Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1881 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Two more heavy shocks of earthquake have occurred at Scio, toppling over houses. Abdul Bey, ex-chief of the Albanian League, wag tried at Constantinople by court* martial and sentenced to death. The Governor General of Charkoff has i ssued a proclamation against the Jewish perMention, threatening to bring the military to punish the rioters. There was a desperate fight at Pallas, Ireland, between the peasants and the military. There are fears that the Commune is about to break forth all over Russia. English grain crops do not stand well for harvest. So says the Mark Lane .Expregt. Thirty-nine negroes have been sentenced to death for rebellion against the Government of the Danish West Indian island. The Russian Government are commencing to revenge the atrocities perpetrated •on the Jews. Over 1,200 persons have been ■arrested in the Kieff district. Irving, the famous English tragedian, Ihas received and declined an offer of SIOO,OOO •and expenses for a eeven-months’ tour in thig tenantry. The Italian Minister of Commerce states that, as the examining commission at Havre continues to report the presence of trichiniß in pork, the Government must continue in force the measures taken to protect the public health. A distinguished deputation of leading London Israelites called upon Earl Granville and Bir Charles Dilke with reference to the persecution of the Russian Jews. Earl Granville «r.id that foreign nations were sensitive of interference, and it was inexpedient, therefore, to make a'ay official representation.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Kfust. R. M. Paisley, superintendent of the "Stewart coke works, at Uniontown, Pa., while carrying a sachel containing $6,000, was knocked senseless by three men, who took the money and drove off with his horse and wagon. Col. Thomas A. Scott* of the Pennsylvania railroad, died of paralysis at his home, near Darby, Pa. He was 57 years old. A train on the Boston and Albany road struck a light engine near Ghent, N. Y., soy which the engineer and fireman of the {passenger train were killed. Over-production and high wages have •caused the window-glass manufacturers ol IPittsburgh to resolve to close their works for ithe summer. Commodore Nutt, the dwarf, whoke real name was George W. MorrLon, d.ed o! Bright’s disease at New York. He was 37 years of age and forty-throe inches in height. Of late he has kept a restaurant. E. L. Godkin, of the Nation, and Carl Schurz have purchased the New York Evening Post. West. Jefferson Davis, ex-President of the ' Confederate States, was in Chicago the other day. He had visited it previously when it was * small French village. Three Justices of Scotland county, Mo., have been sentenced to jail for three months for contempt of an order of the Uniited States Circuit Court for Missouri. Three burglars opened the safe in the store of J. C. Hanson, at Center Junction, lowa, and carried away over $5,000 iu currency. The only liquor saloon at Lompoc, Cal., has been blown to atoms by a large bomb, as was its predecessor some time ago. The place was settled by a temperance colony. A terrible catastrophe occurred the other evening at St. Joe, Mo. In a cellar beneath a saloon, frequented by colored men, 100 barrels of Danforth’s fluid ignited; and wrecked the building, in which a large number of persons were assembled. The number of lives lost is estimated, at this writing, as high as twenty. Billy Leroy and a confederate calling himself Sam Potter were taken to Del Norte, Coh An hour after arrival the prisoners were lynched by citizens. The wheat crop of Indiana has been seriously damaged by the drought, the chinchbug and the Hessian fly. The report of the business of the Northwestern railway shows earnings of nearly $20,000,000, a gain of about 10 per cent, on last year. A collision on the Denver and Rio Grande road, near Granite, Co)., caused the death of one man, mortal injuries to four others, while four were seriously hurt. Four children of Andrew Lewis, living near Plain City, Ohio, set fire to a barn and perished in the flames. South. The explosion of a condemned boiler in the machine shops of Risk & Co., at Memphis, killed two men and wounded three others. Twenty-five or thirty men made a jail delivery at Morgtfriton, Fannin county, Ga., of prisoners held there for violations of the internal revenue laws. At the annual sale of yearlings at Preakness farm, near Lexington, Ky., eighteen colts averaged $947 per head, and twenty fillies S4OO each. Mo.-t of the purchases were made for James R. Keene. in a quarrel between Mrs. Garrett and her daughter, of Cochran, Ga., the latter seized a shot-gun and shot off the top of her mother’s head. The father then whipped the girl nearly to death. Jim Baker shot and killed Alexander Osborne and the two Ryuer brothers, and mortally wounded another man, name unknown, at Osborne’s ford, Scott county, Va.

WASHINGTON NOTES. One of the latest developments of the star-route frauds was a contract let to John Cross, afriend of Dorsey’s, to carry the mail between Ozark and Eureka Springs, Ark., eighty miles, six times a week, for $14,400, which was subsequently let for $4,800. The exposure of a treasury ring, which has been growing fat by a long series of systematic peculations, is the latest sensation at Washington. The ringsters. so far as unearthed, are Upton, the Assistant Secretary; Lamphere, the appointment clerk, and Pitney, the superintendent of the treasury building. The records show the purchase of . twenty thousand yards of carpet for the Treasury Department during the last fiscal year, although a deficit of 700 yards was discovered several months ago. A few local dealers have furnished such supplies at retail prices, there having been no advertisement for proposals. In taking an inventory of Pitney’s supplies, a barrel of bay nun and a lot of Lubin’s perfumes and soaps were found,

The Democratic sentinel.

JAS. W, MoEWEN Editor

VOLUME V.

A Washington dispatch*of May 24 says: “ Secretary Windom’s policy in the matter of the continuance of the 5-per-cents is as complete a success aa it was with the C’a. At the close ei treasury Hours to-day the total amount of the $250,000 included in the call had been received. Secretary Windom congratulates himself that his views in opposition to the calling of a special session of Congress prevailed. He has accomplished all that Congress could have done, with much less friction." The President has made the following recess appointments : Consuls of the United States— Jesse H. Moore, of Illinois, at Callao; John M. Bailey, of New York, at Hamburg; Selah Merrill, of Massachusetts, at Jerusalem; George W. Rosevelt, of Pennsylvania, at Bordeaux. Collectors of Internal Revenue for Texas—William H. Sinclair, First district;. William Umbnerstock, Fourth district. Gen. Williamson has tendered his resignation as Commissioner of the General Land Office. He takes charge of the land bureau of the Atlantic and Pacific Railway Company. Atty. Gen. MacVeagh will soon commence criminal prosecutions against Dorsey and Brady, and bring civil suits to recover some of the money squandered. Secretary Hunt has decided to send the United States steamer Yantic, now in New -Yoik, to investigate the alleged unlawful seizure at Moridia, Mexico, of the American bark Acacia, of Boston, by the Mexican authorities. Secretary Windom permits the. announcement that he does not intend to allow an increase in the coinage of standard silver dollars.

POLITICAL POINTS. At a conference of the friends of Mr. Conkling, in New York city, it was decided that both Conkling and Platt should be vigorously urged upon the Legislature for re-election. It was agreed that neither of the resigned Senators should return without the other. The belief was confidently expressed that both of them could be returned.—A secret confer- < nee of prominent Democrats, with Spenket Randall at the need, was held in Washington, at which the political situation inNevYor was carefully considered. They decided to recommend Co the Democratic members of the New York Legislature not to enter into any coalition with either of the Republican factions that will enable them to fill vacancies occasioned by the resignation of Conkling and Platt.

The friends of William E. Chandler say, now tnat he has been defeated for the Solicitor Generalship by Democratic votes, he will use the fact among the New Hampshire stalwarts for election to the United States Senate, to succeed Mr. Rollins.

An Albany (N. Y.) telegram of May 23, says that city “has become the center of intense political activity. The sensation of the day was an editorial in the 'Conkling organ warning that gentleman not toplace himself in the way of being humiliated. Opinions differ widely as to the connection of Gov. Cornell with the pronunciamento, it being generally believed that he hopes to occupy one of the vacant seats in the Senate. Among the rumors which have gained credence is one that Gen. Grant will hurry northward from Galveston and take a hand in behalf of Conkling. Thirtytwo Republicans have signed a pledge not to go into caucus with the supporters of the Senators who abandoned their seats, or with Republicans not in sympathy with the administration. The leading administration candidates are Chauncey M. Depew and James Wadsworth.”

The friends of William E. Chandler (nays a Washington telegram) attribute his re’ jcction as Solicitor General to the indifference of the President and Secretary Blaine, neither of whom, they say, made any effort to get Democratic votes, but remained passive, while Attorney General MacVeagh was very active in his efforts to defeat the nomination. 'l'ho Pennsylvania Senators are said to be very wroth at the President for appointing a Surveyor of the Port of Philadelphia who was distasteful to them. The Republican State Convention to candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Supreme Judge and Superintendent of Public Instruction has been called to meet at Des Moines, Wednesday, June 29. Senators Conkling and Platt and Vice President Arthur arrived at Albany, N. Y., on the 24th of May, and were received with enthusiastic cheers by a large party of political friends who had assembled at the depot to give them welcome. At the hotel they were joined by Gov. Cornell, and in the evening a general levee was held. The room was constantly crowded, and Senator Conkling shook hands w f th everybody presenting himself, and to each saying a pleasant word. The Grant Club appeared in a body and presented an address to Mr. Conkling. The departure of Secretary Blaine for New York, on pretense of official business, caused several influential gentlemen to visit the President and enter a protest against the administration taking part in the Senatorial struggle at Albany. The chief magistrate appeared surprised to learn of the Secretary’s trip. In the New York Senate, Mr. Woodin opened the Senatorial campaign, May 26, by offering a remonstrance against returning Messrs. Conkling and Platt to the United States Senate, and made an extended speech in support of his action. Dining tire day Mr. Conkling sent notes to several Senators and Representatives asking for a private interview. A conference ' with forty-seven members had been arranged by Conkling, but was postponed because only half the number made their appearance. The friends ot the administration met and resolved not to go into caucus. A private telegram was received by a friend of Conkling from Gen. Grant, expressing the hope that the Legislature would re-elect the former. The local elections in Virginia resulted favorably to the straight or anti-Mahone Democrats. The Beadj usters have determined, it is said, to nominate Biddleberger for Governor, believing that he will receive the indorsement and support of the Republicans.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The Mexican Congress has given the President of the Republic full power for eight months to contract with States or individuals for the construction of railways. Both houses of the Mexican Congress have approved of Eads’ contract for a ship railway across the isthmus of Tehuantepec. The number of people drowned by the sinking of the steamer Victoria, at London, Canada, is known to be over 200. A dispatch from London of the 26th ult. says the funeral of the victims lasted all day and all the preceding night. There were not hearses nor coffins enough to meet the emergency, and vehicles of all kinds were used to convey the dead to the cemeteries. The behavior of rough characters on board the ill-starred vessel is said to have had much to do with causing the disaster. The calamity is to be commemorated by a monument in a cemetery overlooking the scene of the disaster.

• "-"T? I-::--.: ~ * ■ —■■ ■■■ r>M , RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY INDIANA, FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1881. '

Gen. Grant sailed for home from the City of Mexico on the 27th ult., having secured everything he desired. Mr. Robert P. Porter, Chief of the Wealth, Debt and Taxation Department of the United States Census, states that the net debt of all the Cities and towns of the United States with a population of over 7,500 is $570,471,373. Contracts hate been made for the shipping of 30,000 bushels of spring wheat from St. Paul to Glasgow, via New Orleans, at 28 cents per busheL During the past ten years the annual production of buckwheat in the United States has increased about 2,000,000 bushelfl. Barley has increased 15,000,000 and rye 3,000,006 bushels in the flame period. While Eli Martin, Napoleon Martin, and Jam's Bouchard, of Port Kent, N. 8., were breaking a jam of logs on Fish river, they were carried over the falls and drowned.

BITS OF INFORMATION.

The first records we have of geographical knowledge are in the Pentateuch and in the Book of Joshua. Anthracite coal was first discovered in the Lehigh valley, Pennsylvania, in the year 1791, by a hunter named Philip Ginther. The Mohammedans are the most numerous sect in the world by at least 100,000,000. The Buddhists are next in number, being estimated at 360,000,000. The word Fenian is derived from Finian or Finii, the old militia of Ireland, so called from Fian or Fingal, a popular hero of Irish traditionary history. The paving of streets is of early date. The Romans paved their streets in a very elaborate and solid manner. Portions of the pavements still remain, and are in use at the present day; and the pavement of Pompeii remains entire. In the whole continent of America there are 47,200,000 Catholics and 30,000,000 Protestants. In the United States there are the following church organizations and church sittings: Church Churches. ’ Sittings. Roman Catholic 4,127 1,99',514 Baptist (regular) 1 ',474 3,997,116 Christian 3,578 86 >,<>o2 Episcopal 2,835 991,9 >1 C0ngregati0na1................. 2,1487 1,117,212 Lutheran... 9,034 977, i.>2 Methodist 25,278 6,528,209 Coffee is said to have been first used as a drink at Aden, thence introduced into Egypt, and thence into Turkey. An African traveler mentions that the coffee tree was taken by the Jesuit missionaries to the western coast of Africa, where it has since become naturalized, and covers vast spaces of waste land. It was introduced in England in the early part of the seventeenth century. • The expression “humbug” is a corruption of the word Hamburg, and originated in the following manner : During a period when war prevailed on the Continent, so many false reports were manufactured at Hamburg that at length, when any one would signify his disbelief of a statement, he would say : “ You had that from Hamburg,” which was soon corrupted into humbug, and has become a common expression of incredulity. There is little or nothing known with certainty in regard to the invention of glass. Some of the oldest specimens are Egyptian, and are traced to about 1,500 years before Christ (by some 2,300 B. C.) Transparent glass is believed to have been first used about 750 years before the Christian era. The credit of the invention was given by the ancients to the Phoenicians. , The story is a familiar one, of the Phoenician merchants, who rested their cooking pots on blocks of natron (sub-carbonate of soda) and found glass produced by the union, under heat, of the alkali and the sand on the shore. The first locomotive engine ever seen in the United States was one imported from England in the spring of 1829. It was built by George Stephenson at New-castle-upon-Tyne. It was put upon exhibitionin the yard of E. Duncomb, Water street, New York, on its arrival here. The first locomotive that was used on an American road was one brought from England early in the summer of 1829, and in two or tliree months it was running on the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company’s road. The first steam locomotive engine constructed in the United States was built by the Messrs. Kemble, New'Yoik city.

The Stage-Driver’s Death-Ride.

About forty-five years ago Boston experienced an unusually-severe winter. It was so cold that one January morning, as two rural members of the Legislature were warming their purple hands at the cheerful open fireplace of the old City Tavern, one of them remarked to the other : “ Party cold weather, Cap’n.” “Yes,” replied the addressed party; “I heerd a man in the Plymouth stage say last night that the thermometer down there was below zero. ” On that night the stage from Newburyport arrived at its headquarters, the Eastern Stage House, No. 84 Ann street, under circumstances peculiar and extraordinary. The frost-laden wind howled around the ancient tavern with such effect that landlord, guests and stable hands kept as far as possible within doors. While thus making themselves comfortable, the Newburyport stage, quite prompt to its usual time, dashed through the archway into the yard in gallant style, but the driver seemed in no hurry to dismount. He was spoken to, but made no answer. Upon investigation he was found to be frozen stiff, and dead ; his icy hands still clasping the reinfl, which during the latter portion of the terrible ride had been powerless to guide the sagacious animals. They, with instinctive sagacity, had sought their accustomed shelter in the stable of the old stage tavern.

A Story of the Stage.

The London Era tells the following story: “It is said that when Macready opened in ‘Lear,’ at the Nottingham Theater,' the property man received his plot for the play in the usual manner, a map being required among the many articles—a map for Lear to divide his kingdom. The property man, being illiterate, read ‘mop’ for ‘map.’ At nightthetragedycommenced. Macready, in full state on his throne, called for his map; supernumerary ‘noble,’ kneeling, presented to the aged King a white curly mop. The astounded actor at once rushed off the stage, dragging the unfortunate nobleman and his mop with him, actors and audience roaring with delight ”

There are two soldiers lying beneath their blankets, looking up at the stars in a Virginia sky. Says Jack: “What made you go into the army, Tom?” “ Well,” replied Tom, “ I had no wife and loved war. What made you go to the war, Jack?” “Well,” he replied, “I had a wife and loved peace, so I went,”

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WATERWAYS.

Proceedings of the Northweetent River and Canal Improvement Convention, at Davenport, lowa; The Northwestern Convention in aid of river and canal improvement met at the Opera Hoose, in Davenport, on Wednesday, May 25. There were 379 delegates, representing all the Northwestern States, in attendance. Judge J. H. Murphy, of Davenport, was made temporary Chairman. Col. i. M. Allen addressed the convention. He stated that tha survey from Rock Island to Hennepin is sixty-five miles in length, and that the canal can be cut for less than $5,000,000, thus completing a highway from Chicago to the extreme northern boundary of the Northwest. Hon. James F. Wilson 'also addressed the convention. He said it was the “transportation problem” and not simply the construction of a canal that had called them together. People believed that the transportation system was at present too expensive and too unstable, and should be reformed. Waterways were the conservators of cheap and stable transportation, and those which nature had provided should be kept in the highest state of efficiency and supplemented by such artificial ways as were needed to effect a complete system. Such ways were not the swift ones of commerce, but were the maintainers of reasonable fates and better prices for products whose value depended on getting to market Transportation by rail had been depended On so largely that the waterway had been neglected, and hence the superb railway system had been a failure in that it had not produced that standard of equity and fairness which the country of right had expected. By the creation of an efficient water competition the railway service could be brought to realize what its duties were in this

regard. After the appointment of Committees on Credentials and Permanent Organization, an adjournment was voted until 3 p. m. On reassembling, the convention was addressed by the Hon. J. B. Henderson, who represents the Sixth Illinois district in Congress. He said the question of cheap transportation from the gram-growing districts to the seaboard was the important question before the people of the West. He Wanted to see direct water communication between the Upper Mississippi and Chicago. St. Louis and New Orleans must not think the commerce of the great Northwest could oe confined to one beaten track. That trade must take in Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Baltimore, and other cities. He did not advocate a ship-canal, but believed a water-way ample for present requirements coud be constructed for $3,000,000, or about as much as was paid for a Custom House iu any one of the large cities. The practicability of the route from Hennepin to Rock Island had been affirmed by successive Boards of Engineers. Gov. John H. Gear, of lowa, was introduced, and addressed the convention. He said that they had assembled for a most laud ible purpose, having for its object the promotion of the welfare of the producers of the Mississippi valley, by devising ways and means to lessen the cost cf transportation of the products of the farm and factory. It was true that less than half of the lands in lowa were .under cultivation, yet the resources of 5,000 miles of railway in operation in the State were taxed to their fullest extent last year to move the surplus product. In 1880 from the State of lowa alone there were exported 52,000,000 bushels, of corn, 9,000,000 bushels of wheat, 12,000,000 bushels of oats, to say nothing of other cereals. There were packed 658,000 hogs in the State, and 2,570,000 were shipped away alive out of the State over six lines of railroads. There were 372,000 head of live cattle shipped East. With the exception of a portion of the cattle and hogs, the other things were tlie growth of lowa alone. From this it would be seen that much depended upon this convention in giving such tone to public sentiment as would best accomplish the desirable results to the producers of the Mississippi valley.

The Hon. Carter H. Harrison, Mayor of Chicago, came next, and opened his speech by saving that in his opinion waterways were the only means of regulating freight charges and keeping railroad monopolies within bounds. Two •pecters threatened the perpetuity of republican institutions, and the worst of these war corperate monopoly, which had no soul and never died. Behind this stood g. maddened and exasperated people, who might in the end bo goaded to destroy the whole machinery of government in order to get rid of its excrescences. It behooved mankind to follow the plans* of the great Engineer of the universe, and to dig c mats on the lines marked out. Mr. Harrison advocated building a ship canal from Hennepin to Rock Island, and deepening the Illinois and Michigan canal.

The Committee on Permanent Organization and Rules reported the following as permanent officers of the convention: President, R. 8. Horr, East Saginaw, Mich.; Vico Presidents, J. W. Palmer, Detroit; J. L. Switz, New York ; J. W. Chapman, Council Bluffs; George Schneider, Chicago; W. I.Walker, Toledo; Charles Seymour, La Crosse, Wis.; John Dement, Dixon. 111.; E. O. Stannard, St. Louis; Charles P. King, PeoriaC. F. Clarkson, Des Moines; William Pettit, Minneapolis; JohnW. Burdette, Secretary, Burlington. lowa. Charles A. Randolph, Secretary of the Chicago Board of Trade, spoke at great length on the subject before the convention and hi favor of the Hennepin canal. Letters of regret were read from Horatio Seymour, Secretary Windom, Govs. Pillsbury, Jerome and Cullom, Senators Allison, McDill, Saunders, Davis, Logan, Ingalls and Sawyer, and Congressman Farwell. After the appointment by the chair of the necessary committees, the convention adjourned for the day.

SECOND DAY’S PROCEEDING*. After the appointment of a Committee on Resolutions, speeches were called for. Ex-Gov. Stannard, of Missouri, complained of some strictures made by the Davenport Gazette, with reference to the position of the St. Louis dele" gates. He denied that there was opposition to the canal project, but Missouri men do not want to see the Mississippi river improvement slighted. They had thought the list of committees and the earlier form of the convention had a little too much Chicago in them. But that was all.

Ex-Gov. William Brosa, of Chicago, replied to the St. Louis representative, and said Chicago was as much interested as St. Louis in the improvement of the Mississippi. There coull be no difficulty between St. Louis and Chicago. Gov. Stannard had talked about the shipments of wheat amounting to 6,000,000 bushels. That amount would not fill one Chicago warehouse. Hlinoii paid last year $23,000,000 internal-revenue tax, and all she asked from the General Government was 5 per Cent, of that amount for the improvement of her waterways. The Hon. Julius C. Starr, of Peoria, pronounced in favor of improving all internal water ways and developing all possible highways of commerce. For this purpose the combination of all interests was needed. It was only by this means that Congress could be brought to appropriate money for improving the rivers and canals of the West.

At this point of the proceedings the welcome announcement was made that the Committee on Resolutions was ready to report, and the Chairman, Gen. Henderson, presented the following : This convention, representing the people of the Mississippi valley and of the Northwest, in pursuance of the call of the convention, and in furtherance of the purposes thereof, unanimously declare: 1. That the Congress of the United States should devise by law and sustain by liberal and efficient appropriations a system of cheap transportation by water routes connecting the Mississippi river and its tributaries with the Eastern Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico.

2. That it has been the policy of Congress and the desire s f the people of the Northwest for many years to inaugurate and complete a system of water-chan-nel improvement, having the Mistrissipui for its base; that, to give greater efficiency to this policy, there should be constructed from the Mississippi river on the most direct and feasible route to the Illinois river at Hennepin, and thence to the lake at Chicago, a canal adequate to the present and future transportation needs of that great part of the Northwest to whose people such a work of internal improvement is an imperative necessity for relief from the excessive freight rates on the produce and commerce of the country, and that the work so long needed should be immediately commenced. » X That tfiexontinued improvement of the Mississippi river under the auspices of the Mississippi River Commission, created by act of Congress, is a work of great national importance; that the Congress of the United States ought to promote that scheme of improvement by the most liberal appropriations, in a separate appropriation and bill fficrelor, and that we emphasize and enforce the united and earnest demand of the people of the entire Mississippi valley that Congress shall make prompt and adequate appropriations for the improvement of the river and its navigable tributaries from the falls of Bt. Anthony to the Gulf of Mexico, and that this convention has no sympathy with any policy that would depcjciate or binder this great enterprise o j

making fully navigable and building up* great commerce upon thia central river—nature's great . highway of th* continent :. . t t That we hail with peculiar aatiafaction the increasing euccera of the barge-line ay stem es transportation on the Miasnwrippi and its tributaries, and the rtltef it was to the producers and *hippers of the Misaiaalppi valley in the cheapening,of freight*. 5. That we heartily favor the proposed cession of the Illinois and Michigan canal and the improvement* en the Illinois river by the State of Illinois, and declare that the Erie canal should be made free of toll*; therefore, we hope for the early success of the effort* inaugurated to secure the-* reMita. * The following resolutions supplemental ,to the report of the Committee bn Resolutions were presented by Mr. Russell, and adopted: fl. That the commission • under the auspices of which this convention has been called be continued, with the proviso that its membership be enlarged by the selection of an additional member from each State represented in this body, which additional member shall be namad by the delegate* of the respective State*, said commission to afterward elect it* own officers and mature its own organization. 7. That the commission, when reorganized as contemplated herein, be requested to select two gentlemen from each State to present to Congress the appeal for the support to the work of internal improvement which is contemplated by the foregoing resolutions. , . . .. A number of resolution* handed to the committee were reported back without recommendation and without being read. Mr. Edhussen, of Davenport, read the resolutions in regard to tiie continuance of the canal commission, which the committee has not considered germane to their work, but highly approved of. Bam M. Clark, of Keokuk, moved to adopt the report. A delegate from Council Bluffs moved to include the words “ and Missouri valley” where the word “ Mississippi ” occurred, Mr. Henderson said the committee had been unanimous throughout, and there had not been a ripple on the surface to disturb their harmony. Mr. Btarr, of Peoria, wanted something said about the Copperas Creek and Henry improvement* in the resolutions. Mr. Henderson thought it would do no good for th* convention to say anything as to the cession by the State of Illinois' to the General Government of these improvements. Murry Nelson, of Chicago, moved to lay the Missouri valley amendment on the table. The vote was t aken on the amendment direct, and it was sustained by a large majority. . Mr. Start’s resolution about Copperas creek was carried amid some confusion. The report of the Committee on Resolutions was adopted unanimously, and {.he resolutions offered by Mr. Russell were also adopted. Mr. Howard, of Toledo, called up and advocated the passage of the two resolutions in regard to O do canals. Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, opposed the resolutions as inopportune. Lieut. Gov. Campbell, of Missouri, favored, and Mayor Lake, of Minneapolis, opposed the resolutions as not germane. Mr. Grinnell, of lowa, pleaded for harmony, and asked the withdrawal of the Toledo resolutions. They were voted down by a considerable majority. After passing the customary resolutions of courtesy the convention adjourned sine die..

APPALLING CATASTROPHE.

A terrible calamity, involving the loss of nearly 200 lives, occurred to the steamer Victoria at London, Ontario. “The ill-fated vessel,” says a dispatch from London, “ with over 600 excursionists on board, was returning from Spring Bank, and, when near the Cove railway bridge, one mile below the city, the boat suddenly collapsed like an egg flhell and became a total wreck, level With the water’s edge. All the passengers were instantly plunged into the stream, more than half of them being underneath the debris. The first nows which reached the city was brought by survivors, who struggled through the streets wet and weary. The news fell like a thunderbolt, and a stamped? took place for the spot. Arriving there, a terrible sight met the view. Fifty or sixty bodies had already been recovered and were lying on the green sward some distance up the bank. Those arriving from the city from every direction crowded around, anxious to see if any relatives were on board. Several hundred families were represented on the excursion, and the wail at the sight of the victims was heartrending. Fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters rushed about panic-stricken, endeavoring to identify relatives. By 7 o’clock about eighty bodies were recovered from under the wreck, where the water was twelve feet in depth. Almost every minute some victim was brought to the surface and conveyed to the boat. The steamer Princess Louise was early brought to the spot and the victims placed on the upper decks. Fires were lit on the bank overlooking the river, and petroleum torches were brought and the search continued. Up to the present hour about 150 corpses have been secured. Among the dead are James Robertson. Manager of the Bank of British North America; J. C. Meredith, Clerk of the Division Court; Win. Mcßride, Assessor and Secretary of the Western Fair Association; Mrs. Wm. Ashbury, Wm. Millman, Montreal, commercial agent, and two sons of J. Rogers, plumber. Mr. Matthews, night editor of the Advertiser, lost his wife and two cliildren. Harry Smart, of the Free Press, lost wife, two children and a sister-in-law.

The whole city seems almost demented tonight. The accident was entirely due to gross carelessness. The boat was overcrowded to a disgraceful extent. The manager, George Parish, was expostulated with by several at Spring Bank, and urged not to let the boat go out in that overcrowded condition, but he is reported to have replied, “All right, I know my business,” or something of that sort

Tlie Story of the Disaster, from Beginning to End. [London Telegram to Chicago Tribune.] Tuesday, the day of the horrible catastrophe, was the anniversary of Queen Victoria’s birthday, and the great bulk of the people closed up their houses and went off for a day of innocent enjoyment Several train loads took their departure for the lake shore at Port Stanley, others to Windsor and Sarnia, and about 2,000 went to Springbank, being carried thither by the three excursion steamers owned by the Thames Navigation Company. The day was pleasantly enjoyed in the customary recreations of a rural picnic, and, toward 5 o’clock, the homeward rush began. The rotten Victoria was the first boat up, and the rush to get on board and reach the city before supper-time was tremendous. Several people protested against the Captain of the craft allowing so many people to board her, but he was deaf to all entreaty, and allowed all who could finds place whereon to hang to come along. Groaning under th* weight of some GOO people, who kept moving in masses from one side to another.- the boat had a hard time of it The main deck was packed so tightly that it was with difficulty that one could elbow his way ; yet at times the mass of humanity would, as it were, congeal together, so as to leave a small vacant space, sometimes on one and’ sometimes on the other side of the deck. The hurricane deck also was crowded, but here there was none of that swaying back and forth, which marked the crowd below. A few adventurous spnits sought the seclusion of the boiler-deck and the engine-room, where they smoked their cigars and watched the movement of the machinery. All went well, or, at least, presumably, until a bend in the river was reached, about 200 yards below the Cove railroad bridge, and there the day of pleasure turned into a dies irro. About 7 o’clock some persons arrived in the city with a wet and generally used-up appearance and spread the intelligence of what had befallen the Victoria. Rumors of all kinds began to spread like wildfire, but it was not for some minutes that the full significance of the news was realized. Then the general stampede for the river banks, in which the entire city seemed to join. Every road leading to the fated spot had its line of people of both sexes, hurrying thither in a state of frenzied anxiety, some sobbing hysterically and questioning every one in their flight as to the fate of friends and relatives, whom they knew Jo have gone down the river. As each one .arrived on the river bank overlooking the* wreck and saw the ghastly upturned faces of the dead who had been taken Out and laid-upon the sod, or looked out upon the shattered huljf lay in fragments on the wafer, they gave vent to piteous exclamations of grief: “My God! such a sight I have never looked upon!” said one. “This is a dark day, indeed, for London!” exclaimed another. ‘ ‘My wife and child! ,7V here are they?” “Oh, God, restore my little' one*!” were prayers heard on all sides. Oh'the wreck brave men, streaming with- perkpiration, and strong in their noble purpose, were working like herpes in recovering the bodies which lay underneath the shattered boards and tiffibers, and, as one after another were brought to the surface and carried tenderly to the green sward to add to the ghastly row, the crowds pressed forward eagerly ta scan

the ftetures. Their face* •« with $ strange anxiety. Here was some bereaved father or brother, clasping the limp form of a beloved daughter or sister, giving vent to thait emotions in wailflof anguish; there some mother or sistar lamenting over the corpse of a soft ot brother, like Rachel weeping because they were nbt. Here and there, knots of men worked vigorously to restore to life some beloved relative, practicing all the arts known to them, rubbing the hand* and applying clothes heated at a neighboring fire, but all to BP purpose. Vitality would not return, and the sorrowing friends gave up in despair. Meantime the work of rescuing went on, and the list swelled and swelled until it seemed as if the end would never come. As dusk deepened mto the flight the scene became more weird and terrible. Fite* were lit Upon the bank, shedding a lurid And fitful glare over the water, ana showing the dreadful outlines in their most sinister aspect. The work of recovering the bodies was entered into with a heroic spirit by those who arrived early on the scene. Merchants, lawyers, workmen and all classes plunged into the water, and, borne up by rafts, began to hand the lifeless forms of the drowned ones out to those on the shore. Resuscitation was tried with all who were rescued within one-half hour, but only in one or two instances were the efforts successful. During the silent watches of the-night, and by the lurid glare of wood-fires and petroleum torches, the work of rescuing the bodies of the drowned was carried on.

THE TIDE OF IMMIGRATION.

[From th* New York Tribune.] The renewed prosperity of the nation, and the hardships of military service in Europe, are regarded as the principal causes for the increasing tide of emigration which is now setting toward these shores. In 1877 the number of immigrants who came to thi* country was less than 150,000. Last year the number reached 457,257. Of these 827,871 were landed at the port of New York. Judging from the arrivals at Castle Garden so far this year, Superintendent Jackson estimates that the arrivals at thi* port this year may reach The arrivals at this port for tne first four months of last year, and corresponding period of this year, with the countries from which the immigrants dome, as shown by returns made to the United States Treasury Department, were as follows: Four Four months months i ending ending May 1,.* May 1, nationalities. 188<>. 1881. England ....11,224* 10.574 Scotland 2,667 2,319 Ireland .17,639 11,006 Germany ~..23,113 53,293 Austria... .'.... 2,118 2,763 Sweden 9,982 *,850 Norway.... 1,976 1,680 Denmark 1,897 1,769 France,............... 1,068 1,098 Switzerland 2,653 8,112 Italy 8,399 5,*18 Holland 1,200 8,835 Belgium 270 502 Rnasia 728 79* Poland «91 «23 Hungary 1,58* *,29* Other countries s*l 1,393 Totals 82,648 109,123 The rate of increase this year is nearly 33 per cent. This would give a total Immigration of over 600,000, of which about 450,000 would be ,due at this port. The rate of increase for New 'York, however, according to estimates of the .Commissioners of Emigration, will probably Be greater, as, owing to the backwardness of the season this ydat, and the late dates at which the Scandinavian ports were opened, the tide was kept back. In the first ten days of the present month 27,893 immigrants arrived at Castle Garden, and it is estimated that 70,000 will arrive this month, against 45,578 for the same time last year. On Monday of this week 6,521 immigrant* arrived, the largest number on any day yet this year. Yesterday the number of arrivals was 3,203.

The greater part of the immigrants arriving consists of men under 40 years of age, who would b* subject to military duty it they remained in Europe. Of the 109,123 immigrants who arrived, in the first four months of this year 72,778 were men and'36,350 women. In the same time last year the men numbered 54,985 and the women 27,861, the proportion being the same each year. The number of immigrant* arriving at this port last year—B27,ooo—wa* greater than in any previous year. In 1854, 319,223 immigrants arrived—th* largest number in any year previous to 1880. The arrivals at Castle Garden for eleven years past with the five leading nationalities were as follow : Total GerYear. Arrivals. Trish. mans. 1870 212,170 65,168 72,350 1871 229,634 66,506 88,601 1872 ....294,581 68,747 132,705 1873 266,818 08,612 104,214 1874 1*0,041 35,908 *6,302 1875 84,5fiC 19,924 25,559 1876 68,26* 10,31* 21,035 1877 54,536 8,221 17,753 1878 75,847 18,01* 23,051 1879 135,070 1880.. '....327,811 &i,3»9 104,264 Year. English. Slredes. Italians. 1870 88,3*0 11,551 2,081 1871 86,985 10,749 1872.. #6,999 10,978 1878.. 83,189 8,Q90 6,847 187*. 30,112 3,1*3 5,034 1875 11,180 .3,803 2,675 1876 ....i 8,4*7 3,698 2.618 1877 6,652 3,710 2,831 1878 9,344 4,162 4,208 1879 21, 56 12,394 7,220 1880 33,768 35,217 11,190 The total number of immigrants brought into this country since the establishment of the Union, not including those arriving in 1880, was 10,188,750. Of this aggregate Ireland and Germany furnished about 3,000,000 each, England 900,000, France 313,000, Sweden and Norway 306,000, Switzerland 83,000, and other countries ranged from 70,000 for Italy to 613 for Turkey and 383 for Greece. Very few immigrant* now come from Spain, Portugal or Turkey. The German immigrants nearly all bring considerable money with them, estimated on an averag* from SSOO to $2,000 each. Each immigrant is estimated to add* at least SI,OOO to the wealth of the country, in addition to the money he brings with him. At this rate the United State* wul have over $600,000,000 added to it* wealth this year by means of emigration. The poorest class of immigrant* come from Austria—the Sclavonian*. Many of them arrive here utterly destitute. The tradition is current in Philadelphia that Dr. Jtames. the distinguished preacher and ccanmentator, always went to bed st 9 ofcfock aPnight, he Yose at 4in the morning for study. The tradition adds that he sometimes Excused himself to company invited by his wife, and left her to entertain them. A New York gentleman of the last generation used to tell a similar story of Gen. Washington, for the truth of which be could vouch, as he was present when the incident occurred.

Gen. Washington was living in New York after his first election to the Presi"dency, and on New Year’s day, 1790, a great number of citizens called on him, in accordance with their custom of keeping the day. IJe received them with great cordiality, and afternoon and evenmg passed pleasantly. When the hall clock struck 9, though a^-large company were still present, Lady Washington «>se with dignity, ape 1 , looking round the circle with a smile, said: ” The General always retires at 9, and 1 usually precede him.” The announcement was startling, but the house was sooit emptied. The New Yorkers. 4<>-npt keepjsueh hours to-day, and few ladies have the social courage of Lady Washington.’ • Many great public men, on whose shoulders rftsfthc weight Of a nation’s government, have found it absolutely essential to be regular in their hours of sleep—an example that all may well follow. - ’ “Is there a letter here in a scented envelope for my wife ?” he asked the Postmaster, while the green fires from his, eyes .made the office look like a leafy forest. “ Yes, sir,” answered the Postmaster, and he handed it out The jealous man tore it open at once, when, lo and behold ! it was the milliner’g hili for SSO. No succeeding chapters. 1

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NUMBER 17.

“UNCLE TOM’S CABIN.”

Mow It Came to be Written. Two miles distant from this village, over among a g roup of hills through which used to wind the celebrated Crab Orchard pike of half a century ago, stands a fine old red-brick mansion facing south and commanding a view of miles upon miles of wave-like hills and valleys. Fifty years ago it was the plantation of Gen. Thomas Kennedy, a Virginian, who fought at King’s mountain with Marion and came to Kentucky about 1780 to wrest the garden of the central portion of the State from the Indians. The old red-brick house and the ground all about it have lately become famous as being the original scene in Mrs. Stowe’s novel of “ Uncle Tom’s Cabin." Gen. Kennedy owned 7,000 acres of land, 150 slaves, and was enormously wealthy for those days. He was a man of wonderful character and determination, a Black Douglass in the Garrard hills. He was a tall, athletic and hale man, with the erect carriage of an Indian and the mien of a commander. He was, in the main, a man of fair impulse and royal generosity when calm; blit, when angered, he was insatiably cruel to his slaves. Gen. Kennedy died in 1836, and left the bulk of his property to his son Thomas, then about 20 years old. In three years the young man had run through more than a great fortune, and was dead at the very outset of his career. Among the slaves left in his estates an intelligent, high-strung octoroon boyy named Lewis Clarke, who had been granted comparative freedom, in being allowed to travel about with an open pass, trading, weaving and occupying himself as he pleased, paying his master a certain sum every mouth. When the estate came to be settled, it was discovered that some of the slaves must be sold, and an execution was issued against Lewis among the others. The rumor got out— and at that day the rumor was a dreadful one among slaves—that they were to be “sold down South.” On the first night of the September court in.lB&L, Lewis Clarke mounted his ponyand struck for liberty. He rode away and over the hilis to Ohio and to Canada. Then he went to Cambridge, Mass., lived for seven years with A. H. Safford, a brother-in-law of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Mrs. Stowe visited her relatives every summer, and took a deep interest in Lewis Clarke, his experience and his narrative of incidents, pathetic, humorous and terrible, of slave life, and the horrors which the system made possible, and which were, in localities, frequent from brutal and irresponsible masters. From Lewis Clarke’s own lips I gathered the story of how Mrs. Stowe came to write “ Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Dr. Bailey, who published the Philanthropist in Cincinnati, had been persuaded to move to Washington city about 1848 or 1850, where he established an emancipationist the National Era. He thought if he could get some woman of literary reputation and ability to write a series of articles for his paper every week on the subject of slavery and its violation of the finest sentiments, that it would revive public interest and carrv his paper to people it had never reached before. The names of Mrs. Lydia M. Cliild and others were proposed, but not accepted. Lewis Tappan, who was one of the counselors, finally said he knew of one woman who could do the work successfully, that she was poor and must be paid for it, but that she would succeed. He then mentioned Mrs. Stowe, and advised Dr. Bailey to write to her, and, by way of earnest, inclose her a draft for $ 100. The letter was written and the draft gent. The next week there appeared in the columns of the National Era, not the first of a series of articles on slavery, but the first chapters of a story called “ Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” The circulation of the National Era increased at once, and soon became very large. Mrs. Stowe was poor and earning her money go laboriously that, for fear the great novel would be cut short, she was sent an additional draft for S3OO. Then she copyrighted the story, which in book form has made her a fortune, and become more famous than any novel ever isshed from a printing press.— Lowell (Jty.') Cor. Courier-Journal.

The Price of Newspapers.

Canadian newspaper publishers are becoming alive to what is due to themselves in return for their heavy outlay. By disregarding commercial considerations, the Toronto Mail lost the whole of its original capital (over $100,000) and the Toronto Globe, although much longer established aud better patronized as an advertising medium, was making no suitable returns for the capital invested. The result has been an advance of a dollar a year in the price of both papers. The Hamilton and London dailies have followed suit. Even now they are cheaper than papers of a similar class published in the United States, where they charge sl2 a year. Our Canadian city papers should go further and raise the price of their weeklies to something above the bare cost of the paper on which they are printed. No large weekly worth reading cau be published for less than two dollars a year, and even at that price it would not pay the proprietor unless there be a large cash advertising patronage. These so-called “cheap’’ papers are dear in the long run, for they must economize in some way, and that can only be done by curtailing matters which would otherwise be more liberally treated.— Stratford Beacon.

Bayard Taylor as a Letter-Writer. Taylor was a scholar in several literatures, but he was never a man to be satisfied with a smattering in any language. What he got he worked for, and so it was worth the having when he had made himself master of it. Letter-writ-ing seems now-a-days a “lost art.” In the hurry of this -present busy world there is not sufficient leisure for elaborate correspondence, there fofmerly was in the days of Cowper and Gray, two of the most charming epistolary geniuses that ever lived. But Taylor, like Dickens among modern authors, excelled as a letter-writer, and his briefest notes were sure to contain some felicitous expression, some humorous quip, worthy to be remembered. When his memoir is written, as it is sure to be before long, it is to be hoped his letters will be collected and given to the world with the story of his remarkable career as a traveler, poet and novelist.—-J. T. Fields, in the Congregationalist.

German Eire-Proof Suits.

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through a perforated bottom-plate of the trunk, and is cooled and freed from smoke by passing through the little pieces of sponge. A spiral-formed layer of wire gives the air tube the necessary strength. While due provision is thus made for inhaling good air, the heat of the fire draws out the moisture from the inner wool and layer of wax, by which means the body is kept cool and an easy movement of the body secured. The outer layer of the dross is water-proof and incombustible; the heat raises blisters on the same without, however, exposing the woolen stuff to the fire. The outer layer must be renewed every time after use.

INDIANA NEWS.

New Albany is much dissatisfied with its police force. The Court House at Connersville is to lie remodeled ata cost of $4,000. Gold is said to have been discovered in Scott county, near the Jefferson county line. Suspensions of policemen in Evan* ville average one a week, mostly for drunkenness aud disorderly conduct. A disease resembling lung fever has made its appearance among the horses of Jackson township, Huntington county, which causes death in a very short time. The Ohio Falls Cur Company has iu course of construction at Jeffersonville thirteen passenger coaches for Western roads. It has paid out to employes $45,000 the present week. The act constituting the State Board of Health does not go into effect until the laws are published, and the four physicians who are to compose the board will not, therefore, be chosen before the end of July. A number of aligator gars, a fish very rarely found in North, rn rivers, have been’captured recently in the Wabash near Logansport. The gar lias a Hinikelike body, a long, slim snout, and is altogether a villainous-looking reptile. Judge A. B. Carlton, of Terre Haute, has fallen heir to a large estate from a deceased bachelor relative who resided in Kentucky. It is estimated that the Judge's share iu the estate will be over $20,000. The property lies chiefly at or near Chillicothe, Ohio. The work of making the soundings for the bridge at Sand island..is in progress on the Kentucky side, and will soon be commenced on the Indiana side. The corner stone, it is announced, will be laid with great pomp and ceremony ou or about the 4th of July. The United States snag boat K. W. Lind Ims arrived at Terre Hunte for the purpose of commencing operations on the Wabash river. All obstructions l>etween the city and the mouth of the river will be removed at once, and it is hoped to make the Wabash navigable for large boats the year round. As a skiff containing two women and three men was crossing the river at, Evansville, it was run down by the steamer Thanhauser, with a tow of barges, and the women and one of the men were drowned. The occupants of the l>out were all negroes with the exception of one of the women, who was white. A singular story comes from Jackson township, Decatur county, of a bachelor who bought a neighbor’s buxom wife of her impecunious husband for SIOO, with the understanding that the latter was to retain charge of the two children. He then sold his farm and “went West,” and it is reported that the woman iu the case has also disappeared. Dr. Ramey, of Zenas, has a chicken which has four legs, the two rear ones being placed one behind the other. The third leg has a perfect foot, and, when it crows, the chicken leans back and rests on this third foot, being enabled thereby to get his head back in a more aristocratic manner than any other rooster can do. • Mr. Wm. C. Hampson, house father at the Reform School for some time past, last week received a telegram from Golden, Col., giving him notice of his appointment as Superintendent of the Colorado State Reform School, and Mrs. Sampson, his wife, as matroh. Immediately upon receipt of this he telegraphed their acceptance. The examination of applicants for ailmission to the West Point and Annapolis military schools was held in Crawfordsville a short time ago. Nineteen young men presented themselves, and all passed very creditable examinations. The fortunate ones were: To West Point, Thomas J. Stunkord, of Terre Haute; alternate, Will. Grimes, of Rockville. To Annapolis, Lewis Cumberland, of Crawfordsville; alternate, Percy Bates, of Rockville.

Samuel Cunningham, an old and wellknown citizen of Crawford county, and a popular river pilot, was sent to tne insane asylum at Indianapolis, ton or twelve days ago, from his home at Leavenworth, under the supposition of insanity. Twenty years ago he was bitton by a rabid dog.' The wound healed, but the virus remained in bis system. He died at the asylum, his symptoms being precisely those of hydrophobia. In relation to the wool clip of 1881, information has been gathered from nineteen counties in Southern Indians,' in which there wore in 1880 232,634 sheep, and the wool clip of that year was given as 637,592 pounds, or nearly three to the head, not counting off anything for lambs. The number of sheep in these nineteen counties has been considerably increased since the clip of 1880, as the farmers in the southern count es of Indiana are annually increasing their wool growing as well as improving the breeds of their flocks. It is safe to say that the clip of 1881 ini these nineteen counties will exceed that of 1880 by from 75,090 to 100,000 pounds. Tire officers of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows reported the order exceediugly prosperous. The Hecretaiy reported five new lodges institut' d and that four had surrendered their chart rs, making a net gain of ono lodge. During the term 1,174 brothersand 208 widowed families have been relieved. The sum of $28,005.83 has lieen paid for the relief of brothers, $3,064.26 for the relief of widowed families, 8826.96 for educating orphans, $5,16152 for burying the dead, and §1,669.76 for other charitable purposes, making the total for re ief $33,771.83. There are 532 effective lodges, with a membersliip of 26,511, an increase of 1,107. The resources of lodges are $1,301,650.15; receipts, $105,030.14; expenses, $45,035.23; dues to Grand Lodge, $5,444.08; orphan fund of lodges, $820,254.67. The returns from Rebekah lodges are unsatisfactory. Though over 200 charters have been sent out, only forty lodges have sent, in reports,