Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 July 1889 — Page 4

0 THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1889.

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TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1889. WASHINGTON orFlCE-513 Fourteenth St. P. 8. IltATii, Correspondent. XfEW YORK omCE-204 Temple Court, Corner BeeLman and Ifaa&aa Streets. Telephone Calls. Balse9 Offlc 2M I EditoriAl Boom..... 243 TEJ131 OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILT. Oneyetr, without Fnnday One year, with Han day 14 00 Fix noon tli. without Sunday.. 6.00 Hlx mouth , with Hon day 7.00 Tbree mouths, without Sunday .... 3.00 Three monthsf with Sunday .... 2.50 One month, without bOD&ay..... ........ ......... 1.00 One month, with Sunday 1.20 WXEEX.T. Per year.. .....fXOO Reduced Rates to Clubs. Snbcrlb with any of our numerous igents, or end subscription to THE JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, Indianapolis. It. TUX: INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Can be found at the following places: LONDON American Exchange In Europe, 449 ti trend. PARIS-American Excliango to Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capacine. lOSW TORE Gllsey House and Windsor HoteL PHILADELPHIA A. pT Kernel 7 XncMter - avenue. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATT-J. P. Hawley A Co, 154 Vine street. Z0 U I SVI IXE C. T. Deerlnf, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. 8T. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern lioteL WASHINGTON. D. C Rigjrs House and Zhhltt JIoum. - They should be called Indiana schoolbook wreckers. And Warden Murdock, of the northern prison, is in the school-book ring, too. Well, well! We aro beginning to get at the true inwardness of the school-book bill. It was intended to pave tho way for a big job. ' As an educational monstrosity, tho In- ' i ri , 1 i 11 c liana ocuooi-uook uompauy ueuia mo double-headed babies in Tipton county out of sight. The syndicate of Indiana school-book wreckers have not found a discarded grammar yet to put in their list. Perhaps ex-Marshal Hawkins will write one. Two leading members of the Hawkins Fchool-book Syndicate live in Fort "Wayne. The Indianapolis Sentinel has interesting connections in Fort Wayne. Ah! ' The so-called series of Indiana Readers which tho Hawkins-Bell-Fleming syndicate kindly offer to furnish tho State are the discarded Bancroft readers with a new cover. Of course, tho Indianapolis Stntinel will stand in with the non-partisan school-book ring, which has its headquarters in Fort Wayne, and is trying to get its hindquarters into tho State Treasury. ' What a good Democratic scheme it would bo to let ex-Senator Bell, exTreasurer Fleming, ex-Marshal Hawkins and Warden Murdock manipulate tho fcchool-book system of Indiana and un load a lot of discarded and obsolete publications on the State The public will take notice that tho list of advertised letters for this city, as printed in the Sentinel, has decreased one-half since Postmaster Wallace came into office. There is no better criterion of an efficient postal service than the size of tho advertised letter list. The recent decision of our Supremo Court holding that a license to sell liquor is not a contract but a police regulation, is of general interest and likely to become a leading case. In order that its exact purport may be understood tho decision is printed in full in another column. . Yesterday tho Sentinel printed a long article full of able statistics to .provo that the protective system is ruining the country, and in another column printed a dispatch from Chattanooga showing that during tho last three : months 1,031 new industries have been established in the South, against 690 in the previous quarter, and that 1,711 new enterprises were begun during the first six months of 1889, against 1,290 for tho corresponding period of tho previous year. Comment seems to be unneces sary, It seems inevitable that the iron-mills of Pennsylvania aDd Ohio must, at a iiear day, pass through tho striko-lock-out experience. Under the protection t which tho tariff has afforded, according . to the Charleston News and Courier, the Southern mills aro running day and night, and making money, while the Pennsylvania and Ohio mills, cut off . from thes Sniithfrn niJirlrf ' ta TinrW : - - . making expenses, and hardly that. Unless tho difficulty can be adjusted, otherwise a strike or a lockout must soon internose. to the dam aero of all! to end at iUM iu tuu tuyusiuicub ul want's iu lllO ' demand for tho products. Labor in tho South is much cheaper than like labor in the North. It will not always be so, however. If State Statistician Peelle wishes to investigate tho Clay county strike, there is nothing to hinder him from doinc so. It might result in the acquisition of valuable information, and the Journal regrets that ho has abandoned his pur pose. We fail to see what connection tho controversy as to tho appointing power, or Mr. Peellc's title to office, has to do with it. The State Auditor cannot undertake to decide that controversy in favor of Mr. Peelle or against him, and ho would have no right to advance money to Mr. reelle for that or any other pur pose, even if there were no dispute as to the titlo of tho office. And for that mat ter, tljo investigation can wait till after the controversy in regard to the appointing power is settled. All the Statis tician is entitled to do is to collect facts and statistics, and that canbedono ono time as well as another. For the rest, we remark that tho con troversy as to tho appointing power is a constitutional, not a partisan one. It raises questions of great importance to tho people. They were not raised any

too soon, and Governor Hovey deserves credit, instead of censure, for raising

them. Many of the best lawyers in tho State think ho is right on every point ho has made. He is fighting the battle of the Constitution and the people. GOIUQ TO THE DEVIL AT DOUBLE QUICK. That is the plain English of it, but tho New York World calls it "descending to Avernus more rapidly than ever." Politicians and papers of tho Democratic school have suddenly taken a spasm of virtue, and they have been descanting on the dangers to the Republic from tho use of money in elections. Thero was no harm in this when Tilden furnished 3 million to buy electors with, having failed to buy the election, and no great danger was seen when the President himself, last year, gave his check for $10,000, and members of .his Cabinet gave many times more; but tho Republicans, haying succeeded on the merits of their men and their issues, it has becomo incumbent on the managers of the party to account for tho success otherwise, while amending theirissues and selecting their new leaders, and nothing bobbedup that promised as well as a tirade against wealth and wealthy men, and for a while this seemed to bo paying dirt, and there was a prospect of arraying the whole family of impecunious ones on tho side of the Democracy. Everybody knows that many of the wealthiest men in tho Nation aro Democrats, and that none are more unscrupulous in the use of money at elections. Democratic politicians and papers wished to conceal this fact, at least until their tirade against "concentrated wealth" had begun to do its work; but in the midst of their success tho national committee, knowing the necessity of having a few millions at easy command in tlje off years, and not having tho fear of papers and politicians beforo their eyes, elected Calvin S. Brice chairman a man whom the New York World fitly calls "a Wallstreet speculator, a millionaire, a manipulator of corporate affairs, a railroad jobber, and a typical representative of everything to which the Democratic party is opposed." This is more than the World can endure in silence, hence it says, "Our descent to Avernus will be more rapid than ever." That means, as before said, goiug at double quick. ro3TorncE buildings. A dispatch in the Journal yesterday called attention to tho trouble and em barrassment experienced by the government in connection with tho renting and leasing of postoffices. Tho trouble is chronic and perpetual. It grows out of the antiquated practice of renting postoffices instead of owning them. In tho early days of the government, when tho number of postoffices was comparatively small fnd the service limited, this might do, but with nearly 60,000 postoffices and ' a service covering tho continent, it is a poor system. One can readily see how much labor, time and trouble aro in volved in looking after thousands of leases and rental accounts, many of which have to bo renewed or changed every year. It keeps several persons in the Postoffice Department constantly busy, and takes a great deal of the time of the postoffico inspectors. It is poor economy and poor business manage ment, , The true policy for the government is to own its own postoffice building in every town of a certain size or business. There would be a largo saving in pur- I chasing sites and erecting permanent buildings in all towns where tho busi ness would justify it. The argument of economy and business sense is not tho only one in favor of this plan. A great government should always make permanent improvements when it can afford it. (Tho time for a government to spend money is when it has it, and, if the monoy. is judiciously expended, government can do no wiser thing than tq spend it. It is time for this government to begin to plan and build for the future, and one of the ways is to makepermanentimprovemcnts. A good, solid stone postoffice building in every town of two or three thousand population in tho United States would bo ono of the best investments the government could make. t Tho building itself would bo a visiblo and ever-present emblem of national au thority and power, and tho llag floating above it would bo an object lesson of patriotism and loyalty. Tho Journal would be glad to eeo a thousand new postoffice buildings commenced during President Harrison's administration. LIQUOR Iff PENNSYLVANIA. Tho Supremo Court of Pennsylvania, last Friday, handed down its decision in the case appealed by the Prospect Brew ing Company of Philadelphia. It commands the license court to issue license to the company, and, of course, to all brewers' and bottlers. Tho decision creates tho most intense excitement in Pennsylvania. Tho law under which brewers are licensed is different from tho Brooks law, under which so many licenses have been rejected. While tho license court assumed to apply some of the principles of tho Brooks law to tho brewery law, the Supremo Court seems to have leanod so far toward the saloon interest that it is gravely assumed by Bomo that, under the rulings of this Supreme Court, the Brooks law has been so emasculated that it is probable that no more licenses will bo refused under it, and that the whole question will come before the next Legislature for readjustment, coming first, of course, before the people at tho election. At this distance only ono thing seems certain nobody is satisfied with tho present status of tho liquor question in that State. When the Brooks law was pending in the Legislature, it was opposed by both tho Prohibitionists and the saloonists, and was championed by tho middlo men. During tho late canvass its local success in closing so many saloons was urged against prohibition, which, it was assumed, could not do as well, owing to its probable non-enforcement, and the closing of the breweries was claimed as ono of its triumphs. Now the breweries are to bo licensed; this disconcerts the anti-saloon men who voted against prohibition, hoping tho Brooks law would close them, and now

the saloon men, who were mum as to the

Brooks law a month ago, are demanding its unconditional repeal, while the thirdparty Prohibitionists are largely uniting with Dr.Kynctt's League, which already numbers more than 00,000. Things look badly mixed, and it may turn out that tho saloon's Bull Run victory, on tho 18th ult., will prove a Bull Run to the other side, for tho Union forces never began to fight until after their Bull Run defeat. Wo shall see. A NEW SCHOOL-BOOK KINO. The State Board of Education yesterday held a second meeting to open bids under tho new school-book law, and, as before, thero was no bid from any responsible house or publisher. After spending $900 in advertising for bids, and making an extraordinary extension of time, tho board has not been able to get a single bid from any responsible person for furnishing text-books at tho prices and under the conditions fixed by the law. Tho only bid submitted, if it is entitled to that name, was from a company composed of Indiana politicians and capitalists, calling itself the Indiana Schoolbook Company. It seems to have been organized by ex-Marshal Hawkins, and embraces ex-Senator Bell, exTreasurer Fleming, Warden Murdock and others. This syndicate has got hold of somo old copyrights published in St. Louis, which it proposes to patch out with somo discarded books picked up elsewhere, and, under the disguise of new covers and new names, parade as an Indiana series. They submitted a bid to furnish these books, and filed at the same time a statement of their merits, prepared by the St. Louis firm. It is probable the books can bo furnished at tho prices fixed by tho law, because most of them are practically worthless as text-books; but tho Journal has reason to believe that the so-called company expects to get an increase of prices from the next Legislature. In view of all tho facts and circumstances, their proposition ought not to receive any serious consideration from the board. It gives a worse coloring to the school-book law than tho worst predictions made last winter. If it should bo accepted, tho entire school-book business of tho State would immediately bo plunged in politics, and by tho tirao tho next Legislature meets we should have the most corrupt lobby ever known in the State. CONCERNING WATER-WORKS. It is altogether probable that new or additional water-works will bo one of the necessities of Indianapolis in tho not distant future. The present system is hardly adequate to present wants, and will not meet those of the future. Tho water is fairly good, but the supply, as well as the quality, is entirely dependent on the condition of White river. The water-works of tho future should draw from a larger and better supply, and they should be owned by the city. The water-works question is one, of the most important connected with municipal government. Few persons are aware or stop to think of the immense amount of capital thus invested and of the enormous interests it represents. There are about seventeen hundred cities and towns in tho United States which have water-works, 'repre senting a total cost of $433,000,000. This is nearly one-tenth as much as is invested in railways. Tho New England States, which lead the rest of tho country in this, as in many other respects, haveuearly one-quaiter as much invested in water-works as in railroads.' The State of Rhode Island has nearly twico as much in the former as in the latter. The miles of water nmins in New England are very nearly equal to the miles of railways. In Massachusetts seventyeight out of 103 water-works are owned by the people. This proportion does not hold in any other State", and it shows Massachusetts leadership in public enterprise. In tho New England and Middle States the reservoir and stand-pipo system generally prevails, while the Holly and other kindred systems predominate in tho West. Tho Middlo States, including New York, Now Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, have $ 150,522,204 invested in waterworks. Out of 287 works in thoso States 119 are owned by the city or town. Tho five States of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin have 329 works, costing $09,400,428. Of theso Indiana has 43, costing $5,057,200,. Tho propor tion of water-works owned by cities and towns is much less in tho Western States than in the New ' England and Middle, and tho proportion in Indiana is less than in Ohio, Michigan or Illinois. Indianapolis is, with two exceptions (San Francisco and New Orleans), the largest city on tho continent which has trusted to privato enterprise for its water supply. 0UB INTERIOR 00URTS. The paper in yesterday's Journal from tho pen of W. W. Thornton, of Crawfordsvillc, deserves more than a passing notice. No department of our government more needs to bo Americanized than our inferior court system. They are the relics of tho worst features of British jurisprudence, and are entirely out of harmony with American ideas as they aro now entertained. Thero is noplace now for the system of practice beforo a justice of tho peace. Whatever might have been said in favor of justices of the peace as judicial officers fifty or a hundred years ago, nothing can be said now. Mr. Thornton does not draw on imagination when ho speaks of tho so-called trials before justices as being mero mockeries. Not ono jury in a dozen, such as are chosen to try cases in this city before justices, will render a verdict so as to jeopardize their fees, and more than onco the decisions of the court itself have not been above suspicion that the fees have had an influence in determining the decision. The time has passed, also, for ono or more justices of tho peace in every township. They promote petty litigation much more than they contribute to justice, if in no other way than that they breed the lowest class of pettifoggers, who live by stirriug up strife anions neighbors. In almost every vil-

lage of a hundred inhabitants is some shystergenerally two who makes a living in this way, not.one of whom has any knowledge of . law beyond what is necessary to prosecute or defend beforo a country " 'squire." Mr. Thornton has gone well into tho merits of the case, and has presented it thoroughly. We wish to add only that tho best thought of the best men may

profitably be turned to this subject, soJ that if we ever have a Legislature in Indiana that can rise above the merest demagogy this question may bo thoroughly considered. No man is better qualified than Mr. Thornton for blocking out a system and preparing a bill for tho next Legislature, and wo speak the mind of many when we say that he ought to do it. ; 4 It is a good comment on partisan politics that a teacher like Principal Bart, of the Indiana Deaf and Dumb Institution, should be offered and accept the position of superintendent of the West Pennsylvania Institution, while our heme institution goes a begging for a superintendent, and in the last ten years has been in charge of men whoso knowledge of this sort of education is extremely s limited Tho head of a State edncational institution should have both natural and acquired fitness, anddoubly so when in charge of those unfortunates whose avenues to knowledge have been curtailed as with the blind and deaf. Principal Burt had every qualification twenty years a teacher and ten years principal of the school he now leaves to superintend a similar school in Pennsylvania. But while he has been ten years the responsible head of the school, he has been in the position of a buffer standing' between incompetent superintendents and educational disaster. The school has done fairly well, hut not by the ability and sagacity of its nominal superintendents. What the board of trustees will do for a superintendent capable of managing the school in the absence of the man who, ten years ago, should have been its head, remains to be seen. Hon. Chauxcey M. Depew, in his recent address beforo the law school at Yale College, concluded his remarks on labor and rest as follows: Lord Coleridge, while on his visit to Yale, asked me where he could find in this country tho viUagetfso common in England, where old lawyers, sixty years of ape and upward, who bad fixed incomes from their Investments of from $2,000 to $3,000 a year, and had retired from practice,-could spend the remainder of their lives in the congenial companionship of educated neichbors, with no other occupation than the cultivation of a garden, and the inild excitement of the whist club aud tea party. I told him we had no such lawyers. Few of them had accumulated that amount of capital, and thoewhohad were still rising young men at the bar. Our curse as a nation is the prevalence of false standards of success. It encourages gambling, lead to breaches of tm?t, and is the daily cause of the flight of the cashier with the deposits of the bank, and of the attorney and executor with the funds of the estate. Independent, income sufficient for tho maintenance of a comfortable home la success. After that, it la a question of degree. . , 1 There is a great deal of truth in this view, but it is a truth that finds little sympathy or recognition among Americans. Our favorite way of enjoying life is to end it by overwork. The Cincinnati Enquirer gives a graphic account of the dedication of a new Catholic church in Camp Washington. Among the contributions were 150 kegs of beer, which tho members of the church sold in the school-house at lunch time or were selling when the police entered and arrest ed six and took them in the patrol wagon . to Cumminsville, where they gave bond. ABOUT rEOPLE AND THINGS. The sale of Cardinal Gibbons's "Faith of Our Fathers" has reached 170,000 copies. It is safe to say that no work of a Catholic author published in America ever had such a circulation. During the last century there have been twenty-seven cases of insanity in the Bavarian royal family. The present King isa iiiuauc, anu several 01 ms relatives nave been attacked by the same disease. Chauxcey M. Depew last week did tne first newspaper work of his life for which ho received payment. It was an editorial on " 1 he i ourtu of July" for Frank Leslie's Weekly, and Mr. Depew was paid 100 for it. The poet Whittier has doubled his an nual subscription to the Hampton (Va.) In stitute. This he does to emphasize his con tinued confidence m the management. which has been the subject of considerable adverse criticism of late. An account of Mr. Gladstone's ancestors ha 8 been compiled by Mr. J. Stewart. The family, it appears, settled in Biggar, Lan arkshire, about 16S8. In 1T2S the head of the family was a farmer and maltman. His descendants have included several min isters and elders. ' There are only five women living whose husbands were Presidents of the United States, namely, Mrs. Tyler, Mrs. Polk, Mrs. Grant. Mrs. Garfield and Mrs. Cleveland: while only two ex-Presidents are alive Uutherford B. Hayes and Grover Cleve land, lhus tho links that unite us to past history are constantly wearing out and being replaced by iresn ones. Thackeray wrote a sequel to 'Tvanhoe," wherein some of the romantic halo which Scott threw about the chief personages of that tale was dissipated. A similar idea who purposes to write a play to be named 'Big Lord Fauntleroy." in order to show what a generally undesirable person the lime ioru. uecanio wuen no grow up. Dr. Nicholas Sexx, born, bred and educated in Wisconsin, is reported to have recently successfully performed in Milwaukee an operation precisely similar to that which failed in tho case of Emperor Frederick of Germany. One of the journals of that State says: "It is the pride of Wisconsin that it has a surgeon who not only can successfully compete with, but lead, such surgeons as JHaefcenzie, liergmaun, virchow, Uilroth, Gross and Agnew." On the occasion of her son Albert's mar riage, Madame Menier, the widow of the famous French chocolate manufacturer, invited her three sons to dinner. When about to sit down to the table, she said: "I am 6o glad to have yon all three around me to-day, for you know how much I love you; pray be seated." ben tho young men had sat down they each discovered un der their napkins a check for a million francs. Gen. W. S. Rosecrans, Register of the United States Treasury, has a peculiar one sided expression of face whichhas a history to it. Few people know that General Rosecrans was the first man who ever refined petroleum. He experimented with it forty years ago. People said he was a fool, but he went onwith his experiments. Presently, as though to prove what they said, his petroleum blew up and burned his face in a serious way. He has suflered from that in jury ever since. Mr. Howklls. tho novelist, says: "I re member very distinctly the first story I attempted to write. I" got along very well until I wanted to draw it to a close, and in my efforts to do so I got into a most horri ble condition of affairs. Returning to a story after I have left it for only a few li ours, l nnu it exceouiagiy uimcuit to resume work. So many new ideas will have come to me during the interim that it is lmnossible to know for some time in what way to nse tho material. With me, at the best, composition is slow and laborious." The man whom Jennie Chamberlain is going to marry, according to the World, will bo very rich some day, . though he is believed to have an income of nearly $00,-

000 a year now. The match has been largely

brought about by Mrs. aaylor-Levland, wdo is very ionu oi ner prospective uangn-ter-in-Iaw. When Miss Chamberlain is married she will bo relieved of tho annoy ance of seeing her name constantly in the newspapers spelled as it is in this para- . 1 1 11 . i ' a . . m grapn anu as ner iainer epeus it, insieaa 01 Ohamberlayne, as she likes to spell it. . COMMENT AND OPINION. The world will read the truth whenever a wise prophet wields the pen or'bmsh. bnt fiction that reeks with human beings at ebb uue, portrayed by mediocre men and inexperienced and untrained young women, is going to find a very cold reception from the average reader of to-day Washington Post. Wfien it will have been discovered that the posing of one's birthplace in a political campaign is not in request at either political headquarters, and that nothingof campaign employment or the promise of office-getting is to oe naa tnereoy, tne proiessionai foreigner's occupation will be gone. Chicago Times. Ourt international nolicv must bo one based upon the material rights of man and the political rights of States. It must bo Wisely framed, consistently urged and persistently maintained. First of all. a navy is necessary, and its construction deserves tbo encouragement of Coneress. whatever political party may be in power. Philadelpma limes. - o The belief that the government of this COuntrv is becomincr mnra and more "cen tralized" and the "money power more and more oppressive, and that there is a sort of I onensive ana aeiensivo alliance oetween the two, is a figment of the brain.- It is a sort 01 survival of the old days when gov ernment meant repression, and when the capitalist was looked upon as an enemy of the people.-i-St. Louis Globe-Democrat. We have elements of weakness, but thev are far outnumbered by the sources of strength. To boast is impossibls for a great nation; bnt we may congratulate : ourselves that our foundations are so firm, our superstructure is built with such political skill that it will not be necessaryto talk of decadence for at least a thousand years yet. Dyspepsia may think otherwise; hut that is the conclusion of common seuse. New York Herald. - . The net result of restrictintrthe number of apprentices has been to shut out the sons ot American workmgincn for tbe benefit of foreign workincmen.- Owine to this restriction manv sons of skilled mechanicH have had to remain common laborers, and the places they might have taken have Deen occupied by foreigners who came here because there were not Americans enough to supply the demand for skilled labor. Louisville Commercial. The falling off in the numbers of small manufacturers and traders is a fact as lamentable as it is evident. The right of every man to better his condition is in herent, provided always that lie do 60 without mnicting miury upon anotner. iiie trust system works against this inherent right. It adds to the wealth of a few with out adding in anything like duo proportion to the national revenues or to national prosperity. Chicago Inter Ocean. When labor does its part, and capital its part, each fully, ungrudgingly and with sincere endeavor to do the best it "can, the reward comes in magnificent profits, delightful homes, bright and willing faces, and healthy, intelligent children to swell the industrial family hereafter. The employer who makes tho life of labor most comfortable and desirable, gets the best workers and the largest results. When the industry of the Nation has learned these lessons, no corporation will have place for a manager who cannot rightly answer the question, ''Arc I my brother's keeperr New York Tribune. THE SEIZURE OF THE 0ZEMA. How Captain Kellogg Compelled the naytians to Release a Captive American Vessel. New Y'ork, July 1. Captain Rockwell, tho commander of the Clyde steamer Ozema, called at the office of the Clyde line this morning at 9 o'clock and reported the arrival of his vessel. In an interview he is reported to have given tho following account of his experience with the Haytian gun-boats: The Ozema left this oity on Juno 2, bound for Gonaives, Hayti. ' She carried ' a cargo of provisions, but no arms or ammunition of any kind. On the morning of Juno 9, when the Ozema was about thirty-. two miles from Gonaives,.. three Haytian gun-boats were discovered rapidly : ap proaching. Captain Rockwell, not wishing .to. be delayed by any- of the whims tor which the Haytian, war 'vessels are -constantly subjecting American vessels, piled on steam and forged ahead as fast as he . could. The gun-boats he soon made out to be some of Legi time's ships. They were the Defense, the Marseilles - and the Touss;vint L'Ouvcrture. The Ozema had not cone far when suddenly from the long gun on the bow of the Defense came a liash aud a cannon-ball whizzed across the bow of the Ozema. That settled matters, and Captain Rockwell hove to. The Defense was soon alongside and a boat was lowered. It was pulled alongside tho Ozema and the-hrst otlicer clambered up the side. "The captainof tho Defense wants you to come aboard his vessel at once," said tho olhcer. "Tell your captain." answered Captain Rockwell, "that if he wants to see me ho can find me outboard my ship." The officer saluted, returned to the Defense with Captain Rockwell's answer, and a. i isa l l ... ii soon reiumeu wiiu au oiuciai Known as tne : secretary of the Defense. This individual asked to see the Oaema's papers. They were shown him. "Gonaives is blockaded," he told Captain Rockwell, "aud you can not go through, iou will nave to go with us either to Port-au-Prince. JacmeL Jeremie or Aux Caies. You can go nowhere else. In vain Captain Rockwell protested against his being detained, bnt he finally had to trive in and he said he would go to Port-au-Prince. He knew he would bo more likely to meet an American luau-of- . war there than anywhere else. Under the escort of three gun-boats the Ozema arrived in the outer harbor of Port-au-Prince at midnight that night. Early next morning the Ozema was taken in the inner harbor and anchored under the cunsof the fort. Captain Rockwell im mediately went ashore and sought out Minister lhompson, wno represents this country in Hayti. The American minister communicated with the Haytian government asking why the Ozema was detained. aud demanding her release. rot the slight est attentiou was paid to the . letter, and no answer was received that day. Next morning tho American man-of-war Ossipee steamed into the narbor, with. Captain ' Kellogg on board. As soon as she anchored Captain Rockwell pulled out to her and met Captain Kellogg coming in. Both gigs stopped ami uaptam itocKwen torn now ue had been captured and . that the Haytian government wouia no lex. mm go. captain Kellogg said he guessed he could take her out. Both commanders then went ashore and proceeded to the American minister's house. Tbe entrance of the Ossipee into tho harbor had evidently stirred up -the Haytian dignitaries, for they were at tho American minister's house in full force. There were, three or four officials, Captain Rockwell says, but he did not remember who, they were. After being introduced, the Huytians were ready to argue the matter. : , "We are very sorry that this happened.0 they said, all smiles and very polite, "but, . of course, it could not he prevented. Tho port of Gonaives is blockaded and the vessel cannot pass." There is no use of all this palavering," said the captain of the United States man-of-war. "The iship has got to be released at once. You have no right to detain her, and I want vou to distinctly understand that as long as I am here you cannot interfere with American ships." " More arguing took place on the part of the Ilaytians, but their smiles had disappeared. Captain Kellogg thou said: "I will give you until 3 o'chfck, and if the ship is not released by that time, I will come in and take her by force." It wa$ then 10 o'clock a. si. The haughty captain by this time bad his dander up, and his anger was increased when ope of the officials said: 'Well, wo will release her, but she cannot go to Gonaives." "By 6he will go to Gonaives. and she will go to-nieht, and I am going to take her. too." This settled matters and the Haytiaus withdrew. Captains Kellogg and Rockwell went to their respective vessels. About noon a formal release was sent by Legitime to Minister Thompson and the latter sent it to Captain Rockwell. Tho latter immediately weighed anchor, hoisted the American flag

and with his whistle screaming defiance, sailed out from under tho guns of the fort and anchored alongside of the Ossipce. Three hearty American cheers were given by the crew of the war-ship, and they were Teturned with a vengeance. At sunset on the 6amo day the Ossipeeand the Ozcma proceeded to Gonaives without further molestation. Captain Rockwell went onboard the Ossipee alter they arrived, and thanked Captain Kelloeg. The report that $5,000 in gold had been demanded and paid to Captain Kellogg as an indemnity, by the Haytian government, is not true. Nothing, whatever was said about an indemnity. Captain Kellogg, however, gave the Haytian otBcials to know that the releaso of the Ozema did pot relieve them from a demand being made for an indemnity. ECHO FROM AN OLD "CORNER.

Participators in Cincinnati's Disastrous Wheat ; Deal of 1SS7 to Ee 3rade Fay Up. Chicago. July 1. The creditors of C. J. Kershaw & Co., who represented certain Cincinnati men in tho disastrous wheat corner on the Chicago Board of Trade, in 1SS7, and who went down under it, met today and listened to the report of a committee of their number, appointed at a previous meeting. The committee reported it as their belief that E. L. Harper was not the only person for whom Kershaw fc Co. bought large quantities of gram; that there are several men of large wealth who were, interested in the deal, and that it is worth while to make an effort to force a settlement from them. The report continues: "Your committee are satisfied by their investigations that it was the design of some of these principals at the outset to make large purchases through oue set" of brokers, and alter advancing the price of wheat to a high figure, to then secretly sell still larger quantities through another set of brokers, to cause a panic iu the market and make their money on the break, and that this scheme was carried out; that a number of prominent and responsible men in various parts of be country assisted in this scheme, and that in furtherance of it certain parties, for the purpose of -breaking the Fidelity National Bank, sent circulars, about June 11, 1SS7, to the banks in Ohio, cdntaining statements calculated to cause a run upon that bank." The committee was empowc red to take legal action to collect the claims. THE WLNTxjiI-WHEAT CROP. It Is Estimated it 313,233,000 Bushels for the Whole Countr Comparative Conditions. Chicago, July i. The Farmers' Review will publish, in its 5huo this week, careful estimates, basnl reports from its correspondents, relatirr to the probable yield of wheat iu tho '.vint r-7lieat States. With the exception of Kentucky and Indiana, where drought was experienced in April and May, win-tor wheat arrived at the harvesting ?n' good condition, and with good -'. a large percentage of No. 1 haru. Tbu I THtle change in tho acreage, excej i r Kir.t.N. where there is au increase oi r.Kiut pel cent., and in Missouri and Mine;, white there has been a considerable falling ofl in the acreage devoted to winter whtat. The condition of crop at the time of harvest, as compared with last year, is as follows: Illinois, 115 per cent.; Michigan, 120; Kentucky, 105; Kansas, 110; Indianj, 125; Ohio, 125; Missouri. 130. Average yield per acre: Illinois, 15 bushels; Michigan, 10; Kentucky, 10.8; Kansas, 20; Indiana, 13; Ohio, 14; Missouri, 18. Acre-age: Illinois. 2,2.7J.C40; Indiana. 2,771,002; Ohio, 2,055,227; Kentucky, 1.013,22: Missouri. 1.402.02C: Kansas, 1,312.500; Michigan, 1,012,847. Totalyicldfor seven States: PJ5,373,K bushels. Assuming that the crop in the tt!ter States in the Union will yield the sa:no return as last year 117,800.000 the total winter-wheat crop in 1839 will be about 313.2;Ki,000 bushels. The prospects are also very favorable for a good yield of rye, although the area in indicated to be about 10 per cent, less than last year. The average yield per acre, however, will be heavy enough to make up any deficiency in acreage. The present indications point to a yield of 28.051,000 bushels, the largest crop 6iuce 18S4. . Shocks from Slumbering Volcanoes. Sax FitAJsXisco, July 1. News from Susanville, in the Sieira Nevada, says that slight earthquake shocks continue, and that the people have become so accustomed to the constant trembling of tho earth that they pay no attention to it. Theso shock, however, have revived recollections of old settlers, who predict volcanic disturbances in the extinct craters, such as took place in 1850. . Susanville is in a high, mountainwalled valley, directly cast of Lassen Butte, an extinct volcano of 10.500 feet. From its summit no less than forty volcanoes can be 6een. Timber in the vicinity of the luke. near by, is on fire, and vat quantities of tlames shoot up from the lake. Renewed activity has appeared in tho slumbering fires, and tho present shocks cause fears of another great volcano-burst, which will find vent through some of tho old craters. Mormon 1'oljgamlsta In "West Virginia. Wheeling, W. Va., July 1. The persistency with which Mormon missionaries aro carrying on tltir work in some parts of West Virginia is beginning to excite a great deal of indignation. There is likely to bo trouble very soon. Ritchie county is at present the scene of tho most active operations. Two elders have taken up permanent eiuarters there. On Indian creek there is eiuite a largo congregation, aud meetings aro held weekly, vt which polygamy is not only openly preached, but attempts are being made to carry tho theory into practice, at least one convert havintr taken unto himself a second wife. In other parts of the same county like success has attended the efforts of the missionaries. In all there are fifty full-fledged Mormons in this county. No efforts, it seem?, are beiug made to transplant the converts. m Indian Lynched by a Mob. Bedford, la., July 1. Last Friday a vagrant Indian made his appearance in the town of Gravity, but was soon ordered from town. He next went to the residence of a joung German named Frank Glassroau, and attempted to assault Mrs. Giassmau, who was alone in tho house. She broke away from his grasp and r:n toward her husband, who was plowing in the field, scjrearniug for help. The Indian meanwhile made his escape. Later on, the Indian was captured about one mile from town, and lodged in; jail. Early Sunday morning a mob appeared! at the jail and demanded tho keys from the sheriff, but he refused to give them up. The mob then battered down the eioors and took the Indian out and hung him to a tree in the court-yard. . . Electric-Light Deal at Cincinnati. Cincinnati, July 1. It is understood that a big electnr-light deal has been made. Robert P. Clapp and E. L Garfield, two of Boston's leading capitalists, are said to have bought out the local electric-lighting companies, with a view to cousolidatiLg them under ono company and management. Among the companies concerned are tho Brush Electric-light Conipau, tho Edison United Manufacturing Company, the Hauss Electric-lighting and Tower Company and the Thompson-Houston Electric Company. Tho oilicers of the latter company deny that the consolidation has been agreed on, but it is well known that the negotiation have been going on, and aro about completed. . . m Jewish Church Divorce Illegal. Chicago. July 1. Judge Collins, iu the Circuit Court, to-day .decide d that divorces in the Jewish Church are null, and on tho atrencth of that decision ordered that Joseph Bersjfsky should pay Esther Uersofsky 2 per week alimony and $15 solicitor's fees. The husbaud had secured a church elivorce, and was suin.r for a confirmation of it in the Circuit Court. In doiug so he et up the fact of the church divorce as a bar against any claim for compensation byluswife. Illncn of Don. S. S. Cox. Sr. Paul. Minn.. July 1. Congressman S. S. Cox, who arrived here on Saturday on his way to Huron, D. T.. to del .ver a Fourth of July oration, is sick abed tit the hotel with a stomach trouble. Mr. Cox thinks his illness is not serious, though he will probably be prevented from going ta Huron.