Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1882 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. But. A whale caught fire on a railway dock in Boston, and the fire department was called out to save the skeleton. He had been mounted for exhibition, and the loss is stated at #9,500. There was serious rioting at Jersey City arising out of the freight-handlers’ strike. Italian workmen were assaulted by the strikers, and retaliated with pistol shots, killing one person and wounding several. One Italian, in fleeing from the strikers, was drowned. The safe of the Bank Italo-Americano in New York was broken open and robbed of #6,600. •While workmen on the North Shore road were blasting near Milton, N. Y., a premature explcsion killed three Italians and seriously injured eight others. Wist A gambles named Madden, who died «t I.eadvillo the other day, had the largest brain ever taken from ’ a human skull in this country. It weighed ounces, nearly nine ounces more than Daniel Webster’s brain. A party of Germans made an attempt to batter down tlio doers of tho jail at Las Yegas, in ordor to lynch H. C. Brown for the murder of Frank Meyer. The Sheriff gave them ample warning, and then ordered the guards to open with Winchester rifles. When the smoko cleared away, four men lay on tho ground badly wounAd, two of whom will die. A party of 100 Indians captured every horse belonging to a band of citizens who left Globe City, Arizona, to protect settlers in the Salt river country, and the rangers walked borne. For the fourth time in the past eight years the mill of East & Lewis, at Lima, Ohio, has been burned, the losses aggregating 180,000. The charges of infidelity and skepticism often repeated against tho Michigan University are answered by tho fact that more than 80 per cent, of tho students, 61 per cent, of the faculty and 84 per cent, of the teachers and assistants are professing Christians. South. Mont Robbins, whose father, ex-Con-gressman William Robbins, was assaulted by L. Mott, at Statesville, N. C., on account of a bitter political speech, went to Iredell county, where Mott lived, and killed Mott for the attack on his father. F. L. Jones, a photographer of Louisville*, Miss., who has already murdered four men, killed a toy namesake in cold blood. Editors Gaines and Sears, of Louisville, indulged in a street fight over a journalistic quarrel. Several shots wore fired, but no serious damage was inflicted. A storekeeper, a block away from tho disturbance, was more soveiely injured by a stray bullet than either of the belligerents. Philip Haison was hanged at Clinton, N. C., for the murder of Henry Sellers. A mob of white and black men overpowered the jailer at Henderson, Ky., took out a negro named Wm. -Ritter, and hanged him to a tree on tho outskirts, for the rape and minder of a colored girl. WASHINGTON NOTES. Secretary Folger has made a report of the celebrated Doyle bond case. In addit on to his own special report in the matter, lie has given out for general publication the opinion of the experts on which ho has baßed his decision. The opinion of the experts is very elaborate, and goes into tho matter of tho various differences between the counterfeits and Government bonds with tlio greatest detail. Secretary Folger has arrived at the conclusion that the plates submitted to him by Mr. Felker are counterfeits, and are not in any way transfers from genuine work. He says, however, that he does not question tho good faith of Mr. Felker In suWnitting them. He has no doubt that Mr. Felker believes that they were transfers from genuino work ; hut, from his investigations of the entire subject through a number of disinterested experts working separately, he has arrived at the conclusion that they are counterfeits, and that, therefore, Mr. Doyle has not submitted anything which entitles him to any consideration at the hands of the Treasury Department. The Secretary of the Treasury has issued a call for $16,000,000 6-per-cent bonds continued at 3% per cent, from July, 1881. The principal and accrued interest will be paid the 18th of September next, and interest will cease that day. Following is a description of the bonds: SSO, Nos. 801 to 900, both inclusive ; SIOO, Nos. 6,501 to 6,500, both inclusive ; SSOO, Nos. 3,601 to 4,159, both inclusive ; SI,COO, Nos. 19,001 to 21,000, both inclusive; $5,000, Nos. 6,401 to 6,900, both inclusive; SIO,OOO, Nos. 12,501 to 14,650, both inclusive. The people of Washington have a new dread of imprisonment in the jail, as a story is in circulation that Guiteau’s ghost walks the corridors after midnight. Two artesian wells will be sunk in Colorado _by Commissioner Loring, as an experiment toward reclaiming the desert sections by Irrigation. In the returns up to July 1, received by the Department of Agriculture at Washington from all the States and Territories' of the United States, aiv.exceptionally fifte sho'wiug is made as to all the leading cereals except corn. Illinois, the State. of largest acreage, stands lowest of all in the condition of corn, and the general average of the whole country is 85, against 90 in July last year. A medium yield for the yphole . country, which would be 1,7(j6,000,060 -bushels, is now virtually out of the question, and about the best that can be hoped for is that the yield will aggregate 1,200,000,000 bushels. It may fall short of that amount with unfavorable weather duriDg tho next eight or ten weeks. As regards winter and spring wheat, oats, rye and barley, the returns are remarkably favorable. The average for winter wheat stands at 104, against 83 a year ago, and all promise an unusually large yield. A Washington dispatch announces that the bouquet which Mrs. Scoville endeavored to carry to Guiteau has been found to contain enough arsenic to end the lives of a dozen murderers. Drs. Somers and Hartigan, who acted with Dr. Lairib in the Guiteau autopsy, have made their report, which differs from the Lamb report in many particulars. They criticise Dr, Lamb’s mode of procedure at the autopsy and take issue with him as to the state of the brain, which they find to have been in an average healthy condition, nothing abnormal being visible. . i The Secretary of the Treasury Ltjp issued notice of the readinesß of the department to change 3% and 5-per-cent, into 3-per-cent. registered bonds, nnder the new law. By an order issued from the War De - partment the Military Department of West Point will be discontinued Aug. 20, 1882., The General of the Army, under the War Departing wifi hsre supervision of the Military

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VOLUME VI

Academy. Col. Wesley Merrill, of the Filth Cavalry, is appointed Superintendent, and will relieve Gen. O. O. Howard Sept 1. Gen. Howard is assigned to the command of the Department of the Platte, relieving Gen. George Crook, who is assigned to the command of the Department of Arizona. POLITICAL POINTS. State organizations among the de partment employes, a Washington dispatch states, are responding to Hubbeli’s circular not only with money, but by resolutions condemning those employes who won’t help the party. At a convention at Nashville of the State Credit Damocrats of Tennessee, J. H. Fassell was placed in nomination for Governor. The Republican (Cameron) State Central Committee of Pennsylvania met at Philadelphia to restore harmony in the party. The candidates for State offices were invited into the hall, and presented a letter placing their claims in the hands of the committee. It was then resolved to send the Independents four propositions from which a choice can be made—viz., that both tickets be submitted to a vote of the party at the primaries; that the party at tho primaries select a ticket by popular vote; that a new convention be held on the fourth Wednesday in August These propositions wero all rejected by the Independents, on the ground that the acceptance of either offer would amount to a virtual surrender of all the principles for which they are contending and a reaffirmation of all the abuses of which they complain. The candidates on the Independent Republican ticket addressed a letter to the Cameron nominees, saying that some of the propositions made would produce harmony in the party, a,nd urging the withdrawal of both tickets, all the candidates to pledge themselves not to accept another nomination, a new convention to be held under the rules of the recent conference.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. A detective of New York caught in Havana, after following him through Montreal, New Orleans and Yera Cruz, Canon Bernard, who last year robbed a Belgian Bishop of 1,700,000 francs. On the.person of the culprit were found $20,000 in money and thirteen koys to safo-depost vaults. He acknowledged having left 40 per cent, of his plunder with bankers in Quebec, where it will be recovered. Russian exiles to the number of 250 have arrived at St. Louis. Their tales of op pression seem almost incredible. At a meeting in Buffalo, representatives of all the railroads leading westward decided to advance freight rates* from 3 to 10 cents per 100 pounds, July 24. A duel was fought at San Louis Potosi, Mexico, between Capt. Alvero and Maj. Cordova. The former was killed, and the latter survived but a short time. The Iron Manufacturers’ Association met at Pittsburgh last week and discussed matters pertaining to the strike. The members are determined as ever to resist the demands of the Amalgamated Association. A party of six Americans who crossed the border to hunt up stolen cattle were arrested by the Mexicans and thrown into a filthy prison. They were twice whipped, and their personal effects appropriated. They will present their caso to the authorities at Washington. Bishop Levi Scott, the senior Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church in America, died at Odessa, Del., aged 80 years.

FOREIGN NEWS. In view of the fact that the Egyptians were discovered mounting heavy guns near the entrance to Alexandria harbor, the British Admiral Seymour charged the authorities with a breach of faith, and on Sunday, July 9, demanded the surrender of the defenses within twelve hours, on penalty of bombardment of tho city twenty-four hours aftor the receipt of the notice. The Ministry declared they would resist. Arabi Paslia refused to obey the Sultan’s mandate to proceed to Constantinople. The members of the Consulates were taken on board ships in the harbor. Hablot Knight Browne, better known as “Phiz,” the illustrator of Dickens’ works, is dead. Thirty persons were injured in a railway collision at Cork, twelve of whom are not expected to survive. War between Great Britain and Egypt began on Tuesday, the 11th of July. The Egyptians having refused to obey the mandate of the British Admiral Seymour to cease work on the fortifications of Alexandria, he issued the order for the bombardment of the city, and precisely at 7 o’clock in the morning the fleet opened fire. The British Cabinet highly disapproves of the action of the Canadian Government iu resolving for home rule for Ireland. The Treasurer of the Irish Land League received from March to June £19,740. Most of the subscriptions were from America. Egypt can raise an army of 120,000 fighting men to repel invasion. The Repression bill has passed through both houses of tho British Parliament. At the funeral of Gen. SkobelefF, at Moscow, a crowd of 100,000 persons filled the streets. The Grand Dukes Nicholas and Alexis arrived from St. Petersburg and were cheered by the people. The remains were escorted to Riazan for interment The bombardment of Alexandria was distinctly heard at Malta, a distance of 800 miles, by connecting a telephone with tho submarine telegraphic cable. By the explosion of gas in a burning house in Paris twenty persons were killed, forty injured and twelve residences destroyed. A Dublin cablegram states that thirteen counties will be proclaimed under the Repression act

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Juan B, Alvarado, who was Governor of California from 1836 to 1843, died at San Pablo. At Dayton, W. T., every store, hotel and bank in the town was consumed by fire, which destroyed six business blocks. Loss, $300,000. Crop reports have been received by the Michigan Secretary of State from 685 townships. The acreage of wheat this year is 1,718,155, and the estimated yield is 31,420,834 bushels. Last .year’s acreage was 1,669,405, which yielded 20,173,471 bushels. Capt. Payne, of “Oklahoma,” called upon Secretary Teller. The Secretary told the Captain it would be imprudent to attempt to in the Territory himself and perhaps disastrous to lead others there. Under the Repression act sixteen counties, eight cities and four baronies of Ireland have been proclaimed. Three disastrous conflagrations occurred in New York city at nearly the same time. They broke out, respectively, in Whitehall, Pearl and Washington streets, and tbe damage occasioned will reach $900,000.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY, JULY' 21, 1882.

RAILROAD PROGRESS IN 1881.

An Increase of 11,142 Miles, making’ the Total in the United States at tbe End of 1881,104,813. From the forthcoming volume of “Poor’s Railroad Manual of the United States,” which has come to be acknowledged as an authority on snch statistics, the following synopsis of its prefatory statement of the general facts of railroad progress in the United States dnring the year 1881 is made : The year 1881 has been one of extraordinary activity in railroad affairs. Within the year 9,358 miles of railroad have been built, the greatest number for any one year. The greatest mileage for any previous year was 7,379 miles, in 1871. The totd miles in operation at the end of 1881 was 104,813, being an increase of 11,142 miles over the previous year. Tbe cost, at $25,000 per mile, of the lines constructed during the year was $233,750,000. In addition, ft least $75,000,000 were expended on lines in piogress, and $100,000,000, which is at the rate of only SI,OOO per mile, on old roads, in improving tlmir tracks, in building new stations, and in adding to their equipments. The total amount expended in construction dnring the past year was, in round numbers, $400,000,000. It now seems probable that the mileage to be opened in 1882 will equal that for 1881. Up to the Ist of June, 1882, 3,677 miles of line were opened, against 1,734 for the same period in 1881. The same rate of increase will not be maintained for the remainder of the year, but the aggrgate for it of new mileage is not likely to be much short of 10,000 miles. The earnings of all the roads in operation in the country the past year equaled $725,325,119, being an increase over the previous year of $110,000,000, the rate of increase being nearly 16 per cent The earnings equated $13.60 per head of our population. Their net earnings were $276,654,119, an increase of $24,500,000 over those for 1880. Their current expenses $449,565,071. The amount of interest paid dnring the year on their funded debts was $128,887,002; the amount paid in dividends was $93,342,200, against $77,115,411 for 1880. The cost of operating our railroads for the year was $449,565,071, or 62 per cent of their gross earnings. The total amount expended l their construction of new lines and in operating and improving the old ones was over s7so,ooo,ooo—the greater part of this vast sum being paid in wages. The number of persons employed in operating them the past year averaged fully twelve to the mile of operated line, or 1,200,000 in all. The number employed in the construction of our railroads equaled 400,000, increasing the total number of employes to 1,600,000, or about one-thirty-second part of our population, estimated at 53,200,000. The tonnage transported on all the railroads in the country in 1881 cannot have been less than 3,500 tons to the mile, or 350,000,000 tons. At an assumed value of SSO per ton, the value of the tonnage moved on all the railroads of the United States the past year, less one-third for duplication, was, say, $12,000,000,000, or more than S2OO per head of the whole population. The gross earnings for the New England States wero $52,880,809, agaiust $48,755,609 for 1880, $41,329,825 for 1879, and $41,260,203 for 1878. Of these earnings $31,924,145 were received for transportation of freight, mails, etc., and $20,956,664 for the transportation of passengers. The net earnings were $15,916,373, against $17,193,685 for 1880, $15,586,091 for 1879, and $13,685,927 for 1378. The dividends paid amounted to $8,393,030, against $7,999,191 for 1880, $7,236,203 for 1879, and $7,566,655 for 1878. The gross earnings of the railroads in the Middle States were $228,398,221, against $199,003,713 for 1880, $170,310,846 for 1879, and $155,458,963 for 1878. Of gross earnings, $176,780,223 were received for transportation of freight, mails, eta, and $ 1,617,998 for transportation of passengers. The net earnings were $84,862,704, against $83,923,393 for 1880, $70,416,970 for 1879, and $61,559,993 for 1878. The dividends paid amounted to $33,315,581, against $28,479,891 for 1880, $911,164 for 1879, and $21,148,422 for 1878. The gross earnings reported on the railroads in the Southern States were $63,737,087, against $48,317,754 for 1880, $43,917,284 for 1879, and $42,797,284 for 1878. The net earnings were $22,240,623, against $18,124,034 for 1880, $14,673,357 for 1879, and $14,379,958 for 1878. The dividends Daid amounted to $3,593,269, against $3,525,977 for 1880, $2,131,770 for 1879, and $2,805,799 for 1878. Tlio earnings from freigh’, mails, etc., were $49,950,755, and from passengers $13,786,332. Tho gross earnings of the railroads of the Western States were $344,393,806, against $290,588,190 for 1889, $232,379,646 for 1879, $2 9,852,275 for 1878. jhe net earnings were $134,756,393, against $125,166,218 for 1880, $98,961,906 for 1879, and $77,958,229 for 1878, The dividends paid amounted to $40,234,829, against $33,117,590 for 1880, $23,561,262 for 1879, and $19,341,222 for 1878. The earnings from freight, mads, etc., were $268,420,532, and from passengers $75,973,274. The earnings of the railroads in the Pacifio States, including the Central Pacific and its leased lines, amounted to $35,915,196, against $28,736,660 for 1880, $26,444,206 for 1879, and $26,881,007 for 1878. Of this sum $11,022,374 was derive-! from passengers, and $24,892,822 from transportation of freight, mails, etc. Tbe net earnings were $18,876,(60, againßt $lO,786,100 in 1880; dividends, $7,787,491, against $3,992,762 m 1880.

FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

The Senate passed a joint resolntion, at its session on the Bth inst, to allow the employes of the Government printing office pay for time lost during the Garfield obsequies.. Mr. Beck gave notice of an amendment to the Internal Revenue bill subjecting duties on imports to a discount of 10 per cent, after January next, and to a similar reduction after the July following. Mr. Morrill submitted amendments made by the Republican caucus. The River and Harbor bill coming up in committee of the whole, discussion was renewed on the item for tho survey of the Hennepin canal. The latter scheme was modified to provide that the Secretary of War can use SIOO,OOO in surveying and locating a canal from Hennepin to Rock Island, and in making estimates for its cost and maintenance. Mr. Logan secured an amendment for the survey of the Illinois and Michigan canal. Mr. Ransom proposed an appropriation/of $500,000 for the improvement of tho Potomac river flats. The President made the following nominations: J. A. Zabriskie, of Arizona, to bo United States Attorney for Arizona ; Zan B. Tidball, of New York, to be United States Marshal of Arizona; William P. Chandlers, of Illinois, to be United States Surveyor General of Idaho; David R. B. Pride, of Idaho, to be Register of the Land Office at Boise City, Idaho. In the House, Mr. Crapo submitted' the report of the conference committee on the bill to extend the charters of national banks. The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was considered in committee of the whole. An amendment to restrict the National Board of Health to an investigation of cholera and yellow fever was rejected, and it was resolved to add small-pox to the list. Mr. Cox proposed the abolition of the board, but, after arguing against its right to investigate diseases, withdrew his amendment Mr. Kasson secured an appropriation of $45,000 for the enlargement of the publio building at Des Moines. Mr. Willis, of Kentucky, finding legislation too dull, arraigned John D. White, his colleague, as “ a slanderous man, filled with malice,” but Mr. Browne, of Indiana, forestalled the motion by protesting against turning the halls of Congress into a beer garden. The bill granting right of way through tho Papago Indian reservation to the Arizona Southern railroad was passed by the Senate on the 10th. Mr. Morrill reported the House bill reducing internal-revenue taxation, with amendments catting down the . customs duties on sugars, steel rails and manufactures from hoop, band or scroll iron. Mr. Plumb reported a bill to repeal all laws granting lands to tho State of Missouri to aid m tho extension of the Iron Mountain railroad. The River and Harbor bill was taken up, and an amendment appropriating $590,000 for the reclamation of the Potomac flats was adopted by 52 to 7. The House, by a vote of 108 to 78, adopted the conference report on the bill to extend the charters of national banks. A bill was passed authorizing the transfer of property of the National Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphan Home to the Garfield Memorial Hospital Mr. White introduced a resolution for a constitutional amendment to prohibit trie abridgment of rights of citizens on aocount of sex. The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was taken up in committee of the whole, discussed and amended. Mr. Dingley introduced a bill for a commission to inquire into the condition of the ship-building iuterests and to sugerest methods to restore the foreign carrying trade.

“J Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

The conference report on the national bank charter bill was agreed to by the Senate on the 11th inst The river and harbor bill was completed in committee of the whole, ita amount being $20,924,175, and one or two feeble attempts at action .upon it were made. Mr. Ingalls denounced the measure as an annual shame, scandal and disgrace. Mr. Morrill made a favorable report on the bill to repeal the export duty on tobacco, and Mr. Groome reported an act to prevent the payment of double pensions. The President nominated Frederick T. Dubois to be Marshal for Idaho, Joseph W, Robbins to be Surveyor General for Arizona, and Alley A. Adie to be Third Assistant Secretary of State. The House spent the day in working on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill in committee of the whole. An amendment was adopted authorizing the establishment of an industrial Indian school on the Pawnee reservation in Nebraska. The appropriation for tiie geological survey wsis increased to $220,000. The River and Harbor Appropriation bill occupied the exclusive attention of the Senate, at its session on the 12th inst. On the Hennepin canal proposition Mr. Pendleton failed to secure the striking out of the words authorizing the location of the cut. The amendment appropriating $20,000 for completing surveys of the Chesapeake and Delaware ship canal was concurred in. The bill was thm passed by a vote of 39 to 23. Tho Sundry Civil Appropriation bill engaged the attention of the House. The item of $2,400,000 for public printing caused Messrs. Atkins and Randall (Democrats) to declare that such deficiencies arose from executive maladministration, while Messrs. Hiscock and Robeson (Republicans) maintained that they occurred through necessity. It was agreed that Supreme Court reports shall be published at the Government office and sold at 10 per cent over the cost price. Ninety minutes were wasted in a debate over the removal of committee stenographers. Mr. Blackburn offered an amendment, which was adopted, for the payment of one month’s extra salary to employes of the House. A joint resolution appropriating $50,000 toward American representation in the international fishery exhibition at London was passed by the Senate on the 13th inst. A discussion as to the order of business called out speeches from Messrs. Pendleton, Sherman, Beck, Windom and Butler, when it was decided to take up the Tax bill. Mr. Yoorhees read a defense of Gen. Hancock’s attitude on the tariff issue. Mr. M&lione reported back the House bill to establish a bureau of animal industry. Mr. Voorhees secured the adoption of a resolution to inquire mto the expediency of purchasing and publishing the manuscripts of Andrew Jackson. The House resumed the consideration of the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill. A n item of $4,000 for the family of the late Mr. Hawk was agreed to. It was decided to appropriate $70,000 to meet the expenses of thirty-five contestants to seats, and to set aside $20,000 to pay the bills of a commission to negotiate a commercial treaty with Mexico. Mr. Holman offered an amendment to appropriate $15,000 to enable the President to carry out the statute to promote civil-service reform. Mr. Horr opened the ball in opposi ion, and Mr. Willis responded with a stoiy, the discussion being continued by Messrs. Cox, Reed, Springer and Robeson, when the proposition was adopted. The bill was then passed by 138 to 49. _ Bills were passed by the Senate, at its session on the 14th inst., to increase to SSO per month the pension granted to the widow of Gen. Custer, and to give a like amount to the daughte of President Taylor. Mr. Hill reported back the bill to pnnish Postmasters for making false certificates of the arrival and departure of mails. The Internal Revenue bill was taken up, and Mr. Bayard spoke for hours, holding that the cumbersome machinery of the Revenue Bureau was vmdimiuished, while the reductions in taxation were insignificant. Mr. Beck offered an amendment reducing by 10 cents per pound the ttx on manufactured tobacco, when the bill went over. In the House a long debate took j place over paying the expenses attending the 1 sickness and burial of President Garfield, during which the physicians received a severe over- | hauling from Messrs. Blackburn and Springer. Mr. Blackburn attacked the surgeons for their management of the President’s case, eulogized the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and urged that all claimants be sent to the courts. Mr. Taylor, representing Garfield’s district, announced that the President’s widow would never litigate the bills of the physicians. Mr. Springer remarked that if only $35,000 j were allotted to the doctors there would be a more unseemly quarrel than occurred over Guiteau’s body. Mr. Hiscock regretted that the couutry should be treated to such a scene. Mr. Dunnell thought the settlement of the matter should be left to the House. Mr. Williams appealed to members to increase the amount fixed in the amendment and stop the wrangling. The amendment was non-con-curred in by 78 to 83. Mr. Taylor then introduced a bill, which was passed by a-unanimous vote, to pay Mrs. Garfield $50,009, less any sum advanced to her husband on salary account. A bill was passed to refer to the Court of Claims all demands against the Government.

THE ASSASSIN.

His Bones Now Blenching in tho Sun, [Washington Telegram.] It seems difficult to banish the word Guiteau from the dispatches. His bones are daily bleaohing in the sun, but the doctors’ quarrels have not ended, and the jail guards, laughing in their sleeves at human incredulity, point out the spot beneath the Warden’s room, where it is supposed that the assassin lies - buried. It was not until yesterday that the jail physician discovered that he had been made the victim of a grim practical joke by the jail guards, because he had poured large quantities of * carbolic acid over the spot where he thought Guiteau lay buried, to overcome the noisome odor of what he now knows was a rat long dead, placed there by the jesting guard. Guiteau’s bones are being bleached, preliminary to being “ articulated." as the doctors call it, in a skeleton. This is the way in which the local papers say it is being done : For several days the huge boiler in the back building of the Museum has been seething and babbling. In it was Guiteau’s body. On Saturday morning about 9:30 the process of boiling and maceration was completed, and the bones of the assassin were removed with tongs from the pot and scraped carefully, to divest them of every particle of flesh. They were then steeped in ether, to remove any fat that might have clung to them, and placed in a stout canvas bag, in which they were taken to the roof. The large bones were then spread out upon the roof. The little ones were placed in small boxes, to insure against the possibility of their being lost, and the process of bleaching commenced. At night the bones were gathered up and taken inside the building by the colored man who has charge of them, where they were placed in a bleaching fluid. Yesterday morning they were taken out and again placed upon the roof, and this process will he continued for a couple of weeks, when tbe skeleton will be articulated and placed in a oase which has boon prepared for it.

DREADFUL CALAMITY.

Nearly Thirty People Killed l>y a Falling- Building-. During the progress of a heavy thunder storm at Texarkana, Ark., lightning struck a new three-story brick _ dwelling, shattering the walls, which, toppling over upon an adjoining saloon, crashed it to atoms, burying in the rains between fifty and sixty people, many of whom had taken temporary refuge therein from the storm. The announcement of the disaster passed swiftly all over the place, and, despite the raging storm, an immense crowd of people gathered around the fallen building searching for relatives and friends, or trying to learn the extent of the appalling disaster. Tho lights in the crushed structure set fire to the debris, and the peril of a widespread conflagration and. consequent cremation of scores of dying and suffering unfortunates was added to the horrors of the scene. By the herculean efforts of citizens the flames were extinguished, not, however, until two or three buildings had been destroyed. The work of searching for the bodies of the killed and wounded was commenced as qnickly as possible. A great, crowd gathered around the crushed bnildings, the town being in mourning and business almost entirely suspended. About thirty dead bodies were taken from the ruins. The dead, when found, presented a sickening sight The bodies were generally mangled, charred and crashed. The friends of tbe slain, as they recognized the dead, made the air ring with cries of agony, and the scene wifi sffeotmg and heartrending in tbe extreme.

BLOOD MONEY.

Senator Pendleton on Political Assessments, The Republican Party Arraigned for Its Infamous Practices. Speech of Hon. George H. Pendleton, of Ohio, in the United States Senate. Tho Senate proceeded to consider the followlowing resolution, submitted by Mr. Pendletonon the sth of June : “ Hesolved, That tho Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment be instructed to inquire whether any attempt is being made to levy and collect assessments for political partisan purposes from any employes of the Government in Washington, whether the same bo under tho guise of asking voluntary contributions or otherwise, and to report to the Senate by bill or otherwise, in its discretion.” Mr. Pendleton—Mr. President, when I offered this resolution two or three weeks ago I was anxious for information. I did not know the state of facts as they existed at that time. I had seen mentioned in the newspapers that the Republican Congressional Committee was about to take means to replenish its funds, and vague intimations were given that a circular nnder the form of a request for voluntary contributions, but in fact a demand for specific sums of money, was being distributed among the employes of the departments and the employes of the two houses of Congress. 1 had also heard that this circular was drafted by authority, and that its language conveyed oovert promises, with implied threats, in oase the demands were not acceded to. I was quite astonished, somewhat startled, when I found that this resolution met with objection. I had supposed that no Senator would object to having the truth discovered as to this circular and its intent; and certainly that no Senator would object to the inquiry whether contributions were being levied under the guise of invitations for voluntary contributions. Mr. President, I was not quite as much astonished as those words would imply, and candor requires me to say that I was more astonished at the form than tbe substance of the objection. I had thought if gentlemen objected to it at all they would not do so in express words, but would consign my resolution to an untimely grave in the friendly grasp of a committee of investigation. Be that as it may, I desired information and was -sincerely seeking it A friend of mine who sits upon this floor and who had some opportunities of knowledge gave me one of the circulars. Ha gave it rather in confidence, though not entirely so, rather with the understanding that I should use it for my own information than otherwise; but I was enabled to hand back that circular to him within two days, not having exhibited it to anybody else and scarcely having had time to read it myself, for as soon as the resolntion appeared in the newspapers I received from many cities and from many States and from many classes of employes of this Government copies of the circular which had been sent to them. I have in my hand quite a number of copies of it It is very nicely gotten up, written with care, as nicely as a billet doux between lovers or an hospitable invitation to dinner. [Jay A. Hnbbei ; , Chairman; D. B. Henderson, Secretary; Executive Committee, Hon. W. B. Allison, Hon. Eugene Hale, Hon. Nelson W. Aldrich, Hon. Frank Hiscock, Hon. George M. Robeson, Hon. William McKinley, Jr., Hon. George R. Davis, Hon. Horatio G. Fisher, Hon. Horace F. Page, Hon. W. H. Calkins, Hon. Thomas Ryan, Hon. William D. Washburn, Hon. L. C. Honk, Hon. R. T. Van Horn, Hon. Orlando Hubbs.] Headquabtebs or theS Republican Congressional Committee, I 620 Thirteenth street, Northwest, f Washington, D. C., May 15, 1882. J Sir : This committee is organized for the protection ot the interests of the Republican party in each of the Congressional districts of the Union. In order that .t may prepare, print and circulate suitable documents illustrating the issues which distinguish the Republican party from any other and may meet ail proper expense, incident to the campaign, the committee feels authorized to apply to all citizens whose princip es or interests arc involved in tli6 struggle. Under the circumstances in which the country finds itself p aced, the committee believes that you will esteem it both a privilege and a pleasure to make to its fund a contribution, which it is hoped may not be less than $ . The committee it authorized to state that such voluntary contribution from persons employed in the service of the United States will not be objected to in any official quarter. The labors of the committee will affect the result of the Presidential election ill 1834 as well as the Congressional struggle; and it may therefore reasonably hope to have the sympathy and assistance of all who look with dread upon the possibility of the restoration of the Democratic party to the control of the Government. Please make prompt and favorable reeponße to this letter by bank-check, or draft, or postal moneyorder, payable to the order of Jay A. Hubbell, acting Treasurer, P. O. lock-box 581), Washington, D. C. By order of the committee, D. B. Henderson, Secretary. As far as I have seen, all of these circulars are in exactly the same language, except that a blank was left in each originally to be filled by the amount which a certain specified proportion of the salary that the man received would reach. Now, sir, in order that there may be no charge of unfair dealing with this committee and its circular, I have read to the Senate every word of it, and I ask the Senate to consider it a little in detail. “ The committee is organized for the protection of the interests of the Republican party in each of the Congressional districts of the Union.’ - ’ Party from beginning to end, the country nowhere alluded to—“ the interests of the Republi :au party in each of tho Congressional districts.” “ In order that it may prepare, print and circulate suitable documents illustrating the issues which distinguish the Republican party from any other, and may meet all proper expenses incident to the campaign the committee feel authorized—” “ Feel anthorized ! ” What necessity is there to have authority to invite gentlemen who desire to make voluntary contribution to a po!i ical fund? What is the necessity for any authority for an invitation of that kind ? “ Authorized ! ” By whom authorized ; for what purpose authorized ? To apply for contributions to the Republican expense fund 1 Apply to whom? Apply to “all those whose iuterests are involved in this struggle.” The committee discriminates very closely between those whose principles lead them to desire the success of the Republican party and those whose interests are involved in the struggle ; those whose principles or interests induce them to take an interest in this struggle. Who are they, Mr. President ? Who are interested beyond what their principles require in the success of the Republican party in the coming campaign? It is the officers ; it is the office-holders ; it is those who enjoy the powers and emoluments of office; it is those who are in possession of the political power and the moneyed emolument at the disposal of the party. When implication is to be made for authority to apply to these officers for a money .contribution who is it that can give the authority to make application ? Manifestly those who have the power of appointment and dismissal; manifestly those who can say to these gentlemen whose interests are involved, “ Contribute to the success of this party or the power of appointment and dismissal is hang over your head.” I submit that the circumlocution was entirely out of §lace, and that it would have been mnch more irect and much more pointed and equally deli- ! cate to have said,“We are authorized by those who have the power of appointment and dismissal to say to you whose offices are involved in this straggle that we are anthorized to make this application for money to you.” The circular starts out with a declaration on its face, which any man who can read at all can read between the lines: We are anthorized by those who hold your places in their hands to apply to you officeholders of the Government to make this contribution because your interests are involved in this struggle. The circular continues: “Under the circumstances in which the country finds itself placed, the committee behoves that you will esteem it both a privilege and a pleasure to make to its fond a contribution. “A privilege and a pleasure!” Indeed a blessed privilege; an exquisite pleasure! These officers, forsooth, would never havo had the. opportunity of enjoying this privilege and pleasure if this committee had not given them the opportunity and the method; the opportuuh* the making oircum stances of thq [qrtques

of the Republican party, and the method by contributions to the oommittee. Knowing that these officeholders would be excluded from the enjoyment of this privilege and this pleasure except for the invitation of this committee, thus kindly tendered to them ; knowing that as soon as they heard it these officers would be able and willing, nay, would be eager and anxious, to embraoe the opportunity, this committee, fearing that in a moment of enthusiasm and desire to indulge in the enjoyment of this privilege and pleasure the officeholders might contribute in excess or what was proper, or fearing on the other hand lest an asoetio self-denial might keep them below the bounds of legal moderation, inform the offioe-holdersthat the committee judge.it would be about right that they should enjoy tins privilege and pleasure to the extent of S2O worth ; and then, fearing that that might be a damper upon their ardor, the committee express the hope that the contribution shall not be less than the amount suggested by the committee, to wit, S2O.

“ The committee is authorized to state that such voluntary contribution— ’ “ Voluntary contribution! ” Voluntary as the contribution the traveler makes to the pocket of the highwayman when oommanded to stop and hold up his hands ; voluntary as the contribution which the man of the world makes to the harvest of tho Great Reaper when he puts iu his scythe—- “ Voluntary contribution from persons employed in the service of the United States will not be objected to in any official quarter.’ Mr. President, is a voluntary contribution objected to any where? And does it need any close discrimination as to that passage to see that it means that, while contributions will not be objected to in any official quarter, a refusal to make the contribution will meet with the condemnation of ail official quarters ? “ The labors of the committee will affect the result of the Presidential election in 1884, as well as the Congressional struggle ; and it may therefore reasonably hope to havo the sympathy and assistance of all who look with dread upon the possibility of the restoration of the Democratic party to the control of the Government” “With dread.” Who look with dread upon it? What sensiblo man in this country looks with dread upon it? The people of the country do not look with dread, the material interests of the country do not look with dread, the patriotism of the country does not look with dread, for at the last two Presidential elections the people of this country have been as nearly as possible di\i led in numbers upon the quest ion , as to which party better deserves success. In the Pro- i lent ill election liefore tho last it is an undisputed fact that a numerical majority of the people of the United States did actually vote to restore the Democratic party to power. “We appeal to you for sympathy and assistance, and we hope you will make prompt and favorable response to thii letter.” How? By sympathy? By expressions of confidence? B.v telliagus the necessities of yonr neighborhood? By going forth as an apostle to demonstrate to tho people the excellence of the principles of the Republican party ? _ No, nir ; none of such sympathy we want It is your assistance which we hope you 11111 promptly send to us by sending “ a bank-check, or draft, or postal moneyorder,” payable to the treasurer of this committee. Now, Mr. President, I will not insult the Senate by undertaking to prove to it that this is no invitation for a voluntary contribution. I will not waste its time by showing that it is a demand for a specific sum of money, levied according to a rale, accompanied by a promiso and a threat. “ Your purse or your official life ’’ is the alternative offered ; or, to use tho language of President Garfield in describing a circular almost identical in terms with this, “It is a circular sent to the employes of the Government upon the distinct understanding that if they fail to make return according to .the demand, in check or postal money-order, others will be found to take their places who will receive their salaries and pay up the assessment.”

Mr. President, to whom has this circular been sent ? I venture to say here upon this floor, and I speak it upon information which challenges my belief, that tliis circular has been sent out to every person whose name can be found on any of the rolls of employes of the Government, however remote may be the source of power itself. The circular has been sent to the Boston Custom House—7oo copies of it—and a demand made for an aggregate of $15,. 000. It has been sent to the armory at Springfield, and an assessment of $lB been made upon each armorer in that institution. It has been sent to the great office i in New York, tho postoffice and the Custom House and the Collector’s office and the various institutions connected with the Government there. They have won exceptional credit by reason of their freedom from the debasing arts of political assessments, and yet are to be again plunged into the mire from which they so laboriously have emerged. It has been sent ont to employes at Chicago, and assessments have been made there of $9.30. It has been sent to every Postmaster in the country; at least, I have returns from almost every State east of Nevada. It has been sent to the men engaged upon the works on the Ohio river at Marietta, and $lB has been assessed and demanded of men who day by day for their daily wages cut stone in making the dam. It has been every employe in the departments at Washington, every clerk, and they have been assessed in various amounts from $lB to SSO. This circular has been sent to men who are engaged in daily labor on the Capitol grounds, digging up and beautifying these grounds, and $6 has been assessed upon each of them. It has been sent to the boys in the Printing Office, to whom you pay only $1 a day, and furlough them without pay, and $7 has been demanded from each of them. It has been sent to enlisted men in the army, and an assessment of $lB made upon men who are paid from the Army Appropriation bill. Wherever a name can bo found npon tho pay roll of the Government for any amount, great or small, this circular has been sent, and it is being sent now to those to whom time has not allowed it to be sent before.

I s&id it had been sent to every clerk in all these departments. Why, sir, it has been sent to those unfortunate ladies whom the exigencies of life now compel to support a family off the pittance earned painfully’ by them, which would scarcely have sufficed to dispense their yearly charity in other days. It has been sent to the women who scrub out the departments in this city, and whose poverty is so great that when they leave for their daily work they are obliged to look up in their close and fetid room the children who cannot be allowed to wander in danger in the streets. It has been sent to the employes of the Senate, and men have been required to pay S3O in order that they may hold their places. Nay, more, Mr. President, it has been sent, at least in the other House, and possibly in this, to the little pages, bright, intelligent, active little fellows who do the bidding of members there and herejjl imagine I can see this grave committee with this circular in their hands going to one of these little pages and saying to him by his appreciation of the emergencies of the country, by his appreciation of the excellence of Republican practices, by his dread of the restoration of the Democratic party .to power, he shall make his contribution of $9 in order to avert such a terrible calamity. Mr. President, if this were not a sad scene of political degeneracy and partisan tyranny it would be in many of its aspects a broad farce. I have no fitting words in which to express my apprehension of the degradation and danger of this whole system, of which this is one of the most dangerous outgrowths. It demoralizes and breaks down every man connected with it, those who give and those who take alike. Among the names on this circular are some of our own cherished associates and members, men of the other house also who stand high in the estimation of their party and their country. They are important factors in wielding the political destinies not only of their party but of their country, honorable, upright, excellent gentlemen to whom we would willingly commit, and do oommit our honor, and if necessary would commit our lives, men who could nc/t be f )roed even by torture to go themselves and witl this circular in their hsnd to make application to these persons to whom it is sent; men who could not be induced to do . it; who would feel 11 to be a personal dishonor to do it. Yet together they combine and put in operation this machine which has no heart to be touched, no body to be punished, no soul to be damned, to visit the houses of the widow and the fatherless, and extract from them for political partisan purposes a large proportion of their hard earnings. It degrades the men to whom it is sent. What sense of self-respect can there be in the man who feels himself compelled to submit to this extortion which his honest judgment abhors and which his penury rejects, and yet is obliged with a hypocritical smile to pretend that it is a voluntary contribution ? What faithful, honest personal service in office can a

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man render when he feels that upon his Terr best service is put this badge of servitude r How can he admire with his whole heart as he ought and devote himself absolutely to the duties of an office when he is made to buy with money that office which he knows, and everybody who will think a moment knows, is a publio trust involving duties to the public? What discipline oan there be in a system whon all above him and all below him are bound together by the consciousness of this common degradation ? The galley slaves are chained together, their proximity making them conscious of the common infamy, and the oommon degradation and the common pnnishment make them hate and despise and dread and suspect and injure each other. Mr. President, this system is a great wrong to the people. A fair day’s work and a fair day’s pay is common honesty Imported into our Government If these employes can have extracted and abstracted from their salary a or 4 or 10 per oent, and yot sufficient remuneration is left to them, then I say the deduction should be made directly from their salary and be left iu the treasury. I will not speak of what this system may be, if against their interest, against their Will, against their moneyed capacity, those men are compelled to submit to these contributions, if they are extracted out of the suffering of themselves aud their families. When I see that this system tends to such degradation, such demoralization, to the breaking down of our civil administration, the destruction of the instinct of patriotism in our oountry, I declare upon my conscience I believe it would be better for the country, better for the service, better for the people, if a felonious hand were put into the treasury of the United States and this mouey were abstracted for this purpose, aud a clear thing be made of it by charging it up to “soap.” Now, Mr. President, how are we mot when we make this arraignment of this practice of the party in power ? One gentleman who signs himself “ Assistant Attorney General,” with a great deal of ostentatious gasconade, says that he defies and spits upon the law which is in existence because it is no law, for he has examined carefully the constitution of the United States and does not find any clause which authorizes Congress to prohibit voluntary contributions for lawful objects. Why, sir, the man who in the face of that circular oan talk about voluntary contributions is entirely ignorant of the force of language or of the substance of things, and in either alternative discussion with him would be useless. The gentleman whose name is signed to the circular as the acting treasurer of the committee vaunts himself that he has broken no law. Listen to his defence ; he says the law declares: “ That all executive officers or employes of the United States not appointed by the President, with the advice aud consent of the Son. ate, are prohibited from requesting, giving to, or receiving from, any other officer or employe of the Government any money or property, or other thing of value, for political purposes.” He says: “I have committed no crime, I have not violated the law,' because I am not an officer or employe of the Government.” Putting himself upon a decision made in the last century that a Senator of the United States was not liable to impeachment, ho says : “I am not liable to this law, because I am a member of Congress, and not an officer or employe of the Government. If I were a door-keeper, or a clerk, jr a messenger I would be liable undei the statute. As a member of the House of Representatives I am not.” Mr. President, that question is to be taken into the courts. I will not anticipate thoir decision. I say to the gentleman who signs this circular that before he gets through he will find if be has not landed some of those men in the penitentiary he has drawn them perilously near to the verge of a criminal conviction. But if he is right, if he is not guilty of a technical offense because he happens not to be, in technical language, an officer of the Government of the United States, then what is his defense? It is Ibis: “I have done the thing denounced in this law ; I have invited other people to do the thing denounced in this law ; I admit the moral wrong of this transaction ; I admit the evil of the practice which the Congress of the United States has denounced ; but I plead that I cannot be convicted, because, though I am a member of Congress, I am not iu technical language au officer of the Government” Lawyers are sitting all around me. They are here in great numbers. I ask them if they have never seen a man on trial for perjury who admitted his falsehood, admitted his oath, but escaped punishment on the ground either that the officer had not the authority to administer the oath, or that the affidavit was not one taken in pursuance of a requirement of the law? The people of tho country will be quite astonished when they hear that a member of Congress who receives out of the public treasury So,ooo a year is not an officer of this Government; and if they approvo this section of tho law they will speedily correct it so as to involvo him also, if indeed now, which I doubt very much, he can escape conviction. ****«« The history of the Democratic party is before the country. It is a long and glorious history. For more than one-half of this century which is passing away it held possession of the powers of this Government, and illustrated the beneficence of its policy by au unexampled purity of administration. If any Senator shall be able in the course of that long and illustrious career to find that either in its organization or its prominent men it has at timos fallen into evil practices, I can tell him that the Democratic party has been subjected to discipline. I thank God it has come out of that discipline purified and renewed aud strengthened, and is now ready to take possession of the powers of this .Government again, and with a higher inspiration, a stronger courage, a purer faith, to apply its humane philosophy to tho conduct of public affairs, aud by the vigor and the patriotism and tho purity of its administration to eclipse even tho glories of its earlier years.

Justified by example ! “ The woman boguilod me and I did eat.’’ It was a bad excuse in the olden days, and it has gotten to bo much worce ever sii c \ I can tell the Senator now, in anticipation of whatever he may havo to say, that it will be a vain thing for him to seek to justify the evil practices of the Republican party undor any examples, however illustrious they may be. ilave wo not been told, are we not told constantly, (hat tins Republican party is the party of God and morality in the country ? Have not gent'emen declared, with a ser.ousness of tone and sincerity of maimer that loaves no room to doubt their conviction of the truth, that it is the best and purest party that has over existed in this Government ? Why, sir, I have road the description of a party like this : “But all their works they do for to be seen of men ; they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments ; and love the uppermost rooms at feasts and the cbi ;f seats in the synagogues ; and greetings in the markets, %nd to be called of men, ‘ Rabbi, rabbi.’ ” And if, after making all the professions of purity and excellence and faith, when you happen through the flimsy device to be caught in evil practices, you seek to screen yourselves from the consequences behiud the example of others, there will be denounced against you that terrible anathema, “ Woe unto you * * * hypocrites, for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers ; therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.” Mr. President, men of onr race and lahguage have always been tenacious of the punty of tne civil service of their government. Even as our fathers emerged from the ages which we are in the habit of calling dark, they began to require that the purity of civil service should be the characteristic of their Kings as well as of their Commons. Six hundred and fifty and more years ago King John in the Charta was compelled to declare: “We will not make any justiciars, constables, sheriffs or bailiffs, bnt of such as are knowing in the law of the realm, and are disposed duly to observe it” Nearly a hundred years afterward in the time of Richard 11. in 1288 the Commons passed a statute—- “ That the chancellor, trcs«*rer, etc., the justices of the one bench, and of the etc., and all other that shall be oalled to ordain, name, or make justice* of the peace, sheriffs, c?cheators, customs, comptrollers, or any other officer or minister of the King, shall be firmly sworn that they shall not ordain, name or make justice of the peace, sheriff, escheator, customer, comptroller, nor other officer or minister of the King for any gift or brocage, favor or affection: nor that none which pursueth, by him or other, privily or openly, to be in any manner office, shall be put in the same office or in any other; bat that they shall make all such offioers and ministers of the best and most lawful men, and sufficient to their estimation and knowledge.” Lord Coke says that that was—“A law worthy to be written in letters of gold, bat more worthy to be put in due execution.” A few years passed on and Edward IV. pressed by his necessities, commenced to levy “ benevolenco” upon the commons of England, which the people very turbulentiy, as he tbqpghh filled “malerolenoe,’l4pd J&brfppop,

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in the first year of Richard m., the bloody monster, as he was called. Lord Ooke mentions how “ the exaction under the good name of benevolence,” begun in 12 Edward IV., came to be so that “ many of the people did much grudge at it and called it malevolence." He refers to 1 Riohard ILL, wherein the oommona recites “ That the oommona of thia realm, by new and unlawful inventions and inordidate oovetiee against the law of this realm, have been put to great thralidom and importable charges and exactions, and in especial by a new imposition named a benevolence, whereby diverse years, the subjects and oommona of this reskn, against their wills and freedom, have paid great sums of money " After whioh, and other recitals, it is ordained— ‘‘That his subjects aud the oommonalty of this his realm, from henceforth, in no-wise bo charged by none suoh charge (exaotion) or imposition called bonevoleuoe, nor by suoh like charge, and that snob exactions called benevolences afore this time taken be take for no example to make snoh or any like charge of any his said subjects of this realm hereafter, but it bo damned and annulled forever." And Lord Coke, spooking of this very statute, 1 Bichard HI., says that: “Of the acts of Riohard lIL, one of the wisest was that of 1 Rio. 111., oh. 2, ’An act to free the subjects from beuevoleuoes ! ’ Rut he did not adhere to it There is mention of letters sent by him exacting these benevolenoes and specifying the sum which eaoh person was required to give. It is stated that ‘this’was ’a fatal blow at what remained of his popularity.’ ”

History repeats itself. Bonevolences exacted for his private purposes by tho King, which the Deople called malevolences, aud which were rejected and repudiated by tho Commons. He seemed to favor tho rejection, but he sent out circulars even in those days to his good subjects, and specified in those circulars the amount of money which ho required them to pay. Behold the example which this oommittoe has followed 1 Mr. President, to those principles embodiod in raagna chart*, embodied in these statutes, the people of our race have always been true. Sometimes they have wandered, sometimes they have straggled from the paths, but they have speedily returned to them, aud in their return they have always been led in England by the Commons, and in this oountry by the Democratic party. To-day the time has come when they shall be led again to appreciate the beneficence of a pnreoivu administration. Today the Demooratio party is putting itself at the head of that return, civil-service reform is writ on its escutcheon and emblazoned on its banner. By its strongth, and in order to perfect it, tho Democratic party will sooner or later corns into power. I say to Senators on the other side of the ohamber that the sooner it oomes into powor the better it will be for them and for the country. It may for a moment wound their susceptibilities, but it will advantage their prosperity and thoir liberties. When that time does come, when wo shall take possession of this Government, when we shall put in the high places of power onr worthiest and best, the President of the United - States, the ehief of the state, under the people the source ahd fountain of honors and powers in this country, will be able to say to all as VanArteveide said iu response to' Vauclaire who was thanking him for his promotion:' Nay I say no more. , You owe me nothing; what 1 have to give In he’d in trust, and parted with for services; Valiio received is writ on my commissions; N >r would I thank tho man that should thank me For aught ns given him gratis. * * * # # Supremacy of merit, tho Bole means Aud broad highway to power. * * * * • * Meritoriously administered Wlnie all its instruments from first to lasi, The tools of state, for service high or low, * * * Chosen for their aptness to those ends Which Virtue meditates.

Seventy Twin Brothers.

A band of Cree Indiana woke up one snowy morning to find that about a dozen of their choicest ponies had been taken during the night. Pursuit was soon organized and within a few hours a fresh trail was found m the snow. After following the trail some thirty miles it entered the Saskatchewan river, the animals evidently heading for a wooded island in the middle of the river. Smoko was rising from among the rocks and trees on the island. After some reconnoitering an opening which seemed to be the mouth of a cave could bo seen in the face of the rocks. Presently a single Indian—a Piegan, the pursuers decided from his appearance—showed up in front of the opening. He was painted and arrayed gaudily. Pretty soon a dog at his feet scented the Crees, and began growling and barking. The Piegan instantly turned and entered the cave. In a moment another Piegan came around the rocks and also went in; then another, and another, and another, there being but a few seconds between them. The Crees lay silently in the bushes watching and counting, until upward of fifty Piegans had come around the rocks and gone into the cave, and still they kept coming. What seemed remarkable was the fact that all these Indians were to all appearances exactly the same size, were dressed and painted exactly alike, each carried a Winchester rifle, and, most remarkable of all, each one seemed a little lame in the left foot, limping slightly. They were a gaudy crowd, and the Crees counted seventy of them. That seemed to be all, for no more came. As the idea of seventy twins was an impossibility, the superstitious Crees naturally concluded that the evil spirit had something to do with it, for there was no doubt that that there were seventy Piegan Indians on the island who were all exactly alike. The Crees had counted them several times as they filed in and out of the oave. So thoroughly were they filled with the idea that the devil was mixed up with the twin brother mystery that even when reinforcements arrived, which was within a few hours, they were very reluctant to attack the island. While they were debating what to do one less superstitious than the rest volunteered to swim over to the island during the night and investigate. He did so. On approaching the supposed cave he was surprised to find it was no cave at all, but only an opening leading some ten feet into the rock where it made a crook and came out on the other side. The opening at this opposite side was out of sight from the shore, and here a fire was burning, and a solitary gaudily-attired Indian sleeping beside it. The stolen ponies were tethered near by. It required but a glance to understand what had seemed so mysterious before. The sleeping Indian was the only occupant of the island, and the apparent presence of sixty-nine other warriors was caused by a sharp trick of the Piegau chief.

Archimedes’ Lever.

The famous Qreek philosopher, Archimedes was the author of the apothegm, *'‘Give me a lever loug enough and a prop strong enough and I will move the world.” The saying arose from his knowledge of the possible effects of machinery ; and, however much it might astonish a Greek of his day, would now be readily admitted to be as theoretically possible as it is practically impossible; for in the words of Dr. Arnott, 4 4 Archimedes would have required to move with the velocity of a cannon ball for millions of years to alter the position of the earth by a small part of an inch. This feat of Archimedes is, in mathematical truth, performed by every man who leaps from the ground, for he kicks the world away from him whenever he rises, and attracts it again when he falls.” , - A satirist says that tenors put oq more sirs than they sing,