Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1879 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

VOBBION KIWI. The whaling ship Our Queen, of Dundee, Scotland, with fourteen whales, was eaught in the ice in Lancaster sound, between Baffin’s bay and Barrow strait, and crushed. The crew were saved. Advices from South Africa report that King Cetywayo has taken to the bush to escape the pursuing British. Ex-Prfesident Grant left Japan for Ban Francisco on the 3d of September, and will arrive about the 21st The Czar of Russia and Emperor of Oermany have had a meeting at Alezandrowe. The subject of their conversation has not been given to the public. Spain will send 20,000 troops to Cuba, to suppress the new insurrection. A large number of amnestied Communists arrived at Paris in a body the other day. They were enthusiastically received at the station by friends and relatives, with cries of “ Vivo la Itepubiique.” They looked generally very pale and careworn. Thoir reception by the membors of their families was very affecting. Many of the men brought with them pet animals, snob as dogs and cats, the companions of their pa'nful exile. The conduct and bearing of the pardoned men was excellent. There were no revengeful expressions board. Prof. Nordenskjold announces from Yokohama his safe arrival at that port on the Vega, with which he has demonstrated tho feasibility of tho northern passago. Tho expedition doubled East cape, midway in Behring’s strait, on tho 20th of July, and proceeded thenco to Lawrence bay, Port Clarence and Bobring’s island. The remains of Sir Rowland Hill were buried in Westminster Abbey. The funeral procession was witnessed by thousands of people. It is said the opposition in Spain to tho inarriago of Ki.jg Alfonso with tho Archduchess Mario, of Austria, is assuming serious proportions. Nov. 28 is the day set for tho marriage.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE, xffiatet. Jefferson Borden, for many years a loading capitalist of Fall River, Mass., is now a financial wreck, all of liis property having boen attached by creditors. His ruin was brought about by the speculations and peculations of Paine and Durfee, his sons-in-law. Pleuro-pnenmonia in man and beast is attracting the closost attention of tho medical profession in the Eastern States. Many cattle found to bo Buffering with tho disorder have beon killed. The prevalence of this complaint on the Atlantic seaboard is to be made the subject of a thorough investigation by tho New York health authorities. A sail-boat capsized in Lake On tario, near Sackett’s Harbor, N. Y , tho other day, with dis'ressing result. There wero nine persons on board, seven of whom attempted toswim ashore, a distance of half a milo, and wore drowned. Two clung to the spar above water and wore rescued. Cases of pleuro-pnenmonia among the cattle of tho East are again bocoming too common to bo pleasant. A number of cases have been discovered recently among the cattlo in the stock yards at Now York, and many moroon dairy farms within forty miles of that city. Jay Gould, the railway magnate, has contributed #5,000 for-tho benefit of tho suffering Memphians, and will give more if needed. The wife of Sheriff Kern, of Philadelphia, has just died of hydrophobia. Six weeks ago site was bitten by a pet dog. Two children have just been fatally poisonod at Linden, N. J , by eating toad-stools. "West. Advices from the West report that Col. Miles has returned to Fort Keogh with his command, consisting of seven companies of tho Fifth infantry, bringing with him nearly 1,000 half-breeds, who have beeu furnishing ainiß and ammunition to the Indians between the Yellowstone and the boundary line. He has cleared the country of all roving bands, and driven Hitting Hull's followers across the American liue, besides breaking up the illicit traffic in arms and ammunition between the half-broods and hostile Indians. The campaign was very successful, considering the small loss to Miles. A wonderful feat in swimming has been performed by a woman at Lake Geneva, Wis. Mrs. Edward E. Ayer, of Harvard, 111., swam across the lake from Harvard Park to Gamp Collie, a distance of two miles, in two hours aud ton minutes. A San Francisco dispatch says that Charlos Do Young, who attempted to assassinate I. H. Kallocb, has been admitted to bail in the sum of #25,000. A San Francisco dispatch says the Eureka stage coach was Btopped above Nevada City by twelve masked men, tho express bag taken, and the passengers made to stand up n the road and deliver their personal proporty. William F. Cummings, banker, of Moore’s Flat, resisted the robbers when they attempted to take a gold bar belonging to him, and was shot through tho head and instantly lulled. _ A Chicago paper says the cost of building in that city is 20 to 25 per cent, higher than it was six months ago. Bricks are worth nearly twice as much now as they were then, and wages have advanced 50 cents a day for bricklayers, and 50 to 75 for unskilled workers. Three men were recently taken from the custody of a constable by a mob in Mendocino county, Cal., and hanged. Their offense was the larceny of a saddle and some harness. Three young people, named Louis Summit, Alice Cottrell and Ellen Delinger, were drowned near Petersburg, Ind., a few days ago. They were being ferried across White river in a fiat boat, and the mules attached to the wagon in which they were sitting, becoming frightened, precipitated the vehicle and its human freight into tho water, with the result mentioned. The Bteamer Alaska, plying between Detroit and Sandusky, met with a serious disaster near Detroit. The lining in her steamchimney blew out, knocking the front end of the boiler into pieces. The escaping steam scalded eight of the crew. The two engineers, one fireman and one deck-hand jumped overboard. The latter was saved, but the other three were drowned and their bodies lost. Nebraska is filling up and growing. A late census, shows a population of 386,400, being an increase of 263,417 since 1870. Quincy, 111., was visited by a fire last week, which swept away about #IOO,OOO worth of business property. A freight train on the St. Louis division of the Wabash road ran through a bridge near Carpenter station, kiliing Engineer Corcoran and Brakeman Unemeyer, and seriousljr injuring the fireman. The engine and

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JAS. W. McEWEN Editor.

VOLUME 111.

eight cars jumped the track and went through the bridge. South. David Contrill, aged 18, shot and killed Frank McConnell, aged 10, in Caldwell county, Ky. The first of the Chisholm murder cases—that of Henry G. Gully, charged with mui dering Miss Cornelia Chisholm—hae taken upintbeCircuitCourtof Kemper county, Miss., at DeKalb, on the sth of September. Gen. Troodford, of New York, was present, but stated that he could take no part in the proceedings. He simply went as an escort to Mrs. Chisholm. A terribly destructive storm recently visited the country round about New Orleans. Several steamboats and a large number of canal boats were sunk, and sugar-houses, warehouses, and other buildings wero wrecked by tbe score. The loss will reach hundred;) of thousands of dollars. Nine deaths fronp yellow fever and orty four new cases at Memphis for tho forty eight hours ending on the evening of Bept. 2. The National Board of Health have approved of the plan submitted by the Buporintendent of Quarantine), for the establishment of a quarantine picket, encircling the entire city and suburbs. Fifty men have beon assigned to patrol duty, to enforco this new quarantine law. The wife of ex-Lieut. Gov. Charles P. Johnson, of Missouri, committed suicide at St. Louis, last week, by taking arsenic. Her mind had been impaired for some months. At Memphis, for the forty-eight hours ending at 0 o’clock p. m., Bept. 4, there were sixteen deaths from yellow fever. Fifty-five new cases were reported to the Board of Health for the same period. The fever was gradually spreading in the suburbs and toward the country. • The Howard Association have exhausted their funds, and have issued an appeal for aid to the country at large. At a meeting of the Colored Refuge Board at Bt. Louis, last week, reports were made going to show that there has been little falling off in the negro emigration northward, and that the number may be expected to'increase after the crop is gathered. Twenty-two deaths from yellow fever and forty new cases of the disease were reported to the Memphis Board of Health for the three days ending on the evening of Bept. 7. Total new cases for the week, 152, of which seventy-eight were whites and seventy-four colored. Total number of cases since the breaking out of the disease, 1,005, and total deaths, 272.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The Government is making full provisions for furnishing coin in Now York in exchange for the gold bullion which is coming in so rapidly from France and England to pay for the enormous quantities of grain now being exported to those countries. A Washington dispatch of the Bth inst, says: “ The President and family left today for the West. Gen. Sherman will accompany the President to Cincinnati, and attend the Exposition there. Secretary Evarts will join the President in his visit to Kansas, and remain with him until his return, early in October. Secretary Thompson loaves to-morrow for Indiana, and Secretary McCrary on the 30th for lowa. The latter will inspect some Western posts. When Postmaster General Key returns, Gen. Tyner will go to Indiana.” POLITICAL POINTS. The Republicans of Minnesota held their State Convention at St. Paul on the 2d inst. John 8. Pillsbury, present incumbent, was nominated for re-election to the Governorship on the first ballot, and C. A. Gilman, of St. Cloud, was nominated for Lieutenant Governor, on the fourth ballot. Ex-Gov. Seymour has written a letter declining to be a candidate for the Governorship of New York, and rebuking the existing diesensions in the Democratic party of that State.

MISCELLANEOUS OLBAHIMOk. Daring but unsuccessful attempts were mado last week in Toronto to abduct George Brown, tlio head of the Government and editor of the Globe , and Itobert Jaffray, a leading merchant. The latter was carried into a marsh, but regained his liberty after a desperate tight. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald says that “since the adjournment of Congress a number of Gen. Grant’s iriends have had under consideration a suggestion ooming originally from a distinguished Southern soldier, to create the office of Captain General of the Army, with suitable pay and allowances, and to have the same tendered to Gen U 8. Grant, in recognition of his patriotic services in behalf of the Union. The correspondent adds that the proposition has been received with great favor, and will take shape in a in accomplishing the purposes named early, in the next session of Congress.” Representatives of eleven of the Bessemer steel works of the country met at Philadelphia last week, for the regulation of trade, now more activo than for several years past. The reports were that every rail-mill in the country lias orders for more than it can produce up to the end of the year, and many of them have already taken orders for several months. A New York telegram says that in addition to the English farmers on the way West, the tenant farmers of Ireland are writing to friends in this country, to be informed of the actual condition of affairs. A Commissioner has left New York for a personal inspection of the Western and Northwestern States. He expects that many Irish farmers will make their homes in the future on the fertile soil of tho West.

New York Polities.

The Republican State Convention of New York, convened at Saratoga Sept. 3, was called to order by A. B Cornell, Senator Roscoe .Conkling was made temporary Chairman, and Vice President William A. Wheeler chosen as permanent Chairman. After the adoption of a platform, the convention proceeded to nominate a candidate for Governor. The first and only ballot resulted: A. B. Cornell, New York, 234; W. H. Robertson, Westchester, IC6; Theodore M. Pomeroy, Cayuga, 35; Frank Hiscock, Onondaga, 34; George B. Sloan, Oswego, 1; John H. Starin, Montgomery, 4; whole number of votes cast, 450; necessary to a choice, 227. The Chairman announced that, as A. B. Cornell had received a majority of all the votes, he was the nominee, of the convention. A motion to make the nomination unanimous was adopted, with a single objection. The ticket was completed as follows: For Lieutenant Governor, Georgo G. Hoskins; for Secretary of State, Joseph B. Carr; for Comptroller, James W. Wadsworth; for Treasurer, Nathan D. Wendell; for Attorney General, Hamilton Ward; for State Engineer and Surveyor, Howard Soule. —The New York Prohibition State Convention met at Syracuse on the 3d inst and nominated the following ticket: For Governor, Prof.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1879.

John W Mears; for Lieutenant Governor, James H. Bronson; for Secretary of State, Alphonso A. Hopkins; for Comptroller, Caleb W. Alii; for Treasurer, Stephen Merritt; for State Engineer, John J. Hooder; for Attorney General, Walter Farrington.

HORRIBLE TRAGEDY.

An Ohio Lad Murders His Mother, Aunt and Consin, and Commits Suicide. [Cincinnati Telegram.] The finding of the dead bodies of three women at Waynesville, Ohio, has been heretofore mentioned. The suicide of Willie Anderson, tho son of Mrs. Hatte, one of tho victims, news of which has just been received, completes one of the most remarkable cases of crime in the history of the State. The investigations of the Coroner and of detectives have developed the following facts: Mrs. Hatte lived in Waynesville, a small Quaker village in Warren county, with Willie Anderson, her son by a former divorced husband, a l«d 18 years of age. With her w6re staying temporarily her sister, Mrs. Clementine Weeks, of Cincinnati, and a 12-year-old daughter of the latter. One week ago last night neighbors of the family heard screams issuing from the house, but little attention was paid to the fact. On Sunday morning the boy Willio loft Waynesville for Cincinnati. On the same day persons passing the house noticed an offensive smell coming therefrom. On yesterday afternoon it got so bad that the Marshal ventured to open one of the windows, when the stench becamo horrible. Entering, ho found the room in confusion and two dead bodies lying one on a bod and the other under. A further search revealed a third body in the back room, and all were in an advanced stage of decomposition, while tho head of tho one in the front room had been eaten by rats until the hair and scalp were all gone. The bodies were unrecognizable exo;pt by Lie garments. The mother and child lay in the front room. Mrs. Hatte, in the back room, near a lounge, was covered with a tick, and had her head mashed. The victims had evidently retired, tho lit:lo girl’s pallet lying on the floor near the window board, stained and tumbled, while the child lay on the bed, partially covered by cE thes. The poor mother had crawled under her bed to die. Her arm was gashed wi'h blows from the hatchet, as if it had beon put up to protect her head. Suspicion at once attached to the boy, whose conduct toward the close of the week had been noticed to be suspicious. It appeared by testimony before the Coroner that he had left the house on Tuesday night and spent tho rest of the week at a hotel. He was seen, however, several times going badt to the place, and the discovery of a dime novel, which had been loaned him on Saturday, Ling by his mother’s side shows that he must have spent some time iu the house as late as Saturday night. It appears that after leaving Waynesville on Sunday morning l;o came to Cincinnati, where his father, Daniel R. Anderson, is Jiving. He stayed at a hotel hero over night, visited his father, aud passed the time about the city. Last night he ’•esolved to go back to the scene of the tragedy, whether with the intention of confessing tho deed or or putting a bold face upon the matter is not known. He had no money, and, being unable to pay his fare, was put off the train at Plainville, a few miles out of Cincinnati. He went to a hotel, but was refused admittance, not having money to pay his lodging. Nothing more was seen of him until 1 o’clock to-day, when he was found on a coal heap near tho station with a bullet through his head and his right hand grasping a thirty-two caliber pistol. He had been dead somo hours. The motive of the lad for committing the terrible crime can only be surmised. He was living apparently on good terms with his mother and aunt, aud was regarded in the village and iu the printing office where ho woiked as a peaceable boy. The only thing which affords a clew to the mystery is that he acted for or with his father. Mrs. Hatte was married to Anderson when she was 16 years old. She was a pretty girl, and in her later years was regarded as a handsome woman. After the birth of the son difficulties arose and a divorce followed. Subsequently the woman was married to a Mr. Hatte, who died wot long ago in an iusane asylum. The of the detectives is tnat Anderson is in some way implicated in the murder, and that Mrs. Woeks and her daughter were killed because they wore witnesses ot the deed. The deed lias" created a profound sensation, and further details are eagerly awaited.

FEDERAL FINANCE.

PUBLIC-DEBT STATEMENT. Following is the regular monthly debt statement, issued by the United States treasury on the Ist inst.: % Six per cent, bonds... .#233,681,860 Five per cent, bonds .. 608,440,350 Four and half per cent. bonds 250,000,000 Four per cent, bonds.. 736 348,000 liotundinK ceriificates. 4,306 500 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total coin bonds.. #1.796,917,000 Matnred debt $ 41,140,910 Legal-tenders $316,742,441 Certificates of deposit. 35,175,000 fractional .currency.... 16,762,064 Gold and silver certificates 18,410,550 Total Without Interest 416,090,056 Total debt $2,254,147,966 Unclaimed Pacific railroad Interest .. 7,927 Total interest - 19,311,466 Cash in treasury rcTT 243,696 228 Debt less cash In treasury Sept. 1. $2,029,766,204 Decrease during August 3,527,395 Increase since June 30 2,558,948 CURRENT LIABILITIES. Interest due and unpaid $ 4,693,522 Debt on which interest has ceased.... 41,140,910 Interest thereon 1,836,567 Gold aud silver certificates 18,410,660 United States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit 36,175.000 Cash balance available Sept. 1, 1879.. 142,439,678 Total $ 243,696,228 AVAILABLE ASSETS. Cash in treasury $ 243,696,228 Bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad Companies, interest payable in lawful money: Principal outstanding.. $ 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 646,235 Interest paid by the United States.... 43,712 450 Interest repaid by transportation of mails, etc 12,710,188 Balance of interestpaidby the United States 81,002,261 SILVER CIRCULATION. During August the silver payments from the United States treasury and United States mints amounted to $1,805,000, exclusive of the amount returned for silver certificates. The aggregate weight of the coin thue distributed is fifty-six tons. BOND CONVERSIONS. Up to Sept 1 the receipts of refunding certificates for conversion into 4-per-cent, bonds aggregated #35,7(4;,000. The total issues of the 4-per-cent, loan by the Treasury Department amounted to $740,795,300, leaving $726,600 not yet disposed of. SILVER DOLLARS. The number of standard silver dollars coined during August was 2,787,050; number coined up to Sept. 1, 40,237,050/

Birds of Paradise.

The birds of paradise unite all the modes of ornamentation in the highest degree, with the most harmonious results. They join the graceful plumes of the ostrich to the dainty coloring of the sun bird. Crests almost as largely developed as that of the umbrella bird overshadow their beautiful heads; frills as full as those of the humming birds fall down in metallic splendor before tbeir gorgeous necks And if any proofs be wanting of the connection between the nature of the food and the beautiful plumage, it may be found in the fact that these royally-attired creatures are first cousins of our own dingy crows and jackdaws; but, while the crow seeks his livelihood among the insects and carrion of an English plowed field, the bird of paradise regales his lordly pal ate on the crimson and purple fruits, which gleam out amid the embowering foliage of the Malayan forests. —The Eclectic. “I’m a ruta-baga, and here’s where I plant myself,” said a tramp, as he entered a farm-house near Freeport, 111., and seated himself at the table. “We allers bile ours,” said the farmer’s wife, and soused him with a dishpanful of boiling water.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles”

SHERMAN’S PET BANK.

4ml tbe Peculiar Financial Operations in Connection Therewith. [New York Cor. dneinna'i Enquirer.] That the First National Bank of New York is John Sherman’s pet bank, was shown by his recent extension of time oh a check drawn on the bank for $4,000,000 by Acting Secretary Gilfillan, while Sherman was off junketing and speech-making recently. Mr. Gilfillan, who is a business man, wanted $4,000,000 for the use of the Government, and, very naturally, he drew a check on the bank that owed the Government the most money. If Sherman had not gone out of his way to grant the extension, the First National Bank would have had to pay up promptly, just as the other members of the Syndicate did. The reason assigned by Sherman for granting this favor to his pet bank is that, being .the last to subscribe, that bank should be tbe last to pay. As a matter of fact, all the banks subscribed on the same day, within a few hours of one another. In other words, Mr. Sherman permits the First National Bank to profit three-quarters of one per cent, on $40,000,000 because it was about three hours behind other banks in subscribing to the loan. There is no reason for his extending the time for the First National Bank to pay up that would not justly apply to other members of the Syndicate; and the opinion is freely expressed in Wall street that the First National Bank has been made to share its profits with Mr. Sherman’s friends. A big slice of the profits went to defray Republican expenses of the pending canvass in Ohio. It is freely asserted that a member of the Ohio State Republican Committee went to all the Syndicate banks and substantially demanded a share of their profits to help bolster up Hayes. At least one-half of the banks, however, refused to pay a cent. The officials apniied to said promptly; “I’ve got no interest in the Ohio election. I would just as soon see Ewing elected as Foster. I don’t care a fig about either one, and I won’t subscribe a cent.” There is much dissatisfaction among national-bank officers and other holders of call bonds at Sherman’s preference of the First National Bank as a purchaser of 4-per-cent, bonds. After his circular, promising an opportunity to holders of 10-40 s to exchange them advantageously for 4 per cents., his sudden dicker with the Syndicate, and his preference of the First National Bank to the detriment of more than 2,000 other banks is considered as influenced by motives somewhat peculiar. An officer of one of our banks said this evening:

“ Sherman gave all of us cause for complaint when he gave an extra commission to banks that made speculative subscriptions. That was a poor encouragement to banks that were acting prudently. When the First National Bank wanted to realize on these bonds, they got the price down to t per cent, premium, with $ per cent, of earned interest. Since they got the extension from Sherman they put the bonds up to f and i per cent., showing the value to them of being relieved from the payment of their debt to the Government. Instead of permitting the First National Bank to play fast and loose with the Government, Sherman ought to have kept faith with the other banks, and allowed them to come in and get some of the 4 per cents. There would then have been no need of granting an extension to any bank; and when the Government wanted its money it would have got it. As for Mr. Gilfillan, he would not take any part in Sherman’s scheme to favor the First National Bank. I guess he would rather be kicked out of there than not. He is not afraid of Sherman, and evidently did not Understand Sherman’s plan to favor the First National Bank, or he would not have drawn that $1,000,000 check. “ There is no doubt that if Sherman had not stepped in the First National Bank would have been in a tight place. They would have been obliged to offer their bonds, and must have broken down the market. This would have been disastrous. One peculiar feature of it is that if the First National Bank had come to grief by its speculation in 4 per cents, its depositors would have lost everything, because the Government is a preferred creditor. That sort of gambling in banking should be prohibited by law. It is singular that the Government, having charge of our national banks, should permit such enormous operations by small banks like the First National Bank, knowing that if the speculation failed the result would be so disastrous. Sherman has been so partial to the First National Bank in the matter that it is common talk in the street. The attempt to make capital for the Ohio campaign fund out of the Syndicate banks is also well known. Mr. Sherman’s explanation of nis reason for giving an extension to the First National Bank will not bear investigation by those who have watched the course of events. He has, at least, narrated the facts in such a way as to deceive the public.” “Have you any positive reason to know that politics have been brought to bear in the placing of this 4-per-cent, loan by Secretary Sherman?” “Only this: Just before the announcement was made that an extension of time had been granted by Secretary Sherman to subscribing banks to the 4-per-cent, loan, a member of the Ohio Republican State Central Committee called on me, in connection with my bank, for a subscription to the Foster campaign fund in Ohio. I asked why he came to me. He said that Secretary Sherman had directed him to-call on Gen. Hillhouse, and that he would give him a list of banks to call on in this city. Gen. Hillhouse had given him the list of those banks which had subscribed to the 4-per-cent, loan, suggesting at the same time that out of their profit they could certainly afford to contribute.” “Was he successful in soliciting contributions?” “The story is told. You may draw your own inferences.”

Fixing Things Beforehand.

Did Mr. John Sherman have reason, eight months ago, to expect that his friends of the First National Bank would find it impossible to pay back into the treasury the millions which he proposed to leave on deposit with them? In the circular issued by Mr. Sherman on the Ist of August, 1878, the re-

lations of the Government with banks acting as agents of the Government in the sale of 4-per-cent, bonds were clearly defined. That circular gave the banks ninety days in which to turn over the money received for 4 per cents. This was its language: A 8 soon ae the 4-per-cent bonds are paid for by certificates of deposit of such public depositories, or otherwise, a call will issue, maturing within ninety days, for the redemption of 6-per-cent bonds, and the money received for 4-per-cent bonds will remain on deposit until such call matures. On the Ist of January, of the present year, Mr. Sherman increased the commission to be allowed to the First National and other depository banks cn the bonds for which they might subscribe. This kind act of Mr. Sherman’s practically put the whole business of selling tips bonds into the hands of the favored banks, chiefly the Frst National, for - it enabled them to undersell the Government itself in disposing of the bonds in small quantities to actual purchasers. At that time, as will be remembered, the daily subscriptions increased in an enormous proportion. Simultaneously with the increase, Mr. Sherman issued another circular, suspending that of Aug. 1, 1878. This new circular said nothing about ninety days’ grace to the banks. In almost so many words it promised'the First National Bank, controlled by the old Jay Cooke, McCulloch & Co. ring, that the money derived from the sale of the bonds should remain on deposit as long as Mr. Sherman chose to let it remain. This was the language of the new circular: The money received by depositor banks on account of subscriptions will remain on deposit with said bank, but subject to the order of the Treasurer of the United States, Several interesting questions arise: Did John Sherman, in the kindness of his great heart, foresee, eight months ago, that the Jay Cooke financiers would be embarrassed to settle with the Government within the ninety days’ limit? Did the ingenuous financiers of the First National Bank, in the simplicity of their natures, misinterpret the thoughtful act of kindness, and assume that Mr. Shermau meant that they might go on owing the Government thirty or forty millions until the crack of doom ? What would become of the people’s money if the Jay Cooke, McCulloch & Co. financiers should fail, as they have been known to do before ? Is the refunding of the 6-per-cent, loan an accomplished fact, as Mr. John Sherman claims in his stump speeches in Ohio and elsewhere? If so, where is the money, or its equivalent in called bonds, that ought to be in the treasury of the United States? New York Sun.

The Notions of Mr. Win. M. Evarts.

The volume of 428 pages, just published from the State Department, under the title of “The State of Labor in Europe: 1878,” and consisting of letters on the subject received from Hayes’ Consuls, opens with a letter of Mr. Evarts, which covers one-tenth of the report and professes to generalize the facts which it sets forth. The greater part of the Consular letters to be found in the report are brazen illustrations of the stupidity, ignorance and incapacity of the men sent abroad upon official duty by Mr. Wm. M. Evarts; and the spirit that runs through the report, from first to last, is far from being candid or being justified by experience. Tlie toiler is told by these officials, sitting in their easy chairs and drawing large salaries for signing their names, that his condition is of the very worst; that it cannot be bettered, and that the only thing for him to do is to accept it resignedly, and to make the most of the wages he is able to get. Some apology may be made for the Consular correspondence, but there is none possible for Mr. Wm. M. Evarts when he joins in the hue and cry against the working classes of Europe, and actually traces the wrongs and evils under which they suffer to their struggles for industrial and social improvement. Mr. Wm. M. Evarts tells the workingmen of the United States: Under no consideration must we have strikes; under no consideration must our factories lie idle. If our manufacturers cannot run their establishments profitably and pay tho prevailing wages, our working people must help them to make profit by consenting to a reduction of wages. American workingmeg are admonished by Mr. Wm. M. Evarts to prepare for a reduction of wages to the basis of the European mechanic and laborer. Here are his very words: In the near future the workingman of New York cannot expect twice or thrice the wages of his fellow-worker in Europe, while all other things—food, rent, clothing, etc.—are on an equality; nor can the coal miner of Pennsylvania expect twice the wages of the Northumberland miner, while coal from the Northumberland mines can be landed in New York at less than the price of Pennsylvania coal. Again Mr. Wm. M. Evarts says: The first great truth to be learned by the manufacturers and workingmen is that the days of sudden fortunes and double wages are gone. Again Mr. Wm. M. Evarts says: Let the workingman feel, as he should feel, that the man who employs him, who enables him to feed and clothe his wife and children, is his friend as well as his employer, aud that all within and about the workshop are things to be protected, even with life if necessary, instead of being destroyed. Mr. Wm. M. Evarts is said to be an aspirant for the. nomination for Governor of this State, and for the Presidency also. These are his sentiments and opinions concerning the life and labor of the great body of the American people, the men who earn their bread by the sweat of their brow. They are the notions, too, of other Republican leaders. The whole policy of the Republican party is to degrade and impoverish labor; to create aristocratic classes; to ennoble wealth; and to plant deeply in this soil the tastes, habits and institutions of the monarchical system.— New York Sun.

How Sherman’s Speeches Are Distributed.

The official envelopes of all the departments at Washington have a printed notice on the front forbidding their use for any private purpose. The notice is in the following words, with the name of each particular office inserted, in lieu of “Treasurer of the United States TREASURY DEPARTMENT. To be returned to TREASURER OF THE UNITED STATES If not delivered in ten daya. Official Business. Any person using this envelope to avoid the payment of postage on private matter of any kind will be subject to a fine of S3OO. Thousands of copies of John Sherman’s partisan speeches have been circulated in these envelopes all over the

country in direct violation of law, for which the sender might be prosecuted. When the head of the department thus openly prostitutes a public trust to a personal object, and makes his subordinates participants in the offense, it is easy to see what effect such an example must have on the clerks, and what the state of discipline must be under him. This is only an illustration of the practices at Washington, where the whole public service is used to advance partisan and personal interests, and where hypocrisj is added to the corruption that Grant bequeathed as a legacy to his successor.

Pillage Must Cease.

It has been said that since the accession of the Democratic party to power in both houses of Congress the lobby has disappeared. This fact. /peaks louder than platforms or speeches. The people know that it means smaller appropriations and lighter taxes. The ruthless application of the knife to executive estimates, and the large reduction of expenditures made by the lower house in the Forty-fourth Congress, had much to do with the election of Tilden and Hendricks in 1876. This, with the economical administration of Gov. Tilden in New York and his war upon the rings, undoubtedly produced the great majority against Hayes and Wheeler which was given, and was falsifiad in the interest of further corruption and extravagance. Mr. Blaine. Mr. Sherman, the third-termers, aud the fraudulent administration may make speeches, and more speeches, and do what they will to turn the public mind off upon other questions, but the real issue is this of honest and economical government. The people are determined to stop the plundering and the squandering, to reduce their taxes, and pay for nothing but the support of their Governments. They know that extravagance is the parent of every other evil, and that a people who permit the earnings of industry to be taken and enjoyed by their rulers, either with or without the forms of law, are mere slaves. The political history of the last few years shows that this great truth has leavened the whole public mind. The real struggle now is for the emancipation from corrupt combinations, rings, and corporations, which, in ways too numerous to mention, prey upon the people and eat out their substance. The campaign in Pennsylvania shows perhaps more clearly than any other the fact that the popular apprehension is fully alive to these issues. There reform seemed to be hopeless. In the State and in the chief cities, rings of political criminals, growing visibly rich from public plunder, controlled everything, and their despotic rule was scarcely questioned. The treasury ring embezzled millions, with but a feeble popular protest, which the leaders of both parties took care should find no effectual expression. The Pennsylvania railroad debauched and used the Legislature, and, in collusion with the rings, owned and directed the State administration. But they overdid the business. The recent attempt to filch $4,000,000 from the Commonwealth by bribing the Legislature to give it away was too startling. Men began to figure up how much it was proposed to »teal from them individually, or from their counties, by this single tremendous grab. Had this operation been successful, Lancaster county, for instance, would have been required to pay up, as her share of the ring’s booty, $121,000; York, $76,000; Chester, $77,000; Franklin, $45,000; Berks, SIOO,OOO, and so on through the list. Decent householders over there have begun to cipher—it is high time—and while they are about it they propose to find out to what extent they are robbed by the unconstitutional freight discrimination against them by this same Pennsylvania railroad, which they created and endowed, not to be their master but their servant. When they get this sum done, there will be a revolution in the old Commonwealth, and the Republican ring,' which openly sustains these iniquities, refuses to let its convention condemn the four million steal, and forces it to declare against “ honest men in office,” will be broken into fragments. The people are evidently determined that pillage must cease. —New York Sun.

The Cabul Revolt and Massacre.

Advices from India give particulars of the attack upon and slaughter of the entire British embassy at Cabal, the capital of Afghanistan. The New York Herald correspondent at London telegraphs under date of Sept 8: The worst fears regarding the fate of the British Envoy at Cabul have been realized. Positive information has been received that Maj. Cavagnari and bis suite have been massacred. For this act on the part of the troops of Yakoob Khan, however unable he may have been to control them, England will exact a terrible reckoning. In the intense interest felt last night at all the clubs the supreme anxiety of the patriot was mingled with the curiosity of the politician. As the details come in from the Indian Government to the Foreign Office, the prospect grows hourly more serious. The latest authoritative announcement is to the effect that the attack on the res.dence of the British agent at Cabul was opened by three regiments of the Afghan army, which were joined later by nine others. Yakoob Khan writes that their regular troops began by Btoning a small party of British officers on the streets. It seemed only an ordinary attack by a mob at first, but the report that all the British at Cabul were to be killed spread through the barracks and the city with great rapidity, and before all the members of Maj. Cavagnari’s suite and his body-guard could be collected from the various partß of the city an immense crowd had assembled around the Embassy building, and the troops, leaving the camps and the barracks, appeared in large bodies upon the scene. Meanwhile the building had been stoned, and several shots had been fired from the crowd, but without perceptible effect A heavy volley of musketry was then fired into the crowd from the Embassy building, followed by several successive volleys. The destruction of the British residency and the lives of its inmates were demanded on all sides. “ Death to the British,” was heard in every mouth. Meanwhile fully 8,000 troops, regulars and irregulars, had thoroughly surrounded the building and cut off all possible means of retreat. The force defending the Embassy numbered seventy nine. They fought with the greatest bravery. It is said that the Ameer’s son was fatally injured. A large number of the mutineers were killed. After the buildings of the Embassy were fired, the survivors sallied out and defended themselves desperately, but all were killed, including Maj. Cavagnari. Intense excitement prevails throughout India. Judge Wiltze, of Eau Claire, Minn, (the local papers do not indicate his judicial position with exactitude), spoke of Mrs. Bonell in a way that incensed her husband. Bonell enticed the Judge into a room, locked the door, drew a rawhide, and declared his intention to administer a whipping; but the attempt was not a success, for the Judge took the whip away from his antagonist, and a long fight ensued in which each party was badly handled.

$1.50 oer Annum.

NUMBER 31.

THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA.

The Passage of the Northeastern Seas Made for the First Time—Nearly Fourteen Months Consumed in the Great Undertaking—Prof. NordensKjold Sanguine of the Utilityof the Route for Commerce. Prof. Nordenskjoid’s Arctic expedition, of the safety of which fears were for a long time entertained, recently arrived at Yokohama, Japan, in good condition, and all its members in excellent health, having accomplished the Northeast passage. The safety of the Swedish explorer and his followers, now assured, will be a source of gratification to the civilized world, while to a large class of scientists in both hemispheres it cannot fail to promise great and lasting pleasure and profit. The long absence of the professor, the fears entertained for so extended a time that his life had been sacrificed in his endeavor to serve and enlighten his own and succeeding generations, together with the widespread and constantly-ex-panding interest in Arctic explorations, will add to the impatience with which the publication of his discoveries and newly-formed impressions is awaited. The intrepid explorer gives the following particulars of his interesting voyage: “ We sailed frdm Gothenburg, July 4, 1878, and four days’ sail brought us to Tromsoe, where our outfit of furs and necessaries for high latitudes was completed. Here we were joined by the companion steamer, Lena. July 25. both sailed from Tromsoe, and passed through the Yugor strait Aug. 5. There was not a particle of ice seen between Waigatsch and the continent. The Karaza, hitherto dreaded by all sailors in Arctic regions, was equally free from ice, and anchor was cast at Port Dickson, near the mouth of the Yenesee on Aug. 6. After three days’ delay there the two steamers of our expedition steered northeast, toward the dreaded Taimur land and North cape. Ice arrested our passage, and we were compelled to remain at Tagoyr four days. Aug. 19, Tzydekin, the extreme northern port of Asia, was reached, where a short rest was taken. The Yega coasted the peninsula, very little ice being encountered, and anchored at the mouth of the Lena river, Aug. 20. To the northeastward were the islands of New Siberia, which we soon sighted, but were unable to explore because of the great field of ice that girt their shores. The mouth of Koiwya river, a broad estuary, was found open, and we hastened td make all possible progress eastward. Our difficulties soon began, however, and increased daily. We were delayed much by ice between Cape Cook and Van Karema. We crossed Kolintschin bay on Sept. 27, with comparative ease, but were imprisoned on the 28th near the Tchuktchi settlement. We wintered in pack ice at this point, one mile from land. The entire ship’s company maintained the best of health and spirits. Not a single case of scurvy occurred on board. During the shortest day the sun was over the horizon less than three hours, and then only the upper limb was visible. At this point much time was devoted to interesting scientific and ethnographic studies. There were 4,000 inhabitants in the several villages near by, who subsisted by fishing and sealing. They are called Tchuktchi, and are a very agreeable class of people for an explorer to meet. They supplied the expedition with bear and reindeer meat. The cold was intense, averaging 32.2 deg. below Fahrenheit. The game was abundant in the spring, wild fowl being taken in large numbers. We were detained in ice at this point 264 days, but were released on July 18, 1879, and passed East cape into Behring straits on the 20th. “ Such is the story of our voyage. I fully accomplished the object for which the expedition was sent out by Dr. Dickson, namely a practical proof of the existence of a Northeast passage. Then the Asiatic coast was followed and St. Lawrence bay was crossed to Port Clarence, Alaska. Thence we crossed to Kovingan, dredging carefully in order to determine the formation of the bottom of the sea, many specimens of the fauna and flora being obtained. The location, breadth, velocity, and approximate volume of the currents of the Arctic and Pacific polar currents were charted and calculated. “ Having touched at St. Lawrence island, we next proceeded to Behring bland, where we received the first news from Europe, through the resident agent of the Alaska Trading Company. The fossil remains on Behring island are of immense variety. A new marine animal was here discovered, which was named rhytina stellari. The Yega left the island on Aug. 19, and had a pleasant voyage until Aug. 31, when a severe gale was encountered, accompanied with lightning. During the storm the lightning struck and shivered the maintopmast, slightly injuring several men. We arrived off Yokohama at half-past 8, Sept. 2. Ail are well, and no deaths have occurred during the voyage. The Vega is the first vessel to make the passage, and I think the voyage from Europe to Asia by Behring’s strait is certain and safe, with very little more experience of navigation in the northern seas. From Japan to the mouth of the Lena river there are no difficulties in the proper season for experienced sailors. The Lena river taps Central Siberia, and a large prospective trade can readily be developed. The Vega will remain at Yokohama about fourteen days.”

Remarkable Tragedy.

An extraordinary tragedy was enacted a few days ago at Schwelm, in Prussian Westphalia. Two lads of 13 and 16, whose father and mother had died a few months since, and after their bereavement had lived with their maternal grandfather, were found on the 30th of July dead and horribly mutilated in their bedroom. From the text of a written declaration found on a table in the room, and signed by the elder boy, it appeared that both lads had resolved to die, finding life unendurable without their parents, and had concerted the means of their death, and having set down upon paper their wishes with respect to the disposal of their clothes, books, and playthings. The elder boy had shattered his brother’s head with a hammer, using such force that the unfortunate child’s skull was beaten in and his brains scattered over the floor. After deliberately slaughtering his brother, the youthful murderer took poison, opened the veins in his left wrist with a razor, and discharged a bullet into his forehead from a revolver. The grandfather of these wretched lads was absent from home upon a business trip at the

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time of the catastrophe, and the elder boy had sent all of the servants out of the house before commencing his deadly operations. Consequently the dire deed was not suspected until next morning, when the housekeepor knocked at the door of the room in which the brothers slept together, and, obtaining no answer, fetched a locksmith to pick the lock, and, upon obtaining access to the bedroom, found her young masters dead and cold, weltering in their own blood. Had they lived to years of discretion, they would both have become possessed of ample means; and, oddly enough, though they had taken extraordinary pains to dispose of their childish belongings, no mention was made by either of them in the document found upon their table of the con - siderable inheritance to which they would have been entitled upon coming of age. It appears that they were exceptionally amiable children, doted upon by their old grandfather, and oxr tremely popular among their school mates. —London Telegraph.

INDIANA ITEMS.

Mrs. O. P. Morton and her son Oliver have gone to New Haven to remain during the winter. The son will attend Yale College. James McLaughlin, of Coal Creek, recently killed a rattlesnake near that place five feet and four inches long and having thirteen rattles. Austin M. Puett, who twice represented Parke and Putnam counties in the Legislature, died a few days ago at his home in Fremont county, Col. A new shoe-peg factory will be started at Richmond in a few weeks. It already has orders for 100,000 bushels of pegs, to be delivered inside of a year. Oliver H. Miller, of Rising Sun, whose term of office expires next month, has held the office of County Clerk and Auditor alternately and consecutively for twenty years. John C. Huckleberry, aged 70 years, a native of Clark county, is dead. He served in the Black Hawk warm 1832-3, was several time a member of the Indiana Legislature, Clerk of the House in 1835 6, and from 1838 to 1841 publisher of the Southern Indianian, a Democratic paper at Charlestown. Ho was also Sheriff of Clark county two years. Rev. Father Chasse, Chaplain of St. Mary’s of the Woods, died a few days ago. He was a native of Brittany, France, and was 63 years of age. Ho came to this country and settled at Vincennes many years ago, and was a teacher in St. Gabriel’s College. When this institution was closed he was appointed chaplain of the Orphan Asylum at Vincennes. He afterwards was appointed priest of St. Simon’s church, at Washington, Ind. He was also connected with St. Joseph’s church, Terre Haute. He succeeded the lute Father Earle at St. Mary’s in the Woods in 1872.

Colored Methodists. The fourth annual conference of the A. M. E. Churches of Indiana and Michigan was held last week at the church in Ypsilanti, Mich. Following are tlio appointments made by Bishop Shorter before adjournment: PARISH appointments. Richmond. Ind.—L. D. Crosby. Indianapolis, Ind.—Bethel, to bo supplied. Indianapolis, Ind.—Allen Chapel, li. Titus. Detroit, Mich.—BothelChurch,D. P. Roberts. Detroit, Mich —Ebenezer Church,J. Simpson. Evansville, Ind.—M. Lewis. Terre Haute, Ind.—J. Mitchein. New Albany, Ind.—H. H. Thompson. Vincennes, Ind.—John Ferguson. Ypsilanti, Mich.—Jesse Bass. Crawfordsville, lud.—Jasen Bundy. Jeffersonville, Ind.—H. B. Gordon. CIRCUIT APPOINTMENTS. Mount Vernon, Ind. —M. Coleman. Charleston, Ind.—l. B. Channers. Kuightstowu, Ind.—H: Harper. Mitchell, Ind.—A. J. Ferguson. Now GordoD, lud. John Myers. Cambridge City, Ind.—G. B. Pope. Lafayette, lud.—l. Buren. Logansport, Ind.—J. M. Smith. Kalamazoo, Mich.—R Jeffries. Franklin, Ind.—John Jordan. Madison, Ind.—D. A. Johnson. Rockville, Ind.—W. 8. Langford. Brownsville, Ind.—G. W. Benson. Ann Arbor, Mich.—H. H. Wilson. St. Joseph, Mich.—L. Radcliffe. Battle Creek, Mich.—G. H. Alexander. Princoton, Ind.—A. H. Knight. Greencastle, Ind. Clay. South Bend, Ind. —J. W. Harper. Saginaw, Mich.—G. W. Gilmore. Bloomington, Ind.—A. A Burley. MISSION APPOINTMENTS. Coryden, Ind. Cole. Fort Wayne, Ind. McDaniels. Evansville, lud.—Mission, T. E. Wilson. Indianapolis, Ind —Mission, Hutchinson. MarioD, Ind.—P. O. TutiuL Grand Rapids, Mich.—To Lie supplied.

Pioneers at the State Fair. The State Pioneer Association of Indiana has issued the following circular to the pioneers of Indiana: To enable the pioneers and old settlers of Indiana to avail themselves of the favorable action of the railroad companies, who propose to grant free transportation to and from the convention, to be held in connection with the State fair, Oct. 1, 1871), a meeting is hereby called of the county Pioneer and Old Settlers’ Associations, in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court, at the Court House in each and every county in the State, at 10 o’clock on Wednesday, the 10th day of September, 1879, to make preparation by selecting or reappointing a President, Secretary and an Executive Committee of one or more members in each township, to see that their aged friends are notified and have opportunity to apply for the favorable terms proposed. * Where no county society exists the attention or our early settlers is earnestly invited to this matter, as the conditions announced and embodied in blank certificates must be exactly fulfilled, and no possible complaint will compensate for neglect of duty. Blanks of the following form will be sent to each County Clerk before time for the county meeting: STATEMENT AND CERTIFICATE To entitle pioneers and old settlers to free transportation on railroads to annual convention and admission to State fair. (Residence) Ind 187*.). I am now seventy years of age;have lived in Indiana forty years, and desire to attend the Pionoer State Convention at the State Fair of 1879. [Signature of applicant!. The above statement is correct Pres’t. of County Pioneer Old Settlers Association. Attest : Sec'y. Good on K. R , Sept. 29 to Oct. 4, 1879. CERTIFICATE Of County Clerk or other county officer having * 86al ‘ County, Ind., 1879. The foregoing signatures of President and Secre. tary of County Pioneer or Old Settlers* Association are authentic C. C. C. . [Affix seal.] There must be a county society,-with President and Secretary, to attest the signature and postoffice address of applicant; the signatures of said President and Secretary to be authenticated by signature and seal of Clerk of Circuit Court or other county officer having a seal to secure the benefits offered of free transportation and admission to the State Fair. This offers a rare enjoyment to the fathers and mothers of our State who so grandly planned and improved the noble heritage wo now hold. The attention of county papers is invited to the foregoing notice. As it will be of interest to many of their readers, they are respectfully solicited to publish it in full for the benefit of the pioneers of Indiana. By order of Charles H. Test, President. John Collet, Secretary I. P. A,