Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1882 — Page 1

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HEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. XCast. A collision between two freight trains on the Pennsylvania road, at Christiana, Pa. killed three persona and destroyed $200,000 worth of property. The deaths are announced at Philadelphia of Lieut. Col. W. B. Price, Sixth United States Cavalry, and Col. H. 8. McComb, the well-known railway builder. Special precautions were taken to guard President Arthur against the attacks of “cranks" or evil-disposed persons during the time ho spent at his house in Lexington avenue. A special policeman constantly watched the house. J. Winslow Jones & Co., corn and lobster packers in Maine and Canada, have suspended payment, with liabilities of $182,000. West. Advices from Postmasters in all sections of the country, received at the Postoffice Department in Washington, show an alarming increase of small-pox in the Northwest. The disease is spreading rapidly, and several postoflicos have been ordered closed in consequenoe. Four cow-boys attempted to raid the town of Trinidad, Col. They fired upon Marshal Kroger, who shot down one, named Brown, and captured another. George 8. Reed, of San Francisco, who became deranged by too close attention io business, killed his mother-in-law, Sarah A. Smith, fatally wounded his young daughter, an'd then took his own life. John H. Russell, who murdered John T. Smarr, a few weeks ago, at Kansas City, died in jail from the effects of morphine, provided by some visitor. Edward F. Ryan, Michael Ryan and Bichard Adkins, employed in a tunnel near Silverton, Col., were buried 100 feet deep in a snow-slide. W. E. Graham, who murdered and cremated Philip Eglery at Venango, Kan., was hanged by a mob in front of the Court House door at Ellsworth. At Louisiana, Mo., John M. Shaw, one of Bill Anderson’s guerrillas, was shot dead by his brother in a quarrel over the division of their father’s property. The full bench of the Supreme Court of Kansas, in passing upon an agreed case, has made a decision whicli will invalidate nearly all the laws passed by the Legislature of that State in 1877 and 1879. The ground of the decision was that the act was passed with the aid of the votes of four members who were not legally elected. Among the laws thus made void is the prohibition constitutional amendment. Small-pox of an violent typo is prevailing to an alarming extent in the city and suburbs of St. Louis. South. Eson Bolin, a carpenter residing at Bogers, Ark., was shot dead in bed by his wife. She claimed that ho had killed two men, was a horse-thief,|and had twice threatened her life. A negro who confessed to the murder of two clerks, while sleeping in a country store, was lynched by a mob at Southampton, Va. The perpetrators of the recent terrible tragedy at Ashland, Ky., have been arrested, and they have made a full confession. Their names are William Neal, Eilis Craft and (ieorgc Ellis, all white. The strangest part of the" story is that all three of the men were present at the burning of the house, which they had set on fire to conceal their crime; that one of them drove the hearse at the funeral of the three victims, and another acted as pallbearer. A frightful tragedy was lately enacted near Minden, La. Bobert Lewis, son of the late Judge Langdon Lewis, and brother of Will 8. Lewis, shot Mrs. Will 8. Lewis and her Bister, Mrs. Thompson, both severely, and then killed himself. The cause of the tragedy is ■ unknown. Three brothers named McDonald, confined in jail at Graham, Texas, for the murder of one Martin, made a break for freedom, which resulted in a very extensive and sensational tragedy. They killed one jailer and took another one with them as a hostage, but were pursued by a, body of 200 citizens, and in the fight that followed all three of the McDonalds were left dead on the field, and several citizens were wounded. Eleven Chinese laborers working on the track of the Southern Pacific railroad, near El Paso, Texas, were massacred, it is said, by the Apaches, but it is hinted that white laborers bad a hand in it. Tho murderers of the Gibbons family, of Ashland, Ky., were to have been arraigned for examination at Catlettsburg. As nearly 2,000 citizens had assembled, Judge Brown had tho prisoners' placed on board the steamer Mountain Boy for transfer to Maysville. On learning of this action, a mob captured the steamer Mountain Girl and started in pursuit, which was abandoned near Portsmouth, and the prisoners were safely lodged in jail at Maysville.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. In the matter of the Garfield bills, it is stated that the Pennsylvania road will put in a claim for every dollar of expense incurred in transporting the President to Long Branch and return. Gen. Grant has recently reached the conclusion that Gen. Fitz John Porter was deeply wronged by dismissal from the army, and he will address an earnest appeal to President Arthur for the prompt restoration of the disgraced leader. A company has been organized in Boston to bui'd domed steamships, which are expected to cross the Atlantic in less than a week. Nearly $2,000,000 stock has boon taken. Gen. Swaim, who "hears very often from Mrs. Garfield, says the family is quite wo’l, and that the health of the President’s mother has been excellent this winter. Among the deaths announced are those of Rev. Vilano R. Hotchkiss, D. D., the famous Baptist theologian, of Buffalo ; Samuel Bickley, of Flint, Mich., aged 109 years; Col. C. W. Melvin, a civil engineer employed along Red river in Louisiana ; James Isom, of Richmond, Ky., who made saltpeter for the American army in the war of 1812 ; Dr. John W. Draper, the author, and C; C. Clay, formerly Senator from Alabama. It has just been learned at Washington that, for five months prior to his death at Santiago, Minister Kilpatrick had suffered intensely from Bright’s disease of the kidneys. On the day of his demise he vainly endeavored to dictate dispatches to the State Department An appeal to Congress to find means to bring home his body will doubtless be made.

POLITICAL POINTS. The prediction is entered that in conridering the question of reapportionment the [louse wfil agree upon 819 or 838 members.

The Democratic sentinel.

JAS. W. MoEWEN Editor

VOLUME V

The Hampton element of the South Carolina Democracy has selected CoL Theodore G. Barifcr for Governor and CoL John Haskell for Attorney GeneraL

WASHINGTON NOTES. President Arthur is known to have expressed himself very decidedly on the Mormon question, and it is claimed that he will do all in his power to remove this blot from the fame of the republic during his administration. Grant's change of front in the case cf Fitz John Porter causes great surprise at Washington, where the former once declared at a dinner-table that Porter should have been shot The following is the public debt statement for December: Six per cent. bonds, extendeds 149,082,900 Five per cents, extended 401,503,930 Four and one-half per cent, bonds 2.W,OOOJXM) Four nor cent bonds 738,772,551 Iti funding certificates 575.250 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total interest-bearing debt51,551,534,6'10 Matured debt 11,528,205 Legal tenderss 346,740,930 • Certtflcatea of deposit ... 9,590,000 Gold and silver certificates 73,803,850 Fractional currency 2,075,920 Total without interest. 437,270,212 Total debt 52,003,333,078 Total interest 15,536,619 Cash in treasury 253,377,980 Debt less cash In trea5ury51,765,491,717 Decrease during December. 12,793,623 Decrease since Jn:io 30, 1881 75,107,0'94 Current liabilities— Interest duo and unpaids 1,311,845 I>ebt on which lulereat has ceased 11,528,265 Interest thereon 714,985 Gold and silver certificates 73,863,350 United States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit 9,590,000 Cash balance available Jan. 3 156,369,531 Totals 253,377,080 Available assets— Cash in treasurys 253,377,980 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding| 64,623.512 Interest accrued and not j * paid 1,935,705 Interest paid by United State# 51,467,272 Interest repaid by companies— Interest repaid Dy transportation of mails By cash payments of o per cent, ot not 14,707,836 earnings 655,198 Balance of Interest paid by the United States 36,104,186 Postmaster General James, in closing his connection with the department, exprcssocs the belief that it will bo self-sustaining this year. During his term of office a net reduction of $1,439,163 wt.s made in the star service. Chloe Ann Violet, of Washington, died tho other day, having fasted forty-three days under the supposed direction of the Almighty.

FOREIGN NEWS. One coasting steamer and two steamers engaged in the Mediterranean trade are finally given up as lost during the November gales. Tho lot's of life is 110. The Khedive of Egypt has forwarded S4OO to tho fund for the erection of a Garfield hospital at Washington, and promises to send SI,OOO more. A big financial smash-up is announced from St. Petersburg. The Grand Society of Bail ways is declared to be insolvent, and, in addition, is charged with having misappropriated 25,000,000 rubles of Government money. An imperial court of inquiry will look into the matter. Twelve Jews were killed and sixtythree wounded in the recent riots at Warsaw. Mormonism is not popular in London. Two missionaries of that faith were mobbed while attempting to hold a meeting in the suburbs of tho great city, and were forced to seek refugo at police headquarters. At last the Land Leaguers of Dublin have carried their point. Immediately after tho installation of the new Lord Mayor the corporation, by a vote of 29 to 23, conferred the freedom of the city upon Parnell and Dillon. The death is announced of William Harrison Ainsworth, an English novelist whoso works were widely read in the circulating libraries of America and England. He was born in Lancashire in 1805. Irish constabulary seized at Kilrush a box containing twenty rifles and bayonets and 500 rounds of ammunition. A strong agitation is going on throughout Russia in favor of levying a heavy export duty on grain. The Cardinal Archbishop of Rouen, France, has published a letter in which he advises the Italian nation to choose another capital, and leave Bome to the Holy Father.

Our Foreign Commerce.

The value of the imports of merchandise into the United States during the twelve months ended Nov. 30, 1881, as compared with the values for the corrresponding months of the preceding year, is shown as follows : Month. 1880. 1879. Decembers 47,375,685 $ 59,602,961 1881. 1880. January. 45,284,858 55,208,488 February 47,759,493 55,647,471 March 60,709,174 70,886,561 Aprils 59,179,614 74,366,455 May 55,503,722 64,876,680 June 58,920,809 60,514,563 July 52,422,679 57,304,982 August 61,731,293 50,265,063 September 55,713,802 . 53,228,651 October 58,981,306 54,023,683 November 56,660,615 47,108,894 Total for 12 months ended Nov. 30... .$660,243,050 $709,034,452 The value of the exports of domestic and foreign merchandise from the United States during tho twelve months ended Nov. 30, 1881, as compared with the values for the corresponding months of the preceding year, is shown as follows: Month. 1880. 1879. Decembers 98,8!M ,214 $ 80,880,003 1881. 1880. January 74,078,962 66,997,173 I < bruary 67,733,807 59,956,673 March 8-,068,794 77,355,547 April 70,885,615 70,560,538 May 64,140,179 65,660,477 June 63,450,279 72,132,342 Ju'y63,033,615 71,015,569 Aunuat... 67,514,718 67,192,656 September 62,491,379 71,225,897 O. toher 68,018,646' 85,687,254 November7o,o6o,os4 83,008,120 Total for 12 months ended Nov. 30... .$855,366,262 $871,673,211

Frightful Catastrophe.

During a Knights of Pythias* festival a* Shanesville, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, the floor gave way, precipitating the company numbering over 200, to the floor below. Two persons were instantly killed, three others fatally injured, and between fifty and sixty more or less bruised or burned. The building took fire almost instantly, producing a scene of the wildest excitement. The lights were nearly all extinguished, leaving the shrieking, struggling mass of humanity to grope their way from the ruins almost in the dark. By the prompt action of those who escaped uninjured, and other citizens summoned by the terrible alarm, ths fire was subdued, but not nntil quite a number had been more or less burned. The night was very cold, and the scene is described as frightful in the extreme. A young lawyer being threatened with punishment for contempt of court, in saying that he “ was surprised at such a deci-ion as it had just rendered against him,” an old lawyer, Lord Eldon, agreed to make it all right with -the offended Judges. He did so by attributing the remark to his ignorance, saying that the young man was extremely penitent for his unintentional disrespect, But their

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Lordships could see for themselves that it was due to his ignorance, for he said that he was ** surprised” at their decision; whereas, said Eldon, “if he had not been ignorant of what fakes place at this court every day-—had he known you but half as long as I have—he would not be surprised at anything vou did!” .

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

On the application of Judge Brown, the Governor of Kentucky ordered the McCreary Guards and the Lexington and Mays villc companies to report for ten days’ duty in guarding the Gibbons murderers. The Legislature passed a special act to allow the Circuit Court of Boyd county to hold a special session to try the prisoners. An unsuccessful attempt was made the other day to capture Jesse James, Ed Miller and Jim Cummings, three notorious members of the James gang. Word was received in Kansas City that the desperadoes were in Bay county, and a special train on the Wabash railroad carried a largo party of officers well armed; but the gang had in some manner received an intimation of the raid, and when the officers arrived at their supposed hiding-place they had disappeared. The inaugural message of Gov. Cameron was submitted to the Virginia Legislature on the 6th inst. His recommendations on the subject of the State debt are in accord with tho measure known as the Biddleberger bilk E. W, Keyes, the noted Republican politician of Wisconsin, has applied for a divorce, on the ground of intemperate use of liquor by his wife. Two murderers —Joseph M. Katovsky and Charles Ellis (colored) —were executed at Bt. Louis. Katovsky killed Augusta Simons because she refused to marry him, and Ellis slew his victim, a negro sport named Sanders, in a gambling-house affray. Martin Kankowski was hanged at Jersey City for tho murder and robbery of Mrs. Nina Muller. Joseph Abbott was strung up at Elmira, N. Y., for killing a fellow-convict in the New York State prison. John A. Phelps was executed at Marshall, Mo., for the murder of Elijah Kenton. Two black murderers, Terence Achille and Sterling Ben, were hanged at Franklin, La, The exodus of the colored people from the South has been resumed, and the newspapers of South Carolina say that 2,500 have left that State within a month and that ns many more are making preparations to leave. The business of fire insurance in Chicago during the year 1881 waa not, on the whole, a profitable one. The companies fell about $200,000 short of making both ends meet. Gambetta has made overtures to England looking to a reopening of tiie negotiations for a commercial treaty. The English press is still harping on Blaine’s policy. The commercial failures throughout the country were 146 for the first week in January, a material reduction as compared with the corresponding week in 1881. It is said that a bill will be introduced in Congress to divide the Territory of Utah, attaching a portion to Colorado and Nevada, bringing a portion of tho Mormon people within the laws of tho two Stato«. James H. Hildebrand, a jewelry mer’chant at Mercer, Ta., has absconded, leaving creditors in the lurch to tho amount of about $20,000.

DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

Congress reassembled, after the holiday re. cess, on Thursday, Jan. 5. The Agnate rollcall showed fifty-one members of that body present-. A number of executive communications were laid before the Senate, and numerous petitions were presented for legislation regulating intor-Stato commerce, and for increased pay to the life-saving service. On motion of Mr. Garland, the Finance Committee was directed to inquire into the expediency of refunding the lees paid under the trade-mark legislation, which has been declared unconstitutional by the Supremo Court. Mr. Anthony introduced a bill to promote the efficiency of the navy, and Mr. Maxey presented one to increase the value of the signal service. In the House, Mr. Orth rose to a question of privilege, stating that it grew out of and affecting the recent appointment of the committees of the House. Before stating the point specifically, he said : “ I ask indulgence to announce that it is my purpose at an early day to introduce for consideration a proposition to change the method of selecting committees. The vast and diversified interests of the country are all more or less affected by Congressional legislation, and this legislation, as is well known, is almost exclusively controlled by the action of the committees. For this reason their formation assumes importance, and is invested with a responsibility too great to rest in the hands of a single individual, however capable and honest and patriotic such individual may be. As now exercised, it is emphatically one man’s power, and such power is always dangerous and m conflict with the principles of our republican government. It is our duty to see that it may not at some future period bo used to the detriment of the best interests of the people.” Mr. Orth then made a strong protest against the treatment he had received from Speaker Keifer, and closed by asking that he be excused from serving on the Committee on Rules. The Speaker said: “The chair doesnot understand that it is necessary for him to vindicate himself by saying anything in reply. It must not, however, be inferred, because the chair does not undertake to challenge the statements charging him with injustice, teat the chair acquiesces in the views taken by the gentleman from Indiana” (Orth). Orth’s request was granted, and he was excused from further service on the Committee on Rules. A bill was introduced by Mr. Hawk, 'of Illinois, providing for the labeling of oleomargarine and other imitations of butter with their truo name. Mr. Hawk also introduced a bill to reorganize the militia. Mr. Hewitt caused the adoption of a resolution of thanks to the Khedive of Egypt for the gift of Cleopatra’s needle. In the Senate, on the 6th inst., with Mr. Garland in the chair, Mr. Maxey offered a resolution instructing the Secretary of the Interim to furnish a report of the survey of the Texas Boundary Commission in 1858. Mr. Sherman moved to take up his 3-per-cent. Bond bill, but was antagonized by Messrs. Beck and McPherson. A resolution calling for information relative to pension frauds was passed. Au interesting and important document was sent to the Senate, accompanied by a communication from the President, calling the earnest attention of Congress to the desirableness of immediate legislation amending the postal laws relating to contracts for the star mail service. It has been discovered that the Government is practically without protection against a wholesale system of worthless bonds submitted by bidders along with their proposals, and that some legislation is necessary to enable the Postoftiee Department to examine into the sufficiency of these bonds. During the Brady regime great numbers of these worthless bonds were accepted, and the Government was left without any remedy when the contractors failed to carry out their contracts. The necessity for additional protection in this matter of straw-bonds was brought to notice by Postmaster General James in his explorations in the domain of the star-route frauds, and the President is so strongly impressed with the importance of the subject as to urge upon Congress its immediate consideration. The President nominated to the Senate Samuel C. Parks, of New Mexico, to be Associate Justice in Wyoming, and Joseph Bell, of New York, to be Associate Justice in New Mexico. Ths Senate adjourned to Monday, 9th. The House was not in session. i

“I’m down on you,” as his small mus tacho remarked to the youthful Pillikins

“A Firm Adhereneb to t'orr-ect Principles.”

THE GUITEAU TRIAL.

TttffiTY-riFru Bay. Ab the assassin was led into court by the bailiffs; he passed a moment at the table where his counsel sat and whispered to Scoville : “Il yob will only keep quiet to-day I will laugh this case out of court 11 As soon as he reached the dock he shouted out: “Some leading papers in America consider me the greatest fellow they have met in some time. At 8 o’clock last night 1 received a telegram, which jT will read for the edification of this audieuas and the American people: S “ Mr. Charles 3. Guiteau, Washington, D. Q. I “ All Boston sympathizes with. yoa. You ought to be President (Signed) “A Host of Admibebs. ” Pausing a moment, he branched Off into a rambling harangue, quoting scripture, and comparing himself to the “meek and lowly Jesus,” who used plain language, though sometimes severe. “I have been accused of using too harsh language,” he added, *• but I take my pattern from the Savior of mankind. I shall submit my name to the next National Republican Convention. I shall expect to be before it. There are only two men in the country who want me hung. One is Judge Porter, who expects to get $5,000 from the Government if I am convicted, and the other is Corkhill, who .expects to get bounced, and who knows I am the cause of it.” Dr. Kempster took the stand and Scoville resumed his cross-examination. Witness did not believe in temporary insanity io the sense that persons could be insane and wholly recover from it in an hour. Upon the witness leaving the stand Oorkhill announced that he had but one more witness to introduce on the part of the Government Scoville replied : “We have some witnesses whose names have been presented since we closed our case, and I shall ask tho court to permit us to have them sworn, and our reason will be upon the ground of newly-discovered evidence material to the case.” Davidge—” Could you give us an idea how much time you will want upon surrebnttal ?” Scoville—“Several days ; probably all of next week.” Davidge—“ We must object, your Honor, to a reopening of this case.” Scoville insisted that he did not desire to delay the trial or consume the time of the court, but the prosecution had consumed weeks with these expert witnesses, meeting with them nightly and conferring with them in preparation of this case, and ho did not propose to be cut short hi the mutter of limo. He would renew, however, his proposition that tho jury be allowed to separate and go to thoir homes, relying upon their honor ana integri; y. The question of permittng the jury to disband was dismissed by the foreman announcing that they preferred not to separate, provided that they could have reasonable opportunity for exercise and to obtain fresh air. Corkhill proceeded to reply to what he termed counsel's aspersions upon the “ distinguished medical gentlemen who did honoi to their States.” Scoville replied to Oorkhill, and surprised every one by making one of the best and most impressive speeches that has been heard in the court-room since the opening of the trial Some manifestation of applause followed the conclusion of bis speech, but it was quickly cheeked by the court. ..... Dr. John P. Gray, Medical Superintendent of the New York State Lunatic Asylum, took the stand. Witness had made the study of insanity his business since 1850, and in that time had treated or investigated 12,000 cases of insanity. He had never seen a, single instance where the only indication of insanity wa« an exhibition of immorality or wickedness. He did not believe in what had been called “moral insanity.” It was impossible to dissever mental unity so as to locate the impairment of moral nature that was not accompanied by intellectual deterioration. Insanity in itself had no more tendency to excite to crime than neuralgia or any other disease. It puts nothing new into a man’s nature ; it only perverts what is already there. Dr. Gray stated that he had made a thorough, complete and satisfactory examination of the prisoner at the jail, and gave at some length the details of his examination and conversation with the prisoner. Witness asked the prisoner the question : “ Suppose the President had offered the Paris Consulship during the time Sou were reflecting upon the subject of removig him, would you still have shot him ?” and he replied :. “Well, that would have settled the matter. I should have taken the position.” Guiteau called out from the dock: “I said if he had offered it to me at any time before the Ist of June. If he had offered it after the Ist of June it would not have made tho slightest difference. Witness asked prisoner how he came to shoot the President, and his reply was: “ I camo to the conclusion tho political situation justified it. I gradually became convinced of this, and I resolved upon his removal.” Guiteau shouted again : “ That knocks your Paris Consulship, and shows there was no malice in it—not an element of murder in it, but political necessity.” Witness then inquired of the prisoner in regard to bis alleged inspiration, and asked him if it came to him in the form of a voice, or vision, or direct command, and his reply was : “ No, it came into my head, a conception, and I reflected upon it until I resolved that it was justified by the situation.” Witness then asked the prisoner how this statement accorded with his theory of inspiration, and his reply was : “The inspiration was. in the form of pressure constantly upon me to commit the act.” Guiteau —“That’s all there is to the case, short and to the point. You can talk about it six years if you want to.” THIBTY- SIXTH BAY.

At the opening of court Guiteau called out: • One of my guards here, Cunningham, has got an eleven-pound baby for a New Year’s present.” [Laughter, in which the jury heartily joined.] Dr. Gray resumed the story of his conversation with the prisoner in jail. Guiteau continually interjected comments, and with Scoville’s frequent objections witness soon became sensibly disturbed, and, when asked to go on, said: “There have been so I many interruptions I don't know where I am.” Guiteau quickly retorted: “ I shouldn’t think you did, nor any one else. I have been trying all the morning “to find out where you are. The fact is, you are badly lost this morning, doctor. We will have to send a small boy to find you.” Witness dfd not find a single circumstance, as narrated by the prisoner, that would indicate to his (witness’) mind insanity. He was of opinion, judging by his examination of the prisoner in the jail, and from his observation of him in court, that he is sane at this time. Corkhill then read the lengthy hypothetical question of the prosecution. Guiteau suggested that there was no necessity to repeat that bosh, as everybody had heard it a dozen times. The suggestion was unheeded, and the prisoner added : “ Twothirds of that is false, and it makes me mad every time I hear it read.” As' the reading proceeded he continually called out: “That is false!" “All false!" “ How do you know? ” “That’s Smith’s ho ! ” and similar expressions. Witness replied : “I believe him to have been sane on July 2.” Guiteau shouted : “ The whole substratum of that thing is false. How can the doctor give a truthful answer? ” Witness then gave at great length full details of what he had observed in the conduct and sayings of the prisoner in the court that led him (Witness) to believe in his sanity. Referring to the prisoner’s claim that the Deity inspired the act, he was interrupted by Guiteau, who called out: “Yes, and He’ll take care of it, too. Dr. Gray. I’ll stake my life on it” Witness was asked: “Do you think the prisoner has been feigning in court ?” And replied : “ Yes, I do. He claims .an inspiration from the Deity. I don't believe that he believes any such thing, and in such a sense he is feigning and acting a part” Guiteau—“No such thing. I never feign. You are paid for your op.nion: the jury is not” Scoville began cross-examination. Witness was asked if he had testified as expert in cases of persons on trial for capital crimes, but before he could reply Guiteau supplemented the question by calling out: “How 'many*men have you helped to hang ? " Witness was not aware of a case where he had pronounced a sane man insane, or where he had adjudged an insane man sane. He admitted, however, that his views upon some types of insanity had changed since he began to study the subject. Gniteau— “ You live to learn, then, like other people. If you live’ -tjventy years longer you may know something - about insanity. You may reach the Abrahamic type by that tune. You are a growing man, doctor.’’ Witness stated that he abandoned the theory of “moral insanity” as far back as 1854. He did not think it would be found in bis reports subsequent to that date as a distinct classiflcaPOn. —r-- ’

After some further questions on this subject, Guiteau broke out impatiently : “ The amount Of it is, these experts will swear to anything sos money. They will swear to things to-day they would not have thought of swearing to twentyfive years ago, or would swear to twenty-five years henoe. This subject of insanity is a progressive one;” Witness was asked how be came to Visit Washington to testify in this case, and replied ! “I did not care to come, but the President Of our board said he thought it my duty to ome.” Scoville—“Then you came on his interpretation of your duty?’’ Witness (indignantly)—“No, sir; I came on a telegram.” Guiteau added: “How about Corkhill’s money ? I guess that was the influence that brought you here. This fellow Corkhill has got a bnnghole in tho treasury that will run out SIOO,OOO before he gets through with this case. It’s about time President Arthur was attending to his case. I wouldn’t let him stay here a week if I were President. However, I’ll attend to Corkhill in 1884.” Scoville endeavored to force an acknowledgment from witness that the conversation and conduct of the patient were the chief means of determining sanity or insanity. Witness insisted it was only an incident, and not an essential element in the determination. Scoville—“Why, you don’t have any other means when they are a'ive, do you ? You can’t o et at the brain to examine it, can you ?” Guiteau—“ The experts on this case want to kill the man and then examine his brain afterward." He was asked if he had ever seen any Case of feigned insanity that resembled that of the prisoner (assuming that he is feigning) and replied : “ I have not seen any such insanity, real or feigned." The hour of adjournment having arrived, Guiteau, who had been listlessly following the proceedings, called out : “ To-morrow will be New Year’s, 1882. I shall receive to-morrow in jail, and shall be happy to see all who can succeed in getting in. I wish every one a happy New Year. Come, Scoville, it’s 3 o’clock, let’s go home. ” The court adjourned till Tuesday. THIRTY-SEVENTH DAY. Guiteau opened court by announcing that he had many New-Year callers, none of whom wanted him hanged, and all of whom believed ho would be acquitted. Dr. Gray took the stand, and Scoville re--umed the cross-examination. Witncss had not, in giving his opinion on the direct examination that the prisoner was sane, taken into account lhe-evidenceof the prisoner himself, but taking that element into consideration his opinion would still be the same—that the prisoner is sane, and waa sane on tho 2d of July. Witness did not believe in what is termed by some writers *• emotional insanity,” or “moral insanity.” “Kleptomania," he considered simply thieving ; “dipsomania," drunkenness, and' “ pysomauia,” incendiarism. These designations'were simply convenient terms which had been invented to cover certain crimes. “ Insanity,” said tho witness, “is never transmitted any more than cancer." , Scoville desired to put in evidence certain tabulated statements from the annual reports of witness. From these it appeared that of fifty-four cases of homicides by insane people, seven were by persons acting under an intane delusion of divine authority for their acts. At the request of the District Attorney witness described briefly these cases and added, “ each case was one of marked insanity, independent of the homicidal act”

Dr. Gray wan asked a few more questions by Scoville, when the District Attorney announced the conclusion of the examination on the part of the Government Dr. Bowker, of Kansas City, waß called by Scovide. The witness met Mrs. Duumire at Leadville, Col., and conversed with her. She slid “she had entertained grave doubts as to the mental condition of Guiteau at the time she obtained her divorce, and thought at the time she had better defer the divorce proceedings, and await some further developments in the mental condition of her husband.” Clark Mills, the sculptor, was called for the purpose of identifying the plaster cast of Guiteau’s head. At the first question, “Did yon make a plaster cast of the prisoner’s head?” Davidge objected to any reopening of the question of insanity, such as would bo involved by the identification of the cast by this witness. The question of insanity had been gone over direct and in rebuttal. The prosecution had already admitted the genuineness of the cast That was all that could be asked by the defense. After further arguments, the court ruled against Scoville, and the witness was withdrawn. • Tho prisoner undertook to read a letter, as he claimed, from an old friend of President Garfield, in Ohio, showing that public opinion was making in his favor. Judge Cox ordered him to be silent. Guiteau —“It shows the state of public opinion outside of this court room." Judge Cox—“Be silent. Public opinion ha a nothing to do with this case.” Guiteau —“ When I speak, I speak to 50,000,000 people, not to this litttle crowd in this court-room.” Marshal Henry (rising and moving toward the dock)—Keep quiet, sir. Guiteau—l’ve got through. With this outburst he subsided, however, and turned his attention to writing auto-. graphs. Scoville again brought up the question of introducing new witnesses, and, after argurifeiit, an agreement was made that the defense submit a motion in writing to-morrow, giving the names of witnesses and the facts to be testified to, and supported by affidavit, giving tho reason why alien witnesses were not introduced before. THIRTY-EIGHTH DAY. Scoville, counsel for the defense, offered a motion for the admission of further evidence to prove the insanity of the prisoner. Dr. McFarland, of Illinois, was to prove from what he had read in the papers that Guiteau was insane, and some Government detectives were to testify to the same from interviews bold with him soon after tho assassination. Other witnesses would declare that he had acted in a crazy manner a few days before he committed the crime, and Dr. Beard, of New York, was ready to swear that the assassin was crazy. After a good deal of discussion on the part of Scoville, Corkhill and Davidge, Judge Cox ru’ed against the admission of evidence of insanity in sur-rebuttal. J. J. Brooks, Chief of the Treasury Secret Service, was then called as a witness, and gave the details of an interview with the prisoner on the night of the shooting The prosecution then submitted to the court tiwt points for the instruction of the jury. During tho reading of them, Judge Davidge was frequently interrupted by the assassin. They are as follows : 1. The legal test of responsibility, where insanity is set up as a defense for an alleged crime, is whether the accused, kt the time of committing the act alleged, knew the difference tietween right and wrong in respect to such act; hence, in tho present case, if the accused at the time of committing the act charged knew the difference between right and wrong in respect of such act; that is, if he knew what he was doing and that what he was doing was contrary to the law of th»land, he is responsible. Guiteau —“I-didn’t, because my free agency wa% destroyed.” 2. If the accused, knew what he was doing, and that what he was doing was contrary to the law of the land, it constitutes no defense, even if it were true that when he committed the act he really believed he was thereby producing a public benefit or carrying out an inspiration of divine origin or approval, such belief would not afford an excuse, nor would such excuse be afforded by the fact that in the commission of the act he was impelled by a depraved moral sense, whether innate er acquired, or by evil passion or indifference to moral obligation. Guiteau—“All of which is false.”

3. Insanity would, however, constitute a defense if by reason of the disease accused, at the time of committing the act charged, did not know what he was doing, or, if he did know it, that what he was doing was contrary to law, Guiteau—“l had no choice in the matter." 4. The only evidence in the present case tending to show an irresistible impiilse to commit the homicide is the claim of the accused that his free agenc; was destroyed by his alleged conviction that the death of the President was required for the good oi the American people and was divinely inspired; but such conviction, even if it really existed, could not afford any excuse when the party knew what he wa« doing and that it was contrary to law—no mere delusion or error of judgment, not even a fixed belie! that what is prohibited by law is commanded or approved by divine authority— Guiteau—“ God’s law is higher than man’s law." —can exempt the accused from responsibility for breaking the law. To have such an effect the commission of the act charged must have been the result of an insane delusion which was the product of disease, and such force as to deprive the accused of a degree of reason necessary to distinguish between right and wrong in i espect of the act, so that at the time of committing the act he either did not know what he was doing, or, if he did, that the act was wrong or contrary to tha law of the tend. Scoville announced to the court that .the case of the defense was closed, and the cohrt adjourned for three days, in order to allow counsel time fop the preparation of their ftp.

ROBBERY BY RULE.

A Systematic tonne of Stealing from the Treasury Contingent Fund— School Hooks and Story Papers for Officials’ Children Paid for Out off UoVernnieiit [Washington Telegram to Chicago Tinies.] Senator Cockrell, the Democratic member of tho Senate sub-committee engaged in the investigation of the treasury, remains in this city durnig the holiday week, examining vouchers furnished him from the department, covering dis- | puted items in the expenditure of the | contingent fund. He will make a re- | port to the sub-committee when it meets I next Tuesday. He is also engaged in | scanning the reports of the expenditures of this fund for several ) ears back. To arrive at all the petty thefts practiced upon this fund requires careful study. A system of concealment has been practiced. For instance, in one year six or eight fine carriage robes were purchased for the private use of certain bureau officials. These were charged up under the head of horses and carriages. These robes were .oi the first quality, and, according to the testimony of an expert, should have lasted fifteen or twenty years ; yet the very next year a larger number of equally fine carriage robes was purchased. In the second case the robes were charged up under the head of miscellaneous. In the examination of another set of accounts the committee found numerous items of books. They conld not find what books were meant until they took tho vouchers and traced them back to the stores where they were purchased. It was then found that it was a pleasaut custom of certain treasury officials to have school-books included in the general purchase of the department for the use of their children. One penurious thief had paid for a child’s magazine, St. Nicholas, out of the treasury fund, and had had it charged up in the item of books. Indeed, it has been found to be the general practice that nearly every large purchase by the Treasury Department carried with it some item for tho private use of the official or his family . making tho purchase. Itexis of expenditure for gas traced back through telltale vouchers reveal tho interesting fact that the private gas. bills of treasury officials have been paid out of the treasury. It will be proved lief ore the close of this examination tlwit practically all of the expenses of Mr. John Sherman in his canvass for the nomination at Chicago have been paid by the Treasury Department. In order to get at all of this, however, it will be necessary to widen the scope of the investigation so as to include all of thoprivate pay-rolls in the department, The two rolls that will afford the most fruitful returns on examin-" ation are what are known as the fraud and lapsed rolls. None of the names of the people employed on these rolls appear in the official list of treasury appointments. The incidental expenses of Mr. Sherman’s canvass appear throughout the items of the contingent fund, but it is in the expenditures of the rolls above named that the largest sums will be found. When Mr. Sherman went home to Ohio “to mend his fence,” he took with liim Mr. Babcock, his private secretary. They were gone three days ; the audited items of the contingent fdnd show that Mr. Babcock was allowed a bill of SB7 as expenses of his three days’ trip. When it is considered that Mr. Babcock visited a small country town, and that he traveled upon a railroad pass going* and coming, the bill is quite large enough to pay much more than the ligitimate expenses of himself and the then secretary, The dumber of incidental trips charged to the contingent fund, where favorites of the ring have gone about the country for mere pleasure, is very large. Something of the strength of the favorites in the treasury is also shown in the grip that Judge French, the Second Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, has upon the public purse. He has every one of his ablebodied relatives upon the pay-roll of the Government. Three sons and several nephews and nieces aggregate salaries amounting to $17,500 per annum; yet there is a rule in the Treasury Department that no two members of the seme family shall be employed in that building. It is now probable thatjthe Senate investigation will take a wide range, unless Senator Sherman can influence his Republican associates to shut down upon Uie new evidence that is coming forward nearly every day, begging to be heard.

Ilicli DiNcloNurc-M of the Former Editor of John Sherman’* Personal Orjran. [Washington Telegram to Chicago Times.] Very significant testimony was brought out in the Senate Treasury Investigating Committee. Judge Vail, of the SherI man hand-bill known as the Washington ■ World, was upon the witness-stand for some time. It was stated before the committee that Vail was upon the rolls of the treasury at a salary of $5,000 a year, and that he was still upon the payrolls, drawing money for some political service rendered to John Sherman as editor of the paper above named. Judge Vail was asked ' first if he had been in the employ of the treasury at the time of the publication of the World. Judge Vail replied that he was well known as a special agent of customs for the Georgetown district. This reply made the members of the committee laugh. The office of Collector of Customs at Georgetown, in this district, is in itself a practical sinecure. The idea of having a special ageilt attached to it besides was about all the proof that was necessary of the original charge. Judge Vail-told the committee that he held this office fintil the time of the appearance of the World, and then .he resigned. He said he drew no pay from the treasury while he was editing this paper. After the campaign was closed, and the paper suspended, Judge Vail was again appointed as a special agent of customs. He now belongs to the Oswego, N. Y., district, although the resides in this city, and it is a question whether he was ever in I Oswego in his life. His salary is $5,000 a year. He also has a nephew and a son in London. The further interesting fact was develoi>ed that the type and printing materials for the Washington World were furnished from the Govern- ' ment printing office. Judge Vail took great pains to say, however, that he -paid for this type and printing material upon the Ist of January, 18-SO. Thf ‘time of the payment was shortly after a certain publication, looking toward an investigation of Shermans management of his campaign ; out, granting Judgeyail’s stateigpyt U) be exactly true,

$1.50 Der Annum.

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there yet remains the act that the type and the printing material was furnished to him from the Gov rnment printing office and credit given for the same for nearly a year. Judge Vail wap not asked where the press-work was done. It is probable that he will be recalled for cross-examination on this subject. It has been charged that the presswork of this pajxr was done in the printing office in the treasury. At any rate, the Government furnished pll the material for the paper add paid the salary of its editor, and, so far as heard from, l>ore the entire burden of the pulrtieation. As far as the .investigation has gone, it shows that every item of expense in Mr. Sherman's canvass was charged tip to the Government. The, committee examined the contractor who furnished carriages for the department. Several of the wagons made by him were afterward transformed into sleighs, and from sleighs were al- ; tered into carriages. A certain bu- ! reau official who, under a doubtful construction of the law, is allowed a wagon for official business, had an additional sleigh furnished him for his private use, and had it charged up in the one item of the wagon allowed him. Mr. Paul Brown, the carpenter who worked quite a number of days upon Mr. Sherman’s new house, and who was paid for it as a laborer of the Treasury Department, was i aslo before the committee, and testified i to the facts which have heretofore been 1 stated. There was nothing, however, 'of a special or sensational character : evolved, and there will not be until the i resolution authorizing the investigation ; is amended so as to bike in something I more than the contingent fund.

A HAPPY FAMILY.

Random Extracts from Ecnding Republican Journals-How Pleasant It Is to Dwell Together in Unity. [Headlines in Chicago Intor-Ocoan.) John A. Logan’s Treachery—Betrayal of Friends for the Spoils of Office—The Senator’s Desertion of the Stalwart Leaders Unforgotten and Unforgiven— Chilling Attitude of the Administration Toward His Presidential Aspirations—A Severe Blow from Gen. Grant. [From the Cincinnati Commercial.] The same lot of persons—the same newspapers—that were abusing Garfield up to the day ho was assassinated, the star-routers whose effort was to stain Garfield with their own dirt—are now abusing Blaine. They are determined to associate the ex-Secretary of State in every way with the murdered President. [From the. New York Evening Post.] If, as is thought by some of President Arthur’s friends as well as some of His opponents, it is his purpose to turn the old third-term or stalwart faction, which now forms only a small minority of the party, into a majority, or to siibjttgate the majority to it by giving it all the offices, it requires no gift of prophecy to predict that he will wretchedly fail in his purpose and wreck bis administra tion upon that Very point. [From the New York Tribune.] When Gen. Garfield took the oath of office as President, he seemed to those who knew him best, though in his 50th year, still in the prime of a splendid and vigorous youth. He was still growing. We hoped for him eight years of brilliant administration, and then in some form or place of service an old age like that of Adams, whom in variety of equipment alone of our Presidents be resembled. What was best and purest and loftiest in the aspiration of America seemed at last to have laid its hand on the helm. Under its beneficent rule we hoped, as our country entered on its career of peace and prosperity, a nobler liberty, a better friendship, a purer justice, a more lasting brotherhood. [From the Boston Journal.] There are tens of thousands of men in this country who believe in the exalted, progressive Republicanism devoted to the interests of the people to which the “Rock of Ohio” devoted his life, in contradistinction to that Republicanism which is satisfied with the victories of the past, and in the present is engrossed in a scramble for the spoils of office and in securing local appropriations. Those tens of thousands—fast increasing—have the right to call themselves Garfield Republicans. [From the Denver Tribune.] President Arthur has insulted the memory of Garfield by appointing as his Secretary of the Treasury a man whom Garfield positively refused to put in the Cabinet. He insulted his memory again when he appointed Howe, who had said that Garfield’s nomination was a blunder which amounted to a crime. He ini suited his memory again when he declined to recognize any of the men connected with the elected President, and took in their place the men who are part of the faction to which the accidental l President belongs. His course, taking it from the beginning, has been an utter and a great mistake. It seems to be bis intention to recognize only the minority * fiction ju the Republican party. Tins is neither a wise course no? one to be commended. It is not a course which will win. [From the Chicago Tribune.]’ An office-begging newspaper has invented this happy anecdote concerning the Acting President: ♦ I “ When a Congressman goes to Act-ing-President Arthur to-Ask for the appointment of a Postmaster, or similar official in th* smaller'towns, the Acting President says : ‘ I want you to suggest the name of some young, active, pro gressive Republican. I want to encouri age the young men.’ ” I, It was this desire of the Acting PresiI dent “to encourage the young men,” I no doubt, which induced him to choose i for his Cabinet advisers four ancient po-. | liticians who will never seA the sunny ; side of 65 again. Howe is a youth of I budding promise. Frelinghuysen is a j dashing young blade. Folger and BrewsI ter are sprigs of the law. Edwin D. I Morgan, who was invited to lie Secro- ' tary of the Treasury and declined, was I another youthful person. A The next call 1 will unquestionably be directed 4 o Peter Cooper or Sojourner Truth.

' Daughter (home from school) “Now, papa, are you satisfied? Just at my testimonial— * Political economy, satisfactory ; fine arts and music, »very good; logic, excellent.’” Father 1 —“ Very much so, my dear—especially as regards your future. If your husband should understand anything of house keeping, cooking, mending and the ust of the sewing-machine, perhaps yqui married life will indeed be happy,”

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INDIANA NEWS.

Indiana Edacatan in Council. The annual meeting of the school teachers of the State was held at Indianapolis December 28-9. Gov. Porter delivered an address of welcome, which was responded to by the retiring President, Prof. John Cooper, of Evansville. Prof. Brown, of tho State Normal School, presented a papor, his theme being, “School and Skill.” The requisites'for a skilled teacher were enumerated : 1. A mastery of tho fundamental principles; 2, a knowledge of the child-mind ;3, a study of metluxls; 4, a study of models of art in teaching ; 5, subjection to discipline of the school. He argued that the finest teaching is done in the region of tho primary schools, and much of the poorest in the region of the higher grades. Prof. Mickleborough, of Cincinnati, insisted that there was a science in education, and that incompetent persons should not be licensed to teach. Prof. Walter R. Houghton, of the State University, read a paper on " The Union of Our Public School Systems.” It was a triple system in his judgment—elementary, intermediate and university —and there was a lack of unity m the several departments. The first remedy is to require the country schools to bo graded. A second is to grant diplomas to those finishing the elementary branches and passing them into the high schools, thus filling up the gap between the first and second departments. The second gap is filled by the third remedy, the granting of a highschool diploma admitting pupils to tho colleges and universities. Tho speaker claimed that the success of Michigan University and other prominent universities mentioned is owing to the adoption of some such unity of action between the different departments of tho educational system. This paper was regarded as important, and was generally discussed. President White, of Purdue University, took strong grounds against preparatory and college students being brought together under one dicipline, and advocated the divorce of tho two departments. Prof. J. J. Mills, of Indianapolis, submitted a paper on “ Conscience Training in the Public Schools.” There was a running debate on general topics, followed by an election of officers, resulting : President, H. S. Tarbell; Vice Presidents, W. H. Almortt, J. M. Wallace, W. Mcßlakc, Katharine Miller, It. 8. Pag*', Sheridan Cox, W. H. Calkins • Recording Secretary, Annie E. H. Lemon; Executive Committee. R. G. Bdme, Chairman ; Secretary, J. F. Merrill. The State Collegiate Association was in session at Indianapolis simultaneously with the State teachers. President Moore, of Earlham College, presided. After electing the following officers, tho association adjourned for one year : President, Dr. Fisher, of Franklin College ; Vice president, Dr. Holt, of Purdue University; Secretary, Prof. Coulter, of Wabash ; Treasurer, Prof, lienton, of Butler University.. The high-school teachers of the State also met in separate convention and agreed upon the propriety of forming a State organization looking particularly to high-school work. Piof. Burdsall, of Richmond, was chosen President, and P. L. McCleary, of Vincennes, Secretary. Tho President was directed to appoint an executive committee, and the permanent organization was postponed until the next meeting of the State Teachers’ Association.

A Fighting School -Teacher. We clip the following from the Shelbyville Dix patch: Near Morristown, this county, is a district school taught, by Charles Gregory, a young man of unimpeachable integrity and marked ability. For some time he has been tormented almost p.ist endurance by the conduct of one of his pupils, Add Anderson, an overgrown, double-fisted country boy, who conceived the idea that it was he and not the teacher who had charge of the school-room. Mr. Gregory bore the impudence and misconduct of the refractory man (for he is 19 years old) till patience ceased to be a virtue. Deeming it improper to bodily chastise such a person, the teacher very manfully put tno case in the hands of the School Directors, where a thorough and impartial investigation was mode. The facts sustaining the word of the teacher, the pupil was expelled. Anderson then appealed the case to the Township Trustee, but here ho found no relief, as that official affirmed the decision of the Board of Directors. . ‘ Led on by the evil that is in him, young Anderson, accompanied by his father, wont to the school house yester day with the predetermined resolution to further harass Mr. Gregory. While old man Anderson would stand outside the hopeful ron would enter the room, and, while there, wou’d make all manner of noises, and would then boisterously bolt for the door, always heaping abuse with threats on the seemingly helpless pedagogue’s head This was done several times when Gregory concluded to defend his school. Accordingly, when Anderson entered again ho was ordered out, but of course did not go, as this was what ho wanted. Gregory then advanced to put him on the outside, and, ns he did so, Anderson put his hand irfto his pocket, ns if to draw a revolver, but, before he had time to •draw a weapon, Gregory leveled his revolver on the ex-student and fired. The ball caught him in the shoulder, but inflicted only a slight wound, one that is not serious. The two were so close together when the shot was fired that Anderson’s face was badly burned with powder. Finding that there is still a little grit left in the average Hoosier school teacher, Anderson beat a retreat, while Gregory went on with the daily exercises of the day. Late Inst night he camo to this city, and put his case in the hands of Mr. E. K Adams, but it is not probable that he will ever be arrested. After Anderson left he returned, with the avowed determination to kill Gregory, but was foil oil before ho reached him by a young man who chanced by. Popular sentiment is with the teacher. In an English “ Blue Book” there is a statement of the average prices of black slaves sold in Egypt—lß7o 1880— from which it seems that the value of the human chattel is increasing. Thus, in 1870 the price of a Nubian boy was from £8 to £12.; in 1876-77, from £lO to £l4 ;,in 1879-80, from £lO to £l6. Girls are higher, ranging from £9 to £2O; adults from £lO to £25. Abissinians m somewhat dearer than Nubians. In 1870 boys cost from £lO to £l6 ; now they cost from £l2 to £24; girls are about 50 per cent, dearer, and adults fetch from £2O to £SO,