Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1879 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

vor»<»x mrwA Russia has sent a fleet of privateers into Chinese waters, and English merchants are becoming excited in consequence. Thirty persons have died lately in a small town of Southern Russia from eating poisoned fish. Gen. Roberts entered Cabul, on the 12th inst., accompanied by the Ameer and hie suite. British troops of all arms lined the road, and the artillery fired a salute when the British standard was hoisted at the entrance to the city. A dispatch dated Simla, Oct. 14, says the camp at Ali-Kheyl has been attacked by large numbers of neighboring tribes. The attack was repulsed. Twenty-three Afghan corpses were found, and it is believed many more were earned off. The British casualties were only five wounded. The tenant-farmers in two counties of Ireland are practicing as well as preaching. Five hundred agriculturists met ia County Mayo and solemnly pledged themselves to pay no rent until a reduction shall be granted proportionate to the fall of prices of all kinds of produce.

Opposition to the new tariff and to the proposed emancipation of the slaves in Cuba is increasing in strength and virulorce in Npain. Apparent inability of the Government to carry out its proposed measures had already caused Gon. Martinez Campos, Minister of War and President of the Council, and Albacete, Minister of Colonies, to tender their resignations, and it is generally believed the entire Cabinet will speedily follow thoir example. While in this land we are rejoicing at our plenty, the distress in Hungary, among the agricultural classes, is such that it is feared the measurei undertaken for their relief by the Government will come too late to enable them to do their fall planting in season. Throughout the country thousands of people are without money with which to buy food. The recent inundations in the Spanish provinces constitutes one of the most appalling disasters of the century. In the Malaga and Ali<-into districts alone 2,0 W) houses wore swept away by the Hoods. The damage to property is estimated at 30,(MX),(XX) francs. Five hundred and seventy bodies of the drowned have already been recovered. How many have lieen carried to the sea is matter of n.are conjecture, but it is estimated that not less than 1,000 people were overtaken by the Hood and perished. Yakoob Khan has notified the British of his in'ontion to abdicate the throne of Afghanistan. Gen. Roberts is said to have attempted to dissuade t 'O Ameer from his purpose, < ffo.-t, his do'ermination being unaltei aldo. The French Government has taken meatis to protect t-clf against, the Communistic and 110 iapartist ngbato.a by oidering tho procurers general to suppress pub'i :nt ons and disperse nioctmgi 1.0 Pile to the repnl Ic. A dispatch from Afghanistan reports that the magazi ne Ba ahis-nr, at Caimi, has been blown iv>. Tse ry seven of the British force and many Afghans weie killed by the explosion.

DOMNgTIO INTELLIGENCE. HI Ret. The death of the venerable Henry C. Carey, of Phi I ado pliia, wainouiijcd at the advanced ape of 86 years. He was tho bestknown of American wi iters upon the subject of protection. Dr. Le Moyne, the cremationist, who built the furnace at Washington, Pa, died lately, and was burned in his own crematory. Henry H. Farnum, President of the National Bank of Port Jervis, N. ¥., died a few days ago, aged 71 years. He was married six days before, and leaves to his widow $1,000,000. A boat-race between the two crack oarsmen, Courtney, of New York, and Hanlan, of Canada, was extensively advertised to come off at Chautauqua lake, N. Y., on the 16th of October, and many thousands of people assembled to witness tho match. No little excitement was caused by the discovery that sometime during the preceding night Courtney’s boat-house had been broken into and his two favorite boats eawed in twain. In consequence of this bit of rascality, Courtney declined to row. Hanlan then went over the course alone and put in a claim for tbe stakes. I he remains of tho late Dr. Le Moyne were cremated in the furnace erected by him at Washington, Pa., on the 16th inst. Tho process of incineration was rather slow, on account of the insufficiency of heat, but tbe managers of tbe affair claim that it was a success. Kt. Rev. William R. Whittingh am, I the Episcopal Bishop of Maryland, died at bis summer home in Orange, N. J., last week, aged « 4 years. He had been confined to his house for nearly a year. Freeman, the Pocasset (Mass.) fanatic, who offered up his little daughter as a sacrifice, has been indicted for murder in the first degree. No bill was found against fare. Freeman. Bouth. Dispatches of the 12th inst., from Grayson, Ky., give the situation of the Underwood war at that date as follows: “Jesse Underwood w s shot in tjie door of his father's house, known as Fort Underwood, yesterday morning. The Holbrook party surrounded tho house, threatening to kill anybody who would dare to bury Jesse’s body or rescue George, who is oadly wounded, and with the women and children, all that remains of the unfortunate Underwood family, inside of the house. George today sent word to the County Judge, praying for help and protection. Tho Governor has been appealed to, but has not responded. This is the fifth murder within the last three weeks in Carter county, four of the murdered men being Underwoods and a member of the Holbrook tribe, and nothing has been done to check this fearful bloodshed.” A Memphis dispatch of Oct. 16, says: “Total yellow fever deaths to date, 584. Rev. Jacob J. Peres, who died yesterday, was the learned Jewish divine, well known all over the country. Concordia, Miss., has lost sixteen out of forty-eight cases. There is no hope of the fever abating here during the continuance of the present warm weather.” A gang of Georgia desperadoes is terrorizing the people in the vicinity of Milledgeville, Ga. Their chief occupation is murder and arson, and they defy tho civil authorities. A dispatch from Gastonia, N. C., says Revenue Agent Blacker, assisted by Deputy Collector Gyles, has unearthed gross frauds in Gaston conn'y, N. C , carried on by registered grain distillers in collusion with Government officers. The negro exodus continues to boom. Arrivals at St Louis from the South average from tun y to thirty families per week, those flow coming being mainly from Alabama and

THE Democratic sentinel.

JAS. W. McEWEN Editor.

VOLUME 111.

Tennessee. It is reported that the movement will be larger than ever in the spring. A dispatch from Sparta, .Ga., states that the accounts of the outlaws in the eastern portion of Baldwin county have been greatly exaggerated. The trouble is a political one. The outlaws burned the gin and cotton-houses and fodder-stacks of Mr. Robson, for the purpose of drawing him out of the house to shoot him. They killed a negro man for reporting them to the Grand Jury. They burned the tannery and barns of Luke Robinson and whipped a colored woman and her daughter in Hancock county. The gang have taken refuge in the swamps of Oconee and Ogechee. Two passengers were killed at Maywood, 111., by a collision between an accommodation and a gravel train on the Northwestern railroad, the other evening. Two men who are believed to have been of the paity of masked desperadoes who robbed the express car on the Chicago and Alton railroad at Glendale last week have been arrested at Holden, Johnson county, Mo. The circumstances attending their capture indicate that the detectives were not mistaken in their men. Lachutte, an Indian, for the murder of a Chinaman, was hanged at New Westminster, Cal., a few days ago. Thirty-nine Mexicans were killed by he Apache Indians, at Hillsborough, New Mexico, last week, and their bodies burned Santa Fo has organized for defense against the savages. A serious railroad accident happened on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad, near Cleveland, Ohio, on the morning of Oct 15. An express train, running at t'.io rate of twenty-live miles an hour, dashed into a freght train which had stopped on the road on account of the inability of its engine to pnll tho heavy load, demolishing tho caboose and several freight cars loaded with coal and merchandise, and wrecking also the engine of the passenger train and the mail and baggage cars. Tbe car following the engine was a postal car, in which a gang of clerks were at work. The car was telescoped for about ten feet by tho tender of the engine, and three of tho clerks were caught in the debris, and were unable to extricate themselves, all being eeriously injured about the logs and lower parts of the body. Three or four other persons were injured by the collision, but all will probably recover.

Great preparations are being made in Chicago for tho reception of Gon. Grant on the 12th of November, it being the intention to make the affair surpass the San Francisco reception. The railroads will undoubtedly offer reduced fares, and all soldiers are invited to attend. Tbe manager,of the military parts of tho affair desire the soldiers, where it is practicable, to form in companies or equads, and forward statements of the number of mon to the Secretary of the Union Veteran Club, Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, so that they may be assigned, in advance, to their proper position inline; also to report whether accompanied with music. Baumgarten, the perpetrator of the atrocious murder of little Sandy White, near Janesville, Wis , has been sentenced to a life term in the Wisconsin penitentiary, having pleaded guilty. The Coroner’s jury has completed its investigation into the causes of the Michigan Central railroad horror at Jackson, and has returned a verdict severely censuring the yardmister, who ordered the switch-engine upon the track within ten minutes of the time the express train was due. The jury, in the verdict, also censures the switchman in charge of the engine, and the engineer of the switchengine. The nephew of Wise, the missing aero ant, who was also bis manager, has published his view of the fate of the men who went up in the Patbfin er. He is firmly of the belief that the balloon sailed beyond Lake Michigan and descended in some forest, and, the aeronauts being injured, probably were starved. Gen. Grant left Oregon on the 16th inst, and returned to San Francisco, where he was entertained by the Forty-niners at Pioneer Hall, and presented with a certificate of membership in the Pioneers' Society. The determination of the authorities at Washington to abandon the campaign against the Utes has brought out indignant protests from the Governor and leading citizens of Colorado, and an expression of bewilderment and disgust from Gen. Sheridan. The people of the State in which the Indian reservation lies notify the Government, through an Inspector of the bureau, that the savages must be taken away, or they will be exterminated by the State itself, regardless of Federal law or officers. They complain that confidence can not be restored so long as the murderous devils infest their territory, and that their only hope for peace and prosperity lies in the removal, dead or alive, of the authors of all the late mischief. Chicago’s great Inter-State Exposition came to an end on Saturday, Oct 18. The exhibition has been a great financial success, the attendance during the last three weeks having been very large. During this period the receipts were more than enough to cover the expenses of the entire six weeks. A horrible murder is reported from Milton, Rock county, Wis., the victim being a one-legged tin-peddler named Ed ward Fogarty. Evidence pointsjto Henry Christensen and the wife of Fogarty as the authors of the crime. After murdering their victim they carried the body some distance, placed it in a clover rick, and then set fire to the rick, partially consuming the corpse. Christensen confesses that he killed Fogarty, claiming that he acted in selfdefense.

William Howard, ex-City Treasurer of Madison, Ind., who was shot in au altercation with Maj. Simpson, editor of the Madison Star, died on the 18th inst. Simpson, who was out on bail, was rearrested; also John L. McFetridge. local editor of the Star, who is implicated in the affair. WASHINGTON NOTESThe question of transferring the Indian Bureau from the Interior to the War Department is being again agitated. Returns to the Department of Agriculture for October show an average condition for the cotton States of 81 per cent., a decline since Sept. 1 of 4 per cent. Compared with October, 1878, there is a decline of 9 per cent. The condition then was 90. Storms of great severity visited Louisiana and Mississippi, causing great damage. Insect injuries are not reported to any great extent; although almost universal, their appearance was too late to do much damage. Unfavorable weather in Alabuna and Georgia, in September, was reported. Drought in Texas has shortened the prospect in that State nearly 25 per cent Resumption began at Washington in reality on the 15th inst It was mid-month payday, when in the Treasury Department the clerks received their semi-monthly salaries. Every dollar of these salaries was paid in specie, 10 per cent in silver dollars and 90 per cent in gold coin. The epnunission appointed by the

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President to visit Cuba and investigate the yellow fever has returned to Washington, having spent three months on the island. The Commissioners sayjthat it would be impossible at this time to furnish for publication any intelligent synopsis of the work of the commission, because of the great mass of material which must be classified and collated. They state, however, that the commission discovered, beyond all controversy, that yellow fever permanently dwells in Cuba, and that hospital and other statistics in the possession of the Commission show that during the period embraced between 1856 and the present time scarcely a single month has passed without deaths from yellow fever occurring on the island. ’* The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports that the value of exports from the United States of live animals of all kinds increased from <5,844,653 during the fiscal year of 1878 to $11,487,754 during 1879. Of the total exports of live animals the last fiscal year, 71 per cent was sent to Great Britain. The value of exports of cattle increased from $3,896,818 during 1878 to $8,379,200 in 1879. Speaker Randall, Chairman of the Committee on Rules, says that that committee has completed its task, and has reduced the present riles to fifty, and has made them so simple that it will be in the power of any member of ordinary capacity to understand them. A meeting will be held in Washington soon for the purpose of acting upon the codification and for preparing a report' to be submitted to the House immediately upon tho assembling of Congress. The present rules are 166 in number, and so complicated and cumbrous that very few Congressmen over become familiar with them. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has telegraphed to Revenue Agent Blocker, of North Carolina, to cause the seizure of all fraudulent distilleries, and tho arrest and vigorous prosecution of fraudulent distillers and dishonest officials.

POLITICAL POINTS. A. C. Woodworth has been put upon the Massachusetts Greenback ticket for Lieutenant Governor, in place of Wendell Phillips Elections were held in Ohio and lowa for State officers and members of tho Legislature on Tuesday, the 14th of October. In Ohio there were three candidates for Governor—Charles Foster, Republican; Thomas Ewing, Democrat, and A. Saunders Piatt, Greenbacker. The vote of the State in recent ye irs has been as follows: Year. Rep. D< m. Grbk, Proh. 1875271.120 27!HM>6 38.833 5,674 1877249 105 271.625 29.401 4.836 1876330,698 323 JB3 3.057 1,636 At the election held on the 14th inst. the entire Republican ticket was chosen by a plurality of about 20,000. Tho Greenback vote was unexpectedly small. Following is a list of the State officials elected: Governor Charles Fo ter. Lieutenant Governor Andrew Hickenlooper. Supreme Judge William V. Johnson. Attorney General George K. Nash. Auditor John F. Oglevee. Treasurer Joseph Turuey. Member of Board of Public Works James Fullington. The Legislature is Republican in both branches by small majorities, which insures the election of a Republican United States Senator to succeed Mr. Thurman. In lowa there was also a triangular contest, John H. Gear, having been nominated by the Republicans for Governor, Henry H. Trimble by the Democrats, and Daniel Campbell by the Greenbackers. Gear is elected by a majority of upward of 30,000 over both of the other candidates. The vote of lowa in recent years has been as follows: Year. Rep. Dem. Grbk. 18781.34.544 1,302 123 577 1877121,546 79,353 34,228 1876 171,332 112,121 The Republicans this year secure the Legislature by the usual heavy majority. Official returns of the late election in California show the vote on Chinese immigration to have been: In favor, 883; against, 154,683.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANING#. An agreement between Germany and this country has been concluded relative to postoffice money orders. The city of Chihuahua has been captured by revolutionists. Grain in sight in our cities: Wheat, 18,148,000 bushes; corn, 10,539,000 bushels; oats, 2,542,000 bushels; rye, 688,000 bushels; barley, 1,705,000 bushels. Exports from seaboard ports last week were: Flour, 107,400 barrels; wheat, 4,203,606 bushels; corn, 1,100,673 bushels; oats, 2,351 bushels; rye, 84,899 bushels; pork, 5,460 barrels; lard, 5,287,109 pounds; bacon, 9,382,359 pounds. Shediac, a town in New Brunswick, has suffered by a fire which destroyed most of the principal business houses. Thirty-six buildings were burned.

The Ute Indian War.

Rawlins, Wy. T., Oct 13. Two couriers from what was the White River Agency have arrived, with the following particulars of Gen. Merritt’s advance: Gen. Merritt advanced upon the agency on the 11th inst On his way he found many dead bodies. Among others he found the body of Carl Goldstein, an Israelite, who left here with Government supplies for the Utes at White River Agency. He was found in a gulch six miles tins side of the agency. He was shot twice through the shoulder, and was about two miles from his wagon. A teamster named Julius Moore, who was with him when he le?t here, was found about 100 yards from Goldstein, with two bullet-holes in his breast, and his body kicked and mutilated with a knife or hatchet. As the command advanced through the canyon, they came to an old coal mine, and in it was found the dead body of an agency employe named Dresser. He had evidently been wounded, and crawled in the mine to die. His coat was folded up and placed under his bead for a pillow. On entering the agency a scene of quiet desolation presented itself. All the buildings but one were burned to the ground, and not a living thing in sight except the command. Tbe Indians had taken everything except flour and decamped. The women and children were missing, and nothing whatever could be found to indicate what had become of them. They have either been murdered and buried or else taken away as hostages. Their dreadful and unmentionable fate calls forth the most profound sympathy. The dead body of Father Meeker was found about 100 yards from his house, lying on his back, sho: through the head. The left side of his head was mashed in with some blunt instrument A piece of a barrel-stave was driven into his mouth, and one of his hands and arms badly burnt The dead body of Mr. W. H. Post, Father Meeker’s assistant, was found between the building and the river with a bullet-hole through the left ear, and one under the ear. He, as well as Father Meeker, was stripped entirely naked. Another employe named Eaton was four d dead. He was stripped naked, and had a bundle of paper-bags m his arms. His face was badly eaten by wolves. There was a bullet hole in his left breast Frank Dresser, a brother to the one found in the coal mine, was found badly burned. He had, without doubt, been killed instantly, as a bullet had passed through his heart The bodies of Eaton, Thompson, Pric a , Eskridge, and all other employes not named, were also found. Eskridge was found two miles this side of the agency, na&d, and a bullet hole through his head. In the position occupied by the Indians durirg Thornburgh’s battle, in a breastwork made Of stone, was found the dead body of an unknowp white man dressed ip buckskin. Be was

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sitting on his knees and had his gun in position to fire. He was shot through the forehead. From this it appears that the Indians are not alone in their hellish work. The supposition is that the Indians have gone south to join the Southern Utes, and the impression among the officers of Merritt’s command is that the Indians who fought Thornburgh numbered at least 700. Denver, Oct. 16. Word is received from White River Agency that the women and children, the money and the papers at that agency when the outbreak occurred are all safe with Mrs. Meeker, and are shortly to lie sent to Los Pinos Agency. The troops at White river have been reinforced, and water and provisions are plenty. At Los P nos no fears are felt of any trouble with the Indians, unless trouble is caused by the whites, who since the White river uprising are more than ever determined that “the Utes must go.” If this determination creates trouble, there is hkely to be plenty of it, for nothing is more certain than that the immense region in Colorado now occupied by a few hundred worthless Indians will soon or late be cleared of these incumbrances and obstructions to settlement and development Rawlins, Wy. T., Oct 16. A courier just in from Merritt’s command reports that the troops are at the White River Agency; that they have been scouting throughout the country for fifty miles about them, And have been unable to find a single Indian. It is evident that the Indians have gone south and split into small ban Is, going into the various agencies. The troops will have an all-winter campaign to ferret out those of the savage tribe who brought on the trouble. Den rsa, Oct. 20. In accordance with orders from army headquarters, the troops now at White River Agency will, with the exception of a small force left at the agency, return to their respective stations. A force will be concentrated at some point in the southern portion of the reservation to conduct operations against the Utes shou'd they <iil to deliver up tbe parties engaged in the killing of Maj. Thornburgh. Gen. McKenzie, commanding the Foui th cavalry, will be placed in charge of the latter force.' Thus it is seen tho camp lign against the savages is virtually abandoned. The danger of a winter campaign in that country is given as the reason of the order.

Frightful Indian Depredations in New Mexico.

A Denver (CoL) dispatch of Oct. 16 says: “Nothing was heard of tho Apache Indians under Victoria after the sth ult., until last Tuesday, when news came of the massacre of citizens near Hillsboro, the scene of former difficulties. The dispatch states that the Indians made their appearance in Messila valley last Saturday, and continued murdering and fighting on Saturday, and on Sunday a party of thirty men were attacked by about 100 Indians, and so fat but one escaped. It is reported that nine men and two families, with the exception of two persons, were killed at McEver’s ranch, fifteen miles from Hillsboro, the women being outraged previous to the killing, and the bodies of tbe men burned. Loyd’s ranch near by was burned, and several Mexicans killed. It is believed the Indians scattered before the advance of the soldiers and consolidated in the rear, committing the depredations reported. There arc some 350 soldiers in the field, and authority has been granted to enlist twenty-four Navajo scouts. Companies are forming at Las Couces and at Mexilla. On Tuesday there was a meeting held in the office of Gov. Wallace, at Banta Fe, and a committee of safety appointed. The Territorial officers joined with the Governor, and telegraphed to the Secretary of War and Gen. Pope for rations for 500 men for sixty days." A dispatch from Tusoon, Arizona, says: A special to the Daily Star from Silver City, N. M., says: “The Indians have been committing terrible depredations in the Rio Grande vall< y and southwest of Fort Cummings. For several days past the people of Colorada have beep besieged, and have been fighting since Saturday. They appeal loudly for aid. On Sunday a volunteer compau / of thirty men, under Capt. John C. Crouch, went rrom Messila and Couces to their aid. They met 100 Indians near Colorado, eighteen miles from Slocum’s ranch, on the side of the road. After a severe fight the volunteers were compelled to fall back. They had a running fight into Slocum’s ranch. The killed in this fight were W. T. Jones, County Clerk of Donohue county, and four Mexicans. On receipt of the news at Messila two companies of eighty men were raised by Col., Rynerson, composed of the best men in Messila valley. Two trains were captured yesterday on the west side of Slocum’s. In one of them eleven men, one woman and one child -were killed. In the other all hands escaped. Both trains were scattered and some ot the oxen were killed and others left standing in their yokes. The corpses lie all along the road. The 'stage from the east arrived this morning two hours late, and reports that a number of people are known to have been killed within the past four or five days. ”

Coinage.

The annual report of the Director of the Mint will show that during the fiscal year just ended there were coined, in gold, of double eagles, $37,234,340; of eagles, $1,031,440; of half-eagles, $1,442,130; of quarter-eagles, $1,166,800; of three dollars, $109,182; and of dollars, $3,020. . The silver coinage shows the following result: Dollars, $27,227,500; halfdollars, $225; quarter-dollars, Sll2 50; dimes, $45. Prior to the beginning of the last fiscal yen there had been a total coinage of silver dollars of only $16,619,338. During the last fiscal year alone, therefore, there weie coined of silver dollars some 10,000,000 more than had been coined in the entire history of the Government to that time. The total number of silver dollars coined and in circulation July 1 last was $43,846,888. It will be seen that almost the entire time of the mint was devoted to the coinage of the standard silver dollars, and of dimes there were coined but $45 during the year, and of quarter-dollar piecas but $112.50. The total result of the operations of the mint for tbe last fiscal year was as follows: Goli), $40,986,912; silver, $27,227,882.50; minor, $97,798. Total $68,512,592.50.

Bankruptcy Statistics.

Dun, Barlow & Co., in their quarterly report, just issued, make a favorable report of the state of trade for the third quarter of the year. The failures in the United States in the last three months number 1,262, less than one-half those for the third quarter of 1878, the precise decrease being 1,591, while the liabilities show even a much larger proportionate reduction, being less than one-quarter of what they were in the same period of last year. The figures for the quarter just ended, therefore, , add another to the many indications of the wonderfully improved conditions of trade throughout the country. For the nine months of the two years the comparison is almost as favorable as for the quarter just closed, the failures for the past three quarters in 1879 being 5,320 m number, as against 8,678 for the nine months of 1878. The liabilities are $81,000,000 for the first nine months of 1879, as against $197,000,000 for the same period of 1878, a reduction in liabilities of more than one-half.

Postal Expenses.

The estimates for the Postoffice Department for the next fiscal year have been completed. The total expenses of the department are estimated at $39,920,900; its revenues at $32,210,000, leaving a deficiency to be provided for out of the general treasury of $7,710,900. The amount so provided for the current year was $5,457,376.10. The estimate for inland railroad transportation is $10,000,000, an increase of $1,000,000 above the appropriation for the present year. That for the stage routes, $7, ■ 375,000, au increase of $1,475,000 over the current year’s appropriation. A correspondent of the Boston Jotirnal says that au eminent physician here told him that there is no profession in New York in which it is so easy to lay up a competency for the future as the ministerial. The average pay is larger than any other profession, for while the lawyer and doctor are struggling the minister takes his position with a bound, but he is apt to spend in trips to Europe the money which he should lay up. Song of the dry-goods clerks"Bwinging in delaine,”

HAYES ANALYZED.

His Career as an Unaccountable Visitation of Divine Providence, [Washington Letter to Louisville Courier-Journal.] One of the beatitudes which I do not .find in the Bible, but yet has a basis of truth, is this: “ Blessed are those who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed.” In like fashion it may be asserted: “ Blessed is he from whom nothing is expected; for if he speaks or acts foolishly the public will take it as a matter of course, and let him off easy.” Here Mr. Hayes comes in with his usual luck. The public expects nothing from him. It simply accepts him as a fact, disagreeable it may be, but not wholly unendurable. He is regarded by them much as a pious Mussulman is said to regard a December fall of snow, namely, as “a cold, uncomfortable, unaccountable visitation of Divine Providence, sent for some good purpose to be revealed hereafter.” People reckon that Mr. Hayes cannot do a great 'deal of harm while there is a Democratic Congress to hold him in check, and as he is to go out of office in a little over a year they are not concerned so much about him as they are about his successor in office. The one is a nuisance already gauged; the other a great unknown, with indefinite, mysterious possibilities of evil or of good. The methods, the surroundings and the atmosphere, social, religious and political, by which such a man as Hayes is bred, would reward the study of a Dickens or a Thackeray. There are thousands of just such persons as he scattered all through the Northern States, though it so happens that only one of this class ever attained the Presidency. But they have been a power in public affairs. They have kept alive such papers as the New York Tribune and the Cincinnati Gazette. Unlike Grant personally, they yet exerted a large influence upon his administration, and probably upon Lincoln’s also. The potations of the one and the smut of the other were not exactly in their line, but they could readily connive at such trifles when they had a point to gain. Over all they did there was an air of unctuous piety that disarmed criticism and imparted to the worst political knavery an air of apparent respectability. It was, indeed, an organized hypocrisy, but careful training had made every actor perfect and yet carries on the drama to its consummation. Given a certain amount of narrow-mindedness and bigotry, surface reading and catchwords without reflection, religious cant, political malignity, greed of office and money, and you have the materials for fashioning Rutherford B. Hayes, the Congressman, as he sat in the House of Representatives, not daring to take part in the debates,' accepting as a natural thing the obscurity that made him simply an item of the yea and nay list; but yet a power with the many smaller men of his own party and sect who live and disgrace God’s beautiful handiwork in rural Ohio. A singular conjunction of personal luck—the Republican Convention evenly balanced by the contentions of its great chiefs, gave him the opportunity to become its candidate, and subsequently the automatic recipient of the power snatched by the bold villainy of its more reckless and audacious leaders. This, and a demoralized, cowed populace, made such a President a possibility of this nineteenth century. It is a mortifying exhibition, but still a wholesome one, that the person thus permitted to attain the high and exalted office of President should go around the country and make silly speeches. When the people listen to all this partisan drivel and these platitudes they should remember that the man before them is Chief Magistrate over 40,000,000 of people, and armed with a far larger actual power than the Queen of England or any crowned head in Europe, save the Czar of Russia, and then they may ask whose shame it is that he - fills the chair of Washington. I notice that Mr. Hayes, anxious to reestablish himself with the “ Stalwarts,” joins in their raid upon State rights. His willful perversion of the truth by asserting that the doctrine of State rights and the right of secession are equivalent terms, and held by the same persons, has, I believe, been already exposed in your columns. Such a perversion and an attempt to deceive would disgrace a village Radical newspaper or a store-box orator, and it is doubly disgraceful in a President. In his late speech at Springfield, Mr. Hayes reiterated this falsehood, and went on to criticise and object to the expression “ State sovereignty,” which he found on the State House, placed there long before nis visit had been announced. He quoted Mr. Lincoln to show that “State sovereignty is not found in the constitution of the United States.” When Mr. Hayes stole the Presidency there was just one little form that he had to go through which I presume he found rather irksome. He had to swear obedience to the constitution of the United States. Now, if he would read this constitution through, he would probably find that it recognizes both State and Federal rights. Every Judge, every great man of the past, the United States Supreme Court, over and over again, speaking by the mouths of Democrats and Republicans, have recognized State rights. I will not, however, be so absurd as to suppose that the text of the constitution or the decisions of the courts would weigh with a man who could deliberately take and keep an office and $200,000 of money that he knew did not belong to him. But even such a person as he is, a hide-bound partisan, might have some respect for the Republican platform of 1860, adopted by the convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln. That platform declares that “the Federal constitution, the rights of the States and the union of the States must and shall be preserved.” The same platform also declares that “the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment, exclusively, is essential to the balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend.” If this be true, the attitude of Mr. Hayes and his friends in seeking to prejudice and destroy State rights is moral treason, and the greater treasor. because it is done in a cowardly manner, under color of office, without risking their Eves in battle. But it is useless to talk of morals to such people as these. When the Spartans went forth to vanquish the Helots

they did not take their arms, but whips with which they had scourged these Helots before, and tbe Helots promptly submitted. As Mr. Hayes has become a “rebel” to the Government he is sworn to support, and is openly plotting treason against the system on which our fabric of Government depends, and cannot be reached by moral considerations, the only remedy left us is to appeal to his fears. I beg leave to remind him that he has a master before whom he has already crouched in the past, and who will not tolerate such stuff as he is now putting forth. Speaking in the Senate of the United States, on the 24th of May last, Senator Edmunds, a stalwart of the stalwarts, discussing the distribution of power, spoke as follows: “And the courts have said that that is a case of concurrent jurisdiction, that each State, having supreme and sovereign domain over the conduct of its own citizens, is not limited in the exercise of that dominion by the fact that there is another power that has a similar dominion in that particular case over citizens of that other power; that is to say, over citizens of the United States; and, therefore, the citizen is amenable to two jurisdictions; either may command him not to do a particular act, but each commands him in its own right, speaking directly to the fact of what he is to do, and not in reference to the laws of the other at all. In that instance, it is clear, according to the decided cases, and, I thirk, according to the philosophy of this singular Government which we have, that each sovereignty may exert itself according to its own notions of what is fit and reasonable against the same man for the same act.” Further on Mr. Edmunds says: “The State laws, consistently with the constitution of the United States and independent of it, and in a respect where the constitution of the United States does not touch upon the sovereignty of the State, and in regard to which the sovereignty of the State was never in any degree surrendered, may provide, as they do provide in many States, for. the preservation of the health of the citizens of the State.”

In other words, not only do the States have rights not surrendered, but in respect to these rights they are absolutely “sovereign.” It is a great pity that among these precious rights of sovereignty, State or Federal, there is not also the power to furnish a person holding the office of President with a decent modicum of brains and honesty. Mr. Hayes’ object was not so much to propound his constitutional views as to fan the flame of prejudice against the South. The South was at one time disposed to give him a most generous interpretation. Unmindful of the fact that the policy of withdrawing the troops from the infamous office of upholding the carpet-bag governments had been resolved on and actually ordered by Grant before he went out of office; that the execution of the order was defeated by the Sherman influence in a covert and underhanded manner, so as to secure for Hayes the disposition of the whole question; that months elapsed before Hayes carried out Grant’s policy, and then only after his own agents at New Orleans had endeavered to extort two United States Senators as the price of the concession of their right to choose their own rulers; the Southern people hastily assumed that the President meant to treat them fairly. But they were undeceived. They saw him dispensing the patronage of his office not to the best citizens, but to the worst, paying the Returning Boards and their affiliated miscreants for their dirty work, and then the confidence of the Southerners in him was shaken. Mr. Hayes found that he could not hitch on the South to the car of Radicalism, and now he has taken up the role of defamation, slander and persecution. Perhaps he may hope in this way to help the Sherman boom. His office-holders are at work in this city to secure a solid delegation from the Southern States for Sherman. Their object was unblushingly avowed, and has been published by the Republican coi respondents in this city. But it looks as if the office-holders’ boom would soon be drowned by the Grant boom. Already the California Republicans have spoken. The State Republican Convention in Colorado greeted Mr. Carl Schurz with a pronunciamento for Grant. Nebraska follows suit. These are but the pattering of the rain-drops. The officeholders may as well prepare to go. They will get even less mercy from Grant than they would from a Democratic administration. They will all have to walk the plank, and Mr. Hayes’ side show, the Shermans, the monkeys and the elephants will be buried as forgotten rubbish.

OFFICIAL CORRUPTION.

Dishonesty in the I’ostofflce Department— Men in High Station Plundering the Treasury. [Washington Cor. New York Sun.] The amount of money expended by officeholders of the fraudulent administration in junketing tours at home and in pleasure travel abroad exceeds all former experience. This is done under the pretext of official business, which is a thin disguise for habitual raids on the treasury. James N. Tyner took his family and one or two more subordinates of the Postoffice Department to Paris to attend the Exposition last year, using as a cover for that trip a so-called international postal convention. He expended about SIO,OOO, and made no report of any kind that can now be found on the files of the department. Subsequently he made up a party for the Pacific coast, accompanied by the Third Assistant Postmaster General, A. D. Hazen, and his family, and chief clerk, ostensibly to look after improvement in the postal service, but really for amusement and recreation. They managed to spend some $6,000, and made no report, thus proving, as in the other case, that the whole thing was a sham, so far as public duty or public interest was concerned, but a costly reality to the taxpayers. Tyner and Burnside, the prosperous Superintendent and disbursing officer of the Postoffice Department, were out on a hunting expedition in the Ute country when the fatal descent was made on Thornburgh’s.command, but got back unharmed, and are doubtless ready to start on another excursion. The bill for this last trip has pot yet been rep-

$1.50 dot Annum.

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dered, but it will doubtless be relatively as big as the others. Mr. Blackfan, Superintendent of Foreign Mails, has been several times abroad, professedly in connection with postal treaties, but actually for his own ease and comfort. Dr. McDonald, Superintendent of Money-Order System, is now in Europe examining, as is alleged, the foreign methods of paying money out by postoffice orders, upon which ours is modeled, and which are annually reported by all the Governments that have adopted this practice. An excuse is readily invented whenever any of these or other postoffice assistants or superintendents or chief clerks or favorites want to make a European tour at the expense of the public. Erring Brother Key is not consulted. They come and go at their own convenience, and the cost is charged to some general fund, so that the personal items never appear in the official statements. Year after year the deficit of the Postoffice Department increases, and no inquiry is made beyond the general receipts and expenditures. Tens of thousands are annually covered up, which form part of a systematic plunder, and when committees pretend to investigate charges that are known to be true they are whitewashed just as those against Tyner and others were in the last Congress, who had been flourishing about Washington and making the contingent fund pay for their paiade. The Committee of Appropriations will do well to call for the extra expenses of all officials of the different departments before voting the regular supply bills for the next year. SECRETARY EVARTS PROTECTING OFFICIAL THIEVES. It has been semi-officially announced that John 8. Mosby, United States Consul at Hong Kong, China, is to be recalled. The alleged reason for this is that he caused one of his dispatches to be printed in the newspapers, and that this, being a violation of the Consular regulations, is sufficient to warrant his decapitation. * The real reason, however, is that Mosby has made himself exceedingly active in ferreting out some of the frauds of the Seward ring in China. He had not been at his post two weeks before he discovered that David H. Bailey, his predecessor, had in one class of fees alone defrauded the United States Government of $30,000 or $40,000. He instantly reported this fact to the State Department. His dispatch on this subject was sent Feb. 20, 1879, and must have reached Washington long before Bailey, who had been nominated for Consul General at Shanghai, had been confirmed by the Senate. There was ample time for Mr. Evarts to withdraw Bailey’s nomination had he been disposed to bring a rogue to justice. But, in an authorized statement to the press in regard to the charges made by Mosby against Bailey, Mr. Evarts declared that he knew nothing of these allegations when the nomination was made. At best this is a mere subterfuge, because he could still have withdrawn the nomination. But the truth is that formal charges against Bailey had been made at the State Department by Mr. Wells, ex-Consul General at Shanghai, before the nomination of Bailey was sent to the Senate. Wells also tendered the evidence to prove that Bailey was nominated for this position at the special request of Minister Seward. It is a striking proof of the intimacy between Seward and Bailey that the latter refused to reinstate, *pn their return to Shanghai, the Marshal and office clerk who were called to Washington to testify by the House committee that investigated Seward’s case, and who were compelled to testify against him. That Mr. Evarts is determined, at all hazards, to prevent any further exposure of the criminal doings of the Seward ring in China is shown by his announcement that Mosby is to be recalled. He will not succeed, however. He was compelled to order an investigation of Mosby’s charges, and the result has been that they are sustained by unimpeachable evidence, and the agent directed to make the inquiry has so reported to the department.

Senator Thurman Interviewed.

A correspondent at Columbus has interviewed Senator Thurman. I asked the Senator, says he, if he wasn’t greatly surprised at the result here in Ohio He admitted that he had confidently expected that it would be different, but added: “ While it is a surprise to me and a disappointment, because I wanted to see the Democracy carry Qhio this fall, still, so far as I am concerned, it will relieve me from the duties of an arduous position, and give me a chance for rest, which I need.” “ The Republicans claim that this victory of theirs wipes out the Democracy in Ohio, Senator. Do you agree with them?” “Wipe out the Democratic party? Why, no 1 The Democratic party can’t be wiped out I I believe it to be indestructible. It will never die so long as we have a form of free government. You might as well try to make me believe that the world would be burned up next week as that the Democratic party could be destroyed while this Government is a republic.” “ To what do you ascribe this triumph of the Republican party? Never before did they make so determined a fight in a State contest.” “They made up their minds that they must carry Ohio, or their party would fall to pieces. The Republican party is a different organization from the Democratic one. It must now and then make a tremendous struggle to retain existence, and this was one of them. It ,is now grasping for power, and power with it means a great centralized Government, in which all the States shall be absorbed, so that they shall be nothing more to it than the counties are now.” “A nation, as they call it; not a union of the States?” “Yes, a great nation controlling everything within its borders from one head. This they seek to obtain by the aid of every means at their command. The money power, the power of patronage, by raising false issues to alarm the timid, and every other device they can invent is brought to assist them to attain this end. See the great corporations that are springing up everywhere. They will not look at a State charter, but go on to Congress to become incorporated. Railroad companies, telegraph companies, and banks must all be chartered by the United States Congress to carry on business, formerly they were content

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with State charters, but now they won’t have them. This shows the drift of affairs toward centralization. I will not say it is a monarchy they want, but they certainly desire to abrogate the rights of the States, and to make it all into one great Government. And that is where the Democratic party must make its fight in the future.”

INDIANA ITEMS.

Robert Meek, Mayor of Greensburg, is dead. Work has been commenced on the Johnson county Court House. Pipe-laying for the Fort Wayne water-works will begin next week. The new iron bridge across the Wabash, on the Muncie road, is being built. David Vestal, a pioneer of Ripley county, recently died. He served in the war of 1812. A greater breadth of wheat will bo sown in Southern Indiana this year than ever before. State Auditor Manson lost his pocket-book by pickpockets at the Vincennes Soldiers’ Reunion. Poles for the new American Union Telegraph line were being delivered between Lafayette and Logansport last week. The narrow-gauge, after long delay, is receiving the iron to finish the eightmile gap east of Decatur, thus completing it to Delphos, Ohio. A penalty of $5 may bo collected against any person who hitches a horse or team to a shade-tree in any town or city in Indiana. This is a State law.

A squad of twelve youths enlisted for the navy have been forwarded from Terre Haute to New York, in charge of Charles Thompson, son of the Secretary of the Navy. Bicknell, the New Albany Congressman, will use his influence to have the streams of Southern Indiana, such as Indian creek and Blue river, stocked with game fish. Maj. Burke, late of Purdue University, Lafayette, has resumed his position as one of the new management of the Northern Indiana prison, under Warden James Murdock. Lieut. Hamilton, of the Fifth cavalry, has been detailed as Military Instructor at Asbury, Capt. Wheeler, the former instructor, having been ordered to Fort Keogh, Montana. William Heilman, of Evansville, who employs' several hundred men in his rolling-mil), has voluntarily raised their wages $1 a week since the recent advance in the market price of iron. Prof. Wm. Colgrove, the daring young aeronaut, who fell from his balloon at San Francisco, during the gale, was the son of Judge Colgrove, of the Randolph Coupty Circuit Court. . The city of Lafayette is now called upon to defend herself against a $30,000 lawsuit, brought by Engineer Allen, who was blown up by the explosion of the steam fire engine. The case will attract some attention. The Union City Society for the Suppression of Vice and Enforcement of Laws invites all pastors throughout the State to preach a sermon, sometime during the month, against the vice of gambling. The number of buildings and improvements going up in Evansville, at this time, are past count and actually surprising. Brick cannot be procured in sufficient quantities to supply the extraordinary demand. Mrs. George Larimore, who lives on a farm about one mile west of Beesons, near Connersville, opened the door to go out in the yard, when a tramp met her and tried to get into the house. Her husband came to the rescue, and gave the fellow a push, which caused him to fall and receive fatal injuries.

New Albany Ledger: The only drawback to the most prosperous times known in New Albany for more than ten years will be a coal famine. If the river remains low for a few weeks longer, there is great danger that we will not get a supply of coal until next spring. In that event some of our manufacturers will be compelled to stop work. Princeton has had a breeze of excitement over the question of mixing the races in the public schools. The School Board decided to send the colored children to the schools with the white children, but the Superintendent, sympathizing with the dominant sentiment among the people, ordered them out. The School Board ordered them back, and there the matter rests. The Commissioners for the erection of the new State House at Indianapolis are preparing their ninth quarterly report to the Governor. In it they state that during the three months ending Sept. 30, $50,699.74 have been expended, making a total outlay since the commencement of the work of $153,665 56. Of this amount, $75,805.12 have been spent upon the foundation, and $40,251.81 for iron work.

A Pair of Sweet Voices.

“The sweetest voice I ever heard,” said the Bishop, “was a woman’s. It was soft and low, but penetrating, musical and measured in its accents, but not precise. We were on a steamer, and she murmured some common-place words about the scenery. Ido not remember what she said, but I can never forget the exquisitely tender, musical voice.” “The sweetest voice I ever heard,” said the professor, “was a man’s. I had been out fishing nearly all day and got back to the hotel about 3 o’clock. The man came out and roared, ‘Din-NUR’ till it soured the milk in the cellar. I have heard other voices since then, but I never—” But the Bishop, with a look of intense disgust all over his face, had already walked away out of hearing and was lighting a fresh cigar by himself.— Bangor Whig.

A Deaf-Mute Cow.

The case of a deaf-mute ccw is reported by a Russian veterinary surgeon. A cow, 12 years old, of Algava breed, belonging to a Russian nobleman,never showed signs of hearing nor bellowed. Seeing the other cattle bellow, she tried to imitate them by stretching her neck and head, and opening her mouth, but she could not produce any sound. The sense of vision of this cow was fp\incl to be unusually well developed. ,