Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 27, Number 36, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 April 1878 — Page 2

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, "WEDNESDAY MORNING-, AP11IL 24, 1878.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24

The state prisons of New York are now self-eupporticg. Louisville aristocrats have the family monogram oa the carriage driver's hat. This distinguishes him from th oldest son. Serjeant Bates, the great A. L c. (Amencan Gag carrier), was knocked down and robbed of $37 and a diamond pin recently iii Illinois. Bat the precious flag la still safe. ; i Hakkiet Beecher Stowk has received $10,000 from "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Had her richt been properly protected her share would have been at the least $300,000. Next Sunday, at Atlanta, a children's jubilee is to be held in connection with the International Sunday-school convention, now m session there. It is estimated that 20,000 persoDS will be in attendance. Lawhexce Baeeett intended to play "The Man o' Airlie" during his Philadelphia engagement, but was prevented by an injunction. The local papers say tha; ss King Lear he made a decided sensation, and won the heartiest applause from the large audience. Alexakdeb H. Stephens has a perfect hatred for pork in any form. 11 never allows it to be put on his table: but his liking for "coon meat" is as stronp as his aversion for hcg. He has two ngroes in Virginia who ore instructed to send directly to him all the coons they can shoot. - Mex are traversing Bulgaria and RoUmania buying up the magnificent hair which the poor wives and daughters of the hopeless refugees are glad to sell. Some of these braids are three feet long, and the hair that is auburn or blonde i3 sent to the United States. It la sort and of a peculiar lustrous appearance. Eleven persona were terribly xoisoned in Louisville on Saturday by eating custard that had been made in a copfier kettle. Four were children, and for several hours there seenied little hope that they could be saved, but the prompt and continued use of antidotes at last stopped the action of the poison, and all of the affected ones a re-now getting Well. The kettle, though old, had been well cleaned, hut the presence of verdigris in the custard was very plain. Some care should always be exercised in the use of copper kettles for cooking food. Amon; other exhibits at the rari3 exposition will be one under tha charge of the prefecture of police. Photographs of all criminals in confinement, all who have escaped from the officers and all who are "wanted" will be shown. A collection of all burglarons tools, jimmies, skeleton keys, chist:3, etc., with all secret weapons, will be SO arranged chat people not members of the "pro'.ession" will understand them. The rogues cf Paris do not like the exhibition of their pictures, and the police have received many anonymous letters of protestation. A Texas bull last Sunday at San Antonio whipped a lion known as a "man eater." But the fight was so disgusting an3 sickening that it is to be hoped for decency's take that it will not be repeated. In attempting to get the bull into the arena, a man was terribly gored, his leg being ripp2d open from tfcs thigh to the foot. The frightened lion bejrged for mercy, crouching low with his luai between his paws. The lionness lay clos'j beside her mate groaning whenever he was struck by the short sharp horns of the bull. Mr. Burgh had better send some missionaries to San Antonio. If the Post happens to know of any case in which the i-publlcan party lias conspicuously honomi or preferred a rebel because he was fcuch, and over the head of a Union general, it would ie an accommodation to us it it would mention the fact. Journal. Fearing the above may escape the observation of the paper to which it ia addressed, we take the liberty of furnishing the information asked for ourselves: John Logan, a Union general of some note, was an appli. cant for a seat in the cabinet of Mr. Hayes. The eeat was refused him, and General Key, an ex confederate brigadier, was made postmaster general. It may be that Hayes is not the republican party, bat Le is the issue of its travails, and it must be held responsible ' for his actions. GOLD AND ;Ui:.UACK.S. There is an immense amount of chuckling in certain circles over the fact that greenbacks are nearly, and for all practical purposes, on a par'witn gold. In fact we hear much talk of resumption even before the 1st day of January, 1879, and the impression is sought to be made that a business millenium is about to dawn upon the country. But it will occur to reflecting and observing men that the decline of gold, or the advance of greenbacks, bo that one is equal to the otber, however desirable such a state of things may be in the estimation of some people, has not been regarded as the one thing needful to revive business. In fact it has at no time been difficult to bring greenbacks to par with gold, and tl at too at a time when such a proceed Ing would have been of incalculable benefit to the country. But no; such legislation would not have been popular with Shylocks. What they demanded was contraction of the currency, shrinkage of values, widespread desolation, bankrupts, poverty and idleness, and Anally, when these cruel curses have wrought out their mission, we see those who nave been instrumental in forcing them upon the country endeavoring to make it appear that the mere fact that greenbacks are nearly at par with gold atones for all the wretchedness that has resulted from the policy that has brought about the equilibrium. The millions of unwilling idlers in America will read the glowing periods of those who record the fact that gold is only 190 J J and that banks have commenced paying out gold, and ask themselves if all this means work and wages, bread and clothing, or if, with such eulogies upon John Sherman'v policy, they must still remain idle and starve. Just cow, while gold Is down and greenbacks are tip, failures multiply. We hear of no advance in values, industries stand still, and (he army of idlers increases. Banks are hus

banding their resources and are more than ever cautious about their lines of credits. The fact is that the process of contraction has gone forward until the United States, with all of her vast enterprises to carry forward,has vastly less money per capita than any other commercial nation in the world, and the announcement that greenbacks and gold are on a level does not solve the business problem. Beyond this sagacious business men will ask themselves and each other if resumption has taken place in any proper sense, or is likely to take place in the near future. It will be noticed in this discussion that those who are the most blatant in favor of John Sherman's policy declare that resumption does not mean resumption at all, that the people will not demand the redemption of greenbacks and national bank bills in gold," and thus the entire superstructure of resumption rests not upon the ability of the government and the national bank3 to pay, but upon the hypothesis that nobody will ask for specie. If the people take John Sherman at his word, his resumption scheme will not stand a week; for with all his plans tor accumulating specie he can not have more than two hundred millions with which to redeem six hundred and fifty millions, and in the event of failure, which is certain to follow the experiment, new com--plications aud disasters will be forced upon the country. The whole scheme is in the interest of Shylocks, and is pursued by a man and a party that have anlnted the country with more curses than ever fell to the lot of any other people under heaven.

PAKTY IIIKTORY. It may not be uninteresting just at this juncture to review briefly the rise and fall of the parties in connection with the history of the United States. Prior to the war of independence there were two principal parties the party of American freedom and inde pendence and the English, or tory party. The former favored all measures looking to the upholding of American rights and. the latter opposed them, claiming unconditional and servile allegiance to the crown of Great Britain. These were the contending forces at the period of the revolution, and for a long time after the formation of the American constitution. The English or tory party, though weakened by the results of the seven years of war, was by no means dead, because it was composed largely of property holders who considered it the better policy to yield a quad consent to the rule of the independents, with the hope of giving somewhat of a monarchical form to the new government. Unable to institute a kingdom or to coronate a king they set themselves to work In favor of a strong central organization. They used their best influences with Malison, Hamilton, Jay, Adams and others in favor of a concentration of large power in the general governments. But these great men were patriots, and dis" posed to follow the genius of American democracy, although to some extent the federal party succeeded in incorporating some of their favorite features in the new constitution. These loyalists were ever awake to government patronage, and they so far succeeded with the British government as to get $15,000,000 indemnity as compensation for property destroyed during the revolution. The rigtd organic character of this ancient federal party was teen in their continued efforts to check the spirit of democracy, so popular among the masses. They influenced the minds of some of the leading patriots of the country, and it may be said they were ably represented by Alexander Hamilton, secretary of the treasury under Washington's adriinistn.tion. But Thomas Jefferson, secretary of foreign afiairs, took the part of the people, and he and Hamilton often differed in the policy best for the republic. For twelve years federal policy was in the ascendencj'. The first great struggle between these parties occurred at the close of Washington's administration, when the federalists carried John Adams into the presidential chair, and Thomas Jefferson was made vice president. The conflict was a fierce one among the people, and resulted in a close vote, leaving the parties about equal. The general policy of the administration of John Adams was unpopular, and in 1330 the federal party was defeated. Thomas Jefferson, who has been called the father of American democracy, came to the presidency with the opening of the century. His broad views of human rights were brilliantly brought out in his administration of eight years, when he was succeeded in 1S0S by James Madison, a member of his cabinet, who conducted his administration on the same line of democratic policy. The war of 1812, which gave Buch eclat to our American valor, also fully vindicated the patriotism of the democratic administration, and the prestige of federalism perished with the victory of New Orleans. James Monroe succeeded Madison in 1316, and followed the same order of general policy. In 1S24 there were four candidates in tbe field for the presidency Adani3 in the east, Crawford in the south, and Jackson and Clay in the west. As the federal jarty had gone to the wall, this conflict was more one of sectional ambition than of a specific party contest. In the election of Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun In the contests of 182.3 and 1S32 the democratic party was once more in tbe ascendency it continued to maintain until 1810, wbenthe whig party made its first successful race in the election of General W. H. Harrison, whose chief impulses of victory were log cabin and hard cider. General Harrison was a brave old western soldier, and his party carried the day on his war record ard by misrepresentations of the administration of Martin Van Buren. General Harrison died in a month after his inauguration aud John Trier, vice preslient, assumed the presidential chair. Being a democrat in his principles, his administration was more or less governed accordingly. r It 1841 James K. Polk was elected by tho democratic party, but in 1313 the party was defeated through the defection of the friends of Martin Van Buren in their oppositions to General Cass, and General Zachariah Taylor, one of the heroes of the Mexican war, succeeded to the presidential chair on his military renown. General Taylor, was no partizan, and his administration was of the same

character. . ' Millard Fillmore, . he vice president, who was a violent member of the proscriptive class of politicians, succeeded him at his death, and served In the presidential office until be was followed by Franklin Pierce in 1852. James Buch. anan was elected in 1S56, and in 18J0 all the elements of opposition to the democratic party were concentrated in a powerful organization which- was called the new republican party, on the basis of sectional fanatacism, and Mr. Lincoln was elected, but upon a minority vote of the people, he having only a plurality of the electoral college. In 181 Mr. Lincoln was again elected but eleven states of the Union had no participation in the elections. In IfHiS General Grant was elected, the votes of three states being excluded. In 1S72 he was re elected; his war record being his chief, if not his only, source of popular favor. In 1S7G the people, by a majority of 250,000, elected Samuel J. Tilden, of New York, to the presidency, and Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana, to the vice presidency; but, as i well known through all the land, they uere both cheated out of their offices. The above comprises a succinct history of the political parties and presidencies of the United States from the foundation of the government to the present period, showing that the federal ' party had the rule twelve years, the whigs eight years, the republicans seventeen and the democratic party fortyeight This leaves John t . Adams without a party, though he has been usually classed with the whigs. It is to be hoped that the presidential history of the future will be unstained by fraud or by supreme court corruption, for if it should be our government could only have an infamous finalty.

GOVERNMENT CREDIT. The Journal is trying to make a point 'against the democratic party because on the eve of our late civil war the government was compelled to pay a high rate of interest for the money it borrowed. This tbe Journal lays to the doors of the democracy, and predicts dire caltjuity to the country should it again come into power. The Journal forgets that during the term of Mr. Guthrie as secretary of the treasury and at a time when the democracy was in full control of every department of the general government the treasury was overflowing with money, and the secretary paid a premium of sixteen per cent for the outstanding obligations of the government. It is true that when the dark cloud of the rebellion overspread the nation, the government had to pay high rates of interest for the money it borrowed, but it is also true tnat a few years previous to that time its credit was higher than it' ever was before or since. At no time since the government was formed, save the period we have named, has it had money to meet all its obligations without borrowing, and enough besides to enter the market and buy up its obligations, due in the future at a large premium. When the republican party does a) well as this, it will be time enough for the Journal to boast of its party's financial wisdom, and criticise the acts of the democracy in relation to the public credit NEXATOK CONKLIXG. The distmguisbed New York senator has got before the country on a very important subject without making a set- speech. The interview published in the New York World of the 17th has created a profound sensation in political circles in Washington and elsewhere, and notwithstanding Conkling pretends that his sayings at a private dinner party were not intended for the public, and that in some regards he is incorrectly reported, the public accepts the interview as published as substantially correct; in fact, the most pointed declarations against Hayes have been made by Conkling to others, and their versions of his hostility to the presidential fraud may yet find their way into print From Conkling'B point of observation Hayes has already made decided headway in corruption, and the New York senator has largely increased tbe weight of odium that rests upon him. The published interview is of Incalculable value to the country as showing the real true inwardness of the radical party, and may be regarded as driving a spike of more than average length and thickness into the radical coffin. We devote considerable space to the document UNITED NTATES SENATOR. We have tbe information from a national that Jeems Buchanan is brushing up his pigeon-tailed coat, and arranging to occupy room 41, Bates hou3e, next winter, and play United Slates senator as the national candidate. Jeems will play senator on one member of . the legislature, Ezra Olleman, and Governor Anson Wolcott will be on hand to introduce Senator Buck to tbe one member. He will organize him self into a caucus and resolve to support tbe Hon. Jeems Buchanan for United States senator. Leading nationals, say Senator Buchanan is not smart, but that he is honest XOTi.S AND OPIMOXP. GENERAL Fremont Is sooa to bo made president ot u railway in the north. MrRPitr believes in the Moffett heil punch. He says for largo cities It is Just the thing. "Mrs. Partington" has written the life of her son Ike, making a readable book for boys. A California Judge sentenced 'a man to ten years in the penitentiary for stealing a pis- - - In the pasi month four men have been nned In the Chicago courts for whipping servant girls. The audiences attending the Uctures of both Beecher and Tlltou have been Increasing since Mrs. Tilton "relieved her conscience." Louisville markets boast of etrawbernes at $10 a gallon. Newspaper perple only see and hear of them. They can not afford to taste. Bes-ue Ii bseh received a letter from Mrs. Tlltoii' few days ago with "the confession." She fainted and has since been lying very ill. Next season Cook will deliver only twenty Monday lectures in Boston Instead of thirty. He wants mora time for the general leeture field. The taxes on Edgewood, the estate of Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague, willed to her bv her father, are to be reduced. The bill has already passed the senate. More Chinese are getting ready to emigrate to Pern. At least a thousand able bodied men have applied for passage on the vessel soon to

aail from China to Sooth America. On the contrary the Immigration to San Francisco is steadily diminishing. A dancing master in New York city has danml for 16 hours without a moment's rest. He chose only ladies for partners, and lost not an Instant fa changing. Peace to his legs. As far as It Is now known Tweed left no documents or papers of any public Interest, It had been said that a confession and tome important disclosures were in the possession of Mr. Townsend, but this has been most emphatically denied by that gentleman. The yellow fever is raging in the violent form at Rio Janeiro. Sixty or seventy dea'hs occur dally among the shipping, and from two to three hundred on shore. A large number of vessels are In the harbor unable to call for want of officers. Seven English captains died In four days, and it has been impossible to supply their places.

Immediately before tbe final ballot which was to decide the election of a new pope, Cardinal Peccl, pale and nervous, went to one of the members of the sacred college and desired to have a few private words. "I can not restrain myself. I feel the necessity for speaking to the sacred college ; fear It may commit an error. People have given me th3 reputation cf being a learned doctor I am not. I am believed to be a savant I am not. I am supposed to have the qualities necessary to be a pope I have not. I desire to say this to the cardinals." His friend, wise and judicious, said: "As to your doctrine you have not to Judge of it, but we do that ; as to your qualities for the papacy God knows them, and he will act." In a few moments the votes were counted, and he was chosen. A gentleman, who thoroughly understands whereo! he speaks, has written a letter to the New York papers concerning the 'poisoned flesh of wild pigeons, rie writes from East Saginaw, Michigan, and says: "The pigeons are nesting In large "numbers In the northern part of the lower peninsula of Michigan. They are attracted-there by the vast swamps of the Rhododendron or calico bush, commonly known as the poison laurel, a species of oleander, almost identical with the sweet bay tree. The unusually ralld winter has sweileu and developed the buds prematurely, and the pigeons are feeding upr.n them. This diet impregnates tbelr flesh with a subtle poison, and numerous dangerous and fatal cases are being daily reported from eating them. The wild pigeons are being caught in nets and shipped east in vast numbers, and you will doubtless save hundreds of lives by warning the public against eating any wild pigeons until after the middle of June. I was formerly analyst for manufacturing chemists, and I have no doubt that the recent cases are directly traceable to eating pigeons." Would Xot Shed Tears Over Illm. New York Times. Few tears won Id be shed, probably, were the president to abandon formally the party with which he is supposed still to have a certain vague relationship. But the disposition to drive him out is con lined to a comparatively limited class. He is watched suspiciously, and in this respect he is always upon trial; and though the chance of a favorable verdict diminishes every day, the popular sense of fair play is still sufficient to secure for him a recognition of any material improvement in the course of the administration. L., the Poor Injnn. Cleveland Herald.l How the whirligig of time sends politicians from prominence to obscurity. There is John A. Logan for example. A few months ago his sonorous voice filled the corridors of the capitol, and his reverberating platitudes and bad grammar shook tbe dome and shocked the senate. Last week he went back to Washington as a private citizen to attend the meeting of the republican national committee, and many people reading his name ia the papers stopped and said in a puzzled way: '-Logan? What Logan?" What III Greftt Trouble Is. Washington PostJ If John Sherman could only get out of his syndicate habits and treat the American people with, say half the confidence he reposes in J. Madison Wells, it is possible that the four per cent. loan, might go off with greater rapidity. John's great trouble is the mystery in which he always moves. It seems to be the nature of the man. He probably got his first view of this world in the dark and has cherished an antipathy to daylight ever since. Can He lfnve Forgotteu It? Washington Post.l The Hon. J. Madison Wells has been so much engaged in his conferences with his distinguished brother in politics, IL B. Hayes, relative to the disposition of patronage in Louisiana, that he has neglected to institute his suit against the editor of the Philadelphia Times for calling him a mule thief. - Haunted by Their Crime. Buffalo Courier It is not, however, a serifs of defeats nor the fact that the republican party represents a minority of the nation and of most of the states, that gives its leaders most uneasiness. Guilty recollections of the great crime against popular government for which the party is responsible tends more, than anything else to demoraliza it. . Must Bear Oar Misfortunes Like Men. A convicted Texas murderer, in his confession, opens in this styie: "I scratch you a few lines to let you know that I still float through the gentle breezes of misery; but, according to the decision of the apellate court, I guess it is about 'pea time' with me, but then we must bear our misfortunes in this world like men." Might Hear Mutch Music from the Wrong Aide of the Line. Germany would seem to say the treaty of San S'.efano does not ailed her directly; but she would have Russia to kuow that the friends of the German empire are entitled to her sympathy, and if she is forced to enter the conflict Russia must expect to hear Dutch music from the wrong side of the line. Onetiood Pennsylvania Law. Pennsylvania is noted for the excellence of its laws; but it deserves credit for placing one wise act on the statute book recently. Saloon and dance house keepers are prohibited from employing girls as waiters. Neither boys no? girls should be allowed to serve in the capacity of bartenders. She Took, m Rent Interest ia Illm. A young; man in Marietta, Maryland, was poisoned by his sweetheart; but he recovered, and now insists that the marriage engagement shall not be broken. "Sue must have taken a real interest in me or she wouldn't have wanted me to die," he reasons. Before the Lord He Wobble. A western clergymen who lately visited Mr. Hayes on being aske i what he thought of him replied: "Well. I believe that before man his walk Is upright, but I Var that before the Lord be wobtles." Living Illustration. Philadelphia Times. Beecher and Hayes ar living illustrations of the truth that although justice seems to sleep sometimes, it never dies. Something to Be Remembered. Cincinnati Gazette. New York growls at the west, yet but for the west the east would starve.

TROUBLE AT THE 3IIXES

Full Account of the Killing of the Negro Miners on Wednesday. The Blacks Killed Because They Would Not Laave the Mines on a Strike. List of the Killed and Wounded, and the Nature cf the Wounds. Goveri:ur VVilliani Called on for AidArrival of tlie Adjutant tierjeral. T Ey Telegraph toxhe 8entinel.l Covington, Ind., April 17. Three men were killed and others wounded, all colored, by the white men at the coal mines seven miles below here, this moi niug at 1 o'clock. The trouble is reported to have been on account ef jealousy of the negroes working when the whites were on a strike. Covington, Ind., April 18. There has been no disturbance at Coal Creek to-day. The mil itia have petroled the streets all day under the sheriff's orders, and business has been generally suspended. The coal operatives have received 75 rifles and put them in the hands o' the black miners, and a supply of am monition is on the ground. There Is talk that an OCT1IHF.AK OP HOSTILITIES is not' rin certain, but tbe operatives intend to resume work to-rjorrw, the arms being provided as a means of self-protection of tlie miners against tha militiamen. Dr. J. S. Jones, who accompanlei the coroner, made a report of which the following is an extract: Phil Cozens, was shot twice througn the head from In front once, from behind, and received a bayonet thrust In the breast. Thomas Cooper was shot in the back, the bail passing upwards and out at tbe top of the breast bone. John Miles was shot throu h the neck from behind, brenkiDg the spine. All the murdered men were killed on the principal streets of Btringtown, within 200 yards ot each other. Cozens' blood showed that he walked several steps after being first shot. Cooper was dragged several yards after he was shot and left in a gulley. Miles dropped dead when shot. As soon as TMK FIRING: COMMENCED the negroes sought shelter, they having no means of defence. The wounded man, Peter Artes, is doing well, but the greater part of the flesh being torn from his hand, leaving the sinews bare, makes it a very painful wound Buflalo.Bill, a white man who was working with the negroos, was hit with a heavy club and his shoulder dislocated. The coroner's inquest was completed to-day and it is believ'id a verdict bas been agreed upon by the jury, but information as to what it is can not be obtained. Governor Williams has been earnestly solicited to send a representative of the state to observe the condition of things, and information was received this evening that the adjutant general was on his way. ARRIVAL OP T3K ADJUTANT GENERAL. The adjutant general arrived this evening, at the urgent requestor citizens and operators, and will go to Coal Creek to-morrow to review the situation. Business has been generally suspended to-day, but will resume to-morrow. The black minors in ihe employ of the Phelps mines are nrniud for self protection. By the Associated Press. Covington, Ind., April 18 At Cool Creek, a mining town seven miles south of Covington, in Fountain county, yesterday, a mililia company composed of miners who were in the strike a year ago, were drilling duilng the day, aud at nU;ht, while some of them we re in a saloon, with their arms stacked in the cor. ner, became engaged in an altercation with a negro who had 1xen sent in for more liquor by a party of nen"oes who were on a spree, resulting in the klhing of the negro. The whites then moved through the streets shooting at uegrofcs on sight, killiDg two more and mortally wounding another. The excitement to-day has been great. The governor in answer to a call for help declined until the sheriff should signify his inability to preserve order. The sheriff ha since requested the presence of the adjutant general, and made a requisition lor ammunition. A COWARDLY ROBBERY. A Latl Seventeen Years of Age Robbed While Walking on a Railroad. By Telegraph to the Sentlnel.l Union Citv, Ind., April IS. A young German lad, about 17 years of age, traveling afoot from Winchester, Indiana, to Ashland, Ohio, was to-day, while walking along the Bee Line track about two miles-east of town, assaulted and robbed by four men. The thieves got about ?28.2fo clue other than the boy's meager, description. Officers have gone In pursuit. Tbe Lnrgest Strike on Record 120,000 Perftous Out of Employment. London, April 17. The notices of reduction of wages of cotton operatives in Lancashire expires to-day, and to morrow the relusat of the masters at Manchester to agree to a live percent, reduction and their resolution that if a strike occur at any of the mills where the notice has been given of the ten per cent, reduction tlie remainder of the trade shall lrck out at the earliest possible moment, leaves little hope of averting a struggle which will involve tlie stoppage of 21)0,0(0 looms and 8,t0,0o0 spindles, and make idle no less than 12u,t00 working psople. A council of operative spinneis alter their interview with the masters yesterday resolved to recommend the members of tnat association to accept the proposed reduction for the present and call a representative n.eetingol the spinners for Sundeay to decide upon their Int u re course. The operatives at Accringlon and District Church, iiarwood, AeuCeid aud I'reslon are willing to accept the reduced wages and reduced time, but there is no hope of the mas tern accepting such a proposal. Tlie Blackburn and Burnley operatives resist uncompromisingly, consequently to-nlalit in all probability will begin the most gigantic strike and lock out that has ever occurred in Lancapsliire. Instructions have been Issued to operatives by the committees in various trades as to how to proceed. Where no notices are posted they win goon working. Where notices are posted they will respectfully request the masters to remove them. It tlds request is refused they will leave their work quietly, as on Saturday night. The operatives are particularly i joine.i to encourage no riotiux or misbehavior anywhere. The looms not affected by the strike will sulscrlbe tlire-3 pence per week for tho strikers. The Oldham district is not yet affected directly by the irxike, owing to the intimate business relations between Oldham and Blackburn. " Fall Text of tbe Bill Repealing the ReHnmptlon Art. Wahiixstox, April 17. Tha following Is a full text oS the resumption bill agreed upon by the senate finance committee to-day and imported to the senate with a favorable recommendation: An act t amend an act to provide for the resumption of specie payments, and for other purpose:!. XI i at from and alter the passage of this act. United St Ues notes shall be receivable in payment for United States bonds now authorized by law to be Issued, and on and after October 1, 1H78, sa Id bonds shall be receivable for duties on imports, and said notes In volume in existence October 1, 1$78, shall not be canceled or permanently hoarded, but shall be reiss led, and they may tie used for funding and all other lawful purposes thatsoever to an amount not exceeding in the whole the amount then in o jculatiou and la the treasury, and

the said notes, whether then in the treasury or thereafter received under any act of congress, and from whatever source, shall be again paid out, and when again returned to the treasury they shall not be canceled or destroyed, but shall be Issued from time to time with like qualities, and all that part of the act of January 14, 1875, entitled "An act to provide" for the resumption of specie pavments," authorizing the retirement of fco jer cent, of United estates notes, shall cease and become inoperative on and after the said October 1, Sec. 2. All laws and pfirtsof laws inconsistent with tn.s act shall be and are hereby repealed. The bill was reported to the senate as a substitute tor the Iioums bill to repeal the specie resumption act, and was ordered printed and placed on tlie calendar.

Doings or Indians and Mexicans rn Texan. Chicago, April IS. The following was received at General Sheridan's headquarters this afternoon: J San Antonio. Tex., April 18. To the Adjutant General Division of Missouri. Chicago: The commanding officer at Duncan has telegraphed ou what seems reliable information that a party of Indians crossed into Texas Saturday nurht, w miles below tht place. Also that a party of Li pans and two Mexicans passed ltetojas, Mexico, last week, en route to Texas. A brother of the marshal of Laredo was murdered Sunday by desperadoes, 60 miles from that plce. Cavalry sctuti are out between Duncan and Laredo, aud hkely to hear of the Indians If they have crossed. Commanding Oiticer Clark reivorts that four hor-es were stolen within a few hundred yards of the posts Saturday night. Trail followed to Uio Grande and two horx-s eeeu on the other side. The thieves were seen to cross on horses recognized as Mexicans. The commanding otlicer, Stockton, reports that Lieutenant Bigelow, with a detachment, is in pursuit of the Indians who attacked tae mall rider near Cscondada; and that the mail in part was found. Escondadawas reached at 3 a. m. on the ltith inst. Tho commanding ollicer at Concha reports that Indians were recently in the vicinity of Fagunas Quetz. The cavalry are now moving in that direction with orders toatinck and pursue even to tlie reservations. The commander has been advised as to the attacs on the liisil near Econdada, and will be in good condition tointeicept that party m case they move north. (rlgned) Okd, Brigadier General. Tbe Pall Mall Uaaette on the Eastern tuetion. Lon-pos, April 16.-The Tall Mall Gazette, In a leading editorial, says: "Whether Prince Bismarck' proixMaLs succeed or fall we have no reason to disturb ourselves about tne Situation. We are strong iu the justice of our diplomatic position, ana cau afford to wait until our material strength begins to tell in the support of it by tbe way of merely passive pressure. If Russia accedes to our stipulations lor a congress well and good; it will be held, for we Khali beKln to put our hands to the most arduous, danger-fraught piece of International work that has lieen attempted In Europe sltce the beginning of the century. If Russia refuses to acevde to those terms there is no necessity ior us to declare war against her, and it is to the last degree Improbable that the government will resort to a declaration of war. It will be sufficient for them to continue their armaments, to occupy certain points of territory not necessarily provocative bf a collision with the Russian forces, and keep Russia in her present osition; that is to say, with an unrecognized treaty in her possession, but uo other gam from the war but such an khe can retain by actual physical possession at a ruinously increasing com, and there let her remain until she returns to a sense of her duty to Europe." Tbe Mill Operatives Leaving Tnelr , Work. London, April 18. A special from Manchester says: "It is currently reported in well informed circles h. re that the mill operatives may be induced to yield before long, as their funds are very limited, aud the present reduction is not, as at one time reorted, meant to inaugurate a series of reductions. At Preston the spinners, who are working for firms that refused to compromise, will strike to-day (Thursday). The weavers will continue to work a few t'ays longer, and try further negotiations. At Blackburn l-i.C0u operatives are already on a strike. Conciliatory negotiations are pending at some ot the mills, but it is regarded as almost certain that nine-tenths of the optra tives will be idle iu a short time." Doings or the Republican Congressional Committee. Washington, April 18. The republican congressional committee to-night appoinud Representative Hale temixrry chairman, and Represent ativii Phillips secretary, and resolved that tbe vacancies from states not represented in congress by republicans be not !21!-d at present. Those- state., are Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, Texas aud Georgia. Twenty-eight of the 'M members of the committee were present. An executive committee was appointed, consisting of Representative Hale, Senator Allison, Representatives Joyce, IHscock, Pn'J, Foster, Campbell and Hubliell, and Senators Dorsey aud Bruce. Thiscomrnittee will elect a secretary. In the lew remarks made it was urged that every eflort le made lor the success of the party in the fall campaign, and it was said that the prospects to that end were encouraging. The Striking Mill Operatives. London, April 18. A Manchester telegram says that from statements which have been received there to-day, it is confidently anticipated that a great representative meeting of operatives will shortly be held, aud that a compromise emanating from them may be agreed upon. At Preston the operatives of several mills, running altogether 600,uou spindles, accepted the 10 per cent, reduction, tlx. firms have not yet given notice of a reduction, and it is not thought there will be a general strike in Preston. All the operatives at Longridge have struck. At Biackourn it is thought the strike will be a long one; 22.U00 operatives are now affected there. At Padiham only one mill is working. Dolnesof tbe Stnate in Executive Sea slon. Washington, Apil 18. The executive t?esskm of tle senate to day was mainly occupied with a discussion in r?gard to the nomination of John McNeil, of Missouri, to be Indian Inspector. The principal ground ot opposition to him was his having caused the execution of 10 guerillas while i-erving as an ollicer In the Union army during the war of the rebellion. The democratic senators generally voted against his confirmation, but it was finally effected by a vote of 31 to 2ti. , The senate also confirmed Joseph C. Jewell surveyor of customs at the post ol Evansvllle, Indiana. John S. Cain, a Ijefanlter to IbeTnne ot 32,000. LocisvitXE, April IS. An alleged deficit of J.OOO has been discovered in the afiairs of John S. Cain, clerk of the circuit and common pleas courts The deficit is said to exist in what is known as the jury fund of which Cain has been commissioner, it is also alleged that another delicit of fti.Om has been discovered in his accounts while cashier of the gas company some years since. Cain claims that the bank cbargHl his private checks to the Jury fund and Vj,UU0 of the gas company's lunds was ucd at the instance of the directors to get the charter amendment througa the legisl&tuie. Sherman and tbe Syndicate to be Jfade Tell About tbe bale of tbe 4 1-S Per Cent. Bonds. Washington, April IS. The committee on banking and currency to-day directed a suoprvna to be issued upon Secretary Sherman to compel him to appear before the committee and testify as to the details of the negotiation he has ma-le with tbe syndicate for the eaie of KVr per cent, bonds. 8ubpvnas will also be issued to the members of the syndicate to testily on the same subject. Two Younac Women Burned to Death. PlIILADEH'HlA, April IS. ElTie Dacostra, aged 21, was no terribly burned this morni'.ss, through her clothes taking fire by treading on a match, that he died this evening. Haitle, Green, aged 2, living in the same house, attempted to rescue Miss Dacostra, aud was also burued to death. Taking Advantage of tbe Lnw. Chicago, April 18. The threatened repeal of the bankrupt law has caused unusual activity in bankrupt proceedings this week. Four bankruptcies each were recorded Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings; ii on Thursday, and to-morrow's record will show 10 petitions filed to-day. Atteiupted Murder and Knlclde. Frovipence, April 18. Early this morning Corporal Hassan Sulih, Turkish arms inspector, stabbed his mistress repeabnily with a dirk and then jumped from tlie third 6tory of the house. Roth may recover. Monlders on a Strike. Osiiawa, Out., April 18. The moulders In the stove fouudry are on a strike, owing to, the employment of non-union men.