Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1882 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. Xaat. The Assembly of New York has passed a bill wiping away all restrictions imposed upon sayings banks in baying securities. The engineers of the Hudson fiver tunnel have made a success in boring from the New York side. The work is expected to cost ♦5,000,000, and to require five years yet The Longfellow Memorial Association, of Boston, have issued a circular asking for contributions of $ 1 each for the purpose of permanently preserving the residence of the poet and erecting an enduring memorial to his fame on the grounds of his residence. Jame3.Vick, the famous seedsman, of Rochester, who was a playmate of Charles Pickens and set type beside Horace Greeley, died a few days ago of pneumonia. The steamship Rio Grande, with a valuable cargo of cotton, arrived at Delaware breakwater on fire. Loss, $370,000. The Assembly of New York has passed a bill permitting call loans to be made at any rate on which borrower and lender ean agree.

West A tornado swept away the little town of Mill Spring, in the Indian Territory. Only one bouse was left standing. Three persons wero killed and seven injured more or less severely. Ferris, of San Francisco, who claims to have been recognized by three persons in that city as Sir Roger Tichborne, is making preparations to visit England. At Minneapolis, Minn., a student named Paine, who was out “on a lark,” was pursued by one of the professors. Paine having aimed a revolver at his pursuer, the latter promptly returned the compliment by shooting Paine in the leg. Dave Sharp, a gambler, was arrested at Caldwell, Kan., for opening the grave of George Woods and taking from the corpse a diamond pin valued at $250. Isaac Gardner and his three daughters were drowned while attempting to ford the Tuscarawas river at Newcomerstown, Ohio. Gardner drove his wagon into the water against the protests of a number of his neighbors. A report has reached Little Rock, Ark., from the Cherokee Nation that Capt. Payne and his company of Oklahoma invaders had been captured by the United Btates authorities. The cattle round-ups in Wyoming are progressing rapidly, and an immense nnmber of beeves will soon be thrown upon the market. When twelve miles out of Sandusky, Ohio, and . engaged in a' race with the Jay Cooke, (he American Eagle exploded her boiler, killing the fireman, F. Bittle, and two deckhands, and fatally injuring Engineer Johnson. Six passengers wero badly scalded.

South. Ex-Gov. Csulwallader O. Washburn died at Eureka Springs, Ark., of paralysis and Bright’s disease, aged 65 years. His brother, Hon. E. B. Washburne, of Chicago, was with him in bis last hours. Mr. Washburn was one of four brothers, two of whom have been Governors of different States, and four of whom have represented four different States in Congress—lsrael Washburn, Jr., from Maine; Elihn 8., from Illinois ; Cadwallader C„ from Wisconsin, and William D., from Minnesota. A tornado of frightful violence swept over a section of Montgomery, Ark. It occupied only three minutes in its work of destruction. So terrific waß its power that nothing was left undamaged in its path. Eight persons were killed outright, and many hundred seriously wounded. Many hundred head of live stock were killed, and not a house or barn left standing. The large and extensive farm of P. McKinney was totally ruined. Loss, $30,000. There were over fifty biiildings, including the saw-mill and gin, all of which were destroyed. The family of Mr, Gil), consisting, all told, of five persons, were all dangerously injured. Samuel Quattlebaum’s family was also dangerously injured. It is estimated that over 100 families were rendered homeless and without the necessaries of life, The people of North Georgia enjoyed the rare phenomenon of a snow-storm on the 15th of May. The Tennessee Senate has passed the bill te fund the State debt at 60 cents and from 3 to 6 per cent, interest The Conference of the Methodist Church South, at Nashville, elected the following Bishops : Dr. C. Granberry, a proffcsaor in Vanderbilt University, but a delegate from the Virginia Conference ; Dr. Alticus G. Haygood, of Georgia ; the Rev. R. K. Hargrove, -of Tennessee ; Dr. Linns Parker, of New Orleans, and Rev. Alpheus W. Williams, of Baltimore. The State Auditor of Arkansas, who is now serving his third term, is found" to be a defaulter in the amount of about $35,000. The Court House, at Franklin, Ky., was destroyed by an incendiary fire, with nearly all the records of Simpson county.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The Commissioner of the General Land Office, McFarland, has issued a circular letter inviting all holders of certificates of deposit to forward the same to the General Land Office that their genuineness may be attested. This is done because of the number of fraudulent certificates now on the market. The Senate select Committee on Woman Suffrage, by a vote of 3 to 2, agreed to recommend for adoption Senator Lapham’s joint resolution proposing the following amendment to the constitution: “ Article XVL Section 1. The right of citizens of- the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States of by any State on account of sex. Seo. 2. Congress shall have power by appropriate legislation to enforce the provisions of this article.” The vote was: Yeas—Lapham, Blair and Jackson—3 ; nays—George and Fair—2 ; absent, Anthony and Ferry.

Mr. Teller, the new Secretary of the Interior, has decided upon a policy which, if enforced, it is claimed, will do much to prevent Indian troubles. He has determined upon disarming all bands of roaming Indians found off their reservations with arms, and the military will be instructed to disarm such bands. Persons familiar with the Indian service attribute most of the trouble which arises to the fact that the Indians can obtain arms, and that the regulations of the Government in that respeot are often disregarded. Butlers can always be found who furnish the Indians with weapons. Mr. Teller’s coarse relating to the Indians, says a Washington dispatch, is meeting with general approval, and it is believed that life in the Indian country will be rendered more nearly safe under his course than ever before. A Washington Associated Press dispatch says: ** The events transpiring in the Star-route oases this morning cause a good

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VOLUME VI.

deal of comment here, and they are looked upon as very unfoitunate for the Government, to say the leash That numbers of Government officials should have been scouring the country everywhere for Dorsey, and then come into court and say he couldn’t be found, and that he should «then immediately present himself and demand trial, turns the Government methods into ridicule. It is remarked here that every step in the case thus far has been a comparative failure, and many fear the result will be very unsatisfactory.” The House Committee on Judiciary has almost unanimously resolved to report adversely on that section of Cobb’s bill forfeiting the laud grant of the Northern Pacific, as bnt 600 miles remain to be completed, and the enterprise was hampered by the collapse of Jay Cooke. J. R. Shipherd was before the Peruvian Investigating Committee at Washington, on the 17th inst, but positively declined to furnish documents showing what he did to enforce the claim of the company. Shipherd addressed to Chairman Williams a letter protests ing against the liberty accorded to Mr. Blaine in the, investigation. He states that he is prepared to supply all the evidence called for, including a letter from the President of the United States, and waits to know if ho is to be heard.

“ How does the Secretary of the Navy stand on the question of sending further expedition to the North pole ?” a Washington correspondent asked of an official in the Navy Department the other day. “He is dead against it,” was the reply, “ and, to use his own words, it would be as foolish as to adopt Mark Twain’s idea of sending out an expedition to find hell.” There is but one man in Congress who favors any more North-pole horrors, and he is not as strong that way as he was several days ago, especially since all tlio newspapers have declared it to be a crazy scheme. The fact that President Arthur attended the running races in Washington last week caused some persons to look back at the records. From those it is learned that President Arthur is the first President since Buchanan to attend horse-races. Gen. Grant, though very fond of horses, did not attend races during his Presidency. Buchanan, Pierce, Tyler and Van Burcn were very fond of horse-races, and attended all the great races in Virginia and Maryland during their terms of office.

POLITICAL POINTS.^ James G. Blaine has given to a New England Senator positive assurances that he will not be a candidate for a seat in the House of Representatives. Gen. Chalmers, who was ousted from the Congressional seat now occcupied by John R. Lynch, has takon the field as an independent candidate for Congress in the Second Mississippi district. Van H. Manning, Democrat, now represents this district in the House. He received at the last olection 15,255 votes, against 9,996 for Buchanan, Republican, and 8,585 for Harris, Greenbacker. Buchanan is contesting the seat It is said that Blaine is supporting Senator Mitchell in his revolt against the stalwarts in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Greenback State Convention, held at Harrisburg May 18, made the following nominations : Govornor, Thomas A. Armstrong: Lieutenant Governor, F. V. Powderly ; Supreme Judge, J. Adam Coke; Congressman-at-Largo, Robert K. Tomlinson. Aug. 2 has been fixed by the Indiana Democrats as tho date for their State Convention.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The yearly report of the Coroner of St Louis, Mo., shows that there were 86 suicides committed in the city, 31 homicides, 8 infanticides, and that there were 212 accidental deaths, and 433 deaths without medical attendance. Of the suicides 52>£ per cent, were by Germans, 20 per cent by Americans, and 9 per cent by Irish. Senator Sherman lately received the following letter: “My Dear Sib : I have- received your note with inclosed notice of pension granted me, for my husband’s , sake. I am truly mindful of the generous kindness shown the family of Gen. Garfieid not only by friends, but by the national legislature, and may I ask that you mako acknowledgment of this in whatever way and by whatever expression of my gratitude seems to you appropriate. With sentiments of high regard, very truly yours, “Lucketia R. Gab field.” Three well-known railroad men— C. D. W. Young, Auditor of the Chicago, St. Paul and Omaha road, Stewart Moore, connected with the Northern Pacific road, and C. C. Gosick, of Shakopee, Minn.—were drowned by .the capsizing of a boat while sailing in the waters of White Bear lake, not far from St. Paul. The Pope has consented to the division of the See of Detroit into two dioceses. The village of Danville, in the Province of Quebec, Canada, has been the scene of a disastrous conflagration, forty houses and stores being consumed. Mrs. Garfield has donated SSOO to the building fund of the Memorial Christian Church, at Washington, and has promised SSOO more when it is needed. The church will cost $40,000. Mr. Trescott’s mission of mediation between Peru and Chili has resulted in failure. His proposition to Peru for the cession of the provinco of Tarapaca to Chili as war indemnity was submitted on the 25th of April to the Peruvian authorities at a small interior town, and was rejected, Peru claiming that Tarapaca is worth $1,000,000,000, a sum enormously in excess of Chib’s demand for indemnity. The wife of Sergeant Mason has the promise of the President that something shall be done toward mitigating the sentence passed upon her husband, but it is likely that no action will be taken until after Guiteau has been hanged. A fund of $3,542, raised in Philadelphia, has been turned over to Mrs. Mason. The Canadian Parliament has been prorogued by the Governor General, and a new electron of members ordered for June 13. Crop notes : The prospect is good for a big crop of winter wheat in Southern Illinois. Kansas anticipates an immense crop of wheat and other grains, and the harvest will begin at least three weeks earlier than usual. In Minnesota the outlook is good, and in Nebraska splendid. The growing crops of grain were generally damaged in Arkansas by the late heavy rains.

FOREIGN NEWS. Mr. Jennings, in his cable dispatch to the New York World, says: “ Once again the Government is at sea about Ireland. Only tea days ago it had been decided that coercion should be abandoned fully and forever, and Mr. Forster resigned his Chief Secretaryship in consequence of the decision arrived at by his chief and colleagues. Now there has been introdneed- a .bill which is opposed to every principle of liberty, and infinitely surpasses in its severity all former coercive measures. The alliance of the Liberals with

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1882.

the Pamcllites, scarcely a fortnight old, has come to a sudden end. Tho tragedy in Phoenix Park has shown the Government, as it was probably intended to show the Government, that, although Mr. Parnell and other men regarded as ‘ leaders’ may come to terms, they can only speak for themselves, and the movement for complete separation will go on unchecked.” A Dublin dispatch says : The Government has issued a special proclamation, offering a reward of £SOO for information leading to the arrest of any one harboring the assassins of Cavendish and Burke or assisting in their escape. Persons harboring the assassins are liable to be sentenced to penal servitude for life. Information must be given within three months. It is believed the assassins are still in Dnblin, the car having been traced back to the city. The President and committee of the Chamber of Notables went to the Khedive’s palace in Cairo, Egypt, to intercede in behalf of the Ministers. The Khedive replied that he had nothing to say to rebels. At the Mansion Honse in London, a canister was found suspended to a railing by a brass hook, connected with which was a lighted fuse, which a policeman extinguished. The bor. was full of gunpowder. The police of Dublin have issued descriptions of four of the men engaged in the murder of Cavendish and Burke, one of whom has a hollow bridge on his nose. It is thought that at least twelve men were connected with the tragedy. Fifty Turkish soldiers were drowned by the beaching Of a transport in the Bosphorus. Gladstone introduced the Arrears bill in the House of Commons on the 15th inst He explained that the bill was limited to tenancies up to £3O, Griffith’s valuation. The bill will be administered by tho Land Commission, which will be assisted by the County Court Judge, boforo whom tho tenant will be obliged to provo inability to pay the arrears. Either the landlord or the tenant may apply to the commission. The bill only deals with two years’ arrears, and requires the tenant to pay one year's arrears from November, 1880, to November, 1881. When that is paid the whole remaining arrears will be canceled. The Gov-, eminent will contribute tho remaining rent from the residue of the Irish church surplus fund, the estimated amount of which is £l,600,000. There is no reason to believe that the claims on the Government’s contribution will exceed £2,000,000. The remaining £500,000, therefore, would be made up from the consolidated fund.

In the British House of Lords Granville stated that tho Government’s policy in regard to Egypt was tho maintenance of the sovereignty of the Sultan and liberty for the Christian population. They were in accord with the French Government, which disclaimed any intention to arrogate any preponderating influence. It was announced that tho French and Euglish squadrons had gone to Suda, on their way to Alexandria, and that tho Turkish Admiralty had been ordered to prepare twelvo ironclads and several transports for sea in connection with tho crisis in Eg'pt. The city of Cork has offered a reward of 125,000 for tho arreßt of the Dublin assassins. O’Rourke, the partner of Land League Treasurer Egan, has been released. A sister of Under Secretary Burke, residing in Dublin, has lieen granted a pension of £4OO yearly. Three persons identified with the management of the Ring Theater in Vienna, which was the scene of an awful holocaust on tho night of Dec. 8, 1881, have been convicted of contributory negligence. The Director of tho theater was sentenced to four months’ simple arrest, and two others to four and eight months’ imprisonment respectively, with the added penalty that they shall fast one day in each month. In the British House of Commons, Chamberlain", President of the Board of Trade, stated that when released from prison Parnell was absolutely ignorant of the plans of the Government on arrears of rent and other questions. O’Shea explained that at his own instance he had corresponded with Parnell and various members of the Government, and had reported to Secretary Forster the result of interviews with the suspects. The Garfield House is the name of a home for working girls on the Brighton road, near London, which has been established through charitable contributions and named in honor of the dead President The home was formally opened by Minister Lowell, with au attendance of many distinguished persons. The survivors of the ill-fated Jeannette Arctic expedition reached England May 17. The burning of the village of Marcilly, France, rendered 650 persons homeless. A cable from Dublin says: The evic - tions of tenants for non- payment of rent have been resumed in many parts of Ireland. The sadness and astonishment following the assassinations of the Irish Secretaries had the effect of stopping for a time the work of agitation. Taking advantage of the situation, the process-servers again prepared to oust tenants in arrears, and the work of evicting them is going on. While the National organization are yet in dread of making any overt opposition, the measures of repression proposed in Parliament are creating a revulsion of feeling throughout the country. There was a desire and hope that the murderers might be bronght to justice, but the growing feeling is that Parliament is determined to believe, no matter what happens, that there are no good traits or tender feelings in Irishmen means to push oppression and coercion to extremities.

LATEB NEWS ITEMS.

“Polk’’Wells, one of the Missouri gang of desperadoes, a convict in the lowa State penitentiary at Fort Madison, who recently murdered a prison-guard while making his escape from that institution, has been tried and convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to life imprisonment. One of his fellow-convicts, implicated in the murder, met with a like fate, and another was convicted of ir nrder in the second degree. The bill for the repression of crime in Ireland passed to a second reading in the British House of Commons, May 19, by a vote of 983 to 45. Gladstone said the bill was not founded upon a panic, nor conceived in party spirit. It was intended to meet a great crisis in a spirit approved by all loyal citizens. Gladstone denied, also, that the bill was the outcome of English resentment He stated he had received 600 addresses from various public bodies expressing a hope that the murders would not hinder remedial legislation. An SBOO,OOO conflagration occurred in the city of Lyons, France. At Leadville, Col., a fire burned the Academy of Musio, the Windsor Hotel and several adjoining buildings. Loss, $200,000. It is believed that three or four persons were horned to death.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

The will of ex-Gov. Washburn was filed at La Crosse the other day, and covers property valued at $2,500,000. Full details will not be given to the pnblio for several weeks, but it is known that $50,000 is set aside for a pnblio library-at La Crosse and $375,000 for an orphan and half-orphan asylum at Minneapolis, in memory of the mother of the testator. During, a tight-rope performance at Edwardsvilie, IIL, a chimney gave way, injuring six boys, two of them receiving fractures of the skulk 1 Immigrants continue to disembark at Castle Garden, N. Y., in enormous numbers. Shirt-makers from Havre say they have been earning less than 5 francs per week, while Scotch farm laborers report their wages at S7O per year and found. The steamship Alexandria brings several hundred Italian railroad builders, who have nothing but the clothes they wear. At Waxahatchie, Texas, flames swept away SIOO,OOO worth of property in tho business heart of the town. W. W. Rea was executed at Pulaski, Tenn., for the murder of J. T. Goodrum. A. D. Leighton, a negro, at New York, was hanged for the murder of Mary Dean. The noose caught under the chin, and he slowly strangled to death.

FOUTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

The Honse of Representatives, at its session on the 13th inst., ordered the River and Harbor Ap propriationbill printed and recommitted. Objection was made to oalling np the bill to suspend the issue of silver certificates and limit the coinage of silver dollars. Mr. Crapo called up the act to extend the charters of the national banks, on which three speeches were made, when it went over. A joint resolution was introduced to make Lieut Danenhower a Lieutenant Commander for his services in the Jeannette expedition. Mr. Davis, of Illinois, laid before the House a petition signed by more than 3,000 citizens of Chicago and vicinity, asking for legislation to preventthe adulteration of butter and cheese with foreign fats. Tho petition was referred to the Committee of Wavs and Means. The Senate was not in session.

Favorable reports were made in the Senate, on the 15th inst., upon bills for publio buildings at Louisville, Hannibal, Detroit, Council Bluffs and Jackson, Tenn., and an act was presented for a postoffice at LaCrosse. A bill was introduced to aid in the establishment of a school of forestry at St. Paul. Bills were passed to refund the taxes on incomes collected without authority from citizens of • Tennessee and to bring home from Chili the remains of Minister Kilpatrick. Mr. Morrill offered a substitute for the House bill on bonded spirits, and Mr. Beck addressed the Senate in favor of the onginal measure. Mr. Windom announced his intention to proceed with the investigation into the purpose of the distillers in raisiug $600,000. The President sent to the Senate the following nominations: James A. McKee, of Texas, Marshal for the Northern district of Texas ; EL L. Goslin, of Texas, Marshal for the Western district of Texas; J. C- Bigger, of Texas, Attorney for the Northern district of Texas; M. K Williamson, of Tennessee, Marshal for the Western district of Tennessee; William A. Maury, of the District of Columbia, Assistant Attorney General of the United States; Robert R. Hays, of Kansas, Receiver of Public Moneys at Kirwin, Kas.; William M. Redpatb, of Indiana, Agent for the Indians of the Yankton Agency, Dakota. Despite the efforts of Senators Hoar and Dawes, Mr. Worthington was confirmed as Collector of the Port of Boston by 88 to 14. Mr. Burrows’ bill for the protection of Western farmers who purchase patented implements, etc., against claimants passed the House. Mr. Robinson offered a resolution of inquiry whether official papers respecting the imprisonment of American citizens in Great Britain had been received by the State Department, and what answer had been made. Mr. Lynch introduced a bill to reimburse depositors in the Freedman’s Bank. A resolution was adopted directing the Secretary of War to inquire into the propriety of purchasing the house in which President Lincoln died. An attempt to pass a bill revising the militia laws was defeated by 61 to 138. Mr. Lynoh introduced a bill in regard to the duties of supervisors of elections. The Commissioner of Pensions asked the House to, make the deficiency appropriation of $16,000,000 available by May 25. The Senate passed a bill, at its session on the 16th inst., authorizing the Rock Island and Southwestern railway to bridge the Mississippi at New Boston, 111. A joint resolution was passed authorizing the Librarian of Congress to accept the library offered by Dr. J. M. Toner, of Washington. Mr. Bayard made a favorable report on a substitute for the Bonded Spirits bill. An act for a publio building at Jackson, Tenn., was passed. Mr. Vest reported favorably the bill for a United States Court in Indian Territory. Mr. Plumb explained the provisions of the 5-per-cent. bilL The Honse spent the day on the bill to facilitate the reorganization of national banks. Mr. Hewitt pronounced the present system the best yet devised. Mr. Buckner thought the bill unnecessary. Mr. Butterworth insisted that revenues should be kept in coin. Mr. Bramm spoke briefly, when an evening session was ordered for a continuance of the debate.

Mr. Gameron made an adverse report in the Senate, on the 17th inst, on the joint resolution tendering the thanks of Congress to Chief Engineer Melville, of the navy. Mr. Sherman presented an offer from Mrs. Betty B. Bassett, of Virginia, to sell to the Government the family Bible of George Washington. A bill to extend for seven years the patent on the steam grain- shovel was favorably reported. Mr. Garland and others spoke on the 6-per-cent, land bill, which went over. The House debated the National-Bank Charter bill. Mr. Murch offered an amendment to reduce the time of extension to three years, which was rejected by 61 to 117. Mr. Buckner moved to make the period ten years, when the measure went over. Mr. Hazelton reported that Mr. Lowe was entitled to the seat held by Mr. Wheeler from the Eighth district of Alabama. The Commissioner of Agriculture reported that cinchona seeds had been distributed through the country. The Demo cratic members of the House held a caucus in the evening and adopted resolutions declaring it to be the policy of their party to filibuster against>ny attempt of the Republicans to bring up the case of Mackey vb. O’Connor, from South Carolina. The reasons assigned by the Democrats for this line of policy are that the Committee on Elections is a packed committee; that there are only four Democrats upon the committee, and some of those are siok; that the Democratic party is without proper representation, and that the Republicans, for party purposes, are endeavoring to seat the Southern contestants.

Mr. Cameron made a favorable report to the Senate, May 16, on a bill appropriating SIOO,OOO for a public building at La Crosse. The Senate resolved to postpone for an indefinite period the bill to extend the patent of the Spendelow steam grain-shovel. A House bill was passed authorizing the receipt of gold com in exchange for b»rs. A bill was passed, for refunding $22,251 to Hiram Johnson and forty-six others, it being the surplus of a military assessment levied upon them. The 6-per cent bill was taken up and amendments were offered by Messrs. Saulsbury, Yance and Morgan, the latter proposing that payment be made in cash instead of bonds. Messrs. Conger, Allison and McDill also spoke on the measure, which went over. The House passed an act providing that any former citizen of the United Slates who has been naturalized in Great Britain may publicly declare his renunciation and resume his privileges as an American citizen by signing an instrument to that effect. A bill was passed to make Newport News a port of entry. The National Bank Charter bill was taken up. Mr. Buckner’s amendment, to limit the extension to ten years, was lost by 92 to 116. Mr. Springer offered a proposition that all charters shall expire twenty years from next January unless CoDgress shall provide for an earlier period. Mr. Cannon offered an additional section, which was adopted, providing that banks with a capital of $150,000 or less shall not be required to deposit with the Treasurer bonds in excess of SIO,OOO as security for their notes. He then moved to reconsider and to lay that motion on the table, which was agreed to ,by 111 to 96 Mr. Randall offered an amendment, which was adopted, that in the reorganization of any bank stockholders shall be entitled to preference in the allotment of shares. Mr. Holman proposed that banks obtaining the benefit of this act shall pay the oost of preparing plates for new notes,

which was agreed to. For the benefit of associations which do not reorganize, Mr. Crapo carried an amendment that their franchises be . extended long enough to liquidate. Mr. Crapo moved that any withdrawal of circulation mutt be preceded by ninety days’ notice. Mr. Culberson proposed that no bank be allowed to surrender more than one-tenth of its circulation in any one year, which was lost by 88 to 116. The Speaker laid before the House papers relative to the imprisonment of Thomas Shields and Charles Webber in Mexico, The Senate passed the 5-per-cent Land bill on the 19th inst, by a vote of 23 to 17. House bills for public buildings at Louisville, Hannibal, Detroit, Council Bluffs, La Crosse and Galveston, involving an expenditure of $1,975,000, also went through triumphantly. The Garfield Memorial Hospital was incorporated. An act was passed to authorize the Texas and St Louis railway to build bridges in Arkansas. The House resumed consideration of the bill to extend the charters of national banks. An amendment offered by Mr. Crapo as an inde peiuMwUWetion was adopted, providing that banks desiring to withdraw circulating notes must give ninety days’ notice to the Secretary of the Treasury, and that not more than $5,000,000 of legal tenders shall be deposited for this purpose during any month. By a vote of 109 to 82, Mr. Crapo secured the insertion of another section, providing that the circulation issued to any bank shall not exceed the par value of bonds deposited, or be greater than 90 per cent, of the paid-up capital. An amendment by Mr. Buckner to increase the reserve fund was rejected After a score of other amendments had been defeated, Mr. Murcb moved to lay the bill on the table, which was lost by 46 to 104. Following is the vote on the final passage of the bill: Yeas— Aldrich, Barr, Bayne, Beach, Belmont, Bingham, Bliss, Briggs, Buck, Burrows (Mich.), Butterworth, Calkins, Campbell, Candler, Cannon, Carpenter, Caswell, Cnase, Hardenbergh, Harris (Mass.), Harris (N. J.), Haskell, Heilman, Henderson, Hiscock, Hoblitzell, Houk, Humphrey, Hutchins, Jacobs, Jadwin, Kelley, Klotz, Lewis, Lord, Lynch, Rice (Ohio), Bice (Mass.), Rich, Richardson (N. Y.), Richardson (S. C.), Ritchie, Robeson, Robinson (Mass.), Robinson (Ohio), Ross, Russell, Ryan, Shelley, Shultz, Skinner, Smith (Pa.), Smith (Ill.), Smith (N. Y.), Covington, Crapo, Cullen, Davis (I1L), Dawes, Deeting, Demotte. Deunter. Dibble, Dingley, Dunnell, Dwight, Ermentrout, Ellis, Evins, Farwell (Iowa), Flower, Garrison, Mason, Mo-C-hvo, McCard, McCook, McKinley, Miles, Miller, Moore, Morey, Mutohler, New, Norcross, O’Neil, Orth, Parker, Fayson, Pecller, Pierce, Spaulding, Spooner, Stone, Strait, Thomas, Thompson (Iowa), Tillman, Townsend (Ohio), Tyler, Updegraff (Ohio), Updegraff (Iowa), Urner, Van Aernam, Wait, Ward, Watson, Webber, West, - George, Godsbaik, Grout, Guenther, Hall, Hammond (N. Y.), Pettibone, Phelps, Pound, Prescott, Itanney, Ray, White, Williams (Wis.), Willetts, W. A. Wood (N. Y.), Young—l2s. Nays Aiken, Anderson, Atkins, Beltzhoover, Bland, Blount, Bramm, Burrows (Mo.), Cabell, Caldwell, Finley, Ford, Forney, Geddes, Gunter, Hammcad (Ga.), Hazoltine, Hatch, Hoge, Holman, Morrison, Muldrow, Murch, Randall, Reagan, Rico, (Mo.), Shakelford, Simonton, Singleton (Ill.), Singleton (Miss.), Cassidy, Clardy, Clarke, Clements, Cobb, Colerick, Converse, Cook, Cravens, Culbertson, Cntts, Davis (Mo.), Dunn, House, Jones (Tex.), Jones (Ark.), Kcnna, Knott, Ladd, Lefevre, Marsh, Matson, McKenzie, McMillan, Money, Sparks, Springer, Stockslager, Thompson (Ky.), Turner (Ga.), Turner (Ky.), Vance, Warner, Welborn, Wbitthorne, Williams (Ala.), Wilson —67. The measure was passed by 125 to 67. A joint resolution was passed appropriating $16,1)00,000 to supply pension deficiencies.

Partyism.

Partyism in politics is tlie quintessence of party spirit. Anri Whately, the philosopher and scholar, said that “ party spirit enlists a man’s virtue? in the cause of his vices.”

It is a manifest and indisputable fact that the present dominant party in the United States is under the absolute control of partyism as the ruling principle, and consequently what virtues the men of that party may have are enlisted in the cause of their vices. This is a most humiliating and painful fact, and the passing events at the capital of the nation every day give indubitable evidence of its continued existence. Partyism has actually usurped the place of both patriotism and statesmanship. When any measure of public poiicy is presented the inquiry by the leaders of this party is not whether it is constitutional and expedient, whether it will promote the general welfare, is required for the common defense, or to secure the blessings of. liberty or the rights of the people. These things are not thought of, but the inquiry is, will it promote the interests of the party and tend to strengthen it, or will it tend to weaken and defeat the Democratic party ? Party ambition and cupidity alone control. The supremacy of the constitution and the true objects of the Government, which have in view the good and welfare of the whole country, and all the people equally and alike, have been supplanted by party, and the interests and supremacy of this Republican party have taken their places and sacrificed every thing for the distribution of the offices, honors and emoluments of the Government among the adherents of the party as rewards for partisan services. Every political measure, and every political movement in Congress and out of Congress, ! in the executive mansion, and in every official station throughout the remotest confines of the country is tested by the party standard. If it be for the good of the party, the general welfare, the rights of the people, the constitution itself, and the public'safety amount to nothing. The good of the Republican party, and its success and ascendency are made paramount to all other considerations and in fact the sole governing criterion of that party. The most corrupt and degrading abuses of partyism are adopted. By the machinery of caucus leg slation laws are passed which are against the conscientious judgment of a majority of the legislative bodies enacting them. By the intervention of election returning boards they have fraudulently changed the results of elections. And by a partisan system of Supervisors and Deputy Marshals of elections, and the use of money at the polls, and the spoils system of office, they have corrupted and controlled the elections and defeated and practically overthrown popular government. Everything is made to succumb to the inexorable purpose of the Moloch of the party, and to contribute to party supremacy, wholly regardless of all restraints of the constitution or of established principles, political or moral. One of the most influential of the acknowledged leaders of this party, Senator Sherman, deliberately announced in his place on the floor of the Senate, about a year ago, that “anything that will bear down that party (the Democratic), and build up our own (the Republican) is justifiable in morals and in law !”—that is, anything, however immoral or criminal, that will beat down the Democratic party, and keep the Repnbl ican party in power, is j ustifiable in morals and in law. [See Congressional Record, volume 12, No. 23, page 10, April 7,1881.] This is the doctrine which has, and does now, govern the leaders of this party. The preservation of the party and its supremacy are made to rise above all ether considerations, moral and political. Under such teachings Guiteau concluded that it was a “political necessity,” in order to save the party, to put President Garfield out of the way, heuce the assassination. American Register,

PENNSYLVANIA.

The Republican Split—Senator Mitchell Declares War Afalnst the Cameron Clan* [Philadelphia dor. Chicago Tribune.] Senator Mitchell goes a step further every day in his opposition to the Gameron regime in Pennsylvania and to the administration of President Arthur. The fullest and most pronounced exposition of his views are given in the Fress in an interview with his old personal friend, H. J. Ramsdell. The tone of this interview leaves no further room for doubt that the most serious warfare against Don Cameron has fairly begun, and that the present breach in the Regublican party in Pennsylvania cannot e healed by anything short of the overthrow of the Cameron dynasty. Following are the chief points of this re - markable interview: Being asked why the Independent Republicans are dissatisfied with the ticket framed at Harrisburg, Senator Mitchell said: “ It is not men that the Independents are contending for; it is principles. The ticket is as strong a ticket as could be selected. Ido not particularly object to the men. The Independents in Pennsylvania are not making war upon persons. They have not even claimed the right to initiate nominations. They asked only that the men whose antecedents and character would make sure the suppression of machine methods, bossism and the spoils system in Pennsylvania should be selected. They demand that works shall be added to the profession of faith to which the stalwart committee said ‘ Amen I’ at the late conference. For bread they ai;e given a stone. Their declaration of principles was laughed to scorn in Cameron’s convention. It was robbed of its practical effect even upon future party control by eliminating the clause which requires the representation at State Conventions to be based upon the Republican vote of each county. “It was also vitally stabbed by leaving the right to vote at primaries to be by county committees at their own will, when they generally have no will but that of the imperial head of the party.”

“ Why were you not at Harrisburg?” “It was Mr. Cameron’s convention, not mine. He could turn the crank of his machine. With the exception of Marshall, the ticket was selected months and months ago. Even Mr. Rawie Bays Cameron gave him his nomination as a Christmas-gift. The gift is one of genuine quality and intrinsic fitness and value, bnt all self-respecting Republicans as well as Independents in Pennsylvania must deny the right of Mr. Cameron to select and make it for them, or they deserve ever after to be political slaves. Under the feudal system certain classes of men were Called “ villians regardant. ” They not only belonged to the lord of the fee, but they wore his collar as a mark of their bondage, and they passed with the land to which they were appurtenant when it was sold. They had no freedom as men, and no choice even of their masters. For myself I propose to stand free from such" restraint in politics.” “ Well, Senator, what does the Independent movemenl mean, anyhow?” “ The Independent movement in Pennsylvania means simply that Republicans are freemen of the party, whose voice shall be respected in party couffcils and whose public servants, placed in power by their votes, shall be servants of the people, and not henchmen of party leaders and slaves of political bosses. It demands the absolute banishment of the spoils system from American politics and Governmental administration at once and forever. “ The spoils system, used even for party advantage, is destructive of true republican government, but when, as now in Pennsylvania and at Washington, it is used to give the mastership to a faction of the party in power, it is a crime against every instinct of patriotism itself. The people will put that thing down, and the Pennsylvania Independents have resolved to give them the chance to blot it out forever. If the Republican party is to live in the State and in the nation it must come up resolutely to this work.”

“But suppose the Republicans are beaten at the polls ? ” “ If the Republican ticket should be defeated in Pennsylvania this year it will not bo because the Republicans love their party less but their country more. The Independents are making principles of improved party and Government administration, and against the use of patronage for the advantage of any person or faction. The ticket just nominated in no sense represents this idea in our politics, and, however honorable and respectable it may be in its personnel, it must be beaten, or bossism, machinism and the spoils system will win. Had the Independents been met half way in the effort to unite with the party on this basis of action, the whole party would have marched on to victory and its continued supremacy m the State and nation might well have been assured. The stalwarts have had a whole year of probation, twice as long as the Methodists give, but they are joined to their idols, and the hope of their regeneration cannot be realized without a miracle. ” “ Does your opposition to what you call the Cameron machine in Pennsylvania go so far as to include the national administration ?” “The national administration appears to be determined to stand by this stalwart use of the spoils system to perpetuate itself. This is a suicidal policy, and it will fail, as it deserves to fail. The President has power, under the existing laws, to inaugurate a true civil-service reform in every great postoffice, custom house and department of the Government. It has been tried in those of New York, and has succeeded admirably. It insures good service on purely business principles, and it has resulted in large savings in expenses wherever it has been tried, whether here or in England. It will save public men from the waste of most of their tune incident to the practices in vogue, and it will leave them •free to devote, their energies to their proper duties. After some experience in public affairs, and after an examination into the practical workings of the system, as a member oftthe Civil Service Committee of the Senate, I am fully satisfied that this system should be promptly adopted and worked out to what I regard as an assured success in this country. It will come, and come in the near future. This force is a balance of power in this country, and it will, as I hope and believe, control the next Presidential election. Had President Arthur seen this, and acted accordingly, he might have been his own successor. There may be time jet, but I fs*r there

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is not. I have small hope of his oonver* sion to this view.”

A Carnival of Jobbery.

Never in tLe history of this eountry has the rush for special legislation been so great as in the present Republican Congress. Secor Robeson, of unsavory reputation, is the leader of his party in the House, and a most fit subject to lead a raid upon the treasury. Such spoliation of the treasury in comparison has heretofore been unknown in Congress. Competent officers of the House have computed the bills and resolutions and the amounts which they propose to authorize to be paid out of the treasury, which are simply enormous, 6,664 bills and 185 joint resolu - tions having been introduced, involving payments from the treasury amounting to $643,811,936. This sum does not include the allowance matte by 1,190 pension bills which have been passed and which are pending. The majority in the House looks upon these long arrays of figures with profound indifference. Grantism has been made respectable by this carnival of prodigality and plunder. This Congress will end in a wild debauch of reckless appropriations. That $150,000,000 surplus in the treasury is a feast for harpies and invites the liveliest anticipations of rings and robbers. That sum is a tidbit around which the wolves howl and struggle. Many of these bills will be kept back until the waning hours of the session, when, amid the confusion, they will be rushed through and become laws. It appears that almost every one is interested in one of these magnificent steals, so that by concerted action the last moments of this Congress will witness plundering on a scale more gigantic than ever witnessed before. The millions of acres of lapsed land grants, which involve a domain larger than the States of New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, are in the hands of such committees and under such influences that the corporations interested wiil carry their sway against the poor settlers, who must suffer the loss of all. Those lands foot up in value over $210,000,000 at the minimum prices, and yet corporate influences will secure such legislation as will give these lands back into the hands of the railroad companies, who have no more rights in them than they have in Van Dieman’s land. T?he fact is, the present Congress is under corporate control, as is also the administration. It is well there is a strong and vigilant minority in our legi dative halls.

The people cannot watch too closely the members from their districts. These men in theory are the servants of the people, but they have finally become their mastert, and most severe taskmasters do they prove. —Grand Rapids Democrat.

Caught a Hasband.

In some parts of France marriageable girls are aceustomed to pluck, as they return from midnight mass on Christmas eve, a sprig of apple-tree, which they put in a vial full of waver. The vial is hung in their bed-chamber, in front of the window; if one bud blooms before Easter, the mistress is sure to be married before the year ends. Among the servants of a chateau near Alencon was a chambermaid from Brittany. She was gentle, good-natured, quiet, pious—an excellent creature every way, but—she was hunch-backed. Her name was Ursule. Taking advantage of the dark night, she, too, plucked a sprig of apple tree, sure that nobody saw her. She was mistaken. A fellow servant saw her, and made the servants’ hall ring with peals of laughter at poor Ursule’s expense. Still they kept the secret among themselves. They all agreed to play a trick on poor Ursule. Easter eve one of the journeymen gardeners removed the old sprig of apple-tree in Ursule’s bed-chamber and put in its place a sprig covered with blossoms. When Ursule went into her bed-chamber she could not believe her eyes. She returned to the servants’ hall, her face being radiant with delight as she showed her trophy. The laughter, jeers, and hootings of her comrades revealed the trick put upon her. She stood dumb, confounded, trembling, scarcely able to restrain her tears. Just at this moment the mistress entered the servants’ hall. An elderly servant explained the scene to her. The mistress said: “Ursule, the apple-tree sprig may be trusted; believe it, you will be married before Christmas next; you are a virtuous girl; I am sure you will make a virtuous wife; all you want to get a husband is money; the money wanted I will give you.” As she spoke, the mistress twined a 1,000 frano banknote around the sprig and returned it to Ursule. A fortnight afterward the journeyman gardener who had put the trick on her asked her in marriage, but she refused him (at which he was greatly jeered) and married another.

Wit of Disraeli.

Despair is the conclusion of fools. A pure conscience may defy city gossips. Development is the disoovery of utility. Knowledge is the foundation of eloquence. We make our fortunes and we call them fate. To revive faith is more difficult than to create it. Candor is a great virtue. There is a jharm. a healthy charm, in frankness. Woman alone can organize a drawingroom; man succeeds sometimes in a library. Circumstances are beyond the control 3f man; but his conduct it' in his own power. Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession >f great power. Flattery is the destruction of all good fellowship; it is like a qualmish liquor in the midst of a bottle of wine. Perhaps there is nothing mere lovely Hum the love of beautiful women who ire not jealous of each other’s charms. Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Tuncan's Advice.

“You could hear, I dare say,” said Mr. M’Lachlan, “what happened to our brother from the Sound when he was preaching at Kilmore? You know he is very fond of preaching extempore, and when he went into the vestry he said to the elders, T really do not know what to preach apout,’ says he. ‘Do you not know,’ says Tuncan M’Tavisli, one of the elders ‘what to preach about?’ ‘No, I do not, really.’ ‘Well, then,.’ says Tuncan, ‘shust preach apout five minutes. It’ll be enough,’”

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INDIANA ITEMS.

A shower of fish is reported near Cambridge City. There are 8,872 children in the public schools of Madison. A quantity of counterfeit coin has been circulated in Peru of late. The Council of Lafayette is in favor of supplanting gas in that city with the electric light. A carpenter fell from the roof of a barn which he was building at Frankfort, and received fatal injuries. By a change in the channel of White river, a fine flouring-mill at Maysvillo has been left standing on an island. George Bowers was instantly killed by the explosion of a boiler in the sawmill of George Grubb, of Greencastle. Evansville has made contracts for electrio lights in the streets, and expects to complete the system in ninety days. Shelby county has abolished the system of holding “teachers’ institutes,” and will hereafter hold what are called “ model schools. ” Dr. Isaac Sparks, of Plainfield, aged 87, separated from his wife, Sophronia, aged 72. The parties were married a little over a year a'go. Martin Whittet, aged about 40 years, in attempting to swim his horse across Twin creek, Franklin county, was thrown off and drowned. A man near New Albany has a chicken with three legs, all used in walking, and two fully-developed tails. The fowl is a great curiosity, and is valued at SSO. Bill Arnold and Andrew Tucker, of Rush county, have sued the Cincinnati Enquirer for $10,003 each, for libel, in connecting their names with Osear Garrett as his confederates. The experts appointed at Madison to examine ex-Townsliip Trustee Samuel Cochran’s books and aocounts have gone far enough to see that the county owes him between S6OO and S7OO. Lightnino-rod Bharps caught ten or fifteen farmers of Wabash county for about $1,200, in sums ranging from SSO to $289 e%ch. Most of those bitten considered themselves very shrewd business men. The hogs that have died in Davioss county, of a so-called new disease, died of leeches in the stomach and intestines. One was dissected and the truth discovered. They drank the leeches while feeding in the low bottoms. Robert Harvel, a farmer of Hendricks county, whose house was one night last summer broken into, and himself gagged and robbed of $536, is now defendant in a libel suit brought by a man he had accused of the deed. The 12-year-old son of John L. Wright, car inspector at the St. Paul stone quarries, in Shelby county, vas instantly killed by being crushed to death. The boy was playing on top of a car, and was caught between it and a stone wall. An old lady living near Rich Valley, Wabash county, was fatally injured by being struck on the head with an ax wielded by her granddaughter, who was chopping off the head of a chicken, which die old lady was holding. A romantic marriage was solemnized a few days since, the parties being Dr. Nathan Hamilton, of Randolph county, aged 65, and Mrs. Anna Layson, of Fayette county, aged 64. The couple were lovers nearly half a century ago, but were separated by the opposition of relatives. The saloon of Heffner & do., at Palestine, Kosciusko county, was blown up by dynamite. The building was ruined, the stock destroyed, one man mortally injured and a son of the proprietor injured badly. This is the third case of the kind that has occurred tliero in less than two months. In Fountain county, last summer, John Hathaway killed Joseph Martinas in a quarrel about sll rent unpaid by Hathaway, for winch crime ho was sentenced to tiie penitentiary for five years. A civil suit instituted by the widow of Martinas has just resulted in a verdict of $2,800 damages. The case will be appealed. The Downs-Ensminger case at Lafayette has been compromised. The last time this case was tried Mrs. D. was awarded judgment for $60,000, but, rather than to fight it longer, she agreed to com-prom-se for $21,000, the Ensmingcr estate to pay all court cods. Out of the $21,000 the claimant will liavo to pay the sum of $12,000 to her attorney. William Whiteneck attempted to open a saloon in Sweetstr, Wabash county. The people were very much torn up over it, and when Whiteneck opened the doors of the sa'oon seventyfive women marched to the place in a body and argued the matter with him, until he finally concluded to close up. Sweetser is now without a saloon.

Db. O. W. SoHEnii, a young physician of Lafayette, called at the office of the Times, and requested the publication of a paragraph he had written, in which it was stated that an article previously printed in the Times was fake. Col. John 8. Williams, the editor, declined to publish it, and to the doctor’s remark that he would give him twenty-four hours to print it, or he would settle with him, the Colonel replied the present was as good a time as any to settle. The doctor made an assault upon Williams, but, before either was much injured, persons in the room separated them. Tpß Grand Encampment of Odd Fellows met at Indianapolis in annual ses- * sion on the 17th inst., with all the grand officers and about 400 delegates present. The Grand Patriarch, It. Berger, presented his annual report, which showed the order to bo in a most gratifying condition throughout the State. The Grand Scribe reported the financial condition of the Grand Encampment to be so good as to warrant a reduction in the dues of subordinate encampments to at least 6 per cent. Hon. Schuyler Colfax made a speech. The Grand Encampment elected the following officers: G. P., H. Heichert, Frankfort; G. H. P., W. H. Jacobs, Logansport; Senior Warden, E. S. Porter, Greensburg; Junior Warden, T. R. A. Tcter, Brookville; Grand Scribe, B. F. Foster, Indianapolis; Treasurer, T. P. Haughey; representative to Grand Lodge, Richard Beyer, Indianapolis; Grand Sentinel, J. Watson, Indianapolis; Deputy, A. P. Bennett, Greensburg. The Grand Lodge met on the following day, there being 600 delegates present. Grand Master N. P. Richmond made the annual report, showing the order to be in a flourishing condition. B. F, Foster, Grand Secretary, reported the order strengthened in all the elements pertaining td a permanent growth of prosperity.