Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1879 — Page 1

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HEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. The report that England had forbidden the importation of American cattle is denied. Several thousand Liverpool workmen, belonging to the various trades, are on a strike against a wage reduction. A report comes from South America that the terrible plague has broken out in the province of Cara, in Brazil A correspondent at Rome reports that a basis of agreement between Bismarck and he Vatican has been attained. Two of the Directors of the City of Glasgow Bank have been sentenced to imprisonment for eighteen months, and five others to eight months each. A London cablegram says the great excitement prevailing throughout Europe concerning the fate of Prof. Nordenskjold’s Swedish Arctic exploring expedition, which attempted to find a northeast passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans via the north capes of Europe and Asia and Behring’s straits, is daily growing more intense. The new French Cabinet has been constituted, and the following are the changes: M. Waddington, President of Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs; Senator Leroy er, Minister of Justice; M. De Marcere, Interior and also Public Worship, ad interim; M. Jules Ferry, Public Instruction and Fine Arts; M. Lepere, Agriculture; Admiral Jaurequiberry, Marine. France is taking measures to prevent the introduction of the plague. The visit of the American industrial deputation to Mexico promises to result in greatly developing the trade between the sister republics. •A cable dispatch of the Bth inst. reports that from .'IO,OOO to 35,000 men were on a strike at Liverpool. Many sailors had joined the strikers, and the demeanor of the idle crowds was threatening. The Chinese crew on the Australian bark Kate Waters, from Hong Kong for Foo Chow, mutinied, murdered the officers, and scuttled the vessel. Our English cousins have recovered from their cattle-disease scare. The Russo-Turkish definitive treaty of peace has at last been concluded and signed, and the Russians will at once evacuate Turkish territory.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. Gen. Geo. Cadwalader, an emiinent citizen of Pennsylvania, died at Philadelphia last week. In New York, a few days ago, John Flanagan, a laborer, returned home from an unsuccessful search for work, and found his wife and a 2-year-old child dead from starvation and his two elder children nearly dead. -Went. of the Cheyenne Intable,eonven aiffortmffYrdm fsrt Robin* intention to walMi T here are bnt HOVOn perienwd mtm.ijx-.lttloy offorodno resistance, uernlations to ponuit of Chicago has just j>, aged TOB years. )HARTERPERPETU nl killed his uncle, the ekleßt H 15 1'ophobia scare tn Floyd cisunty, J <> m., led to a general war on the canine race; over 200 dogs were killed in one township. At Carrollton, 111., Dr. McAuliff, the murderer of James Havener, was hanged by a mob; and near Columbia, 111., Jerry Collins (colored) was lynched for outraging the daughter of William Grubb. The military court convened at Chicago for the purpose of inquiring into the conduct of Maj. Henoat the battle of the Little Big Horn, whore Custer and his comrades met their sad fate, has concluded the testimony. The court sat for three weeks, and examined some two dozen witnesses. The testimony is regarded as favorable to Maj. Reno. The latter made a sworn statement in his own behalf, in which he said that, while he regarded Gen. Custer as not lacking in bravery, he had no confidence whatever in his genius as a sol diar. South. The New Orleans Mint has begun coining money again for the first time since the war.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Canadian papers say there is no foundation for the story that Sitting Bull has returned to American soil. The President has nominated Digby V. Bell Collector of Customs at Detroit, Mich.; Algernon S. Badger, Collector at New Orleans, vice George L. Smith, to be removed, and William 8. McMillan Postmaster at New Orleans, vice Badger. Secretary Sherman believes that a good plan to raise funds to meet the requirements of the new Pension law would be to authorize $40,(XX),000 of 4-per-cent. bonds, which he could sell after taking up all available sixes the latter part of the year; but the better plan still, he thinks, would be to enact a national income tax, and pay pensions out of the proceeds at the rate of $8,(XX),000 or $10,000,000 annually. The Finance Committee of the Senate have voted 16 recommend a reduction of the tobacco tax to 1(5 cents per pound.

POLITICAL POINTS. An analysis of the vote on the confirmation of Gen. Merritt as Collector of the Port of New York shows that fifteen Bepublicans voted to sustain the administration by confirming the nomination, namely: Burnside, Conover, Kirkwood, Matthews, Oglesby, Cameron (Wis.), Ferry, Hoar, Saunders, Windom, Dawes, McMillan, Morrill, Christiancy, and Plumb. Twentythree Bepublicans ranged themselves on the side of Mr. Conkling and voted against confirmation, viz.: Allison, Booth, Howe, Patterson, Spencer, Anthony, Bruce, Conkling, Jones (Nev.), Mitchell, (Bollins, Teller, Blaine, Chaffee, Hamlin, Kellogg, Paddock, Sargent, Edmunds, Ingalls, Sharon, Dorsey and Cameron (Pa.). The Democrats voted largely in favor of confirmation—Barnum, McPherson, Cockrell, Eaton, McDonald, Garland and Voorhees (seven) being the only Democrats recorded as voting in the negative. A Washington dispatch says, that at a joint caucus of Democratic Senators and Bepresentatfves it was decided to add a clause repealing the test oath to some important appropriation bill, and insist upon its passage. They also agreed to support a bill abolishing national banks and replacing national-bank currency with greenbacks. The New York Democrats talk of nominating Horatio Seymour for Governor next summer. Moses W. Field, Chairman of the State Committee of Michigan, has

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called a State Convention of the party for Feb. 28. The President has appointed N. P. Banks United States Marshal for Massachusetts; John Parker, Marshal for the Western District of Michigan; Ex-Senator John N. Patterson Marshal of New Hampshire; Martin L Townsend United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York; and Decius 8. Wade Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Montana. James H. Maddox was before the Potter Investigating Committee at Washington last week, and denied all of the testimony of witness St Martins, so far as it related to nim. Maddox swore that St. Marins had offered to correct or withhold hie affidavit for a money consideration, but that he (Maddox) declined to entertain the proposition. The President has made the following appointments: Ephraim McMurtry to be Collector of Customs of the District of Minnesota; John F. Hartranft, Postmaster of Philadelphia; James Pollock, Naval Officer of Philadelphia: A. Loudon Snowden, Superintendent of the Philadelphia Mint; Martin Parry Kennard, Assistant Treasurer of the United States at Boston, and Thomas Stevenson, Collector of Internal Revenue of the Fifteenth District of New York. Col. George W. Carter, of Louisiana, testified before the Potter Committee, at Washington, in relation to St. Martins’ statements. He denied the allegations of St Martins so far as they concerned him, and said he had no knowledge whatever of how subpoenas were served, of the coaching of witnesses, etc. A. M. Gibson, of the Now York Sun, testified before the committee that St. Martins’ story, so far as it related to hifn, was a tissue of falsehoods.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Another woman—Mrs. Mary Marshall, at Washington city—has accomplished the arduous task of walking 2,700 quarter miles in the same number of quarter hours. The Signal Service Bureau at Washington promulgates the following weather prognostics for the month of February: For the upper lake region, winds blowing from the southwest or southeast, or from directions between those pointe, are found to ‘be the winds most likely to be followed by rain or snow. Winds blowing from the north or wes _ , or from directions between these points, are found to be the winds least likely to be followed by rain or snow.

THE BLAINE INVESTIGATION. AT CHARLESTON, S. C. The Teller Committee resumed its sittings at Washington, last week. E. W. Mackay, defeated Republican candidate for Congress in South Carolina, was the first witness. He testified that the Republicans were, in numerous ways, prevented from having a full and free vote in Charleston county, and that the Democrats resorted to frauds for that purpose. Witness, in order to counteract the Democrats, had 5,000 tissuetickets printed, and these were to be used only in the event that the Republicans were certain the Democrats were using tissue-tickets. R. M. Wallace, United States Marshal for South Carolina, testified to arresting Democrats for breaking up Republican meetings, but on conviction resulted. The Democrats regarded the voting of tissue-ballots as a huge joke on the Republicans, saying that they had learned tricks from the Republicans, and were now beating .them at their own game.

THE CIPHER TELEGRAMS. The Potter Sub-Committee, sent to New York to prosecute the investigation of the cipher telegrams, began work on the sth inst. Smith M. Weed, of New York, was the first witness. He acknowledged having done a good deal of telegraphing in cipher while the electoral count was pending, and said the translation of the dispatches published, so far as he know, was pretty correct Mr. Weed testified that while in South Carolina a proposition was handed him offering a decision of the State Canvassing Board for Tilden, in consideration of $(10,000 or SBO,OOO, but he declined to entertain it. He subsequently sent the proposition to New York; Pelton stirred himself around to raise the money; the matter came to the ears of Mr. Tilden, and, according to the witness, “he brought us to order in very forcible terms for having attempted to make a trade with the Betuming Board, and repeated his positive abhorrence of any such scheme. ” Col. Pelton, the nephew of Gov. Tilden, was before the Potter Sub-Committee at New York, on the 6th inst., and told what he knew alxjut the cipher dispatches. He said that all the telegrams sent by Smith M. Weed were by his instructions, and that in his absence they were opened by the National Democratic Committee. Telegrams from Florida signed “Marble,” stating that propositions looking to the purchase of the Beturning Board had been made, and asking if he (Pelton) could raise the required funds, were also shown to witness and acknowledged to be correct; also the replies of Pelton, in which he notified Marble of the acceptance of the propositions, and that the money would be forthcoming. Dispatches touching similar negotiations in South Carolina were also exhibited and their authenticity acknowledged by the witness. Gov. Tilden was entirely ignorant of these negotiations, and had no hand in them whatever. Witness said he had an idea that the Beturning Board propositions, even if not carried out, would result, if assented to, in a delay which would be favorable to the Democratic party. He had made no arrangements for raising money, but intended eventually to lay the matter before the Democratic National Committee, and let it decide. In the meanwhile he thought it best to commit the members of the Beturning Board to the propositions in question. He acted wholly on his own responsibility, without consultation with any one. He held no authority to act for the Democratic National Committee in the matter. Manton Marble testified before the Potter sub-committee, at New York, on the 7th inst He said that he went to Florida on his own volition to look after the electoral vote; did not go under the instructions of the De mocratic committee, at the request of Gov. Tilden or anybody else. He was furnished by Col. Pelton with a cipher before he left New York, and used it subsequently. He neither sent to, nor received from, Gov. Tilden any telegrams. All his dispatches were addressed to Pelton. He said the cipher telegrams, as published in the New York Tribune, were simply rubbish, so far as he (Marble) was concerned. He did not remember the dispatch to Pelton stating that the vote of Florida could be purchased for $200,000, and to which the latter replied that the figure was too high. The second dispatch, in which Pelton was informed that the vote could be nad for $50,000, the witness recollected. He stated, however, that none of these propositions were his, and that he only telegraphed them as matters of news. The witness explained the meaning of certain phrases in the telegrams he sent to Pelton, and said that none of them had reference to money or purchasing transactions. Samuel J. Tilden was summoned as a witness by the Potter sub-Oommittee at New York, on the Sth inst He was sworn the same

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as any other witness and testified substantially as follows: “ I never entered into any arrangemen purchase the vote of South Carolina or Florida. I had no information and no suspicion that any such communications were being carried on until I saw the dispatches published in the New York Tribune. I had no knowledge and no dealings with any parties to these negotiations. I never authorized any such negotiations in any form whatever. On the morning of Nov. 20, 1876, Mrs. Col Pelton mentioned in my presence that her husband had gone for the day. I didn't know that he had gone or was going out of the city. He went to Philadelphia, I believe/. Later in the day I was called on by Mr. Cooper, who was on k his way down town, and was told by him that he had received an offer from some party, offering to obtain, for money, the vote of South Carolina. I said that I would authorize no such transaction, nor spend money for any such purpose. The whole conversation occupied only a few minutes. I obtained CoL Pelton’s address in Baltimore, and telegraphed to him to come home. I knew nothing of the ciphers that had been passing between him and others and could not have translated them. In regard to the Oregon dispatches, I did not know that they came in cipher until after the meeting of the committee to investigate them. From the 7th of November, 1876, until Dec. 6, of the same year, under no circumstance did I enter into any combination for seeking certificates by venal inducement. There never was an hour nor a minute that I entertained such a thought. To the people who, as I believe, elected me as President of the United States, to 4,000,000 of citizens who were defrauded, I | owed it to proclaim that I would not yield one jot or tittle of my right Whatever evil may result from this subversion of the electoral system, and of a free Government, I resolved that , I would enter into no auction for the purchase of the Chief Magistracy. I was resolved that I would continue to protest against a wrong by which the people were defrauded out of their rights. I declare before God and my country that the vote of Louisiana and Florida were bought (meaning by the Republicans). I would scorn and condemn my righteous title if the Democratic party had secured it by fraud.” The committee decided to examine no more witnesses in New York, and left immediately for Washington.

FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Monday, Feb. 3.—Senate.—Mr. McCreery introduc a bill to transfer the office of Indian Affairs from the Interior to the War Department. ....Mr. Matthews introduced a joint resolution providing for a commercial treaty with Mexico.... Mr Teller presented a petition from the colored people of Louisiana, claiming that they are not protected either in life or property. They therefore invoke the protection of the Federal Government. Referred to the Teller Committee... .Mr. Harris, from the select committee on epidemic diseases, reported a bill to prevent the introduction of contagious orinfectious diseases into the United States, and to establish a Bureau of Public Health... .The Senate had a lively and interesting executive session, the New York Custom House nominations forming" the bone of contention. Mr. Conkling attacked the administration, in a two-hours’ speech, which proved to be an effort by the side of which all previous speeches of his life in the direction of bitterness are' declared by good judges to sink into insignificance, and were made to appear as the very essence of mildness and suavity. Mr. Edmunds, in a mild speech, opposed the removal of Gen. Arthur. Messrs. Howe, Voorhees and Kernan also opposed the removal of Arthur. Mr. Bayard advocated the confirmation of the President's appointees. At the close of the debate the roll was called, and Gen. Merritt was confirmed as Collector of Customs at New York by 33 yeas to 24 nays, and Silas W. Burt was confirmed as Naval Officer by 31 yeas to 18 nays. House.—Mr. Cutler introduced a bill appropriating $100,000,000 for the payment of arrearages of pensions. The same subject was brought before the House on a motion to suspend the rules, and pass a bill introduced by Mr. Burchard, of Illinois, authorizing the issue of 4 per-cent, bonds to the amount of $40,000,000 to pay the claimants under the Arrears of Pension act. Defeated—two-thirds failing to vote in the affirmative. Tuesday, Feb. 4.—Senate.—Mr. Cameron (Wis.). from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted a majority report, signed by the Republican members.declaring David T. Corbin duly elected Senator from South Carolina, and duly entitled to a seat. Mr. Hill, from the same committee, submitted a minority report, signed by the Dejnocratic members, in favor of the incumbent, M. C. Butler. Both reports were ordered printed, and placed ‘on the calendar.... Mr. Coke spoke at length in favor of constructing a railroad in Texas to the Rio Grande, after which consideration was resumed of the resolutions of Mr. Edmunds, declaring the validity of the Thirteenth Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments, and speeches were made pro and con by Messrs. Edmunds and Bayard. House.—The House devoted the day, in committee of the whole, upon the Army Appropriation biH. Several propositions for a reduction of the army were made and voted down... .An evening session, for consideration of the Mississippi Levee bill, was 1 fid.

Wednesday, Feb. s.—Senate.—The Senate after a protracted debate lasting until nearly midnight, adopted Mr. Edmunds’ resolutions affirming the validity of the later constitutional amendments. A number of amendments were offered by the Democrats and rejected. The Morgan substitute, adopted by the Democratic caucus, was also voted down—l 3 yeas to 2t> nays. The Edmunds resolutions, as originally introduced, were then adopted by a vote of 23 yeas to 1? irffcs. ... .Nothing else of importance transpired in the Senate. House.—The report of the Committee on Elections in the Florida contested case was submitted in favor of Jesse J. Finlay, and adverse to the claims of Horace Bisbee. The minority submitted dissenting views, and both reports were recommitted. The House passed the Mississippi Levee bill and spent the balance of the day on the Army Appropriation bill. Thursday, Feb. 6.—Senate.—Mr. Paddock submitted a resolution instructing the Committee on Agriculture to inquire in regard to the reports concerning infectious diseases among horned cattle. Agreed t 0... Mr. Wallace submitted a resolution requesting the Committee on Commerce to report the House bill, known as “The Inter-State Commerce bill.” at the earliest possible moment. Laid on the table. He gave notice that he would call it up at an early day... .The bill to provide for taking the tenth and subsequent censuses was passed. House.—Mr. Hayes introduced a bill, appropriating $50,000 for the improvement of the Hlinois river, and enlarging the Illinois and Michigan ship canal... .Mr. Cummings introduced abill making appropriations for the payment of the arrears of pensions... .The Army Appropriation bill was discussed at length. The main features of the Burnside Army Reorganization bill were incorporated into the bill by the committee of the whole, and a motion was made to engraft upon it also the proposition to transfer the Indian Bureau from the Interior to the War Department, pending which the House adjourned. Friday, Feb. 7.—Senate.—The Committee on Foreign Relations reported back the Senate bill to restrict the immigration of Chinese, and also the House bill for the same purpose. They were placed on the calendar... .Mr. Harris, from the select committee to inquire into the best means of preventing epidemic diseases, reported a bill to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases and to establish a bureau of public health... Mr. Windom called up his resolutions in regard to the migration of colored people, and spoke in favor thereof... .The Senate took up and passed—4o yeas to 20 nays—the bill allowing women to practice law in the United States Supreme Court. House. —The House devoted the day to dull routine business and the consideration of private claims. Saturday, Feb. B.—Senate.—The Senate passed the House bill providing for the payment to officers and soldiers of the Mexican war of three months’ extra pay provided for by the act of July 11), 1848, and devoted the remainder of the day to routine business of trifling interest. House. —The Army Appropriation bill was passed, including the two important amendments relative to the organization of the army and to the railroad telegraph, and defeating the amendment which proposed to transfer the Indian Bureau to the War Department. No other business was transaated.

The will of Caleb Cushing, opened in‘Newburyport, Mass., directs that his property be divided into two equal parts, one for the children of John N. Cushing, and the other for the children of the late William Cushing. The will was made in Madrid in 1876,

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

THE FATHER OF WATERS.

The Mississippi River Improvement Bill, as Passed by Congress. The House of Representatives at Washington has passed the bill to provide for the organization of the Mississippi River Improvement Commission. This is a modification of the bill originally reported which provided in addition an appropriation of $3,871,574 to be used for clearing crevasses and raising and strengthening the levies along the Mississippi river. The amount was distributed as follows: In the State of Illinois, $75,000; in the State of Missouri, $490,380; in the State of Missouri above the Ohio, $51,264; in the State dt Tennessee, $100,000; in the State of Arkansas, $1,299,180; in the State of Mississippi, $1,178,000; in the State of Louisiana, $677,750. The work was to be let out to the lowest bidder by the Secretary of War. The provision in the bill making this large expenditure was discussed for several days, and finally failed, finding its chief supporters only among those members representing constituencies on both sides of the river. The entire amount of $3,000,000 appropriated in the bill was stricken out, and the bill as passed appropriates $250,000 for the services and expenses of a commission. The commission is to be composed of five persons appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. It is to be composed ol three officers 'of the army engineer corps, one of whom shall be designated by the President of the United States as the President of the commission. The other two members of the commission are to be civilians who are familiar with the navigation of the Mississippi river. The army officers are not to receive pay in addition to their annual salaries now allowed them by law. The other two are to receive an annual salary of $3,000. It is made the duty of the commission to direct and complete such surveys of the river, between Alton, 111., and the mouths of the river, as may now be in progress, and to make such additional surveys, examinations and investigations, hydrographical and topographical, as may be deemed necessary. The Secretary of War is authorized, when requested by the commission, to detail from the engineer corps of the army such men as may be necessary, and to place at the disposal of the commission such vessels, machinery and instruments as may be under his control. He is also empowered to purchase, if it is found necessary, whatever vessels, boats and instruments are not now under the control of the department. They are to consider plans and estimates for the correction and permanent location and deepening of the channel of the Mississippi, and the improvement of its navigation, and the protection of the alluvial lands of the Mississippi delta from overflow, and to prepare and mature plans for and estimates of the cost of a general system of works, having the same object in view, from Alton, 111., to the mouths of the Mississippi. When these plans are matured and approved by the President of the commission, they are to submit to the Secretary of War a detailed report, together with the plans, to be by him transmitted to Congress. An important amendment offered by Mr. Reagan, of Texas, was incorporated in the bill requiring the commission to report also in full upon the practicability, feasibility, and probable cost of the various plans known as the jetty and levee and outlet systems as well as upon all others that may be suggested to them. If these plans and estimates are approved by Congress the Secretary of War is instructed to construct and complete the works. The commission is then to make an annual report of the progress of the works, and of the estimates of the amounts of appropriations necessary to carry them on. The majority of the commission is also authorized, prior to the 'completion of the surveys and examinations, to submit to the Secretary of War specifications and estimates for such immediate works as may be necessary for closing outlets, gaps and crevasses in the levees or banks of the river, to be transmitted to Congress. If these plans, specifications and estimates are approved, the Secretary of War shall cause the immediate construction of such works in such manner as may be deemed most speedy and economical.

Interest Laws in the United States.

The following table gives the laws of each State and Territory regarding rates of interest and penalties for usury: \Legal Rate alSTATES AND TER Rate lowed by RITOBIKS. 'if lot contract Penalties for Usuru # c't $ cent. Alabama 3 8 Forfeiture of interest. Arizona 10 Any rate None. Arkansas 6 10 Fortt, principal & int. California 10 Any rate None. Colorado 10 Any rate None. Connecticut 6 6 Forft. excess of int. Dakota. 1 12 Forft. entire interest. Delaware 6 6 Forfeiture of principal Dist of Columbia 6 10 Forft. en‘ire interest. Florida 8 Any rate None. Georgia.-. 7 12 Forfeiture of interest. Idaho 10 24 S3OO fine, or imprison. Illinois 6 10 Forft. excess of int. Indiana 6 10 Forft. excess of int. lowa 6 10 Forft. excess of int. Kansas 7 12 Forft. excess of int. Kentucky 6 8 Forft. entire interest. Louisiana 5 8 Forft. entire interest. Maine 6 Any rate None. Maryland 6 6 Forft. excess of int. Massachusetts... 6 Any rate None. Michigan 7 10 Forft. excess of int. Minnesota 7 12 Forft. excess of int. Mississippi 6 Any rate None. Missouri 6 10 Forft. entire Interest. Montana 10 Any rate None Nebraska 10 12 Forfeiture of interest. Nevada 10 Any rate None. New Hampshire. 6 6 Forft.thrice the excess New Jersey 7- 7 For.t. entire interest. New Mexico b Any rate None. New York.. . 7 7 Forfeiture of contract. Not th Carolina.. 6 8 Forft. entire interest. Ohio 6 8 Forft. excess of int. Oregon 10 12 Forft. principal & iut. Pennsylvania.... 6 Any rate None. Rhode Island.... 6 Any rate None. South Carolina.. 7 Any rate None. Tennessee 6 10 Forft. excess of int. Texas 8 Any rate None. Utah 10 Any rate None. Veimen . 6 6 Forft. excess of int. Virginia 6 7 Forft. entire'interest. Washington Ter. 10 Any rate None. West Virginia... 6 6 Forft. excess of int. Wisconsin.. 7 10 Forft. entire interest. Wyoming 12 Any rate None. One hundred dollars borrowed at 6 per cent., with the interest compounded annually, will amount to $1,842 in fifty years, while the same SIOO borrowed at 8 per cent, will amount to $4,690 in fifty years. One thousand dollars at 10 per cent., compounded, will run up to $117,390 in fifty years.

Fighting Texans.

In Goliad county, Texas, two men, Lockhart and Henderson, got into an altercation, when both dqew pistols. Being at close quarters, Lockhart caught Henderson by the arm which held his pistol, and, pressing his own weapon to Henderson, fired six shots, all taking effect except one. Henderson, being held firmly by Lockhart, was unable to bring his pistol to bear on his antagonist, though he emptied all the chambers Of hw revolver in his endeavor to do so.

Bob Henderson, brother of the wounded man, then rushed into the room and opened fire upon Lockhart, who, having no loads in his revolver, closed with Henderson and threw him to the floor. Henderson succeeded in gaining his feet again, when he emptied his revolver in Lockhart, killing him the bullet striking just beneath the eye. Henderson died in a few hours, having been shot several times through the breast and stomach. Lockhart was the largest man in Goliad county, weighing 350 pounds.

LEI US HAVE PEACE.

Senator Bayard’s Protest A gainst the Passage of the Edmund’s Buncombe Resolutions. We have in many of the States punished, and in the adjoining State of Maryland I read daily of prosecutions continuing against men, convictions followed by fine and imprisonment for violation or interference with the abridgment and denial of the right of voting. There is no pretense in these cases that there was an abridgment of the right of any colored man. In Maryland I read the review of the trials and they are for not holding polling places in convenient places, for abridging the right of voting by the inconvenient locality of the polls, and qjider such charges men are being sentenced and deprived of their liberty and their property. The Supreme Court of the United States m these two cases of Oruikshank and Reese have clearly and emphatically excluded any such jurisdic'ion. They have declared that the United States had no class of voters of their own creation, that they never made a voter, that they never bestowed the right of suffrage, that they have nc control over it, but that there was simply the inhibition of a State or of the United States to abridge or deny the right of suffrage by reason of one of three particular causes—the race, the color or the previous condition of servitude of the party concerned. For any abridgment for any and all causes except those three are no more within the power of the Federal Gove nment by legislation to prevent or direct than they are to decide in any question between two citizens of the same State in regard to any matter of their private and local contracts. This is the language of the Supreme Court of the United States. This is their decision, made, I believe, almost unanimously in the two cases to which I have referred. Yet we are asked by these resolutions to continue the enac'ment of general laws "of the character already passed” for that purpose. lam as clear as I ever was of a proposition in my life that the oath I have taken to support the constitution would compel me to vote against such a proposition as that. Therefore, the whole object of these resolutions is to procure from the donate an approval of this class of unconstitutional legislation, against which, at the time of its enactment on this floor, I struggled in vain, and to extend this usurping and fatal attempt at the centralization of all police powers of the States in the hands of the Congress of the United States. Mr. President, this is nothing but the overthrow of our inherited system of government Such a construction cannot be accepted; it would be utterly fatal to freedom and local selfgovernment. there is no necessity for such a construction. All over this land, and I challenge the denial, there is no law in any State in conflict with these amendments. All over this laud there is acquiescence in their provisions; all over this land there is obedience. The language, as Justice Miller says, which prohibits a State from passing a law which violates the obligation of a contract and gives the Congress of the United States power to pass laws to make that effective, is just as full as that which prohibits a State from abridging the privileges and immunities of citizens. It is just as reasonable to find power to penalize by fine and imprisonment a citizen in a State who fails to pay bis promissory note as it is to punish by fine and imprisonment the man who interferes with another’s right to vote at an election. The inhibitory language of the constitution is the same and as full in the one case as in the other. No State shall pass a law violating the obligation of a contract. The State shall not pass a law discriminating in favor of one race or the other. Both are addressed to States as States. A law passed by a State in violation of that provision is null and void. By writ of error it can come either before the State court, or that failing in its duty it can be transferred to the Supreme Court of the United States, Every decision which involves the interpretation of the constitution of the United States, every decision which is in alleged conflict with any provision of the constitution of the United States, is subject to review by the Supreme Court of the United States. The guarantee is full and the protection by the judicial branch is complete. No law can be sustained that gives to a man of one race or color a right withheld from his fellow-citizen of a different race or color. Any law so pretending must meet with speedy overthrow at the hands of the judicial branch. These amendments have brought more and more fully into recognition and force the great object of our Government, which was to secure to all men the great equality, the equality of opportunity. But it was not intended that individual or class differences, weaknesses, or imperfections, on one side, or the extraordinary powers on the other, should be all leveled down by force of statutes, and that we'sbould be forever vainly enacting laws to destroy all the natural inequalities with which God has marked his creations. These amendments do give equality of opportunity. Any law that attempts to do more will prove futile and mischievous, por can it be executed, and it is vain in the exigency of party, in the exigency of a false and sentimental philanthropy, to be attempting to do more than this. All men are equal before the law. Every day of our lives we see instances—where from ignorance or poverty or imbecility men fail to obtain their legal rights —and no general statutes can prevent this. A thousand reasons prevent it, and all that we may do is to say that when the law does speak it shall speak with the same voice to all alike, and be administered equally and freely to all

I believe that I can see in these resolutions and in others of a similar tenor a desire to renew doubt, suspicion, and distrust in one party and one section of our country against the other. Sir, we have had too much of that already. I believe that all the difficulties that have arisen in our land, that have darkened our houses with mourning, and spread their baleful shadow over ffie face of our country, have chiefly come from the fact that our countrymen were ignorant of each other; it was the want of proper mutual understanding, it was the want of proper confidence that bred strife and confusion. If this spirit of renewed confusion is to be invoked, if the exigencies of party shall still call upon men to raise the standard of strife and distrust among their countrymen, whatever may be the result, I shall be found on the olher side invoking the methods of peace and good will and not those of war, invoking generous confidence and kind feeling and not suspicion and hostility, asking our countrymen to dwell not upon their mutual faults but upon their mutual virtues, of which every day and every hour we can witness haupy illustrations if we do but seek to realize anti comprehend them. This country to-day needs peace and rest, recuperation from the losses of war and from the unwisdom of angry legislation. The man serves his country best who seeks to avoid confusion and strife, who seeks to diearm suspicion and to recreate confidence; and, if this is to be the issue that this hateful, dangerous geographical line of sentiment and action is sought to be established, I, for one, will not accept it; I will be of no party, I will aid in no legislation that shall not recognize the rieht of each man in all parts of this country and their duty to do that which no legislation can enforce, I mean the great duty of the creation of a spirit of nationality among the inhabitants of this broad land. How can that be created if men are to be permitted to stand on this floor and elsewhere and denounce with railing accusations, and unmeasured assaults whole sections and States of a Union and hold them up to scorn, to opprobrium, to detestation? Mr. President, there must be, and please heaven there shall be yet the unwritten law that will visit with popular execration and denunciation the man who seeks to establish the domination of a party at the cost of the peace and security and welfare of the entire American people. Among the measures which the Brazilian Government proposes to bring forward is one for the total suppression of the religious orders in Brazil, the pensioning of the existing monks and nuns and the application of the property to the reduction of the national debt. This property is estimated at $2,500,000 to $3,000,000, and the number of persons to be pensioned would not be more than forty or fifty, most of them aged, as for years the admission of novices has beep rigidly prohibited.

FRANCE.

Biography of the New President. Francois Paul Jules Grevy was bom Aug. 15,1813. He became an advocate at Paris, and acquired influence as an opponent both of Socialism and Bonapartism, and after the Febniary revolution was a member and Vice President of the Constituent and Legislative Assemblies from 1848 till Dec. 2, 1851. In 1848 he proposed that the Executive should be chosen by the National Assembly and hold office at its pleasure with the title of President of the Council of Ministers. In 1868 he was named battonier of the Order of Advocates. He was elected to the Corps Legislatif in 1868 and 1869, and in 1871 to the National Assembly by three departments, taking his seat for that of Jura, his old constituency. He was President of the Assembly from March, 1871, to April, 1873; but declined the invitation of President Thiers to serve longer in that capacity.

President Grevy’s First Message. President Grevy in his inaugural message to the Chambers says: “ The National Assembly in raising me to the Presidency of the Republic has imposed great duties upon me. I shall apply myself unremittingly to their accomplishment and shall be happy if, with the co-operation of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies, I do not remain below the level of what France has a right to expect from my efforts and my devotion. Sincerely submitting to the great law of parliamentary government, I shall never enter into conflict with the national will, conveyed through its constitutional organs. In» the bills which it will submit to the vote of the Chambers and in the questions raised by parliamentary initiative the Government will be guided b; Yhe real wants and unmistakable wishes of the country. Inspired by a spirit/ of progress and appeasement it will devote particular attention to the maintenance of tranquillity, security and confidence, which are the benefits France most ardently desires and most imperatively needs. In the application of the laws which give to our general policy its character and aim the Government will be influenced by the spirit wherein those laws were dictated. It will be liberal and just toward all—the protector of all legitimate interests and the defender of all interests of the state. In its solicitude for those great institutions which are the columns of the social edifice, the Government will bestow a large share of attention upon our army, whose honor and interests will be constant objects of its most cherished preoccupation. Now that the two great powers of the state are animated by one spirit which is the same that actuates France, the Government, while taking account of rights acqnired and services rendered, will take care that the republic is served'by functionaries who are neitho its enemies nor its detractors. It wi? continue to maintain and develop the good relations which exist between France and foreign powers, and thereby contribute to the consolidation of general peace. It is by means of this liberal and truly conservative policy that the great powers of the republic, ever united and animated by one and the same spirit, and proceeding always with wisdom, will cause its natural fruits to be borne by the Government which France, taught by misfortune, has conferred upon herself as the only one that could secure her repose and usefully labor for the development of her prosperity, strength and greatness.” Gambetta’s Speech. In his inaugural address to the Chamber of Deputies, Gambetta eulogized the great citizen whom he had succeeded in the Presidential chair, and whose footsteps he was to follow. He promised impartiality in the discharge of his duties, a jealous regard for the freedom of debate; that he would protect the minority, and exact respect for the constitution. He said the republic has issued victories from party conflicts and must now enter on an organic and creative period. The Chamber must devote itself to scholastic, military, financial and j commercial reforms.

Ihe New Premier. William Henry Waddington, who has accepted the responsibility. of organizing the first Parliamentary Cabinet under President Grevy, is assuredly one of the most remarkable men not only of France but of the world. Scarcely less distinguished as a classical archaeologist than as a statesman, and possessing a thorough practical knowledge of the Turkish empire and other regions of the Levant, his accession to the chief post of responsibility in the French Government is a sure omen of an enlightened and vigorous foreign policy, which will restore France to the position she lost by the disastrous schemes of the imperial regime. M. Waddington has the advantage of being almost equally an Englishman and a Frenchman. He was entitled to choose either nationality, but the course of events has brilliantly justified that instinct which led him to designate himself from the land of his birth rather than from that of his education and ancestry. He was the son of a wealthy English cotton-spinner, was educated at Cambridge, settled in France, and has been prominently identified with the affairs of the republic for the past ten years.

Murdered by His Father.

George Ward, accompanied by his two sons, Frank and George, aged respectively 26 and 21, visited Columbia City, Ind., to trade, and had imbibed pretty freely of poor whisky. When they started for home they were quite drunk. They reached home about 5 o’clock. Frank, who is married, got off at his farm, adjoining his father’s. When George and his father had put away the team they entered the house. Mrs. Ward was preparing supper. Ward began abusing his wife, which was resented by his son George. From words they went to blows, which resulted in George giving his father a severe thrashing. Ward shortly afterward went out to the wood-pile, where an ax was lying, picked it up, and returned into the house. George endeavored to run out of the house, but before he could reach the door Ward struck him dead, by a blow on the head, splitting it open. Blood and brains were spattered over the wall and the murderer. This act sobered Ward immediately, and he sank down where his son had fallen, paralyzed with horror. The Sheriff was sent for and arrested Ward. George was the favorite son, and Ward was very fopd of him. The family has al-

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ways had the reputation of drinking and fighting whenever the least chance was offered. Ward is a well-to-do farmer, aged 50 years.

Hotel Deadbeat.

“Yes,” said the affable clerk at the Palace, the other day, as he lifted his stomach up on the office counter and selected another tooth-pick, “they are up to all sorts of dodger—these hotel beats —and we fellows have to keep a very sharp look-out for ’em, bet your life.” “Do—eh?” “Now, for instance, about four mouths ago a nice old gentleman came in with a rather fast-looking young man, who had just arrived from New York, he said, and who engaged a handsome suit on the fifth floor. The old man took me aside, and said he was forced to run over to Hong Kong himself on the next steamer, but that he would leave his son with us. The latter, he confidentially explained, was just then sowing considerable wild oats by the wayside. ‘ln fact,’ said the old gentleman, with much feeling, ‘he is so dissipated I dare not leave any money with him. and I especially desire that none be furnished him by your cashier—not one single cent, remember. For fear, however, he gets into any real trouble during my absence I will deposit in your hands this package of gold notes. Use ft freely if imperatively necessary, but do not let him suppose you have any such deposit, as he would be all the more reckless and dissipated.’ If anything should happen, we were to write to the old party, care Bothnchild’s Hong Kong agency.” “Well—and then? ” “Well, the young fellow raised merry Ned round this edifice for about three months. He beht Smith and I out of S4OO at pedr©; gave queer little supper parties in his room; got drunk, and tried to hold the elevator man’s head overboard so that the next landing would cut it off; was chased round the corridors by some married man with a pistol nearly every night of his life, and, in fact, was a regular snorter in every way.” “Should think so.” “Of course he never paid any board —we didn’t expect this, having his governor’s bundle of securities locked up all-right in the safe. But one day he did something so blamed outrageous that we couldn’t stand it—had a chicken fight in the ladies’ parlor, or something, —so we wrote him a warning note.” “What did he say?” “Nothing but ‘ta-ta,’ and left the hotel that very day; vamosed—disappeared. As we didn’t get any remittance from Hong Kong, we opeued the package last week, and what do you suppose was in it ? ” “Dunno—counterfeit money? ” “Not such luck. Something can be done with real good—ahem! Why, there was nothing in that bundle but a couple of old Morning Calls. Think of it, Morning Calls! Ugh! It makes me sick to think of it even now,” and the genial hotel official lifted his stomach down again, and went sadly to his fifth meal. - San Francisco NexusLetter.

Lincoln’s Parents.

In Mr. Ward H. Lamon’s somewhat famous life of Lincoln serious doubt was intimated whether the parents of the President were ever legally married, while the additional fact was privately well known that the book as printed did not express that doubt with anything like the plainness which Lamon at first intended, the efforts of Judge David Davis and Leonard Swett having been successful in suppressing a large part of the matter on the subject. The story was that Thomas Lincoln, Abraham’s father, was “wanting in character” as a young man, so that Sally Bush, “a modest and pious girl,” refused to marry him when he asked her, and that, as a bond to the State of Kentucky was required for a marriage in regular form, Thomas, when he espoused Nancy Hanks, the mother of Abraham Lincoln, never went through any legal ceremonial. The reticence of the ex-Presi-dent on the subject, the same disposition in other persons supposed to know about it, and the alleged absence from the record in the family Bible that Mr. Lincoln kept of any mention of his parents’ marriage gave strength to the story. But it is now ascertained very distinctly that the evidence of their marriage is complete and formal. ExSecretary Bristow has received, at New York, from Mr. R. J. Browne, a lawyer of high standing and a gentleman of character, whose residence is in Springfield, Washington county, Ky., a copy from the county records of the bonds which Thomas Lincoln gave, with Richard Berry as surety, previous to his marriage, and also of the certificate of the Methodist preacher, Jesse Head, who certifies that he married them on the 23d day of September, 1806. The record is regular in all respects, and completely silences any charge or intimation that the President’s birth was not legitimate. The simple explanation why Lamon’s searches, or those made for him, did not discover the record, seems to be that they were not made in the right place.— Philadelphia Times.

Feminine Curiosity.

A gang of counterfeiters has just been broken up, and three of them arrested, in Preston county, W. Va., though the curiosity of a young girl who had been hired by David Stenchel to nurse his wife in sickness. Noticing in one of the rooms of the lesidence an old trunk, she, through curiosity, opened and looked into it. She saw in it a large lot of nickels, quarters and halfdollars, besides several dies for making spurious coin. She went home and told her father what she had seen, and he communicated the information to the* proper officers. Warrants were issued for the arrest of Stenchel, Campbell and Williams, and, after a desperate fight with the moonshiners, the officers succeeded in arresting the three men above named.

Mexican Brigands.

A sum of $140,000, consisting of remittances to Europe from merchants in Mexico, has been captured by fifteen brigands on the railroad between Puebla and Vera Cruz. About a dozen brigands took third-class tickets, seated themselves in a carriage next the baggage car, and about half an hour after starting severed all the cars behind them. Leaving these on the track, they forced the engineer to continue at full speed up to a point where twenty-five armed men on horseback ordered a halt, whereupon the whole party carried off the money on mules, killing the conductor and seriously wounding an inspector Of the line.

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INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

Monday, Feb. 3.—Senate.—-The Senate met at 2 p. m., and, on motion of Mr. Streight, took up bills on second reading. After several bills had been read a second time and the reports of committees thereon acted upon, an amendment to a pending bill was offered and the ayes and noes demanded thereon. The call of the roll showed no quorum present, and the Senate adjourned. House.—The House this afternoon had before them three reports from the Judiciary Committee upon the right of this Assembly to elect full Boards of Trustees for the benevolent institutions, deaf and dumb, the blind, and the insane. The Democrats hold the election of 187? by the Republicans in joint convention to be null and void, and therefore treat the Presidency of the boards and one of the Trusteeships as vacancies, while for the other TrusteMhis is the regular time of election. The law provides that the elections shall be by concurrent vote of the two houses, and, as the election of two vears ago was in joint convention, they hold it illegal and void.* The Republicans claim that the election was a substantial compliance with the statute; that no fraud violated it; that the Legislative .will was properly expressed, and, although the Governor refused to commission the persons so elected, they were, notwithstanding, duly elected and qualified, and are entitled to hold for the full term of four years. The National member of the committee makes a second minority report, taking the ground that the election of 1877 was null and void, but that each biennial General Assembly can only elect one member of the board. In his conclusion he sides with the Republicans. The debate was by Representative Sleeth for the Republicans, Chairman Osborne for the Democrats, and by Mr. Works for himself. At a late hour the majority report of the Democratic members of the committee was adopted by yeas, 48; nays, 30.

Tuesday, Feb. 4.—Senate.—Bills introduced: To prohibit the marriage of drunkards; repealing the act for the appointment of students to Purdue University; for the appointment of public administrators, to have control of all estates in each county; providing for a system of cumulative voting; giving laborers preferred liens; regulating the practice of dentistry ; abolishing the office or State Geologist. ... .At the close of a protracted afternoon’s debate, the Senate ordered to engrossment a bill allowing to medical colleges properly incorporated the bodies of all persons who die in the public hospitals, asylums or poor-houses, which are left .unclaimed by the relatives for twentyfour hours after death. Sheriffs are also directed to give over to the authorities of such colleges the bodies of executed criminals. A provision to make this a part of the sentence of the court was stricken out. The vote on the biU was—yeas, 27; nays, 13. House.—Little business was transacted in the House, the entire session being occupied in disposing of committee reports... .The bill prohibiting appeals from Justices, when the amount is less than S2O was ordered engrossed. . .„.A communication was received from the Superintendent of Public Instruction, showing where local school levies might be reduced from 24 to 50per cent... .A bill was introduced authorizing the State of Maryland to transfer all the title of the State of Indiana to the national cemetery at Antietam to the General Government... .Mr. Humphreys’ legislative Apportionmentbill was niade the special order for Friday... .The joint resolution tovoring resumption was reported back with the recommendation that it be indefinitely postponed. On a call of yeas and nays on the question of concurring in the report no quorum voted, and the House adjourned. Wednesday, Feb. s.—Senate.—Senator Winterbotham occupied considerable time upon a question of privilege, the charges of the Indianapolis Journal that he was the head of a ring controlling the Northern prison. He denied the charges, and courted investigation.... The Senate then passed Senator Streight’s reso • lution asking Congress for the passage of the Inter-State Commerce bill regulating the charges of railway transportation. House.—lndiana members of Congress were instructed to vote for a bill to amend the Revenue law so as to allow farmers to sell tobacco raised by them in leaf or twist, without being compeUed to take out the usual Government license, and to reduce the fees and salaries of Federal officers... .The bill making seventy pounds a bushel of corn was ordered engrossed.... A number of committee reports were received and acted upon. Joint Convention.—Both houses met in joint coiwention, and elected the following officers : State Librarian, Miss Maggie Fitzgibbon; Directors of the State Prison, South, Col. Thomas Shea, of Scott county, and P. 8. D. Mitchell, of Monroe; Directors of the Northern Prison, Col. John Lee, of Montgomery; Frederick Hoover, of Jasper; and Simeon Wile of Laporte county.

Thursday, Feb. o.—Senate.—The joint resolution that each house vote for one President of the Board of Benevolent Institutions and two Trustees each for the Blind and Deaf and Dumb institutes, and two Commissioners for the Insane Asylum, was considered. Mr. Gnibbs moved to amend by electing one Trustee for each of these institutions, and not to elect a President of the Board. In was finally made the special order for next Thursday.... Indiana Congressmen were again instructed to vote for the Inter-State Commerce bi 11... .The ' afternoon session was taken up in considering the Interest bill. The first section, as adopted, fixes the rate at 6 per cent., with the privilege of contracting for 8. Section 2, as adopted, fixes the rate of interest on judgments the same as expressed in the contract, and in other cases au Oper cent B. fore finishing the consideration of the bill the Senate adjourned. House.—The morning session was Vaken up on a bill in relation to an election to ratify the constitutional amendments. The bill was so amended as to fix the time of holding that election on the 4th of March, and then the bill was recommitted to the Judiciary Committee, with instructions to revise and report tomorrow. ... .A number of bills were read a second time and referred to committees, and several legalizing bills were passed... .The committee to investigate into the manner of selecting plans for a new State House and the charges against the Commissioners were given power to employ a stenographer. Friday, Feb. 7.—Senate.—The bill abolishing the offices of City Assessor and Town Treasurer, and providing for the election of Town Marshal, was ordered engrossed as it came from the committee... .Mr. J. T. Campbell tendered his road system to the State for #150.... Then Senate then took up the Interest bill and made a few unimportant amendments to it and passed it... .The bill making it a felony to rob a grave, and relating to dissection, was ordered engrossed... .The Auditor of State was ordered to furnish the Finance Committee a list of all claims filed by special judges which have not been paid... .Several unimportant bills were introduced. House.—The bill fixing the first Tuesday of March as the date for a special election upon the amendments failed to pass... .The balance of the day was passed in discussion of the Apportionment bill, which was the special order for this time. The bill was ordered engrossed. Saturday, Feb. B.—Senate.—There was no quorum in the Senate, and no business was done. House.—Bills introduced: To revise the law in relation to the Illinois and Michigan canal, authorizing the State to sell the canal lands; to amend the act in regard to practice in courts of record; to amend an act for the assessment of property and for the levy and collection of taxes....A number of committee reports were made and acted upon, after which the Committees on State Institutions. Public Buildings and State Charities asked ana obtained leave of absence, notwithstanding the opposition of several members.... Mr. Wentworth introduced the General Levy bill for 1879 and 1880. The bill authorizes to be raised a much less sum than heretofore. The amount for 1879 is #1,300,000 and for 1880 it is #1,500,000. The amount raised for 1877 was #2,000,000, and for 1878 it was #1,500,000.

- Yocng man devoted to and expressly manufactured for apffiety, clasping Ins head in agOny—“Ah, by Jove, how my head aches I Awfully, by Jove! ” K.y mpathizing friend, 'student in dental room—“OIi, you’d better have it pulledthen, after a thoughtful pause, “or filled.” Patient moves away with an injured air, and the young dentist smiles after him more thoughtful than ever.— Burlmpton Hawk-Eye,