Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1879 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS Three employes of the Government book depot at Poonah, India, having confessed that they set the recent fires ifi order to destroy the evidences of their defalcations, two were sentenced to life-long transportation and the other one to ten years’ transportation. A correspondent of the New York Herald, at Alexandria, Egypt, says: “After a seven months’ campaign, Cant Gessi returns north completely victorious. The revolt has been crushed, and with it must go down the slave traffic which has outraged civilization for half a century. In all seven pitched battles •were fought on the Gazelle river, the slavetraders and rebels combining against Gesst All the slave stations were destroyed, and the establishment of civilized rule will prevent any further raids from the region of the Gazelle.” The Prince of Orange, heir apparent io the throne of the Netherlands, is dead. John Ennis, the American pedestrian, who went over to England to walk for the Astley belt, recently saved the lives of two ladies at one of the locks on the river Thames. The Britons unanimously vote him a great hero. A fire at Point Breeze, on the Schuylkill river, just above Philadelphia, destroyed several factories, a large amount of shipping, and 1,000,000 gallons of oil. The loss will reach more than a million of dollars. A dispatch from St. Petersburg states that the Governor General of Moscow has found it necessary to ektend martial law to five adjacent provinces. Reports have reached the Government of India of fresh massacres of royal Princes at Mandalay, prompted by the King of Burmah. The cause of the recent advance in silver in London is attributed by the Loudon Tinie» to the fact German Government is hoarding coin with a view, it is believed, to its early remonetization. The Great Council of Geneva, Switzerland, has refused to discuss the re-establish-ment of capital punishment Not a single voice was raised in its favor. It is rumored that the Khedive of Egypt will abdicate. The bill for the removal of the French legislative body from Versailles to Paris has passed the upper house of the French Parliament by a large majority. While the steamer Orpheus, bound to Koenigsburg, was lying in the harbor of Stettin, Germany, her boiler burst, and many persons aboard were killed. A British, Parliamentary committee has resolved that the 010-trio-lighfing systi m is sufficiently developed to allo its being economically used for public, but not for domestic pUI poses. DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. IdlllMt. Three ."young men, Charles Fifield, Wil mm D. rinkham and William Howell, were drowned in Salem (Mass) harbor, the other day, by the caps zing of a sail boat Parr, t he Philadelphia fiend whomurdered bis (laughter and was sentenced to death, cheated the bangman by taking a dose of strychnine. After twelve hours’ suffering he died in the most horrible agony. Wednesday, June 11, was the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage of the Emperor and Empress of Germany, and the event was celebrated with great pomp at Berlin. Commodore I. A. Parker, Superintendent of the Naval Academy, at Annapolis, ML, died at Baltimore, last week, aged 56. A mysterious and horrible murder is agitating the people and puzzling the detectives New York. Mrs. Dr. Hull, an aged lady of •wealth and respectability, living with her husband in an aristocratic mansion in West Fortycocond street, was found dead in her bed, with a gag in her mouth and a handkerchief tied across her- eyes. The deed was probably committed by burglars, for the purpose of robbery. South. The little town of Mclntosh, Liberty county, Ga., was the other day the scene of a terrible riot between a party of negro excursionists from Bryan county and those belonging to the place. It began in a fight between two negroes, whereupon John Randall, Captain of the negro militia company from Bryan county, a part of the excursionists, ordered his company to charge, which they did, bayoneting everybody within reach. The Captain himself killed one man, by running him through with his sword There was intense excitement at this outrage. The Liberty county negroes rallied and drove the military company into the cars, opened fire on them, killing four and wounding many more, only stopping the shooting when the train got out of the way, which they tried to prevent by tearing up the track. All the parties engaged wore negroes. At Huntsville, Ala., the ’other day, while a body of convicts were marching to dinner, six of them broke away. Two were ehot dead by the guards and the other four escaped. West. Advices from the Upper Missouri report that Sitting Bull and a small band of his adherents have gone to the Saskatchewan. It is said that before his departure ho advised his tribe to return to the United States and submit to the Government A dispatch from the West reports that “the coach from Deadwood” for Sidney was stopped near the Cheyenne river by five masked robbers. The passengers, four in number, were robbed of their money and valuables. The mail-sacks were cut open and their contents thrown on the road, the robbers taking the registered packages. Having made a, successful “ clean-up,” the robbers allowed the coach to proceed on its northward journey. We read in the Chicago papers that • contracts have been made within a few days for the transportation of wheat from Chicago to Liverpool at the rate of 30 cents per 100 pounds, which Is equal to 18 cents per bushel." The footpads who recently knocked down a messenger of the Illinois Central railroad in the streets of Chicago, in broad daylight, and robbed him of SIO,OOO, have been arrested and a considerable portion of the money recovered. The twenty-first saengerfest of the North American Saengerbund began at Cincinnati on Wednesday, the 11th of June, and, lasting five days, wound up on Sunday, the 15th, with an out-door musical fete. The chorus was nearly 2,000 strong, comprising all the local societies, and visiting clubs from all over the West, besides some from the East One of the most furious railroad wars known for years is being waged between the Southwestern lines. A recent telegram from Kansas City says tickets were being sold there for St Louis and Chicago at 50 cents apiece. Just before the starting time of the trains one of the roads put the price down to 5 cents, while the Chicago and Alton offered a free ride to all who would go. Henry Schlencker, sentenced to be h aged iu Nebraska, has been respited until July 18, to allow the Supreme Court to

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upon his case. Schlencker is a young printer from Illinois. The Chicago Tinies prints extensive telegraphic reports of the condition of the crops throughout the West and Northwest, from which it appears that in the great wheat-grow-ing States of Minnesota and Wisconsin the prospect is more favorable than earlier in the season was anticipated. The late rains seem to have removed all unfavorable effects o* the drought. The late-sown grain has taken vigorous growth. An increase of about 10 per cent, in the acreage over last year is reported, and the present estimate of the yield is about 54,000,000 bushels. A hose-cart, while being rapidly driven to a fire in Chicago, a few nights ago, was plunged into the river, the bridge being open. Of the four firemen on the cart, two saved themselvesJ>y leaping from the vehicle, the other two going down. One succeeded in swimming out, the other, together with the horse, being drowned. At Boswell, Ind., a few days ago, about 150 persons were taking shelter in a low lumber-shed from a severe thunder-storm, when a thunderbolt struck the shed, separating, passing down each side of it, killing instantly two men—Mike Wagman and Lew Shermes—fatally injuring George, James and John Lane, while Lorenzo Stoves, Dr. J. W. Green, Samuel Gay and another, name not given, were severely injured. The crowd was called together for a shooting tournament at that place. A dispatch from Deadwood, D. T., says that at Buffalo gap, by a sudden rise and overflow of Beaver creek, caused by a waterspout, eleven ftersons were drowned. Their names were Mrs. Moore, Mrs Rhodee, Oliver Rhodes, Frank Reed, Clyde Rhodes, Cliff Rhodes, Maud Rhodes (the latter three children), all emigrants on the way to the Black Hills from Mills county, lowa, and four men going from the Hills to the railroad, names unknown. Two were team owners, one a passenger, and a night herder. Five minutes from the first alarm the whole country was flooded, and the water, subsided almost as suddenly as it rose. POLITICAL POINTS. The National Greenback State Convention of Minnesota was held at St Paul on the 10th of June. Ignatius Donnelly presided. The following ticket was nominated: Governor, Ara Barton, of Faribault; Lieutenant Gov ernor, William McGhen, of Fillmore county; ISreasurer, Andrew Nelson, of Meeker county: Secretary of State, A. P. Lane, of Hennepin county; Attorney General, William L Kelley, of St. Paul; Railroad Commissioner, Ebenezer Ayres, of Washington county. The Prohibition party of Minnesota hold their State Convention at Minneapolis on the 10th inst., and placed the following ticket in the field: Governor, Rev. W. W. Satterlee; Lieutenant Governor, S. B. Williams; Secretary of State, LC. Stearns; Treasurer, H. D. Brown; Attorney General, A. W. Bangs. The lowa Republican Convention assembled at the State capital June 11, and organized by electing ex-Benator Harlan to preside. Gov. Gear and Lieut. Gov. Campbell were nominated for re-election by acclamation; Judge Beck was renominated for Supreme Judge, and Mr. Von Coelln for Superintendent of Public Instruction. WASHINGTON NOTES. The Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, at a meeting last week, considered the case of Senator Ingalls, of Kansas. Two Democrats (Hill and Vance) and two Repub cans (Cameron, of Wisconsin, and Hoar) expressed the opinion that, in view of the investigation by the Kansas Legislature, there is not enough of the case to put Mr. Ingalls again on the defense, and, therefore, they would not recommend an investigation by the Senate. The remaining four Democratic members were of the opinion that an investigation ought to be ordered.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. A recent telegram from Eagle Pass, on the Rio Grande, in Texas, says that a company of Mexican infantry at Piedrae Negras, on the Mexican side, mutinied and fought their way through the guard at the gate. About fifteen crossed to Eagle Pass under a heavy fire from the loyal troops, who continued firing after the deserters landed. The fugitives surrendered their arms to the citizens, and were subsequently returned to Mexico. A number of the mutineers were killed on the Mexican side. The cause of the desertion is that the troops have been six months without pay and have nothing to eat The sixth Annual Conference of Charities of the United States was held at Chicago last week. A large number of distinguished men from various parts of the country were in attendance as delegates. Gen. Brinkerhoff, of Ohio, presided. At a meeting of railroad managers in New York last week, freight rates were advanced 5 cents per 100 pounds on grain, fourth class, flour and live hogs from Chicago to New York, and in equal proportions from all other points. Montreal, St. Johns and other portions of Canada experienced a severe earthquake shock on the 11th of June. M. W. Leffingwell; the well-known burlesque actor, is dead. Gold is again going abroad in considerable quantities. Returns to the Department of Agriculture indicate an increase in the area planted with cotton of somewhat over 2 per cent The average condition is 96. It was 99 last year. The average condition for winter wheat for June is 96, against 98 last year. The acreage of spring wheat sown is about 4 per cent increase over that of last spring.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. In the Senate, on the «th inst, Mr. Coke’s resolution to discharge the Finance Committee from further consideration of the Warner Silver bill, and to declare it before the Senate for action, was laid before the Senate, but on motion of Mr. Voorhees was laid over. The McDonald bill authorizing the employment of the militia and land and naval forces of the United States in certain cases was taken up, and Mr. Harris made a speech in support of the bill. The House made short work with the Legislative. Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill. It was reported by the committee, and immediately passed, under a suspension of the rules, by a vote of 188 yeas to 21 nays. There was a caucus of Democratic Senators, in the evening, to consider what action should be taken on the Warner Silver bill, but no definite agreement was reached. The silver men expressed great indignation at the refusal of the Finance Committee to report the bill. The Senate, on the 10th, unanimously passed the Honse resolution appropriating $3,000 to erect a monument to mark the birthplace of George Washington. The bill relating to vinegar factories established and operated prior to March 1, 1879, was passed. It provides that such factories may be operated for the manufacture of vinegar by alcoholic vapor within 600 feet of a distillery, under regulations by the Secretary of the Treasury. The Senate,by the close vote of 21 yeas to 22naya,refused to tak. up Mr. Coke's resolution discharging the Finance t ommittee from further consider ition of the Warner Silver bill, and declaring it before the Senate for action.——ln the House, Mr. Morrison, from tba Committee on Ways and Means, reported a rea-

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olution, which was adopted, providing for the final adjournment of Congress at noon on the 17th of June. The Judicial Appropriation bill was passed by the House in the same shape in which It was prepared by authority of the Democratic Advisory Committee and reported by the Appropriation Committee. It makes no provision for the payment of election Supervisors and Deputy Marshals, and specifically i r. bi bits the payment of any part of the ap- [ ropriatii ii» to these officers, and the making of any engagement to pay them. Various amendments by the Republicans were promptly voted down by the Democrats. The bill passed by a strictly party vote. In the Senate, on the 11th, the Committee on Appropriations reported back the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill as passed by the House, with a large number of aniendments, the aggregate effect of which is to make it conform substantially to the recently-vetoed bill of the same title, divested of the political sections, and omitting, also, the appropriation for judicial expenses contained in that measure, and all increases of salaries there! * proposed for the benefit of clerks and bureau officers iu the various executive departments. Mr. Hill, of Georgia, addressed the Senate at length, in reply to Mr. Blaine’s late speech. The House, after a warm debate, passed the Democratic Caucus Army Appropriation bill. A number of amendments were offered—including one reduciug the army to 15 000 men—and promptly rejected. Only 31 votes were recorded against the bill, to 172 yeas. Mr. Stephens, from the Coinage Committee, reported a bill for the adoption of the metric system of weights, measures and coinage, which was ordered printed and recommitted. The bill previously passed by the Senate relating to vinegar factories was passed by the House. Mr. Carlisle reported the bill directing the Attorney General to adjust or compromise the claim of the United States under the will of Joseph 8. Lewis. Pas.ied. This is the esse In which Lewis, formerly of Hoboken, N. J., left an estate of about $ 1 ,UlX),000 to be applied to the reduction of the national debt. Mr. Knott, from the Judiciary Committee, submitted the report of that committee on the veto message of the President. Printed and recommitted. The report begins with an allusion to the danger to be apprehended from the presence of armed troops at the ballot-box, and says: “Even the author of the message under consideration himaelf admit i that any military interference whatever at the polls is contrary to the spirit of our institutions, and would tend to destroy the freedom of elections. The present Congress, In the exercise of its undoubted right to prescribe the purpose for which the land and naval forces of the Government shall be used, saw proper in making appropria tions for the support of the army to enact that it should not only be a clearly unlawful, but penal, offense for any Federal officer to employ troops or armed men at State elections for any purpose whatever, except to repel armed enemies of the United States. That bill the President returned to the House of Representatives without his signature. His reasons for objecting to the bill seem to have been these: First, that, in his judgment, the repeal of the clause in question was unnecessary; second, because it would "prohibit all civil officers of the United Slates from employing the only adequate civil force to enable them to preserve the peace and execute certain laws at Congressional elections;’ and, third, because the manner iu which the repeal was proposed did not happen in that particular instance, to be ilj harmony with Executive taste; and was therefore considered by the author of the message as furnishing a suitable occasion to deliver to the House of Representatives a gratuitous lecture upon the methods in which it should discharge its constitutional functions. As the President has twice called the attention of the House to these objections, the first two may be referred to hereafter, but with regard to the third it is, perhaps, suffici< nt to say that the manner in which Congress chose to repeal the clause in question was i.ot only in strict conformity to the constitution and rules of the two houses respectively, but justified by numerous precedents in the annals of Federal legislation. Impressed with the importance of removing the last shadow of a pretext for any interference with State elections by armed forces of the United States and desiring to obviate, if possible, the President’s objections to the measure already proposed for that purpose, the House of Representatives promptly passed a separate bill, which was as promptly concurred in by the Senate, simply providing that it should not be lawful to bring to or employ at any place where a general or special election is being held in any State any part of the army or navy, unless such forces should b ■ necessary to repel armed enemies of the United States, or to enforce section 4, article 4, of the constitution, and laws made in pursuance thereof, and repealing all provisions inconsistent with the purposes of the bill. This bill was speedily returned with a message from the President, assigning his objections to its approval, which are now to be considered. The first of these objections is a simple repetition r of the one assigned in the message vetoing the Army Ap propriation bill. No one can read the two messages together without being struck by the marked difference in the tone of the two documents in respect to this objection.” Mr. Knott points out the .difference between the two messages, and continues:

“ The entire argument against the necessity ot the bill is left to rest upon the President's reiterated assertion that troop* have not been and will not be used to interfere with any State election during bls administration; that the assertion was no doubt sincere, but. unfortunately for its validity as a reason for refusing to approve a bill designed for the protection of future generations, as well as this, the official term of the present Executive is limited, and he may be succeeded by one who will feel a less scrupulous regard for the freedom and purity of the ballot than he professes himself to entertain. 'lhe next objection to tho approval of the bill as alleged in the message, is, that it would abrogate on certain days and at certain places a number of laws, but especially section 5,298 of the Revised Statutes, which is reven ndy referred to as 'an ancient and fundamental law which has teen iu force from the foundation of the Government,’ and seems to be regarded by the President as invested with some peculiar sanctity, not pertaining to any other provision in the entire system of American jurisprudence. He enlarges upon the statement that this section was sanctioned by Washington,Jefferson and Lincoln, and contains the principle widen w as acted upon by the four Presidents more endeared to the ini’ rican people than all others at the most critical periods in iheir respective administrations. If he had examined the facts connected with the transactions to which he alludes, he would have, found that neither of the four illustrious patriots and statesmen to whom he refers either did or proposed to do anything which would not have been perfi ctly lawful under the strictest letter of the bill he returned to the House, had it been in force at that time. He would have discovered, moreover, that neither of them ever construed either of the acts cited by him as conferring upon the President or any of h s subordinates any arbitrary or extra-legal power, but merely as authorizing the use of the necessary means tor securing the execution of the law in tho regular methods, and through the agencies prescribed by law.” In support of his assertion, Mr. Knott refers to the action of Washington in the Whisky Insurrection, of Jefferson in the Aaron Burr case, of Jackson in 1832, and Lincoln in the outbreak of the Civil War, and adds: “ Owing, perhaps, to the limited time he allowed himself in wh ch to prepare his message, the President failed to observe the fact that the various statutes to which he refers, including section 5 298, are as completely abrogated or suspended by the act approved by President Lincoln on the 27th of February, 1;65, as they possibly could be by the bill to prevent military interference with elections, had he returned it to the House with his approval. He seems to have totally forgotten that the law approved by Lincoln on the 2?th of February, 1865. making it a high misdemeanor in him or other officers of the United States to employ armed men at a State election except tor two specified purposes, was still in force, and that it was as much his duty under his official oath to see that it should be faithfully executed as any < ther provision in the statutes.” The report affirms that the power to establish police regulations which may be necessary for the preservation of domestic order and the prevention of violence and crime affecting the life or property witinn their respective limits belongs exclusively to the States, and the Federal Government can only intervene to protect the State in the execution of its own laws for the purpose upon application of the Legislature or Governor, where the Legislature cannot be convened. supreme Court decisions are quoted in support of this position, and the following extract from a letter of the present Secretary of State while Attorney General under a former administration, sent by him to the Marshal of Florida on the 20th of August. 1868: “ The special duty and authority in the execution of a process issued to you must not be confounded with the duty and authority of suppressing disorder and preserving the peace, which, under our Government, belongs to the civil authorities of the States, and not to the civil authorities of the United State s,-’ The report continues: “To prevent the substitution of the petty discretion of superserviceable Federal officials for the law, the soldier with his bayonet for the civil officer with his warrant, and other dangerous abuses to which the recent experience of our country has shown it to be liable, was the sole object and would have been the only effect of the bill to pre vent military interference at the polls, which the President found it impossible to approve. “The third and final objection offered by the President to the bill is, to use his own language, * its discrimination in favor of the State and against the national authority.’ Under the constitution, the Federal Government has not, and no law of Congress can give it authority to preserve the peace in a State, either at the polls or elsewhere, unless called upon by proper State authorities for that purpose under the circumstances for which the constitution was provided. How, therefore, there could possibly be a discrimination against an authority that does not and cannot exist, it is difficult to see. It is equally impossible to discover how a distinct reservation ot the power of the President to suppress an insurrection against the Government of a State at any time or place when properly called upon can be said to derogate from the authority of the United States. There is a single consideration sufficient in itself to show that the fears expressed by the President that the bill would subordinate national to State authority were totally unfounded, but which seems singularly enough to have escaped his observation. Under the law as it now stands, and has stood since 1796, the Presi-

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dent is not bound to call for the militia, or to employ the land or naval forces of the Unit.ed States to suppress every riot or popular tumult in a State, although called upon by the Legislature or Executive for that purpose. If the President should have reason to believe that force was not called for in good faith, to aunpress an insurrection against the Government of the state, but to be used for any purpose in any manner inimical to the United States, it would not only be bls right, hut bis duty, to withhold it.” Mr. Wallace, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported to the Senate, on the 12th, without amendment, the House bill making appropriations for certain judicial expenses. Mr. Beck offered an amendment, in the nature of a substitute, for the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill. It was ordered printed. The bill continuing the pension of the late Gen. Shields (SIOO a month) to his widow and children, with an amendment grant lug a pension of SSO a month to the widow of the late Fletcher Webster, was passed. The Army Appropriation bill was received from the House. Mr. Blaine addressed the Senate on the McDonald bill, his remarks consisting chiefly of a reply to the speech of Mr. Hill, of Georgia. In the House, a bill was reported from the Committee on Civil-Service Reform, prohibiting officers of, claimants against. or * contractors under the United States from contributing money for political purposes. The Senate bill repealing the jurors’ test oath was called up in the House, but the Republicans filibustired to prevent action on the bill, refusing to vote on the call for the previous question. The Senate Judiciary Committee has referred to the subcommittee, consisting of Messrs. Garland. Bayard, Conkling and Carpenter, an important question raised in r< gard to Secretary McCrary’s nomination for the Circuit Judgeship which is to be vacated by Judge Dillon next September. The novel question is whether a nomination can constitutionally be confirmed to fill a vacancy not yet created, if at the same time it be stipulated that the person so nominated is to continue to occupy another office until the position to which he is prospectively appointed e hall have actually become vacant by resignation or otherwise. The commit tee defer action upon Secretary McCrary’s nomination until after they pass upon this general question. The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was passed by the Senate, on the 13th inst., with a number of amendments, which necessarily sends it back to the House. The House passed the bill, prepared by the Committee on Foreign Affaire, allowing any telegraph company to land ocean cables on the coast of the United States subject to the terms of such grants as have been heretofore made bj- Congress. The bill is designed to < pen the way for an increase of telegraph facilities between America and Europe. There A’ero two caucuses of the Republican Senators during the day. Both were devoted to an interchange of view s concerning the proper course of action to be taken in regard to the pending appropriation bill, and at the latter an imjiortant agreement was reached. It was agreed with substantial unanimity that the passage of the Army Appropriation bill in its present terms should be opposed by the Republican party in the Senate, unless the majority consent to the addition of a proviso to the sixth section declaring that it shall not be construed to prevent the use of troops to execute any existing law. The Judicial Expenses bill was discussed very briefly, but. as it also conta ns clauses in the nature of conditions precedent to the use of the money which it appropriates, the caucus agreed with absolute unanimity that passage should be opposed, unless these conditions are eliminated. In the Senate, on the 14th inst, the Army Appropriation bill was reported back from the Com. mittee on Appropriations, with sundry amendments, and was placed on the calendar. The Supplemental Judicial bill was debated without action. In the House, a bill extending until Oct, 1, 1880, the provisions of the act approved March 3, 1877, in regard to the grasshopper sufferers, was passed. The Legislative Appropriation bill was received from the Senate, and. together with the Senate amendments, was referred to the Committee on Appropriations. A bill was passed authorizing a commission to inquire into the prac-. ticability and desirability of constructing a bridge or tunnel across the Detroit river, near Detroit. The bill prohibiting Government employes from making contributions for political purposes again came up. but the Democrats refused to allow an amendment includinz Congressional employes in this inhibition, and the Republicans consequently filibustered to prevent action on the bill.

PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Ex Gov. Hendricks, of Indiana, is now entirely gray. Dr. Holland has received $12,000 for “ Bitter Sweet.” The elevated railroad of New York has made S. J. Tilden and C. W. Field richer by from $2,000,000 to $4,000,000 apiece. Orville Grant, brother of the General, has settled in Geneva, 111., and is restored to reason on all questions but the one of finance. Mr. E. C. Stedman, the poet, has sailed for Europe to spend his vacation in Great Britain, beginning his sightseeing in the lake regions of Ireland. LkoXIII. is becoming noted in Rome for the unostentatious way of his life. A letter from Rome says he “is the most simple in taste of all the Popes known to history. His bedroom is paved with common stones, and is never warmed. His reception-rooms are fitted up with luxuries, but his private apartments are as cheerless as a hermit’s cell.”

Count Beust, who has just gone to Paris as Austrian Minister, is said to be the wittiest Ambassador in Europe. He is said to have that happy faculty, which the late Lord Palmerston possessed, of parrying any direct inquiry in a way which means, “ Don’t ask too much.” Count Beust is also a poet and musical composer of more than average merit, and the piano in his working-room shows in which direction his cultured hobby lies. Gen. Noyes, American Minister at Paris, recently gave a dinner to a number of American celebrities, which was lightened up by the presence and genial chat of “ Mark Twain.” In the course of the dinner he expressed his want of admiration for the general run of Frenchmen, and thought that, so far as looks were concerned, “ most of them would be improved by mutilation.” The elegant “ Twain ” is now at work on another nook of travels. Baron Tauchnitz has arranged to print a German edition of “ The Innocents Abroad,” and sent M. T. a handsome check for the honor. Gov. Drew, of Florida, a New Hampshire man, owns 60,000 acres of land. .He employs 400 men cutting logs and sawing them into lumber. All his men live in neat cottages built by him, for which he charges no rent. He is now constructing a tramway eight miles in length into the forest, and the trees of convenient access to it will be felled, and the logs conveyed by it to his mill. When the trees are exhausted on this line the tramway will be run out in another direction, and the process of exhaustion repeated. The lumber is taken in cars to Jacksonville, Fla., and there placed in schooners for New York. Ralph Waldo Emerson is 77 years ’ old. He lately gave a very interesting lecture on “ Memory,” in Boston, for the benefit of the Old South Church. He begged that no report should be made of it. The Herald, of that city, says: “ Mr. Emerson is now unequal to the effort to speak to a large audience. His form is still erect; his piercing eye is as keen as ever; his smile has lost none of its ineffable sweetness; but still it is evident that old age is coming upon him rapidly. He read his lecture at a small desk, in a sitting posture, his faithful daughter guiding and prompting him whenever he lost his place, with his audience of some 200 persons so thoroughly touched with emotion by his infirmities that they did not mind what they lost, provided only they could look into his serene face and watch its varying expression,”

POLITICAL NOTES.

Daniel Webster delivered an oration on the completion of the Bunker Hill monument that almost lifted his vast audience from the ground. Every sentiment uttered by him evoked the most heartfelt applause. Without comment we submit a single paragraph from this grand oration: “If men would enjoy the blessings of republican government they must govern themselves by reason, by mutual counsel and consultation, by a sense and feeling of general interest, and by the acquiescence of the minority in the will of the majority, properly expressed; and, above all, the military must be kept, according to the language of our bill of rights, in strict subordination to the civil authority. Wherever this lesson is not learned and practiced there can be no political freedom. Absurd, preposterous is it, a scoff and a satire on free forms of constitutional liberty, for frames of government to be prescribed by military leaders and the right of suffrage to be exercised at the point of the sword.” The Albany Argus has an article in regard to Blaine which contains much more truth than poetry. We copy its conclusion: “There is no man in the United States who is so much distrusted. There is no man who is regarded with so much interest. The people look on him as one who has flung character to the winds, andxhey are curious to see how far and how long he can get on without character or without even the pretense of character. He is fond of taunting rebels, but they have him at a disadvantage; they never stole anything. He is fond of taunting rebels, but they have him at a disadvantage; they had real convictions. He is fond of taunting rebels, but they have him at a disadvantage; they put up their lives and all for the things they believed, and, going into public life poor, emerged poorer and without dishonor. He is fond of taunting rebels, but they have him at an advantage; nobody believes they are for sale. He is fond of taunting rebels, but they have him at a disadvantage; nobody says, * They are smart, but no dependence can be placed on them.’ A performer without conscience or respect, Mr. Blaine is the most brilliant exponent of the venality of a venal party in a venal age, and that is all he is.”

The issues on which the Republican managers have elected to go to the country, says the Washington Post, would not be changed in any particular if submitted for revision to the shrewdest politicians in the Democratic party. “The people will be asked to decide whether the Democratic republic which the fathers founded shall continue, or a centralized despotism be erected on its ruins. That is the sum of all the issues, and it stands out in such bold relief that it cannot be disguised. If systematized and statutory packing of juries is to annul the right of trial by jury, if the civil power is to be permanently relegated to a position subordinate to the military arm of the Government, if the Department of Justice and the vaults of the treasury are to be placed at the disposal of campaign committees, to furnish men and means to control elections —if all or any of these abominations are to be engrafted, as permanent features, on our system of government, the work of the fathers will be destroyed, and the most odious of all despotisms will take the place of constitutional government. In arrang ing these issues the Republican managers show their estimate of the intelligence and patriotism of the voting masses. It would be as reasonable to expect the black men of the United States to vote themselves back into slavery as it is to call on the white men to vote away their fundamental rights, and brand the republic as a failure. The sophistries which Republican orators have woven in intricate webs and hung around the ugly facts of the situation will be of no avail. The gleam of the bayonet and the mailed hand of tyranny are not to be thus hidden. The unerring instinct of the people could be trusted if they were far less intelligent than they are.” Senator Thurman, in the debate on the bill to repeal the jurors’ test oath, paid his respects to Conkling in this fashion: “We know that the jury laws as they now exist are used for partisan purposes. We know that as they are administered they are a disgrace to the so-called administration of justice. We are in dead earnest that that evil shall be remedied, even if it be necessary to suffer the mortification of the taunts of the Senator from New York. I hope we can survive plenty of that kind of medicine. Even if it be necessary to do that, we as practical men are willing to see that mere sophistry at this end of the avenue shall not be re-echoed from the other end of the avenue. That is all there is of it. If the Senator from New Yjrk thinks that God has crowned him with such surpassing intellect, and that the study of the law has made him the very embodiment of the code of Justinian, Coke’s Institutes, all the English statutes, and the American statutes, too, that he has breakfasted on Blackstone’s Commentaries, taken lunch on Kent, dined on Story, and taken as a slight refection before he retired to bed John Marshall’s decisions, let him live in that happy atmosphere of selfesteem ; I will not attempt in the slightest degree to mar one single particle of his self-satisfaction. I even agree that he may loom over me, a much older lawyer than he is, like one of those genii in the “ Arabian Nights,” who,when the cork was taken out of the bottle, rose out, away up to the clouds, to the utter amazement and astonishment of all beholders. Let it be so as long, as he pleases, but he shall not prevent me as a practical legislator from attempting to remove the pebbles that he throws in my path when I have a march to make.” The Boston Post says: “The next Presidency is not to be contested on the Ohio idea, the New England idea or the Southern idea, but upon a fundamental,national idea which will overpower all others. The country will insist that there shad be a free ballot, that the people shall not be cowed by Federal soldiers or United States Marshals, but that the sovereigns, not their servants, shall rule. They will demand, too, that full and fair expression shall be given

to the liallot after it has been cast without being counted out by infamous Returning Boards or the decrees of Electoral Commissions. These two things go hand in hand. Free elections and full force to the popular will, as determined thereby, will constitute the battle cry of the next campaign. All minor issues will have to give way. Facts and circumstances are more potent than party leaders, and will brush aside all attempts to avoid or change the real issue. The untrammeled right of the people to elect their own rulers was wantonly invaded in 1876. The machinery under which it was done then the Democrats now insist shall be given up. The party which by its use succeeded in then thwarting the popular will refuse to surrender it, and threaten to stop the wheels of the Government if they cannot be allowed to retain it. Whatever the result may be at this session, and whatever turn things may take at Washington, the real isshe is one for the people, and they alone can settle it. Congress will do little more than make up the case. The people have got to settle it at the polls. Collateral questions, however important, will have to bide their time. The Ohio idea will have to stand aside. So with all sectional issues. The Republicans cannot force Southern questions into the foreground should they attempt it. The Southern people have none to push forward, and no disposition to bring them to the front if they had.”

The Republican Platform for 1880.

The truth of the prov erb that politics makes strange bedfellows was well illustrated recently when the Hon. John B. Haskin, the freest from political complications of all our anti-Tammany leaders, opened a correspondence with John Sherman, by means of which the latter formally announced himself as a candidate for President. He took that occasion also to define what he calls “the trjje issue for 1880.” His platform is a revival of sectional hate, sweetened with cant phrases, as follows: What I would aspire to in case public opinion should decide to make me a candidate for President would be to unite in co-operation with the Republican party all the national elements of the country that contributed to or aided in any way in the successful vindication of national authority during the war. I would not do this for the purpose of irritating the South or oppressing them in any way, but to assert and maintain the supremacy of the national authority to the full extent of all the power conferred by the constitution.

Stripped of its disguises, the plain meaning of this programme, which has now become the leading idea of the Republican party, is to wipe out State lines entirely, to divest the States of the rights secured by the constitution, and, in place of a union of States and people,' to establish a consolidated government, in itself the first step toward an imperial republic. The whole line of policy of the Republicans since the civil war has been in this direction. All the political legislation, beginning with reconstruction, has exhibited the same spirit. The election laws, the jurors’ test oaths, and the use of the army to overthrow State Governments, to make Legislatures to order, and to consummate the Presidential fraud, are conspicuous examples of a systematic scheme to destroy the constitutional rights of the States, and to subordinate their local and rightful authority to the arbitrary will of the Executive. Hence the tenacity with which the Republican leaders cling to the use of the army at the polls, and to Davenport’s invention for depriving naturalized citizens of their votes. Give them an army of Supervisors and Deputy Marshals, who may receive SSO each for ten days’ service, with power to make arrests without process t on the eve of an election, and who may steal the papers on which thousands of votes depend, and the way to success is easy. In 1870 thousands of troops and two ships of war were ordered to this city to overawe our people, and thus to control the election. But for the prompt decision of the local authorities we might soon have had repeated here the outrages that were perpetrated in Louisiana, South Carolina, and other States. The experiment failed, because Grant did not dare to rouse the sleeping lion at the North. In 1878 the same party resorted to anotner process, more insidious, but none the Jess an invasion of the jurisdiction and authority of the State. . The issue made up by John Sherman was adopted by the Republican Convention of Ohio, and will doubtless be followed elsewhere. In the midst of bankruptcy and distress, with millions of idle hands and the people crying out for relief, the leaders of this party have nothing better to offer in the way of statesmanship than a renewal of animosity between the North and the South, and a revival of the passions that were supposed to be buried with the Rebellion. The laws generally are obeyed in every part of the Union. The people, North and South, crave for peace and for an end of sectional agitation. The condition of public affairs is sufficiently bad, without the aggravation of an element which disheartens effort and throws backward every advance toward improvement. For fourteen years the same cry, in a variety of forms, has been renewed, and it remains to be seen with what effect it can be renewed now.— New York Sun.

Habits of the Hog.

The domesticated hog does not approximate the habits of his pioneer ancestors in point of cleanliness. It is the instinctive habit of the animal to bathe in water and wallow in mud to counteract heat and as a protection against flies; but in a state of nature, when the mud has served its purpose, the animal cleanses himself by friction with the nearest tree; the filthy bed which the domestic animal becomes satisfied to occupy in a state of confinement is never occupied by animals running in the forest and given opportunity to make and change their sleeping places at will. In short, when allowed to provide for his own existence he exercises a more intelligent regard for his wants than is ordinarily exercised for him by his owner, who attempts to supersede instinct by reason. The newest thing in high art, girls, is to paint your brother’s clay pipe a delicate sky-blue, with a cluster of lilies-of-the-valley on the bowl. If you haven’t got a brother’s clay pipe, some other girl’s brother’s clay pipe will 4q as well, or perhaps better.

$1.50 Der Annum.

NUMBER 19.

CURIOSITIES OF NATURE.

A Bird Story.—A gentleman of Burkeville, Ky., has a pea-fowl 60 years old. A Business Hen.— k Laurens county, Ga, hen has accomplished the feat of laying 200 eggs in 200 consecutive days, and is still at it. A Georgia Fish Story. The Hawkinsville (Ga.) Dispatch says: Mr. Z. Cass, of Irwin county, caught recently a catfish, a squirrel and an alligator all upon the same hook at the same time. The fish probably caught the squirrel while swimming across the lake, and afterward caught and swallowed an alligator about a foot in length, and then found and swallowed the bait upon a set hook. When a catfish starts out on a foraging expedition he will take in anything from a wheelbarrow to a saddle blanket. A Hen Cares for a Litter of Pups. —The Anthony (Kansas) Journal- relates the following: We hear of a very warm-hearted, motherly hen down on Bluff creek. She is regularly brooding a litter of seven pound puppies. She has to spread herself to do it, but she takes them all under her motherly wing and tucks them in nicely. The youthful canines know and heed her gentle cluck. They get their ‘'victuals of the natural mother, but their love and attachment is most tender and affectionate toward adopted Mother Biddy. A Fighting Hen. - Hugh D. McMullen, of Aurora, Ohio, owns a matronly old game hen, which just now struts about with a brood of chickens. The other day a large gray rat seized one of the peepes and started for his hole. The hen cut off the rat’s retreat and fiercely attacked" him. The strange pugilists fought for five minutes, at the end of which time the rat gave up the ghost. Next day another rat made his appearance in the yard. He, too, was attacked, but fought more gamely than the first of the rodents. He put out one of the fowl’s eyes and was himself finally laid low. A Turkey Gobbler Lays Three Eggs.—Miss Bass of Lebanon, S. O. (says the Abbeville Medium), has a turkey gobbler just a little ahead of anything in the turkey line in history or tradition. Last week the turkey was a gobbler in all the pride of his gobblerhood ; now he is a turkey hen, and, as a proof of his change of sex, laid three eggs on the day succeeding this monstrous metamorphosis. This tale will seem almost incredible, but the owner has the eggs to show for themselves. How can such an unheard-of change be accounted for ? What do the scientists say ? and what’s to become of us when turkey gobblers turn against their own sex in this way and settle down into laying hens? Oh, it is awful!

A “Cluck” and Six Kittens.—The Reading (Pa.) Eagle says: Mr. Aarvin, of West Leesport, has a “cluck” which tenderly cares for six kittens about 3 weeks old. The cluck had been deprived of a brood of young chickens, and, feeling the loss very keenly, she no doubt considered the taking charge of the kittens a just compensation. The kittens seem to listen to her call, and will nestle under her wingsand feathers like little chickens. No one is allowed to approach, not even the cat. herself, while the hen has charge, but she seems satisfied when the kittens occasionally creep out and go over to the mother cat in the next corner. This is indeed a great curiosity. Quite a number of persons have watched, with great interest, the old hen caring, for the kittens. She “clucks'” and calls them, plays with them and scratches, and endeavors to find for them. The kittens jump about the old hen and make a big fuss with their two-footed, feather-tailed mammy. A Sheep’s Fight With a Mirror.— Quite a commotion occurred in a farmer’s house, near Rome, N. Y., a few days ago. They were cleaning the house, and left open the doors leading to all parts of the house. In one of the rooms was a large mirror, reaching to the floor. On the premises is a sheep whose head is graced with horns, and which is very tame, entering the house whenever an opportunity is presented. This woolly animal got into the house unnoticed. When first discovered, it was standing face to face with the mirror, shaking its head fiercely. Before it could be reached, it jumped back for a good start, and then plunged its head into the mirror. Instead of coming in contact with some other animal, as it expected, it demolished a SSO mirror. The crash so frightened the animal that, in its endeavors to escape from the screams and attacks of the women of the house, it found a place of exit through a French window. White-Head Sam.—Thereisin Washington, D. C. (according to the Evening Star, of that city), a living curiosity in the shape of a boy of many colors, known around the neighborhood as “White-head Sam.” His name is Samuel Lewis, and he is the only child of his mother, with whom he lives. He is about 11 years old, and remarkably well grown, but presents a very singular appearance, his face being of a light yellow, his cheeks darker than the other parts of the face, and bis head is covered with short, white fleecy hair; his eyebrows are a yellowish white, and his eyes, once of a pink tint,are now a dark red, and they seem continually on the move. His body, legs and arms are as white as the fairest Caucasian, and the tops of his feet and the backs of his hands are as black as the ace of spades; and, besides these peculiarities, he has a double row of teeth. He is a boy of more than ordinary intelligence.

Pastor Johnson’s Sermon.

It is a sad truth that people are apt to give to the church what they can spare as well as not, and then regard themselves as very liberal. There are still others who too closely resemble the little girl who told her mother that the contribution-box was passed to her and that there was lots of money in it, but she didn’t take any out, expecting to be praised for her self-denial. This is a negative kind of Christianity, which does little credit to the worshiper. Rev. Plato Johnson seems to have met this crisis in a recent sermon, and, though his language is not particularly choice, his ideas are very clear. He said, at the conclusion of an eloquent sermon, “ Brederen, de plate will now pass aroun’, an’ I has a word to say on de ’portant subjeck ov givin’. De peoples wat puts bone buttons and lead nickels inter, de plate may pass for orful free givers ’mongst der fellow-sinners, but dey can’t cheat de Lord. I want to ’press on your minds dat fact-—dey

fflemocratii JOB PRINTING OFFICE t Hu better tMUIttM than any office in MortbweetefV Indiana for the execution of all branches of JOB FRINTINa, PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. Anything, from a Dodger io a Moe-l Art, or from ■ pamphlet to a Poster, black or colored, plain or fancy. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

can’t cheat de Lord. When de Lord said He liked a cheerful giver, He didn’t hab his eyes on dat sort ob trash. You can put dis down as a sartin shore thing, brederen, dat dose wat gibs de chu’ch wat dey has no use fur themselves won’t git no free pass inter glory. In de day ob jedgment de Lord will say to sich men, ‘I don’t know you bone-button fellers; go sit on de back seats, quick.’ Now, den, pass de plates.”

INDIANA ITEMS.

Richmond has prohibited the steamwhistle nuisance. A lodge of Knights of Pythias has been established at Sullivan. Work on the new Masonic temple at Fort Wayne will soon be completed. J. M. Wallace has been re-elected School Superintendent of Bartholomew county. The City Council of Jeffersonville has abolished the office of City Assessor. A new Orphans’ Home is to be erected at Jeffersonville this summer, at a cost of $5,000. The Governor’s Guards are preparing for the competitive drill at St. Louis in September. Philip Bush, aged 19, was recently thrown from a mule in Johnson township and dragged to death.' The floor of a barn at Logansport was removed the other day, and under it 248 rats were found and killed. John L. Menaugh, for many years a county officer of Washington county, died, the other day, aged 72 years. The Board of Prison Directors have elected Matt Huett clerk of the prison south, vice Dr. S. C. McClure, resigned. The Government brings suit against Charles Dillingham, of Booneville, to recover $lO4 overpaid him while in the army. A colored boy, as yet unknown, was run over by the gravel train, between Sullivan and Vincennes, and both legs cut off at the thighs. The other day at a picnic near New Albany, Frank Frakes assulted Thomas Meagher with a hatchet, inflicting a dangerous wound on the head. Sweeney & McCormick, owners of the Pallas Theater, Columbus, which was burned last winter, have decided to rebuild, with many improvements. The Board of Equalization of Dearborn county has discovered avoidances by taxpayers to the amount of $200,000, in sums ranging from SI,OOO to $20,000. Ernest Morris has given the Indiana State Museum several fragments of ancient ceramic art brought by him from 2,000 miles above the mouth of the Amazon.

The “Sophs” and Freshmen at the State University had a lively time the other night fighting over an effigy of Horace, which the former were proposing to, and did, burn. Laura Baker, aged 16, living near Clarksburg, hung herself with a clothesline in the wood-shed, it is supposed because her parents refused to permit her meeting with a lover. A hen, the property of a farmei named Holland, living near Rushville, hatched an egg a few days since, and the production was a chick with two bodies, four legs and two necks joined to one head. New postal routes are established in this State as follows: From Dana toDuaker HilL From Round (Trove to Remington. From Siielville to Ekin. From Center Valley, via La Clair, to Hall. From Corydon to Leavenworth. The City Council of Lawrenceburg has made the following reduction in salaries: Mayor, from S6OO to $500; Marshal, a reduction of SSO; Clerk, S3O; Treasurer, $75; Attorney, $75; Street Commissioner, $120; Marketmaster, $lO. The City Council of Columbus has required the Columbus Mutual Gas Company, which is about to lay its mains in that city, to deposit $5,000 in Government bonds as a guarantee against loss to the city by damage to the streets. A correspondent says of the “whistling nuisance:” “ In consequence of it everyone, almost, has Jost his piety. The house-dog sets up a howl for rest; the weary invalid turns upon his couch and sighs for a better country, where legislators never meet; the anxious mother stuffs her babe’s ears full of cotton to get it to sleep; the profane swear; the pious lose their patience, and the Universalists except the average Indiana legislator from their plan of universal salvation.” Investigation by experts of the books of County Treasurer James Reynolds, of Knox county, covering his four years in office, is finished. A report was made March 12 disclosing a shortage for 1877 amounting to $1,451, which was paid back by Reynolds. In April another report for 1878 was made, revealing $2,500 more. A final report is now made public covering the years 1875 and 1874. It shows a discrepancy of $6,993, making a gross total of $10,973.80. Deducting the amount covered into the treasury leaves $9,121.98 due the county.

The Footman Who Wouldn’t Announce Bismarck.

They are telling a good story in Berlin of the visit paid by Bismarck to Lord and Lady Dufferin, at the'Kaiserhof, when the newly-made Ambassador and his wife were passing through the Kaiserstadc. The footman to whom Bismarck gave his card returned, after keeping the Prince waiting several minutes, and, in reply to the Prince’s demand whether he had announced him, said, rather impertinently, “NoI ” Now Bismarck, as I suppose all the world knows, is irritated in a moment, and the flunkey’s imperturbability simply threw him into a white heat;. In great rage he burst out, “You old fool! why not?” and was going away, when Lord Dufferin looked out of his room and proceeded to explain. It seems that Lady Dufferin was dressing, and that Chawles, who thought the Prince wished to see the Countess, had been told by the Lady’s maid that her mistress was not at home. By the time that Lord Dufferin had explained the mistake to Bismarck, Her Ladyship had finished dressing and was able to receive the Prince. Now just imagine what tremendous consequences might have ensued from Chawles’ absurd mistake. — London paper,