Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 July 1878 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS: WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1878.

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■rooa^LTr. i Linen Lawns. A lot of White Linen Lawns on sale to-day at about HALF FBICE. Big Bargain. Closed Wasson, BEE-HIVE.

Tapestrjr Brussels 75c, Extra Supers 75c, Two-Plys25c, PER YARD. W« h»« placed on wle 25 to SO piece* each of the mb«w i{oods that we offer at leas than ooet to eta** out On examination you wiU And the goods cheaper *nd liettar than anything ever offered beGroat Bargains in All Lines of Goods. Adams, Mansur & Co., 47 and 49 S. Heridian St -

Bingham, Walk & Mayhew, J-JEI W JaULaJaH-S, 12 X. Washington St. JUST RECEIVED, VXW AHD ELEGANT A880ETMENT OF SILVER Si^S, bracelets, HAIR ORIAMEHTS, Theae Good* are ail the rage. OaU and tee them. SIGH OF THE STREET CLOCK.

THE DAILY NEWS. WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 187S. ■■■MMawsMMSMasa— The Indianapolis News has the largest circulation of any dally paper in Indiana. Salisbury get* the garter, too. County expense* most be reduced. A policy of honesty and truth would soon end all Indian wars.

Major Smith of the Terre Haute Express denies that he has sold, his national birthright to Voorhees. Another of Victoria's sons is to be married and the usual income is asked, to which -objections will be made in parliament and then voted as usual.

Washington set the example oi refusing a third term, which established a custom that has had the force of a constitutional prohibition. If a third term can be given, there is no limit; there may hi a fourth, a fifth, or election for life. Will the Terre Haute Express, which says there is not enough currency to meet the wants of trade, please tell why there Is on deposit in the treasury of the United States f4ti,§00,000 of greenbacks, an increase of 114,000,000 since the first of January T The certificates of this deposit bear no interest. If there was any profitable use for this money would h not be invested in trade? If a surplus of paper will make business, why does not this money seek sound business investment?

The Atlantic City session of the Potter committee opened yesterday with an examination of Representative Danforth, who testified to some more of Anderson’s .lying; that rufus-headed republican having told him that he circulated the story about Feliciana parish being democratic in order to get the democrats to offer him money, and “when he had them good and fast he would expose the authors and blow them sky-high.” Since the world was created there certainly has never been such a colossal liar.

The radical agitation in Italy for an agressive movement on Austria seems to fae a strong one, although it is discountenanced by the government and the official press. While nearly everybody got something at the Berlin divide Italy was left to lick her chops; neither Albania nor the Italian provinces of Austria being accorded bar, and now she wants a piece of that same pot pie. The Tyrol and the region round about Trieste is Italian in population and sentiment. The body of the people want all Italy to be a practical unit. It looks as if they would have to take It out in howling. One of the most persistent misrepresentations made about the national bank system, is that the interest paid on the bonds deposited with the United States treasury^ is in the nature of a subsidy or gratuity paid the banks. The truth is the banks don’t want to deposit those bonds, and would not unless compelled by law. The government exacts this as a security for the people. The old system of banking required no such security, and no ether government requires such security. The requirement adds nothing to the bonded debt, or to the interest paid; and the deposit is for the benefit of the people not the banks, • The coin in the United States treasury June 30 1877 was $115,122,473; on June 30, 1878 it was $197,415,132; an increase for the fiscal year of $82^92,629. Coin follows the general laws of trade, comes when business demands it, goes when it does not. The director of the mint estimated the amount of specie in the country aa follows: i .....ai6S.8M.228 - —— 167,614,803 181,678,000 a**..*^**.***^,,,, .***„ »«»••*•*•*•»••••*»• $60,931 JSl As less than hall the specie of 1877 was

in the United Slate# treasury, and the remainder in corporate ami private hands; the same proportion* now would give us over four hundred million*. But supposing the amount in those hands unchanged, our total would be $343,144,410. The mint table# are not yet published. The national*, so-called, of Ohio and New York/convened yesterday. The latter brought forth a quarrel, the New York city division, headed by the chairman of the state committee, being excluded, and organizing a little convention of their own. If the quarrel is solid,enough to stand it may nullify the party’s efforts in that state. In Ohio, however, all was. harmonious, ami the declaration for a subversion of government adopted at Toledo and called a declaration of “principles,” was reaffirmed, and reinforced by the u*ual amount of commercial cut-throatism in which that party indulge*. There is such a beautiful indefiniteness about their demand that the government "shall issue a full legal tender paper money adequate in volume for the employment of labor, etc.” They all plump themselves flat on the doctrine that the government can create, but we have never yet seen any of them whose fancy was bold enough to declare definitely how much the government must create. When the greenback theory was first developed it was thought to be essential to give them current value, that they should be exchangeable for a 3-65 bond, which was in time to be paid in greenbacks This interconvertible bond plan was the very.essence of the scheme. But since the conception of the “fiat” idea there are strong indications that the bond is to be abandoned. For if the fiat of government “creates money” without any necessity of exchangeability, why should the government pay interest? None at all! And hence the “bonded aristocracy” may better be dispensed with. Accordingly the Del. phi Sun announces as the ninth article of its creed: “An amendment to the constitution of the United States prohibiting the government from issuing any interest bearing bonds whatever.” This is getting down to business. One more step, a constitutional amendment prohibiting the collection of any revenues, and compelling the government to pay all its expenses by issuing “fiat meney,” and we shall then be prepared for the financial milleninm. That will come with a constitutfonal amendment providing that the government shall give to every citizen a million of dollars each, that these dollars shall ever remain at par with gold, and that there shall be a semi-annual jubilee celebrated by an equal divide. Then we shall all be translated to the fool’s paradise. The Terre Haute-Express will soon be an “old fogy.” Greenbacks Promise Coin. The Terre Haute Express, in response to The News, says that “the fact that congress has made preparation at different times to pay its greenbacks in coin does not prove that the promise was to pay coin.” We have charged the Express with a purpose to^destroy the greenback, which ^s a promise to pay coin, and to substitute in its place something that is not a greenback, does not promise anything in redemption, but depends on “fiat” instead of promise, and to avoid this rebuke the Express resorts to the above denial. Now let us see. On the face of at the greenback reads, “The United States will pay to bearer one dollar.” Here is a promise to pay something, and that something is called a dollar. This promise was authorised by law; thus, the act of congress of February 25, 1862, is entitled “An act to authorize the issue of United States notes, and for the redemption or funding thereof, and for funding the floating debt of -the United States.” The law provides “that the secretary of the treasury ia hereby authorized • to issue on the credit of the United States one hundred and fifty millions of dollars of United States notes not bearing interest, payable to bearer at the treasury of the United States.” The greenback, then, iff a note; it promises to pay dollars; and these dollars are payable at the treasury. Now what are these dollars in which these notes are payable? At the time of the passage of this act the only dollars that were in existence as a legal tender in the payment of debts were the coined dollars of the United States. Gold dollars and silver dollars were the only dollars known to the law, and the only ones contemplated in the promise of these notes. And hence, the law further provides “that all duties on imported goods shall be paid in coin,” which shall be applied, “second, to the purchase or payment of one per centum of the entire public 'debt of the United States,” etc. So then “coin” was to be collected and used to pay these notes as a part of the public debt. The Express has certainly parted company either with common sense or common honesty,when it denies that greenbacks are a promise to pay coin. —. The Remedy. l)e Tocqueville says that “the source and security of our institutions is the town meeting,” or the assemblage of the people in primary bodies to discuss public affairs. As long as the people are free to meet and free to speak, there is little danger of the degeneration of the government into a despotism or bureaucracy until corruption becomes general. The primary meeting is the means by which public opinion is solidified and formulated, and thus brought to bear directly on administrations, local or general. The more frequent and outspoken they are, the more likely are public officers to be held to a line of strict doty and kept from vagaries that sometimes injure us jind always disgrace us. They are the best reminder of responsibility, aad of the penalty that lies behind official abuse or indifference. And there lies oar remedy for the shameful condition of things that allows violations of the law to be committed daily and hourly in the face of day and defiance of decency. Gambling aits at the street corners and laughs at courts and sheriffe and

poltcenw n. It anapa iu dexterous fingers at the atntutes ami says to the public, as Tweed did when caught in hia gigantic theft*, “What are you going to do about H?” That’s just the question, “What are we going to do about it?” Are we going to let three blacklegs maintain their devil’s snare in our streets, with all the train of waste and theft and embezzlement into which it draws young victims; when the law as plainly ns words can say it says there shall be no “betting on any game or wager” without punishment? The officers of the law, left to themselves, have done nothing, and apparently do not care to do anything. The pool gambling has been going on more or less continuously for two years, and not one linger'd weight of resistance has been attempted by any of the men we pay to suppress such pests Now let us have a town meeting, a meeting of the honest and reputable citizens, whose energy, and skill, and integrity have made our city what it is, and say to our officers that “the statute is clear and peremptory, and your duty under it is equally clear and inevititable, and if you don’t do it, we will do for you.” If the courts hold that the comprehensive language of the law does not cover so plain a case of gambling as pool selling, then we can place the responsibility on the right shoulders, and spare those who would have to fight the evil with a crippled law and a lame authority. Let us have the case, set right anyhow. If the pool gambler is let loose by the courts we must wait till the legislature can give us a rectification of the curious interpretation of judges, but till we know that the courts stand between the community and tl^ blackleg, we should, by peremptory declarations of public opinion, force our officers out of the indifl'erence, or worse, that has so long winked at the boldest and most impudent villainy ever practiced in this city. CLKKENl COMMJfiNT. Marie lioze, the prima dona, summering a? Richfield Springs, found a little episcopal church, with a large debt, a discouraged minister and a congregation of ten persops; whereupon she said to the minister: “I will seeng wis veree great plazeer ze songs and ze heems.” Last Sunday shesang for the third time, beginning with “Greenland’s icy mountains,” which she sang with "her sweet French accent as “Greenlenz e-cee monteens,” and closed with the “Sweet by and by,” with W. T. Carhop, the baritone, to support her. The effect of Mme, Roze’s singing in the little church has been 'electrical. It is packed every Sunday to the aisles and hundreds go away. The collections have increased, the church debt is sliding off, and the struggling church members feel like adopting her as the patron- saint of the parish.’ It is probable that peace on the Indian frontier can be best secured by hanging a few Indian agents. Let us h—are peace. It once took two $10 greenbacks to buy a barrel of flour. Now you can buy it for one and hare $4 left. This is the kind of dollars people want, the kind they have, and the kind they will keep by the legaLconsummation of resumption. The “absolute money” maniacs want a return to the time when it will take two $10 bills to get a barrel of flour, with a geometrical ratio toward an increase to the condition when it would take a barrel full of bills to get a pinch of flour. While effort is making for an economical administration no mention is made of the fact that when Grant signed the pardons of the whisky thieves he signed away the government’s right to collect damages from the thieves’ bondsmen and thus let go about $3,000,600 stolen money which otherwise could have been ftcovered. And yet there are some people howling for a return of Grant. They are the same old whisky thieves. “Hendricks and Hewitt” is the presidential ticket announced by the Louisville News. Such a ticket would be too suave, non-com-mittal and alliterative for the rough .world. But it would be amusing to see'he Hon. Henri Watterson supporting “the impudent upstart, charlatan, molly-coddle, bob-o-link statesman,” which Hewitt is at present according to Watterson. Vermont is to have an independent state convention. It proposes to attempt to put in office good men and true, irrespective of politics. The nationals estimate their yote in Pennsylvania at 150,000, This is something like their money estimates, “a volume sufficient to meet the wants, ’ etc. The political program in South Carolina ia to re-elect Wade Hampton governor on a platform which he shall shape, and when everything is smooth and in good running order, he is be sent to to the senate in place of Patterson, and thus the lieutenant-gover-nor will become governor. Hampton has his eyes steadily fixed on the next democratic convention, under the delusion that a contingency may come when the first honor might fall to his lot, or, iu any event, the nomination for vice president.—[New York Times. The political thieves who used to fatten while Grant was president are all howling for Grant.—[Detroit News. It must not be forgotten that the prize to be won is a congress democratic in both branches for the first time in twenty year-). Where so much is at stake no effort should be spared which which will secure a result which will make the restoration of democratic [tower in the nation two years hence, all but a certainty.—[Buffalo Courier. A Charnel Junk. The schooner Parallel reports that on the 7th inst., off the coast about 100 miles south of San Francisco, she fell in with a Japanese junk. Not a living person was on board, but a number of corpses were found, some shackled together. They must have been dead at least a month. No food was found on board. Some of the bodies were dressed in costly material. S. C. or Bearer. [New York World.] The late Mr. Schuyler Colfax has declined a greenback nomination. They should have put it in an envelope and hail it handed to him at breakfast.

Bring it up by Baud. [Cincinnati Gazette.] Mr. Thurman nursing and trying to

knees.

VISH ON GRANT. What Ha Thinks About Ui* Polllloal Future and Third Ter nut. tlnCarvlcw In Natr York llarzld.] I asked Hamilton Fish, who was quietly Afimkiiig a cigar while he watched the Ltukutiful luoomight glimmering on the superb expanse of ocean in front of the Ik-ach house, what he thought of the attempt to set up Gen. Grant's possible nomination for a third term as a great bogy. “I feel certain,” Mr. Fish replied, “that Gen. Grant does not desire a renomination, and that neither he nor any of his friends have done anything to start this discussion. I do not believe any of his friends had anything to do with bringing forward this idea, although no doubt thousands of his friends throughout the country desire to see him re-elected president.” “You really believe that General Grant, in his own heart, does not desire another term of office, Mr. Fish?” “I do, most sincerely. General Grant (this was said in a rather enthusiastic tone for so reserved a man as Mr. Fish) is the most simple, unassuming, the most unselfish man l have known ail my life. I know —nobody could know it better, for to no one did he speak on the subject more unreservedly and intimately—that when Grant’s second nomination was broached he did not desire it. He wanted to go back to St. Louis, on his farm. He was* as indifferent to it aa that.” (Mr. Fish snapped his finger.) “If Grant does not desire a third term why did he not decline it at the end of his second—why could he never be brought to say that he would not be a third term candidate?” “Because the agitation was started before the nomination had been offered to Gen. Grant. The newspapers and the men who started the movement wanted to drive Grant into declaring that he would never accept what had never been offered to him, and Gen. Grant is not a man to be driven into anything. He would not be driven— that was all. He did not desire his third nomination, as he bad not wished his second.” “Do you think that the third term principle is’ a dangerous one?” “Well, all I can say about that,” Mr. Fish very quietly replied, “is that if the people want a man for a third term they will have him—that’s all. There is ao prohibition in .the constitution which p re _ vents it. It is often said th^ al j oar great presidents were Batisfied with two terms; but look at it. Our first five presidents all left their second term of office as old men. They were all about sixty-seven or sixty-eight years old, or thereabouts, when they went out of office. At that age a man’s ambition is satisfied. Moreover, they had all been actors in our revolutionary war and had been so long before the country that they might well have thought the country had had enough of them by that time. Take Monroe, for instance, he was a captain in the revolutionary war, I think, and when he left office he had been before the country nearly fifty years—a period of time sufficient to satisfy any ambition. No president wa<wever elected at so young an age as Gen. Grant.” “Do you think, then, that if our first five presidents had been much younger men they would have been elected for a third term ?” “Possibly some of them might—with the exception of General Washington, who, I believe, would not have accepted it. He never showed any signs of ambition." “Do you think it probable that General Grant will be the republican candidate, although he may not desire it?” “I don’t—for the reason that no man has ever been nominated president whose nomination has been talked of three years before.” “As against either of the democratic candidates whom you have named, Thurman or Tilden, how would Grant run?” “General Grant has still a very large following.” “In spite of’—your correspondent queried, hesitatingly. “In spite of everthing, Mr. Fish interrupted, with empathatic earnestness. “General Grant has still a great hold upon the country. He could get from the democrats such votes as no other man could get. At the same time I admit that he would lose certain republican votes; but remember that in 1872 he had to encounter the same opposition and overcame it easily.”

FHK ANGKL FKRBY. Ob, when shall »t*a hoptsaaa ferry m# o'er To IbaYneoaa who watt on the furtUnr ahora? Along a wild and lolinome way, 1 have jourasyiil for many a weary day. Over the grave* ot early hope. Ami my mlnMriune’a thorny alopo. TUI my mortal aun hat pawed IU noon, And my heart beala tfcne to a oeaaeleaa tun*; When aball the boatman ferry me o'er To the friends who wait on the farther abara?

Mora Trouble In Eaat St. Lools. Under authority of the Wider conncil of East St. Louis, the Illinois and East St. Louis railroad company, with a large body of colored laborers and 30 armed men, attempted to connect their track with the Union Transit company, so that their cars could cross the bridge. Mayor Bowman ordered them to desist. The colored laborers quit A crowd afterward assembled and tore up the newly laid track. During the evening the police of the rival authorities got into a"irow, when pistols were drawn. Lieut. O’Neal of the metrojtolitan was shot in the hip, and one deputy marshal named Russell was wounded in the groin. These parties then separated, but a few minutes afterward shots were again fired, this time, it is asserted, from the metropolitan headquarters, aimed at the market house, about forty yards distant on the opposite side of the street which is also used as the police office of the deputy marshals. Some fifty or more shots are said to have been ex changed. Captain Renshaw, chief of the metropolitans, received a bullet through his hat, and Chapman, the turnkey of the metropolitans, was shot in the leg. A little girl, daughter pf Mr. hltnte, living near by, was shot fn the hand while standing in the door of her home, and has since had three of her fingers amputated. None of the deputy marshals seem to have been hurt in this affair, although they said some twenty or more bullet holes can be seen in the walls and windows of the market house. Mayor Busman's horse, standing in front -of the market house, was also shot. The Belleville guards, some fifty or sixty, strong, arrived in East St. Louis about half past ten o’clock bv a special train. They were ordered out by Governor Cullom, and are under the orders of Sheriff Weber. They were met at the depot by Mqyor Bowman and about a dozen of his deputies, and are now camped in front of the market-'house. There is also a strong guard of civilians hr and around the engine-house, the headquarters of the metropolitans.

Salisbury’* Leg Also Decorated. The queen has conferred the order of the garter on the marquis of Salisbury.

The Proclamation Forger Kxplains. {Joe Howard in Philadelphia Tim*.] The World was at one time suppressed by Stanton for publishing the bogus proclamation. The facts of that were never told. In brief, the proclamation was a practical burlesqne, born of an intimate familiarity with the military situation, a contempt for the shilly-shally policy of the government and an honest belief that 500,fK)0 men together could do more'towards putting down a rebellion than a dozen armies of 100,000 each scattered over the country. Lincoln and Grant seem to have come to a similar conclusion later on, for the president subsequently issued a proclamation which almost duplicated Howard’s, and Grant won his victory with the men. There was no deep-laid plot, no treason, no secrecy. The copy was sent to all the papers alike—except the Times— and would have been printed by all except by accident.

Icsn feel

And

a waited m long for s tardy *alJ feel mr gtAugth begin to fall; while f faintly call and pray,

My wind-awept loc-ka are turning gray. But I know be U true, ami will (-omeere quite

My deep'ning day shall turn tonight

And 1 walk the Banda till be bear me o’er To the friends who wait on the farther shore.

He la fair and beautiful, I know.

And his shining robe is white as snow, And the tender love of his starry eyes 1b isuglit from the glory of other aklaa, And his (dlvcr-sandaled feet havetHtt

•s aaVrodl

The banks of the crystaline rirevs GHBod O boatman baste from the Land of Best, ud pillow my head upon tby breast I

and bear me o’er

. on the farther shore!

And pillow my head upon tby bra tywed tby swift shallop and bear i To the mends who wait on the fai The shadows deepen one by one, x'he san Is set, the day is hone. And like a star on my growing sight I can see at last the signal light,

A nd swiftly toward the margin glide*. I can hear the nuh of that spirit barque.

And mellow splendora pierce the dark! .

Adieu,•dim world! ere Fm wafted o’er To the friends who wait on the farther shore.

—[Henry 8. CornwelL

SCRAPS.

Fees have gone out of fashion at Saratoga, and prices are down as well. So much bronze money was paid in at the Paris exposition, a few days ago, that four large wagons had to be sent for to

carry it off.

A church costing $5,000,000 is to be built near the royal palace at Madrid, in which will be a magnificent mausoleum in

memory of the late queen.

Of the 3,000 waiters on the White

mountains this season, 1,000 are amateurs, from seminaries and colleges. Yasaar and

Williams furnish a great many. In France architects and contractors are

legally held responsible for a period of ten years after the completion of a structure "for total or partial loss occasioned by de-

fective plans of work.

Japan has monetized silver. The gov-

l»as authorised the coinage of a

neiv silver dollar of the same " n . consistency as our trade dollar, with

which it will be exchangeable..

“Mariah?Mariah! please let me in!” said a man to his wife who was looking out of the window .watching him trying to open the door with a toothpick; “I’sh

tread on my key an’ it’s aU flatten out.

Steam wagons, for propulsion on common country roads, are now being tested in Wisconsin. The Legislature offers a prize of $10,000 to the inventor or constructor of a steam wagon which may be

operated successfully.

The pork-packers of the west and east expect to produce 286,000,000 pounds of lard this year. Twice as much is shipped abroad as is used in this country, the exports of the past six years averaging

230,000,000 pounds a year.

Two robins in Westchester recently fed their offspring on poison vine, because the children had caged them. It is characteristic of thesa birds to poison their caged young when no hope of their liberty is offered.—[Lancaster (Pa.) Intelligencer. Little Johnny ran into the house the other day while the mercury was hugging ninety-five degrees, with the perspiration streaming from every pore, and shouted, “Mamma! mamma! fix me; I’m leaking ail over?”—[Cincinnati Breakfast Table. The “Mercedes” costume, called after the lat* Queen of Spain, is one of the handsomest of the short costumes; it is made with long coat tails in the back; the drapery raised in the front and draped low iu the back. Many large buttons are

used.

The people of Alabama are* talking of erecting a monument to the memory of Raphael Semmes, the pirate. The Mobile Register says: “Let the world famous sea king stand upon a pedestal, clothed in his sailor uniform, and surrounded by the emblems of his glorious dee^ls.” The proposition of the United States to hold a monetary conference to settle the question of the relations of gold and silver has been accepted by France, Belginm, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Holland, Austria, Russia and England. Germany may also take a part in its discussions, bat this is not certain. The sessions wiU probably begin at Paris on the 10th prox. The drummer for a catholic firm of Montreal has returned from a trip through Ontario as far as Trenton, finding that the merchants, all Otangemen, would not deal any longer with his house. Another firm has had a $700 order cancelled and others have received notice that “until ample justice and British liberty are established there,” Ontario merchants will not make their purchases at Montreal. A son of the late United States Senator Nye, of Nevada, Mr. Charles H. Nye, occupied the space behind the altar rail in the Eastern avenue M. E. church yesterday afternoon and evening preaching temperance. A large congregation was in attendance on both occasions, and the speaker was frequently interrupted by regular old-fashioned Methodist shouts and cries of amen.—[Baltimore American. Wheat grains have a vitality which resists intense cold. A sample of the wheat left by the Polaris in 1871, in 81° 16' north latitude, and exposed to a temperature varying from that of summer to that of winter in that position for five years, was sown last year by Dr. Schanburgh, oi the botanic gardens and government plantations, South Australia, and out of 300 grains 60 gtrmiaated and protluced plants, three and four fefk high, with ears containing 30 grainSeach. A Komlsh Church Movement A dispatch from Rome says it ia stated that the Vatican contemplates removing the Romon Catholic churchee in England, Ireland and Scotland from the control of the propaganda fide and placing them under the in.mediate authority of the pope. This measure is attributed iu clerical circles to a desire to induce the British government to establish relations with the Vatican. Another dispatch reports that the Vatican is elaborating a project with relation to the church in the United States similar to that in regard to the church in the British isles, placing it under the immediate authority of the pope. Austria Expects Trouble. The Austrian authorities expect considerable trouble in Herzegovina and Bosnia and are even prepared to encounter armed resistance similar to the Rhodope insurrection. Arrangements have been made for the advance of strong reinforcements to the frontier and neighboring garrison town*. The Turks display a very unyielding disposition in the negotiations about occupation. In a Bad Way. [Balaigh (N. C.) Neva.] A colored preacher, politician and transportation agent, of Raleigh (he is a drayman), announced on tbe streets yesterday that the republican party was “completely (Ubabnegated.”

’ THE NNXT ELECTION. Working for a Majority of Mato Dologations la tbo Noat Houao. [On. Boynton's Lettar in CtodnnaU Oasatt*,} Wat**. Republican* 1* Iteuiocreu U Efmly 2 Tot*!,,..,,.., ..........I...........................— 88 In case tbe next election is thrown into the house, either party to succeed must have twenty state delegations. The democrats in the late election in Oregon have already gained one. The admitted political situation in the various stole* indicate that the following states may be set down as dkrtain to have republican delegations, namely: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Mas»achu*eto<, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin. Minnesota, Kansas, Nevada and Nebraska. ToiTje democrats are sure of the following, namely: Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama. Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Oregon and West Virginia. Total, 16. The following seven are debatable ground, and, bo far as the question of electing the next president by the house is concerned, they form the battle ground of the fall campaign, namely: Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Florida, California and Colorado—total, 7. Of these latter the republicans now hold New York by a majority of one in a representation of thirty-three, Ohio by a majority of four in twenty. Tbe democrats hold Connecticut by s majority of two in four, and New Jersey by one in se^en, and have the only delegate from Colorado. Florida and California are evenly divided, the first having two and the second four members. Of these seven states the republicans must secure five to be able to elect a president in the house, while the democrats to succeed have only to carry four, provided the main divisions first given are oorrect. Closely connected with this subject, and in the minds of leading democrats a very material branch of it, is the fact that as yet no law exists regulating the electoral count. The democratic managers expect that both houses will be in their hands after the 4th of next March, and so, of course, the next joint convention for counting the presidential votes. There seems to be a wttled oll the part of those who control democratic action in congress to postpone until the next congress all legislation looking to such constitutional amendments, and such laws as are needefl, to make the troubles which threatened the nation at the last count impossible for the future. At the next congress they can shape both to suit all contingencies which they may then foresee for the count of 1881.

The Potter Sub-Committee*. Before the Potter sub-committee at New Orleans ex-Governor R. C. Wickliffe, Colonel S. J. Powell and Captain W. W. Leake, of West Feliciana parish, testified regarding their efforts to induce colored men to vote the democratic ticket at the Ust election. Each assisted in organizing ('Colored democratic clubs and addressing meetings of colored people. Several other witnesses were examined, but nothing new was developed. Governor Cox made a statement of his efforts to secure the attendance as witnesses of Mrs. D. A. Weber and J.Gondran, Weber’s brother-in-law. Mr. Dunbar, an officer of the committee, was afterwards sent to Donaldsville with subptenas. Mrs. Weber re plied that her children had scarlet fever, and she could not leave them. Gondrau told Dunbar that he could not leave his business; that he had no one to leave in charge; furthermore, if he camg he would have to tell the truth, and if he told all he knew he could not afterwards live there. The indications are that the Potter subcc mmittee will close its labors here by Friday. No more witnesses will be summoned. It is believed that those here can be examined in two or three days, and the business of the committee brought to a dose. The Potter Bub-committee, consisting of Representatives Potter, Butler, Hisceck and Springer, met at Atlantic City, New Jersey yestarday afternoon. There were present ex-Senator Trumbull, Representatives Kellev and Danford, and of the counsel Shellabarger and Sypher, together with a large number of guests of the hotels. Representative Danford was the first witness called, at the instance of Repre sentative Hiscock, who conducted the direct examination. Representative Danford testified that he was a mepiber of the Morrison committee that visited New Orleans, and there met James E. Anderson, whom he had first known as the Washington correspondent of a newspaper *in his district. He had a full conversation with Anderson about East Feliciana. It was voluntary on the part of Anderson, who spoke generally of the condition of the parish and of its being the worst bulldozed parish of the state, and said that while (ravelling from some point to the parish seat on a dark night he was fired at, his clothes being shot through. Anderson also told him that he. put into circulation a story to the effect that Kellogg and the re publican committee had advised him to make a protest that would throw the parish out, the object of the story being to get an offer of money from the democracy and then expose them. Indian Fight In a Canyon. A Baker City dispatch says that Col. Forsythe’s command left Robinsvilie, Grant county, Saturday. Near Clear creek riiey struck Deep canyon. Fourteen of Robin’s scouts were sent in ahead. In a ftw minutes they were tired upon by the Indians strongly posted in the canyon. H. H. From an was killed and two others wounded. The scouts retreated to the main body, and the Indians retreated before the troops came up. The hostiles jre making for the Malheur agency. Betrothal of a Duka. In the British house of common** yesterday afternoon the ebanellor of tbe exchequer announced the betrothal of the duke ol Connaught, Queen Victoria’s third son, with the Prince** Marie Louise of Prussia, the daughter of Prince Frederick Charles. The chancellor said he would move, Thursday, provision* of grant for the duke. Sir Charles Dilke, radical, gave notice that he would submit an amendment reciting that there is no institutional precedent for such an application. Another Family Murder. Richard Howchin*, who resides near Fluviana, Virginia, murdered his wife, mother-in-law and one child, and then killed himself, on Monday last. A son, aged 7 years, saw his father attack his mother, and took the baby out of the cradle and fled to a place of safety. Bogardua Win*. The return match between Captain A. H. Bogardus. the American pigeon shot champion, and Chalmondely Pennell, of Haningham park and gun clut%-took place yesterday. They shot at 106 bird* each for $1,000 a side. The match was won by Bogardus by two birds.

The Galveston News’s Eagle Pass special reports tbe capture of General Escobedo by the Diaz troop* under Colonel Nuncia, iiear ’Coatro Cienegas. It ie feared that he will be assassinated before he reaches Monteray.

THE TBAMFJACANDIDATE. General Butler Deflate* a •'MaMenal* naM Avnwa Htmself Mtsfe, (New York World latarvtew.} “Are you a national, General?" “What i* a nationalf’ asked the general. in * quick, cross-examining fashion. “Pretty much anything that is nothing else,” suggested the reporter. General Butler thought half a second, shook his head and ssidi “No. Let me tell you how you can tell a national when you him. When you sec a man who think* that the relations of the parties as they at present exist are not such as will bring about the best results, that man is a nation*). When yon see a man who believes that the financial system of the country aa at present conducted ia founded in error and sure t* produce mischief and sustain the miseries which we now suffer, that man is a national. When you meet one that looks upon the present government aa a failure as regards the fundamental.aim of the government to give the greatest comfort to the greatest number, that man, too, is a national. When yon find a man who believes that every one baa a right to his own at all risks and that notlung can destroy that right, that man is a national.” “But does it require a new party or combination or split or something to fix a man’s right to hi* own? Does not the Taw^ at present guarantee the right of property?” “No, the law does mot guarantee a man’s right to his own. It does not provide that he shall not die a beggar in the street, while another has enough and more than enough.” “Are not the present laws equitable? ” “No, sir; they can not be when under them and by their administration the condition df things we see every day &b*ut ua ia brought about.” ♦‘Then what do you propose to do? ” f‘Correct abuses and give every man hia own. Tax every man equally according to his ability to pay for the support of the commonwealth.” . “Without the aid of party organization and machinery?” “Oh, there is no need ot that. Party discipline is rather a drawback, and I notice that when the people want a change they get it whether the parties will it or no. The nationals distrust both parties, because they see in neither any chances of 1*"””'”' nfnrm ; r.,« uewKKU art Juat as bad as the republicans, and there is no choice between them a* the nationals see iL The national in one state ia antidemocratic and in another anti-republican, according as one party or the other ia in power. He is opposed to wrong doing wherever it is.” “Then, of course, you are a national?” “Yes, so far as that is I am.” “How do yon propose to treat the question of the relation of labor and capital?” “When capital is used to oppress labor the oppression must cease.” - “But does not the present law?” —— “No, sir; it does not. It is oppressive, unjust and altogether illogical. It can not stand.” “Dp you propose then to equalize property poseession?” “Me propose that each shall have his' share, what is rightfully his, according to the natural laws of God and man. The nationals insist that no man shall suffer.” “But if that suffering is imaginary and mental?” “Is starvation an imaginary ill—one to be met by a reference to law books and closed factory doors?” “But if the trouble is laziness” “Well, I leave that for you to settle how far laziness ani ill-thriit shall be regulated by law and statute. I only know that when my shoe is tight my toe protests, whether the head feels all right or not, and that toe will have its rights if ^the whole body be affected in securing “Its rights as a toe$’ “As a part of the body corporate, without drawing line* of distinction.” . “But where will your party principles stop?” ^ ‘Tardon me—no party—nationals pure and simple; an uprising of the people, without cqercion or manipulation.” “Well, where do you suppose the people of the national persuasion will stop in their reforms?” “Only when wrongs now patent shall be set right and the present incompetent parties swept out of existence.” “What part would Justus Schwab, for instance, play in the national uprising?” “I never saw the man; but who is he? Does he not sell beer under a license granted by the city 6! New York? Is he not in a lawful business, entitled to the law’s protection?” “But his views and projects?” “I tell you, sir, that Justus Schwab is infinitely sutierior to the fellows whodrife in their Tally-Ho coaches.” Beaconsflelfl at Berlin. /. [N*w York Herald letter.) This gentleman who cornea in with the steady, studied gait, as if fearing he may trip or stumble, is well worthy of note. How soft and purring, how stealthily he glides along. Mark his face, you certainly have marked it, because it is a face that nu n are'apt to turn to and study. It ia a face that attracts and at the same time rands. You look in vain for something human in it. Not an unkind face, not hard, not as if written upon by some stern fate, but without any life, or expression, or, if you can call it an expression, it ia the traditional smile of Mephistophele*. His lordship talks to Gen. Grant, to ray Indy this and my lord that, and sinks into the soft corner of a sofa and yon see nothing but that unchanging gaze, that mask that you have seen perhaps in a dream or have edme upon hurriedly in the cloistere of some obi Gothic cathedral where for centuries it rested in stone. Mark well that face, for year* have grown upon it and drawn its fines together, and time has had its way for seventy-four years upon the fats* of Benjamin Disraeli, lord of Beaconefield.

Hamilton Ft*h on Civil Service. [Interview la New York Herald.] Mr. Fish was asked how far' he approved of the civil service reform ideas of the administration. He replied that he did not believe it was in harmony with the spirit of our institutions to leave important public officers in office during good behavior or virtually for life. Our institutions favored changes in office, yet lie believed that subordinates who had conducted themselves creditably should not be refnoved for political reasons. ^ A Well-Matched Fair. [Exchange.] Hendricks and Voorhee* will stump Indiana Uigetbesr this summer. Hendrick* will do the straddling and Voorhees the yelling. Sorest Tranquilizer of the Nervea. The sorest traaqulliMr of th« nerve* Is a mediria* which remedt** their wipemaiMttvenre by Invigorating them. Over-teadon of tit* nerve* always weaken* them. What they need, then, ia a tonic, not a sedative. The latter is only useful when there U ictenee mental yxcilesaent and an hu mediate iiaceefitjr exists for product a* quietude* ot the brain. Boetetter’s Htontscb Bitters restores

produced through tbe media of dght, hearing sod reflection. Nay, it does nor*than this—It enables them tosuMafa adegrasof tension from mental application which they would he totally anaM* to endure without iu mmbrUnee. Such at least is th« ' Irrndstibte conclusion to he drawn from tbe tostimonyof bottacM and professional men, litterateurs. clergymen and others who have trend the fortifyand reparative Influence of this oelabretek tonic and Mrriaa. « o?