Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1882 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. East. Hon. Zachariah Allen, long one of the leading men of Providence, B. L, died while silting in his chair, aged 87. A heavy short interest in quinine has developed in New York, the market being virtnally controlled by a syndicate having its head* quarters at London and Amsterdam. Small-pox is spreading through Lehigh and Berks counties in Pennsylvania. After having blown open the poetoffice safe at Needham, Mass., robbera set three buildings on fire, destroying property valued at 120,000. James Fox, a blacksmith’s helper in Troy, after driving in the head of a barrel with his fist, issued a challenge to John L. Sullivan to fight for $2,600 within six months. The cattle plague has reappeared in the vicinity of New York. A herd of thirty-one infected cows was recently exterminated in Putnam county. D. T. Lawson has successfully proved, by his experiments with boiler explosions near Pittsburgh, Pa., that they occur, not from low water, but by a sudden bursting of water into ■team. The tug-boat Henry C. Spratt exploded its boiler at the Philadelphia wharf f killing four men. George Scully, the Captain, was blown over the housetops in Water street. Immediately following . the explosion flames broke out in all directions. Pier No. 8, occupied as a passenger and freight station by the Philadelphia and Atlantic City railroad, took fire and was destroyed. The tug Ella, lying at the wharf below, also took fire, and sank after being well burned. .Windows were shattered in all directions for squares. Three dead bodies were found in the street. The front, of the ferry-house building was blown out, and tho watchman came near losing his life. The loss is $50,000. At a combination sale of trotting horses in New York, 107 were sold at an average price of $316.63 each. The Proctor House, at Kearsage mountain, New Hampshire, valued at $75,000, was swept away by flames.

West At Genoa, Nev., a great avalanche of snow buried three whites and fifteen Indians. . John Mott, telegraph operator and station agent at Glendale, Mo., has been arrested on a charge of participating in the Chicago and Alton express robbery at Blue Cut, Sept. 7, 1881. Two murderers were hanged by the outraged citizens of Dallas, Oregon. The body of Frank Stillwater, was found beside the railroad track near Tombstone, Arizona, riddled with rifle bullets and buckshot. He was a brother of the famous scout, Texas Jack. Barnes & McGill’s elevator at Hawley, Minn,, together with a large amount of wheat, were consumed by fire, involving a loss of $200,000. The Leavitt Street Congregational Church, of Chicago, has expcllod F. C. Rossiter, by a vote of 103 to 1, for making faces at the pastor during services. Ripon, Wis., has been visited by a disastrous fire, which destroyed all the buildings on the west side of the public square. The loss is estimated at from $125,000 to $150,000. In an affray near Emmetsburg, lowa, Charles Cornelian killed Fred Miller and committed suicide. A tragedy precisely similar occurred at St. Helena, Cal., the parties being Wm. Gans and J, O. Weinberger. The Wisconsin Legislature refused to pass a bill to restore capital punishment in the State. A loss of $75,000 was incurred at Leavenworth by a flour-dust explosion in the Novelty mills. Five men were seriously burned. South. A clerk in the mint of New Orleans gave to a stranger a negotiable receipt for $15,000 for two brass bricks with a thin covering of gold. An Englishman named C. D. Owens nearly killed a young lady of Tampa, Fla., with a knife. The citizens took him from jail and lynched him in full view of the United States Court. The Mayor and Sheriff had protested, and Lieut. Davis had ordered out the garrison, but too late. The oyster pirates captured not long since by the Governor of Virginia have been tried and sentenced each to one year in the penitentiary. Their vessels were confiscated. At a sale of the Montgomery White Sulphur springs, in Virginia, the porch of the hotel fell, killing one man and injuring twelve. Texas reports forty-one completed railroads, with a capital stock of $247,000,000. Elder Morgan, presiding elder of the Mormon church for the cotton States, has left Chattanooga for Salt Lake with nearly 200 converts.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Democrats of Rhode Island met in convention at Providence and nominated a full ticket for State officers, headed by H. A. Kimball for Governor. The Railroad Committee of the New York Assembly will report the Baker bill, which provides for three Commissioners with salaries of $6,000 each, to be appointed by the Governor. WASHINGTON NOTES. The Warden of the Washington jail reports that Gnitean has lost his appetite and had the sulks ever since he read an interview in which Scoville said he felt willing to have the assassin hanged, in order to draw attention to the need of legal reform in regard to insane criminals. Scoville says that he can get no counsel to attend to Guitean's case. The assassin is sure he will be released by the court in banc, in whioh case he proposes to leave for Europe, and, after “doing” the continent, return to the United States to leoture. Scoville thinks it would be better for the crank of the future that Guite&u should be hanged. It is now stated with considerable confidence, says a Washington correspondent, that Senator Teller, of Colorado, is to be Secretary of the Interior. The President said to-day to a friend that, now that the six mouths’ period of monrning is about to expire, the changes that he contemplates making will, follow in rapid succession, and that his friends who have been complaining of inaction will -, be satisfied. A Washington telegram says that Senator Ben Hill has improved so rapidly that he hopes soon to ride out His physicians think the cancer has been entirely removed. There is no truth whatever in the report telegraphed from Washington that the Georgia Senator was in a dying condition. Judge French, Assistant Secretary o!

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the Treasury, is to be succeeded by A G. Olmstead, of Potter county, Pa. The First Auditorahip is to be given to ex-Congressman O. W. Gillfillan. '• Gen. and Mrs. Grant were the guests of the President at the White House last week, and were quartered in their old rooms. The Senate Military Committee will report adversely on the bill to place Gen. Pleaaontou on the retired list. The wife of Sergt. Mason makes an appeal for aid for herself and ohildren, and expresses the belief that her husband has been sufficiently punished by six months’ imprisonment. The Connecticut House of Representatives refused to receive a resolution for Mason’s restoration to the army. A New York dispatch says that so far $2,000 have been collected for Mrs. Sergt. Mason and the baby, and it is estimated that the fund will reach $25,000, if not more. It is stated in Washington that Gen. Swaim, Judge Advocate General, will report to the Secretary of War that the court-martial which tried Sergt. Mason had no jurisdiction. A Washington telegram of March 23 •ays: The Secretary of War has ordered 300,OOOrations to be issued at New Orleans for the benefit of Louisiana flood sufferers, 200,000 at Memphis for Mississippi, 50,000 at Helena for Arkansas, and 10,000 each at Charleston, New Msdrid and Gayoso, for Arkansas. A large and influential meeting of the friends and advocates of the Hennepin ca * nal was held in Washington. Speeches showing the necessity of the work and its national character were delivered by Senator Windom. Congressman Frost of Missouri, Senator Logan, Speaker Keifer, ex-Congressman Hogan and Representative Van Horn of Missouri, Representative Russell of Massachusetts, Senator Allison, Clark E. Carr of Galesburg, HL, and others. A resolution was adopted to the effect that the great lakes and the Upper Mississippi river united would form the most extensive and complete internal water-route in the world, and that urgent demands of commerce require that all obstacles to tlieir union should be removed with the least possible doiay.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The famous Tennessee trotting stallion Blackwood, Jr., has been sold to Commodore Kittson, of St. Paul, for $6,500. The tide of immigration from Europe to this country will, it is believed, exceed this year even the heavy figures of 1881. The Garfield Monument Committee, at Cleveland, Ohio, have issued a further appeal to the public on behalf of the fund.' So far ihev have received $106,000, of which $75,000 has been contributed by Cleveland. To make the monument a national one, they desire $150,000 more from all the States and Territories. The Superintendent at Castie Garden predicts an immigration of 100,000 persons in May. Mr. Blaine asserts that Peru is being despoiled for the joint benefit of Chili and the English speculators who furnished her money and iron-clsds for the conquest, Envoy Trescott standing as a witness to the fact that the United States will not intervene. The recent protocol enlarges the demands of Chili upon her eonquered adversary. Alexander H. Stephens states that on the expiration of his term in Congress he will positively retire from public life. Within the past month the Land Leagues of the United States and British colonies contributed £22,000 to tho cause.

FOREIGN NEWS. While Emperor William was leaving the Academy in Berlin, hia foot slipped on the stairway and he fell, and his right elbow and knee were slightly contused. In the French Chamber of Deputies the Government introduced a bill allowing witnesses in law courts, instead of taking an oath before God, to promise on their honor and con science to speak the truth. A rent-collector of Clonmellon, Ireland, was mortally shot while driving to church with his family, and a police sub-inspector was fatally wounded in a disturbance in County Sligo. Some citizens of Ravenna, Italy, assembled to celebrate the anniversary of the Paris Commune. A conflict with the troops en_ sued, in which one soldier was killed and another wounded. Bismarck, being questioned on some subject relating to internal affairs, replied that his time and strength were folly occupied in preserving the peace of Europe. While Victor Hugo was entertaining some friends in Paris, a telegram was received from St. Petersburg announcing that the Czar had spared the lives of five Nihilists in whose behalf Victor Hugo had pleaded. On learning the newß Victor Hugo toasted the Czar. The ringleaders in the recent Corean rebellion were first quartered and then decapitated. In London, the Marquis of Huntley was twice arrested for swindling, and held to bail in £2,000 and £7,500 respectively. A fire near Northampton, England, swept away twenty-five houses. At Emod, Hungary, 350 buildings were burned, and nine ives were lost. A London journalist reports that Don Philippe de Bourbon is about to marry Miss Mackey, an American heiress. King Humbert, of Italy, told, the French Ambassador that he saw no cloud on the political horizon, and that his country desired peace. A daughter of Prince Pierre Bonaparte, of Paris, has wedded the Marquis de Pargemont An invitation to Moody and Sankey to spend a year in London in evangelical work has been signed by 800 persons of prominenoe in Great Britain. By a vote of 387 to 42 the British House of Commons granted to Prince Leopold an additional annuity of £IO,OOO, and a pension of £6,000 yearly for his widow In the event of his death.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Minnesota Senate, sitting as a court of impeachment, fouud Judge E. St. Ju iau Cox guilty of drunkenness and conduct unbecoming a Judge, after a trial lasting several weeks. The sentence is removal from office and disqualification for judicial office for three years. The Secretary of the Navy, at Washington, has received from Lieut. Melville, at Jakontsk, Husain, the details of the plan for the search of Lieut. DeLoug and companions. The search will Lo earried on by three parties each accompanied by two explorers with a dogsled and driver. The wilds of Northern Siberia are to be scoured in every dirSction. The country is impassable, except dur.ng the periods of intense cold, aud the programme undoubtedly ■ means the death of some of the explorers. Bat

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little will be heard of the searching parties until this time next year. The hangman is through with William Heilwagon, who murdered his daughter-in-law at Hampton, Ill.; Frank and Henry Rnmbepger, of Uniontown, Pa., who killed Daniel Troutman; Edgar F. Small, of Pittsburgh, who shot Nicholas Jacoby ; Jonathan Mayer, of Middleburg, Pa., one of tho party who took the life of the Kintzlers; Jack Neverliug, of Clearfield, Pa., the murderer of Samuel Pen* nington, and John C. McCarthy, of Richburg, N. Y., for stabbing to death Patrick Markey. All seven of them were executed on Friday, March 24. A great meeting, attended by 1,500 representative citizens from every section and county of Ohio, was held at Columbus to urge upon the Legislature the enactment of a law suppressing the Sunday whisky traffic. W. P. South worth’s extensive grocery establishment, in Cleveland, and two adjoining Btores, were swept away by flames. Total loss about $270,000. Crow Dog, the Indian chief who killed Spotted Tail, has been convicted in the Federal court at Deadwood, and sentenced to death. The people of the Black Hills charge that the result was reached by perjured testimony, and they propose to appeal to the Supreme Court A most favorable impression has been produced by the telegram of the Czar to Emperor William of Germany. It is thought the effect of the Skobeleff incident has now almost wholly disappeared. The French Senate passed the Primary Education bill, as adopted by the Chamber of Deputies, after an exciting debate. Two barks were wrecked and fourteen persons drowned in a gale off the coast of Algeria. Rear Admiral Gustav us H. Scott, on the navy retired list, died in New York. Judge Neilson, of Brooklyn, decides that, suitable schools having Inen established for colored pupils, the latter cannot attend the public schools provided for white children. There were 115 business failures in this country during the third week of March, a considerable reduction as compared with corresponding periods for some time previous. Guiteau has received an offer from a St. Louis man named Cook of S2OO for the suit he wore when he shot the President, and $l5O for the clothes he wore through the trial

DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

The anti-Chinese bill occupied the sole attention of the House on the 18th, the entire day being given up to debate on that measure. Speeches were made by Messrs. Flower, Moore, Berry and Williams. There was no session of the Senate. Senator Teller, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported a bill to the Senate, on the 20th, to fix the period of residence necessary to acquire titles to homesteads, making it three years instead of five. A bill was reported for a public building at Erie, Pa. A resolution was passed allowing Mr. Butler $8,500 and Mr. Kellogg $9,500 for expenses incurred in meeting contests for their seats. The Diplomatic and Military Academy bills were reported, with amendments, as was also the act for the admission of Dakota. Messrs. Beck and Morrill made speeches on the Tariff-uommission bill. Mr. Pendleton presented a memorial of the National Tobacco Association protesting against the passage of a Froe-Leaf bill and asking tho abolition of export stamps. The executive session was wholly consumed in considering the nomination of Samuel Seabury, of New York, to be Naval Constructor, on which no action was taken. In the Speaker submitted a message from the President stating that, in compliance with the constitution, the Governor of Nebraska, on his request, was given authority to employ troops to protect the State against domestic violence. It was agreed that the House recede from its amendment to the Mississippi relief bill authorizing an expenditure for strengthening the levees. Mr. Hubbell introduced a bill to abolish all taxes on banking and the stamD tax on matches and perfumery. Mr. Manning presented a bill to appropriate $5,000 for a monument at the grave of Thomas Jefferson, and Mr. Beach an act setting aside SIO,OOO for a memorial shaft at Washington’s headquarters at Newburgh, N. Y. A resolution from the Maryland Assembly asked an appropriation for a monument to Francis Scott Key. Mr. Neal asked permission to report the District of Columbia code without the provision for mixed schools, and a hot debate ensued, the scheme being voted down. It was resolved to tal-9 up the Tariff-Commission bill whenever the House shall go into committee of the whole, and to continue its consideration until definite results are reached. On a struggle over the Alabama Claims bill the House was in session until after midnight. Mr. Pendleton, of Ohio, introduced in the Senate, on March 21, a joint resolution providing that all Postmasters, United States Marshals and District Attorneys, the Clerks of all courts inferior to the Supreme Court, and all other civil officers of tiie United States exercising executive or ministerial powers within any State or Territory shall be elected by the people within their districts. Mr. Hale offered a protest against the admission of Dakota until her record is purged of the charge of repudiation in Yankton county. Amendments to tho Life-Saving bill were adopted by which a pension roll is created for disabled surfmen. The Military Academy ApEropriation was passed, as were also bills to ridge the Mississippi between Minnesota and Wisconsin, to abolish the reservaiien at Fort Abercrombie, and for the sale of the Otoe and Missouri reservations. Mr. Frye introduced a bill to incorporate a company to build a railway between New York and Washington. The capital is to be $10,009,000, and ex-Senators Gordon, Wallace and Creswell are among the promoters. The time of transit is to be six and one-half hours, and the fare $6. The House adopted a resolution to make the Geneva Award bill the special order for April 11. Mr. Gibson submitted a telegram from New Orleans, stating that the supplies distributed by the War Department are exhausted. The House had another long debate on the Chinese bilL The Senate at its session on the 22d, amended the diplomatic appropriation to provide that all Consular agencies with their compensation be hereafter enumerated in the estimates of the Secretary of State, when the bill passed. The Senate in executive session Blatchforu as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. A. L. Morrison, of Chicago, was nominated as Marshal for New Mexico. The House adopted a resolution calling on the Secretary of War for information as to what further relief is necessary for the Mississippi sufferers. The Chinese bill was taken up and debated. Mr. Washburn, of Minnesota, made the point that it was the duty of the Government to .prevent the degradation of labor, and Randolph Tucker, of Virginia, roplied to the talk about endangering our trade with China, bv showing that the total commerce between the two countries last year did not amount to $30,000,000, and had fallen off 33 per cent, since Abe adoption of the present treaty. Mr. McLane, of Maryland, former Minister to China, made a powerful argument in support of the bilL Mr. K-ts3on, of lowa, expressed great fears lest the sensibilities of the Chinese Government should be wounded.

Mr. Platt made a favorable report to the Senate, on the 23d, on a bill tor the registration of trade-marks. Mr. George reported an original bill to make the Agricultural D epartment an executive one. A bill was introduced for tlio adm.s non of the State of Washington. The Secretary of War was directed to transmit full information as to relief furnished to or needed by the Mississippi sufferers, A resolution for a reciprocity treaty with Mexico was referred. Mr. M&hone reported a bill to prevent the spread of contagious diseases among domestic animals. Mr. Dawes reported the ludiln Appropriation bill, with several amendments. In executive session, A L. Morrison, of Chicago, was confirmed as Marshal of New Mexico. The President sent in the following nominations : John H. Smyth, of North Carolina, Minister Resident and Consul General of the United States to Liberia; Emery P. Beauchamp, of Indiana, United States

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Consul at St. Gall; James W. Wilson, of Missouri, United States Consul at Three Rivers, Quebec. The Hons* resumed debate on the Chinese bill, nearly all who chose having an opportunity to air their view*. Mr. Page brought the debate to a dose, and stated that he knew two railroad companies had united to defeat the measure. Mr. Hasson's amendment to reduce to ten years the period of suspension of immigration was defeated by 100 to 13L Mr. Bntterworth’s amendment for a fifteen-year limit was lost. The bill then passed the House exactly aa it came from the Senate by 177 yeas to 65 nays, more than two- thirds. The vote in the Senate was 29 to 15, or one less than two-thirds. The House bill to bridge the Missouri at Aaron Rock was passed by the Senate on March 24. The Life-Saving-Service bill was amended to provide for five stations on the Florida coast, and to permit the Secretary of the Treasury to fix pay on the basis of service rendered. when the measure passed. Mr. Sawyer presented a memorial from the Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce against the renewal of patents for steam grain-shovels, and resolutions of the Wisconsin Legist*ture for throwing open to oommerce the Sturgeon bay ship-canal. Mr. Morrill reported adversely on Mr. vest’s bill to prohibit the issue of notes by banks hereafter organized or reconstructed. Mr. Kellogg reported a bill appropriating $5,000,000 for the improvement of the Mississippi, and $1,000,000 for similar work on the Missouri. Mr. Miller made a speech on The tariff-Commission bilL Mr. Williams introduced a bill to incorporate the Cherokee Central Railroad and Telegraph Company. A bill was passed to create two new land districts in Nebraska. In theHonse Mr. Robinson asked action on the resolution respecting the imprisonment of American citizens in Great Britain, and threatened to move the impeachment of Minister Lowell. A bill was reported appropriating $6,863,000 for the improvement es the Mississippi river. In committee of the whole on the private oalendar the olaim of the captors of the ram Albemarle was discussed for two hours and perfected, and when the committee rose the bill was passe d.

THE DIPLOMATIC SCANDAL.

Jacob R. Shipherd, accompanied by his wife, appeared before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, at Washington, on the 21st of Maroh. He handed in a certificate from his physician that his recent illness had been quite serious. Shipherd was examined at length by the committee. He stated that he indorsed to President Garfield and Secretarv Blaine, in May, copids of the Prospectus of the Peruvian Company. In New ork, on May 30, he had a' prolonged interview with Minister Hurlbut, who said the President regarded the case as strong in law and equity as it could possibly be, and action would be taken if it would enable Peru to pay her indemnity and get out of her trouble with ChilL Huribut was assured by Shipherd that it would result advantageously to him if he made no opposition. Shipherd had two extended conversations with Blame at the end of July last, and asked that both Chili and Pern be officially notified of the right to the guauo fields asserted by Americans, which the Secretary said should be done at once. In a letter to Hurlbut Shipherd states that $250,000 of pool stock in the Peruvian Company bad been reserved for the Minister and his friends, the terms of payment to be arranged at their convenience. In his testimony before the Hquse Committee on Foreign Affairs, on the 22d, Shipherd said that the only officers of the United States with whom he had any correspondence or whom he sought to interest in the company were Ministers Hurlbut, Kilpatrick and Adams, the Secretary of State, President Garfield, a Senator from New Hampshire (Blair), and William H. Robertson, Collector of the Port of New York. According to his story Blair was given a retainer, which he afterward returned, and Robertson was paid a fee for services rendered the company in the capacity of attorney. Shipherd admitted that his only dealings with Gen. Kilpatrick consisted in writing two letters to him, which were never answered. Shipherd, when called before the House com* mittee on Maroh 23, stated, before any ques* tion had been pat, that he desired to add a word, if it would be in order, to the testimony given the previous day. He then stated that he would waive the technical objection he had raised, and would state that the Senator to whom he had alluded was Henry W. Blair, of New Hampshire. He further stated that, with one exception, there was no other Senator or member of Congress who had in any way been interested as counsel or had been approached with a view to securing his services. This gentleman, Shipherd said, was asked to act as counsel, and declined on the ground that he might be called on as a member of Congress to pass upon the claims of the Peruvian Company. With this exception and that of Senator Blair, there was no other instance of any effort to secure the services of a member of either house of Congress. Witness produced a copv of his letter to the President. It was quite long, and rehearsed in detail the claims and plans of the Peruvian Company. The letter referred to inclosures naming the prospectus of the company, the draft of agreement with Peru, the chain of the title of the Peruvian Company, and stated it was deemed best to lay the whole matter before the President. It spoke of the magnitude of the interests involved, and estimated the value of guano at $1,000,000,000, and indicated that ex-President Grant would be President of the company, and that its Board of Directors would include gentlemen equally well known and capable.

DEATH OF LONGFELLOW.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the distinguished poet and litterateur, died at his residence in Cambridge, Mass., after a long illness, on Friday, March 24. He had just passed his 75th birthday, having first seen the light of day on the 27th of February, 1807—Portland, Me., enjoying the honor of being his birthplace. We print herewith a brief biography of this much-lamented man of letters: Young Henry’s early education received the utmost care from his parents, and at the age of 14 years ho entered Bowdoin College, in his native State, from which he was graduated in 1825. After leaving college he entered his father’s law office, but the law was so ancongenial to his tastes that after a few months of study he abandoned Blackstone and Kent, and commenced the study of literature. Having been tendered the professorship of modern languages at Bowdoin he went abroad to qualify himself for the duties of the obair, and spent three and a half years in Europe. He returned to the United States in 1829, and at once assumed the duties of his professorship. He remained at Bowdoin until 1835, when he accepted the professorship of modern languages and belles lettres at Harvard. Again he went abroad, and after a year ho entered upon his duties at Harvard, in 1836. This position he held nntil 1854, when he resigned and devoted himself exclusively to his own writing and the publication of his works. He began his literary work while a student at Bowdoin, many of his early poems being published in the United Staten Gazette, and while a professor he contributed many able criticisms to the North American Review. His first collection Of poems was published in 1839. “Ballads and Other Poems” appeared in 1842, and “ Poems on Slavery ” and the “ Spanish Student * the year following. The poem that brought him the most fame, “Evangeline," appeared in 1847, ani “ Kavanagh ”in 1849. “ Hiawatha ” was published in 1855, “Miles Standish” m 1858, “ Hanging of the Crane ” in 1874, and “ Keramos ”in 1878. No American poet has been so greatly admired in Europe as Mr. Longfellow*, aud his works have been translated into most of the continental languages. He visited Europe in 1842, again in 1868, and again the next year. The honorary degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by Cambridge University in 1868, aDd that of D. C. L. by the University of Oxford in 1869. In 1873 he was elected a member of the Bnssian Academy of Sciences, and in 1877 a member of the Spanish Academy. On the 27th of last month the 75th anniversary of his birth was widely celebrated by the various literary institutions of the United States, but his health has latterly been so broken as to render it impossible for him to attend to his own correspondence.

Wax candles instead of gas are nsed at many Fifth avenue houses on occasions of entertainments, much to the disgust of the gas companies and to the pleasure of the esthetic crowd.

WISE WORDS.

Spoken bp Representative Democrat* at the Celebration of Jackson’s Birthday, In Chicago. HON. fiYMAN TRUMBULL, IN RESPONSE TO THE SENTIMENT, “ LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT.” Mr. President : I suppose lam called upon to respond to this sentiment because of the somewhat independent coarse I have pursued in public life. I believe in the rights of man, his capacity to take care of himself, and that the less government interferes with his pursuits, his religion or his thoughts the better, so long as he neither encroaches upon the rights of others nor suffers'from their aggressions. The good old motto, “ The world is governed too much,” seems to be lost sight of in these modem times. We forget that all men are oreated equal, and have the same rights to liberty, life and happiness. Whatever system of government interferes with these rights further than it is necessary for man’s protection in their pursuit is opposed to nature's laws and nu j uat to the noblest of created beings. All special privileges, monopolies and class, legislation by which advantages are given to some over others aro so many unjust encroachments upon the freedom which by nature’s law belongs to aIL If all men would act justlv toward each other, and hand and hand go along together seeking the highest good of each and all, no human laws would be needed to guide them in the paths of bliss. But all men have not yet arrived at that state of perfection that they will always so govern their action as not to encroach on the rights of others, hence Governments are necessary to restrain the vicious and the wicked. The nearer these Governments approach to individual government, the less the encroachment upon natural liberty. As it would be best that each individual shoqjd act justly if he would, so it is best, since some will not, that the restraints which the peace and good order of society require to be imposed upon ail should approach as near individual government as possible. Let the family establish laws for the government of the household, the inhabitants of the village, city, State and nation for their respective localities, in matters pertaining to each. This is local self-government This is republicanism. To deny the right of the people in each subdivision to manage the domestic affairs pertaining to it and vest them in a central power is imperialism. Whenever the few have been intrusted by the people with certain powers the tendency has always been for them to claim mpre, hence the necessity for written constitutions defining with precision the powers to be exercised by officials, and for vigilance on the part of the people to seo that they do not overstep them. Our system, by which the powers of government are divided betweeli the States and the nation, and those again into different departments, is perhaps the wisest ever devised to secure to the people their liberties. Such a system is complicated and can only be maintained by a people intelligent and jealous of their rights. Whenever they become indifferent, any government, no mitter how liberal and free in its origin, will soon drift into a despotism. The tendency to centralization in our own country within the last twenty years has been alarming. This tendency had its origin in the War of the Rebellion, when to maintain the Union it became necessary for the Federal Government to put forth all its powers, and to exercise some of questionable constitutionality. It is an old saying that in the midst of arms laws are silent. While lam not willing to admit that, even in the midst of civil war, tho constitution is silont, it must be confessed that when flagrant war rages many of its provisions for the protection of individual liberty he dormant, but when peace returns a libertyloving people will seo to it that they are revived in all their vigor. Has this been done in our case, or have the people, iu their eagerness after wealth and ease, been so indifferent to the encroachments of the Federal Government npon the reserved rights of the people and the States that it has been permitted to assume powers never contemplated by the framers of the Government, and which have already well-nigh broken down that division of powers which is the great safeguard to liberty ? One has but to look at the proceedings of Congress, the President and the Federal judiciary to see that together they are claiming to exercise almost imperial powers. Vast amounts of money aro collected and squandered upon local improvements, in the erection of public buildings, and olherwise. Places of holding courts are increased, and Judges and other officials are multiplied. The present Congress bids fair from present indications to be the most extravagant that ever assembled. Already bills are introduced to appropriate annually some $60,000,000 for educational purposes, a larger sum than was expended by the Federal Government for all purposes twenty-five years ago. A committee of the Senate recommends an appropriation of some $50,000,000 to build a railway across the Isthmus. How many more million) will be appropriated for clearing out creeks and improving harbors unknown except to woodchoppers and mill-owners who fell the trees and saw the lumber that are floated upon their waters, and for erecting buildings in insignificant towns can not be known till the bills pass. Add to these the enormous sums voted for pensions, many of whom are undeserved, and you will even have but a faint conception of the vast amounts of money collected and expended for purposes never contemplated by the men who made the Government, and which, in connection with the official* who collet and disburse it, gives a power to the Government which is dangerous to liberty. We see the executive using the army to perform police duty iu the States. This will soon lead to its increase, and it can not be long under such a system before the liberty of the American citizen, like that of the citizen in most countries of the Old World, will be at the mercy of a hireling soldiery. We see the Federal courts overriding the State tribunals, and dragging citizens of the same State from their homes to litigate questions between themselves iuto the Federal courts, provided a citizen of some other State has the slightest interest in the controvert y, _

These are a few, of the assumptions of power bv the Federal Government on its march to impernlism. But this is not aIL Laws are passed by Congress confessedly for the benefit of one class of people, and that not the most numerous, at the expense of the many. This is done under the pretense of protection to American industry. Oh, industry, what wrongs are committed in thy name 1 Under the name of protection to thee, the laborer, the mechanic, the farmer and men engaged in every industry are denied the right to buy where they can buy cheapest, not for the purpose of raising revenue to support the Government, but for the avowed purpose of enabling a few favored manufacturers to exact more for their goods than they otherwise corrid. Every dollar paid by the purchaser of an American manufactured article above what the same would cost, if the purchaser was free to buy it in the markets of the world, is so much money paid as a bounty to the American manufacturer, not one penny or which goes to the support of the Government- What is to be thought of the law which compels the man who raises com to pay tribute to the one who makes salt, or the mechanic who uses lumber to pay tribute to the man who furnishes it ? This is exactly what a protective tariff is designed to do, and it is all done under the delusive name of protection to American industry. A revenue tariff is imposed for the support of Government; a protective tariff for the support of manufacturers. , There is another class of legislation not peculiar to Congress, but practiced by State Legislatures as well, that is dangerous to freedom and destructive to individual independence and liberty. I refer to the unlimited creation of corporations which become monopolies in the bands of those who wield them and are rapidly assuming control not only of the business of the oountrv bnt its politics also. Corporations are now created for almost all conceivable purposes, from the gigantic railroad corporation to those organized to sell paper bags. The great moneyed corporations combine together and lay tribute upon the people at will, while the small** corporations carry on businoss without ‘ the*responsibility that attaches to individuals similarly engaged, lrtne corporation is successful, its managers pocket the profits; if unsuccessful, its creditors Docket the loss, and its Scheming managers are left free to embark in new enterprises with fortunes but slightly if at alt impaired. How can individual enterprise compete with corporations possessed of such advantages ? Corporations for public or quasi-public purposes may sometimes be a necessity. In such cases they should always lie subject to public control; but why should corporations be allowed for purely privato purposes, the only effect of which is to relieve their managers from personal responsibility. The sentiment to which I am responding opens too wide a field to be discussed here, and I will conclude by asking what is to be done in

view of the alarming tendency to centralization and encroachment npon individual liberty to which I have alluded ? _ Shall we despair of the republic? By no mean*. The power of the Federal administration through its control of the money power, its collection and disbursement annually of $300,000,000 or $400,000,003, and its vast patronage Is very great, and, in the hands of an nnscrapaloas party which had the support of even one-third es the people, would perhaps be irresistible except by revolution. Bat not one-third or one-tenth of the people of this country, when aroused to the assertion of their right*, will consent to surrender them to the oontrol of a central despotism controlled by the money power. The people believe in their cgpacitv for self-government, in their ability to provide for education, the cultivation of the soil, their domestic peace, and local affairs without the supervision of a great central power, which imposes burdens for its own aggrand ; zement and by unjust and unequal laws compels the many to pay tribute to the few. We have only to sound the alarm, let the cry go forth that local self-government is in dan;,.., that vast moneved monopolies are exacting nnjtut tribute, that corporations created for purely private purposes are destroying individual liberty, and, like a fire-bell at night, it will awaken the people to their danger, will rouse them to a vindication of their rights, and to the establishment of oar political strnctore on the foundations where our fathers placed it, securing to the citizeus individual liberty, to the State the management of its domestio affairs, and to the nation all the powers necessary to preserve the Union and protect us as a people from foreign aggression. HON. I AMES R. DOOLITTLE, IN REPLY TO THB TOAST, “OPPOSITION TO MONOPOLIES." Mr. President and Gentlemen: I can respond to that toast with all my heart, for “Down with Monopoly” is the battle cry of freedom. It always has been. It always wil' be. The struggle against monopoly—the struggle for common right against special privilege —is no new warfare. It is as old as our Government; aye, older, in truth, our Government is bnt the outgrowth of that struggle—a struggle which began more than 1,800 years ago. At a time when Rome held the world in chains; when the high priests, scribes and pharisees claimod all the religion, learning, wealth and respectability of the Jews, a carpenter’s son, Jesus of Nazareth, began a warfare against monopoly in every form. In one sentence of seven words he laid the ax at the root of it: “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” Ever since he uttered it, it has been ringbfg through the ages.' It is ringing yet. It has changed ana is changing, hour by hour, the civilization and social and political condition of mankind. Tnose words, so simple of themselves, were more powerful than armies. They reached and inspired the souls of men, setting them on fire. The spiritual fires thus kindled have burned more and more brightly through all these centuries. The conflict of right against wrong, of equality against caste, of freedom against slavery, went right on in every form and everywhere ; in church and in state, in cabinet and assembly, in cloister and university, as well as upon many a bloody field of battle. In the midst of crumbling empires and rising and falling kingdoms the irrepressible conflict went right on from age to age. Though progress in a single generation was slow, still there was progress. Though often dofoated, humanity gained strength with every struggle, and at the end of sixteen centuries great progress, great victories, great triumphs had been achieved. Bnt there seemed not to be sufficient room in the Old World for a battlefield upon which the great and crowning victory for mankind coula be won. In the fullness of time, and in the providence of God, there was a change of base ; a change from the Old World to the New, which, it would seem, was reserved for that very purpose—reserved for tho holy experiment of a Government opposed to all monopoly—its corner-stone the equal rights of man. By that change, here to this New World, humanity gained the vantage ground. This great republic—the rej üblic of the ages—the outgrowth of this slruggle of the centuries, appeared in 1776. Our Declaration of Independence, the constitution of the United States, and of every State, in theory, are all right; are all pledged in favor of liberty, equality, fraternity—all pledged against monopoly and special privilege. And yet, in spite of all these, there have suddenly grown up in this country the most gigantic monopolies the world has ever seen in the form of railway and other moneyed corporations. For example: The Standard Oil Company, the extent of whose affairs has just come to light, started in 1868 with only $1,000,000 capital. In 1880, in twelve years only, it divided in profits over $10,800,000, and increased its capital from $1,000,000 to $25,000,000. It now holds an absolute monopoly of one of the four great staples of export To enable it to grasp such vast sums and to break down all its competitors, the four trunk-line railways from west to east paid back to it, in rebates on transportation, $10,151,218 within a period of eighteen months. What those four railway kings did for this corporation they can do for another, and give to it a monopoly of some other great staple. While our people have been fighting for the Unions and to put down one species of monopoly in the form of negro slavery, there has suddenly grown up in this republic an empire of confederated railways ; an empire of gigantic, and, a 3 they claim, of irresponsible powers, reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, which threatens to revolutionize the Government and to enslave us all—East and West, North and South, white and black. The powers of that empire are so great and overshadowing that a distinguished Senator, late Secretary of the Treat-ury was forced to say: “There are in this country four men who, in the matter of taxation, possess and frequently exercise powers which neither Congress nor any State Legislature would dare to exert; powers winch, if exercised in Great Britain, would shake the throne to its very foundation. These men may at any time, and for any reason satisfactory to themselves, by a stroke of the pen, reduce the value of property in the United States by hundreds of millions. They [ mav at their own will and pleasure disarrange and embarrass business, depress one city or locality, and build up another, enrich one individual and ruin his competitors.” These confederated railways not only tax the commerce of the people “ all it will bear,” to enrich themselves, but spend large sums to control elections and influence legislation. In 1868 one railway alone spent more than $1,000,000 for that purpose, and charged it to the “India-rubber account” of “extra and legal services.” (Hepburne Rep. Watson’s testimonv, p. 336.)

They not only seem to control elections and judiciary appointments, but to oontrol improperly judicial decisions. A man of standing, before the Committee of Commerce at Washington, in January, 1880, said that he had heard the counsel of one great railway, in the Supreme Court of one of the old thirteen States, threaten the court with the displeasure of his clients if it decided against them. We do not wonder that he added : “ All the blood in my body tingled with shame at the humiliating spectacle.” Mr. President and gentlemen, the war for the Union is over. Negro slavery is gone forever. The foolish attempt to subject the heart, brain and manhood of the South to the ignorance of freedmen, and to the cupidity of carpet-bag plunderers, is at length abandoned. But let us nob be deceived. The struggle against monopoly, injustice and oppression is not ended—it is only taking on new form. The great and crowning struggle in the trial of man’s capacity -for self-government is yet to come. As 1 see it, and feel it coming, and that it may be very near, how I wish, sometimes, that youth would 'come again! Above all, how do I wish we had another Gen. Jackson to lead us in that straggle! Look where we will, the dangers of monopoly threaten us on every hand. The monopoly of coolie immigration by the Chinese Six Companies, with au its attendant vioea and degradation, threatens California and all the Pacific States. Polygamy, another Asiatic institution, founded upon the slavery and monopoly or women, holds Utah, and threatens all the mountain Territories. While dealing with these great questions, and leaving no duty undone to solve them, let us not forget that the groat question of the hour is this: Shall corporations bo our servants or our masters t Shall we, ourselves, be freemen or slaves ? Is this a Government of the people, by the people and for the people, or is this a Government of corporations, by the managers of corporations, to rob the people and enrich themselves ? I have not time, and this is not the oocasion, to say more than this: I trust we may be able to put forward a great, earnest and patriotic man—every inch a man—who, like Gen Jackson, may lead and inspire us *ta the coming straggle ; inspire os to do nothing which i* not clearly right, and to Bubmit to nothing wrong: and, when the battle waxes hot, to take good care to destroy nothing great, or good, or useful, but with firm purpose and steady hand to overcome, to restrain, to remove all the

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evils of monopoly; to teach all corporations hat they, as creatures, are not above their creators ; that they were made by the people, and are bound to serve the people upon equal terms and for reasonable compensation: that railways, especially, are public highways and are common carriers for the people, and not their masters nor their oppressors. 1 conclude my response to this toast in the words of Gen. Jackson to the Senate, nearly fifty years ago, and none more eloqnent are to be round in the English tongue: “ I would persuade my countrymen, so far aa I may, that it is not in a splendid Government, supported by powerful monopolies and arlstocratioal establishments, that they will find happiness, or their liberties protection, but In a plain system, void of pomp, protecting all and granting favors to none: clinj>eusing its blessings like the dews of heaven, unseen and unfelt, save in the freshness ana beauty they contribute to produoe.” It is suoh a Government that the genius of our people requires ; such a one only, under which our States may remain, for ages to come, united, prosperous and free.

Blood Curdling Story.

We find the following going the rouud of our exchanges : There is a lonely place near Mt. Nebo, where Yellow Creek flows through a deep gorge, on one side of which is a cave which is regarded with horror by the superstitious people here, who tell the following strange story. Twenty years ago two peddlers sought shelter in this cave from a blinding snow-storm on a cold night. Before lying down to sleep one of them counted out a large quantity oi gold and put into his belt. He then lay down and was soon sleeping heavily. His companion then arose and gazing into the face of his companion to see if he was sleeping, he plunged the blade ol his clasp knife into the peddler’s breast The dark blood gushed from the wound in a stream, the form stiffened, and all was over. The murderer secured the belt, sliniy with blood, and poured out the gold. Suddenly he saw the blood forming into a pool where the gold lay, and he realized what an awful deed he had done to get the gold. He threw the body far into the cave, buried the gold, and rushed out of the cave, intending to go back some day., He cut the trees along his way to guide him when he should return. He was found miles away from the cave iuthe snow, with his hands and feet frozen, and was taken to the hospital at Cleveland. After a long sickness he told the story of his crime to his niece; and died. After the funeral the niece and her husband went to the cave by means of the trees, which were cut to guide them, but found that the roof of the cave had fallen in. They hired help and began removing the rocks and earth, when they were startled by unearthly voices and lights, and they gave up the search, the cave filling up again after them. Since then many unsuccessful attempts have been made to secure the hidden treasure. One party went out, and while sittiug around th“ - camp fire, the ghostly figure of a ped dler appeared. The hair of one of the party turned perfectly white, and they say he died the next day. Another man worked alone to find the gold, but told Mr. Ditmar, in an excited way, that “ there was no use hunting for the gold any more ” and disappeared. The people of Mt. Nebo have given up the search for the hidden fortune.—Steubenville (O.) Herald.

Showers of Fishes In Rain.

During the rains of 1864 I was residing at Arrah, in a large house with a flat roof, and during a heavy shower the cry was raised by my servants that fish w r ere falling from heaven. I rushed out and found the compound (courtyard) strewn with small dead fish, from two to three inches in length; while from the roof two or three bucketsful were procured. Whence came the fish ? Undoubtedly from the sky ; but how they got there, I am not prepared to state, unless they may hfPve been carried into the air from the native element by a waterspout. Arrah is situated in the comer where the Sone • enters the Ganges, and is about seven miles from either river—the only possible sources of the fishes. The second fall occurred four years after, at Patna, which is about one to two miles from the Ganges, and also during the rains. On starting on my rounds one morning, I drove over a bridge, crossing a then dry watercourse. During my absence a heavy rain fell, and on my returning home I found the watercourse full and a crowd of natives shoveling out quantities of the same small fish, all dead. Another curious fact relating to fishes. On one ocoasion, while stationed at Arrah, I came across a specimen of the climbing perch (Anabaa acandens) struggling along the road at least half a mile from the Sone, to which I had it transferred, alive and vigorous; It may have embarked ou that strange journey to spawn, leaving its eggs in a road-side ditch; but then a difficulty arises in its being alone.— Chambera’ Journal.

Fishing in Japan.

Fishing in the rivers and streams of the Main Island is not considered as a sport by the Japanese, but as a means of livelihood, and therefore “the gentle angler ” will not receive much encouragement from the brotherhood in the Land of the Bising Sun. Salmon trout, trout an ai (a small but game fish) are “ educated,” on some rivers, to take the fly. The Japs work with very small flies, fine tackle, slight bamboo rods, with which they are very successful. Altogether, however, the game will be found scarcely worth the candle on the main land, but capital sport with the salmon trout can be obtained in several streams near Satsuporo, in Yezo, during May and June, with a genuine British fly/ The most important export from Yezo is in dried salmon, which are netted in incredible quantities in various rivers of the northern part of the island and in the southern Kuriles; but sport in these rivers among the dense masses of fish is out of the question, even if the proprietors of the fishings would allow tneir fish to be poached. The Japanese seaboard is everywhere picturesque, and the seas abound with fish, giviug employment to the crews of thonsauds of fishing-boats. When sailing along the coasts, numbers of large black whales and sharks, both large and small, will be seen, the latter being caught by the fishermen, as their fins are counted a delicacy and the skins serve many uses. The hilts of all tho old swords are covered with white shark’s skin. —The London Field.

Whar Was His Six-Shooter.

A man in an Austin saloon, read out a newspaper account of a prize fight to a group of earnest listeners. Among the most interested listeners was an old frontiersman, who continually interrupted the reader with such ejaculations as: “What! knocked him down again?” “Did you say he hit him in the ohest?” Finally, when still another knock down was scored, he could stand it no longer, and called out in a perfect frenzy of excitement: * ‘ Whar in the was his six-shooter ?” —Austin Sittinga,

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INDIANA ITEMS.

A vouTH'of Rising Sun lately assaulted an elderly oitizen who had been accused of speaking ill of the young mau’s girl. The Ohio Falls Car Company is building fifteen passenger coaches for the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago railway. The postoffioe at Fremont, Steuben oounty, was robbed of $699 in stamps and S2OO in money, the thieves escaping to Angola by a stolen hand-oar. So many ladies have been aoocsted and insulted on tho streets of Muncie that one of them aets an example to her sex by walking abroad with a revolver in her hand.

During the absence of her husband and family, Mrs. Catherine Duffy, wife of Patrick Duffy, of Shelbyville, was burned to death, her clothing having canght fire from the kitchen stove. Aaron Jones was recently sentenced to jail, at Rushville, for thirty days for perjury. He has heretofore stood well in the community, and is among the wealthiest farmers of the county. The students of Butler University, Indianapolis, adopted suitable resolutions on the death of Rev. O. A. Burgess, of Chicago, a former President of that ERtitution, and memorial services were held in the university chapel. A suit instituted against the State in the name of Carroll oounty to recover certain amounts of money expended in advertising delinquent tax-lists, will, if successful, bring the State in debt to the several counties for nearly $200,000 on the last collection of taxes. Clinton Bower and Mary Bower were divorced a few months ago by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Jeffersonville. They soon afterward remarried, and Mrs. Bower now turns up missing with $650 of her husband’s monoy. The parties resided near New Washington, Clark county.

After many years’ absence from his home at St. Joseph, Clark oounty, Richard Malbon returned to find his wife married to another man. He had failed to correspond with her during her absence, and she, hearing he was dead, married again. Richard did not make a muss or suicide over the Btate of affairs he found on his return, but permits husband No. 2 to occupy in perfect peace. E. R. Hill, a rich and prominent citizen of Fort Wayne, was lately arrested by Federal detectives for using the mails to defraud produce merchants in Chicago and Elgin. He had letter-heads announcing himself as a wholesale grocer, and coolly ordered large quantities of goods on credit. He confessed his guilt, and was placed in jail in default of $lO,000 bad. The Trustee of Pleasant Run township, Harrison county, has absconded, being a defaulter to the amount of near $5,000. The township will lose nothing, as his sureties are good for the amount. For some time past ho bad been leading a rather fast life, but his good character and reputation as a business man completely misled his bondsmen, who will now have to pay for their confidence in him. For many years he had carried on a successful merchandising business.

The Directors of the Northern prison lately met at Indianapolis to take counsel of‘the Attorney General relative to the power of themselves and the Warden iu the management of prison affairs. It appears that Warden Murdock has disregarded the recent order of the Directors and continued to feed his hogs with the prison garbage, claiming that the contract entered into between tho board and himself cannot be abrogated by the former during his term of office. He is acting under legal advice. The Attorney General will he eallod upon to untie the Gordian Knot. The Jeffersonville correspondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal denies that the crazy Miss Herman, who lately deceased in tho Clark county alms-house, completed a fast of sixty-two days, or that her body was reduced from 162 pounds to a mere matter of about seventy pounds. The remains made a liealthy-looking corpse of 125 pounds, and persons who saw Miss Herman within the last two weeks of her life assert that she was strong in voice and mind, and not very weak physically, and that she could not have fasted the time (specified.

Parader of Morality.

A man has a right to take pride in his moral character. It is the one thing that counts with men in the long run down the ages. Intellect coupled with infamy does not last. Time covers it with neglect. Intellect to live, must be associated with some right principle, and correct conduct. There must be something manly about it. A great many things are pardoned to private conduct when it is known that the man’s public principles are pure and noble. There can be no question but Webster, in private life, had many shortcomings, but where do you look for healthier, or more manly words than you find in his letters and speeches ? There is this, too, to be said of him. He never made any lofty and ostentatious display of his sentiments. He was conscious of his principles, but he never made them offensively prominent. In excusing the faults of Lord Baoon, the Pall Mall Gazette says: “The most offensive part of Maeauley is this assumption of a lofty moral tone when he is libeling a great man. In the case of torture, as in the latter case of corruption, it is clear beyond doubt that Bacon’s error or weakness consisted in this, that he was not so far in advance of contemporary morality as we might have desired. But there is a wide distinction between a man who breaks accepted and recognized rules and one who is only not in advance of them. A compliance with questionable, bnt hardly yet questioned, practices is compatible with lofty and patriotic aims, whereas a man who, judged even by the contemporary standard, is a contemptible sneak can hardly be credited with any kind of virtue. Now, Maeauley gets a cheap credit by refusing to allow this plea of Bacon. To the average common sense of mankind it looks very virtuous to say that cruelty and corruption is corruption all the world over. ” —Jndianapolia Herald.

1h Pompeii, recently a very beautiful fountain was found among the ruins. It is said to surpass in beauty any of the fountains hitherto dug up there. VeDus is represented as rising on a shell, with Cupid in her arms. Othei spirits oi love are seen here and there in the waves, while in the background appears a nereid, or water nymph, neat a dolphin, with her arm thrown around the neck of a Cnpid. In the foreground, on the shore, are two draped women looking at |hs merry group ip the water