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to bo placed upon the pension roll, be shall be entitled to arrearages from the time when his disability occurred. CLERKS FOR MEMBERS. A Growing Necessity for Relief from Almost Ceaseless Letter-Writing. Special to ttie Indianapolis Journal, Washington. Jan. 25.—The question of clerks for members is again being agitated. Two or three advocates of this proposition have already prepared bills which will probably be introduced at an early day. Ono of them, and the one which seems to find most favor in the eyes of members of Congress, provides that every member who is not chairman of a committee shall be entitled to a private secretary, who shall be compensated at the rate of SIOO per month during the session. This would add an average of about $450 a year to the salaries of members, but it would undoubtedly prove a very excellent investment for the country. At present the time of more than four-fifths of the members is devoted to private correspondence, touching pension cases and other matters before the departments. It is not the legitimate work of a congressman to devote bis time to this business, but the evil has grown to sueh an extent that the member who has no cases before the departments to look after is an exceedingly rare bird. The private correspondence touching publie matters, which a congressman in an ordinary district has to attend to, is something which would astonish those who know notWng about it. It is not an infrequeut thing for an active man to Jmve to write at least forty letters a day, and in Some cases the number has been increased to seventy-five and even more. It is hardly just that the members of the lower house should be compelled to pay for this work out of their own pockets, while each senator, who has very much lees work to do, is supplied with a clerk at the government’s expense. There is co doubt that the proposal would meet with the hearty support of a great majority of the members of the House if it could be voted upon without a call of the yeas and nays. The fear of going npon record, however, and the adverse criticism which might result will, undoubtedly, deter many of those who would otherwise support it from votting for the proposition if it coroes up, although at present there is a very determined movement on foot to put it through.

THE BUPREME COURT. Abstracts of Opinions Rendered by the Justices Yesterday. Washington, Jan. 25.—The Supreme Court of the Uoited States to-day rendered the following decisions: No. 985. The United States vs. DeWitfc C. Redgrave; appeal from the Court of Claims. Redgrave, in June, 1881, graduated from the United States Naval Academy as cadet engineer, and was detached from the Academy and entered into active service. Up to Aug. 5, 1882, he received the pay of a graduate cadet engineer, and from that date up to June 30, 1883, when he was discharged, pursuant to the act of Aug. 5, 1882, he only received the pay of a naval cadet. He brought suit in the Court of Claims to recover the difference between what It* reeeired and the pay of a cadet engineer. It was contended on the part of the United States that, by virtue of the provisions of the act of Aug. 5. 1882, Redgrave became a naval cadet, not having completed his course of study at the Academy, but being an undergraduate at tiio tiro* of the passage of that act. The Court of Claims decided in Redgrave’s favor, and the Supremo Court of the United States affirms that judgment. No. 98G. The United States vs. Lyman B. Parkins; appeal from the Court of Claims. This case differs from that of Redgravo only in that Perkins claimed pay after his discharge, protesting that the order discharging him was illegal. The question raised was that, although the discharge may not be justified by the act of Aug. 5, 1862, the Secretary of the Navy, irrespective of that act, had lawful power to discharge him from the service at will. This authority was claimed on the ground that he wa3 not an officer in the naval service, within the meaning of the seotlon of the Rovised Statutes which provides that no officer in the military or naval service shall, in time of peace, be discharged from servviee except by sentence of a court-martial. The Court of Claims held that cadet engineers are officers, and not employes, and rendered a judgment in Perkins’s favor. The Supreme Court affirms that judgment. No. 43. F. S. Coe, plaintiff in error, vs. The Town of Errol; in error to the Supreme Court of New Hampshire. The plaintiff and others, residents of Maine and Massachusetts, owned a. large number of spruce logs that had been drawu down from Wentworth’s Location, in New Hampshire, to the town of Errol, to be thence floated down the Androscoggin river to the State of Maine, to be manufactured and sold. While the logs remained at Errol, the selectmen of the town appraised them for taxation and assessed thereon State, county, town and school taxes. Another lot of logs belonging to Coe, which had been cut in the State of Maiue, and were on their way to Lewiston, Me., and which were detained in the town of Errol by low water, were also assessed for taxes. The plaintiff filed a notitior. iu the Supreme Court of New lampshire for an abatement of taxes. That •crort decided that the tax assessed upon the M-gs cut in the State of Maine be abated, nd that npon the logs cot in New Hampshire bo ustained. The petitioner took a bill of exceptions, and upon a writ of error carried the case to the Supreme Court of the United States. The question in the case is whether the products of a State are liable to be taxed like other property within the State, though intended for exportation to another State, and partially prepared for that purpose by being deposited at a place of shipment, such products being owned by persons residing iu another State. Justice Bradley delivered the opinion of the court. He held that, until actually launched on its way to another State, or committed to a common carrier for transportation to such State, the destination of the property is not fixed and certain. Carrying it to the depot is pnly an interior movement, entirely within ih* State, and only for the purpose of putting it into a course of exportation, aud is ho part of ♦he exportation itself. Until shipped or started on its final journey out of the State, its exportation is a matter altogether ifere, and not at all a fixod and certain thing. Property thus situated, he held, can be taxed as all other property is taxed in the place where it is found, if taxed or assessed for taxation at the usual time and manner io which such property is taxed, and not singled out to be assessed by itself at an unusual iand exceptional time because of its destination. If taxed in the nsual manner that all other similar property is taxed, and at the same rate, and subject to like conditions and regulations, the tax is valid. These conditions having been complied with in the present case, the judgment of ;the Supreme Court of New Hampshire is affirmed. The Chief-justice announced that the court would adjourn od Monday next, Feb. 1, to the first Monday in March next

THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR. Helping the Toilers by. Increasing: the Wages of Those Who Need No Belief. Washington Special. Foremost in importance in the eyes of the toiling millions of wage-workers of the land among the committees of Congress, is the House committee on labor. Unfortunately, however, for these millions and their interests. Speaker Carlisle has constituted this committee of demagogues rather than of earnest, practical, thinking economists. From the chairman down, the men who compose this committee appear to know little, and perhaps care less, what legislation tho working classes desire. At a time when the spectacle exhibited throughout tjiis broad land of strikes and look-outs with their attendant distress presents to the thinking man the imperative necessity for considerate legislation to avert the calamitous consequences of the crowing distrust between capital and labor, when workingmen and women everywhere in the country are waging a bitter and bootless strnegle with starvation, and when the labor organizations, which certainly speak for the workiug ilasess, it anybody can, are stating their grievtnces In plain talk, especially with the convict

labor question, Mr. O'Neill and his committee can think of no better way of ameliorating the condition of the working classes than to attempt to relieve that class of working people who least of all need relief—government employes. Instead of seriously considering the interests of the greuj body of wage-workers, they have brought their feeble intellects, and their small powers of persuasion, and their demagogical talents to bear on the question of reducing the comparatively short hoars of labor and increasing the already good wages of government employes. Tho influences of this line of action are obvious. Among the class they seek to benefit are thousands of men whose influence about election time is of much more value to these designing congressmen than the gratitude of a dozen times as many poor laborers or poor seamstresses, and outweighs in importance to them the suffering existent to-day among the working classes. There is a high old row in the committee. As this committee is supposed to be the most closely watched of any by the "toiling masses,” every demagogue in the House wanted to be assigned to it, and there were more applicants for this committee to the Speaker than for any other in the House, about sixty statesmen thinking that they could make some political capital there. Every one of the thirteen members who drew the prize has introduced a set of bills on the hour question, prohibiting convict labor, and embodying other features of the Knights of Labor platfofm, and each insists that his particular bill shall be reported by the committee. The chairman, Mr. O’Neil, of St. Louis, says that reports will be made upon all of the subjects referred to the committee, but that none of the pending Hills will be adopted, owing to the jealousies of the members. Anew bill, embodying the main features of each, will be prepared as the only means of promoting harmony, and every man can claim it as his own. Amending the Eight-Hour Law. Washington, Jan. 25. —The House committee on labor to-day appointed Messrs. Crain, Lawler and Buchanan a sub committee to draft a bill amending the eight-hoar law so as to provide that eight hours shall constitute a day’s work for men employed by contract or in government work. Members of the labor committee say that, as a result of the conference between the sub-committees of the committees on agriculture and labor, a bill will be reported by the former committee making the Commissioner of Agriculture a Cabinet officer, and providing that the department shall be known as the Department of Agriculture and Labor.

RECIPROCITY TREATIES. All Legislation Looking Toward Reciprocal Relations Likely to Fail. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 25.—"1 am convinced," said a member of the House foreign affairs committee, to-day, “that any attempt to pass the Mexican treaty bill through the Houso will be futile. I am satisfied from my investigations that a good working majority is opposed to any reciprocity measures at present, and it will be, therefore, a waster of time to try to get tho Mexican treaty on its feet through the passage of an enabling act There seems to be a disposition on the paU,of Democratic members to legislate upon the tariff solely through some bill which shall emanate from tho ways and means committee, and in which the administration shall have no hand.” “What are the prospects of the passage of a resolution calling upon the President to enter into negotiations with Great Britain for a renewal of reciprocity relations with Canada?” asked your correspondent. “There are no prospects,” replied the member. “1 do not think that, from the temper of the House at present, as I said before, any measure looking toward reciprocal relations with any of the countries surrounding us will meet with the approval of the House at this time.” THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. The Territory of that Name to Have Ita Admission Recommended. Washington Special to New York Son. The Senate committee on Territories has decided to recommend the admission of Washington Territory, and spent to-day in putting Mr. Voorhees’s bill for the purpose into shape. The most important amendment will make some changes in the school geographies next year. The committee wants tho pan handle of Idaho cut off and stuck on to Washington. Tho present southern boundary of Washington is to be extended east to the Salmon river, which is for the most part easterly iu its course to the Bitter Root mountains. These mountains form a natural boundary between Montaua and Idaho, and are to be the line between Montana and Washington. The tract of country north of the Salmon river to the British possessions is nearly as large as Vermont and New Hampshire, and consists of three counties, including the lower d'Alene country and Nez Perce reservation. out there have had to travel between 2,500 and 3,000 miles to attend their Legislature, down at Boise City. As they live along the Northern Pacific they will find their new relations much more convenient for business. The committee is regarded as favorable to the admission of Montana as well as Washington.

MINOR MENTION. The Court of Claims Decides a Long-Pending Case Against the Government. Washington, Jan. 25. —The Court of Claims to-day decided tho case of the Choctaw Nation against the United States, and rendered a judgment in favor of the Nation for $386,605. This case was sent to the Court of Claims by an act of Congress, ot March 3, 1881, providing “for the ascertainment of the amount due the Choctaw Nation.” The claim resuits from the violation by the United States of certain treaties entered into with tho Choctaw Nation in 1830, 1855 and 1866. The principal subject of contention resulted from the failure of the United States to secure to the Choctaws, in severalty, the lands which the United States guaranteed to them by the treaty of 1830. They did not receive these lands, but they were sold by the United States, in violation of tho terms of the treaty, and the amount received from the sale thereof paid into the Treasury more than fifty years ago. In 1859, the Senate of the United States, under the authority of the treaty of 1855, awarded to the Choctaws, on account of these losses. $2,981,000. Since that time fourteen reports, recognizing the validity and conclusiveness of that award, have been made by committees of both houses of Congress. The Court of Claims now holds that the award of the Senate in favor of the Choctaws was set aside because that nation availed itself of the provisions of tho act of 1555. In announcing the decision, the court declared it to bo the most important case it had ever been called upon to decide. The case will now go to the Supreme Court npon appeal by both sides. _____ Nominations and Confirmations. Washington, Jan. 25.— The President to day nominated William H. Parker, of the District of Columbia, to be minister resident and consulgeneral of tho United States to Peru. The Senate to day confirmed Charles. J. Canda, to be assistant treasurer of the Unitod States at New York; John H. S. McAlmont, of Pennsylvania, to be collector of customs. Postmasters —Joseph L. Richards, at Buchanan. AJich.; Thomas Hubbard, at Bellefontaine, O. Fletcher J. Cowart, of Alabama, agent for tho Indians of the Mescalero agency, in New Mexico; Elihu C. Osborn, of Tennessee, agent for the Indians for the Ponca, Pawnee, Otoe and Oakland agency, Indian Territory. The Mexican Pension Bill. Washington, Jan. 25.—The House coramitteo on pensions to day added an amendment to the Mexican pension bill introduced into the House by Mr. Wolford, aud directed the report of the bill to the House. As agreed upon in committee, tho bill authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to place on the pension rolls, at the rate of $8 per month, the names of all surviving officers, soldiers and sailors who served in the Mex-

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lean war for any period during the years 1845, 1846, 1847 and 1848, or their surviving widows. No soldier whose political disabilities have not been removed shall be entitled to tho benefits of this aot Hebrew Charity Fair. Washington, Jan. 25.—The fair and bazaar of the Washington Israelites, for the benefit of the Hebrew charities of this city, opened to-night Speaker Carlisle delivered the opening address. The President had been invited to attend, but not being able to do so, he sent the following letter in which was inclosed a generous contribution: “8. N. Meyor, Secretary: “Dear Sir—l regret that I shall not be able to attend the fair and bazaar to be held under the auspices of the Israelites of Washington during the next week. The objects of the fair, however, have my warm approval and my earnest desire that they may be as fully accomplished as the promoters of the benevolent scheme can hope. Please accept the inclosed as my contribution in aid of the purpose of the fair. “Truly yours, Grover Cleveland.” General and Personal, Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 25.—Mrs. Lowry and Miss Lida Lowry, the wife and daughtor of Representative Lowry, of Fort Wayne, arrived in the city last evening, and will remain during the session. They were very popular in society here last winter. Miss Hallie Voorhees, daughter of Senator Voorhees, has issued cards for a dancing reception to her yonng friends, at the Portlaud, on Feb. 1. CoL M. B. Miller, of Winchester, is here on legal business. Indianians here say he is one of the most popular Democrats in the State, and that if he is seekine an office lie will eet it. as he has the respect of Republicans as well as Democrats. There is a growiog demand for Senator Harrison’s very full and comprehensive report on his bill admitting Dakota to statehood. There were 1,900 copies of it printed upon the first order of the Senate, and to-day Mr. Manderson reported a resolution from the committee ordering 5,000 more. Ex-State Senator Slater, of Indiana, is here. To-morrow eulogies will be delivered in the Senate on the life and character of the late Vicepresident Hendricks, in the following order: Messrs. Voorhees, Hampton, Sherman, Saulsbury, Evarts, Ransom, Spooner, Vest, and Harrison. The same day was fixed upon for eulogies in the House, but thev have been indefinitely postponed. Os tho Indiana representatives who will deliver eulogies, Messrs. Bvnum, Browne, Ward and Owen havo been “booked.’’ Mr. Kleiner introduced in the House, to day, a petition of 200 ex-soldiers and citizens of Ferry county, asking the passage of a universal pension law. To-morrow Mr. Kleiner intends introducing a bill to relieve commission merchants and others who do not hreak hulk from payment of whisky tax. Thomas A. Kennedy, of MaTtinevillo, will be provided for at once. He v will be appointed railway mail clerk on the Cambridge City and Madison route. Commissions have been issued for the following Indiana postmasters: Win. A. Line*, at Hillman; Mary Williamson, Ilyndsdnle; John V. Morgan, Majeniea; Arias V. Barlow. Moscow; Win. A. Shores, New Goshen; George R. Riggs, Pecksburg; Thornton A. Mills, Valley Mills. Changes have been ordered in the time schedule of the star mail route from Eminence to Quincy, Ind., as follows: Leave Eminence on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, at 3 p m.; arrive at Quincy by 5:12 p. m. Leave Quincy on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, at 1:25; arrive at Eminence by 2:12 p. m. Senator Platt to-day reported favorably, from the committee on Territories, the bill for the admission of the Territory of Washington, together with what is known as the “Pan-handle” of Idaho. The issue of standard silver dollars from the mints during the week ended Jan. 23, was 205,451. The issue for the corresponding period of last year was 120.496. The shipments of frac tional silver coin from Jan. 1 amount to $151,409, Miss Alary Anderson began a Washington engagement at Albaugh’s Opera-house this evening with the double bill of “Pygmalion ar {Galatea,” and “Comedy and Tragedy.” The Louse was crowded with a brilliant and nthu<n<vtic audience.

TEIjEGRAPHIC brevities. The four thousand miners employed at the works of the Westmoreland and Pennsylvania Gas Company, at Irwin, Pa., made a request, yesterday, for alO per cent, advance in wages. Pending an answer, the men will continue work. At Salt Lake, yesterday. Deputy Marshal Collin, who shot McMurrin, the Mormon tithing officer, last November, was discharged. The United States commissioner, in making the release, said there was no doubt that a plot had existed to assassinate Collin. Milton Weston, the Chicago capitalist, convicted of manslaughter in the Murraysvilie gas well case, arrived in Pittsburg, yesterday, from New York. It is understood that he has given up all hope of securing anew trial, and will appear in court, on Wednesday, to be sentenced. A collision occurred at Newmarket, Out, yesterday, between a passenger train and an engine and tender, on the Northern railway. Both engines were wrecked, and one fireman was killed. The other fireman and one of tho engineers were badly injured. Several passengers were slightly injured. In the Virginia Senate, yesterday, a joint resolution was offered proposing an amendment to the State Constitution providing that all evidences of State debt outstanding not already funded under the Riddleberger bill, which are not presented and defined in accordance with the provisions of said act within ninety days after the ratification of this amendment by tho people, shall be forever barred. Michael Browloski and his wife, of Cleveland, who were infected with trichimasis by eating raw pork, last Wednesday, are still lying in a critical condition. On Saturday the oldest child was taken violently ill, and is still in a very bad condition. Another child also fell *ll on Sunday afternoon. Tho poisoned meat has been removed iy tho health officer. The West Side family Which was infected with tho same disease some weeks ago has almost entirely recovered. Business Embarrassments. Nkw York. Jan. 25.— The schedules in the assignment of Althof, Bergman & Cos., manufacturers ot toys aud fancy goods, shows liabilities of $71,936; nominal assets, $52,553; actual assets, $47,736. A meeting of creditors of H. P. Hubbard, advertising agent, New Haven, Conn., was held here to day. A committee reported his liabilities to be $104,446; actual assets, $20,700. The creditors present agreed to accept 25 per cent in notes of three and twelve months. Hudson, N. Y., Jan. 25.—The store of Cadby & Son, piano and music dealers in this city, has been closed by the sheriff. The firm have branch stores at Kingston, Newburg, and other places along the Hudson river, and were doing a largo business. Their liabilities are believed to be large and their assets sraaiL Denver, Col., Jan. 25.—The Trynor Jewelry Company assigned this afternoon. Liabilities $35,000, all of which, except $3,000, is due to New York houses. The assets, comprising stock and furniture, aggregate $45,000 to $50,000. The cause of the failure is unknown. Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 25.—J. P. Wallace, doing a general merchandise business at Como, Miss., made an assignment late Saturday night His liabilities are $52,000, due principally to Memphis merchants. Assets not stated. Steamship News. New York, Jan. 25. —Arrived: Alaska, from Liverpool. Havre, Jan. 25.—Arrived: Amerique, from New York. Glasgow, Jan. 25.—Arrived: Carthagenian, from Boston. London, Jan. 25.—Arrived: Grecian Monarch, from Now York. Queenstown, Jan. 25. —Arrived: City of Chicago, from New York. No one should delay when they have a cough or cold, when a 50-cent bottle of ’Bigelow’s Positive Cure will promptly and safely cure them. Dollar size cheapest for family use or chrouic cases.

SERIOUS LOSSES BY FIRE. Six Philadelphia Firms Burned Out, Involving a Loss of About $250,000. Philadelphia, Jan. 26, L3O a. m.— One of the fiercest fires ever known in this city was dicovered at 1:30 Am. In an hoar six firms, occupying the building Nos. 715 to 723 Arch street, bad been completely burned out The St. Cloud Hotel adjoins the building in which the fire broke out, but all the guests, about 275 in number, were gotten out safely. The hotel building is on fire at this hour, and will probably be destroyed. The fire was first discovered in Lehman & Bolton’s lithographing establishment, on the seeond floor of No. 715 to 719, the first floor of which was occupied by Monroe Brothers & Cos., wholesale dealers in boots and shoes. The destruction of the building and contents was complete. The flames extended to Nos. 721 and 723 on the west side, occupied by Stnay & Bros., wholesale straw and millinery goods; Julius G. Erst & Cos., dealers in artificial flowers. and tho Aletropolitan Straw-goods Company. Here, too, the destruction was complete, aud the buildings and stoeks are a total loss. When the eastern wall of the Lehman & Bolton building fell in, it crashed to atoms a small annex of the St Cloud Hotel, and the main hotel building was soon in flames. No estimate of the pecuniary losses can be obtainri to-night, but as the stocks of all the firms were valuable, the loss will no doubt aggregate over $250,009. Damaging Fire at Franklin. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Franklin. Ind., Jan. 26.—A disastrous fire occured here to-night, starting in the Adams Express Company’s office and spreading to Duncan & Eccles, agricultural implements; loss, $6,000; insurance, $4,000,' In tho JEtna, Continental and Northwestern. W. S. Brown, undertaker, loses $400; fully insured. Hilbert Frosch, butcher, loss $200; fully finsured. The losses on tho buildings are as follows: A. J. Johnson, $2,000; Mrs. Catherine Johnson, $500; insured in the Northwestern and [Mercantile for the full amount; O. C. Dunn, $300; James Dunlap, SSOO. Other Fires. Helena, Ark., Jan. 25.—Fire broke out early yesterday morning in the Mengoz Block, on Kighter street, and destroyed seven buildings and their content*. The loss is $17,000; the insurance is $13,000. The cause of the fire is unknown. Allentown, Pa., Jan. 25.—The school-slato factory of Henry Fulmer, at Slatington, was destroyed by fire yesterday. Loss, $45,000; insurance, $25,000. The lowa Prohibition Law. Keokuk, la., Jan. 25. — T0-day Judge Love, in the United States Circuit Court, remanded the saloon ease of Halletalvs. Mueginstrum and others, from Des Moines county back to the State courts. A decision of Judge Brewer, in a Kansas case, was cited as a precedent The effect of the decision on the lowa saloons will be that the State courts will have exclusive jurisdiction, and, with tho exception of beer gardens and breweries, in us* for lawful purposes, and built before the prohibitory law was passed, that the prohibitory law is constitutional. The Maxwell Laml Grant * Denver, Col., Jan. 25.—Judge Brewer, in the United States Circuit Court, this evening, filed an opinion in the Maxwell land grant case. The decision was for defendants. The 9uit was brought by the government to cancel tho land patents claimed to have been obtained by Maxwell and others by fraud, and involved 175,000 acres in Colorado and New Alexieo.

BETTER THAN A GOLD MINK. Gen. Grant's Widow Receivjs a Check for $350,000, and $450,000 Remains Behind. W. A. Croffut’s Jiew York Letter. Mr. .Tesse Grant said on Monday that his mother had received her first check from the publishers on account of '‘General Grant’s Life.” I have not seen the fact mentioned in the newspapers. How much do you suppose that check whs for? No less than $250,0001 —“the largest sum ever paid at one time for literary work,” he said. The next largest check, he thinks, was paid to Mncnuley—a hundred and fifty thousand copies of his wonderful history having sold within four weeks. But I think Walter Scott, who was the idol of his generation, amt who wroto against Time, Death and the Sheriff, is entitled to this second place. If lam not mistaken, he received $200,000 from Constable at one time just before he was made a baronet, and he earned SIOO,OOO a year for nearly a score of years. The Grants have largely increased their expectations concerning the book, which is their sheet-anchor, and the publishers now bid them hope for “at least $700,000” as their royalty! The volumes are in artistically and even shabbily put together, and present a poor specimen of the typographic and book-binder’s art.. The mans are obscure and totally unlike in style, and the whole job is badly done. But a great soldier is back of it, and the WHy it sells is a high compliment to the American people. As long as we are capable of such enthusiasms and raptures in behalf of those who have served us, so long are we. as a nation, safe. By the way, it is cow known that the Grants are most glad that they persisted in declining the gift of $150,000 from W. If. Vanderbilt. There were two parties to the controversy as to whether that magnificent present should be received or not —Col. Fred Grant, seconding his father's willingness to accept it, and the other two sons, standing resolutely with their mother, determined that it should be declined. General Grant, advanced in years, afflicted with disease and somewhat broken in spirit by his financial disaster, reasoned and spoke as follows: “The bank was in a pinch, and, to help it over, Vanderoilt kindly exchanged checks with me. They were presented for payment. His was good and was paid. Mine wasn’t good and went to protest. I supposed I had the money in the bank, but I hadn’t. Vanderbilt knew I was honest about it: bo is rich and proposes to give me the amount; I am poor aud need it, and will take it.” Mr. Vanderbilt sent one of his officers up to the old soldier’s sick room to urge him to accept the donation, which he had made as delicately as he could. Mrs. Grant was averse. Jesse Grant became very much excited in his resistance to his father's wishes. Alternately he shed tears and argued the case. “See here!” he said, “this is the way it is: You gave Mr. Vanderbilt your check in exchange for his. You supposed your check was good, but it wasn’t It wasn’t a business like transaction, anyhow, and the exchange of chocks is regarded by business men as the very highest of debts of honor. To give a man a check that isn’t good is a criminal offense. What now? Why, Mr. Vanderbilt comes to you and says: ‘General Grant 1 admire you and feel grateful to you for what you have done for our country. I forgive you the debt.’ You answer,‘l’ll take it Thank you.’ Now, what will the public say? Why, the public will say, ‘That was a put-up job. A man ought to know whether his check is good or not, especially if it calls for $150,000. Grant did know. He knew his check would go to protest, and that nobody would trouble him about it, and he calculated that Vanderbilt would give him the amount.’ That’s what some folks will say; there are enough ready to eav it The only decent way is to pay off the debt, if it takes the last dollar. Any other course will disgrace the name of Grant to the last of our posterity!” He was excited. He talked volubly and eagerly. He repeated himself. He insisted. Ho exaggerated the case. But the result was that his mother wrote: "We cannot —we will not accept the largess you offer.” They received back the souvenirs for the government, but the rest of the property was turned into money by Mr. Vanderbilt, towards the liquidation of the bogus check. It will not be enough by ten or fifteen thousand dollars, I believe, but it will do. It was lucky that Vanderbilt’s donation was declined, for if it had not been Congress would not have restored the sick soldier to his rank and ordered his pension, and the news that it had taken such action really prolonged hte life for weeks. When the report first came it so cheered him and lifted him up that his worst

symptoms disappeared, febrile tendencies were stayad. and Dr. Barker said to him, “I don’t know but you are going to get well in spite of us ah!” And now the unprecedented sale of the book puta the whole family on its feet The fine bouse on Sixty-sixth street is to be retained, and the family of our first soldier will live as a grateful country likes to see them. LAW AND ORDER. The Lynching of the Colored Man Simpson at Henderson, Ky. Special to Louisville Commercial. About 9 o’clock last night there was an ominous moving to and fro, but no word was spoken that would lead to a suspicion that a plan had been perfected to take the brutal negro (Simpson) from the jail and hang him, but such proved to be the faet. Squads of men were noticed moving on the streets, and at 10 o’clock there was quite an assemblage at the corner of Pile and Fourth streets. The crowd seemed to gain in numbers rapidly, until fully seventy-five had gathered, when four or five of the number were seen to leave and go toward the jail, which proved afterward to have been for the purpose of reconnoitering, for shortly after their return the crowd dispersed, and nothing was seen or heard that would indicate trouble until a few minutes after midnight, when the streets leading to the jail were filled with men in masks and otherwise disguised. Before the officers were aware what was up fully one hundred determined men went to the jail and demanded the keys, which were refused, when sledge hammers were brought into play, and the doors battered down. When the crowd had succeeded in getting into a corridor it was a matter of only a few moments when the cell which contained the doomed wretch was discovered and the door battered in. As soon as this was done, two of the men took the prisoner between them and the balance formed on either side, and also in front and behind, so as to guard against any chance of his escape, or from being rescued by the authorities. In this way the black fiend was walked to a Bpot about a mile from jail, where a halt was made under a maple tree, a rope produced and the cowering wretch was asked whether or not he was the murderer of Mrs. Graves. To this he answered “yes,” in a most defiant tone. To the question as to his reasons for committing the murder, he said: “The Lord commanded me to kill her, and I had to mind Him.” He was then told to pray, as he was about to die, and the black scoundrel offered a mess of jargon, imploring the Almighty that he had obeyed His instructions, and appealing to Him to save his neck. As soon as his prayer was finished a score of voices were heard saying, “Hang him!” “Hang the nigger!” It took but a moment to grant their request, for in an instant the rope was adjusted about the brute’s neck, and one of the number took the end of the rope, and, climbing to the first limb, let it drop, when the negro was hauled up. But before his body was five feet from the ground, a volley from the pistols of the mob had filled it full of holes, and Simpson was a limp, mangled mass of disgusting humanity. When it was ascertained that life was extinct the mob dispersed as quietly as it was brought together, leaving the body still hanging. The marshal and two police followed the crowd to the place of execution, and were witnesses to the entire proceeding, but were unable to do anything to save the doomed brute. THE SOUTH’S WAR DEBT. Steps Being Taken to Compel the Payment of Confederate Bonds. Now York Mail and Express. Since the close of the civil war. open and covert movements have been engineered in this country and in England, the aim and purpose of which was to secure the payment of the confederate war debt as represented by the bonds issued by the do facto government, which maintained headquarters at Richmond from the beginning of 1861 till April, 1865. In recent years little has been heard of the matter, and the idea ha3 come to be general that the holders of those bonds treasure them only as mementos of bygone days, and do not regard them as of any market value. Facts which have just come to light go to indicate that this is not the case. The cable has flashed to this city the intelligence that steps are being now taken in London to secure the recognition and payment of these bonds by the United States. Tne moving spirits in the matter are announced to be Lord Penzance, Thomas C. Bruce, member of Parliament, John B. Gorst, Queen’s counsul, and John B. Martin and Robert Stewart, wealthy capitalists. ExJudge William Fullerton, of this city, and William F. Moore are said to have been retained as the American counsel to take care of the interests of the bondholders. All doubt as to the accuracy of this report was removed by the frank admission of Judge Fullerton to a reporter. “Is it true that you have been retained as e.ounsel for the English holders of confederate bonds?” he was asked. “Lord Penzance has requested me to act,” was the reply. “Have you consented to act?” "Well, yes; I have given my consent.” “Do you hope to secure payment of the confederate war debt by the United States?" “I cannot go into details.” “What is the face value of these bonds and where are they held?” “Not easy to tell.” Judge Fullerton showed no disposition to talk of the matter further or to give any information of his contemplated course of procedure, but a lawyer, who has made a study of the matter, said: “The grounds on which the United States will be asked to pay these bonds are mainly of a constitutional character. It will be contended that the forcible deprivation of the South of her money interest in slaves was in contravention of the provisions of the Constitution. which decrees that all men are entitled to the use and enjoyment of their property, and that the expense incurred in protecting these rights is justly payable by the United States. This will bo construed to cover the innumerable millions involved in placing 600,000 armed men in the field, and in maintaining at sea a fleet of such costly cruisers as the Alabama and Shenandoah. A single issue of these bonds, voted in April, 18(51, amounted to $50,000,000. They were made redeemable in twenty years and bore interest at 8 per cent, per annum. It is probable that counsel will proceed by first preparing an elaborate petition and appeal to Congress, and, if this proves of no effect, another line of action will bo adopted.”

Who Is the Scamp? Washington Lot tor in Boston Traveller. A certain Southern senator, who stands very high in the councils of the Democratic party, is in a good deal of trouble, caused by his own indiscretion. Only a few days ago this senator came to Washington from his home in the South. He took a section in the Pullman car. Occupying the adjoining section was a young girl about seventeen years of aee, who was on her way North to a boarding-school. The old, gray-haired senator looked at the young girl and the young girl looked at the senator. They looked separately and they looked together. The porter eame in and made up the sections. The senator prepared for the night’s repose and the young lady disappeared behind the folds of the curtains in front of her section. Suddenly there came a series of piercing screams. Those who were quick enough saw the venerable senator scrambling to get into his own section. He wasn't quite as rapid as be would have been had lie harm a man of fewer years, for the unrortfianfic conductor and the Senegambian portor came in and made him dress and go into the smoking-car, where be spent the remainder of the night. The conductor telegraphed the young girl's father the facts in relation to the incident, and that gentleman started for Washington with his blood full of fire and his pockets full of pistols. The affair has been hnshed up, a compromise has been effected, and the senator is now wondering whether he has been successful in keeping the escapade out of the newspapers. Talmage Sized Up. Bcvlcw In New York Sun. Some of Mr. Talmage’s flights of folly, which we forbear to quote, are so grotesque that we have occasionally found ourselves questioning his sincerity: but, on the whole, we are inclined to the opinion that he honestly believes in his own unwisdom. His imagination is bizarre, his mind illogical, his intelligence limited, his understanding shallow, his bieotry intense. He cannot reason. lie has no philosophical percep tion of the relation of one fact or one truth to another. He cannot explain anything rationally. But he can declaim; he can gush; he can rant Although he can not instruct aoybody. he can

Impress the devout and amuse the indifferent; and hence his audiences will doubtless always be large and his readers numerous. General Stgel Corrects a Report. To the Editor of the Commercial Advertiser: air—The report in your issue of Jan. 18 relative to the Halleck controversy, in which lam quoted as saying: “I have reau the chargee against General Halleck, and I do not believe them; Halleck was incapable of such infamy,” is not correct What I really said and wroto down with my own hand was this: “I do not kno’ anything about that” (meaning the supposed treachery of General Halleck.) “I do not believe that he could have gone down to such a depth of infamy.” In making this correction, which I hope will find a place in your valuable paper, I desire to guard myself against the supposition of being a partj* in the interests of General Halleck, who. during the war, did everything he could against me. Nevertheless, I cannot understand what advantage he would derive from allowing Early to take possession of Washington, unless he (Halleck) was in collusion with, and in the service of, the Sou thorn Confederacy. F. Sioku New York, Jan. 21, 1880. Should Have Settled Ik Boat .n Transcript. The discussion of the question whether Gen, Grant was drunk after Fort Donelson fell waa settied bv President Lincoln twenty-two years ago, when he said that if he could learn what was Grant’s brand of whisky he would supply every general in the army with a barrel. That onght to have been the last word on the subject. A Costly Ethnological Experiment. Chicago Tribune. “Furious Frank and fiery Hun shout in the sulphurous canopy” of the Connelisville coke region as usual, and the Franks seem to be the ones losing all the money. We are importing a specimen lot of about every existing nation known in historv, and the ethnological experiment is coming high—extremely high. Has Mr. Cleveland Reformed “Natnrally?**J Atlanta Constitution. The IndianaDolis Journal is troubled about Mr. Cleveland's reform naturally. The Journal is edited by a Republican. TilE CIT Y Iy~BRI£R Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to James Mcßride and A.la L. Stimmeyer, John CL. Scbnull and Mary Clark. Edward Wilson, employed at the Indianapolis shoe factory, dropped a cutter’s knife, yesterday, which fell upon his foot and cut clear through. The managers of the Home for Friendless Colored Children will meet this afternoon at the residence of James Trueblood, No. 347 North Delaware street. Meetings will be held at the North Baptist Church this evening, Wednesday and Thursday evenings. To-night Rev. Mr. Blacktord, of Lafayette, will preach. Oliver P. Lvtton, of No. 290 Bellefontaine street, at the instance of his wife, yesterday, was arrested for beating her. He will be tried before Esquire Smock and a jury to-day. The preliminary trial of Mrs. Humphrey, the woman who is under arrest on the charge of having unlawfully drawn a pension for several years, has been continued until next Thursday. Louisa E. Weaver was yesterday appointed administratix of her husband’s estate, James P. Weaver alias J. W. Pierce. He died in Texaenot long ago, and the property he leaves irf this county is small, though it is believed he had comfortable possessions in Texas. We accidentally overheard tlio following dialogue one the street yesterday: Jones—Smith, why don’t you stop that disgusting hawking and spitting? Smith—How can I? You know lam a martyr to catarrh. J.— Do as I did. I had the disease in its worst form, but I am well now. S.—What did you do for it? J.—l used Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. It cured me, and it will cure you. S.—l’ve heard of it. and. by Jove, I’ll try it. J. —Do so. You'll find it at all the drug stores in town. A Polar Bear. 1 rtilUiirlpliift Pfcu. Jay Gould arrived at New Providence island last week, and the mercury fell thirty eight de grees during the next twenty-four hours. The people down there are fully persuaded that Mr. Gould is a bear. If you need a perfect tonic or a blood purifier, take Dr. Jones's Red Clover Tonic. It speedily cures all troubles of the stomach, kidneys and liver. Can be taken by the most delicate. Price, 50 cents.

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