Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 July 1878 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS: TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1878.

BUCK CASHMERES. IRISH LINENS. We are offering BARGAINS !n these goods. Ginghams, Shirting Checks, Cottons des, all selling at about Half Value &t the sale at the BEE-HIVE.

CLOSE & WASSON.

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Tapestry Brussels, 75c. Extra Supers, 75c. Two-Plys, 25c. jPor TTetrcXm We have pteeed on eale 25 -to 50 plecee each of the shore goods that we otter at loos than cost to eloee out. Un examination you will And the goods cheaper tW better than anything ever offered before in the State. Great Bargains in All Lines of

Goods.

ADAMS, MANSUR & C0. 9 47 and 49 Sooth Meridian St.

A few Remarks About the weather Just now would be very appropoa, but not feeling able to do the subject justice, we merely say that a good ICE PITCHER or WATER SET is a great comfort in times like thcee, and for the beet line of them, and the lowest prices, go to Bingham, Walk & Mayhew’s, 12 E. WASHINWTON ST. (Sign of the Street Clock.) M.nease observe our Window, jn

THE DAILY NEWS.

TUESDAY, JULY 1C 1878.

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Thk Nkwb argues that because naval officers receive only onunitiun per day, commatable at 30 cents, ttafTis etfiSigh to feed a workingman.—[Jourgal. The News doesn’t argue anything of the kind. It simply notes the'fact that when t he Journal wanted to inspire class hatred gainst a democratic contractor, it played the demagogue with the workingmen bydeclaring 60 cents a day to be insufficient for one man’s board. Now that it wants to inspire respect for a republican administration, it plays the lackey by quoting as proof that there are “no extras” the fact that 30 cents a day is allowed each naval officer for food. Question: If it takes 60 cents a day to feed a laboring landsman, Low can a naval officer live on half the same? b

purpose of the Indian ring, which hunts out the savages and takes their land, thjnr food, their dothee, and leave* them to %ht or starve that is the crying sin.

The Indianapolis News has he largest circulation of any daily paper in Indiana. County expenses must be reduced. Business can resume at once on a specie basis without any fear of a reversal. There is no longer. doubt about the ability and purpose of the government to resume on the day fixed by law. ■' ♦ There seems to be a determined effort to keep Grant before the country—another Indian swindle has been unearthed. The Terre Haute Express proposes to abolish the “Abe Lincoln dollar, the game dollar, the fighting dollar, the do 11^ that saved the country,” the honest •dollar which promises that the United States will pay a coined dollar for its redemption, and to substitute in its place a nameless piece of paper which promises nothing, is worth nothing, and will rolT those who take it of their earnings, ^nd it is trying to steal the name of “greenback” to bestow on its illegitimate bantling. The microscopical convention that will meet here August 14, for a week’s session, will bring nearly or quite one thousand visitors, more or less eminent in science, to the city. These are men of learning and intelligence whose coming will honor the city. The citizens should see to it that they are well entertained and that no points of interest, no industries in which we may be fair competitors or in which we excel, be overlooked by them. A gathering of this kind is worth more to a city than a hundred political conventions. With the terrible suffering the heat is bringing in almost every city Indianapolis has escaped thus far anything more serious than inconvenience, with the exception of the increased mortality amsng children, which it seems impossible to prevent in hot weather. The broad street.^ for the most part unpaved, the numerous shade trees and the yards surrounding almost every house are the city’s salvation. The difference in ibis and the narrow, stone-paved, closely-built streets of most cities becomes a blessing with the mercury in the nineties.

What it Greenback Bcctrinsl It is needful to keep clearly in mind what the so-called greenback doctrine is, for in discussion there is a good deal of disposition on the part of the nationals toward glittering generalities and evasive statements. Even the Express and the Sun do not hesitate to crawfish on occasions. We therefore place before our readers three extracts, and call upon the papers named to say, explicitly, whether they do or do not truly set forth their positions : The Indianapolis Sun save: “The greenback is valuable because it is useful, not because it is a note or is to be redeemed. The true basis of its value consists in its being a legal tender for debt. This makes it money, independent of any other basis or proposition.” Mr. Wallace P. Grooms, a shining light in the party, says, “A currency as nearly perfect as any thing human can well be, can most easily be secured through a proper management of the treasury department. The process is very simple. Let the government coin, i. stamp or print money of paper, the promise being only that such money shall be a legal tender for all dues, both public and private, and exchangeable at the option of the holder, with government bonds, bearing a fixed rate of interest, say 3.65 per cent, per annum—one cent per day on $100—said bonds being payable on demand, including interest, in the same currency.” The Indianapolis Sun further says, “The new issue can be put into circulation easily. Pay off the 5:20 bonds with it, and thus stop the interest; pay it out in the current expenses of the government and thereby lighten the taxes; buy up coin bonds with it and stop the gold interest. The News proposes to discuss this fiat money theory, but it has no space to waste on a man of straw. The News understands the principles set forth in these extracts to be, (1.) That money is created solely by fiat of government; derives all its value from legal tender laws, and therefore should be created of paper and not of metal. (2.) That the new greenback to be issued is never to-be redeemed* biit always to be exchangable for bonds, which are. only to be paid in these greenbacks again. (3.) That this money is to supercede bank notes, gold, silver and all else, and be the only money of the new dispensation; not that the metallic coins are to be prohibited, but are to be remanded to merchandise. (4.) That all outstanding government paper is to be paid or purchased in this new issue. If these are not the principles of the party, point out the exact sense of the above quotations. We have more like them, and some wilder by far, but these are selected as a moderate and terse definition.

The letter from Washington in this paper on Saturday -concerning the outrages and swindles which have been practiced on the Indians, finds quick confirmation in the discovery of Dr. Livingstone’s frauds perpetrated at the Crow Creek and Lower Brule agencies. It i a doubtful if any civilised nation was ever guilty of the cruel wrongs, gross injustice and systematic scoundreiiam that has characterized the treatment of the Indians at the bands af this nation, which stamps “One Dollar;" “In God we trnst” on 87 cents worth of silver. Ix retribution follows the wickedness of a country as of individuals, *" ™* * fearful reckoning in store for i not the simple march of civilizathe inevitable extermination of or by a superior race. The country is big enough -ft* the one to die off in time for the other. K is the deliberate

CUKKKNT COMMENT. “Ido notown any United States bonds myself,” says that bald-headed pauper, Ben Butler. “All my property is either in this state, or in several businesses and industrial enterprises, a dozen, more or less. I hold that as affairs now exist, the man is a poor nan who has nothing but what is invested in industrial and business enterprises.” Just the exact amount of Butler’s poverty is not known, but when $13,000,000 of District of Columbia 3-65 coupon and registered bonds were put on the market a little over a year ago, they sold for less than 70 cents on the dollar, on account of the indifferent attitude of congress. The generars^private secretary” bought $100,000 and, singular fact, the congress of which Butler is a member, guarantees the credit of the United . States that these bonds shall be paid. At once they bound to 84 cents. So Mr. Butler makes on hi» investment about $17,000 and still holds principle and interest guaranteed by the United States on the full $100,000. Gen. Fitz Hugh Lee wants to go to congress as successor of Beverly Douglas. Hi* family name is presumption that he would be an improvement on Mr. Douglas. Some fine morning all the anti-resumption papers will be howling in chorui: “The secretary of ihe treasury can’t resume specie payments;” and he, disdaining to argue, will answer: “Perhaps not. but l have resumed,” and that will be the cud of it.—[Boston Herald. Dan Yoorhees has been doing that for a year. In the face of practical resumption he has been howling that it can’t be done, and is going over the state haranguing to that effect now. Before the time for an election of United States senator it will be done, and yet he expects to come forward for the place on the issue that it can't be done. Jack Cade nor Ben Butler wern't greater charlatans. The New York Graphic’s claims are disputed by the Hartford Courant, which says it was the St. Louis Globe-Democrat that first nominated General Grant for 1880. The Courant is right, too, we suspect. The proprietor of the Globe-Democrat has an impulse of gratitude in nominating Grant unknown to the Graphic. The Graphic has never been pardoned ont of jail by Grant for whisky thieving. “Billy McKee, mckaw.” The Chicago Times calls “America's mistake” the failure to annex Mexico. If there is anything this country doesn’t want it is Mexico. It would be as great a Bounce of expense and corruption as Grant’s San Domingo job was expected to be. The Indianapolis correspondent of the Chicago Tribune pronounces the republican ticket in this state a weak and unsatisfactory one.-*~[Ft. Wayne Sentinel. As Patsy Bolivar said, “That do settle it.’’ We have some good men in congress already, and what is the first thing to be done is to gain more, until there be secured an adequate representation in congress of the people of this nation, and not of its filth and off-scourings—of wise men and not of its office-seekers.—{Congregation&list. * Secretary Sherman has put the Potter committee very much in the position of that celebrated soldier who reported to bis comrades that he had captured a Tartar. “Bring him along. ’ "But he won’t come.” “Leave him behind then” But he won’t let me.”— [Philadelphia Bulletin. Never since ante bellurn times was ; the anniversary of American independence celebrated with such hearty good-will bv the people of the south a* on yesterday. As an evidence of reviving affection for the federal republic, it is a source of gratification to the whole country.—ISan Antonio (Tex-) Herald. Kearney, the kommunist of Kalifurnia, is coming east He will come in a Pull man palace car. He will board at first-class hotels. He will drink champagne. His dress will be purple and fine linen—except when

he goo* out to addres* hi* dupes. He will wax fat, aad the poor fellows whom ho has duped into sending him will have to iurve themselves and their fomilies to pay the bills. —[Cincinnati Enquirer. The “Irish Church.”

[New York Uondd.1

Father J. V. McNamara created a profound sensation last night at his church in Water street by ordaining two of his followers “priests of the Irkh church.” Having answered to their names and approached the altar, they received an exhortation from Father McNamara relative to the duties and obligations of their calling, upon which they were about to enter; after which he asked each of them, “What is your religious .faith?” Each answered in turn, “I am a Christian." After defining Christianity he placed the Bible in their hands, which each in turn'kissed. He afterward asked them if they knew that the popes of Rome, the cardinals, and bishops had often introduced error into the religion o£ Christ, and that God had from time to time raised up certain psrsons for the purpose of combatting these errors. Each answered in the affirmative. Then each stated that the causes which led to their abandonment of “what is known as the Roman Catholic church” to be that the popes up to the twelfth century had no control of the Irish church, and that they had gained control finally by in-

trigue and deceit.

In a sermon with which Father McNamara closed the services, he likened the Irish people to the man who fell among thieves, and declared that the Romish priest passed them by on the one side without binding up their wounds, and the English statesman passed by on the other. He then launched forth on a brilliant peroration on the necessity for Irish unity and the great and glorious career that is in store for the Irish race.

Miles’s Fight.

A dispatch from Pendleton, Oregon, dated yesterday, says: The troops under Captain Miles drove the Indians into the foot hills, near Cay use station. They fought four or five hours at long range in the valley, when finally the troops and volunteers mode a charge and drove them four miles to the hills and captured several horses on the field. The volunteers did well, and the officer in command complimented them highly. Quite a number of Indians were killed, but the pumber conld not be learned. Nothing is doing to-day but scouting. The Indians had not moved late in the day, and are watched closely. To-night Col. Barnard’s cavalry arrived on Umatilla river, near the other command, and will move on the Indians early in the morning. Col. Sanford is coming up from Legrand, to be near the Indians on Meacham road. The Indians are surrounded, and warm work is expected to-morrow.

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American Goods at tlie Paris Exposition Nearly all the class juries of the Paris exhibition have finished their work and submitted reports to the group juries. The

latter have passed upon the reports thus far presented, making very few changes. Nothing is officially known of the result,

but it is unofficially stated that the Americans have obtained more prizes than the citizens of any other country in proportion to the number of exhibitors. In one class all the American exhibitors have obtained medals, and in another all except one. It is thought that the United States will have five or six grand prizes and a liberal number of gold medals. The - foreign jurors have expressed much admiration for the excellence of the articles in the American section of the exhibition. The general commissioner has increased the number of gold medals 20 per cent; of silver medal* 40 per cent., and of bronze medals 60 per

McKenzto’s Raid. Colonel McKenzie’s invasion of Mexican soil caused considerable excitement in City of Mexico, the people believing he acted on a wide construction of his orders, and that the object was to raise a border war for annexation purposes. The treasury is now said to be depleted. Fears of coming disturbances continue to create uneasiness and impair business. Famine is reported in the states of Sonora and Sinaloa. At Mazatlan there is no flour, and the people are emigrating. Bpeak Out. [Cleveland Herald.] If any of the half dozen Ohio republican editors who. persistently attack President Hayes is not a disappointed applicant for office, or for the control of official patronage, we wish he would rise and speak right out in meeting. We are in the midst of a campaign, and it is about time to find out what is the matter with men who insist upon kicking up a row in their own party instead of fighting the enemy. Chivalric Proceedings. A number of frightened negroes from Kentucky, opposite Cairo, brought the report that a band of kuklux visited all the negroes in that vicinity Sunday night, giving them twenty-four hours to leave the country. Later information proves the kuklux to have been a drunken frolic of a half a dozen youths, aged from sixteen to nineteen years, one of whom recklessly shot at a negro, inflicting a fleah wound in the arm.

A Great Fire in Thessaly. A telegram from Lamia states that a great fire is raging throughout a large district of Thessaly. The village of Sophiates is partly burned. The harvest is totally destroyed. The fire began at numerous distant points, and is undoubtedly the work of incendiaries.

The Very Latest from I>r. Carver. [To the Editor o£ the N. Y. Sun.] At 2 o’clock Dr. Carver stepped into the field. It was raining hard. He began firing at the drops, and in five minutes had shot a dry space of half an acre around him. Munchausen, Jr. Disastrous Rain at Dnbnqae. Another disastrous rain at Dubuque, Sunday night, floated things generally, sweeping away two bridges on the Illinois Central that had been nearly completed since Thursday’s storm, and one that had been finished. One creek raised five feet in two hours.

An Incompetent Jurist. A petition to the president asking the removal from offi^ of* Chief Justice Michael Shaefler is published at Salt I ake City, signed by most of the lawyers there. The petition alleges ignorance or disregard of precedent. A Kuklux Killed. Robert M. Lowe, a white man, was shot and killed by Calvin Andersbn, colored, near Belle Ruckle, Tenn., yesterday morning, while.Lowe and fifteen others in disguise were engaged in breaking down his door. Opposition to the Treaty. The London Daily News understands that the opposition leaders have decided to oppose the policy of the Anglo-Turkish convention, and to take the sense of parliament on the subject. The Heated Term. The heat, particularly ita the west, continues intense. At St. Louis the number of sunstrokes reach 150, about one-third of which were fatal. At St. Josaph fourteen casye occurred.

"LIGHTNING” HAIR DYE. A Blonde Changed to a Brunette by m Stroke of Lightning.

j [Chicago Tlinw.1

• On Friday Mr. Guiltl and his wife war* occnpying a' bed room on the second floor qf No. 1542 Dearborn street, Chicago, and Lottie, a bright-faced child of 4 years of age, with golden carls, occupied a cot on the first floor, in company with her grandmother, Mrs. J. J Ames, aged about 50 years. This cot was placed under the opening of the main flue of the chimney. The first recollection that Mr. Guild has of the situation was when he was on the floor of his bed room with his wife clinging to him and screaming. He turned on the light, and at first glance discovered that the patches of plastering in the ceiling of his own room and in the rooms adjoining were hanging over his head, and the lathing protruding. The next thought was of the grandmother and his daughter Lottie below. Upon arriving in their room the littl* innocent, her face, head of curls, and hands black with the soot of the flue, commenced to clap her hands at the appearance of the grandmother, who was also blackened with soot. Upon examination, Mrs. Ames was found to be in an insensible condition, and Dr. Simons was summoned. He applied remedies to the lady which caused her to recover consciousness, but found her to be in a very weak, narvous, and precarious condition. Having administered all he could to her, the child told the story of how the fire came down the chimney and knocked herself and “grandma” from the cot to the floor. The child was then subjected to a severe bath, and then was discovered the most remarkable feature of the whole affair. The

profusion of curls, which were of unusual length, reaching almost to the child’s waist, and which had been of a bright,

golden hue, were of a bine-black or inky color, from the roots to the tip. At first it was supposed that this was caused by saturation from the soot, and the hair was subjected to a wash with a strong solution of ammonia. This had no effect in changing the color. A closer examination revealed the still further singular fact that the scalp of the head was also colored, indelibly it seemed, the same as the hair. This was given a thorough bath, but without effect. Up to 6 o’clock on yesterday afternoon, after a lapse of fifteen hours, and after repeated washings with ammonia and other solutions, every hair remained the same shade as when the change was first noticed, and so with the scalp of the

head. • ,

The child made no complaint except of a feeling which was understood to be, as near as she could tell it, a headache. Dr. Simons stated that the remarkable change might have been the result of electricity, but beyond this he did not venture an explanation. He had heard of oneor two instances like it. The vitality of the liarr did not seem to be destroyed, for it was still as soft as silken skeins. The little cherub seemed as lively as a cricket, and rather pleased than otherwise with the sudden transformation from a blonde to a brunette without cost.

The Carpet Bug. This latest terror of the patient housewife is an emigrant from Europe, with the distinguished title “Anthrenus scrophularia.” Jhe insects multiply rapidly, and so destructive are they that some people who have had particularly sorrowful experiences are of the opinion that carpets will have to be given up entirely when his bugship has possessed the land. The bugs are black, hairy fellows, about a quarter of an inch' long, of oval shape and very quick of motion. These in turn produce sluggish beetles, an eighth of an inch in length, sjiotted with white and red. Wherever there is a crevice, that is the home of the carpet-bug, which, however, does not eontine his diet to carpets alone, but attacks clothing and furs hanging in closets or packed in drawers. One check to the ravages of this new pest is a liberal application of benzine, which should be applied in every crack and cranny where the bug is likely to find a lodging place. Still another remedy is the “Bemiptera powders,” invented and successfully used in England to exterminate the bug, and also in use in some Massachusetts towns. It made itself known at Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1873, and almost simultaneously in portions of New York and New Jersey. The Sun’s Eclipse. [Washington Post.] Extensive preparations are being made t o observe the total solar eclipse of July 20, and in a short time several wellequipped parties will leave Washington for the far west, where the phenomena, in its totality, is visible. This is the nrst total solar eclipse that has been visible in this country since that of 1860, which received the attention of our astronomers, and was fully observed. The darkshadow of the moon will first strike the earth in Siberia, and crossing Behring’s Strait, the line of totality—which will cover a space about 116 miles wide—will strike the United States at the' northwest corner of Montana territory, and moving in a southwest direction will sweep over the Yellowstone park, through Wyoming territory, Denver, Colorado, northern and eastern Texas, and entering the Gulf of Mexico, between New Orleans and Galveston, will cross the islands of Cuba and San Domingo, and then leave the earth. The Daugava of Ice Water. [Cincinnati Commercial.] A white whale wonld not survive ten minutes in a tank filled with ice water. Two lumps of ice on the tongue of a cat, will, if they are large enough, cause it to give up the ghost in the course of a

few minutes.

The terrible delnge of ice water poured into the great American stomach last evening, laid the foundation for the can-

cers and catarrhs of the future.

One can guess the general ingredients of a glass of beer or whisky, but who can fathom the mysteries of a glass of water containing lumps of so-called lake ice? Ice water deranges the functions of the stomach, dilutes the juices that assimilate food, protracts the simple process of diges-

tion, and thus raises unwhi '

that cause bad breath.

lolesome gases

Advice to Hayes. [Newark (O.) Banner.] If President Hayes wants to make his administration successful, he must change his present course in numerous respects. He must run New York to suit Conkling. He must run Maine to suit Blaine. He must run Pennsylvania to suit Don Cameron and old Simon. He must run Iowa to suit Jim Wilson. He must run Michigan to suit Zach. Chandler. + He must run Illinojs to suit John A. Logan. He must run Alabama to suit George Spencer. ; He must run South Carolina to suit John J. Patterson.

William Henry Smith Ahead. < [Chicago Times.] Score another victory for William Henry Smith. The removal of Burling marked bis triumph over the Chicago custom house stone ring; and now the scalp of Collector Arthur hangs at his belt, to prove that the New York custom house and importers’ ring has been smashed by his vigorous blows.

The kindest words—ah, past IwQevingt

Waary my hope, id ebb and flow; Weary my pul- . of tunes oi woe; My trusting heart ta weariest I I would—1 would I were at rest l For me can earth refuse to iadcT For me can words be faithful made? Will my e» bit tend hope be sweet? My pulse forego the human peat?

No! Darkness most consume mine eye— Silence, mine ear—hope cease—puUe die— And o’er mine heart a stone be pressed— Or rain titia-" Would I wen at Natl”

There it a land of rest deferred;

Nor eye hath seen, nor ear hath heard.

Nor hope hath trod the precinct o’er; For hone beheld Is hope no more! There human pulse forget* its tone—

There hearts mar know as the*- are known! Oh, for dove's wings, thou da ~

To fly to thee and be at rest !

lay know

wings, thou dwelt tug blest,

and be at rest!

—[Mrs. Browning’s Eariier Poem*.

SCRAPS.

A perspiration-preof collar has been invented.

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1880’ r cln It wa* a crow who requested to be heard for his caws. The heaviest failure in this country ia Potter’s commission.—[Chicago Times. Little Oliver Sweat has just been born in Massachusetts. A most seasonable baby. General Noyes will sail for Pari* on the 27th to resume his duties as minister to France. Here is another southern outrage. Governor Hampton has visited a colored man under sentence of death and respited

him.

“Gath” says George W. Childs says Gen. Grant told him that Tilden had been elected president and ought to have been inaugurated. Strakosch is reported to have completed bis arrangements for the next season. Kellogg, Cory, Roenati (a tenor) and Conly (basso) are already engaged. The internal revenue receipts are increasing rapidly since congress adjourned, partly because the whisky and tobacco trade was depressed the last few weeks of the session by the talk of changing the

tax.

The Chicago Journal has private letters from farmers in central and southern Indiana and Illinois, who state that they are paying from $2 to $2.50 per day and board for harvest hands, and can not secure all the help they need at that. Dr. Carv er, on Saturday, in New York, accomplished the remarkable feat of breaking 5,500 glass balls inside of 500 minutes *ith rifle bullets. Part of the time he was nearly blinded by powder and hot water from the rifle barrels spurting into his eyes. “I tell you there’s no danger of any man starving to death in this country if he ain’t ashamed to wear ragged clothes and has cheek enough to ask for grub. These folks will toil and slave to support us; and why shouldn’t they if they are fools enough?”—[Remarks by a tramp. A lawyer once asked a judge to charge the jury that “It is better that ninety and nine guilty men should escape than that one inpocent man should be punished.” “Yes, 1 ’.said the judge, “I will give that charge, but in the opinion of the court the ninety and nine guilty men have already escaped in this country.” . AH the European steamers from New Y'ork Saturday went out heavily laden, and several of them were comi>elled to refuse freight for want of room. The cargoes consisted of horses, cattle, grain, cheese, tobacco, bacon, butter, fresh meat, Hour, canned meats and vegetables, cotton and domestic dry goods. This is an encouraging business outlook. Kearney, the California agitator, is described as extremely repulsive in form and feature, looking more like a prisoner at the dock than a leader of men, and his oratory is said to be most vile and profane. He has a “pard,” an Englishman nflmed Wei lock, who quotes scripture and uses unctions oratory. He wears a high, shiny, black hat, immense gold watch chain, spotless black frock coat and trousers. . The promised reforms in the government of Cuba appear to have been honestly inaugurated, and peace prevails in the “ever-faithful isle,” with here and there an exception. General Campos recently gave Roloff, an insurgent leader, money enough to leave and he left, £oing to Key West. The Cuban rebellion is now confined almost entirely to a few runaway malcontents in New Yoik, who are by no means dangerous. The Methodist ministers at Washington, D. C., have been much annoyed by extravagant funerals, and those which have been held on Sunday. They make numerous suggestions, among which are that only the nearest relatives of the deceased wear mourning; that the liberal distribution of crape and black gloves be dispensed with; that great economy be exercised in the display of flowers; and that the customary long parade of carriages be cut down. The Berlin treaty, numbering sixtyfour distinct clauses, is exclusively worded in French,, and is printed on parchment, magnificently gotten up with elaborate designs. It commences with the words, “Au nom de Dieu tout puissant” (In the name of Almighty God). It then entitles the names and several titles of the contracting sovereigns, and alludes to the eastern disturbances; also mentions the last war and refers to the preliminary treaty of San Stefano. The socialists of Cincinnati held a

Wehr verein, the military organization of communists, to march at the head of the procession with uniforms and arms, contrary, as the editor of the Yolkszeitung held, to the declaration of principles of the party to the effect that not the bullet, but peaceful agitation, should be the means whereby the consummation of the party’s aims should be sought. The conclusion of the whole matter was that the fire eaters went to the wall, and a resolution was adopted permitting them to take part in the parade, but if they did they must leave their arms and uniforms at home. There was an exhibition of much bad blood and beer, and the split is wider than ever. The return of a large party of Italians from Louisville, whither they had been sent to obtain employment, calls attention to this class of emigrants. They are generally strongbuilt men, bred to farm work, and are from Lombardy, and also from the vicinitp of Naples. All expect to return as soon as a sufficient snm has been earned, and as laborers they are efficient. This emigration has been increasing for the last fen years, until New York now contains a large Italian community. In some streets indeed one hardly hears any other tongue than that which Byron calls “that soft bastard Latin” spoken in the land of melody and art. The Italians are not hard drinkers. They live economically, and seldom get into a quarrel. They have

Y'ork letter.

THE ROMANCE OF A FORGER. WilliaaK E. Gray'a Remarkable Career.

:> i&iitingflaM Republican ]

Few rascals have so romantic a career a* William E Gray,-the forger, who arrited at New York Monday, at the end of nearly nine years’ chase by the most expert detectives of the large cities of the world. His father, Rev. Dr. E. H. Gray, formerly preached at Shelburne Falls, and was for eight years chaplain of the Unit^i States senate, and the son had every - centive to lead a respectable life. Alter leaving college he was a clerk in the treasury department at ‘Washington nntjU 1866, when he voluntarily resigned. The next year he went to New York armed with letters of introduction from General •Butler, Senators Fessenden and Morrill and other dignitaries. He was then 23. a fine young fellow of correct habits, who passed a* a model of virtue. Learning the secrets of stock brokerage with A. W. Dimock A Co„ he was soon in business for himself, and at once began his adroit villainies. He dealt in stolen bonds, and his father’s purse had to release him from Ludlow-street jail, family influence covering up other swindles from public know-

ledge.

In November, 1869, Gray gave oat that he expected a legacy of $60,000 from a rich aunt, and on the strength of this and $10,000 ready cash he claimed to hive, he launched out in grand style a* a heavy operator at 44 Broad street, afterward occupied by Woodhull <& Claflin. He sailed under the firm name of W. E. Gray & Co., his partners being unsuspected rogues like himself, and they made Quartz Hill mining stock a cover for their frauds. The gang got hold of stolen New York state bounty loan certificates. United States bonds and some stocks, and, raising the certificates, they borrowed money on them and on the bonds, through a reputable broker, of nearly every lender in the city. At the very start Gray nearly ended his"career by borrowing from Jay Cooke & Co. on spurious government bonds, but, as he replaced them with genuine bonds and carried himself as an innocent person imposed upon, they laughed at the detective’s suggestion to arrest one so respectably connected and indorsed. In December, however, a suspicious cashier discovered that the bounty loan certificates were forgeries, though the president and cashier of the Manhattan bank declared that they were as good as gold. Gray was so cool and told so plausible a story, when confronted with the facts, that he was not taken into custody. Next day he disappeared, leaving eight firms $280,000 out, and after biding in the city for a week he left the country, and nothing was heard of him for

two years. During tha 1

lording it mag-

Pmi aniiur-hc was

nificently in Englanvl\s James P. Morgan, nephew of George Peabody, the millionaire philanthropist. With forged letters of introduction from United States senators and other men of distinction, he entered the highest circles of society^ and lavished money right and left, driving four black imported American horses ana dressingmagnificently. At a dinner given the niece of Baron Rothschild, the rich young American made a speech on English finance that astonished the moneyed magnates, and there was no art of fashionable society he was not expert in. He was intimate with the duke of Edinburgh,

and he mi; *

the En; money

London banker named Chatteris got Morgan to'go into partnership with his son. The boy was soon short £15,000. Spurious United States bonds carried the information to New York officers that this was the old offender Gray, and they crossed over- to arrest him. He was too sharp for than, however, and, after failing to sell a mythical Colorado silver mine at The Hague, he turned up at Paris as Dr. Colleteo, the oculist. Being recognized, Dr. Colletso sailed for this country to escape extradition from France, and after swindling for a time at Galveston, Tex., he returned to London and got $20,000 on a copper mine some one else owned. It was when the last fraud was disclosed in 1876, after Gray was arrested, that the English government refused to surrender him, with Winslow and Brent, the Louisville forger, because Secretary Fish would not’promise to try them only only on the charges named in the extradition papers. When Gray could be had, he had fled, to be recognized in Edinburgh a month ago and arrested on his arrival in London. lie has been living in the meantime with a woman who claims to be his wife, and says she is the daughter of the com [Kiser Balle. Gray must now stand trial for forging United Biates 5-20 and New York state bounty bonds, the minimum penalty in each case being $5,000 fine and five years in jail, and the maximum $10,000 and 10years’s imprisonment. How the Halifax Award was Made. [New York Times.] A prominent citizen of this state, who attended the sessions of the commission simply from curiosity, says that the great mistake in the first plhce was the provision in the treaty of Washington fixing upon Halifax as the place of holding the sittings of the commission. The commissioners went there only to be surrounded by powerful social influences; influences which were too [lowerful for Mr. Delfosse, the representative of a petty European power, upheld and under the special protection of Great Britain. This gentleman further says that the Canadians had prepared their case with elaborate care. Their witnesses had been carefully schooled a* to just what they should say, while our witnemes were few and inharmonious. Had, he says, the commission been authorized to hear the Canadian witnesses in Halifax, the Americans in Boston, and then had gone to some neutral territory to prepare their decision, the award might have been very different.. The feeling in Halifax was that our government had got from Great Britain in the Geneva award several millions of dollars more than it was entitled to, and that this surplusshould be restored in the way of compensation for the alleged fishery damages.

The Preachers’ Vacation. , [New York Sun.l Let the ministers, therefore, not try to deceive themselves with the idea that'the clerical profession especially requires a long holiday, for it does not. A playtime may do them good, and they are luckier than most men in getting it; but they can dispense with it just as well as those of their parishoners who .have to sweat the summer out in town, and who can not get further away from bricks and mortar than Coney island or the Central park. Let them also bear in mind that sin and sorrow, sickness, temptation, and death are peculiarly rife in New York during the summer months, and the consolations and admonitions of religion are at least as much needed then as at any other time of the year. While they are off rolling tenpins and playing lawn tennis, batlung in the surf, driving over the hills, the devil, who never takes a vacation, is hard at work in the metropolis.

Excelsior! [Altoona (ftc) Tribune.] One of two young ladies who recently visited Philadelphia from this city wrote home as follows: “We attract a great deal of attenshun promenadin’ the streets like other ladys and boldin’ up our cloze. No* body isn’t nothin’ nowadays which don’t hold up their cloze, and the hiar you hold ’em the more attenshun yon attracts,”

WHAT MACHINKRT HA0 BONK. The Part it Has Pl»r<Kt la Bantaa Fra£1T#fS* ;;*k ;v' L«t us examine one and perhaps the most remarkable invention for the saving cl labor—the modern system of steam transportation, by load and sea. From the experiment of Watts with his mother’s tea-kettle down to the application <,f the air-brake and the invention of the Vanderbilt pooling system,it is one of the greatest triumphs of invention .yet achieved la its effect on human life and industry. The telephone is more marvellous, bat the application of steam to transportation is the most revolutionary in its effect* on human industry. Now what are these effects? Are they evil or are they good? First, as to the demand for labor, is it lessor greater on account of thia great development of steam transportation? We contend it is vastly 'greater. The answer might be doubtful, if it were to consider the numbers merely engaged in transportation. Bat oonsider for a moment the physical limitations upon the use of animal power and other agencies lor this purpose. How far went could this eoiurtry have been settled, if the pror due* of the prairies had all been obliged to seek an outlet bv draft animals or by water channels,' without steam ? The Mississippi valley, fifty miles from the navigable streams, would have been as thinly settled as the highlands of Asia east of the Caspian sea, from which the camel is laden with cotton for a journey of'a thousand miles to the Russian market Has not the opportunity for profitable labor been vastly increased by this agenev? For every

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Second, the application of steam to transportation has not only greatly extended the habitable portion of the earth, and therefore the field of labor, but it has greatly cheapened the conditions of life in the old fields of labor. This generation scarcely remembers, but the last one might, the great fluctuations which formerly characterized the prices of food. Flour used to reach prices extraordinarially high at times, while at other times a full harvest plunged the farmers in bankruptcy. The cheapness of modern transportation has rendered these extremes im-

possible and saved the laboring classes from the lose alwavs inflicted upon them

by fluctuation. All the grea

merchandize now hold about the same

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value from year to year, since the facility of transportation insures the ready filling up of a deficit at one point or the dintribution of a surplus at another. It used frequently to be the case in England that wheat after a poor harvest would command double the price that it did after a fair one, inflicting the greatest distress and misery upon the laboring class. Now the steady American supply of breadstuff's, reaped and bound by McCormick reapers, threshed by threshing machines, loaded upon the cars by steam elevators, transported to the sea-board 1,500 miles for ten cento per bushel, shipped to Liverpool by steamship, ground into flour by patent and economizing processes, raised by a patent yeast and cooked by a patent American “Home Comfort” stove, assures plenty from year to year. This- is but one article. Go into any laborer’s borne, ffi> matter how low, and see how he owes the necessities and comforts of life to the application of labor-saving invention. The very house over Iris head is cheapened by the circular saw, the planing machine, and, above all ( bv the cheap railroad, which makes him indifferent whether the lumber grew in Florida, Michigan or MassAcnusetts. 'His tablecloth, and he probably has one, is from Ireland or Germany, his bread from St. liouis, his meat from" Kansas, his tea from Japan, his coffee from Brazil, his sugar from Cuba. The sewing machine, which has thrown so many seam stresses out of work, clothes his children, and the precise divisions of labor of the manufacturer of ready-mede clothing enables him to buy a whole suit of substantial apparel at marvellously low figures. If he chooses to indulge so far, he has strawberries from the middle states at 15 cents a box, and the canning process supplies hfe table in winter with wholesome fruit, annihilating

distinctions of season.

But, third, there is another hni>ortant favor which steam transportation has done for labor. It makes it more mobile and independent of the local market. Never before bos the world gone through a bminess depression so severe as this, withf so little suffering among the laboring class. There has been no starvation and, comparatively speaking, not much lack of employment. The railroad enables the laborer to ahift from the over-crowded community or avocation to the leas crowd- ( ed. Compare our condition with that of China, whence the railroad and all other labor-saving inventions have been excluded. A short harvest there makes the people die like fliea and by the million. Food they might have, but it is eaten up two or three times over by the mere cost of distribution, while tuey have no means of seeking provinces where there is an abundance. Tlie Chinese, says a recent dispatch, are still opposed to the introduction of

railroads.

The New York Graphic proposes that we “regulate the introduction of machinery,” and that to leave the problem to right iiself is more suitable to Asia than to America. Precisely the reverse is true. To regulate the introduction of machinery would be a thoroughly Chines^ policy. To give it freedom is the only policy consistent with free institutions and with American •progress. Why i* this question now raised so prominentlv? Where are the laborers “compelled to starve” whose condition excite* tne Graphic’s sympathies and benumbs its sense? Are they the saloon keepers and lazy outcasts of the old world, who are attempting to get a living out of popular agitation in New York'.’ Or art they the ruffians who are frightening the Ohio farmers? The fact is, there k less ground for a labor agitation at this moment than there has been for three years. The labor of New England is well employed, notwithstanding the condescending tone with which other portions of the country regard us. Our mills are. in full operation, our manufactures have n guinea a reasonable and moderate prosperity, our savings bank deposits are steadily rising, our mortgages are being steadily liquidated, public and private economy is general, taxes are falling, panpers diminishing, and labor is content to abide the developments of the future nature under free institutions. It does not

propose to emulate the ignorance and brutality of the frame-breaker* who dwtroyed the lace industry at Nottingham early * the century, and spread alarm through? England. American laborer* know tl

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England. American laborer* know the goose that lay* the golden egg, aad Will regard with suspicion the efforts of demagogues to turn the country back toward

decrepit and starving barbarism.

“Contistency’a a .lewsi.” [H. a. OtiulU in Notes sod ftnerfes. j “Consistency’s a jewel” anpeared originally, I believe in Murtagh’* Collectio'tf of Ancient English and Scotch ■hilad*, 1754. In the ballad of “Jolly Robyn Roughead” ere the following line*: •Tush, «•*, atr )*■»?*** tbonxtiu roshtn. Comparison* are entail; Floe pictures suit far frames at floe, Ceasiatfwafe’s a jewel. For Umw asd toe cMrae clothe* are beat, Rnferlollu in homelye raiment dreet, Vr -.ie Jouu aad goo4iaaa Robyn.’'

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