Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1884 — Page 3

EVENUE REFORM.

W of Hon. J. Sterling Morton, of Kt'ebraska, at the Iroquois Ban- ■ qnet, in Chicago. ■HPresixtent and Gentlemen: Even In |Bimitive state, man discovered and asBf that he possessed inherent rights. BeBe historic period of humanity began, SBllyidnal declared himself born with the ■Ho defend his person against ail comers, ■Bend also the liberty of that person and Brnings and accumulations. Thus the life, to liberty, and to property was the first asse.ted and established |V of the race. And, after some generaBH perhaps, it was agreed that in general Blights should be defended by all for any HfaivkUal of the mass. In this way came Hirmulauou of laws of the day and genin which we live. The law exists, |Has the sequence of inherent rights, and do not, as many publicists would Bus believo, exist because of the law. B|our duty, and my duty, as members of |Hril government of the United States, to |Hze carefully the working of all statutes, B prevent their being made tho ins;ru■of taking away the rights of the peoHjather than the means for preserving B trghest exercise of the functions of is in oppos n? taxes upon its ■sts. A tax, legitimately, is nothing B nor * ess tban Payment for a serv.ee by the Government to the citizen. Hlservi e. In a roj uhlican form of gov■lent, should to nothing mo.e aud noth■jess than the absolute protection oi the Hp’s property, liberty, and life. Bor that 80, and that only, should ho be coinB to’ pay a tribute. Any system of the Hpition which compels one class of cltiMto contribute to the profits of another HI arbitrarily, without the consent of B taxed, is obviously unjust and iniquiHfti.e present ir.o.nent there seems to be Hi distress in the minds of some members Be Demo -ratio party beoause, forsooth, K is agitation a, a.nst a protective sys’em B-xation. We are to d that the time is inBytune. and it the discussion be continued ■vot; of tb® reduction of the protect.ve Hs now imposed t>7 the Morrill tariff that Bi s a party, will lose the Presidential eleoB and those gontlemen talk as though the Hriontt people were divided only Into two Bt clashes—those who are in office, and m who wish to get into ofleo. These genjtn, honestly enough, no doubt, hold the Hon that the sole purpose of political orBt'.ation is to pursue and proonre public Hlons where honors and emoluments are Bible and remune- ative. This large and Hwhat iutiuential class of persons vehoHty declaring against the agitation for Hrejluction of protective duties aie really ■lonizing in lavor of the maintenance of ■|gh rate of indirect and invisible taxaK but to my mind the res :lt of the discusHos protection as to the number of votes Hh wo may gain or lose thereby is worthy Hionsiaeration of none except mere placoBers, and should not, for a moment, bo" Hrtained by any thoughtful c ti. on who Hy desires the welfare of his country and loop e. e best inheritance one can leave his andants is the great and inestimable Ith of good health. Good heaßli pays no lie to either drugs or physicians. The inheritance of which I can conceive for aop'o would ba a pura government, ently administered, without auy taxawhatever; but, as that is impossible, the ; best inheritance in the way of governt is that one which shall require from iitizens the least possible amount of tax1, and furnish the most perfect and il conservation of rights. The farmers, banics, and laborers of the United States paying, Under the present protective 8, more invisible taxation on the clothing sh they wear, on the implements which : use, on the glass, nails, and sugar which consume then they are paying in direct is l'or all the machinery of national,

HrC, county, and municipal governments. 9> reduce these taxes i'O per cent, the ■prison bill has been perfected and intr.tjHod in the House of Representatives' at By this bill the Democratic declares it elf unalterably and detorHedly in tavor of the reduction of taxation ■II the citizens of all the States in the Hon. For one, lam not afraid to make this He, beoiuse I believe s.n erely that it is an Htc of tt-Lth and right and justice against He hood and wrong and injustice. Neither ■ Republican parly nor any other political HamzaUon can long- maintain itself before ■intelligent, reasoning people by theadvoH of unequal and unji.st taxation. The ■latest good to the grearest number has Home a proverb among Americans, and yet ■protective tariff legislation has been born Hl desire to legislate for the few and agamst ■ many. Every citizen engaged in a bread■tilling avocation has somewhere an inter■that js antagonisfc to a large proportion ■ bis felloes. Tho bread-maker and baker Khing to accumulate great profits desires a Bh price for br ad; .but the consumers of Had, who greatly outnumber tho bakers, ■ always anxious to buy bread attlie lowest ■Bible rates at wh ch it can be produced. Ip physician has an anti-social interest 1 the ill-health and- disease of the Knmunity in which he lives, because when ■demies prevail fees How in, his business Homes remunerative; but the patients are Barger number than the doctors, happily, I over the world. The mischief of the proI :tivc tori IT is that, at bo, tom, it is looking I tlie woll-bemg and advancement of the Htl-social inlerests of the few, forgetting Ijtirely the welfare of the multitude of conKmers. It takes oaro of the doctor and forVts the patients. Thus for a few iroumong■s’. enrichment the protective duties on iron; Bis tho protective duties on sugar; thus the ■otective duties on woolen blankets and all I'jolon goods, in behalf of the anti-social inIrests of those who manufacture articles Et of those materials, while the great mulliude of people who consume these products I’o forgotten. They ask now, in the namo I equality and justice, that all the legislation Erich has been enacted by protectionists for lb benoiit of these few manufacturers, and l:ainst the interests of the millions of conl.mers, bo roduced; first, gradually, peril ps, but that finally they be utterly abol-

Hjied. HWe are, however, admonished bye protoc- ■ mists that wo must not interfere with this Hriif, which, bv shutting out foreign eornpeIHticn, puts nn artificial price on their prodflits. We are warned of dangers which imHbnd, or spiiidles and forges which wll beHjmic Silent, and of laborers who will be Hjirown out of employment. But under the Hjroiectlve system theso evils have already Hutched and paralyzod many of those indus-H-les which are most indulgently proteo.ed. H, is the iron mill, the cotton-mill, the nail Htctory and tho glass-making establishment HiCrioh have during the year shutout the most Hihorers aud oitencst suspended operations. Hi he gloomy prodictions of the protectionists ■ s to the results which may follow tho aboli- ■ on of laws.restricting c-ommoroe, have no ■tore terror for me than had those mado by ■ho advocates of an irredeemable paper ■honey regarding the disaster whloh should ■jnrtainly add speedily ensue upon a return Ho specie payments. ■ Just as natural laws may work harm to the Hadlvidual. but, on the whole, result iu groat Hood to our raco, so economic laws, uare- ■ trained by restrictive statutes, always bring ■.bout the greatest good to tbo greatest numHer. The rainfall In our fertile valleys sotae- ■ lines destroys tho farmers crops, and again B>n tho plains of Kansas and New Mexico the Hrops perish for want of rain. But the rain is, ■teverttaeless. a good thing, and no ono prays ■ or a rainless world, or even for on* rainless Hear. Economic law may work, sporadically, Hardships to individuals. The abrogation of ■jTOtectlve duties may possibly destroy a few ■ ndustriee by making some articles oheaper Khrougb importation than they can be manufactured in the United States. Cheapness in ■yertaln commodities like sugar and woolen ■blankets, may injure a few producers and ■manufacturers, but cheapness In those artileles will bo an infln to benefaction to millions ■of consumers. We are to d. however, that ■ some manufactures have been started in the ■United States wholly because of the protect■‘re and prohibitory duties, and that the

tariff is In the nature of a contract with th» fostered manufacturers. Then tell os how long the contract m ust run ? -—- Should a new motive power be discovered to-night, and an invention evolved by which it could be successfully applied to all kinds of machinery and transportation, and so reduce the cost 50 per cent., and to-morrow, a patent being asked for. all mill owners aud railroad owners who have millions in steam power should protest against its issuance—against the utilization of the new motor—on the ground that it would destroy the value of steam mills, steamboats, and locomotives, then millers and common carriers would ip that endeavor to exalt their personal, antisocial In eretsts over and above the interests of the masses, hold the same relation to progress that the protected Industries and their advocates occupy In regard to commercial prosperity and freedom in the United States.

Why the Republican Party Should Go. It might be well to change the proposition, “Why the Republican party should go,” and subsitute the question, Why should the Republican party go ? In answering such a question, in view of all the facts of history, the only embarrassment an honest man experiences is to select from the 10,000 reasons why the Republican party should go those which most readily occur to the average intelligence of citizens. To ask, why should the Republican party go ? is very much like asking why an intolerable nuisance should go? Why small-pox should go? Why mad dogs should go? Why thieves should go? Why poisonous reptiles and man-eating wild beasts should go ? The Republican party should go because the best men who were ever associated with it pronounced it corrupt and abandoned it long ago—such men as Greeley, Trumbull, Doolittle, Hoadly, Julian, and hosts of others, who discovered its infamous tendencies and foresaw its blighting effects, pronounced it infamous and withdrew from its corrupting and contaminating influence. The Republican party should go because the best thought of the country has on more than one occasion pronounced against its remaining. The Republican party should go: because in the madness of its fanaticism it exalts a murder as the exponent of its theories of government. The sans culotte of Paris deified a courtesan, and it was left for the Republican party, in its wild blasphemies of decency, of law and justice, to glorify a creature who crawled like a snake through the underbrush around Harper's Perry to murder men who were at peace with God, with their country, and with their fellowmen. The Republican party should go: because when the great American people had elected a President and a Yice President, it uncapped hell, and, by the promise of rewards, called forth a gang of hideous creatures, and by perjuries as impious as ever damned a soul, reversed the decree. The Republican party should go: because, haviug corrupted every fountain of truth, of honesty, of purity, of thought, and of justice, having overthrown constitutions and trampled upon law to secure success, it becomes transformed into opposing factions, to fight like dogs over the hones of spoils, calls forth from the furnace of its hates an “inspired” assassin, and James A. Garfield, in the pride of his manhood, in the (lawn of his fame, when his heart heat high with hope and his future was bright with promise, is foully murdered to harmonize the party; and his embalmed corpse, on the highlands of Erie, furnishes a reason why the Republican party should go, as command-, ing as if Jehovah had proclaimed it, and written it in letters of fire on tne blue dome of the skie3.

No student of current history can dwell for an hour on the proposition, why the Republican party should go, without realizing sensatioiis of unspeakable loathing. Ife whole existence has bee a protest against its eontinuanoe. It has touched nothing it has not contaminated. It has sought to dethrone the constitution. It has brought law into universal contempt. It has partisanized the Federal judiciary, oorruted and debauched it to a degree that the people are everywhere crying out, “Shame !” Its Department of Justice (?) is known to be a den of corruption, a sewer into which is ceaselessly flowing the excrements of courts organized to let Republican thieves escape. The Treasury Department has been robbed of millions, and the cadaverous crowd who enter it skin and bones come forth, a la Sherman, bloated and obese with money. The Department of the Interior is where favored rascals combine with railroad corporations to swindle the people out of their lands. The Navy Department asks for money in face of a record black with fraud. The State Department reeks with the stench of guano, and the War Department has become, under Republican rule, so corrupt and debasing dhat army officers, once the soul of honor, are almost daily arrested for conduot unbecoming gentlemen, until at last Swairn, Judge Advocate General, the friend of Garfield, takes his place in the mournful procession of distinguished Republican vagabonds. The Postoffice Department is honeycombed with villainy, as the star-route trials bear ample testimony, and the White House is occupied by a man whose corruptions were so monstrous that even John Sherman and R. B. Hayes became exasperated, and the world beheld, for once, at least, Satan reproving sin.

To sustain itself in power the Republican party has not only robbed the treasury, but it haa robbed the hardworking employes of the Government by preoesses that would outrage the conscience of an ordinary footpad; and to make its record as despicable as possible, it gained the confidence of the Soor, ignorant freedmen to rob him of is little all. And still further, the Republican party, to sustain its position, creates monopolies by which the poor are taxed to support the rich, and when the struggle for the mastery comes the monopolies contribute of the piracy-created wealth to perpetuate the power of the party which created them. Manifestly such a party ought to go —and it is going. Every reason why it ought to go is a reason why the Democratic party shonld come into power, and such will be the verdict of the people in November. —lndianapolis Sentinel.

BEN BUTLER.

He Is Nominated for President by the National Anti-Monopoly Convention. Tilden and Hendricks Indorsed by the Democrats of New Jersey, Virginia, and Dakota. ANTI-MONOPOLISTS. The National Convention at Chicago. The National Anti-Monopoly Convention met at Chicago on Wednesday. May 14, and waa called to order by John P. Henry, of New York, Chairman of the National Committee. After congratulating them upon having met with the Intention of nominating a Presid nt of tbe United States, he named A. J. Streeter, of Mercer County, Illinois, as Temporary Chairman. Mr. Streeter returned thanks for tbe honor conferred upon him, and Bald he believed the honor waa not Intended for him personally, but for the industrial people of Illinois whom he bad tried hard to serve. The Secretary read the call, following which motions were made that a delegate from each State represented be nominated for a Committee on Credentials, Permanent Organisation. Platform, and Vice Presidents. On motion of Mr. Henry, of New York, N. B. Hillman and B. P. Shively were elected Temporary Secretaries, and the roll of States was called. The following were appointed members of the committees:

_ Platform. Credentials. California, Mrc M Todd. A D Wilson. Kansas, W A Garretson. WJ Montgomery Disk Columbia, J A George. W W Jackson. Massachusetts, C H Tichtman. W Leampton. Maryland, A J Wedderburn AJ Wedderbum Pennsylvania, Ogden Whitlock Ogden Whitlock •jlorado, R Schilling. R Schilling. Oregon, A J Grover. 8 E Fisk. Illinois, A J Streeter. B S Heath. Indiana, M C Rankin. H R Harris. lowa, E H Jagger. O N Norton. Missouri, J F Crews. W G Willard. Michigan, H Pratt. W Mills. Nebraska, John Barnd S F Reynolds. New York, W H Shape. J A Brawley. Wisconsin, V J Blatz. H S Brown. Vermont, N H Blanchard.N H Blanchard. Daring a recess to await the reports of the committees, Mr. Root, of Nebraska, made a lengthy speech, reviewing the powers of the monopolies. He did not blame them for taking all they could get, but he did blame the people for tolerating it. He was followed by Mr. Fogg, of Michigan, who regarded Ben Butler ns the greatest friend of the working people, and said he would be the nominee of the convention. He would be nominated by other conventions, and ho believed that he would be the next President of the United States. Mr. Crocker followed. He said that dynamite was the extract of tyranny, and that it might be expected at any time. Dr. Julia Severance, of Milwaukee, said she did not think they could expect their rights until they were willing to accord woman her rights. Gen. Weaver was called for, but declined to speak, as he was not a delegate. The convention was again called to order. Mr. Post, for the Committee on Credentials, said that the oommittee had decidod that eaoh delegate should have but one vote, no matter bow many proxies he held. The report, after some discussion, was adopted. The following permanent offloers were elected: President, John F. Henry, of New York; Secretaries, Messrs. Shively ana Hillman. Mr. Henry took the chair and called lor the report of the Committee on Resolutions. “ Phoclon” Howard said that he proposed to forestall any machine resolutions, as waa the case in most all conventions, by offering one himself. Ho wanted to explain that by profession he was a journalist and a Bourbon Democrat, as well as an AntiMonopolist. He then moved that all resolutions presented to the Committee on Platform should be read to the convention, to prevent being consigned to the waste basket. The resolution was overwhelmingly defeated. Charles H. Hltchman, of the Committee on Platform, reported the following resolutions: The Anti-Monopoly organization of the United States, in convention assembled, declares: 1. That labor and capital should be allies, not enemies; and we demand justice for both by protecting the rights of all as against privileges for the few.

2. That corporations, the creatures of law, should be controlled by law. ' 3. That we propose the greatest redaction practicable in public expenses. 4. That in the cnaotment and vigorous execution of just law eqnalhy of rights, equality of burdens, equality of privileges, and equality of powers in all citizens will be secured. To this end we further declare: 8. That it is the duty of the Government to immediately exerplse its constitutional prerogatives to regulate commerce among the States. The great instruments by which this commerce is carried on are transportation, money, and the transmission of intelligence. They are now mercilessly controlled by tfant- monopolies, to the impoverishment of labor, the crushing out of healthful competition, and the destruction of business security. We hold it, therefore, to be the imperative and immediate duty of Congress to pass all needfnl laws for the control and regulation of these great agents of commerce in aocordanoe with the ott-reireated decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States. 6. That these monopolies, which exacted from enterprise such heavy tribute, have also indicted countless wrongs upon the toiling millions o( the United States, and no system of reform should commend itself to the support of the people which docs not protect the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his face. Bureaus of labor statistics must be established, both State and national arbitration take the place of brute force in the settlement of disputes between employers and employed, the national eight-hour law be honestly enforced, the importation of foreign labor under contract be made illegal, and whatever practical ret rms may be necessary for the protection of united labor must be granted, to the end that unto the toiler shall be given that proportion of the profits of the thing or value created which his labor bears to the cost of production. 7. That we approve and favor the passage of an interstate commerce bill; navigable waters should be Improved by Government and be free. 8. We demand the payment of the bonded debt as It falls due, the election of United States Senators by the direct vote of the people of their respective States, a gradual income tax, and a tariff, which is a tax up n the people, that shall be so levied as to bear lightly as possible upon necessaries; we denounce the present tariff as Being largely In the interest of monopoly and demand that it be speedily and radically reform d in the interest of labor instead of capital. 9. That no further grants of public lands shall be made to corporations. All enactments granting land to corporations should be strictly construed, and all land grants should be lorfeited where the terms upon which the grants were made have not been strictly complied with. The public lands must be held for homes for actual settlers, and must not be subject to purchase or control by non-iesident foreigners or speculators. 10. That we deprerate the discriminating of American legislation against the greatest ot American industries, agriculture, by which it has been deprived of nearly all beneficial legislation, while foroed to bear the brant or taxation, and we demand for It the fostering care of Government and the jnst recognition of its importance in the development and advancement of onr land, and we appeal to the American farmer to co-operate with ns in our endeavors to advance the national interests es the country and the overthrow of monopoly In every shape, when and wherever found. A wrangle at once ensued upon the adoption of the resolutions, and one delegare wanted a plank pnt In on the election franchise in the District of Colombia, and a half dozen others had planks to Insert. Motions were made in all quarters of the house, but tbe platform was finally adopted. Nominations for President of the United States were declared In order. Mrs. Todd, cf California, placed in nomination Benjamin F. Butler, and a dozen others spoke in favor of the General. Mr. Blanchard, of Vermont, nominated Gen. Weaver. The Chairman announced that he had conferred with Gen. Weaver and that the General would under no circumstances accept the nomination if tendered, and that be favored Butler. Mr. Schilling wanted to know if Gen. Bntler would acoept the nomination. C. H. Llchtman » aid he knew that he would. The convention noon procoeded to ballot. Butler received the 39 votes of the Illinois and 22 votes of the Miohlgan delegations solid, and a total of 106; Thurman 7; and Solon Chase 10. The nomination of Gen. Butler was made unanimous. The convention then adjourned, subject to the call of the National Committee.

DEMOCRATIC STATE CONTENTIONS.

New Jersey. The New Jersey Democratic State Convention met at Trenton, Gov. Bedle oelng chosen permanent Chairman. District delegates were chosen as follows: < First, A. J. Steelman and Daniel F. Creem; Second, H. B. Smith and P. M. J. Smith; Third. Willard Roes and 8. W. Brown; Fourth, M. 0. Swartzweller and Senator Carpenter; Firth, Thomas J. Flynn and Carmen F. Randolph; Sixth, Assemblyman Harrlgan and Gottfried Krueger; Seventh, Orestes Cleveland and Martin Helyes. The platform adopted declares that under Re-

publican administration of national affairs labor is unable to meet with tali' wag's; great public criminals are unpunished through delays or actual connlvanoe on the part of the Federal officers; that no goverment has the right to burden its people beyond the amount necessary to pay Its economical expenses and gradually extinguish the national debt; that legislation is needed to protect home industries, without p»o----dnoiug or fostering monopolies: that it is tbe duty of every free man to help drive from power the party who made triumpha t the election fraud of 1876. The platform also declares for dvit-servioe reform, and concludes, while adhering to the State custom not to instruct delegates, with a resolution favoring Tilden and Hendricks. Virginia. John T. Harris presided over the Virginia Democr "tic State Convention, which assembled at Riohmond. TUden and Hendricks were the almost unanimous choice of the convention, and all the delegates chosen to the natonal convention will vote for them. The resolutions adopted congratulate the people upon the result, of the November election, which rescued the State from tbe corrupt ring, and restored control to the people; arraigns the Republican party as the abettor of ring rule in Virginia, and as the perpetrator of the highest public crime of the age -the theft of the Chief Maglstr cy; denounces the attempt made by le ding Republican Senators to show that the Danville riot was Instigated by Democrats for the purpose of drawing the ooior line; demands the nncondlt onal and immediate abolition of the internal-revenue system, and favors tariff for revenue only. Tilden and Hendricks were almost the unanimous choice of the convention. Dakota Territory. The Democrats of Dakota Territory gathered in convention at Pierre to elect delegates to the national convention tor the first time. J. 8. Foster, of Mitobell, was made permanent Chairman. F. M. Zeiback and J. McCormick were elected delegates to Chicago. The delegates go nninstrncted, but are understood to be for Tilden and Hendricks. The platfo m declares for revenue reform and holds th.t the luxuries of life should pay the expenses of the Government.and favors the bill pending before Congress granting ISO notes of land to each Union soldier of the late war. It also declares for oivtl service reform and hard money, and opposes all sumptuary laws.

THE PROHIBITIONISTS.

Michigan State Convention. The Michigan Prohibitionists held a State convention at Battle Creek for the purpose of electing delegates to the national convention at Pittsburgh, July 23, and to consider the most effective methods of nastening the advent of prohibition In Michigan. The number of delegates was 239, including nine women. John Rnssell, of Detroit, presided. Delegates were elected to the National Prohibition Convention, to be hold in Pittsburgh, Pa., July 23, and a State Cen ral Committee was chosen. The resolutions adopted reaffirmed confidence in the power of the State to suppress the liquor traffic; in the Union Prohibition party of Michigan and the National Prohibition nome Protective party as the only competent political agency to that end. A resolution approving woman suffrage was adopted by 112 to 39 votes, after a hot discussion, especially by the women delegates.

GREENBACKERS.

Nebraska State Convention. Tbe Nebraska Greenback State Convention met at the Commercial Hotel ki Lincoln, and elected the following delegates to the national convention to be held at Indianapolis: L. C. Pace, of Llnooln; C. W. Wheeler, of Nemaha; W. B. Pickett, of Butler County; Ed J. Hall, of Saunders County. The delegates are sent uninstraded, but are supposed to favor Bntler for President. No vote for preference was taken.

ROASTED TO DEATH.

Terrible Accident on a Pennsylvania Railroad— Fifteen Live* Sacrificed. I* fPittsburgh Telegram.] A west-bound freight oolllded with the graveltrain on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad one mile east of Conneilsvllle. A number of laborers were killed and many were injured. The scene of the disaster is on a sharp onrve jnst west of the Speer Sand Works. Tbe frelghttsatn was heavily laden with ore. The graveltrain consisted of six cars. It contained about fifty men from tbe Pittsburgh Southern Road, and they were on their way to Ohio Pyle Falls to work on the grading for a double track on the east end of this division. Both train* were going at a high rate of speed and name together with a terrible crash, The engines re-< malned on the track and telescoped each other into the smokestacks, but the heavy tenders jumped into the air and Tell; the freight tender npon its engine, and the gravel train tender back npon the first car in tbe rear of it. Here was the rodne of death. Six men were killed outright ft) this oar, and fonr,others fastened ,dowp by th* broken timbers were roasted to deaths the car catching fire from the overturned stove and burning up before the stupefied survivors could comprehend the awfnl situation of their shrieking companions. Three men escaped from the oar, and one of them said that the fire could havQ been extinguished had water been applied in time. Tne wreck itself was a gbaptly sight At the side of the car that was burned conld be seen —pitting amid the glowing embers, twisted iron rods, and dead ashes -three grinning skeletons, one sitting bolt upright, apparently peering into the fiames that had smothered out his life as well as those of his companions. When the wreck was cleared away it was discovered that twelve persons had been injured and fourteen more Were dead or missing. The bodies of ten of the dead have been recovered. The others are supposed to have been completely consumed. Of those recovered only two conld be positively Identified. The others were so burned as to be shapeless. One of the injured died on his way to the hospital, making fifteen deaths.

$4,000,000.

A Bank President’s Heavy Defalcation. [New York Telegram.] The defalcation of John C. Eno, former President of the Second National Bank, is stated upon good authority to be $4,000,000. Of this amount $2,500,000 is said to have been paid by Amos B. Eno, the lather of the defaulting President, and the balance by the rent of the Directors. Director Henry A. Hurlbnrt said that the deficit was about $4,000,000, and that Mr. Amos B. Eno had made up most of the loss, the stockholders!! xing up the balanco. “ What was the cause of the deficiency, and how was it managed?" was asked. “I cannot tell you. Mr. John 0. Eno would have been liable to imprisonment, but his father, who is worth $25,000,000, has agreed to see the bank through safely for any amount.”

Death of One of M. Quad’s Characters.

[Dotroß Telegram.] David E. Harbangh, ex-Volice Justice of Detroit, died this morning at the Pontiao Insane Asylum. He was bom in New Lisbon, Ohio, in 1808, and came to Detroit forty-nine yearn ago. He practioed law, became Collector of Internal Beyenue, and some years ago filled the office of Police Justice. Mr. Harbangh had been made famous afi over the world by the Central Station sketchea of "M. Quad,” the humorist on the Detroit Free Press, whose pen pictures of “ His Honor” and "Bijoh,” were grotesque caricatures of Mr. Harbangh and the venerablo police doorman, Abijah Joy. The latter is still living here. Ma Harbangh became a mental wreck some years ago, and has since been in the asylum.

Four Men Drowned.

[Duluth (Minn.) Telegram.] The ferry-boat Mary Martini ran into a skiff containing twenty or more men who were returning from the ooal docks at Conner’s Point to Duluth. The skiff wm crushed by the collision and four men were drowned.

Gen. Pryor Blackballed.

[New Yoik Dispatch.] Gen. Roger A Pryor, who for the last twelve yean has occupied a conspicuous and honorable position at the New York bar, was put up for election as a member of the Bar Association, and was blackballed.

TARIFF LEGISLATION.

, The Provisions of Mr. Hewitt’s New Revenue Bill. Representative Hewitt’s tariff bill, introduced in Congress on the 12th tost, is framed on a different principle from the beheaded Morrison measure, though it contains many of the features of the latter, besides many others. It is entitled “A bill to modify existing laws relating to duties on imports ana internal-revenue taxes and to enlarge the free list" Extensive additions to the free list are proposed. The bill, after mnking modifications to simplify the administration of the custom laws, provides that after the 30th of June, 1884, the internal-revenue tax on brandy distilled exclusively from apples, peaches, and grapes shall be 10 cents on each proof gallon or wine gallon when below proof. After Jan. 1,1885, no article mentioned in Schedule I (cotton and cotton goods) shall pay a higher rate of duty than 40 per cent ad valorem; in Schedule J (hemp, jute, and flax) than 30 per cent; in Schedule M (wool and woolens) than 70 per cent; and carpets and caroeting snail not pay a higher rate than So per cent, ad valorem; and in schedules B and C (earthenware and glassware, and metals) than 50 per cent. On all articles, except those specifically excepted, mentioned in Schedule A (chemicals), D (wood), G (provisions), M (books), N (sundries other than precious stones), and E (sugar) there shall be levied 90 per oent. of duties now imposed. 0# the articles in Schedule F (tobacco) there shall be levied 80 per cent, of the duties now imposed. On still wines in casks the duty shall be 40 oents a gallon. It repeals tha clause of the law of 1883 which imposes a tax of 6-10 of a oent per pound on iron or steel rivet, screw, nail, and fenoe wire rods, round, in eoils and loops, valued at 3£ gents or less per pound, and authorizes the Secretary of the . Treasury to refund to any manufacturer of fence-wire or wire-baling ties the amount of duties which mav have been paid on imported iron or steel wire-rods actually used m the manufacture of fenoe nnd baling ties.

! The following articles are put on the free list; Salt, in bags, sacks, barrels, or other packnges, or in bulk; coal, slack or culm; coke; cool, bituminous or shale, provided this shall not apply to ooal imported from Canada until that Government shall have exempted from the payment of duty all coal imported into that country from the United States; timber, hewn nnd sawed, and timber used for spars and in building wharves; timber, squared or sided, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act; sawed boards, plank, deals, and other lumber of hemlock, white wood, sycamore, and basswood, and all other articles of sawed lumber; hubs for wheels, posts, last-blocks, wagon-blocks, bre-blocks, gunblocks, heading-blocks, and all like blooks or sticks rough hewn or sawed only; staves of wood of all kinds; pickets and palings; laths; shingles; fine clapboards; spruce clapboards; wood,unmanufactured, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act; iron ore, including mangamferous iron ore; the dross or residuum from burnt pyrites and sulphur ore and iron pyrites; copper imported in the form of ores; lead ore and lead dross; nickel in ore, matter; chromate of iron, or chromic ore; hay; chicory root, ground or underground, burnt or prepared; acorns and dandelion root, raw or prepared, and all other articles used or intended to be used os coffee or as substitutes therefor, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act; jute, jute-butts, flax-straw, flax not hackled or dressed, tow of flax or hemp, hemp, manila, and other like substitutes for hemp not specially enumerated or provided for; sunn, sisal grass, and other vegetable substances not specially enumerated or provided for; brieties; beeswax; lime; glycerine, orude; extract of hemlock and other bark used for tanning not otherwise enumerated or provided for in this act; indigo, extraot of, and cflrmined; tartars, partly refined, including Lee’s crystals; cement, Roman, Portland, : and all others; whiting and Paris white, dry; nitrate of potash or saltpeter; wood tar; coal tar, crude; ooal tar, products Of, such as naphtha, benzine, benzole, dead oil, and pitch; all preparations of coal tar, not colors or dye, not especially enumerated or- provided for in this act; ochre and ochry earths, umber and umber earths, and sienna and i sienna earths; all earths or clays unwrought | or unmanufactured not specially enumerated or provided for in this act; all barks, beans, berries, balsams, buds, bulbs, and

bulbous r • ots and excrescences, such os nutgalls, fruits, flowers, dried fibers, groins, gums, and gum resins, herbs, leaves, lichens, mosses, nuts, roots, and stems, spices vegetables, seeds (aromatic, not garden seeds,) and seeds of morbid growth, weeds, woods used expressly for dyeing, and dried insects, any of the foregoing of which have been advanced in value or condition by refining or grinding or other process of manufacture, and not specially enumerated or provided for in this act; iron or steel sheets or plates, or taggers-iron coated with tin or lead, or with a mixture of which these metals are a component part, by dipJ)ing or any other process, and commercialy known as plates, terne plates, and tag-gers-in; wools of the third class, commonly known as carpet wools; asphaltum; living animals ;copperas, or sulphate of iron; microscopes imported by physicians for professional use, and not for sale; copper in ingots, old copper, regulus of copper; goatskins; rags; books in foreign languages, and professional books not published in the United States, imported in single copies, for use and not for sale; crude borax, refined borax, and boracio aoid; grindstones in the rough; stones, unmanufactured or undressed, freestones, granite, sandstone, and all building or monmental stone, except marble not specially enumerated or provided for; paintings in oil and and water colors and statuary, not otherwise provided for; osier or willow prepared for basket-makers’ use; waste and all raw and unmanufactured material not specially provided for by the existing law. Sec. 8 abolishes all fees, and the oaths required by existing laws relating to the entry of goods are abolished, and it is provided that where such fees constitute all or part of the compensation of any such officer the latter shall receive in lieu thereof a fixed salary. It is further provided that the Secretary of the Treasury shall grant permission to any firm or corporation to withdraw from bond alcohol or any spirits containing aloohol, subject to the internal revenue tax, in specific quantities, of not less than 300 proof gallons, without payment of internal revenue tax on same or on the spirits from which it may have been distilled, for the sole purpose of use in industrial pursuits.

CLIPPINGS.

A Georgia paper extols “the natural advantages” of the Fort Gaines Cemetery. It costs a dollar in Milwaukee to say that a man is "personally a very fine fellow, but politically a scoundrel.” The rate was fixed by a justice in a slander suit. Mosquitoes are so thick in New Orleans just now that the people are literally living within mosquito-bar tents, and have them over their dining tables as well as beds. Paper is now used in Germany instead of wood in the manufacture of lead pencils.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A littlh daughter of C. C. Wing, of South Bend, dropped the baby upon ths floor, crushing its skull. Fibb destroyed the fine brick residence of Mr. Charles Graeter, on First street, in Vincennes. Loss, $2,500; insured for $2,000. The fire originated from a defective flue. Thomas Hennick, a prominent Democratic politician and a druggist of Morristown, Shelby County, who has been dangerously ill for some time, has boon taken to the insane asylum. Joseph K. Faulconer, a well-known hotel man, proprietor of the Rader House, at Seymour, died recently. Ho was Deputy Warden of the Southern Penitentiary thirteen years ago. The business men of Clay City have held a meeting and appointed a vigilance committee, who will look after the tramps and burglars should they continue to ply their midnight vocation. Benjamin F. Habvet, a prominent and influential farmer of Milton Township, near Madison, broke one of his legs a few days ago. He took morphine to relieve ths pain, nnd died from tho effects thereof. Hs was 60 years of age. Near Columbus Ham Reed threw down his coat with a revolver in it, which was discharged, the ball passing through above his hip and coming out on the other side. Tho wound is dangerous but not necessarily fatal. The building of tho iron bridge over Blue River, on the line between Shelby nnd Johnson Counties, has been awarded to a bridge company of Cleveland for SIO,OOO. Tho contract for the stone work was awarded to an Indianapolis contractor.

Mbs. Gabbella Molntybe, of Vincennes, has ontered suit against the Evansville and Terre Haute Railway Company for SI,OOO, to compensate her for the loss of her son, who had an arm crashed off in a collision on that road about two years ago. Andrew Dbihcoll, a passenger, fell under the wheels of the Chicago express on the Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad at Vinoonneß, and was fatally crashed. He was an English tourist, and about twentyfour years old. Hbnby Plummer, one of the oldest residents of Madison County, hung himself in his barn. For several years he has been losing his mind. He was 78 years old. His father and grandfather before him killed themselves when old men. The decision of the Commissioners of Crawford County was in favor of Grantsburg as the county seat of that county. The people favoring Leavenworth took an appeal and a change of venue to the Dubois Circuit Court, and the case prill be tried Aug. 8. An attempt at suicide was made by Capt. Albert Ward, at the home of his son, east of Liberty, by cutting his throat with a razor. Ho is 05 years old, was a soldier in the Mexican war, and for the past few months has been an invalid, which, it is supposed, caused him to moke the attempt.

David Everett, aged 18, while hunting near Lafayette, rode up to a toll-gate on horseback, and, while waiting for his change, his gun wnH accidentally discharged. The charge passed through the arm and lodged in the heart of Nora Hhriner, aged 12, who was swinging on the porch of the house. The child gaue one scream, sprang from the swing, and fell into her mother’s arms, dead. Investigation exonerates Everett. The frame bam situated on the farm of Mr. George Cecil, eight miles southeast of Munoie, was destroyed by fire. It was one of tho best buildings in that vicinity, and was well filled with hay, grain, and a fine lot of farm implements, all of which were destroyed. The horses stabled therein were fortunately saved, but at considerable risk to Mr. Cecil and his hired man. The burning is undoubtedly the work of an incendiary, and it is intimated thata peddler, who took lodgings with Mr. Cecil, could not be found about the premises the next morning. He is, therefore, suspected as the party who applied the match. The loss is $2,000; insured for $950.

Last October, during the Steuben County Fair, Lawrence Gates, assistant cashier of Kinney & Co.’s bank, Angola, was robbed of his gold watch and chain, valued at several hundred dollars. During the winter, a charm which was on the chain was returned to him by a man who stopped him on his way home, and he was aßked what he would give for the return of the watch. The conversation was interrupted, and nothing more was said. Mr. Gates had given up ever securing his watch, until the* other morning, when he arose, he found a note pinned on his door, saying that if he would come to the Lake James boat-house, alone, a few miles from town, and bring S2O, he could get his watch. He did so, and on the door of the boat-house found a note saying to leave S2O and the watch would be left. He wrote pledging on his honor to leave the S2O when the watch was in his hands, and retired into the woods. In a few moments he returned and found his watch on the latch of the door, and, leaving S2O, he returned home, not having had a glimpse of the man he was negotiating with. The bridge built across White River at Rockford in 1870, at a cost of $23,500, has been condemned by the County Commissioners as being unsafe. A new bridge will be built in its place soon. An agent of the Fostofflce Department arrested the Postmaster at North Manchester, and secured from him a confession that he took SIOO from a registered letter. The Catholic academy at Madison is to converted into a hotel.