Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1886 — Page 6

Oiljc Dcmotrfllicgfiitinrl RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - Publishes.

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. The remains of General Hancock ■were on Saturday, the 13th inst, escorted by regular troops to Trinity Church, New York, where funeral services were conducted by Rev. Morgan Dix. A special train conveyed the cortege to Norristown, Pennsylvania, and the casket was placed in the vault Mrs. Hancock has received telegrams of condolence from Samuel J. Tilden, the Governors of various States, and numerous military officers of high rank. The Mahone report, showing the sums appropriated for and expended on public buildings from March 4, 1789,'t0 March 4, 1885, —assay offices, mints, and buildings in the District of Columbia being excluded, —gives the following figures of the amounts actually expended in the States named: New Y0rk....§15.339, 085 Indianasßss,o7o Pennsylvania 8,702,074 Minnesota 640,336 Massachusetts 8,357,11 (Nebraska 028,340 Illinois 7,784,581,10wa 606,658 Ohio 7,387,630 Wisconsin 001,723 Michigan 894,027| Many citizens of Elmira, New York, held a meeting and formally resolved to destroy with dynamite a sewer constructed through their lands by the State to drain the reformatory grounds. The board of health at once dug up a portion of the conduit and filled it with brick and cement Laura Don, well known as an actress, died near Troy, N. Y. Heavy rains and a general thaw caused disastrous floods in the East Charles Herman, who murdered his wife Nov. 1 last, and slept in the bed where the gory corpse lay for three nights, was hanged at Buffalo last Friday. The damage in Boston and vicinity by the recent flood is estimated at $1,000,000. The police boats supplied food and fuel to families driven from their houses. Tremont street was entirely under water from the car stables at Lenox street to a point above Cabot street Considerable damage was done in the vicinity of Baltimore and Washington by a rise in the Potomac and Susquehanna rivers. All over the country high water and serious damage by flooding are reported. Thomas A. Edison and others have incorporated a company at Albany to introduce his device for telegraphing to and from moving trains. Gen. Hancock was buried at Norristown, Pa., with military honors. He was interred by the side of his father and his loved daughter. The funeral was unostentatious, but an impressive service was held in Trinity Church, New York. The pall-bearers were the Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, Secretary of State; Gen. William T. Sherman, Lieut. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, Maj. Gen. J. M. Schofield, Gen. W. B. Franklin, Gen. W. F. Smith, Brig. Gen. James B. Fry, Brig. Gen. A. H. Terry, Brig. Gen. N. A. Miles, Brig. Gen. John Newton, Brig. Gen. O. B. Wilcox, Gen. Francis Walker, Mr. J. W. Hartshorn, Col. W. P. Wilson, and Maj. D. W. Miller.

WESTERN.

A mob at Olympia, Washington Territory, on the morning of the 9th inst., took possession of the houses of Chinese residents and ordered them to leave within three days. The Sheriff and a posse did what they could to protect the unfortunates. President Cleveland ordered General Gibbon to Seattle to maintain order, and issued the following proclamation: Whereas, It is represented to me by the Governor of the Territory of Washington that‘domestic violence exists within the said Territory, and that by reason of unlawful obstructions and combinations and the assemblage of evil-dis-posed persons it has become impracticable to enforce, by ordinary course of judicial proceedings, the laws of the United State at Seattle and at other points and places within said Territory, whereby life and property are threatened and endangered; and. Whereas, In the judgment of the President an emergency has arisen and a case is now presented which justifies and requires, under the Constitution and laws of the United States, the employment of military force to suppress domestic violence and enforce the faithful execution of the laws of the United States, if the command and warning of this proclamation be disobeyed and disregarded: Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States of America, do hereby command and warn all insurgents, and all persons who have assembled at any point within the said Territory of Washington for the unlawful purposes aforesaid, to desist therefrom, and to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes on or before 0 o’clock in the afternoon of the 10th day of February instant. And I do admonish all good citizens of the United States, and all persons within the limits and jurisdiction thereof, against aiding, abetting, countenancing, or taking any part iu such unlawful acts or assemblages. John G. Thompson died at Seattle, Wash. Ter., last week. He held the position of land-claim agent in Washington Territory by appointment of President Cleveland. He was 53 years of age, a native of Ohio, and spent his early life on a farm. He was a member of the Ohio Democratic State Central Committee from ISGO to 1883, during fourteen years of which he was Chairman of the Executive Committee. He was elected Sergeant-at-Arms of the House in the Forty-fourth Congress, and served three terms. The Sheriff of Casa County, Missouri, having in charge a lunatic prisoner, went to sleep in the Tolono (Hl.) depot, upon which the lunatic robbed the Sheriff of a gold watch and $65, and escaped. Employes in John P. Mullaly’s stables at St Louis, discovering that the building was on fire, undertook to save the horses, and were vigorously clubbed by two policemen, who claim to have mistaken them for thieves, ipie result was the cremation of sixty-two horses. The boiler in a feed mill at Oshkosh exploded, killing the engineer, Walter •nd a laborer named Reinbold, besides seriously injuring several other persons.

Both houses of the lowa Legislature : have passed a bill authorizing Mayors of cities ’ to s flemuize marriages. i The Hon. George C. Bates, one of i the founders of the Whig party, and the bosom I friend of Webster, Clay, and Harrison, died at i his residence in Denver, aged 71. One of the melodramas which saved anything out of the wreck of bad business for i t:! ‘ last two seasons, says the Chicago Aetca, was that of L. R. SiiewelFs, entitled “Shadows of a , Gre ;t City,” originally produced last season at | McVicker’s, in Chicago. One thing that seemed ■ to recommend it was the fact that it dealt with I American life and scenes. Since then it has had two very successful tours through the country, and the management is preparing to produce it in London. It is now undergoing its second season at McVicker’s. John B. Mannix, a lawyer, and until recently assignee of the Archbishop Purcell estate, has been arrested on a charge of embezzling $350,000. An ice-gorge at St. Louis broke last week. Many steamboats were forced up the levee entirely out of the water. A rise of the water of several feet, however, forced the vessels back into the river. A number were either sunk or badly damaged. At Carroll Island, a short distance below the city, the entire fleet of forty Government barges was sunk or carried off. Miscreants hanged the young daughter of Dr. H. 11. Aldridge, at Windsor, 111., to get revenge on her father. She was found and cut down by her brother liefore life was extinct, and resuseicated. The perpetrators of the fiendish outrage are unknown. The young lady is in a very precarious condition. The H. A. Pitts’ Sons Manufacturing Company, of Marseilles, 111., made an assignment to 8. W. Huger. It failed three years ago, but agreed to pay indebtedness, amounting to $250,000, in three equal installments, the last of which was due Jan. 1, and which it was unable to meet

SOUTHERN.

Attorney General Garland’s attention was called to the widely published statement that the President had asked for his resignation, to which he replied: “You may say that there is no truth in the report so far as I have been advised, and it occurs to me that I should know. You may further say that the reports that I have received gifts of the Fan-Electric stock or am u donee of that company are not correct. People seem to have forgotten my letter to the President dated Oct. 5, 1885.” Turning to that letter the Attorney General read this sentence: “About three years ago I, with six or seven other gentlemen, entered into an organization known as the Pan-Electric Telephone Company, based upon what was called the Rogers invention. We formed that company in good faith and started in its operations. You will see from this,” said the Attorney General, “that I was one of the original incorporators of this company, and as such entitled to stock.” The President has said recently to friends that a request for the resignation of Mr. Garland was not in contemplation. In consequence of the reception of au imposing protest signet by citizens of Dakota and Minnesota, who declare that the trade of the Northwest is being ruined, Secretary Lamar has directed Commissioner Sparks to show cause at once why his order of last April suspending the issue of land patents in a wide expanse of territory should not be revoked. Daniel J. Dalton, Clerk of the Hamilton County (Ohio) Court, was arrested at Columbus at the instance of the Committee on Privileges and Elections of the House and brought before that body for contempt in refusing to allow the committee to make a photographic copy of the tally-sheet of Precinct A, Fourth Ward, Cincinnati, and also in failing to produce the original returns before the committee at Columbus. A resolution was adopted in the House by a strict party vote directing that Dalton be placed in jail for thirty days unless he furnished the returns. The conduct of Lieutenant Greene, of the signal corps, and other members of the recent court-martial at Fort Myer, Virginia, was such as to draw from the Secretary of War an expression of the stern condemnation of the abuse of counsel for the accused and of enlisted men serving as witnesses. The Florida Press Association, at a meeting held in Gainesville, adopted resolutions stating that the larger part of the oranges remaining on the trees in that State were frozen during the recent cold weather, but no injury was done to healthy trees, which are already budding. A company has been organized in Arkansas, with a capital of $2,500,009, to build a railway 150 miles in length, from Fort Smith to the lied River, in Texas.

WASHINGTON.

The following is the full text of Senator Allison’s silver bill, introduced in the Senate the other day: That hereafter any holder of silver coins of full legal-tender value may, at his option, present them in sums of SSO, or any multiple thereof, at the Treasury, or at the Sub-Treasury in the city of Nofr York, and receive therefor in exchange a like amount of gold coin or United States notes, and any holder of gold coin may in like manner present the same and receive therefor silver coins of full legaltender value or United States notes; provided that nothing herein shall be construed to authorize the increase of the aggregate issue of United States notes now authorized by law, nor to restrict or limit the issue of gold or silver certificates us now provided by law. Sec. 2. That sections 5193 and 5194 of the Revised Statutes are hereby repealed, and the words ‘Tawful money,” wherever in the statutes of the United States, shall be construed to include United States notes, gold, and silver of full legal tender. Sec. 3. That all laws and parts of laws requiring the lawful money deposited with the Treasurer of the United States, as provided by section 5222, Revised Statues, to be held as a special fund for the redemption of notes of national banking associations, tire hereby repealed, and all the money now deposited or which may be hereafter deposited under said section shall be covered into the Treasury, and all sums now deposited or which may hereafter be deposited with the Treasurer of the United States. as authorized by section -1 of an act entitled “An act fixing the amount of United States notes, providing for a redistribution of the national bank currency, and for other purposes,” approved June 20, 1874. shall be covered into the Treasury. Sec. 4. That section 3of the last named act is hereby amended so as to authorize the redemption of national bank notes in gold or silver, and to authorize the deposit of gold or silver in lieu of United States notes required to be deposited by said section. The House Committee on Public Lands has agreed to declare a forfeiture of the Northern Pacific land-grant as to all lands ly-

ing opposite that part of the line which was unconstrueted July 4, 1879. Exceptions are made in cases where the forfeiture would work injury to towns or settlers holding titles from the company. The House Committee on Coinage took a vote the other day on the silver question, when the fact became known that no member favored a suspension of the manufacture of silver dollars.

POLITICAL.

The Democratic Congressional Committee at Chilton, Wis., nominated Thomas It Hudd on the fifty-first ballot to succeed the late Joseph Rankin. The President has nominated Stephen A Walker to succeed Mr. Dorsheimer as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Mr. Walker is now President of the Board of Education of New York City. Touching the attitude of the Republican Senators toward the President, the Chicago Inter Ocean's (Rep.) Washington correspondent telegraphs that journal as follows: There is considerable feeling upon the Republican side of the Senate, growing out of the action of some of the committees in reporting nominations to succeed suspended officials, which is claimed to be a violation of the programme adopted at a recent caucus, when it was decided to suspend action upon all such cases until the points at issue between the Pres< ident and the Senate were decided. It if, the policy of Edmunds and other leaders to hold in abeyance all of such nominations until the President or the members of the Cabinet send in the papers called for im suspended cases, to either finally reject them or to hang them up unconfirmed until the end of the ses-, siou. Mr. Edmunds advances the proposition that the Senate cannot act intelligently upon r, nomination until it knows why the vacancy it) is to fill was made by the President, and if the latter refuses to furnish such information thq Senate ought to punish him by refusing to coni firm the nomination.

MISCELLANEOUS.

The carriage factory of Hiram W. Davis & Co., in Cincinnati, was damaged by fire to the amount of $150,000. The car-works and foundry at Beaver Falls, Pa., worth $175,000, were burned, as also the opera house and the grocery of Innes & Sons at Lexington, Ky. It is stated that by the death of General Hancock, Major General Schofield, commanding the Division of the Missouri, will become Senior Major General, and will be given command of the Department of the East and the Division of the Atlantic. Schaefer and Vignaux have signed to contest a balk-line billiard match of 3,000 points, for SI,OOO a side, winner to take all receipts and loser to pay expenses. Archbishop Corrigan, of New York, has been cabled from Rome that Archbishop Gibbons, of Baltimore, would be made a Cardinal at the next consistory. The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce reports that, during 1885, $10,000,000 ip treasure was shipped from San Francisco tn China. This is in excess of amounts remitted on balance-of-trade payments. Mr. Cobb, of Indiana, Chairman oj the Committee on Public Lands, says his committee will recommend this season the forfeiture of considerable more than a hundred millions of acres of public lands that have been granted in aid of the construction of railroads, and expects the House will confirm the judgment of the committee. Mr. Patrick Egan, President of the Irish National League, has returned to the League Treasurer, as a personal contribution to the funds, a check for $3,000 sent him as his salary as President of the organization. The Canadian Government is gradually pardoning the half-breeds engaged in the Northwest rebellion.

FOREIGN.

Rioting was resumed in Trafalgar Square, London, on the 9th inst, by ten thousand men, mainly ot the lowest class, who were driven by the police into the side streets and dispersed. Burns, Champion, Hyndman, and Williams, the four principal leaders of -the riots, called on Joseph Chamberlain, President of the Local Government Board. Mr. Chamberlain refused to see them personally, but replied to a statement in writing relative to the grievances of the workingmen with a letter in which he said he did not think any of the remedies proposed by the Social Democratic Federation would prove effectual to relieve the misery of the unemployed. He accompanied this statement with some vague promises of attention to the wants of the poor. His visitors went away dissatisfied. The Supreme Court at Leipsic convicted Capt. Sarouw of having furnished plans and information of German fortifications to the French authorities, and sentenced him to penal servitude for twelve years.

The French Chamber of Deputies rejected a motion of want of confidence in the Government by a vote of 301 to 188. Mr. O’Shea, the Parnellite candidate, has been elected member of Parliament from Galway. The riotous turbulence in the city of London appears to have entirely subsided. The press of that city are very severe in their strictures of the gross inefficiency of the police during the recent outbreak. A Prussian society is to be formed to promote a friendly understanding between nations. The gamblers at Monaco were shocked by the suicide of a French merchant and his wife after sustaining heavy losses. The reported massacre of Bishop Hannington and fifty followers at Uzegena, Africa, is confirmed. Belgrade advices state that King Milan has resolved to sign a treaty of peace witl| Bulgaria, no matter what action the Greek Government may decide to take. The lower house of the Bavarian Parliament, by a vote of 90 to 45, adopted a resolution in opposition to Government monopolj of the liquor traffic. The riots in London so thoroughly awakened the wealthy classes that they hav( already subscribed £30,000 for the relief of thl unemployed

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

P. J. Baltes, Bishop of the Catholic diocese of Alton, Hl, expired last week, after a protracted illness. Nelson Dewey, the first Governor o' the State of Wisconsin, has brought suit for • divorce from his wife in the Grant County Circuit Court, charging desertion. The couple \ have not lived together for fifteen years. Mrs. { Dewey will contest the suit * The Rev. William Warner, a minister j of the United Brethren sect, who is said to be I uncouth and ignorant, is reported to have cured, by faith, the wife of a farmer living near Sweetser, Ind., for whom regular physi- ' cians held out no hope of recovery. The affair | has caused a sensation m the district Over five thousand mill operatives at Manchester, N. H , are on a strike for higher wages, cutting off the disbursement of SS,(XX) per day. Reports from Boston and vicinity are that the waters are subsiding, but at Franklin, Dedham Center. East Dedham, Waltham, Newton, and Haverhill, Mass.; Nashua, N. H., and Augusta, Me., the situation is threatening. A factory was wrecked at Franklin; bridges at Taunton were swept away, and a number of buildings will collapse when the floods recede. Several mills are submerged, and in others work has been suspended. Country roads are impassable, and business is at a standstill. The total loss will probably aggregate $2,000,000. Bismarck is about to introduce a bill in the Prussian Landtag which materially modifies the May laws in dealing ■with the Catholic clergy. Riotous demonstrations were made by the unemployed workingmen of Birmingham and Yarmouth, England. In the former city the police prevented the pillaging of shops. Viscount Edward Cardwell is dead, aged 73. He was Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1859. The Viceroy of India has decided to retain General Prendergast in Burmah with 16,000 men, martial law to continue until November. A message from the President was laid before the Senate, on the 15th, transmitting a letter of the Secretary of the Interior with the draft of a bill providing for the sale of the Sac and Fox Indian Reservations in Nebraska and Kansas.Mr. Van Wyck submitted an amendment to the House bill to increase the pensions of widows and dependent relatives of deceased soldiers and sailors, providing that minor children shall receive $5 per month when one parent is deceased, cud $lO when both parents are deceased; that the pensionable age lie extended to eighteen years, and that fathers and mothers only be required to prove dependence at the time of application for pension. Mr. Van Wyck, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported favorably a bill to establish two additional laud districts in the State of Nebraska, and authorizing the President to appoint registers and receivers therefor. Secretary Lamar of the Interior Depaitinent sent a letter to the Senate in answer to the resolution calling for all papers on file in the department and all papers which have been presented to any officer of that department touching, the official and personal conduct of Henry Ward, late an Indian Inspector, during his continuance in office. With the letter were transmitted 282 documents, chiefly reports made by Mr. Ward to the department. The Secretary savs : “I transmit all the official papers on file in the department which I understand to be embraced by the resolution. * * * I am directed by the President to say that if the object of the r .’solution is to inquire into the reasons for the removal of Mr. Ward, these papers are not to be considered as constituting all the evidence submitted to him in relation thereto. I am also directed by the President to say that he does not consider it consistent with the public interests to transmit copies of unofficial papers from private citzens held in my custody for him, which relate exclusively to the suspension of incumbents.” The latter and accompanying papers were referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Representative Thomas, of Illinois, introduced in the House a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Navy for a complete roster of officers on the retired list,’ and a statement of their rank and pay. The House Committee on Coinage rejected bills to make treaties with foreign countries to open their mints to the free coinage of silver, and to provide for the unlimited coinage of silver. It then divided equally on a measure to suspend the coinage of standard silver dollars, and decided to make an adverse report on Representative Bland’s bill for free coinage. Mr. Pulitzer introduced a bill granting a pension of $5,000 to General Hancock’s widow. A bill for the free coinage of silver was introduced by Mr. Bland of Missouri. J

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves 54.50 @ 6.00 Hogs 4.25 @ 4.75 Wheat—No. 1 White 95 @ .96 No. 2 Red 91 @ .92 Corn—No. 2 52 @ .54 Oats—White 40 @ .45 Pork—Mess .' 10.50 @11.50 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 5.50 @ 6.00 Good Shipping 4.50 @ 5.25 Common 8.50 @ 4.25 Hogs—Shipping Grades 4.25 @ 4.75 Flour—Extra Spring 4.75 @ 5.25 Choice Winter 4.50 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 82 @ ,82}£ Corn—No. 2 37 @ .39 Oats—No. 2 30 @ .32 Rye-No. 2 58)6@ .59& Barley—No. 2 64 @ .66 Butter—Choice Creamery 28 @ .30 Fine Dairy 18 @ .22 Cheese—Full Cream, new 10 @ .11 Skimmed Flats .06 @ .07 Eggs—Fresh 20 @ .21 Potatoes—Choice, per bu .55 @ j>o Pork—Mess 11.00 @11.50 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 .80 @ .83 Corn—No. 2 37 @ .39 Oats—No. 2 .29 @ .30 Rye—No. 1 .' 53 @ .60 Pork—New Mess 11.00 @11.50 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 93 @ 94 Corn—No. 2 39 @ 41 Oats—No. 2 31 @ .'32 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 90 @ .91 Corn—Mixed f 35 @ .351;, Oats—Mixed 29 @ .30 Pork—New Mess 11.00 @11.50 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red 92 @ .94 Corn—No. 3 39 @ .38 Oats—No. 2 31 @ .33 Pork—Mess 11.00 @11.50 Live Hogs 4.25 @475 DETROIT. Beef Cattle 4.00 @ 5.25 Hogs 4.00 @4.50 Sheep 3.00 @ 4.75 Wheat—No. 1 White 90 @ .91 Corn—No. 2.. 49 @ .42 Oats—No. 2 33 @ ‘35 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 92 @ .93 Corn—New 35 @ .35 Oats—No. 2 29 @ .30 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 5.25 @ 5.75 Fair 4.25 @ 4.75 Common 3.25 @ 4.00 Hogb 4.00 @ 4.50 Sheep 3.25 @ 4qq BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 Hard 96 @ .97 Corn—Yellow 42 @ 43 Cattle 5.00 @ 5.50

SEYMOUR IS AT REST.

New York’s Ex-Governor anti Statesman Dies Peacefully at His Home in Utica. | His Illness Brief and the Eesult Not Unexpected—An Eventful Life Ended. Horatio Seymour died at the residence ot his brother-in-law, cx-Seaator Roscoe Conkling, in Utica, N. Y„ on the evening of the 12th inst. He passed away peacefully and without pain. From t’ e dispatches we glean the following particulars of his death: ’M s.’Seymour was so prostrated that she had to be carrh.d to and' from the room. Those who stood a ound the. deathbed were Mrs. Conkling, ths Senator's Bister; Mrs. Nelson, the Gove nor's wife s sis'er, of New Brunswick, N. J.; and Dr. I'. r I and wife. It is greatly feared that Mrs, Se m -ur .will not survive the terrible shock. The Governor’s health was pretty good during the fill, but a short time previous to Jan. 1 Mis. Seymour was taken down with a painful illness which alarmed and distressed the Governor, and since that time he had been failing. About ten days ago he left his farm at Doorfield and came here to visit his sister, Mrs. Conkling. Almost immediately he was attacked with, bilious trouble, but was not deemed to be seriously ill. Last Sunday he became restless, and that night was able to obtain little sleep. Monday he had no appetite, and suffered from nausea. Tuesday he went out for a ride. He said that he was not particularly sick, but had a. feeling of exhaustion which ho had not experienced before. Tuesday night he slept better, until toward morning, when he had an attack of nausea and distress, complaining of pain in the head. Wednesday tho first sickness developed qhat had a serious look. Thursday ho complained of a feeling of great exhaustion, and said that he thought he ought to die; that he had lived long enough, and ought to have died when sick before, and he did not know why friends did anything to bring him around again. This was all said in a cheerful tone and manner. His emotions were somewhat disturbed by weakness,but his intellect seemed calm. This was the third day that he had not partaken of sufficient food, but he had not vomited much during the last twenty-four hours. He obtained more sleep last night, but did not seem refreshed by it, and was perceptibly weaker to-day. Yesterday lie' was able to raise and move himself in oed to such an extent as to cause a belief that his vitality was not being exhausted verv rapidly.” J Horatio Seymour, “the farmer statesman,” was born in May, 1810. His birthplace was Pompey, a little village which overlooked the site of Syracuse, N. Y. Then Central New York was almost a wilderness, its sturdy inhabitants fighting with the wild beasts for possession of the soil. The infant Horatio first saw the light deep in the backwoods, shut out from civilization, but he lived to be the leader of a great political party. He was born in “the days of vital piety, sound Democracy, and pure liquor.” He was reared in a community which recognized that one man at his birth is as good as another. Social exclusiveness was not a mark of distinction in his day. In his village inn all classes of men met on equal footing, and discussed public affairs. Under such conditions he passed his youth.

In his boyhood he was sickly and weak, and in consequence, not so advanced in his studies as other boys, but he was a keen observer, and picked up a vast store of information without effort. At 10 years of age he was sent to the Oxford Academy, and from there to Hobart College, but his health continued delicate, and he was sent to a military school in Middletown, Conn. Here he gained health and strength. When 16 years old he and the other cadets visited Washington, and Mr. Seymour always had the liveliest recollection of his first visit to the capital. The cadets were received by President John Quincy Adams and the members of Congress. Young Seymour was most favorably impressed with Henry Clay, whom ho has described as “tall in stature, graceful in action, and most winning in speech.” On this visit he saw Washington’s remains removed from their first to their present tomb. He was allowed to place his hands on the coffin, and he over afterward spoke of the occurrence as one of the greatest events of his life. When he left the military academy he studied law in Utica, N. Y., and was admitted to the bar. At about this time he married Miss Mary Bleecker of Albany. Later he was made one of the staff of Governor William L. Marcy of New York, and in time he became bis confidential friend. While with Governor Marcy he became familiar with the workings of legislative bodies and when, in 1842, he was elected to the Statl Assembly, by the Democrats of Oneida, he a once took a prominent (position. That Legislat ture was composed of men of more than ordinary ability, and it was a surprise even to his friends that Mr. Sevmour should hold the place he did. Returning to Utica, ho was elected Mayor, and in the following winter again chosen for Representative. The session of 1845 was the most exciting and important one in the history of New York Assemblies. The bitter debates which grew out of the opposition to Governor Bouck’s administration led at last to national Democratic defeat. Mr. Seymour divined this, and advised moderation, but his warnings were laughed at, and he was called an alarmist. A year before the Democrats had achieved their greatest and most decisive victory over the Whigs. In New York the Whigs had been buried out of sight by great Democratic majorities, and Henry C'ay, the hero of the Whig party; the idol of his friends, had been defeated for the Presidency by the obscure James K. Polk. In view of this it was ■considered madness in Seymour to prophesy ultimate defeat. He was elected Speaker of the House in 1845, after a bitter contest, by the “Hunker” wing of the Democrats. He acted with them on party questions against the “Barnburner" faction of the party. The split in the Democracy grew wider, the “Barnburners” finally joined the Whigs on a State question, the Democracy was defeated, and the trouble culminated in the election of Taylor to the Presidency and the overthrow of the'National Democratic party. Mr. Seymour’s predictions were fulfilled.

For five years after this Assembly he was in retirement. He then, in 1850, accepted the Democratic nomination for Governor, and was defeated. But he made a strong fight, and two years later again headed the Democratic ticket. This time he was successful, after an exciting campaign. He became Governor in a critical period of the State’s history. The Legislature succumbed to the clamor of the temperance party and passed a most stringent liquor law. Gov. Seymour vetoed the bill, and his message on that subject has been much quoted. This drew upon him the wrath of the pulpit, and he was denounced as an apostle of drunkenness. His every public act was looked upon with suspicion, and a thanksgiving proclamation which he issued was characterized by a religious paper as a “disgraceful production, evidently written by a man of infidel tendencies.” It happened that a learned and pious minister of the gospel had written the proclamation for the Governor. He was again a candidate for Governor in 1854 and was defeated by Myron H. Clark, the Whig and temperance candidate. In 1862, at the expiration of the term of Edwin. D. Morgan, the Republican War Governor of New York, Mr. Seymour was elected Governor by the Democrats. There were many who believed that he would not support the war measures of the General Government, but he responded to every call for troops, although never in accord with President Lincoln. In 1868 he presided over the Democratic convention m New York which nominated him for President against his wish. Ho accepted the nomination, however, and in so doing made, as he has said, the greatest mistake of his Ide. He received but eighty electoral votes, suffering a painful defeat. He was never again prominent in public life. Speaking of his retirement he has said: “I have made up my mind that no man should, cheat himself out of the repose of his old age. In his last days, if his life had not been a barrow one, it seems to me that every man should have much to think of; that he should devote himself to such thought and such usefulness in his private circle as he might be fitted’ for. It is for these reasons that I have refused in my age toaccept public station.” 1