Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1880 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

poiusign hews. 'Die Duke of Westminster’s horse, Ben D’Or, won the English Derby. Russia has dispatched another ironclad to Chinese waters. A trial of Nihilists at St. Petersburg has resulted in the conviction of six men and five women. Two of the men were sentenced to death. A serious rebellion has broken out in British Burmah. Reports from the Black sea coast districts of Bulgaria give accounts of an outbreak in the Balkan villages bordering on the abovementioned territory. A dozen villages were destroyed by the. Bulgarians. The depredating forces numbered 2,000 men, composed of police, gymnastic societies, militia, armed villagers and brigands of all nationalities. Count Orloff, the itussian Minister to France, who retired in such disgust to St. Petersburg after the Hartmann affair, returned to Paris yesterday, bringing with him expressions of good will toward Franco on the part of the Czar. 'Die Chilians defeated the Peruvians, recently, in a pitched battle at Locumba. The failure of Martin, Shiels .V Co., general merchants, of London, for .*500,000, is announced. tSir Charles Dilko, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, says all of the secret treaties entered into by the late Beaconsfield Ministry have now been unearthed. An explosion in a powder mill near Ghent, in Belgium, killed ami injured many people. The harvest prospects are good throughout Ireland. An unusual area has been sown in potatoes, which eanie up well, as the new seed has been extensively used. Three Mussulmans who attempted to assassinate and rob a British subject at Constantinople, have been sentenced two to fifteen years' and one to seven years' penal servitude.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Blais t. At Troy, N. Y.,Jiluring a fight between roughs, John Wall, an ex-convict recently released from prison, shot and killed Supervisor Casey, who was attempting to quell the disturbance. Wall lied, pursued by an infuriated mob. During the chase a duel took between Wall and the pursuing officers, and a policeman was shot in the head and si<l<-, but not fatally. A man named Trowley was also shot and in jured slightly, and a child was shot in the hand. The wildest excitement prevailed. Wall, when captured, hail a narrow escape from Ivnehing. G/T. Morrow, a dealer in Indies'shoes, at New York, has failed for $’200,000. They have been experiencing some phenomenally warm weather down East. In Massachusetts and New Hampshire the thermometer rose to 102 in the shade. In New York the mercury rose to nearly 100. In the rural districts of New York State there has been no rain for months, and many farmers are plowing up potato fields planted early in the season. In the region around Pittsburgh no rain has fallen for two months. As a consequence the ground is so dry and parched that fanners and gardeners have lost all their early crops, water is becoming quite scarce in the rural districts, and gross, grain, and fruit trees look as if they had been singed by fire. The drought region extends into the adjacent districts of Ohio and West Virginia. There is much sickness on account of the heat and drought. The taking of testimony in the Whittaker case, nt West Point, was brought to a close on May 28. Recorder Sears and Lieut. Knight (lien made the closing arguments and the court adjourned sine die. Henry Hamlin, who shot a watchman connected with the Connecticut State Prison, in September, 1877, was hanged at Hartford last week. A dozen people were seriously injured by a collision on the Wilmington and Northern railroad, near Beading, Pa. Many of the students of Princeton College are sick with malarial fever, and several have died. One of the students cut his throat with a razor while delirious from the effects of the fever. James E. Williams, on trial at New York, for having his aunt, Mrs. Delia Little, of San Francisco, committed to prison upon an affidavit that she was an habitual drunkard, has been convicted of perjury and sentenced to the State prison for four, years. A kerosene-oil explosion on an English vessel at Philadelphia resulted in the killing ol two hoys and a man, and the infliction of fatal injuries on two other men. West. Several deaths have occurred at Moline, 111., from the use of partially cooked pork which contained |riehin:o. The physicians of the town have published a card advising the people to use only thoroughly cooked meat. A cyclone at Mitchell, Dak., killed two persons and injured several others. Numerous small parties of Indians are taking scalps and stealing cattle on the Little Missouri. A barrel of gasoline in the cellar of a residence at Piqua, Ohio, exploded, setting the house on fire and burning two boys to death. The Appellate Court of Chicago has decided that a party who lent money at usury forfeited all claim to any interest whatsoever, and could recover only the principal in an action for debt. The Chicago Distilling Company’s distillery has been destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $25,000. T. C. Thurston, who some time ago killed his business partner at Leavenworth, Kan., met Col. Anthony on the street, in that city, the other day, and fired two shots at him. Both bullets missed Anthony, but one hit and fatally wounded an attorney, and the other lodged in an advertising solicitor’s head. Thurston gave himself up at once, and was emoved to Fort Leavenworth for safe-keeping. A recent telegram from Dos Pinos, New Mexico, says : “The latest Indian news is that six herders were killed on the ranch of Patriocino Lunay, eight miles from Tularosa. In Socorro county and in the Magullaus about fifty men were killed, two women and three Americans, names unknown. In the vicinity of Tularosa, Socorro county, every ranch has been cleaned out by Apaches, and the number ol those murdered since May 1 is seventy-eight. Gen. Hatch’s command has marched more than 1,000 miles in pursuit of the Indians.” Col. Hatch telegraphs to Gen. Sheridan that the redskins were attacked by him at the Polomas river, N. M. He reports that fifty- ' Ave of the hostiles were killed. Col. Hatch ho reports that Capt. Kerwin had a skirmish the Indians, killing many of them. ' The

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hostiles are in retreat, but are closely pushed by the troops. A dispatch from Laramie City says the Ute Indians in North Park are on the warpath. A band of sixty, it is reported, attacked a settlement fifty miles south of Laramie, and killed two men. The Supreme Court of California has released Dennis Kearney from prison on a writ of habeas corpus. Jacob Smith, a wealthy farmer of Lucas county, Ohio, has been arrested on a charge of having murdered his wife’s uncle fifteen years ago, in order to obtain possession of some $6,000. The Sujierior Court of San Francisco has sustained the general demurrer of Mayor Kalloch against impeachment proceedings by the Board of Supervisors, and dismissed-the case. . Four or five persons were mortally injured by the explosion of a boiler in a saw-mill at Winnipeg. In accordance with a decision of the California Supreme Court, Denis Kearney has been released from the House of Correction. Two farmers were suffocated in a well near El Dorado, Kan. One of the victims was trying to rescue the other. A tornado in the vicinity of Evansville, Ind., blew down several houses, killed one person and injured several others. A cremation society is to be organized in St. Louis. Indians have plundered Beaver Station, Dak., and killed three men, and have committed other depredations in the territory. Safe-blowers made a haul of $5,500 in the railroad depot at Beloit, Kan. At Haverly’s Chicago Theater the Rentz-Santley Novelty Company holds the boards the present week, awl is drawing groat houses. They appear in the laughable burlesque “Penn's Aunts Among the Pirates.” South. The Town Marshal of Hampton, Ga., had a quarrel with Col. McCollum, a prominent citizen, went home after a gun, and, returning, shot the latter dead. A reign of terror prevails in Lawrence county, Ky. Regulators are riding in all directions, cutting telegraph and telephone wires and committing other and more serious depredations. A tremendous rain-storm recently visited a section of Southwestern Texas. The town of Brackett was flooded, several houses swept away, and many people drowned. Near San Saba the family of P. DI. Rountree took refuge in a cave, resulting in the drowning of two of his little boys, aged 3 and 6 years. His wife, little daughter and a young lady with them were taken out in a drowning condition. Thomas Edwards, who killed his reputed wife and child in Washington county, Ark., about a year and a half ago, was banged last week at Ozark, in that State. L. L. Ford, another Arkansas murderer, was also hanged at Marion, Crittenden county, in that State. The town of Savoy, Fannin county, Texas, having a population of about 300, has been demolished by a cyclone. Nine people were killed and some sixty wounded, many of them fatally. Nineteen business houses, the railroad depot and twenty dwellings were destroyed. Only five houses are left in the place. The first new wheat of the season arrived at St. Louis, Mo., last week, from Fort Worth, Texas, and was sold at action on 'Change for SL(;2, I 2 per bushel.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The bill providing for the extension for Hix yearn of the time for completion of the Northern Pacific railroad, agreed upon by the House commit tee, requires that the proceeds of all sales of land granted, in excess of the cost, of construction of the road, shall be paid into the treasury. R. A. Morris, clerk-to the Librarian of Congress, was robbed of $2,700 in currency at the United States treasury in Washington. He laid the package down for a moment, and some time later noticed that a bogus bundle had been substituted.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Louisiana Republican Convention split in two in less than an hour after coming together, and two sets of delegates were sent to Chicago. One of the conventions, presided over by ex-Gov, Warmoth, chose seven Grant, seven Sherman and one Blaine delegates. The other faction was presided over by Taylor Beattie, and selected all Grant delegates. The Delaware Democrats, in convention at Dover, appointed delegates to Cincinnati, instructed them to vote for Senator Bayard for President, and adopted a resolution in favor of adhering to the two-thirds rule. The Rhode Island Legislature has elected A. 11. Littlefield Governor, and H. H. Fay Lieutenant Governor, there having been no choice at the polls. The Colorado Republican Convention, held at Denver, May 25, sent a solid and instructed Grant delegation to Chicago.

An Associated Press telegram from Washington says: “The Democratic politicians continue to talk about Senator David Da vis’ letter, and the opinion is almost universal that it is a direct bid for the Democratic nomination. The friends of Davis say the leading Nationals have asked him whether he will take their nomination, but he declined to commit himself, saying he would wait and see what the two regular conventions do. It is believed here among his friends that Davis will run as an independent candidate if there is a possibility that he can carry two or three States, and throw the election in the House, and thus defeat the Republican nominee.” The Kansas and Missouri Democrats held their State Conventions May 26. In Missouri, of the delegates elected to the National Convention, eighteen are reported to be antiTilden, nine for Tilden, and three doubtful. The sentiment of the Kansas Convention was in favor of Seymour aud Hendricks, but no instructions were given. The State Convention of the Green-back-Labor party of West Virginia was held at Charleston May 27, all the counties in the State but eight being represented. The State ticket is as follows - Governor, Col. N. B. French ; Auditor, G. W. Hayes; Treasurer, 8. W. Sturm; Superintendent of Free Schools, W. J. King ; Attorney General, Cyras Hall; Judge of the Supreme Court, J. A. Thompson. Delegates to the National Greenback Convention and State electors were airpointed. The Congressional district delegations nominated candidates for Congress as follows: First district, James Bassett; Second, D. D. F. Farnsworth ; Third, Henry S. Walker. The Greenbackers of Wisconsin met in State Convention at Watertown May 27, appointed Presidential electors, and selected delegates to the National Convention, with instructions to support E. P. Allis, of Milwaukee, for President. The Minnesota Greenbackers met on the same day at Minneapolis and performed

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a similar work. The delegates chosen are said to be favorable to Solon Chase, of Maine. The Mississippi Democratic Convention elected a uon-instructed delegation to Cincinnati. Nine memliers favor Bayard, four Hancock, and the preferences of the three others are unknown. Kansas Democrats, who profess to know, say that Tilden has not a single supporter among the delegates selected at Topeka. Seymour, they say, will probably get the solid vote of the delegation. The Nevada Democratic Convention instructed for Tilden.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGSThe Methodist Conference at Cincinnati fixed on Philadelphia.as the place for holding the next conference, and adopted resolutions calling on Congress and the President to enforce the law against polygamy in Utah. The National Woman’s Suffrage Association was m session in Indianapolis last week. A resolution threatening to oppose any political party which does not incorporate in its platform a plank in favor of woman's rights has been adopted. Hanlan won the boat-race with Riley at Washington without much effort, being two and one-half minutes ahead of his adversary. The Methodist Episcopal Conference, after a, session in Cincinnati of four weeks, has adjourned sine die. New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Syracuse, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, Des Moines, Atlanta, Denver, St. Paul, Washington and Chattanooga were selected at Episcopal residences. In the contest for the base-ball championship of the United States, the close of the first month’s play found the Chicago Club leading al] competitors, as the following record will show : Club*. Came* won. Lost. Chicago 14 2 Cleveland 9 ' 6 Worcester 9 7 Providence 8 7 Troy 7 8 Boston../T". 7 9 Cincinnati 4 11 Buffalo 4 12 The Western Union Telegraph Company has made a reduction of 20 per cent, in its rates. Over 53,000 immigrants from Europe were landed at Castle Garden during the past month. The Reformed Presbyterian Synod has formally requested all its members to desist from the manufacture, sale or use of “that most dangerous weed, tobacco.”

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. The Senate worked for ten hours on Monday, May 24, and in the forty-five minutes of the morning passed pension bills at the rate of one every two minutes. There then followed a long, dreary debate on the Morgan resolution relative to the electoral count, which was participated in Messrs. Toiler, Morgan, Edmunds, Thurman and Ingalls. The heat in the Chamber was very oppressive, and the galleries were emptied long before the debate closed. At 8 o’clock, the joint resolution was passed by 27 yeas to 13 nays. A communication from the President of the Smithsonian Institution was received, recommending the appropriation of SBO,OOO for completing the preparation of the scientific results of Hall’s Arctic exixidition. A resolution providing for a special committee to examine into the management ot the Soldiers’ Home in the District was passed, as was a bill appropriating SIS,(MM) for a statue of Joseph Henry, late Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The Carlisle Revenue bill was amended and passed. The President nominated James!). Putnam, of New York, Minister to Belgium, vice William Cassius Goodloe, resigned... .Mr. Blackburn presided in the House in the absence of Speaker Randall. Bills wore introduced: By Mr. Sherwin, fixing the duty of 40 per cent ad valorem on the importation of 'condensed milk; by Mr. Ellis, calling for information as to what steps have been taken for the acquisition of naval and coaling stations in Central America; by Mr. Cox, appropriating $14,000 lor printing and distributing more frequently Ilaisular and other commercial reports; by Mr. Finley, for the appointment of a special joint committee of three Senators and four Representatives to investigate the condition and status of public property in the Hot Springs Reservation; by Mr. Whittaker, to reduce the price of lands to actual settlers within the railroad limits to $1.20 per acre; by Mr. Hunton,repealing section 3,480 of the Revised Statutes so far as bounty lands are concerned; by Mr. Buckner, relative to the use of distinctive paper fer printing United States bonds and notes; by Mr. Prescott, to pay to soldiers and sailors of the late war who are totally disabled all the moneys expended by them for medical and surgical treatment. Nearly the whole day was passed in committee of the whole on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, small progress being made.

The President pro torn, laid before the Senate on the morning of Tuesday, May 25, a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury stating that the amount due Kansas as 5 per cent, of the sales of public lands in that State is $190,268. Also, a communication from the Secretary of tho Interior transmitting information concerning the entry of town sites in mineral lands, and inclosing a report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office on the subject, in which the Secretary concurs. A concurrent resolution that the Secretary of the Treasury lie directed to seek co-operation between the General Government and the several State Governments in tho. stabiisluucut of a uniform and efficient system for the registration of deaths, births and marriages, and appropriating a sum therefor, was referred. Tho Senate passed some, thirty pension bills as fast as they could be got ready, and, after the morning hour, took up the bill regulating the appointment of Supervisors, on which a protracted anil at times acrimonious debate arose. A bill passed providing that Sec. 3 of the act increasing the pensions of widows and orphans, approved July 25, 1866, and Sec. 13 of the Pension act of July 27, 1868, and See. 4,712, Revised Statutes, shall not operate to reduce the. rate of pensions which had been allowed to naval officers and their widows, etc., prior to J illy 20, 1866, and that such pensions shall be restored to the rate from which they were reduced, to date from the original date of such pensions’ A pension bill in favor of Commodore William B. Whiting, now on the retired list, disabled, was taken up, and passed... .In the House, the whole day was consumed in committee of the whole on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill.

Ex-Gov. Brown took the modified oath, and then took his seat as Senator from Georgia on the morning of May 26, in place of Gordon, resigned. The President recommended the immediate attention of Congress to the danger that would result from a failure to act upon the agreement with the Ute Indians. The Pensions Deficiency Appropriation bill was taken up. The amount appropriated for pensions is $'.1,240,000. Several amendments were agreed to and the bill passed. Ou motion of Mr. Paddock, the House bill passed for the relief of homestead and pre-emption settlers in Kansas and Nebraska who lost their crops by drought, extending for one year the time in which to complete their payments. Mr. Cockrell introduced a bill regarding pensions of soldiers of the war of 1812, so as to place on the pension rolls the names of the surviving officers and enlisted and drafted men without regard to color, including the militia and volunteers who were in the service for fourteen days or were in any engagement In the House, on motion of Mr. Carlisle, the Senate amendments to the House bill, amending the Internal Revenue law in regard to distilled spirits, were concurred in. On motion of Mr. Thompson, the Senate bill for the loan of tents, flags, camp equipage, etc., for the soldiers’ reunion in Muscatine, lowa, was passed. The Speaker pro tern, laid before the House a message from the President urging on Congress the necessity of action on the Ute agreement The House went into committee of the whole on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill. Mr. Forney made a conference reuort on the Military Academy Appropriation bill. Agreed to. Leave of absence was asked for many members, Mr. Frye putting his application on the ground of his desire to attend the Chicago Convention, but Mr. Hutchins objected, except coupled with the condition that those members with whom absentees are paired may vote to make a quorum. So leave was not granted. The Senate spent the most of the day, on May 27, in the routine consideration of the Agricultural Appropriation bill, and passed it The salary of Commissioner LeDuc was increased to $4,000. A bill passed providing for the reapportionment of members of the Legislature in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, by boards composed of the Speakers of the House of Representatives and President of Councils, upon the basis of the census of 1880. On motion of Mr. Thurman, a bill passed authorizing the purchase of ground contiguous to the postoffice at Toledo, and to erect in enlarged grounds a building for United States Courts, Custom House, bonded warehouse, etc., and appropriating $75,000 therefor. Thirty condemned bronze cannon were voted to the Fairmount Park Art Association for the statue of Maj. Gen. Meade. It was stated that 264

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such cannon w ere on hand, and the rule of the department is. “Firstcome, first served,” though they are probably all donated by various bills. On motion of Mr. Kirkwood, the bill passed authorizing the Postmaster General to treat the mail service between East St. Louis and St. Louis as other than railroad service, and let it to the lowest bidder. Mr. Voorhees introduced a bill for the erection of a building for United States offices at Terre Haute. The President nominated Albert D. Bibb, of Idaho, Agent for the Indians of Malheur Agency in Oregon ; Benjamin F. Thacker, of Audubon, Supervisor of the Census in the Third District of Colorado, and Assistant Paymaster Frank Plunkett to Past Assistant Paymaster United States Navy. The nomination of J. Newton Pettis to be Associate Justice of New Mexico was rejected. ... In the House, a conference report on the joint resolution to print 11X1,000 extra copies of the report of the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries was agreed to. The morning hour was dispensed with, and the House went into committee of the whole on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill. The following gentlemen were appointed members of the Board of Managers of National Soldiers’ Homes: Gen. John M. Palmer, of Illinois; Gen. William B. Franklin, of Connecticut; Gen. Charles W. Roberta, of Maine; Gen. Martin McMahon, of New York; Gen. Love, of Indiana; and Maj. Fulton, of Wisconsin. Mr. Cobb, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the General Deficiency Appropriation bill. Ordered printed and recommitted. It appropriates about S4,(MM),(MM). On the meeting of the Senate on Friday, May 28, Mr. Kirkwood presented the memorial of 330 lowa ex-soldiers, disapproving the Weaver bill to pay soldiers the difference between gold and greenbacks. Mr. Eaton offered a joint resolution that the President be requested to open negotiations with France, Spain, Austria, and Italy with a view to removing restrictions on importations of tobacco and securing to onr citizens an open market. The joint resolution was taken up, amended and adopted, providing for the payment of claims of Florida for expenses of the State volunteers in the Seminole war of 1855, 1856 and 1857. The report of the conference committee on the bill for a supplement to the Revised Statutes was adopted. Mr. Butler submitted a resolution that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to report all records in his department relating to the claim of the United States against the New York Central Railroad Company for the 5-pcr-cent. tax on the scrip dividend of 8 per cent, declared in 1869 on its stock capital. The House joint resolution to pay Government employes for Decoration day passed. A bill passed authorizing bonds of the manufacturers of tobacco, snuff and cigars, exporting the same, to be canceled at the port of clearance. The River and Harbor Appropriation bill was then taken up, and debated the remainder of the day, without action. Adjourned over Decoration day until Monday In the House, on motion of Mr. Ewing, the Senate bill authorizing the settlement of the accounts of Col. Thomas Worthington, of Ohio, passed. The House, after a stormy session of seven hours, concluded the consideration of the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill in committee of the whole, and moved the previous question upon it, so that thu vote will be taken the first thing Monday morning, and then adjourned over Decoration day.

An Important Question Answered.

Editors Western Rural: On Nov. 8, 1878, insured my barn (which is considered, by all whe have seen it, one of the best in the country) in thu “American Insurance Company,” Chicago, 111. Will you let me know what you think of the solvency, etc., of the said company? lam insured for $3,000, but in case of loss could not rebuild for less than about $6,000. S. A. P. Jonesburg, Mo. —We have frequent inquiries of this character for the reason that the American Company has advertised considerably in the Hural, and consequently does a large business among our readers. The American Insurance Company of Chicago has done an active business for twenty-one years, has issued 350,000 policies, and paid over two millions of dollars for losses. It confines its business to the insurance of dwellinghouses, private barns, their contents, farm property, churches, school-houses, and insures not to exceed $5,000 in any one risk, or that would be liable to burn at one fire ; it writes no policies in Chicago or any of the large cities. Consequently it is not exposed to the results of a great conflagration like the Boston and Chicago fires. The rates are reasonable, yet ample ; it is responsible for the safe termination of five-year risks ; has cash assets amounting to $880,070.93. The amqunt necessary to re-insure all outstanding risks Jan. 1,1880, $381,131.28, and has a cash surplus as regards policy-holders of $498,943.70, in addition to which the company held Jan. 1, 1880, installment notes amounting to $1,319,170.53. The following statement, taken from the sworn reports of thirteen of the companies doing the largest business in the State of Illinois, shows that the American received more money for premiums during 1879 than any other company doing business in the State : American, Chicago, $188,274 ; Home, New York, $181,031; JEtiia, Hartford, $174,397 ; Hartford, Hartford, $159,802 ; Phenix, Brooklyn, $144,673; GermanAmerican, New York, $124,844; Traders-’, Chicago, $118,961; Rockford, Rockford, $111,774; Continental, New York, $106,598; Insurance Company of North America, Philadelphia, $99,464; Phoenix, Hartford, $94,821; Fire Association, Philadelphia, $93,165; Agricultural, Water town, $91,388. The American Insurance Company is the oldest insurance company doing business in Illinois, and one of the oldest farmers’ companies in the nation, and farmers and those owning detached dwelling-house property we believe cannot more safely insure than in this company. The purchasing of an insurance policy is unlike buying an agricultural implement. The purchaser who gets a machine for half its cost to manufacture may get just as good a machine, one that will do his work just as well, as though he had paid more. Not so with the policy of insurance. A policy of insurance is good in proportion to the responsibity of the treasury of the company issuing it. Something in insurance cannot be had for nothing. The association of a few together, and calling their association a mutual fire insurance company, does not in the remotest sense make the contract signed by some of their members, as President and Secretary, a guarantee that, in case of loss their families will receive the amount named theirein. For a time a few losses may be paid—all depends upon whether it is for the personal interests of the members to pay. The idea in the start is to save money by getting up a township or county mutual insurance company, and when more money is asked than the regular insurance company charges there is danger of the association becoming a mob which does not always pay, and the loser cannot make them pay, simply because there are no funds to pay with. So long as there are no losses the assets will remain the same. Nothing from nothing, nothing remains, but something from nothing you can’t, and that is the end of it. Since local mutual insurance was adopted we believe that every ten years’ experience will show up many of such associations as an absolute failure. We do not hesitate to urge our readers to insure their homes in some good, sound insurance company, than which we believe there is none more responsible and Worthy of patronage than is the American of Chicago.— Western Hural.

An Extraordinary Question.

“Emma R.” asks the Springfield (Ohio) Tribune this extraordinary question : “Do you think it right for a girl to sit on a young man’s lap, even if she is engaged to him ?” Whereupon the editor gets off a very extraordinary lie : “We have had no experience in the matter referred to. ” Why didn’t he say, “If it was our girl and our lap, yes ; if it was another girl and our lap, yes ; but if it was our girl and another fellow’s lap, never.”— Chicago Tribune.

VOORHEES.

The Indiana Senator Makes It Hot for “ the Other Side of the Chamber.” A Spirited Debate in the Senate on the Supervisors’ Tenure Bill.

On a division the Supervisors’ bill was taken up. The bill was read, as follows : “Be it enacted, etc., That the term of office of Chief Supervisor of Election provided for in section 2,025 of the Revised Statutes shall be two years. Such term shall begin the Ist day of May in each even-numbered year. The terms of those now in office shall expire the Ist day of May, 1880, and their successors shall be appointed from among the qualified electors of the proper judicial district by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.” Mr. McDonald said he did not believe Federal interference with elections in this country was within the constitution or beneficial in its results. He continued : “But, as we can’t repeal the law, we have been trying to take out the teeth of the Federal election machinery and make it as innoxious as possible for harm. The Senator from Now York has spoken of this bill as having been introduced by the Chairman of the Democratic Senatorial caucus. It was introduced by the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Wallace), who was Chairman of that caucus ; but it was not introduced as from any consultation of that kind. On the contrary, it was presented by him in connection with the report which it became his duty to make as Chairman of the select committee of this Senate to inquire into the workings of these election laws.” Mr. Teller—What report'? Mr. McDonald—Well, if the report has not been brought forward, I will state that it is in obedience to testimony which he has taken bearing on that question. Mr. McDonald went on to review the testimony taken before the Wallace committee, and continued: “It was the disclosure of these facts that rendered it necessary, in our opinion, if possible to take out of these laws their political character, and if they are to continue, allow them to continue in that way, and that way alone, by which there shall be' no interference on the part of tliis Government in favor of oue party against the other; that there shall be no paid emissaries to stand around the polls. These laws are not in the interests of free and fair elections. The power exists now, under the law as it stands, for these Deputy Marshals to break up any poll by the arrest of State officers, hold it and destroy it for the day, and if they are to be mere partisans in the future, as they have been in the past, that will bo the history of the next election held under their supervision. The design of this bill is to place the appointing of executive officers where the constitution intended it to be—in the hands of the President and Senate. They shall no longer be selected from one side, but both parties shall have the benefit of these beneficent laws, if they are beneficent. I hope the day is not far distant when we can get rid of' this whole machinery, notwithstanding the alarm of the Senator from New York, for I believe the people of the United States are better able to conduct their elections than the minions of any administration appointed or used to control elections in its interest.”

Mr. Teller asked why the Democrats did uot bring forward some measure to repress the lawlessness admitted to exist in various sections? The pretense that this bill was to prevent election abuses was absurd. (While he was speaking of the use of tissue ballots in the South, Mr. Hampton handed him a tissue ballot, and asked him to read it.) Dlr. Teller said it purported to be a Republican tissue ballot, and thereupon went into tho history of the election in Charleston. His theory was that Republicans knew that Democrats would cast tissue ballots, and That Inspectors would put their hands in the box and take out the heavy ballots, leaving mostly tissue ballots, so the Republicans cast tissue ballots, but not in the ordinary sense. They cast them legally and in this way escaped having them thrown out. Dlr. Hampton remarked that the present representative from that county was elected by 10,000 majority. Dlr. Teller'had said 3,000 Democratic tissue ballots were cast. Even allowing the 3,000 he still had 7,000 majority. Dlr. Thurman moved an amendment as follows: “ Provided, that no person now holding or who has held the office of Chief Supervisor of Election shall be reappointed.” Mr. Edmunds—Let us have that read again. It sounds quite like the “Ohio idee.” It was read again.

Dlr. Thurman—l hone it will be the idea of a majority of the Senate in a very short time, and of Congress, and of the President. I do not undertake to say that every Supervisor of Election who has been appointed is a bad man at all, but I know there have been bad men among them, one man so bad that I think his name will be infamous in the history of this country, and I do not propose he shall be a Supervisor of Election, if I can help it. I cannot distinguish between all these men who have exercised their powers. I think it a wiser thing to say that none of them shall be reappointed. We know the President will not make a single appointment while the Senate is in sesson. They will all be made after we have departed. And does the Senator from Colorado mean to say a Republican Chief Dlagistrate wants to break down the election laws ? Dlr. Edmunds asked if there was any precedent for Congress to declare that certain persons should uot hold office because they have held the same office before ? The Supreme Court had even decided a law unconstitutional which disqualified persons who had engaged in rebellion. Mr. Thurman said there were precedents in the constitution itself. An importer could not be appointed Secretary of the Treasury. These election laws said only Commissioners of Courts should be appointed Supervisors. This practically disfranchised everybody else. The Senator from Vermont always proceeded on the theory that the President had imperial power ; that Congress was treading on his toes in directing what he should do.

Mr. Hoar said this bill was part of a scheme to destroy liberties by a sort of dry-rot. The Government was not to be overthrown by blood and violence, but by corruption of the ballot-box. An animated running debate followed, in which Messrs. Hampton, Butler, Hoar and Teller took the principal part, and which turned upon the evidence taken before the Wallace committee and the interpretation of it in various ways. Mr. Voorhees then took the floor and demanded of those who had charged the Democratic side with fearing to discuss questions of public interest to name matters so evaded. Mr. Edmunds—lt would take all afternoon. Your mouths have been shut up like dead oysters ; but, under the influence of this hot weather, you seem to have now got off your balance. Mr. Voorhees—l ask them to name any question at all that they have desired to discuss, and in the absence of response by Senators who made the charge I will denounce it as not true. Mr. Edmunds—Well, take the Marshals bill. Mr. Voorhees —Have we not discussed it fully? Mr. Edmunds—Not very much. And then take the other thing. Mr. Voorhees —The other thing ? That is an ideal expression for the scholarly Senator from Vermont. Mr. Edmunds—l borrow it from the Senator from Ohio, who said once we were all things to all men. Mr. Voorhees—Oh, no ; the Senator is trifling. Mr. Edmunds—Will my kind friend who is in such good temper allow me to have read the statement of the “• big Injun” of this Democratic wigwam (referring to Mr. Thurman), that it is the business of Republicans to talk and of Democrats to vote ? Mr. Voorhees—l challenge the Senator from Colorado, the Senator from New York, and any other Senator to name any question that we have declined to discuss; and you need not suppose that I will go away from this question until I have an answer. Mr. Kirkwood stated that had asked Democrats when the Army Appropriation bill was pending whether the people were to understand by the rider to that bill that the President was to have no power to enforce laws except upon invitation of the Governor of a State, and they had made no response. Mr. Voorhees—You can gpt an answer now. The wide difference between the Senator from lowa and the school of politics he represents and mine is that I believe, and those who act with me, that we can trust the people, and you don’t. The Senator and those who are with him believe they have to have an army, troops, Supervisors, agents of the Federal Government

to harrass, press, and, if necessary, stamp upon the people of the United States in their sovereign capacity. I believe no such thing. I believe the people are sovereign in their intelligence, in their virtue, and in their rights. The Senator from lowa says that when the issue in regard to the use of troops at the polls was up we did not discuss it with him. lam glad to know that we did not discuss that question. It is so fundamental, deeply founded, so everlastingly grounded in the essential principles of liberty’thatitisnot, in the order of things, on principle a debatable question. But it was debated, forced upon this side of the chamber, not at this session, but a year or so ago, in the fullest possible manner. Now, I wish to call the attention of the Senator from Vermont to a suggestion which he made to me a while ago, that the “ other thing ” was not discussed. What it was I didn’t comprehend, but Ido now. It was the Electoral-count bill. Have we shrunk from debate on that question ? Did not the Senator from Alabama open that discussion and challenge all the intellect, all the wisdom, and all the wit and learning you have on that side of the chamber? Why, then, do you stand here adopting the language of the Senator from Vermont, saying, “We are dumb as oysters'?’ Will you answer me'? Mr.’Edinunds (who had taken a seat ou the Democratic side, near Dlr. Voorhees, and kept up a good-humored running commentary on the latter’s remarks)—l am merely in your condition myself ; I am dumber than an oyster. Mr. Voorhees—The Senator from Vermont spoke without judgment when he said Senators on this side of tho chamber had been dumb as oysters. I challenged the Senator from Colorado to name a question wc had declined to discuss, and, with the kindest feelings toward him, I say he used language that was hurtful, hard, and untrue. He talked about men being afraid to join in discussion. We are peers here. I know of no question that this side of the chamber has dreaded or declined to discuss, and I do not intend to let an impeaching, impugning charge of that kind go out of tliis chamber without being met; and no Senator oan make that charge good. When the Senator from Vermont said we had been dumb as an oyster upon some questions, and then upon “ another thing,” he referred to a question which was discussed here an entire afternoon, most ably, by the Senator from Alabama, who met all the shafts of wit and wisdom hurled at him by the Senators from New York and Vermont ; and yet they dare to say that we decline discussion. The sooner you disabuse your minds, I say to Senators, on that point the better. There is nothing of the kind whatever.

Dlr. Edmunds—Suppose you come to discussion of this very philosophical bill now pending. Dlr. Voorhees—l am discussing matters you have thrust into this debate, which are injurious to personal honor, and which Ido not intend to let pass unchallenged. I never wished to be on my feet in the Senate, but no set of men shall stand up and charge cowardice on this side of the chamber unless they can show cause. Dlr. Conkling—Will it be agreeable to the Senator from Indiana to name me some of subjects —the leading measures—which the Democratic majority of the Senate has either discussed or dealt with at this session? Mr. Voorhees—Yes, sir. Will the Senator from New’ York do me the favor to answer the question which I propounded, first to the Senator from Colorado, and then to the Senator from Vermont, and all the i cst of tho Senators, to name one question that supports the charge that we have declined to meet you in discussion ? Mr. Conkling—l understood the question of the Senator from Indiana to be much broader than that. I understood him to invite us to name questions or subjects which they had refused or failed to discuss. I have no objection to doing that, except the brevity of life. Dlr. Voorhees—Oh, that don’t impose upon anybody or deceive anybody. Mr. Conkling—l do not mean it to deceive anybody, but I should have no objection to beginning with a very large question which the Senator from Indiana gave uh notice that he was going to discuss, and which he grieved me to the heart by refusing to allow me to bear him discuss.

Dlr. Voorhees—Tho Senator from New York answers in the most limping, halting, imperfect, faltering manner to the question of what proposition this side of the chamber has refused or declined to discuss with that side. I never allow men, after making a false issue, to escape it by throwing up something else. The Senator from Colorado repeated over and over that this side of the chamber was afraid to meet certain things. I knew I was pot conscious of fear. I knew I was a reasonable equal with anybody on that side of the chamber. I did not know what I was afraid of. I listened with great pleasure to the Senators from New York, Vermont and Colorado, but I knew there was nothing that we had dreaded to meet on this side. Dlr. Edmunds—You always whistle when you go by a graveyard, don't you'? Dlr. Voorhees—And especially if tho Senator from Vermont was in that graveyard. Dlr. Edmunds—Because you would be very much afraid then, possibly. Mr. Voorhees—Did the Senator from New York tender the issue of finance'? Did he ever call it up? The Senator from Colorado insisted in words not agreeable to hear that we were afraid to meet questions tendered by that side. Dlr. Conkling—Most assuredly I wished a discussion of the finance question when I read in the newspapers that the honorable Senator was going to make a speech. Dlr. Voorhees (interrupting)—When did you ever sav so?

Dlr. Conkling—Why, Dlr. President, as the heart panteth for water brooks so I panted for that speech about the dollar of our daddies. Dlr. Voorhees—You never dared above your breath to say you did. Dlrr Conkling—l was holding my breath to hear the oration of the Senator. Mr. Voorhees—You never dared challenge such a discussion. Nobody knows what the specific views of the Senator from New York arc on the financial question, and he has never uttered them. When the silver debate took place here that lasted six months, conspicuously the Senator from New York didn’t dare to utter his opinions. Conspicuously of all the Senators in this body, more than anybody else, he hushed his voice, he suppressed his opinion, if he had any, and never uttered one single word on the subject; so much so that the great metropolitan journals of New York, his own great State, queried and wondered what influence it was debilitating and paralyzing the stalwart intellectuality of the Senator on that subject. • And he dared to challenge me. A question of the greatest moment, whether silver should be recoined, whether the money of the fathers should reinstated, came and went, and passed through all its stages, without even the Senator from New York having a feeble, infantile whisper on that subject. He is not the man to question me on what questions in debate I dare or dare not meet, for no greater question than tho question of remonetization of silver ever swept through this Capitol, and no man was ever more silent than he was when it came.

Mr, Conkling—The Senator from Indiana, perhaps because he misunderstands me, or perhaps for some other reason, chooses to give a very strange odor of personality to this debate. I seek no personality with the Senator. I never charged him with not daring to do anything. That is a word he coined himself. Mr. Voorhees—When the Senator from New York says I have injected a flavor of personality into the debate he is mistaken. The Senator from New York knows that my feelings toward him are those of entire personal kindness, and I have no desire whatever to change them in that regard; but at the same time I don’t intend that side of the chamber, led by the great ability of the Senator from New York, shall put even so humble a person as myself in a false position, nor shall be lead this discussion away from the true issue. A charge was made in the boldest, grossest manner that we were afraid to meet questions proposed by that side, and I say it is not true, and the history of the present session will show it. And now, passing from the points that have been made, I desire to pay a little attention to the bill under discussion. Ido not believe in supervision or chief supervision of elections. With all the strength of my convictions, heart and mind, I am against them all; for whenever it comes to me that the American people cannot govern themselves, either in county, township or State, I will feel from my education that this Government is lost as a republic. If Senators on that side of the chamber, where they talk of a nation mean that a nation has power to subvert fundamental principles of popular sovereignty and self-control. I do not believe in that sort of a nation. I believe in no loose confederacy, from which an erratic star may shoot at its own pleasure. I believe in no power of a State to break the Union. I said so during the war in my place in the House ; and I believe just as little in the power of the Federal Government to usurp and supplant the power of the State in local self-government and home rule. The amendment offered by the Senator from Ohio (Thurman) gives vital power, force, efficiency and acceptability to this bill, and that is, that no man who has heretofore held the office of Supervisor, and, holding it,

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illustrated his tyranny, usurpation. oppression and power of outrage, shall ever hold it again. I would not vote for any bill that would give to the President of the United States jxiwer to give John Davenport and assimilated pirates in politics the right to stay in office. After denouncing Davenport’s acts, Mr. Voorhees continued : “We will meet this question and discuss it with you, unless American liberty shall die, as long as the inherent, everlasting, glorious rights for which our fathers led armies and bled in are left. As long as these principles endure, so long we will be right, and you will be wrong, and nobody knows it better than Senators on that side themselves. It is they who are afraid to meet the question. The Senator from Vermont is afraid to take away brute force, to dispense with John Davenport, to trust to the doctrines of the constitution, which said this Union was founded on the virtue and intelligence of the people.”

DAVID DAVIS.

Letter from the Senator from Illinois on the Volitical Questions of the Day. Quincy. 111., Mhy 6, 1880. My Dear Judge : The approaching dose of the present session of Congress will, it is to be feared, leave questions unsettled which are of large public interest, and which materially affect the peace and the prosperity of the Union. Many of your friends in this State and throughout the West had hoped, and indeed had expected, that an opportunity would have been offered in the Senate by which your views on these matters could have been made known to the country. It unfortunately happens, amidst the distractions of party and the strifes of rival ambitions, that the voice of statesmanship is hushed too often, when wise counsel is most needed. This was never more true than at the present time. The country is just emerging from a long period of trial and suffering. The people seek rest from angry discords, and desire to avoid a repetition of the perils through which they have passed. They crave good government, stability, and perfect reconciliation between the sections. The statesman who can achieve these objects will be blessed as a public benefactor. I have ventured to embody in the form of inquiries appended to this letter some, of the subjects upon which your opinions are desired, if it be agreeable to you to comply with the request of a large body of voters and friends, without distinction of party. Truly, your friend, O. H. Browning. lion. David Davis, United States Senate. Washington, May 14, 1880. My Dear Sir : I have bad the pleasure to receive your letter of the 6th inst. As a constituent, a friend, and an honored citizen of Illinois, you have a perfect right to ask for my views on public questions, and I have no hesitation in expressing them, taking the inquiries in the order presented. PEACE IN THE UNION. Permanent prosperity and fraternal fellowship are only to be attained by silencing sectional strife. A faithful adherence to the constitution and all the amendments ; strict observance of the laws in conformity therewith, and equal rights and equal protection for every citizen in every part of the republic, will soon end the discords that have too long vexed the country and injured its material welfare. The people arc weary of agitation and want peace. CENTRALIZATION. 'The constitution wisely defines the respective limits of the Federal and State Governments, under a happy and harmonious system, wherein each is independent in its appropriate sphere and both operate concurrently to protect the integrity and the stability of the Union. Any encroachment of one on the distinctive domain of the other necessarily dislocates the machinery of the constitution, and involves danger to the whole body politic. In fact, every departure from the great charter of liberty and law is attended with peril. The demand made by adherents of one of the great parties for a strong Government means, substantially, a centralized Government, destructive of home rule in the States, and the very reverse of what Mr. Lincoln well described as a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Carried to its'logical conclusion, such a change would finally overthrow the republic. THE THIRD TERM. An innovation upon the sanctified traditions of the Presidency, first established by the example of Washington, is urgently demanded by a powerful interest in the Republican party. If the limitation of two terms, heretofore universally accepted, be destroyed, the way to a selfperpetuating Presidency will lie opened, by the use and the abuse of the enormous public patronage. Break down this barrier, and an end of the experiment of republican government looms up darkly as the cost of a fatal concession. GREAT CORPORATIONS. The rapid growth of corporate power and the malign influence which it exerts by combinations on the national and State Legislatures is a well-grounded cause of alarm. A struggle is impending in the near future between this overgrown power, with its vast ramifications all over the Union, and a hard grip on much of the political machinery on the one hand, and the people in an unorganized condition on the other, for control of the Government. It will be watched by every patriot with intense anxiety. CIVIL SERVICE. Neither laws nor commissions created under them will effectually reform the many and glaring abuses of the civil service. The former have been constantly evaded, and the latter are powerless for good. An honest Executive, bent on real and not simulated reform, has abundant authority to make it effective everywhere, if he has the capacity to see his duty and the courage to perform it. SUBSIDIES. Experience has demonstrated that subsidies in any form are sources of corruption and ought to bo forbidden. Private enterprises that depend for success upon legislation procured by venal agencies do not deserve public favor. PUBLIC LANDS. More than 150,000,000 of acres of valuable land, more than if 100,000,000, principal and interest, have been voted by Congress to railroad corporations. The remaining lands should be sacredly reserved for cultivators of the soil, so that the laboring man should have a chance to improve his condition, and to open up a future for his children away from the seductions of the great cities. REVISION OF THE TARIFF. Tariff practically means taxation, and all taxation not equitably adjusted is odious. While the interest on an oppressive public debt; the pensions earned with the blood of soldiers and sailors who fought for the Union, and the reg ular expenses of carrying on the Government, are to be met, duties on imports must continue to furnish one of the sources of revenue. So Jong as those duties are levied manufacturers will be benefited, according to the degree or the mode in which the duties may be distributed. The existing tariff is regarded as a confused mass of incongruities and monopolies, created by special legislation, and open to constant frauds on the revenue. It taxes the consumer heavily, on those articles especially that are most needed by the toiling masses. It taxes every newspaper, every school-book, every Bible, and the salt of the workingman, with gross injustice, because the poor pretense of revenue docs not exist to cover the wrong. A revision, therefore, which shall be j,t once searching and fair, is demanded, and should be promptly and efficiently made.

THE PUBLIC DEBT. The debt of the United States, in round numbers, is two thousand millions, deducting the hoarded coin in the treasury. The interest upon it last year was over one hundred millions. ’These are appalling figures. The rapid extinction of this debt is to be desired. First, because it would diminish present burdens, and for the additional reason that one of the effects of a permanent national debt is to create a preferred class, to live on incomes, and free from taxes, under our laws. Having the protection of the Government at home and abroad, they would contribute notliing to its support. . ECONOMY. It is practicable by co-operation between the Executive and Congress to reduce the public expenditures many millions annually, without impairing the efficiency of the public service. Retrenchment is needed for the reduction of taxes, but it is also needed because, properly administered, it would become a potent factor in ref owning the civil service. ELECTIONS. The ballot-box should be the safeguard of the republic, for it is intended to express the free will of a free people. Therefore, elections ought to be exempt from the presence of any menacing force, and to be free from the contamination of corrupt Returning Boards. No

democratic JOB PRINTING OFFICE CiM better (acilitiM than any office In Northwester* Indiana for the execution of all branches of JOB miNTT ING, PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. Anything, from a Dodger to a Price-List, or from • Famphlet to a Poster, black or colored, plain or fancy. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

party deserves confidence that seeks as-'Diiden-cy by striking down honest suffrage, either by the use of troops, by fraud, or by intimidation/ It would not be proper for me to express any opinion upon the measures pending, or proposed, in Cong ss. My votes will speak for themselves at the fitting time. Having thus freely answered your inquiries, I may add,.in conclusion, that my support will be cheerfully given to any candidate for President who, in good faith, will strive to carry out this general line of policy, which, in my judgment, is of far more importance than the ambition of any man, or even than the success of any party. As'ever, your friend. David Davis. Hon. O." H. Browning, Quincy, 111.

INDIANA NEWS.

A Connersville horse fell dead from fright at a locomotive. The farmers of Knox county feel gloomy over the wheat prospect. A New Albany doctor, young and unmarried, officiated at eleven births last week. The sale of harvesting implements in New Albany, just at present, is something marvelous. The Presbyterians have begun work on their new church in Wabash. It will cost about S2O, 0(10. The State House contractors have just started to burn their first kiln of bricks, at Centerton, containing 450,000 bricks. Forest fires have been raging on flic knobs, three miles west of New Albany, and have, destroyed a large quantity of valuable timber. The catalogue of Wabash College shows 165 students in attendance. The number of alumni living is 311. Commencement will be held June 23. Mrs. Rebecca Ann Billingsly, a widow, has been arrested at Shelbyville for having attempted to obtain a pension which she was not entitled to. The UePaffiv plate-glass works at New Albany, after lying idle nearly four months on account of a strike of the operatives, has now resumed operations. The State Superintendent has completed the semi-annual apportionment of the school fund, the total amount reported in for distribution being $1,090,950. Marion eountv has 115 cases pending before the Supreme Court, of which ninety-two are old cases and twentythree, have been Hied during the last term. A heavy gale at North Vernon, with a rain-storm, blew the hyppodrome canvas and one tent of Hayward’s circus to the. ground. The Colonel suffered SI,OOO damages. A hotel landlord at Indianapolis wears a hat woven of pineapple straw, which weighs only two ounces. It. was made on the island of St. Helena, and is valued at SIOO. While Mrs. Kate Brown, a wealthy lady living near Scipio, Jennings county, was working among her Howers, she was stricken with paralysis, and died almost instantly. Christian Mellenger, , whose little child was burned to death in a stable at Fort Wayne, has caused the arrest of Charles Cemesky, aged 16, who, it is said, set the stable on lire. Col. Smith Vawter says, on the 14th of May, 1834, a cold snap overtook vegetation in Indiana, killing the wheat and many forest trees. Ice froze to the thickness of several inches. Work has been commenced by the contractor for the construction of a third reservoir for the New Albany waterworks, with a capacity of 6,5(10,0(1(1 gallons. The contract price is $20,000. Business has of late become so brisk that -the Indianapolis rolling-mill is about two months behind in orders. For some time past they have been working a full force of hands both night and day. In October, 1877, Win. Wolfe, then 19 years of age, residing in the northern part of Knox county, shot and instantly killed Eli Collins. The case, after several postponements, has now been dismissed. The long-continued efforts of the Government revenue officials to discover the moonshiners, who are known to have been carrying on their unlawful business in Crawford county for a year or two, arc likely to succeed at last. The singular illness in the family of Capt. John Box, residing two miles north of New Albany, heretofore attributed to milk sickness, is now true <1 to arsenic. Three of the family are now in a paralytic condition.

CADET WHITTAKER.

The Report of Ihe West Point Court of Inquiry. The conclusions of the Court of Inquiry in the case of Cadet Whittaker are as follows: 1. The court is unable to believe that such slight wounds as Cadet Whittaker received could have been inflicted by persons in the manner and under the circumstances described by him. 2. It does not sec why a man with his surroundings ami in his condition and frame of mind, as shown by his own evidence, should have submitted to an assault such as is alleged without summoning assistance during the assault or immediately thereafter. 3. It Is'lieves a person tied as he was and left as he claims to have been could readily have released himself had he exerted himself to do so. 4. From the testimony of the Post Surgeon and others the court is compelled to believe Cadet Whittaker was neither asleep nor insensible when he was examined on the morning of April <>, 1880, but that he was feigning. 5. The court is not able to discover any motive that any person, other than Cadet Whittaker, could have had in making such assault, and there is no evidence whatever that any person did it. (1. It believes that the hair-clipping, flesh-cutting and Wnding could all have been accomplished by Cadet Whittaker himself. 7. The theory that the note of warning is an imitation of Cadet Whittaker’s handwriting is, in the opinion of the court,-untenable. The severe tests to which experts in handwriting were subjected, and their positive testimony, place it Is-.yond a doubt that Cadet Whittaker himself wrote the note of warning, and therefore that he is not ignorant of the person or persons engaged in the ailair. This latter conclusion is strengthened by the fact that one-half of the sheet of pajier on which this note is written was found in Cadet Whittaker’s possession. The opinion of the court is as follows : From the strong array of circumstantial evidence, from testimony of exjxirts in handwriting, and from the conflicting statements of Cadet Whittaker and lack of veracity evinced by him in certain cases during the investigation, as shown by the evidence, the court is of the opinion that the imputation upon the character of Cadet Whittaker, nd erred to in the order convening the court and contained in the official reports of the C inmandant of Cadets and Post Surgeon, is fully sustained. . When the report was sent, to Gen. Schofield and read by him, he caused a letter to be addressed to Col. Lazelle, Commandant of the corps of cadets, directing the arrest of Whittaker and placing him in confinement in his room. The order was promptly carried out, and Whittaker will reniain under arrest until the case is disposed of, and a guard will keen him under surveillance. Whittaker still protests his innocence. The findings of the court have been forwarded to the War Department. Prof. R. T. Greener, of Washington, who was one of Whittaker’s volunteer aids, denounces the methods employed by the Court of Inquiry to convict him. He says the entire force of the so-called investigation was directed, not toward finding out who might have committed the outrage, but toward proving Whittaker guilty, and that he has been prejudiced in suppositions, assumptions, insinuations and erpert testimony.