Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1879 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

NOBBIGN NEWS. The commission appointed for the purpose by the Spanish Government have matured a plan for the emancipation of slaves in Cuba. The commission recommend that all ■laves be freed in seven years from the date of the passage of an Emancipation bill, which is to be prepared and presented to the Cortes. Bulgaria and Bervia have formed a defensive and offensive alliance. There is great distress in Hungary on account of the bad harvest, and the Government has suspended the collection of taxes until the harvest has been gathered. From the tenor of late cable dispatches it would appear that no AustroGorman treaty of alliance had been signed by the Emperors, as stated. It is intimated, however, that such a treaty has been concluded, and that it is in writing, bnt does not require signatures. A St. Petersburg dispatch says the Russian press expresses great indignation at Salisbury's allusions to Russia in his recent speech at Manchester. The Ojflcial Meuenger •ays it is unusual for a foreign Minister to speak thus of a friendly nation, and that such language is not calculated to contribute to the maintenance of peace and good relations. The work of removing to America the Cleopatra’s Needle presented to the city of New York by the Khedive of Egypt is to begin at once. Lieutenant Commander Gorringe, of the United States navy, has chaige of the work.

Labouchere and Lawson, the London editors who recently engaged in a street encounter, have been requested by a commitlee of the Beefsteak Club to withdraw from that organization. They have used beefsteiks of late only as plasters for black eyes, and the sacrilege has been relented as above. The Municipal Council of Berlin recommends the universal adoption of the practice of cremation. The Emperor of Austria has given to the Spanish Envoy Extraordinary his formal sanction to the marriage of the Archduchess Marie Christine to King Alfonso. Advices from Cabul report that the mutinous Afghan regiments have been dispersed. The disarmament of Cabul and the surrounding district is proceeding. Ths Ameer will be practically in safe-keeping until the inquiry into the massacre is finished. There has been a further advance in the price of wool and iron in England. The Turkish Government has prohibited the exportation of grain. The political relations between Germany and Russia are said to nave improved lately. Hungary is in a bad way financially. The budget for IWO will show a deficit of -over 17,000, (XX) florins. The bill to be presented to the Spanish Cortes for tho abolition of slavery in Cuba provides that slaves ag <1 over 55 yoirs elia l 1880: those 45 years of age, in 1882; those 40, in 1881; those 35, in 1886; those 3 •, in 1888; a’l others in" 181 X-. Three hundred and fifty pesetas is to bo paid the owner for ea h slave liberated.

As a favor to Russia, the new Turkish Cabinet has recalled the troops from the East Roumelian frontier. In France and Italy the grape vines are being rapidly destroyed by phy 1 x- ri, an 1 the importation of insect-proof vims from America is suggest d as a remedy. In England the cattle trade shows signs of a marked revival. Disastrous floods are reported in the Island of Jama'ca. Thirty thousand people in Hungary are said to be on the a ergo of starvation. Germany has decided to continue the duty on cereals imported into the empire until the Ist of January next The Governor of Alexandria has delivered to Lieut. Commander Henry H. Gorringe, of the United States navy, by the order of the Khedive of Egypt, the obelisk known as Cleopatra’s Needle. The work of removal has begun, and it will probably reach America about a month after it leaves Egyptian soil, which will be at an early date. It will be loaded and transported much as was the one carried to London.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE, The village of Chittenango, fifteen miles oast of Syracuse, N. Y., is greatly excited over the alleged crimes of a modern Borgia, whoso deeds, if proved, eclipse the bloody deeds of the ancient demon of that name. Mrs. Fi ances Schroeder, a married woman, is charged with poisoning her father, mother and aunt The woman and her husband are both under arrest. The Montauk steam cotton-mills at Sag Harbor, Long Island, have been burned. Two hundred operatives are thrown out of employment The loss is $200,000; insurance, ♦IOO.OOO. The new American Rapid Telegraph Company has all its poles set between Boston and New York, and over 100 miles of wire strung, putting up two st: ings, those b< ing all that will be required by this new proci si. The work is going on from both ends of the route. The method of telegraphy used by this company is purely mechanical, mcesa cs being sent by simply turning a crank, und requires no hand-key operators. Peiforated paper is used in preparing messages for transmission, and they are received on strips similar to the Morse system. Cheapness, as well as rapidity, is the basis of merit in the aims of this new company, and, if successful, they claim it w'ill sweep the entire field of telegraphy. The fall trade is unusually brisk in the Eastenj cities. We.t, Cincinnati papers report that the Ohio river is lower than it has been for twenty years. At hundreds of points between Cincinnati and Pittsburgh it can be forded easily. Scarcely a boat can be seen anywhere. Navigation i< nearly suspended, and freight is piled up in great quantities at all points between Pittsburgh and Louisville wai ing for the rise A package of circulars from Prof. Wise’s balloon Pathfinder were picked up a few days ago on the beach of Lake Michigan, near Lake Station, Ind. This leaves no doubt that the balloon seen in th-t region on the day of Wise’s ascension was the Pathfinder, and strengthens the theory that the vessel and its passengers weie lost in Lake Michigan. A frightful tragedy was enacted in the city of Bloomington, 111., on the 20th of October. At noon of that day, William Hogg, an old and respected business man of Bloomington, entertd his home. and,.drawing a Smith & Wesson seven-shot pistol, shot his daughter Mamie, aged 18, probably fatally, bhe was Stooping filling a valise with clothing, and fell

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over insensible, the ball entering just behind the ear and passing downward into the throat Hogg then went into the yard, where bis son Willie, aged 12, was playing, and, calling him to him, shot him in the same place. He then plajeithe revolver to his own head and fired, the ball entering hi* temple and lodging in the brain. Willie, not being stunned, ran away. The father was on his back on the floor of the summer kitchen, with the pistol in his right hand, and the blood pouring from his Wound. Hogg’s wife was absent at the time, and so probably missed a terrible death. Hogg died in about ono hour. Financial trouble is supposed to have caused the deed.

A telegram from Los Pinos announces that Gen. Adams, the Commissioner of the Interior Department to effect the release of the women and children captured at White River Agency, had reached Chief Ouray’s house, and would immediately proceed with an escort of Utes to the camp of Douglas, the chief who held, the captives, which is about 100 miles distant An Indian runner from that camp brought the welcome intelligence that the captives were safe and kindly treated. A Tucson (Arizona) dispatch has the following in regard to the Indian war ir New Mexico: Silver City letter says of the slaughter on the 18th: “Arriving at the scene of the tragedy, we found sixteen persons dead. We buried them. Five others are known to have been killed. We have found no Indians about It is now believed that Victoria’s band is trying to go through by the Burro mountains to Mexico. Cob Morrow says he has troops enough to whip Victoria, but it will take two months to do it. He needs a couple of light howitzers. Volunteers are being raised at Mesilla and Las Cruces. In tho fight on the 13th the Mesilla and Las Cruces company, numbering thirty, were massacred by ICO Indians, only one man (Hicks) escaping.” The county jail at Breckenridge, Minn., was burned last week, and the only prisoner, a colored man, was burned to death. The ninth annual session of the North American Bee-Keepers’ Association was held at Chicago last week. There was a large attendance of delegates from different sections of the country.

A hortible tragedy was enacted at Stringville, a village near Cleveland, Ohio, one night last week. A young German named Louis Nailer, in a fit of passion drew a revolver and shot his father dead. His mother, who interfered, was also mortally wounded, receiving one shot in the head and two in the body. The fiend then directed his attention to a young brother, shooting him through the breast and inflicting a dangerous wound. The murderer was arrested and confessed the crime, but says he does not know why be did it. Dr. Kalloch, Mayor-elect of San Francisco, was given a benefit and reception combined, in that city, one day last week. Although the admission fee was sl, a large hall was packed and many were unable to gain entrance. He spoke in a bitter strain of the attempt to assassinate him. Gen. Laz. Noble, a prominent citizen of Indiana, died recently in Colorado. Criminal indictments have been reI*. vnisvvWy MUi/ltUi tviici «.» er of he grand stand at the Adrian (Mich.) Fair Grounds, the fall of which, some weeks ago, killed and maimed so many people. Advices from Utah are to tho effect that the Uintah Ute and Snake Indians are on the war-path, and that already some settlers on the Ashley fork of the Green river have been massacred.

Capt. P. D. Tyrrell, of the Government secret service, who has been in St. Louis off and on for several weeks past working up a counterfeiting case, has at last had his labors rewarded by the capture of a gang of seven persons who are accused of counterfeiting and putting into circulation silver dollars and halfdollars. Gen. Grant arrived at Sacramento, Cal., Oct. 22, and was accorded an enthusiastic reception. He was escorted from the depot to the Capitol by a procession numbering 12,000 people, and spoke as follows: “Of all the hospitality bestowed, all the honor conft rred, there has been nothing so grateful to my heart as the receptions I have received at the hands of the people here. I would not say what has been done abroad. It has been all that could be done for mortal, but it has not been for me. It has been done for the people whom I see before me—for the people of a great country that is recognized abroad as one of the greatest countries of the world. If we all, every one of us, could see other countries as I have seen them, we would make better citizens or, at least, the average of our citizens would be better.” In the evening, Gen. and Mrs. Grant held a reception in the Capitol and shook hands with 9,000 people. The city was illuminated, and there were arches, fireworks, calcium lights, and all that sort of thing. On the 23d, the ex-President attended a ba becue and military review of the veteran soldiers and sailors, and dined with Senator Booth.

Advices frem the Cheyenne Indian Agency, in Dakota Territory, report that large numbers of Minneconjou Sioux have left the reservation and gone on the war-path. News comes from New Mexico that “Victoria’s band has divided, one party going in the direction of the Florida mountains, and the other for the Burro mountains. Capt. B iyer has issued a warning to all the settlers on the upper Gila to be on t. L e alert, as there is great danger ahead. Maj. Morrow is in hot pursuit of Victoria with 300 soldiers. ” Gen. Grant bade farewell to San Francisco and turned his face eastward on the morning of Oct. 26. The evening previous he was tendered a farewell banquet by the citizens of San Francisco, and in reply to a toast by the Mayor responded as follows: “Gentlemen of San Fbancisco: The unbounded hospitality and cordiality I have reci ived since I first put my feet on the soil of California has taken deep root in my heart It was more than I could have expected, and, while it has entailed some little fatigue at times, I assure you I have only been grateful for it I have previously been in California, and on the Pacific coast, but have been away a quarter of a century, and when I landed here the last time I found that none of the pioneers had grown old; but, if I should remain away another quarter of a century, I might be compelled to confess that some of you had grown old, and I want to see you again in your prime and youth. Gentlemen, in taking my departure, I want to thank you all.for the farewell reception given me this evening, and to express the hope that, whether or not I am to have the happiness ever to visit your city again, I shall at least meet one and all of you elsewhere, and, if it should not bo in this life, that it may be in the Better Country.” The grain-speculation mania shows no signs of abatement in Chicago. Haverly’s Mastodon Minstrels are at his Chicago house during the present week, and, as everywhere, the house can not hold the crowds that attend This is probably the most remunerative of all' Col. Haverly’s numerous ventures in tho amusement field, and he has gathered together about? all the minstrel talent t > be found in the country in one monster aggregation, The ctey of the old '’nigger show"

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1879.

is passed, and It now requires ability of a high order to become a member of the Mastodons. The mystery surrounding the fate of Prof. Wise and his companion, George T. Burr, who left St Louis in a balloon on the 27th of September last, has been cleared away by the discovery of the remains of Mr. Burr in Lake Michigan at Miller’s Station, Lake county, Ind. The balloon was seen passing that point late on the night of the ascension, and it must have been wrecked soon after reaching the water. Since the opening of the Ute Indian war thirty-three whites have been slain, while thirty-nine savages have been made to bite the dust Special Agent Adams, who was sent out by Secretary Schurz to meet the hostile Utes, reports that he visited the camp of the hostiles between Grand and Gunnison rivers, ■nd that, after holding a conference with them, the captive women and children were delivered tj him without conditions. The captives were unharmed, and had not been subjected to any insult or injury. The Indians desire peace, and claim to have been forced into the outbreak. Gen. Adams also reports that after leaving the bos tiles’country I e met Indian runners who reported tl-cir “ lookouts” had a fight, on the 20th of Octo' <■ , with a hunting party from Merritt’s camp, 1 rought about accidentally by the scouts firing on an Indian, in which a scout named Hume, Lieut. Weir, and two other whites and two Indians were killed. The Indians claim they were posted at that place merely to observe the movements of the troops; that they did not want to fight, and did not fight until Hume killed one of their number.

Gen. Morrow, with a force of 300 soldiers, is now in hot pursuit of the murderous I and of Indians who have been recently committing masssacres and thefts in New Mexico. A band of Sioux is also reported to be on the war-path in Dakota, and two companies of the United States Eleventh Infantry are now in pursuit of them. Gen. Merritt’s force in Colorado is being reinforced, and, if not prevented by heavy snows, the probability is that the murderers of Maj. Thornburgh and Agent Meeker will be hunted down shortly with vigor. South* The cotton crop of Alabama has been seriously damaged by rain. One night last week, a mob of 200 men rode into Martinsburg, Elliott county, Ky., overpowered the jailer, took two prisoners, John W. Kendall and Wm. McMillan, to a tree near by and hanged them until dead The men hanged were known to belong to a gang of outlaws. They also attempted to secure John Cohn, a desperate character, living in town. He managed to escape, but in doing so was wounded in the left shoulder and left limb. The ninety-eighth anniversary of the surrender of Cornwallis was celebrated in a spirited manner, on the 23d of October, by the people of Yorktown, Ya., where the memorable event transpired. Yellow Jack has been vanquished by Jack Fmst. and the Southern piague is at an cud.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The Supreme Court of the United States has sustained the constitutionality of the Pacific Railroad Funding law passed in May, 1878, by which the Pacific railroads who are in arrears upon their obligations to the United States Government are required to set apart a certain portion of their earnings each year for the extinguishment of such debts. Dissenting opinions were filed by Justices Strong, Bradley and Field. It is authoritatively announced from Washington that Secretary Sherman will not be a candidate for the Ohio Senatorahip as the successor of Judge Thurman. The following is the official vote cast in Ohio for Governor, at the election held Oct. 14: Foster, Republican, 336,261; Ewing, Democrat, 319,132; Piatt, Greenback, 9,129; Stewart, Prohibition, 4,145. Foster’s majority over Ewing, 17,129. The President has decided to leave the English and Russian missions vacant until the meeting of Congress. In his annual report to Congress, Secretary Sherman will recommend the passage of a law enabling him to continue his refunding operations, by authorizing him to exchange 4 per cent bonds for 5 or 6 per cent, bonds before their maturity. At a Cabinet meeting last week the Ute Indian troubles were discussed. Secretary Schurz and Gen. Sherman gave all the information in the possession of their departments. The discussion turned upon what steps should bo taken toward the Indians, and it was decided that for the present only precautionary measures should be adopted. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs last week received a dispatch from Agent McGillycuddy at Red Cloud Agency, saying: *• Twenty Sitting Bull Indians just in with a pass from Maj. Walsh (British officer at the nearest post across the border). Many more will come when the Missouri freezes. Do you want them fed ? ” To this Commissioner Hayt replied as follows: “The Secretary desires me to say that the Sitting Bull Indians returning must be looked upon virtually as prisoners of war. They must surrender their arms and ponies. The idea must not be permitted to spread that they can simply come back and be fed. Every one of them, if fed, must be made to earn his rations by work for the Government. Enforce this policy strictly, and keep them well watched.”

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Sir Francis Hincks, President of one of the Montreal banks which recently failed, has been convicted of making false returns to the Government as to the condition of the concern before its collapse. The penalty prescribed by law is not more than seven years in the penitentiary noi less than two years in the county jail, in the discretion of tho court A motion for new trial was at ones entered. Sir Francis, who is 80 years of age, will lose his pension of SIO,OOO if the verdict against h m is permitted to stand. The old fight between the War and Interior Departments threatens to break out anew. Gen. Sheridan, in a message to Gen. Sherman about the Ute Indian war, rather harshly criticised the halt in the pursuit of the murderous savages, and spoke of Gen. Merritt’s command as being “tied up” and “ sold out. ” Secretary Schurz thereupon rushes into print and takes Sheridan to task for his dispatch, and defends tbe ordering of Gen. Merritt’s command back to the White River Agency, on the ground that it was the best thing that could be done under the circumstances. Gen. Sheridan retorts by saying that he wishes no controversy with the Interior Department, but that he still stands by what he said. The sixth annual’ conference of the Protestant Episcopal Church of. the United States opened its session at Albany, N. ¥., Oct. 31. The inaugural address wag delivered

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

by the Right Rev. William C. Doane, Bishop of Albany. The amount of coin and bullion which have arrived in New York from foreign ports between Jan. 1 and Oct. 15 amounts to #49,526,495; #4,860,000 of this was American gold coin, #4,365,859 was American silver coin, and #2,038,402 was foreign silver coin and bullion. The balance, #38,262,234, was foreign gold coin and gold bullion. The arrival of every steamer swells the amount The extraordinary rate at which the United States is draining England and France of specie is unprecedented in commercial history. The increase in the volume of business, as indicated by the Clearing House returns for the week ending Oct. 23 is unprecedented. The aggregate clearings for the week reached the enormous sum of $1,033,009,000, being more than over the corresponding week of last year, and an increase of over 50 per cent. In New York the increase is 84.8 per cent; Chicago, 53.5; Philadelphia, 55; Boston, 41.1; Baltimore, 46.3; Cincinnati, 20.8; St. Lonis, 17.20. The most imposing display of “shooting stars” witnessed since the famous meteoric showers of 1833 is predicted for the night of the 13th of next November. It is stated that Gen. Grant will make a tour of South America and Mexico before settling down to a quiet life, and will make the journey after visiting New York city and Philadelphia. Nearly $5,500,000 in specie were received in New York from Europe for the week ending Oct. 25, and nearly $8,600,000 more was afloat for the same port at that date.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Louisiana Republican State Convention was held at New Orleans Oct. 20-21. The following ticket r o- State officers was nominated: For- Governor, Taylor Beattie; Lieutenant Governor, James M. Gillespie; Attorney General, Judge Don A Pardee; Auditor, Claudius Mayo; Superintendent of Public Education, Dr. R. T. Bousano; Secretary of State, James D. . Kennedy (colored.) A resolution was adopted declaring Grant the unalterable choice of the convention for President. There was an election in Baltimore for Mayor, last week, the vote result ng: Latrobe, Democrat, 25,729; Hooper, Republican, 19,830; Mathiot, Greenback, 95. The official canvass of the vote on General Assembly at tho late Ohio election gives the Republicans 69 and the Democrats 45 members of the House, while in the Senate the Republicans have 22 and the Democrats 15—a majority on joint ballot of 31. , • Ex-Senator Rumsey, of Minnesota, confidently expects to be Secretary McCi ary’s successor in the War Department, and has engaged a residence at Washington.

The Sunflower.

In many districts in the West the traveler will see growing immediately about the doors of farm houses beds of oiwHnwein. The belief of many is that the growing sunflower is a protection from malaria and a preventive of the low fevers of malarious districts. This plant, we believe, is made of but small practical use in America. A scientific writer upon the helianthus says: " Elsewhere the sunflower, if not admired, is esteemed for practical reasons. Many of our native aboriginals make bread of the seeds. It is cultivated in the South of Europe sometimes as a field crop, the seeds being used as a food for cattle and poultry, and also for making oil, which is little inferior to olive oil, is burned in lamps, and employed in the manufacture of soap. Meal and bread are said to be got from the seeds in Portugal, and these, roasted, are often substituted for coffee. The seeds are also used like almonds for making soothing emulsions, and in some parts of the Old World are boiled and fed to infants. The leaves are good fodder for cattle, the stems serve for fuel, and contain much potash. The different species of sunflower indigenous to the United States number some forty, scattering from ocean to ocean, and from New England to the Gulf. For a plant generally counted unworthy, as it is with us, it surely has many valuable uses.

A National Militia.

Gen. Benet, Chief of Ordnance, in his annual report, makes a novel recommendation with respect to a national militia. He recommends the passage of such laws as will make an efficient national militia of some 200,000 men. The proposition in substance is that the militia of the several States, when they have arrived at a certain degree of efficiency, and have complied with certain conditions, may, according to the pleasure of the respective States, be enrolled as a national militia, in which case they shall be maintained at the expense of the General Government. The degree of efficiency is to be determined by the reports of officers to be called Inspectors of Militia, who shall be appointed partly from the regular army and partly from civil life. Col. Benet, the Chief of Ordnance, recommends that one-half shall be selected from among those who have served in the Union army and one-half from those who have served in the rebel army. This is the first time that a proposition of this kind has ever; proceeded from any bureau officer. To obviate any objections that might arise on the ground of State rights, it is proposed that any State shall be at liberty to withdraw its militia from the national enrollment in its own pleasure, subject to certain regulations. Among the conditions of admission to the national enrollment are that the State shall consent that, under certain circum stances, its militia shall be subject to the order of the General Government. Col. Benet recommends an appropriation of ♦4,000,000 to put into effect any law that may be enacted upon this subject.

Another Advance in the Price of Paper.

At a meeting of manufacturers of print and book paper, held in Cincinnati on the 23d of October, an advance of one-half cent per pound was made upon all grades of print and book papers. This, added to the advance made on the Ist of October, brings the price of paper up full twenty per cent, above the prices of the past six m nths. It will not be long before consumers who have not prepared for this advance by laying in a stock of paper will begin to feel the effects of the “rise” in the paper market The following circular has just been issued by the manufacturers of fine paper, card-board, etc., and speaks for itself: “The-increased cost in a’l material used in the manufacture of paper makes it necessary for us to advance the price of our goods one-half cent per pound from this date, and if stock advances in price we will feel the necessity of a further advance.”

How He Got Out of It.

The son of a rich man was placed in a banker’s office to learn the business. His first task was to reckon up a bill, and he made a mistake of 15 cents. The head of the house called his attention to the fact, whereupon the youth indignantly produced his wallet, saying, “Here are your 15cents; you don’t catch me staying in a concern where they make such a fuss about a mean little sum like that | ” He then took bis hat and left.

LAMAR ON SHERMAN.

A MagniAeent Arraignment of a Stupendous Humbug. Senator Lamar recently addressed a large audience at Winona, Miss., in the course of which he spoke at some length in vindication of the Democratic party and of Hie South, against the charges made by John Sherman. We make the following extracts from his speech: And now, fellow-citizen*, I have to say something upon a subject which, if not graver in it* char cter than that which I have discussed, is more difficult to treat with perfect unreserve. A public officer, whose position make* him the representative of the national interests, and whose duty it is to respect and vindicate the character of the whole people whom he represents, ha* lately taken the field a* an open, and, I believe, an avowed, candidate for the Residency. Hi* immense patronage and hi* necessary influence with the great money corporations of the country are all so many forces operating to give success to hi* aspirations. Indecorous, in my opinion, a* is this attitude of a Cabinet officer holding such immense patronage; compromising to the administration, of which he form* so conspicuous a part, as is this open disregard of the patriotic professions as to civil-service reform made by the President—l would not feel called on to follow him in his popular canvasses, but for one fact He has lately made, published, and extensively circulated two speeches (one delivered at Portland, Me., the other at Steubenville, Ohio), which are bitter and malignant misrepresentations of the whole Souih; misrepresentations uttered notin the heat atd passion of honest excitement, but cold, calculating, venomous words, meant to stimulate honest and ignorant people to the exercise of sectional haired.

Before I read yon what he says, especially about the South, let me call your attention to his charges against the national Democracy: “If 1 lelt at liberty to choose the theme most important to you and to the whole people of the United States, I-Would present the recent revival by the Democratic party of the Southern doctrine of States rights. This doctrine has been the evil genius of American politics. It was born of hostility to the Union. It was the bulwark of American slavery. It poisoned and estranged a large section of the country. Under the name of secession it led to the late rebellion, and aimed to destroy tLe Union by an open-armed conflict with the National Government. Every life that was sacrificed and the treasur • that was wasted_ in that wa. were the bitter fruits of this doctrine.

“Now it takes tho form of nullification—not nullification by State officers as when Gen. Jackson throttled it, but nullification by members of Congress, the sworn agents and officers of the General Government. These officers would surrender essential powers of the National Gove nment, nullify its law, cripple it in executing its conceded powers, and make it a Confederate instead of a National Government” Here is a direct and a positive sfatem nt that the Democratic party has revived and committed itself to the Southern doctrine of Slate rights—not using the phrase to convey t.lat moaning which is acceptable to the minds oil all the people of all the States, both North South, but using it to convey that meaning wiSch is repugnant to the Northern heart, and which the people of the North regard as subversive of national security and the integrity of the Union. He expressly says: “The Southern doctrine of State rights,” involving “secession” and “nullification.” Now what was that “Southern doctrine of State rights ” Involving secession and nullification, of which Mr. Sherman speaks? The gentleman knows well what the doctrine is, and he knew equally well that neither the Democratic party nor any member of Congress now maintains it, or anßorU it, or foliowait He knows that the doctrine of which he spoke was a claim that every State of the United States Jiad reserved in its own hands the right to. judge of the constitutionality of an act cf Congress, and to pronounce it null and void within its o wn limits.

Now, Mr. Sherman knows, and knows well, that every Southern State has yielded up that doctrine; yielded it up in good faith and forever; aye, more, has written its renunciation in its organic law. He knows that nowhere in this great Union is there one State which sets up any claim of right to determine the limits of Federal authority, or claims any power over the Federal Government Or any department of that Government. What, then, does the Secretary mean by this reckless assertion? And what is the impression which he in his high and responsible position intends to produce? He Knows what ideas and feelings are associated with the ante-bellum Southern doctrine of State rights in the mind of the people before whom he made that charge; that is to say, secession and slavery, rebellion, nullification and dismemberment of the Union. Such are the impressions made upon their minds, and such are the impressions which he knew would inevitably be produced when he made this charge against a great national party which at the last election gave to its candidate for the Presidency an overwhelming majority of the popular vote of the United States. Is it true that this great party has done this thing ? Not only is it not true, but Secretary Sherman ought to know it to be not true. Fellow-citizens, I do not believe that in all the annals of party war are to be found assertions more reckless of consequences, more destitute of foundation, more cunningly framed for the production of erroneous impressions on tho popular mind than are those of Mr. Secretary She-man. Nowhere throughout the extent of the Union is there any conflict of State with Federal authority, nor is there any possibility of such a conflict for the future. But, says the Secretary, “it takes the form of nullification, not by State officers, as when Gen. Jackson throttled it, but by members of Congress, the sworn ageuts and officers of the Federal Government. ” Listening to this statement, would any one ot acquainted with the Secretary’s position and necessities imagine that, in making it aud in .reiterating it, be meant to be understood as referring to an act of legislation by the Congress of the Uni ed States? Would he not rather imagine a Cromwellian dissolution ot Congress by the pike of a Gen. DeTrobriand marching into legislative halls with fixed bayonets? Was ever the passage of a bill through the House ot Representatives and the Senate cbaracteiized before this as nullification of a law of Congress? Is such language the utterance of a statesman ? Knowing the meaning of such language as we do know it, and seeing the connection in which the Secretary has used it, to what conclusion can we come save this: either that the Secretary is ignorant of that of which he speaks (and for such a man so engaged to be this ignorant is a ctime), or that, net being ignorant, he has paraded before our Northern brethren an impertinent and senseless phrase to lead them into a delusion? Does he mean to say that all or any of the Democratic members of the last Congress either openly advanced or covertly relied on the ante-bellum doctrine of State rights as a foundation upon which to rest measures antagonistic to the perpetuity and glory of the Federal Government, or as an end to the attainment cf which such measures were to be presented and justified? If so, I assert it is not true, either in letter or spirit, and I challenge him to specify the man, or the men, or the time, or the measure, or the speeches, or the votes. I repeat, then, why did the Secretary use the word “ nullification ” when speaking of an orderly, formal and ordinary act of Congress to repeal an existing law? The word has but one true meaning in American politics, when used in connection with State rights—that is, the asserted right of a State to interpose its authoiiy to invalidate an act of Congress. This is the meaning which the honest masses who listened to Mr. Sherman would attach to it; and he used the term not for any pertinency it had to the matters at issue, but with the knowlidge that it would revive forgotten prejudices, reawaken quieted alarm, reinflame cooled passions ana remadden the extinguished animosities of sections. I hope he may be disappointed in his purpose. Ho repeats the charge in another form, and in doing so make< a statement equally unfounded and misleading. He says: “When, by the firmness of the President, they fai ed in their main object, they sought by conditions in appropriation bills to compel him to agree to nullify laws in violation of his oath of office.” What are the exact facta of the proceeding to which he refers? The Congress passed all the appropriation bills, providing for all the expenses of the Government m all its departments, as Mr. Sherman himself admits. Into those bills were inserted certain provisions amendatory of existing laws, so as to withdraw the authority to use troops at the polls, to secure impartial juries in the Federal courts, and, lastly, to take from the United States Supervisors the power to interfere with the freedom of elections. I shall not now discuss the propriety of making such amendments and repeal a part of an appropriation bill. I indorse and adopt as my own the view presented by Hon. Frank Hurd, of Ohio, a gentleman whom

1 regard as among the ablest, moat useful and most. p>-omibing of our public men. “If anything,” says Mr. Hurd, “ has been settled by the legislation of the last quarter of a century, it is that even general legislation may be tacked to appropriation bills, and certainly, no man at any time in the history of this Government has disputed the propoeition that measures in the interest of economy, propositions relating to the revenue, such as these are, might be incorporated into bills when originated t>y the House.” But for the purpose of this argument let me admit that in their course in this matter the Democratic party were wrong; let me admit that they were flagrantly, fatally, hideously wrong; let me admit that that scheme of tacking is a scheme “conceived in fraud and brought forth in iniquity.” What then? The very law which the Democrats were proposing to alter and amend became a law in this very manner, and became a law in thia manner by the contrivance of the very party for whom Mr. Sherman speaks, and with which he was cooperating at tho very time. They and he conceived the fraud; they and he brought forth the iniquity; and if the Democrats, following in their footsteps in the single instance of trying to pull down by such a practice a flagrant and crying evil by them created through such practice, have committed a wrong, then is the Democratic party responsible, not to Mr. Sherman and the stalwarts, who have sinned worse than we, but to the great body of the American people, and to them alone. If we have sinned in attempting thus to procure the repeal of an oppressive law, framed in such a manner, how much greater is their sin who conceived and first practiced the plan for the purpose of stripping from the President of the Uni ed States the ve‘o power gran ed by the constitution, and who did succeed by this very me hod in passing 'his law over the President’s head without having the constitutional majority.

POLITICAL NOTES.

Ohio is not a keystone State. Allen lost it in 1875, but Tilden swept the country in 1876. Ewing has lost Ohio in 1879, but , the Democratic candidate for President, will sweep the country in 1880, and will not be counted out, either.— Boston Post. In pursuance of not only the effort, but the combination organized to whoop up a Bayard Presidential “boom,” Senator Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, has written a letter to a friend in this city, in which he says that the present aspect of politics appears to him to suggest the nomination of. Bayard and McDonald as the Democratic ticket for 1880. — Washington Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer. The latest development in the New York Tilden and Kelly imbroglio is that Kelly is to get the control of the politics of New York ci y from the Cornell Republicans in case Cornell is elected. It is charged that the bargain is similar to that consummated at one period by a faction of the New York Republican party with Tweed, and by which he was enabled to perpetuate his enormous robberies. Can there be truth in these charges?— Chicago News (Bep).

The New York Tri dune has been delighted with the downfall of Mr. Thurman. The defeat of no other man in public life could have so pleased the proprietor of that concern, Mr. Jay Gould. He is in the Union Pacific for the purpose of making the most of it, to j the disadvantage of the United States; but Thurman persistently urged his bill, and finally secured its passage, compelling the company to create a sinking fund from its earnings for the discharge of its obligations to the Government. This he did in the face of Jay Gould’s shameless lobby. Just as Jay Gould’sorgan is rejoicing that Thurman’s political career will soon be ended there comes the decision of the Supreme Court that the Thurman law is constitutional. It will be enforced, therefore, greatly to the disgust of the Go ild crowd, who will find that Thurman survives sufficiently to make them do the honest thing. Williams, the African who was elected a member of the Ohio Legislature in Hamilton county, accompanied Charley Foster to New York the other day, intending to engage with him in a canvass of the State in the interest of Cornell, Conkling and Canonchet. He was received by the Republican managers with chilling civility and sent to a hotel, where he was told to remain until his services were needed. The clerks, regardless 'of the Civil Rights law andjthe failure of the wiping out programme, assigned their Senegambian guest a room near the eaves, where he was informed he might also eat, the dining-room being reserved exclusively for the played-out Caucasian. When the full force of this Southern outrage was appreciated by the honorable moke from Ohio, he picked up his consumptive grip-sack and staited for a restaurant, inveighing bitterly against the house in which he could not be treated as a gentleman. He and his brother stumpers will make the Robin-son-Tilden faction suffer for this when they warm up to their work.— Chicago Times.

Orville Grant.

Almost any day about noon there can be seen about the Ebbitt House a man of square, compact build, rather shabbily clad. Hardly shabbily, either; but with a blue suit of clothes, showing the need of brushing and attention, his head covered with a black slouch hat, rather crumpled, and worn down over the eyes; on his feet a low-cut pair of shoes, the heels worn aslant, between which and the short pair of pantaloons is exposed a pair of white—once —halfhose. This comprises the outward make-up of Orville Grant, brother of the General and ex-President. In face and figure Orville is not unlike his distinguished brother. He is somewhat taller, but has the same oval face, wears his whiskers cut short, and has the same shaped head. When he walks the streets he carries his head down, and reminds one of a person trying to settle in his mind a knotty mathematical problem. If one says, “How do you do?” he returns the salutation pleasantly and passes on. Most of the time he is followed by a very ordinary black-and-tam dog, to which he seems to be much attached. Gen. Grant has no more enthusiastic admirer than his brother, though, strange to say, that, in speaking of the General, Orville always mentions him as the General, and not as his brother. Orville has a shambling, listless gait in walking that has given rise to the mistake that he is intoxicated. This is far from being true, for in late years he has not drank liquor at all.— Washington Star. Italy is afflicted with a champion pedestrian named Bargveri, who calls himself the “man locomotive,” and has a preference tor running races with horses. He lately invaded France, and walked from Montpelier to Bordeaux, a distance of 325 miles, in five days, for a wager of 3,000 franca,

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NUMBER 38.

PREPARING TO TAKE THE CENSUS.

Gen. Walker’s Plan for Securing Accurate Agricultural Statistics. Gen. Francis A. Walker, Superintendent of Census, with a view to securing greater accuracy and uniformity in the agricultural statistics to be compiled for the tenth census, has just issued a circular setting forth the aims and wishes of the bureau with regard to the method ofarranging such statistics. The agricmtural schedule annexed to the act of 1850, which is also made a part of the act of March 3, 1879, providing for the tenth census, requires a report of the chief productions of agriculture “during ths year ended June 1.” There is, however, no distinct agricultural year which ends on the Ist of June, and there is reason to believe that the statistics of agriculture from 1850 to 1870, in regard to many of the principal products, embraced portions of two different crops, inasmuch as the enumeration was protracted three, four, and even five months. By the act approved March 3,1879, it is provided that the tenth census shall be taken and completed during the month of June, 1880. This provision greatly reduces the liability to error which has been noted. As the enumeration begins on the Ist of June and closes on or before the 30th, all the crops which are gathered once a year will fall pretty clearly on one side or the other of the dividing line. -Thus, the cotton crop reported in the census will be that of 1879, gathered in the fall of that year, while the wool clip, or “ wool crop,” will be that of the spring of 1880, except in portions of California and Texas, where both a fall and a spring clip are secured. For certain agricultural products, however, there is no harvest in the usual sense of that term, but the product is gathered week by week or day by day, as it matures. Milk, butter, cheese, and meat belong to this class.

In view of the requirements of the law and the great importance of accurate statistical information relative to agriculture, it is deemed highly desirable that farmers should prepare themselves in advance to give the information with promptness and accuracy. It is urgently recommended, therefore, that agricultural journals and the officers of agricultural societies and clubs feive publicity to the announcement, and that all persons engaged in agriculture who shall receive this circular, or see it in the public prints, make notes from time to time of the quantities and values of their several crops gathered, and the number of acres of land planted, in order that their statements, when made to the enumerators, may be of the highest possible value. To remove any doubt that may arise concerning the crop to be returned in the census, the following list presents the several crops specially mentioned in the agricultural schedule, arranged as they fall into the calendar year 1879, or that of 1880, or are to be returned for the twelve months beginning June 1,.1879, and closing May 31, 1880. Of the crop of the calendar year of 1879: Wheat, corn, rye, oats, barley, buckwheat, rice, tobacco, cotton, potatoes, peas, and beans; orchards, vineyards, small fruits, hay, clover-seed, grass-seed, hops, hemp, flax, flax-seed, sugar-cane, and sorghum, acres and quality; bees, number of hives, pounds of honey and wax. Of the crop of the calender year 1880: Wool, number of fleeces and pounds; maple-sugar, pounds; maple-molasses, gallons. Of the yield of the twelve months ending May 31: Butter, cheese, and milk sold, quality; animals slaughtered, value; forest product and home manufactures, value. It is believed that by calling the attention of those interested to the subject the efforts of the bureau will be greatly facilitated.

The Cat and the Bees.

Charles Kaiser, who has the only hive of bees in town, says that when he first got his colony, his old cat’s curiosity was much excited in regard to the doings of the little insects, the like of which she had never before seen. At first she watched their comings and goings at a distance. She. then flattened herself upon the ground and crept along toward the hive, with tail hoii zontal and quivering. It was clearly evident that she thought the bees some new kind of game. Finally she took up a position at the entrance of the hive, and when a bee came in or started out made a dab at it with her paws. This went on for a time without attracting the attention of the inhabitants of the hive. Presently, however, old Tabby struck and crushed a bee on the edge of the opening to the hive. The smell of the crushed bee alarmed and enraged the whole colony. Bees by the score poured forth and darted into the fur of the astonished cat. Tabby rolled herself in the grass, spitting, spluttering, biting, clawing and squalling as a cat never squalled before. She appeared a mere ball of furs and bees as she rolled and tumbled about. She was at length hauled away from the hive with a garden rake, at the cost of several stings to her rescuer. Even after she had been taken to a distant part of the grounds the bees stuck to Tabby’s fur, and about once in two minutes she would utter an u - earthly “yowT” and bounce a full yard into the air. On coming, down she would try to scratch her ear, when a sting on the back would cause her to turn a succession of somersaults and give vent to a running fire of squalls. Like the parrot that was left alone with the monkey, old Tabby had a dreadful time. Two or three days after the adventure Tabby w’as caught by the owner, who took her by the neck and threw her down near the beehive. No sooner did she strike the ground than she gave a dreadful squall, and at a single bound reached the top of the’ fence full six feet in height. There she clung for a moment, with a tail as big as a rolling-pin, when, with another bound and squall, she was out of sight, and did not again put in an appearance for over a week.— Virginia City (Nev.) Enterprise.

Trilling with Health.

Man is the only animal who violates the laws of health knowingly, and yet continues the bad practice. An illusI tration cf this moral and physical eccenI tricity is ’ afforded by the habits of ! Thackeray. j Unlike Dickens, he took no regular walking exercise, and, being regardless : of the laws of health, suffered in consequence. In reply to one who asked him if he had ever received the best medical advice, his reply was: 1 “What ig the use pf advice if you

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don’t follow it ? They tell me not to drink, and Ido drink; they tell me not to smoke, and Ido smoke; they tell me not to eat, and Ido eat. In short, Ido everything that I am desired not to do, and, therefore, what am I to expect?’’ And so one morning he was found, like Dr. Chalmers, in the sleep of death, with his arms beneath his head, after one of his violent attacks of illness, to be mourned by his mother and daughters, who formed his household, and by a wider public beyond, which had learned to love him through his admirable works.

INDIANA NEWS.

The nut crop in all parts of the State is reported to be immense. The Lafayette water-w rks have been put to a satisfactory test. Mr. Brice, one of the pioneers of Wayne county and earliest settlers of Hagerstown, has died suddenly of heart disease. The increase in hog receipts at Indianapolis for nine months this .year, over the corresponding period last year, is about 22 per cent.; of cattle 8 per cent. Miss Kate, second daughter of Hon. Thomas R. Cobb, member of Congress, was married at Vincennes, last week, to W. W. Cullop, assistant principal of the Vincennes University. There is trouble, in the public schools at Covington. The pupils have been caught playing draw poker for money, and the school board are culled upon to break up the game. The annual convention of the Central Association of Congregational Churches and Ministers of Indiana met at Kokomo last week. About seventyfive delegates were in attendance. Prof. Collet, the State Geologist, has been to Hancock county to see the newly-discovered Indian mountain, near Greenfield. Pottery, stone axes and -hattches, human bones, a stone whistle and other reminiscences have been discovered.

The list of old settlers es Floyd county has been completed, and foots up 142. The oldest man on the list is John Coleman, of Lafayette township, aged 95, and spry as a cricket. The youngest mat is 69, and was born in the county. It is expected that the foundation of the State House will be up to the surface of the ground by the time winter sets in. This is not as far as the Commissioners laid out, but they are satisfied that the work is being pushed as rapidly as circumstances will permit. Prof. Caleb Mills died at his late residence in Crawfordsville, of pneumonia, after an illness of two weeks. At the time of his death Prof. Mills was Rose professor of geology and mineralogy, professor of the Greek language, and curator of the library of Wabash College. A private dispatch from Alden, Col., announces the death oi Gen. Lazarus Noble, of Vincennes, who was there prospecting. Gen. Noble was Adjutant General of the State during the greater part of the war; afterward Clerk of the Supreme Court, and after that resided at Vincennes. He was born in Wayne county, and was 53 years old. The Grand Council of Royal and Select-Masons met at Indianapolis last week. A resolution to merge the Council with the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons was voted down. Officers were elected as follows: Walter R. Godfrey, Illustrious Grand Master; Edward O. Ross, Deputy; Perry W. Gard, Master; Albert Hayward, Grand P. C. of Work; Charles Fisher, Grand Treasurer; John W. Brammel, Grand Recorder.

John Irvin and John Revo, of Vevay, were drowned while attempting to wade the river. They had crossed over to the Kentucky side in a skiff, and some one had returned in the skiff. They attempted to wade across, and were swept down by the current. Irvin was a young man who attempted to cross the river three er four years ago in a leaky skiff with five of his brothers and sister, when the skiff sunk, drowning four of the other children, only two of the six escaping. Revo leaves a wife and thiee children, and Irvin a father and mother, who have lost a family of children by drowning. A horribly brutal story comes from New Albany. A man named Stringham, who has had familiar acquaintance with the police for several years, accepted a wager to fight a savage bulldog. He prepared himself for the brutal encounter by getting down upon his hands and knees and growling and snarling, doglike, until the other_brute became gradually infuriated. The dog was then turned loose, and attacked Stringham savagely, but he caught the ear of the brute in his teeth and chewed it off. This only infuriated the dog, and when loosed from Stringham’s teeth he made another and fiercer attack. This time Stringham caught the dog with his teeth in the under lip, and so lacerated and worried the brute that it howled from pain, and, when finally released, -fled from his torture, and could not again be induced to renew the fight.

St. Paul as a Milling Center.

The Pioneer Press, of St. Paul, states that there are now building at the Falls of St. Anthony five large flouring mills, of which one will probably make from 2,500 to 3.000 barrels a day, another 2,(i00, another 1,000 to 1,200, and the others from 500 to 800. In addition to this, Gov. Washburn is tearing out the inside of his old “B ” mill m order to put in improved machinery, so that when completed it will have a capacity of from 1,500 to 2,000 barrels. It is worthy of note, in this connection, that it is but a little w r hile since a 300-barrel mill was considered a large one, and 500 barrel mills were rare. The Press estimates that when all the new mills are finished and running on full time, the daily production of flour in St. Paul will be over 12,000 barrels, which, with the mill-stuff made, will load seven trains of twenty-one cais each. At this rate the yearly production will be over 3,000,000 barrels, requiring 15,000,000 bushels of grain. A New Jersey boy on the ship St. Mary, in writing home, says: “There are three things a boy wants as soon as fye gets to sea—first, to'get home; second, a good square meal, and, third, to get his fingers on the fellow who wrote ‘ Jack Hathaway,’” .