Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1880 — Page 1

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HEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Intelligence comes from Bombay that a steamer from Yingorla, bound to Kurrachee, foundered, and five Europeans and fifty-nine natives were lost. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the Czai'ri accession to the Russian throne occurred on the 2d of March, and the event was celebrated at 8t Petersburg with great iiomp. Thero wero gorgoous decorations by day and brilliant illumina'ions by night. The Emperor appeared in tlie thronged streets, in an open carriage. Decrees were published granting pardons t> prisoners, remitting the arrears of taxes owing by the rural population, and awarding orders of distinction. While alighting from a carriage at his residence in St. Petersburg, Gen. Melikoff, chief of the new Supreme Executive Commission, was fired at by a young Nihilist, but with s' cli bad aim that he escaped uninjured. The wouldbe assassin was promptly arrested. .George F. Slasson, the well-known American billiardist, and Vignaux, the French champion, will begin at Paris, on the evening of March 27, the most-notabio match game of billiards over played. The game will be for 4,<XM) points, and will run five nights, or 800 points each night. The contest is for $2,000. The Unitbd States, Great Britain and Franco are going to try to stop the war between Chili and Peru. The members of the Mansion-House Commitiee are unanimous iu expressing the belief that tiro most serious distress in Ireland is yet to bo mot, principally iu the months of May, June anil July. The tide of Irish immigration to this country has already commenced. The young Nihilist who attempted assassinate Gon. Melikoff, at St. Petersburg, on the 3d of March, was tried by court-martial and sentenced to death on the 4tli, and wae hanged at daylight on the morning of the sth. His demeanor when in tho presence of his Judges was very doliant, tho severest cross-ex-amination failing to shako his determination to maintain silence as to his accomplices. On leaving tho court-room the assassin declared that soonor or later tho tyrants who now oppressed Russia would fall by the hands of members of the organization to which he belonged. A dispatch from Berlin states that a movement for independence lias been set on foot in Finland. Eight men were killed and thirty wounded by a boiler explosion at Glasgow, (Scotland. The Russian Nihilists have issued a manifesto justifying tho attempts upon (ho life of tho Czar, and declaring that tho struggle must continue until tho Czir abdicates or grauts a constitution. Twenty-three deaths resulted from the boiler explosion at Glasgow, (Scotland. France lias decided not to surrender the Nihilist Hartmann, who was engaged in the Moscow conspiracy against tho Cz it’s life. From Armenia come heartrending accounts of tho Buffering in that, faminestricken land. Thousands wero endeavoring to escape to the neighboring I’eri-ian provinces. Tho roads wet o covered deep with snow, and many perished on the journey. Four Turkish villages are reported to have boon tired by order of a Russian officer commanding llulgariau m litia.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Blast. Nearly tho whole of tho village es Bon.cn, N. Y , lias boon destroyed by fire. Losh about $10(1,(100. William H. Vanderbilt has voluntarily raised the wages of luh vast army of employes. Henry l’opper, a prominent member of the Wilmington (Del.) bar, and the law partner of Senator Bayard, was fouud dead in his bed, in that city, a few mornings ago. Two and a half million dollars more are asked for to complete the great bridge across the East river botweon New York and Brooklyn. Over $11,000,000 has already been expended on the work. Royal B. Conpnt, ex-cashier of the Elliott National Bank, of Boston, convicted of embczzlomcnt, Ims been sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment. A fire-damp explosion in a mine near Wilkesbarre, Pa., caused tho death of five miners. Thomas Doty, Samuel Morgan and H. C. Volbradt wore drowned in the Ohio river at Beaver, Pa., while attempting to cross n a skiff. Work lias been commenced on a ship canal between Barnstable and Buzzard’s bay, on the peninsula of Cape Cod. Tlie ditch will cost about $25,000,0J0, and when completed will enable coasting vessels to escape the duigerous passage around the cape and the Nantucket shoals. West. E. O. Stockton, a nephew of old Commodore Stockton, committed suicide at St. Louis, Mo., the other day. The lowa Legislature has passed a law prohibiting tho manufacture and sale of oleomargarine. The amount of lumber received at Chicago during 1871) was 1,467,720,001 feet, an increase of 25 per cent, over tho preceding year. Joseph Pulitzer, of the Post-Dispatch, and William Hyde, of the Republican, indulged in a fight in one of the public streets of St. Louis, the other day. Hyde knocked Pulitzer down, rolled him in tho gutter, blacked Iris eye, and went away, apparently satisfied. Pulitzer drew a pistol, but dropped the weapon before bo could get a chance to use it. No serious damage. ' All the property at Leadville, Col., of B. F. Allen, the ox-banker of Chicago and lowa, has been attached by his, creditors. Chicago elevators contain 8,740,623 bushels of wheat, 5,189,057 bushels of corn, I, bushels of oats, 249,318 bushels of rye, aDd 007,798 bushels of barley, making a total of 15,921,530 bushels, against 12,572,792 bushels at this period last year. Vessels in the harbor are laden with 202,329 bushols of wheat, 2,055,001 bushels of corn, and 37,308 bushels of oats. The Western paper-makers held another meeting at Chicago last week. The prices of paper were fully discussed, and it was decided to make no further advance for the present. They decided to send a memorial to Congress setting forth that the pnoe of rags, etc., has advanoed, and that It would be ruinous to tho paper trade of the country to remove the duty on paper. J. W. Mackay has purchased for $5,000,010 the interest of James C. Flood in the great Comstock mines.

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VOLUME Iv 7 .

At Marysville, De Kalb county, Mo,, George W. Rose, a prominent lawyer, became intoxicated, and went home and began abasing hie wife, when the Bon, aged 21, interferedThinking to scare liis father, he drew a revolver and fired, tho load striking the father in the heart, killing him instantly. Miss Jessie Baymond has withdrawn her suit for seduction against Senator Hil), of Georgia, and signed a paper acknowledging that she has no claim against that gentleman, (hat lie is entirely iuuocent, and that the suit was begun by Miss Be’.va Lockwood, the woman lawyer, without her (Raymond’s) knowlelge or consent. The people o* Western Missouri and Eastern and Southern Kansas are greatly agitated over the military preparations to prevent incursions of settlers into tho Indian Territory. Indignation meetings are boing held, at which tho President’s course is vigorously denounced. Chief Douglass, one of the Ute prisoners confined in Fort Leaven worth, escaped from tho guard-house by jumping from a sec-ond-story window. He was pursued for half a mile, and recaptured after a desperate struggle. A bill to restore capital punishment in Wisconsin lias hern defea'ed by the Wisconsin Legislature. A violent wind-storm or series of storms swept over a wide section of the West on the night of the 4th inst., causing immense destruction of property and considerable loss of iife. Indianapolis, Cleveland, Toledo, and Louisville suffered severely by the blow. Charles Colby was hanged at Santa Cruz, Cal., on Friday tl;e stli inst. On the same day two Missouri murderers paid the penalty of their crimes—Walker Kilgore at Mexico, and Joseph Core at Lebanon. Much of the fall-sown winter wheat in Central Wisconsin lias been ruined by the alternation of freezing and lhawirg weather the past winter. A man died in Chicago, the other day, of hydrophobia, communicated two months before by tho bite of a dog. A 15-year-old son of Prof. Willard, of Chicago, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head with a pistol. The stockholders have reorganized the Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Lou svillo Railroad Company, and changed its name to the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago Railway Company. A lad of 18, of Columbus, Ohio, has become insane from the bite of a dog received over a year ago. Tiiomas W. Keene, wiio was the most popular loading man ever iti San Francisco, has made himself exceedingly popular in Chicago duiiog several engagements in a subordinate capacity n ith combinations. Ho now has organized a troupe for tho production cf a new play eallod “ The Two Mothers,” playing tho principal part himself. This play lie H producing at McViclce-i’d this week to first-rate houses. In substance the story recites tho well-known Tieliborne case, varied sufficiently to meet the requirements of a good acting piece and a satisfactory one. During the present Boston season “The Two Mothers” was played, and tho verdict was decidedly favorable. A fiuo cast, and good scenery, of course, eoruth. The large wagon manufactory of James, lloosa & Graham, at Memphis, Tenn., has been burned. Loss, $(15,000. The Virginia Legislature has repealed the Moffet bell-punch law and restored the old liquor license system. An appalling tragedy was enacted in Newberry eountv, 8. 0., ihe . other day. A farmer named Sherman, while laboring under a temporary fit of insanity, murdered his wife and brother by cutting their throats with a keen-edged knife, and then ended his own life in the same manner. Four men living near Careysville, Ky\, opposite Shawneetown, 111., were drownod in the Ohio river, last week, by the capsizing of a skiff. The sale of the New Orleans and Mobile railroad has been ordered by tho courts. Judge Ilayes, of the United States Court for the district of Kentucky, is dead.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The public-debt statement for March 1 is as follows: Six-per-cent, bonds $268,918,000 Five-por-cent. bonds 501,418,900 Four-aud-a-half - per-cent. bonds 250,000,000 Four-per-cent, bonds..... 738,962.00(1 Refunding certificates.... 1,883,950 Navy pension - fund 14.000,000 Total coin bonds $1,770,212,850 Matured debt $ 10,823,135 Legal tenders 346.742.271 Certificates of deposit... 11,485,000 Fractional currency.... 15,631,811 Gold and silver certificates 19,452,260 Total without interest $ 393,311,102 Total debt $2,174,347,087 Total interest...’ 17.110,787 Cash in treasury 190,351,653 Debt less cash in the treasury $1,995,112,220 Decrease during February 5,672,019 Decrease since June 30,1879 32,095,035 CfnilKNT 1,1 ABILITIES. Interest due and unpaid $ 3,662,288 Debt on which interest lias ceased... 10,823,135 In crest thereon 897,008 Gold and silver certificates 19,452,520 United States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit 11,485,000 Cash balance available March 1,1880.. 150,031,706 Total $ 196,351,653 AVAILABLE ASSETS. Cash in treasury $ 196,351,653 Bonds issued to Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding $ 61,623,572 nterest accrued a id not yet paid.... 646,235 Interest paid by United States 46,661,156 Interest repaid by transportation of mails, etc 13,656,910 The House Ways and Means Committee lias practically decided that there shall bo no tariff legislation at this session of Congress. The financial question was the subject of discussion at a Cabinet meeting last week. Secretary Sherman complained of the accumulation of silver coin in tho treasury, and stated that the silver certificates were a great hindrance lo its free circulation. Tho condition of tlie revenues was represented as exceedingly gratifying. Senator BeDj. H. Hill, of Georgia, has been made defendant in a suit for seduction, in which M ss Jeesie Raymond, of Alabama, is plaintiff. She alleges that the Senator took advantage of her friendless condition to effect her ruin, and demands damages in the Bum of SIO,OOO for the injury wrought The quinine manufacturers are trying to convince Congress that the duty on that drug ought to be restored. At a conference between Secretary Schurz and the Ute chieftains, last week, the Colorado Indian question was settled so far as it can be by the Execu'ive Department. The savages accepted the terms proposed by the Government, and will cede the reservation now occupied by them. The White River Utes will go to the Uintah reservation, in Utah; Ouray and the Uncompahgros to lands on Grand river, in the same Territory, and the Southern Utes to New Mexico. The new treaty will be submitted to Congress at an early day.

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 12, ISSO.

An extensive reduction in the working force of the Government Printing Office has been made, in consequence of the exhaustion of the appropriation made for the maintenance of the office during the present fiscal year. It is stated in a Washington dispatch that “the subject of the tariff will a;a : n be forced upon the Ways and Means Committee in some shape or other. Mr. Fort has been promised by Mr. Wood that the committee will fix a timo to hear arguments for and against the passage of his bill, to reluee the duty on paper, and to abolish the tariff on soda-ash He thinks that a majority of the committee will favor'the bill. Mr. Fort is confident that a two-thirds majority of the House would vote for his t il! if he could obtain a chance to put it upon its passage under a suspension of rules.” Isaiah Hanecom, Commodore and Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair, died at Washington last week. There is a fair prospect of the Agricultural Bureau of the Interior Department being made a separate executive department, with its chief occupying a place in the President’s Cabinet, the bill to that effect liaviDg been reported favorably to the House,

POLITICAL POINTS. The Brooklyn Republican General Committee, by a vote of 52 to 82, laid on the tible tho resolution approving Grant and the Utica Convention. The Republican State Convention of lowa for the purpose cf selecting delegates to the Chicago Convention will be held at Des Moines on the 14(h of April. The convention to nominate candidates for State officers will meet later in the season. Edward McPherson succeeds George C. Gorham as Secretary of the Republican Congressional Committee. A Republican United States Senator, who lias gono into the prophet business, names Blaine and Logan as the ticket that will be nominated at Chicago. The Washington Post, in an “inspired” editorial, double-leaded, announces that Samuel J. Tilden will, without doubt, be a candidate for tho Presidential nomination before the Cincinnati Convention. The Maine delegates to the Chicago Convention have been instructed for Blaine. The Greenbackers of the Seventh Indiana district have renominated Rev. De La Ma*yr for Congress. Of the four Indiana delegates-at-large to the Chicago Convention, which was chosen by the State Republican Committee, last week, three are known to be for Blaine. A Greenback National Convention,under the auspices cf Brick Pomeroy, met at St. Louis last week and nominated Stephen I). Dillave, of New Hampshire, and B. J-. Chambers, of Texas, for President and Vice President. A “ John M. Palmer Club,” the object of which is to give tho ex-Governor a boom for President, has been organized at Springfield, 111. A State Convention of the lowa Democracy has been called to meet at Burlington, April 7, for the clioosingof delegates to the National Democratic Convention. The Kansas Democrats will hold their State Crnvention at Topeka, on the -OR. of May. The Kentucky Democratic Central Committee has called a State Convention of tho party to meet at Lexington, Juno 17. The Ohio Prohibitionists met in convention at Columbus, list week, and nominated candidates for S’ate officers and Presidential electors. Representative Fort, of Illinois, is confident that a majority of the delegates to the Chicago Convention from Illinois will be for Grant. A State convention of “Young Republicans” of Massachusetts was held at Boston the other day. Resolutions were adop'ed deprecating the nomination of either Grant cr Blaine, indorsing Hayes, congratulating the Independent Republicans of New York and Pennsylvania, calliDg for civil-service reform, and recommending that greenbacks ho deprived of their legal-tender function. The House special commitiee on the inter-oceanic canal has unanimously voted to report to tho House resoln im3 reaffirming the Monroe doctrine, and declaring that the United States must control any crnal that may be cut through the American isthmus. Speaker Randall has expressed the opinion that Congress will adjourn by the 15th of Mav.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The war between tho Union and Central l’acific railroads and the Pacific Mail S’eamsliip Company lias been ended by tlie railroads agreeing to pay the steamship company $ 110,000 a mouth for the privilege of fixing California freight and passenger rates. The United States Supreme Court has rendered several decisions iu cases involving tbe question of tixing national-bank stock at a greater rate of valuation and assessment than is applied to other taxable property. The court holds that such overassessineut is in violation of the act of Congress proscribing the rate by which national-baDk shares shall be taxed, and that a court of equity will enjoin the collection of any tax iu excess of that which such shares should pay under this lule. .Edison is at work on a machine intended to obtain gold from ore already used by miners. Gold bullion to the value of $45,000,COO has accumulated in the New York Assay Office, and Congress lias been asked for an appropriation of $25,000, to bo used in paying the charges for transportation to the Philadelphia mint. A very dangerous counterfeit of a flOOfnote on the Pittsburgh National Bank of Commerce, Pittsburgh, Pa., is in circn’.aion.J Burned: The grain elevator of Hunger, Markell & Co., Duluth, Minn., together with 170,000 bushels of grain, loss estimated at $175,000; five buildings at Petrolia, Pa., loss $25,000; a large budding on Beak street, Buffalo, N. Y., loss $90,000; a porlion of the Danforth locomotive and machine works, Paterson, N. J., loss $200,000; a business block in Woodstock, 111., loss $50,000; the large wholesale dry-goods estab_ lishmont of Auerbach, Finch, Culbertson & Co;, St. Paul, Minn., loss upward of $500,000. Dangerous counterfeit SIOO bills on Boston, Pittsfield, New Bedford, Wilkesbarre, and Pittsburgh banks are in circulation.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. On the assembling of the Senate, March 1, Mr. Jones introduced a bill for removing the obstructions in Bed river. A resolution for information upon “Star” postofflee routes was passed. A message from the President in regard to certain old Spanish claims in Florida was read. Senator Anthony introduced a bill pensioning public officers after fifty years’ service. Mr. Hoar made a speech upon the Alabama claims. Mr. Randolph and Mr. Logan spoke pro and con upon the Fitz John Porter Relief bill. The President nominated James B. Butler, of New York, to be United States Attorney for Idaho, and the following Supervisors of Census: William H. McDowell, Third District

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of Ohio: MosesM. Hobart, Sixth District of Ohio; J. A. Newton. First District of Tennessee; and Spencer Smith, Third District of 10wa... .In the House, the following bills were introduced: By Mr. Chittenden, making the duties on carpeting and carpet-rags 50 per cent, ad valorem; by Mr. Aiken. to encourage the cultivation of the tea-plant; by Mr. Waldron, repealing all acts gran iDg lands in the Indian Territory to railroads, conditioned on the extinguishment of the Indian titles; by Mr. Ellis, extending for ten years the time for the completion of the Texas Pacific railroad; by Mr. Converse, for the survey and disposal of public lands; by Mr. O. Turner, abolishing all tariff duties on printingtype, trace-chains and agricultural implements; by Mr. Atkins, placin<r wood and straw pulp and chemicals used in the manufacture of paper on the free list; by Mr. Townsliend (111.), placing printing type and paper on the free list: by Mr *ldrich, amending the internal-revenue laws: by Mr. Clarr, for the erection, in Washington, of a monument to Gen. G. A. Custer and the officers and privates of the Seventh cavalry, who wire killed In the battle of the Little Big Horn: by Mr. Culberson, prescribing six years from the time action is approved as t e time within which claims in favor of or against the Government shall be prosecuted; by Mr Page, admitting steam-plow machinery free of duty: by Mr. Berry, repealing the duty on grain bags and gunny cloth; by Messrs. McMillan and. #ickev, placing prinling-paper on the free list; by Mr. Lowe, to abolish tie tax on brandy made of apples, peaches, and other fruits; also to return the cotton-tax collected under the acts of Congress which have sluce been declared illegal and void: also, to repeal the tax on tobacco in the hands of the producer: also, to reduce the tax on distiHed spirits to 21) cents ppr gallon. Bv Mr. Hutchinson, to reorganize tlie militia of the United States. Night session* wero ordered for March 3 and 10 to consider pension bills. The bill for tlie purchase cf a site for a postoffice at Baltimore was passed. Mr. Hoar introduced a resolution in the Senate on the 2d inst. instructing the Committee on Judiciary to inquire whether any person has been arrested and imprisoned for petitioning the Senate iu regard to a seat in that body. The resolution was adopted. It is evidently aimed at the Louisiana case. The Senate passed the House biil appropriating $550,( 00 for the purchase of a site for a postoffice and other Government buildings in Baltimore. Mr. Logan occupied the entire day after the morning hour with a set speech upon the Fitz John Porter case, his remarks being unfinished at the adjournment. The President withdrew the nomination of Mr. Pinchback for Naval Officer at New Orleans.... In the House, tho morning hour was dispensed with, and the report ot the C mmittee on Revision of the ltule.s was presented from committee of the whole, with amendments, and, after several yea-and-nay votes, was adopted, and the new code was ordered to go into effect next Monday. A communication was received from the Secretary of War to the Senate, on the 3d inst., giving the number, age, rank, elc., of officers retired from the army since the act of June 13. IS7B. Mr. Thurman, from the Judiciary committee, rejjorted adversely on the Bouse hill for removal of political disabilities of individuals. A House bill was passed giving a drawback of tariff upon certain machinery, and canned goods exported whore the cans are made of foreign material to the amouir of 70 per cent., and the machines to the amount of one-half. Bills were Introduced: By Mr. Vest, for the ( rection of a public building at Hannibal, Mo.; by Mr. Jonas, fc-r the relief of M- s. Betty Taylor a,d Mrs. Knox Wood, daughter and granddaughter of Zachary Taylor. Mr. Carpenter submitted a resolution instructing the Commit <e on t: e Judiciary to inquire whether Congress has the right to make the Indian territory a separate judicial district, and to organize a court or conns therein, and if so, what jurisdiction ought to be conferred upon said c urts an l to report b. bill or otherwise, 'the bill fertile i\ lief of certain actual seitlcis on the Kama. I rust and Diminished Revenue lands in Kansas pass! d. The bill restoring to the public domain part of tlie Fort Kipley (Minn.) milita-y reseivation passe*. Mr. Logan spoil c the whole, day, alter the morning hour, upon the Pitz John Porter case, and had not concluded his remarks at adjournment. The President nominated Charles A. Galloway to be Collector of Internal Revenue of the Third district of Wisconsin.... In the Hons -, the morning hour was consumed in discussion of the bill regulating the removal of causes from State to Federal Courts, ihe morning hour expired without final action on the bill; and the Senate resolutions relative to tlie late Senator Houston, of Alabama, were taken up. Eulogies were pronounced by Messrs. Wright, Fernando Wood, Cox, Forney, Lowe. Williams. Herbert, Herndon, Lewis, -amford, Shelley, House, Atkins and Harris. The House then, as a mark of respect, adjourned. Bills were introduced in the Senate on the 4th inst. as follows: By Mr. Llair. to provide for the payment of pensions to widows and minor children upon the death of pensioners totally disabled from-wounds in service; by Mr. Harris, to make the crime of rape punishable with death; by Mr. Morgan, a joint resolution declaring Indians citizens of the States and Territories in which they reside. The Appropriation Committee report! d a bill for sundry c.vil «xper.scs of the Government. The Senate took lip and passed ih - House bill making additional appropriations of $135.00(1 for the support of certain Ind an tribes for the year ending June 30, 1880. The morning hour having expired. Mr. Logan continued his remarks upon the F.tz John Porter ease, not reaching a conclusion at adjournment. The Sen it reject d the nomination of John McNeil, ot St. Louis, as United states Marshal for the Eastern Be trie) of Missouri.... In ihe House. tbo bill regulating removals from State to Federal courts was passed, alter discussiou and amendment Mr. Gillette introduced a bill to provide lor the payment of ihe public debt, to l»e used as a substitute for Mr. Wood’s Funding bill, and it was ordered jnin oil. Mr. AikPii offered n bill making the Agr, cultural Department an independent branch of the Gow raiment. Mr. Wood addressed tlie House, in committee of the whole, upan his Funding bill.

In tho United States Senate, March 5, Mr. Garfield introduced a joint resolution extending until April 15 the time allowed the Secretary of the Interior to instruct the United States Land Office at Little Rock in relation to the Hot Springs reservation. The bilFrelieving Pay-Director Charles W. Abbott from liability for the defalcation of his subordinates passed. Mr. Baldwin, from the Committee on Commerce, reported adversely on the House bill to amend the statutes relative to the importation of neat cattle, and it was indefinitely postponed. Mr. Logan, after the morning hour, completed his long speech upon the Fitz John Porter bill. Mr. Carpenter then obtain!d iho floor, and tlie Senate adjourn d....1n the House, Mr. Rfagan reported a resolution calling on the Secretary of War for information relative lo the condition of the harbor of Grand Haven. Mich. Mr. Hendercon reported a resolution calling on the Secretary of War for information as to the improvement of the Rock Island ranids of tho Mississippi river. These resolutions viere adopted. Lills were introduced and referred as follows: By Mr. Ellis, to pirnish with death the crime of rape in tho District of Columbia; by Mr. Carlisle, fixing the duties on sugar. The House Appropriations Committee reported a Deficiency bill, aiuoi g the items provided for are public printing, $400,000; life-saving service, $5,000: mail-route messengers, $10,000; daily postal-car clerks, $15,000; route agen’S, $5,000; Chicago public building, SIOO 000. Mr. De La Matyr offered a resolution, which was adopted, directing the Census Committee to inquire into the advisability of taking the census in Alaska. Owing to the absence of a quorum, very little business was transacted, and the House adjourned till Monday. Tlie Vico President laid before the Senate, on the morning of the 6th inst., a letter from the Commissioner of Pensions submitting a revised o timate of the deficiencies for the ai my and navy pensions for the fiscal year ending June 30 next. Mr. Teller introduced a bill to enable town sites to be entered on public lands Some bil’s of a personal nature being disposed of. the bill to amend section 2,447, Revised Statutes, in relation to the issue of patents for private land claims confirmed by act of Congress.was passed. Mr. Carpenter occupied the remainder of tlie day upon Fitz John Porter’s case, speaking in opposition to the bill.

Important Supreme Court Decisions.

The celebrated political cases pending for some time in the Supreme Court of the United States have at last been decided In the case of the West Virginia negro who was convicted of murder, tbe laws of tbe State prohibiting the presence of colored men on juries, his trial"and conviction were pronounced illegal, as, und< r the circumstances, be was, by tlie exclusion of his own race from the jury, denied the equal protection of the Jaw guaranteed by the Fourteenth amendment. In the Virginia case, where a negro murderer had been tried by a jury composed entirely of white men, tlie State laws containing no prohibition on colored citizens from so serving, the action of Judge R ves. of tlie Federal bench, in removing the ease to his court for trial, was pronounced wrong. In the case of the State Judge, who presided in tho last-men-tioned trial, who was arraigned for persistently excluding colored men from juries, tho law not requiring it, it was held that tbe complaints against him weie well founded. In tho case of Davis, a Deputy Collector in a Tennessee district, who, while on a raid, killed a moonshiner, and was indicted for murder in a State court, it was decided that the killing was done by him as an officer of the united Stales in the discharge of his duly, and that, if the provocation had not been sufficient, ho would have been amenable to Federal, and not Slate, law.

UDGE BLACK ON THE THIRD TERM.

The Argument ot a Statesman and Patriot. fFrom the North America i Review.] Resolved, That in the opinion of this House the precedent established by Washington and other Presidents of tlie United States, in retiri g from the Presidential office after their second term, has become, by universal consent, a part of our republican system of government, and that any departure from this time-lionored custom would be unwise, unpatriotic, and fraught with peril to our free institutions. This is a resolution passed by the House of Representatives on the 15th day of December, 1875. It was offered by Mr. Spriuger, of Illinois, after consultation with leading friends of the principle, and was carried immediately and almost unanimously, being opposed by the votes of only eighteen members out of 251. It received the support and approbation of all parties. Men who quarreled bitterly upon all other political subjects were of one heart and one mind, when it came to be a question whether the custom established by Washington and other Presidents of retiring after their seoond term ought to be respected or could be safely departed from. And now here, to wit, in the pages of this Review, comes Mr. Howe, of Wisconsin, and on the part of Gen. Grant, for whom lie appears, denounces the resolution aforesaid, imrugns the doctrine embodied in it, and assails the integrity of its supporters in the most viol nt minner. I am asked, “ Under which King, Bc-zoniau?” Do I give in my concurrence? If not, what grounds of opposition can I presume to stand on? Believing in the it solution of the Representatives, and dissenting from Mr. Howe’s article, the readers of the Review shall have the why and the wherefore; not because my individual opinions are worth a rush, but because, on a subject so important, truth is entitled to every man’s defence: because this faith is shared, in our time, by tho most respectable citizens of all classes, and because it is delivered to us from a past generation strongly stamped with tho approbation of the best men that have lived in ail the Bges. A President of tho United Stales may legally be elected and re-elseted for an indefinite number cf terms: there is nothing in the constitution to forbid it; but tho two-term precedent Bit by Washington, followed by his successors, consecrated by lime, and approve I by all the public men of the country, ripened into a rule as efficient in its operation as if it bad been a part of the organic law. A distinguished and very able Senator of the Grant party, who carefully inquired into the state of popular feeling, tola me in 1875 that the sentiment which opposed a third term was stronger than a consiiiutional interdict; the people would more roidiiy assent to a breach of positive law' textually inserted into the constitution than to any disturbance of an unwritten rule which they regarded as sacred. Certainly it was adhered to by all parties, with a fidelity which some of them did not show to the constitution itself, down to 1875, wriier. the first attempt was made to contravene it by putting,up Gen. Grant for a third eleclion. This was everywhere received by the rank and file with mutterings of mutiny, and the "met devoted partisans responded with curses which if not lend wero deep! Tho movement, as Mr. Howe tells u*, was met by solemn warnings from tho newspaper press, by strong protests fron political conventions, and finally by the resold ion quoted at the head of this article, which was a rebuke so overwhelming that the supporters of the third-term candidate lied, from h m in fear, deserted him utterly, ana left him without a single vote in the nominating convention of his own party. Mr. Howe Las no doubt that this resolution was the sole cause of Grant’s defeat in 1870. He is equally certain that it was all wrong. However that may bo, the present intent of Mr. Howe is to rally the routed third-termers and restore the courage of the recreants by the as surancos that the jobs and offices are safe, after all. Popular veneration for tho men who built up our institutions is the strongest support for the institutions themselves. It is not only a great good intrinsically, but also the motive principle to other virtues which are indispensable in a Government like ours. Anything, therefore, which unjustly detracts from their reputation is a grievous public injury. This applies most especially to Washington, who is acknowledged, noc only by us, but by every nation, tongue and kindred under heaven, to have been incomparably the greatest man that any country ever produced. Au indecent criticism upou him shocks and shames us like blasphemy. Noverthcdess, we would not abridge the liberty of speech. A raging third-termer has as good a right to sneer at the Father of his Country as an independent Hottentot has to b j, .-r hj’g mother. Jefferson also comes under review. His precedent, whether good or evil, is at least “to the purpose.” In letiers addressed to the Legislatures of Vermont, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, dated on tho lOcli of December, 1807, and printed in the A urora, at Philadelphia, on tlie 19 li of the same mouth, he solemnly and publicly announced to the country that lie would not disregard tlie precedent of his illustrious predecessor by accepting another election. His reasons are brief, simple and clear, like all the productioosof that master hand, and expressed iu language so transparently truthful and dignified that no man of rightly constituted mind can read the paper without being stirred by too strongest emotions of respect and admiration for its author. It compresses into a few' sentences all that needs to lie said in favor of the two-term limitation, and is at tlie same time a perfect answer to all objections. Mr. Howe is fair enough to take a passage from it and incorporate it with Ins article; it shines there like a piece of solid gold set in a shapeless mass of lead. In these times, when the subject is up for renewed consideration, this letter should be read again and again; every citizen ought to have it by heart and teach it to his children, write it on tho lintels of his door, bind it as a froutlet between his eyes, and make it the subject of his meditation day and night. Dec. 10,1807. To the Legislature of Vermont: I received in clue season tlio address of the Legislature of Vermont, bearing date tlie stli of November, 1806,‘in which, with’heir approbation of the general course ot my a ministration, they wero to good as to express their desire that I would consent to be proposed again to tho iiublic voice on the expiration of my present term of office. Entertaining as I do for tie Legislature of Vermont those sentiments of high respect which would have prompted an immediate answer, I was certain, nevertheless, they would approve a delay which had for its object to avoid a premature agiiatiou of the.public mind on a subject so’ inleresting as the election of a Chief Magistrate. That I should lay down my charge at a propel period is as much a duty as to have borne it faithfully. If some termination to the services of a Chief Magistrate be not fixed liy the constitution, or supplied by practice, his office, nominally for years, will in fact become for life; and history show's how easily that degenerates into an inherit ance. Believing that a representative government responsible at short periods of election is lliat which produces the greatest sum of happiness lo mankind. I feel it a duty to do uo act which shall essemially impair that principle; and I should unwillingly be tho person who, disregarding the soundurecedent set by an illustrious predecessor, should furnish the first example of xirolongation beyond the second term of office. Truth also requires me to add that I am sensible of that decline which advancing years bring on, and, feeling their physical, I ought not to doubt their mental, effect. Happy if I am the first to perceive and to obey this admonition cf nature, and to solicit a retreat from cares too great for the wearied faculties of age. * For the approbation which the Legislature of Vermont has been pleased to express of the principles and measure s pursued in the management of their affairs, I am sincerely thankful; and, should I he so fortunate as to carry into retirement the equal approbation and good will of my fellowcitizens generally, it will he the comfort of my future days, and will close a service of forty years with the only reward it ever wished. Similar expressions are scattered all through bis correspondence as long as he remained iu office, and after he retired to Monlicello lie continued to repeat them. His conviction deepened, as the years rolled on, that the principle of two terms was the only safe one, and he constantly expressed his gratitude for tne universal approval of his conduct in adopting it. But Madison also adopted the principle of his two predecessors, and retired at the end of his second term. Can nothing be urged ■against the father of the constitution to depreciate his authority or make his example worthless ? Was not he also unpatriotic and selfishly fond of his farm? This could be as easily said, and is not harder to believe, of him than of Washington. And there was Monroe, apparently so clear m his great office “that rivalry itself shrunk from his presence, and he was elected a second time without effort, without opposition, without ore vote against him. Is it nothing to the purpose that he acknowledged the value of the Washington precedent? Concede that he, the most popular of all Presidents, except the first one, could not have got a third term if he had asked for it, then his retirement proves not only that the two-term practice was right in his individual opinion, but that the general judgment of the nation was in its favor.

Jackson doe 3 not get oft easily. We are told that “there is ground for believing that, if Mr. Van Buren had not secured the succession to Gen. Jackson, the latter would have been retained for another term.” This is like the account we have of Jefferson’s boom. If there was any practice of Jackson’s great predecessors in which he acquiesced with more deference than another, it was their voluntary retirement after a proper period of service. He was wholly opposed to ttie indefinite continuance of power in the 8. me hand, and he expressed his opinions on that, as on other subjects, with an emphasis which left no chance for misapprehension. The ground for believing that “in a certain contingency he would have been retained another term” is not anything he ever did or forebore to do—nothing tliatTie ever wrote or spoke—nothing that ever was authorized by him or by the party which supported him, or by any representative of either. Such is the outcome of Mr. Howe’s assault upon the line of our great retiring Presidents, from Washington to Jackson inclusive It must be admitted that, if the predetermined object of theattack was to make himself ridiculous, it is a marked success; but, if it was an effort in real earnest to diminish their fame, lower their standing, or shake the confidence of the country in their virtue, then it is the flattest failure in his essay—and that is saying a great deal. I think it may be affirmed with some confidence that Washington was not unworthy of the profound veneration in wliich he is held in this country and throughout the world; fliat succeeding Presidents, when they followed his footsteps, not only acknowle Iged his wisdom and patriotism but showed tlitir own; that the American people of our day, when they refused a third term to a candidate who had alic&dy served for two, were not behaving like cowards scared by a senseless clamor, but doing what a prudent regard for their true interests required; that when the House of Repreeentatives, in obedience to the universal sentiment of its constituents, unanimously and without distinction of party, put upon its records aud published to the world its solemn declaration that the example of Washington must be adhered to in the future as in the past, tlio.v did not enact charlatanism or repeat a vociferation, or issue a straia/c fuhniuation, or impeach the constitution, or libel its framers, cr counterfeit history, or insult commou sense, but spoke what they at least believed to bo the words of truth "aud soberness. We are not to set up political dogmas or invoke a blind faith even in the founders of the Re üblic. The mere authority of names, however great, ought not to command our assent. But a fundamental doctrine, self-evi-dently true, though easy to defend, is the hardest of all things to support by affirmative argument. We cannot help but sympathize nidi tlie indignation of Pitt when lie thundered out lib refusal to look at books or listen to logic in defense of English liberty. In the matter before us, it should be plain to every “reasonable creature in esse” that long continuance of supreme executive power in one hand is not only perilous to free institutions, but perfectly certain to destroy them. Sonic fixed time there ought to be when tho people will not only have the right, but exercisj it, to displace their Chief Magistrate and take an - other. If they do not possess this right, they are political boDd servants by law; if, holding it, they forego tho use of it,’ they make themselves, quoad hoe, voluntary slaves, and they soon come to be governed in all things by the will of their superior. A lease for years, renewable and always renewed, gives the tenant an estate without end, and makes him lord of the fee. Where the Chief Magistrate is vested, as ours is, with great power 1 able to gross abuse, if there is no law or practice which forbids him to be re-elected, he can remain in office for life as easily as for a term. He has the appointment of ail officers, the making of all public conti a-.-te, and a veto upon all legislation, besides the cimmandof tlio army and navy. By an unscrupulous use of these means ho can coerce notonly his horde of immediate elependeuis, but ho can conti ol the coipjrations and become the mis* r of all the rings, put tho business of all classes under 1 isfo t, con tut tho venal, frighten tlie timid, and check all ambitions but his own. He can force the elections of every State he de sires t > can y 1 y the bayonets of bis arir-y. If that fails, he can order a false return, aiid pay for it, out of the public treasury. The people would soon perce,ve opposition to be useless and ae, ept the situation; elections would be as mere a matter of form as they were in Rome when such Consuls as Mere and Domi ian were e'ected regularly every jear under the supervision of the Pi astor an guards. If these wore no more than remote possibilities, piudence should guard against them. But they are near probabilities; the signs of the times warn ub that the peril to our institutions is imminent; tlie danger is already cn tlie wir.-g. It is vain to lemincl us that the President swears to pre B( rvo, protect and defend the constitution, and see the laws faithiully executed, This is true; and it is also true that, if there be uo perjuiy in the case, tlie constitution, laws and liberties of the country are safe. But the last twenty years have given us ample preof that ah oath"is not much r< strain! upon a President who is incited by ambition, rapacity or strong party feeling to break it. It is true that this presupposes a peop'e much degenera ed and a magistrate animated mainly by the vulgar love of power for its own sake; but exactly such a conjunction of things has always been feared with good reason, and hence comes the deVito to put every check on that tendency to “strong Government” which is Dow- mani'otting itself in many quarters. What is the icnied--? Bow shall we avert the dire calamities with which we are threatened V The answer comes from the graves of our fathers; By the frequent election of new men. Odit-r h=ip or hope for the salvation of free government there is none under heaven. If history does not teach this, we have readiall wrong. In the republics of ancient and modern times, tlie chief magistrate was intrusted wit i only temporary power, and always went out of office at the end of a short period, fixed and prescribed by law or custom. It was this, indeed, which made the substantial distinction between them and the monarchies around them. An unpunished transgression of the customary limitation was uniformly followed by destruction. Everywhere and always it was the fatal symptom of decay—the sure forerunner of rum. When Caesar refused to lay down bis Consulship, aa his predecessors had done, at the end of a year, and was re-elected time after time with the" acquiescence of the Senate and the people, all that was real in Reman freedom ceased to exist. Two republics in France were brought to an end in the same way. Napoleon began by being Consul for a term, then was elected for life, and finally became Emperor, with the powers of an absolute despot. Tho last Bonaparte was President for four years, was re-elected for ten, and ended, like bis uncle, in grasping the imperial crown. “ May this be washed in the Lethe and forgotten V” Shall these lessons be lost? Shall the lamp which guided our forefathers be extinguished? Shall the broad daylight of all human experience be closed up in a little dark lantern manufactured at Milwaukee? I think this cannot be done; “ the eternal verities ” are against it The most powerful third-termer may as well try to blow out the sun. as lie would a tallow candle, with the breath of his mouth. Moreover, the two-term principle ought to bo adhered to by us and by those who come after us (if there were no other reason), simply because it was the practice of those who went before us. It is to tho traditions of the fathers that we owe our civilization. Ido not expect anything I can gay to be received as a vindication of the two-term rule. Nor is it necessary. Alt the support it requires was long ago furnished by another, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worlhy to stoop down and unloose. Jefferson, the stainless citizen, the sterling patriot, ti.e unequaled statesman —at once the greatest apostle and truest prophet that freedom ever had—gave his judgment, not only at tho time he acted upon the rule, but expressed his convictions after they were strengthened by many years of later reflection. The practical object of Mr. Howe’s article is to make Gen. Grant President for another term. It is not for au abstraction that he denounces the two-term precedent and vilifies the Springer resolution. The rule might stand if Grant could be elected without breaking it down. But Mr. Howe thinks tnat the superiority of his candidate is so very great that all authorities which oppose him should be disregarded, and he supports this opinion by assertions so extravagant that wo only wonder how any man in his sober senses could have made them. A third term for Grant does not mean a third term only, but any number of terms that be chooses to demand. The imperial method of carrying all elections by corruption or force, or of declaring them to be carried when they are not, is to bo permanently substituted for the svstem of free popular choice The figure of Grant standing with the seal of primacy on the mountain top, 'and looking down on the inhabitants of the plain below, gives a measure of the elevation which his sycophants flatter him with the hope of attaining. They urge the necessity of a strong gov-

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people. On tho other hand, it is quite as sure that the false administration of a Government theoretically free, which acknowledges the rights ot the people and yet continually treads them under foot: which swears to save and perjuriously works to destroy; which receives and promises to execute a most sacred trust, according to tei ms prescribed with unmistakable clearness, and then dishonestly breaks the engagement—such a Government, so conducted, is an unspeakable curse. It is not only an oppression, but a most demoralizing cheat; a base imposture, more degrading to the nation which submits to it than the heaviest yoke that despotio tyranny can fasten on its neck. Iq therefore, a constitutional and legal administration of our national affairs be out of the - question our only choice lies between a perverted republic and a monarchy—then stop this hypocritical pretense of free government, and gi re us a King. Aud who shall be our royal master but Grant? That he will serve the turn as well as, if not better than, another, will, I think, bo admitted by all who attend to tho reasons now presently to be enumerated. In the first place, a new monarch (that is, one who has no hereditary claims) ought to be an approved good soldier, with skill to enforce obedience; otuerwise, his sway could not last long over people disposed to be turbulent All, or nearly all, the founders of royal lines have been military men, from Nimrod downward. It is vain to deny that Gen. Grant’s reputation tor military talent is well founded. It is more than doubtful if any officer of our army could have subjugated the South so completely, even with all Grant’s advantages, or taken so many defeats aud still won a complete victory in the end. It is not, however, what he has done, but what he has shown himself capable of doing, that gives him his leading qualification for masterdom now. The fear tnat goes before ernment almost in the very words used by the adherents of fassar and the two Napoleons. Strong government, in their sense, moans weak laws and a strong ruler; in oilier words, a substantial monarchy, powerful in its scorn of all legal restraints. A free democratic republican system of government honestly administered by agents of the people’s truo choice; a government such as ours was intended to be, with tlio power of the Federal Government, the rights of the Slates, and the liberties of the poople so harmoniously a> ljusted that each may check the excosses of the other—such a government, scrupulously administered within its constitutional limits, is, without doubt, the cli ficest blessing that God in His loving kindness ever vouchsafed to any him will make actual violence unnecessary. His strength of character will frighten his subject! into submission where a weaker man would be compelled to butcher them for insurrection.' Gen. Grant is a good hater of those who thwart him, which is natural, and not a serious fault; but he is not fiercely vindictive, and hiscareer has been marked by no act of savage cruelty. He could not be an Antonineor a Titus, but we eau trust him not to be a Nero. It may be objected that his moral behavior and mental acquirements do not bring him up to the mark wnich ought to be reached by the permanent ruler of a groat, intelligent, and highiy-crvilizsd nation; but in this respect he is as good as the average of sovereign Princes. The present reigning family in England has never had a male member who was his superior. For centuries past the potentates of continental Europe, with only a few exceptions, Lave had habits as coarse as his, and he is wholly free from some terrible vices to which many of them were addicted. It seems to me that lie will do well enough to “herd with vulgar Kings.” The nepotism from which our democratic faslcs revolt is virtue in a King. All monarchs are expected to look after their own families fiist, and all ha ve their m nions and favorites whom they fatten, spoil, and corrupt. Who among them has not given his protection to a worse set than Grant? The favor which Grant bestows upon corrupt rings is given for a purpose. As a candidate lie cannot bs elected, as President ho cannot sustain himself, without their support; but enthrone him and he can afford to dety them. What wo call tho greedieeis of Gen. Grant for tho wages of official iniquity would be entirely proper in the supreme ruler of an absolute Government. It is not bribery to buy the favor of a King with presents, and a King is not guilty of stealing when ho helps himself to public money without legal right. It looks to us like a terrible outrage for a President to have himself represented at a State election bv tho bayonets of liis standing army to install Governors that rvere rejected at the polls, to tumble the chosen Legislature of a free State out of its hall, to procure the fabrication of false returns and force them on the people. But Gen. Grant's lawlessness would bo lawful in a country governed by tlie moio will ol a personal sovereign. Where there is no law there can be no transgression. But, while Gen. Grant has some qualities which would make him a tolerable King, and none that would make him an unendurably bad one, bo is not at all the kind of person that is needed as President of the United States on the assumption that our system of Government is to bo continued, I think it is to be continued. UDliko Mr. O’Uonor, I believe that the struggle to get ic honestly administered is not hopeless. We are not yet reduced to tlie necessity of choosing between a republic wholly corrupt and a monarchy founded in pure force. Therefore I conclude with Jefferson that, if any man —Gen. Grant particularly—" consents to* he a candidate for a third election, I trust he will be rejected on this demonstration of ambitious views.”

REPUBLIC OR EMPIRE ?

A Letter from Mr. Tiltlen. 15 Gramebcy Park, ) New Yoek, Feb. 21,1560. f My Dear Sir: My engagements here will deny me the pleasure of being present at the dinner of the Democratic Association of Massachusetts on the anniversary of tlie birth of Washington. I need not say how much I should be delighted to meet tho company who will he assembled on that occasion. Nothing could he more fit at the present time than to commemorate that day. It was the Father of his Country, “ first in war, first in peace, and first in the hoarts of his countrymen,” who set the original example against a third term in the Presidential office, lie made tiiat momorablo precedent as a guide to all his successors, and as an unwritten law of the American people. He did so in tlie light of a prevalent fear in the minds of tho most ardent of the patriots who had achieved our national independence and created cur system of free Government, that indefinite re-eligibility would degenerate into practical life tenure. The vast newer acquired by the Federal Government over the elections by its officeholders, its patronage, tho money it levies, and its va‘rious forms of corrupt influence, have developed this daugor until it darkens the whole future of our country. In the choice between the republic and the empire, we must believe that trie people will bo true to their ancestry and to mankind. Tendering you assurances of my esteem, I

am respectfully yours,

SAMUEL J. TILDEN.

Henry Walker, Esq., Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Democratic Association of Massachusetts, Boston, Mass.

The Costliest of Furs.

The skin of mustela zibelina, known as the Russian sable, is the most expensive fur sold. The zebelina is of the weasel family, and is about the size of the German martsn. It takes four or five skins to make an ordinary muff. The best and darkest of these little animals are found in Russian Lapland, Yakootsk and Yenessi. Very few of these skms ever leave Russia, where they are almost monopolized by the imperial family and the nobility. A muff and boa of “crown” Russian sable will bring from S3OO to $550. The exclusive beauty of this fur is its rich colors, a deep brown and a jet black, with points of hair tipped with white; the hairs are so fixed in the skin that they can be brushed either way and will lie nicely. The Russian sable is never made up into garments in any country except China and Russia. This fur is too costly to be ranked as fashionable, in the general significance of the term fashion. Only the wealthy can afford to purchase such cosily raiment, and that article of dress pronounced fashionable must be within the reach of the majority of society dressers. Russian ■able is an exclusive fur. Jay Gould controls fourteen railways sod 5,000 miles of track in the West.

(P? §emacratii[ J JOB PRINTING OFFICE Nae bettor facilities than any office tn Northweaten Indiana for the execution of all branches of JOB PRINTING. PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. Anything, from a Dodger to a Prioe-List, or from a mnplilet to a Poster, black or colored, plain or fancy. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

INDIANA ITEMS.

George Inman, aged 63, fell dead while chopping wood near Bedford. The promising trotting mare, Kate Bennet. valued at SIO,OOO, is dead, at Rnshville. The recent death at Fort Wayne of Alexander Godfroy was followed on the following day by the death of his son James. Citizens of Knightstown make serious charges of cruelty against Mr. Ibach, Superintendent of the Homo for Feeble-Minded Children, near that city. A saloon-keeper at Vincennes came near losing his life by poisoD, which some one placed in a glass of seltzer which he was about to drink at his own bar. There are now hied in tho Governor’s office ninety petitions for pardons and remissions of fines and forfeitures Many of them date bael: for several years. The Baker bridge, near Crothersville, on the Jeffersonville, Madison aud Indianapolis railroad, which has caused the death of eighteen persons, has been burned. Indiana has one of the very largest school funds of any State in the nation, aud her public school system is in perfect trim, with its 13,000 teachers and 400,000 school children. An 8-months-old child of Mrs. Isaac Casten, of Clovcrdale, Putnam county, crawled under tho stove during the mother’s absence, and, getting wedged there, was roasted to death. A FORMERLY REPUTABLE citizCU ()f New Albany, but now a con firmed drunkard, hag been arrested for stealing chairs from one of the temperance organizations of the city which he sold to purchase whisky. Geo. Woods, who has already been tried twice for the murder of Millie Hobb, July 15, 1877, committed suicide in his ceil in jail, at Evansville, the other night. He left a letter saying .lie would not stand a third trial. The Governor has remitted a tine in an adultery case -a marriage following a Utah divorce. It is said that there are several more cases of the same kind —marriages consummated after the procurement of Beaver county (Utah) divorces— over the State. An old man named John Fella, who had resided alone in a small cabin in Spencer township, Harrison county, since his wife died a year ago, was found dead in his house, the other day, with the eyes guawed out and arms and face badly eaten by rats. Tiie Richmond street-railroad stables burned the other night. All the rolling stock of the company was destroyed. The stables and part of the cars had been built but a few weeks. They wore owned by J. F. Miller. The 10.-s is partly covered by insurance. A month ago Joseph Clevenger, of Rnshville,was bitten between the index and middle finger of liis right hand by a rat. Two weeks ago his hand aud arm bccagnc so much swollen and the pain so severe that the most powerful anodyne failed to quiet him. He got some better, but took a relapse, and is now likely to die. Miss Flora Gates, daughter of Albert Gates, a farmer living about four miles southeast of Mtincie, was fatally burned, her clothing catching fire while she was engaged in smoking meat in a smoke-house, near her father’s residence. A sister was also badly burned in attempting to extinguish the llames. Fred Selzer, a former barkeeper, of Evansville, more recently of liockporf, fired through a window of A. J. Hickman’s saloon at the barkeeper, who had put him out. Tlio barkeeper, seeing the movement, dodged behind the counter and escaped. Hickman went to the door, when Sc zer shot him through the head, killing him instantly. C imp bell Loveless, living near New Lisbon, stricken with palsy about two months ago, lias complained bitterly ever since of his misfortune, saying ho didn't sec why God Almighty didn't cause both tides to be paralyzed and kill him, and be done with it. Twenty days ago he declared liis iutention of starving himself to death, aud since that time he has refused to take any food or nourishment whatever. William M. Ruston and Oscar TI. Knox, two highly esteemed Evansville young men, went out livin'ing in the low land across the river. They did not return in the evening, as cxp< cted, aud search was instituted, but without success. Next morning another party renewed the search, and found t lie dead bodies of both in closo proximity to each other. The supposition is that, night overtaking them, they became lost, and perished from cold aud exhaustion.

How the Government Pays Its Pills.

A writer in one of the magazines says: A great part of the work in the Treasury Department is necessarily in the line of keeping accounts, and possesses little int rest to people who are not exceptionally fond of liguriug. The general principle which governs the whole system of auditing and settling accounts against the Government is to provide every safeguard against fraud, and this is so successfully accomplished that a dollar could not be got out of the treasury illegitimately without the collusion of so many persons that it may be set down as a pr cheat impossibility. Suppose a man has a bill against the Government. The head of the department or bureau to which the matter properly belongs makes a requisition for the amount upon the Secretary of the Treasury, using a prepared blank which asks him to cause a warrant for the amount in question to be issued in favor of the party, the same to be charged to the particular appropriation by Congress out of which the sum ought to come. But before the requisition reaches the Secretary it must pass under the eie of the proper Auditor and Comptroller and receive their countersign, the Auditor at the same time charging the amount to the account of tiie disbursing officer' in whose favor it is issued. If all goes well so far, the Secretary issues a war rant to the Treasurer, directing him to pay over the money, which he does by issuing a draft for the amount in favor of the Government’s creditor, but not until the warrant has been countersigned by the proper Comptroller and registered by the Register. Indeed, the draft itself must go to the Register ;for comparison and registry before it is passed over. There seems to be a good deal of red tape in all this process, but it is a sort of red tape that saves the country money in the long run.