Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 27, Number 32, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 March 1878 — Page 2

THE. INDIANA STATE SENTINEL; WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAKCH 27. 1878.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27. . I'il'b the Nisth left in gold and notes nearly $25,000,000. . .

Pboveor Tick predicts prepare for rain. then. a dry summer. .Tbkr are in the United States, by caretul enumeration, 2.j0,0W Hebrews. . The first blessing given by the new iope was conferred on a Frotestant gentleman from Ronton. . Toe legislature of Iowa has appropriated $1,500 to a man who Berved four years in the penitentiary unjustly. It ought to have been $15,000. ' . Es; la.td has commenced suppressing newspapers in India. The natives have commenced talking altogether too plainly to suit John BulL To tHOW the'great depression of business in Washington city, a correspondent writing from there says there are .at present l,i00 eligibly situated vacant houses. An estate valued at $100,000 is waiting at Philadelphia for heirs to come and claim it. . Mr. Jones and Mary Keen are advertised as the ones most entitled to the lion's share. The Chicago Inter Ocean suggests that the city could pay its debts and be put on a firm financial basis by levying a tax of one cent on each-drtnfc of intoxicating liquors sold in the lor rooms. ' At the funeral of an aged citizen of Galveston, Texas, there were over twenty-five gentlemen present, each of whom were over eeventv years of age.. Texas must be a healthy country. changed heir tune and demand the removal of John Sherman for his avowed purpose to lock np silver dollars instead of sending them lor.n tnrougnout tne country. The new silver dollar, the dollar of 112 i grains, has made its apicarance in Indianapolis and everybody is pleased with it The demand is that the silver stream shall roll deep and strong over the country. Polygamy isn't dying out very fast i.- tialt Lake City. A Mormon ehier recently married a woman fifty years old and her two daughters, one twenty, the other eighteen. Instead of taking them to his house, he moved his first wife and hu furniture' to the homes of his brides. A boy has died in Brooklyn of hydrophobia who was bitten by a dog six months ago. The animal was not mad at the time, but shortly after thje symptom were discovered. The physicians say that the case was hydro phobic clearlv' defined. He could not en- I dure the sight of water, and died in the most terrible spasms. The silver bill Is the law of the land, and John ishniian ought not to be allowed to stand in the way ot its enforcement. A little effort in the direction o! lmieachment would bs a good thing. iJiobe-Deiuocrat. II B. Hayed, the presidential fraud, also stands in the way of the enforcement of the silver law. A little effort in the way of the fraud's impeachment might also be a "good. 'thing." ' A tvux of imported English cattle took place in New York a few days aao. The attendance at the sale was very large, many wealthy ladiei being present Twenty-three Jersey and O uernsey cows were sold, averaging $3'J5, the highest price being $020 for a two year old cream fawn. Kach animal had a long and well authenticated pedigree, (ireat interest was taken in the sale, as the animals were good stock. Crying children are not the most pleasant creatures in the world, but they are infinitely preferable to children lulled into sleep and death by opiates. A baby belonging to a Cincinnati woman has during the six months of its life been regularly dosed with;:3oothing syrup." The mother testifield before the coroner's j ary that for the last eight weeks she had given to the child who was delicate, about three-quarters o a teaspoonful of the syrup every evening. The physician, who as an expert, gave his evidence, said that "Wrnslow's soothing 'syrup contains from one-half to a grain of 'morphia to an ounce of the syrup. From 'what I can see this child has been taking 'about two ounces of this syrup from time to 'time, which would cause stupidity and 'brain trouble. In my opinion the child died 'from the effects of the soothing eyrup." The jury .after hearing the testimony, all of this tenor, retarned the verdict that death resulted "from disease of the brain caused 'by too free use of opium administered by 'its parents. The said opium was contained in a decoction known 83 'Mrs. Winslow's 'aootbing syrup,' and the jury are of opinion 'that parent should be very CJreful in the 'use of eaid preparation." Evkky time the subject of an income tax is mentioned the Shylock organs set up a lively howl and demand that the rich who deal almost inclusively in government bond Shall be exempt from taxes to aid in sup-j port of the govern meat They are opposed to the equitable distribution of - the burden of taxation. They desire to build up in this country a moneyed aristocracy more odious than that which exists in Kngland. where incomes are taxed and large revenues tjeilved therefrom. The man who invests a million dollars in government bonds doe&n't contribute one cent for the support of the government, municipal, state, or national, while the man who iuve&ts his cash in any branch of business to carry forwarl the progress of the country 'is taxed heavily and compelled to pay. We are satisfied that a judiciously guarded income tax is absolutely right. We take no stock in the general hue and cry that such a tax will prove demoralizing and Jfad topt rjury to an extent that will damn the couotry. We axe quite willing toad mi t that he re and there men will swear faltM-ly to avoid ' payiBg something or the support of a government that protects them. If they do commit perjury, and it can be

proved, let them go to the penitentiary like other felons, and that difficulty will very soon be obviated. What Is wanted now in this terrible ordeal through, which the country is passing is help from all. And the country must have it. WAN THE bILVER BILL, A DEHO 1KATIC MEASURE? It is mournfully true that in times of great calamity parties and creeds are forgot ten'in the general demand for relief. At suck

times, however; the causes of the difficulties to be overcome are inquired into, and intuitively the people anticipate, relief from others than those who were responsible for their a dictions. The business embarrassments under which the country has been laboring for years are traceable directly to the vicious legislation of the radical party, and hence it was not expected that measures of relief would be "prepared and carried through by that' party. . The demo" cratic party was expecteato apply the needed remediesand in this regard the people have not been disappointed. The Boston Herald lias replied to a correspondent who asked for information as to bow the two parties in the senate and house of representatives stood in passing the silver biil over Hayes' veto as i follows: The senate sto.! yen to 19 nays. There were also three, recular double pairs declared : thusactaallr the upper chamber gave 5i yeas to 22 nays. We preHent below two tables, the ilit with and 1 lie second without pairs. We may mention that, to avoid a third iarty line, we have classed Hen a tor Davis, of1 Illinois, among the democrats: , EX ATE VOTE (WITHOC T P.tlRS). Rep. Dem. Total. Yeas . . 20 2 4 Nay .. . 10 t 19 Majority for ilver 10 17 27 SEPTATE VOTE (WITH rAIUK). Rep. Deni. Total. Yeas.....-....... .21 . 28 52 Kays r"V 13 22 Majority for silver 11 l'J 30 The only senators unplaced were. Christ lancy, republican, who would have voted nay if present, ana Bnarou, repuoucan, wno wouia mve votod Tea. The division in tne irouo stoou iye yeas to 73 nays. There wer no rezular pair de clared; the non-votiDir members number 2o. "We Rive below an analytic of the division by parties: HOUSE VOTE. Rep. Hera, llti Total. 1! 73 Yeas.. Nays..... NO ... 51 Majority for silver'- 29 91 123 If the senate division (Including pairs) be closed with the division in the house, the congressmen of the two parties took place on this question as follows: ' VOTE OK CONG It Eft. Hep. Jem.TotAl. Yfas... Nays, ItM 14 218 01 . 31 85 Majority for silver V) 113 153 Thus, of the republicans who voted. 62 per cent., to speaa: roundly, weut for silver, and SS percent, for gold; while of the democrats, 8Jjer cent, were for silver and only IS per rent, for gold. . . It is very .easy to see from the foregoing to what party belongs (he credit of pasting the silver bill over Hayes' veto. JiKW YORK CITY. . We have heard much of late about the financial condition of the city of New York and the impression has gone abroad that the city for many years has been in the hands of a most infamous set of freebooters, and thak the people of the city are directly responsible for all the wrongs that have been committed The New York Express refers to a speech recently ma;Ie in the New York assembly which throws a Hoed of light upon the subject, and is valuable as showing that in very maoy regards the legislature is responsible for the cruel wrongs which the city has sut. fered without the power of correcting them. The Expre33, in commenting upon Mr. Brooks' speech, ays: . It would be well, notwithstanding the excellent report of It given lu our columns yesterday, to reproduce some of tne salient facts and figures w 1th which it was crowded overfull. It Is enough, however, to call attention to the central point, the pivotal fact of the whole dlscuHsiou. Shall New York city le let alone to tcoveru itself like Rochester, Utlca, and Ituffalo, and the other cities of the state, or Khali it be held in perpetual vassilage and ruled like a conquered city by the Albany legislature? This is the main question behind all others and aliove all others. For twenty years the legislature ban been interfering with the a flairs of this city more and tnore, until it has now become a terror to our authorities and citizens. At Is ruled Ironi Albany as really if not as rapaciously as Bulgaria was ruled by tho Turkish porte t.t Constantinople. Ihe legislature has passed 2,100 blUs relating directly to this city In 20 years. It has passed the acts under which a debt of ;5.UOO,0OO was Incurred. It created the board of supervisors which voted away millions of the city's money. 1 1 has foisted 7,xjo new officers on t ho city for supnort without consulting the tax-paying citizens. It provided the iegtl apparatus by which the expenses of the city government were raised from tl,0uU,OUO ia 1W to over tJU.OUO.OUO In 1&77. It was at the bottom of all the principal depredations of Tweed and his ring. Yet in nine years this city has paid t$,220,7l In taxes for tne support of the schools of other counties, besides supporting its own; and the legislature has taxed Inls city Vi per cent, ol the whole Rinonnt of Sll,33a,lC5 Of auction duties collected in the state. In short this citv has been plllugeVl by the legislature precisely as though it were in a conquered foreign province. And yet, as Mr. Brooks truly said, when it asks for a measure of Ju-t legislation, when its authorities petl1 ion for come needed act, it is t rented as cavalierly and with as much suspicion as though It were a nest of robbsrs and paupers, Instead of being ie commercial capital of tho western continent. THE AIHI3iIHTltATIO. AND A LOVE SICK SWAIN. .We published some days since a somewhat particular statement of the trials and tribulations of the Hon. J. E. Leonard, M. C, from Louisiana. . This distinguished republican carpetbagger was a widower, quite : young, and, as a mattcr of course, rich. He eeems to have"J Been the special favorite of Capid, and had studied love, courtship and marriage until those who knew him best regarded him as authority upon such subjects. In his search for an "affinity" he met, in due time, a young Cuban lady too young, io the opin ion of her cruel parents, to choose a husband judiciously, and as a consequence she was not permitted to see th9 Hon. Carpet-Cdgger except in the presence of the old folks. This bothered Mr. Leonard and his gal, who came to the conclusion that the course of true love never did run smooth. But they concluded to bide their time and await events. The fair lady left with her parents for her island home, with the under staiiding that & correspondence might be kept up between the lovers. Hon. Mr. Leonard went to Washington and engaged in the business of speech making and legislation generally. Jle wrote letters, but could obtain no replies. He became nervous, despondent, morose, in fact lovesick.' Love's young dream took possession of the M. C. "Iive, ttir Jove," was Lis theme. The great measurei .''.ought before congress were contemptible in his eyes. He took no interest in any Of 'the important questions of the times.

Not even the Southern Pacific could arouse him. His heart was in Cuba. At this supreme moment Judge Leonard sought the advice of -Hayes, and the United States governirient was at once enlisted. Hayes wrote letters commanding all the agents of the government to find out, if possible, what had become of Leonard's al, and news was received that she was out of town on a plantation. Then the state department was besieged, and the aid of the Spanish minister was obtained; even the wife of the minister wrote a letter requesting the authorities of Cuba to hunt up Leonard's gal. But this was not enough.

. Leonard, armed and equipped with letters bearing the great sealsof two mighty nationsi went forth in search of his! sweetheart. He found her, but, as in New Orleans, he had to meet her in company with the old man and the old woman, and could make no headway. Then Yellow Jack came along and solved the problem, and . Judge Leonard died in . a foreign land. The gist.of this whole affair is the connection of the United States government with it. "It is safe to say," says the Washington Post, "that the history of constitutional 'government affords no parallel to this most 'remarkable mingling of politics and Jt.l 1 uuiu .uu "'"'1. Dublic facilities and nrivata rturnosea. ... t th npi.form,nrpa Iy comparison Wlin U me penorniances or. urant in perverting public powers 'to personal uses sink Into insignificance,, 'both as to illegality and indelicacy. Had 'Leonard lived it is probable that none of the 'details would have ever been made public 'But his strange and sudden death, bringing 'to light as it did all the papers in his posses'sion, threw the secrets of his mission open 'to the gaze ot, the heartless world. We pre'sume it will be some time before Mr. Hayes pokes his official nose into another interna'tional love affair." It is the peculiar province of radicals to play the part of great fools or of great rascals. In this instance the fool has the best of it, and the dignity of the government suffers. CHINESE X. AMERICAS LABOR. American labor is inseparably connected with American citizenship. In America labor is not, and ought not to be, degrading. No. legislation should be had and no treaties made with foreign powers calculated to impoverish or humiliate American labor. So far as the country is advised . the introduction of Chinese . labor has had . the effect to push aside American laborers, to humiliate and impoverish them. The testimony is voluminous and conclusive. The speech of Senator Sargent, of California, puts the question in a light that' all must ' see the .great wrong inflicted upon Americans by Chinese emigrants. He said: If America holds out Inducements to emigrants to come here to better their condition, it has been the Implied understanding that they shall be tit for and become citizens of this country, adapting themselves to our laws, liiergins: in bur population and cemented into the fabric of society upon the same terms and conditions as those which appertain to the people born on the soil. Our lathers founded hera an American civilization, republican in form and spirit, and anything which contravenes this debasvsbr destroys It can not be consistent with the traditions of t be republic or w ith I n the moanin? of the declaration that America is the home for the oppressed of all lands. Tho Chinese fulrill none of the requisites of the immigration which. our laws are designed to encourage. They remain n distinct, Indigestible mass in the community. A residence of nearly Si) years In California has done nothing toward assimilating the Chinese to the "body of our people. They occupy their own qunrterof thocity; still use their own dress ami language; worship in their own Joss houses; govern themselves by their own laws,, even to te execution of the deatn penalty against offenders; persevere in their heathenish vices, and live with entire selfish exclusivencss. They do not seek America as a home or to beeoire citizens or to enjoy or maintain its Institutions, but merely to drain it of such petition of its wealth as they can acquire, always with anlino reverteudl, and, failing to realize this Intention in living, secure the shipment of their bones to Cnlna after death. It may be po.-sible to compel American laborers to wcrk cheap, but to compel them to meet in the labor markets of the country men who have no aspirations above a Chinaman is an outrage that ought not to be tolerated. Senator Sargent tells plain truths, and the country ought to listen to them. THE WIIIITINCrOVT. The little state of Delaware little in territory, little in revenues, little in thought, still smaller in policy and still less in many things that pertain to the advanced civilization of the age retains the whipping-post, not so much on account of its humanitarian influence as that it saves money to the state. The whipping-post is brutal, debasing and heathenish, but it is cheap, and Delaware likes it because there is money in it SemUoccasionally the public is treated to graphic accounts of Delaware's courtly entertainments that are becoming as popular in that state as bull fights are in Spain. A whipping day is a gala" day in Delaware. The populace wait for the hour with intense interest Old and young throng the pens where the whipping post is erected, waiting for the fun to commence. The instruments of torture are examined and commented upon. The methods of strapping up the victims are discussed. The probable effect of the torture passes under review. At last a speak thief, black or white, male or female, Is led forth, stripped,

the back laid bare, strapped to the post, and the executioner brings forth the thongs. Now all is excitement. Every eye is riveted upon the victim and the man who wields the lash. All is quiet now. The executioner sends aloft the lash and down it comes' upon the quivering flesh, and a groan is heard, and the form sways and writhes as blow after blow is hid on. The Wood, begins to Mow, the flesh is lacerated,' and at last the inhuman torture ceases; the victim is released, sometimes he droDS helpless at the foot of the post, from which he or she has to be carried away. Then an another, and another, is brought forth until even the most brutal lookers on sicken at the sight, and turn away disgusted. Kentucky, the grand old commonwealth, wants the whtp-ping-post erected in all its county towns. It will be cheaper than modern methods of punishment jails, workhouses and. penitentiaries. It is not to be a "comicality" : or a "whimsica'Jty," as Watterson puts such things, but a standing and stubborn reality. If the law passes making the whipping post a Kentucky institution, there will be a vast number of whippers and deputy whippfra, whether elected by the people or appointed by the t

legislature. Whether they will be paid a regular salary is not known. Whether they are to have so much for each blow or a stated sum per victim we are not advised, but the probabilities are that the office will be fairly lucrative. Radical legislation has reduced thousands and tens of thousands of honest people to abject poverty, and is driving them into crime. We notice that the Hon. P. P. Johnson, a member ot the Kentucky legislature, has been interviewed upon the subject by a representative of the Cincinnati Enquirer. The following is of Interest: "What class would be most affected by the passage of the bill?' "The petty thieves of the Juries' selection. Times are hard, and there is much suffering. The unfortunate may be driven by the pangs of hunger or the pleadings of a starving family to the commlssiou of a first offense, when if they had been blessed with a tithe of the world's goods it is sought by the whippingpost to guard, they would have been as free from oilense as their .persecutors. There is no clamor for tne puo ishment of the great thief who has brought about this poverty, temptation and crime, and who lias deliberately roboed th trusting surety, the widow and the orphan. lie is a gentleman, and must go scot free." It appears that lit. Johnson would lke to have all classes of thieves whipped it the whipping-post is to be established in the land of the Clays and the Crittendens. Upon this proposition Mr. Johnson's head is level. To whip a poor devil for stealing a chicken or a pig to keep starvation from his family, while a thief like Bob Atwood steals thousands and is saved from the torture of the lash, does not appear shipshape. It ia quite likely that it will be sometime before Kentucky will adopt the whipping-post as a method of punishing thieves, but when she does, let her make no distinctions, but whip the big thieves as well as the little ones.

THE JOURNAL AND THE SEWS AS PKOPJIETS. When the silver bill was pending in congress the Journal and the News of this city gave daily diatribes on the bilL They averred that the purpose of ' those who favored it was to force a dishonest dollar upon the people. They asserted that it was an effort to compel the people to take 92 cents where 100 were due; in other words a device to scale the indebtedness of the country 8 per cent They predicted that . if the bill became a law gold would go up like the thermometer under the influence of a tropical sun, and government securities go.down like the thermometer exposed to the blasts of a polar winter. Notwithstanding the opposition oi the gold bugs the bill passed, and the people have a double standard in the place of a single one. What have been the effects of the passage of this law? Are the people ruined?. Has gold gone up and government bonds gone down? .Nothing of the kind. From the day the bill passed until the present gold has been tending to par with greenbacks. From the hour when congress, with a courage worthy of the cause it was serving, passed the bill over the hackneyed objections of Hayes, government securities have been appreciating in value. The calamities which, according to the' Journal and the News were to follow the passage ot the silver bill, have never come to hand. The "dishonest dollar" at which they raved is now selling in this market at . $1.03 in greenbacks It can only be obtained from the government for gold, and is preferred by many to that metal. Were these journals the paid attorneys of the gold bugs, and did their ravings represent so many dollars current money of the realm? "Where be there 'quiddits now, their quillets, their cases 'their tenures and their tricks?" Are they prophets or 'the sons of prophets? Will the people in future believe anything they aay? Have they not proved themselves entirely worthless as soothsayers? Will either of them open an office and tell the people's future by studying the stars, surveying the palms of hands or reading the history of the four kings? Verily, have the Journal and the News proven themselves to be false prophets and blind leaders of the blind. Not only this, but that they were also as blind as bats, or else bad a power of simulation worthy the best actor who ever trod the stage. TALES ABOUT TILE3. Proceedings of the State Association Yester-flay-A Trial cf TU Machlnes-Ad-Juuriunsnt Till November 20. The convention met at the apjtointed hour, with Mr. Klmgensmith in the chair, and a number of gentlemen present w ho were not in attendance yesterday. The committee on constitution and bylaws presented the new constitution and bylaws, which were unanimously adopted. . ELECTION OF OFFICERS. J. T. Strirger, of Kokomo, was elected president; S. C. Co wgil, Cadiz, vice president, and W. E. Chandler, Brownsburg, secretary. Mr. Ten field proposed to be one of 30 or CO to offer a $300 prize for the best ditching machine, and thought the society should encourage ditching machines. Dr. Brown thought that ditching is the foundation for success in farming, but that one ditching machine will not do for all kinds of soil. Mr. Austin, of Texas, and Mr. Foster, patentees, txxaiIie the merits of their machines. .Messrs. Tenfield, Iladley, Nolaud, Brown and Klingensuiith were appointed a committee to raise the $300 to be offered as a prize. Messrs. Iladley, Penfield, Bergen, Boss and Pike were appoint?d a committee to retort a list of subjects for the next meeting, but did not report prior to adjournment. REGULAR ORDER OF BUSINESS. The regular business was then taken np. On the subject of a general drainage law, Mr. Logan thought a surveyor general should be appointed at a nominal salary, the cost of surveying to be paid by parties interested. Mr. Hamilton said he paid $14 for surveyfngenajob, the assessment for doing the digging bfcing but $10. He thought that too high. , Mr. Thomss said that in England the government paiJ tae surveyor, and the government loaned money to be ujtd in ditching at three per cent Messrs. Thomas, Carlton of Ohio, Brown of Illinois, Iladley and Stringer were appointed a committee to investigate the ditch laws and present new statutes to the legislature. On the subject of th prices of tile, Mr. Lhw retire aiiihat he purchases everything and csn make a living by teliing thre inch tile at 2 cents rf rod; four inch at So ceuts, and six loch at 7 cents. Mr. 8 nm:r sold at a litde less than Mr. Lirenee. , Mr. Thomas considered the wear and tear tqoal tu 3i per cent ' t . The convention was of thi opinion that 35

per cent should be realized above the cost of making. AFTERXOOS SKfc'JOIf. The committee on price of tiles reported a resolution recommenditg that tile makers so adjust their prices as to secure a living, and suggesting that farmers are directly interested in seeing that the business is not destroyed by low prices. On the subject of artificial drying It was the sense of the convention that there is no profitable plan for drying tile artificially. The committee to provide for the trial of tile machines reported, and it' was decided that the trials should be made the third and fourth days of the next state fair. The

nrtminn. .A; .. i. of the secretary, who will pay it over to the secretary of the btate agricultural society. Mr. Bushy, of St Louis, described a new sheet iron kiln, lined with fire brick. The president recommended the formation of .county associations. A vote of thanks was tendered Secretary Heron, of the state board of agriculture, for his uniform kindness. The finance committee was ordered to superintend the trial of ditching machines. Over $100 was reported subscribed toward the ditching trial, and the association adjourned to meet again November 20, all the members feeling that the convention had been a grand success. . . llAYE&'S MEN'DACITY. He Violate Ills Promise to a Woman and Plays I be Sneak. r Washington Post Mr. Hayes, in his naturally weak and vascillating way, has violated another promise, and this time the disappointment falls upon a woman. Some weeks azo Mrs. Mulligan, of Chicago, made an application for the pension agency at that city. She is the widow of Col. Mulligan, the gallant Union officer who defended Lexington against Gen. Price and afterward fell mortally wounded, at the feet of his De Faitoship, then colonel of an Ohio regiment Mr. Hayes caught the . wounded colonel ai he fell and supported him until he died. Mrs. Mulligan was left without means to struggle for tne support of several children. She is a woman of more than ordinary ability and energy, and her friends suggested that she appeal to Mr. Haves for the pension agency. Following this advice Mrs. Mulligan called upon Mr. Hayes and made her application, wnich was backed by petitions from eight of the Illinois members of the house, the common council, nearly all the judges and mem- . bers of the bar and thousands of the best citizens of Chicago. She urged that Miss Sweet whose term was about to expire, had held tbe position for eight years and ought to have laid by enough to support her. Senator Davis also ur;;ed the appointment of Mrs. Mulligan and Mr. Hayes promised it But the reformer, Schurz, objected. He said the appointment of women to office was only an experiment, and he did notcaie to try a new woman; that Miss Sweet had managed the office well, and if she was not retained he would insist upon the appointment of a man. Yesterday the name o( Miss Sweet was sent to the senate, and Mrs. Mulligan, surprised and disappointed, called upon Hayes, who apologized, said he was sorry, but couldn't help it and asked if he could do anything else, for her; if there was any other place she would like to have. Mrs. Mulligan informed him that he could not do anything for her, and left tho white house. She has been here several weeks at heavy expense, relying upon the promise of Hayes, and believing she would return home with a commission i that would provide . comfortably for herself and family. Poor, weak, vascillating Hayes. TROPHIES OF WAR What Ibe Russians Captnred from tbe Turks. Pall Kali Gazette. From recently published official returns it appears that between the d2y on which war was declared and the signing of the armistice tbe Ittissian army of the Danube captured 15 pashas, 113,000 officers and men, 0G guns of different calibres, 0,GK tents, 140,200 muskets and 24.C00 horses. In addition, 200,000 small arms, yataghans and pistols were taken from Turkish irregular troops, and also 13,000 lances and daggers. The Itussian army In Asia captured during the war 14 pashas and 60,200 officers and men. 2 guns, 1V00 tents, 42,000 muskets, 18,000 horses and immense stores of ammunition and provisions of all kinds. The number of fircirms and miscellaneous' weapons taken from the Asiatic irregular troops of the porta was also, it is stated, ex ceedingly large, but no details are given. In Europe, as in Asia, a vast quantity of rice, bread and salt was seized, as well as an immense number of cartridges and a great quantity of loose powder. The Servian troops also acquired a large booty during the short time they were engaged, their trophies beiDg returned as 238 guns, 10,eo0 muskets and 37 standards, besides tion, provisions and horses. animuni- i ' Tbe Sixteenth Amendment. The following is the text of General E wing's proposed .sixteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States: Article XVI. To furnish the people of the United States a irraancnt and stable paper money, congress shall provide for issuing millions of dollars of United States note?, not bearing interest, which shall be a legal tender for ell debts and dues, public or private, except for such existing debts as by contract are payable only in coin. The aggregate of such notes shall be increased each year at a rate equal to the average annual percentage of increase of population of the United States, a3 shown by the last preceding census; to which shall be added a reasonable amount for lass of outstanding circulation. Of the first issue of such notes, as much as may be necessary shall be used in retiring all the United States notes not beanng interest now outstanding, and the remainder in reducing the interest bearing debt; and each yearly increase shall be applied to the extinguishment of such debt or to necessary public works. No notes of the United States not bearing interest shall be issued except as herein provided; and no law of the United States or of any state shall authorize tbe issue of notes payable to bear?r on demand by or for the benefit of any r eraon, association or corporation. Congress shall provide for withdrawing from circulation all bank notes now outstanding. . Chlcag-o Rendered ITnlnliabltable. (Chicago Tlmea.1 If Chicago riust be hebitable the conditions upon whch people can live, and own property, and carry on profitable business, must exist in Chicago. That which more than any or all things threatens to depopuliteChicapo ii the monstrous over government which demand all that its industriow inhabitants can earn for the support of an OTinv of stalwart loafers and lazy dead beats in office. The other day the Times gave the fieures showing that a piece of business piece or business fch yields a rental lr0IertV in StiW street which lields a rental of $2,400 a yesr Is compelled to pay 1,74U oo a yeur. taxes. In otherwords, tiree-Iourtnsoi all that the pioperty earns is taken and consumed by the official devourers. This is not an exceptional case. It is the average experience of Chicago property owners that the office which ownership devolves upon them consists in collecting the rents (if they can) and paying them over to the city tax eaters, Tbu expensive government is rendering Chicaj uninhabitable Salem Democrat: Grapevine pruning, boiling aoap, wtttni? the early hen and transplanting the odoriferous onion is seasonable work, and 'hu commanded the time and atteution of many industrious bu.'bandmen and housewives laiteily in this tecuon.

DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINE.

The Platform of the Party Adopted at the State Convention. A Clear and I'neqnlTocal Eaonelatlon of Principle Kentirnem lYhlen -tbe BaM Will Indorse. me ueuiwiw-i w me siaie w inaianaasThat national bank notes shall be retired. and in lieu thereof there shall be issued by the eovernment an equal amount of treasury notes with fill legal tender quality. That we are in favor of making the United States notes, commonly called greenbacks, a full legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except such obligations only as are by the terms of the original contracts under which they were issued, expressly payable In coin. That the right to issue paper money as "well as coin is the exclusive prerogative of the government, and such money should be issued in such amounts as the sound business interests of the country may from time to time require. We are in favor of such legislation by congress as will authorize the taxation by the states of the United States notes in common with all other money. , That we deem it unwise and inexpedient to enact any further legislation for the funding of the national debt aoroad, through the means of home syndicates or other methods; and we believe the true policy of the government and the best interests of the people would be subserved by legislating so as to distribute said debt among our people at home affording them tbe most favorable and practical opportunities for the investment of their savings in the funded debt of the United States. That we are in favor of such legislation which shall fix the legal rate of interest at not exceeding six per centum per annum. We demand the restoration of tbe silver dollar, of 412J' grains, to the coin of the country, and with full legal, tender quality in the payment of all debts, both public and Erivate; and that the coinage thereof shall e unlimited, and upon the same terms and conditions as may be provided for the coinage of gold. That we are in favor of the immediate and unconditional repeal of the resumption act We are in favor of the most rigid economy in public expenditures, and we declare that the fees and salaries of all public officers should be reduced. That we are in favor of the repeal of the bankrupt act Thnt. wa nincprplv ripnlnr iVio ruwnt xrinlent collision between labor and canital, and to prevent the recurrence thereof and to protect the luture public order and security we believe that the wages of corporations engaged in the business of mining, manufacturing and transportation should be a first lien upon the property, receipts and earnings of said corporations, and that such lien should be declared, defined and enforced by appropriate legislation. That we favor the passage of a law for the ventilation of coal mines one that would be just to the miner and owner. The democratic party is the friend of the common school system, and will in every legitimate way labor for its success, and will oppose any attempt to divert any portion of the common school fund to any sectarian purpose. That the last apportionment of the state for legislative purposes was grossly unjust n r (1 Hiqlinnrtralilo n1 u-a am.n that th. next legislature, in apportioning the state, for legislative purposes, as will be their imperative duty, shall have regard alone to population and contiguity of territory. That the jurisdiction claimed and exercised by the circuit courts of the United States over questions of corporate and individual rights arising under the laws of the states tends to oppress and burden litigants to such an extent as to amount to a practical denial of justice in many cases; and we consider the legislation which has conferred such jurisdiction as unwise and hurtful to the .true interests of the peonle. And we demand such legislation as will restrict and limit the jurisdiction of such courts to such matters as are clearly contemplated by the constitution and expressed in the judiciary act of 17SJ. We are opposed to class legislation, and frotest against the grant of subsidies by the ederal government either in lands, bonds, monej- or by the pledge of the public credit. That we abhor and hold up to public detestation the leaders in the republican party who 6ecretly connived, and with barefaced effrontery carried out the scheme, by and through venal returning boards, whereby Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks, the peopie's choice for president and vice president, were wrongfully kept out of tbe positions to wbich a free people had called them, We hold it up as the monster crime of tbe age, a crime against free government, a crime against the elective franchise, and a crime that can only be condoned when the malefactors who seated a fraud in the presidential chair are driven from power and consigned to everlasting infamy by the people whom they have outraged. .And we denounce the act of the president of the United States in appointing to high and lucrative, positions the corrupt members of" tbe returning boards, and condemn the acts of federal officers in attempting to interfere with the rights and powers of the state courts in the prosecution of these criminals. That ojir senators and representatives in congress be and are hereby requested to secure passage of a law giving to tbe soldiers Of the Mexican war -a pension similar to that now given to the soldiers of the war of 1812, A Monument Struck byLlgbtiiInf;. Lynchburg News, 13th. J Daring the terrific thunder storm yesterday the splendid marble monument erected in tbe old Methodist cemetery several years ago to the memory of the confederate dead was struck by lightning. The marble eagle surmounting the monument was shivered into fragments, and the entire monument from top to bottom, so badly damaged as to render it dangerous to approach it as it Is liable to fall at any moment We have now , in our possession pieces of inscriptions Which spell the word "Maryland." nl others which can not be distinguished. They were found a hundred yards from the monument, and each piece has a blue line running across . or through it Mr. John Mason, the superintendent of the cemetery, who resides about 200 yards froru'the inclosure, was Handing in his door, and when tbe monument was struck experienced a singular sensation and was for a time insensible. A Memorial. Mrs. Anne Thackery Ritchie asks for subPcriDtions tl a memorial to the late Charles Kingsley. 'The proposed memorial, 8D8 pays, 'is to be put up by the window of a uurpuai hi vuci luc luu bio Al ready there, and the little niatfres? and the blankets; for it is a sick child's crib in a hospital, where the children, when once admitted, may at least rest, at peace, whatever their ailments are. They need not fear that they will ever be turned ont from their quiet corners into the jolting world agnin, though some of them recover and go out to lead useful active lives. Kach child's bed costs 30 a year. The 'Charles Kingsley cot requires ab ut 600 to endow it. Of Uiia 300 has already been subtcribtd, and I may add that Mrs. Kingley has greatly and material'y aided the fccheme." Any American friend or admirer of the pool and clever writer who wishes tocontribute may address. Mrs. Klngaley, I3y fleet Wey bridge, England.