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THE DAILY HEWS. FRIDAY, MAY 2 1178.

The Indianapolis News has a hona fide circulation mere than one-half larger than that of any Other daily paper in Indiana.

Thb public debt increased $19,952 last month. ■ Bayonets and ballots is a bad mixtmre. It may be Russian, bat it isn’t American. The total debt of the United States now is $2,448,432,171, and to offset it there is $448,467,166 in the treasury, lea ring the actual debt $2,027,120,218. Dk La Matte roted with the democrats to pass the currency bill oyer the president’s veto. This is e recognition of pert of the oonetitnency in the seventh Indiana district. Ex-Gov. Seymoub positively declines the cell of Angnst Belmont’s parlor conference to be the democratic candidate for governor, and reiterates his unchangeable determination to remain out of active politics forever, world without end. This should not be forgotten when his epitaph rewritten. - j The Fort Wayne Sentinel has reduced the price of its daily imue to twenty-fire cents*month. This is the price of the Philadelphia Record, the largest and best peony paper in the world. But the Record has over 60,000 circulation and an immense advertising patronage at comparatively high prices, while the Sentinel’s field is much smaller.

What they call in Kentucky “the democratic state convention,” met in Louisville yesterday, and “nominated” a ticket, as they call it. In reality it was a meetinf of all the electors of the state by their represeiftativea and an election of a ticket. The elector* who differ in politics from those represented in convention are, in fact, not electors. They elect nothing. Their votes, from year to year, are as clearly wasted aa if they put them into the fire instead of the ballot box. Therefore Dr. Luke P. Blackburn, the yellow fever veteran and hero, who was nominated by the democrats yesterday, is the next governor of Kentucky.

The determination of the democrats to present the repeal of the law allowing troops at the polls, as a separate measure, instead of a rider, la a crushing commentary on their shortsightedness in not doing so in the first piece, es well es an answer to the cry of “revolution.” It is also appagent that in any event they intend to pam the neceasary appropriations which is a further silencing of that cry. The danger now is that they will not be content with accomplishing this but will pass some mischievous currency measures; and it ia to be feared that the republicans are not sufficiently “eolid” in this particular, to offer the same effectual opposition they did to the attempted legislation on the federal election laws.

The new legislative apportionment in New York gives a startling picture of the influence of cities. A hundred years ago the country element controlled the four senatorial districts and seventy-seven assemblymen. Fifty years ago only 269,598 of the 1,614,468 population of the state lived In cities. In 1875 ths city population was 8^66,768 out of 4,698,958. This year’s year’s apportionment gives to New York City alone 86 assemblymen, or nearly onethird of the whole, while two doaen other incorporated cities leave the “rooral deeetricks” no power at all. The cities alee directly control 12 of the 32 senators, and have an indirect control of many more. This apportionment has taken away 31 eeeemhlymen from 17 rural districte and given them to the cities. The faraten are said’ to feel sore over such a lees of power. But there is no help for it unless a certain membership be guaranteed a county, no matter what proportion of population it has. The supreme court has practically declared the jurors’ test oath law unconstitutional, although none of the justices except Field went so far ae to say so, in the recent decision affirming a decision of the circuit court in Florida, which said that a juror, after he had been examined as to his qualifications and sworn, could not be made to testify as to whether he had participated in the rebellioa or not. This is in accordance with the old doctrine that no man ahall be required to testify- against himself, and shall be protected against proceedings, the object of which is to prove his legal infamy. Rebellion involved treason and a participant therein, could not be made to accuse himself of

opoa this grouad and the supreme court upheld the district court’s decision sad overruled the challenge. Justice Mill*, la delivering the decision, expressed the opinion that “the fact that the juror bed participated in the rebellion might, when he was challenged, have been proved by other witnesses though he himself wee not required to answer es to that.” This of conns left the constitutionality of the tost oath set untouched, but it was e strong leaning in the direction of an opinion that it is unconstitutional and J ustioe Field said so flatly. Aa a war measure, be said, the act could be sustained, but at present be regarded it “as much out of place and ae inoperative as would be a law quartering a soldier in every southern man’s house.” On# Hangs to Another. The interdependence of natural conditions is strikingly illustrated by the consequences anticipated from the sea-making projects of the French in North Africa, and some of oar own speculations in California. Col. Fremont wants to make a cheap canal to flood a sterile basin in lower California, which, with the presence of a permanent body of water, would be not only habitable hut fertile of the best semi-tropical products. Evaporation from •o large a water supply would increase the rain-fall, and the modification of temperature produced by both evaporation and re-condensation would make a new climate, a new country, and in fact a new world, “aa far aa it goes, and to a certain extent, of course,” aa Mrs. Nickleby says. This much of a change in existing conditions would be the result of a substitution of a water for a sand surface, and it takes no greater development of weather wisdom to see it than to see that rain is necessary to vegetation. The African sea-scooping scheme is a still bigger thing than this. It is expected to make a fork of the Mediterranean like a small Adriatic, and not only to change all the physical but all the moral conditions of the regenerated region. It will be healthy and moral, and fertile and civilized. It is a notable fact that the progress of the race baa proceeded along bodies of water, and where communication has been made easy by riven and bays and protruding seas, between differing tribes, civilization has gone fastest and farthest. We see it on the Nile, on the Euphrates and Tigris, on the islands and deeply scolloped coasts of the Egean sea, on the neighboring projection of the Italian boot. Why may not a water opening into Sahara carry civilization and sense, as well as water openings into the Grecian and Oriental coasts? As a further illustration of the interdependence of natural conditions, it may be remarked that some far forecasting savans have expressed the apprehension that if a large body of water ia let into the desert, the evaporation from its surface will so far cool the winds that now carry the desert heat across to Europe and melt the snows and glaciers of the Alps, that the warming operation will be weakened or lost, and then the snow and ice beds will spread lower and lower down the mountains each year, and gradually reduce the habitability of the whole country round about. That would not pay. To increase the value of Africa at the expense of the climate and cultivable value •f Europe, would be paying a big price for a small whistle. Troops as ths Polls. The caucus conference of democrats at Washington Announces a course of proceedure concerning the army bill, which this paper in commenting upon the president’s veto message declared in its opinion would be the wisest possible, and one which must result in a moral victory whether it failed of an actual one or not. It is decided to pass a bill repealing a clause of section 2,002 so as to forbid any troops or armed men at the polls upon election day for any reason except “to repel the armed enemies of the United States.” As the statute stands an officer of the army or navy may bring such force for this purpose, and “to keep the peace at the polls.” By the decision of Attorney General Taft, and by the practice which followed that decision, troops could be and were stationed at the polls at th* pleasure of the president, not when there was a riot, but when in his opinion there might be a riot. That this power is contrary to the spirit of our institutions, if not contrary to the constitution, none hare disputed. In the debate upon the recent attempt to repeal this clause none of the republicans declared their adhesion to it, and in his veto the president pnt his objections to its repeal not upon the ground that he was in favor of so using troops but because such use was, in fact, already impossible by virtue of other laws and therefore this repeal was unnecessary. The involuntary answer to this, aa The News said at the time is, Why not repeal it then, why cumber the statute book with the rubbish ef dead letters? And this answer is to be put in the form of a question by the determination of the majority. A bill is to be passed repealing the peace clause of this section solely; and that there may be nothing objectionable in its manner, it is to be made a separate bill and not a “rider.” The president will therefore be cenfrouted with the simple question whether he is in favor of having troops at the polls or not The objection be urged against the accompanying statute No. 5,528, in the former army bill, that it restricted the civil power of the government was valid, but to this clause, No. 2002, by itself no such objection lies. The civil power is left untouched. Supervisors and deputy marshals an free to bring a posse to execute their commands. Officers of the army or navy are simply forbidden to bring troops to the polls. Without venturing a prediction, it is difficult to see how the president can veto this measure, and it wonld be wise in the democrats to allow debate open it to see what objections, if sny, tits republicans will offer to It. If they may be taken at their word they will offer none, for they said repeatedly daring the last debate that they would vote fer such a measure separately. If they object now, and the president vetoes, the democrats will have the moral support oi the ooun-

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS: FRIDAY. MAY 2, 1879.

Sarah Joseph* Hals, whom death was announced yesterday, was one sf ths earUest of American women wh# lived by the pen, and in a life of eighty-four years spent fifty•evea of them in this work. She was bon in New Hampshire is 1795; her family name was Buell. In 1822 her husband, David Hale, a prominent lawyir, died, and she was left with five She edit* oi the imdr'a I publication was united with ‘ Godey’a Lady’s Book,” and Mrs. Hale oontiaued as one of tbs editors. In its time th# book was "a power in the land” in its way. It was in nearly every household, and the Influence this (rood, industrious woman has wielded has been very great She was the author of a number of books and some poems. Her books were two or three novels, a dictionary of poetical quotations, some household books, and “Letters of Madame de Sevigne,” and ef Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. CLKKKNT COMSLfcNr. The test case of the constitutional right of the government to issue legal tenders in time of peace, as agreed upon between exCongressman Chittenden and General Butler, has been made up in fact, the issue joined and the the trial before Judge Blatchford to take place this month. The plaintiff- ia Augustus J. Juilliard, who in his complaint alleges that he is a citizen of Now' York and that the defendant is a citizen of Connecticut. That in March, 1879, he sold and delivered defendant one hundred bales ef cotton, amounting to $5,122.90 which was to have been paid for in cash, bat that, except $22.90, the defendant has not paid and is therefore indebted to the plaintiff $5,100, which the plaintiff demands with interest and costs. The defendant Mr. Thomas Green, in answer admits that he is a reeidentof Connecticut; that he bought the cotton at the price named and upon the terms, bat declares that before the bringiag of this action he tendered to plaintiff in full payment $22 50 in gold coin of the United States, forty cents in silver coin of the United States, a United States note of the denomination $5,000, numbered “A 103, serieg of 1878,” and a United States note of the denomination $100, numbered “A 17,015, series of 1878;” the said notes were payable to bearer and of the description known as United States legal tender notes. Defendant fnrtker answers that the said notes were a reissue of that amount of United States legal-tender notes which had been redeemed subsequent to January 1,1879, at the United States sub-treasury in New York. That said aotes subsequent to such redemption were issued and kept in circulation under and in pursuance of the act of congress entiUed “An act to forbid the further retirement of United States legal-tender notes,” approved May 31, 1878. The plaintiff will demur to this answer and whatever Judge Blatchford’s decision the case will be carried to ths supreme court, where it is hoped a decision will be rendered this fall. There is a good deal of tuneful music inthe press over the discharge of ex-nnion soldiers, long in the employ*bf the senate, to make way for democrats. These men mostly occupy subordinate positions so that no cause but the greed for office can be given for displacing them. In view of this the Ghicago Times thinks it will be well for the republican administration to cease providing for the Mosbys and fellows of that stripe, and give those discharged men places, reckoning that “it will make the good cause a subject of public ridicule if there is a continuation of the howl abont rebel proscription of half a dozen union soldiers, while the administra tion, having the disposal of thousands of •ffices, refuses to provide for the displaced employee of the Bourbon senate.” The Stengerfest to be held in Cincinnati in June promisee to be one of the most notable of its kind, and probably the greatest musical event that Cincinnati has ever had. The chorus will include about forty societies and nearly 2,000 singers. The soloists are the best in the country, and the prima donna, Madame Alvesleben is to come from Dresden. The orchestra will consist of 150 pieces. In the program Mendelssohn, Verdi, Rubenstein, Wagner and Schumann are represented. Iron ore from Africa is used in several iron manufactories of Pennsvlvania; being mixed with native ore to improve the quality of Bessemer steel. In England the best iron and steel is made ap of a variety of ores, those of Sweden, Spain, Russia and northern Africa, and the same thing is bsing recognized by American makers. The African ore generally comes as ballast for vessels engaged in the petroleum and grain trades. Some “suffrager” wants women given a coordinate power in the government. He would like a female branch of the legislature and a female congress, the members of which should be elected only by women. At any rate there is a novelty in this proposition, and to many it is quite as feasible as other kindred propositions. A colored preacher in New York baptized fourteen converts in Harlem river last week, “and they all wore snia”—rubber salts. The beet opinion seems to be that the democrats will try to regain some of the lust ground by a little financial legislation, such as the passage of the free coinage silver bill and the bul retiring the national bank circulation, and then pass a resolution extending the present appropriations six months and adjourn. The stalwarts are in favor of adjourning immediately if the bills are vetoed and letting^the government go to the devil—[Washington letter Detroit News. Hayes is booming. Every great man has his booming time.—[CincinnaQ Gazette. If the republicans should nominate Sherman and Hawley, and the democeats Bayard and McDonald, it is not probable that the world would come to a sudden and untimely end, no matter which shoold be elected.— [Cincinnati Commercial. The abase of Senator Davis because he still refuses to become partisan is small encouragement by the repnblican press to rising young men of ability and ambition to go into public life. Once let ns succeed in thoroughly discouraging that class ia their patriotic ardor, and the country will be bound band and foot for the plunder of public thieves and it* hypocritical assassin*.—{Boston Post If the present dispute can not be adjusted in any ether way, it may be advisable that congress should take complete and fall jurisdiction of the whole subject of congressional elections, and prescribe a common day for

for corn state ofl

from one another as much as possiL.^. u this is done no federal machinery for overseeing congressional elections can tench or interfere with any state eleetion of officers to serve within the state.—[New York Times Indeed as it looks to-day, the nomination of David Davis is the one chance which the democrats have for sacceas in 1880.—[Boston

Herald.

We are convinced that one of the most forcible illustrations of the potency of joarnalism ia this country to-day is to be found in the newspaper discussion of the currency question. Although there are rocks ahead, the fog that summaded the m has been fairly cleared up, and, for the

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zarmj up, a»uu, aw mji* UftUOt, newspapers.—[Philadelphia

I MJE DEATH.

Owa Fate AssaraSsly. [Little Book Oatette.]

A singular death occuredontontbeMt. Ida road, ten miles from town, seven] days ago. A farmer, whose name we were unable to lean, predicted that he wonld die oa a certain day. His friends, sad particularly hi* wife, remonstrated with him, assuring him that be bad no foundation for sach a belief. He dteegarded all entreaty, however, and clinging with, peculiar, almost obstinate, tecancity to his belief in his death on the day predicted. After a time he seemed to forget, or rather disregard, his peculiar notion, and fais friends thought no more concerning the prediction, only wondering why the man should assume the role of a death-telling

prophet. Finallj

should die arrived. No change occurred la his physical condition, hat he Began working

11/ the day on which the man said hs should die arrived. No change occurred ia

as usual. Abont 11 o’clok he entered the boose and remarked to his wife that be felt sick, and complained that his feet were cold. Pulling off his shoes he sat by the fire and held oat his feet Taming to his wife, he

said:

“I am going to die just as I told you." His wife begged him not to speak so, bat

i presisted in his belief.

“I am dying now,” said he. Death has begun at my feet aad is creeping toward my The woman assisted him to the bed. Undressing, he lay down, and when his wife went ont and returned with aa armful

of wood, he was dead.

Fate of th* Sh#nan«o*h. [London World.] Everybody has heard of the Shenandoah, the notorious privateer of the Southerners of tbe American civil war; but I do not suppose that many know what was the ultimate fate of the ship whea the war ended. Of all places in the world, she now lies fathoms deep off the island of Socotra, in the Arabian Golf. Her story is a strange one. She was busy burning whalers in Behring Straits, whea Waddell, her commander, the “mildest-mannered man who ever scuttled ship or cat a throat,” heard of tiie collapse of the south. His occupation being gone, and being without home or harbor to which he durst with safety return, he ran the Shenandoah to Liverpool, and immediately surrendered her to ner majesty’s ship Donegal in the Mersey. She was haaded over to the American consul, and afterwards bought at auction by Nicol, Fleming k Co.—a firm that has earned a notoriety in connection with the failure of the City of Glasgow bank—for the sultaa of Zanzibar. After remaining idly at Zanzibar for some years, she was sent to Bombay for repairs, but foundered off Socotra, all hands being lost except one Englishman and a few Lascars.

Timely Hint to th* Fir* Eater*. [Evansville Tribune. 1 Those democratic papers that join in the attacks on Senator Logan, approve the conduct of Lowe of Alabama, in challenging him, and join with the fire eaters in thinking that Logan shoold disobey the laws that he is sworn to respect, do more to strengthen the impression that their party is governed by the southern wing thereof, and that both wings disregard law and order, than all the republican papers and speakers could do. A Bonanza for Newfoundland. Ont of its share of the Halifax fishery award, the colony of Newfoundland will pay its public debt or $218,185, build a telegraph across the island at a cost of $102,300, make a thorough scientific inquiry into th* fisheries of the island, test the coal region ia tke vicinity of Grand Pond, build roads throngh the island, and invest a large sum at interest. The interest is to be expended from time to time in works of public utility. The Halifax award was a magnificent windfall to Newfoundland.^ A Young Cook. [Journal of Debates.] A young woman who had never learned the gentle art of cookery, being desirous of impressing her hnsband with her knowledge and diligence, manages to have the kitchen door ajar on the day after their return from the bridal trip, and just as her lord comes in from the office exclaims loudly. “Hurry up, Eliza, do! Havent’tyou washed the lettuce yet? Here, give it to me; where’s the soap?” T-o-o-e, Ho Did! [Louisville Courier-Journal.] Democrats at Washington are now remiaded of the famous conundrum, What are yon going to do about it? The country pauses behind the interrogation point.”—[Indianapolis News. Mr. Tilden answered that famous conuudrum once, and he did it effectually. He will answer it again. Most Positive Declination. Governor Seymour has written a long and elaborately-prepared reply to the letter of the committee of the Belmont conference, asking him to accept the nomination for governor next fall. He refused to accept the nomination, and in the most positive terms asserts that he has permanently retired from politics. Why This Bitterness? [Fort Wayne Neva.] The truism that the Lord lets go of his followers who stoop to the dirty pool of politics, never had a bettor illustration than in the case of the Rev. De La Matyr, of Indianapolis, who has proved to be the most consummate ass and demagogue that ever disgraced this state. India Will Be Nowhere. [Cincinnati Commercial. 1 J. P. Sanderson, chief elephant catcher in India, has caught ninety-four elephants since his arrival at Mysore, ia December. The democrats wit catch more elephants than that if they keep on trying to fool with President Hayes. Th* Detroit Bridg*. The Detroit boulevard bill and the Belle tale park and bridge bill passed the Michigan bouse of representatives yesterday. The latter bill authorizes the city of Detroit to irsue bonds for $750,000 to purchase Belle Isle and construct a bridge thereto. High Water in the East. The present thaw and rain is causing a general raise in the riven of New England. TheMerrimackissohighthat the Manchester, New Hampshire, mills have been obliged to shut down, and some 2,000 operaton are temporarily thrown ont of work. Shot by Hla Paramour. In Chicago yesterday Mrs. Ada Roberts shot and mortally wounded Theodore B. Weber, a prominent boot and shoe merchant, father of ner child, because he was attempting to evade payment of $400 a year for its support. The Whipping Post Damandod. The people of the bine grass region of Kentucky almost unanimously demand the re-establishment of the whipping post as an economical and efficacious means of punishing petty criminals. BmpootfnUy Doubting. [Cambridge City Tribune.] We must be permitted to doubt whether a large majority of the republican party to-day, as a matter of deliberate preference, favor the nomination of Grant.

Gan Easily bo Aooommodatad. [Philadelphia Chroaicle-Hwald.] If Mr. Lowe really desires a duel we would refer him to Mr. Currie, of Texas, or Mr. Hinds, of Baltimore.

India’s army costa $85,000,000 a year, and the interest on her debt is $20,000,000. Debt and expenses are increasing, bat revenue is not

A blustering snow storm prevailed ia Ottawa valley yesterday.

[PaoUBspaMtem.] We are for Edmunds or Sfanua ia 1880.

Yon who are children of

As barks afloat uj

ran of this age, yvtwb*

Drifting aloag the pathway J Tstar To eosne dark port whore liie is loath to be; Yon who look backward to the past, and veep That ail the wonders of the earth sad aky Have faded like sweet vistoas ia o don. Leaving the clouded seal to ptaeaaa die— To vow I say: Lo! ye are fools tedeed, Bfneeyo behold not what is writ ia ire. Like pesstonate lover*, who still fnr to read The holy language of their hearts’ dedre. Tot I who aa your brother, I who tread saae bright world, aad through loog gaUsa Live out th* measure of my Ufa, aad shod

Tears for loan mea who group ia bsrrea ways.

1 J"* brom ndiast height,

What ar* to me dead phantoms and dead fsarsf

For wten I ton my woaderiag eyes to earth I dad now meaning in mot’s lives, m tbo igk The world were In the springtime of its htrth. And love and faith in all tnelr early glow. When, too, I look above me, I perceive Such miracles of life aad light and power, Such marvels of strange beauty, that 1 grieve To live beyond this one wild, rapturous hour. And when I look around mo still I ass Down the dark, hollow labyrinth of anace, And infinite unirerse, whom deems to mo

Bring haunting thoughts of loveliness and grace.

Then, with a wondrous melody of words. The fervor sod the passion of sweet song. Sweet es the robin’s or the mocking-bird's

Breaks from my heart In music loud and long.

SCRAPS.

Rice culture is increasing in Louisiana. Charleston’s debt amounts to nearly $4,000,-

000.

Modjeska sails for Europe on the 24th of next month. A large sponge is the handiest thing for watering plants. Many of the southern railroads are relaying their tracks. The Cheyennes pull out their eyebrows as fast as they grow. An effort is to be made to have Jenny Lind revisit this country. Tom Thumb boasts of having kissed more than a million ladies. Oysters, actors and clergymen are preparing for the summer vacation. R. Graham Frost, of St. Louis, is the youngest member of congress, having jast parsed his twenty-seventh birthday. Among the recent arrivals at the dead letter office are four Florida oranges, a piece of wedding cake, and a Bologna sausage. Hannibal Hamlin authorizes the statement that he will not be a candidate for governor of Maine this year. He believes the republicans will win. A pauper in Gill, Ham., got $5.00 from the poormaster “to obtain the necessities of life,” as he declared, and used the money in taking to himself a wife. A wealthy Boston woman has started two kitchen gardens in the city, where young girls are to be taught housework by means of miniature furniture and utensils. An idiotic New Haven woman’s pet dog died recently, and was bnried in an elegant coffin, covered with beautiful flowers, tehile the funeral services were elaborate. The crops of northern Texas are all in fine order. It had been thought that the wheat crop would be lost by the dronth, but the recent rains have revived it, and all is flourishing. The following appears in a Boston paper: “Wanted—A reliable coachman; must not be under GO years of age; a lame, one-eyed, homely man preferred. Most he a good, carefnl driver. A wife and children no objection. No yonng bachelor need apply.” The comedy of “Car Boys” has been played 1,350 times consecutively at a London theater, and will soon be followed by “Our Girls.” It Is different in this country. Here our girls are followed by our boys. But perhaps it is leap year ia England.—[Norristown Herald. A pickpocket, taken with his hand in some one else’s pocket, endeavored tq invent all manner of impossible explanations of the phenomenon. “What’s the use of your trying to lie abont it so clumsily?” said ‘the magistrate, benevolently; “haven’t you * a lawyer?” Making waistcoats at fourteen cents each, cheviot shirts at four cents a piece, heavy overcoats at fifty cents per dozen and woollen trousers at tea cents a pair, are some facts gleaned by a society of ladies who are investigating the condition of the sewing women of Cleveland, Ohio. A christianized Zulu prince, cousin to Cetywayo, is visiting Sweden, and notingth# crowd which turned out to see him at Helsingborg, remarked in wonder: “I never knew before that there were , so many white men in the world. From their war with my cousin, I thought that they were rather a small tribe.” Indignant father to his son, whose picture has not even been skied at the academy: “You’re a n.ce artist Here you are fortyfive years old Christmas week., and yet no picture of yours has ever been received.” “But sir” “Silence, sir! Don’t vou presume to ‘but, sir,’ me. Sir, at your age Raphael had been dead for ten years.’’— [Paris paper. In committing suicide the man about to die for love will aim at the heart where his trouble is. The insane man will shoot at his bead.—[New Orleans Picayune.] Where the trouble is,'eh? Then that fellow who has just been kicked ont of the house by his darling’s parent, if he wants to make a sure thing of it, will have to hire somebody else to suicide him. Aind’t it ?—[Puck. When the late George G. Barnard was a judge of the New York supreme court, bis habits on the bench were all his own. He would drink brandy, or sit with his boots oa the desk before him; but his favorite amusement was whittling, and it was one of the functions of the attendants of his courtroom to keep on hand for consumption in this way a supply of pine sticks of a proper size and shape.

log walking number of amateur pedestrians whom he will give a trial in a series of minor contests, and whea he finds one who can make 500 miles, “go as you please,” in six days, he will take him to England to bring back the Astley belt which the English Rowell carried away from our shores. “Gem'len, I hold fast to what I said two weeks ago. A call’d man who behaves hisself an’ works for what he gits am all right in any seckshnn of dis kentry. If a negro wants to pull up an’ head for a strange kentry widont de cash to pay his way, dat’s his lookout We all works for oar money, an’ I fur one shell not divide wid men who go stragglin’ ’round de world looking for Paradise. Let us now impart to our homes.” —[Free Frees. gome spiritualists who hail from Fulton county, Illinois, are digging for $30,000 in coin about two miles south of Clinton, 111., ia an old cemetery. It is claimed by them that the spirit of the identical Indian who bnried it some two bandied years ago, is now directing their efforts, aad success is sure. It has created an intense excitement throughout the vicinity. The parti* have been at work three weeks, and have succeeded in excavating to a depth of 40 feet hut no money has been seen.

salute varies from a simple graceful ware of the hand to three rufflee of the drum’s color, trumpets sounding the flourish aad arms

highest , dropping, officers sad troops saluting, drums beating aad trum pets sounding.’’ Now if ths gentlemen of America got into the habit of raising such a racket as that ovary time they met a lady, it would be rather more startUng than a chronic Fourth of July. Profamor Fanning is correct. This sort of thing west! he diaowngeA—[Burlington Hawks;

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Desiring to teak*

fleeing

contributions to th* from Louisiana and

KSppTT made** penonaTvSTto^ camp of refugees ia Si. Louis yesterday. These negroes, numbering several hundred, were mainly located at 511 South Levee street, ia a row of abandoned buildiags. The colony came generally from Teases parish, Louisiana, oa the Golden City. It was a wonderful gathering. They appeared like fugitive* fleeing from their pmecutoca. The

the Egyptians could determined, plucky,

were these ne-

ag from

Israelites fleeing from not have been more

prayerful, or hopeful, than

frees.

What were the character of them people ? They were the flower of the thoughtful, hard-working people of the south, the very “hone and sinew’’ of their best industrial classes. I raised three crops of cottoa myself once in Arkansas aad iWisians, and I know the working negro when I see him. My planting operations were extensive enough to be reposted in th# United States agricultural report printed in Washington a 1864. I my this that the reader may know that 1 ought to know how to estimate the negro

character in th# south.

The first in a group of several hundred that I encountered was Orange Pocket, with his wife, child, aad two sisters, from Tensas parish, Louisiana. He was an earnest, thoughtful, solemn mulatto. He had been a farm

laborer all bis life—forty years.

“Why did you leave Louisiana?” I asked. “Because 1 lost all hope down thar, sah. I couldn’t make a livin’. For fourteen rear’ I have worked faithfully, but every year brought me out in debt. So I said, I’ll try som# other place. I'm willin’ to work, God knows; but I want to work in peace, aad

want to earn something for my family.”

“Did the planters molest you? Was it

dangerous to Uve there?” I asked.

“No, the planters didn’t threaten me; but they let the poor whites come in from over de bayou ana ku-klux us. The planters said: ‘You vote right along, boys, and vote the democrat’ ticket, and we’ll stand by you; hut if you doa’t vote the democrat’ ticket the bulldozer* will come in and kill you.’ Well, I allpwed not to rote at all—me and my two brothers. I kept right to work in de field every day; but on# day a crowd of whitemen rode up to my cabin from New Hill, and said they wear going to kill u* anyway, because we hadn’t voted. They said: Ton's damned Yankee niggers anyhowand then they shot and killed my two brothers, and I took to de

woods.”

“What did you do then?”

“Why. I laid out for two weeks. I had twenty-five acre* of cotton and corn, and 1 had to lay in the wood* nighta, and work in de field daytimes, keepin’ my eyeon de road.” “Why didn’t your old master, of whom

you hired the land, protect you?”

“Because he was away. They wuz yellow fever times, and old Mars’ John waa up de river. All the planters was away, and the

edlike they wanted to kill

your mind that you

bulldozers seem

everybody.”

“So yon made up couldn’t live there?”

“Yes, sah. De Lord knows I hated w leave de old place, but I couldn’t stay thar. I couldn’t work day-times and lay out in de woods nights. I couldn’t stay wid my wife

To the Con-Alston i yesterday, th* state i the effect that Co* | _ _ __ Alston, who toted to avoid it. ■wore that jut previous to the t entered a saloon, called A. L. ‘ card tabia, had a short eoavemtic and aa he turnad to leave wid: “I 1 him,G—d d—o him!” “

revolver of ihe Derringer left the store said: “You soon again. The defense fistsllp

The city of Altoona, Blair is indebted to the state for ooi

amounting to $4,306.10. P» have been begun against th* city « ago but tor ths intervention of the

general. The state has a Jt

amount of the debt, aad th* a „ dty were notified that oulesi the ; was satisfied by the 29th ult. the I

be arid. There is no money at all ia the dty treasury and no mean* of miring any, asd

1

mk MIC

judgment fc i authoritieec

soon. Executions for unpaid taxes hare also been issued against the dty of Lockhavea aad

the borough of Suahnry.

The Chicago aad Pacific railroad was sold at auction n Chicago yesterday afternoon by

in chaneety-to Job a H. Wrenn fer It is saia that the property k

a master

$916,190. .. .. wu

really bought for John L Blair.

The Montgomery aad Eufaula railroad wa*

sold at Montgomery, Ala., benefit of the bondholders

United States court. It was M. Wadley, of the Georgia $2,120,000 cash, and the Lonisvi

Till* road, which owned most of th* bonds, deered between six and seven hundred thou-

sand dollars.

At a meeting af the stockholders of tho Kansas Pacific railroad company in Now York yesterday, the following directors were elected: Jay Gould, Sidney Dillon, F. L. Ames, Russell Sage, Addiaoa Cam mack, G. M. Dodge, JamesR. Keene. 0. S. Greeley, J. P. Usher, M. Kdgerson, and James M. Ham. At a subsequent meeting of the directors the following officers were chosen: President, Sidney Dillon; vice president; D. M. Kdgerton; treasurer, James M. Ham; secretary, A. H. Coley, and general solicitor, J. P. Usher. ttaytag the Board. The custom of shariujr th* beard was eaforced hr Alexander of Macedon, not for the sake of fashion, bat for a practical end. Hs knew that the soldiers ef India, when they encountered their foes, had the habit of

cryin’ every day, afeared I’d be killed.

Mas’r John, he begged ' doit. :

him I couldn’t do I’ze tried you now

Old

me to stay, but I told

*t nd

IT* uU

I said, ‘Mas’r Job

fourteen year, an

what have I got to show for it? Every year I’ze in debt No, Mas’r John, I said, Tie gwine away;’ and here I is. I’ze poor, but I kin work. Fse willin’ to take a soldier’s fare but I want peace, l want to work where I can come home and sleep with my wife

nights.”

“How did you reat your twenty-five acres ?”

I asked.

“Here is de contrac’ I had last year, and which I throwed up when .1 came away,”

ng me an ordinary pass

ired up

said Orange, handing me an ordinary book, with a contract ia the front, and a

grocer’s bill charged in the back. The contract specified that Orange Packet should cultivate twenty-five scree in corn and cotton -twenty-two acre* of cotton and three of corn; that his wife and children should work in the field, and that he should pay the fol-

lowing rent:

5 tales of cottoa foe rent of 3S scree of land. 2 bales of cotton for uae of t mules. > bales of cotton fer food of S male*. 1 bale of cotton ...for nee of tools. Ten bales of cotton, worth about $400, you will gee, was the rent for twenty-file asree of Irfnd, which wouldn’t sell for $300 in th* market. Besides, the poor negro was to pay $5 per bale for ginning the eotton .at the plantation gin. A cotton gin gins from eight to ten bales a day, and costs abont $300. I’ve bought cotton gins and run them. Forty dollars per day for the use of a $300 gin is simple theft. Fifty cents per bale ia a good price for the use of a gin. Now, what could this negro raise off of twenty-two acres of cotton land? I know people talk about a bale to the acre, and U is sometimes made; but that is a phenomenal yield. A bale to the acre is as uncommon as thirty bushels of wheat to the acre. Onehalf a bale of cotton is an average yield on the lowland, and one-third of a hale on the uplands—the same as thirteen bushels of wheat is an average crop of wheat. Now, if Orange Bucket made an average crop he would have eleven bales of cotton—ten for the planter and one for himself, out of which he would have to feed his family. But Orange hoped to get more than an average crop. Be hoped to get fifteen bales of cotton off of twenty-two acres, and he did get that last year. The planter took the negro’s fire bales at $32 a bale—$160. Then he deducted $60 for ginning, leaving the negro $110, which was eaten up by the following extravagant prices charged in the pass book: 300 pounds of pork, at 28 cents per pound $78 00 10 barrels of meal, at $6 per berreL 80 00 5 gallons of molasses, at 81 per gallon 8 00 28 pounds of sugar, at 20 cent* per pound . 8 00 SO yards of domestic, at 28 costs per y*nl... 7 50 4 pounos of tobeooo, at gl.SO per pound... 0 00 1 hat ......a. ....a.. ...... a,,,.. ... ...a.. ... 1 80 5 pairs of shoes, st 9? 60 7 80 20 yards of calico, at 10 oents per yard S 00

Total..

.190 SO

So, when poor Orange Packet had worked a whole year, with his wife and children, he found, after making more than an avenge

was charged up to him to commence the next year with. And still there are some stupid Christians in the North who think Moees did right when he led the children of Israel out of Egypt, but who think the second exodos is s foolish thing for the negro. I do not think the negro can be worse off than he is in Mississippi and Louisiana. He is s pauper, and constantly in danger of being killed, which is worse than s state of absolute slavery. Now, shout the prices which the planter charges these poor negroes. Pork is charged st 25 or 30 cents, when you can buy it in St. Louis for 5 cents; meal is charged st 3 cents, when you can buy it in St. Louis for 1 cent; molasses is charged st $1, which cost In New Orleans 30 cents; tobacco is sold st $1.50, which costs 50 cents, etc. In every instance the planter chargee the negro 300, and 400 or 500 per cent, profit. I found the negroes generally poor. Of course they had s little money tucked sway in old stockinet, which they hung on to like grim death—ss they should. What will be the end of this exodus? I think it will awaken the sooth to the real worth of the negro. They will he content to let worth 1«*b land to them at a reas-

planter. He will not sell it There is a league between the planters not to sell land to s negro. The negro can never become s landholder in the soutu nntil he begins to go sway, and the planter must sell, rout or ss.’-JFusst borer has right! ss well m he.

Elovaaeri Eai1roa4 O—*olMaM*m« Cyras W. Field gave a banquet in New York last night to a number of prominent citizen# in commemoration of the fact that all conflicting interests between the Metropolitan and New York elevated roads have been harmonised. Th# statement was made that the roads are bow carrying 156,000 psegIaUj',

imitated the Greeks In the practice, ss they

The Msateaa Exposition.

The Mexican government has appointed Col. David V. Whiting commissioner to the United Statoe for the industrial exposition to be held in th* City of Mexico commencing next January. Col. Whiting has also bees appointed consul st Chicago, and will furnish intending exhibitors copies of th* regulations and full particulars regarding the exporitio#. The Mexican republic Is rapidly completing the building and preparing to receive visitors

and exhibitors.

CoUlortas Closed, The Seneca sod Twin collieries, operated by the Pittston and Elmira coal company of Pittston, have closed operations for an indefinite term. The reason is said to be that the company can bay coal at their selling points cheaper than ther can mine and ship It. Seven hundred men and boys will be thrown out of employment. Fast Freight, Owing to th* difficulty la procuring th* new tobacco stamps shipments were delayed, and yesterday a chartered fast freight train, loaded with tobacco, left Jersey City for Chicago, via the Pennsylvania railway, nnder contract to make the ran through in twentyfour hours.

A Billion Wowlda’c go Rouad. [South Band Herald.)

mrsi sirucK on, we weep to wiqk ne overlooked the needy and seedy editorial fratera-

Indictments Qoaahod. The indictment against ruptcy Homer N. Hibbard,

Register , or Chic

ia Bank-

error in its drawing. The case against Register Cain, of Freeport, was nolle proseed. International Comity. Having leaned of Gyros W. Field’s intention of erecting a monument to Major Aadrs, the Bridgeport St. George society, all native Britons, have subscribed fifty dollars toward* Nathan Hale, the first Yankee spy captured in the revolution. * 1 specially When Divorces ar* Cheap,

[Richmond Neva]

Down in Georgia the women harness ap their husbands to the plow and make them break up the ground. A great many men would break up house keeping before they,

would do it.

Ths Homo Everywhere.

{South Bend TriboaeJ

The people of Ohio are sending in petitions to their democratic legislature to adjourn aad go borne. The people, regardless of party, have lost all patience with the legislature. Aa Interconvertible Phroee.

fOremeastie Press]

“He serves bis party beet who serves his country best,” is now in th* light of Hayes's veto, interpreted to mean “he serves Us

best who serves his party beet.”

country ]

Tree la ell Thlaga. [Corytea Democrat.]

the thousand

farm. He knows

A good farmer does not negleet

and one little things upon his fan _ that success depends very largely npoa his

closely watching th* small things. Falltag Back fer (applies.

An emigrant wagon passed throngh Indianola one day last week, going in an easterly direction, labeled os the cover; “Going bnek

to my wife’s people.”

The next session of the general conference of tie Methodist church will be ‘ * year in Cincinnati.

Robbing ch arches and synagogues ha* now become a practice with a certain c thieves. _ A# ft Shoald Be. The Oneida communist# receive tke lagUsh sparrows with inhospitable shotguns.^

I* recoverable, not by ths os* of bat by a recourse to rifcctaal teak Opiates aad the like shoald only he

the mv excitant* of ttoeriy area the mstvos

ten, will beloead all-wffictoat far this •tea* it satlMlr remoi dJgMUon and Mtimliatlon ef th* toed n body la taanrad Ha due amount ef