Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1879 — Page 1

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SEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. A St. Petersburg dispatch reports that two fatal cases of plague have occurred in 1 that city. Spotted typhus, which is almost as fatal as the plague, is also prevaling. The German Parliament has rejected, by an overwhelming vote, a motion in favor of an European Congress to arrange for a general disarmament A royal wedding of unusual brilliancy was consummated at Windsor Castle, in England, jon the 13th inst. The high contract tug parties were the Duke of Connaught, son ■of Qwecn Victoria, and Princess Louise Mariganrt, a grand-daughter of King William of M’rnssia. The city of Szegedin, in Hungary, has been overtaken by a terrible calamity. The river Theiss, on both banks of which the town is situated, burst the dams which confined its waters, and the Hood swept everything before it Hundreds of houses were swept away, many people drowned, and tliousands rendered .’homeless. Szegedin is the second commercial town in Hungary, and has a population of 80,000.

The Conservatives in office in France are being swept out as fast as the new Radical broom can reach them. The French Government has charred a steamer to fetch (XX) amnestied Communts from New Caledonia. In France the proposition to impeach the Do Broglie and Ilochebouet Ministries has been defeated in the Chamber of Deputies by a large majority. As a compromise measure, a resolution was then adopted declaring that these Cabinets, by their culpable schemes, betrayed the government they should have served. A London dispatch says the British steamer Severn, from London to Quebec, iran down, off Dungeness, a pilot cutter, having ttwelve pilots and a crew of eight on board. Ten pilots and five of tne crew were drowned. War has broken out between Chili and Bolivia. A dispatch fom London says the Portuguese explorer, Pinto, has arrived at Pretonio, South Africa, with eight follower*, all that remain of 403, with whom he set out on the expedition. The International Court of Appeal has sent a strong protest to the European powers against the Egyptian Government’s nonpayment of the sums decreed against it. The court requests the powers either to insist upon payment or relieve it of the duty of hearing cases against the Government. The Szegedin (Hungary) calamity ♦urns out to have been of more appalling proportions than even the first reports indicated. Of 9,7(X) houses, all except 201 were swept away #>y the ‘ --**-» --* upon the doomed city. A dispatch from Pesth says “ the lowest estimate now current fixes the number drowned at 2,(MX). Many persons believe that 4,(XX) perished, as the gale prevented a majority of the inhabiatnts from hearing the first alarm. The whole country below Szegedin and Temisvar is strewn with caravans of people. All villages and boroughs have hospitably opened their houses and stores to the refugees.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Kant. At North Berwick, Me., the other day, while a town mooting was in Beesion in Mechanics’ Hall, the floor gave way, precipitating ■some fifty people to the floor below. Fortunately no one was killed, but many were badly injured—some, it is feared, beyond the hope of recovery. Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage is to be tried by the Brooklyn Presbytery in the following charges: Deceit and falsehood in statements regarding his withdrawal from the editorship of the Christian at Work. In stating that the sittings'in the Tabernacle were free. In accusing J. W. Hathaway of dishonest practices and then denying it. Of falsehood in collecting subscriptions for the payment of the church debt. Of deceit in the difficulty concerning the organist of the Tabernacle, and of stating that he was to be arraigned for heterodoxy, when ho knew’ that such was not the case. The prices of all descriptions of merchant iron have been advanced 5 per cent, by the Philadelphia Iron Merchants’ Association. The New York World is to pass into the hands of George W. Childs, of the Philadelpnia Ledger, who will convert it into an independent 2-cent paper. A. G. Woodward, Secretary and Treasurer of the Stanstead and bherbrook Mutual Fire Insurance Company, at Derby Line, Vt, is reported behind in hie accounts *l® (XX). About fifty vessels engaged in the Gloucester (Mass.) fisheries on the Atlantic, were at sea in the violent gale and storm of snow and sleet that swept the coast on the 20th of February. No tidings have been received from fourteen of these vessels, and it is feared that they were lost, carrying down with them 140 men—leaving forty-one widows and nearly 100 children to mourn their sudden destruction. The remains of the late Bayard Taylor arrived at New York by steamer from Europe last week. Many storekeepers in New York have comßmed for mutual protection against persons who are “bad pay.” Their plan will be to keep a “black list.” Mrs. John Taylor and two sons, Willie, aged 10, and Johnnie, 5, were drowned in a pond at Niantic, Ct., a few days ago. The Children went for a pail of water and fell in. Mrs. Taylor, hearing their cries, went to their assistance, and was also drowned.

West. Information has been received at Omaha that Spotted Tail’s Indians are already dissatisfied with their new ’location, and want to get back to the Missouri. The reported massacre of thirty-eight Indians in Washington Territory, telegraphed East two or three weeks ago, turns out to have been a hoax. A telegram from Cincinnati says that “Archbishop Purcell has received letters from Cardinal McCloskey and Archbishop Wood, giving the result of the conference which took place last week between the Cardinal and Archbishops of and Baltimore relative to the crisis in the affairs of his (Purcell’s) diocese. The conclusion arrived at by the conference was that the whole Catholic church in America should take up. the case of the Archbishop of Cincinnati, and proceed, by regularly-organized methods, to raise the money necessary to pay his debts. ” Kansas City, Mo., is petitioning to be annexed to Kansas. Archbishop Purcell has made a personal assignment for the benefit of his creditors. Gen. Sheridan has gone to Camp Robinson to investigate Indian affairs and to select the site for a new military post on Snake River, in Northern Nebraska. The Kansas Legislature adjourned

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sine die last week. Nearly fifty members of the House, it is understood, signed a petition designed to prevent United States Senator Ingalls from taking his seat in the approaching session of Congress. The investigation of the affairs of Archbishop Purcell discloses the fact that his liabilities amount to $3,874,371, of which $85,000 is secured by mortgage. The assets, in addition to the real estate which has been assigned by the Archbishop’s brother, have a nominal value of $484,000. The Chicago Times prints detailed crop reports from Minnesota, Wisconsin, lowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Missouri, whi.h show that the growing crops of winter wheat uro, almost wlllivui tfAcoptlvij, owing to Heavy snow, in fine condition. In Ohio increased acreage is reported, and the promised yield is set down at 30,(MX),000 bushels. In Indiana the acreage is increased, and the yield is expected to be 25 per cent, better than last year. In Michigan a similar result is anticipated, and in other regions the prospects are generally reported above the average. The question of blighted seed for a spring-wheat crop is now agitating several localities.

South. The President of the Memphis Board of Health has issued a card to the public contradicting the reports that yellow fever still exists in that city. He says the last case occurred on the 10th of December last The Sheriff of Douglass county, Mo., went with a posse to the house of one Shelt Alsup to arrest him. Alsup resisted the process, and fired a number of shots, one of which killed the Sheriff. Alsup and his little girl, 5 years old, were then killed by the Sheriff’s posse and two other persons wounded. An Atlanta (Ga.) dispatch says that “ the office of the State Treasurer at the Capitol was the scene of a bloody tragedy, the parties being Col Robert A. Alston, a member of the Legislature, and Capt. Ed Cox, of DeKalb c cunty. Alston fired three shots, and Cox two. Alston was shot in the right temple, the ball passing through the brain. Cox was shot in the mouth and through the loft hand. Alston is dead. Cox is not seriously hurt.” A tri-weekly fast-mail line is about to be established by the Postoffice Department between St. Louis and New Orleans on Mississippi river boats. Large numbers of negroes have recently arrived in St. Louis from Mississippi and Louisiana, under the impression that they would be provided with means of subsistence while there, and free transportation to Kansas, where, on their arrival, they were to receive lands from the Government, money', mules, plows, etc. Many of them are destitute and unable to obtain employment. By whom or for what purpose these poor blacks have been hoaxed in this manner, is something the St. Louts airuvnura um,.. endeavoring to mid out, but without success.

POLITICAL POINTS. The St. Louis Globe publishes the sentiment and preferences of members of the Legislatures of Kansas, Wisconsin and Arkansas on the Presidential question. Grant is decidedly ihe strongest man among the Republicans, but the Democrats are divided between Tilden, Thurman and Hendricks, with perhaps a majority in favor of Tilden. The New York Herald publishes in- ’ terviews with nearly all the Democratic Representatives in the Forty-fifth Congress on the t residential nomination m 1880. The following recapitulation of their views may prove interesting: Members interviewed 127 I Against Tilden 57 Tilden first choice 13 Tilden acceptable 9 Thurman first choice 50 Thurman acceptable 11 Hendricks first choice 12 Hendricks acceptable 28 Bayard first choice 10 Bayard acceptable 19 Expressed no choice 42 The Republican and Democratic State Conventions in Rhode Island this year will come off on the same date—March 20—and at the same place—Providence. Charles H. Bell has been appointed by Gov. Prescott as United States Senator from Now Hampshire at the extra session of Congress to fill the vacancy caused by' the expiration of Senator Wadleigh’s term. A correspondent has canvassed the Indiana Legislature on the Presidential question. Eighteen Democratic Senators out of twenty-five were for Hendricks first, and five of them were for Tilden for second choice. Two were for Bayard first, and one for Tilden. Four had no opinion or wish as to the candidate. Of twenty-one Republicans, sixteen were for Grant, two for Blaine, and one for John ’ Sherman.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The Secretary of the Treasury has issued a long circular, announcing the issue of 4-pcr-cent refunding certificates in sums of $lO fas provided by a recent act of Congress), to be obtained at the sub-treasuries. The certificates will be ready for delivery April 1, 1879, at which date they will begin to draw interest, which will be payable upon conversion of the certificates into 4-per-cent, bonds. Orville Grant, brother of Gen. Grant is in Washington, partially insane. He is said to be in a pitiful condition, and has not been restrained of his liberty, although a proper subject for an asylum. The Chinese Minister to this country, Chin Lan Pin, is making preparations to proceed to Spain for the purpose of establishing a Chinese legation at Madrid Surgeon-General Woodworth, of the United States Marine Hospital Service, died at Washington last week.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS Ex-Senator Christiancy, the newlyappointed Minister to Peru, sails for his post of duty from New York on the 20th inst., accompanied by his wife and son, George Chrietiancy, his Secretary of Legation. Five persons have died at the village of Marmora, in the province of Ontario, Can., from a disease which high medical authority says is nothing less than the plague, and several others are sick with the same malady. Surgeon General Woodworth, of the United States Marine Hospital service, in his last says the Eastern plague had its origin in China, and that the last outbreak in Russia was not caused by the spontaneous generation of the virus in the valley of the Volga, but by a reintroduction of the disease from China. Four murderers were executed in the United States, on Friday, March 14: Victor Nunez at Pueblo, Col., for the murder of Louis Ranscomb, in October, 1877; John Q. Pinkham, at Concord, N. H., for the murder of Mrs. Berry, in January, 1877; William H. Devlin, at Lowell, Mass., for the murder of his wife and child in December, 1877, and Henry Gravelin, at Windsor, Vt., for the murler of Herbert O. White, in October, 1876. Fears are entertained for the safety of the settlement of Sitka, Alaska, which was threatened by the Indians. The new Canadian tariff, under which

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the import duties are almost doubled, has just gone into effect, and the Dominion range* itself under the banner of protection to home industries. A six-days’ pedestrian contest for the championship of the W'orld was begun at Gilmore's Garden, New York city, on Monday morning, March 10, and concluded on Saturday evening, March 15. The contestants were Daniel O’Leary, of Chicago, heretofore champion of America and of the world; Charles Rowel], of London, England; John Ennis, of Chicago, and Charles A Harriman, of Maine. O’Leary, who won the Astley belt, fur which the men were struggling, and brought it from England to this country, gave out and left the track on the third day of the race. The other three remained on the track to the end Rowell made 500 miles, thus winning the belt, whieh he carries back in triumph to England. Ennis traveled 475 miles, and Harriman succeeded in covering 450 miles. There was an immense attendance during the progress of the match, and the gate money, after paying all expenses, amounts to almost $50,000, of which Rowell receives 50 percent., Ennis 30 per cent, and Harriman 20 per cent

Why William Sharp Went to Bed.

The passion of love often reacts strangely on undisciplined minds, and frequently produces on them most un-looked-for results. At Keithley, at the beginning of the present century, lived a young man named William Sharp. He fell desperately in love with a girl, the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Everything went smoothly till the wedding morning, when the fathers could not agree how much to give the young couple to start them in life; and literally at the last moment in church the match was broken off. This was too much for the weak mind of William Sharp; he went home, went to his bed, and never rose from it again. He was just 30 when he thus isolated himself from active life, and he died in his bed at the age of 75. His room was about 9 feet square. The floor was stone, and generally damp. The window was permanently fastened; some of the panes were filled in with wood; and at the time of his death it had not been opened for 38 years. In this dreary cell did this strange being immure himself. He obstinately refused to speak and gradually every trace of intelligence faded away. His father left an ample provision for his eccentric son, and he was well looked after. He ate as much as an ordinary day laborer, and at his death weighed above sixteen stone. In Harrogate, several years ago, lived a woman who for the same cause behaved in exactly the same manner. Her parents having prevented her marriage years; and, if not dead, is probably keeping it still.— Chambers' Journal.

Some scientific tests which have been in progress for several months by one of the most distinguished professors of agricultural chemistry in the country have developed rather a startling fact that the sprouting qualities of last year's crop of No. 2 spring wheat have been seriously damaged, owing to the excessive heat which prevailed just before the harvest of last year in various parts of the West, notably Minnesota, and in consequence of which a large quantity of the wheat product is utterly ruined by the blight. This fact is of incalculable importance to farmers out West. No. 2 spring is the grade which is generally used for sowing purposes, and it is feared —unless the farmers are promptly informed of this timely discovery as to the destruction of last year’s products, and make ample allowance for it in their arrangements for sowing this spring—that the next crop will not equal 50 per cent, of the usual product. It is stated that damage to the sprouting capacity of the kernel is not such as to affect its value for milling purposes. Outwardly, to all appearance, the kernel is plump and unimpaired. But it is the structural interior growth which is affected. The discovery of these facts is timely indeed, and if properly promulgated may avert pretty disastrous consequences, such as ivould surely follow on a general use of damaged wheat for sowing. At the same time, the fact is one of great importance to all who are interested in the course ' of prices for wheat. New York \ Graphic.

A Belgian professor has published a work entitled “ Periodicite des Grands Deluges Resultant du Mouvement Graduel de la Ligne des Aspides de la Terre,” in which he warns us that we may be on the lookout for another deluge of the world. At certain regularly-recur-ring intervals, he maintains, the waters of one hemisphere are suddenly precipitated across the equator and flood the other. The last of these deluges, which always flow from north to south, or from south to north, was that of Noah’s times, which was from the north. Hence the explanation of the great preponderance of water in the southern hemisphere, and of the general southern trend of North and South America, Africa, and many minor peninsulas. The next of these deluges will flow from the south to the north. The cause, he argues, is the alternate increase and decrease of the ice-caps at the poles, and the consequent change of the world’s equilibrium. Since 1248 the South pole has been continually enlarging, while the North pole has been proportionately diminishing, today the diameter of the southern glacier being about 3,000 miles, and that of the northern 1,500. When these two glaciers shall have arrived at their maximum and minimum extension, then will the earth tilt over and be submerged by another great flood, the fifteenth of the kind that has occurred.

An exchange speaks of Wade Hampton’s beautiful daughter, and adds: “ Boys, the old man has got only one leg.” We trust no young man will be misled by that incendiary item. A man with a wooden leg is a very dangerous man to go out of the gate ahead of. There is something about the springs in a wooden leg that seems to telescope one’s spine, and make him see comets and things.—Peek’s Sun. Some scientific men claim that the earth is drawing nearer the sun every year. We don’t know about that, but we do know that throughout the season the bottom of the strawberry and blackberry boxes comes close/ to the top every day.— Burdette. A newspaper publisher in Easton, Pa., has been arrested on two counts for advertising Southern lotteries contrary to the laws of Pennsylvania.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1879.

A Startling Fact.

Another Deluge Predicted.

Only One Leg.

11 A Firm Adherence to Correct PrihcipleS.”

AMERICAN COMMERCE.

Growth of Our Export Trade —Some Surprising Figures. The report of the Bureau of Statistics for the last year, says a Washington correspondent, contains some very surprising figures to show the decline of American commerce and the gradual but steady manner in which foreign ships have monopolized our carrying trade. The following statement shows the percentage of imports to and exports from the United States carried in vessels of domestic build, from the year 1821 to the present date:

Percentage , Percentage Carried in ■ Carried in American American rear. Ships. Year. Ships. 1821 88.7 1860 72 5 1822 ..88.4 1851, 72.7 1823 89.9 18g2 70.5 1824 91.2 1853 69.5 1825 92.3 1854 70.5 1826 92.5 1855 75.6 1827 90.9 1856 75:2 182? 88.9 1857 70.5 1829 89,5 ISSB 73.7 1830 89.9 1859 66.9 1831 86J 18W0 65.5 1832 83.1 1861 65 2 1833 83.8 1862’. 50.0 1834 83.0 1863 41.4 1835 84.5 1864 27.5 1836 84.3 1865 27.5 1837 82 2 1866 32.2 1888 84.6 1867 33 9 1839 84.3 1868 15.1 1840 82.9.1869 83.1 1841 83.3'1870 85.6 1842 82 3.1871 31.8 1843 77.1,1872 29.1 1844 78.6 1873 26.4 1815 81.71(874 27.2 184(1 81.7’1875 26.2 1847 70 911876 27.7 1848 77.4 1817 26.9 1849 75.2 1878 16.3

In striking contrast to this has been the growth of the foreign commerce of the United States. While the carrying capacity of American bottoms has grown less and less every year, the demand upon it has grown rapidly greater, and has been responded to by foreign shipowners. The growth in the export trade of the United States has been enormous, particularly within the last decade. In 1790 the value of domestic exports from the United States was $19,666,000; in 1800, $31,840,903; in 1810, $42,366,675; in 1820, $51,683,640; in 1830, $59,462,029; in 1840, $113,895,634; in 1850, in 1860, $373,189,274; in 1870, $420,500,275. Now mark the progress for the last

eight years: 1871 $562 518,651,1875 $643,094,767 1872 549,219,718 1876 644.956,406 1873 649,132.563 1877 676,115,592 1874 693,032,054| 1878 722.811,815 The lack of increase, and the falling off during the depressed condition of American industries from 1873 to 1876, will be noticed; as returning prosperity is shown in the exports for 1877 and I 1878. Of the total exports last year, $557,vessels of American build. The following are the principal articles of export, none being taken from the long list, of which the value exported last year did not exceed $1,000,000. Value of Exports tn 1878. Mowers and reaper* $1,018,916 Other agricultural implements 1,319. 1t,7 Horned cattle 3,896,818 Barley 2,565.736 Indian corn 48,030,358 Indian corn meal 1,336.187 Oats 1,227,920 Bye 3,(51.739 Wheat 96,872,016 Wheat flour 25,095,721 Other small grains 1,077.433 Breadstuffs prepared tor food 1,709,639 | Bituminous c0a1...... 1,352.621' Other c0a1... 1,006,843 Copper in pigs, bars and sheets 2,102.455 Sea island cotton 1,616.214 Other unmanufactured cotton 178,415,270 Colored manufactured cotton 2,959,910 Uncolored manufactured cotton . 7,053.463 Other manufactures of cotton 1,425.287 Drugs and chemicals 2,303,253 Furs and fur skins 2,618,100 Gold coin 6.427,251 Gold bullion 15.035,045 Silver coin, trade dollars 5,166.006 Hemp, other than cables 1,056.709 Hides and skins 1,286,840 Hops 2,152,873 Locomotives 1.016.974 Machinery not classified 3,849,908 Muskets, pistols, etc . 2,098,501 Manufactured leather other than boots and shoes 6.189.052 Substances used for manures. 1,208,049 Resin and turpentine 2.32!) 31!) Oil-cake 5 095,16) Mineral crude oil 2.6918 Naphtha, benzine,etc 1.411,812 Illuminating oils 41.513.676 Cottonseed 2.514.323 Cartridges and fuses 3.357,094 Shot and shell 1.360,421 Paper and stationery 1,086.994 Bacon and hams 51,752.068 Beef, salted or dried 2'973.231 Fresh beef 5.001) 856 Butter 3,931.822 Cheese 14,103 529 Fish, other than pickled or dried 3,198,896 Lard 30.014.254 Preserved meats 5,102.625 Pork 4.913.657 Quicksilver 1.230 (.08 < lover and timothy seed. 2,0.-5,887 Sewing machines 1,661,715 Turpentine 2.333.569 Refined sugar 4.508.148 Tallow 6.695.377 Leaf tobacco 24.803.165 Boards d trimmed lumber 4,531.741 Sawed a hewed timber 2,662,784 Househ Id furniture 1.961,522

A Wonderful Clock.

The Ohio State Journal describes a clock which has just been finished in Columbus, as the result of eight years’ toil. It is five feet wide and ten high, and has “three times more dial indications and more moving embellishments than any clock on earth.” The two sides represent the two great periods in American history, the War of the Revolution and the War of the Rebellion. Independence Hall is shown, with its cracked bell in the old belfry, and an old man to ring it. The hours are struck by the Goddess of Liberty, and Justice balancing her scales. There is also a reproduction of all the figures shown in the famous Strasburg clock. Historic scenes are enacted on a stage. At the first quarter hour a locomotive appears, as the emblem of our progress in industry. At the second, the bell is tolled in Independence Hall, and Washington walks majestically across the scene. At the third, the apostles bow to the figure of Christ, Peter denies his Lord, and the cock crows. A skeleton hastens along, bearing a green scarf on his shoulders with the words “time flies,” and an infant emerges from an opening door with a rattle-box in its hand. Just before the full hour arrives a phonograph makes music to herald its coming. At midday emancipation is acted. Lincoln, proclamation in hand, moves toward a slave bound to an auction block, while the slave turns to look at his deliverer, his shackles fall and his hands are raised as in a prayer of thanksgiving.

Connecticut’s Tramp Law.

The lower house of the Connecticut Legislature has passed a stringent Tramp law, in imitation of the similar laws recently adopted by the other New England States. It is provided" that every person begging, or strolling through the country living on alms, shall be regarded as a tramp and be sent to the State prison for two years; that entering dwellings or kindling fires

by the roadside or on private premises, the carrying of dangerous weapons, malicious injury to property, etc., shall be offenses punishable by more severe penalties, even to five years’ imprisonment. Sheriffs and other .officers shall receive $5 for each arrest and conviction, and towns may appoint special officers to hunt tramps. This bill was adopted by the Judiciary Committee in preference to one re-establishing the whipping-post as a penalty for tramps.

ECONOMIC statistics.

Railways; Merchant Marine, Telegraphs, ahd Pdstal Service. [From the Popular Science Monthly.] A general review of the economic statistics of the world in 1877 is published by Prof. Neumann Spaltart, of Vienna; from which we take the following: Railways—ln the last three decades the net-work of European railways has arisen from 9,000 kilometers (5,580 miles) in 1847 to 154,200 kilometers'' (95,603 miles) in 1877. Of these 154,200 kilometers, 27,500 are in Great Britain and Ireland, 24,800 in AustroHungary, 24,400 in France, 18,000 in Russia, 30,000 in Germany. The remainder is distributed among the smaller states. According to these figures Europe has 150 kilometers of railway for each thousand square kilometers, and 4.8 kilometers per 10,000 inhabitants. These ratios are exceeded in Belgium, Great Britain and Ireland, Switzerland, the Netherlands, etc.

America—ln 1800 the United States had 42 kilometers of railways; now they have 128,000 kilometers (76,360 miles), or 133 kilometers square kilometers of surface, and 28 kilometers per 10,000 inhabitants. In the remainder of this continent there are 19,000 kilometers of railway, of which Canada has 7,000. In India and Ceylon there are 11,000 kilometers, or 46 kilometers per 1,000 square kilometers of area, and one-half kilometer per 10,000 inhabitants. In Africa there are 2,800 kilometers, whereof 1,800 belong to Egypt. Australia and New Zealand possess 4,000 kilometers of railway. On all these railways are employed 62,000 locomotive engines, 112,000 passenger carriages, and 1,500,000 freight cars; they annually carry 1,150,000,000 passengers and 16,000,000,000 quarters of freight. Marine—The merchant marine of Europe embraces in all 7,400 steamships, with a tonnage of 3,000,000 tons, of which total the United Kingdom contributes 5,200 steamships, and over 2,000,000,000 tons of freight. ■p,Telegraphs—At the beginning of 1877 IjUrOpC 11UVI tiMX,VW JYIIVALiv-L * * Y graph lines, whereof 65,000 belong to Russia, 54,000 to France, 48,000 to Germany and 40,000 to the United Kingdom. America had then 183,000 kilometers. The dispatches sent over European lines numbered 82,000,000 in 1876; those sent over the American lines amounted to 23,000,000. Asia and Australia have each 38.000,000 to 39,000,000 kilometers, transmitting 2,500,000 dispatches. In Africa there are only 15,000 kilometers, almost exclusively in Egypt, Algiers and Tunis, and the number of dispatches sent is 1,200,000. There are 560 submarine cables, representing a total of 65,000 nautical miles.

Postal Service—Tne postal service now extends to the uttermost bounds of civilization, embracing the whole globe, from Hammerfest to New Zealand. In Europe over 3,000,000,000 letters and postal cards are carried yearly. In this total the United Kingdom is represented by 1,000,000,000, Germany bv 700,000,000, France by 336,000,000, Aus-tro-Hungary by 300,000,00, Italy by 120,000,000. This would give England 33 letters per head of the population: for Switzerland, 21; Germany, 15; France, 10. Turkey figures for only 0.2 of a letter per capita. In America the number of letters and postal cards carried was 700,000,000; in Asia, 150,000,000; in Australia, 50,000,000; in Africa, 25,000,000. ♦One kilometer is about % of a mile.

Immigration Statistics.

The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics furnishes the following summary of the official returns of immigration into the United States: During the calendar year 1878 there arrived at the several ports of the United States 209,254 passengers, of whom 153,207 were immigrants. During the calendar year 1877 the total arrivals of passengers were 190,361, of whom 130,503 were immigrants, showing an increase of 22,704 in the number of immigrants, or about 17 per cent. The following particulars are furnished with respect to the immigrants who arrived during the calendar year 1878 : The ages were: Under 15 years, 29,685; 15 and under 40, 104,058; 40 years and upward, 19,464. There were 94,561 males and 58.556 females. The occupations were: Professional, 1,516; skilled, 16,837; not specified, 631; without occupations (mainly women and children), 72,121. The countries of last permanent residence or citizenship were as follows: England, 19,581; Ireland, 17,113; Scotland, 3,700; Great Britain (not specified), 1; Wales, 311; Germany, 31,958; Austria, 4.881; Hungary, 632; Sweden, 6,176; Norway, 5,216; Denmark, 2,688; Netherlands, 652; Belgium, 454; Switzerland, 2,051; France, 4,668; Italy, 5,163; Sicily, 228; Greece, 13; Spain, 432; Portugal, 648; Russia, 4,216; Poland, 554; Finland, 22; Turkey in Europe, 23; Syria, 38; India, 9; China, 8,468; South Africa, 7; Africa (not specified), 4; Quebec and Ontario, 24,553; Scotia, 3,282; New Brunswick, 1.458; Prince Edward Island, 349; Newfoundland, 108; British Columbia, 372; Mexico, 473; British Honduras, 4: Central America, 14; United States of Colombia, 7; Venezuela, 16; Brazil, 11; Peru, 17; South America (not specified), 10; Cuba, 494; Porto Rico, 13; Hayti, 4; Jamaica, 34; Bahamas, 289; Barbadoes, 22; St. Croix, 11; St. Thomas, 18; Trinidad, 7; West Indies (not specified), 31; Azores, 873; Cape Verdes, 6; Bermudas, 13; Iceland, 168; Australia, 634; all other countries, 14. During the year 1878 fifteen children were born on the voyage, and the number of deaths was seventy-one.

The population of French colonies and dependencies is 7,067,000. Algeria contains more than half of this number, but only 93,000 natives of France live m Algeria, and about half of these are troops. Alabama’s late Legislature cost the State over SIOO,OOO.

FREE ELECTIONS.

The Responsibility for the Failure of the Appropriation Bills—Speech of Hon. J. I>. C. Atkins, Chairman of the Appropriation Committee. Mr. Speaker: After our exhausting labors I promise that I shall detain the House but a few moments. Memberswill bear me witness that I am not in the habit of occupying the floor long at a time, indeed as seldom as my duty will permit I regret that the conference ooirmlttee upon this bill, which 1 regard the most Important of the Appropriation bills; hate utterly failed to agree. We have had three sittings; we have discuseel thb question In evety possible pliaSe of it, and wfe Have found it impossible to crime to any agreement What might have been effected, if the whole subject had beep left to the conferees themselves alone, it is not necessity for file hote to say; nor am I warranted in saying eton that they could have come to a conclusion. But they each felt that there was a power behind them which would admit of no agreement The disagreement between them is radical. As you know, Mr. Speaker, the House has demanded in, I may say, unmistakable terms free elections, untrammeled < lections. The House has demanded also intelligent j uries, and that jurors should not be subjected to test oaths while members of Congress coming from the Southern States and representing the majesty of the people upon this floor are not subjected-to such oaths. Upon glancing at the clock I am reminded that I must be very brief. I had designed to discuss these subjects sotnewhat more at length than I Will now do On account of the limited time, and because I owe to my colleagues on the oonference committee a courtesy which lam determined to pay. I must, therefore, be as concise as possible. There were about 100 amendments to the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation bill. We were enabled to agree in regard to most of these amendments. We did not agree to the salaries of the officers and employes of the Senate and House of Representatives. I believe it is but candid to say, however, that if we could have agreed upon the other points we might have agreed upon that Mr. Speaker, the deliberate action of this House in attaching the repealing clause to the Legislative, Executive and Judicial'Appropriation bill of certain sections of the Revised Statutes has been respected and firmly maintained by the majority members of the House conferees. Upon so grave a question, one not measured by a mere appropriation of money, but involving the rights and liberties of American citizens, the majority of the House conferees did not hesitate a moment to resolutely stand by the injunctions and carry out the action of the body which created our functions. Whatever individual opinions of mere policy in the beginning I or any other Representative may have entertained, and upon which it is usual to exercise the broadest latitude and the most liberal discretion in conference, here is a question involving the most sacred rights and privileges of the citizen, around whifch this House has thrown the agis of its protection and over which this committee has been intrusted a special guardianship, and one which they had no disposition to disregard.

The committee could not agree upon that feature of the bill which proposes to repeal the test oath now applied to Federal juror*. The importance of selecting juries from among the most intelligent of the people is too plain to admit of argument. The rights of property, the well-being of society, and the safety of the best a law which drives intelligence from the jurybox and installs it with ignorance and prejudice. What public or private harm can result from the repeal of such a law is to my mind inexplicable. Without its repeal the substantial ends of justice will continue to be defeated and the sanctity of the verdicts and judgments of juries and of courts will sink into ridicule and contempt. Surely, any law which becomes contemptible in it* execution, and irritates rather than appeases and assuages popular sentiment is radically wrong and ought to be repealed. The conference committee were equally unfortunate in not agreeing upon the provisions of the bill which repeal the laws authorizing the appointment of Supervisors and Deputy Marshals. So far as the Supervisors are intended to supervise elections and see that a failcount is had, I have heard no complaint. These officers are selected from both political parties, and, if confined to simply supervising elections to prevent fraud, there is not any special objection.

But when these officers arc used for police purposes—to make arrests and otherwise interfere with the rights of citizens—there is a vital and fundamental objection. There is no warrant in the constitution for clothing Supervisors with police powers; that power is lodged with the States But grant that the constitution clothes them with police duties and powers, why should they, aided by an army of Deputy Marsha s, turn upon that constitution and rend it by defeating a fair election? That such has been the unvarying and oft-repeated result for years past is not seriously denied that I am aware of. These Deputy Marshals are invariably selected on account of their known partisanship and efficiency in manipulating and managing elections; they are appointed by the administration on account of their facility and readiness to work for the attainment of party ends. Realizing that the language of the constitution (article I, section 4) only confers the power upon Congress to decide when, where and how the elections of members of Congress may be held and conducted, but does not extend to the qualifications of voters except such as are made necessary under State constitutions to render a citizen eligible as an elector for members of the most numerous branch of the State Legislature this House and the country feel that the system of laws which should protect the sanctity of the elective-franchise may be, and has been, converted into an ingenious enginery to deny and even overthrow the purity of the ballot-box, which lies at the base of the very citadel of freedom. All agree that in America a free, unobstructed and unintimidated ballot is fundamentally essential to free institutions, and any supervision which prevents its voluntary and unfettered exercise is at war with the spirit of the constitution, no matter though its enopty forms may be complied with. The practical effect of these laws has been to prevent fair elections and arouse in the public mind the gravest apprehensions for that purity and legality without which elective government becomes a simple mockery. If intimidated and the fear of arrest drive electors from the polls orforce them to vo*e against their will, in what does the plebiscite of France which elevated Napoleon to be the supreme ruler of that country differ from our boasted lights of suffrage?" No more violent assault was ever made upon the freedom of the elective franchise in France during that period of simulated liberty to which I have just referred, when to have refused to support this mock hero of republicanism was equivalent to incarceration in the Bastile, than was made in the great city of New York and other places on the day of the election in November last, when thousands of American citizens were arrested and imprisoned with the sole view of preventing them from voting. That such acts of tyranny so utterly subversive of liberty may not be repeated this House has taken its stand in the sacred name freedom, and demands the repeal of the laws under the cover of which these wrongs were perpetrated. The right of the representatives of the people to withhold supplies is as old as English liberty. History records numerous instances where the common feeling that people were oppressed by laws that the lords would not con sent to repeal by the ordinary methode of legislation obtained redrees at last by refusing ap - propriations unless accompanied by relief ' measures. This is not an ordinary affirmative proposition which is here sought to be engrafted upon this bill to be carried through by virtue of its momentum, but it is simply a relief measure, a repeal of a bad law. The system of laws so ingeniously blended to obstruct the free exercise of the elective franchise, and against which the majority in this House is now arrayed, grew out of the military ideas which have dominated the legislation of this country since the war. But the time has now come -when these measures of injustice and inequality, so long and so patient ly endured, must give way to the advancing and well-grounded sentiment of free elections in all the States of this Union, and the equal rights of all men at the ballot box. As long as these relics of military domination remain upon the statute-book just‘so long will the public mind continue to be agitated. As long as statutory contrivances continue to be used to defeat the popular will, so long will the people struggle to wipe them out As, long, too as these measures encumber the statute-book economic questions of administration will retire before their presence. For what matters any given line of policy if the people are denied the right of suffrage, or if the chosen Representatives of the people are ejected by arbitrary power from the places to which they have been elected? We, therefore, submit the general disagreement, and now relegate to the House

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the trust imposed by the expression of its judgment and action. Speaking for myself alone, it seems to me that the majority, having demanded the repeal of these iniquitous laws, have reached a point where retreat is impossible .and where it will be easier to go through than retrace their steps. Whatever responsibility attaches to either house or either party, or the individual members of each, either the one or the other, for the failure of these appropriation bills, the people will fix it where it belongs. That the majority of this House should be blamed for demanding the repeal of statutes which are unjust and unconstitutional, is hardly probable. Believing, therefore, that the repeal is justified by every conside at ion of fairness and right, the majority can well afford to submit this issue to the verdict of ths people.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

Monday, Maxell 10.—SfcNATfi.—The House resolution allowing the reading cldrk of each hotise $1 per day extra was adopted.... .The House Iloinestead and Exemption bill was taken up, and, after considerable discussion, ■was laid on the table and ordered printed .... The Governor’s proclamation convening K special session of the Legislature to-hiorrow was read The following is the amount paid to members of the Senate: For mileage and per diem, $20,214; to employes, $8,688.50. t ... At 5 o'clock the Senate adjourned sine die. House. —Several attempts were made to vote money to employes, but all motions of that kind were rejected... .A concurrent resolution

- was adopted allowing SSOO for the pay and mileage of witnesses in attendance upon the State- .House investigation.... .New bills were -introduced; Fixing the method of collecting tbcJlpK from fast freight linos; compelling tlipAuditjr of State to pay all insurance rhea Intothe treasury, and abolishing the techrrtcii-motion for a Venire de n0v0... .The BpeKltef'made a report of all Warrants drawn by him. The amount paid to members, sot per diem and mileage, is $40,081, and to employes for per diem, $9,956... .At 3 o'clock Gov. Williams sent in a proclamation convening the Legislature in special session, beginning tomorrow at 9 o’clock... .The House then adjourned sine die. Tuesday, March 11.—Senate.—Lieut. Gov. Gray called the Senate to order, and ail the Senators responded to their name) except Messrs. Davenport, Moore, Streight, Weir and Winterbotham... .A resolution, ottered Ly Senator Reeves, continuing the officers of the regular session in their respective positions, was adopted with but little opposition. The iu’es of the regular sestion were asso adopted... .The Senate took up the House amendments to the State House bill and concurred in those reducing the tax levy to two cents and appropriating $200,(K0 for this year. The amendment appropriating SIOO,OOO for next year was not concurred in, and a committee of conference was asked f0r.... The House bill concerning settlements between county boards and county, township and school officers, was taken up... .Pending discussion, the Senate proceeded to the Hall of the House to hear th a Governor’s message read. House —The House was called to order by Secretary of State Shanklin. The members were sworn in by Judge Niblack, of the Supreme Court... .Business was then resumed. A bill was introduced requir.ng the Auditor of State to pay 75 per cent, of all fees received from the insurance department into the treasury. .. .The Senate bills amending the Divorce law and making it a misdemeanor to c< n :eal morigaged prope.tyand the Home b lis authorizing towns to kvy a tax for tho purpose ur ligtniug me oixoot., ameuding the Code and amending the Road law were passed. The Message.—The Governor’s most age was read before the two houses in joint < onvenlion. Below are the points of the document: ‘-Eighteen Senate and twelve House bills makeup the list presente 1 to me, and by these the labor of the session would have been

judged had it not been for the opportunity afforded by the extra session. An examination of these acts suggests that modern ideas comtemplate a special session and the devotion of a large portion of the regular session to setting right the eirors of agents of the people, r< lieving sureties on official bom's, changing jud ci< J circuits to accommodate prejudices, fixing the times of holding court to accommodate the few at the expense of the many, and enacting undei the forms of general laws acts which are necessarily special and local, leaving the interests of he whole State to fall into confusion.” The message then common s on the legalizing acts, which propose to legalize a number of ordinances of a town, but so drawn as to leave ten of them to be legalized two years hence. By one act the Legislature appropriated $125,00 J for its own expenses and by anct :er created two new Clerkships. Ho also comments on the other laws pas ed. The Legisla ive Apportionment will receive the hearty apprjbitioa of the Executive as being j ast and fair to all affected by it. The message also notices the growing disposition to increase the ministerial duties of the Executive by conferring on him different appointments, leaving I the Legislature nothing to burden their peace of mind. Ho urges the pan age of a fair fee aid salary bill, the appropriation bills with j revisions for the complet on of the new insane asylum and cell-houte at the H uthern prison. He a'so refers to ho importance of appropriating 502,000 to save the grounds of the State Board of Agriculture, and protect the turn already invested by the State. An appropriation for carrying on work at the new State House is asked for. The fees of expert witnesses are recommended to be fixed by liw. The law allowing each county two free : c ioo'.ships at the State University should be repealed. The subject of a board of p trdons is again referred to, and the message concludes wit i an emphatic suggestion that the t ession be brief.

Wednesday, March 12.—Senate. The Lieutenant Governor announced that the standing committees of the regular session would be reappointed... .Senator Wood offered a joint resolution requesting the Legislature of Illinois to adopt some measure for the removal of the dam over the Kankakee at Momence, which was referred to a special committee.... A bill was introduced and passed, under suspension of the rules, repealing and reenacting the act establishing an asylum for feeble-minded children. This was made necessary that an emergency clause might be added, which was omitted from the oiiginal bi 11.... The House resolution asking Congress to pay the Morgan claims was pas-cd... .The S'* e House Appropriation bill was finally disposed of on report of the conference committee, which recommends the following: A tax levy of 2 cents, appropriating $200,000 for this year and SIOO,OIO for next year, if there be so much in the treasuiy unappropriated, and that State officers be authorized to issue bonds to p%y any portion of the existing debt of the State that may become due.... The following bills were passed: C)anting towns power to is.-ue liquor license; prohibiting oftiei tis from being interested in any manner in public contracts; amending the Justice act.... The bill making a stockholder liable for twice the amount of stock held by him, and icgulating the practice of medicine failed for want of constitutional majority, and the bill abolishing the office of B.ate Geologist was laid on the table.

House.—Bills passed: Permitting felonies to be prosecuted on information when the Grand Jury is not in session, compelling railroad companies to destroy Canada thistles, on the line of their roads; amending the act creating Horse-Thief Associations; permitting forprotection of sheep; and Senate bills permitting townships to levy tax to keep up a library donated to the township; permitting husband and wife to testify for and against each btl er. ... .The report of tie conference c unmittee on the State House bills was concurred in. eign corporations to redeem property told for taxes; making a jury in civil casos consist of six members; giving laborers’ claims a precedence in cases of voluntary assignments; giving defendwti in libel cases the right to prove facts, but forbid ling the proving oi inti-ors; amenuing the D.ten laws: fcr i..« Thursday, March 13.—Senate—The following bills, which were passed at the regular session but not presented to the Governor in time for him to act upon them, were reintroduced and passed under a suspension of the constitutional rule: To prevent foreign corporations from removing causes against them to Federal courts; defining libel; amending the act for elections for Supervisors of Highways; authorizing cities of less than 7,000 inhabitant to surrender their charters; exempting wages bf laborers from garnishment for a period of one month; making laws governing October elections applicable to November elections in case the constitution is amended; legalizing the acts of the Common Council of Huntington, and the Lye Creek Drainage Association; regulating the use of human bodies for purpose of dissection, and preventing grave robbing; abolishing one of the Marion Superior Courts... .The bill prohibiting the admission of children under 7 years to the House of Refuge passed... .The

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General Appropriation, bill occupied the remainder of the day. —The committee to investigate into the Auditor’s rffice reported. The majority report states that Auditor Henderson has no illegal fees from insui ance cd’wpanies, and that he is Entitled to all he has i-Crtived. The minority re'pfM’t recommends that the Attorney General’ ascertain what amount of fees have been collected by lhe Attditor and not paid .Mothe treasury, anil commence a suit on the offi cial bond of the Auditor to reccn«r the same. The minority report was adopted../.The following House bills, which failed to ffweh the Governor hi time for bisac’ion during the revw tar session, were introduced and passed uno.’*’ asuspension of the constitutional rules; legalizing the acts of the town of Edinburg; legalizing «e purchase of lands by the Commissioners of inton county; legalizing the town of Auburn; authorizing the city of Evansville to cirrtrgp' itH name to Lamasco; for the incorporation or cemeteries; requiring school trustees in toWyU to have the authority of town trustees before* issuing bonds for the ereetion of school-houseS, and several relief bi 115.... The Senate bills which passed the Senate this morning were taken up and passed by the House under a suspension of the rules. FAiday, March 14.—Senate.—No business or importance was transacted, only a short session being held. House.—The bill passed making it lawful for barbers to perve customers on Sunday. Nothing more of interest or importance occurred. Satubday, March 13.—-Senate. —A resolution to adjourn sine die next Saturday was dobaled ard voted down.... The House sent hr aboti a dozen Lils, all ’• galizing a and the rules were at once tn peud -d and luO j-il » pissed.... The whole d;y was exl.a’Uded m rm.tlers of no ger e: al interest, tbo .J-* import nrt thing being ordering the General Appropriation bid to be eiip.r. ■■ 50d.... !i e balance of tl.e day w s occupied in debating the repeal of Saving • Bank law. iloUsE—A bill was introduced to indict additional punishment in cases of rape.... Tho bill requiting all passenger tialb to stop at ail incorporated towns f.dk.d to .Several legalizing biUsTv- so iutioducid am p:w-ed.... About noon a nutub r of members w< o. wanted to adjourn mail Mu? day commenced filibustering, and the result was that a quorum Waa broken, and, after several calls of the House bad bcoa made, the doors were locked anti the absentees sent for. About 2 o’clock a qr.orum was got together, and the House adjourned until Monday.

Brother Gardner Speaks Out in Meetin’. Brother Gardner looked down upon the ballhead of Sir Isaac Walpoffi for a long minute, and then began : “Gem’len, dey say dat ebery man’s house am his castle, an’ I'm de las’ one to bring up a brudder’s domestick matters in dis club; but de tears of a wife an’ de hungry wails of children am crowdin’ me to say a few words nt dis meetin’. Las’ night de wife of Brudder Simcoe Davis knocked at my cabin doah. I kicked out de dog, chased out de cat, frew de bootjack under de bed, an’ my boots under de table, an’ toled her to come in. She was ■weepin’ like a green bay tree. My ole woman helped her to sot on de aige of de wood-box, an’ arter de fust convulsions of grief had passed away do ole woman tole us dat she an’ de chill’en hadn’t had a bite to cat in two days, an’ de cook-stove was as cold as » crowbar. Brudder Simcoe Davis was at home an’ in the bes’ health, an’while de chill’en were cryin’ for bread hewaslyin’ on de floo’ perusin’ de ‘ Life of Kit Carson ’ an’ stoppin’ to spell out all de big words. I went ober dar an’ seed it all wid my own eyes. I doan’ say dat he has broken any of do laws an’ rules of dis club, but I do say dat a nigger who will lump down on his back to read a novel when de liah am out an’de cupboard empty am not fit to sit heah ’longside of hard-workin’ men.” “Hear! Hear!’’came from all parts of the hall, and in about two minutes Simcoe Davis was divorced from the club by a unanimous vote.— Detroit Free Press.

An Humble Heroine.

Mary Ann Wilson is a peanut woman of New Orleans. She has a shabby little stand on St. Charles street, for which with al! its contents, says a New Orleans paper, “a $5 note would be an extravagant price,” “ Grandma Wilson ” has bent over the same little stand nearly forty years. Nobody would ever know to see her or would hear from her own lips that this withered, poor old woman was the most famous yellowfever nurse in the South. Y< t such is the fact. In 1837, forty-two years ago, she faithfully nursed fever-stricken patients in New Orleans. Again, in 1853, she was at her post, caring lor the sick that whole sorrowful summer. In 1855 there was a yellow fever epidemic at Norfolk. Grandma Wilson went there and nursed. Another year she went to Savannah, and remained while the plague lasted, caring for the hapless sufferers. Again she went to Memphis, performing the same noble duties. Last summer, on the outbreak of the fever, she went to Grenada, and for thirty-eight days and nights stayed there, and “those withered hands were often the only ones to soothe burning brows or close dying eyes. To her tender care were committed their children by dying parents.” From Grenada she <vent to Memphis, and stayed there, ministering to the sick and dying like an angel of mercy till the frightful plague ceased. Then, simple as she was noble, the heroic old woman went back without a word to her shabby little fruit stand in St. Charles street.

Saved by Cold Water.

A Vijidham county correspondent tells tjfe remarkable story of a man in Canterbury, ■who, sick with some kind of fevch, was pronounced by the local physician to be beyond hope of recovery. A neighbor was called in to watch with the sick man, and, as there seemed no possibility of the patient living through the night, the watcher insisted that the family should all retire early, promising to call them immediately if any unfavorable change occurred. As soon as he was left alone with the presumably dying man, the attendant commenced feeding the patient with cold water a table-spoonful at a time, continuing the process until an ordinary waterpail fill! had actually been administered. The fever thus drowned out, the sick man fell asleep, awakening late in the morning to call for food. He was allowed to eat what he wanted, continued to improve, and in two or three days was tip and about his business. The remarkable case is well attested, and there seems to be no doubt of its substantial accuracy, as recorded above. The water used was obtained from a well adjacent. Hartford (Ct.) Post.

Love and Business.

When a woman burns her finger she cries a little over it, and keeps the burn in good condition to show her husband when he comes home, to get sympathy. A man m the same condition will stick his digit in his mouth, kick over the office stool, swear at the boy, and forget all a’-out it. One is the effect of love, the other of business. — Commercial.