Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1884 — Page 3

EljcDcmocrattcSentincl I RENSSELAER. INDIANA, w. W. JfcEWEN, - Publisher

. A whojjsale manufactory of Swiss stamps of old issues has been discovered in Zurich. The forgers have gone about their work very thoroughly; they [have collected scraps of old letters jearing postmarks with various dates bm 1843 to 1860; and, the better to eceive the unwary, they have stuck he stamps on to these pieces of >peMe. P. T. Barnum jammed one of xis fingers in a door lately, which, totether with the election going wrong, md other matters, has caused him to emark dejectedly to a reporter that e is feeling badly, and if the Lord alls him he is ready to go. Resignaion to the divine will is an excellent aing, but perhaps Mr. Barnum has ot fully considered the matter, or he ould regard the prospect of occupyng a humble back seat even in a heavnly audience as less attractive than he proud position of manager of the greatest show on earth.”

It remained for a Texas “professor” -though of what does not appear—to rrange a plan of doing penance for a rime that has not been discovered, yet o tortures the guilty one that the usual lethod of obtaining relief is to make onfession and be duly tried and senenced. Prof. Hatton—not Mulhatton —of Crockett, Texas, has pleaded guilty of stealing a horse, and has been sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. Those who know him assert that Ue has certainly done this to atone for [iome crime of his that the authorities have not suspected him of.

■ Bates for living were never higher Vi Washington than they are now. A Venator, who has to live upon his salBy, went to one of the up-town hotels Bid asked for rates for himself, wife, Bid daughter. He wanted a sittingBom and two bed-rooms. The amiable B'oprietor said he could accommodate ■m with the room and board desired K>on the fifth floor for $l4O a week. Blut that is more than my salary.” Bl can’t help that,” said the landlord. BVe have no trouble in getting these Biures. ” This same Senator tried for ■ >oms in a fashionable flat, and found ■ rat on the top floor he could get four f \nall rooms for $250 a month. This |. Id not include board.

} Twenty-five Senatorial terms expire frith the present Congress. Fourteen of the retiring Senators are Democrats, jleven Republicans, as follows-. Pugh J)em.) of Alabama, Walker (Dem.) of Arkansas, Farley (Dem.) of California, Kill (Rep.) of Colorado, Platt (Rep.) of Ponnecticut, Call (Dem.) of Florida, rown (Dem.) of Georgia, Logan (Rep.) f Hlinois, Voorhees (Dem.) of Indiana, Ilison (Rep.) of lowa, Ingalls (Rep.) f Kansas, Williams (Dem.) of Kentucr, Jonas (Dem.) of Louisiana, Groome 3em.) of Maryland, Vest (Dem.) of lissouri, Jones (Rep.) of Nevada, Blair Rep.) of New Hampshire, Lapham Rep.) of New York, Vance (Dem.) of ;orth Carolina, Pendleton (Dem.) of fhio, Slater (Dem,) of Oregon, Cameri (Rep,) of Pennsylvania, Hampton f)em.) of South Carolina, Morrill (Rep.) \ Vermont, Cameron (Rep.) of Wiscono. The Democrats in California and regon will be succeeded by Republics.

1 Philadelphia has a children’s aid Bciety, the object of which is to pro■de for dependent and destitute little Ihes, who would otherwise become inmates of almshouses or orphan asylums. The main purpose is to keep Children from getting “institutionized,” I4(d even the best of asylums or public m-omes” are not made use of by the ■ciety, except for temporary shelter Br their charges. Great care is taken ■ investigating the character of the Keople with whom the children are ■laced. They are usually given for adoption, occasionally are indentured l|r service, but in either case are reRrded as wards of the society, and are lost sight of. It is claimed that jdie children thus taken direct from Iheir own poor homes or even from the wreet adapt themselves more readily ■ their new surroundings and home Rmosphere than do others taken from asylums. ,

' The rush to secure seats at the New fork Avenue Presbyterian Church, frhere President-elect Cleveland will yorship, is something unprecedented. ( ?he membership of the society is very large, and vacant seats command a premium. Pews that could readily have pen secured two months ago for $l5O lar annum, are now eagerly snapped [p at dbuble that sum, although the oclapants will not live here on an average kx months in the „ yepr. Old mosslack Democrats, who have not seen the bside of a church in a generation, are roiohg the most importunate of bidders. ■ was so after Garfield’s election. As ■ by magic the humble little one-story ■une Christian Church on Vermont

avenue, whose very existence few people were aware of, suddenly became the Mecca to which crowds of fashionable people and politicians wended their way each Sunday. Upon the succession of President Arthur the current changed to the direction of St. John’s. The incoming of the Cleveland administration diverts it again into a new and less fashionable channel.

Centenarians: Mrs. Welch, aged 112 years, died recently in the Rutland, Vt.j poorhouse. Darby Green, of Reading, Conn., recently celebrated his 101st birthday. His constitution is strong and his health excellent. Mrs. Phebe Briggs reached her 100th anniversary on Sunday last. She was horn in New Milford, five miles distant from her present residence, and has never crossed the State line. Marvin Smith, of Montville, Conn., who performed gallant service in the war of 1812, recently celebrated his 100th birthday. Edmund R. Kidder, of Berlin, Mass., was bom Aug. 17, 1784, and is still strong and healthy. Mrs. Clarissa D. Richmond, of Milton, Mass., is 102 years old, and has good prospects of living several years longer. Mrs. Sally Powers, who lives in the Augusta, Me., almshouse, is 106 years old. In Vermont, during the three years ending last January, sixteen centenarians died —a remarkable record. Luther Holden, of South Wallingford, died a few moths ago, aged 102. Concerning the living, Miss White, of Newbury, is over 101. She is partially blind, but her hearing is good and her memory is excellent. She can repeat poetry—which she has committed to memory in the past —by the hour, has a good appetite, and converses freely. Mrs. Gakfieed, writes a Washington correspondent, did a very graceful and a very sensible thing ih asking John Randolph Tucker, of Virginia, to act as the guardian of her infant children during their legal minority. Graceful, because Tucker was one of Garfield’s truest friends; sensible, because a better man could not have been found for that responsible position. When Tucker came up from his professorship in “the University,” as the Virginians call it, a brilliant, scholarly, bighearted, old-fashioned Virginia gentleman, to sit in the House of Representatives, he sought out the most cultivated among his associates and made them his friends. This was not difficult, for no one ever knew Him long without loving him. Among them all he found no one so congenial as Garfield. Although they differed diametrically in most things, yet they had much in common. Garfield was a big-brained, bighearted boy, his enthusiasm tempered only by his culture. Morally weak and unfitted by nature and by education for politics, he was socially a most charming companion, and intellectually a rarely well-cultivated man. Tucker was personally as delightful as Garfield, excelling him as to his ability to tell a good story, and was intellectually his peer in every respect; At the same time he was morally strong, as honest as he was fearless, although he was no better equipped for political life than Garfield. Of course, their political views differed in toto. Tucker was a State-rights man; Garfield was a nationalist. Tucker was a revenuereformer ; Garfield, though at heart he was a revenue-reformer, bowed to the will of the party bosses and avowed himself a protectionist. But one day, after their friendship had become a fixed fact, Garfield came over to Tucker’s desk, on the Democratic side of the House, and said: “Tucker, you know I am a protectionist; but I want that there should be free trade hereafter between you and me in matters literary.” “With all my heart* ” responded Tucker;” and from that time to the day of Garfield’s death they were the closest friends. They both loved literature—all letters, ancient and modern, but perhaps most all the Greek and Latin classics. Every day they managed to steal time from even the most engrossing of their legislative duties for an excursion into those ever-blooming fields. Sometimes they met in the library, sometimes in a committee-room, or again on the floor of the House itself. Rather an odd growth in such volcanic soil.

Banking Inteiligence.

He wanted a position in an Austin bank. The President was satisfied with his credentials, but, before engaging him, put him through a little civilservice cross-examination. “Suppose, now, a man was to come in here to deposit s2ft in $1 bills, how would you count them ?” “I’d wet my finger and lift up each bill until I got to the last one.” *Why would you not lift up the last one ?” “Beoause there might possibly bo one more bill under it, and it the depositor was to see it he would want it back, but if the twentieth bill is not lifted up and there should be another bill in the pile the bank makes it. Don’t you see ?" “You will do,” said the Bank President. “You have been in the business before, but I didn’t’suppose you knew that trick.”— Texas Siftings.' Catholic journals advocate the discontinuance of preaching fulsome eulogies and the writing of fulsome obituaries respecting the dead.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Jacob CfcsseL, Sr., who had resided in the vicinity of Vincennes since 1813, has passed away. •—A letter addressed to a person at “Indiana polis, India,” meant for Indiana, reached Indianapolis a few days ago, after having gone to India and back. It was mailed Aug. 12. —Charles, Hale, of Montmorenci, recently fell and broke his leg. The sight of her husband being brought home on a litter so frightened Mrs. Hale that she fell in a faint, from which she never rallied. —Mrs. Mary Bassett Hussey, of Brazil, is one of the fortunate ones, whose story “Davie” is among the number chosen for publication by the Youth’s Companion. The choice was made from seven thousand manuscripts offered in competition, $3,000 being paid to the eight winners. —Mrs. Minerva Johnson, of Shelbyville, the other day placed S9O in bills in the oven of her cook-stove for safe keeping over night, and in the morning got up and built a fire in the stove without thinking of the money, and when she did it was too* late, the bills having been reduced to cinders. —ln a quarrel at Hartford City, between schoolboys, Thos. Huggins, aged 11, was struck on the head with a piece of brick, thrown by a boy named Knight. Young Huggins reached his home and related the story of the altercation. He was soon after attacked with violent pains in his head, and died next evening. * —lrvin Armstrong, Esq., ex-editor and publisher of the Yevay Democrat, died Sunday night He graduated from the De Pauw University in 1864, and was a classmate of Hon. C. C. Matson, Congressman from the Fifth Indiana District. Deceased was forty-three years of age, and was a victim of consumption. —At Fort Wayne, the jury in the case of Thomas Ellison against the NickelPlate Railroad gave the plaintiff $509 nfter being out twenty-eight hours. The suit was brought for SIO,OOO, to recover damages for the loss of Mrs. Ellison’s life, who was hurt in an accident on the Grand Rapids Road caused by a Nickel-Plate engine. Soon after the accident the woman gave birth to a child and died. The case was stubbornly contested for eight weeks. - Joseph T. Nicholson, who resides at Ridgeville, is in the habit of carrying a revolver in his hip pocket. He went into a meat store and leaned against the counter in just such a way that the edge lifted the hammer of the pistol, uud when he stepped away it fell and sent a ball into his thigh,, ranging downward. While the wound is not dangerous, it will cause him much pain for several months, and may render him a cripple for life. —The Lafayette Daily Courier, the paper so long owned and edited by the late W. S. Lingle, Esq., has been .sold by the widow and administratrix to M. M. Mayerstein, Miss Mabel la Lingle, and Mrs. T. E. Scantlin, who will conduct the paper under the name of the Courier Company. The two ladies whose names appear among the purchasers are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Lingle. Mr: Mayerstein is to be business manager, and Mr. Ts E. Scantlin, managing editor under the new organization. —Death has played sad havoc in the family of Mr. Joseph Belcher, a farmer living in Harrison Township, Knox County. On Tuesday afternoon, Daniel, his 13-year-old son, died of measles, and at 2 o’clock next morning Richard, a 6-year-old boy, died of the same disease. At 10. a. m. on the same day, Mr. Belcher’s wife died of pneumonia. Two other children, all that Mr. Belcher has left, are thought to be dying of the measles.

—Peru telegram: Jacob Ronnells, of Perrysburg, two weeks ago suffered an SII,OOO fire, his net loss being several thousand dollars. Other losses of late put his business in bad condition. Last night he took a dose of strychnine and cut his throat with a penknife. He died at 2 o’clock this morning. He was an old resident, and had always been enterprising and successful, and was discouraged at his recent accumulated losses.

—There are some very surprising things to be learned from the study of the statistics of the State election. There are fifteen counties in which a smaller vote was polled than in ,1880. There was a decrease in Boone of 41; Dearborn, 63; Franklin, 231; Hendricks, 110; Jefferson, 161; Morgan, 8 ’ Riple - V ’ 153 -' Scott, 177; Hid 159. The largest decrease was in rranklin, where 233 were lost in 1880 from the number polled in 1876. In the eleven counties named Republican gains were made in all exc ?pt Owen, Scott, and Sullivan. In the last named county there was a Democratic gain of nearly 600. The Largest increase over the vote of 1880 was in Allen County, 1,533; Adams, 629; Elkhart, 882; Huntington, 1,014; Jay, 692; Lake, 832: Marion, 3,007; St. Joseph, 1,376; Tipton, 534; Vanderburg, 1,399; and Vigo, 979. Of these counties Democratic gains were made in Adams, Allen, Huntington, Marion, St Joseph, and Tipton Counties. The gain in Marion County in 1880 over 1876 was 1,323, less than half the number of the increase over 1880, while in Vigo County the gain was 100 larger in 1880 than in 1884. The total increase in the number of votes between 1876 and 1880 was 36,729, and between 1880 jnd 1884 it was 24,352. —Indianapolis ■Journal.

—President Smart’s report of the management of Purdue University, Lafayette, for the year ending June 30, 1884 (the tenth in its history), shows that during the year there were 213 students in attendance, an increase of twenty-eight —Mrs. Elizabeth Geisendorff, wife of C. E. Geisendorff, formerly a wealthy woolen manufacturer, committed suicide by drowning herself in a cistern at Indianapolis. —There are now 706 criminals in the Prison North.

WOMAN GOSSIP.

Bcfoni Asking Papa. Sighed the slim to the belle, “Aw, miss, can von tell Why I’m like that apple you plucked from the tree?” “Because It," she coughed, “la remarkably soft?" “Aw. no; it needs paring by you," stammered he. “Re-pairing, you mean, though because it is green, And rather insipid, might answer," langhed she, “And not fully grown." Said the dude, with a groan: “Aw, were 1 that apple, perhaps you’d have me." “And quarter you, too. Oh, for ’sauce’ you will do," Spake the miss; “but now tell me, why you’re like the tree?" “Because—l’ve a heart,” blushed the slim, growing smart, "Because—trees are sappy and crooked,” said she, “Aw, you’re,” smiled the slim, "like the tree, for you’re woo’d.” ’’l’cn’d better say ’oored,’ ” said the miss, “as I’m now; But trees, yon perceive, make a bough when they leave. So yon, to be like them, may leave with a bow."

Why He Did Not Hear the Sermon. “Well, hubby, how did you enjoy the service this morning?” “To tell the truth, darling, 1 didn’t take much interest in it. I could hardly hear a word of the sermon.” “Why, I heard it perfectly. What was the matter?" “Well, I don’t know. It may have been because your new bonnet was so loud.” And then a silence fell on the dinner-table so intense that you could hear the ice-cream. Albany Journal.

A Woman’s Nature. I think I have several times alluded to the very curious kind of thing woman is. I came across a French play which illustrates one phase of the female nature most amusingly. A young man has run away to escape a woman he has been flirting with. He is making love to a fresh flame, when the deserted one hunts him up. After a few bitter reproaches Bhe says: “Henry, darling, I love you. You know it. I have never hidden it from you. Perhaps you have not returned it. But mine is no selfish love. Tell me that you love another and I will say no more. Tell me frankly you do not love me, and I will leave you without a murmur. ” “Well,” says the youth, “frankly, I do not love you.” Then she proceeds immediately to tear all his hair out and leaves him on the floor shattered wreck. —San Francisco Chronicle. The Fast Girl. The girl who is inclined to be fast is a very distinct type. There is certainly no place in America where a young woman can go to the devil at quite so high a speed as in New York. Men are not sentimental here. The majority of them graduate in vice at an early age, and the girls who give them any. encouragement must travel at a breakneck pace to keep up with them. It’s a thousand to one that the maiden who makes the slightest advance i§ a wicked way, goes under at lightning speed. The facilities for wrong-doing that are offered on every hand are enough to frighten the most worldly of woman in New York. As far as my observation goes, anditiß not that of a recluse, it is the youDg married women who are most often “rapid,” and very seldom the girls. The dashing women of good families who hold their heads so well in the air, carry their shonlders well back and move so briskly, who lunch with society men at Delmonieo’s, the Brunswick, and even the road houses in the middle of the day, while the majority of men are down town, will nearly always turn out to be young married women and not girls. When it is a girl how the scandals fly, and in what uncommonly short order the maiden is shipped to *a convent, or sent abroad with a dragon of an aunt. Of course nothing is done to the man in these cases. The fathers and brothers are too well aware that they would have done likewise under the circumstances. —New York letter.

Padded Women. A writer in the California NewsLetter says: I remarked as I sat at the window that, after all, San Francisco women are the most stylish dressers anywhere to be seen—their figures so slim, and yet so round and perfectly in proportion, set off the exquisite toilets admirably: “Every woman seems to have a pretty shape,” I remarked, innocently, “therefore there is little credit to you for the perfect fits you make.” Madame looked at me with surprise. “Don’t you know that we have more bother over these same figures than making a dozen dresses ?” she went on. “A woman comes here as flat as a pancake—no busts, no hips, no anything. ‘ Here is velvet and brpcade,’says mv customer. ‘Make me an elegahtly fitting dress, and, of course, you will have to make my figure first ’ “Then I build up the figure; several sheets of wadding are pinned over the hips, and it takes quite a time to make the proper shape. Then the bosom of the corset being perfectly empty is neatly packed with more wadding. Wadding is also laid in the hollow of the chest, where you may often bury an eg?; and, having stuffed my block, I go to work to fit. The wadding placed on the figure goes into the dress, and yards of stiff crinoline are packed into the drapery at the back.”

“So, then, madame, most of your fine figures are thin.” “Skin and bone, vou mean; and don’t I turn them out well?” said the exultant dressmaker. “We i, you certainly do; but what a disappointment they mnst be to their husbands when they marry,” I say, reflectively. “Well, I should rather think so; the men marry plump young partridges, and find them in the end simply bags of bones. ” The American Type of Beauty. The most perfectly fascinating creature which the Anglo-Saxon race ever produced was the typical belle of Baltimore, the representative of the whole South. In her grace, her tact and fascination one quite forgot that aha would

have been quite tbe same thing if she had been unable to read. Perhaps she never did read, not even a novel. Even when she had a little cnltnre, it all ran to “accomplishment,” and its real use was only to charm the men a little more.

This type of girl, still common in America, and till of late common in England, is disappearing with incredible rapidity. It is going with the long hair, which was once the crowning glory of woman, and with it is going much that was once held to be essential to guard life and society from utter ruin. I have dwelt on this because it is Incoming so common here that not to comment on it would be to ignore tbe most remarkable phenomenon of English life as it at present exists. As girls realize that it is becoming more difficult to marry with a certainty of being able to live as well as they did at home, as there is a growing unwillingness to raise large families and be left as poor widows to support them, as, in fact, all the old ideals disappear, and new ones of being able to make a living and be “independent” and “bird-fref ” are developed, they are beoommg careless as to beauty, indifferent as to being charmers. A poor young man in England, who is in no way distinguished either family or works, is indeed to be pitied. Women, old or young, speak of him as a nuisance. The only interest which he excites is a wonder why ho cumbereth the ground. Now, as all men oannot be rich enough to marry poor girls, let them work ever so industriously, this is manifestly hard for them. So they emigrate or go to the bad, and so the dance goes on. — Leland's London Letter.

Views of Women. In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken. A fan is indispensable to a woman who can no longer blush. Thb man who can govern a woman can govern a nation.— Balzac. It is easier to make all Europe agree than two women.— Louis XtV. The mistake of many women is to return sentiment for gallantry.— Jouif. God created the coquette as soon as He had made the fool.— Victor Hugo. Woman is a charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as her gloves.— Balzac. Who takes an eel by the tail or a woman by her word soon fluds he lias nothing. — Proverb. Rascal! That word on the lips of a woman, addressed to a too daring mam, often means—angel! How manv women would laugh at the funerals of their husbands if it were not the custom to weep ? I have seen more than one woman drown her honor in the clear water of diamonds. — D'Houdetot. We meet in society many attractive women whom we would fear to mako our wives.— DHarleville. An asp would render its sting more venomous by dipping it into the heart of a coquette.— Poincelot. Women swallow at one mouthful the lie that flatters, and drink drop by drop a truth that is bitter.— Diderot. Women deceived by men want to marry them; it is a kind of revenge as good as any other.— Beaumanoir. A woman who pretends to laugh at love is like the child who sings at night when he is afraid.— J. J. Rousseau. It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.— Rocheburne. She is the most virtuous woman whom nature has made the most voluptuous, and reason the coldest.— La Beaumelle.

Hamilton at College.

The most distinguished student of Kings (Columbia) College, Alexander Hamilton, matriculated in 1774. At that time all men’s minds wore deeply moved by the great question of the Bevolution. President Cooper sided with the mother country, talking and writing with all his power against the freedom of the colonies. The tide of indignation rising higher and highor against such doctrines, it was dually determined to hold a public meeting in the open fields just above Dey street on the 6th of July, 1774, for the purpose of protesting against the acts of the authorities. tfoung Hamilton was urged to address the meeting, and as he closed a brilliant and impassioned address, the cry of surprise, “It is a collegian,” with which his youthful ap{tearance was received, gave way to oud expressions of wonder and applause. Young Hamilton presently crossed swords, or pens, with his coilege president, who could not believe at first that so young a man could be so strong a pamphleteer. In one of the periods of the excitement a liberty mob approached the college with the purt pose of laying violent hands on the Tory president. As they drew neahis residence, Hamilton' and Bobere Troup, a fellow-student, ascended thr steps, and fearful lest in this moment of irritation they might commit some excess, Hamilton, in order to give the president time to escape, harangued the mob with great eloquence and animation “on the excessive impropriety of their conduct, and the disgrace they were bringing on the cause of liberty, of which they professed to be the champions.” In the meantime another student, who had preceded the throngs had warned the president of his danger just in time to save him. “He escaped only half dressed, over the college fence, reached the shore of the Hudson and wandered along the river bank till near morning, when he found shelter in the house of his friend, Mr. Stuyvesant, where he remained for that date and during the night following he took refuge on board the Kingfisher, an English ship-of-war, in which soon after he sailed.”— Harper’s Magazine.

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard; they do not believe anv reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.— l. Barrow. To develop in each individual all the perfection of which he is susceptible, is the object of education.—£. Kant.

POLITICAL TOPICS.

THE OHIO ELECTION. Investigation of Man hoi Wright. The special committee appointed by Congress to in vestige te tbe alleged misconduct of Marshal Lot Wright, in the Ohio election, has been taking testimony at Washington. Dr. R. B. Bradford, a resident of Cincinnati, but temporarily living at W tahington, testified that he was in Cincinnati the day of election; saw the riot going on in the Plnm street district, bat did not know who were tbe aggressors; beard persons say that respectable people would not go into that district to vote; had heard >hs» deputy marshals took part in the riot Then were a great many unemployed negroes standing around the streets, and be was told they were from Kentucky, Frank P. Morgan, newspaper reporter, of Washington, testified to being in Cincinnati election day; be saw several men from Washington there, acting as deputy marshals and wearing metal badges. They were Moses Wright, John Wright and James Donnelly. Witness paid them a social call in the evening, and they produced bull-dog pistols, which were part of their equipment. They got their iQstrnotiona irom Lot Wright first, and were afterward drilled by Pension Detective Rathbone. Rathbone, it was generally understood, had charge of the imported talent, gentlemen who had been summoned by the Republican National Committee, as they said, to see a tslr count. Witness visited a voting precinct in tbe Fourth Ward, and saw a good deal of fighting. The deputy msrshils appeared to be overbearing, Insolent, and insisting. They were hard-looking characters, and seemed to be selected from the worst classed. Colored men went aronnd swinging pi-tola as a policeman would swing his “billy/The efforts of the Deputy Marshals tended rather to break the peace than to keep It A week before election there had been a convention ot colored Odd Fellows in Cincinnati, and the witness met a irominsnt colored man named Pledger, wbo told him that, while he was In the city ostensibly to attend the convention, his real object was to oarry the election. Witness said he belived ninety-nine ont of one hundred of these Deputy Marshals were roughs. They looked dissipated and capable of Intimidating decent people. Hiram T. Doyle, who was in Cincinnati eleotlon day as correspondent ot tbs Washington Sunday Herald, testified to the bad appearance of tbe Deputy Marshals. He thought they kept a great many respectable men from the polls, and their presenoe gave rise to a feeling of Insecurity. O. P. 0. Clark, Commissioner of Pensions, was called and swOrn, but, as be had not bad time to comply with tbe order ot tbe ooremittee to bring certain papers with him, his examination was postponed. GKN. SHERMAN AND JEFF DAVIS. The Former Makes Pnblio a Letter Written by Aleck Stephens. Gen. Sherman has made public a letter signed by Alexander H. Stephens, Vioo President of tbe late Confederacy, addressed to H. V. Johnson, of Georgia, and dated Crawfordtvllle, Ga., April 8, 1864, Gen. Sherman says it was loaned to him by Dr. H. C. Robbins, of Creston, Hi, wbo obtained it on Mr. John on’s promisee tn Georgia, in 1864, while surgeon of the One Hundred and First Illinois Infantry. Mr. Stephens’ letter is in reply to • no in whloh Mr. Johnson remonstrated with him for his supposed antipathy to President Davis. Mr. Stevens denies such a foellns.and says that in criticising the aot suspending habeas corpus he had been actuated by general principles. He goes on to say that his feelings toward Mr. Davis are “more akin to suspicion and jealousy than of animosity or hate.’ “1 hare regarded bim/hesays, "as a man of good Intentions, weak and vacillating. I am now beginning to donbt bis good intentions. My reasons aro these: Blnoe his first elevation to power he has changed many of his former Stato-rlghts principles, as In the case of conscription. Hta whole polloy—the organization and discipline of tbs army -is perfectly consistent with the hypothesis that he is aiming at absolute power. Not a word has come from him showing disapproval of ths military usurpation in the orders for martial law by Bragg and Van Dorn. * • • Again, it is well known that the subjeot of a dictatorship has been mooted, talked of, and discussed in private and in tbe pnblio Journals, and that the most earnest advocates of suoh a course have b en editors near him, editors of journals recognized as or-, pans of the administration. * * • Those are bad signs. They should pnt the oonntry on Its i guard." Mr. Stephens goes on to say that his indignation is for the polloy, not for the man. He again speaks of Mr. Davis’ weakness and imbecility, and says be has ne more feeling of re>' sentment toward him for these deieots than toward his Door, old, blind and deaf dog. He says not. one-tenth of tbe people approve the acts pf,, the administration. Gen. Sherman says It was the Stephens letter he referred to when he said Darla was trying to establish a despotism Instead of aoonlederaey ' of States. He said the letter was captured m the latter part of November, 1864, br a party of foragers under his Immediate command. Tbe foragers found the letter in a box with a number of other things while prodding the ground# of Johnson’s resldenoe with their bayonets for burled objects. Gen. Sherman said ho had a dozen letters like Johnson’s letter, bat nowhere is proof presented in so substantial a form asm it The other letters are from great men in the South and oover a portion of the ground mentioned In the Stephens letter.

SAM RANDALL. A Southern Attack on tho Pennsylvania Congressman. The LonisvUle Courier-Journal recently printed a special dlspatoh from Washington -a double-leader, with editorial approval—bitterly attacking ex-Speaker Samuel J. Randall, who was booked tor speeohes in Louisville and several other Southern cities. It has created a genuine sensation In certain polltioal circles. Toe following is an extract from the Courier-Jour-nal dispatch: The proposed visit of Sam Randall to Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama Is well understood here to be a declaration of war by the protectionists upon the revenue reformers of the States In question. Joe Brown, of Georgia, la the Southern manager of this scheme. Mr. Randall’s hope la to secure something like a demonstration at Louisville, which the protection newspapers can claim as a rebuke of Beck, Blackburn. Carlisle, and Willis; and another at Nashville to rebuke Isbam G. Harris; and then a great uprising of iron workers at Birmingham, Ala., to tell the world that there 1* a revolution of opinion on the tariff In the South and a consuming lire for the Pennsylvania Idea. Mr. Randall is expected to start out with the black flag in both hands. His friends say he has nothing to lose, and may make something by his expedition, while they hope to make a sensation. The general impression among polltfdans here Is that Mr. Randall has lowered himself and shown his true oolors, in patting him, self In the hands of a few cranks and soreheads who want to use him as a stlok to beat his colleagues, whose only crimes are that they are honest revenue reformers who represent their people and would reduce war taxes. The idea of an ovation to a who six months ago was acting with the Republicans to defeat a Democratic measure la sconted. Mr. Randall is not on speaking terms with the leaders of his own par y, though on cordial terms with the Republicans. The story that he la a favorite with the new President u flatly contradicted by those who know. It is otfen stated that the mention of Randall's name In connection with the Cabinet Is offensive to Mr. Cleveland, who understands and believes that any suspicion of being Randall’s friend would wreck his administration on the threshold. POLITICS AND POLITICIANS. Gen. Geo. B. McClellan is only 58. Col. Ingersoll is said to have made $25,000 from fifty lectures daring the last two months. President Arthur is said to be enjoying more robust health And looking better than for years. The official vote of Dakota, just declared, is; Republican, 70,409; Democratic, 15,075; Republican majority, 55,334. Ben Butler has repurchased his famous mansion just south of the Capitol at Washington, which he sold to John Cassells the other day. Ben: Perlht Poore, the veteran correspondent. is credited with inaugurating the wheel-barrow bet for elections about thirty years ago. The majorities for the four amendments to the lowa Constitution voted for at the November election ranged as follows: First, changing day of election from October to November, 74,402; seoond, in relation to the number of District Judges, 39,792; third, reducing the number of grand jurors, 42,247; fourth, providing for a County instead of a District Attorney, 34,729. There is no complaint of over-produc-tion in the South.