency. This we intended to do when we got a clause inserted in the Redemption act to allow us to inflate our bank currency without limit. National -What amount of bonds do you now’ hold, which yon are at liberty to “put up” for bank currency? Banker Near $10,000,000,000, with what we already have up. National—By handling the $2,000,000,000 of bonds and the nine-tenths or $1,800,000,000 of currency, as you did your $1,000,000 and $900,000 of currency, what would be the result, financially, of your investment ? Banker—The result will be, we shall carry but one-tenth, or $200,000,000 of the public debt, while drawing interest on the whole. The people will carry nine-tenths of the burden, draw no interest, but have the privilege of paying ours.

National—How much will your annual interest amount to ? Banker—About $100,000,000. National—What do the tax-payers get in return ? Banker—Nothing. National—Then you contracted to extend a certain favor to the Government, for which you were to receive $100,000,000 in gold, per year, from the people. But, through the agency of your national-banking machinery, you are enabled to make the people perform nine-tenths of your contract, while you receive the entire reward. Is not this most outrageous robbery—a swindle upon tlie people ? Banker—(John G. Deslder, President Franklin National Bank, Columbus, Ohio)—lf the people are such a fools as to vote for men to put saddlesj on their backs, spurs on my boots, andj then invite me to ride, I am not going on foot. If it is robbery, tlie people who sustain the party that authorized robbery are to blame, and not the robbers.—The Advocate.

National Banking.

1. Loan to tlie people’s Government $1,000,000 on twenty years’ time, taking a bond drawing 6 per cent, interest. 2. Hypothecate this bond with the people’s Government, stipulating that you are to receive regularly the interest the same as though you held it, and then borrow back $900,000 of the $1,000,000 at 1 per cent. 3. Open a bank, and loan this $900,000 back to the people at from 7 to 20 per cent., on three to six months’ time, on condition that the next day they will return it to your bank on deposit so that it may be reloaned on an average of six times a month. 4. Declare the 1 per cent, you pay for the $900,000 an outrage; get rid of it if possible. 5. Refuse to accommodate any man with loans who objects to your system of robbery.

There is a lawyer down East so excessively honest that he puts all his flower-pots out over night, so determined is he that everything shall have its dew.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

THRILLING MARINE DISASTER.

Loks of the Steamer Express, in Chesapeake Bay. The steamer Express, bound from i Baltimore for Washington, was wrecked ■ in Chesapeake bay during the recent terrible gale, and, of the crew’ of t-wenty-two men and nine passengers, all but the Captain and six of the crew perished. The following details of the terrible calamity, obtained from the survivors, we copy from a Baltimore paper: Ou the way down the bay as far as James’ point the weather was very I rough, and the steamer W’as pitching . badly, but no alarm was felt. After j passing that point the wind increased in I velocity, and the steamer finally became ! unmanageable and rolled in the trough of the sea. Capt. Barker and the entire ■ crew remained on deck directing the I movements of the steamer during the : night. The gale increased during the | night, and the steamer was tossed helplessly about, unable to make headway. About 4 o’clock a fearful sea broke over her on the port bow, staving in her upper works, and the entire mass of water rushed through the saloon, carrying aw’ay all the furniture and life-boats. Again and again the fierce waves swept over the ill-fated steamer, and the Captain abandoned all hope of procuring life-preservers. He found two for the lady passengers, Mrs. Bacon and Mrs. Jones, and adjusted them. He then carried the two ladies on deck and I placed them in the stern of the vessel, , and warned them that the steamer was 1 about to go to pieces, and promising { to come to their assistance, if possible, i The Captain lashed his young son to the saloon and again turned his attention to ■ his vessel. The wind was still blowing at a rate i that w’ould not allow anyone to stand up to it, while the only thing that could be i seen in the pitchy darkness was the white foam of the raging waters which swept over the steamer. The second mate, | Joseph Havey, was knocked down by a I fearful sea which boarded the steamer as ' he tried to cross her deck, and was swept into the smoke-hole. Before he could : be rescued the steamer rose on a wave ' mountain high and pitched headlong ; into the trough of the sea, the succeedI ing wave rushing over her and sweeping her decks clean. Capt. Barker heard ' the despairing shrieks of the passengers ; above the wild roar of the waves as they I were swept away. In the darkness that ; followed it was impossible to discover lor help anyone. About ten of those on ■ board clung to the saloon when it was ■ carried away and found thus a temporary refuge from death. This frail sup- ■ port was, however, swept by the waters, i carrying away one or more of those clingi ing to it every time. The Captain clung to the saloon until it went to pieces, and then, getting astride of a portion of the wreck, held on until daybreak. When the dawn broke he found that

John Douglas, one of the Quartermasters, was clinging to the same piece of i wreck with himself. As their frail support mounted on the tops of the enor- ' mous waves a glimpse of their surroundings was obtained. At about half a mile off was the steamer turned bottom up, and scarcely visible above the water. Nearer to them was a portion of the saloon, to which were clinging several persons. The storm was still raging in unabated fury, and there appeared little hope of their being able to withstand the buffetings of the waves. They could ' see the numbers clinging to the wreck gradually diminishing as one by one ■ their strength failed them and they were ■ swept away by the angry waters. After : clinging for eight hours to the wreck, the Captain and his companion sighted i a small pungy near them, by which they were rescued. They w’ere nearly insenj sible from the effects of their long ex--1 posure. The other portion of the wreck drifted to a barren island off the mouth i of the Paluxent river, where the men clinging to it were rescued by a boat from the steamer Shirley, of the York River line, w’hich was ashore on the island. Of the thirty-one persons on board only seven were rescued. Among those I who perished was Willie Barker, aged 16, soon of the Captain. After the wreck he was seen by his father clinging to a plank some distance away. There were no means of getting near each other, although signals were frequently exchanged. He continued in sight of his father about an hour, when a wave washed the plank from the lad’s , grasp and he is supposed to have sunk from exhaustion.

Walking.

Perhaps it is not strange that the average person will not be persuaded that, taking it altogether, walking is the best exercise in which lie can engage. It is such a simple and natural feat in the ordinary business of life; it is performed so automatically, and, as one might say, unconsciously, that lie never thinks of ascribing to it those benefits of which it is the potential cause. We do not say that under peculiar circumstances, in unique phases of certain disease, other kinds of exercise may not be more efficacious, or may not be employed as very useful auxiliaries to walking. Reference is meant mainly to the average man in ordinary health. For liim, walking at tlie proper time, in the proper manner and at the proper distances has advantages of which he does not dream. Horseback riding, which' so many physicians recommend to patients with broken-down constitutions, is doubtless very restorative; but first-class authorities allege, and witli reason, that, excellent as this mode of exercise is, it is inferior as a whole to walking. It sometimes seems, we admit, as though an individual were born whose feet and legs were merely intended to carry him to stages, cars, steamboats, and so forth, and that none of his motion through life was meant by an inscrutable Providence to be personal, active and voluntary. But these cases are not numerous. In most instances the will to walk alone is needed. All the rest may safely be left to take care of itself.

Baron De Palm’s Ashes.

After the body of the late Baron de Palm had been cremated in Dr. Le Moyne’s furnace at Washington, Pa., the ashes were carefully gathered up by Hierophant Oleott, placed reverently in a small porphyry vase, embellished with Hindoo mythological designs, and brought to the Lamasery of the Theosophs, at Eighth avenue and Fortyseventh street, in this city. There they have since remained, under the care of the Hierophant and Mme. Blavatsky, corresponding secretary of the society. The cremation of the body is but one of the steps in disposing of the dead, according to the usages of the society.

The final rite among the Hindoos is, with great and mysterious ceremonies, to cast the ashes in the Ganges, and it has been the intention of the officers of the American branch of the Arya Sarnaj to perform this last service to the memory of their late associate. It has been found impracticable, however, if even it is necessary, to convey the ashes to India, and the contents of the urn now at the Lamasery will, instead, be cast into the broad bosom of the Atl an tic. — New York Sun.

Bismarck and His Police.

Meantime the mutterings of the Socialistic storm continue. Prince Bismarck seems determined to push a rigorous campaign against the tribe of conspirators, but he has already met with sharp opposition. Some very amusing stories are told about the police agents employed to preserve Bismarck from any possible attacks during his recent visit to Gastein, where the Chancellor has been to make a cure. It appears that it was next to impossible for any one to walk anywhere near the alley in which Bismarck w r as promenading without finding himself shadowed by two or three gentlemen of the detective profession. Now Gastein is in Austria, and the Austrians not only do not feel particularly well disposed toward Prussians, but are also especially opposed to Prussian police agents. One day a bather who founfl his way blocked by one of the agents shouted out to Bismarck, who was near by, “Your men spoil all the pleasure of the bathers!” Bismarck did not like this and sent home two of the most indiscreet of the agents. But not long afterward another adventure occurred. An old gentleman, an Austrian, was in the habit of promenading a shaded alley with his right hand thrust into the tail-pocket of Iris coat. A prying police agent had seen this for some days, and one morning, unab’e to control himself, he pounced dow’ii on the astonished Austrian, violently pulled the hand out of the pocket and shouted: “We’ll see what you carry so mysteriously!” But of course he found nothing. “Oh, you will, will yon?” said the Austrian, striking him a fearful blow in the face. “Take that, and remember that you are not in Prussia, and if you ever bother me again I will thrash you within an inch of your life.” The police agent retired somewhat discomfited.— Paris Cor. Boston Journal.

Etiquette for Widows and Widowers.

It is contrary to custom to inrite guests to the marriage of a widow. If a widower marries a young girl the etiquette is the same as that of a first marriage. A widow must marry in the morning early, without show’, and has only her witnesses and those of her intended. Her dress must be plain, of quiet color; black, however, is not admissible. On leaving church the bride invites to breakfast the witnesses who have formed the party, but no other guests are invited to this repast. On the fifteenth day after the marriagecards are sent bearing the new address of the married pair. A widow never makes wedding-calls after remarrying. Those who receive the cards do the visiting. There is a month allowed for the return of cards and the visits. When a single lady marries, after having passed the usual age for marriage, the ceremony should be simple and unobtrusive.—Demorest’s Mbn.thh,.

Cure for Hydrophobia.

This dreadful disease, which has always been considered incurable, seems in a fair way of yielding to medical treatment. It appears that the Arabs have a secret remedy for it in the shape of fragments of a beetle tolerably common in Tunis. These fragments are taken internally, and, according to the recent reports of a French savant, possess powerful vesicating properties, and it would endanger the patient’s life to increase the dose too much. The Arabs are unanimous in affirming the efficacy of this remedy, which will act, however, only during the eighteen or twenty days subsequent to the biting. It scarcely admits of a doubt that the remedy occasions attacks of colic, and, being extremely powerful, should be administered only with the greatest prudence. Whether this be the only known remedy or not remains to be shown, but it should put the doctors on the right track.

Off with Hie Old.

The Mikado of Japan, having decreed that all his subjects holding official situations shall dress like Europeans, they and their wives, the Japanese milliners, who had not seen fashions change for a thousand years, have consigned to Paris the thousands and thousands of native dresses which they had in stock, and Parisian ladies are now wearing them as dressing-gowns. They are said to be very becoming, and the bright dyes in them—a secret wo ought to learn—will stand any amount of washing. Chinese silken skirts, so fine that you can pass them through a wedding ring, are also being sold in quantities; but the attempt to introduce Chinese peaked straw hats into fashion has failed hitherto.

Short Lived.

It is said that engineers are not generally long lived, even if they escape accidents, particularly those who have charge of express trains, for the reason that the constant strain upon the mind, great anxiety, as well as the constant shaking and jarring they receive while the engines are running, have a tendency to bring on ailments which shorten life. This general shaking up that enginners receive can only be appreciated by getting upon a locomotive that runs forty miles an hour. Though there are springs upon the huge machine, one would scarcely imagine that such is the fact. The engineers of freight engines fare better, because there is less responsibility anti tlie trains move much slower.

Ice Cannons.

A Paris paper relates that the Grand Duke Constantine, on visiting the Artillery Museum, was much puzzled at the sight of an iron tube, and was informed that it was a mold which had formerly been used to cast ice guns. It appears that during reign of Louis NY. experiments were made before the Court of Versailles with ordnance of this description, experiments presided over by Boscand Reaumur, and that a cannon ball of snow pierced a two-inch plank at sixty paces. It is not said whether the Grand Duke intends on bis return to Russia to turn to account the raw material which each "winter furnishes in such abundance.

STUPENDOUS BANK ROBBERY.

The Manhattan Savings Bank, of New York, Completely Cleaned Out—Three and a Half Million Dollars in Securities Carried Away. From a New York paper we glean the following particulars of the daring burglary committed upon the Manhattan Savings Bank, of that city, by which the robbers secured about $3,500,000 in Government bonds and other securities: The bank building is six stories in height; the bank is on the first floor. On the extreme northern side is a door and hallway leading to the upper floors. This extends bnt half way down the building, making the shape of the bank-ing-room irregular on that side. Into the -wall of the latter, beneath this staircase, is an iron safe for unimportant books and papers. The main entrance is on Broadway. On Bleecker street is the second entrance, with a storm-shed in front. The building at the eastern comer is cut off from top to bottom by a wall designed to furnish light and air. A continuation of the stout brick w’all of this well parallel with Bleecker street divides the room, forming a recess on its south side, part ’of whiclr is taken up by a magnificent iron vault about thirteen feet long,, eight feet broad,-and eight feet in height, which cost $40,000. The vault faces Broadway, and has double doors opening outward. On it is a large clock, which can be plainly seen from either street. Behind this vault is a room for the Directors, and on the north side of the dividing wall is the President’s private office. In the rear of the Directors’ room, entirely separate from the banking office, is a hallway and staircase leading to the upper floors, with the entrance door on Bleecker street. The St. Charles Hotel flanks the building on the north, and a chop-house on the east. It is strange that nobody in these places saw what was being done in plain sight of either street. In the room just over the President’s room live the janitor, Louis Werckle, his wife, and mother-in-law. To reach these rooms it is necessary to enter by the rear Bleecker street door. The adjoining room has been occupied for the past five weeks by a mysterious Frenchman, supposed to be a manufacturer of artificial flowers, whose name the police refuse to disclose, and the inmates of the building, including the bank officers, pretend not to know.

Louis Werckle, the janitor, is a little old man of no physical strength, and apparently less courage, He has been over twenty years in the employ of the bank, and was implicitly trusted. The bank employs as night watchman Daniel Haley, a brawny Irishman. He went on duty at 6 o’clock Saturday evening, locked himself inside the bank, and remained on watch all night. At 6 o’clock in the morning he went out the Bleecker street entrance, locking the door’ behind him, and proceeded up stairs to Werckle’s apartments, shutting the street door, which closes with a cu+‘h. He rapped with his club on Werckle’s sitting-room door to wake him, and, having heard his response, passed down stairs and out, shutting the street door behind him. He walked to the corner of Broadway and stood there ten minutes. He then went home.

At that time, so far as he knew, the bank was all right. He saw no suspicious or other persons about. Werckle says he was awakened by the watchman as usual at 6 o’clock, Haley rapping on his door. He began to dress, ami, as he was drawing on his pantaloons, the door of his sitting-room opened suddenly, and seven or eight masked men walked in. They seized and handcuffed Werckle aud his wife, and tied his mother-in-law in a sheet. The women cried out, but Werckle told them the robbers would kill them unless they kept quiet, and. they subsided. Gue of the men took Werckle’s keys from him, and another put a revolver to his head and told him to give up the combination. He said he didn’t have it. “You lie, you —. You open the vault every morning. Give it up or I’ll blow your brains out.” Werckle says he urged that if ho told them they could not turn the knob, but they again threatened him, and he gave them the combination. Three of the gang then remained to guard the prisoners, and the rest went down stairs. After a long while, during which Werckle heard them pounding, one or tw r o of the gang came up and whispered to the guards, and all left together. Werckle soon after went out, and, seeing no one about, gave the alarm. Mrs; Werckle corroborates this story, only she saw but five men. They wore white handkerchiefs below the masks. Those who guarded her told her not to fear, as she would not be harmed. The handcuffs were removed from her by Officer Kennedy, who was first to arrive. She was too terrified to notice closely the men’s clothes or appearance. It is thought that from the depositors’ boxes the burglars got not less than $1,000,000 in bonds and securities. About forty boxes were rifled. Out of the $3,500,000 but SII,OOO in cash was obtained.

Following is a list of the stolen securities: United States 5s of 1881, registered, eight of $50,000 each, Nos. 165, 166, 643 to 646, 737 and 738; ten of SIO,OOO, Nos. 13,486 to 13,495, inclusive; total, $500,000. United States 6s of 1881, registered, twenty of SIO,OOO each, Nos. 9,276 to 9,295, inclusive; total, $200,000. United States 10-40 bonds, registered, sixty of SIO,OOO each, Nos. 8,744 to 3,763, and 18,903 to 18,942, inclusive; total, $600,000. United States 4 per cents., registered, thirty of SIO,OOO each, Nos. 1,971 to 2,000, inclusive; total, $300,000. United States 5-20 s of July, 1865, $48,000; twenty-six of SSOO, Nos. 820,067, 82,144,82,145,84,903, 85,046,85,107, 86,080, 86,943, 87,475, 89,707, 89,728, 90,319, 90,419, 93,043, 93,170, 94,577, 97,928, 97,933, 99,570, 99,876, 101,110, 102,792, 102,908, 103,421, 105,099 and 106,030; twenty-five of SI,OOO, Nos. 152,410, 152,411, 153,986, 154,410, 157,844, 161,662, 163,159, 165,120, 165,167, 166,794, 166,821, 169,044, 169,747, 171,959, 172,543, 172,544, 173,052, 173,784, 173,785, 175,642, 178,050, 184,791, 187,141, 194,439, 194,597, 194,742, 199,678, 202,291, 202,897, 207,095, 208,069, 208,746, 208,828, 209,419 and 210,686. Thirty-five thousand dollars, New York State sinking fund gold 6s, registered, No. 32. Thirty thousand dollars, New York City Central Park fund stock, certificate No. 724, registered. Twenty-two thousand seven hundred

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dollars, New York County Court House stock, No. 2. Six per cents, registered certificates, No. 4, $10,000; certificate No. 23, $35,000; certificate No. 24, $5,000; certificate No. 32, $10,000; certificate, No. 39, $95,008; total, $202,000. New York city accumulated 7 per cent, bonds, registered, two of SIOO,OOO each, Nos. 1 and 2, due 1886. One of $50,000, No. 1, due 1887. New York city improvement stock 7 per cent., registered, ten certificates of $20,000 each, No. Ito 10 inclusive; total, $200,000. New York city revenue bond, registered, $200,000. Yonkers city 7 per cent, bonds, 118 of SI,OOO each, Nos. 233 to 242, 251 to 278, 281 to 310, 311 to 340, and 531 to 550, all inclusive, SIIB,OOO. Brooklyn city water-loan coupon bonds, twenty-five of SI,OOO each, Nos. 2,167 to 2,19 i, inclusive, $25,000. East Charleston bonds, fifty of SI,OOO, Nos. 27 to 75, inclusive, $50,000.

GOV. HENDRICKS ON THE SITUATION.

[Extract from a Recent Speech at Indianapolis.J Wherever I spoke during this campaign I asked one question, and that question was not answered anywhere. That question was this: What single act (I asked but for one act) of the Republican party, since the close of the war.llias resulted to the benefit of the laboring and commercial classes of this country? No Republican leader in Indiana can point his finger to a single act of the Republican party since they I elected Grant, tin years affo, which has added to the prosperity of the farmer, the mechanic, the laboring man, or the I man of business, for the simple reason that the legislation which has charac- ! terized the judgment of that party has | been for classes, for lings, for parts of I the people, and against the great body of people. And, my fellow-citizens, I asked one other question, and I think that question going unanswered has contributed to this result. I said that the contract between the public creditors and the people was plain and simple ; that the bonds should be paid in gold, or silver, or paper money, according to the judgment and pleasure of the Government. That was the contract; Gov. Morton said that it was the coni' tract; the Judiciary Committee of the Senate said it was the contract. Before I left tlie*Senate I was asked to vote to change the contract—to change it not for the popular benefit, but for the benefit of the men who held the bonds, I said, no change, and nearly the last speech that I made in the Senate, nearly the last vote I gave in the Senate, was against any change of the contract. But the first act after Grant came in as President; almost the first act that my Republican successor supported and voted for, was to change the contract, and to provide that the bonds should no longer be payable in the paper money of the country, but only in coin, and Grant signed that law. Now, I asked the question, “Why do you Republicans do that?” It was worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the public creditors. What was it worth to you ? How much was it worth to tin? farmers of Indiana? How much to the laboring men of Indiana? How much to the mechanics that work in our shops and to the manufacturing establishments? Not one dollar, but hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars to the bondholders. And now I ask the question again at the close of this contest. Why was that, change made in the contract between the creditors and the people? It was not sought by you. No neighborhood in all the United States, from Maine to California; no man asked Congress to do it. It was against the popular judgment; it was against the popular interest. And that was not the only breach of contract, but when four years more rolled by they said that silver could not be money any longer, and then the purpose was that gold alone should be the lawful payment of our public securities. And I asked them why they did that. Who asked them to do it? Not you; not the people ; no portion of the people. It did not inure to your benefit.. It was against your interest. It was hard upon business. It was crushing upon enterprise, and yet it was done. Now, when any Republican shall dare to ask you to go with his party in the future, let him answer this question: “What did your party do for ten years that benefited the people? Why did you change the contract twice, in 1869 and again in 1873?” and, if they cannot answer the question, no man ought to think of going with their party any longer. My fellow-citizens, when the sun shall stand high in mid-lieaven on the 4th day of March next, the Democratic party will step into control of the United States Senate. We will have the House of Representatives, and in two years more a man will be elected President who knows that there is a common people and a common country. And then, after ten years more shall roll around, if any Republican should ask of you or me, after our party has been responsible for ten years, what it has done that has brought blessings to the people, if I have to stand dumb and cannot answer the question, then I shall pray God that my party shall be turned out. But I am not afraid of it. I know that the Democratic party sympathizes with the common interests of the country. I know that they desire that property shall be secure, ana that labor shall have remunerative employment, and the party that is animated by that sentiment cannot fail to serve the country well.

My fellow-citizens, I am glad to meet you to-night. lam glad to take you by the hand and feel that between us there is a common sentiment in favor of such legislation and policy of government as shall bring blessings to us all—not to the few but to the whole country. Did you know that already the Democratic party in Congress had caused a reduction of the public expenditures of $30,000,000 a year ? And when the Senate shall be under the control of Mr. McDonald and Mr. Voorhees, and men of that class; when the Senate shall be in sympathy with the House of Representatives, and the President and the departments at Washington are in sympathy with the two houses of Congress, then I believe the reduction may be made of more than $50,000,000 below what the Republicans expended. Now, my fellow-citizens, we do not stop here, The contest of 1876

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has never stopped for a moment. The people of the United States, by the largest vote that was ever given on earth, declared Mr. Tilden to be the President of the United States, and by fraud, by corruption, by perjury, another man. not elected, was placed in the Presidential chair. That great crime against free government must be rebuked so emphatically that no audacious villainy shall ever dare to repeat it. So, my fellow-citizens, we have not stopped, and we are not going to stop. We will stand in solid line until the great victory is achieved in 1880. The 4,000,0(H) men who two years ago voted for Tilden and Hendricks stand in line to-day, and that great line of battle is not to be broken until the constitution is restored, until the people shall feel once more that the sympathies of the Government are with them, and not with the few.

The Public Money in Polities.

In whatever branch of the public service investigation is made, the most | flagrant abuses are discovered, showing | that the treasury has been habitually plundered under Republican rule to subserve partisan interests, and that the expenditures were contracted or expanded as they would operate on national or local polities, lu other words, the whole machinery of Government and the revenues were constantly used to preserve a partisan ascendency in the administration and in Congress. The reports to Congress are made up in a way to mislead the country, by concealiug information to which the people are entitled. The whole truth can never be known until a change of administration takes place and the books and papers pass into honest hands. But, with all the artifices employed to hide the truth, a careful analysis of even the official and perverted figures brings to light the practices that [ were pursued to return possession of power. Take as' an illustration the great variety of expenditures for the civil list, all lumped together in the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, under the head of miscellaneous, the elements of which can only be known to the initiated, and even to well-informed public men but imperfectly, under the system which prevails at Washington of making up the public accounts and substituting general statements for specific details, by means of which every charge might be followed. Following the miscellaneous expenditures from 1863-’64 down to 1875-’76, it will bo found that in the years of three Presidential elections, and in nearly all the years of Congress elections, the outlay was entirely disproportioned to wliat may lie called, for discrimination the non-political years. Here is a table made up from the last treasury report, which shows at a glance the marked difference between the two classes of years: Amount. Inn'eaxe. Decrease. 1803- 127.578,210 1804- 42,08(1,383 $15.417.107 1805- 40,013,11! $2,370,209 1800-07* 51.U0.323 10,497,209 1807- 53,009.867 1,899.544 1808- 50.471.001 3.401,191 1809- 53.237.401 ...... 3.237,000 1870- 00,481,910 7.244.455 1871- 00.984,757 502.811 1872- 73.328,110 12.343.353 1873- 09.041.593 3.080,517 1874 75* 71.070.702 1.429,209 1875 70 73.599.001 2,528,958 The year marked with all were theme in which Presidential and ConproßSional elections were held—three of the former In 1864, 1808, and 1872. and six of the latter. Of these thirteen years, the miscellaneous expenditures were increased for flu* three Presidential elections $31,224,714 over the preceding years, and $10,000,060 more, including the Congress elect ions, in the interveaning years. In the years succeeding the Presidential elections, tin miscellaneous expenses fell off more than $9,250,000. The regularity of this increase and diminution tells the whole story with ns much precision as if it were written in the plainest terms, and not in mixed figures intended to deceive the unwary and to put opponents off their guard. Although the appropriations made by Congress ought to be the limitation of expenditures, the executive departments, under various pretexts, have assumed to disregard them, and thus created deficiencies at their own discretion. It is the duty of Congress at the first opportunity "to abolish this practice summarily, by making it a penal offense for any public officer to expend more money or to contract more debt than is legally and explicitly authorized.— -New York: Sun.

Kicked Out of Bed.

The divorce suit of Edward W. Cook, of Evansville, Ind., against Minerva Cook was resumed in the Superior Court to-day. One of Mr. Cook’s complaints against his wife was that, in 1871, she kicked him out of bed. He testified that after they had retired for the night she requested him to “move along,” and he did so. Soon afterward he was told to move again, and he kept on doing so until he lnfng on the very edge of the bed. Then Mrs. Cook made a further demand for more room, and, when he told her that lie could not move without falling out of bed, she braced herself up, plunged her feet into the small of his back, and landed him in the middle of the room. Thereafter he thought it safer to occupy the lounge. On his cross-examination it was brought out that he was hanged in effigy in Elgin, 111., for alleged abuse of liis wife, and, as he had told everybody that she had kicked him out of bed, the effigy was placarded with Mrs. Cook’s admonition to “Move along.”— Hartford (67.) (Jourant.

Death of Cardinal Cullen.

The death of Cardinal Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin, is announced by cable. He was the first Irish prelate of modern times to receive the honor of the Cardinalate, and was a devoted supporter of Pius IX. in the council which adopted the dogma of Papal infallibility. On account of his pronounced hostility to Fenianism and secret political societies generally, and his real or suspected leanings toward England, the Cardinal was not excessively admired by a portion of the Irish people, who would have preferred the advancement of Archbishop Mac Hale, an orthodox and unrelenting foe of the “ Saxons.” — Chicago Times. A cat bit Mrs. Crittenden, of Middletown, Ct., two years ago. She was strangely ill for a time, and has since been almost helpless, her nervous system being thoroughly disarranged. She cannot speak without stammering, and some of her symptoms are like those of hydrophobia in a mild form.