Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1881 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. At the sitting of the Monetary Conference, in Paris, on Saturday, May 14, Senator de Normandie, a Trench delegate, urged the dangers of the present monetary system. He claimed to show, from the position of England since 1837, that gold monometallism did not afford a remedy. Unless wise measures are adopted, he said, a crisis would in the end violently force itself en the money markets. The stipulations of the Franco-Tunis treaty excite great indignation in Italy. Under the title of Earl of Oxford or Earl of Hawarden, Gladstone will, doubtless, accept a peerage and a seat in the House of Lords after the passage of the Land bill. The Swiss representatives abroad have been instructed to ascertain the views of the various states relative to the adoption of an international law regulating hours of labor in factories. Anti-Jewish disturbances have occarred at Warsaw. In consequence of the murder of a Christian at Odessa, the Jews of that city have been ordered to surrender then arms. A tube of dynamite, with fuse attached, was thrown into the doorway of the Central police station, at Liverpool, where it exploded. Many windows were broken, but nobody was hurt. Fresh outbreaks against the Jews have occurred at Smela and Odessa, Russia, where houses of Hebrews were wrecked. The populace of Tartoro are said to have iung a Jew into the flames of a burning house. The English newspapers are loudly indignant at the Franco-Tunisian treaty. They accuse France of perfidy, and intimate that, but for the lack of concert among other European powers, Italy would have declared war against her. Gen. Ignatieff, the successor of Gen. Meiikoff, has issued a circular to Governors *f provinces, in which he indicates the present evils of Russian social life and the measures proposed for their amelioration by the Czar’s Government. The first task will be the extirpation of rebellion. In the Monetary Conference, at Paris, on May 19, Hon. Timothy O. Howe, United States Commissioner, outlined the American position on the question of bimetallism. “The United States,’ - he said, “are not hereon behalf of mine-owners to bull the market for silver. Agriculture is our chief interest. Our annual cotton crop is worth seven times, our wheat crop twelve times, and corn crop eighteen times the average annual production of our silver mines. America is seeking for herself and the world a broad and stable money basis, upon which $30,000,000,000 of the world’s indebtedness can rest.” Most of the delegates who had already spoken replied to the arguments adduced by subsequent speeches against the views propounded by them. Mr. Evarts and sig. Doda recapitulated their arguments in fayor of bimetallism, and with their speeches the general discussion closed. Tho conference then decided to adjourn its sittings until tho 30tili of June. London Israelites are organizing with a view of protecting their persecuted coreligionists in Russia. Count Von Arnim, the German diplomatist who was sentenced, to five years’ penal servitude for betraying his country, died at Nico, prance. Great Britain declines to take part in the conference of the powers, suggested by Russia, for the purpose of taking joint action against Nihilism.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. T. J. B. Lincoln, of Boston, n broker Ln canned goods and nuts, has made a trona failure, his liabilities being estimated as high as $750,000. Four “star-route” speculators, J. R. Black, W. B. Cason, J. Frank and Henry Arbuckle, have been indicted by the Qrand Jury in the United States District Court of Philadelphia. Ex-Gov. Sprague, of Rhode Island, and an old-time friend, Dr. Greene, had a personal rencontre in the streets of Providence. • A bruised nose for one and a black eye for the other were the extent of the damages. Proceedings against Ken ward Philp, Charles A. Byrne, Louis T. Post and Joseph Hart, for libel in the Morey matter, have been ended by a nolle prosequi. W est. The army-worm is destroying all kinds of vegetation in Northern New York. Nearly 160,000 immigrants have landed at New York since the beginning of the year. Lieut. Uherry, of the Eighth cavalry, while pursuing some deserters ■jrho were robbing ranches near Niobrara, Neb., was deliberately shot dead by one of his own soldiers. Harriman ended his walk at the Exposition, in Chicago, with the best heel-and-toe record ever made, viz., 530 miles in six days. The cattle plague in Nebraska and Council Bluffs is decreasing. By the capsizing of a boat in the Licking reservoir at Newark, Ohio, Brice Stowe, Mrs. John Lasoh, and two children were drowned. Lawrence & Martin, wholesale and retail liquor dealers of Now York and Chicago, and manufacturers of Tolu, Rock and Rye, have failed for a large amount. .Lightning struck a barn at Norcross, Minn., and killed twenty-three horses. Alarming reports reach the frontier posts in regard to the. recklessness of the Navajo Indians. They secure liquor from the traders who follow in the wake of the railroad builders. They are stealing stock, claiming lauds not belonging to them, and threatening whites who settle outside their reservation. A company of infantry has been sent to the reservation from Fort Wingato. Chicago has an average death-rate of 25 in tho l,oop. That of Now York is 33.7. The highest in the United States is Memphis, 57.6 ; the lowest is Peoria, 7.1 Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, who ia now staying at tho home of her brother-in-law, N. W. Edwards, at Springfield, 111., is in a very delicate state of health, being confined to her bed nearly all the time. The door of the residence of Mrs. Bpartin, at Shelbyville, Ind., was battered down ~ with a fence-rail by two masked men, who easily terrified the old lady into giving them $3,000 which she had concealed. John Walruff, a brewer, of ’Lawrence, will try in the'Unlted States Supreme Court the constitutionality of the new Kansas Prohibition law. He has the financial backing of the National Brewers’ Association. A youth of 18, and two girls, aged 13 and 12 years, were drowned in Coon river, near Des Moines, lows, by ths upsetting of $ row*

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VOLUME V.

Three fishing-boats were capsized at the mouth of the Columbia river, off the coast of Oregon, and all the occupants were drowned. Robert A. Baker, * banker of Fond du Lae, Wis., has made an assignment to C. H. Benton. The extent of his liabilities is ♦IOO,OOO. The City Treasurer kept <40,000. on deposit in the institution. The Rock Island road is said to be about Ui take revenge for the aggressions of its rivals by building a branch from some point near Des Moires northward through Minnesota and Dakota to a junction with the Northern Pacific. A horrible tragedy was enacted on a farm near Terre Haute, Ind. A well-to-do young farmer named McPheeters had been separated from his wife, whom he married in February, 1879. In the meantime the wife, who was living with her mother, Mrs. Blocksom, had given birth to a child. McPheeters called at the house to see it. He walked into the room in which were sitting his wife, her sister, Miss Belle Blocksom, and her mother. He was ordered out of the house, and said he would go as soon as he had seen his baby. His wife went to tho cradle to show him the child, little thinking of tho terrible fate in store for her, and, while in the act of taking the little thing up, McPheeters drew a revolver and fired. The ball entered the right eye of his wife, causing infant death. She fell into the cradle with the child in her arms and completely saturated it with her blood. The villain then turned upon Miss Bello, and, uttering an oath, fired at her. The ball entered the right temple and penetrated the brain, causing death in a half-hour after. To complete the tragedy, he then placed the revolver against his own head and killed himself.

One of the Stockton gang, called “ Tommy, the Kid,” was killed and thrown out of a hack by Eskridge, another member of the Land, while on a spree at Amargo, New Mexico. Three road-agents stopped a coach near Lake City, Col., shot a Rio Grande railway engineer, and carried off lhe treasure pouch and mail sacks. The manufacture of oleomargarine and other oleaginous substances for butter has been made illegal by tho Illinois Legislature, a fine of not less than $25 nor more than S2OO being the penalty. By the caving of tho roof of ’the Golden Terra mine at Deadwood, two men were instantly killed and eleven buried alive. Tho latter were rescued with slight injuries. South. A fire on College and Church streets, Nashville, Tenn., burned $500,000 worth of property. Capt. J. L. Kouns, a famous Southern steamboat man, died at New Orleans of heart disease. John Schmidt, of Richmond, Va., who was given twenty lashes for stealing bacon, kdled himself with laudanum because of the disgrace. From the South comes most cheering words of the prospect both of cotton and sugar crops. The season was late and discouraging, but the fine weather has brought everything forward rapidly.

WASHINGTON NOTES. L. A. Gobright, one of the oldest journalists in the United States, for thirty years the faithful agent of the Associated Press in Washington, is dead. Postmaster General James lias, by his investigation on the star-route mail service, saved the country during tho month* of March, April, and May the large sum of $412,034. At the beginning of May the total gold circulation in the United States amounted to $520,000,000, of which $264,000,000 was held as treasury aud national-bank reserve*, the balance being in actual circulation. Stanley Matthews has taken the oath of office and been assigned to the Sixth circuit. Gen. Badeau, at present Consiil General at London, having declined the appointment of Minister to Denmark, his nomination has been withdrawn from the Senate. Commissioner of Agriculture Le Due has resigned, and the President has appointed as his successor ex-Congressman George B. Loring, a practical Bay State farmer. In the executive session of tho Senate, when the nomination of the colored exSenator Bruce as Register of the Treasury came up, Senator Lamar took occasion to state that Mississippi was honored in the selection, and asked for a unanimous vote.

POLITICAL POINTS. A meeting of the Anti-Monopoly League was held at Cooper Institute, Now York, to protest against the confirmation of Stanley Matthews as Justice of the Supreme Court. L. E. Chittenden occupied the chair. Resolutions were adopted declaring Stanley Matthews to bo the Pacific railroad candidate, and denouncing his confirmation as proof of a purpose to pack tho Supreme Court with Judges who will reverse' its decision in the granger cases. The reporter of the Western Associated Press telegraphs from Washington under date of May 17 : “ The sensation created by the resignations of Messrs. Conkling and Platt is still talked of, but the exciting interest is over. The possibility of Conkling’s failure to bo re-elected is much discussed, and will undoubtedly be fought hard. Secretary Blaine has kept in constant communication with Senator Robertson, but of course the correspondence is a close secret A prominent Republican, who has held (high positions and taken an active part in campa is for years, said to-day he was going to Albtny to assist in defeating Conkling, and that if the Democrats would agree to vote for a Republican against Conkling he favored the antiConkling members of the Legislature unitifig with them. Tammany is bitterly opposed to Conkling since he and John Kelly split. Leading Democrats say that the Kellys will fight Conkling and carry New York city Democrats against him, in case the election should become a free fight, and that the country Democrats in the Legislature would certainly go against him. Conkling’s plan is to have the Senatorial candidates chosen by party caucus. It can be stated that the administrationis satisfied with tbo state of affairs, and does not believe the Republican party of New York will be weakened at all. Republican Senators express the same opinion, that the party in New York cannot be hart by the appointment of a good man to office. The frequent response of Republican Senators, when spoken to on the subject, is that the Republican party does not de* pend on any one man for success; that this claim has been set up before, but passed away without impairing the success of the party in the least Gen. Grant did write a letter to the President urging him to withdraw Robertson. The letter wu in•IW4 ts tatar /ones, ot Xrrta, who

livered it to the President. It is claimed by Conkling’s friends that Gen. Grant will .stand by him in all he does." The Republican General Committee of New York State held a meeting and passed resolutions unanimously indorsing the action of Senators Conkling and Piatt They also erdered a copy to be sent to President Garfield. The confirmation of Judge Robertson was celebrated by salvos of artillery at Albany, Utica, Rochester, and other places in the interior of New York. Judge Robertson was serenaded by the Republican General Committee of New York. He made a speech, in which he said he regarded his confirmation not as a personal triumph, but as a victory over one-man power and the right of individual liberty in political action.—A New York telegram says: “ A friend of ex-Senator Cbnkling states that he will immediately enter into the practice of law in this city, and will take no further steps in politics until he has made sufficient money to insure himself a comfortable living. It is further said the Senator will advise his friends to elect ex-Preeident Grant as his successor in the Senate.”—An Associated Press dispatch from Washington says : “ There is no longer any doubt that a strong fight will be made against Conkling and Platt, and will have the sympathy of the administration. This is justified on the ground that Conkling declared Monday that he would regard his re-eloction as a rebuke to the administration and a commission to make war against it to the end of Garfield’s term. The policy of the administration will be to elect straight Republican Senators who will be in entire harmony with the party on all questious. If this cannot be accomplished in tins Legislature, then the policy will be to prevent lhe election of Conkling and Platt, even if the Senatorial election has to be thrown over to the next Legislature.” An Albany dispatch says the antiConkling members of the New York Legislature profess to be willing to proceed at once to the election of Senators, but will have nothing to do with a caucus.—-Mr. Conkling said to a friend in Washington that $40,000 was the extent of his fortune ; .that he could make SIOO,OOO per annum in the practice of law, and would not turn his hand over for a re-election The Ohio Democrats will hold their convention for the nomination of State officers on tho 13th of July.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Property valued at $75,000 was swept away by the burning of the Northwestern freight sheds at Hamilton, Ont. Secretary Blaine recently sent the Chief of the Bu-eau of Statistics to Chicago and Cincinnati to investigate the hog question for the benefit of the European market. Hit report shows beyond doubt that the American hog is tho best of its kind, and that the reports relative to cholera and trichina are gross exaggerations. The Census Bureau has published n curious bulletin showing the position of the center of population since 1790. In 1880 it was eight miles west by south of Cincinnati, having moved west fifty-eight miles during the preceding decade. The following is the approximate location of important points from 1790: 1790. Twenty-three miles east of Baltimore. 1800. Eighteen miles west of Baltimore. 1810. Forty miles northwest by west of Washington. 1820. Sixteen miles north of Woodstock, Va. 1830. Nineteen miles west 'by southwest of Moorefield, Va. 1840. Sixteen miles south of Clarksburg, Va. 1850. Twenty miles southwest of Parkersburg, Va. 1860. Twenty miles south of Chillicothe, Ohio. 1870. Foity-eight miles east by north o r Cincinnati. 1880. Eight miles west by south of Cincinnati. The Guion steamer Arizona has made the passage to England in 7 days 5 hours and 85 minutes, the quickest run on record. The sale of the revised edition of the New Testament began in New York on the 20th of May. There was a great rush to obtain copies, and the sales were enormous. The Chicago Times and Inter Ocean printed in their editions of the following morning the greater portion of the revised work. Col. W. H. French, a Major General of volunteers during the war, has just died at Washington.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. Gen. Burnside, from the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, on the morning of Monday, May 16, submitted a report recommending th« passage of Senator Morgan’s resolution referring to the Darien canal. The Vice President laid before the Senate the following communication: Washington, D. May 16,1881.—Sib: Will you please announce to the Senate that my resignation as Senator of- the United States from the State of New York has been forwarded to the Governor of the State. 1 have the honor to be, with groat respect, your obedient servant, Rosoob Conkling. To tho Hon. C. A. Arthur, Vice President. This communication was received with a great sensation, which was heightened when tbo Vice President laid the following before the Senate: . Senate Chambeb, May 16, 1881.— To the Hon. C. A. Arthur, Vice President—Sin: I have forwarded to the Governor of the. State of New York my resignation ae Senator of the United States for the State of New York. Will you please announce the fact to the Senate? With great respect, your obedient servant, T. C. Platt.

A hum of astonishment followed the reading of the communication, and Senator Hill, of Georgia, suggested, sotto voce, that this would be a good time to elect officers of the Senate. Mr. Dawes moved that the Senate go into executive session. Mr. Cockrell—“l thought you wanted to consider the other resolution.” Mr. Dawes—“l had no idea out that the Senator would like to go on with it. It is in accordance with the disposition he has shown from the beginning.” Mr. Hill—“ The Senator said the republic would be subverted if the resolution was not acted upon.” Mr. Dawes—“ But the Senator would never be convinced until he happened to have a majority.” Mr. Hill—“Oh, we won’t insist upon having it considered.” Mr. Dawes—“An accident is an eye-opener to the Senator.” Air. Hill turned around and suggested to Mr. Davis (Ill.) that there was nothing to prevent the Senate from adjourning this week sine die. The Senate then went into executive session, and confirmed r large number of nominations. A Republican caucus was held, at which the Republican Senators, with only four dissentient votes, decided to bring the Robertron nomination before the Senate for a«tion forthwith, and to procure an early adjournment sine die of the Senate. Mr. *Sftunderß, of Nebraska, introduced a series of resolutions in the Senate on Tuesday, May IT, in reference to the evasion by the Central Pacific road of the Sinking-Fund law of 1878, which provides that 25 per cent of the net earnings of the road be applied to paying off its indebtedness to the National Government, and calling on the Senate. Judiciary Committee to report at the next regularsession of the Senate what is necessary to protect the interest of the United States in- reference t& the Central Pacific and other roads. In executive session the Senate confirmed Fred Douglass as Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia. The ‘ Judiciary Committee reported in favor of the confirmation of Judge Robertson. The same committee reported in favor of the confirmation of Gen. Badeau as Minister to Denmark, and of Gen. Merritt as Consul General to London. The Senath Went into executive session soon after the hour of convening on Wednesday, May 11, and confirmed tho following nominations; Michael J. Kramer, now Minister to Denmark,. for Minister to Switzerland; George P. Pomeroy, of New Jersey, to be Secretary of tho United States Legation st Psrist Thomas A> M. Morris, of to to • Mate ts ft ?to *»*

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY INDIANA, FRIDAY, MAY 27,1881.

The following letter from ex-President Grant to Senator Jones, of Nevada, has been made public : City or Mexico, April 24,1881. My Dear Senator : I sec by the latest dis patches received here from the capital of our country that the deadlock in organizing the Senate has not been broken, and that nothing has been done by the President to allay the bitterness which must be engendered by his most recent appointment*. When the first batch of nominations for New York was sent in I was delighted. I believed then the President had determined to recognize the Republican party, and not a faction; but his nominations of the next day convinced me that the first act was but a part of a deep-laid scheme by somebody to punish prominent leaders for being openly friendly to me. I cannot believe that Gen. Garfield is the author of this policy-. I give him credit for being too big a man to descend to such means for the punishment of men who gave him a hearty support in his election, and who are disposed to give him the same support now, for the offense of having had a former preference for some one else for the office which he now holds. But Garfield is President, and is responsible for all the acts of the administration. Conkling and Platt are the chosen Senators from the great State of New York, and that too against all the opposi ion of an administration created by the same pnrty that elected them. This should give them all the stronger claim to be consulted in the mutter of appointments in their State. When itcomes to filling the most Influential office in their State without consulting these Senators, it Is a great slight. When he selects the most offensive man to be found, it becomes an insult, and ought to be resented to the bitter end. I sincerely hope the President will see this and correct his mistake himewH, and restore harmony to the party. He owes this to himself and to those without whom he could not have been elected. Nobody believes he could have carried the State of New York without the active support of her present Senators. Their passive support would not have answered. Without the State of New York Gen. Garfield would not now be President. His rewarding Robertson isjiot only offensive to the Now York Senators, but It is offensive to New York Republicans. The change of Badeau and Cramer, the two appointments in which I felt a strong personal interest, was very distasteful to me, the first because of our personal relations and my wish that he should be kept where his office would support him until he finishes - some work he is engaged upon, and which he could do without interfering with his public duties; the second, because it was at the expense of removing the son of my old Secretary of State, who probably never had his superior, certainly never for moral worth, in the department. It is true Fish resigned, but he did this from a sense of honor; supposing it to be the duty of repre- entatives abroad to give a new administration the opportunity of saying whether' they are wanted or not. Very truly yours, U. 8. Gbant. Hon. J. P. Jones, United States Senator, Washington, D. O.

The substance of the following statements with regard to the ear and brain is from a paper in the New York Medical Journal, by. Dr. Andrews, surgeon to the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, New York.

Ear diseases are much worse than those of the eye. They are a principal cause of deaf mutism. They are tjlso among the most frequent diseases of jhildhood, being developed in diphtheria, whooping-cough, scarlet fever, measles, small-pox, typhoid fever, influenza and tubercular affections of the lungs. Indeed, a simple cold in the head or sore throat rapidly spreads along the mucous membrane of the nostrils and pharynx to that of the ear. Says the late Prof. Clark, of Harvard University, “ So important is proper attention to the ear during and after acute exanthemata (diseases attended with rash) that a physician who treats such cases, and neglects to give this attention, cannot be said to perform his duty to his patient.” But the most serious fact about these diseases grows, out of the very intimate connection between the ear and the £>rain. Most of the bony wall which . contains the internal ear lies in direct contact with the membrane of the brain. Some parts of the wall are so thin as to be transparent. There are also openings through it for the passage of nerves and blood-vessels, and often parts of it are wanting through arrest of development. Hence, purulent inflammations of the ear extend readily" to the brain—the rnoj-P so, the younger the child. These irfay cause similar imflammation of the membranes, inflammation of large veins and abscesses of the brain. Nearly one-half of the latter are due to this cause, chronic inflammation of the ear—showing itself perhaps only in a slight headache—being vastly more dangerous than acute.— Youth’s Companion. The hammer with which John Paul Jones nailed the historic flag to the mast of his ship is owned by a gentleman in Indiana, Pa. This Hammer-ican relic should be placed in the tool chest with the G, W, Mkhet and wise saws of Fnnkte,

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Princivles.”

Letter from Gen. Grant.

Ear and Brain.

CONKLING AND PLATT.

Resignation of the New York Senators—Statement of the Reason* That Impelled 1 hem to Such a Course. The controversy between the President and Senator Conkling over the nomination of Judge Robertson to be Collector of the port of New York culminated, on the 10th Inst, in the resignation, by Senators Conkling and Platt, of their seats in the United States Senate. Ths action of the New York Senators in tendering their resignations, it is needless to say, created a profound sensation at the national capital, and was a sharp surprise to the country at large. Messrs. Conkling and Platt addressed the following letter to the Governor of New York, defining their position, and anpiaining their reasons fur resigning:

Washington, May 14,1M1. To His Excellency A. B. Cornell, Governor: Sib : Transmitting, as we do, our resignation*, respectively, of the great trusts with which New York has honored us, it it fit that we acquaint you, and through you the Legislature and the people of the State, with the reason* which, in our judgment, make such a step respectful and necessary. Borne week* ago the President of the United States sent to the Senate in a group the nomination of several persons for public offices already filled. One of these office* is the Collectorship of the Port of New York, now held by Gen. Merritt; another is the Consul Generalship at London, now held by Gen. Badeau; another is the Charge d’ Affaires at Denmark, held by Mr. Cramer; another ts the mission to Switzerland, held by Mr. Fish, the son of the former distinguished Secretary of State. Mr. Fish had, in deference to an anolent practice, placed his position at the disposal of the new administration, but, like other persons named, was ready to remain at his post if permitted to do s& All these officers, save only Mr. Cramer, are citizens of New York. It was proposed to displace them all, not tor any alleged faults or advantage of tho public service, but in order to give the great office of Collector of the Port of New York to Mr. William H. Robertson as a reward for certain acta of his which are said to have aided In making the nomination of Gen. Garfield possible. The chain of removals thus proposed was broken by Gen. Badeau promptly declining to accept the new post to which he was to be sent. These nominations summoned every member of tho Senate to say whether he advised such a transaction. The movement was more than a surprise. We had been told only a few hours be:ore that no removals of New York officers were soon to bo made, or even considered, and had been requested to withhold the papers and-suggestions bearing on the subject which hud been sent to us for presentation, should occasion arise, until we had notice from the President of his readiness to receive thorn. Learning that the Vice President was equally surprised, and had been equally misled, we sent to Mr. James, the Cabinet officer from our State, and learned that, though he had spent some time with the President on the morning of the day the nominations were sent in, no disclosure of the intention to send them in had been made to him, and that the first he knew of the matter was by hearsay following the event After earnest reflection and consultation we believed the proceeding unwise and wrong, whether considered who ly in relation to the preservation and integrity i f the public service and public example to be set, or in relation also to the Integrity ot the Republican party. No public utterance of comment or censure was made by either of us, in the Senate or elsewhere. On the contrary, we thought that the President would reconsider the action, so sudden and hasty, and would at least adopt less hurtful and objectionable modes of requiting personal or individual service. In this hope, the following paper was prepared, signed and presented by Mr. James to the President, who was subsequently informed that you iiad authorized your name to be added also: To the President: We beg leave to remonstrate against the change in the Collectorship of New York by the removal >f Mr. Merritt and the appointment of Mr. Robertson. The proposal was wholly a surprise. We heard of it only when several nominations involved In the plan were announced in the Senate. We had only two days before this been informed from you that a change in the custom, offices at New Yo: k was not contemplated, and, quite ignorant of the purpose to take any action now, we had no opportunity until after the nominations to male tho suggestions we now present. We do not be ievo that ths interests of the public service will be promoted by removing the present Collector and putting Mr. Robertson in his stead. Our opinion is quite the reverse, and we believe no political advantage can be gained for either the Republican party or Its principles. Believing that no indti idual has claims or obligation, v> hich should be liquidated in such a mode, we earnistly arid respevtfmly ask that the nomination of Mr. Robertson be withdrawn. Chester A. Arthur. 8. C. Platt. Thomas L. James. Roscoe Conkling.

This paper was presen tad to th* President by Mr. James on Monday, the 23th day of March. Knowing the frequency with which every one of the twenty Presidents of the republic had withdrawn nominations on less serious representations, and the similar and marked practice of the present incumbent, we did not apprehend that such a suggestion would be an intrusion or an invasion of any prerogative of the nominating power. We were dieappointed. Immediately the public press, especially in articles and dispatches written by those in close and constant association with the President and with influential members of his Cabinet, teemed with violent denunciation* of the Senators from New York for “opposing toe administration ” and dictating to the President. Persons who visited the Executive Mansion reported th* President a* resentful and impatient of th* hesitation of the Senate to “ advise and consent ” to what he proposed. We had made no assault upon anybody. Ws have at all times refused to answer questions from rep esentatives of the press, or make complaint or comment or even denial of many truthless charges published sgainst us by officious champions of the administration. Indeed, beyond confidential consultations with brother Senators and officials, we hrve said nothing until now upon this subject Nor have we or either of u* “ promoted the deadlock in the Senate ” in order to prevent or influence action on any nomination; nor have we ever so stated. Immediately after the nominations were published letters and telegrams in great numbers came from every part of the State, from its leading citizens, protesting sgainst the proposed changes, and condemning them on many grounds. Several thousands of th* leading mercantile firm* of New York, constituting, as w* are informed, a majority of every branch of trade, sent us remonstrances ; sixty of the eighty-one Republican members of the Assembly, by letter or memorial, made objection. Represented ves in Congress, State officials, business men, professional men, commercial, industrial and political organizations are among the remonstrants, and they speak from every section of the State.

Beside the nominations already referred to, there were awaiting the action of the Senate several citlz ens of New York named for offices connected with the courts (District Attorneys and Marshals). Most of them had been originally commissioned by Mr. Hayes. They were certified by Judges of courts and many other eminent persons, wbo attested tile faithfulness and merit of their services, and recommended their continuance. They were not presented by us. We have not attempted to dictate, nor have we asked the nomination of one person to any office in the State. Indeed, with the sole exception of the written request set forth above, we have never even expressed an opinion to the President, in any case, unless questioned in regard to it. Some days ago, the President abruptly withdrew, in one and the same act, the names of Gen. Woodford and Mr. Tenney, and of two Marshals. This unprecedented proceeding, whether permissible by law or not, was gravely significant The President had nominated these officers after they had been weighed in the balance. Their official records were before him, and bad been fully scrutinized and approved. It must be presumed that he thought the nominations fit to be made, and that it was bis duty to make them. There is no allegation that he discovered any unfitness in them afterward. It could hardly be that he had discovered unfitness in all of them alike. What, then, was the meaning and purpose of this peremptory step. It was immediately stated, as if by authority, and it seems to be admitted, that the purpose was to coerce the Senate or Senators, to vote as they would not vote if left free from Executive interference. The design was to control the action of the Senators touching matters committed by tho constitution to- the Senate and to the Senate exclusively.

It has been suggested in addition that, by recalling the nominations and holding thean in his own hands, the President might, in the event of the failure of another nomination, use them to compensate that failure. If it can ba supposed that all these public trusts are to be, or would in any event be, made personal perquisites to be handled and disposed of, not only to punish independence of Senatorial votes ana action, but liquidate personal obligations of any individual, however high in station, the conditions are utterly vicious and degrading, and their acceptance would compel representatives of States to fling down their oath and representative duty at the footstool of executive power. Following this sweeping and startling executive act, came ths ominous avowals that dissent or failure to “ advise and consent ’’ would be held an act of offense, exposing all Senators from whatsoever State to executive displeasure. Thus we find ourselvep confronted by the question, whether we shall surrender the plain right and sworn duty of Senators by consenting to what we believe to be vicious and hurtful, or be assigned to a position of disloyalty to the administration which we helped bring in, and the success of which we earnest'y desire, for every reason and motive which can enter into the case. Ws know no theory avowed by any party which requires such submission as is now exacted. Although party service may be fairly considered in making selections of public officers, it can hardly be maintained that the Senate is bound to remove, without cause, official incumbents merely to make places for those whom any individual, even ths President, or a member of his Cabinet, wishes to repay for being recreant to others or serviceable to him. Only about two yean ago the Senate advised Gen. Merritt to be appointed Collector of New York. It is understood that among the Senators who so advised was Mr. Windom, now head of the department whose subordinate Gen. Merritt is. Another Senator known to have given this advioe was Mr. Kirkwood, now Secretary of the Interior. It is said that, like the Postmaster General from our own State, these Cabinet officers were not taken into consultation touching the removal of SM. Merritt, but tar ta •floiai

action a* Senators 1* not the less instructive. That th* late Secretary of the Treasury and the late administration, up to its expiration, less than ten weeks ago, approved of Gen. Merritt as an officer is wall known, and it is uowhe * suggested that any citizen had petitioned for his removal, or that officio delinquency on his part is the reason of it In thi nlac* of an experienced officer, in th* midst of his term fixed by law, R Is proposed suddenly to put a man in who has had no training for the position, and who cannot be said to have any special fi'nesa for the official duties. In the Inaugural of President Garfield, delivered on th* 4th of March, stand theeowords; “Th* civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law For the good of the service iteeif, for the protection of tho** who are intrusted with the appropriation power, against waste of time and obstruction of public business, caused by inordinate pressure for place, and for the protection of incumbents against intrigue and wrong, I shall at the proper time ask Congress to fix the tenure of the minor office* in the several executive departments, and prescribe grounds upon which removals shall be made during th* term* for which th* incumbent* lisv* been appointed.” - How good that distinction 1* which would make .major office* a prey to intrigue and wrong, and shield minor offices from Uh* havoc, and whether the Collectorship* of the country should belong to the exposed or to the protected claas, need not be decided here. Assuming Ge*. Merritt to be an officer of average fitness and honesty, it might be reasonably argued that ail Senators should with alacrity advise his displacement for a man of obvious superiority; possibly it might be said that all should advise the selection in Gen. Merritt’s place of a man who, without suprior fltnsss, had rendered his country, or even hi* party, conspicuous and exalted service. The case in hand doe* not belong to either these classes. Th* vocation of Mr. Robertson, and his Legislative and professional experience and surroundings, do not denote superiority in the qualities, the knowledge, business habits, and familiarity with revenue, the laws and system ot the United States which might make him more competent tha* Gen. Merritt to collect the vast revenues, and administer the vast business pertaining to tho port of New York. Certainly he cannot in this respect he held an exception to the rule of right and consistency, on which the constitution and the Jaw* have placed the public service. We know of no persons! or political service rendered by Mr. Robertson so tramcendant that th* Collectorship of New York should be taken in the midst of th* term and given him as a recompense.

Mr. Roberteou is reported by the New York tine to declare that hia nomination wa» a “ reward; a “ reward ” for hia action as delegate to the Nations Convention. If Mr. Robertson, in big action, was influenced by a seme of duty, if ho voted and acted hia honest convictions, it in difficult to ace what claim he hattor any reward, not to speak of such great reward. The action of which an estimate ia thus invited is understood to be this: Mr. Robertson and sixty-nine other men accepted from the State Convention a certain trust. They sought and accci>tod the position of agents or delegates to the National Convention to administer this trust. The State Convention declared plainly the stat, ed judgment and policy to be observed and supported by those it commissioned. To this declaration ail tbo-e selected as delegates gave an implied consent. But several of them, in addition, made most specific personal pledges and engagements to exert themselves in good faith throughout to secure the nomination of Gen. Grant. They made thia pledge as a means of obtaining their own appointment as de'egates, and they did, as both personally know, claim their seats in the National Convention upon the faith of their personal statements of their earnestness and fidelity. The obligation thus assumed we understood to involve the integrity as much as tlio obligation of one who receives a proxy of a stockholder in a corporation upon Ibe pledge and promise to vote as his principa won d vote. Whether Mr. Robertson was, or was not, himself bound, not only by honor and implication, but b< expressly giving h sword, becomes quite immaterial in view of the reclaim made for him. It is insisted that he “ organized the bolt ’’—this is to say that be invited, persuaded and induced others whom he knew had given their word, and bad obtained their seats by doing so, to violate their word, and betray, not only the Republicans assembled in State Convention, but the Republicans of their districts as well, who had trusted in their honor. Whoever counsels and procures another to do a dishonest or dishonorable act must share with that other the guilt, and should share also the odium justly attaching to it We are, therefore, all wholly unable, upon whatever ground we put it, to see any justification for ourselves should we become parties to using ths public trusts which belong to the people to requite such service in such modes. But the app iances employed to effect the results set new standards of responsibility and invade, as wo believe, the truths and principles on which the separate and co-ordinate branches of the Government stand. A Senator has his own responsibility. He is amenable to his State and to the body of which he is a member. He is bound by his oath to “ advise and consent ” on his conscience and judgment before God. Whatever or whoever else may constrain him, he is to be exempt from executive menace or disfavor on the one hand and executive inducement on the other. A long-standing order of the House of Commons has been the declaration that a member shall suffer expulsion who even reports the wishes of the executive head of the Government to influence votes of members. The British constitution is not more jealous than ours in this regard. To give advice, and honest, independent advice, as to appointments proposed, is as much the right and duty of a Senator as it is the right and duty of the President to propose names. Be his advice one way or other, it is no more an act of disrespect or treason to the nominating power than the verdict of a juror or the decision of a Judge. The idea that the Senate is simply to find out what is wanted and then do it we cannot believe safe or admissible. And thus far no party has dared or descended to set up such a test of party fidelity or allegiance. In this instance such prominence has been given to the object, and such disgust been expressed of the correctness of our positions that we think it right and dutiful to submit the matter to the power to which a one we are bound and over rtady to bow. The Legislature is in session. It is Republican in majority, and New York abounds in sons quite at able as we to bear her message and commission in the Senate of the United States. With a profound sense of the obligation wo owe, with devotion to the Republican party and its creed of “ Liberty and Right;” with reverent attachment to the great State whose interests and honor are dear to us, we hold it respectful and becoming to make room for those who may correct all errors wo have made, and interpret aright all duties we have misconceived. Wo therefore inclose our resignations, but hold fast the privilege as citizens and Repubieaus to stand for the constitutional rights of all men and of all representatives, whether of the States, tl-.e nation or the people. We have the honor to be, very respectfully, youi obedient servants, Roscox Conkling, Thomas O. Platt. The Associated Prers reporter, telegraphing from Washington, on the 16th inst, says of the Conkling coup dCetal:

The »urpriee was »o complete that the Senators had no time to form opinion!, and generally expreaaed conjectures and surmises. One Republican Senator said that Conkling and Platt had better bo re-elected by the New York legislature now in session, and that will be claimed as an indorsement of their opposition to Robertson at the hands of the Republican party of New York. Republicans all feel Hire of Conkling’s re-election, but some few have doubts about Platt. The Democratic Senators universal y express gratification at the resignations. They say it widens the breach in the Republican party of New York, and increases the bitterness of the stalwarts toward the administration. The Democrats now have » majority of the Senate, but, so far as can be learned, no attempt wil be made toward reforming the committees. Mr Pendleton, Chairman of the Democratic caucus, said no such setion would bo thought of, and that the committees will remain as now organised. Don Cameron and David Davis seem to be the only Senators who knew of the coming resignations. It is said that Conkling and Platt will not only regard their re-election as an approval of their fight sguinst Robertson, but also as a rebuke to the administration. The supporters of Conkling state that the resignations were offered because the New York Senat rs feel that they have been badly treated by the administration ; that Robertson’s nomination was made at the instigation of Blaine to put Conkling down ; that both the Senators and the Vico President protested against this warfare against the regular Republic m organization of New York, but all their efforts failed. Republican Senators refused to help them maintain the Republican party of the Empire State, and, rather than remain to be put down and insulted, both Senators resigned. Thia is the stroke of policy which, it has been rumored, Conkling had in view. Secretaries Blaine, Hunt, Windom, Kirkwood and Lincoln wore among the visitors at the ■« hits House to-day. The last named camo alone and made but a brief call. The othoro arrived at the Executive Mansion about the same time, and remained in conference with the President twenty minutes or more. The President stated that he had received last evening from a.trustworthy source an intimation that the resignations of the New York Senators would be announced to-day. It had, therefore, caused him no surprise. It is believed at the White House that nothing will now prevent the early adjournment of the Senate.

Home Influences.

It was Napoleon who said that the character and fate of the child was the work of the mother. Largely this is true, though not in a sense to exclude the influence of the father, especially in the case of boys. The child is often left to the mother’s care. A double duty is hers; to that which God gave is added that which man shifted upon her, and with her rests the whole work of preparing her child for the grave encounters of life. In how many homes does a mother’s intercourse with her children alternate between caressing indulgence and pettish fault finding? In how many are the bodies pampered and dressed, children reduced tp lucre ornaments to gratify

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paternal vanity, while the affections are thwarted, and all the highest possibilities of the mind either uncultured or repulsed. Girlhood and boyhood pass, the old home is left, and the new begun away from old scenes and associations; restrained no longer, but altogether free, still you trace childhood influences. When your boy steps into the street he opens all the doors of his home; he carries out a photograph of his parents to be seen of their neighbors. When the little girl goes into the next house she carries the domestic newspaper abroad. Dear reader, is your domestic newspaper readable ?

INDIANA NEWS.

Theodore Shockley, of Moore’s Hill, had twenty-three sheep killed and ten wounded by dogs the other night. A Terre Haute florist has a cactus which was brought from Mexico, and which is supposed to be 1,000 years old. It is valued at SSOO. A New Albany family came near being poisoned to death by eating corn cakes made of dough that had stood over night in a glazed crockery dish. Mrs. Peter Raney, of Cass county, who had been married only three weeks when her husband died, attempted to follow him a few days ago by taking strychnine. William Peconga, a Miami Indian, was called on a jury in the Grant county Circuit Court, the first instance, perhaps, of an Indian ac ting as a juror in Indiana. Hon. Robert L. Polk died at his home in New Castle, after an illness of several months’ duration, aged 40 years. He was elected Circuit Judge in 1876, and the term expires in 1882. Articles of incorporation of the Willard Library have been filed at Evansville. It is the intention to establish a free public library, gallery of art, public reading-rooms and a public park.

There is much excitement in Perry county on account of the many murders and daring robberies that have occurred in the past two years. Three murders have take place in the past four months, and other crimes of a notorious character have been committed. Gov. Porter has appointed as Chief of the State Bureau of Statistics John B. Conner, editor of the Indiana Farmer, who was the author of the act by which the bureau was created in 1879, and has ever since taken great interest in the working of the department. The Howards are now employing 300 men in their shipyard at Jeffersonville. They will launch three boats next week, and will then put up the frame-work of two immense steamers for the Anchor line of St. Louis. These boats will have a capacity of 2,500 tons. , Dr. Joseph Gardner has just returned to Bedford from Dubois county, where he went at the request of Prof. Collett to examine some mineral lands in search of silica and fine whetstone grits. The doctor reports his researches as being very satisfactory. There was a meeting of the Methodist pastors and laymen of New Albany at the Centenary Church to take steps looking to the holding of a semi-centen-nial of Indiana Methodism in that city in 1882. The first Methodist conference held in Indiana convened in a church owned by the Wesley Chapel Society.

The large carriage manufacturing establishment of Paul Hirschauer, at Rising Sun, together with four dwellinghouses, was entirely consumed by fire. Hirschauer's loss is about $2,500, with SSOO insurance. The dwellings were not insured. Several persons were injured by falling timbers. It is supposed to have been set on fire. Gov. Porter recently appointed Mark E. Forkner Judge of the Henry Circuit Court, vice Judge Polk, deceased. The new Judge was born in Henry county, and read law with and afterward became a partner of Judge Willett, of Newcastle. He was a candidate for the Judgeship when it was thought the constitutional amendments were in force last summer. Mr. Forkner was a prominent member of the Legislature of 1878. A young couple of South Bend, who got married recently against their parent’s wishes and partly against their own, also, called to pay iheir respects to the bridegroom’s mother, the other evening, and were met with a kottlcof hot water. The boy now threatens to have the old lady arrested for an assault, and there is likely to be some lively sport come out of the matter yet. Six years ago Aaron Swarthout brought suit at North Vernon against the Ohio and Mississippi railroad for carrying him by a station at which the train on which he was riding never stopped. A change of venue was taken to Ripley county, and the plaintiff recovered a small judgment. Not satisfied with this he appealed to the Supreme Court, and the case was remanded back to the Ripley Circuit Court for a new trial, which has resulted in a verdict for the defendant. Mbs. Henson, an old lady of Jackson township, Harrison county, met with a very serious accident. While climbing over a fence one end of a crochet needle which she was carrying in her dresspocket struck against a rail with such force as to drive the other end into the left side of her abdomen, and, as the lady straightened herself up, the needle was drawn inward. A surgeon probed the w< und and found that the needle hail penetrated entirely into the cavity, and was unable to find or remove it.

An Impertinent Mimic.

Young ladies who expect attentions from young men should not keep a too-well-educated parrot. A family in Nashville lias a parrot noted for its wonderful powers of imitating the human voice. The family also has a daughter whose especial duty is the care of the parrot. The young lady has a friend, a young man, who called at the house oneevening and pulled the door bell. The parrot, sitting in an up-stairs window, heard the jingle of a bell and called out: “Go to the window!” The young man was startled. He looked at the windows below and found them closed. He pulled the bell knob again. “Next door!” shouted the parrot, in a voice not unlike the young lady’s. The young man looked up and down the street in a puzzled sort of it way, as .if it had suddenly dawned upon his mind that he had made a mistake in the house. Concluding that he had not, he again rang the bell. “Go to the house!” cried Poll from his perch in the upper window. “WhaJ house?” exclaimed the young man. angrily, “ The workhouse!” shrieked the parrot. The young man concluded to leave for his house.—JWiV* panion,

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CURIOUS HISTORICAL RELIC.

The Lail Will and Testament of the Mother of George Washington. Mr. Charles A Thornton, of Kittrell. N. 0., has in his possession the original draft of the last will and testament of Mrs. May Washington, the mother of George Washington. It is an old document, almost illegible with age, and threatening to crumble to pieces by handling. The following ia a copy of this interesting document: In the name of God—Amen.—l, May Washington, of Fredericksburg, in the county of Spotsylvania, being in good health, but calling to mind the uncertainty of this Life, and willing to dispose of my Worldly Estate, do make and Publish this my last Will, recommending my Soul into the Hands of my Creator, hoping for the remission of all my Sins, through the Merits and Mediation of Jesus Christ, the Savior of Mankind. I dispose of all my Worldly Estate as follows: Imprimis.—l give to my Son, General George Washington, tul my Lands on Accokeek Run, in the County of Stafford, and also my negro boy George, to him and his Heirs forever; also my best bed, bedding and Virginia Cloth Curtains (the same that stand in my best room), my quilted blue and White Quilt and my best dressing glass. Item.—l give and devise to my Son, Charles Washington, my negro num Tom, to him and his Assigns for Ever. Item.—J give and de vise to my Daughter, Betty Lewis, my Phaeton and my bay horse. Item.—l give and devise to my Daughter in Law, Hanna Washington, my purple Cloth Cloak lined with Shag. Item. —I give and devise to my Grund Son, Corbin Washington, my negro Wench Old Bet, my riding Chair, and two black horses, to him and bis Assigns for Ever. Item. —I give and devise to my grand Son, Fielding Lewis, my negro man Frederick, to him and his Assigns for ever; also mv Eight Silver table Spoons, half of my Crockery Ware, and the blew and White Tea China, my Walnut book Case, ovel Table, one Bed, bod stead, one Pr. Sheets, one Pr. blankets, and White Cotton Counterpain, Two table Oloaths, Six Red Leather Chairs, half of my peuter, and one-half of my Iron Kitchen Furniture. Item.—l give and devise to my grand Son, Lawrence Lewis, my negro Wench Lydia, to him and his Assigns for ever. Item.—l give and devise to my granddaughter, Betty Carter, my negro Woman Little Bet, and her future increase, to her and her Assigns for ever, also my largest looking-glass, my Walnut Writing Desk—with Drawers—and square and Dining Table, one bed, Bed Stead, bolster and pillows, one blanket, one Pr. Sheets, White Virginia Cloth Counterpain and purple curtains, my Red and White China, tea spoons, and the other half of my pewter, Crockery Ware, and the remauider of my iron Kitchen Furniture. Item.—l gave to my grand son, Geo. Washington, my next best Dressing Glass, and Bed, Bed Stead, bolster, one pillow, one blanket, one pair Sheets and Counterpain. Item. —I. devise all my wearing a:>parel to be equally divided between my grand Daughters, Betty Carter, Funny all and Millie Washington, but should my Daughter, Betty Lewis, fancy any one, two or three articles, She is to have them before a division thereof. Lastly—l nominate and appoint my said son, Gen. George Washington, executor of this my Will—and as I owe few or no debts—l direct my executor to give no security, nor to appraise iny estate, but desire the the same inuy be alloted to my devisees with as little trouble und delay as may be, desiring their acceptance thereof as all the token of my love I now have to give them. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 20th day of May, 1780. [n; s.] May Washington. Signed, sealed and published in the presence, and signed by us in the presence of the sd. May Washington, and at her desire. Witnesses —John Forney Hough, Jas. Meever, Joseph Walker.

A Powerful Argament.

The Legislature of Maine has repeatedly, in years past, passed a law giving a bounty for bears killed, and as often repealed it. In 1874 (over $2,000 having been paid the previous year in bounties by the State) a bill was introduced for a repeal by a member from the shore, giving as a reason that hunters would kill them for the meat and pelts without the bounty. This brought up a member from the backwoods, who said : “ The gentleman don’t know what he is talking about Most of the b’ars are killed when coobs, when meat and pelts are worthless.” “Then,” said the gentleman from the shore, “ let them grow till they are of value.” The country member replied : “ I would like to ask the gentleman what them b’ars would live on while growing ? I’ll tell you, sir—on our sheep, and now and then a baby..” Bill for repeal did not pass.— Harper'a Drawer.

What the Thumb Does.

Have you noticed that when you want to take hold of anything —abit.of thread, we will say—that it is always the thumb who puts himself forward, and that h« is always on one side by himself, while the rest of the fingers are on the other 1 If the thumb is not helping, nothing stops in vour hand, and you don’t know what to do with it. Try, by way of experiment, to carry your spoon to yoni mouth without putting your thumb to it, and you will see what a long time if will take you to get through with a pool little plateful of broth. The thumb ii placed in such a manner on your hand that it can face each of the other fingers, one after the other, or all together, ai you please, and by this we are enabled to grasp, as with a pair of pincers, al’ objects, whether large or small. Oui bands owe their perfection of usefulnesi to this happy arrangement, which has been liestowed on no other animal except the monkey, our nearest neighbor. Apropos of the great fire in Paris a correspondent offers the following advice: “In disasters of this kind one should proceed with the strictest order and method. Accordingly, one will first of all save the children, who are the future; the women, who are the present; the old men, who are experience; then the furniture; and, if there is time, ‘the collateral relations and the mothers-in-law.” _ Lecture on the rhinoceros : Professor—“l must beg you to give me your undivided attention. It is impossible that you can form a true ide of this hideous animal. unleM you keep your eye fixed on me.