Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1880 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

TORSION NEWS. The rifle-match at Dollymonnt, Ireland, on the 29th ult, between the American and Irish teams, waa won by the former, by a total Bcore of 1,292 to 1,280. At 600 yards the contestants tied, with 436 each. At 900 yard* the Americana scored 436 to their opponents’ 428, and at 1,000 yards the former made 420 and tho latter 416. The Lord Lieutenant and the Lord Mayor of Dublin were among the ■liectators. A state of siege has been declared in all the Turkish provinces bordering on Greece. Dispatches from the far East state that the Russians have been twice defeated by tho Tekko Turcomans, and once by a party of Chinese. A very little war satisfied the people of Ruenos Ayres. The national troops whipped them out of their boots, and they made proposals for peace, which were accepted. Belgium has given official notice of tho severance of diplomatic relations with the Vatican. Turkey is preparing to resist the decrees of the Berlin Conference. 11l the shooting at Dollymonnt, Ireland, on the 30th ult., the Americans were again victorious, Laird carrying off the XlO cup, and Scott that presented by the Earl of Spencer. Tho religions decrees were enforced in Franco, on the 30th nit., the Jesuits quitting their establishments under protest and declaring that they yielded only to force. There was some disorder at Avignon, Marseilles, and other laces on tho part of sympathizers with the banished brotherhood. The American riflemen were banqueted by tho Lord Mayor of Dublin. A bailin' who had been serving ejectments was shot, and killed by ambushed asKiiilnts in the neighborhood of Balia, county Mayo. Gam be! fa intends to appear as a candidate for the (’handier of Deputies in every department in France at the next election. His success in a large majority of (lie districts, which is considered certain, will make him President of the republic in 18H2, if M. Grovy does not make room for him by resigning before that ime. The total revenues of Great Britain for the fiscal year closing June 30 were X 81,962,063, a falling off, as compared with tho prior year, of X 1,258.264. Mr. Gladstone, in replying to a question in the House of Commons, the other day. said, in view of what was transpiring in Ireland, he did not consider the present a titling time to allow tho Fenian exiles lo return. The strong feeling in Franco against, the rigid policy adopted toward the Jesuits is indicated by the announcement that many of the magistrates are resigning rather than enforce the (iovermiient decrees. Tho Sultan does not intend to quietly submit to tho decisions of the Berlin Conference. and has ordered defensive works to be erected as soon as possible at the Dardanelles. During the expulsion of the Jesuits from tlieir chapel at Paris, several English Jesuits called on the crowd to witness that their rights were, being violated, and said they would appeal to the English Ambassador. In the contest for the Abercorn prize cup, at Dollyinount, Ireland, on the 2d inst., two of the American team, Jackson and Hcott, made the highest scores. Fenton, of the Irish team, was third, Briidlnugh bus made uftirmntion in the House of Commons in accordance with tho order adopted on motion of the Government. He will therefore retain his seat. Great sympathy for the French Jesuits is manifested throughout Spain. Even some of the Radicals condemn their expulsion. The Turkish Foreign Minister has informed tho European jKiwers who participated in the Berlin Conference that the I’orto will not agree to tli • cession of Duleigno to Montenegro. Volunteers are being actively enrolled to prevent the disintegration of the Turkish territory.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. The residents of Tinmouth, Vt., objected to Mrs. Harriet Packard, a grass-widow serving as housekeeper in tho residence of a widewor, and, taking her from bed by force, they troated her to a coat of tar and feathers. A collision between freight trains on the Pennsylvania, railway, near Altoona, Pa., resulted in the death of two men and the destruction of twenty-five cars. The official returns of tiie census enumerators show the population of Philadelphia to be 847,542. Erie’s population is 28,565, a gain of 51,000 since 1870. During the progress of the Yale-Har-vard boat-race, at New London, Ct., F. W. Lincoln, President of tho Boston and Albany railroad, and Mrs. Dr. William Appleton, of Boston, who were viewing tho contest from a railroad car, were accidentally thrown from the platform and almost instantly lulled. Congressman De La Matyr has been married to a widow at Friendship, N. Y. They were engaged in youth, but quarreled and separated. Jim Elliott, the prize-fighter, has been sentenced to two years in Sing Sing for burglary. There Avore 200 deaths from sunstroke in New York, during the six days ending oil July 1. The fifth annual eiglit-oarcd race over a four-mile course between Yale and Harvard was won by the former in twenty-four minutes and twenty-seven seconds. Tho honorary degree of Doctor of Laws has been conferred upon President Hayes by Yale College. Two deaths from yellow fever have occurred at the New York quarantine station. A Jersey City Avoman, sick and destitute, killed her three children, believing that they would go to heaven. W e>mt. Six escaped convicts from the Idaho penitentiary stopped a stage-coach on the Challis and Utah line, relieved the seven passengers—five men and two women—of all their valuables, and then divested them of all of tlieir clothing. Tho unfortunates traveled several miles in a state of nudity, and, procuring some sheets and blankets, continued their journey to the railway, where they obtained suitable appareL The woolen mills at Burlington, Racino county, Wis., have been destroyed by fire. J. P. Willard, the Superintendent, perished in the flames. George M. Harenoourt, ft well-known Cincinnati brewer, is dead. The population of Indianapolis figures up 76,031, and that of Milwaukee 118,122. A break in what is knoAvn as the Sny levee, an embankment which protects the Illinois river bottoms for many miles north and south of Quincy from overflow of the Mississippi river, has called an immense destruction

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of farming property and some loss of life. It is estimated that 500,000 bushels of wheat and thousands of acres of standing corn have been ruined. Many houses and bams floated away, and considerable stock has been drowned. The region flooded is forty miles long by from fonr to ten wide, and comprises some of tbe best land in the State of Illinois. A flood in the Columbia rivdr, Oregon, has damaged property to the amount of SIOO,OOO to $200,000. Omaha’s jKipulutiou foots up 30,605, a gain of 14,000 in ten years. Other populations are thus shown by the census returns : Springtield, 111.. 19,683 ; Torre Haute, 26,519, making it. the third city in Indiana; Indianapolis, 75,077. The census returns indicate that Kansas will have nearly 1,000,000 population. The pleasure steamer Mary exploded her boiler on Lake Minnetonka, Minn., killing four persons and painfully injuring several others. H. Hendrick, Cincinnati's oldest insurance agent, is dead. Reports from various places in Illinois, Wisconsin, lowa, Minnesota, Kansas and Missouri (says the Chicago Tribune ) indicate a healthy condition or the crops. Tho corn yield promises to lie unusually large, and the grain crops, except in tho case of winter wheat, will ho better than tho average. Even in Kansas, where the reports for a time were unsatisfactory on account of drought., the yield will be much better than anticipated. Fruit in all places is exceedingly abundant, nxd a plentiful and cheap market will be the consequence. Bo u tlx. By the returns of tire census enumerators the population of Louisville, Ky., is 126,556, a gain of over 25 per cent, in ten years. A census enumerator in North Carolina was attacked by an i literate family, and half killed before he could make his escajie. Scott Bell, colored, was hanged at Ktarkville, Miss., on the 2d inst., for tho murder of Jim Henry, colored, on tho ltith of May last. He made a speech from the gallows saying he was going homo to heaven, and wanted all his friends to meet him there. English Carter, alias L. R. Jones, was hanged the same day, at Huntsville, Texas, for the murder of W. K. Spaulding in July last.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Tho Comptroller of tho Currency reports that the total number of national hunks organized during the fiscal year is sixty-one, with a capital of $7,352,070. The total number of banks which have gone into voluntary liquidation during tho same period is twenty, with a. capital of $2,601,000. Tho total coinage of the United States mints for the year past was over $84,000,000. Of this amount nearly $28,000,000 was silver. Gen. Walker, Superintendent of the Census, lias made an estimate of the population of the United States from the lights before him (which are as yet very fragmentary), and lie thinks there will be in the neighborhood of 48,000,000 people. The public-debt statement for June is as follows : Six per cent, bonds $ 335,786,400 Five per cents 484,804,900 Four and one-half per cents 250,000,000 Four per cents 787,980,800 Rclunding certificates 1,367,000 Navy pension fund... 14,000,000 Total coin bonds $1,723,903,100 Matured debt $ 7,621,465 Legal tenders 344,741,991 Certificates of deposit... 14,465,000 Fractional currency 7,214,954 Gold slid silver certificates 20,378,870 Total without interest. 888,800,815 Total Interest 22,845,547 Total debt $2,120,415,870 Cash in treasury 201,088,622 Debt IeHS cash in treasury $1,942,172,295 Decrease during June 10,214,424 Decrease eince June 30, 1879 85,034,961 Current liabilities— Interest due and unpaid $ 2,368,395 Debt oh which interest has ceased 70121,455 Interest theroon Gold end sllvor certificates 20,878,870 Uuited States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit 14,465,000 Cash balance available, July I,* 1880..... 156,440,457 Total $ 201,088,622 Available assets— Cash In treasury $ 201,088,622 Bonds issued to Padflc. railway companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding. 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 1,938,705 Interest paid by United States 45,651,155 Interest repaid by transportation of mails 13,615,292 By cash payments of 5 per cent, of net earnings 655,198 Balance of interest paid by the United States 31,380,664 POLITICAL POINTS. J. Don Cameron wrote a letter from tho White 'Sulphur Springs, where he is sojourning for the benefit of hi« health, positively declining the Chairmanship of the National Republican Committee. He says his health and the advice of his physician forbid it. At the meeting of the National Republican Committee at New York, last week, Marshall Jewell, of Connecticut, and S. W. Dorsey, of Arkansas, were elocted Chairman and Secretary respectively.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The fast mail between New York and Chicago has been re-established. Victoria and his savages are still slaughtering herders and stealing cattle in Mexico. Edwin Booth, the eminent tragedian, has sailed for Europe. The racer, Clifton, owned by Dawes, of Lachine, Canada, and valued at $15,000, has had a leg broken while running a race.

Money Puffed Away in Smoke.

It is a startling truth that New York pays more for cigars than bread, and tins is easily seen Avhen individual cigar bills run up to S3OO per annum. I know ono man avlio was unable to save anything on an income of $12,000 a year, and who gave among the reasons that it cost him $lO per week for cigars. If all his expenses Avere at such a rate there could be very little chance at accumulation. There are many smokers who average 100 cigars a week. These are the men Avho build up such fortunes as the Gilseys and others have made. Peter Gilscy landed in New York a poor emigrant. He was a piano maker, but opened a cigar shop in the Bowery, Avhich his wife attended Avhile he wrought at his trade. From this humble beginning Gilscy became one of the most extensive dealers in the city. He had at one time nearly a dozen cigar shops, and he left an estate worth $2,000,000. The Gilsey House is one of his creations, and the splendid establishment known as the “ Gilsey Building,” corner of BroadAvay and GourtlaUd street, is another. A country editor being asked, “Do hogs pay ?” says a great many do not. They take the paper several years, and then have tho Postmaster send it back “Refused,”

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 9,1880.

WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK.

His Wise and Patriotic Record upon Questions of Public Liberty. He Raises the Great Shield of Ihc Constitution for the Defence of the People’s Rights— He maintains Civil ■ aw Against Arbitrary Authority— He Defends the Principles of Free Government finder All Circumstances—Sentiments and Language Worthy of President George Washington. [From The Sun of Nov. 19, 1879.] Gen. Winfield 8. Hancock rendered services in the field during the war of the highest importance to the country; but the services he rendered after the close of hostilities were of incalculable value, and deserving of everlasting remembrance. As commander of the Department of Missouri (1866-’7)and of the Department of Louisiana and Texas (1867-’8) he had to deal with civil questions requiring the best statesmanship and the soundest judgment; and the way in which ho dealt with them showed that lie possessed the qualities necessary for tlieir proper decision. In times of peril to the constitutional rights of the States and to the.fundamental liberties of the people, he went to the full extent of his power in maintaining those rights and liberties, apd made for himself a record that the American people must keep before tlieir eyes in the days that are now upon us. We have brought together from his orders, letters and speeches, while commanding the departments just named, a few passages of profound, permanent, and practical interest.

ORDER NO. 10.—MILITARY AUTHORITY OIVES WAT TO THE CIVIL —THE I'RINOITLEH OF AMERICAN LIBERTY OUR LAWFUL INHERITANCE. The General commanding is gratified to learn that peace and quiet reign in this department. It will be his purpose to preserve this condition of things. As a means to this great end, he regards the maintenance of the civil authorities in the faithful execution of the laws as the most efficient under existing circumstances. In war it is indispensable to repel force by force, and overthrow and destroy opposition to lawful authority. But when insurrectionary force has been overthrown and peace established, and the civil authorities are ready and willing to perform their duties, the military power should cease to lead, and the civil administration resume its natural and rightful dominion. So'emnly impressed with these views, the General announces that the great principles of American liberty are still the lawful inheritance of this people, and ever should be. Tho right of trial by jury, (lie habeas corpus, the liberty of the press, the freedom of speech, the natural rights of persons, ancl the rights of property must be preserved. Free institutions, while they are essential to the prosperity and happiness of the people, always furnish the strongest inducements to peace and order. * * * While the General thus indicates his purpose to respect the liberties of the people, be wishes all to understand that armed incursions or forcible resistance to the law will he instantly suppressed by anus. THE INTERPOSITION OF THE MILITARY POWER FOR THE TKIAL OF ORDINARY OFFENKHS, WHEN THE CIVIJj COURTS ARE OPEN, FUEL OF DANGER TO LIBERTY. It must be a matter of profound regret to all who value constitutional government that there should be occasions in time of civil commotion when the public good imperatively requires the intervention of the military power for repression of disorders in the body politic, and for tho punishment of offenses against the existing laws of the country framed for tho preservation of social ordei ; but that the intervention of this power should be called for, or even suggested, by civil magistrates, when the laws are are no longer silent, and civil magistrates are possessed, in their respective spheres, of all the powers necessary to give effect to the lav.s, excites the surprise of the commander of the Fifth Military District. In his view it is of evil example, and full of danger to the cause of freedom and good government, that the exercise of the military power, through military tribunals, created for the trial of offenses against the civil law, should evor be permitted, when the ordinary powers of the existing State Governments are ample for the punishment of offenders, if those charged with the administration of the laws are faithful in the discharge of their duties. GEN. HANCOCK IN REPLY TO A REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR—HE FAVORS THE LARGEST LIRERTY OF OPINION AND DISCUSSION—EXTRACT FROM HIS LETTER TO GOV. PEASE, OF TEXAS. My Dear Sir : lam not a lawyer, nor lias it been my business, as it may have been yours, to study the philosophy of statecraft and" politics. But I may lay claim, after an experience of more than half a lifetime, to some poor knowledge of men, and some appreciation of what is necessary to social order and happiness. And for the future of our common country I could devoutly wish that no great number of our people have yet fallen in with the views you appear to entertain. Woe be to us whenever it shall come to pass that (lie power of the magistrate—civil or military—is permitted to deal with the mere opinions or feelings of the people. I have been accustomed to believe that Rontiments of respect or disrespect, and feelings of affection, love, or hatred, so long as not developed into acts in violation of law, wero matters wholly beyond the punitory power of human tribunals. I will maintain that the entire freedom of thought and speech, however acrimoniously indulged, is consistent with the noblest aspirations of man, and the happiest conditions of his race. When a l>oy, I remember to have rend a speech of Lord Chatham, delivered in Parliament. It was during our Revolutionary war, ’and related to the policy of employing the savages on the side of Britain. You may bo more familiar with the speech than I am.’ If I am not greatly mistaken, his Lordship denounced the British Government—his Government—in terms of unmeasured bitterness. He characterized its policy as revolting to every sentiment of humanity and religion; proclaimed it covered with disgrace, and vented his eternal abhorrence of it and its measures. It may, I think, be safely asserted that a majority of the British nation concurred in the views of Lord Chatham. But who ever supposed that profound peace was not existing in that kingdom, or that Government had any authority to question the absolute right of the opposition to express their objections to the propriety of the King’s measure in any words or to any extent they pleased? It would be difficult to show that the opponents of the Government in the days of the elder Adams, or Jefferson, or Jackson exhibited for it either “ affection ’’ or “respect.” You are conversant with the history of our past parties and political struggles touching legislation on alienage, sedition, the embargo, national banks, our wars with England and Mexico, and cannot be ignorant of the fact that for one party to assert that a law or system of legislation is unconstitutional, oppressive, and nsurpative, is not a new tiling in the United States That the people of Texas consider acts of Congress unconstitutional, oppressive, or insulting to them, is of no consequence to the matter in hand. The President of the United States has announced his opinion that these acts of Congress are unconstitutional. The Supreme Court, as you are aware, not long ago decided unanimously that a certain military commission was unconstitutional. Our people everywhere, in every State, without reference to the side they took during the Rebellion, differ as to the constitutionality of these acts of Congress. How the matter really is, neither you nor I may dogmatically affirm. If you deem them constitutional laws, and beneficial to the country, you not only have the right to publish your opimons, but it might be your bounden duty as a citizen to do so. Not less is it the privilege and duty of any and every citizen, wherever residing, to publish his opinion freely and fearlessly on this and every question which he thinks concerns his interest This is merely in accordance with the principles of our free Government; and neither you nor I would wish to live under any other. It is time now, at the end of almost two vears from the close of the war, we should begin to recollect what manner of people we are; to tolerate again free popular cUsouaeion, a»d ex-

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tend some forbearance and consideration to opposing views. The maxims that in all intellectual contests truth is mighty and must prevail, and that error is harmless when reason is left free to combat it, are not only sound but salutary. It is a poor compliment to the merits of such a cause that its advocates would silence opposition by force ; and generally those only who are in the wrong will resort to this ungenerous means. lam confident you will not commit your serious judgment to the proposition that any amount of discussion, or any sort of opinions, however unwise in your judgment, or any assertion of feeling, however resentful or bitter, not resulting in a breach of law*, can furnish justification for your denial that'profound peace exists in Texas. Yon might aR well deny that profound peace exists in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, California, Ohio and Kentucky, where a majority of the people differ with a minority on these questions ; or that profound peace exists in the House of Representatn es or the Senate at Washington, or in the Supreme Court, where all these questions have been repeatedly discussed, and parties respectfully and patiently heard. THE BABCOCK COURT—GEN. HANCOCK 1 * MOTION TERMINATING PROCEEDINGS. Gen. W. 8. Hancock arose in his place and, addressing the court, said : Mr. President : I have a motion to make to the court which will lie proper to be made before the court is sworn, if it be made at all. If the ‘court are prepared to hear me, I will proceed at once. Lieut. Gen. Sheridan—Proceed, General; the court will hear you. Gen. Hancock then read the following motion : A sense of duty to the laws, to the military service, and to the accused impels mo to ask your concurrence in a postponement of this inquiry for the present. We are all bound to believe in the entire innocence of Gen. Babcock, and tliis presumption cannot lie repelled without the evidence. It is due to him to suppose that the Court of Inquiry was asked in good faith for the reasons given. What wero these reasons ? In the course of a legal trial in St. Louis, Col. Babcock was alleged to be guilty of a high criminal offense. He asked for a hearing in the same court, but was informed that he could not have it, because the evidence was closed. These circumstances had led him to demand a Court of Inquiry, as tho only means of vindication that was left. Since then he has been formally indicted, and is now certain of getting that full and fair trial before an impartial jury wliich the laws of the country guarantee to all its citizens. The supposed necessity of convening a military court for the determination of his guilt or innocence no longer exists. It is not believod that our action as a military tribunal can oust the jurisdiction of the coiu’t in which the indictment is pending. The President has said, through the Attorney General, that such was not the intention. Then tho trial at St. Louis and this inquiry. must go on at the same time, unless we await the result of the inquiry' there. The difficulties are very formidable. The accused must be present at the trial of the indictment. Shall we proceed and hear the cause behind liis back, or shall we vex him with two trials at once? The injustice of this is manifest-.

I presume from tho nature of the case that, the evidence is very voluminous, consisting of records, papers and oral testimony. Can we compel the production of these while they are wanted lor the purposes of the trial at St. Louis? Certainly not, if the military be, as tlic constitution declares, subordinate to tbe civil Authorities. Shall we proceed without evidence, and give an opinion in ignorance of the facts? That cannot be t-lie wish of anybody. I take it for granted that the trial atSt. Louis will be fair, as well as legal, and that the judgment, will be according to the very truth and justice of the cause. It will, without question, be binding and conclusive upon us, upon the Government, upon the accused, and upon the world. If lie should be convicted, no decision of ours could rescuo him from the hands of the law. If he is acquitted, our belief in his innocence will be of no consequence. If we anticipate the trial in the civil court, our judgment, whether for the accused or against him, will have- and ought to have, no effect upon the jurors. It cannot even be made known to them, and any attempt to influence them by it would justly tie regarded as an obstruction of public justice. On the other hand, his conviction there would be conclusive evidence of his guilt, and his acquittal will relieve him of the necessity of showing anything but the record. Ido not propose to postpone indefinitely, but simply to adjourn from day to day until the evidence upon the subject of our inquiry shall receive that definite and conclusive shape which will be impressed upon it by the verdict of tho jury, or until our action, having been reftrred to the War Department, with our opinion that our proceedings should be stayed during the proceedings of the court of law, shall have been confirmed. In case of acquittal by the civil court, the functions of this court will not necessarily have terminated. The accused may be pronounced innocent of any crime against the statute, and yet be guilty of some .act which the military law might punish by expulsion from the army. In case of acquittal, he may insist upon showing to us that he has done nothing inconsistent with “the conduct of an officer and a gentleman,’ as the article of war runs ; but the great and important question is, “ Guilty or not in manner and formas lie stands indicted?” and this can be legally answered only by a jury of liis country.

GEN. HANCOCK DECLINES TO INTERFERE IN CIVIL CONTROVERSIES -ARBITRARY I’OWER HAS NO BUSINESS HERE —IT IS RESTRAINED BY THE CONSTITUTION. Applications have been made at these headquarters implying the existence of an arbitrary authority in the commanding General touching purely civil controversies. One petitioner solicits this action, another that, and each ref era to some special considerations of grace or favor which he supposes to exist, and which should ihfluence this department. The number of such applications and the waste of time they involve make it necessary to declare that the administration of civil justice appertains to the regular courts. The rights of litigants do not depend upon the views of the General—they are to be adjudged And settled according to the laws. Arbitrary power, such as he has been urged to assume, has no existence here. It is not found in the laws of Louisiana or of. Texas; it cannot be derived from any act or acts of Congress; it is restrained by a constitution and prohibited from action in many particulars. The Major General commanding takes occasion to repeat that, while disclaiming judicial functions in civil cases, he can suffer no forcible resistance to the execution of the processes of the court*.

STAR SPANGLED BANNER.

<>icn. W. S. Hancock at (•cltyNbiirg. In the Philadelphia Times is a pen picture of Gen. Winfield S. Hancock from his boyhood days up to the present time, written by Gen. J. S. Brisbin. We extract the following graphic account of the part played by the heroic General in the terrific conflict at Gettysburg: “It was at Gettysburg Hancock again loomed up before the country as a hero. When he arrived on the field he found the army in confusion, and retreat had already begun. Planting some infantry and batteries on Cemetery hill, he threw his whole energy into the battle and checked the enemy. Schwerin and Saxe were said to be worth each a reinforcement of 10,000 men to any army ; Torstensin was rated at equal to 15,000, and the Duke of Wellington said the arrival of Napoleon on a battlefield was a better reinforcement to the French army than the accession of 40,000 fresh troops. What, then, shall we say of the value of Gen. Hancock’s arrival at the critical moment on the battlefield of Gettysburg, a battle that by common consent is now admitted to have decided the fate of the Union, and fixed the final result of the war ? “Of Gen. Hancock’s individual attention at Gettysburg it would require a volume to tell. His was really the action of the army, and Round Top, Culp’s Hill and Cemetery Heights were his creations. He sent word to Gen. Meade that that was the place to fight, and, seizing the favorable positions, with the eye of a consummate General, hung on to them with the advance until Meade brought up the whole army and 4 e Uv* ere 4 m battle.

“Hancock was grand and magnificent in the battle of Gettysburg, and seemed the very incarnation of war. On the second day he was at Cemetery Heights during the frightful cannonade when the rebels concentrated the fire of 150 guns on our lines. The air was full of missiles ; streams of shot and shell hissed everywhere; it seemed as if nothing could live under that terrible fire—men and horses were torn limb from limb; caissons exploded one after another in succession, blowing the gunners to pieces. The infantry hugged the ground closely and sought every shelter that the light earthworks afforded. It was literally a storm of shot and shell, like the fall of rain-drops or the beat of hail-stones. Those who had taken part in every battle of the war never had seen anything like t(iat cannonade, and the oldest soldiers'began to be uneasy for the result. Hundreds and thousands were stricken down; the shrieks of animals and sereams of wounded men were appalling ; still the awful rushing sound of flying missiles went on and apparently never would cease. It was then, when the firmest ’hearts had begun to quail, the army witnessed one of the grandest sights ever beheld by an army on earth. Suddenly a band began to play “The Star Spangled Banner,” and Gen. Hancock, with his staff Maj. Mitchell, Capt. Bingham, Capt. Parker, Capt. Bronson—with corps flag flying in the hands of Private Wells, appeared on the right of his line uncovered and rode down the front of his men to the left. The soldiers held their breath, expecting every moment to see him fall from his horse pierced by a dozen bullets, but still he rode on, while the shot roared and crashed around him, every moment tearing great gaps in the ranks by his side.

Stormed by shot and shell, Boidiy he rode, and well. “Every soldier felt his heart thrill as lie witnessed the magnificent courage of this General, and he resolved to do something that day which would equal it in daring. Just as Hancock reached the left of line the rebel batteries ceased to play, and their infantry, 18,000 strong, were seen emerging from the woods and advancing up the hill. Hancock knew the artillery fire had been intended to demoralize his men and cover the advance of their infantry, which was to make the real attack. Turning his horse lie rode slowdy up his line from left to right, holding his hat in his hand, bowing and smiling to the troops as they lay fiat on the ground. Hardly had he reached the right of the line when the men, who, inspired by the courage of their General, could now hardly restrain themselves, received orders to attack the advancing rebels. Eighty guns which Hancock had concentrated opened tlieir brazen mouths and streams of blue bullets flew from the muzzles of our rifles to the breasts of the Confederates. It was an awful day, and Longstreet’s ‘ Old Guard of the South ’ melted away like wax under that terrible fire. Of the 18,000 who came to the attack, 5,000 fell or were captured on the hillside. Thirty stand of colors and an immense amount of small arms were taken. Hancock was everywhere riding the storm of battle as if he bore a charmed life. At last, just in the moment of victory, he was .seen to reel in his saddle and would have fallen to Hie ground had lie not been helped from his horse. A ball had pierced his thigh, and for a time it was thought the wound Avas mortal. “ ‘Tell Gen. Meade,’ said Hancock, addressing his aide, Col. Mitchell, * that the troops under my command have repulsed the enemy and gained a great victory. The enemy are now flying in all directions in my front.’ ‘ 4 When the aide delivered this message to Gen. Meade, and added his General Avas badly Avounded, Meade said : 4 Say to Gen. Hancock that I am sorry he is Avounded, and that I thank him for myself and for the country for the service ho has rendered to-day.’ ”

SCHUYLER UOLFAX AND JAMES A. GARFIELD.

[From the New York Sun.] In the summer of 1872, when the Sun first made public the testimony of Col. Henry S. McComb in the Credit Mobilier suit, Schuyler Colfax and James A. Garfield were both conspicuous leaders of the Republican party. Mr. Colfax was Vice President of the United States; Gen. Garfield was Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations. Writing to Col. McComb in 1868 in regard to Credit Mobilier stock set apart, for the purpose of corrupting legislators, Oakes Ames had said, “ I have used this where it will produce most good to us, I think.” Penciled on the back of the same letter was Oakes Ames’ memorandum list of Senators and Congressmen bribed. There were thirteen names in all. Hero are two of them : 8. Colfax, Speaker $2,000 Garfield, Ohio 2,000 Most of the persons affected by this preliminary revelation hastened to deny their guilt. The denials of Schuyler Colfax and James A. Garfield were alike explicit and impressive. Colfax went from his desk in the Senate Chamber before a committee of the House of Representatives, and, having sworn in the name of God to kill the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, made this statement : I state, explicitly, that no one ever gave or offered to give me any shares of stock in the Credit Mobilier of Uie Union Pacific railroad. I had never received, nor had tendered to me, any dividends in cash, stock o r bonds accruing upon any stock in cither of said organizations. I never received a dollar in bonds, stocks or dividends. In the Senate Chamber, again, Colfax shed tears while protesting his innocence, and appealed to the Eternal Tribunal of Justice to establish the truth of his words. Gen. James A. Garfield also swore in the name of God to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth ; and, having taken that solemn oath, he said : Mr. Ames never gave nor offered to give me any stock or other valuable thing as a gift. I once asked and obtained from him, and afterward repaid to him, a loan of $300; that amount is the only valuable thing I ever received from or delivered to him. I never owned, received or agreed to receive any stock of the Credit Mobilier or of the Union Pacific railroad, nor any dividends or profits arising from cither of them. Q. —Were any dividends ever tendered to you on the stock of the Credit Mobilier upon the supposition that you were to be a subscriber? A.—No, sir. , Q- —The loan you have repaid, if I understood you correctly? A.—Yes, sir. Both Colfax’s and Garfield’s sworn denials were made under the pressure of the emergency, and before it was known or supposed that Oakes Ames would ever be a witness to the truth. Circumstances, which it is not now necessary to recall, brought Qukeg Afflcg te&egfcwd,

with his memorandum book. By the record of his transactions with Colfax the account stood : . Colfax, twenty shares Credit Mobilier, cost $2,000 ; interest for seven months and ten days, $86.72, making a total of $2,086.72, le.s 80 per cent, bond dividend at 97, $1,542 —$534.72. The same book showed that a 60-per-cent. cash dividend of $1,200 Avas paid by him to Colfax. Gen. Garfield’s account in the same memorandum book was as follows : Garfield, ten shares Credit Mobilier, SI,OOO ; seven months and ten days’ interest, $43.36 $1,043.36 ; 80 per cent, bond dividend at 97, $776 —$267.36; interest, June 20, $3.64; balance, $271. Ten shares Credit Mobilier stock, ten shares Union Pacific stock. And in another place a general statement : J. A. G. Dr. 1868.—T0 ten shares Credit Mobilier of A $1,000.00 Interest 47.00 June 19. —To cash 329.00 $1,376.00 1868. CV. By dividend 1 Kinds, Union Pacific railroad, SI,OOO, at 80 per cent., less 3per cent $ 776.00 June 17.—8 y dividend collected for your aeccunt 600.00 $1,376.00 Schuyler C< >lfax swore that he had never received the $1,200 Avliich Ames claimed to have paid him as cash dividend. Oakes Ames swore that lie had paid it by check on the Sergeant-at-Arms. Sergeant-at-Arms Ordway produced the canceled cheek : Washington, June 20, 1868. Sergcant-at-Ariup, IT. S. House of Representatives: Pay to S. C. or bearer $1,200, and charge lo my account. Oakes Ames. This check, which Colfax swore he had never seen, was drawn June 20. The books of the Sergeant-at-Arms showed that it Avas paid June 21. The books of the First National Bank of Washington, where the Vice President kept a private account,, showed that on June 21 Schuyler Colfax deposited there $1,200 in cash, and the deposit ticket in his own handwriting was produced. His perjury as well as his bribe-taking was proved. His closest friends ceased trying to defend him. Alter one effort, pathetically absurd in its weakness, he ceased to try to defend himself. James A. Garfield’s case Avas even worse. To the evidence of his corruption and perjury Avas added evidence of an attempt on his part to suborn perjury. His cash dividend, paid to him June 19, 1868, by Oakes Ames, amounted to $329. After the investigation liad begun, he went to Amos and besought him to let this payment “go as a loan,” and when Ames had refused to perjure himself to sua'o him he made figures to show that Ames still owed him $2,400 of the bribe money ! Oakes Ames testified as follows : Q. You may state whether, in conversation with you, Mr. Garticlfl claims, as lie claimed before us, that the only transaction between you was borrowing $300? A.—No, sir ; ho did not claim that with me. Q. —State how he does claim it with you : what was said? State all that occurred in conversation between you. A.—l cannot remem r her half of it. I have had two or three interviews with Mr. Garfield. Ho wants to put it on the basis of a loan. Q. —What did you say to him in reference to that state of the case? A. —I stated to him that ho never asked me to lend him any money; that 1 never knew lie wanted to borrow any. I did not know he was short. I made a statement to him showing the transaction and what there was due on it; t hat deducting the bond dividend and the cash dividend there was $329 due him, for which I had given him a check ; that he had never asked me to loan him any money, and I never loaned him any. Q. —After you made that statement, what did he state in reply ? A.—Ho wanted to have it go as a loan. Q. —Did lie claim that it was in fact a loan ? A.—No, sir ;1 do not think lie did. No, lie did not.

Q. —State all you know in reference to. it. A. —I told him he knew very well it was a dividend. I made out a statement and showed it to him at the time. In one conversation he admitted it, and said, as near as I can remember, there was $2,490 due in stock and bonds. He made a little memorandum of SI,OOO and $1,400, and, as I recollect, said there was SI,OOO of Union Pacific stock, SI,OOO of Credit Mobilier stock, and S4OO of stock or bonds, I do not recollect what. Q. — IlaA'C you the memorandum that Mr. Garfield made? A. - 1 have the figures that he made. Paper in Mr. Garfield's handwriting was shown to tho committee, containing figures as follows : SI,OOO 1,400 $2,400 Q. —Yon say that those figures were made by Mr. Garfield? A. Yes, sir. Q. —That was his idea of what was coming to him? A. —Yes, sir. All this, be it remembered, occurred after tbe investigation had begun—-after James A. Garfield liad sworn that he “never owned, received, or agreed to receive any stock of the Credit Mobilier or of the Union Pacific railroad, nor any dividends or profits arising from either of them. ” _ And, after Garfield had sworn to this falsehood, a Republican committee of the House of Representatives, made up of his own political and personal friends, and Avitli Judge Poland, of Vermont, as its Chairman, branded him forever as a bribe-taker and a perjurer in these blasting words: He (Garfield) agreed with Mr. Ames to take ten shares of Credit Mobilier stock, but did not pay for the same. Mr. Ames received the 80 percent, dividend in bonds, and sold them for 97 percent., and also received the 60 per cent, cash dividend, which, together with the price of the stock and interest, left a balance of $329. This sum was paid over to Mr. Garfield by a check on the Sergeant-at-Arms. The Credit Mobilier exposure shattered a good many reputations; but it left no characters worse damaged than those of Schuyler Colfax and James A. Garfield. Schuyler Colfax, unnoticed, is living out the last years of a dishonored life ; while, l»y a curious turn of a memorable struggle in a nominating convention, James A. Garfield, his fellow criminal, is the Republican party’s candidate for President of the United States.

GARFIELD’S NEIGHBORS.

What They Think of Hi* Record— An Incident of 1876. The Buffalo Courier recalls the fact that the independent Republicans of Garfield’s Congressional district held a mass-meeting at Warren, Sept. 6, 1876, and adopted the following stinging resolution : Resolved, That it is useless and hypocritical for any political party to declare for reform in its platform, papers, and public addresses, while it insists on returning to high official place and power men who have been notoriously connected with the very schemes and fraud which render reform necessary and urgent; that there is no other man to-day officially connected with the administration of the National Government against whom are justly preferred more and graver charges of corruption than are publicly made and abundantly sustained against James A. Garfield, the present representative of this Congressional district, and the nominee of the. Republican Convention for re-election. That since he first entered Congress to this day there is scarcely an instance in which rings and monopolies have been arrayed against the interests of the people that he has been found active in speech or vote upon the side of the latter, but in almost every case he has been the ready champion of the rings and monopolies.

$1,50 Der Annum.

NUMBER 22.

That wo especially cliargo him with venality and cowardice in ]>ermitting Benjamin F. Butler to attach to. the appropriation hill of 1873 that evcr-to-bc-remembcrcd infamy, the salary steal, and in speaking and voting for that measure upon its final passage. That we further arraign and denounce him for his corrupt connection with the Credit Mobilier, for his false denials thereof before his constituents, for his perjured denial thereof before a committee of Congress, for fraud upon his constituents in circulating among them a pamphlet purporting to set forth the finding of said committee and the evidence against him, when, in fact, material portions thereof were omitted and garbled. That we further arraign and charge him with corrupt bribery in selling his official influence as Chairman of the Conunitteo on Appropriations for £5,000 to the DeGolyer pavement ring, to aid said ring in imposing upon the people of the District of Columbia a pavement which is almost worthless at a price tliree times its cost, %nd in procuring a contract to i rocuro which it corruptly paid $97,000 for “ influence selling his influence in a matter that involved no question of law uj)on *tho shallow pretext that hr. was acting as a lawyer ; selling his influence in a manner so palpable and clear as to he so found and declared by an impartial and competent. court upon an issue soleninty tried. That we arraign him for gross dereliction of duty as a member of Congress in failing to bring to light and expose the corruption and abuse in the sale of post traderships, for which the late Secretary Belknap wa s impeached when the same was brought to liis knowledge by Gen. Hazen, in 1872, and can only account for it upon the supposition that his manhood was debauched by the corruption funds then by him just received arid in his own purse. That neither groat ability and experience nor eloquent partisan discussion of the dead issues of the late civil war will excuse or justify past dishonesty and corruption, or answer as a'guarantee of integrity and purity for the future. That, believing these statements in the foregoing resolutions set forth, wo can not, without stultifying our manhood and debasing our self-respect, support at the polls the nominee of the Republican Convention of this district for re-election, nor can we, without surrendering our rights as electors and citizens, sit silently by and see a man so unworthy again sent to represent you in the National Legislature. That, strong to the conviction of right, we call upon the electors of this district, irrespective of former or present party attachment, who desire honest government, to unite with us in an earnest, faithful effort to defeat the re-elec-tion of Gen Garfield and elect in liis stead’ an honest, rehable man.

LOSS OF THE SEAWANAHAKA.

T|ie NarrajainicU IQ error Repeated oil Long Island Sound—fifty People Drowned and Burned. The steamer Seawanahaka, plying on Long Island sound, between New York city and Glen Cove, took fire on the afternoon of the 28th ult., when off Randall's island, and burned to the water’s edge. There wore about 600 passengers on hoard ; 450 were saved by passing steamers, but the remainder cither jumped over board and were drowned, or remained on the boat and perished by fire. Charles A. Dana, of the New York iSun, and two of the Harper Brothers were among the resensd passengers. From the telegraphic accounts of the disaster printed in the metropolitan press, we glean the following particulars : The Scawanahaka, one of tlio fastest and trimmest steamers running out of New York, left her dock at 4:15 o’clock p. in., her dock well crowded. Many were returning to their country residences, and others were leaving town to escape the heat of the city, and spend the night in the cool villages along the sound. When off College point, in the sound, a few miles from the city, a cloud of thick dark smoke suddenly rose through the grating near the pilot-house. It was first thougl it that the smoko carne from the engineroom, and no danger was for the moment apprehended ; but, before the passengers had recovered from their first surprise, flames shot up through the grating, crept around the pilothouse, attacked the dry, inflammable deck, and spread with wonderful speed ill all directions. The Captain was in the pilot-house, and was first to see the danger to which his human freight was so unexpectedly exposed. The cry “The boat’s on tire” was raised, and in an instant the steamer was the scene of appalling confusion. A rush was made for the lockers in which the life-preservers were kept.' Many of the men retained their presence of mind, and aided the officers of the steamer in equipping the women and children with preservers. The voice of the Captain was heard above the din and confusion counseling the people to maintain order, but order was out of the question, and, although the Captain and his crew were, said to have acted with firmness and celerity it was beyond their power to control the panic-stricken crowd. The tire-extinguishing apparatus was set at work, but in vain. The names swept the steamer amidships, and spread both ways. Most of the passengers huddled together toward the forward end of the boat. The port side was all ablaze, but on the starboard there was still a narrow space along which the passengers thronged toward the bow. When it became certain that the steamer was doomed a heartrending scene of terror ensued. Mothers clasped their children to their breasts and sprung overboard with them. Capt. Smith ordered his boats lowered, and headed the vessel, under a full head of steam, for the low land at the north end of Ward’s island. The steamer Granite State was behind the S. Hwanahaka when she caught fire, and her boats were at once lowered, and many persons on the water were picked up. The tug Refuge and a seore of row-boats were soon around the blazing steamer, which kept moving toward the island. It was discovered that the water was too shallow to permit a landing at Ward’s island, and the vessel’s head was turned toward the Sunken Meadows, a strip of marshy ground on the south side of Randall’s island. There the Seawanahaka was run aground. A hundred people in the tug and row-boats were picking up the passengers in the water. The persons who appeared to lie dead were at first passed by, in order that speedier succor might be given to the others. It is feared that many were lost of whom no record has yet been obtained, and that their bodies drifted out into the sound with the tide. Dr. A. E. McDonald, of the Ward Island Insane Asylum, says that when he saw people jumping from the steamer he ordered a force of 500 partially insane men, who were working on the farm near the shore, to save what lives they could. Many of them jumped into the water and drew to land a number who had struggled almost to the shore, and others rescued the bodies which had drifted landward. Quite a number remained on the Seawanahaka until they were driven off by the flames. One man and a child held on the guard rail until it was burned away. Fireman Edward Abeel, of the Seawanahaka, says : “All of a sudden I heard a noise resembling an explosion, and, looking around, saw flames coming up from between the tireroom and engine-room. In less than ten minutes the steamer was one mass of flames from stem to stern. It seemed as if the fire spread instantly, for no sooner had it appeared between the engine-room and the fire-roomjjthan it broke out also both fore and aft. I can in no way account for the fire. The engineer and firemen were always very particular to see that no inflammable stuff lay about. Engines and boilers were considered in excellent condition. The only way I account for it is the possibility that a flue blew out, opening the furnace door and scattering the fire a considerable distance around, yhe slight noise I heard may have been a flue bursting. I am certain the boiler did not burst. I think two-thuds of the passengers must have jumped over before she beached. The whole thing was almost instantaneous, affording no possibility of ascertaining with certainty the cause of the fire, or even of doing anything to check it. As to the loss of life, it was principally from drowning in the rapid current. I saw' several badly burned—one man with both legs almost burned off. The officers and crew, I believe, are all saved except Josiah Hasbrouck, the cook, and Charles Hasbrouck, a waiter.”

Its Lesson.

A minister was questioning his Sun-day-school concerning the story of Eutychus—the young man who, listening to the preaching of the Apostle Paul, fell asleep, and, falling down, was taken up dead. “What,” he said, “do we learn from this very solemn event ? ” when the reply from a little girl came pat and prompt: “ Please, sir, ministers should learn not to preach too long sermons.” It is the impecunious toper who always lias a glass sigh. *

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INDIANA NEWS.

Fifty of the seventy deaths reported in Indianapolis for the first half of Juue were of children under 5 years of age. Cholera infantum is prevailing in Jeffersonville, and can almost be called epidemic. Quite a number died lust week. Rev. W. R. Halstead, President, and Prof. Ogg, Vice President, of DePauw Female College at New Albany, have resigned. The remains of the late Gen. Lsz. Noble have been brought from Alpine, Col., where he died last November, and interred at Vincennes. In a fracas near Mount Vernon, a stray shot from the pistol of Nat Monroe hit a young lady, also named Monroe, indicting a probably fatal wound. The daughter of a farmer named Taylor, living ten miles south of Terre Haute, aged 10 years, was thrown from a horse and instantly killed. Judge W. A. Woods, was elected a Trustee of Wabash College, to fill the vacancy caused by tlio death of Samuel 15. Gookins, of Terre Haute. The wife of His Excellency Governor J. D. Williams, residing about sixteen miles cast of Vincennes, died,* one day last week, after a lingering illness resulting from a fall some months since. At a picnic in the northern part of Crawford county, James Murphy and William Meßnmio, Avho had been partners in a saw-mill, met and renewed an old quarrel, and Mr. Burnie was shot dead. Work on the new State House at Indianapolis has now advanced so far that the Commissioners will soon be able to name the day of laying t he corner-stone. The ceremonies will probably be held during August. The recorded movement of ears through Indianapolis last week shows a total of 17,857, of which 13,110 were loaded. These would make a (rain reaching from Indianapolis to New York, not including the locomotives necessary to move it. There will ho a general meeting of the Morton Monument Association, at Indianapolis, Sept.' 1, to pass upon all designs, models or suggestions that may be presented by the various sculptors competing for the contract to erect the statue of the late Senator Morton.

Rev. E. G. Wood, D. I)., of the Southeastern Indiana Conference, died at his residence at Moore’s Hill, a few days ago. l)r. Wood was one of the ablest ministers in his denomination in the State, and was for more than fifty years an efficient preacher of the gospel iu Indiana. About(s4o,ooo has been received into the endowment fund of Indiana A.sbury University during the past year, and money that had been invested in railroad stocks which had depreciated in value so that it brought no income has, during the year, risen until it is at par, and will now make its regular dividends. A young lady of Terre Haute was taken-ill, and after being nearly restored to health was attacked by the most torturing pains in her limbs, which were not subdued until after six weeks of suffering. At the end of that time she was able to be removed from her bed to a chair, when the astonishing discovery Was made that she had grown one loot and a half. In the breach of promise suit of Elizabeth McPherson against John Warble, for SIO,OOO, at Shelbyville, the jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendant. Considerable interest was taken in the case, owing to the ages of the parties, both being on the shady side of life and rather too old to be figuring in an affair of the heart. Kirk Bundy, a well-to-do farmer of Posey county, had discharged one Phoenix, a hired man, whose attentions to his daughter were unpleasant, to her, and let Phoenix have the use of a gun, which a little later he heard fired in some woods not far from the house. Next morning the bodies of Phcenix and the girl were found in the path leading to her grandmother’s house, where Bundy supposed his daughter had staid over niglit. The fiend encountered heron the way home, and shot her through the heart. A lad named Bailey was struck by lightning and instantly killed, near Economy, while retreating from the harvest-field with his father before a storm. The father was almost beside, him. The work of death was so quick and silent that he did not know-lmt the boy was following behind him, until he reached the door-yard and was told by persons who had seen the hoy fall with the flash from the house. He returned to the field and found his son lying in the stubble, with nothing but a faint red line from his ear to his shoulder to mark the work of the deadly fluid.

CcnMa Kcflirnw. The census will show Kniglitstown to have a population of about 1,700, or an increase of a little over 100 in ten years. The census returns give Kendallville a population of about 2,600, Waterloo 1,900, Auburn 1,600, Butler 1,200, Lagrange 1,400, Albion 1,000, and Ligonier 2,005. The present population of Fort Wayne (official) is 25,957, against 17,718 at the last census (1870), an increase of 8,239 in ten years, or about 4(5.5 per cent. South Bend is pleased with a census enumeration of a little over 12,000. Richmond has 17,000 population. The Supervisor of Census reports that Indianapolis has a population of 75,031, being an increase of about 50 per cent, in the past ten years. This is fully 25,000 less than was claimed. The fact is also developed that the death-rate is alarmingly large. Nothing less than 25,000 would be listened to in Lafayette. The census men have finished, and enough is known to show that Lafayette will have to drop almost if not quite 9,000 from her expectations. There has been but a very small increase. Ten years ago so great was the disappointment at the figures that the City Council ordered, at city expense, a retaking of the census. The result was that the last report made it less than the first; so we are not likely to have a repetition of that trick. The census enumerators for Richmond and vicinity have finished the canvass and find that there are over 17,000 people in the city and suburbs, fully 1,000 more than had been claimed for it. In the First ward they found a man, Father Janhoff, who is 106 years old,-*-and in good health, with a prospect of living many years. The register of his birth and enlistment under Napoleon the First, and various other records, go to prove that his statements and those of his children, concerning his age, arc correct.