Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1879 — Page 1

fflhf glemocratif A. DMOCBATIO nWSPAPXB PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAY, WT JAMES W. McEWEN. TIRUS OF SUBSCBIFTIOM. •tMsopyoM ymr 'ILII «m aopy six maths. LN On» eopy thrss months •••> *N NT Advsrtiatof rates «■ application.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOBBXGIT NEWS The English Derby was won this year by Lord Norrey’s horse Sir Bevys, against whom the betting was twenty to one. The Darien Ship Canal Congress at Paris adjourned on the 80th ult, after a session of nearly two weeks. The result of its labors is the adoption of the Panama tide-water-level canal project of Lieut Wyse, the cost of which is estimated at <150,000,000. The enormous cost of thia project, though the cheapest one submitted, renders it doubtful if the money to carry it forward will be forthcoming in this or the next generation. A furious naval engagement recently took place oft Iquique, Peru, between the Chilian wooden vessels Esmeralda and Cayadonga and the Peruvian armor-plated frigate Independence. All three vessels were sunk. The Esmeralda was originally a Spanish gunboat The Independence was the most important vessel in the Peruvian navy. Her armament consisted entirely of Armstrong guns. The latter were 100-pounders. In Berlin there are rumors of a reconstruction of the Cabinet, and Bismarck’s retirement is talked of as a possibility. Mount Etna, in the Island of Sicily, is in a violent state of eruption, and several villages are in danger of destruction. There has been another desperate battle in South Africa, but the English were not directly engaged in it A large band of Zulus, it appears, among them one of Ce tv way o’B brothers, were on their way to the English camps for the purpose of surrendering. They had crossed the frontier into Natal when a pursuing force, said to have been commanded by Cetywayo himself, fell upon them, slaughtered large numbers of them and dispersed the remainder. Lacoste, a Frenchman naturalized in the United States some years ago, has been expelled from France for renouncing his nationality without performing his military duty. Mr. Noyes, the American Minister, fruitlessly endeavored to secure the revocation of the order. A train on the Saragossa and Madrid railway in Spain was recently stopped by brigands, near Calataynd, and robbed of SB,OOO. Parole, the American horse, has scored his fourth brilliant victory on the English turf, winning the Epsom gold cup with •ase. A committee of the French Chamber have decided in favor of the prosecution of Cassagnao. The Portuguese Cabinet has ?esignec In consequence of internal dissensions.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. ICant. The only sister of Vice President Wheeler has just died at Malone, N. Y. She was unmarried, and 05 years old. A smash-up on the Pittsburgh division of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad resulted fatally to Engineer Pritchard and two tramps who were stealing a ride on the train. At Newark, Vt., a few days ago, a party of nine children drank water from a brook, the waters of which had been polluted by the carcasses of a horse and several sheep, and were poisoned, from the effects of which seven died soon after, their bodies becoming putrid and demanding immediate buriaL Others cannot survive. A dispatch from Gloucester, Mass., records the loss of another fishing vessel, with its crew of fourteen men. Wednesday, May 28, was the anniversary of the birth of Tom Moore, Ireland’s national port, and the day was signalized in Brooklyn, N. Y., by the unveiling of a bust of the poet in Prospect Park. An immense throng turned out to witness the ceremonies. A committee of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, after an exhaustive investigation, have reported to that body that they find the following named persons have been guilty of corrupt solicitations of members of the legislature in connection with the Pittsburgh Riot bill. Representatives Rumberger, Armstrong county, and Smith and Petroff, Philadelphia; W. H. Kemble and ex-Represent-ative Charles B. Salter, Philadelphia; Alexander W. Lanseuring, of Carbon; Jesse K. Crawford, of Blair, and Christopher Long, of Cumberland counties. A dispatch from Island Pond, Vt., the scene of the recent heartrending poisoning affair, says: “ Two more children of John Aidrich died from drinking from the poiwned brook, making five, his entire family. Mrs. Aldrich is insane. Eleven children who drank of the polluted brook have died so far. Potato-tops, poisoned by paris green, which were thrown into the brook, are regarded as the cause of the poisoning rather than the carcasses of dead animals. Terrible distress prevails in the town, and work is suspended. Twenty-seven children were poisoned by drinking from the brook.” A fire at Silver Reef, Utah, destroyed a large portion of the business center of the town and twenty residences. The loss is estimated at $500,1’00. A Milwaukee eorrespondent of the Chicago Tribune tells a rather startling story regarding Senator Carpenter. It is to the effect that he is a slave to tobacco, and is killing himself by its excessive use. This correspondent says that Mr. Carpenter smokes twenty cigars a day, that he is hardly ever without one in his mouth, that he has wasted so that his limbs have become emaciated to the semblance of pipe-stems, and that he is a very sick man. West.

An examination of the books and papers of the lately suspended Broadway Savings Bank, in BL Louis, reveals a condition of rottenness that is absolutely shocking. By false accounts the institution has been robbed of nearly $300,000 by the cashier, Philip Krieger, Jr., son of the President of the bank. While Krieger has been systematically plundering, the bank has been declaring 10 per cent dividends semi-annually, and the stock has been away above par. A negro tramp who obmmitted an assault upon a lady at a farm-house near Quincy, 111., a few weeks ago, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for forty-eight years. He was convicted on three similar indictments, sentenced on one to twenty years and on the others for fourteen years each. A mob of seventy-five armed men overpowered the jailer of Bakersfield, Cal, and entered the cells containing two murderers, Thomas and William Yoakum, and lynched them by hanging them in the cells. William Yoakum was chained to the floor of his cell, and, as the chain could not be loosened, he was hung with the chain on his feet He was shot several times after hanging him. Troy Dye, formerly Public Administrator of Sacramento county, Cal., and his partner in crime, Edward Anderson, were hanged at Sacramento, on the 29th ult, for the murder of A. M. Tullis last August

The Democratic Sentinel.

JAS. W. McEWEN Editor.

VOLUME 111.

In some parts of Missouri locusts have made their appearance in vast numbers. The Illinois Legislature at its recent session appropriated $9,000 to complete the Donglas monument in Chicago. Eva Williams, age <4, and Emma Davies, age 13, daughters of the proprietors of the Chittenden Hotel, at Columbus, Ohio, were drowned while bathing in the Olentangy river. The Chicago church-choir “Pinafore” company are billed at Haverly’s for the week commencing the 9th inst., when something exquisite in the way of music is promised. Thi tyoupe is selected from among the best singers in the Garden City, and has been in rehearsal for some time. If the success of similar combinations in Philadelphia and Boston can be taken as an example, this will prove the most acceptable of the thousand and one musical crews at present on deck. The mystery of the Manhattan (N. Y.) Bank robbery of October last, by which money and securities worth about $3,000,000 were secured by the burglars, has at last been revealed by the confession of the night watchman, who was one of the gang implicated in the affair. The plot of the cracksmen was formed three years before its successful execution, but was postponed from time to time, as unexpected obstacles were encountered. After the robbery and division of the swag, each member of the gang was assessed S6OO, which was sent to Washington to defeat the bill introduced in Congress to duplicate the stolen bonds, as, if passed, it would be almost impossible to negotiate the originals. Three members of the band who took part in this extraordinary robbery have been arrested, and the New York police are on the track of the others

WASHINGTON NOTES! The following notice to holders of called bends has been issued by the Secretary of the Treasury: Tbeasuby Depabtment, Office or the Secretary of the Treasury, Washington. D. 0., May »H.—Holders of called bonds which mature before .he Ist of July next are requested to send them to this department for payment during the month of June. In this way the holders of such bonds will receive payment for them, with interest to maturity, before the bonds mature. The very large payments of called bonds to be made in July will fully occupy the different offices of the department in that month, and preference in the order of liquidation will be given to the maturing bonds rather than to those bonds, past due, the holders of which have failed to present Jhem for payment. All United States bonds forwarded for redemption should be addressed to the “Loan Division, Secretary’s Office,” and all registered bonds should be assigned to “The Secretary of the Treasury for redemption.” When parties desire checks in payment of registered bonds drawn to the order of any one but the payee, they should assign them to the Secretary of the Treasury for the redemption account of owner or owners, giving the name or names thereof. As it is impossible to notify directly the holders of such called bo&ds, the press of the country is respectfully requested to give publicity to this notice, that there may be no delay in the payment of the bonds, and that an accumulation of money in the treasury may be avoided. John Shebman, Secretary. The Chief of tho Bureau of Statistics, in the tenth monthly statement of the current fiscal year of imports and exports of the United States, says the excess of exports over imports of merchandise was, for the ten months ending April 30, 1879, $241,443,623; ditto, 1878, $227,042,087; twelve months ending April 30, 1879, $272,215,779; ditto, 1878, $221,680,012. At a Cabinet meeting, the other day, the Attorney General gave an opinion in relation to the Eads jetties, to the effect that Capt Eads is entitled to the payment of $500,000 claimed to be due under his contract, notwithstanding the slight filling up of the river above the jetties, and the Secretary of War has ordered the payment to be made. The Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives, at Washington, have rejected, by a vote of 4 to 3, the bill repealing the duty on quinine. Eben C. Ingersoll, formerly a Representative in Cohgress from Illinois, and a brother of Col. Bob Ingersoll, died at Washington last week.

FEDERAL FINANCES. COINAGE. Coinage executed at the United States Mint during May: No. of Pieces. Value. Gold 30,l<KJ $ 789,400 Silverl,36o.ooo 1,300,000 Bars 455,000 4,70 S T0ta11.793,790 $2,094,508 INTERNAL REVENUE. The following is a comparative statement of the receipts from the internal-revenue service for the eleven months of the present and previous fiscal year to May 31,1879: Present year51<’4,052,062 Previous year 101.881,141 Gain for present year.s 2.170,914 Receipts for the month of May, 1879. ...$ 15,< 27.178 Receipts for the month of May, 1878.... 12,295,794 Gain for present month;s 2,731,384 CURRENCY STATEMENT. Following is a statement of the United States currency outstanding: Old demand notess 61.530 Leeal-tender notes, all issues 846,681,016 One-year notes of 1863 49.285 Two-year notes of 1863 14.300 Two-year coupon notes of 1863.. 23,750 Compound-interest notes 261.66 J Fractional currency, all issues 15,874,781 T0ta15362,966,82* THE REDEMPTION BUREAU. The following is a statement of the operations of the National Bank Redemption Agency for May, and eleven months ending on the 31st ult, as compared with the corresponding periods last year: National-Bank Notes Disposed of. Month. 11 Months. Notes fit for circulation,assorted and returned to hanks of issue $ 8,759,600 $103,343,500 Notes unfit for circulation, assorted and delivered to the Comptroller of the Currency for destruction and replacement 4,457,100 35,639,600 Notes of failed, liquidating and reduiing banks deposited in the treasury; 1,251,800 4.266,200 Totals for 1879514,469,590 $146 269.850 Totals for 1878 22,016.360 190,8.43,800 Decrease 7,547,800 44,625,450

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANING#. Burned: A warehouse containing $300,000 worth of cotton on Bridge street, New York; several manufacturing buildings in Buffalo, N. Y., loss about $100,000; the business part of the village of Paris, Mich., loss $27,000; Miller & Goss’ candy factory, Washington, D. C., loss $30,000. A heavy foreign immigration to this country this year has for some time been predicted by the knowing ones, and the figures seem to be bearing them out The arrivals for the past week in New York alone were nearly 6,000, and the number is expected to increase in the weeks to come. The new-comers embrace many nationalities, but English, German and Irish predominate. It is thought that the wide-spread industrial distress prevalent in England will send us a larger proportion of English emigrants than heretofore.

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1879.

An iron steamer is about to take on board, at a United States port, 59,000 stands of American arms for the Turkish Government Her cargo will be worth about $1,000,000.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. The bill reported by Mr. Bayard, to provide for an exchange of subsidiary coins for lawful money, and making such coins a legal tender in sums not exceeding S2O, was taken up on the 96th, and Mr. Edmunds spoke against the bill. When Mr. Edmunds concluded, consideration began of the bill heretofore introduced by Mr. McDonald, authorizing the employment of the militia and land and naval forces in certain cases, and to repeal the Election laws, and Mr. McDonald addressed the Senate in support of his measure. The bill relative to the transportation of live stock was discussed. The House was not in aesaion. The proceedings in Congress were not specially interesting on the 97th ult. In the Senate, Mr. McDonald asked leave to present the petition and memorial of the ex-soldiers and sailors of Providence, protesting against violations of the civil-service reform, especially in relation to the appointment of custom officers in Providence, and alleging interference by Federal officers in elections. The petition, after a spirited debate, went over, on objection. The bill relating to the transportation of cattle was then taken up. Mr. Edmunds said this was a subject of general legislation, and not one contemplated in the convening of the extra session. He moved that it be postponed until tho first Monday in December next. The motion was agreed to. In the House, the morning hour was frittered away by filibustering motions of the Republicans to prevent action on th bill relative to the removal of cases from State to Federal courts. The bill to prevent the Introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States was then taken up and passed in precisely tbe shape it came from the Senate. The Ways and Mians Committee reported Fernando Wood’s resolution, fixing the day of adjournment for June 10. The bill providing for the exchange of subsidiary coin for lawful money of the United States under certain circumstances, and to make such coins a legal tender in sums not exceeding $lO, was passed by the Senate on the 28th ult. Mr. Call, of Florida, addressed the Senate in support of the bill to allow the use of the militia and land and naval forces of tbe United States in certain cases, and to repeal the Election laws. Nothing of importance transpired in the House, the day being devoted to District of Columbia business.

The Senate discussed the McDonald bill to authorize to use of military forces in certain cases, on the 29th ult. Mr. Wallace delivered a three-and-a-half-hours’ speech in favor of the bill, after which Messrs. Blaine and Hill indulged in one of their characteristic colloquies. The President pro tern, announced the following as the select committee on Pendleton’s bill providing that the principal executive officers of the Government may occupy seats on the floor of the Senate and House of Representatives: Messrs. Pendleton. Voorhees, Bayard, But’er. Farley. Conkling. Allison, Blaine, Ingalls, and Platt. In the House, the resolution of the Ways and Means Committee, fixing the 19th of June as the day of final adjournment, was, on motion of Mr. Atkins, laid over for consideration on Saturday, 31st. The message of the President vetoing the Legislative. Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was received and read. Tbe reading was listened to with close, and, for a time, respectful attention. Only an audible titter went through the Democratic ranks when tpe sentence was read as to the effect of the existing law being to secure honest elections. Again, when the sentence was read as to what good faith, honest endeavor, and judicial authority can do for the protection of ti.e elective franclii e. the Democrats laughed outright, and the Republicans, as a coun-ter-demonstration, applauded. The House refused to pass the bill over the President’s veto—yeas, 112: nays. 91; not the necessary two-thirds in the affirmative. This was a strict parly vote. Only four Greenbackers vot ii, two (Ladd and Stevenson) in the affirmative, and two (Barlow and Ford) in the negative. Tbe message of the Presid nt was then referred to the Committee on the Judiciary with leave to report by bill or otherwise at any time. Neither branch of Congress was in session on the 31st ult. The two advisory committees of the House and Senate Democratic caucuses held a joint meeting and reached substantially a unanimous agreement as to the course of action that should be adopted by the dominant party in Congress with regard to the appropriation bills. It was decided to recommend the passage of the Army Appropriation bill, with the proviso that none of the money shall be used in the payment of expenses incurred should the troops be used for police purposes at the polls. It was also determined to pass the other bills, omitting any provision for the payment of Supervisors or Deputy Marshals of Elections. The committee also agreed to recommend the paisage of a separate bill containing the principles vetoed by the President relative to the method of drawing juries and the abolition of the juror’s test oath.

Destructive Tornado.

. A tornado marked by terrible death and destruction recently swept over a wide stretch of country, beginning in Western Missouri and extending over a portion of Northern Kansas and Southern Nebraska. The town of Irving, Kan., was nearly destroyed. At that point the storm took on the character of a cyclone, and leveled everything in its path. About forty buildings were destroyed, fifteen persons killed, and over forty wounded, many beyond hope of recovery. In the neighborhood of Frankfort, Kan., four or five farm-houses were blown over and several persons injured, and in the town several houses were destroyed. At Beatty, Kan., a number of houses were demolished. At Centralia, Kan., several houses were unroofed, and one house and barn blown down, trees uprooted, fences laid flat, and great damage done to crops. At Dennison Mills, Neb., a Catholic church was blown down, several houses damaged, and one lady severely injured. At Manhattan, Kan.. a store in which fifteen people had taken refuge from the storm was blown down, and a woman and child killed. Near Lee’s Summit, Mo., the house of Mr. Warren was totally destroyed. Two members of the family were killed and others severely wounded. The house of Alexander Scroggs was unroofed. His wife’s skull was fractured. The houses of Dr. Dunnington and Mr. Underwood were destroyed, but their families escaped unharmed. The residence of Mr. Hutchins was tom to pieces, and the family badly hurt A son of J. H. Warden was carried through the air a distance of 100 yards and when consciousness returned he found himself in a small stream. While going through the air he saw his small brother still higher than himself, and it is supposed that he must have been thrown still further, but when found after the disaster he was returning to the house, which was nothing but a mass of debris. In falling he was impaled on a stick of broken furniture that penetrated to the depth of two and onehalf inches into his thigh, inflicting a painful but not dangerous wound. The house of Mr. Harris, near Blue Springs, was demolished. Mr. Harris his wife and little girl were killed, and three other children mortally wounded. Mr. Harris was lifted high np into the air, carried about 200 feet in the course the storm moved, and then dashed to the earth, while his wife and child were carried about the same distance in an opposite direction. One of the other children was found in a pool, fifty yards from the house, with a large bunch of wet straw and grass wrapped so tightly around his head and shoulders that it could only be removed with great difficulty. The child was but slightly injured, his escape being attributed to the mysterious bandage around him. At this point the storm-cloud burst, but came together again almost instantly with a terrific crash, bounded from the earth, came down again near the dwelling of Mr. Gore, which it passed through, leaving its side walls standing. At Delphos, Kan., five persons were killed in one house. Fifteen dead bodies were brought in from two square miles of territory. One man was taken up in his wagon, thrown to the ground again, ana instantly killed. A woman and child were thrown against a wire fence and killed. The track of the tornado throughout its entire length and breadth was marked by death and destruction. Buildings were swept away as if they had been made of paper, trees uprooted, grain cribs, fences and crops destroyed, and horses and cattle killed. The storm in all its phases lasted about two hours. It was intensely dark, and the force of the wind was perfectly resistless. When a house was struck it was totally demolished. The people could give no intelligible account further than that there was a crash and then everything flew into the air as soon as possible. Everything that the central portion came in contact with was either destroyed or scattered promiscuously. Large trees were uprooted, roots, dirt and all, and were carried hundreds of feet. As an evidence of its terrible force it laid a stone fence level with the ground, and in some cases throwing stones of one and a half cubic feet a distance of 200 feet The persons who were caught by it were in nearly all cases stripped of their clothing, and were so completely besmeared with mud that other persons were unable to recognize them until they epoke.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

THE THIRD VETO.

The President’s Objections to the Legislative Appropriation Bill. To the House of Representatives: Bibs: After mature consideration of the bill entitled “ An act making appropriations for tbe legislative, executive and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, and for other purposes,” I herewith return it to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, with tho following objections to its approval: The main purpose of the bill is to appropriate money required to support, during the next fiscal year, the several civu departments of the Government The amount apnropriated exceeds in the aggregate $ 18.000,000. This money is needed to keep in operation the essential functions of all the great departments of the Government—legislative, executive and judicial. If the bill contained no other provisions, no objections to its approval would be made. It embraces, however, a number of clauses relating to subjects of great general interest, which are wholly unconnected with the appropriation which it provides for. Objections to the practice of tacking general legislation to appropriation bills, especially when the object is to deprive a co-operative branch of the Government of its rights to the free exercise of its own discretion and judgment touching such general legislation, were set forth in the special message in relation to the House bill No. 1, which was returned to the House of Representatives on the 29th o? last month. I regret that the objections which were expressed to this method of legislation have not seemed to Congress of sufficient weight Io dissuade form this renewed incorporation of general enactments in an appropriation bill, and that my constitutional duty in respect to general legislation thus placed before me cannot be discharged without seeming to delay, however briefly, the necessary appropriation by Congress for the support of the Government

Without repeating those objections, I respectfully refer to that message for a statement of my views on the principle maintained in the debate by the advocates of this bill, viz.: That “to withhold appropriations is a constitutional means for the redress” of what a majority of the House of Representatives may regard as a “grievance.” The bill contains the following clauses, viz.: “And provided further, that the following sections of the Revised Statutes of the United States, namely, sections 2,016, 2,018 and 2,020, and all of the succeeding sections of said statutes down to and incluaing section 2,027, and also section 5,522, be, and the same are hereby repealed, * * * and that all the other sections of the Revised Statutes, and all laws and parts of laws authorizing the appointment of Chief Supervisors of Elections, special Deputy Marshals of Elections, or General Deputy Marshals, having any duties to perform in respect to any election, srd prescribing their duties and powers, and allowing them compensation, be and the same are hereby repealed. ” It also contains clauses amending sections 2,017, 2,019, 2,028 and 2,031 of the Revised Statutes. The sections of the Revised Statutes which this bill, if approved, would repeal or amend are part of an act approved May 30,1870, and amended Feb. 28, 1871, entitled “An act to enforce the rights of citizens of tbe United States to vote in the several States of this Union, and for other purposes. ” All of the provisions of the above-named acts which it is proposed in this bill to repeal or modify relate to Congressional elections. T‘ e remaining portion of the law, which will continue in force after the enactment of this measure, is that which provides fpr the appointment by a Judge of the Circuit Court of the United States of two Supervisors of Elections in each election district, at any Congressional election, on the due application of citizens who desire, in the language of the law, “to have such election giArded and scrutinized. The duties of the Supervisors will be to attend at the polls at all Congressional elections, and to remain after the polls are open until every vote cast has been counted; but they will have no authority to make arrests or to perform other duties than to be in the immediate presence of the officers holding the elections, and to witness all their proceedings, including the counting of the votes and making a return thereof.” The part of the Election law which will be repealed by the approval of this bill includes those sections which give authority to the Supervisors of Elections “to personally scrutinize the count and canvass each ballot,” and all the sections which confer authority upon United States Marshals and Deputy Marshals in connection with Congressional ’elections. The enactment of this bill will also repeal section 5,522 of the criminal statutes of the United States, which was enacted lor the protection of United States officers engaged in the discharge of their duties at Congressional elections. This section protects Supervisors and Marshals in the performance of their duties, by making the obstruction or assaulting of these officers, or any interference with them by bribery, or solicitation or otherwise, crimes against the United States. The true meaning and effect of the proposed legislation are plain. Tho Supervisors, with authority to observe and witness the proceedings at the Congressional elections will be left, but there will be no power to protect them, or to prevent interference with their duties, or to punish any violation of law from which their powers are derived. If this bill is approved, only the shadow of authority of the United States at national elections will remain; the substance will be gone. The supervision of elections will be reduced to mere Inspection, without authority on the part of the Supervisors to do any act whatever to make the election a fair one. All that will be left to the Supervisors is the permission to have such an oversight of elections as political parties are in the habit of exercising without any authority of the law, in order to prevent their opponents from obtaining unfair advantages. The object of the bill is to destroy any control whatever by the United States over Congressional elections. The passage of this bill has been urged upon the ground that the election of members of Congress is a matter which concerns the States alone; that these elections should be controlled exclusively by the States; that there are, and can be, no such elections as national elections, and that the existing law of the United States regulating Congressional elections is without warrant in the constitution. It is evident,however, that the framers of the constitution regarded the election of members of Congress in every State and in every district as, in a very important sense, justly a matter of political interest and concern to the whole country. The original provision of the constitution on this subject is as follows: Section 4 Abticle 1. The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but Congress may at any time, by law, make or alter such regulations, except as to tbe places of choosing Senators. A further provision has since been added, which is embraced in the Fifteenth amendment It is as follows: Section 1. The rigfit of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any State, on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude. Sec. 2. Ihe Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Under the general provisions of the constitution (Section 4, Article 1) Congress, in 1866, passed a comprehensive law, which prescribed full and detailed regulations for the election of Senators by the Legislatures of the several States.

This law has been in force almost thirteen years. In pursuance of it, all of the members of the present Senate of the United States hold their seats. Its constitutionality is not called in question. It is confidently believed that no sound argument can be made in support of the constitutionality of the national regulation of Senatorial elections which will not show that the elections of members of the House of Representatives may also be constitutionally regulated by national authority. The bill before mo itself recognizes the principle that the Congressional elections are not State elections, bnt national elections. It leaves in full force the existing statute under which the Supervisors are still to be appointed by national authority to “observe and witness” Congressional elections whenever due application is made by citizens who desire said elections to be “guarded and scrutinized. ” If the power to supervise, in any respect whatever, the Congressional elections exist under Section 4, Article lof the constitution it is a power which, like evrey other power belonging to the Government of the United States, is paramount and supreme, and includes the right to emplov the necessary means to carry it into effect * The statutes of the United States which regulate the election of members of the House of Representatives, an essential part of which it is proposed to repeal by this bill, have been in force about eight years. Four Congressional

elections have been held under them, two of which were at the Presidential elections of 1872 and 1876. Numerous prosecutions, trials and convictions have been field in the courts of the United States in all parts of the Union for violations of these laws. In no reported case has their constitutionality been called in question by any Judge of the courts of the United States. The validity of these laws is sustained by the uniform course of judicial action and opinion. If it is urged that the United States Election laws are not necessary, an ample reply is furnished by a history of their origin and of their results. They were especially prompted by the investigation and exposure of frauds committed in the city and State of New York at the elections of 1878. Committees representing both of the leading political parties of the country have submitted reports to the House of Representatives as to the extent of those frauds. The committee of the Fortieth Congress, after a full investigation, reached the conclusion that the number of fraudulent votes cast in the city of New York alone in 1868 was not less than 25,000. A committee of the Forty-fourth Congress, in its report, submitted in 1877, adopted the opinion that for every 100 actual voters of the city of New York, in 1868,108 votes were cast, when, in fact, the number of lawful votes cast could not have exceeded 88 per cent, of the actual voters of the city. By this statement the number ■of the fraudulent votes at that election in the city of New York alone was between 30,000 and 40,000. These frauds completely reversed the result of the election in the State of New York, both as to the choice of Governor and State officers, and as to the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States. They attracted the attention of the whole country. It was plain that, if they could be continued and repeated with impunity, free government was impossible. A distinguished Senator, in opposing the passage of the election laws, declared that he nad for a long time believed that our form of government was a comparative failure in the large cities. To meet these evils and to prevent these crimes the United States laws regulating Congressional elections were enacted. The framers of these laws have not been disappointed in their results. In the large cities, under their provisions, the elections have been comparatively peaceable, orderly and honest. Even the opponents of these laws have borne testimony to their value and efficiency, and to the necessity for their enactment The committee of the Forty-fourth Congress, composed of members a majority of whom were opposed to these laws, in their report on the New York election of 1876, said: “ The committee would commend to other portions of the country, and to other cities, this remarkable system developed through the agency of both the local and Federal authorities, acting in harmony for an honest purpose. In no portion of the world, in no era of time where there has been an expression of the popular will through tbe forms of law, has there been a more complete and thorough illustration of republican institutions. Whatever may have fieen the previous habit or conduct of elections in those cities, or howsoever they may conduct themselves in future, this election of 1876 will stand as a monument of what good faith, honest endeavor, legal forms and just authority may do for the protection of the electoral franchise.”

This bill recognizes the authority and duty of the United States to appoint Supervisors to guard and scrutinize Congressional elections; but it denies to the Government of the United States all power to make its provisions effectual The great body of the people want free and fair elections. They do not think that a free election means freedom from the wholesome restraints of law, or that the place of an election should be a sanctuary for lawlessness and crime. On the day of an election, peace and good order are more necessary than on any other day of the year. On that day the humblest and feeblest citizens, the aged and infirm, should be and should have reason to feel that they are safe in the exercise of their most responsible duty, and their most sacred right as members of society, their duty and their right to vote. Constitutional authority to regulate Congressional elections, which belongs to the Government of the United States, and which it is necessary to exert to secure the right to vote to every citizen possessing the requisite qualifications, ought to be enforced by appropriate legslation. So far from public opinion in any part of the country favoring any relaxation of the authority of the Government in the protection of elections.from violence and corruption, I believe it demands greater vigor both in the enactment and in the execution of the laws framed for that purpose. Any oppression, any partisan partiality, which experience may have shown in the working of the existing laws may well engage the careful attention, both of Congress and of the Executive in their respective spheres of duty for the correction of these mischiefs. As no Congressional elections occur until after the regular session of Congress will have been held, there seems to be no public exigency that would preclude a seasonable consideration at this session of any administration of details that might improve the present methods designed for the protection of all citizens in a complete and equal exercise of the right and power of suffrage at such elections. But with my views, both of the constitutionality and of the value of the existing l iws, I cannot approve any measure for their repeal, except in connection with enactment of other legislation, which may reasonably be expected to afford wiser and more efficient safeguards for free and honest Congressional elections. (Signed) Rutherford B. Hayes. Executive Mansion, May 29,1879.

FASHION FRIPPERIES.

New lambrequins and curtains are of striped mummy cloth. Untrimmed round skirts are preferred for traveling use. Black Brussels net bonnets bid fair to be very fashionable. Small boys and girls dress precisely alike except in the bonnet or hat. Plain skirts, as yet, are worn only by very fashionable women. Medium-sized gypsy and directoire bonnets take the lead at the moment. The newest way of arranging wide scarfs is to drape one just above the flounce which borders the underskirt. Suits of white bunting are trimmed with bright plaid and bows of cardinal and gold-colored ribbon. Bonnets, with brims of straw or silk and crowns of net, composed of black or corded silk, are in preparation. The net is bordered by a fringe, and falls in the back like a veil. Tatting is coming again into fashionable use at a great rate. For parasol covers, cuffs and ends of muslin neckties, the tatted lace is frequently and prettily employed. It revives an almostforgotten industry, and Heaven knows the poor women are always glad to patronize art and industry wh?n applied to dress. Sashes have come in again, and wide ribbons will be in demand. Brocade and watered ribbons matching the dress, and others striped in Boman, Scotch and Pompadour colors are used. Belts are fastened around the waist, and hang down in-long, flat loop and two longer ends. , A new French costume intended for driving or walking is of white ribbed woolen, simply made, a white straw hat trimmed with white rosettes, a white sunshade, white scarf and a nosegay of white flowers and mignonette tied with white ribbon. Absolutely plain underskirts are worn in New York, but they are usually made of such heavy goods that they are not much more comfortable than if of light materials elaborately flounced. The overskirts worn with these skirts may be either simple or draped in the most complicated way, but they are often so short as to show a great deal of the underskirt.

Kind.

A hostler, who was asked if a deceased friend of his, who had been a cabman, was kind to his horses, answered, “Kind I Was Billy kind to ’s ’osses? Vy, bless you, the doctors say he died of /losatfication of the ’eart.”

USE OF TROOPS.

Able Speech of Mr. McDonald, of Indiana. Delivered in the Senate of the United ' States. In has been sought, Mr. President, by the Republican party in and out of Congress, to stamp upon the controversy that has arisen over the effort that has been made to repeal the Federal election laws a sectional character, and to use it as a means of securing a solid North against what the Republican leaders are pleased to style a “solid South.” No effort has been made to defend these laws on any sound principle, but the intellect and eloquence of the ablest champions of the Republican party have been amjtJoyed in the endeavor to utilize sectional hate and to excite the fears and prejudices of the people of the Northern States against the people of the Southern States, while it is perfectly manifest that the North as a section is more interested in their repeal than the South. If the South has become solid it is because the maladministration of the Republican party in the Southern States has made it so; ana in the nature of things it will continue to oppose with united front any party that shall seek to maintain political power in that section by attempting to govern it by placing ignorance over intelligence and subordinating civilization to barbarism. Withdraw the outside pressure that has encircled that section since the day that reconstruction began, and in a short time we shall have a divided South as well as a divided North, and political parties separated by geographical lines will soon be unknown to our politics. Again, the advocates of these measures falsely charge that their repeal is a reactionary movement in favor of ultra State rights ana would endanger the proper authority and power of the General Government If by ultra State rights is meant the right of secession or nullification, it is not true that it is now or never was a Democratic doctrine, as it-certainly ever was the principle of the Federal constitution. From the days of Thomas Jefferson to the present time the Democratic party as a party has ever maintained that the Federal Government, within the powers delegated to it by the Federal constitution, was supreme. They have only claimed what the constitution itself deciares, that the powers not therein delegated to it nor prohibited to the States are reserved to the Stat as respectively and to 4he people; and the invasion of these reserved powers by the Federal Government is an unwarranted usurpation, as the nullification of the Federal authority by the State or by the people is an unauthorized rebellion. The Democratic party is no more chargeable with the views held by Mr. Calhoun and his followers than is the Republican party chargeable with like sentiments expressed in the Hartford Convention. My objections to these laws, Mr. President, are, first, that they are in violation of the spirit, if not the letter of the constitution, by seeking to interfere with or control the primary right of the States over the people’s Representatives; second, that they surround the election-polls in the States with the political emissaries of the administration, with power, if need be, to call to their assistance the military arm of tbe Government, under the pretense of keeping the peace at the polls; and, third, that this election machinery has been used, and if suffered to remain in force will bo used again, for the mere purpose of securing party triumphs, and that this use is more to be feared throughout the Northern States than in any section of the Union. Take the election of 1878 as an illustration. In the States of New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Ohio, it is safe to say that by the aid of these lavys the Republican party was. enabled to change the political complexion of at least ten Congressional districts. Without this a:d the House of Representatives of the present Congress would have a Democratic majority of at least twenty, and by its use ! t is ia the power of the administration to cou ’■he elections of members of Congress in every . or doubtful district in the United States. In . "ity of Philadelphia during the last election tbv was employed an army of Federal officers numbering 773 Deputy Marshals and 1,332 Supervisors of ’Election, at a cost to the people of $41,170, a force that was wholly unnecessary for any purposes of a free and fair election, as was shown by the testimony of the Marshal of that district in his examination before a committee of this body. The following is his testimony on that point: By Mr. Hoar: Question I suppose you have had large experience in the city of Philadelphia. Are you a native of that city? Answi r. Yis. sir; I was born in that city, Q. And lived there all your days? A. Yes. sir. Q. In your judgment, would those elections have been safe from disorder and fraud without ■the precautions which you have described? A. I believe they would. Q. Without the precautions you have described? Suppose there had been no supervision or guarding by the Deputy Marshals, do you think there would have been danger of disorder or fraud in the elections? A. In some localities there would, in others there would not. I think, as far as the appointment of Supervisors and United States Marshals for the city of Philadelphia is concerned, the city could do without them very well. She could protect herself without the law, as far as Philadelphia is concerned.

In the city of New York a still larger force at a still greater cost was employed, as has been repeatedly shown in this debate. In the city of Cincinnati two Congressional districts were controlled by Federal emissaries, and the people cheated out of their choice. In the State of Massachusetts more money was paid out by the public treasury to control the elections than in all the States lately in rebellion. Will her Senators in this Chamber say that this was necessary to secure a free and fair election of members of Congress? If not, for what purpose was this Federal machinery brought into play in that State? I suppose there can be but one answer to that question It was to prevent the people of Massachusetts from selecting for their Governor a certain person, well known to the history of this country, who made himself obnoxious to the political leaders of that State. Gen. Butler is no personal or political favorite of mine, yet he is a man of great ability and is a citizen of Massachusetts. The people of that State had the right to choose him for their Governor, but the leaders of the Republican party did not think so* and consequently foreign aid was called in to control the popular will. Deputy Marshals were appointed; United States Supervisors were appointed, and the people were taxed to defray the expenses incurred in defeating them of their choice. All this was done under the false pretense of providing for a frep and fair election. The effect, therefore, of these laws, as already demonstrated by their practical working, is to interfere in State elections as well as to place it in the power of the Federal admistration to subordinate the popular branch of the Federal Congress to the control of the executive department of the Government, and to aid in his purpose the Executive is vested with almost unlimited control over the military power of the country, with direct authority to station troops at the polls under pretense of keeping the peace. The President of the* United States is “Com-mander-in-Chief of the army and navy of the United States.” It a fundamental principle of free government that the military should be held in strict subordination to civil authority. It was one of the specific grounds of complaint by the colonies against the King of Great Britain “ that he had affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power.” The principle of making the military strictly subordinate to the civil power was scrupulously guarded by the fathers of the republic. There are three classes of cases in which a use or the military is not only proper, but often indispensable; they are, first, to repel invasion; second, to enforce the laws of the United States; third, to aid a State in suppressing insurrection against its authority, or to put down domestic violence.

The power of the Executive to use the army as its military commander to repelinvasion has never been restricted, but has been left to his discretion. An armed invasion by a public enemy is war, and must be met at once by military power, and every President has been authorized to use it and vested with the power to decide on its necessity. But not so in the other two cases. The President is not a magistrate with authority to issue processes and precepts; there is another department of the Government clothed with that power—the judicial department, and, while it is made his duty to take care “ that the laws be faithfully executed,” it is not right to clothe him with the authority to decide upon the question of their execution; and, therefore, in the earlier statutes regulating this duty it was expressly provided that, when the laws of the United States were opposed in any State by a combination too powerful to be suppressed by ,he ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or

$1.50 ver Annum.

NUMBER 17.

by the powers vested in the Marshals, the President, upon receiving official information of that fact from an Associate Justice—that is, one of the Supreme Judges—or the District Judge of proper district, was authorized to call in the aid of the military power to suppress such combinations and to cause the laws to be exe-e cuted. So, when in any State there should be an insurrection against the Government .thereof, it was lawful for the President, on the application of the Legislature of such State or the Executive when the Legislature could not be convened, to use the military force of the United States to suppress such insurrection. And, during the nullification excitement of 1832-’33, when it was thought necessary to clothe the President with what was regarded ex'raordinary powers to meet the exigency of the case, the statutes were carefully drawn to guard against the exercise of any arbitrary power on his part by requiring him to be officially informed by the authorities of the State, or by the proper Federal Judge, of the existence of the facts creating the necessity for military aid, and the duration of the authority conferred was expressly limited in the act. The act of July 29, 1861, still upon our statutebooks, was the first broad departure from these principles and vested in the President dictatorial powers. It is as follows: Whenever, by reason ot unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages of persons, or rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States, it shall become impracticable, in the judgment of the President, to enforce by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings the laws of the United States within any State or Territory, it shall be lawful for the President to call forth the militia of any or all of the States, and to employ such parts of the land and naval forces of the United States as he may deem necessary to enforce the faithful execution of the laws of the United States, or to suppress such rebellion, in whatever State or Territory thereof the laws of the United States may be forcibly opposed, or the execution thereof forcibly obstructed.

It will be seen that the power to judge of the exigency is vested in the President, and not in the courts nor in the State authorities. As President he decides and as Commander-in-Chief of the army he executes, so that the judicial and civil as well as military authority in the premises is vested in the one department of government— the executive. It may be said that this act was passed during flagrant war and as a war measure. This may have justified its passage; it may have also justified the continuance of this power during the war; but it forms no justification for vesting such powers perpetually in the one department of government, the head of which is also the military chief of the country. During the war this great power was not only exercised by the President, but by military commanders in various localities, as shown by numerous military orders issued in loyal as well as disloyal sections of the country, and was frequently leveled at persons whose only offense consisted in their opposition to the political measures of the administration. Under it, or in misuse of it, elections were interfered with and the military used to control them in the interest of the Republican party. I have heard it said in this Chamber that the military had never been used to control elections in this country. In my State, in 1864, a regiment of Massachusetts volunteers stationed at Indianapolis were permitted to leave their encampment on the day of election, and, with arms m their hands, suffered to surround the polls and not only exclude citizens from voting but were permitted to vote themselves, a privilege that they used most freely. This was done in my own view, and I saw these non-resident armed men insult and drive from the polls citizens of the State as loyal as themselves. Similar scenes were enacted in other parts of the State, as I have good reason to know. These and.other like abuses induced the passage of the act of 1865, by which it was made “unlawful for any military or naval officer of the United States, or other person engaged in the civil, military or naval service of the United States, to order, bring, or keep or have under his authority or control any troops or armed men at the place where any general or special election was held in any State of the United States of America, unless it shall be necessary to repel the armed enemies of ths United States. ” So read the bill as introduced by its author. Senator Powell, of Kentucky, but, by the Repu lican majority in the Senate, it was amended by adding these important words, “or to keep the peace at the polls. ” The Republican party, then as now, were unwilling to give up the power of exorcising, through their President, military supervision over the elections. In 1871 an act was passed enti'led “Au act to enforce the provisions of the Fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States, and for other purposes.”

The third section of this act has been changed by the revisers and carried into the Revised Statutes as a general law. It is section 5,199, and is the third section under the title “Insurrection. ” As revised it confers upon the President the most absolute power in the use of the military in suppressing insurrections in the States and in enforcing the laws of the United States, making him the sole judge of the exigency and relieving him from any control on the part of any other department of the Government or from any State or local authority, so that, instead of returning to constitutional and regular methods of civil government when the war was over, the Republican party has added to the powers of the President even beyond what was thought necessary during the most urgent necessities of the civil war, so that we now have upon the statute-books laws that not only authorize and permit an unwarrantable interference in popular elections, but, what is more dangerous still, powers slumbeiing there capable of being exerted in establishing a military dictatorship. The purpose of the bill I have had the honor to introduce is to aid in securing such just reforms as will relieve the country from the danger or apprehensions of danger of the exercise of arbitrary power by the President in the use of the military arm of the Government, and to place that arm under control of proper civil authority without crippling the President in any proper use of it, and, by repealing all Federal laws relating to the manner of holding elections for members of Congress, to remit to the people and the States once more the right to free elections under their ownlaws. These objects the Democratic party has endeavored to accomplish by the various measures which it has sought tj pass into the forms of law and which have been so strenuously opposed by the Republican party in this and the last sessions of Congress. No more important question has ever engaged the attention of the people of this country in the time of peace. It involves no less an issue than this: Are our people, after passing through a civil war which taxed their energies to the utmost, and in which, for war purposes, they clothed their Executive with a most absolute power, capable, when the war is over, of re-establishing the civil administration of the Government by applying once more the checks and balances so necessary to secure popular rights; or will they, for the benefits and advantages that parties may derive from the exercise of such arbitrary power, suffer it to remain as a permanent part of our political system? Our people have shown themselves equal to many emergencies and vindicated their capacity for self-government, and for maintaining the guarantees of civil liberty on many occasions, and in my opinion they will do so now. The Republican party, in its opposition to these necessary reforms, has made itself the champion of arbitrary power and of Federal interference in the elections, and in the end will be beaten. It is not a mere contest between the Democratic party on the one band and the Republican party on the other, nor is it a controversy between the North and the Son th; it is a contest between the Republican party in its effort to retain the control of the Government and the people in their endeavor to re-establish the principles of a just, representative republic. Every man in this country whose political future is not bound up in the success of the Republican party is in favor of these reforms, and in the contest to secure them the Democratic party is but the mouth-piece and organ of the people, and no blunders or mistakes which it can make in its efforts to secure these reforms can cause their ultimate defeat

I know it is a favorite saying among Republican leaders that they have been embled to maintain power heretofore on account of the mistakes made by the Democratic party, but this is very far from being true, although from time to time they may have profited by such mistakes. I ask my Republican friends to look back over the past At the close of the war their party was in power in all the Northern States, and they held the Southern States as conquered provinces and molded them in their reconstruction policy as the potter molds the clay in his hands. The people felt grateful to the Republican party because under its auspices the Rebellion had been put down and the territorial integrity of the country preserved. It is true that, on every battle-field, the Democrats of the Northern States stood side by side with Republicans in support of the Union. In my own State the roll of the living and the dead will show a Democrat of the rank and file for every Republican, and, among the most honored of tho Democrats of Indiana, are to be found the names of Manson, Love, Gray, Slack, Shaw, Williams, and a host of others; yet the Democratic party, became it insisted unon being true to Its principle; ig opposing sqcb political

jgemotratq JOB PRINTING OFFICE Baa better taeflittee than any ofllee tai Marthweatef* Indiana for the of all branches of JOB FBXUTXKra. PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. Anything, from a Dodger to a Price-List, or from a (flunphlst to a Poster, black or colored, plain or fancy, SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

measures of the Republican party as it is believed to be wrong, was charged with disloyalty. Fourteen years have passed away. How stands the case now? This arrogant and imperious Republican party is in a minority in noth branches of Congress, is in a minority in every State in the Union but four, and holds the executive power of this Government by commission of a political crime and against a popular majority of over 260,000 votes, and has no hope in the future except in its bad effort to array one section of the country against another. It requires no prophet to foretell its downfall, for it has been “weighed in the balance and found wanting.**

INDIANA ITEMS.

Scarlet fever is decimating the children of Evansville. New Albany has sold New Harmony a hand fire engine at $350. Over 300 head of sheep have been killed by dogs in Floyd, Harrison and Clark counties in the past two or three weeks. The fifteenth annual convention of the Indiana Sunday School Union will be held at Richmond, June 25, 26 and 27. Victor Emery has sued the city of Fort Wayne for $5,000 damages because he broke his leg on a defective sidewalk.

The Louisville, New Albany and Chicago railroad is receiving large quantities of rails from the Indianapolis roll-ing-mills to relay its track. A sensation in Brown county is the elopement of James Fleetwood, aged 82 years, with a Miss Thompson, aged 16. Fleetwood leaves a family behind him. Great preparations are being made for commencement at the State University, which comes off June 11, this being the fiftieth anniversary of that institution. There is said to be trouble ahead for the people of Scott county. The County Commissioners have ordered the building of an expensive poor asylum, and the people cannot afford the cost. The enumeration of school children for some of the principal towns of the State is as follows Lafayette, 6,307; South Bend, 3,712; Crawfordsville, 1,727; Bloomington, 845; La Porte, 3,462; Michigan City, 1,974: Franklin, 958; Madison, 5,540; Noblesville, 741; Muncie, 1,586; Lawrenceburg, 1,680; Brazil, 978, The sfxty-second annual meeting of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, at Indianapolis, last week, elected the following officers: Most Worthy Grand Master, Bellamy J. Sutton; Deputy Grand Master, C. W. Prather; Senior Warden, Bruce Carr; Junior Grand Warden, Albert P. Charles; Grand Treasurer, Charles Fisher; Grand Secretary, William M. Smythe.

The School Apportionment.

The Superintendent of Public Instruction has just filed his semi-annual apportionment of the State commonschool revenue for tuition, and the enumeration of school children by counties, together with the total collections and the amounts apportioned, will be found below: an > 3j g* £ 2 g § £ >i v o 2. •* o 2 S tr COUNTIES. g" w ~ S' s’® .2» . B • »®£ £.s* • £ • ►— S I . M • P* Adams 5,605:$ 5.134.22 $ 8,351.45 Allen 23,356 24.10(1.15 84,80".44 Bartholomew 7,77(1 12,< 20 lb 11,586.21 Benton 3.683 6 6.6.24 5,487.61. Blackford 2.757 3,045 53 4.117 93 Boone 9.433 14,306.'5 11.0 5.17 Brown 3,727 2.054 : 9 5.553.23 Carroll 6,447 7.758.41 9,(>( 6.! 3 Cass 9,887 11,845.39 14.731.1 W Clark 9.82< 9.611.10 14,643.71 Clay 8.667 8,426.81 12.913 83 Clinton 8,022 9 344 99 11,952.78 Crawford 4,272 1,769.66 6,865 28 Daviess 7,8281 7.323.16 11.663.72 Dearborn 9,8 5 11.726 33 11.609.45 Decatur 7,(«5 10.795 46 10..'5\(2> DeKalb 6.963 8.628 Bi‘ 10.37187 Delaware 7,6 6 12.619.73 11,877.64 Dubois 6,123 5,156.81 9,123 27 Elkhart 11,219 17,256.44 16.716 31 Fayette 3.6,9 8.393.77 5,377.41 Floyd 9.168 9,(194.78| 13661.88 Fountain 7.036 10,243.60 10,13.64 Franklin 7.710 10.820.05 11,487 1(0 Fulton 4,993 5,212.60 7 439 57 Gibson 8.171 9.635 45 1 2,171.97 Grant 8.079 10.946.81 12,037.71 Greene 8 472 7.231.67 12,623.28 Hamilton 8,341 11,174.38 1 2.428.(9 Hancock 5,769 8.914.38 8 595.81 Harrison 8.550 5.294 74 72.719.50 Hendricks 7.817 13.000.3 ( 11,647.33 Henry 7.942 1 4,321.85 11 833 58 Howard 6.629 7,419.93 9.877 21 Huntington 7,6(5 8.385.29 11.33145 Jackson 7.995 9,247.82 11,912.55 Jasper 3,378 4,696.95 5,1'33.22 Jay 6,717 7.433.(5 10.008 33 Jefferson 12,009 9 604.74 17,893.4! Jennings 6.009 5,514 . 6 8.953.41 Johnson 6.627 10,7 2.(6 9 874.21 Knox 10.821 9.318.19 1ff,123.29 Kosciusko 9.098 11.435.01 13,556.(2 Lagrange 5,204 7.627.49 7,753.96 Lake 5.525 9.961.06 7,785 2.5 Laporte 10,990 15.531 09 16,3.5.10 Lawrence 6,602 6,915.70 9,736 98 Madison 9,360 1 2 298.03 13.931 50 Marion 85,292 104,180.21 52,.>85.08 Marshall 8.386 8,954.12 12.495 11 Martin 5,000 2.943.34 7.450.00 Miami 7,946 9.617.53 11,831.51 Monroe 5,616 7,72(1.50 8.218.84 Montgomery 9,724 14,949.77 14.488.76 Morgan 6,712 9,568.2 v 10,000.88 Newton 2,74 4,757.87 4,0:7.07 Noble 7,877 10.219.25 11.736.73 Ohio 1,972 2,297 08 2,9 8.28 Orange 5,262 4,276.26 7,840:18 Owen 6,0(7 8.425.17 9.010 03 Parke 6,599 10.185.78 9,832.51 Perry 6.600 8.245.84 9,824.04 Pike 5.757 4;368.56 8,577.91 Porter— 6.228 8,519.17 9.219.70 Posey 8,270 8,750.71 12,332.33 Pulaski' 8,677 3,476.77 5.478.72 Putnam 7,976 16,(00.79 11.884.24 Randolph 9,128 18,762.44 13,0' 072 Ripley 8,069 6,274.01 12,022.81 Rush 6.181 18,288.73 9,209.69 Scott 8,139 1.859.77 4,677.11 Shelby 8,476 14.369.56 12,629.24 Spencer 9,211 7,106.39 13,724.39 Starke 1,987 1,858.93 2 886.13 Steuben 5,227 5,551.89 7,788.23 St Joseph 10,570 14,830.84 15.749.80 Sullivan 7,453 6,148.07 11.104.97 Switzerland 4,685 4,405.98 6.9-0.65 Tippecanoe 14,312 24,423.77 21.324.88 Tipton 5.285 5,066.03 7.874.65 Union 2,581 6.295.08 3,845.69 Vanderbnrg 17,058 23,370.52 25,416.42 Vermillion *3,800 5,798.97 5,637.00 Vigo 15,554 24,849.17 23,175.46 Wabash 8,525 11,397.28 12.702.25 Warren 8,982 8,360.86 5,848.68 Warrick 8,283 6,350.42 12,341.67 Washington 6,894 7,531.40 10.272.06 Wayne 13.224 26,288.74 19,703.26 Wells 6,312 6,653.61 9.404.88 White 4,524 6,562.65 6.740.76 Whitley 5,865 6,968.58 8.738.85 Normal school 7,500.00 Total 707.845 1955,172.65 $1,062,164.05 "•Estimated.

American Coal in Europe.

The rumor that an Italian firm were negotiating in the United States for an immediate supply of 100,000 tons of coal, in place of obtaining it from England, as heretofore, has caused uneasiness in London. A cargo of American coal reached the Mediterranean sixteen months ago, and met with a ready sale, and more than twenty cargoes have been sent over since that time. The Globe apprehends that before long the coal : ndustry of Great Britain will have to encounter determined rivalry on the part of the United States,