Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1880 — Page 1

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HEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREION NEWS. There seems to be little doubt that *tho Czar’s condition is rather precarious. Persons who are qualified to judge say that his death will occur in the near future. The Irish Bishops will stand by their people. They have communicated to the Pope that “ under certain circumstances,” the significance of which phrase cannot be misunderstood, they will be unable to free themselves from the necessity of supporting the Land League agitation. Russia is establishing an army corps on the Persian frontier, to keep an eye on the Kurds. Beaconsfiold’s publishers paid him £ 12,000 for the copyright of “Endymion,” which is purely a political novel. Berlin dispatches intimate that the authorities are in sympathy with the movement to restrict Jewish influence in political matters. Dervisch Pasha attacked Dulcigno on the 22d of November, but was received with a withering volley of musketry from the Albanians, and forced to retreat, and was obliged to camp in the open country. The Egyptian Government has issued orders to drive back tho Abyssinians by force. The King of Abyssinia decrees that all Mussulmans must be baptized or leave the country. War at an early date is deemed inevitable. Large quantities of arms and ammu nition are being received at Dublin and Cork from America. Fourteen men. one of whom was a British soldier, have been arrested at Cork for participating in a Fenian procession. It required a largo force of cavalry, infantry, policemen and Orangemen to escort fifty-seven sacks of Boycott's grain from his farm to tho railroad station. A landlord was fired at three times at Lough Boa while walking in his garden. Tho trials of tho indicted Land Leaguers havo been fixed for tho 17th of Docomber. Merchants and other citizens of Dublin declare they will not servo on the jury in these trials, for fear of injury to their. business or murder. Healy, Parnell’s privato secretary. has been elected to Parliament "from Wexford. At a mooting of tho British Cabinet it was decided that there was no necessity for coercive legislation for Ireland at present. An attempt was mado to assassinate Capt. John Mitchell, renting a largo farm in Roscommon, and a Protest, ant clergyman was nretl upon in 'llpperary. There havo boen sixty arrests by tho constabulary at Westport.

The steamer Ortigia came in collision with the French steamer Onclo Joseph near Hpezzin, Italy, on tho 24th of November. Tho Onclo Josoph was so much injured that she soon sank. Bho had 800 persons on board, only about fifty of whom were saved. The Ortigia reached Leghorn in a badly-damaged condition. Dervisch Pasha is in possession of Dulcigno, but did not get thereuntil after eight hours’ fighting with tho Albanians, during which both sides suffered very severe losses in killed and wounded. A dispatch from Teheran says tho heads of 300 Kurds have been exposed at Tabrecz. The recent negotiations between Chili and Peru havo been productive of no good result. Chili demanded the cession of a large amount of Peruvian territory, and Peru refused to accede to tho demand. Disorderly demonstrations against the Jews havo been made by the university students in Loipsic, Germany. A horrible war, attended by merciless buteborings, has broken out in New Calabar. An Austrian lias challenged Dr. Tanner to a forty-four-day fast, maintaining himself on beer. The British Parliament will meet on the 6tli of January. The first measure of importance to be introduced is an Irish Land bill. Another shipload of Socialists has left Hamburg for New York.

DOM ESTIC INTELLIGENCE. * Enst A statue of Alexander Hamilton, the earliest Secretary of tho Treasury, has been unveiled in Central Park, Now York, The donor is a son of the famous financier, and is nearly 90 years of age. A Philadelphia jury has convicted Dr. John Buchanan, the trafficker in bogus diplomas, of conspiracy to defraud tho Government to the amount of a $5,000 bail bond. There lias been another cremation at Dr. Lo Moyne’s furnace in Pennsylvania. The remains reduced to ashes were those of thejato Mrs. Lucia Noys, wife of a lawyer at Warren Pa. A train of freight cars jumped the track and tumbled over an embankment at Holland, N. Y., tailing among a gang of track laborers, .killing three and injuring several others. While Thomas Kelley and wife were returning home in Norwich, Ct., James Goode quarreled with Kolley, and the woman, in attempting to shield the husband, was fatally stabbed. Goode was mortally wounded. West. Lieut. Gov. Gray has been installed ns Governor of Indiana, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of tho late Gov. Williams. The funeral services of the latter were participated in at Indianapolis by a vast number of people, including many of the moat distinguished citizens of the State. The remains were removed to Wheatland, his old farm homo, for interment. The census returns show that Idaho is looking up as a stock-raising Territory. The cattle there are estimated at 450,000 head, beside 60,000 horses and an equal number of sheep. Two children at Napa, Cal., left locked in a house during the absence of their parents, were burned to death. The Chicago Public Produce Exchange has dosed its doors, with liabilities of SIOO,OOO. Charles E. Fisher, a Cincinnati ballot-box-stuffer, has been held in $2,600 to the Grand Jury. Four laborers were killed by the fall of an embankment on the Hastings and Dakota road, near Hopkins, Minn. Mrs. Fred Chateau and Mrs. Amanda Grogorie, while crossing the Mississippi rivar on tho ice from Dubuque to East Dubuque, missed their way and fell through an air-hole in the ice and were drowned. Prof. James A. Watson, who so ably filled the chair of astronomy in the University of Wisconsin, and formerly Director of the obsorvatory at Michigan University, died at Madison, last week, of illness contracted while making bis astronomical observations. Mrs. Anna Ooieman, the wife of a fanner living near Jonesboro, Ind., was literalJt to Didoes by $ vicious buu.

the Democratic sentinel.

JAS. W. McEWEN Editor

VOLUME IV.

Alpheus S. Foote, of LaCrosse, Wis., former partner of “Brick” Pomeroy in the pubUcation and conduct of tne La Crosse democrat, has been sent to the Wisconsin penitentiary for five years for forcserv. Two men were killed and three dangerously wounded at New York, by falling through the Harlem railroad hndge. The first legal execution in Arizona took place Nov. 26 at Phconix, -where Demetrio Domingues, 17 years of age, was hanged for the murder of Mr. Thomas. Five Colorado miners, tramping over the Continental divide, were swept down in an immense snowslido, two being killed. Mr. Robinson, Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, was shot and dangerously wounded by a guard placed over a mine of which he was the principal owner, near Leadville. A man named Baasham has for some months lain in jail at Kansas City on suspicion of being one of the robbers of a train at Glendale, Mo., in October, 1879. At his trial, a few days ago, he pleaded guilty, giving the details of the crime and the names of six men who perpetrated it. On his confession, two men, named Tally and Rose, have been arrested at Independence, Mo., for a share in tho enterprise. George Moore, his son and another man were killed, and foui other men severely injured, by the explosion of a boiler at Charlotte, Mich. Several cases of trichina, caused by eating uncooked pork, have occurred in Chicago. The late Prof. Watson bequeaths all of his property, valued at $60,000, to the National Academy of Sciences. He leaves only $3,000 for tho support of his wife. Mrs. Mary Dillon, who was born in Limerick in 1769, has just died at Logansport, lud. South. A Louisville negro died of'lockjaw, caused by a wound in his heel from a nail in his shoe. The mistake of a cook at Kingston, Teun., who used arsenic for sodi,- has caused five deaths, and thirty more of a large party were dangerously ill at last accounts. Charles Brown, of Marble Mali, Va., and a young man clerking for him were found, murdered in bed in tho store, their bodies being horribly mutilated. Twelve hundred miles of the Southern Pacific railway have been completed, bringing its rails to tho Rio Menbros. Tho Texas Pacific, which will make a junction at El Paso, has been extendod 150 miles west of Fort Worth. Early in 1831 the new ronte will be open to tho P acific coast. Tho Comity Election Commissioners, the Chairman of tho Democratic County Committee, and the Chairman of the Democratic District Committee, were arrested last week at Vicksburg, Miss., by order of United States Judge Hill, for violation of tho national election laws. Hawley, who, hidden in ambusli, shot dead his neighbor Hayes, because of an ancient feud, aftor being married to his paramour in order to legitimize their offspring, and making the usual religious professions, was hanged at Salem, Va., Nov. 26. Gen. George B. Crittenden, of Kentucky, a prominent officer in the Confederate army during the civil war, is dead. An aged citizen of Laurinburg, N. 0., tied’ two little grandchildren close to the fireplace and went out to pick cotton. The clothing of the infants took fire, and they perished almost before his eyes.

POLITICAL POINTS. Nebraska’s official vote for President’: Garfield, 54,979; Hancock, 28,323; Garfield over Hancock, 2(1,456. The official canvass of the vote for Presidential electors in Michigan shows the following result, giving the highest vote cast for any one elector : Garfield, 185,195; Hancock, 131,301 ; Weaver, 34,895; Dow, 902; Anti-Secret-Society candidate, 322. Garfield’s plurality, 53,894 ; majority over all, 17,775. The vote cast in Indiana for President was canvassed at Indianap ilis on the 22d of November, by Gov. Gray, Secretary of State Sbanklin, and Auditor of State Manson. At the eleventh hour it was discovered that the Marshal appointed for the Eighth district had not put in an appearance, and that the vote of Montgomery county had not been cortified to. An examination of |the law left the board in doubt as to any discriminating powers, and so they concluded to return tho vote so far as it was certified to, and adjourn, with tho mental reservation that, when the vote of the Eighth district was properly certified it should be added. The vote as canvassed is as follows: Garfield, 212,146; Hancock, 208,375; Weaver, 10,623 —leaving Garfield a plurality of 3,771, instead of 6,400, as it should be, had the Eighth district been canvassed.

President Hayes has inspired the statement that he can not be a candidate for any position, and that he desires the return of John Sherman to the Senate. The Territorial delegates-elect to the Forty-seventh Congress have thus far been overlooked in tho count. They are as follows : Arizona, Granville H. Owry, Democrat; Dakota, Benjamin F. Pettigrew, Republican; Idaho, George Ainslie, Democrat; Montana, Martin Magiunis, Democrat; New Mexico, Tranquilino Luna, Republican ; Utah, George O. Caunon, Mormon ; Washington, Thomas 11. Brentz, Republican; Wyoming, M. E. Post, Democrat. The vote of New Jersey, as now officially declared, was : For Hancock, 122,565 ; Garfield, 120,555; Weaver, 2,617; Dow, 195; Hancock’s plurality, 2,010. The plurality of Ludlow, Democratic candidate for Governor, was 651. Through a stupid blunder on the part of the Republicans, one Hancock elector appears to have beeu chosen in Indiana. Tho name of B. S. Parker, the Republican nominee for the Sixth district, was omitted from the tickets in six counties, so his Democratic competitor, D. W. Chambers, comes out about 10.000 votes ahead. The Alabama Legislature has chosen James L. Pugh Senator from that State, to fill the vacancy occasioned by tho death of exGov. Houston. Secretary cSherman now charges that his defeat at Chicago was due to the opposition of Gov. Foster to the proposal of tho Blaine men to change their votes on the Monday before the nomination. President Hayes has succeeded in bringing about a good understanding between Garfield and Sherman, and the now executive has expressed a desire that the Secretary remain at liis post Offioial vote of lowa : Garfield, 183,904; Hancock, 105,854; Weaver, 32,327 Phelps, Anti-Masonic, 483; Dow, Prohibition’ 159. ’ The vote of Maine foots up: For Garfield, 74,039 ; Hancock, 65,171; Weaver, 4,480 ; Dow, 92; scattering, 127. Garfield’s majority over sll, 4,169 J over Babcock, B ,m,

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 18S0.

The total electoral vote of Indiana will, after all, be cast for Garfield. The State officers are agreed that Bennett, the Republican candidate in the Eighth district, was elected, and will award a certificate to him accordingly.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The taxes paid the Government by the national banks for last year were $7,591,770. On the Ist day of November there were in the treasury standard silver dollars to the amount of $47,084,459. Fifty-eight national banks were organized during the past year ; five failed and twenty-one went into voluntary liquidation. The Commissioner of Pensions reports 550,802 names on the rolls, receiving an average of $lO3 per annum. His estimates lor the current year are $50,000,000. The reduction in interest on the public debt, effected during the past year, is shown by the report of the Treasurer of the United States to havo been $21,699,965. The receipts of th*e Government for customs dues, internal revenue, and public-land sales for the past year were $59,811,505 greater than for the twelve months preceding. The total expenditures were but $695,074 in excess of thosp for the year previous. A Wasliington newspaper is authority for tho statement that an effort will be made in Congress this winter to suspend the navigation laws for several years, in order that for-eign-built ships may be registered and sail under tho American flag. The plan is to make an experiment for a fixed time. The President has received from the Queen of England a present of a handsome desk made out of the timber of the British ship Resolute, lost in the Arctic seas, and rescued by the American expedition. The Indian Bureau last year cost the Government $8,147,989; the War Department $17,740,337. Gen. Walker, Superintendent of tho .Census, has ordered a second investigation of the South Carolina census. Neither the President, .Secretary Schurz nor Superintendent Walker believes the census to have been stuffed or fraudulent, but they are aware, from interviews with Northern members of Congress, that, unless there is the most thorough and searching investigation, it will be almost a hopeless task to try and make apportionments under the recent census. The clamor on tho subject came mainly from New England.

There is a pretty general feeling that a refunding bill will be passed during tho next session of Congress—one similar in tenor to the Wood Refunding hill introduced last session. Secretary Sherman agrees with Mr. Wood that tho rate of interest of the new bonds should be 3% per cent., but believes that the time of the bond should be shorter. The estimates for the executive departments of the public service for the next fiscal year aggregate $14,536,404.23. A delegation from the Independent Republican Association of New York waited on Gen. Garfield, in Washington, tlie other day, and presented him with an address of congratulation on his election, in which they dwelt on his utterances and previous attitude on civilservice reform and tho danger to the safety of the republic arising from the spoils system. Gen. Garfield in reply expressed a hope that all routine appointments should be mado according to some legal basis, and that even the President should be deprived of all power to remove faithful and capable employes during his term of office.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The Northern Pacific has secured from a syndicate of American and European bankers the sum of $40,000,000, by tho sale of bonds at prices ranging from 90 cents to par. Director Wright reports the rails laid within thirty miles of the* Yellowstone, and predicts the completion of the road within three years. Steel rails will soon be shipped around the Horn, to be laid on tho western end. The petroleum export of the United States for the first nine months of the year amounted in value to $24,989,343. During the month of October 61,312 immigrants lai <§Dd in the United States. Germany sent 17.039 ; England, 6,665 ; Ireland, 5,705 ; Sweden, 3,486. A party of forty Apaches attacked a squad of Mexican tr oops returning from the campaign against Victoria, killing nine of the number. Joseph E. Roy sued the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for damages sustained by the breaking down of a berth in a Pullman sleeper. While disapproving of tho pecuniary finding the United States Supreme Court holds that the railway company is responsible for any injury to passengers in Pullman coaches which may arise from neglect to inspect the latter. Winter seems to have set in unusually early this year all over the lan / The month of November, 1880, goes, on record as the coldest November in the existence of tho present generation.

A large fleet of loaded vessels have been frozen up in tho chain of lakes. A Detroit dispatch r ports seventy-four in Lake Erie bound for Chicago, and twenty-eight in St. Clair river headed for Buffalo. The lowest figures at which the syndicate is to take the Northern Pacific bonds is reported to be 90 cents on tho dollar. The widow of Gen. Sutter will press tho claim of her husband for $50,000 for discovering gold in California. Burned : The warehouse and grain elevator of H. G. Graff & Co., at Lancaster, Pa., loss $75,000 ; Spencer’s tobacco pail factory at Toledo, Ohio, loss $12,000 ; a hotel and thirty-four other buildings at Coleville, Pa., loss $35,000 ; a saw mill and marble works at East Canaan, Ct., loss $50,000 ; seven buildings at Havana, 111., loss $20,000 : a hotel at Bradford, Pa., loss $25,000. Recent deaths: Asen Ward, who fought behind Jackson’s cotton bales at New Orleans, aged 103-: Samuel E. Hartranft. father of ex-Gov. Hartranft, of Pennsylvania , Mrs. Estella Anna Lewis, the author of “ Sappho ” and other poems. The recent gale off the coast of Newfoundland was the most destructive in the history of the colony. It is bslieved that twenty vessels have been lost. a President-elect Garfield has returned to his homo at Mentor, Ohio, after a four days’ visit to Washington. Application is to be made to the Canadian Parliament for a charter for a cable to Europe, landing at Scilly island. Victoria, in British Columbia, was recently shaken pretty badly by several earthquake shocks. The glaciers in the vicinity were split from base to summit, and great masses of them were thrown into the rivers and creeks, entirely choking up many of them. News comes from the City of Mexico that the Mexican Government has secured a transfer of its previous concessions for a rail-

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way from San Luis Potosi to Tampico to Mr Bymon, agent of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Company.

REPORT OF THE INDIAN BUREAU.

The annual report of the Indian Bureau for 1880 exhibits a continued steady advancement toward civilization on the part of nearly all the Indian tribes, and a very remarkable progress in many instances, especially among the Ogalallas and Brule Sioux. In Dakota and the Pacific coast the Indiana oollected at the Yakima Agency. The demands upon the bureau by the Indians of a large majority of the agencies for implement# with which to enable them to perform manual labor are far beyond the means at the disposal of the department for that purpose. The desire of the Indians to labor is steadily growing, and a large number are willing and anxious to engage in civilized pursuits, and the improvement in their manner of putting in and caring for the crops raised shows that the efforts of the past few years are gradually bringing them to a self-supporting condition. The number of Indians in tne United States, exclusive of Alaska, is reported at 265,938, all of whom, except about 18,000, are more or less under direct control of agencies of the Government. The civilized Indians now in the Territory number 60,560, and the uncivilized 17,750. There are, in round numbers, 25,000 Indians in Dakota, 23,000 in New Mexioo, 21,000 in Montana, 17,000 in Arizona, and 14,000 in Washington Territory. It appears there are upward of 6.000 Indians in New York State, and more than 10,000 in the State of Michigan. The following table shows the substantial results of Indian labor during the year by Indians, exclusive of five civilized tribes of the Indian Territory: Number of acres broken by Indian* 27,283 Number of acres cultivated 170,847 Number of bushel* of wheat raised. 415,777 Number of bushel* of corn raised 600,430 Nulhber of bushel* of oats and barley raised 222,439 N umi>er of bushels of vegetables raised.... 376,145 Number of tons of hay cut 56,527 Number of cattle owned 78,812 Number of sheep owned 864,137 liy Five Civilized Tribee. Number of acres cultivated... ... ....... 814,398 Number of bushels of wheat raised 836,424 Number of bushels of corn raised 2,346,042 Number of bushels of oats and barley raised. 124,568 Number of bushels of vegetables raised. .. 695,000 Number of bales of cotton raised. 1,600 Number of tons of hay cut 14,000 Number of cattle owned 297,040 Number of swine owned 400,280 During the year sixty boarding and 110 day schools have been in operation among the different Indian tribes, exclusive of the five civilized tribes in the Indian Territory, which have been attended by over 7,000 children and taught by 316 teachers. The educational work of the bureau could have been enlarged to a much greater extent but for the inadequate appropriations made by Congress for the support of the schools. Fifty thousand Indians at seventeen agencies have no treaty school funds whatever, and educational facilities must depend entirely on general appropriation for education. Among those tribes there are at least 7,000 children of school age. Reports from the schools on the various reservations are full of encouragement, showing increased and more regular attendance of pupils, and growing interest in education on the part of parents. In compliance with the appeals from neglected agencies, the bureau has made arrangements for erecting eleven boarding-school buddings during the coming season, and for the establishment of thirteen new boarding schools 1 These will be the first schools of any kind ever provided for the 8,000 San Carlos Apaches and Western Shoshones, and the first boarding schools opened for the 25,000 Indians at the nine other agencies. 7he day-schools have hitherto met with indifferent success arid made little impression on the tribes among whom they were located. The condition of the Poncas in the Indian Territory continues to be prosperous. They have now seventy-nine houses, and, since the Ist of January last, over seventy families have moved into houses. Meddlesome persons are still endeavoring to induce the Poncas to abandon their present location and return to Dakota, but the leading men of the tribe have frequently assured the Agent that they are satisfied and do not desire to return.

The Wheat Crop of 1880.

Mr. Charles Worthington, Statistician of the Department of Agriculture, has completed his final investigations and compilations in regard to tho wheat crep of tho United States for 1880, a detailed account of which, by States, has been furnished to the Cincinnati Price Cun-ent, as follows ; 1880. 1879. JBushels. Bushels. Maine 383,145 488,688 New Hampshire 204,525 159,529 Vermont 520,096 493,924 Massachusetts 15,606 15,354 lihode Is'aud ' Connecticut 43,720 ’ ’ 39’348 New York 12,931.237 10,746,660 New Jersey 2,473,974 1,784,115 Pennsylvania 22,299,090 22,307,247 Delaware 1,369,040 1,012,583 Maryland 7,485,800 6,999,696 Virginia 9,322,350 8,851,007 Noith Carolina 3,478,080 3,223,836 South Carolina- 690,720 1,140,400 Georgia. 2,582,370 3,610,920 Florida Alabama 946,620 1,501,592 Mississippi 374,000 417,312 Louisiana Texas Arkansas 1,167,G00 1,384,000 Tennessee 9,309,600 11,&52,640 West Virginia 4,651,150 4,350,580 Kentucky 5,347,120 7,681,620 Ohio 87,792,800 36,591,360 Michigan 30,705,000 28,773,120 Indiana 38,341,990 43,709,148 Illinois 53,767,200 44,896,830 Wisconsin 16,464,000 20,565,468 Minnesota 40,752,000 31,877,135 lowa 36,098,400 32,787,043 Missouri 30,688,000 20,802,300 Kansas 19,850,000 18,089.060 Nebraska 10,208,000 13,043,703 California 45,760,000 35,000,000 Oregon 12,920,000 8,188,800 Other States and Territories 18,005,000 16,900,000 Tota number of bu5he15..480,849,723 448,755,118 The annual production of wheat in the United States, the exports of wheat, including Hour, and the remaining supply for domestic use, compare for five years, each year ending June 30, as follows : Production, Exports, Bemaining, bushels. bushels. bushels. 1875- 292,136,000 74,750,682 217,385,318 1876- 289,356,500 67,043,935 232,312,564 1877- 364,194,146 92,139,236 272,054,910 1878- 420,122,400 147,687,649 472,434,751 1879- 448,755,118 180,304,168 268,450,950 If the domestic requirements shall be 275,000,000 bushels during the current year, there will remain 205,000,000 bushels for export, or 25,000,000 more than in the preceding year.

The New Chinese Treaty.

It is announced from Washington that the State Department has received enough of the Chinese treaty by telegraph to indicate the nature of the treaty. The text of the treaty itself cannot reach this city under four or five weeks. The text of it then will be transmitted by the State Department under tho seal of secrecy to the Senate lor ratification. It is understood that this document does not change the status of American citizens in China, nor does it enter into the commercial features covered by the Reed treaty of 1858. It is in accordance with Secretary Evarts’ policy of restraining further immigration of Chinese to this country, while at the same time not going to the extreme of sending those back who are already here. No master of any vessel owned in whole or in part by a citizen of the United States, or by any foreign country, shall take on board from any port; in the Chinese empire or other foreign ports any number of Chinese passengers, male or female, in excess of the number of fifteen, to bring them within the jurisdiction of tho United States. Any master of a vessel who violates this clause of treaty shall bo considered guilty of a misdemeanor. No’Consul or Consular Agent of tho United States can grant a certificate to any vessel leaving Chma for this country if she has o‘n board more than fifteen Chinese passengers. The limitations do not apply to persons officially connected with the Chinese Government, or to persons rescued from shipwreck. The master of any vessel arriving in the United States shall be required to furnish a separate list of all Chinese passengers on boa rd his vessel. “Look, Suzette,” said the nurse, “at the little family of rabbits. See! the father, the mother, and the children. ” “Yes,” says Suzette, “but where’s the uurse?”

REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR.

The annual report of Secretary of War Ramsey gives a general review of the various subordinate reports, calls attention to their several recommendations, and details at length the operations of the department during the year. Upon the subject of expenditures, appropriations, and estimates, the Secretary says : “The expenditures for all affairs under the control of this department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, were $39,924,773. Congress appropriated for the service the ‘ current fiscal year $41,993,630. The estimates for the service of the fiscal year ending Jnne 30, 1882, are $43,627,055. The estimates in detail were originally submitted to me for $62,429,770, but, on re-vision-of the same, omissions or reductions were made as follows: In the civil establishment, $13,685; military establishment, $250,000; publio works, $18,514,129; and in the miscellaneous class, $25,000, making the total of revisory reductions $18,802,714. The same increase in the amounts of estimates for the year 1882 over the amounts appropriated for the year 1881 appears in the civil establishment, the military establishment, and the miscellaneous. For the public work I have reduced the estimates to accord with what I understand to be tho amount required for the absolute, necessities of the service. In order to prevent a waste of property and damage to commercial interests beyond such necessities, it is submitted. The wisdom of Congress may perceive that, as valuable improvements surround the realty of the Government, and as the commerce of the country advances in growth and prosperity, so should appropriations to cover expenses be apportioned.

“ The Mississippi River Commission, operating in accordance with an act approved June 28, 1879, submitted a report which was duly transmitted to Congress last March, and was published by order of the House of Representatives. The report exhibited for the first time estimates of the appropriation required for works of improvement therein described, amounting to $5,113,000, and it awaited further consideration when the session closed. The commission has communicated to me its desire to reuew those estimates, and this communication will be transmitted to Congress as a matter of special importance, not included, however, in the annual estimates and expenditures for the service of the department.” In regard to the South pass of the Mississippi river, the Secretary says : “The permanency of this important work seems to be assured from the fact that there has been no failure whatever iu the maintenance of tho maximum channel during the six months ending August last. This improvement has opened through sands and shoals a broad, deep highway to the ocean, and is one upon the permanent success of which congratulations may be exchanged among people abroad and at home, and especially among the communities of the Mississippi valley, whose commercial exchanges float in an unobstructed channel safely to and from the sea.” Secretary Ramsey concurs in the recommeh dation of Gen. Sherman that Congress be asked to give 25,000 enlisted men specifically to the troops of the line of the army, and favors the abandonment of many small posts and tho concentration of larger forces at strategic points. The absence of a large number of officers from their regiments is alluded to, and action is recommended looking to the relief of the service in this respect. Secretary Ramsey indorses the recommendation of the Adjutant General in relation to placing uniformed State militia upon the same footing in respect to its rules and forms as the regular forces, and calls attention to the necessity of providing by legislation for the organization, arming and discipline of the militia. Tne affairs of the Leavenworth military prison, the Secretary says, have been capably administered during the year. He suggests, however, that, in order to be entirely successful and to carry out as far as possible the original design of making tho institution self-sus-taining, one important measure of legislation is necessary, which is the authority of Congress to apply the earnings of tho prison to its maintenance.

The Secretary says: “From personal inspection of many of the fortifications referred to by the Cliiof of Engineers, I am able to emphasize his recommendations and beg to state that their incompetent and defenseless condition is discreditable to the country. Judging from the history of all other nations and the experience of our own, the United States will, notwithstanding our traditional pacific policy, find itself sooner or later at war with a maritime power. When that war comes it will come suddenly. There will be no time after its declaration to construct defenses, either fixed or floating. Other nations have been for some years and are now constructing fast war Bteamers of enormous size, incased in iron armor up to two feet in thickness, and armed with rifled guns up to 100 tons, carrying shot of a toil’s weight, fired with little short of a quarter of a ton of powder. It is feared that the country does not appreciate the fact that after a declaration of war a few days or even hours might bring those great engines of destruction to our coast. It may bo to New York, or Boston, or Portland, or Baltimore, or New Orleans, or San Francisco, or any point the enemy may select. No one can estimate the damage which may follow.” The works of river and harbor improvements, and examinations, and surveys provided for by the act of March 3,1879, and previous acts, were carried on during the fiscal year with satisfactory progress. The amount available therefor July 1, 1879, was $10,772,176. The amount expended to June 30.1880, was $6,174,221, leaving a balance of $4,597,955 to be expended during the present fiscal year, to which is to be added appropriations by the River and Harbor act of June 14,1880, amounting to $8,951,500. The act of June 14, 1830, makes provision for 343 works of improvement, in sums varying from SSOO to $30,000, and for surveys and examinations with a view to the improvement of 144 localities. In relation to the Whittaker case, the Secretary says: “I have refrained from commenting upon the unfortunate agitation which flowed from an alleged assault upon a colored cadet at the West Point Academy in April last, for the reason that, in some of its legal aspects, the subjeot is still under consideration.”

Report of the United States Treasurer.

From the annual report of United States Treasurer Gilfillan it appears that the receipts of the Government Gompare very favorably with those of the previous fiscal year, and show an increase from the customs, internal revenue, and sales of public lands of $59,311,505, and a decrease in those from miscellaneous sources of only $112,079. The expenditures’ show a slight increase of $695,074 in the aggregate as compared with the previous fiscal year, caused by an increase of $22,395,040 in payments on account of the Interior Department, but show a decrease,..of $21,699,965 in expenditures for interest and premium on the public debt, on civil and miscellaneous accounts, and for the War and Navy Departments. . The balance of public money on deposit in the treasury, and subject to draft at the close of business June 30, 1879, was $417,223,787. The receipts during the vo*r from all sources amounted to $494,578,241. and drafts paid $708,190,900. After deducting receipts properiy refunded and outstanding drafts, there was subject to draft at the close, of business June 30, 1880, $204,683,836, which differs from the debt-statement balance by $3,595,213, which is explained in the appendix. The business of the Government involved the transfer during the year of $11,053,357,082, the greater portion through the medium of accounts of this office, and the remainder by the actual transportation of funds. Fifty-eight national banks were organized during the year; five failed, and twenty-one went into voluntary liquidation, leaving 2,102 doing business. The amount collected from national banks by the Treasurer of the United States for semiannual duty accruing during tho year was $7,591,770, The total amount collected during the existence of the national-bank system is $100,361,369. The report embodies a statement of the liabilities and assets oi the treasury for the years 1877, 1878, 1879 and 1880, from which it appears that the gold and silver coin and bullion ranged from $114,464,982 in 1877 to $163,969,444 in 1878, to $222,807,368 in 1879, and to $214,303,215 in 1880. The decrease of $8,500,000 between 1879 and 1880 is represented by the reduction m the gold balance of $34,000,000, and an increase in the silver coin and bullion on hand. The influences tending to the decrease of the gold balance have been primarily the scarcity of notes, compelling payments of a daily balance to the New York Clearing-House in gold coin. There has been but a small amount of United States notes and gold certificates presented for redemption in gold coin. There has been during the year an increase in the silver coin of $15,977,970 in standard dollars, and of $7,849,934 m fractional silver coin. Note assets, including balances due from do-

positorv banks, havedecreased from $107,664,287 m 1877*t0 $93,417,282 in 1878, to $63,926,653 in 1879, and to $42,402,314 in 1880. The steady decrease, the Treasurer says, is due in great measure to the withdrawal of notes caused by the presentation of Clearing-House certificates for redemption, the amount of these certificates outstanding having been reduced from $31,335,000 in 1879 to $9,975,000 in 1880. Another reason for the smallness of the note balance, Mr. Gilfillan adds, may be found in the falling off in the note receipts, the revenues of the Government now being largely paid in coin and silver certificates. From the tables of assets and liabilities of tho Government for Nov. 1, 1879, and Nov. 1, 1880, it is shown that on Nov. 1, 1879, there were $151,047,044. and on Nov. 1, 1880, there were $141,597,031.61 available for resumption. The amount of gold coin and bullion in the treasury Jan. 1, 1879—the date of the resumption of specie payments —was $135.382,639, and at this date—Nov. I—it1 —it is $140,725,952, and in addition there have accumulated in tho treasury $47,084,459 in standard silver dollars. This redemption of United States notes in gold since the resumption of specie payments has aggregated sll,963,336. Since the order of the Department of Jan. 1, 1879, authorizing th" receipt of United States notes for oustotns duties, there have been received on that account $142,323,601. The total coinage of standard silver dollars under the act of Feb. 28, 1878, has been $72,847,750. Of this amount $47,588,106 are in tho treasury' and in the mints, and $25,250,644, being more than 34/g per cent, of the co'mage, are in circulation. The Treasurer instances banks which have reduced and forthwith increased their circulation to the former amount with the avowed object of relieving themselves from the trouble and expense of redeeming their notes through the redemption agency, as required by law, and says : “It is plain that such transactions as these are not within the spirit of the act of June 20, 1874. That "act authorizes the deposit of legal tenders by any national bank desiring to withdraw its circulation in whole or in parr. A wish to surrender circulation, with the reserved intention of taking out more at once, or as soon as a fall in the price of bonds shall make the transaction profitable, is not, k is submitted, such a desire to withdraw circulation as the law contemplates. It could neither have been intended nor expected that tho law would liecome the means of enabling banks to operate in securities of the Government deposited to secure the redemption of their notes, or to throw upon the United States or other banks of the country the expense of redeeming their notes while maintaining and enjoying the full circulation to which the law entitles them.”

Report of the Commissioner of Pensions.

The annual report of the Commissioner of Pensions shows that on the 30tli of June last there were 250,802 persons receiving pensions from the Government. The annual pensions average $lO3, an aggregate for all of $25,917,906. Exclusive oi arrears the payments for the year amounted to $37,046,185, of which $12,468,191 was accrued pension in ne w cases. The total amount paid out for pensions during the year w'as $57,026.!)!)§► Commissioner Bentley estimates it will require upward of $50,000,000 to pay the pensions for the current year. Tho number of cases in which arrears of pensions has been allowed up to Nov. I—date1 —date of report—is 43,917. The average in each case is $560. A table is given showing the number of pensioners borne upon the rolls at the end of each fiscal year from 1861 to 1880 and the amount of money paid out lor pensions each year. The total amount for twenty years is $455,718,505. The Second Auditor, in his annual report, has the following summary as to the condition of the unadjusted claims lor arrears of pension and bounty: The total number of claims remaining on hand June 30.1880, was 29.470—namely : 'rrears of pay and bounty to white soldiers.. .17,164 Additional bounty under the act of July 28, 1866 2,626 Arrears of pay and bounty to colored soldiers.. 6,523 Three months’ extra pay to soldiers who served in the war with Mexico, act Feb. 19, 1879..,. 158 Total .29,479 It will bo observed that comparatively few of the claims for three months’ extra pay t© soldiers of the Mexican war, so far presented, have been allowed. The whole number filed up to June 30, 1880, was 3.966, of which only 167 havo been paid, while 3,633 were rejected, and 158 remain on hand for adjustment. The time for filing claims for additional bounty under the act of July 28,1866, expired on June 30 last. Many claimants do not appear to be aware of thin, although the fact has been repeatedly published. Claims continue to be presented, but, as the accounting officers cannot entertain them, they are at once returned to tlie claimants. Unless the time for filing this class of claims he further extended by Congress I anticipate that the next annual report will show that all have been disposed of.

Wholesale Poisoning at a Wedding Festival.

A Cincinnati telegram to the Chicago Tribune nays: Further particulars are received here to-night of the terrible poisoning case in Tennessee. The marriage of Joel Hembric and Miss Jane Dale, of Koane county, drew a large company of the friends and relatives, who belong to prominent families in the vicinity. The wedding had long been talked of, and was the social event of the year. After the ceremony the company were invited to the hospitable board of Col. Dale, the bride and groom in the meantime withdrawing. The table was bountifully supplied and all ate heartily. The evening was spent in festivities, and at a late hour another meal was served. After the second meal several guests began complaining of illness, but it was laughed off, and the gayetv continued. About 11 p. m. a sudden lethargy seemed to overtake the whole company, and in a few minutes twenty-seven were unconscious. The few who retained consciousness set themselves at work to resuscitate their companions, but without avail. Twelve were removod to other houses in the neighborhood, and as the news spread the whole country around was aroused with excitement, as nearly every prominent family had members present at the fatal feast. Such medical aid as could be summoned could give little relief, and in two days after the occurrence six of the wedding guests were dead. Robert Dale, the bride’s brother, died next day. Mike May, a relative of the groom, died in a few hours. Albert Gallagher and Miss Mattie Lovelace, well-known young people, died next day. Two young girls, Emma Peters and Kate Lowry, died within twenty-four hours. Col. Dale and wife are very low, and their death is mbmentarily expected. The cause of the tragedy was using arsenic instead of salt for the seasoning of chickens. Col. Dale purchased a quantity of arsenic a day or two before to kill crows, and carelessly left it in the kitchen. A blundering servant mistook it for salt, and hence the fatal results. None but those who partook of the chicken were poisoned..

The Silver Dollar.

Mr. Burchard, Superintendent of tho Mint, says a Washington telegram, is very enthusiastic over the success of the silver dollar with the people. He thinks that we can go on with the coinage at the present without disturbing the money market or the relations between the two precious metals, for fifteen years, or till we have as many dollars in circulation, or in the treasury, as France has 5franc pieces, which is about 366,000,000. He thinks that it would be possible to run the business of the Government without trouble with a gold balance in the treasury as low as $25,000,000. All that is needed, in his opinion, is to have enough so that the Government can continue to pay out either gold or silver indiscriminately when called for, and as long as this can be done then silver will not depreciate. Experience has shown during the last few months that the people are 1-eatly more loth to take gold for ordinary purposes than silver. This Mr. Burchard explains by tne fact that for small amounts, in the wav of change merely, silver dollars are found to be more convenient, and for larger sums the bills are preferable, so that for actual circulation gold finds no place. Should any attempt be made by Congress to interfere with the coinage of the silver dollar, Mr. Burchard will oppose it strenuously. He shows that only about $25,000,000 of the silver m the treasury is there as a part of the reserve, the rest being in circulation in the form of silver certificates, the coin being merely held as a deposit, according to law, for the redemption of this paper whenever called for. The silver dollar is rapidly increasing in favor in the West, being called for with greater freedom the better it is known. It is sent to applicants to the Qo6jt£»t suh-treasui y iyye of ox.. pro»». charges. “ ' ' '

$1.50 uer Annum.

NUMBER 43.

REPORT OF THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY.

The following is a portion of the annual report of the Comptroller of the Currency. The amount of national-bank and legal-tender notes outstanding ou NoV. 1, 1880, and tho aggregate amounts of both kinds of notes for the same date in 1878 and 1879, was as follows : Amount of Amount of national legal ten- Aggregate, tlons. b’k notes, der notes. Ones $ 2,292,462 $ 21,954,900 $ 24,247,862 Twos 2,207,260 21,829,318 23,030,578 Fives 99,910,700 67,132,138 167.042,898 Tens 113,820,580 75,835,008 189,655,588 Twenties 75.631,560 72,088,277 147,719,887 Fifties 21,418,300 24,359,175 45,777,475 One hundreds. 26,888,900 33,069,700 59,958,600 Five hundreds. 639,500 16,126,000 16,765,500 One thousands. 239,000 14,401,600 14^640.500 Five thousands 565,000 665,000 Ten thousands 320,000 320,000 Add for fraction of notes not presented or destroyed.... 15,129 15.129 Totals $342,063,451 $347,681,016 $689,744,467 Deduct for legal tinder notes destroyed in Chicago fire 1,000,000 1,000,006 Totals $342,063,451 $346,681,016 $688,744,467

The aggregate amount of both kinds of notes in 1879 was $681,815,520 and in 1878 $666,333,137. The law provides that after specie payments are resumed national banks shall not be furnished with notes of loss do domination than $5, and in accordance with this provision no notes of the denominations of $1 and $2 have been issued since the Ist of January, 1879. The amount ot ones outstanding that day was $4,793,817, and of twos $3,924,930 ; total, $7,718,748. Since that date ones have been reduced $2,501,355 and twos $1,717,670, making the total reduction of small bank notes $4,219,025. The amount of legaltender notes of tho denomination of $1 outstanding at that date was $20,257,109, and of twos $20,035,525 ; total, $40,202,634, and the increase since that date to Nov. 1, 1880, has been $3,404,584. Thus it will be seen that while small notes of national banks have been reduced more than $4,000,000 ($4,219,025) in compliance with the law since the date of resumption, the legal-tender notes of the same denomination have been increased $3,491,584. The total amount of theHe denominations of both kinds ontstanding Nov. 1, 1880, is $47,233,940; total increase during the year, $3,805,575. The decrease during the year previous was $3,649,451. Of the entire amount of national-bank and legal-tender notes now outstanding nearly 7 per cent, consists of $1 and $2 notes, more than 31 per cent, of sl, $2, and $5 notes, and moro than 58 per cent, is in notes of less denomination than S2O, and 80 per cent, is in notes of lower denomination than SSO. Of entire issue about 20 per cent, is in denominations of SSO and upward. Tho amount of circulation of tho Bank of France Jan. 30, 1879, was $458,194,166, showing an increase between that time and Jan. 29 of $6,100,707. Tho Imperial Bank of Germany issues no notes of loss denomination than $7.50, and the Bank of Franco issues but about $2,000,000 in notes of less denomination than f;5. The Bank of England issues no notes less than $25. and the Banks of Ireland and Scotland none less than $5. The amount of circulation in this country in denominations of $5 and under was $214,326,838 on Nov. 1, 1880. In the foreign countries named a large amount of silver and gold coin of lower denominations enters into general circulation. It will be impossible to keep in circulation any large amount of small gold coins or silver dollars unless’coinage of the latter is restricted and small notes withdrawn. The total amount of United States bonds held as security for circulating notes on the Ist of November, 1810, was $359,748,959. On Oct. I,' 1865, the total amount of bonds held for this purpose was $276,250,550, of which $199,397,950 was in 6 per cents, and $76,852,600 in 5 per cents. On Oct. 1, 1870, banks held $246,891,300 of 6 per cents, and $95,942,550 of 5 per cents. Since that time there has been, to Nov. 1, 1879, a decrease of $185,211,560 in 6-per-cent. bonds, and an increase of $51,137,200 in 5 per cents. Banks now hold $36,988,950 of per cents., which have been deposited since Sept. 1, 1876, and $119,075,100 of 4 per cents., which have been deposited since July 1, 1877. During the year $19,243,300 of 4 percents, have been withdrawn, chiefly for tho purpose of realizing large premiums on these bonds, and $22,370,750 of 6 per cents, deposited, which will mature in a few months. The banks still hold SB,OOO of 6-per-cent. 5-20 bonds and $526,900 6-per-cent. 10-40 bonds, upon which iuterest has ceased. They also hold $146,552,850 of s’s of 1881, which are redeemable the Ist of next May, $2,010,000 6’s of 1881, payable the Ist of January next, and $50,432,150 6’s of 1881, which are redeemable the Ist of July next.

The large numbei of 4-per-cent, bonds recently withdrawn from the treasury by the national banks shows that the banks aro taking advantage of the present high rate of premium commanded by those bonds to realize a profit equal to- three years’ accrued interest. On July 1 there was on deposit in the treasury to secure circulation of national-bank notes and Government deposits about $134,000,000 of 4-per-cent, bonds, and about $143,000,000 of 6-per-cent, bonds. The amount of 4-per-cent, bonds now on deposit is about $118,000,000, and of 5-per-cent. bonds over $159,000,000, thus showing a decrease in 4 per cents, of about $16,000,000, and an increase m 5 per cents, of about a like amount. In substituting the 5 for the 4-per-ceut. bonds the banks realize the premium on the latter, and can replace them with 6 per cents, at about par. The substitution has taken place for the most part during the past six weeks, and at presnt the 4 per cents, are being withdrawn atethe rate of about $700,000 per day.

All of the 5 and 6-petr-cent. bonds now held by national banks, with the exception of Pacific railway bond#, wifi mature on or before July J, 1881, and will probably be replaced by bonds bearing interest at 4 or 4>£ per cent., only new bonds, hereafter to be issued by authority of Congress, bearing a less rate of interest. The amount of bonds held by national banks Nov. 1, 1880, was $403,369,350, and the amount held by other banks and bankers of the country in the above table is $228,053,104. Tho total amount held by all banks and bankers is shown, approximately, to be more than oneIhird of the whole interest-bearing funded debt of the United States, as follows : State banks and trust companies $ 24,198,604 Sa\ ings banks 189,187,816 Private bankers 14,3GG,684 National banks 403,309,350 Total. $631,422,454 ' The increase in net deposits of national banks during, the year was $187,385,075. of savings banks $34,508,295, of private bankers $42,749,004 and of State banks and trust companies $61,714,761, making a total increase in bank deposits of the country of $326,356,815. The total number of national banks, State banks, savincs banks, private bankers, etc., in the country June 11,1880, was 6,532, with total banking capital of $650,049,390, and total deposits $2,219,883,290.

The total estimated amount of coin and bullion in the country Nov. 1 was $612,283,357, of which $454,012,030 was gold and $158,271,327 silver. Tho amount of gold and silver, and per cent of each held by the United States treasury Nov. 1, 1830, was'as follows : Standard dollars % 47,084,459 Other coin and bullion 30,672,867 Total silver 77,757,316 Gold coin and bullion 140,725,953 Total coin and bullion 218,483,269 Per cent, ot silver 35.6 Per cent, of gold 64.4 The amount of bullion in the Bank of England in October, 1880, was $141,632,00), and in the Bank of France Oct. 29, 1880, was $116,140,000. The percentage of gold held was 31.7, and of silver 68.3. Statistics show a rapid reduction during the last two years in the amount of outstanding circulation of banks which have ceased to do business, and indicate that the final loss upon notes of national banks will not exceed 1 or per cent. The Comptroller recommends that the law now in force be so amended that the nationalbank circulation shall be redeemed upon a percentage of notes outstanding ; that the banks in operation shall pay their proportion of expense, and the remainder to be borne by the Government, which alone receives the benefit, and should, therefore, pay its just shares. The Government has for the past fifteen years annually received an average of mo; a than $3,000,000 of taxes npon deposits, upon a system unknown elsewhere in any country, and it is certainly but just that it should bear the expenses of redemption of those notes from circuLitipß, of which it receives the entire benefit.

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The total amount of national-bank notes received for redemption by the Comptroller of the Currency and at the'redemption agmeies of the treasury during the year 1880 is shown to have been’ $6 \098,940. The number of bank notes which have been issued since organization of the system is 137.877,219, vamed at $989,068,985. Of these 98,936,566. valued at $641,005 534, have been redeemed, and 38.740,653, valued at $342,063,451, were still outstanding on Nov. 1, 1880. The amount of national-bank currency destroyed during the year ending Oct. 31, 1880, was $35,539,600. The Comptroller says: Tho total losses charged" off bv banks during the v, ar were $14,706,406, arid for tho four years previous 285,845,069. Tho total losses charged off during the last five years are more than 25 ix>r cent, of tho entire capital of the banks. During the last five years the average number of banks annually passing dividends on account of losses liaVo been 279. The average amount of capital upon which no dividend has been paid during that time is $42,266,244, from which it follows that, for a continuous period of five years, about one-seventli of tho whole number of banks in operation have paid no dividends, and that nearly one-tenth of the total capital has been unremunerative. The Comptroller deals at considerable length with tho subject of national-bank taxation. He admits the light of the Btntos to tax tho shares of banks organized under State laws, but holds that they have no right to imposo a higher tax on national-bank sliares than on any other money capital in tho hands of individuals. He recommends Congress to pass a law fixing the maximum rate of taxation which tho State can impose on theso shares. The Comptroller repeats nis previous recommendation that the national law imposing a tax on the capital and deposits of tho banks and providing for the use of the 2-cent check stamp be repealed. He says that the tax on spirits, tobacco, and beer, together with tho customs revenue, would be quite sufficient to meet all the expenses of the Government, and to reduce tho public debt at the rate of hundreds of millions of dollars every year. The abolition of tho match tax and the tax on patont medicines is also recommended.

INDIANA NEWS.

The wife of Col. John Bridged and, United States Consul at Havre. France, died at Richmond of consumption. While oiling shafting in a saw-mill at Columbia City, John Brown was caught in the fly-wheel, and dashed to pieces. The hog cholera is very prevalent in the western part of Johnson county. Many farmers who expected to realize hundreds of dollars on their crops will be compelled to buy their meat. John Cahney, Auditor-elect of Jennings county, who died on the day after his term should have begun, last week, was sworn in on his death-bed so as to have th.; appointing power with the County Commissioners. The Grand Lodge T. O. O. F. elected the following officers: Grand Master, William Cumback; Deputy Grand Master, N. P. Richmond; Grand Warden, H. P. Oyler; Grand Secretary, B. F. Foster; Grand Treasurer, T. P. Huugliey. John H. Harper, one of the oldest residents in South Bend, died of heart disease. He had just recovered from his first illness in forty years. Mr. Harper was at one time candidate for Treasurer of State on the Republican ticket. He served two terms as Treasurer of St. Joseph county. William N. Garrett, of Decatur county, cast his twenty-first Presidential ballot at St. Paul precinct, on Nov. 2, having voted for Thomas Jefferson in 1800, and for every Democratic candidate since that time. Mr. Garrett was born in Culpepper county, Vu., on March 9, 1779. If he lives till the 9tli of next March he will be 102 years old. He was married to a lady in Rockingham county, Va., by whom he had twenty-five children, of which two only remain living. He settled in Rush county, Ind., in the year 1829, where he has since resided. At the last election lie voted with his children, his grandchildren and his great-grandchildren.

Biograpliv of Gov. Williams.

The late Governor, James Douglas Williams, says the Indianapolis Journal, was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, Jan. 16, 1808, making his age at the time of death nearly 73 years. His parents were of Scotch-Irish and Welsli-English blood, and from them he inherited the marked physical strength and rugged honesty which so distinguished him throughout his long public career. His ancestors were farmers, and at an early age his father, George Williams, emigrated to tliis State and located in Knox county, and there the homestead of "the father and son has remained to the present day. The facilities for education were extremely limited in his youth and early manhood, and James grew up an honest yeoman, plain in speech and dress, hard-fisted and hard-headed, perhaps, but of incorruptible honesty and fixed purpose. In 1828 his father died, leaving a large family, and upon James devolved their support and guardianship. In 1831 he married Miss Honey Huffman, the daughter of one of his neighbors, and the young couple settled upon a quarter section of land embraced in his present homestead, near what is known as Wheatland, Their married life extended oven many years; steady labor andeconomical habits added to their wealt h and prosperity, and, never, until she died, ouly a few months since, after a protracted illness, was there any break in the perfect accord of their domestic life. Her death was indirectly the result of injuries received by a fall, and after her demise a great change was noticed by the Governor’s intimate associates, although he never repined or uttered a word of complaint. With the exception of one unfilled term in Congress, Gov. Williams’ long public career was exclusively identified with State affurs. Ilis first office was Justice of the Peace, to which he was elected in 1837. In 1843 he represented his county in the State Legislature, and altogether he served nine terms in the House and eleven in the Senate. For many years he was also identified with the State Board of Agriculture, beginning his connection tlr.rowith in 1855, and continuing sixteen years, four years of which time he served as President. In 1874 he succeeded Hon. William E. Niblack as member of Congress from the Second Congressional district; but before the conclusion of his term he was elected Governor' of Indiana. In this gubernatorial race Gen. Ben Harrison was his competitor, and Ihe canvass ended by a plurality in favor of Williams of over 5,000 votes. In February, 1877, lie was inaugurated. An incident in his political, career, heretofore overlooked, is the fact that in 1872 he was the caucus nominee of his party to .succeed Gov. Merton in the United States Senate. His career as Governor is familiar to the people of this great State. The deceased was a man of marked personal appearance, standing . six feet four inches in height, and weighing 174 pounds. The Governor’s estate is roomily estimated at SIOO,OOO, of which $75,000 is invested in fanning lands, and the‘'remainder in cash' or negotiable paper. Altogether, 2,200 acres are included in his several farms.