Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1880 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NIWB. It is now stated that the Chilian bombardment of Callao caused a great deal of damage in that city, and that Lima is also threatened with destruction. The English officers of the Turkish police are threatened with dismissal or a reduction of 25 per cent, in their salaries. Mr. Bradlaugh, who is a professed atheist and an opponent of monarchical government in England, refuses to take the usual oaths preliminary to taking his seat in Parliament. The House of Commons has appointed a committee to decide whether a simple affirmation will do instead of an oath The bill extending the operation of the anti-Kocialist law until Sept. 30, 1884, has passed the German Iteichstag. The English Government will probably assist India in paying the expenses of the Afghan war ; so; at least, say < Mr. Fawcett. The inlubitants of Bitlis, in Asiatic Turkey, have arisen against the Governor of of that town in consequence of his inability to supply them with food. The striking mania has broken out in France. Thousands of factory operatives are on a strike for higher wages and less hours of labor. Many of the silk and cotton factories have been closed in Roubaix, Tonrcoing and Rouen, in consequence. Miss Marion Evans, the accomplished and famous English writer, known as “George Eliot,’’ is married to Mr. Cross, of London. Americans resident in Peru have formally protested against the unpardonable inhumanity with which the Chilians carry on their war. Their policy is one of general devastation, particularly aimed at the property of foreigners, and one of wanton barbarity toward noncombatants. The protesting Americans cal] on the United States todemand indemnity from the Chilian Government for the destruction of the property of the citizens of this country. The British Government has issued a circular note urging on the po vers the execution of the treaty of Berlin. The Turk who assaulted the Russian Col. Commeroff has been sentenced to death. Mount Etna is in a terrible state of eruption. The “Reds” of France purpose organizing a demonstration in honor of the Com rnunists who fell in May, 1871.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. A woman at Penn Yun, N. Y., insane over the inability of her husband to pay his debts, jumped into a cistern with her two children. The little ones were drowned, but she will recover. Exports from seaboard ports lust week: Flour, 110,911 barrels; wheat, 1,308.803 bushels ; corn, 1,931,647 bushels ; oats, 3,961 bushels ; rye, 29,416 bushels ; pork, 7,545 barrels ; lard. 7,841,048 pounds ; bacon, 17,551,799 pounds. Miss Ella, daughter of Gen. Sherman, was married a few days ago, to Lieut. Thackera, of the navy. Destructive fires were raging in the oil region in the neighborhood of Bradford, I’.i., on the 6th imt. The fire originated by an oil well which was being torpedoed overflowing and catching tiro. The tire spread rapidly, and six distinct tires, covering an extensive territory, were burning at once. The. tackle of 900 wells, consisting of engines, engine houses, boilers, tanks, belt houses, and derricks, was destroyed. Each tank contained about 250 gallons of oil, and most of them were full nt the time. Rew City, a village of some 500 inhabitants, in the oil re gion, was entirely destroyed, and two women and five children were burned to death. 'l'he towns of Colville and Rod Rock, in the oil regions, wore burning. The woods in the country around caught fire, and the whole region was one mass of blended tiameand smoke. A.liout $1,500,000 worth of property had been entirely destroyed, and thousands of men were thrown out of employment and rendered homeless. Large fires are reported from Olevelandand Boston, the blaze in the former place damaging a large-four-story brick building, in which were a number of printing and lithographing establishments, while two clothing firms lost $375,000 in the latter tire. Mr. KcKelvey, the chief officer of the Reformatory at Elmira, N. Y., was trying to punish a refractory convict named Symonds, who resisted, and, turning upon the officer, inflicted several wounds on him in the region of the stomach, from the effects of which he died in a very short time. Forest fires have again broken out in Now Jersey, in the neighborhood of Waretown. The other night the tire swept through a wood, destroying a, residence, and live small yachts which were at anchor in Oyster bay. An explosion of sulphur in a colliery near Shamokin, l’a., fatally burned five persons. Two men were killed in a mine near Whitehall, N. Y., last week, by the falling of a pillared ofe. Several others were injured.

"West. Incendiary fires broke out at Omaha Sunday night, for the fourth time. The people of that city are seriously alarmed, and are anxious to flud out the incendiaries. Indian outrages in New Mexico are reported almost daily. Thirteen herders have been killed in the Mogulan mountains, and 100,000 head of sheep have been stampeded. A messenger who arrived in Silver City brought particulars of a desperate battle between ranchmen and savages in the mountains, in which several casualties occurred on both sides. A dispatch from Salt Lake states that six daughters of Brigham Young have been excommunicated from the Mormon Church, the specifications against them being for prosecuting a suit charging the authorities of the church with defrauding the heirs of the late President Young out of $1,000,000, and for causing the imprisonment in the penitentiary of the executors, and jeopardizing the liberty of John Taylor, President of the church. T,he Sail Francisco Board of Supervisors has instituted proceedings looking to the impeachment of Mayor Kalloch. Victoria’s baud of Apaches seem to have taken to the war-path in real earnest. Last week they killed thirteen herders near the Moyellan mountains, N. M., slaughtered several miners in the same Territory, and attacked a fanning settlement on the Frisco river, but were driven off. At Astor City, near Leadville, Chris Bibb and William Spittstozer fatally shot er,ch other while quarreling over a mining claim. Judge Cooley, of Michigan, decides that Christmas is a legal holiday. While returning to shore after having set their nets a fleet of fishing-boats was overtaken by a squall, and some twenty of them

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were blown upon a sand-bar off the coast of Oregon and many were swamped. Twelve fishermen are known to have been drowned, and some others are missing. Justice Dangerfield, of the San Francisco Superior Court, dropped dead on tho bench, the other day, of heart disease. The explosion of a copper still at St. Louis set tire to the building in which it was situated. One of the employes was burned to death and another is missing. Heavy forest fires are reported to be raging in the lumber region in the vicinity of Farwell, Mich. The revenue cutter Tom Corwin, appointed to go to the relief of the Acctic-bonud whalers and the missing Jeannette, has been sheeted with inch oak and provided wit i ice breakers of boiler iron from her bow to ninety feet aft. ('apt. Hooker expects to re; ch Behring Straits from San Francisco by tho 15th of June, and when the ice breaks he will get into the Arctic as early an possible thereafter. Where he may afterward go depends upon the information he may gather from the natives. The Corwin takes one year’s provisions. Victoria’s band of Indians arc reported to have killed twenty families near Rock Creek canon, Arizona. At latest accounts Victoria, at the bead of ninety warriors, was trying to make good ips retreat to the San Carlos reservation. Lieut. Kramer and about fifty cavalrymen were in jmrsuit. Twenty-five fishermen, not twelve as at first reported, were drowned off the mouth of the Columbia river, Oregon, during the recent heavy squall. Base-ball, our national guide, is at- J trading more attention this year than ever, and | the contest for the League championship, which h is now fairly commenced, promises to be close ! and interesting. The result up to Saturday, i May 8, was as follows : /.'m/ir.x (Jtt'UlCx I H’o/l. Lunt. I Worcester I t j, Chicago :• : Cleveland 3 2 I Providence 3 ■ Boston 2 3 Buffalo 2 ■ Troy 3 Cincinnati I 3 ; Games are due in Chicago with tile Cincinnati | Club on May 10 and 11, with the Buffalo Club on the 13th, 14th and 15th, and with the Clove- 1 lands on the 18th, 20th and 22d. I v SouthNew Orleans officials have sent out another card to the public, denying that yellow fever prevails in that city. Great damage is being done to the to- , bncco crop in Virginia by a lly known as the to- i bncco fly. The farmers are greatly discouraged i at the prospect, and many are sowing peas and corn in the ground intended for tobacco. There was a Good Templars’ picnic near Raleigh, N. C., one day last week. Two young men and a young lady went boat-riding. The boat capsized, and the young men were drowned. The lady was saved by a boy. A North Carolina woman placed some poisoned bread iu a chest for the exclusive ben- * efit of her hungry step-son, but two of her own children found it, and, eating freely, died soon after. She is now in prison.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The House Committee on Postoffices and Post-roads has agreed to report favorably the bill providing for a double postal-card. W. 11. Doolittle, Assistant Commissioner of Patents, has tendered his resignation, to take effect May 31. Tin' House Committee on Indian Affairs agreed to recommend the jmssage, by the House, of a bill to transfer the Indian Bureau from the Interior to the War Deportment, with an amendment, that the transfer shall be made July 1, 1881, instead of 1880, as originally provided.

The Cabinet has ordered that the two Mexican soldiers who, in. pursuit of a deserter, crossed into Texas and accidentally shot a woman, be released from arrest, as there was no intentional violation of law.

There is a movement on foot in the Senate, started by Voorhees, to establish a National Library at Washington. Vice President Wheeler has left Washington, intending to remain absent during the rest of the session of Congress. Mr. Thurman will act as President of the Senate, the remainder of the session.

Secretary Sherman has issued a circular notifying the treasury officials that the appropriations for light, and fuel, and water for. the public buildings will be exhausted about the 12th of May, and that, as the law forbids any official from entering into any contract for which there is not money in the treasury, the gas companies and coal venders must be notified accordingly.

J. Dehergermann Lindencrane, the Danish representative at Washington, has been transferred to Home. POLITICAL POINTS. The following railroad companies will carry passengers to and from Chicago during the time of the Republican National Convention, the first week in June, for 2 cents per mile each way : The Chicago and Alton, the' Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Chicago and Northwestern, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, and Illinois Central, and the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific.

Several State conventions were held on Wednesday, May 5, which are reported to have selected delegates to the national conventions of the parties as follows: Mr. Washbumesecured nine of the delegates appointed by the Wisconsin Republican Convention ; Mr. Blaine, seven ; Mr. Sherman, three, and Mr. Grant, one. The Blaine men asked for three-fourths of the delegation to Chicago, and endeavored to force the convention to do as they wished, but a combination by the friends of the other candidates resulted in the defeat of the Senator from Maine.—The delegates to Cincinnati appointed by the New Hampshire Democratic Convention are not communicative, but will probably support Tilden. They were instructed to uphold the two-thirds rule.—The Mississippi Republicans commenced their convention on the sth inst., and, from a test vote upon the election of Chairman, it was shown that a coalition Of the Sherman and Blaine delegates were in a majority over the Grant men.—The North Carolina Greenback Convention met at Greensburg, and appointed uninstructed delegates to Chicago.—A test vote on the selection of a permanent Chairman in the Tennessee Republican Convention showed the Grant men to have a majority of ten. The meeting adjourned till next day. William H. Young, a colored man, was temporary Chairman of the convention.

Nine political Conventions were held on the 6th inst., the result in each being as follows: An anti-third-term meeting -was held in St. Louis, which, in point of attendance, was rather a failure. Forcible speeches were made by Mr. Hubbard, a member of the instructed delegation from Kentucky ; Bluford Wilson, of Illinois, and Gen. John B. Henderson, of Missouri. They assailed Gen. Grant’s administrations with a bitterness never sur-

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passed by Democratic orators. Probably the most interesting feature of the proceedings was the reading of the letters which had been received from many prominent men in all parts of the country. After the adoption of a series of resolutions, a committee of thirteen was appointed to select a committee of 100, who are instructed, in case Grant is nominated at Chicago, to call a National Convention to meet at New York for the purpose of placing a third candidate in the field.—The Ohio Democrats transacted their business harmoniously. Mr. Thurman’s name was greeted with tumultuous applause every time it was mentioned, and the delegates to Cincinnati were unanimously instructed to support him for President. The

two-thirds rule and the unit rule were indorsed. The 20th day of July was fixed as the day and Cleveland as the place for holding the convention to nominate a State ticket.—The Delaware Gmenbackc.is held a convention and appointed delegates to Chicago.—ln New Hampshire, the Republicans were united in iheir preference for Blaine, and the unit rule was ordered. —The New Jersey Convention declared itself in favor of the Chicago nominee, but tho delegates arc understood to be for Jlaino. The unit, rule was demanded, and delegate requ.es ted to’vote for a change in the basis of core notation in future National Reiibliean Conventions, which would give ates a, representation there in proportion ’ , iq-'u- Republican vote.—There was a long dg t in T nnessee, resulting in tho division of toe iicieg lion, Grant securing eighteen delegates, the remaining six going principally to Blaine. After six ballots all the names were

ithdr wn but that of Oliver 8. Hawkins, of 'kirroli, who was then nominated for Governor by acclamiitioii. The delegates to the Chicago < 'oir.ention v.ere requested to recommend for mm ination for Vico President of the United Slates the Hon. Horace Maynard.—The Dela- '■ are Republicans instructed their delegates to . ote as they please, having a due regard to the 1 ntercsts of the party and the wishes of Republican States. Mississippi’s delegation is not in<l reeled, but is divided equally between Grant, Siiernmn and Blaine.—The Republicans of ?.l. ryland instructed for Blaine. The majority of the special committee on counting the electoral vote have determined on a plan which they will soon present in both houses. The proposed rule will be offered'as a concurrent resolution, that the signature of the President may not be needed, and its acceptance and passage will deprive the Vice President of any power over the counting of the vote, making him .the mere mouthpiece of the two houses, who will, by the rule, be clothed with full power to reject electoral votes, if so disposed. It is now stated that a majority of the Maryland delegation to the Chicago Republican Convention is for Grant, notwithstanding the instructions of the convention. An exciting episode in political matters occurred in the New York Senate the other day, when Senator Woodin, delegate to the Chicago Convention, read a written speech, in which he opposed the unit rule and declared for Blaine. Senators Sessions and Birdsall followed the lead of Woodin. The Blaine men are jubilant over this defection in New York State.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The Grand Lodge Royal Arcanum, ■which had been in session at Detroit for several days, concluded its business by the election of A. E. Keyes, of Ohio, as Regent, and W. O. Robeson, of Massachusetts, Secretary. The next session will be held at Cincinnati. Delegates were present from nearly every State in the Union. The old feud between the French and Irish dock laborers at Quebec broke out again the other day, in a riot of some magnitude. Revolvers were used freely, and six or seven men were shot, two fatally. Many others on , both Hides received painful wounds from bricks* stones, spikes and shovels. Grain in sight in the States and Canada : Wheat, 21,495,000 bushels; corn, 12,748,000 bushels ; oats, 1.910,000 bushels ; rye, 495,000 bushels ; barley, 1,293,000 bushels. i The Western Iron Association, in sesi sion at Pittsburgh, has made another material reduction in prices of bar iron. i Hon. George Brown, editor of the Toronto GZobe, who was shot a few weeks ago j by a discharged employe, is dead. I Richard Tobin, a drunken brute, of Chicago, killed his daughter, aged 17 years, by i stamping on her; pounding her, and finally ' throwing a chair at her. He had previously put the whole family out-doors in the storm. Gen. Fisk has presented to the Meth- | odist General Conference, at Cincinnati, the report of the commission appointed to adjust the differences between the Northern and Southern branches of the chinch. The report set forth that all the differences had been amicably adjusted ; that harmony should be established, and the two churches should work together. The commission having ceded to the Southern church some church property, the report occasioned an exciting debate, but it was at last ratified.

DOINQS IN CONGRESS. A bill for the payment of about $500,000 to Ben Holladay for carrying the malls occupied the ■ morning hour of the Senate on Monday, May 3, bv.t was not disposed of. Messrs. Eaton, Davis and Windom were appointed a committee of conference , on the disagreeing vote of the two houses on the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill. Mr- i Ingalls introduced a bill to establish a uniform sys- ' tern of bankruptcy throughout the United State®. The Vice President laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of War asking an appropriation of $142,000 for clothing, camp and garrison equipage, etc., donated by act of Congress for the use of civilians. A large number of petitions in 'i favor of the Labor-Tariff Commission bill were pre i sented. Mr. Paddock presented a petition of eiti zens of Omaha for the estab ishment of a | branch mint at that place. A. bil | was introduced bv Mr. Williams to estab. i-li an ocean mail service between the United States and certain foreign ports and providing adequate compensation therefor. Mr. Vest obtain' d the floor to speak on the Kellogg resolutions, but yie’ded to Mr. Saunders, on whose motion the bill extending the northern boundary of Nebraska was taken up. and, after debate, recommitted. Mr. Vance then spoke upon the Kellogg matter. The President nominated Edward L. Johnson, of Denver, to be United States District Attorney for Colorado... .In the House, Mr. Orth was given unanimous consent to make a personal explanation to-morrow in regard to his connection with the claims against Venezue’a and the Congressional investigation of the Forty-fourth Congress in regard thereto. Bills were introduced : By Mr. Ellis, to establish Government postal telegraph service for the United States between Boston and Washington, intermediate postoftiees ; by Mr. King, a resolution calling for information in regard to the expulsion of the Israelites who were citizens of the United States from St. Petersburg, Russia; by Mr. Manning, a resolution declaring that the Secretary of the Interior had not transmitted certain information called for by the House relative to the Modoc, Pawnee, and other Indian tribes, and directing him to do so or state why he cannot; by Mr. Doggett, to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy. The Republicans demanded the read ing of each measure introduced, the impression being that their purpose was to prevent an anti-third-term resolution being offered after the call of State should have been concluded. The bill introduced by Mr. Doggett was a long printed bill. It was moved that the House adjourn, inasmuch as it was evident the whole day would be wasted. Agreed to.

A bill was introduced by Mr. Morgan in the Senate on the 3d inst., to provide that the President of the Senate shall submit to the Senate and House, when assembled to count the votes for President and

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Vice President, all packages purporting to contain electoral votes. The Honse bill to furnish four condemned cannon for the soldiers’ monument at Marietta, Ohio, passed. Also, the Senate resolution authorizing a loan of tents for the soldiers’ reunion at Wichita, Kan. Mr. Teller, from the Committee on Railroads, reported favorably on the bill authorizing the Wyoming. Montana, and Pacific Railroad Company to build its road across Fort Russell and Fort Laramie military reservations. Passed. Mr. Vest made a speech upon the Kellogg case. Messrs. Beck, Withers, and Allison were appointed confrerees on the disagreeing vote of the two houses on thq Indian Appropriation bill. The bill authorizing a claims convention with Nicaragua was again taken up, and the doors closed for its consideration. It was afterward passed. The Senate rejected the following nominations of Census Supervisors: John H. Littler, Second district, Ohio; John R. McFie, Eighth district, Illinois ; George S. Houghton, Third district, 10wa.... In the Honse, Mr Orth made a personal explanation in regard to his connection with the claims against the Government of Venezuela in 1874. Mr. Reagan, Chairman of the Committee on Commerce, reported the River and Harbor Appropriation bill. Ordered printed and recommitted. Mr. Weils, from the Conimitttee on Appropr ations, reported back the Indian Appropriation bill, with Senate amendments, with recommends tlon that some of the amendments be concurred in and some non-con-curred in. Report agreed to. The Speaker then laid l>efore the House the President’s message vetoing the Special Deficiency bill, and it was read. The veto message was referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and the bill laid on the Speaker’s table. The Carlisle Internal-revenue bill was passed. The House passed the remainder of flic day in committee of the whole on the Postoffice Appropriation bill.

Mr. Wallace, from the select committee to inquire into the alleged frauds in the late election, submitted a report of the result of the investigation on the subject of denial or abridgement of suffrage in Rhode Island, on the sth inst., and reported a bill to enforce the provisions of the amendments to the constitution of the United States. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported favorably the House bill for the relief of settlers, on public lands, and it passed. It j—jvides that when a pre-emption, homestead, or timber-culture claimant shall file a written relinquishment of his claim to the local land office, the land covered by said claim shall be open and subject to entry without further action by the Land Commissioner. Where any person has contested, paid the land fees, and procured the cancellation of any entry, he shall be notified by the Register of the Land Office of that district, and shall be allowed thirty days to enter the land. Any settler who 'lereafter proceeds to enter land under the Homedead laws shall be allowed the same time to perfect his original entry as is now slowed settlers under the Pre-emption laws, nd his right shall redate back to die date of settlement as if he settled under the Preniption laws. The bill authorizing the sale of Fort Logan, M. T., and to establish a new post on Mussel4ie;l river, M. T., was passed. On motion of Mr. yoorhees, the bill for a joint commission to arrange tor better accommodation for the Congressional Li>rary was taken up, to allow him to speak in its support. The Senate devoted the afternoon to the conideration of the bill making appropriations tor the expenses of the District of Columbia. I'he President nominated John W. Peebles, of 'lari n, Supervisor of the Census for the Eighth district of Illinois, and George 8. Houghton, of l abor, for the Third district of 10wa... .The House, by unanimous consent, passed a bill appropriating ?25'1,(HK) t > enable rhe Public Printer to continue his vork. 'the Senate resolution was concurred in for printing 3,(KM) copies of the report of the board to test iron and other metals. Some time Was spent in committee upon tho Post'office Appropriation bill. A bill was passed .'ranting the . lemphis and Vicksburg Railroad Company the right of way through the United States Cemetery tract of land near Vicksburg. Mr. Frost ottered a resolution for the appointment of a standing < I'liiinittee on the Mississippi river and its tributaries. '1 be Senate amendment to the House bill for the sa’e of Fort Logan and the establishment of a new fort on the frontier was concurred in. The House then took a recess, the evening session to be for the consideration of the District Code bill.

Senator Bayard introduced in the Senate, on Thursday, the 6th inst., a bill fixing the pay of election Deputy Marshals at $5 per each day’s actual service, and providing that these officers shall be appointed by United States courts and taken in equal numliers from the different political parties. These officers, according to the bill, are to be men of good moral character, well-known citizens, and actual residents of the voting precinct in which their duties are to bo performed. The Vice President was not present, and Mr. Thurman was chosen President pro tern. Mr. Hoar submitted a resolution instructing the Judiciary Committee to report a bill providing compensation for ail persons whose ships were destroyed by Confederate cruisers during the late Rebellion from moneys received under the Geneva award. Mr. Morgan submitted a resolution providing a rule for counting the electoral vote. Mr. Eaton, from the Copunittec on Appropriations, reported favorably on the bill appropriating $250,000 for public printing, and it was passed. Mr. McDonald introduced a bill for the erection of a public building at Fort Mayne, Ind. The morning hour having expired, the Senate resumed consideration of the District of Columbia Appropriation bill. After a long discussion it passed. The President nominated William B. Hyman to be Surveyor of Customs for New Orleans... .In the House, Mr. W ells submitted a conference report on the Indian Appropriation bill. Agreed to. The remainder of the day was passed in committee upon the Postofficc Appropriation bill.

The President pro tern, laid before the Senate the credentials of Senator Janies Garfield, on the morning of May 7, and they were placed on file. Mr. Voorhees .submitted a resolution instructing the Committee on Public Lands to inquire into the public policy of declaring all lands granted in aid of the construction of railroads, and which have not been earned by compliance with the terms of the grants, open to public entry and settlement. The conference report on the Indian Appropriation bill was taken up on motion of Mr. Beck, and, after a short debate, passed without a division. Mr. Teller presented the views of the minority of tho Wallace committee on the subject of political assessments. The Senate bill authorizing the St. Paul and Chicago Short Line Railway Company to bui'd a bridge across Lake St. Croix was taken up and passed, as was the bill to abolish the Harker (Nev.) military reservation and dispose of its land to actual settlers. The bill making an appropriation of $15,000 for the purchase of a site and the erection of a lighthouse and fog-signal at the entrance of Little Traverse harbor, Lake Michigan, was taken up and passed. Adjourned to Monday.

.... In the House, the Postoflice Appropriation bill was passed. The Senate amendment to the House bill for the relief of settlers on the public lauds was concurred in. A bill passed establishing a life-saving station at Louisville, Ky. Mr. Washburn introduced a bill appropriating $50(>,000 for the construction of reservoirs for the improvement of the navigation of the Mississippi river above St. Louis. The bill for the relief of L. Madison Day, of Louisiana, was defeated—yeas, 79; nays, 85—and the House went into committee on the private calendar. After considering ten pension bills, the committee, finding itself without a quorum, arose. About twenty pension bills passed, and the House adjourned. The Senate was not in session on the Bth inst. .... The House devoted the day to the consideration of the contested-election case of Curtin against Yocum from one of the Pennsylvania districts. Curtin claims the seat as a Democrat. Yocum is RepublicanGreenbacker. The day was devoted to a very long speech by Beltzhoover of Pennsylvania. He argued that Curtin was undoubtedly elected, and should be seated.

Redemption of the Six per Cents.

The following letter has just been sent by the Secretary of the Treasury to Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, Chairman of the Finance Committee of the United States Senate : Sir : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 20th uIL, transmitting the Senate bill to define the amount and manner of purchase of public loans to be made by the Secretary of the Treasury, and requesting my views in regard thereto. The bill in question requires the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase outstanding obligations of the United States bearing interest at 6 per cent, per annum, to an amount not less than $5,000,000 each week until he shall have purchased and extinguished all such outstanding obligations, these purchases to be made in addition to and independent of any purchases of outstanding obligations of the tlnited States made by the Secretary on account of the sinking fund. The bill also provides that all purchases of bonds hereafter made shall be advertised in the public press on Monday of each week, and the purchase of the amounts thus advertised for shall be made by the treasury on Wednesday of each week. In reply I have to state that the amount of 6-pcr-cent. obligations now outstanding is about $250,000,000, which, under the provisions of tliis act, the treasury would be obliged to purchase within the next fifty weeks. To accomplish this purpose, surplus revenues within that period must amount to the face of the bonds and the premium paid thereon, the present rate of which is about 6 per cent., or the reserve in the treasury accumulated for redemption purposes must be used or resort be had to increased taxation. The surplus revenues since the Ist of January, though larger than was expected, or can be expected in future, have been only about $10,000,000 a month, but should they continue at the same rate they will provide for payment within the next fifty weeks of less than onehalf the bonds which this bill requires to be purchased. With the Deficiency bill now pending in Congress, and which will soon become law,

and the probable appropriations for the next year, there is no probability of having such a large amount of surplus revenues as stated. There is at present of cash in the treasury about $152,000,000 above all matured liabilities, excepting United States notes. Of this amount there i* of fractional silver coins and minor coins about $23,000,000, which would not be available for the purchase of bonds, these coins being legal tenders only in small amounts. This would leave of available cash in the about $129,000,000, which amount was accumulated to a large extent by the sale of bonds for resumption of specie payments, and is a little less than 40 per cent, of the amount of outstanding notes. Neither the la w nor sound public policy seems to permit any encroachment on this fund. There would seem, therefore, to be no method of carrying out the provisions of the bill except by resort to increased taxation, and the propriety "of such increase for this purpose must be neiermined by Congress. I deem the matter es advertising in advance the amount of bonds to be purchased as inadvisable. Such course would only enable bankers and brokers to advance the price of bonds and to dictate terms to the treasury. Under the existing method of making purchases it is understood by all that the surplus of the Government will be paid out from week to week in the purchase of bonds, bids for which will be received up to noon of each Wednesday at the sub-treasury in New York. The amount of bonds to be purchased is not made public until after all bids are in, thus preventing any combination to compel the treasury to pay exorbitant rales for bonds, and it is well unde) stood that the department reserves the right to reject all bids should prices be considered unduly high--a right which would be Surrendered under the proposed bill. I know of no reason for making any purchases of bonds beyond the amount of surplus revenues, and for this purpose the treasury already has sufficient authority, while the present method of making purchases is probably as advantageous to the Government as any that can be devised. I am, very respectfully, John Sherman, Secretary.

ANOTHER VETO.

Put to tlie Deficiency Bill by tin President. The President has sent to the House of Representatives the following message, vetoing the Deficiency Appropriation bill: To the House of Representatives: After mature consideration of the bill entitled “An act making appropriations to supply certain deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, and for other purposes,” I return it to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, with my objections to its passage. The bill appropriates about SBOO,OOO, of which over $600,000 is for the payment of the fees of United States Marshals and of general and special Deputy Marshals earned during the current fiscal year, and their incidental expenses. The appropriations made in the bill are needed to carry on the operations of the Government and to fulfill its obligations for the payment of money long since due its officers for services and expenses essential to the execution of their duties under the laws of the United States. The necessity for these appropriations is so urgent and they have already been so long delayed that if the bill before me contained no permanent or legal legislation unconnected with these appropriations it would receive my prompt approval. It contains, however, provisions which materially change, and, by implication, repeal important parts of the laws for the regulation of the United States elections. These laws have for several years been the subject of vehement political controversy, and have been denounced as unnecessary, oppressive, and unconstitutional. On Hie "other hand, it has been maintained with equal zeal and earnestness that the elections laws are indispensable to fair and lawful elections, and are clearly warranted by the constitution. Under these circumstances, to attempt, in an appropriation bill, a modification or repeal of these laws, is to annex a condition to the passage of needed and proper appropriations, which tends to deprive the Executive of that equal and independent exercise of discretion and judgment which the constitution contemplates. The objection to the bill, therefore, to which I respectfully ask your attention is that it gives marked and deliberate sanction, attended by no circumstances of pressing necessity, to a questionable, and, as I am clearly of the opinion, the dangerous practice of tacking upon appropriation bills general and permanent legislation. This practice opens wide the door to hasty, inconsiderate and sinister legislation. It invites attacks upon the independence and constitutional powers of the Executive by providing an easy and effective way of constraining the "Executive discretion. Although of late this practice has been resorted to by all political parties when clothed with power, it did not prevail until forty years after the adoption of the constitution, and it is confidently believed that it is condemned by the enlightened judgment of the country. The States which have adopted new coi'ktitutions during the last quarter of a century have generally provided remedies for the peril. Many of them have enacted that no law shall contain more than one subject, which sha’.ibc plainly exposed in its title. Constitutions of more than half the States .contain substantially this provision, or some other of like intent and meaning. The public welfare will be promoted in many ways by a return to the early practice of the Government and to tlie true interest of legislation, which is that every measure should stand upon its own merits. I am firmly convinced that appropriation bills ought not to contain any legislation not relevant to the application or expenditure of money thereby appropriated, and that, by a strict adherence to this principle, an important and much-needed reform will be accomplished. Placing my objection to the bill on this feature of its frame, 1 forbear any comment ujion the important general and permanent legislation which it contains, as matter for specific and independent consideration. (Signed) Rutherford B. Hayes. Executive Mansion. May 4, 1880.

The Diamond. Although found in every quarter of the globe, the diamond is the rarest, as it is the hardest, known mineral. It occurs exclusively among gold-bearing rocks, or sands derived from gold-bear-ing rocks, and among strata which, though originally soft shaly deposits of sand or mud, have been “metamorphosed,” as it is called, into hard crystalline schists. It was once supposed by geologists that the metamorphic rocks were deposited in their existing crystalline form from a boiling ocean enveloping the still-heated globe; but it is now known that these formations vere originally deposited as mud or sand, and have been transmitted into schists by the influence of subterranean heat acting under great pressure through lengthened periods of time, and aided by thermal water or steam permeating the porous rocks and giving rise to various chemical decompositions and new combinations within them. The diamond probably originates, like coal or mineral oil, from the gradual decomposition of vegetable or animal matter ; and we may, therefore, regard the brilliants which we prize in the drawingroom as having been slowly elaborated from carbonaceous matter furnished by some dead fish or rotting plant, originally buried in the mud of an inconceivably ancient paleozoic shore.— Belgravia.

Two from One. Makers of seemingly absurd assertions do not always get the worst of the deal. Two urchins sitting on a doorstep with their slates in their laps were heard by a passer-by saying: “Two from one and one remains.” He at onee challenged them with, “I’ll give you a sixpence if you can prove that, my boys. ” They took him at his word, and went into a kitchen where their mother sat nursing twins. In a moment each boy had a baby in his arms, and was pointing at the wondering matron as a proof that their novel arithmetical proposition was correct. They had taken two from one, and one remained; and they honestly won the reward.

HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY, ULYSSES I.

Pungent Pen Picture of the Coming Empire—The Eords and Eadies, nukes and Duchesses, Earls, Marshals, Etc., of the New Regime—The Gorgeous Imperial Army. [From the Philadelphia Times.] One of the cleverest satires of the day is an annoymous pamphlet just issued entitled, “The Coining Crown,” giving a prophetic pen picture of the coming empire under “His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Ulysses I.” It is illustrated with a crown, and some of its hits at the leading restorationists are admirable. The chief extracts are taken from the Cou, t Journal, dated Washington, Sept. 1, 1882, and from the Imperial Standard, dated Washington, Oct. 1, 1882, to which various telegrams are credited from different sections of the country telling of the troubles with such insurgents as Blaine, Nast, and others, of the progress of imperialism, of the gorgeous and numberless imperial troops, and of the grand public improvements prosecuted under the empire. The following extracts will be relished by the lovers of polished wit, whatever may be their views of imperialism: RETURN OF THE EMPEROR, EMPRESS AND CROWN PRINCE FREDERICK. His imperial Majesty, the Emperor Ulysses 1., accompanied by the Empress, the Crown Prince Frederick and a numerous suit, arrived at the palace yesterday, after a week’s visit to the Duke of Pennsylvania at his palatial residence, Cameron Hall, Han isburg. Her imperial Majesty, we are happy to announce, is in the best of health. The imperial escort consisted of a battalion of the guards and two companies of the household cavalry. THE PRINCESS NELLIE.

Her royal Highness, the Princess Nellie, will not return to England. We are in a position to state that the consort of her royal Highness, Algernon Sartoris, Esq., is to be raised to the peerage nndm- the title of Earl of Granton. We further understand that the Earl of Granton is to be appointed Governor, with the title of Lord Lieutenant of the province of Illinois, and that it is the intention of the imperial Government to settle $200,000 per annum upon his Lordship. A vice-regal palace is to be built at Springfield, the Privy Council having issued an order for the razing of the Capitol of the former State of Illitois, and the residence of the Lord Lieutenant will be erected upon the site. LORD SHARON, EARL OF NEVADA. Lord Sharon, Earl of Nevada, is expected to arrive at the palace on the sth inst. His Lordship, who has, during the past month, been entertaining a number of the Western nobility at his magnificent residence, Belmont Hall, San Francisco, is under.-tood to have successfully conducted the negotiations which resulted in California giving her assent to the prop'isitions made by the imperial Government. In view of his Lordship’s distinguished diplomatic services in thus eradicating the last vestiges of rejiublicanism in the Western part of the empire, we have reason to know that his Imperial Majesty intends conferring upon his Lordship the honor of the order of the Mailed Hand. LORD SIMON CAMERON, EARL OF SUSQUEHANNA.

It is with great pleasure that we are enabled to announce the arrival of Lord Simon Cameron, Earl of Susquehanna, at the palace. The venerabl • Earl and his son, the noble Duke of Pennsylvania, will have the honor of dining with his Imperial Majesty to-morrow, when the Duke is expected to arrive in town. As we have previously announced, Lord Simon was, some time ago, appointed by his Imperial Majesty, Earl Marshal, tho title remaining in the House of Camerons according to the laws of primo-

genitr.re. Loi land Lady Hamilton Fish have arrived at the palace. Lord Hamilton will receive tinal instructions 1 adore his departure for England as Imperial Minter to the Court, of St. James. Lady Fish will not, we understand, accompany the noble lord, but will remain during the coming season in attendance on her Majesty as principal lady-in-waiting. WASHBURNE, DUKE OF ILLINOIS. Cards have been issued by the Duke of Illinois for a grand party at the. Washburne House, the splendid residence lately completed by his Grace, and to which his Grace has given the family name, for the evening of the 12th inst. The noble Duke, whose appointment as Prime Minister by his Imperial Majesty has given such profound satisfaction in court circles, will, we understand, entertain during the coming season with ducal hospitality. Her Grace, the Duchess of Illinois, returned from the country last week. SIR O. E. BABCOCK, PRINCIPAL EQUERBY. Sir O. E. Babcock, whose devotion to the imperial cause and whose conspicuous gallantry at Albany, N. Y., when the republican army under Fenton was so completely defeated by the imperial troops, have deservedly gained him so many marks of imperial favor, is now, we are glad to state, quite convalescent. He remains at the imperial villa, Long Branch, for a few days more, when he will return to the palace to enter on his duties as principal Equerry in attendance on his Imperial Majesty. LORDS AND LADIES VISITING.

Lord and Lady Edwards Pierrepont, Baron J. Gould and Sir Whitelaw Reid, of New York, who have been on a visit to Lord George M. Robeson, of New Jersey, at Secor Hall, Cape May, arrived in town yesterday for the season. The magnificent yacht which his Imperial Highness the Crown Prince Frederick has been pleased to accept as a present from James Gordon Bennett, Esq., of New York, has arrived in the Potomac. It is named ‘ * Ulysses, ” and is a masterpiece of architecture. THE DUKE AND THE DUCHESS OF NEW YORK.

The Duke and Duchess of New York are expected to arrive in town for the season on Tuesday next. The Ducal residence, Conkling House, is rapidly approaching completion, and promises in point of architectural beauty to equal any of the many splendid houses of the nobility erected in the capital since his Imperial Majesty ascended the throne. Invitations will shortly be issued by his Grace for the ball which is to be given when Conkling House is opened, and the event promises to be one of most extiaordinary magnificence.

Logan’s Crusade Against the King’s English. The New York Tribune of several years ago gave a graphic characterization of the Illinois Senator’s terrific style of dealing with his mother tongut'. We

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copy the following paragraphs from tin Tribune's picturesque sketch : “ Pranced there upon the arena of the great debate, like a trick mule in a circus, or a spavined nightmare upon th. ; track of a beautiful dream—Logan, ol Illinois. There visions of mustaches, 1 eye-brows ami hah - , piled on each other in arches ; a large brandishing of arms, a pose and a stridulous war-whoop ; ami much as though a picture of the Deerfield massacre had stepped out from the pages of our history. Logan took tin * American Senate by its large, capacious ear. And then he went for his mother , tongue. He smote it right ami left, hip ami thigh, ami showed no mercy. Swingi ing the great broad-ax of his logic high I in the air, he turned it ere it fell, and I with the hammer side struck tlie lanI guage of 60,000,000 people fairly in the ! face, ami smashed it beyond recognition, j Under his stroke the floor of the American Senate was spattered with the remains of a once-proud vocabulary, and messengers, door-keepers and pages were covered from head to foot with the spray. In the fearful two hours which followed the first roar of this oration all the parts of speech were routed ami put I to flight. There were orphaned adjectives and widowed nouns, bachelor verbs driven to polygamy, and polygamous verbs left lonely, conjunctions dissevered, prepositions scattered, adverbs disheveled and distorted, and syntax flung to disorder. It was a great day for Logan. “He set his teeth into the language as the untamed tiger of the jungles takes between his mouth and paw the wearing apparel of the wayfarer, and the ripping of it was heard through all the forest depths. It reverberated to the other end of the Capitol, and sluggish Representatives lifted up their ears and listened with terrified awe. Some started for the scene, but, upon being told the cause of the disturbance in the brief communication ‘Logan’s up,’ turned hick, with full assurance that they could hear from that end of the Capitol all that was worth hearing. So through two hours Logan swung his beautiful arms over the heads of the Senate like the booms of a Government derrick, while his chin churned the language like a pile-driver in a heavy sea, ami the. baffled reporters made wild plunges with their pencils to gather up his regurgitations for the printer.”

One Source of Strength to Grant. Although Gen. Grant goes into the National Convention with only a minority of the delegates at heart in his favor, the moment it is undertaken to put any other candidate in nomination a source of strength peculiar to Grant will be developed. It is this: While he is not particularly loved, he is not the object of such bitter and unrelenting hatred as is every one of his competitor.-, for the nomination. How, for instance, can Conkling ever support Blaine ? It is impossible. He may pretend to do it; but he will never with any degree of sincerity support a man he hates so fiercely. Neither would Conkling yield any earnest support to Sherman. At the same time, he hates Washburne even more bitterly than he hates the man of Maine or the man of Ohio. Sherman, on his part, is just as inimical to Conkling and to Blaine. He could endure Grant, but hardly any"btl|er rival candidate. If Grant is taken, the party starts off with a minority candidate. If any other candidate is put in nomination, the party has to encounter the implacable ill will of some of the most formidable of its leaders.— New York Sun

Chestnut Flour. Mr. J. Schuyler Crosby, United States Consul at Florence, Italy, gives, in a report to the State Department, an acj count of the Hour made from chestnuts and used in many parts of Southern J Europe. The writer says : “The number of trees in Tuscany and Lucca is estimated at several millions, and the nut and wood have done more I to maintain the population of some of these districts than any other production. In some places wheat Hour and corn meal are entirely superseded by , the chestnut Hour, which is very nourishing and much cheaper as an article of food.”

Mr. Crosby is of opinion, after a care- ! fill study of the subject, that this variety of chestnut can be grafted on the native American species, and thus be i made a source of wealth and profit to ' this country, especially in certain niount--1 ainous districts, where it is almost impossible to raise cereals, owing to the nature of the soil and the steepness of the mountain sides, and whore transportation is so difficult, and labor so high and scarce. Outside of this question of using the chestnut for food in the districts where it could be cultivated and grown Jo advantage in the United States, the present price of the imported Spanish chestnut, which is used for various purposes throughout dur country, would, he claims, amply re- ■ pay any outlay farmers might have to . make, in importing rings or shoots of this ; magnificent variety from Italy for grafting on our own chestnut trees. * * * i The chestnut flourishes in a light, fer--1 tile, deep soil, but thrives on the sides ‘ of mountains facing the south and west. The flour can be preserved for two years. It is used in the same way as wheat flour, and, though less nutritious, is much cheajier and at the same time is exceedingly agreeable to the taste. He says that in those regions where the inhabitants live almost entirely on the chestnut, they are of better appearance, more healthy and not less strong than those people who live on what in Amer ica is considered more wholesome and nutritious food.

Ruling Passion. A decided case of the ruling passion strong in death is told in an old book of sporting anecdotes, to the effect that once upon a time a famous huntsman, of the suggestive name of Fox, being at the point of death, addressed a letter to his master, requesting that when he was gone his silver-mounted whip, with old Merrilas and her litter of pups engraved upon its handle, should be presented “to our sporting parson, Dr. Dasher, upon condition that he will preach a funeral sarmint over me from the text, ‘Foxes have holes.’” In addition, the dying wielder of the horn inclosed a copy of his own suggested epitaph, in the following terms: “ Here lieth Timothy Fox, who was unkennelled at 7 o’clock a. m., upon Nov. 5, 1768, and, having availed himself of shifts through the chase of life, but being at last unable to get into any hole or crevice, was run down by Capt. Death’s bloodhounds, Gout, Rheumatism, Dropsy, Catarrh, Asthma', and Consumption.” •

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INDIANA NEWS.

Richmond is to have the free-delivery system established there. Gov. Williams and party have arrived home from their Southern tour. A good deal of horse stealing is goingon in the country surrounding New Albany. A great deal of old railroad iron is being received at the New Albany rail mill for rerolling. The Terre Haute ear-works are so crowded with orders that the employes work until midnight. During the past four months the Gov ernor lias received sixty applications for executive clemency. The County Clerk at Indianapolis presented the delegates to the Butter and Egg Convention with 5,090 cigars. Harvey P. Ferguson, of Edinburg, bitten in the hand by a rat, a few week . ago, was, at last accounts, dying of lockjaw. Articles of association of the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan Bailroad Company have been filed with the Secretary of State. The Angola firemen are soliciting funds to defray the expenses of a tri State tournament, to be held at that place about June 15. Samuel Swezy died at Cliffy, Decatur county, last week, from triehinotis disease, caused by eating diseased pork. He had been sick ten weeks. The latest statistics on the subject give 2,052 as the number of insane people in the State, about 1,4000 f whom arc in jails and in private charge. Two ladies were nominated by the Indiana Nationals as dclegates-at-large to tin' National Convention at Chicago, one as principal, and tlie other.as alt r n ate. John F. Miller, Superintendent of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Loiu . road, is fixing ii]> a park in magnificent style, at Richmond. It covers 100 acre;, of ground. A ten-year-old son of Peb-r Car penter, of Butlerville, while wa.mh ring in a grove, ate some buds ami new Jeav s of poison ivy, from which he di'd in about two la airs. Mr.?JMatt I. Huette, clerk of tlm Prison South, has submitted the following report to the Auditor of Stat ■ from Feb. 29 to March 31: Receipts, 51,91 I ; expenditures, $5,657.57. The eleCtric-light-engine tumult al Wabash closed by tin* award of the contract to L’ vi Dolhison, ol Wo bash. The cost entire of lighting th“ city p; r year will not exceed S9OO.

'two boys about 12 years of age, whose parents reside at Shudder-station, have gone West to kill desp'-radoc •, scalp Indians, rescue and marry levels maidens, etc. They have been readingdime novi'ls.

W. W. Dudley, Postmaster Holloway, Jojjii C. New, E. B. Martindale, and John C. S. Harrison haw begun a canvass of the State for the purpose of working up an interest in the Morton Monument Association. Capt. Joseph Berber died very sud denly at Rochester lately. He s rv< <1 his country during the late war, holding the position of Lieutenant of Company F, Eighty-seventh Indiana volunteers. Since the war he has been subject Io ep ilepsy. The familiar disease, glanders, has broken out among the horses in tin northern part of Knox county. A com mittee of farmers went to Indianapolis for a veterinary surgeon, w ho condemm <1 seventeen of the animals, some of them being taken out and sh t, by his ord' r. William P. Gillespie, of Columbus, on his death-bed, a few days ago, made a confession that he and two others, names not given, killed a wealthy stocktrader named Janies Jamison ten years ago, and divided between them a large sum of money found on his p rson. Jamison’s body was never found, and this is the first, clew to the manm-r of dis death.

The Delphi Journal records the death of Elizabeth Smith, formerly of that place, in the 91th year of Imr age, ami says: “The subject of this sketch was of a proud and aristocratic family, and was a schoolmate of .James Buchanan, and, had fortune favored, would have been the lady of tin- White House, The wedding clothes were prepared, the day was set, and preparations made, when, by some cause nev -r revealed, the match was broken by a solemn pledge that neither would ever marry -a pledgethat was sacredly kept." James Johnson, living six miles east of Jonesboro, reputed the largest landowner and wealthiest citizen of Grant county, had his throat cut, almost from ear to ear, few days ago, with a razor in the hands of John Miner. Miner had but a few hours previously been adjudged insane, and directed to be removed to the Asylum for the Insane. The cutting took place in a field about half a mile from Johnson’s house. Miner was standing a little to the rear of Johnson, and, placing his left hand upon Johnson’s shoulder, drew the razor through his throat with his right, cutting just below the root of the tongue and above the windpipe. Miner was found dead in the woods half a mile from where he made the attempt on the life of Johnson, with his throat cut from ear to ear by his own hand.

A terrible tragedy was enacted the other day, at Brookville, resulting in the death’ of >). R. Goodwin, President of the Brookville Bank and del (gate to the General Methodist Con erence now in session in Cincinnati. Mr. Goodwin returned to his home Saturday evenin'. l , having been present at the organization of the conference Saturday morning. A day or two before his brother Robert, wlio had been confined for four years in the Indianapolis Insane Asylum, returned to Brookville, having been discharged as cured, (in arriving he met Charles F. Goodwin, son of the murdered man, and remarked to him that he intended to get even with the men who had put him in the asylum. Nothing was thought of the threat until this evening, when he met the bank Pr< sident and shot him with a revolver, inflicting a wound which result l d in death in about an hour. The man who committed the deed was a Brigadier General in the army, and was Provost Marshal at Nashville for two years. Since the war he has led a dissipated life, resulting finally in insanity, which caused his removal to the Indianapolis Asylum, where he was kept as a boarder, free from special restraints. He is about 45 years old, a lawyer, unmarried, and lived formerly in Indianapolis. The man who was killed was one of the foremost men in his section of the country, owner of the bank of which he was President, and the chief supporter of the Brookville Methodist Church.