Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1881 — Page 1

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HEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. The Saltan of the Sooloo islands, in the Indian ocean, is dead, and a civil war ha* broken out over the election of bis successor. Parnell maintains that the Land bill, m at present framed, will not provide the ■lightest protection for small tenants, but will rather tend to their destruction. The International Monetary Conference was opened at Paris by St. Hilaire, Minister of Foreign Affairs. On motion of Mr-. Evarts, M. Magnin, the French Finance Minis ter, was chosen President. A Nihilist manifesto, announcing the approaching death of Alexander lIL, has been received by all the Russian Ministers and court officials. The Czar still iives at the diminutive chateau of Gatcliira, guarded by six oordons of soldiery. He is never seen outside of the inner circle. With a force of 10,000 Turks, Derviseh Pasha attacked and defeated the Albanians near Uskup. According to advices from Vienna, the Emperors of Austria, Germany and Russia will meet at Ems in the coming fall. Such a meeting seems to be probable considering the present political situation. Twenty-five thousand emigrants sailed from Hamburg for America during January, February, and March. The importation of American pork has been prohibited by Turkey, and the stock on hand will be destroyed after an appraisal by a committee of Americans. The woolen trade in England is very much depressed, and several manufacturers of Bradford contemplate transporting their machinery to this country. Five servants in the Imperial Palace at Constantinople have confessed that they suffocated Abdul Aziz, the late Sultau, and opened veins in his arms to make it appear that he killed himself. Three officials are said to be implicated. Froliloff, the executioner of the Nihilists, has been-given 100 lashes because in the hanging of Michailoff the rope bioke twice. Bismarck is said to be decidedly favorable to the maintenance of the gold standard. T The police of St Petersburg continue to seize printing presses used for seditious purposes and arrest the workmen. A ferry-boat crossing the Dneistcr river, in Austria, upset, and, according to one version, sixty-three persons drowned. AnotLu r Recount says thirty drowned. DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. The butter-dealers of Washington market, New York, have resolved not to deal in oleomargarine. The medical profession in the State of New York is making an earnest effort to secure the repeal of the law forbidding vivisection. An aiFray at Troy, N. Y., growing out of a quarrel over last fall’s election, resulted in the instant killing of one man, two others being fatally shot. Two explosions of nitro-glycerine at the Dittman powder-works at Binghamton, N. Y., were followed by the ignition of 10,000 pounds of sporting powder. .No lives were lost. The shock was felt forty miles away, and buildings were shattered and trees uprooted in a wide circle. Four business houses and three dwellings in Shamokin, Pa., wero destroyed by an incendiary fire. The loss was $100,000; It has been discovered that a domestic p.t Middlesex, Pa., named Hattie Mosley, was* recently buried alive. The agony she endured was plainly depicted on her face. West. The Central Pacific road, with 2,644 miles of rail, reports gross earnings for March of $1,643,000. The Federal Court at Indianapolis has ordered the sale of the Fort Wayne, Muncie and Cincinnati road within sixty days. The northern wing of the Illinois Southern Hospital for the Insaue, located at Anna, lIL, was destroyed by fire. One patient perished in the flames. The loss is estimated at $200,000. Reports from every section in Kansas indicate that the wheat crop promises exceed, ingly welL Only a very small proportion has been winter killed. E. R. Blakeslee, a postal clerk on the New York and Chicago fast mail, was arrested at Toledo with several packages of opened letters in his possession, and at once confessed his guilt. He was formerly a Lieutenant Colonel in the regular army, and owns a large farm near St John’s, Mich. Floods in the rivers of Illinois and Wisconsin have caused great damage to property and some loss of life. A part of the Rock river dam, at Beloit, Wis.,* was carried away, and five men who attempted to cross the river in a row-boat were drowned. A bridge spanning Rock river, at Rock Island, 111., went down, carrying with it seven persons, two of whom were drowned. At Watertown, Wis., one bridge was destroyed and two others injured. The Chicago and Desplaines rivers, at Chicago, were higher than they have been in twenty years. Thirty lodges of Maricopa Sioux Indians lately surrendered at Fort Keogh. They are allies of Sitting Bull’s band. It is said that 8. B. himself will shortly come in and give himself up. He has only 150 braves left with him. The Elkhart paper-mill, at Elkhart, Ind., has been partially destroyed by fire. Cause of the fire, spontaneous combustion. Loss estimated at $15,000; fully insured. The mill was owned by the Hon. Rufus Beardsley aud the Hou. John Cook. The work of repairing the building will begin at once, and the mill will be readv atrain within a few weeks. A shocking accident, resulting in the death of half a dozen people, happened on the Rock Ibland division of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway, about a mile below Albany, 111. The Meredosia river is crossed at that point by a trestle bridge, 200 or 300 feet long. This bridge had become so weakened by the strong current that it gave way beneath an express train, and the engine, tender and . the two forward cars went down into the river. The locomotive and tender, with the engineer and fireman, went to the bottom. The express messenger, baggage man, conductor and brakeman happened to be i a the passenger oar, and escaped by ciimbing to the roof, as it was sinking, and leaping thence to the sleeper, which remained on the bridge. The passenger car, with its eleven passengers, floated off until grounded near an island. Five of the passengers es caped. The three passengers in the sleeper got out without injury.

The Democratic Sentinel.

JAS. W. McEWEN Editor

VOLUME V.

- Frederick Smith was shot and dangerously wounded by John Finnick, near Paleville, Ind., in a quarrel over the possession of a field. Smith’s wife then knocked Fiunick down with a hoe and chopped his head into slivers. An Omaha telegram of April 23 states that the flood on the Missouri had severed railway connections between that city and every point. Several dwelling-houses floated past the city that day, and half a mile of radroad track was washed away. All important industries were drowned out. At Sioux City both rail and telegraph communication with the North and West was cut off. Four hundred houses were either submerged or surrounded by water, and communication with their occupants was had only by rafts. At Rockford the Wdson ice-house, containing about 1,000 tons of ice, sunk into the Bock river. The printers on the Cleveland Leader have been granted an advance in their pay. Manager Haverly, of Chicago, will build in that city the finest theater in the Unitod States. The sigte select© i for this Lew dramatic temple is Monroe street, oppos te Haverly’s present theater. A special train on the Denver and Rio Grande road jumped the track near Ozirr, New Mexico, and rolled down an embankment if 150 feet. Seven men and one woman were killed, and all the other passengers injured. The wounded wero taken to Denver. While the population of Chicago has increased 70 per cent, in the past ten years, the growth of the churches in membership has been only 12 per cent. A fire at Salinas, Cal., burned the residence of Mayor Ball, and his wife and two daughters perished in the flames. A joint agreement has been signed by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul and several other railroad companies for the erection of a union depot at Minneapolis. The structure will cost about $600,000. South. The exodus of colored people from the South to Kansas has begun again. A colored assassin was taken from jail at Quincy, Fla., by disguised men, and banged to a tree. Mrs. Nutt, of Camden, Ark., in an insane fit, threw her five children into a well, where they penshed. Additional particulars respecting the killing of her five children by Mrs. Nutt, near Camden, Ark., mentioned heretofore, are, that the frenzied woman called her eldest child, a boy 12 years old, from a field where he was plowing, knocked him on the head, and threw him into the well, where she had previously thrown her four other children. Finding that one of the children was not drowned, but was clinging to the side of the well, she descended into the well and tore away its grasp and thrust it down into the water, thus compkt ng her diabolical work. At Uvalde, Tex., a shooting affray occurred between Gen. John R. Baylor and son on one side, and Mr. Gillhurst and two sons on the other. Baylor escaped unhurt, but his son was wounded. Gillhurst was killed ; one son was fatally wounded, and another well filled with buckshot. Thomas De Jarnette, the young man who murdered his sister at Danville, Va , be cause she had entered upon a life of shame, has been acquitted upon the ground of insanity. A block of the principal business houses in Sheridan, Miss., has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $260,000; insurance $125,000_ The lire was the work of an incendiary. Sheriff W. F. Beattie, of Crittenden county, Ark., was killed and Deputy Sheriff Maddojt was dangerously wounded while attempting the arrest of a negro burglar. Asachel of jewelry valued at $12,000 was stolen from the room of a traveling salesman, in a hotel at Baltimore. Fifteen men rode to the house of Mr. McLauron, of Edwards county, Texas, and took the lives of McLauren, his wife, and a young man named Lease, living with them. Nothing in tbe house was disturbed. The whole affair is shrouded in mystery so far. Lucinda Fowlkes, a Virginia negress who killed her husband, enjoys the honor of beiog the only woman hanged in the Southern States in twenty years. On the platform she trembled violently. The discovery of a deliberate scheme of general escape in the South Carolina penitentiary at Columbia was the means of preventing an extensive uprising among the convictll, who had provided themselves with axes, knives, clubs and pieces of chain, and with these weapons intended to overpower and, if necessary, kill all the prison officials. Two negroes under sentence of forty years for murder were the ringleaders. Louis Whittaker, a negro murderer, was taken from jail at Gadsden, Fla., by thirty masked men, and hanged to a tree. The Missouri Pacific and the Texas and 8L Louis railways have been having a hot fight over the right of way through Waco, Tex. The militia had to be called out.

WASHINGTON NOTES. A physician of Washington asserts that Blaine is a victim of Bright’s disease, the desperation of the attack being shown by bleached ears. The Comptroller of the Currency upon examination of the securities held by national ban£s finds that 475 banks in thirty States and Territories hold 6s of 1881 to secure circulating notes amounting in the aggregate to $45,275,850. Bonds for continuing the outstanding 6s of 1881 at 3% per cent, are similar to the original 6s, except that they have an indorsement of the conditions.. Friends of Attorney General MacVeagh say that if William £. Chandler is confirmed as Solicitor General the former will decline to assign him any court business, as he has authority to do, and will confine Mr. Chandler to office work. It is evident that Mr. MacVeagh is determined to prevent Chandler from becoming Solicitor General. There is no opposition yet expressed to Gen. Longstreet’s confirmation as United States Marshal of Georgia, and it is generally believed that he will be confirmed by a practically unanimous vote. Postmaster General James promises lo make his department self-sustaining within two years. Mrs. Belva Lockwood, the well-known female lawyer; is an applicant for the position of Minister to Brazil. An order has been issued making pos-tal-cards unmailable with anything but the direction on the address side. President - Garfield, who' is an enthusiast on base-ball, received a call from the Princeton nine, two of whom are sons of Justice Harlan. Within two years the annual pay on ninety-three star mail routes was raised from $727,119 to $2,802,214.

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY INDIANA, FRIDAY. APRIL 29, 1881.

It is understood that the Brazilian mission will j>e given io, James Monroe, of Ohio, and the Italian mission to i. M. Gregory, of Illinois. -«<»“ Rear Admiral Rodgers is to become Superintendent of the Naval Academy in June, and Rear Admiral Baleh will g« to San Francisco and take command of the naval force on the Pacific station.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. A new and dangerous counterfeit $lO gold piece has appeared in San Francisco. Leon Chatteau has arrived in New Yoik from France on business connected with a s impany organized in Paris to import American live stock. Its capital is 20,000,000 francs, and the first shipment will be made by its agents next month. M. Chatteau has also formed another company to import all kinds of American products. He believes our silk goods will find a large sale throughout France. Gen. Joseph Lane, who ran for Vice President on the ticket with Breckinridge, in 1860, died recently at his home in Oregon. He was born in North Carolina in 1801, emigrated to Indiana, and was for many years a member of the Indiana Legislature from Vanderburgh county. He was in the Mexican war, and commanded the left wing of Gen # Taylor’s army at the famous battle of Buena Vista. He was appointed Governor of Oregon Territory in 1848, and was subsequently elected Delegate in Congress, in which oapacity he served nntil the State was admitted into the Union, when he was chosen United States Senator. Secretary Windom will establish an office in London for convenience in substituting 3)4 per cent, bonds for 6s held by for' signers. Three children of Mr. Le Duo were burned to death at Hull, Quebec. The value of our exports of provisions and tallow for the five months ending March 31, 1881, was $65,879,269, against $46,200,106 for the corresponding period last year. The colored men are organizing a movement to gain admission to Indian Territory. A report comes from Panama that the cashier of the De Lesseps Canal Company has absconded with $6,000,000 in gold belonging to the company.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Hon. Daniel F. Beatty has been le-elected Mayor of Washington, N. J. This will b i his third term.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. Beth parties in the Senate appeared determined to continue the dead-lock indefinitely, on reassembling after the recess, on Monday, April 18, tad talk and dilatory motions consumed the entire session. Mr. Beck declared it the purpose of the Democrats to continue the opposition to Riddleberger even after next December. He said Biddleberger was obnoxious to the Democratic Senators, and the latter could never hold proper official relations with him; that next December there would be nominated for Sergeant- at-Arms a gallant Union soldier, who bears the wounds received in ’eading troops on the field of battle, and every Democratic Senator will support him, and he believed the nomination wonld be made by a Republican Senator. Beck declared that Riddleberger would never be elected Sergeant-at-Arms. Senator Blair offered a resolution in the United States Senate on Tuesday, April 19, which declares that ihe public Interests require Congress to be convened immediately. In support of the resolution, Mr. Blair stated that a recent decision ol Ihe United States Supreme Couit meant the ruin of the hosiery and knit-goods industry of New England unless amendatory protective legislation covering that point ts adopted. He also urged in favor of h a resolution the necessity of Congressional action in reference to the De Lesseps canal. The dead-lock continued throughout the day, with no prospect of a break. The President nominated Gen. James Longstreet (now Minister to Turkey) to be United States Marshal of Georgia, and Philip H. Emerson to be Associate Justice of tne Supreme Court of Utah. The time of the Senate was mainly occupied on Wednesday, April 20, by a discussion between Messrs. Dawes and Jonas as to whether Massachusetts or Louisiana was most free from crime; a speech from Senator Frye, in which he arraigned the Democrats for knowingly acting contrary to the constitution > a brief butexcited discussion between Messrs. Butler and Burnside, during which the latter repeatedly, ex' citedly, and emphatically stated that Butler’s assertion that there was a corrupt bargain between Mahone and the Republicans was false; and the usual sparring between Brown and Hoar. The Senate adjourned without doing any business. President Garfield sent the following nominations to the Senate: Richard A. Elmer, of New York, to be Second Assistant Postmaster General, vice Thomas J. Brady, of Indiana, resigned; W. A. M. Giier, of Pennsylvania, Third Assistant Postmaster General, vice A. D. Hnzen, appointed Assistant Attorney General of the Postoffice Department, and George B. Everett, Collector of Internal Revenue of the Fifth district of North Carolina, vice W. H. Wheeler. There was the usual waste of time in the Senate on the 21st Inst., and more than the average number of petty wrangles. Messrs. Dawes and Cameron had a dispute about a question of adjournment ; Dawes had a discussion with Call about the freedom of voters in Massachusetts; Dawes had a dispute with Saulsbury on Borne trivial matter; and Wade Hampton and Jonas glorified their sections. No business of any kind was done. There was another day of heavy debate in the Senate on Friday, April 22, and at its close an adjournment was taken until Tuesday, partly to enable Senators who live near Washington to transact necessary business, partly to permit the Republicans to have a private conference, and nominally to give the Senate an opportunity to be present at the ceremonies which will attend the unveiling of the statue of the late Admiral Farragut on Monday. President Garfield sent for solne Republican Senators to urge cn them to relieve his administration from the embarrassment of having so many of his nominations unconfirmed so long. He advised that the Republicans consent to go into executive session at an early day. Senators Sherman, Hawley and Hale are said to be actively urging the President’s views.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

Batubday, April 16. —The Fifty-second General Assembly of the State adjourned sine die after a short session of both houses. Resolutions were passed reaffirming the fidelity of this people to the General Government, etc., and feeling speeches were made hy the Speaker and the Lieutenant Governor preparatory to the final separation of both houses.

Turkey’s Decay.

Only two generations ago the possessions of Turkey ran from the Biver Pruth to Cape Matapan, and, barring Bussia, it was the largest empire in Europe. But Turkey has been extensively carved and bled since that time. Little Greece was cut off in the south, and set up housekeeping for itself; then Servia and Boumaaia were cut off in the north. Since Turkey’s last war with Bussia Austria has appropriated Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria rained in fact its independence; Eastern Boumelin a state of semi- independence; and Servia, Boamania and Montenegro were enlarged by several slices of Turkey. This left Thrkey in Europe one of the smallest European* states. So far Turkey has lost two-thirds of her European possessions. The European population of Turkey has dwindled down from twenty to five millions of people. Vest often a young man imagines himself to be a perfect brick, %hen he really isn’t more than half baked.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles."

OBITUARY.

Lord BeseomfleM. The Earl of Beaconsfield, England’s most brilliant statesman and diplomat, expired at his home in London on the morning of Tuesday, April 19, after a long and painful illness. Benjamin Disraeli was the son of Isaac Disraeli, an English author, a descendant of a family of Spanish Jews, I(e (Benjamin) was bom at Islington, Lond&L in 1805. After an education at a private school, he was placed in an attorney’s office, where he continued for some time as a preparation to an appointment in a Government office, which, however, he did not obtain. In 1826 he became a contributor to a paper started in the Tory interests, and called the Hepresentati ve. This paper lived only five months, but it seemed to hive had some effect upon the mind of Mr. Disraeli, in so far as to give it a political bias. In 1828 appeared his novel of “ Vivian Gray,” which was at various times succeeded by *• Contarini Fleming,” “The Young Duke,” “The Wondrous Tale of Alroy,” “Tne Rise of Iskander,” “Henrietta Temple,” “Venetia,” “Coningsbv,” “The Sibyl,*' and “Tailored." Beside these, he produced, in 1834, a quarto poem entitled “ The Revolutionary- Epic ;” and, in 1839, “ Alarcon, a Tragedy.’’ While thus actively engaged in the world of letters, he was continually before the public as a politician. In 1837, after many defeats, he was returned member from Maidstone. His first speech in the House was like his first attempts at political representation—a complete failure. His speech was laughed at throughout, and he was compelled to sit down before it was finished. This, however, he did not. do until he had said, “ I have begun several things many times, and often have succeeded at last I shall sit down now, but the time will come when you will near me.” Those words proved prophetic. The time did come when he was listened to with anxious eagerness. By bis marriage with the wealthy widow of Mr. Lewis, who had been his colleague in the representation from Maidstone, he became independent in position, and by 1841 he was recognized as the leader of the ‘ ‘Young England ” party. Between that year and 1846 his attacks upon Sir Robert Peel were as frequent as they were often brilliant and severe. He was then member from Shrewsbury, and in 1847 was elected member from Buckinghamshire. In 1848 his friend Lord George Bentinck died, when he became leader of the offi Tory or Protectionist party in the House of Commons. In 1852 he became Chancellor of the Exchequer, under Lord Derby, but in the same year that administrator fell upon his own budget. In 1858 Lord Derby again came into power, and Mr. Disraeli was again appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, and in 1859 introduced a measure of Parliamentary reform, the rejection of which led to the resignation of the Ministry. On the return of the Earl of Derby to power in 1866, Mr. Disraeli resumed bis position as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and carried the Reform act of 1867. Thq Earl’s health failing, he retired in February, 1868, and Mr. Disraeli succeeded him as Premier, and his wife was created a Peeress as Viscountess Beaconsfield. The Ministry resigned the following December, but Mr. Disraeli returned to power in 1874. In 1876 be was raised to the Peerage as Earl of Beaconsfield. His party having suffered defeat by the general election of 1880, he resigned office.

Growth of Great Fortunes.

It was stated not long ago, in the newspapers, that the already enormous estate of one speculator in stocks in New York was further increased last year by the sum of $30,000,000. Several other great New York estates were swelled by speculation in a degree only less colossal. Such figures are calculated to stir and dazzle ambitious young men, to whom the possession of a great fortune often appears to be the greatest height of earthly happiness. That money, in such vast amounts, should be so apparently easily and rapidly made, stimulates the young mind to seek similar methods of enriching themselves. The increased fortunes which have been mentioned were made, for the most part, by pure speculation. The men whose pockets were thus glutted did not thus add to their millions by bard and useful labor, productive and of added value to the community at large. Nor did they receive this increase by the natural and normal income of their already vast properties. The sums thus piled up came from wholesale dealing in stocks ; by influencing the money market—pressing one stock down and another up —not for the financial good of their city or country, but for their own personal profit. This is really little or no better than pgpe gambling—in one aspect, indeed, it is worse, since the operators already held, in great sums of money, winning cards in their hands against their blind opponents and victims. It is not thus, after all, that the great and enduring fortunes of the world are made and accumulated. Speculation is a wild and dangerous game. It creates a perpetual, restless fever; every day, the largest fortunes involved in it are m peril. Even the largest speculator may wake, any morning, to find his millions vanished. Such fortunes rest on no secure foundation. An unexpected event may cause a crash, when all seems hopeful and secure. That is, fortunes made by speculation in stocks may, and often do, disappear as rapidly as they are built up. The solid and lasting fortunes are those which are established gradually, step by step ; by serving some useful function in the world; by prudence, economy, and good judgment in making sound investments; by putting by, little by little, each month and each year; nay, by making a resolve never to risk the hard-earned sums in the hazardous practice of gambling in stocks. If we observe the facts which history teaches us, we find this method of raising lasting fortunes the one confirmed by events. It was by attending to their business, by slow and carelul increase, by proving tliemselves trustworthy and faithful to their clients, and by never, on any account, entering into bubble speculations, that such princes of wealth as the Rothschilds, the Barings, George Peabody, Peter Cooper, George Law, John Jacob Astor, attained their great financial influence and their huge incomes.

All these men were engaged in doing something or selling something for the benefit of mankind. Their good fortune .came justly from the confidence with which they inspired , those with whom they had relations. Through several generations the two greatest banking firms in the world—the Rothschilds and the Barings—have sustained this reputation for honesty and probity, and their strictly legitimate business thrift. Were it ever known that either engaged in the wild speculations of the stock exchange, there can bo no doubt that a large portion of their power, and very likely their fortunes also, would soon be dissipated. The best way is to acquire money by hard, honest work. It stays longer by those who so obtain it; and its possession is far sweeter when earned by the toil of the brow, than when it is got by the feverish transactions of stock gambling. Youth,'B Companion.

New Mode of Tanning.

A new process of tanning is extensively used in Germany. Bark is wholly dispensed with, and inorganic compounds take its place. The new process requires from four to six weeks for its completion, and the particular feature is

described to be the action of chromic acid, for the generation of which a number of substances, soluble in water, are brought together so as to effect the decomposition of bichromate of potash.

THE NIHILISTS.

Declaration of Principle* of the Party. The following is the code of the Nihilists, as promulgated at St Petersburg : A. We are socialists and champions of the people. We hold that socialism alone can insure to humanity the blessings of liberty, equality and fraternity. We hold that the will of the people can alone sanction and achieve the social reforms we contemplate. No idea or social instruction can prosper if it is imposed on the people. B. [ln this paragraph the Bufferings of the Russian working class, resulting from exorbitant taxation and arbitary administration, are exposed. ] C —l. We hold, therefore, the overthrow of the present Government the foremost duty. By this revolution our nation snail attain—l, the faculty of an independent development of all its forces, according to its own will and customs; 2, the possibility of a further growth of the socialistic instructions, forming a part of our national life, such as the artel (workmen associations), the obstchina (land commune), etc. 2. We hold that the will of the people may be clearly expressed in a national assembly, elected by universal suffrage, which, though by not any means an ideal form of expression, is nevertheless the only one possible under the present circumstances. 3. It is, therefore, our intention to take the state power from the hands of the present Government and confer it’on a national assembly, which is to decide as to the future constitution of our country. D.—Therefore we demand ; 1. A regular representative assembly elected by universal suffrage. 2. A full local self-government of all provinces, districts and townships. 3. The commune an independent, economical and administrative unity. 4. The land to be declared state property. 5. A system of measures aiming at the transmission of all factories and workshops to co-operative associations of workingmen. 6. Full liberty of conscience, of speech, of the press, of associations and meetings. 7. Universal suffrage, without limitation as to class or property. 8. Abolition of the standing armies and institution of a national militia. E—ln view of the above stated principles our action comprehends : 1. Propaganda agitation. Our propaganda purposes to diffuse among all classes of our people the idea of a democratic political revolution as the only means for attaining a better social condition. 2. Destructive and terroristic action. Our terroristic action consists in the destruction of the most pernicious agents of the Government, of spies, agents of tbe third section, etc. The purpose of these violent acts is to rob the Government of the Czar of its prestige in the eyes of the people, to show the latter the possibility of a struggle with the Government, and to foment thus the revolutionary spirit in the Banks of the people. 3. Organization of secret societies. 4. Secret agencies in the ministries, in the army, in society, and so forth, have been instituted in all parts empire. New agencies are yet tobe opened. 5. Organizations and outbreak of the revolution. The people being oppressed and the Government yet too strong, the party must take upon itself the initiative of the revolutionary outbreak. When and how can, of course, not be p üblished.

Whistling to a Squirrel.

One afternoon, when out looking for game, I sat down on a pile of rails to rest. Pretty soon I discovered in an oak tree some twenty yards away a red squirrel stretched at full length on a limb taking a sun bath. Instead of raising my rifle and sending a ball through the little fellow (it’s a mighty mean “sportsman” that endeavors to lull all he sees) I decided to give him a little pleasure if I could, sol commenced to whistle the air of that once-popular ditty, “ I Love Thee, Sweet Norah O’Neil.” In a twinkling the squirrel was up on his hind legs, his tail over his back, his head cocked on one side, listening to me; a moment of irresolution, and then he scampered down the trunk of the tree to the ground and started toward me; he came a few yards, stopped, sat np on end and listened again. I was careful not to move, and kept on whistling. After waiting a moment the little beauty came on, jumped up on the pile of rails, ran along within four feet of me, halted, went up on end again, made an umbrella of his tail, tipped his head to one side, looked at me with all the gravity of a Justice of the Peace at his first trial, and yet if ever a creature’s eye beamed with pleasure his did. I did not move, but after a little I abruptly changed the tune to the “ Sweet By and By.” Chut! Why, with the first note of the different tune away went the squirrel. I did not move, only as I shook with suppressed laughter, and as well as I could kept on whistling. In a minute or two back came the squirrel, going through all the cunning maneuvers of his first approach, and once more took a seat before me on the rails. I watched him, and actually thought he was trying to pucker up his mouth and whistle. • Once again I changed the tune, this time to “ Yankee Doodle,” and as before, with the first note of change, away scampered the squirrel. Unable to control my risibilities any longer, I laughed aloud, and after that I couldn’t call my little friend to me. I wonder how many of the so-called “ true sportsmen” ever seek or think of any pleasure in connection with such beautiful little creatures save the savage and unmanly pleasure of taking away their lives !—Forest and Stream.

Humoring Children.

It is good to humcr them in all natural manifestations and cravings of their affections. A child hungry-hearted for love is one of the saddest sights in the world. Hardly less pitiful is the condition of a little one perpetually repressed or discouraged in the sweet impulses that prompt it to give expression to his love. That way danger lies. The boy or girl will not easily go wrong whose arm is twined morning and night around mother’s neck, or whose head is welcomed to its cuddling-place on father’s shoulder. It is on the side of their affections that children are most easily held and guided, and the firmest rein is

the invisible, golden cord of love. It is good to hnmor children in following their natural bent in all right, helpful directions. Remember that education is only the leading out of powers and faculties that are within. Encourage, therefore, * such inclinations toward books, studies, mechanics, music, out-of-door pursuits and healthful sports as shall help most truly to develop your child. As education comes more and more to include the development of a natural aptitude, it will be more and more successful. It is good to humor your children in preserving their individuality, and in fostering a true selfrespect. Teach them early the value of a dime and a dollar. If you give them but 5 cents a week, tell them what it costs somebody in labor, and hold them strictly to their allowance. The philosophy of early training is to make the child father to the man—mother to the woman. The homely proverb, “As the twig is bent the tree inclines,” is not yet outgrown. It is as true now as in ancient times, that if some twigs are permitted to grow as they incline the tree will be a crooked one.

USEFUL HINTS.

Cotton wool wet with sweet oil and laudanum relieve the ear-ache very soon. Linseed oil is the best substance to coat eggs with for the purpose of preserving them and preventing the evaporation of their watery elements. When washing fine laces, do not use starch at all; in the last water in which they are rinsed put a little fine white sugar, dissolve it thoroughly, and the result will be pleasing. N<? housekeeper should put quicksilver on her bedsteads. The mineral is absorbed by those sleeping upon them, causing paralysis and many other serious and fatal diseases. You can get a bottle or a barrel of oil off of any carpet or woolen stuff by applying dry buckwheat plentifully and faithfully. Never put water or liquid of any kind to such a grease-spot. To obtain a glossy skin : Pour up-on a pint of bran sufficient boiling water to cover it. Let it stand until cold and then bathe the face with it, only patting the skin with a soft towel to dry it. To take iron stains out of marble. An equal quantity of spirits of vitriol and lemon juioe being mixed in a bottle, shake well, wet the spots and in a few minutes rub with soft linen till they disappear. Cheap paint: Three hundred parts washed and sieved white sand, forty parts of precipitated chalk, fifty parts of rosin and four parts of linseed oil are mixed and boiled in an iron kettle and then one part of oxide of copper and one part of sulphuric acid are added. This mass is applied with an ordinary paint brush while warm. If it is too thick, it is diluted with linseed oil. This paint dries very rapidly and gets verv hard, but protects woodwork excellently. To bleach cloth : Into eight quarts of warm water put one pound of chloride of lime ; stir with a stick a few minutes, then strain through a bag of coarse muslin, working it with the hand to dissolve thoroughly. Add to this five bucketfuls of warm water, stir it well and put in the muslin. Let it remain in one hour, turning it constantly that every part may get thoroughly bleached. When taken out, wash well in two waters to remove the lime, rinse and dry. This quantity will bleach twen-ty-five yards of yard-wide muslin. The muslin will bleach evenly and quickly if it has been thoroughly wet and dried before bleaching.

One of the things “not generally known,” at least in this country, is the Parisian method of cleaning black silk; the modus operandi is very simple, and the result infinitely superior to that achieved in any other manner. The silk must be thoroughly brushed and wiped with a cloth, then laid flat on a board or table and well sponged with hot coffee, thoroughly freed from sediment by being strained through muslin. The silk is sponged on the side intended to show, it is allowed to become partially dry, then iron on the wrong side. The coffee removes every particle of grease and restores the brilliancy of the silk without imparting to it either the shiny appearance or the erackly and papery stiffness obtained by beer, or, indeed, any other liquid. The silk really appears thickened by the process, and this good effect is permanent. Our readers who will experiment on an apron or cravat will never again try any other method.

The Largest Farm.

The wheat ranch of Dr. H. J. Glenn, in Colusa county. Cal., is perhaps the largest and best-known in the State. The Chicago Tribune says that on being asked why he raised nothing but wheat, Dr. Glenn replied: “It is the only crop that will bear transportation; it is the only crop not perishable. I must not raise on my land what ruins me, but what is profitable.” Dr. Glenn’s ranch comprises about 60,000 acres of land, and the number of acres in wheat each year ranges between 40,000 and 50,000. Beckoning an average of from twenty to thirty-five bushels to the acre, the aggregate crop each year amounts to something more than 1,000,000 bushels. This enormous amount of grain requires vast applianoes for planting and bringing it to market; and the capital invested in machinery alone sums up a considerable fortune. During the harvest time there are employed on the entire ranch some 500 men. Dr. Glenn is general-in-chief of his force, and the ranch is divided, for convenience of operations, into nine smaller ranches—each with dwelling house, barns, blacksmith shop, and other necessary buildings. In charge of these are seven foremen, under whom are sixteen blacksmiths, fourteen carpenters, six engineers, six machinists, five commissaries, and numerous cooks and servants. The common workmen are divided into gangs, and detailed where they are needed. There are 130 gang-plows; 60 herders, to which belong 180 wagons; 6 cleaners, 100 harrows, 18 seeders, 6 threshers, 6 engines. Besides, there are many smaller instruments and vehicles, which cannot be classified. Co-operat-ing with their human brethren in the great labor are 1,000 work-horses and mules, with a kinship of 1,000 brood mares and younger stock which has not yet achieved the dignity of labor. There are 32 dwelling houses, 27 barns, 14 blacksmith shops, and other structures sufficient to swell the aggregate to 100. The machinery could not be replaced for $125,000; the work-horses and mules are worth $110,000; the brood mares and young stock, $75,000; and the buildings on the place, SIOO,OOO. A hoteii dinner—The fellow that sounds the gong.

$1.50 Der Annum.

NUMBER 12.

THE LATEST REPUBLICAN DEVICE.

[From the Cincinnati Enquirer.] The attempt of the Republican party to call the treachery of Mahone by some other name, and to give an euphronious label to the bargain by which the Republicans purchased Mahone, is really ludicrous. The endeavor is to coll Mahone’s sale of himself to the Republican Senators “friendship for the black man. ” “ Friendship for the black man ” had as much to do with Mahone’s treason and sale of himselx as it had to do with the bargain which Judas Iscariot mode years ago. The attempt to make respectable the infamy of the part which Republican Senators took in this bargain by calling it by some other name will be, or should be, absolutely unavailing. The plain truth is that the Republican Senators purchased Mahone by as corrupt a transaction as ever disgraced the halls of any legislative body, and they have kept the public business bound hand and foot for six weeks in the endeavor to yay Mahone the promised price for his dishonor. Neither on the part of Mahone nor on the part of the Republican Senators has this disreputable transact! n of unprecedented infamy in the history of the national Legislature any redeeming feature. Every impartial, intelligent man in the country knows to-day that the public business will not proceed, because the Republican Senators insist upon paying Mahone. They are afraid that if they do not pay him they may lose him. They have been endeavoring, during these weeks, to force the Democratic half of the Senate to assist them in compensating Mahone for his treachery. The Republican position is that Democratic Senators are guilty of treasonable and revolutionary conduct if they will not contribute to the payment of Mahone for his infamous services to the Republican Senators. The desire to “ render service to the black man,” the desire to break up “ Bourbonism, ” the desire to “ diminish sectionalism,” the desire to “encourage independence,” and all other alleged desires on the part of Mahone or the Republicans, save the ignoble ones we have indicated, have no more to do with the treachery of the renegade Virginian and his purchase by thirty- s«ven Republican Sonators than they had to do with the treason of Benedict Arnold a century ago. Harper's Weekly may well say, in view of this situation, as it has said : ‘ * There is certainly some turning of the tables when Republicans in the Senate who have most warmly denounced the rebel Brigadiers and insisted upon strict financial honesty are found supporting a repudiating rebel Brigadier as a friend and brother.” And the same journal of Civilization says of Mahone : “ For his repudiating or ‘ readjusting ’ policy nothing can be said except that any attempted reorganization of the Republican party in Virginia upon a platfotm of national dishonesty would certainly fail, as it ought to fail.” And the same Republican journal says of Mahone’s vote: “If it has been deliberately bought with patronage it is a mutual disgrace to Mr. Mahone and to his buyers.” Of course Mahone’s vote was deliberately “bought with patronage," and every intelligent man in the country knows this, including the editor of Harper's Weekly. There is nothing else than this in the entire transaction ; and the Republicans in the country, outside of the Senate, who are forced into the position of sustaining the Republican Senators in this business, are driven into the indorsement of this infamy. The national Republican party is compelled to applaud this corrupt bargain with Mahone, which even Harper's Weekly calls a disgrace to the Republican Senators. The Republican organ from which we have quoted further says that “ if the Republicans promised to give Mahone’s friend Riddleberger a warm place as the price of his vote, it was a shameful bargain.” Tlio whole country knows that the Republicans did promise Riddleberger a * ‘ warm place ” as the price of Mahone’s vote, and it is useless to attempt to hide this mutual shame beneath patriotic phrases or names that are sweeter in the mouth than the correct ones.

The national Bepublican party is also compelled to praise Mahone. "its platform is Mahone. The announcement has gone forth that it intends to inaugurate a “new era” of things—in partnership with Mahone. Praise Mahone for what ? For his services during the Rebellion, for which he says he has not repented? For his notorious efforts as a Repudiator ? For his treason to his constituents and his sale to the Republicans? Upon which part of Mahone. as a platform, do the Republicans propose to go before the country asking for the approval of the voters ? This is all there is of Mahone. Which side of him will the national Republican party put before the public to captivate suffrages ? It is reported that the Republican party will endeavor to steal the State of Virginia from the Democracy with the aid of the purchased Virginia Senator. How ? It must be, if at all, upon the Mahone platform of repudiation. In other words, the national Republican party proposes to enlarge its borders and strengthen its stakes by planting itself upon the platform of repudiation, and by corrupt alliance and partnership with the one man in the United States who happens at this moment to be the most notorious of repudiators ! Iu this event the national Republican party will have sold itself to Mahone—the buyers will have been bought. Upon one of these disgraceful phases of this disgraceful situation must the Republican party appeal to the country for support. What kind of a “new era” is this to inaugurate? How will the candid and unbiased voters of the country, if there are such, regard such an appeal ? A Prophet Without Honor. If the Republicans expect to triumph in Virginia through the bargain with Mahone, they ought to find some other assurance of it than his promise. He thus confronted the public as a prophet last October: Committee Rooms, Readjusted Oita’N.,l Richmond, V*., Oct. 28, JBBO. ( Let me assure you, as 1 do confidently, that an electoral ticket headed by Cameron and Riddleberger, and pledged to Hancock, will carry the State by a plurality of 25,000 ; that it will beat either the Funder or Grip-Sack tickets by this vote—not less. Rely on this. Woluk Mahone. This positive declaration was made only ten days before the election, when the political situation in Virginia was clearly defined, and was well understood by the country. When the votes were counted the popular Democratic ticket for Hancock had 96,912, the Republican ticket 84,020, and the Readjusfer Mahone ticket 31,674. Thus Mahone got

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only 6,000 votes more than the plurality which lie had audaciously claimed over the other two tickets separately. He stigmatized the Republicans as tho grip-sack party, another alias for carpetbagger. But when he found that barely one-seventh part of the aggregate poll of Virginia supported his scheme he at once entered into negotiations for making the bargain which now stands exposed.

“ The Best Governments the South Ever Had.”

“The oarpet-bag Governments were the best Governments thei South ever had.” So says Senator Blair, of New Hampshire, in his speech in defense of Mahone. Now let our readers remember that on the termination of hostilities the rebellious States were divided into departments. The work of reconstruction l>eg»u by acts passed in June, 1868. Tho Confederate debt, general and local, had been repudiated. The subsequent increase in the indebtmeut of the reconstructed States is, therefore, chargeable directly and exclusively to Republican rale and policy. The spoliation under the carpet-bag Governments may be appreciated from the following figures in nine States: State debt State debt in 1868. in 1871. Arkansan $ 4,»36,952 $ 19,761,265 Alabama 7,904,396 38,.8:11,867 Florida 528,858 13,797,537 Georgia 9,679,750 2 i, 137,600 Louisiana.... 11,347,051 41,194,473 MisHiasippi 1,796,971 North Carolina 15,779,045 34.887,467 South Carolina.. 4,407,958 29,158,914 Texas 384,569 17,000,800 Totals $50,069,477 $9 ife, 068,694 In throe years $166,000,000 were added to the debts of these impoverished States, just emerged from the desolation of civil war. The carpet-baggers stole and squandered most of this money. Nor did they stop there. The cost or carrying on the State Governments kept pace with the enormous inflation of their indebtment, and taxation followed in the train of both these excesses, almost to the point of confiscation. The local taxes of these n no States aggregated $11,217,639 in 1860, when they were prosperous. They summed up $26,020,232 when they were prostrated in 1870, In 1860 they had 88,698,996 acres of land under culture, valued at $1,207,687,867, and in 1870 they had 31,978,856 acres, valued at $545,977,916. These are appalling figures. Tho revival of the South in the'face of them, as exhibited by the returns of the present census, is one of the most astounding facts in the history of civilization. Now, alter the country has put the stamp of its reprobation on these atrocities and compelled the Republican party to denounce the third-termer, who was the instrument through which they were made possible, this New Hampshire Senator unblushingly advocates a restoration of that infamous rule in the South. —New York Sun.

A New Soul Theory.

Prof. Gustav Jaeger, of Stuttgart, Wurtemberg, has published a book entitled “ The Discovery of the Soul,” which is a most remarkable publication and has brought him at once into prominence as a philosopher. In his book the professor explains how he discovered the soul, and what it consists of. He divides man into three pnrtß—body, spirit and soul—throwing the liver away, and making no use of it. He show's that the human eye is for the purpose of seeing things, that the ear is for the purpose of hearing what is said, while the nose, he contends, is for the purpose of smelling. Taking these three senses together, on the/ axiom that things which are equal to the same thing are equal to each other, the professor finds that the “soul is composed of odoriferous particles, and consequently the nose can perceive the soul—that is, that the soul can be smelled. ” This is certaiuly an important discovery, as it locates a man’s soul with unerring certainty in his feet. The material part of man may die, and his body be resolved to earth again, but his socks shall live on forever, in a life lieyond the tomb. The theory of Prof. Jaeger is a strange one, but, if oorrect, it behooves the Christian young men of the country to put forth renewed efforts to prevent the young and thoughtless from losing their immortal souls by making use of the foot bath and a case knife. It is lamentable to think how the world has been groping in heathen darkness in this matter, and people have turned up their noses at the African, for shedding'a soulful influence around him. High-toned people should now be ashamed of themselves for refusing to ride in emigrant cars, because the company had thrown some soul into them. The theory heretofore entertained that dumb animals had no soul, is demolished by Prof. Jaeger, and if he is correct there are animals that have plenty of it. The skunk, for instance, has boul enough for six, and will occupy a front seat in the New Jerusalem. Prof. Jaeger will shortly visit the United States and deliver a series of lectures in the principal cities, and if we have misconstrued his theory we shall apologize. Bat he should bo heard, and we trust his audiences will listen respectfully, and not greet him witjji a volume of soul-stirring eggs.— Peck’s b'un.

Improvement in the Sick-Room.

The changes of our time have been as marked in the sick-room as in the railway car or the telegraph office. The frightful doses of calomel and senna and castor oil, so common a century ago, are almost unknown. We wonder how our ancestors survived the administered drugs, when the disease was not fatal. In attacks of typhoid fever it was customary to bleed patients, and to starve them also, in order to loosen the hold of the fever on the system. It is now thought important to retain all the blood and enrich it by nutritious food, that the strength may be sustained against the severe dram made on the system by fever. Cold water used to be refused to patients parched with thirst, though they begged for it piteously. It is now given freely, as nature demands it. Flowers, also, used to be banished rigidly from sick-rooms, as they were thought to consume oxygen by night, and mrke the air unwholesome for the patient. But tests applied in large greenhouses have found the air as pure and rich in oxygen in the morning as at midday, and it may be hoped this superstition will be abandoned. A little beauty afid fragrance in the sick-cliam-ber may keep up cheerfulness and hope, which often are better antidotes than drugs. A touno lowa farmer writes to his friends in the East who have been urging him to marry that he cannot keep a wife on thin wind and pond water and sleeping on a rail fence.