Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1879 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS Paris dispatches indicate that the Bonapartiet party in France is fast going to pieces. It is said that Prince Jerome, who has been named as its leader, will openly pronounce in favor of the republic, after the funeral of the Prince Imperial. Matters are becoming interesting in South America. The Chilians, to the number of 10,000 or 15,000 are preparing a descent on the Peruvian capital. Such an expedition is made possible by the absence of the Peruvian army in the South, and the fact that the Peruvian transports are blockaded in the harbor of Callao. Cable reports of the condition of crops on the continent of Europe are of such a character as to promise a good demand for American grain. In all the Governments of Southern Russia—the great wheat-raising belt of the empire—the wheat is reported as almost totally destroyed by drought, hail, grasshoppers and beetles. In Northern Italy and other wheat-growing countries the prospects are deplorable. Characteristic dispatch from Kingston, Jamaica: “Advices from Port-au-Prince, Hayti, state that the populace fired upon the Henate. The Senators fled. Many were shot. Fighting continues.’’ A dispatch from Odessa, Russia, states that the trials of forty-five Nihilists have been concluded. Six wore sentenced to terms from two to three years’ imprisonment. The rest were acquitted. The contemplated international industrial exhibition at Moscow, Russia, is postponed from 1880 to one year later. Another coal-pit disaster took place lately near Glasgow, Bcotland. Thirty-one persons were in the mine at e time of the explosion. Four persons were burned alive. Twenty-one corpses have been recovered, and it is probable all in the mine are dead. The ex-Khedive of Egypt has been arrested at Naples. A dinner was given by Prince Bismarck, at Berlin, in honor of Hon. Andrew D. White, the newly-arrived United States Minister, on the 2d. The Cuban Government has asked Spain to send to that island and distribute among the sugar plantations about 40,000 troops, to be employed in the double capacity of guards and field-hands. A London dispatch of Sunday says tho Rev. T. DeWitt Talmige preached at Agricultural Hall that afternoon to two congregations of 20,000 people each. Thousands upon thousands of persons thronged the streets leading to the hall for miles, almost blockading the passago of vehicles and pedestrians. Many pcoplo wore crushed, and Dr. Talmag :'s carriage was almost demolished by tho crush of the g o it crowd, every iiu'ividn vl in which wai anxious to see the distinguished American preacher. The deposed Sultan of Turkey, who, aft' r being kicked out of tho throne, was placed for safe keeping in ono of the palaces and guarded, lias effected his oscape, and there is coiu-i lei ablo exei emeut over the fact in Constant -ople. Four hundred Nihilists were recently arrested at Ivieff, Russia, and a great store of Weapons scizej. The depressed condition of the agricultural interest in Great Britain has finally occasioned tho appointment of a commission by Parliament to iuvertigato its causes. In u hurricane on tho river Loubs, in France, a steamer with fifty-throe passengers ivas sunk. Only five persons wero saved.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE * TCnut. George Bancroft, the historian, was seriously injured by being thrown from his horse at Newport, K. 1., a few days ago. Nimrod Spottenhuber, convicted of the murder of John Iveson, at Lebanon, Pa., last December, has just been hung there. Four horrible murders were commit tod in New York and vicinity July 4. The most prominent was that of John F. Seymour, a cousin of Bishop Seymour, of the Diocese of Springfield, 111. Two friends engaged in a quarrel at Staten island over a trivial matter. Both carried loaded revolvers, and one shot the o’her before ho had a chance to draw his weapon. The third case was the shooting of a man by a former omploye in the streets of Nyack. Finally, one member of a steamboat excursion party shot another through the head for refusing to drink with him. A ladle of molten steel upset in a Scranton (Pa.) rolling mill, fatally burning two workinon. Among the accidents and catastrophes occurring on the Fourth, one of the most melancholy was the partial overturning of an overloaded excursion steamer on Lake Quinsigamond, near Worcester, Mass., whereby a large number of the passengers were pitched into the water, and seven wero drowned. A somewhat similar accident occurred near Trenton, N. J., where the breaking down of an overcrowded wharf gave & crowd a wettin g and a scaro, besides drowning three persons. W est. A dispatch from Sutro, Nev., announces the completion of the famous Sutro tunnel, for the reception of water from the Comstock mines. As an engineering work the success surpasses all expectations. In eight hours the water in the Hale & Norcross and Savage mines was lowered 100 feet, demonstrating the capacity of the tunnel to perform all tho work ever claimed for or expected of it. The great undertaking has cost $6,000,000. A. F. Clark, a member of the Cincinnati City Council, has been sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment for tampering with election roturns, while acting as judge of election, last fall.

A Dead wood dispatch says that “Lame Johnny,” one of the parties who robbed the coach near Buffalo Gap, a short time ago, while on the way from old Red Cloud Agency to Rapid City, in charge of Deputy Sheriff Smith, of Cheyenne, was taken from the coach, a few nights ago, near the place where the robbery was committed, by three masked men, and hung to a tree near by. The census of Nebraska returns a a total population of 384,410, being an increase of 72,662 since last year. Tho increase since 1870 is 261,417. A pair of thieves, who took advantage of the absence of all but the oashier at dinner, robbed a bank at Galesburg, 111, of about $12,000 in money. One of the heaviest storms ever experienced in that section occurred on the 3d inst. The storm extended all over the States of Minnesota, Northern Wisconsin and Southeastern Dakota, doing much damage to buildings, railroads and orops. From tho former State reports of casualties are received as follows: At Vasa, Goodhue (Kjunty, nine jwsqjie were killed and thirty

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injured by lightniDg and the fall of a building. At Winnebago, the wife of Nathaniel Steven was killed by lightning. At Mountain Lake, Lawrence Lawless was killed by lightning. Bed'Wing reports f 100,000 damage to property in the city. Every town in the south and east of the State suffered heavily, but details are wanting. At Menomonee, Wis., a house was carried away by the flood, with two persons, not since heard from. At Warrenton, Wis., the residence of William Rush was carried away, and with it the family, including Mr. Rush, wife and daughter, a young lady about 20 years of age, all being drowned. Another young lady, daughter of Mr. John Davis, of Rush river, was drowned in attempting to get ont of the house, which was flooded with water to the depth of several feet Ten mile* northwest of Lemars, Plymouth county, lowa, two young men named Kass were killed. They saw the storm coming and ran into a barn for shelter, when the wind struck the building with terrific force, completely demolishing it and crushing them to death in the ruins. The aggregate loss of life by disasters connected with the storm throughout Minnesota will approach twenty. The wounded will probably ip«Ch fifty, thirtysix being ijjjured by the wreck of the Orphan Asylum at Vasa. The damage to property is great, but there is no data for exact estimate. A Milwaukee dispatch says that “reports from over 100 different points in lowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin say the lato storm did no damage to the crops. Some of the wheat was knocked down, but it is all coming up aga : n. The grasshoppers Sid considerable damage to a small section along *he Sioux valley. All the reports give very flattering prospects.” A panic occurred among a party of bathers at a Bohemian picnic at St. Paul, Mo., on the Missouri Pacific railroad, and two of them were swept away by the current and drowned. FEDERAL FINANCE. I THE DEBT STATEMENT. The monthly debt statement for July 1 is as follows: Six per cent, bond* $810,932,500, Five percent, bonds 015,905,500 Four and a half per ceDt. bonds 250,000,000 Four per cent, bonds 601,029,;t()0 HcfundinK certificates... 12.842,v10 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total coin bonds $1,901,716,110 Matured debt 37.075.030 Legal tenders $346,742,486 Certificates of deposit.... 30.370.0(H) Fractional currency 15,851 0< 5 Gold and silver certificates 17,880,060 Total without interest 410,835,741 Total debt $2,319,507,842 Total interest 30,792,091 Cash in treasury 363,152 677 Debt less cash in treasury $2,027,207,250 Increase during Ju' e 21,788 Docrease since June 30, 1878 8,579,575 CURHKNT LIABILITIES. Interest due and unpaid...., $ 4,897.621 Debt on which iuterest has ceased.... 37,075.080 Interest thereon 2.( 00.708 Gold and silver certificates 17,880,050 United States notes hold for redemption of certificates of deposit 30,370,000 United States notes held for redemption of fractional currency... 8,375,934 Called bonds not matured for whicn 4 per cent, bonds have been issued... 104,072,410 Cash balance available July 1, 1879.. 148 473,503 Total $ 363,152,577 AVAILABLE ASSETS. Cash in treasury . $ 363,152,577 Bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad Companies, interest payable iu lawful money: Principal outstanding.. $ 61.623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid.. ... 1,933.705 Interest paid by the United States.... 41,773,745 Interest repaid by transportation of mails, etc 12,596,053 Balance of interest paid by the United States 29 177.691 APPROPRIATIONS. The following memorandum of appropriations liae been furnished by the Treasury Department: For fiscal year 1877, $124,122,011; for 1878, $114,C69,453. Appropriations for rivers and harbors wero omitted for this year, and the Postoffice Appropriation bill was $3,000,000 less than in 1877. For 1879, f 146,364,309. This includes increased deficiencies, increased river and harbor appropriations, and the Halifax fisheries award. SILVWB. The treasury issued $13,350,942 in standard silver dollars. Of this amount $6,518,012 has been returned. The amount now held in the treasury is $28,147,351. RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES. The total receipts of the Government for the fiscal year ending Jane 30 from all sources amount to $276,250,227. The total ordinary expenses, not including iuterest on the public debt, amounted to $164,508,384. GOLD COIN. The total amount of gold coin and builion in tho treasury Jan. 2, the date of resumption, was $ 135,382,630. The amount in the treasury June 30 is $135,236,474.61. COINAGE. Coinage at mints during June, 1879: Denomination. Pieces. Value. Gold. Doublet) igles 135.380 $2,707,600 Half-eagles 22,580 111,000 Total gold 157,200 $2,818,6U0 FOR THE TEAR. Eagles 10,341 $1 031,440 Half eagles 2-38.4*0 1,442,130 Tlireo dollars 86,3 (4 109.132 Quarter-eagles 460,720 1,10(5,800 Dollars 8,020 3,020 Total gold 2,759,421 $40,980,912 SILVKR. Dollars 27,227,050 $27,227,050 Half-dollars 450 225 Quarter-dollars 350 112 Dimes 450 45 Total 27,228,440 $27,227,432 Standard silver dollars coined to date 35,801,000 Coinage curing the year ending Jnne, 1879 Gold double eagles 1,861,717 >7,234,340 POLITICAL POINTS The Maine Democrats held their State Convention on the Ist inst., and renominated Gov. Garcelon by acclamation. The Democrats of California have nominated Dr. Hugh J. Glenn, the great Colusa county farmer, for Governor.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Two thousand, five hundred and twenty-five bills were introduced in the House during the late session of Congress. President Hayes, with his family and members of his Cabinet, left Washington on the 3d inst., on a Potomac steamer, for Fortress Monroe and a short cruise on the ocean. A letter of instrnctions from Attorney General Devons is to the effect that the refusal of Congress to appropriate money for their fees does not prevent United States Marshals from performing all the duties of their office. They will, however, be compelled to take their chances of ever getting paid through an appropriation hereafter. The friends of Secretary McCrary now say that he will certainly be appointed by the President to be Judge of Dillon’s circuit, to take effect on the let of September, and that the President and Secretary McCrary both rely upon assuranoes received from the Senate Judiciary Committee and other Democratic Senators individually that McCrary will be confirmed. Unless the President has changed his mind very recently, it is not so oertain that AlexanflW H. Ramsey, of Minnesota, formerly United

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States Senator, will be appointed successor as Secretary of War. Bo says a Washington correspondent A report from the Pension Bureau shows that arrears of pensions, under the new law, in 13,890 cases had been adjusted prior to the Ist of July, the amount involved being $7,230,5713, and the average to each pensioner a fraction less than $530. The number of cases remaining for adjustment is supposed to be less than 35,000.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. At a meeting of the nail manufacturers, h«ld at Wheeling, W. Va., the other day, the price of nails was advanced to $2lO, card rates, equivalent to an advance of 10 cents per Reg on the present card. Aleck Stephens and Ben Hill, who have not spoken to each other for about twenty years, made up the other day, and buried their old animosities. Mr. Stephens challenged Mr. Hill many years before the war, but the latter declined to meet him on the field of honor, and in doing so said: “ I have a family to protect and a boul to save, and you have neither.” From that day the two Southerners never exchanged a word until a few days ago. Capt. Eads is entitled to draw $500,000 from the Government on account of a twenty-six-feet channel at the mouth of the Mississippi, according to a recent decision of the Attorney General. New money-order offices were opened on the Ist inst at 327 places in this country. From various causes 105 lives were lost on steamboats the past twelve months, against 102 the preceding twelve. During the past twelve months 31 lives were lost by accidents ashore; the previous twelve months, 47. In 1875 the numbor of lives lost on steamboats was 607; in 1876, 394; in 1877, 224; in 1878, 202. Jay Gould, the great railroad king, lias gone to Europe, and speculation is rife among the Wall street speculators as to the object of the visit.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. Mr. Vest’s resolution for the complete remonetization and free coinage of silver was finally disposed of by the Senate on the 30th ult. The resolution* on motion of Mr. Allison, was referred to the Committee on Finance, where it will sleep until the next session. The President’s message calling attention to the failure of Congress to appropriate money for the necessities of the Government was read in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Mr. Windom introduced a bill making appropriations for the payment of Deputy Marshals, mi mis the polj teal clauses. The bill was indefinitely postponed by a party vote. In the HouoO, a message was received from the President announcing his approval of the udirial Expenses bill; also a message vetoing the bill making appropriations for the pay of Deputy Marshals. The House refused to pass the bill over the veto, the vote standing: yeas, 83; nays, 02 not the necessary two-tbirds voting in (he affirmative. The House, by a vote of 125 yeas to 23 nays, passed the bill putting salts of quinine and sulphate of quinine on the free list. Mr. Cannon moved 1o suspend the rules and pass the bill appropriating SOOO,OOO to pay the fees of United States Marshals and their general deputfiß during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880. Rejected by a party vote—yeas, 01; nays S 3. SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT. Following is the text of the President’s special message sent to Congress on the 30th ult.: To the Senate and House of Representatives: The bill malting an appropriation for the payramt of the fees of United States Marshals and their general deputies, which t have this day returned to the House of Representatives (in which it originated), with my objections, having on its reconsideration by that body failed to become a law, I respectfully call your attention to the immediate necessity of making some adequate provision for the due and efficient execution by the Marshals and Deputy Marshals of the United States of the constant and important duties enjoined upon them by existing laws. All app.opriations to provide for the performance of these indispensable duties expire to-day. Under the laws prohibiting public officers from involving the Government iu contract liabilities beyond the actual appropriations, it is apparent that the means at the disposal of the executive department for executing the laws through the regular ministerial officers will, after to-day, be left inadequate. The suspension of necessary functions in tho ordinary administration of the first duties of the Government for the shortest period is inconsistent with the public interest, and at any moment may prove inconsistent with public safety. It is impossible for me to look without grave concern on the state of tilings which leaves the public service thus unprovided for and public iuterest thus unprotected, and I earnestly urge on your attention the necessity of making immediate appropriations for the m intenance of the service of Marshals and Deputy Marshals for the fiscal year which commences to-morrow. " R. B. Hayes. June 30,1879. Very little was done in the way of legislation by either house on the final day of the extra ses-. sion, July 1.. In the Senate, the House bill placing quinine on the free list was passed bv an almost unanimous vote. No further effort was made to pa-s the Marshals’ Appropriation bill in either house, but in the Senate Messrs. Windom and Eaton argued the question of responsibility for the failure of the bill. After the passage of the customary resolu tions of thanks to the Vice President (Wheeler) and Vico President, pro tem. (Thurman), the latter at 5 p. m. arose and said: “Senators: Thanking you sincerely for the respect and approbation expressed in your resolution adopted to-day, and for the kind aid you have uniformly given me, while temporarily performing the duties of the chair, and wishing you all safe and pleasant return to your homes, 1 now. In’ obedieica to the concurrent resolution of the two houses, declare the Senate adjourned without day.” In the House, Speaker Randall, at precisely 5 o’clock p. m., rose in his seat and spoke as follows: “Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: Before we separate, I desire to return my thanks as presiding officer of this House to the members of this House, of every po.itical division, and to say to them that I appreciate their uniform kindness aud conduct; and now, in o'edience to the terms of the concurrent resolution of the two houses fixing the time of final adjournment of the first session of the Forty-sixth Congress, I declare this House adjourned without day.”

The Work of Congress.

Summing up the routine work of the extra session, the following are found to be the principal measures passed: For the construction of a refrigerating ship and for the disinfection of vessels to prevent the introduction into the United States of contagious diseases; changing the law relating to vinegar factories; the Army Appropriation bill (vetoed); to prevent military interference at elections (vetoed); the Legislative Appropriation bill (vetoed); to exchange subsidiary silver coins for legal tender, and to make them legal tender to the extent of S2O; to authorize the District of Columbia to red- em certain funded indebtedness not3-65sin 5 per cents.; to procure a site for a postoffice in Baltimore; the Legislative Appropriation bill; the Judicial Expenses bill (vetoed); the Army Appropriation bill | to provide for the aopointment of a Mississippi River Commission; the Judicial Expenses bill; Additional Postoffice Appropriation hill; providing for filling vacancies in the United Sta es engineer corps; the Marshals’ Appropriation bill (vetoed); and to authorize the release of certain lands of the United States to the State of New York. Among the joint resolutions adopted the following are important! In relation to the Australian International Exhibition in 1879 and 1880; authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to place vessels and hulks at the disposal of the Quarantine Commissioners. Congress passed fifty-six public acts, twenty-four joint resolutions and eight private acts.— Washington correspondent.

Curions Errors.

Certain editions of the Bible, owing to the errors they contain, have received many odd names. What is known as the “Breeches Bible” (Geneva, 1560) was so called because Genesis iii. 7, was translated: “They sewed fig-leaves together and made themselves breeches,” instead of “aprons,” as in the English version now used. In the “Treacle Bible” (1568). Jeremiah viii. 22 was made to read: “Is foere no treaole in Gilead,” efco., in-

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

stead of “balm,” and in 1609 the word was changed to “rosin:” “balm” was first used in 1611. The “Vinegar Bible,” printed in Oxford in 1717 by John Basket, derives its name from the heading of Luke xx., which was made to read: “The parable of the vinegar.” The book had many other errors, frim which it has also been called, after the printer’s name, “A Basket of Errors.” In 1631 a Bible was printed in England, and 1732 another appeared in Germany, both of which made the seventh commandment read: “Thou shalt commit adultery,” the word “not” being omitted. It was very appropriately called the “Wicked Bible.”

THE VETO POWER.

It is Exercised Once More by the President in the Case of the Marshals’ BUI. To the House of representatives: I return to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, the bill entitled “An act making appropriations to pay the fees of United States Marshals and their general depu T ties,” with the following objections to its cecorning a law: The bill appropriates the sum of $600,000 for the payment, during the fiscal year ending J one 30, 1880, of United States Marshals and their general deputies. The officers thus provided for are essential to the faithful execution of the laws. They were created and their powers and duties defined by Congress at the first session after the adoption of the constitution, in the Judiciary act, which was approved Sept 24, 1789. Their general duties, as defined in the act whi”h originally establishes them, were substantially the same as those prescribed in the statutes now iu force. The principal provision on the subject in the Revised Statutes is as follows: Section 787. It shall be the duty of the Marshal of each district to attend the District and Circuit Couris when sitting therein, and to execute throughout the district all lawful precepts directed to him and issued under the authority of the United States; and he shall have power to command all the necessary assistance in the execution of his duty. The original act was amended Feb. 28 1795, aud the amendment is now found in the Revised S'atutes in the following form: Section 788. The Marshals and their deputies shall have in each State," the same powers in executing the laws of the United States as Sheriffs and their deputies in such State may have by law in executing the laws thereof. By subsequent statutes additional duties havo been from time to time imposed upon the Marshals and their deputies, the due and regular performance of which are required for the efficiency of almost every branch of the public service. Without these officers there would be no means of executing warrants, decrees, or other processes of the courts, and the judicial system of the country would be fatally defective. The criminal jurisdiction of the courts of the United States is very extensive. Crimes committed within the maritime jurisdiction of the United States are all cognizable only in the courts of the United States. Crimes against public justice; crimes against the operations of the Government, such as forging or counterfeiting money or securities of the United States; crimes against the Postal laws; offenses against the elective franchise; against the civil rights of citizens; against the existence of the Government; crimes against the Internal Revenue laws and Customs laws; crimes against the laws for the protection of the Indians and the public lands. All of these crimes, and many others, can be punished only under the United States laws, which, taken together, constitute a body of jurisprudence which is vital to the welfare of the whole country, and which can be enforced only by means of” the Marshals and Deputy Marshals of the United States. In the District of Columbia, all of the processes of tho courts are executed by the ofiicers in question. In short, the execution of the erimin&l laws of the United States, service of all civil processes in cases in which the United States is a party, and the execution of the Revenue laws, Neutrality laws, and many other laws of large importance, depend on the maintenance of the Marshals and their deputies. They are, in effect, only police of tne United States Government Officers with corresponding powers and duties are found in every State of the Union, and in every oountry which has jurisprudence which is worthy of the name. To deprive the National Government of these officers would be as disastrous to society as to abolish Sheriffs, constables and police officials in the several States. It would be a denial to the United States of the right to execute its laws, and a denial of all authority which requires the use of a civil force. 9 (The law entitles these officers to be paid. Funds needed for this purpose have been collected from the people and are now in the treasury. No objection is, therefore, made to that pari; of the bill before me which appropriates money for the support of the Marshals an 6 Deputy Marshals of the United States. The bill contains, however, other provisions which are identical in tenor and effect with the second section of the bill entitled “An act making appropriations for certain judicial expenses.” which, on the 23d of the present month, was returned to the House of Representatives with my objections to its approval The provisions referred to are as follows: Sec. 2. That, the sums appropriated in this act for the persons and the public service embraced in its provisions are in full for such persons and public service for tiie fiscal year ending June 30,1880, and no department or officer of the Government shall, during said fiscal year, make any contract or incur any liability for the future payment of money under any of the provisions of litle 20 mentioned in the section of this act until an appropriation sufficient to meet such contract or pay such liability shall have first been made by law. Upon reconsideration, in the House of Representatives, of the bill which contained these provisions, it lacked the constitutional majority, and therefore failed to become a law. In order to secure its enactment the same measure is again presented for my approval, coupled in the bill before me with the appropriations for the support of tho Marshals and their deputies during the next fiscal year. The object, manifestly, is to place before the Executive this alternative, either to allow necessary functions of the public service to be crippled or suspended for want of appropriation required to keep them in operation, or to approve legislation which, in official communications to Congress, he has declared would be violation of his constitutional duty. Thus, in this bill the principle is clearly embodied that by virtue of the provision of the constitution which requires that “all bills for raising revenue should originate in the House of Representatives,” a bare majority of the Houee of Representatives has right to withhold any appropriation for the support of the Government, unless the Executive consents to approve any legislation which may be attached to appropriation bills. I respectfully refer to the communications on this subject which I have sent to Congress during its present session for a statement of the grounds of my conclusions, and desire here merely to repeat that, in my judgment, to establish the principles of this bill is to make a radical, dangerous and unconstitutional change in the character of our institutions. (Signed) Rutherford B. Hayes Executive Mansion. June 30. JOT** State Fairs for 1879. Illinois —At Springfield, Sept. 29Oct. 4. S. D. Fisher, Secretary, Springfield. Ohio—At Columbus, Aug. 25-29. James W. Fleming, Secretary, Columbus. Indiana—At Indianapolis, Sept. 29Oct. 4. Alex. Heron, Secretary, Indianapolis. lowa—At Des Moines, Sept. 1-5. John R. Shaffer, Secretary, Fairfield. Wisconsin—At Madison, Sept. 8-12. George E. Bryant, Secretary, Madison. Nebraska—At Lincoln, Sept. 8-12. D. H. Wheeler, Secretary, Plattsmouth. Michigan —At Detroit, Sept. 15-19. R. J. Johnstone, Secretary, Detroit. Minnesota —At St. Paul, Sept. 1-6. R. C. Judson, Secretary, Farmington. Chicago Exposition —At Chicago, Sept. 3—Oct. 18. John P. Reynolds, Secretary, Chicago. . St. Louis Exposition—At St. Louis, Sept. 22—Oct. 4. St. Louis Fair—At St. LouiS, Oct. 6-11. G. O. Kalb, Secretary, St. Louis. Colorado—At Denver, Sept. 23-27, W. R. Thomas. Secretary, Denver,

NO SURRENDER.

The Issue Between the Republican and Democratic Parties. “The Contest Begun, and God Give the Victory to Freedom and the Right.” Eloquent Speech of Hon. Frank H. Hurd, ol Ohio, in the National House of Representatives. Mb. Chairman: A session of unusual excitement appears to be drawing to a close. Questions of the greatest interest to the people of the United States have been from the first day until now the subject of discussion, and it seems a proper thing at its termination to inquire into the result of it, and inquire whethei or not the action of the majority of this House meets with the approval of the American people. My colleague from Ohio [Mr. Garfield], who has just taken his seat, has seen fit, in answer to the positions which have been maintained oy the Democratic party in the progress of the argument, to enter upon a disquisition as to the nature of the Federal Government and the relations of the States to that Government under the constitution which they created. Never in all my studies of the political history of this country, never in all my knowledge of the political debates which have taken place in the Congress of the United States have I heard such views of consolidation advanced as have been suggested to-day by that gentleman. He advanced the extraordinary proposition that the Union preceded the States, when the seventh article of the constitution declares: The ratification of the conventions of nine States shall he snfficient for the establishment of this constitution between the States so rutilying tho same. But in order that all doubt might be removed upon the subject, that tne constitution and the Union was the creature of ihe States, it was declared in the Tenth .vaemibnent of the constitution: ilie powers not delegated to the United B(atcs by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the Sattes, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. Nor is the opinion of the highest judicial tribunal in this country wanting upon this proposition. In the case of Lane county vs. Oregon, the following is tho decision of Chief Justice Chase, to be found on page 76 of 7 Wallace: The people of the United States constitute one nation, vtndtr one Government, and this Government within the scope of the powers with which it is invested is supreme. On the other hand (lie people of ■ ach State compose a State having its own Government, and endowed with all the functions essential to separate and independent existence The Statos disunited might continue to exist. Without the States in union there could be no such political body as the United States. But, Mr. Chairman, for the purpose of the present discussion it is not necessary to entor into pn elaborate consideration of the doctrine of State rights or tho powers of the Federal Government. It ’ sufficient for the bill now under consideration that wo should inquire as to whether it is within the scope and the powers of the Federal Government to pass laws to interfere with elections iu the States, and only so far as this question is involved do I propose to discuss the doctrine of State rights at all. At the beginning of this session of Congress the Democratic party declared throe propositions. We insisted that the army should bo kept away from the polls; that the test oath should be repealed, and that laws should be enacted for the impartial drawing of Jurors; and that the Federal Government should not exercise authority over elections held within tho States. We insisted aud maintained that because of aud by virtue of the constitutional provision that the House of Representatives a'ono shall originate money bills, the representatives of the people had the right to insist that tho grievances of which they complained should bo remedied before appropriations should be made for the support of the Government. In the discussion which has continued lor three months, one of the most earnest and able that has ever occurred in an American Congress, the Democratic party has maintained these propositions. It is not necessary to enter into the details of the argument; it is sufficient for my purpose to briefly recapitulate them. We said that the measures to which we objected were unconstitutional; we said that there was no sue! person as a voter of the United States, as such; that every man who had a right to vote had it because or' State authority aud under State laws and that therefore the Federal Government, not creating the voter, had no power to interfere with him in the exercise of his rights of franchise

We insisted that, under the laws as they now stand, there is no such thirg as a national election ; that under the provisions of the constitution in order that there should be a national election it was fundamental that Congress should fix the places, times aud manner of holding such election. In that event there might be a national election, but that is not this case, for in every instance the times, places and manner of holding elections are fixed by the constitution and the laws of the States, except in a single instance, as to the time The States having exercised power upon the subject there is no occasion for the exercise of power by the United States, and to say that the United Statos and each Stote at the same time possess the power of fixing the time, place, and manner of holding elections is to say that two sovereignties possess the power to do the same thing at the same time on the same sub-ject-matter, which is itself an absurdity. We maintain as to the army, that it being a creature of Congress it has no power to be within the limits of the sovereign States except as the constitution of the United States provides, and then only for the purpose of suppressing domestic iuoiirrection or repelling tne armed enemies of the United States, and then only at the request of the Legislature thereof, or the Executive of the State if the Legislature be not in eesion. More than that Wo have referred to decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States approving all these propositions and declaring that the voters were voters of the State, and that the Federal Government has nothing to do with them. To these decisions gentlemen on the other side, with one or two exceptions, have absolutely refrained in this debate from referring. In addition to that we urged the argument that the laws that we sought to repeal enabled tlir Supervisors to come into the State and interfere with State elections for the se'ection of S!a f e officers, and we also referred to the fact “hat in the State of New York and other States the greatest outrages had been committed by the arrest of citizens without wan ant by ’fficers who had not seen them commit any - offense against the laws, and who, upon bare suspicion that an offense was intended, ha t arrested them. We showed frorr experience li w in the South justice had been made a farce; that jurors were drawn in the intercut of partisanship, and the cases were derided in the in terests of partisanship, and that (lie courts hid absolutely failed to administer justice to the people in that great section. We lefer.od-to the city of New York, where, oh an ejection day, more than five thousand American c tizms were imprisoned by the authority of the Supervisors of Election, aDd afterwards discha ged by a Judge of the United S ates Court., who deci led that there was no authori y to arrest, and that they had been guilty of no crime. More than that, we referred in our argument to the great doctiiue of civil liberty, and maintaiin d that the measures we sought to repeal were iuinveal to freedom, un-American iu spirit, and in the end, would prove subversive of free government

No more manly, no more dignified, no more logical debate so far as the Democratic sid of this House is concerned was ever conducted on this floor; but it what way were our arguments treated by gentlemen on the other side of the House? With the exception of half a dozen apeeche" the pretended answers to our arguments might as well have been made on anv other subject as upon the bill now before the House for consideration. Wnen we said that these measures were violative of th< constitution of the United States Republican orators replied that on thk side of the House the ma jority were Confederate Brigadiers who had at-, tempted t« overthrow the constitution of the United States. When we referred to the fajt of the outrages committed on American citizens, they replied by citing the outrages committed at, Andersonvitle and other prisons in the South during the war, and when we urged that the powers of the army hould be so limited and qualified that ir, might not be used to overthrow the liberties of the people, *hey said, your side was whipped by i hat army, and therefore you arc opposed to it Never in all my knowledge has a debate been 99 honestly oonduoted tigs has

been upon our side of the House; never have arguments been more unfairly met than have onr arguments by gentlemen o t the other sida Ther. are honorabli "Deceptions, of course It wou’d be invidious to nam> them, •’ ut I will ven’ure to mention the names »f two, and I refer to 'he distinguished gentleman from Connecticut [Mr Hawley] and the gentleman from New Jersey [Mr. Itobeson] As. the result of this debate bills have b.jen passed and sent to the President of the United Statos and have been vetoed The veto power was designed by the constim tion as a powei to prevent unconstitutional legislation -tasty or >li-con3idered legislation or to • suable the Executive to protect itself against encroachments from other branches t f the Government r defy '.ny gen leu as. to point m t- any argument ii tl debat. upo. tb> adoption of toe constitution whic) did not give in favor of this provision one or the other of these reasons. Andpi tne history of *hif Government, from the day if its foundatioi until now, the veto power was never before exercised to prevent the lepea 1 of law or to prevent t.h e.>a tment of a general appropriation bill, lertainly never bes ir was th» veto powe^’exercised to prac tically take away from one*of the two nouse* of Congress a power which is conferred upon it separately by tin provisions o f the constitution itself. The power to originate bills of revenue is a power which belongs to ns, and it is a power wnich, if the President interferes with’t as he has do.,e by this veto in this ’ase, he can absolutely take away from us. What reason shave been urged in these extraordinary vetoes ? Chielly that the bills we sough* to pass away from the sxecutiye authority the powei' to enforce the law. Because we would not let him use the army on electio* day to keep the peac at the pol e ho said we took away from him the power to enforce the laws. Sir, the . rmy i the creature of Congress. The constitutioi declares that the Congress may raise an army The c.tns itution declares that appropriations tor tho army shall not last longer than twe y s The onstitutto' declares that. Congress may make rules aud regulations fer the government of the army, rules and regulations; “ rules ” coming first, “ regulations ” afterward. Therefore the army is absolutely the creature of Congre. - Whether it shall be used to execute the laws or not is for Congress to say and not for the President He must take the army as we give it to him, for the purposes which we declare it shall be used for we being'the power to create it. Strange to say, the President and his advisers and the gentlemen on the other side of the House seem to have lost sight of the constitutional provision which gives the President the power to execute the laws. The language of that instrument is that the President of the United States may call upon the militia of the several States to execute the laws. There is the power given to him for the execution of the laws; not the army, unless Congress says so, but the militia of tho States, because the constitution so provides. Never for an in' .-.it did our bills interfere with the power of the President over the militia of the States but only over the army—this creature of ours. The President has the militia of the States from one end of the United States to the other to aid him in executing the laws on election day or at any other time, at the polls or anywhere else. What is the result now, after the vetoes? Some gentlemen have said that the Democratic party has backed down, has surrendered Sii, when we eutc ed upon this fight we did not ex pect to gain the victory in a day. W tien power has for twenty years been intrepcliing b hind all possible legislation, we cannot dislodge it iu a moment We entered upon this contest knowing that many a battle must be fought many a victory be gained, before the ultimate triumph could bo achieved. Ia the Forty-fifth Congress we said to the President, your army—our army, I mean—our army shall not be ustd as a posse comitatus. In the For ty- sixth Congress wo have said our army shall not be used as a part of the police force. And before tho Forty-sixth Congress shall have e osod is term, I say to gentlemen that we will have taken from the statute-bo k every law which proposes to use this c:eatuie of ours at the polls to intimidate American citizens in the exercise of thtir highest prerogative. I would have gentlemen on the other side and the country remember that there has been no surrender of tho principle with which we began this contest. We claim that the representatives of the people, by virtue of their power to originate appropriation bills, can secure redress of their grievances by stopping the supplies for the support of the Government, either of tho President or of any other branch of the Government, unless our views on the subjects to which the appropriations relate are carried out. I say to gentlemen on the other sids and to the country that so long as the Democratic paity is in a majority in this House it will never surrender that grand, healthful power whic’ more than any other made England a free nation, aud which was put into our constitution in order that the legislative authority might have a wholesome method of controlling executive power. Mr. Chairman, this extra session has made up the issue between the two parties. The Democratic party declare that the army shall be kept from the polls; that juries shall be impartially drawn; that the test-oath shall be repealed, and that the Federal authority shall not interfere in elections within the States. Upon that question the Republican party takes issue with us. Confidently appealing only to the patriotism of the country, tne Democratic party goes into this contest. Never in al- the history of this land have more important questions been submitted to the American people for their determination. They relat* to tbe pure administration of justice; they concern thegravest questions of constitutional law; they affect the fundamental principle' of civil liberty. Every man who runt for any office in any State and every citizen who goes to the polls to deposit his ballot is interested. The whole method of ascertaining the popular will in the republic is involved in the issue.

So far-reaching are these principles that if upon this issue the Republican party shall be suece sTul, then all the power over elections in States would he drawn to the Central Govern • ment. The States would lose their places in the federative system, and whethei the army shall be need at the polls or not would bo a question not of right and of constitutional law but of Executive discretion. Such 8 result means the end of the republic and the uplifting of the empire. Can there be any doubt as to a controversy like this? In Russia, where absolute despotism silences individual opinion, it might be doubtful. In Germany, where imperial power sustains itself by an immense standing army, it might be doubtful. In Franco, where the people under Monarchs and Emperors for ages have slumbered, it might be doubtful But here in free America, with the traditions of our English ancestors, and with the sacrifices and triumphs of our American forefathers in behalf of civil liberty, it cannot lie doubtful. Shall civil liberty perish upot. i r s own threshold and by its own fireside? Shall the beacon-light which has shone from our shores for the encouragement of struggling freemen everywhere dicker iu its socket and go out ever as they are gazing upon it? Shall the sun of free government in this continent ere it reaches the meridian sink into night? Sliali the shadow aud the cloud of the army darken our free fields, and free rivers, and free lakes, and free prairies, and pollute the air so that a freeman cannot breathe it? The century of triumph just ended protests; the bright prospects of our future prete t; the hopes of the world protest; aud, what is practically of more value, the Demecratic party, with its majority of half a million of American people, protests. Gentlemen, the contest will soon begin. Ay, it has already begun. I hear the whispering of American inquiry; I hear the mutterings of Anglo-Saxon resolve. I hear the tread of the legions forming, with the banner of civil liberty above them. The contest has already begun ; and God give victory to freedom and the right 1

Walking All Night Around a Tree.

Pan Roberts, of this city, who drew from the Government a little over sl,300 arrearages of pension about three weeks ago, purchased a house and lot, but mysteriously disappeared before the deed was made and has not since been heard of, returned this morning. He claims to have no knowledge or recollection of anything that has transpired since he left here, three weeks ago, until yesterday afternoon he found himself ih a swamp ten miles south of this city, having a well-worn path around a tree, which he thinks he has been walking ever since he left here. As soon as he came to himself he walked to Seymour and was sent back to this city by the Township Trustees, after hearing his strange and almost incredible story. He has no knowledge of what became of his money.— Columbus ( In<)) Cor, Cincinnati (fqzette-,

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NUMBER 22.

THRILLING BEAK STORY.

A Child Falls Into a Bear Pit—Fearful Encounter. [From the Montreal Witneea ] It is well known certain class that “Joe Beef” has a bear pit under his canteen on Common street. It extends all along under the house, and is reigned over by a big black bear weighing over 400 pounds. There are also a she bear and two comparatively youLg cubs, which Joe reckons among his domestic pets. Strangers frequently visit the place and are generally escorted to see the bears through a trap-door in the floor. Yesterday afternoon, while a colored preacher was holding service in the “ singing room,” three American strangers came to visit the place, and the trap door was thrown open to show the bears. While Joe went into the bar-room his little boy, 6 years old, went too near the edge and fell into the den. The old bears were in a dark corner, but one of the cubs at once ran toward the child, who had uttered a frightened scream. The cook lay down on the floor, and reaching down caught the little fellow and raised him up. The she bear had heard the child’s cries, and with a growl rushed toward the trap-door and seized the child just as he was being lifted up. The little fellow was in an instant dragged into the den, encircled by the claws of the old she bear. Joe, hearing the noise which the fearful sight caused, came to the door and asked what was the matter. Seeing his child, as it were, in the jaws of death, he did not hesitate for moment to think, but leaped from the floor into the pit, lighting on the head of one of the bears. He managed by a frantic effort to tear his child from the savage monster and threw him behind. In another instant he handed the little fellow up among the almost-paralyzed spectators. The men around seemed so struck with terror that they could do nothing to help Joe, who had placed himself in such imminent danger. The moment the child was out of the pit the she bear growled fiercely and sprung on Joe, who had no arms with which to defend himself. The savage brute seized him by the right knee, throwing him on his back. Her teeth were driven fully an inch deep into his flesh. He was then completely at the mercy of the animal, whose tameness had disappeared, it being enraged at having the child taken away. The men looking on still seemed powerless to help, though one of the visitors had a revolver in his pocket. Joe, however, did not lose his presence of xrind, but seized a brick which lay near him, and struck the bear on the snout with all his might. The biute let go her hold and Joe quickly got on his feet. The old he bear had not shown fight at all, but, when Joe shouted, had slunk back to ilie dark corner. The she bear now stood ofl showing her teeth, but he continued to shout and she also went back. Joe was then rescued from the pit, his legs being covered with blood. The trousers which he had on were torn to shreds and bis stockings were saturated with blood. The child had not been injured at all beyond a slight scratch on the head. Joe says that the she bear was always a contrary beast, and that when he trained her he used to put her in a puncheon of water and push her head under with a broom, and, when the cub was nearly drowned it would bite the broom. Joe refuses all medical attendance, and applies high wines to the bite, which continues to bleed to-day.

Trials of a Telegraph Operator.

New telegraph operators have to undergo a reception which borders on the treatment known to college Freshmen as hazing. The Operator thus describes it: The new man walks into an office full of strange faces, not a friendly hand to shake, with nothing to recommend him but his ability as an operator and his implicit confidence in that ability for his only encouragement. He approaches the manager’s desk, and, after five or ten minutes, the manager condescends to glance upward, and, in a tone full of thunder, bluntly inquires, “Well, sir, what is it?” The “freshman” states his business, and the manager proposes to give him a trial. Accordingly he is assigned to an instrument and told that he is to “ receive a special.” His feelings at this juncture are about the same as those supposed to be experienced by a man who is about to be hanged. Nervously grasping the pen, he begins to copy. The perspiration trickles down his hand, which makes that member adhere to the blank, his pen sticks fast, the ink is the thickest ever encountered, and there is nothing left for him but so break. Casting a guilty glance about him to see if anyone is looking, he reaches for the key and explains to the sender that he is a new man—“ please take it steady” —but this only makes matters worse. The sender begins to “ whoop ’em up,” and, as the cold chills run down his spinal column, the “ freshman’s” pen indites characters upon the blank resembling the Chinese hieroglyphics on a tea box. This torture usually occupies about half an hour, when the welcome “ n m ” (no more) falls soothingly upon his ear. HeHbreatbes a sigh of relief and looks about him. Behind him stand half a dozen Operators, with grinning countenances. In a moment light begins to dawn upon the “ freshman ” he is the victim of a joke. A glance in another direction discloses the fact that the most rapid sender in the office had been transmitting to him from the columns of a daily paper for the amusement of the “ boys.” If he accepts the situation as a joke he is initiated, but, if he becomes angered, he is still a “ freshman.”

Mistakes by Travelers.

One of the first lessons to be learned in traveling is to place no confidence in the supposed ignorance of the people you meet. It is the most natural thing in the world to talk freely and carelessly in English when surrounded by foreigners, and one rarely appreciates how general is the knowledge of the principal modern languages all over Europe until he has been humiliated at least once by the discovery that whatever he may say in any language and at any place is quite sure to be understood by some one present. Very amusing instances are related of mistakes in estimating the character of fellow travelers, and the latest which has come to my ears is concerting the poet, Longfellow, who, it is well known, is often claimed to be an Englishman. The story goes that Ernest Longfellow, the son of the poet, met in a railway train in Italy an agreeable and apparently well-informed Englishman, with whom he had gn entertaining discussion on

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the merits of the English poets as compared with American. The Englishman calmly counted Longfellow in the list of his countrymen, and was much disturbed at the positive assertion of his young fellow-traveler that the poet was American. Both supported their opinions with the assurance of unquestionable knowledge, and the discussion only terminated when at last the young American produced his card and announced that as he was the son of the poet, he might be supposed to know his nationality. One hears so often scraps of English, evidently not intended for general understanding, that at last the sound of the language in a foreign country gives him almost the same impression as it does to find himself an involuntary eavesdropper. For my own part, when I hear English, I am always tempted to stop my ears. —Paris letter.

INDIANA ITEMS.

Wm. Allison, of Plainfield, received a fatal sunstroke the other day. This season gives the most bountiful wheat harvest ever garnered in Indiana. The employes of the Indianapolis, Dayton and Columbus road have struck for their back pay. Track-laying on the Frankfort and State Line Narrow-Gauge railroad began at Frankfort last week. Cyrus W. McKay, an old citizen of Morgan county, died at the residence of his brother, near Clayton, recently. Noble C. Butler, of New Albany, the new Clerk of the United States Courts, has assumed charge of the office. Allen Norcross, the oldest citizen of Wells county, died a few days ago. He had come to that part of the State in 1832. The Trustees have elected Dr. A. J. Thomas, former editor of the Vincennes Sun, Second Assistant Physician of the Insane Asylum. George West, a resident of Sullivan county, was fatally bitten on the foot by a rattlesnake. The snake clung on with a tenacious grip until torn off. At Mooresville a young son of Louis Apple, aged 6, while play ip g in his father’s grist-mill, fell between the wheel and stonework, crushing and killing him. The Blue River starch works at Edinburg shut down last week until September. Since starting up laßt September they have used nearly 250,000 bushels of corn. W. H. Myers, of Fort Wayne, has Ihe contract for building the new jail at Plymouth. The building will be erected on the lot north of the Court Hourc. Work will be commenced at once. Johnson, the escaped convict from the penitentiary, who had been beleagured in a swamp near Memphis, Clark county, has made his escape, notwithstanding the close vigilance with which he was guarded. The fifteenth annual convention of the Indiana Sunday-School Union held a three-days’ session at Richmond last week. There were 550 delegates in attendance, which is in excess of any previous convention. The following Indiana graduates of West Point have been assigned: Wm. A. Shunk, Eighth cavalry; Francis H. French, Nineteenth infantry; Luther C. Wellborn, Fifth cavalry; Will P. May, Fifteenth cavalry. A train of cars set fire to a wheat field, belonging to Matthius Wright, near Shelbyville. The exertions of all hands employed on the farm, together with the entire force of section hands, were required to save the crop. A boy in Crawford county married when he was 17 and was a father at 18. He lately married a second wife, and now, at the age 80, is happy with a second child. There is sixty-two years’ difference in the ages of the two children Mrs. MaryT. James was badly burned about the face and hands, recently, at Walton, by the explosion of a can co itaining powder, which she threw n t>- m open stove, supposing it empty. Two small children of a neighbor were also burned —one, it is supposed, fatally. The Central Law School is being arranged for in Indianapolis. It is regularly incorporated, with Byron K. Elliott, Charles P. Jacobs, and ex-Reporter James B. Black as regular professors, with several lecturers of ability from the bar of the State. Prospects are flattering. The term begins Oct. 1. Henry Frederick, aged 15, while hunting near his home at Mauckport, set his gun against a small tree. A gust of wind shook the tree, causing the gun to fall and discharge, the load taking effect in the lad’s hip and arna, inflicting a dangerous wound. In removing the remains of the Fontz family from an abandoned grave-yard a few miles southwest of Richmond, workmen discovered the body of David Fontz, one of the oldest settlers of the county, in a perfect state of petrifaction, the change from flesh to stone being complete. Henry P. Brokaw, Sr., died at Terre Haute, the other night, of general debility, in the 83d year of his age. He wa« one of the original pioneers of that Eart of the West. Coming from his ome in New Jersey in 1816, he became a successful merchant, a citizen of integrity, and a high officer in Masonry. The Directors of the North Lake and River Association of Northern Indiana have concluded to locate at Syracuse, pn the shore of the Nine-Mile lake. Tfie objects of the association are for horticultural purposes and the scientific propagation and cultivation of fish, promotion of literary attainments and cultivation of physical and mental health.

George P. Hoover, who has been starving himself to death for the last three months, died last week. Mr. Hoover was a wealthy farmer living five miles northwest of Hagerstown. His wife died less than a year ago, and he married again, some four months after, a grass-widow, in direct violation of a well-known law of the “Dunkard ” Church, of which he was a prominent member; he was turned out of church, and violently opposed in his course by his children, all of which seemed to piey upon his mind until he became deranged, laboring under the aberration that everything was poisoned, and refused to eat or drink. Sufficient, however, was forced down him to maintain life unfcil his f»rsfcem gradually lye-itj