Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1882 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. EmU Runnymede, the famous racer for whom Dwyer Brothers last year paid #5,000, broke down hopelessly at Saratoga. Francis C. Potts, a member of a leading publishing firm in Philadelphia, killed himself with a revolver daring the absence of his family at a country resort There is talk that Attorney General Brewster is to leave the Cabinet and to be appointed to some other position. A yacht is being constructed at Bristol, B. L, for a gentleman of Port Huron, on condition of making 100 miles in five hours or no pay. Her estimated cost is #50,000. John C. Hamilton, a son of Alexander Hamilton, died at Long Branch in his 91st year. An ex-Alderman of Brooklyn, named James Danna, i* to fight Tag Wilton in Louisiana or Mississippi for #2,500 a side and the championship of the world. Aaron O. Burr, an adopted son of Aaron Burr, died in New York. He was a sou of Count de Lisle, and was born in Paris in 180& Wsst Nebraska reports an unprecedented yield of grains of all kinds. Minnesota and Dakota continue their favorable reports. Official statistics for Minnesota show a largo increase of acreage in oats, barley and corn as compared with 1881; and, while the wheat acreage has been decreased, the improved condition of the crop promises an increaso of over 8,000,000 bushels. The Secretary of the Ohio Board of Agriculture estimates this year’s wheat yield in the State at 39,282,000 bushels, and corn at 66,500,000 bushels. At Fresno, Cal., fifty business houses, including hotels, banks, etc., were consumed by the flames. The loss is estimated at $200,GCOI

By a collision on the Little Miami road, near Foster’s Crossing, Ohio, two engines were wrecked and two freight cars thrown into ibo river. E. H. McCalob, Judge Advocate General of Louisiana, was one of the five persons injured. Every polygamist in Utah is now living openly with only one wife, having stowed away the rest against the advent of the commission. The wheat yield of Indiana is immense this year. A farmer in Lawrence county harvested 1,012 bushels from thirty-six acres, one grain having thrown out ninety-six well-headed-stalks. A large party of Indians attacked a wagon train near Clifton, Arizona, killing two men. The teamsters, seven in number, stood off the Indians for two hours and mojtally wounded one Indian. In the face of a heavy fire they rushed out and dragged the wonnded Indian into camp, and when the fight was over scalped him and roasted him alive. The new city directory of Minneapolis contains 28,928 namos. Sooth. The mangled bodies of six negroes were found on the Mobile and Ohio railroad near DeSota, Miss. It is supposed they were robbed and murdered and the remains placed on the track. Three masked men robbed a stage near ;Ihrevoport, La., taking thirteen registered packages from the mail pouches and relieving four passengers of their money. WASHINGTON NOTES. The Treasury Department has decided that fho hill to extend the charters of national banks will entitle the holders of new 3 per cent, bonds to perpetuate the original numbers. The President has referred a supplemental petition bearing 49,000 signatures from the Garfield Club of New York city, asking the pardon of Sergeant Mason, to the Secretary of War, together with several other and similar petitions. Commissioner Baum reports the entire collections of internal-revenue taxei for the past fiscal year—#l46,s2o,273—has been accounted f or and turned into the treasury. Gen. Walker, says a Washington telegram, is receiving pretty sharp criticisms for having projected so extensive a plan for the census, one which involves such a large deficiency appropriation. Senators vory plainly say that it was neve* the intention of Congress to enter upon such a comprehensive census plan. POLITICAL POINTS. Attornoy General Brewster has rendered an Opinion on the issue raised between George W. Curtis and Representative Hubbell, the President of the Republican Congressional Committee, on the subject of political assessments, in which ho holds that a member of Congress is not an officer of the United States, so that a gift to him for campaign purposes does not fall within the statute regulating political assessments. The opinion was laid before a recent Cabinet meeting. The Attorney General has also given an opinion to the Secretary of the Treasury that the request of transportation companies to be allowed to take some sixty thousand Chinese laborers through this country from Cuba to China oan not be granted under the law as it now stands. At a Cabinet meeting in Washington, the other day, the opinion of Attorney General Brewster on the subject of political assessments was the chief topic of discussion. The opinion, was accompanied by a letter from Secretary Folger, expressing his views. The subject was generally discussed. The President expressed his views freely and fully. They were, in substance, that no person in any one of the executive departments declining to contribute shall on that account be subject to discharge or critcism, and no attempt to injure him on this ground will be countenanced or tolorated. The Independent Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania rejected the suggestions toward harmony made by the Cameron organization.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. A New York Herald South American correspondent telegraphs that one of the assassins ot Lord Cavendish and Under Secretary Burke had been arrested at Puerto Cabello, in Venezuela, that he made a confession, giving he nMnes of his accomplices, and had been sent to Caracas. The Russian creoles in Alaska are being decimated by scaiflet fever and measles. The President of the Ontario Entomological Society announces that the Hessian fly will destroy 20 per cent of the wheat in that provinoe. Up to the present mouth emigration from Germany to the United States has decreased 10,000, ag compared with the same period last year,

The Democratic Sentinel.

JAS. W, McEWEN Editor

VOLUME VI.

FOREIGN NEWS. John Dillon, M. P., in an address at Mallow, said if Parnell had sixty firm supporters in Parliament they could render inoperative the Repression bill, as for every person arrested under its provisions they would waste two days’ time in discussing it in the House. George P. Marsh, American Minister at Rome, died suddenly at Yalambrosa, in Italy. Parnell and other Irish members of Parliament are organizing a movement- in Ireland to counteract the projects of the Land Corporation. The O’Flaherty brothers, arrested in Ireland on suspicion of connection with the assassination of Cavendish and Burke, have been released. One is a railway engineer from Chicago. Fourteen persons were killed in a fight on a railway near Vienna between peasants and laborers. A small box which was sent from Granada for Senor Sagasta, the Spanish Prime Minister, on being opened was found to contain "itro-glycerine. Several persons have bcon arrested «n suspicion. A detective of the Irish constabulary has been sent to Venezuela to receive O’Brien, who confessed complicity in the murder of Lord Cavendish. Judge Fitzgerald, a Baron of the Irish Exchequer, has resigned because of objection to the duties imposed on him by the Repression bilL A cable dispatch states that the Most Rev. Patrick A. Feehan, Archbishop of Chicago, will bo elected Cardinal at the next Consistory. Six business houses were destroyed by fire at Exeter, England, involving a loss of #250,000.

FO RTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

A bill to provide additional training schools for Indian youth by using unoccupied military barracks, and the bill to pay Mrs. Garfield #50,000, less any advances made on the salary of the late President, and were passed by the Senate July 22. Mr. Cockrell secured the adoption of resolutions asking information as to the expenditure in each State during the last three years for public buildings, harbors, forts and arsenals. A resolution was passed that the Secretary of the Interior report his reason for ordering a double pension for Gen. Ward B. Burnett The Revenue bill was taken up. Amendments to retain the stamp taxes on perfumery and playing-cards were voted down. The first section was passed. An amendment to the second section was adopted fixing the annual tax on dealers in leaf tobacco at sl2, exempting farmers or lumbermen who furnish supplies to their employes. Mr. Mahone moved to make the tax on snuff and manufactured tobacco 8 cents per pound. The House passed Mr. Deuster’s bill to regulate the carrying of passengers by steamships, the measure having been revamped to suit the views of the President Mr. Kasson precipitated a tariff debate by calling up the bill to allow a drawback on foreign materials used in the construction of vessels for foreign account, and the bill went over to Monday. Postal bills were passed to make the rate on second-class publications delivered by carriers two cents per pound ; to fine or imprison any one personating a postoffice inspector ; to punish Postmasters for making falßO certificates of the arrival or departure of mails, and to provide that no bidder for mail service shall be required to furnish a check or draft. Mr. Flower sought to introduce a constitutional amendment by which the President can approve or object to any item of an appropriation bill. Indian bills were passed to open to settlement the lands in Color ado lately oocupied by the Uncompabgre and White Rivei* Utes; authorizing the Cherokees to lease three salt mines in then- domain, and increasing the salary of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to #5,000.

The Senate passed a bill, at its session on July 24, to refund to tbe heirs of John W. Fornuy #27,684 paid by him to cover the defalcation of a clerk in his office when he was Secretary of the Senate. Mr. Allison presented the conference report on the Legislative Appropriation bill, announcing disagreements on the proposition to transfor tho Surgeon General’s records _ and on the distribution of rooms in the new building for the State, War and Navy Departments, and a new conference was ordered. The Revenue bill was taken up, the pending amendment providing for a reduction of the tobacco tax to 8 cents per pound. Mr. Sherman said this scheme would cut off #21,000,000 of revenue. The amendment was rejected by 18 to 38. An amendment by Mr. Mahone was adopted, for a rebate on all unbroken factory packages of cigars and cigarettes. In the Flouse, the views of the minority of tho Judiciary Committee on the subject of the Northern Pacific land grant were presented by Messrs. Payson and Knott, and they were ordered printed and laid on the table. Mr. Cannon submitted a conference report on the Legislative, Judicial and Executive Appropriation bill,agreeing to all the items except that for the transfer of records from the Surgeon General's office to the Adjutant General’s archives, and a further conference was ordered. Bills were referred: To collect from the Kansas Facitio Railroad Company the oost of surveying and convoying certain lands; to declare forfeit lands granted the Northern Pacific Company and still remaining nnpatented, and fixing the duty on imported hay at 20 per cent, ad valorem. Mr. Fowler proposed a constitutional amendment granting the President the right to veto any distinct item of a bilL Mr. Atkins introduced a bill to allow no olaim or account against the United States unless it be filed within six years from the passage of this act. The Democratic members of the Senate held a caucus and resolved to insist upon a full and free discussion of all amendments to the Tax bill, and to oppose any attempt tp reach a final vote upon the bill unless such- ample opportunity was afforded. Tho conference report on the River and Harbor bill was adopted by the Senate, July 25. The Revenue bill came up, the question being on Mr. Hale’s amendment to the sugar duty, striking off the latest addition of 25 per cent, which was adopted. Mr. Harris moved to reduce duties on all imports 10 per cent after January, and an equal amount at the commencement of the next year. Mark L. Joslvn, of Woodstock, 111., was nominated by tho President for Assistant- Secretary of the Interior. In the House, tho regular order of- business was the bill to allow drawback on imported material used in the construction of vessels for foreign account, which was recommitted. Mr. Washburn offered a resolution for a naval court of inquiry to investigate the loss of the Jeannette. A resolution was adopted to print 300,000 copies of the agricultural report. Mr. Page explained the conference report on the River and Harbor bill, to which the House refused to agree by a vote of 82 t0"97.

Mr. Conger made a favorable report to the Senate, July 26, on the Douster bill to regulate the carrying of passengers by sea. Mr. Hale seemed the postponement of the Revenue bill, and the Senate went into committee of the whole on the naval appropriation. Mr. Hale showed that with thirty-nine steam vessels in active service the American navy has over 1,400 commissioned officers, while the British navy, which has over 300 men-of-war, has but 2,700 officers. Mr. Cameron moved to recommit the bill to the Appropriation Committee, with instructions to eliminate provisions in regard to the organization of the navy. Mr. Hale stated that out of a force of twenty-five Commodores only one was doing actual duty at sea. The bill then went over without further action. The. President sent to the Senate the name of Harrison Allen, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Marshal for the Territory of Dakota. In the House, Mr. Pound secured the passago of a bill providing that in all suits for trespass on public lands the actual expense of survey or estimate shall be included in the bill of costs. A joint resolution was passed to authorize the loan of tents to Russian refugees in Foote county, Kan. An act to incorporate the Oregon Hhor - Line railway in Utah, Idaho and Wyoming was passed. A joint resolution was adopted to pay the widows of Ministers Hurl but, Kilpatrick knd Garnet an amount equal to one year’s sal*

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ary. The House conferees refused to consent to the clause in the general deficiency appropriation for the payment of mileage to Senators for the extra session. On reconsideration of the conference report on the River and Harbor bill the House yielded, by 111 to 82. The Senate had a long debate on the Naval Appropriation bill, at its session on July 27. A motion by Mr. Cameron to recommit the UTeasure with instructions to eliminate all general legislation was defeated by twenty-nine to thirty-four. This proved an exhausting day’s work, and the measure was flung aside without action. A new conference oh the Japanese Indemnity bill was ordered. Williams offered an amendment to the Sunday Civil bill to allow Charles H. Reed not exceeding #5,000 for his services in defending Guiteau, the Attorney General to fix the amount The Naval Appropriation bill was taken up. The House passed a bill to place Chicago among tho classified ports, making the salary of the Customs Collector #7,000 per annum, and allowing a naval officer and surveyor. Mr. Hasson reported back tho bill to make tho duty on imported hay 20 per cent ad valorem. A joint resolution was passed appropriating $1,600 for memorial cards to accompany the address on the life of President Garfield. A Senate bill was passed granting to the St Louis and San Francisco road the right of way through Choctaw and Chickasaw lands, an amendment to secure the consent of the Indians being lost. Mr. Williams reported a disagreement in the Conference Committee on the Japanese Indemnity bill, and a further attempt to arrange the issue was ordered. Ia accordance with the request of the Committee on Foreign Affairs the resolution calling for the instructions to Admiral Nicholson at Alexandria was tabled.

THE WAR IN EGYPT.

Alexandria dispatches of July 24 state that the Khedive had signed a decree declaring Arabi Pasha a rebel, and had issued a general order forbidding the army to obey his command. The Khedive had also proclaimed that the English were promoting the interests of the country. An evasive answer received by the British Government from the Porte to a proposal to immediately dispatch troops to Egypt had decided them that the time for further delay was past The water in the Mahmoudieh canal at Alexandria fell fourteen inches in the forty-eight hours, and the supply to the public had been greatly diminished. News from Cairo was to the effect that thero were 8,000 starring, homeless persons there, who were dying by hundreds. The country was represented as in a terrible state of anarchy. Atrocitios equal to any ever perpetrated in Bulgaria were being committed with impunity. An eye-witness from Tantah staled that eightyfive Europeans were tortured, disemboweled and tom to pieces, and that women were violated and tortured. The soldiers participated in thejatrocities. Two Germans, sheltered by the station-master until the train was ready to start, were caught entoring the train, their heads held over the carriage door and their throats cut, a

A skirmish between English and Egyptian troops occurred at Ramleh, a few miles from Alexandria, on July 24. The casualties were few, and the British remained in possession of the town. An Inspector of Survey who arrived at Alexandria reports the total force of Arabi at 100,000. Tho latter dispatched 9,000 men to reinforce Cairo. Thero were twenty war-ships, half of them English, in the harbor of Alexandria. Arabi sent a letter to Gladstone before Alexandria was bombarded, but which did not reach the Premier until after that event, containing dire threats about the confiscation of property, destruction of tho canals, and a religious war. In the House of Lords Earl Granville announced that 15,500 troops wonld be sent to Egypt He ssid the feeling of Europe was in favor of England’s action. De Freycinet, the French Premier, in a conference with a committee of the Senate, said that France wonld confine herself to tho protection of the Suez canal, and in other operations Great Britain must aot alone. The British Government has chartered thirteen steamships plying to American ports, to convey troops to Alexandria. A terrible story of the atrooities at Tantah, Egypt, is related by an escaped eye-witness : “ I saw women carrying, tied to bludgeons, the dismembered arms and legs of massacred Europeans. The soldiers and the rabble fought for loot. A Bedouin Sheik, with twenty Bedouins, saved the inhabitants of the Jewish quarter and took them to his village. Another Sheik saved myself and party. A mob from Alexandria murdered three employes of the Cadastre and their families and burnt their bodies with petroleum. The mob killod twelve Greeks. They tied the viscera of one of their victims to the tail of a dog and covered him with petroleum, which was set on fire amidst cries of ioy from women and children. The mob was dispersed eight times. Finally two Sheiks arrived and dispersed it. Three employes of the Cadastre who, with their families, were murdered at Tantah, defended themselves bravely against their assailants, many of whom they killed, until the mob broke in at the back of the honse and dispatched them.” Alexandria dispatches of July 26 state that Omar Lufti, formerly Governor of Alexandria, has been appointed Minister of War and Marine in place of Arabi. An officer who deserted from Arabi stated that, under the protection of a flag of truce, the rebels were constructing fortifications near Aboukir, and were also making formidable preparations near Rosetta. The English experienced much trouble m moving their heavy ordnance, by the use of which they intended to dislodge Arabi, and gunners and guns from the fleets were being sent to the front. A London dispatch announced that England and France had decided to invite Italy to participate in measures taken for the protection of the Suez canal, and it was expected that England would also invite Italy to join in the restoration of order in Egypt. An attempt was made to surprise the British outposts at Ramleh on the night of the 26th, but it was a signal failure, the Egyptians beating a hasty retreat under the fire of the Thirtyeighth regiment. The garrison at Aboukir, numbering 2,000 men, declared its loyalty to the Khedive, and an Egyptian vessel was dispatched to take off the men and spike the guns. Arabi telegraphed the Sultaft deprecating the sending of Turkish troops to Egypt It is believed he will, if defeated, destroy Cairo, join the Squdan insurgents, and proclaim the independence of Upper Egypt The Khedive oan not be induced to offer ttnnesty to the chief rebel officers, to induce them to desert Arabi Pasha. The center of the great square at Alexandria was being filled with cases and booths, and retail trade was reviving. Dispatches from Alexandria of July 27 state that a conflagration in the native quarter of Alexandria, believed to have been sot by incendiaries, destroyed many houses. The mosques at Mukbebe were occupied almost daily by preachers exhorting the people to take up the cause of Arabi. The latter’s government at Cairo announced that many Badouiu chiefs and the best classes of Moslems were aiding him. Arabi proclaimed that any person found distqbutiug the Khedive’s letter dismissing the former from the Ministry of War would be court-martialed. He also wrote to the Sultan, stating that he would oppose with force any Turkish troops dispatchod to Egypt. Admiral Seymour informed the Khedive that England had no intention of conquering his country, but was determined to suppress rebellion. The House of Commons adopted tho motion for tho Egytt&n credit, 275 to 19. In the French Cnamber of Deputies, De Freycinet announced that Turkey had accepted the proposals of the conference for her intervention in Egypt. De Losseps undertook to prevent the entrance of the British corvette Orion into the Suez canal, but his protest was set at naught, and tho war ship went on her way, her commander oven omitting the formality of paying the customary canal dues. It is said tho Orion was the bearer of instructions materially modifying the situation at Port Said-

A writer in the Coimhill justly gives the palm of cheap places to live in to Belgium and Italy. At Ypres or Malines an ordinary ten-room house may be had for SIOO a year, a good Flemish cook for $4 a month, and a housemaid for $3. Milk, eggs, poultry, fruit and vegetables are about 40 per cent, cheaper than in Americun cities. Schools are cheap and good. According to the latest statistics this country produces nearly 40,000,000 pounds of soft soap every year,

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles

LOOKING BACK AT THEIR WORK.

Tbe Rcpnblicit.il* Staggered by Their Prodigality-Dreading tbe Result— The Impossibility of Reducing Taxation Now. [Washington Telegram to the New York Sun.] In view of the near future when they will meet their constituents, the Republican leaders manifest concern for the answer they must give when they are questioned about the legislation of the session now drawing to a close. What can they say when their constituents require a reason for continuing the merciless taxation, while the overflowing treasury is divided among favorites and on objects which are either without merit or have no claim on the national resources ? That such a question would ever be put appears to have been hardly theught of. Confronted in the last days of the session with this peril, the Republican leaders have turned their attention to the reduction of the taxes, more, however, to have it appear that they are not unmindful of the taxpayer than with a resolute determination to lift his burdens. Instead of being tha first, as it should have been, it is the very last subject to receive their attention. Even this pretence wonld not have been resorted to but for the alarm created from mingling with their constituents by members of Congress who have been home to look after a renomination. The word they have returned with is far from cheering. Some have said plainly to their fellows here that to adjourn without doing something, or pretending to do something in the nature of a reduction of the taxes will be to court political overthrow.

Needless expenditures by millions, wrung from the people by inexorable taxation, is not a winning watchword for the party possessing the power and charged with the responsibility of Government. The sight of tens of millions going out at the command of schemes not relating to the public good, is not a satisfying one to taxpayers. It is simply a state of things which the country will not stand. The Republican leaders —some of them at least —are beginning at this late day to perceive this. If they had possessed any real patriotism, the subject would have been attended to in the beginning of the session. A regard for themselves has prompted a spasmodic attempt to clip the taxes here and there, but with no idea of thoroughness or positive relief. The proposition to free perfumeries and some other articles of luxury which are best able to pay a tax, at once brought out the counter proposition to relieve the poor man’s tobacco—to him almost as essential as his bread. “ That will never do,” said Mahone. “ The reverse is the true proposition. Tax the perfumery bottle and free the tobaccobox. Do as you propose, and on every stump the rich man’s untaxed perfumery bottle and the poor man’s taxed to-bacco-box will put you to shame and make you keep silence.” Older statesmen, and some experienced yet less capable leaders, felt the force of the statement, and an attempt is made for free tobacco. It is likely to fail, while perfumery will go free. The whisky tax might better be removed wholly. Whatever may be the comment, it is nevertheless true that more people would wish for nn taxed whisky—if the price were to. be affected —than free coffee or shoes or cloth. The whisky tax, while it puts millions into the treasury, puts more millions into the pockets of the manufacturers, who-are so comparatively few in number as to be readily oombined as a ring. To them, as things are managed, the tax is a special benefit. A tax of 90 cents is a pre„text for charging from 83 to $5 a gallon for whisky that can be manufactured for 50 cents or less. The list of the millions appropriated at the present session, which will surely confront Representatives seeking the indorsement of their constituents, will be startling. Feeling this, the leaders are now straining their wits to make it appear that the people have been relieved of a considerable part of the taxes heretofore paid. But, when they come to consider the matter closely, it seems that the bloated river and harbor appropriations, and, especially, the Mississippi river improvement appropriations, contemplate other large sums for years to come; so that if President Arthur does not come to our relief with the veto, the country is committed to a state of things which will make a comprehensive reduction of the tax an impossibility unless the works initiated by present legislation be abandoned and the appropriation to a great extent lost. The first thing that is felt now when the subject of reducing taxation is concerned, is that the door has to a considerable extent been closed by the recklessness and extravagance of the appropriations which will make the present Congress infamous; and this will, it is to be hoped, cause at least the worst of the leaders to fail of another election. It is the fear that such will be the result that is troubling not a few of tha Robesonites.

A Scene in the Senate.

There is no man on the Democratic side who is more respected than Senator Butler, of South Carolina. He is conservative, broad-minded and at the head of advanced public opinion in his State. Some years ago slanderers indentified him as one of the principals in the celebrated Hamburg massacre. It has been Shown over and over again that Mr. Butler was absent from the scene of the massacre when it began, that he went there as a peacemaker, and that had it not been for his presence, much more blood would have been shed. He is one of the most admirable men of the best typ9 of Southern representatives in Congress. He has none of the passion or rant of the extreme Southerners. He is always cool and self-possessed, with the air and manner of the most polished gentleman. His record as an officer in the Confederate service' daring the war was one of the most brilliant. Since the war he has recognized the fact that it was over, and has done all in his power to bring his own people up to the level of the civilization of the North. He understands only too well that every outrage committed in his State is a blow at its material interests, and no one has worked harder than he to maintain law and order at home. Yesterday a new member from Pennsylvania, named Miller, sought notoriety by reviving the slauders heaped upon Mr. Butler at the tune of this Hamburg massacre. This WM in direct violation of ail parliament*

ary rules, as the members of Congress are forbidden to attack or cast reflections upon members of the branch to which they do not belong. Mr. Batler rose this morning, when the Senate was called to order, to a question of privilege, with The Record in his hand. He stood in the middle of the Democratic side. * His t&ll manly figure and clear-cut face wearing a look of intense gravity, at once attracted the attention of every one. In a clear, even voice, without a vibration of passion, he said: Mb. President : I observe in the Record this morning that a person in another place made a wanton attack on my character, and committed a breach of the privileges of this body, for which he was not called to order, in discussing a contested-election case. I shall not, at this late day, be betrayed into a controversy with this individual, whose acquaintance I have never bad the misfortune to make, but shall, rather, leave him to the judgment and contempt of all honorable men for attacking another in a forum where he (under cover of the privileges of that for um) could not be answered for declining to allow the correction of the falsehoods he was uttering, garbling of the evidence, perversion of the truth, and falsification of the record, and for refusing to give the person attacked the benefit of his own statement- I have withstood the mastiffs of the radical party in the past, fcnd can afford to dismiss with this brief notioe the yelping of this cur of low degree. The name of this creature, I believe, is Samuel H. Miller. Daring the delivery of Senator Butler’s reply to Mr. Miller ±he Senate was as quiet as the tomb. The silence wai almost awful, and the attack and reply seemed to be received as Qipinous of proceedings more serious than a mere political contest. All through this little speech there was most absolute silence. Every eye was turned toward the Senator. When he had concluded he turned easily and walked back, where several Senators of both parties congratulated him upon the clear and direct stand that he had taken, first in asserting the rights of the Senate as against the criticism of a member of the House, and, second, his very proper denunciation of this miserable slander.— Washington telegram to Chicago Times.

What Our Republican Congress Laughs at.

It is very amusing—very. It makes the politicians laugh, even if the judicious grieve. When Butter worth made some remarks on the floor of Congress so indecent that they would hot be permitted to appear in the Congressional Record , and ladies were warned from the galleries, his colleagues laughed heartily. Mr. Butterworth was so peart and pleasing and blackguardish that they were compelled to hold their sides, they laughed so much. When the Vice President elect of the United States, now its President, described at a Delmonico dinner, in honor of Star Route Dorsey, by what persuasive arts of corruption that sweet gentleman had saved ludiana, the tables were set in a roar. It was so highly diverting. When Senator Ingalls described the River and Harbor bill, by which it is proposed to take twenty millions of dollars from the treasury to aid in the re-election of Congressmen, as “the annual shame, scandal, and disgrace of American legislation,” the Senate burst into a loud guffaw. Their part in the perpetration of the annual shame, scandal and disgrace, never so much a shame, scandal and disgrace as this year, moved their risibles. It is possible that the sober sense of the country may be shocked at this laughter. It is something too long and too loud. It comes in at the wrong time. There really isn’t anything funny in obscene jesting, in election frauds, or in legislative stealing. The electors’ turn may come one of these days.— Chicago Times. Robbing the Cradle and the Grave. Mr. Jay Hnbbell is really cruel. We have before us two of his political assessment circulars of which he and the Congressmen acting with him ought to be ashamed, no matter how little they are inclined to blnsh at the general run of the business in which they are engaged. One of these Republican assessment circulars requires $6.20 from a little boy 12 years old employed in a navy yard at $1 per day. This little boy, whose name for obvious reasons we decline to give Mr, Hubbell, is an orphan, 12 years old, employed as an errand boy, and whose small pay is the support of a widowed mother and one or two children. The other of Mr. Jay ‘Hubbell’s circulars calls for $7. It is directed to an old man over 80 years of age, also employed in a navy yard and receiving 81- 25 per day for such light work as sweeping and other matters which a man of his years can attend to. This poor old fellow does not even have constant employment. He averages about 100 days’ work in the year. Yet of this old man, tottering to the grave and over 80 years of age, Mr. Jay Hubbell, in the name of “the party of great moral ideas,” demands the payment of $7. Will not President Arthur, will not Secretary Chandler step forward in the name of' common decency and take Mr. Jay Hubbell’s hands off the throats and out of the pockets of children and tottering old men? Is there no sense of shame, no power of indignation left among our public men ?— New York Herald.

Canting Hypocrisy.

For canting hypocrisy, says the Grand Rapids Democrat , the average Republican Congressman bears the bell. Horr’s late jeremiad over the utter wickedness es gerrymandering (in South Carolina) is a fair specimen. The Chicago Timeß pays its attention to him in the following caustic manner: Mr. Horr of Michigan said in the House, the other day, that ho looked with horror upon an apportionment in South Carolina which made one district of about 187,000 inhabitants and another of about But Mr Horr of Michigan, if he will look over the apportionment scheme of his own. State, will find districts to range from 104,000 to 178,000 ; and our own Illinois apportionment, adopted as a rule of the dominant canons, makes districts of from 129,000 to 186,000. The smaller districts of Illinois—and there are thirteen out of twenty below tne equalized ratio—are carved for Republican districts, and are portions of the State in which the least growth of population has been made in the last ten years. Does Mr. Horr of Michigan look with horror upon a scheme which in eight Northern States is calculated to confer on 1,800,000 Republican votes the choice of 90 Congressmen,. and upon 1,600,000 Democratic votes the choice of but 21 ? The tea crop of India ten years ago was 17,900,000 pounds; this year it is 61,619,000 pounds. Of all tins, only about 1,600,000 pounds are consumed in India. England takes the most of it; only about 3,000,000 pounds of it their way to this oountry.

INDIANA ITEMS.

The dwelling of George Langford, of Wabash, was swept away by fire. Loss, 82,500. John Griffith’s residence, near Huntington, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $1,500. The ex-soldiers of Warren county are canvassing the propriety of holding a reunion. The Lanier family, of Madison, have generously given $3,500 toward the building of the new dormitory building for Hanover College. A man by the name of E. E. Dillin, livingin Hart township, Warrick county, has disappeared from home. He was a large dealer in live stook. The State Bureau of Statistics is now engaged in compiling manufacturing statistics, the first that have been gathered in Indiana since 1879. Mark Beeson, a prominent farmer, residing north of Counersville, was dangerously hurt falling from a load of hpy across some machinery on his barn floor. , Mrs. Fannie Betts has filed in the Circuit Court at Crawfordsville a suit for damages against Luther Garland, of Brown township, for defamation of character. Miss Hannah Powell has filed before tho Circuit Court at Logansport her complaint against James F. Fry, demand;ng $5,000 for breach of the marriage contract. Pat Dickerson, of Madison, has sold his fine mare Bronze for $7,000. Pat bought this mare last fall from his brother for $450, and his brother had bought her for $175. The State Superintendent of Public Instruction has returns showing 708,596 school children, of whom only 1,294 between the ages of 10 and 21 years are unable to read or write.

Hon. John F. Morrison, one of the most prominent citizens of Indiana, died at Knightstown of heart disease. He was State Treasurer during the war, and a counselor of Gov. Morton. A 4-year-old son of William Lewis, of Bedford, cut one of his feet with a rusty hoe. Lockjaw supervened, and the result was death within a few days after receiving the wound. Sylvancs Test, whose disappearance on the day of the soap-vat accident at Terre Haute was coupled with the latter horror, has returned after a long tramp extending to the wilds of Arizona. Carl Baker, a farmer, 55years of age, living three and a half miles northwest of Russiaville, Howard county, was struck and instantly killed by lightning. He was in a field plowing corn when a storm came up and he took shelter under a tree. Warren Comstock and Henry Tyner conveyed the children of the Presbyterian Sunday-school to the picnic grounds, three miles from Greenfield, in wagons drawn by a ponderous traction engine. The novelty of the proceeding dfcew a crowd all along the line. The officers of the Logansport National Bank have discovered that the absconding cashier, Oscar Goodwin, stole $15,000 by manipulating the account with the Merchants’ National Bank i f Chicago. He also cirried off his bond of $25,000, and the signers are unwilling to stand tbe loss. Several lads of Newcastle, whose ages range from 12 to 16 years, were shooting at a mark and had kept it up for some time, but were unsuccessful in* hitting the mark, whereupon two of them, youngDenninsand Cain, remarked to young Gordon, who was standing on the bridge: “We will shoot you,” and, suiting the action to the word, both fired their guns, shooting him through the heait, resulting in instant death. Mbs. Mace, of Lafayette, died, leaving a will so worded that her son’s “wife, whom she hated, should havo none of her property. The son had the will broken, but died soon after, and the other heirs were trying to have the decree set aside by which the will was made void. About $30,000 were involved. Judge

Hammond has just decided, however, that the son’s wife, who has since remarried, and her son are the lawful heirs. A special train on the Evansville and Terre Haute road collided with a freight near Vincennes. Both engines were ruined, four cars were smashed into splinters and five men were seriously injured. No horror is without its hero. W. E. Guyton, a brakeman, who had both hands frightfully crippled and breast bruised, snatched up a flag and walked half a mile north of the wreck to signal the down-coming passenger train, thus b:avely avoiding a horrible calamity. After performing his duty he fainted from sheer exhaustion. The damage is estimated at $75,000. Campalrßinv Fifty Years Aro, These military days recall to the old settlers the first days of glorious war in this place, now just fifty years ago. The great chief of the Sacs and Foxes, Blackbawk, threatened our northwestern frontier settlements, and there was universal dread that he might overrun them and destroy us. So Gov. Noble called for 500. volunteers to march for the frontier. They were to be mounted infantry, armed with rifles, tomahawks and butcher-knives. Each man was to furnish a horse, arms, accouterments; no uniform was prescribed. The blacksmith made the tomahawks and butcherknives, and the gunsmith the rifles, bullet-molds, shot-pouches and powderhorns, when needed. Many soldiers had their own arms and accouterments, boing hunters and Indian-fighters. Capt. Henry Bren ton brought a company from Johnson county ; Capt. Thomas Nichols one from Hendri. ks county; Capt. John W. Redding, Capt. A. W. Russell and Capt. James P. Drake, of Marion, also bad companies in the regiment.. Col. Geoi ga L. Einhard • commanded it. William Connor, of Noblesville, was guide and interpreter. The State furbished ammunition and commissary stores, which were hauled in five ox-wagons, each pulled by five yoke of cattle. Gen. Robert Hanna was the Commissary and Quartermaster. The rations consisted of flour, bacon, coffee and sugar. Dr. Mitchell was the Surgeon. Tne Rev. James Armstrong was Chaplain. The regiment encamped on the 6th of June, 1832, on the Military Park ground, near the corner of West and Washington streets. They marched on the 7tb, and encamped on the first night near Trader’s point, on Big Eagle creek. The next day’s march carried them to Eirklin (or rather Kirk’s prairie.) on a stream. This prairie was an almost impassable bog. The next night the camp was at Thorn town, then a fine situation, high and tlry—an old Indian* town -site, celebrated for its healthful’, ness. Thf canjp was betweerj

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Thomtown and Lafayette, in the woods. The next day the regi ment crossed the Wabash at Lafayette and encamped at Parrish’s grove. The next night the camp was just beyond the Iroquois river, in Illinois. The next camp was a big spring in the Grand prairie. The next camp was at the Kankakee river, on thifi side. The next camp was at a grove sixteen miles beyond tho Kankakee. After several days’ further march tho regiment reachod Chicago, where one small schooner lay at anchor about two miles from shore, the water being shallow near shore. This schooner had brought a garrison of sol diera from Detroit. There was a small block-house near the mouth of the river, in which were about fifty to seventy-live soldiers. There was no town there, except a store and residence, and no good place for one then. _ The regiment stayed there three days. About this time Blackhawk.surrendered. Tho orders there were received to return home by the way of South Bend, because supplies could lie got on that route. The regiment marched back by South Bend and Logansport. At the Iroquois there was an Indian town. The only inhabitants visible were women and children. There woro some scattering Indians at Hyde Park and on tho Calumet Here the regimont encamped. The marshes between the Calumet and South Bend were nlmost impassable. A few poaceablo Indians were also seen at Logansport. The country through which the regiment marched was almost a wilderness, especially beyond the Wabash river, and the horses were fed upon the wild grass, no forage being hauled in the wagons for them. This account is given by the soldier who was called the “baby of the regimenj,” a well-known citizen, .Tames H. Stapp, Esq., then 18 years old. Thomas H. Sharpe, Thomas Chill, William Stuck, Henry Byady and Mr. Stapp are the survivors now in th ; s county of this old-time campaign, which was accomplished in thirty days, and in which the genuine hardships of a march through swamps, wet prairies and wild woods, without bridges, and upon the scantiest supplies, were endured. —lndianapolis Journal.

Gallant Deeds.

At Stone river when Crust’s brigade of Palmer’s division was pursuing the routed rebels on the 2d of January, they came suddenly on a reserve battery that opened on them with surprising furys The men were ordered to lie down, and dropped in the soft mud of a cornfield. The rebel artillerymen had the range, however, and poured shot and shell into the advance line in a way that tore some unfortunates in pieces and covered nearly every one with mud. In the midst of the terrible fusillade, a shell struck between two men lying flat on the ground, so near to their heads as to stun both. Dozens of men, the bravest there, closed their eyes in anticipation of the terrible scene that would follow the explosion. But one of the soldiers at whose shoulder the smoking shell had .struck, digging up a handful of mud, held it aloft for a moment while he said coolly, “ Ten to one, boys, she don’t busty” and then with a sort of gleeful agility he brought his great wad of mud down on the shell smoking in the shallow hole, and “she didn’t bust.” When Sherman was getting ready for his move on Atlanta great quantities of ammunition were stored in the railroad sheds at Resacca. One day, in the midst of a thunder-storm that dismantled the camp, the ammunition building was struck by lightning. Hundreds of the bravest soldiers ran blindly away as they saw the boxes of shell thrown about, saw the guards drop as if shot, and saw smoke issuing from the top of the great pile of explosives. But one man, clear-eyed and cool-headed, saw that the smoke came from tow in which the shells were packed, and, climbing to the top, he seized tbe burning mass, and holding it up shouted, “Allright, boys ; no fireworks this time.” His intrepidity and alertness saved the ammunition and possibly many lives.

A choice of Terms.

“I sec the Armstrongs have gone to light housekeeping,” said Mr. Jones,” laying down the paper he was reading, “ltwill be quite a change for them. '“I wonder if they will use gas or kerosene?” asked Mrs. Jones. “Perhaps they will have the electric light,” mused Mr. J., “it ought to be just the thing for that purpose. ” “Why, you can’t cook by the electric light,” retorted Mrs. J. “I don’t see what cooking has to do with it,” growled Mr. Jones in a disgusted tone. “They oan cook as other people do, I suppos.” “But you said they had gone to light housekeeping.” “Yes, I know I did,” answered Mr. J., sarcastically; but I should have explained it more fully and said exElicitly that Mr. Armstong was lightouse keeper on Shad island, and that the American goverment had him and his family there. Understand, Maria?” Bat Maria was sulkibg, and wouldn’t answer.

Don’t Whine.

Don’t be whining about not having a fair chance. Throw a sensible man out of the window and he’ll fall on his feet and ask the nearest way to . his work. The more you have to begin with the less you will have in the end. Money you earn yourself is much brighter than any you get out of dead men’s bags. A scant breakfast in the morning of life whets the appetite for a feast later in the day. He who has tasted a sour apple will have the more relish for a sweet one. Your present want will make future prosperity all the sweeter. Eighteen pence has set up many a peddler in business, and he has turned it over until he has kept his carriage. As for the place you are cast in, don’t find fault with that; you need not be a horse because you were born in a stable. If a bull tossed a man of metal sky high,, he would drop down into a good place. A hard working young man with his wits about him will make money while others will do nothing but lose it.

A Sunday Toy.

[Texas Siftings.] An Austin clergyman, on his way home from ohurch, stopped his carriage to rebuke a boy who was industriously firing off a toy pistol. “Don’t you know it is wrong to fire off a toy pistol on Sunday.” “It isn’t wrong to fire off this toy pistol on Sunday?” . “Why not?” bought it with the money ma gave me to put in the contribution box. This is a Sunday toy, this is,” re- : plied the boy ‘playfully shooting a hole in the clergyman’s stove pipe hat, before F he oould get out of reage.

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HUMOR.

HotrsßHOiiD hints—Pokers and broomsticks. Thb modest man gets left, whether the day be odd or hot. A raw recruit has to be often exposed to a hot fire before he becomes a seasoned soldier. As bktwkkn the cheese press and the printing press the former is the strongest, but the latter is the most rapid. A foot- in high station is like a man in a balloon—everybody appears little to him and he appears little to eyerybody. Thb shoe worn by ahorse is a wrought iron shoe, but when the horse loses the shoe from its foot it becomes a oast iron shoe.

“ Hkr foot la a poem,” tbe lovar aaid; “ A melodious rhythm la her tread.” “ Yoe,” wild hie friend (a eort of beat), “ Spondaic tho lneeettre, two long feet.” — JjoninviU e Courier-Journal. An office-holder soon tires of publio life when ho suspeots that his constitu- * ents have privately resolved not to reelect him. Many a self-made man would have done better by himself had he contract out to somebody else.— Boston lransoript, A company of settlers, in naming their new town, called it Dictionary, because, as they said, “ that’s the only place where peaoe, prosperity and happiness are always found,” Matbria medica : American physician (to English ditto) —“Now, in Vienna they’re first-rate at diagnosis ; but then, you see, they always make a point of confirming it by a post-mortem.” St. Louis has two pretty female homeopathio physioians. Their first patient was a man who said he had the neuralgia from too muoli kissing, and wanted to be treated on homeopathio principles. As to “what is rarer than a day in June?” the Boston Advertiser replies, “ taking their number into consideration, a day in February." Aud so it is iu other respects, for some of them are positively raw. “ I think,” said a fond parent, “ that little Jimmy is going to be a poet whon he grows up. He doesn’t eat, and Bits all day by the stove, and thinks, aud thinks.” “ You had bettor grease him all over. Ho is going to have the measles. That’s what ails Jimmy.” “ Look here, August, why is it that you bo often come to see mo, and never think of asking me to como to see you ?” August: “Oh, that’s easily explained. You see, if I call on you, and you bore me, I can end the matter by leaving you. But if you were in my house, it wouldn’t be so easy to get rid of you.”

Yon should see our Marshal on Ills.horse I,ike Napoleon Bonaparte ; And «a ho rides along tho Unoa He makes the ladies start. With nn old straw hat On each man’s head. And a lump of dough Just newly made. With the left foot Ural We’ll lightly tread At tho corner-stone parade. — lieu! York Commercial Advertiser. A pastor in this city saw a clericallooking man in his audience, and after the services went up to him, grasped his iiand cordially and said : “ How do you do, brother ; are vou a pastor ?” The young man looked a trifle astonishod, and hesitatingly replied: “Why, no, sir; not hardly ; I’m a bookkeeper in a grocery store.”—<S 'primjfield Republican. Thb Colonel, who lives in the South, was finding fault with Bill, one of his hands, for neglect of work, and saying he would have no more preaching about his place—they had too many protracted meetings to attend. “ Bill ain’t no preacher,” says Sam. “He’s only‘a ’zorter.” “Well, what’s the difference between a preacher and an exhorter ?” “ Why, you know, a preacher he takes a tex’, and den ho done got to stick to it. But a ’zorter—he kin branch.” At a German church a now organist had been engaged, who was fond of adding some improvisations to every piece ho played. On the first Sunday, when he had finished tho “ Gloria,” ho wished to add a few bars of his own, but tho blower suddenly ceased to work. “Go on," the organist cried, angrily; “don’t you see I am still playing ?” “ Playing, indeed,” said the blower, “I have been in this business for the last thirty years, and I know just exactly how much wiud is required for a Gloria. I don’t see why you should have any more than your predecessor.” “What will your wife wear at tho ball, Governor ?’ r said the millinery man of a “society” paper to one of our exGovernors at a fashionable wateringplace. “My wife is not going to tho ball, sir.” “Impossible, Governor. I have telegraphed her name to my paper as among the guests. Now (appealingly) what would your wife wear if she was going ?” “ Sir,” replied the ex-Gov-ernor in his austerest manner as he turned on his heel, “since you have sent my wife to the ball, dress her yourself.” And sure enough there was an elaborate «toilet” described next morning.

Borrowing.

Perhaps the girl readers are not addicted to this exasperating habit, and do not need this talk. There is, however, among my aquaintances a maiden who makes herself one of my greatest trials. She asks for my scarf to wear to the city, for my shawl when she visits her aunt, for my hood when she goes skating. One of my dresses figured at her cousin’s wedding; one of my neckr ties is seen in her photograph; she protects her hands with my mittens, walks dry-shod in my rubbers, and warms her fingers in my muff. Yet she is so helpful, and sociable, and amiable, and returns so readily aud neatly each article borrowed, that I seldom venturo a refusal, especially when I remember that her wardrope is scantily furnished. Still I often take myself severely to task for allowing a girl with such excellent traits to pass into womanhood with this disagreeable one. So full of the hope that she will see this talk, I send it on its mission, trusting \t will help some maiden to become a more agreeable woman.

A Canary and a Mouse.

A very fine canary bird is owned by a gentleman in Nevada county, Cal. Unusual quantities of food disappeared from his cage. One day the gentleman chanced to look in the cage, and there, snugly stowed away in one of the seedboxes, was a moose, fat as butter. Upon attempting to remove the mouse the bird made a chivalrous fight for the little animal. A singular fact that while the there the bird kept up a constant singing all day, but since tile mouse -has been removed the bird has refused to warble. The Norwegian Congress is called the “ Storthing,” and no whisky is allowed to be sold within six bloolw of the Capitol building,