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HEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. ' 1 But. The six days’ walking match in New York wu won by Hazael, the Englishman, who made 800 miles. Five other contestants made 600 miles and upward. Howell, the hitherto* invincible pedestrian, fell sick, and gave up on the fourth day of the contest Three railway employes were killed at Earlville, N. Y., by a collision of trains on the Syracuse and Chenango road. Ex-Gov. Milton S. Latham, of California, died in New York last week. Charles A Sweet & Co., of Boston, bankers, have suspended payment The liabilities are between #8,000,000 and #4,000,000. Magnin, Gnedin & Co., of Union Square, New York, importers of watches and jewelry, have made an assignment The liabilities of the firm are stated at #170,000, and the assets are #140,000. The Grand Jury at New York has* indicted Gen. N. M. Curtis, Special Agent of the Treasury, for soliciting campaign funds from Government officials. Dr. Pancoast, the eminent Philadelphia physician, is dead. At a Pittsburgh dog show 500 canines were on exhibition, rome of which were valued as high as #IO,OOO. A steamship agent at New York estimates the arrivals at Castle Garden from the present time to January at 600,000. Wish ' Forty Indian prisoners at Fort Lowell, who were implicated in the Cibicu outbreak, are to be escorted to San Carlos reservation and set at liberty. Their capture and detention cost #15,000, and no effort to punish them has been made. Imposing demonstrations against farther Chinese immigration took place in all the large towns iu California and Nevada, business having been suspended. The San Francisoo gathering was estimated at 30,000. Resolutions were adopted urging upon Congress the absolute necessity of speedy legislation, to make effective the treaty with China to restrict th« advent of her citizens on the Pacifio coast. The Grand Jury at Chicago has indicted a large number of gamblers, and several wealthy citizens who rent their property to gamblers. Two of Napoleon Bonaparte’s soldiers passed away last week—Nicholas Benny, at Xirkville, lowa, and Christian Schaefer, at Mineral Point, Wis. Benny was also a soldier of the United States in the war of 1812, and in the war of the Rebellion. At Las Lunas, New Mexico, Charles Shelton, John Redmond and Harry French were taken from the jail and hanged to the nearest tree by masked men. All three had been guilty of one ormore oold-blooded murders. The mob also took two negroes from jail, beat them unmercifully, and turned them loose. South. The steamer James D. Parker was wrecked on the rocks near Louisville, and then set on firo by tho overturning of a stove. The passengers were rescued, but a cargo valued at #IOO,OOO was lost. The Virginia Legislature convened in extra session March 7. The bar of Louisville mourns the death of Henry 0. Pindell, a veteran member. Mary Sigman, a disreputable woman, and her mother, Rhoda, were assassinated at Mount Vernon, Ky. Bichard 8. Fay, of Boston, an officer in half a dozen great corporations, committed suicide at Fortress Monroe.

POLITICAL POINTS. Both Houses of the lowa Legislature have agreed to the amendment to strike from the constitution the word “male.” A lively contest over the Chicago Pension Agency is going on at Washington. The leading candidates are Miss Ada Sweet daughter of the late Gen. B. J. Sweet, and present incumbent; Mrs. Mulligan, widow of • the late Gen. Mulligan, and Jonathan N. Hyde, a legless ex-soldier, of Dixon, IIL WASHINGTON NOTES. An important meeting of the friends of the Hennepin Canal was held in Washington last week. The attendance included the Congressional delegations of Illinois, lowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, maDy Southern Congressmen and the members of the House Committee on Railroads and canals. Resoluions declaring the work one of national importance which should be constructed by the General Government were adopted unanimously. The United States Supreme Court has decided that the dutiable quality of sugars is to be determined by their actual color, and not by their saccharine strength. This reverses the position taken by the Treasury Department. Attorney General Brewster believes that evidenoe was at the command of the Government that would secure the conviction of many if not all of the star-route conspirators. The Postmaster General has directed that after Jnly 1 no allowance will be made to Postmasters for advertising dead letters, unless authority is first obtained from the First Assist-' ant Postmaster General. A Western delegation appeared before he Ways and Means Committee last week and mada an argument against the bill which proposes to impose a tax upon glhoose. They claimed the only substantial opposition to glucose proceeds from the sugar refiners, and maintained that the glucose industry is a growing one in the West; that it affords a large market for the product of the country, and ought ‘to be encouraged and not discouraged. Thomas J. Brady, ex-Assistant Postmaster General, has been held by the Criminal Court at Washington in $20,000 bail in the matter of the numerous indictments against him fo* conspiracy to defraud the Government Bail was demanded from his fellow-oonspirators in amounts ranging from SI,OOO to $20,000.-,

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Lawyer Scoville has abandoned the thankless Guite&u, and it is reported that an attempt will be made to interest Gen. Butler in the business of saving him from the gallows. After prolonged conferences, Envoy Tresoott and the Cliilian Minister of Foreign Affairs drew up a protocol to serve as a basis of a treaty of peace between Peru and Chili, leaving in abeyance the subject of indemnity. The unseemly quarrel among the doctors in attendance upon the lato President Garfield has been reopened. Dr. Boynton has written a letter to Dr. Baxter, Medical Purveyor of the United-States army, inwhiohhe asserts that Dr. Bliss was never placed in charge of the President’s case by any member of the President's family, and that he .was continued without authority from, them throughout the entire ease. Upon the back of Dr. Boynton’s h iter 4? an indorsement by Mrs. Garfield of the tiutb of the statements therein made. Dr, . ?iff

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Bwifrw has circulated this letter among Senators and members of Congress in order to defeat Dr. Bliss' bill, included in the report of the committee charged with auditing the expenses attendant upon Garfield’s illness. The farm-house of John Taylor, near Meadowlea, Manitoba, took fire and was destroyed during a blizzard, and his wife and three daughters were frozen to death on the bleak prairie. Militia marksmen, who, in State con-. tests, soore 152 out of a possible 210, will be niigihia to the Creedmoor team that will shoot •gainst the British riflemen. The Union Pacific road held its animal meeting in New York. Sidney Dillon was re-elected President, and a quarterly dividend of 1 per cent, was declared. The Western Union Telegraph Company last year reported a gross revenue of #16,868,396. Their expenses were $9,489,269, and their net profits #7,379,127. James W. Scoville, counsel for Guiteau, declares that three or four days after the shooting of President Garfield a secret session of the Cabinet was held, at which Col. Corkhill, his assistant, and officers of the Secret and Detective Service were present. After a general interchange of views, the unanimous opinion of the party was that the prisoner was undoubtedly crazy, yet, after all, Mr. Corkhill persisted in the prosecution, although it was evident from Mr. MaoVeagh’s actions in the matter that he did not take any stock in this theory. The latter repeatedly stated his belief that Guiteau was crazy, not responsible for bis act, and would not take any steps to convict him of murder. Capfc. Mead, of the United States steamer Vandalia, reports that the Panama Canal Company has cleared the route of trees and underbrush for a width of 800 yards.

FOREIGN NEWS. Hessie Helfmann, the Nihilist, who received a respite from execution for the murder of the Czar, died in childbirth at St. Petersburg. Forster, Chief Secretary for Ireland, re tinned to Dublin. A large organized crowd of people hooted him at the Government depot as the train passed. Hazel, an ex-suspect, was arrested for supposed connection with the demonstration. A balloon which made an ascension fell in tho sea off Dover, England. The aeronauts perished. The passengers were CoL Brim, Royal Engineer, and Simmons, the aeronaut, who were attempting to cross the channel. Public opinion in England inclines to the belief that Mac Lean is a crank, and that he had no serious intention to kill the Queen. Ho stood 100 feet distant in a crowd, and merely fired his little toy-pistol in the direction of the Queen’s carriage. The ball did not go within a rod of her. In the British House of Commons, Sir Stafford Northcote carried a resolution that Brad laugh be not permitted to go through the form of repeating the words of the oath. The substance of the Russian Gen. Skobeleff’s speech to the Servian students, which has caused so much comment in Europe, was that a struggle between the Slav and Teuton was inevitable, for Russia would no longer consent to be held in check by the influence of Germany. When that struggle came it would be a long and sanguinary one, but the Slav would triumph. The words of the fiery warrior have greatly stirred np B ismarck and the Emperor, and set them to questioning Russia's intentions. Customs officers at Moscow found dynamite in cases of hats remaining unclaimed. A secret press was discovered at Odessa, and several Nihilists were arrested. A St. Petersburg dispatch to the London Times states that Skobeleff’s famous speech was a put-up job between him and Gen. Ignatieff for the benefit of the latter. The Pope is about to create seven new Cardinals, Rev. Dr. McCabe, of Ireland, the anti-Land Leaguer, being one of the number Twelve hundred persons were present at a bimetallic meeting in London, seven countries being represented. The Governor of the Bank of England advocated the free coinage of silver.

Thirty Jews, with an aggregate capital of 35,000 rubles, have left Russia to become farmers in Palestine. A Constantinople dispatch to the London Times says it is feared in official circles that war between Russia and Austria is inevitable. The question of calling out the reserve is being seriously discussed. Louis Falcon, of Antwerp, has suspended payment, with liabilities between £2,000,000 and £3,000,000.

CIVIL-SERVICE REFORM.

Senator Saunders’ Plan—Election of Postmasters, marshals, Etc., by Popular Vote. Senator Saunders, of Nebraska, has introduced in the Senate a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution of the United States that will allow the people to elect the large army of Federal officeholders commissioned by the President. Senator Saunders is a member of the Committee ou Civil-Service Reform, and he says that, after studying this Bubject carefully, he is satisfied that bis resolution embodies reform in its most practical shape. He claims that to make these officers elective by the people would relieve the President of much of the annoyance and vexation that now attaches to his office, and would also be a great relief to members of Congress. He says that half the time of a Congressman is occupied in attending to the distributing of Federal offices, and that the President complains that the duty of filling the petty offiees of the Government imposes the heaviest burden upon him. Mr. Saunders thinks thiaow be remedied by giving the people power to choose their own officers, and if they make any mistakes they will soon remedy them. Senator Saunders’ proposed constitutional amendment will enable election to be made by the people of Postmasters, United States Marshals, District Attorneys of United States Courts, Collectors of Internal Revenue and other officers whose duties are to be performed within the limits of any State or part of a State, except Judges of the Supreme and inferior courts, and provides that all civil officers of the United States, heads of departments, and officers whose duties are temporary in their character, shall hold office for a term of four years, unless a longer term shall be fixed by law. The amendment empowers the President to remove any officer elected for any cause affecting tha incumbent’s character, habits or other qualifications, excepting political or religious opinions ; the officers mentioned to be elected in snch manner as the State Legislatures shall prescribe.

The Supreme Bench.

Washington, March 7. Roscoe Conk ling has declined the nomination of Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and the President has tendered the appointment to Senator Edmunds, of Vermont. The nomination was sent to the Senate, but is not to be presented until Mr. Edmunds determines whether or not he will accept. Mr. Edmunds is in dpubt whether he will accept. His inclinations are to decline the appointment. He is not in good health, and is not inclined to undertake the arduous duties of the benchA first class printing office, like a motion to adjourn, is always in order.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1882.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

One of the officers of the Navy Department has received from a friend at Santiago, Chili, a number of Chilian newspapers with marked articles abusing the United States in general terms, ridiculing, Mr. Blaine’s proposed American Congress, and lampooning the United States navy in particular. One of the papers contains a large cartoon representing the destruction of the United States navy by a Chilian fleet. A large wash-tub, manned and rigged in a most-ridiculous fashion, is made to do duty iu the picture as the United States navy. Under the cartoon are the words: “ The Chilians can beat the Yankees every time." The Michigan Legislature has passed a bill appropriating #265,000 for the further relief of the sufferers by last fall's fires. Thurman TroSbon, aged 14 years, of New Lisbon, Wis., was choked to death by stomach worms which crawled up into his throat The post-mortem disclosed the fact that the boy had been literally filled with maggots. Sergeant Mason, who fired at Guiteau, has been sentenced by court-martial to dis. honorable discharge from the army and to be oonfiued at bard labor for eight years in the Albany penitentiary. Gen. Hancock has given the verdiot his approval. Five men were drowned by the sinking of a dredge boat at Bice point, Mass. Gen. “ Bill” Wright, chief topographical engineer on Sherman’s staff during the war was picked up in Philadelphia in a drunken stupor. He died in a police-station cell. Mao Lean, the Queen’s assailant, was committed for trial on charge of high treason. On being arraigned, he said he would reservo bis defense. He declined to cross-examine witnesses. His interests were watched by a solicitor. The evidence was merely a repetition of what is already known concerning his attempt on tho life of the Queen. It overwhelmingly confirmed the statement that his pistol was sufficiently elevated when he fired for the ball to have struck her Majesty. The Rev. Henry Highland Garnett, United States Minister to Liberia, died at Monrovia on the 13th of February. Cholera of a violent type has already made its appearauoe at Allahabad, Rindoostan, where the pilgrims usually gather, snd it is at this sacred spot that the plague usually starts in its periodical marches around the world. We may expect it in the United States in 1883, ac. cording to the seventeen-year theory. Skobeleff is on the best of terms with the Czar and his Minister of War. Gladstone has carried his point in the House of Commons. His resolution against the inquiry into the operations of the Land act by the Tory committee of the House of Lords was adopted by a vote of 80S to 235.

The Flood in the Lower Mississippi.

Memphis, March 6. Reports received from the flooded districts in Eastern Arkansas are of the most disheartening character. The damage is much greater than first announced. Refugees from Desha aud Chieoh counties give graphio and thrilling accounts of the floods which drove them from their honies. One man says ho aas awakened at midnight by a roaring sound, and aroused his wife and three children under the impression that a cyclone was sweeping across the plantation. So mo minutes later the house was swept from its foundation, and it floated off on a sea of water. The wreck was almost instantaneous, and the occupants of tho dwelling could not realize the situation until they were forced to seek shelter on the roof. They were rescued the next morning. Many incidents of a similar nature are related. The Governor of Arkansas says the number of persons requiring asssistance in that Blate alone will reach 12,000.

The Governor of Missouri tolegraped the Secretary of War to increase the rations ordered for the flood sufferers. Secretary Lincoln replied that eight days’ supplies had already gone forward to the inundated portion of Missouri, and that the Arkansas Commissioners ask 15,000 rations for forty days, which will exceed the appropriation. Eight army officers will be detailed to investigate the needs of the people, and it is thought that $400,000 will be required. Congress is to be asked to furnish the poor with seedcorn.

Accounts of the floods along the Lower Mississippi country grow gloomier as the days go by. Whole towns have been swept away by the angry waters, plantations destroyed and immense stretches of fertile country in Arkansas and Mississippi inundated. The destruction of property has been appalling, and famine threatens the unfortunate victims of the overflow. A dispatch from Riverton, Miss., says that when the current struck that town it was impossible to pull a boat through, and the people took shelter upon the housetops and upon floating pieces of fences, sides of buildings, eto. It was about an hou r before Rosedale was flooded, and the people there had time to save some of thoir clothing and the most valuable of thoir light personal property. As soon as possible the ladies and children were removed to the wharf-boat at Terrene, where a temporary shelter was found, the men staying by their property and homes, seeing all they possessed swept away by the torrent of angry waters. The colored people fared the worst, and many were lost in the immediate vicinity of Riverton. Hon. L. H. MaDgum, of Arkansas, in an interview with an Associated Press reporter at Memphis, said that in the counties of Mississippi, Crittenden, Lee, Pomsett, Cross, Craighead, St. Francis, Phillips, Desha, Chicot and Monroe, in Arkansas, he bad information of about 20,000 destitute people, who would have to be fed by the Government for at least forty days. These counties do not include -those bordering on the Red river, where great suffering is said to exist. Senator Garland says the cities and towns of the State are responding liberally; but they are burdened by refugees from flooded districts. He also says the present distress is only beginning. Commissioner W. L. Hemingway, of Mississippi, said the inhabitants of Tunica, Coahoma, Desoto, Quitman, Bolivar, Washington, Issaquena, Yazoo, Tallahatchee and Sunflower counties in his State, to the number of 15,000, were in a like suffering condition. Those counties in Mississippi are all above Vicksburg, and there are other counties below that city that have suffered by the floods. Three thousand Tennesseeans residing along the Mississippi river are reported by Gov. Hawkins in a destitute condition. The Governor of Illinois has asked the Secretary of War for relief for the sufferers from the overflow of the Ohio in Pulaski county, 11L; Secretary Lincoln has ordered relief to be sent.

Appeals for aid are being received by the Secretary of War from the sufferers from floods in Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas. In Pulaski county, lU., 4.000 persons are in need of assistance. The relief commissioners for Arkansas. Mississippi and Tennessee report 43,000 destitute persons. Reports from every section of the Southern Mississippi valley give accounts of destitution and suffering. Hundreds of poor colored people have been rendered houseless by the water, losing everything, and have positively nothing to eat. The white people are poorly off themselves, nearly all of their stock being lost, and being nearly impoverished owing to the bad crops of last year. The town of Austin, Miss., between Memphis and Helena, has been almost entirely destroyed. Hon. M. C. Harris, who was sent to Desha county, Ark., by Gov. Churchill to aid in distributing supplies to persons rendered destitute by the overflow, reports that the suffering and destitution is beyond description. Scarcely a farm-house or residence in the bottom has escaped inundation. The people have been compelled to build false floors in their houses or seek safety on some of the higher lands, where, iu rudely constructed camps of brush boughs and cane, they sit and wait for starvation and death. It is appalling, and without Government aid, liberally and quickly hastened, there is no telling where it will end. Many persons

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have been feeding on carcasses of drowned cattle. Personal investigation, as well as assurances from reputable gentlemen, convinced Mr. Harris that not less than 600 families, averaging say six to the family, in Desha county alone, are dependent upon the charity of the Government. The indications point to a long continuance of the overflow, the most sanguine hardly daring to hope for its subsiding before May. .

DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

A bill passed the House of Representatives, on the 4th inst., for holding terms of the District Court at Wichita, Kan. A resolution was adopted to dismiss tho Louisiana contestedelection case of Smith vs. Robertson. Mr. Horr reported a bill to prevent shipping adulterated food and drugs into the United States. The Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill was completed in committee of the whole, but the final vote was deferred. The salary of the Consul at Liverpool was fixed at #6,000. Tho Consul at Jerusalem was given an advance of #SOO. Mr. Reed presented a petition from Yankton against the admission of Dakota as a State. The Senate was not in session.

Mr. Allison presented in the Senate, on the 6th inst.,'a memorial from the lowa Legislature for a bridge over the Missouri river above Omaha. Mr. Morrill made an adverse report on the bill for a branch mint at Omaha. Mr. Ingalls reported favorably a bankruptcy bill embodying the equity system; Mr. Vest a measure for the incorporation of the interoceanic ship railway, and Mr. Teller the House bill to pension Mrs. Garfield, with an amendment to include #5,000 per annum for Mrs. Polk and Mrs. Tyler. Bills were introduced for a bridge across the Missouri river near Jefferson, Mo.; to aid in repairing levees in the State of Mississippi; for the construction of the Illinois and Mississippi canal; for a commission on the liquor traffic, and to enable claimants against the Government to bring suit in any Federal Circuit Court There was some debate on the Chinese bill. The House passed the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill. Mr. Belford introduced a resolution requesting the President to appeal to the Czar to protect the Jews in Russia. Mr. Hewitt introduced a bill to restore to the peusionTfolls the names dropped for participation in the Rebellion. An interesting debate took place on the bill to permit producers of leaf tobacco to sell the same without license, but the rules were not suspended. An appropriation of #IOO,OOO was made to continue work _on the Davis island dam in the Ohio river. Immediately after the adjournment of the House a caucus of Democratic members was held to decide upou a line of policy to be pursued by the Democrats relating to proposed changes in the rules of the House. It was unanimously resolved to resist, by every parliamentary method, the adoption of the proposed amendments to the rules. Mr. Sherman reported a bill to the Senate, on the 7th inst., for the redemption or conversion of outstanding $lO refunding certificates. Mr. McDiU presented a memorial from the lowa Legislature asking for $7,000,000 for tho improvement of the Missouri river. Mr. Beck made a favorable report on the bill to punish the unlawful certification of bank checks, and Mr. Dawes banded back the act to ratify the agreement of the Grow Indians and the Northern Pacific road. A joint resolution was passed to authorize the Secretary of War to use hospital tents for the sufferers by overflow. When the Chinese bill came up, the Pacific coast Senators oalled attention to the recent chain of meetings in opposition to the Celestials. Messrs. Dawes and Edmunds retaliated by giving their views on the issue. In the House a bill was passed for a Local Board of Inspectors of Hulls and Boilers at Gallipolis, Ohio. An appropriation of $20,000 was made to erect a statue to Chief Justice John Marshall. In committee of the whole on the state of the Union, the Tariff-Commission bill was tabled by 77 to 30. A bill from the Senate, authorizing the Secretary of War to use hospital tents for the relief of sufferers from the overflow of the Mississippi was passed. Mr. Garland introduced a bill in the Senate, on the Bth inst., for the construction or repai r of levees on the Mississippi, and Mr. Jackson reported an appropriation of $25,000 to continue the improvements of the harbor of Memphis. The motion to refer to the Finance Committee the bill for a liquor commission was lost, aud the measure was laid aside. The Chinese bill came up. Mr. Ingalls’ amendment to limit to ten years the suspension of immigration was defeated by a tie vote. Mr. Platt made a lengthy argument against the measure, and Messrs. Edmunds and Hoar had an interesting war of words. Mr. Saunders submitted a joint resolution for a constitutional amendment allowing the people to elect Marshals, District Attorneys, Postmasters, and internal-revonue officers. Iu the House Mr. Reed reported amendments to the rules, which were laid over. Mr. Harris reported a bill for the construction of naval vessels. A bill authorizing the purchase of the Freedmen’s Bank building at Washington for $250,000 was passed, as was also an appropriation of $7,500 to aid the Society of the Army of the Cumberland to erect a statue to Gen. Garfield.

A resolution by Mr. Sawyer was adopted by the Senate, on the 9th inst, instructing the Secretary of War to report the cost of constructing the Sturgeon Bay canal in Wisconsin, with a view to makiDg it free to commerce. A resolution was passed instructing the Secretary of State to ascertain the cause of the im prlsonment in Great Britain of an American citizen named Daniel McSweeney. The bill for a liquor commission was taken up, and it was agreed that not more than three shall be prohibitionists. The Chinese bill was amended to provide that no Celestial shall be naturalized witbin the United States, and that no laborers can immigrate within twenty years, and then passed, by a voto of 29 to 15. In the House, Mr. Dunnell reported a bill for canceling stamps on tobacco exported by rail. A bill was also reported for tho admission into the Union of the Territory of Washington. The Agricultural Appropriation bill came up, and amendments were adopted for statistics in regard to the manufacture and exportation of oleomargarine, for statements of freight charges by rail and river, to appropriate $35,000 for experiments in making sugar, and to increase the allowance for investigating forestry, when the bill passed. The Senate adopted a resolution, at Its seerion on the 10th, requesting the President to arrange with Nicaragua for the settlement of public and private claims. A resolution was passed directing the use of Government vessels m distributing supplies along the Mississippi and its tributaries. A bill was passed for the creation of a commission on the liquor traffic, to be composed of seven persons. Mr. Voorhees introduced a bill appropriating $125,000 for the improvement of the Wabash riyer. The Senate refused to take np the Japanese In-demnity-fund bill ty a vote of 14 to 24. Col. Rufus Ingalls was confirmed as Quartermaster General of the United States army. In the House, a minority report was presented declaring U. D. Ball entitled to a seat as delegate from Alaka. Four memorials from Utah, with over 50,000 signatures, were presented asking a suspension of action on all bills relating to that Territory, and the appointment of an unprejudiced commission to determine the state of affairs, An appropriation of SIO,OOO for extra expenses by the Lighthouse Board, caused by the flood in the Mississippi, was passed. A joint resolution for the nse of Government steamers in distributing food to the sufferers by the overflow was adopted.

The Chinese Bill.

The bill to suspend Chinese immigration has passed the United States Senate, and will in all probability go through the House and secure the approving signature of the President. The measure proposes to go right to the heart of the so-called evil. Section 1 “suspends'’ the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States for twenty years. Section 2 provides fine and imprisonment for the master of a vessel who shall bring such laborers. Section 3 exempts the Chinese already in the United States, and section 4 requires them to register if they desire to leave the country at any time and reenter. Sections 5, 6 and 8 establish a system of registration for privileged classes of Chinese entitled to travel in this country . Sections 9 and 10 regulate the landing of Chinese passengers having passports. Section 11 forfeits the vessel of a master knowingly violating the provisions of the, act. Other sections prescribe the duties of consular officers, fix the penalties of persons aiding in an unlawful lauding of Chinese, or the entry of Chinese by a land route into the United States, and prohibit such coming by land. Diplomatic officers of China are excluded from the requirements of the act concerning passports, and the naturalization of all Chinamen is prohibited.

ENORMITY OF THE TARIFF.

“ Protection ” During 1881. [From the New York Time*.] The details of the existing tariff are so numerous and so complex that the Bureau of Statistics does an excellent service when it prepares returns showihg the amount and value of each article imported during the year, the tax as defined by law, the amount of tax collected and the average ad-valorem tax. The return for the fiscal year ending Jane 30, 1881, has just been published, and is exceedingly interesting. It shows that the total imports for the year were $650,618,999, of which a little less than 69 per cent, or $448,061,588, was dutiable, and the remainder was free of duty. It may be said with substantial correctness that our total imports were $650,000,000, of which 70 per cent, were dutiable. In these latter the average tax collected was 43.2 per cent. The range of duties for commodities imported in any considerable quantities was from 10 per cent, up to 325 per cent. The greater part, both .in value and amount, ranged from 20 per cent, to 70 per cent. Of the free imports ($202,557,411) the following were the principal: Chemicals, drugs, dyes, etc $ 24,000,000 Coffee r!T7... .7........ 57,000,000 Tea 1 21,000,000 Sugar (Hawaiian) 6,000,000 Fish (Canadian) 2,000,000 Hides and skins... 88,000,000 India rubber 11,000,000 Paper materials 6,000,800 6ilk (oocoons, raw, etc.) 12,000,000 l’in (pig, bar, etc.) 4,000,000 Wood (unmanufactured) 4,000,000

Total. $178,000,000 Of these, tea, coffee and Hawaiian sugar and Canadian fish amount to $85,500,000. Tea and coffee constitute about 40 per cent, of the total free imports, the duty on whioh was surrendered, without advantage to the people of the United States, for the purpose of maintaining the high protective duties. The other free imports are almost wholly articles serving as raw materials of manufacture. They are admitted free on a sound principle, not only in the interest of freedom of exchange, but also in direct encouragement of American manufactures. Their exemption from taxation is a real protection, and this exemption should be largely extended. How much room there is for such extension may be seen from the following facts : The imports of taxed chemicals in 1881 were nearly $15,000,000, on which an average tax of 34.5 per cent, was collected. The tax varied from 10 per cent, to 222 per cent.—the latter, however, on only a small importation of tannic acid, on which the duty is in effect prohibitory. Of the more onerous duties there were: On alum and sulphate of alumina, 56 per cent.; aniline dyes, with imports of $1,200,000, 68 per cent.; chloroform (practically prohibitory), 151 per cent.; sulphate of copper, or copperas, a very useful chemical, 79 per cent.; licorice paste, with imports of 772,000 pounds, 79 per cent.; carbonate of magnesia, 60 per cent.; caustic soda, ■with imports of 1,150,000 pounds, 64 per cent.; kaolin, with imports of 7,000 tons, 62 per cent., and unwrought clay 50 per cent. Each of these taxes is imposed with no reference to revenue, and none of them yields any revenue worth mentioning. They are most of them indirect taxes, and some of them, with others which we have not cited, are prohibitory taxes in the interest of special classes of capitalists and against the interest of American industry. Of the manufactures of cotton, some $28,000,000 were imported in 1881, with an average tax of 38 per eent. The imports have increased over 50 per cent, within the last two years. The duties range from 20 per cent, up to 79 per cent., most of the imports being taxed from 35 to 60 per cent. Many of the mixed duties are very oppressive, and the classification is complex and often inexplicable. Thus, while cotton hosiery is admitted at 35 per cent, or less than the average, cotton yarn or warp, for use in manufactures, is taxed from 40 per cent, to 61 per cent., the largest importation of high-priced yarns at 54 per cent. tax. In the same way cotton laces, which, with hosiery, constitute nearly one-half the imports, are taxed at 35 per cent., while thread on spools, which can only be used as material for manufacture, is taxed from 75 to 79 per cent. All the taxes on cotton, considering the uses to which cotton is put, are unjustifiable, and should be largely reduced. None of them should exceed 331 P er cent., aud many of them should be taken oft altogether. The aver age. duties on hemp, flax and other manufactures are comparatively low, being about 22 per cent., but some of them are curiously contradictory. Thus, bags, other than bagging for cotton, are taxed 40 per cent. Bagging for cotton and the like is taxed 2 oents per pound if valued at less than 7 cents per square yard, and 3 cents if above that value. During 1881 these taxes were 38.8 per cent, and 58.8 per cent, respectively, and a slight fall in the value of the cheaper kind would bring the tax on cotton bagging to a higher rate than 40 per cent. These taxes are discriminating, as well as inexcusably imports of iron and steel, which were less than $10,000,000 in 1879, were last year over $51,000,000, with an average duty of 40 per cent. The taxes range from 17 per cent, up to 131 per cent., and are mostly from 30 per cent, up to 60 per cent. The list affords some of the worst instances of the inequality of our tariff and its injustice to American industry and enterprise. Thus, anchors are taxed 2} cents per pound, which last year amounted to 89 per cent.; band-iron at from 55 per cent, to 65 per cent.; bar-iron at from 35 per cent, to 58 per cent.; cables at 75 per eent.; cut-nails at 53 per cent.; chains from 35 per cent, to 58 per cent.; cotton machinery at 50 per cent.; hollow-ware, glazed or tinned, at 82 per cent.; locomotive tires, 64 per cent.; wire, 71 per cent.; wire-rope, of the kind chiefly imported, 59 per cent.; wrought-iron rail-road-chairs, nuts and washers, 131 per cent. Of steel imports, rails, which are the most important, paid last year an average of 76.3 per cent., the mean invoiced value being $35.84 per gross ton. The imports of wool and woolens, in 1881, were $45,000,000, about 50 per cent, more than in 1879 and slightly less than in 1880. The average duty was 6C per cent.; the duties varied from 26 pei cent, to 103 per cent. The principal imports of wool were of carpet wools al from 24 per cent, to 30 per cent., and clothing wools at from 42 per cent tc 65 per cent.' On carpets the duties range from 40 per cent, to over 96 per cent, and are the heaviest on the cheaper kinds. Thus, tapestry Brussels pays 76 per cent, while Aubusson wove® whole for rooms pays only 50 per cent; druggets pay 96 per cent, while velvet carpets pay 67 per cent Wifi mgs only

40 per cent. All clothing and materials for clothing of wool are excessively taxed. Dress goods are taxed from 64 per cent, to 70 per cent., flannalß from 62 per cent to 102 per cent., hosiery from 55 per cent, to 89 per cent., clothing 56 per oent., and qloth 73 per cent., while manufactures not specified are taxed at various rates from 69 per cent, for the most valuable to 85 per cent, for the cheapest. These are some of the more obviously oppressive taxes under our present system. They are laid on food, raw material, machinery, clothing and the materials for clothing. That they “protect” American industry or enterprise is an impudent and transparent falsehood.

The Faction Fight.

The condition of the Republican party to-day is one of the most remarkable spectacles in the history of politics. That of the Democratic party in 1860, preceding the great catastrophe which swept it from power, is more nearly a parallel than any other; but it is not a complete one. The difference between the two wings of the Democracy at that time was a difference of political principle in relation to the extension of slavery ; while the present difference between the two wings of the Republican party relates only to the spoils of office and the ambitions of rival leaders. The Republican party has been in power so long that it has ceased to be Republican except in name. It has no longer any higher aspiration than to hold office and digest patronage ; no policy but that of centralization, with the natural incidents of jobbery and corruption upon a national scale. Its great leaders do not contend with one another over questions of economy or of constitutional construction. They are simply divided over the distribution of the common plunder. A great principle, one of the most sacred traditions of American liberty, was, it is true, involved in the struggle at Chicago; but it can scarcely be said to have been met by the overthrow of Grant. Opposition to a third term, pure and simple, had very little to do with the defeat of the Old Guard by the narrow majority arrayed against it after many days Of doubtful conflict. Even Mr. Blaine never committed himself unequivocally against the third term—never declared that he would vote against Grant if nominated. The result, so far as the Republican party was concerned, determined almost nothing as to the only principle or likeness of a principle that entered into the fight. The third-termers supported Garfield precisely as Garfield would have supported Grant had the latter been the nominee instead of the former. They waited, sulked, threatened; and then, seeing the Garfield managers in a sufficiently desperate state, they made their own terms, knd, throwing themselves into the contest at the critical moment, won it ostensibly for Garfield, really for Grant and themselves. The treaty of Mentor was a reality. It made a Republican victory possible after defeat had been confessed", and the stalwarts were justly incensed when every obligation arising out of the bargain was either ignored or trampled under the heels of the triumphant faction. Mr. Blaine had his day under Garfield, and was neither modest nor moderate in the use of his opportunity. Now the stalwarts have theirs. The exiles are recalled. The Old Guard has, by the fortune of war, risen from the sunken ditch and swept the field. Its chieftains are singled out for Executive favor to the exclusion of the half-breeds, who but the other day had them under foot. And if the history of Arthur’s few mouths in the White House were now to be written by the outlawed half-breed, he would simply borrow with a change of names the story of Garfield’s brief term as it was written by the exiled stalwart. Situations are precisely reversed, and the rancor of the half-breed is even worse than was that of the stalwart. The President having nominated for a high office that Republican who has done his party more distinguished and valuable services than any other living man, his action is greeted with a concerted howl of indignation by the halfbreed newspapers, and by a passionate and malignant assault in the Senate. It seems that nothing indicates so clearly the intensity of feeling between the factions as the unreasonable and ferocious denunciations of this appointment. Things must change greatly if the next Republican Convention be not even more inharmonious than the last one. —New York Sun.

Ye Olden Time.

The old, legitimate, delightful idea of an inn is becoming obsolete ; the rapidity with which distance is consumed obviates the needs that so long existed of by-way retreats and halting places. The modern habit of travel lias infinitely lessened the romantic probabilities of a journey ; the rural ale-house and picturesque hostel now exist chiefly in the domain of memory; crowds, haste and ostentation triumph over privacy and rational enjoyment. Old Walton would discover now but few of the secluded inns that refreshed him on bis piscatorial excursions; the ancient ballads on the wall have given place to French paper ; the scent of lavender no longer makes the linen fragrant; instead of the crackle of the open wood fire we have the dingy coal smoke, and blinds usurp the place of snowy curtains. Few hosts can find time to gossip ; the excitement of a stage-coach arrival is no more, and a poet might travel a thousand leagues without meeting a romantic “ maid of the inn,” such as Southey has immortalized. Jollity, freedom and comfort are no longer inevitably associated with the name ; the world has become a vast procession that scorns to linger on its route. Thanks, however, to the conservative spell of literature, we can yet appreciate, in imagination, at least, the good, old English inn. Indeed, it is quite impossible to imagine what British authors would have done without the solace aud inspiration of the inn. Addison fled thither from domestic annoyance ; Dryden’s chair at “ Will’s ” was an oracular throne ; when hard pressed Steele and Savage sought refnge in a tavern and wrote pamphlets; Sterne opens his Sentimental Journey with his landlord; Shenstone confessed he found “life’s warmest welcome at an inn.” The most characteristic scenes of Scott and Dickens occur on thisCvantageground, where the strict unities of life are temporarily discarded, and its zest miraculously quickened by fatigue, hunger, singular mood of adventure and pastime, nowhere else in civilized lands so readily induced,

$1.50 dot Annum.

NUMBER 7.

THE WORKSHOP.

Sous ides of the interest in the technicalities of the various industries may be gathered from the fact that Austria alone supports 1,000 technical schools, Italy between 300 and 400, Bavaria 1,600 for girls, Holland 32, Germany a large number, and so on with other European countries. As ▲ cement for leather the following is highly recommended: Common glue aud isinglass equal parts, soaked for ten hours in just enough water to oover them. Bring gradually to a boiling heat and add pure tamin until the whole becomes ropy, or appears like the white of eggs. Buff off the surfaces to be joined, apply this cement warm and clamp firmly. A stone bridge to be built at Minneapolis, Minn., will consist of sixteen eighty-foot spans and four one hundredfoot spans, and including the shorcpieces will have a total length of 1,900 feet. It will support two railroad tracks at a height of nearly sixty feet above the water, and will run diagonally across the river below St. Anthony’s Palls. The cost is estimated at nearly $500,000. Small files are sometimes sharpened with acid as follows: Cleanse from all foreign matter, removing the grease by using a solution of potash and water; then dip in a solution of eight partß water, three parts sulphuric aoid ana one part nitric acid. Take out, wash off, dry and oil. There are other processes, but this is perhaps as good as any, and we do not reoommend this as of much practical value. Wooden bowls, and other ware of this sort, as well as all cross-seotions from tree trunks, and short logs, cut for various purposes, are very apt to crack and split while seasoning. To prevent this completely, the pores of the wood should be well filled with linseed, or some other vegetable oxidizing oil, while it is yet green, and before it begins to show any signs of cracking or checking. This wul completely obviate this inconvenience.

Simple pure white lead ground in oil, and used very thiok, is on excellent cement formending broken crockery ware; but it takes a very long time to harden sufficiently. The best plan is to placj the mended object in some storeroom, and not look after it for several weeks, or even months. After that time it will not part on the line of the former fracture. It resists moisture and a heat not exceeding that of boiling water. The following is recommended as a cement for stoves and steam apparatus: Two parts of ordinary well-dried powdered and one part of borax are kneaded with the requisite quantity of water to a smooth dough, which must be at once applied to the joints. After exposure to heat this cement adheres even to smooth surfaces so firmly that it can only be removed with a chisel. Another cement for steam pipea is prepared, by mixing *430 parts in weight of white lead, 520 of powdered slate, five of chopped hemp aud forty-five of linseed oil. The two powders of the hemp cut info lengths of one-fourth to five-sixteenths of an inch are mixed, and the linseed oil gradually added, and the mass kneaded till it has assumed a uniform consistency. This cement is said to keep better than • ordinary red-lead cement.

The Office Should Seek the Mon.

Nothing is more natural, nothing more admirable, than the aspiration of good and capable men to lead men and to govern great States. But honorable objects must be honorably sought. A man with a true political ambition, with the instinct of leadership, advocates wise measures, and. by the power which belongs to the instinct, impresses his views upon the minds of others. He leads by natural ascendency, and they naturally and gladly follow. So Washington led. So Jay was a leader. But the modern system of a “still hunt,” of private, illicit influence upon those whose votes elect to high place, of mousing intrigue, or bargain and barter and corruption, is not only dishonorable, but it is destructive of the essential principle of the government. The majority must rule. But only an honest majority can rule justly. To open head-quarters at a capital in order to procure votes, not by personal preference founded upon knowledge of character and of a career, but by private solicitation and representation and trade, and so to secure a majority, is to cheat the people and to caricature the popular principle. A majority so obtained is not a moral majority It is not only not binding, it is to be repudiated as a crime against the people. What was good enough for Jay and Washington ought to be good enough for us. If they disdained to propose themselves as the choice of the people, we may safely disdain if. The current question now is, ‘Who is an applicant ?” * Who wants it ?” And the fittest man is passed by because he has not asked for it. Washington and Jay did not ask. But when the people selected them the people found officers quite as honorable and efficient as those who do ask. The man whose self-respect for the principle of the government prevents his “ conducting his own campaign ” tc be elected or appointed to an office is thought to be altogether too ‘ high and mighty/' and too ridiculously squeamish. “If a man won’t help himself who will help him ?” is supposed to be a conclusive question in the realm of politics.— Harper’a Magazine.

Wedding Pipes.

The city of Gouda, so famed for the old stained glass in the cathedral, and more generally associated with the manufacture of Dutch pipes, is about fifteen miles from Rotterdam. Among the variety of pipes made there is one cniled the wedding pipe; it is three feet three inohes long in the stem; the bowl is ornamented with coats-of-arms. Ant Dutch make festivals of the copper wedding, the silver wedding, the golden wedding and the diamond wedding. On the occasion of the copper wedding the stem of the pipe is ornamented with copper leaves twining all the way up the stem, and at each successive festival the leaves are renewed according to the date of the commemoration, which seldom pfWMtM the golden. In Amsterdam I once saw a diamond-leaved pipe which had been prepared for a seventy-fifth wedding.—Cfood Worda.

Coffee Drinking In America.

Americans are becoming a nation of ooffee drinkers. The consumption of tea per head of population has only increased from 1.01 to 1.44 pounds since 1867, while that of coffee in the same period has gone up from 6.11 to 8.89 pounds. Great Britain, on the other hand, drinks , less coffee in proportion to population than

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a generation ago, while the consumption of tea has almost quadrupled in forty years. '

INDIANA ITEMS.

The total taxes levied by counties iu Indiana, iu 1881, amounted to $10,148,197. The Governor’s Guards, of Torre Haute, have been mustered out of the State Legion. It is said that a Terre Hante physician received $1,500 for an operation at Paris, 111., recently. A tarantula popped ont of a bunch of bananas in New Castle, the other day, and scared everybody. Two HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FOUR Cars were turned out by the ludianapolis Oar Works in February. Four boys were arrested iu the act of burglarizing a grocery store at Sullivan. Their ages range from 8 to 16. Attioa is to have a new fruit-canning factory if the oitizens will assist the enterprise to the amount of $2,500. Barnett Watts, an old citizen of Fulton county, drank too much rot-gut in Peru, and died on his road home. Capt. Conner, of the Indiana Statistical Bureau, lias appointed weather observers in fifty counties es the State. The furniture works of the CooieyMorrison Company, at Connersville, valued at $60,000, recently fell a prey to flames. An old soldier** Jeffersonville has just received $7,800 back pay from the Government for the loss of his eyesight in the late war. At Decatur, during a saloon row, Daniel King, ex-Sheriff of Adams county, was so badly beaten that he died of his injuries. The remnant of the Miami Indians, who recently received their last annuity from the Government, are rapidly drinking themselves to death. One of the finest pieces of land in St. Joseph county, the famous Dickey property in Olive township, 480 acres, was sold the other day for $33,000. A liquor-dealer at Somerset, Ind., having run away, the citizens subscribed enough money to buy the stock from his wife, and emptied it into the gutter.

Miss Bettie Grimsley, a young lady of Gosport, has l>een appointed signalservice observer for Owen oouuty. She is the first lady in the State who has obtained such a position. There is apprehension at New Albany that a great deal of sickness will follow the flood. In the year 1832, folowing the flood, the fever and cholera raged to a fearful extent. A series of Quaker revival-meetings at Richmond ended with 150 conversions and one girl iu the insane asylum. At similar meetings at Economy, three women were made lunatics.

Active preparations are being mode to remove the division headquarters of the Wabash railroad from Fort Wayne and Lafayette to Antioch, Ind. The new yard is said to be the finest in the West.

Tippecanoe county has now fourteen toll-roads, with a capital of $167,680, on which more than $20,000 was collected in tolls last year.» It is proposed that the county should buy the roads and make them free.

Since the starch-works at Columbus began operations, a little over a year ago, there have been manufactured and sold by that company 6,000,000 pounds of starch, worth 6 cents a pound at wholesale—s3oo,ooo. Capt. Wm. M. Meredith, formerly of Indianapolis, now of Chicago, is an applicant for the position of Chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in the Treasury Department. The Captain has been connected with the Western Bank Note and Engraving Company of Chicago for several years. Ninety-six orchardists of this State have answered the request mode by the Secretary of the Indiana Horticultural Society by naming the variety of ajfbles best suited for home use and market. The favorites are in the order named : Maiden blush, early harvest, Ben Davi«, rambo, winesap and Rome beauty. A new frame house was blown down by a hurricane at Fort Wayne. Four men were at work on it, of whom two escaped by jumping, but Mr. Vail, a carpenter, had a leg broken, and John Davis, the aged father of the owner of the house, was crushed beneath the roof and fatally injured. Several other small buildings were blown down. Princeton Clarion: Rev. R. L. Cushman, while digging out a stump on his farm near King’s Station, uncovered a lot of Indian arrow heads, which had evidently been buried at the root of the tree, lliere were eighty flint arrowheads in the lot, and the manner in which they were placed indicates that they had been deposited there by some human hands.

The Cambridge City Tribune says : Our School Board contemplates building a new school-house, for the colored people on the west side of the river. It has been decided by the board, as well as by the courts, that the colored children shall not be admitted into our public schools and receive instruction with the white children. South Bend claims the champion pie-biter of America. He is a barl>er. A match recently took place in his shop, in which he and two other admirers of pastry participated. The pies were mince and warm. Eacn contestant took a pie in his hands and waited the signal. When the word was given the barber made his pie the shape of a moon three-quarters full at the first bito. The second bite took oft’ one of the horns, and the third the other. After the third bite the others came in such rapid succession that nobody could count them, and the barber swallowed the last of his pie in just one minute and two seconds from the first bite. The others followed, one in three and one-half minutes and the other in five minutes.

The second annual report of the State, Coal Mine Inspector, Thomas Wilson, Jr., shows that fifteen counties havo coal mines in operation in the State to the number of eighty-six, employing 4,567 men, and producing last year 1,771,376 tons of coal. The capital represented is $1,442,210. Only ten fatal accidents were reported during the year. The Inspector finds that the want of practically educated mining engineers is seriously felt, particularly with regard to the ventilation of mines, as the airway in most of them is entirely too small. This, he says, is the result of mining on the cheap system. He finds that Indiana is the fourth coal-produo-ing State in the Union, and there is little danger of a coal famine in the State.