Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1885 — Page 3

ARRANT DEMAGOGY.

John Sherman’s Political Hypocrisy Exposed. [Washington special to Chicago Times.] Senator Sherman’s speech at Mount Gilead, at the opening of the Ohio campaign, has attracted considerable attention here. His endeavor to find fault with President Cleveland for appointing ex-Confederates to office naturally leads to a review of Senator Sherman’s own record in that respect, . and the showing is such as must convict him of arrant and unblushing hypocrisy in the judgment of any impartial person of any party. He says: “Two members of the Confederate Congress and one man who sympathized with them are at the head, of great departments of the Government" This charge quite naturally recalls the fact that Judge Key, an ex-Confederate, was the head of one of the great departments in that administration of which Senator Sherman had unlimited personal control. When Sherman and Key met at a Cabinet session, Sherman did not denounce him in any such terms as he now uses against Secretary Lamar and Attorney General Garland? When Gen. Grant nominated a Confederate Brigadier—Amos T. Akerman, of Georgia—for a place in his Cabinet, Senator John Sherman unhesitatingly voted for his confirmation. When the Ohio Senator referred so indigantjy in his Mount Gilead speech to the fact that “this country is now represented abroad by men who within twenty-five years were in arms to overthrow it,” he must have forgotten that he voted to confirm James L. Orr, of South Carolina, when he was appointed Minister to Russia by Gen. Grant, and Judge Settle as Minister to Peru, as well as that he was not without personal responsibility in the cases of Longstreet and Mosby. A list of the ex-Confederates given office by Republican Presidents, and accorded the favor of Sherman’s vote when before the Senate for confirmation, would fill two or three columns. Some of the names are worth recalling, however, as, for instance, William P. Canaday, whom Sherman helped to make Sergeant-at-arms of the United States Senate. Hp was a Captain of Artillery in the Confederate army, and his force of employes includes many ex-Confederates. Judges Hughes of Virginia, Settle of North -Carolina, Hough and Boarman of Louisiana, and Humphreys of Alabama; District Attorneys Northup and Lusk •of North Caroliba, Walton and Chandler of Mississippi, and Leonard of Louisiana; Marshals Morphis and Hunt of Mississippi, and Wharton of Louisiana; Internal Revenue Collectors Young of North Carolina, and Henderson of Mississippi, make up but a tithe of the number of prominent officials who were appointed by Republican Presidents and confirmed by Republican Senators. Senator Sherman may not have voted for all who have been named, but he never protested against the appointment of any.

The Mullen Case.

The Mullen case, in which President Cleveland released a man from the con.sequences of gross partisanship on the bench, is evidently to be made as much of as possible by the Ohio Republicans, just as it is by Republican critics of the President in other States. The charge that Mullen deprived 160 electors of the right to vote, which was the basis •of the indictment against him, was the text of Judge Baxter’s sentence; and both charge and sentence will be read from the Ohio stump in the efforts which the Republicans are making to •carry that State on something beside local issues. Apparently, however, they are not to be undisturbed in their use of thia matter as campaign ammunition. The •charge that colored citizens to the number of 160, or to any number, were deprived of their right to vote is stoutly •denied; and the facts shown in the statement of Mullen’s counsel to a reporter of the Cincinnati Enquirer not only sustain the denial, but show that there never was any pretense of citizenship on the part of the arrested men •except as to six of them. From this statement it appears that Mullen, acting under an order of the Mayor to arrest all suspicious strangers, went to a notorious “crap” house on the river front which was kept by a colored man and which was reported packed with strange colored men from Kentucky. He found the report true to all appearances, the bar-room being filled at 2 o’clock in the morning of election with colored men sleeping on the tables and chairs. These were the men he arrested as suspicious persons and locked up. Mullen was indicted for conspiracy with certain other members of the police force to prevent certain citizens from voting, and in one count was charged alone with preventing such citizens from voting. The single charge alone was examined, the prosecution withdrawing the charges of conspiracy upon Mullen’s agreement to plead guilty to the sole charge, which he did, his counsel affirms, to relieve from arrest the men who had acted with liim and under his orders. On the examination there wasproof of citizenship in the case of six persons only, and these the witnesses in the case. The proof was their own testimony in their own and each other’s behalf and the testimony of the keeper of the “crap” house where they were arrested and claimed to reside. The testimony showed, however, that their “residence” consisted in sleeping on chairs or tables in the bar-room of the bousd; and if there had been no plea

of guilty in the case it is more than likely that even a Republican jury would have refused to find that the men were citizens of Ohio. Other testimony in the case showed that numbers of the arrested men were pot citizens of Ohio, but came from Kentucky to vote illegally at the election in the former State. If these are the facts—and most of them are undisputed, especially the last given—the President did an act of simple justice in pardoning Mullen, who was evidently sentenced to gratify a partisan sentiment which the judge either entertained on his own behalf or deliberately catered to. But even if the pardon were injudicious it is not easy to see how the Republicans can use the case to advantage in their State campaign. If they should succeed even in convicting the President of pardoning an undeserving man they will certainly succeed at the same time in convicting the Republican party in Ohio of a shameless attempt against the purity of the ballot-box. Whatever a jury might be led to believe, intelligent people outside the jury box cannot be made to believe that the scores of men who claimed their residence in a low gambling den by reason of sleeping on chair, table or floor were really citizens of Cincinnati and entitled to vote there. It looks a good deal as if the Ohio Republicans were blundering in trying to mvke the Mullen case an issue.— Detroit Free Press.

WILL DELYE DEEPER.

Rich Fields for Investigation Reported in tlie Vicinity of the Scientific Bureau. [Washington special.] While the Judges of the Court of Alabama Claims are answering the charges made against them of unauthorized expenditures and general extravagance, it will be well for them to explain why some of the stinting economy they have exhibited in the employment of messengers and scrubwomen didn’t strike their salary list a little higher. Mr. Fessenden, the clerk of the court, gets $4,400 a year, and possibly has been able to make considerably more besides by miscellaneous fees, as his predecessor in the place did, but the clerks of other United States courts get no more than $3,500, and turn in all their fees. Mr. Walker Blaine, the assistant counsel, has drawn $3,500 per anilum, but no district attorney in the country has an assistant who does so well. While the Court of Alabama Claims was blind to this fact, it was not above hiring two messengers at S4OO a year, one at $360, and one at . S3OO, notwithstanding the lowest pay the same class of men get in any other branch of the Government service is $720 a year. Economy also came out strong with the charwomen, who have been paid $8 only a month, although everywhere else in the departments they get sls. The Alabama Claims Court was manifestly resolved to show that it could economize when it wanted to do so. The suspension of the accounts of the coast survey and of the Court of Alabama Claims is only the forerunner of a series of startling objections to be made by the new Treasury accountants. The fish commission, although under the management of so honorable a scientist as Spencer F. Baird, is drifting into trouble. Extravagant and illegal expenditures have been alleged, and are being quietly investigated, but there is no criticism or question of the value of the work performed. The geological survey and the weather bureau have also been so conducted as to justify severe Scrutiny, and there are indications that the auditing officers have found accounts sadly in need of defense at the postal department. JEvidently the end is not yet. Those who are pushing the fight against the court say that a charge of the most serious nature will be brought against the court when Mr. Cleveland returns to Washington. This charge involves the integrity of the court, and, if it is sustained, will compel the summary removal of at least one of the Judges. “If.” If Mr. Roach would construct ships with the consummate ability with which he makes assignments he would be a great and good ship-builder.— New York Graphic. Not in the Saddle. Murat Halstead is mistaken. The South is not in the saddle. At present it is occupying a spring wagon, and is on the high road to prosperity.—Mobile Register. The speech of Senator Sherman, delivered at Mount Gilead, is not a startling production. It is, indeed, no better than Foraker's speech. It is, however, the speech of Sherman, and people will want to know what this distinguished Republican leader has to say. He says nothing new; he refuses to recognize the close of the war. He preaches a threadbare sermon about Republicans not being permitted to vote in the South. He is one of the Republican “visiting statesmen” who swarmed in New Orleans when the electoral vote of that State was stolen from the Democrats by bribery of returning boards and the throwing out of Democratic votes.— Cincinnati Enquirer. Mr. John Sherman opened the Ohio campaign with a partisan screech of the true Bourbon tone. Defeat has brought to him neither wisdom, nor moderation, nor breadth of vision, nor appreciation of the changing conditions of politics. He always was a political soap-chewer, and the only difference that we notice about him this year is the fact that he gets up a mc>i*e prepos- ' terous lather with a smaller piece of soap.— Philadelphia Record.

“GIVE US YOUR MONEY!”

Passengers on an Alton Train Robbed by Four Half-Frightened Missouri Bandits. But Small Sums Taken, the Desperadoes Apparently Being Very Much Hurried. [Kansas City dispatch.] A bold train-robbery occurred on the Chicago and Alton Railroad to-night, but owing to the sudden flight of the robbers but little booty was secured. As the westbound train on the way to the city left Blue Springs, twenty miles from here, about 9 o’clock to-night, four masked men appeared at the smoking-car and were about to board it. A number of men, however, were standing on the platform, and the robbers passed to the next car m line, the day-car. Three of them climbed upon the forward platform and the fourth got on at the rear. A man then mounted guard at each end of the car, while the other two entered, and, with drawn revolvers, commanded the passengers to give up their money. A number of them 'handed out small amounts of change, while one man, in his excitement, passed out his purse, containing $23. The robbers took whatever was offered without searching the passengers, and made no attempt to rob them of jewehy. When the pair had reached the middle of the car they became suddenly alarmed, and, pulling the bell-rope, the four robbers sprang off when the train slackened speed, and disappeared in the darkness. The train passed on, and the conductor. James Boggs, reported the affair to the officials of the road from the next telegraph station. The train then proceeded on its way to this city. The passengers on the other cars knew nothing of this matter until it was all over. Then there was excitement among the timid, and many hastened to secrete their valuables and prepare for a return of the robbers, even though all danger had passed. The passengers of the car that was robbed had scarcely time to realize what had occurred before the robbers had disappeared. The booty secured amounted to about S3O in money, nothing else being taken. The robbers are described as appearing awkward and nervops, and evidently unused to such work. They were roughly dressed and looked like farm-hands. Each wore a black mask. J. H. Andrews, a business man of this city, who was on the platform of the smoker, relates that when the men approached the car he thought they were tramps. They boarded the second car as the train was pulling out from the station, and a moment after he started for the rear of the train. At the rear door of the smoker he was met by the guard, who pointed a revolver and called upon him to stand still. He obeyed, and from the doorway watched the proceedings in the other car. The whole transaction, he thought, did not occupy over five minutes before the robbers commanded a brakeman to pull the bellrope and stop the train. Blue Springs is a small station in a thickly wooded district, situated near Glendale and Blue Cut, the scenes of former robberies in the days of the James gang. The train, which was due here at 9:30 p. m., was nearly an hour late, and on its arrival preparations were made to send a special train from here with a posse to search for the miscreants. Every effort will be made to apprehend them. The robbers started northward from the railroad, and a posse from the town was soon in pursuit The men were seen about the station before the train arrived. One was dressed in a brown coat, black pantaloons, and hat, and had black hair and mustache. His weight is about 150 pounds. The other men were not noticed closely enough for a description te be obtained.

CHINAMEN BUTCHERED

Coal-Miners in Wyoming Displaced by Celestials Take Bloody Revenge. Seven Men Slain and Their Homes Burned —Ailing and Aged Chinamen Cremated. [Rawlins (Wyoming) special] The largest coal mines in the entire Union Pacific system are at Rock Springs, 120 miles west of Rawlins. The road has recently been importing large numbers of Chinese to fill the places of white men. This afternoon the entire force of white miners, numbering about 150 strong, organized, and, armed with shot-guns, marched to that portion of the town occupied by the Celestials, and after firing a volley into the air, reloaded and ordered the “pig-tails” to leave. The order was obeyed at once, the Chinamen fleeing to the hills like a drove of sheep, closely pursued by the miners. Several volleys were fired at the fugitives with fatal effect The Chinese quarters were then set on fire, and thirty-nine houses owned by the company were destroyed with their contents. The miners next visited the various mines in the camp, unearthed all the Chinamen at work therein, and bade them flee for their lives. They flew. Of some four hundred Chinamen who made Rock Springs their home this morning, not one remains. All are in the hills heading for Green River, thirteen miles further west. Seven were killed outright by the shots fired by miners, and many are wounded. It is said also that several feeble and helpless from disease perished in the flames at Chinatown. Sheriff Young arrived at the scene fiom Green River by a special train this evening with a posse of deputies, but too late to prevent the mob from carrying out its plans. The miners quietly dispersed after making sure of the departure of the Celestia s. and all is quiet. The Union Pacific officials appealed to Gov. Warren for protection, and Asst. Gen. Supt. Dickinson and Supt. Wurtolo are en route for the scene of trouble by -a special train. Both of these men are popular with the miners, and will probably be able to quell any disturbance likely to arise now. The Chinese have now been run out of Rawlins, Carbon, Laramie, and other points in Wyoming.

DOWN TO DEATE

Four Girls and Two Men Drowned in the Fox River at Oshkosh, Wis. A Frail Boat Suddenly Capsized by the Swell of a Passing Tug. [Oshkosh fWis.) special] The most melancholy case of drowning chronicled in the history of this city occurred at an early hour this morning near the draw of the Milwaukee and St Paul bridge, which crosses the Fox River. A dozen operatives in the Diamond Match Company’s works, principally young girls, were being rowed across the stream in a frail boat, and being caught in the swell of a passing tug, the craft was upset and six of the party drowned. When the boat began to rock in the waves several of the girls became seized with terror, and in their apparent madness rose from their seats, and, rushing to one side, caused the terrible accident. A young man named Wolff, who was of the party, reached a landing-place first, and though somewhat exhausted saved one or two lives with great difficulty. The other persons were saved by a young man named Starbeck, who pushed out from shore after witnessing the accident. Those rescued were m an exhausted condition. As the news of the accident spread hundreds of people were attracted to the spot, and among them relatives of the lest ones. The scene during the search for the bodies was painful to witness, and tears and lamentations rent the air. In three hours from the upsetting of the boat all the bodies were recovered and taken to their desolated homes. The names of the drowned are: Johanna Matschie, aged 20; Augusta Wiese, aged 15; Emma Bauer, aged 18; Lena Maidle, aged 12; Philip Berry, aged 18; Louis Dicht, aged 25. With the exception of Berry, the dead men were members of the poorer class of laboring people and assisted in supporting their parents. Berry, who was night watchman at the bridge, wan under a contract with the girls to carry them across the river for so much per week. It is said that he was careless in the management of the boat, and intensified the fright of the girls when the boat first began to feel the effect of the waves. The place where the accident occurred is one of the deepest points in the river, the water being thirty feet in depth. The water was chilly, and those who were thrown into it were so numbed that they could not assist themselves. Their cries were heartrending when they fell into the water. The accident causes universal sorrow. There are various rumors concerning the cause of the accident. It is asserted that the watchman, who is among the dead, rocked the boat on purpose to frighten its occupants, and that this was the starting point of the accident. After the waves struck the boat, they claim, all were so terrified that they lost their heads and looked only for safety. The people of the neighborhood where the dead resided are greatly incensed and threaten to do bodily injury to the day watchman nt the bridge, who had also made a practice of carrying passengers across the river, but there is no reasonable cause for this, as the persons were satisfied to have the men ferry them, because the distance by the regular avenues of traffic was two or three miles longer than by this route. The watchman* it seems, conducted the ferry without having obtained the consent of the agents of the road here, and the railroad men do not hold themselves liable for the accident.

MINERS CRUSHED TO DEATH.

Four Men Killed and Six Badly Injured While Descending a Wilkeabarre Shaft. [Wilkesborre special.] • At the Oakwood shaft, just outside the city limits, the property of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, the mon employed in tha mine were going down the shaft on the carriage, as usual, to their work, at 7 o’clock this morning. The shaft is eight hundred feet deep aud ten men are letdown at a time. A cage load was descending, and had almost reached the foot of the shaft, when a rattling sound was heard overhead, and immediately after a large rock crashed through the sheet-iron covering of the carriage, killing three of the men outright and so fearfully injuring another that he died shortly • after being taken to the hospital. Several others were slightly injured. The names of the killed are: John J. Martin, a miner, aged about 35, unmarried, and living with his widowed mother in this city. James Kearney, a laborer, aged about 25, unmarried. John Peterson, a miner, aged about 26, married, and living at Parsons. Thomas Jenkins, a laborer, about 28 years old, single, and living at Miners’ Mills. Those injured are: Patrick Smith, bruised inside and on the back; Patrick Pursell, slightly cut in the back; Patrick Kearney, slightly bruised in the hip and on the right leg below the knee. The lastnamed gives the following description of the accident: “Going down the shaft, I was standing almost precisely upon the place where the hole was broken through the roof of the cage by the piece of rock, but when'l heard the noise of the rock coming down against the side of the shaft above, and the smaller pieces striking the roof, I somehow stepped to the center and under the cross-beam which supports the roof. The others were running back and forth to find a place of safety, and all knew what the sound meant. The position saved me, as pieces of the rock struck the roof and crashed down through on the other side. My lamp was put out, and as the carriage struck bottom I made a step and went into the hole that had been broken in the floor. One of the smaller pieces of the stone hit my hip. I got out of the place and half fell off into the gangway. My presence of mind had not deserted me, and my first thought was for my brother Jim. I called to him but there was no answer. Then we searched the wreck, found the bodies of the others all mangled and bleeding, and finally Jim, his feet on the edge of the carriage and his body and head lying over the edge in the water of the sump/dead. ”

NATIONAL FINANCES.

A Summary of the Monthly Public Debt Statement for August. The following is a recapitulation of the debt statement issued on the Ist instant (new form): Interest bearing debt— Bonds at 4lfc per cent $250,000,000.00 Bonds at 4 per cent 737,738.400.00 Bonds at 3 per oent. 134,100,500 00 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. 229.500.00 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent.. 14,000,000.0 C Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 per cent 64,623,512.00 Principal 1,260,776.912.00 Interest. 10,719,853.03 T0ta151,271,496,765.03 Debt bearing no InterestOld demand and legal-tender notes $346,738,916.00 Certificates of deposit 30.865,000.00 Gold certificates 123,885,490.(0 Silver certificates 96,079,296.00 Fractional currency (less $8,375,934 estimated as lost or destroyed) 6,961,162.88 Principal $604,529,864.88 Debt on which Interest has ceased since maturity— Principal $3,921,765.28 Interest 223,780.81 „ Total $4,145,546.01 Total debt— Principal $1,869,228,542.14 Interest 10,943,633.84 Less cash items available for reduction of the debt $256,763,295.71 Less reserve held for redemption of United States notes 100,000,000,00 Total $350,763,296.77 Total debt less available cash item 551,523,408,880.21 Net cash in the Treasury 49,716,572.69 Debt, less cash in Treasury. Sept. I®*- ;$1,473,692,307.59 Debt, less cash in Treasury, Aug. 1. 1885 1,476,571,859.69 Deereaseof debt during the month shown by this statement $2,879,002.17 Cash jn the Treasury available for reduction of the debt— Gold held for gold certificates actually outstanding $123,885,400.00 Silver held for silver certificates actually outstanding 96,079,206.00 United States notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 80,865,000.00 Cash held for matured debt and interest unpaid 5,931,435.08 Fractional currency 2,074.71 Total available for reduction of the debt $256,763,205.77 Reserve fund held for redemption of United States notes, act July 12. 1882 100,000,000.00 Una vailable for reduction of the debt— Fractional silver coin. $24,724,287.43 Minor coin 847,053.86 Total $25,571,841.29 Certificates held as cash issued, but not outstanding 60,014,120.00 Net cash balance on hand 49,716,572.69 Total cash in Treasury, as shown .by Treasurer’s general account $492,065,820,78

UNDER THE KNIFE.

A Wonderful Surgical Operation in Mew York. [New York special.] A remarkable operation was performed at the Charity Hospital in this city to-day. Mrs. Ann Curry, who is fifty years of age, has suffered for two years with malignant cancer of the abdomen. She was induced to enter the Charity Hospital recently, where she was visited by Dr. Thomas H. Allen. When told that an operation from the effects of which no patient has ever recovered—and only three left the operatingtable alive—was her only chance of life, Mrs. Curry announced her willingness to take the risk rather than live longer in such misery. The operation was performed this afternoon, <in the presence of several well-known New York surgeons. The patient was placed un " der the influence of ether, and Dn Alien made a long, straight incision into the abdomen, from the pit of the stomach downward, and the assistants tied the arteries. A spray atomizer was used to sprinkle an antiseptic fluid upon the wound Dr. Allen removed the abdominal organ#, while his assistants tied one artery after another. It was discovered that the bladder And several surrounding organs had been attacked by the germs of the disease, and these had to be scraped until all the traces of cancer were gone. The work was finished in a few minutes, and the opening in the stomach was drawn together and sewed up with a fine silver wire. These stitches were afterward supplemented with others of catgut The cancer weighed nearly twelve ounces. Mrs. Curry was token to her room in Safety, and all danger of a primary shock was removed. Dr. Allen said that it was hardly possible for the patient to recover, but he had great hopes that the operation would prove successful.

THE OFFICES.

Postoffice Appointments Made by the Administration Since It Came Into Power. [Washington telegram.] The Appointment Clerk of the Postoffice Department has made a complete and accurate schedule by States of the Presidential and fourth-class appointments made by Mr. Cleveland. It is as follows: Presi- 4thl Presi- 4th dential. class. I dential. class. Alabama. 13 121 Missouri 20 301 Alaska 1 Montana. 1 16 Arizona 7 Nebraska.,... 9 68 Arkansas 8 171 Nevada 1 11 California 6 39 N. Hampshire 8 101 Colorado 9 32 New Jersey... 7 78 Connecticut.. 12 28 New Mexico.. 1 8 Dakota 8 41 New York 40 658 Delaware 1 21 N. Carolina... 14 271 Florida 3 30 Ohio ... 23 618 Georgialo 131iOreron 28 Idaho 3 281 Pennsylvania. 34 415 Illinois 31 329 Rhode Island. .. 6 Indiana 43 465*. Carolina... 9 78 Indian Ter.... 1 12/Tennessee .... 6 148 lowa 40 168|Texas12 127 Kansas 29 151 (Utah 1 Kentucky 7 184 Ve montlo 116 Louisiana 3 73” Virginia 16 439 Maine 7 GOiWash Ter.... 1 13 Maryland. ... 2 140 W. Virginia.. 1 145 Mass 8 28 Wisconsin.... 23 147 Michigan 22 141 Wyoming..... 3 1 Minnesota.... 10 46! Mississippi... 9 I<B| T0ta1.524 6,309 As the total number of postoffices which the President has the sole power of filling is 2,332, it will be seen that near'y onefourth of the incumbents have been changed and over one-eighth of the fourthclass offices have been doled out