Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1884 — Page 3

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OUGHT TO GO.

A Republican Journal Give* Reasons That Are Conclusive. Take the star-route frauds as an example. The vast majority of the people of the United States are convinced that many millions of dollars were stolen by a combination of mail contractors and public officials. They witnessed an attempt to bring the guilty parties to justice. The exposition of the frauds made it clear beyond the possibility of a doubt that there were'groups of contractors, numbering in all more than a baker’s dozen of individuals. After a year’s preparation, with all the resources of the Government supposed to be at the command of the officers of justice, only one of the smallest of these different groups was brought to the criminal bar More than a year consumed in (he tr al of this group, ■during ’’which the Government disbursed in lawyers’ fees alone more than Eo-thirds as much as the conspirators jre alleged to have stolen. Long here the'trials were concluded it was to every intelligent man. woman and child in the country that the so-called prosecution was farcical, and the acquittal of the accused was not unexpected. In a public address the Attorney General declared that during two years more than $4,000,000 had been stolen from the. public treasury by these bands of plunderers, and two years have since elapsed without a •dollar of the money being recovered or a single thief being punished. Has there been any public outcry at this miscarriage of justice? Have there been any evidences of popular discontent at the manifest incompetency, to use no harsher term, of the public prosecutors? How is this supineness of the people to be accounted for ? Only upon the theory—the all-pervading conviction—that the Government is the legitimate prey of all who can successfully rob it of millions. The Government is an abstraction to the people in times of peace and general prosperity. They vaguely recognize the fact that they are the Government, and that they have been robbed—but in the abstract of an infinitesimal sum. A series of wholesale robberies, by highwaymen or burglars, in a community, would cause intense local excitement, and rouse every man to desperation, and if the public authorities failed to do their duty a vigilance committee would speedily set Judge Lynch at work. — New York Times. 9

A Government of Monopolies. A bill is before the United States Senate the object of which is to secure the debt owed to the Government by the subsidized Pacific railroads. The accounts prepared in the office of the Commissioner of Railroads, in the Department of the Interior, show that on the 30th of last June the total indebtedness of those corporations to the United States was $102,376,000. Under the loose policy pursued by Congress in all matters involving the"interests of railroad corporations, the Government has yielded little by little the security it ought to have held for this large debt, until it finds itself with nothing more than the general lien created by the terms of the charters. When the subsidy bonds were authorized they were to be the first lien on the roads. But the corporations subsequently obtained legislation authorizing the issue of mortgage bonds to an amount equal to the subsidy bonds and to take the place of the latter as first mortgage bonds. When the subsidies were voted it was argued that the charges for Government transportation would speedily diminish the indebtedness of the roads to the United States, and it was supposed as a matter of course that the total transportation expense would become a set-off against the debt due the Government. But the lobbies and the sharp, thrifty Republican Congressmen took care that the law should be so drawn as to be susceptible of a different construction. The railroad corporations soon began to demand payment of heavy bills for Government transportation, and a Republican Court of Claims decided that* the Government could not -withhold from the roads their earnings, except for transportation over the subsidized portion of tbeir lines. The interpretation of the law has compelled the United States for years to pay to the corporations large sums of money, although the latter are indebted to the Government in an enormous amount, the eventual recovery of which is very doubtful. In one instance the thoughtful Republican Congress so framed a bill as to enable the Republican courts to uphold the construction placed upon it by the corporations, that it did not oblige them to pay the interest until the principal becomes due! While Allen G. Thurman was in the Senate he procured tne passage of an act requiring 25 per cent, of the net earnings of the subsidized roads to be applied to the payment of the debt. But the constitutionality of this law is contested by the companies, although it is now in operation. Besides, the corporations forbid the investment of the amount in United States bonds, as the Thurman 1 act provides, on the plea that they lose the premiums which the bonds may command at the time of purchase. Thus over SBOO,OOO of the Union Pacific’s money and as much of the Central Pacific’s, deducted under the Thurman act, remains in the treasury uninvested. When the proper time comes the Supreme Court, with its packed and purchased Judgeships, will doubtless be prepared to pronounce the Thurman act unconstitutional and to refund the accumulations under it to the corporations. In plain language, the venal Republican Congresses and administrations of twenty years past have given the people over to the railroad corporations, bound hand and foot When the subsidized companies choose to go into bankruptcy the Government will be forced to become a purchaser under foreclosure, subject io the first mortgage bonds, or wiß see the property pass into the j hands of the Huntingtons, Dillons, and Goulds, with the whole debt due to the United States wiped out.

Even if the Thurman act should be enforced, the accumulations under it, together with all sums in the sinking fund and a credit of the whole Government transportation service, would still leave $75,000,000 due to the United States when the subsidy bonds fall due. No wonder the Commissioner of Railroads says that the Government is at the mercy of the roads. This Paa been the mission of the Republican party since its old issues died out, when the patriotism of the whole people had crushed rebellion and rebellion had killed slavery. In place of a government of the people, bv the people, and for the people, they have built up a government of monopolies, by monopolies, and for monopolies! The bill now proposed in the Senate would secure the payment of the large amount due from the subsidized roads to the Government, and would prevent the corporations from stealing the public moneys in addition to grabbing the public lands. With a Republican Senate and President it is n.Qt likely to become a law.— New York World.

A Shameful Record. The history of the United States Navy department for the last twenty years is one of jobs, steals and criminal wastefulness. After annual appropriations, ranging from $13,000,000 to $13,000,000 for two decades, the United States, which, with the proper disbursement of this vast sum of money, ought to have had one of the best and most extensive navies in the world, possesses a socalled navy unworthy to be compared with those of several insignificant South American Governments. The records of the Navy depaitment of England, whose navy is, perhaps, the most costly and formidable in the universe, reveal no such'liberal appropriations as these, yet the United States navy is the laughing stock of every naval power in the world. In spite of expenditures of an even $100,010,000 by bureaus of construction during a period of eighteen years, the only vessels built within the last dozen years were eight wooden ships built under the act of 1873; two torpedo vessels, the Intrepid and Alarm, of which the former is a confessed failure, and the latter by no means a success; the five unfinished monitors and the four steel ships begun last summer. Concerning the thirty-seven unarmored vessels afloat, Secretary Chandler a year ago reported: “They are'of low speed, their engines are not modern, only fourteen being compound, and their steam maneuvering and destructive powers are inferior to those of the present war ships of other nations.” Of these thirty-seVen ships, one, the Ashueiot, was sunk in February; two, the Alaska and Tuscarora, were sold for junk a few weeks ago at Mare island navy-yard and brought $25,000 and $12,000 respectively. The following is a list of vessels built since the war: Tons displacement. Alarm, iron 1,750 Adams, wood 1,376 Alaska (sold), wood 2,400 Alert, iron . 1,020 Alliance, wood 1,375 Amphitrite (unfinished monitor), iron 3,815 Antietam (stricken from list), wood 4,000 Benicia (offered for sale—no bid), wood 2,400 Enterprise, wood 1,375 Essex, wood 1,375 -GaiVna, wood 1,900 Intrepid, iron 800 Mariop, woo l 1,900 Miantonomah (unfinished monitor), fron.. .3,815 Monadnock (unfinished monitor) iron 3,815 Nipsic, wood 1,375 Puritan tuntthished monitor), iron 6,000 Quinnebauu. w00d..; 1,900 Ranger, iron 1.-020 Swatara, wood 1,900 Tallapoosa, wood 1,270 Trenton, wood 3.9c0 Terror (unfiuisaed monitor), iron 3,815 Vandalia, Wood 2,200 Some of the figures showing the expenses of the navy-yards, the cost of repairs, wages and salaries of seamen and officers, may perhaps interest the American patriot who, seeing no navy, wonders where his mon,ey has gone to. The whole cost of the nine navy-yards up to June 30,1882, was $54,227,722.67. The expenditure of yards and docks for fifteen years ending June 30, 1882, was $23,945,176.80, and for the five years, 1877-81, there was expended at all the navy-yards, except Mare island, for support of yards, $10,714,702.55; labor, $5,463,054.77; material, $6,525,919.38. At the navy-yards Nov. 16, 1882, there were 326 commissioned and warrant officers, 2,501 enlisted men and marines, and 4,464 employes, whose wages that day were $11,319.37. The only work going on was the manufacture of stores and the repairs on seven naval vessels. The bureaus of construction and repairs, steam engineering, equipment and recruiting, and ordnance spent during Robeson’s eight years at the head of the Navy department $74,399,153.98.— Washington cor. Chicago Times.

A Republican Disgrace. The examination of ex-Speaker Keifer by a sub-committee of the House Committee on Accounts ought to bring a glow of honest pride to the Republican members who did not see anything to prevent them from casting complimentary votes for Mr. Keifer for Speaker. The sub-committee has examined Mr. Keifer, and will report that he insisted upon discharging an accomplished stenographer on the last day of the session, in order to give the stenographer’s place to his own nephew, of whom there is no evidence that he is a stenographer at all, and to secure his nephew the stenographer’s pay during the recess. That is to say, Mr. Keifer used his position as Speaker to put his hand into the public treasury and transfer therefrom $3,850 to the pocket of his nephew in exchange fo* no service whatever. These facts were known before. They are now to be officially reported to the House for its action. In a House where public spirit and a delicate sense of honor prevailed, such a showing would secure the expulsion of the offender.— New York Times, Rep. Looking the field over it is not hard to answer the query as to where we are to find those who will take the place of the protectionists who may leave us. If there are some Democrats who do not yet understand this, the Republicans do, as is proven by their frantic efforts to divert the contest from practical to sectional and sentimental grounds.— Louisville Courier-Jour-nal.

WEALTH OF THE STATE.

Information Concerning the Social and Commercial Status of Indiana. Value of the Agricultural and Manufactured Products for 1883—Annual Report of Statistician Peelle. [From the Indianapolis Journal] The fifth annual report of the Indiana Stat'stical Bureau has been filed with the Governor by W. A. Peelle, the statistician. The report is quite voluminous, and when printed will make a volume of more than five hundred pages. It embraces statistics relating to the agriculture, manufacturing, railroad and mineral industries, and economic, educational, social, sanitary and criminal matters. AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. The year 1883. the statistician says, was an unusual ohe-for agriculture. A cold and wet spring, following an open and protracted' winter, delayed planting until a very late date., The cool summer was favorable for the growth of wheat in upland, while a good deal of bottom land wheat bad to be plowed up and planted in corn. On the whole, then, it must be said that corn and other crops were considerably retarded. It was not until July had well advanced that the outlook of the corn crop allowed a well-defined condition of hopefulness, and a rapid progress was not reached until Augujt. In some of the southern counties, e. g., Posey, an excellent crop was harvested. The wheat crop shows an average yield of 10 3-10 bushels per acre for the whole State. Based upon the reports of 888 out of 1,017 township trustees, the yield in wheat on 2,049,209 acres in 1883 was 31,405,573 bushels, against an areaof 3,063,348 acresand a production of 46,928,643 bushels for 1882. The highest yield for any one county is 839,030 bushels, in Posey, but her area of 60,867 acres does not make her average over 13 7-10 bushels per acre. The highest average was attained by St. Joseph Courty, which, on an area of 63,321 acres, produced 810,569 bushels, an average of 18 7-10 bushels to the acre. Lagrange, with 17 M bushels, stands second, and Elkhart and Kosciusko show a fraction over 17. The average in thirty-eight other counties ranges below 10 bushels to the acre; in ten counties it reached between 10 and 11 bushels: in nine counties between 11 and 12; in five counties it shows 18 bushels; in three counties between 14 and 15, and in two counties 16 bushels. The second tier of the northern counties shows the largest average, while some of the betjt wheat counties in previous years show a remarkable falling off in the yield. The area In corn was 3,125,376 acres, against 3,312, 683 last year, and the production was 89,699,237 bushels, while in 1882 it was 115,699,797 bushels. The yield shows an average of only about 28 bushels to the aqre. In thirty counties the average is about 30 bushels, while in forty other counties it reaches between 20 and 80, and in a few counties only it falls below 10 bushels to the acre. Posey county shows the highest average producing on an area of 49,451 acres 2.113,355 bushels, being 43 2-10 to the acre, while Vanderburg county,on an areaof only 21,892 acres, produced 934,540 bushels, making an average of 40 6-10. Knox county averaged 40 4-10 bushels per acre. The area of oats was 456,286 acres, from which was harvested 19,567,789 bushels. This yield of oats in 1888 was the largest per acre ever grown in the State. The same is true of clover and timothy. The acreage in clover was 939,615 and the tons produced were 1,628,519. The acreage in timothy was 1,167,323, and 1,831.187 tons of hay were produced. The Ir'sh potato crop is by far the largest ever’ reported in the State. The area was 87,100 acres and the yield was 8,353,412 bushels, against a yield of 7,264,836 bushels in 1882. There are 11,487,814 rods of tile drainage, while'in 1882 there were 9,524,297 rods, which is a marked evidence of the appreciation and utilization of this Important improvement in modern agriculture. The acreage of timber land is reported at 4,412,608, while in 1882 there were 4,585,012 acres, showing that the forests are rapidly disappearing. In the dairy products the statistics show that during the year there was a production of 130,803,785 gallons of milk, 29,591,845 pounds of butter, and 912,746 pounds of cheese. The area of grazing land was 1,778,232 acres, and the good hay crop has enabled farmers to Increase their herds of live stock. There are 485,739 horses of all ages, 47,979 mules. 1,059,296 cattle, of which 405,365 are milch cows; 1,911,820 stock hogs, 1,061,763 grown sheep, and 432,599 lambs. Fully 30 per cent, of the peach trees were winter killed. With the exception of Dubois, Pike, Posey, and Scott counties, which show respectively six, seven and eight tenths of a full crop, the peach crop was a failure, the average being less than one-tenth. In apples an average of 4 7-10 of a full crop was reached, while pears show a little over threetenths of a crop. Plums, quinces and cherries average about two and three-tenths. Siberian crab trees fall slightly below onehalf, and grapes show a small portion over one-half. The loss in fruit trees during the last three years has been more than made up by the’ farmers. During 1883, 624,324 young apple trees were planted, while 458,895 died. Of peach trees 313,055 were planted, and 226,590 died, showing a gain of 165,229 apple, and 86,465 peach trees. ECONOMIC STATISTICS. The statistics under the classification of economic comprise statements of the public expenditures of the different counties, the public debt of the State and each county, together with considerable information regarding the local and State governments. These statistics, the statistician says, are more complete than ever before, although reports from only eighty-nine counties were received. An increase in the expenditures of forty-nine counties is shown, while thirty-nine show a decrease. The estimated population of the State in 1883 is 2,056,262. The salaries paid county officers aggregate $404,361, the expenses of grand and petit Juries were $347,407, and the cost of coroners’ inquests amounted to $20,119. The cost of making assessments and appraisements of property was $167,100; for road viewing and surveying, while the salaries of County Superintendents and the cost of teachers' institutes aggregated $89,588. The cost of criminals and prisoners in the county jails iwas. $137,982; the maintenance of the poor, $489,801, and the expenses on account of the State benevolent and reformatory institutions were $54,870. New public buildings were erected at a cost of $539,661; the expenditures in the repair o,f pubi c buildings was $103,776, and interest was paid on county bonds to the amount of $171,7/3, while interest on gravel-road bonds in the sum es SBB,.770, and on county orders for $33,857, were paid. Books and stationery for the county 'offices cost $175,076; new bridges were built at a total cost of $593,616, and the expenditures for repairs were $81,871. The total expenditures made by all the counties aggregate $5,230,766. In the statistics on taxation the totals on the duplicates for the difierent purposes are as follows: County tax, $4,253,514; township, $291,136; special school, $1,455,540; road, $1,446,570; total State tax, $2,790,889; all other taxes, $2,030,350; total for all purposes, $11,730,596. The amount of delinquent taxes, with the penalty, interest, etc., is $1,777,252. The total valuation of real and personal property is $797,942,665. The total debt of the State is $4,852,608.34. THE RAILROADS. The statistics on railroads show an assessed valuation of all property in the State of $58,480,932. During the year 341.75 miles of main track were built, and there are now 5,240.18 miles of railroad in the State. Improvements were made on the right of way at an expenditure of $1,318,528. The valuation of the rolling stock is $10,742,228. The number killed in accidents which occurred during the year from causes beyond the contro' of the nailway companies was 17, and 84 were injured. Those killed by their own carelessness numbered 104, and ik;ured, 805. The amount ot damages recovered aggregated $3,954.90. the Manufacturing interests. In the statistics on manufacturing, it is

shown that there are 12,442 establishments in the State, which have a capital invested of $52,453,955. The value of •he raw material used in 1883 was $94'50*,806, and the value of the manufactured product from the raw material was $160,527,282. Employment is git en to 78,9 U) persons. The Increase in the number of establishment* sin e 1860 has teen 1.244. There ate 91 manufactories of agricultural implements giving employment to 2,714 persons, and the value i of tteir manufactured prcduct* is $4,875,792. ' There are 2,900 blacksmiths, and they earned j $2,440,616. There are 1,271 boot and shoe manufanuiera, and the Value of their work ! was $1,456,059. Fifty breweries, giving em- I ployment to 716 persons, had a production i valued at $2,748,853. The other classes of manufacturing, the number of persons employed, and the valuation of their production, were as follows: "W 5 j H I i CLASB ' Sf f | Brickkilns 396 3,016 $ 2,170,277 Cariiage shops 263 l,4tw 2,008,793 Cigar shops. 194 1,1’50 1,260,630 Cooper shops 333 1,786 1,496,779 Draintile 387 1,517 1,133,515 Distilleries 35 374 2,053,078 Flouring and grist mills... 790 2,581 27,758,231 Foundries 83 3,315 4,902,554 Ffirniture...;., 1.. 308 5,337 6,929,772 Harness and saddles 503 1,117 1,512,116 Marble shoos 155 538 862,706 Photographers 251 309 339,727 Planing and iron mills 297 2,495 4,688,254 Stone quarries. 121 745 555,085 Stove factories 142 2,196 4,970,200 Wagon factories 444 2,319 3,145,857 Woolen mills 361 1,476 2,458,100 Merchant tailors 207 1,432 1,208,240 Miscellaneous 'll4Ol 18,304 46,727,818 SOCIAL STATISTICS. In 1883 there were 2,169 persons naturalized in Indiana. Of these 1,044 were from Germany, 207 from England and Wales, 207 from France, 116 from Ireland, and 77 from Scotland. The divorces granted during the year numbered 1,227, of which 756 were to the wife, 361 to the husband, and 110 were not stated. The decree in most cases was granted on the complaint of ••failure to provide” and “neglect.” There are 4,163 church organizations and' 3,749 church buildings in'the State. The total membership is 460,714. The value of the property is $12,590,986. The salaries paid the ministers aggregate $1,015,337. The other church expenses amount to $349,292. The missionary and other charitable contributions during the year aggregated $224,859. There are 22,747 Sunday-schools, with an average attendance ot 224,447 pupils. MISCELLANEOUS STATISTICS. The vital and sanitary statistics were gathered by the State Board of Health, and are given in full in the last report of Secretary Elder, filed with the Governor. The educational statistics are obtained from State Superintendent Holcombe, and are included in his official report. A volumlnoQs statement, giving statistics relating to the National and State banks, compiled from the report of the Bank Examiners, is also appended. There are ninety-eight national banks in Indiana, and they have a capital stock amounting to the aggregate of $51,708,571.01. The criminal statistics are not complete, mahy of the County Clerks having failed to furnish the information solicited. It is shown, however, that of 17,773 persons reported as prisoners in jail, 1,576 were from Indiana, 1,516 were from other States, and 2,194 were reported as foreigners. Indiana Items. James Hays, a farmer, living near .Petersburg, committed suicide. Miss Laura Montgomery, of Princeton, is under arrest, charged with infanticide. James Cheney, of Fort Wayne, has given $15,000 to complete the Masonic Temple there. In a quarrel at Fort Wayne, Harry Bowers aged 13, stabbed Charles Druhoff, 14 years old, in the back with a pocket knife, inflicting a fatal wound. ' William Gladden, a pioneer of Marlon County, died at his residence, near Indianapolis, aged 88 years. The following day his wife, ten years younger, also died, it is believed, from grief and the shook occasioned by her husband’s death. They had been married sixty years. Through the influence of Postmaster General Gresham and Senator Voorhees, a pardon has been issued to Oscar Goodwin, who embezzled $15,000 while 'cashier of the Logansport National Bank, and was sentenced to the Indiana Penitentiary for five years. Burdette C. Pile, of Jeffersonville, whose age is 84 years, celebrated with his wife the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage. Mr. Pile has been a resident of Clark County nearly all his long life, and of Jeffersonville for more than half a century. He married his wife in that city, she being his second. He has served os Mayor of Jeffersonville, and is esteemed as one among its most popular citizens.— Jeffersonville News. John Browning shot and killed Nathan Hall, at Elkinsville, Brown county. Browning fled, but was arrested. The parties were quarreling over the loss of a hog, when Browning stabbed Hall in the back. While Hall was having his wound dressed by a doctor, Browning again approached and fired two shots, one of them entering Hall's stomach, killing him in a short time. Browping then fled. Threats are made of lynching him when he is returned to Elkinsville, but he has been taken to the jail at Nashville for safety. Browning is liable to be strung up at any moment. Perry Mannis, who has been on trial at Terre Haute for the murder of Mrs. Susanna Nelson, stated to his attorney that he was willing to take a llfo-seh'tence. The Judge instructed the jury accordingly, and a verdict to that effect was returned. Mannis, since his conviction, states that he was not the only one concerned in the murder. Mannis was a preacher of the United Brethren church. Last fall ne induced Mrs. Susanna Nelson, an old widow of Anderson, Ind., to leave home with over SI,OOO and start for Kansas City. She left homo Sept. 6, and the latter part of October her remains were found in a dark ravine four miles from Terre Haute. Mannis, who had been away from Anderson, returned with plenty of money and some jewelery which was identified as the old lady’s. Over 1,500,000 hogs were sold last year in Indiana, of a total value of $8,000,000, twice as much as the value of the beef produet, and a third more than the value of cattle and sheep combined. During the meeting of the State Swine-Breeders’ Association, opinions were advanced that the white hog was the best in the market and found the readiest sale. The Jersey red was the poorest selling, while the Poland China could be placed on the market earlier and at a greater weight than any other hog. A resolution passed requesting the members of Congress from this State to use their influence to have foreign restrictions removed from American pork. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Dick Jones, Columbus; Vice President, Elmsley Wright, New Augusta; Secretary, W. H. Harris, apolis; Treasurer, I. N. Barker, Thorntown; Executive Committee, L N. Cotton, Traders’ Point; T. M. Reveal, Clermont; D. L. Thomas, Rushville.

AN ARMY OF SHEEP.

Baker Paaha’a Invading Column Almost Completely Annihilated at Tokar, Cowardly Conduct of the Egyptians on Meeting the Enemy—Yells for Mercy. The news of the defeat of Baker Pasha in the Soudan, while attempting to relieve the garrison of Tokar, created intense excitement in London. Little else was talked of among the members of Parliament "and the various attaches of the Government. Much criticism of the policy of the Government in the management of affairs in Egypt has again been renewed. Lord Salisbury severely condemns the course which has been pursued throughout, and tauntingly accuses the administration of having again displayed its usual optimistical policy, although in the face of almost certain disaster. From the mass of cable dispatches relating to Baker Pasha’s defeat, we compile the following succinct account of the disastrous affair: Baker was led into ambush by a sheik, who, pretending to be friendly, asserted that the rebels in the vicißity of Tokar numbered less than four thousand men, many of whom were unarmed, while there were in fact 80,000 wellarmed men under Sheik Khadir and Osman Diqua, awaiting his approach. The success of the rebel stratagem was complete, Baker Pasha’s forces being taken by surprise. After a short encounter, durlng A whloh the Egyptian troops under Baker Pasha’s command displayed the utmost cowardice, his force was routed* and fled in all directions, only a small remnant escaping along the road back to Trinkitat. Baker Pasha lost his entire equipment of guns, cannons, stores, and camp utensils. Baker Pasha himself was among the small number of fugitives that escaped from the field, and reached the coast in safety. The fight began by a few Arab horsemen attacking Baker Pasha’s oavajry, which fled. Baker formed a square, which the enemy surrounded. The rest of the Egyptians then fled in confusion and ths gunners deserted their guns. Baker Pasha was several times surrounded by the enemy, but, with his staff managed to cut his way through. The enemy’s force .was inferior in numbers to Baker Pasha’s. Only three sides of a square were formed, owing to the fact that two companies of Egyptian troops stood still, overcome with fright. The enemy poured into this gap, when the Egyptians threw away their rifles and flung themselves upon the ground, screaming for mercy. The troops on one side of the square killed many of their own men by wild firing. The enemy betrayed profound contempt for their opponents. The Egyptian cavalry threw away their saddles and turned their horses loose, effecting a retreat on foot, in order that they might not be sent back to fight again. The slaughter of Baker’s forces continued all the way back to Trinkitat. The Egyptians were panio stricken and fell upon their knees, but their appeals for mercy were fruitless. The Arabs seized them by their necks, thrust spears into their backs, and savagely cut their throats. The Englishmen missing are Maurice Bey, Surgeon Leslie, Capts. Foster and Walker, Lieuts. Carroll, Smith, and Watkins. Ten other foreign officers are missing. The fugitives, huddled together on the shore at Trinkitat. might easily have been slaughtered, but the enemy gave over the pursuit. The men embarked as quickly as possible upon six transports lying there, and, with Baker and Col. Sartoris, arrived at midnight at Suaklm. The rebels captured five guns, 36,000 pounds of cannon ammunition, 3,000 rifles, and an enormous quantity of cartridges. TEWFIK BEY'S FORCE ANNIHILATED. A Suakim dispatch says that the enemy surrounded and destroyed Tewfik Bey and 400 followers between Sinkat and the coast, while attempting to cut their way through the enemy. A Cairo dispatch reports that tribes beyond Korosko are in full revolt. Gen. Gordon, who has arrived at Korosko, is unable to proceed on his journey to Khartoum.

FIGHT WITH ROAD AGENTS.

Perils of Stage-Coach Traveling in Texas. [Telegram from Concho, Texas.] A stage going to Abilene met the incoming mail from that town, which gave information that it had been stopped about a mile back, the mail robbed of all the cash, and one of the passengers relieved of $25. The firstnamed coach had aboard Sergeant Turbom, of the State rangers; Sheriff Gerald, of Don Juan County, New Mexico; Edgar Stetson, of Oshkosh, Wis.; Samuel P. Cochran, of Dallas, Tex., and a United States soldier. The ranger and Sheriff were alone armed. They ordered the driver to go ahead, and quietly laid their pistols across their laps. When the spot was reached the coach was commanded to halt by two masked men coming from the mesaulte brush. The Sheriff fired. The shot was returned. The ranger then took aim and fired. The man threw his pistol into the air, placed his hands over his stomach and fell. The herses started and the firing from and into the stai/e continued with great rapidity. Sheriff Gerald was hit in the shoulder, and a second ball entered his back and passed through his stomach. A spent ball struck Cochran in the back, and three balls passed through his overcoat. He was not, however, seriously hurt. The coach drove to Concho as quickly as possible. Gerald will die. This is the third robbery of the same coach within a month.

KILLED BY BANDITS.

Ex-Senator Cooper, of Tennessee, Murdered and Robbed in the Mexican Mountains. [Dispatch from Cui Incan, Mexico.] Judge Henry Cooper, formerly United States Senator from Tennessee, was killed by robbers near this city yesterday. No further particulars. He was manager of the famous Polk silver mine, and left home in November with $30,000 in United States exchange to pay off the debts of the concern and start a mill. Soon after bls arrival in Mexico he wrote back that he had struck very rich ore, many pockets running to thousands of dollars per ton, and would start the mill as soon as supplies were received from Culiacan. He was on his way there for that purpose when killed. The mine is high up in the Sierra Madre Mountains and the country between there and Culiacan is infested with robbers. (Judge Henry Cooper was elected United States Senator from Tennessee as a Democrat (defeating Andrew Johnson), to succeed Joseph 8. Fowler, Union Republican, and served from March 4, 1871, to March 3, ■1877. J

CHIPS.

Holman Hunt, the artist, believes that Shakspeare’s sonnets were addressed to his wife, Anne Hathaway. Daniel O’Connell, the grandson of the “Liberator,” lives in London and bears a striking resemblance to his grandfather. Ventilated or perforated bedclothes are an English invention which will not probably be adopted in this country before spring. Canada sleigh-riders keep warm by placing a common coal-oil lantern between the feet and covering the lap with a large blanket. Cait. Bath, who was Provost Marshal at the time of Lincoln's assassination and who executed Mrs. Surratt, is employed In the railway mail service and is stationed at Detroit. Joe. Emmet’s 84,000 dog, Hector, has since his purchase cost his master 81.&00 in repairs to a billiard-room which the animal occupied over night, and In which every breakable piece of furniture was broken or otherwise damaged by the immense brute. Photographing on silk and linen Is now successfully practiced in London.

TARIFF REVISION.

The Chances for the Morrison Bill. [Washington Telegram.] Mr. Morrison, speaking of the prospects of his bill, confirms the report that it was submitted to the Democratic members of the committee before he introduced it. He said: “They all expressed themselves as satisfied with it, with the reservation that in the discussions in the committee they might be disposed to submit some unimportant amendments. I do not consider myself so infallible that I cannot make mistakes. The bill is now in the committee for consideration. We are having some tables prepared which will show the rates of duty upon every article in the existing tariff and in the Morrill tariff bill, and what would be the effect of the bill which has just been introduced. ’ The Republicans have not held any conference on the Morrison bill, but they will probably oppose it. Their main argument is that it is a suicidal policy to agitate the tariff quest'on when business is depressed. A Republican member of the Ways and Means Committee, who is an extreme protectionist, says the Morrison bill will be reported substantially in the form in which it was introduced. Senator Beck is quoted as saying that if the House should pass the right kind of a bill be believes that it would also pass the Senate, and he thinks the Morrison bill as fair a basis for.committee action as could be obtained. MR. MORRISON INTERVIEWED. [New York Telegram.l The Brooklyn Eapie publishes an interview from Washington with Mr. Morrison in relation to the tariff prospects. He says that the bill is his own, but claims It should be styled a reduction of rates rather than a revision of the tariff. He is not satisfied with the scope of the bill, but prepared to launch , something he believed could be floated through both Senate and House rather than risk the defeat of something more to his own liking. He says he intends to get all the tariff reform he can out of this Congress. He may fail to get anything, but he proposes to go right along in what he considers the right direction.

INTERSTATE COMMERCE.

Opposition in Committee to the Reagan Bill. [Washington Telegram.l The House committee which is dealing with the subject of interstate commerce, has been sitting daily for over a week. The debate thus far develops the fact that a majority of the committee favors a commission and is opposed to the Reagan bill. The features of the Reagan bill which are most earnestly opposed are substantially these: 1. The section which provides that the informer or prosecutor of a case for any of tho penal violations shall have half of the amount recovered. This, it is claimed, will encourage an organized raid of spies, informers. and tramps to molest the operations of a road, not in the interest of the public, but for blackmail and personal interest. 2. That clause which prohibits a greater charge for a short than for a long haul, Congressman Davis claiming that this is especially directed against the West, and that it will reduce the value of every farm in the Northwest. 3. That which ptohiblis pooling of freights between competing points. The disposition of the committee seems to be to say nothing about it, neither authorizing it nor prohibiting it. 4. The requirement to publish schedules which cannot be changed except on five days' notice. Congressman Davis makes one point against this—that the Grand Trunk and the Lake Shore, with New Ycrk Central connection (neither of which routes can be affected by the bill), could control all shipments from Chicago oust; or, in other words, that the other lines would be subject to such a contract as these routes might impose upon them.

IMPORTED LABOR.

Its Degraded Condition—Evils ofthe System. [Washington Dispatch to Cleveland Herald.] For two or three days the House Committee on Labor have been engaged in taking testimony on the importation, under contract, of foreign labor. Some forty witnesses have already been examined, representing trades unions in Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New York, and other States. The inquiry is with special reference to the bill introduced early in the session by Representative Foran. Mr. Foran says the importation of foreign contract labor has been growing within the past four or five years, until the evils of the system have become unbearable, and justice to our industrial classes demands a remedy by efficient legislation. The testimony taken here has disclosed the degraded condition, physically and morally, of the people who come to this country from Italy, France Belgium, Hungary, and other countries by virtue of these contracts, under which they are paid 40 per tent, less wages than our owe workmen. They live in squalid poverty 1 , ignoring in the habits of the sexes all rules of decency and morality, and have a most demoralizing effect upon the community in which they live. A notable illustration is afforded by the wretched condition of 2,010 Hungarians employed by the coke manufacturers at Uniontown, Pa. Their wages are so small that every one who can earn a penny, man, woman, or child, must work. Cases were cited of women being ehgaged in shoveling coke up to within twenty-four hours of confinement. Large numbers of glass-blowers have also been imported, to the great injury of that branch of industry.

THEY MEAN BUSINESS.

The Hennepin Canal Men at Work, and Confident of Success. The Hennepin canal men, says a Washington dispatch,, are organizing for an active* aggressive campaign, and propose now to do some hard work. The leading lights of the movement at a meeting last week divided up the field for missionary labor. The first step is a thorough canvass of the House of Representatives* to find out who are for, who are against, and who are indlflerent to the bill. When this canvass is complete, there will be an organized etlort to Interest the indifferent and concert the opposition. Each active and interested advocate in and out of Congress will be assigned to the duty of educating a given number of those who are Ignorant of the importance of the scheme, and persuading a given number of those who do not believe in its practicability or oppose it for other reasons. The entire House of Representatives will thus be subjected to individual and personal influence, and the bill can be passed this way if at all. Its friends are verv hopeful. .

BRIEFS.

Delegate Oubay, of Arizona, says all that Territory needs is water and good society. That's not much, but they are important Items. • Kate Field is something of an actress, something of a writer, something of a singer, something of a lecturer, and something of a fashion expert. ToitrHiLDuit Thobnsteindottib Holm, at present In Canada, edited at Roikjavik an. historical novel in Icelandic, entlted “ Ryrfw* jolful Svetnssj/n," il There is a man in the Mississippi Legislature named Chrlstmae.