Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 27, Number 48, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1878 — Page 7

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, "WEDNESDAY MOHNING, JULY 17, 1878.

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

POLITICAL COSVEXTIOS8. Tne 2Ietia a? of the Michigan Itemorraf a. Detroit, Mich., July 10. The democratic state convention met at the opera house at Landing at noon to-day. The convention was called to order by D. M. Dickinson, chairman of the state central committee. D. Foster Pratt was chosen temporary chairman. After the transaction of the customary Tontine work tbe convention took a recess until 2:30 p. m. On reassembling the convention effected a permanent organization and reelected D. Foster Pratt permanent chairman. The following resolutions were adopted: The democratic party of the state of Michigan In convention assembled, renewing its fidelity to Its time honored principle, standing for a sacred preservation of the national credit and the nation's faith, for the constitution and the lawn, and for the great truth that this is a government of the people, where the Srill of the people should rule, does hereby declare: - , ,, . 1. That we arraign the republican party for its corruption In oitiee, its unwise legislation and its wicked perversion of the people's will as expressed at the polls. It has squandered the public lands and lands and corrupted the body politic; It lias placed men In office, aishoncst and incapable, who have used their positions as private perquisites. It has legislated for the rich, oppressed the poor and created gigantic monopolies. It has burdened each town and city with debt and taxation, and driven them to the verge of bankruptcy. It has driven our commerce from the sea, and destroyed our once powerful navy .It completed its career of crime and dishonor by stealing the presl dency from the people, and placing a fraud in the presidential chair 2. We indorse the investigation of the electoral frauds to the end, that the truth of history be vindicated and a repet'tlon ot sucn crimes prevented. 3. We declare that gold and silver coin is the money of the constitution, an J that paper currency should be converted Into such coin at the w"ill of the holder. We ar opposed to the further forcible reouction of the volume of the currency, and we anirm the action of congress prohibiting such reduction. We declare that the prostrate condition of the business interests of the country imperatively demand that taxation, both state and national, shall be reduced to the lowest point consistent with the attainment of the objects for which such taxes sha 1 be levied, and that economy shall be practiced in every department of the government. We congratulate the country upon a reduction of over fif y million dollars in the national expenditure during the last lour years, and which result was secured by the democratic house of representatives. The following state officers were nominated: For governor, Orlando M. Barnes; for lieutenant governor, A. P. Swinford, of Marquett"; for. treasurer. Alex McFarlin, of Genesee; for secretary of state, George H. Murdock, of 1 men ; for auditor, General "Vy. J. B. Schermt rhoin, of Lenawee; for commissioner state land office. George H. Lord, of Bay; for attorney general, A. B. Morse, of Ionia; for superintendent of public instruction, F. Frlesdale: for member of the board of education K. F. Uhl, of Grand Rapids; f.r chairman of the state central comittee, William B. Moran, of Detroit, The convention adjourned at 6 o'clock. Tbe Missouri Democrat. St. Louis, July 10. The democratic state convention met at Jefferson City at 11 a. ni. General John A. Hockaday was temyary chairman, who in a bnef address endorsed tbe policy of paying national bonds in greenbacks, and giving the country Its? bonds and more greenbacks. The usual committees were appointed, and the convent;on took a recess until 2 o'clock. The coavention reassembled at 2 p. m., but none of the committees being ready to report several delegate? were called on and made speeches; among them, ex-Governor Wood eon, who. among other thing, said tbe man whom the democrats had elected to the presidency when the crisis came proved himself unequal to the contest, and if he had had the courage of Wade Hampton, cf Sjulh Carolina, and had stated to the people of the United Spates, "You have elected me to tbe first office in your pift, and by the eternal God I will be pr sident," he would now ne president. James O. Brodliead, of St. Louis, was elected permanent president, with a vice president from each congresjional district; A. A. Lesseur, secretary, with five assistants. The committee on resolutions was then appointed, and after an absence of some time, during which several more speeches were made, principally on tbe financial question, ex-Governor Woodson reported the follow; ing platform: The democratic party of the s'ate of Mis souri in convention assembh-d declare its confidence in and unshaken adherence to tbe great principles of democratic representative government; its devotion to the national Union and constitution, with the amendments thereto; its unswerving maintenance of the following principles, namely, strict subordination of the military to the civil iower, opposition to large standing armies in time of peace, purity of elections and their absolute freedom from all interference by the officers of the federal government, civil or mtittary; a profound respect for the popular will, fairly ami legally expressed at the ballot-box; a fixed purpose to exoe an. punish all political fraud and corruption; the olitlcal equality ot all citizens; the largest right of iudividual liberty consistent with the rights of others; the universal education and general and active participation by the Ixxly of the people in public aflalrs. We congratulate the country upon the fact that nearly 13 yemtroni the cassation or hostilities a stateof peace In accordance with the constitution and laws has been reached in our southern states. 1. We solemnly arraign and condemn the high el"Ctoral com mission as faithless to the Ieople of the United StatPS In refusing to Investigate and expose the wicfred and glaring frauds by which the will of ;ne people at the last presidential election was defeated. Its refuj to do so was in violation of tbe spirit of the law under which it was organized, and while ths decision made by the Forty-fourth congress of the question as to who should be president of the United States for the present presidential term was in our judgment final, that decision ought not to preclude a full investigation and exposure of the frauds connected with the election and the uue accountability of all who were guiltily concerned with them, and we heartily commend the action of the majority ot the house of representatives in pursuing such investigation. 3. We regard the national banking system as lrt-ing oppressive and burdensome, and "demand Us abo'ition and the retirement from circulation of all lank note and the issue of legal tender notes In lieu thereof, and In quantities from tinn t J time sufficient to supply the wholesome and necessary business demands of the entire country, and tnat all greenbacks so issued shall be used in the purcbasA and n tirement of the lKnds of the United States, a that the interest learlng debts of the country may be lessened to the extent ot the greentacksthns put In circulation. Legal tender notes commonly called greenbacks should be mad a legal tender in payment of all debts public aid private, except such obligations as are In the terms of the original contract expressly mede parable In co:a. 4. 1 hat the right tocoln money and regulate the value thereof can be exercised under the constitution by the con gi ess alone, and that the possefslon of the power imposes t&e duty of its exercise to the extent of all gold and silver bullion offered for coinage at the mints of the United States, and we regaid the limitations and restrictions imposed by congress upon coinage of silver as impolitic and unjust, and should at once be removed. o. Tha. a return to specie payment is Impossible in I he present financial condition of the country, aud we demand the immediate and unconditional repeal of the act of conKreM of January I, 1875, known as the resumption act, holding the same to be unwise ana ruinous to the interests of the people. 6. The policy inaugurated and malntalne! by the republican party of contracting the active circulating medium of the country, constituting, as all admit it does, the standard of the value of the property aud product of the country, and requesting as well the price paid for all labor, stands prominent in the long list of Its oppressive measures as the most stu pid, inexcusable and oppressive of them all, tteing opposed to all monopolies and all law, discriminating in favor of one class of our people at the expanse of and to the prejudice of another. We declare an unqnalined hostility to all protective taiifl, snI demand that there shall be a tarilT for reven ue only. 7. The democracy tenders to the debtor and laboring class of the country Its warmest sympathy, and pledges Hself at the earliest practicable moment to revise the cruel and destructive policy of the republican party wnicn Iroqght ruin upon them. We demand that all

legislation shall be so enacted and administrated as to secure to each man as nearly as practicable the Just rewards of his own labor. 8. That in view of the large appropriations that have been made by toe federal government for works of public Improvement on the seaboard and lakes. Justice to the people of the Mississippi valley demands that appropriation shall be made for Improvement of the Mississippi river and Its tributaries commensurate with the commercial want and Interests of this section of the country, andjbellevlng in the constitutional power of the government to aid In the construction of national enterprises which serve to benefit large sections of the country and which can not be accomplished by Individual enterprise or state action, we favor sucn legislation In this behalf as will not increase the national Indebtedness or impose any additional burdens upon the people. Huch a policy, in our opinion, whilst It would cheapen the cost of transportation and add to our agricultural wealth, wond afford remunerative employment to the surplus labor of tbe country. V. That there can be no legitimate employment oi an organized force in thiscountiy except to execute the law and maintain tbe public peace. That reform must be made In the naUonal, state and municipal government by the reduction of expenditures and taxes, the dismissal of unnecessary and Incompetent officers and employes, and the strict enforcement of official responsibility. 1". In the language of the Indiana democracy, we declare 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 states tends to oppress and burden litigants to such an extent a to amount to a practical denial of Justice in many cases, and we cooslder the legislation which has conferred such Jurisdiction as unwise and hurtful ta the true - interests of the people. 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 tne J udiciary act of 1879. 11. We favor and invite immigration to our state from all sections of the country. Mr. McCann, of St. Louis, moved to amend the report by . dding a resolution in favor ot a change in the character of our bonded indebtedness by a law whereby the present outstanding bonds of the state may be called in, and there be substituted thf refor registered bonds beai ing a reast nable rate of interest and f imall dnonu nations, namely, in sums of $10, $2, and $100 each. The question was taken on the amendment and it was lost yeas, 114; noes, 135. The platform was then adopted unanimously. The following ticket was then nominated, and tbe convention adjourned: Judge of the supreme court. Elijah Norton; register of lands, J. K. Mcllenry,- state superintendent of public schools, K. D. Shannon; railroad commissioner, A. M. Sevier. The three firjt named are the present incumbents. THE DEAD PAST.

Jefferson Davis Contrasts It with tbe Living Preent-A Remarkable Speech at MliaIil City Yesterday. New Orleans, July 10. A Mississippi City dispatch says: The following is a brief synopsis of the address made to-day by Jefferson Davis on the occasion of the presentation to him of a gold badge and a certificate of membership of the association of the army of the Tennessee. Colonel James Lingan made the presentation address. Mr. Davis, after expressing gratL tude for the kindness and honor conferred, recapitulated the stirring events of the war and the hardships endured, and said: The question of the state right of secession in istil was at least debatable, but the course pursued by the federal government after the war had ceased indorsed the judgment of those who held separation to be necessary for tbe safety and freedom of'the southern states. The unsuccessful attempt to separate left those In power to work their will as it had been manifest when they first got control of the government. The events are too recent to require recapitulation, and the ruin they have developed require no other memorial than the material and moral wreck which the country presents, ihe speaker reassured his bearers ot bis unshaken belief in the right of st cession and the duty of tne citizen to battle for the cause of the state after aeceslou. lie reviewed the campaigns iro.o Fort Henry to shtloh, and speaking of Albert Sidney Johnson lie said, Was it tnat his grand presence Inspired you with unraeasureu confidence and the hoie of happier days when opportunity should otter, or was It that your judgment told yeu that you followed, as I verily believe you did. the greatest soldier, the ablest man, civil or military, confederate orjlederal?" Mi. Davis then reviewed the oieratioos about Vlcks burg and Port Huron, and spoke in glowing terms of their defenders. He said: 'let no one suppose that In tnus vindicating our case, in paying due tribute to your giUant deeds, 1 am seealiK to disturb such peace as we have or to avoid tbe lojic of events. You ha. e done your duty In the past, and I would ask no more than that you should fulfill equally well the duties of the present and the lutu re. The bravest are as a rule the gentlest. and they are also the truest to every obligation assumed. You struck tor Independence and were unsuccessful. You agreed to return to tbe Union and abide by the constitution and the laws made in contoimtty with It. Thus far anduoftrther do I understand your promise to extend." Referring to the legislation of the congress which followed the war he said the tax-payers knew that an increased burden was unloosed on them by contracts made with bondholders, merchants and shipowners. They know that we have lost the tarrying trade, and to what will they assign the policy which prevents the l ere 1st rut ion of American ships that had Changed the flag during the war, which imposes such duties upon raw material as to interfere with ship building, and prohibits the registration of a foreign built ship, though it be by puichase the property of citizens of the United States. Wlil the people, If worth the source of ail power, allow a long continuance of such palpable wrongs to the masses, such ruin to the interests which have been equally our pi lie and means of prosperity? A form of government must correspond to the character of the people for which it is formed, it is therefore that republics have tailed whenever corruption eaters the body politic and rendered the eople unworthy to rule. Then they became the fit subjects of deotLsm and a despot Is always at hand to respond to the call. VCicsar could not subject a people who were fit to le free, nor coula a Brums save them If they were fit for subjugation. The fortitude with which our pe-ple bate lorne the oppression Imposed on them since the war was clostd the resolute will with which they have struggled against poverty and official pillage is their highest glory and give the I text assurance of final triumph. Well may we rejoice in the regained possession of local self government, In the power of the leopie to choosj therr own representatives and to legislate uncontrolled by the bayonet. This Is the icreat victory, aud promises an other as the sequence to it. a. total non-lnler-lerence by the fedi-ral government with the domestic affairs of the states, the renewal of the time honored doctrine of state sovereignty and the supreme acyof law will secure permanent peace, freedom and ros peri ty. The constitution of the United Ktatts, Interpreted as It was by those who made 1', Is the prophet's Tod to sweeten the bitter water from which flowed the strife, the carnage and tbe shame ot the past, a well as the foils of the present. Every evil which has tMsfa:len our institutions isdliectly traceable to the perversion of the compact of union and the usurpation by the federal government of undelegated H)wera. Let - one memorable txampl suffice for illustration. When Missouri asked for admission as a state Into the Union, to which she bad a two-fold right.untier the constitution and the usages of the United N ate, and also uncer the terms of the treaty which the territory was acqt lretl, her application was resisted, and her auinlsslon wat ttnully purchased by the unconstitutional concession mlsclled "the Missouri compromise.'. When that estaMlshment of a politico geographical line was announced to the apostle of tbe democracy, who full, of yearn and honors, in retirement wtched with profound solicitude the course of government he had an widely contributed to inaugurate his prophetic vision saw the end of which this was the ' beginning. The news fell upon his ear "like the fire bell at night. Men had differed.' and would differ about measures and public policy according to their circumstances or mental characterist ics.. Much differences tended to the elucidation of truth, the triumph of reason over error. 1 'at ties so founded would not be sectional, but when the federal government made a parallel of latitude a political line, a aectlonal party could not fulfill the ends lor which the Union was ordained and established. If the limitations c the constitution had been observed ai.d Us purposes had directcu federal legisla

tion no such act could have been passed. Tbe lid of the Pandora box might have remained closed and the country have escaped a long train of similar aggressions which aggrandized one section, impoverished another, and adding Insult to . Injury finally destroyed the faith which had bound them together. It was no part of my purpose, as has been already shown, to discuss the nolitlcs of tbe day, though the deep Interest I must ever feel In the affairs of tbe country has not allowed me to ignore them, and will not permit me to be inobservant of passing events of Indifference to the humiliating exposures to which the federal government has of late been subjected. Separated frjin any active participation in publie aff-Urs, I may not properly Judge of those who have to bear the heat and burden of the day. Representing no one, it would be quite unreasonable to hold any other responsible for the opinions wnich I msy entertain, bow or when a restoration of the government to the principles and practices of its earlier period my be accomplished. It is not given us to foresee. For me It remains oniy earnestly to hope, and hopefully to believe, though 1 may not see It, that the restoration will come. To disbelieve this is to discredit the popular Intelligence and Integrity of which self government must necessarily depend. Though severely tried my faith In the people is not lost, and 1 prayerfully trust though I should not live to see the hope realized that It will be permitted ine to die believing the principles on which our fathers founded their government will finally prevail throughout the land, and the enus for which it was instituted yet be attained and rendered as perpetual as human institutions may be. I have said we could not foresee how or when this may be brought to ass, but It is not so difficult to etei mine what means are needful lo secure the result. First In order and importance, for it is the cornerstone of the edifice, the elective franchise must be Intelligently and honestly exercised. Iet there be no class legislation, low taxes, low salaries, no perquisites, aud let the officials be held to a strict accountability to their constituents. Nepotism, and gilt taking by a public agent deserve the severest censure ,and tbe bestowal of the people's offices as a reward for past service should be as a gross breach of trust. Let not such an offence be condoned lor in a government of tbe people. There can be no abuses permissible as usefully counteracting each other. Truth and Justice and honor presided at the birth or our federal union, and Its mission can only be performed by their continual attendance up n it. tor this there Is not needed a conUtiou of human perfectibility, hut only so much of virtue as wlil con trol vice and teach the mercenary aud selfseeking that power and distinction and honor will be awarded to patriotism, capacity and integrity. To your self-sacrificing, self-denying defenders of imperishable truths and Inalienable rights I look for the performance of whatever man can do for the welfare and happiness of his country. DuriDg the delivery of the address Mr. Davis was frequently applauded. THE SUB-COMMITTEE.

Weber Hlaroronsly CrosM-Examined by Mr. Cox. Sew Orleans, July 11. The -Totter subcommittee met to-day. Hiram Smedley testified. Being shown by Mr. Cox the Anderson-Weber agreement, said: I saw the name of D. A. Weber signed to that paper by J. W. Jones, notary public, in the back room of my coffee house on Exchange alley. JTines spent the most of his time about my place. Only saw Jones sign Weber's name once; don't know whether the paper was a single or double sheet. About two months ago, before Dix went to Washington, I bad a conversation with him. He said they wanted him to swear he had seen Weber sign the Weber-Andereon agreement, but he could not. To Mr. Blackburn Jones bal the reputation of signing other people's names and fixing up crooked papers. To the best of my knowledge and belief, when Dix and Wilder certify that Water's name was sizned to the Anderson-Weber agreement at the date given, they certify to a falsehood. I told Seymour a few days ago that be knew his certificate was untrue. WEEER OS TnE 8TA5D. E. L. Weber was examined by Mr. Cox in regard to tbe testimony'given by him in 18Tb' before the Boutwell committee. Mr. Cox read from a report of that committee tbe questions propounded and answers given by Weber at that time, asking the witness whether they were true or false, m to which question relating to violence, intimidation, threats, murder and all mannerof outrage as charged at that time, including act of regulators. The answers given by witness were similar in almost every case, only slightly varied by circumstances. The witness then slid his testimony wss given then in most cases from information received, and proceeded to explain the circumstance? under which he testified at the instance of Governor Kellogg, and said many of his statements were made for political effect, and that he knew at the time they were not true. Some of the statements he believed at that time were true, but he knew now they were false. The witness explained his misunderstanding of the objects of tbe regulators, which he knows new were to break up stealing, dealing in seed cotton after night, ec. The witness said tbe statements then made were not wilfully false, but from hearsay and imagination. My intention was to tell the truth. Thinks in most cases he told the truth, as understood by him at the time, but knows now that those statements were false. I was never warned away from the parish, and had no information that wou'd justify me in making those statement!. In answer to Mr. Cox as to the Sherman letter the witness said he found it in a box sent from his brother's at Bavou Sara to bis father-in-law's warehouse in Donaldsanville. Found the letter after Mr?. Jenks' visit. Showed it to no one, but tore it up at once, because i t e x poed ru y brot h e r' s wrong doing. My brother told me there were no grounds for protesting tbe parish. Tbe witness admitted he had been indicted, forfeited his bond, and afterward, at the suggestion of the distric: attorney, made a. falsa affidavit, in order to have the bond rtstjmi. (OX'S ATTEMPTS TO BROW-BEAT. Weber was on the stand three hours under Mr. Cox's cross-examination. He several times became very much excited, accused Mr. Cox of brow beating him, and appealed to the commitue for projection. The witness said the visiting statesmen, who made tbe promises, were responsible for the protests made by Webt r, Aiu'erson and others In answer to a question relating to his indictment the witness turning to Mr. Cox, said excitedly, '.'You republicans could use my brother who is dead to-day, you could use us on the stand to s war to any kind of a lie that you wanted in order to sopport and sustain you; to day, that you can not use me as your tool you proposi to ruin me." Governor Cox disclaimed any such motive as that imputed to him by the witness, and said he wanted to give tbe witness an opportunity to vindicate himself. TnE SAVAGES It E fit EAT. Tbe Bonte of the Indiana Whipped by General Howard. Has Francisco, July 10. The Piute chief Natchez with several companies arrived last night for a conference with General McDowell. He says the plan of the hostiles is to gather all the tribes in the vicinity of Columbia river and then, return on tbeir trail and drive out the whites and friendly Indians from southern Idaho and vicinity. Cii'ETKxk, Juty 11. Mr. Hank Clifford, of Running Water, arrived here this morning and reports a party of 40 Indlans.having crossed the Whftc Clay river yesterday afternoon bound northward. The Indians are supposed to have deserted their agencies. Lieutenant Simpson with about twenty-five men of tbe Third cavalry left here this afternoon in pursuit of the partr who fired at the mail carrier at Dead Horse creek yesterday. Sah Fbakcisco, July 11. A Portland dis

patch, under date of Umatilla 11th. says: "A private dispatch received here siys tbe hostiles were whipped back into tbe mountains by General Howard, and have now started eastward for Snake river along the ridge of mountains between Grande Konde and Columbia valley. They will cross Meacham's road between Summit and Pelican, and turning somewhat south pass into Willows, and cross Snake river at the mouth of tbe Salmon. If the Indians are again whipped back tbey will move northeast into the Salmon mountains, or southeast along the Powder river mounia'ns to the crossing of tbe Snake near Old's ferry. Grande P.onde valley is now in the mos: danger, and outa is about past unless tbe Columbia or Yokinit Indians take a hand in the fight Tbe John Day and other streams south of Black creek are comparatively safe; also along the Columbia river between here and Waltula." A DISPATCH FROM GENERAL HOWARD. Sax Francisco, July 11. A Portland dispatch says the following is adispatch received by Governor Chad wick from Gen. Howard, dated Camp Chadwick, Bear Creek, July 9: "We appeared to have met the main body of the Indians. It will be necessary to .treat those Columbia Indian, who are aiding the eoemy with guides and boat and ammunition, iust as Kre-s and VVilkics are doing. Ko large place like Heppner, Pendleton or Walla Walla is in danger from them. They kill herds, isolated farmers and small parties, and seek for horses more than for any other property. Tbe smallest stockade keeps them off. I have sent a column in pursuit of those who etcaped from ns yesterday afternoon, and am encamped here near the water to rest and refresh the

animals while our scouts examine tie trail j in different directions;' THE TROfBLE OVER AT UMATILLA. The telegraphic operatorat Umatilla sends tbe following: "Have jutt harried by telegraph from Walla Walla that Howard will be in Walla Walla this afternoon 'and take the traim from that city to Wallula with his command, then take tbe boat from that point and proceed to 'the bead ot navigation in Snake river. Tbe Indians have evaded the general, and are now making for the mouth of tbe Grande Ronde river, where they expect to cro.as tbe Snake. Captain Wilkinson, in command of the patrol boat North west,hs just left here for Long Island. about 15 miles below here, where iome renegade Indians are suspected of crossing with horses and plunder, lie will return immediately alter examining the country about there, and go directly to Wallula. Our troubles Lere are probably over." EXCITEMENT AT BAKER CITY. Sax Francisco, Jaly 11 A Maker City, Oreeon, dispatch, says: "This town has been under great excitement for tbe past two days, caused by continued re parHof hostiles coming in on the North Powder river. Families and stock for miles n round have been gathering in here and at Union since thel'th, but from returning scouts we learn all reports as yet are fabe. Colonel Sanford's command caiuped.aiOrtdell Grande Ronde, in readiness to intercept tbe hostiles should they attempt to go north via Grande Ronde. He has a company of soldiers now scouting the upper Grande Ronde river, and Captain Egbert is on tbe North Powder river and has scouts out in all directions. He has a company at tbe head waters of Clover creek, and from the vicinity of troops and scouts it is ahnos'. iui possible for the hostiles to cross no.lti through this section without being interrupted by some of thc3e troops. Scouts in Irani Howard Bay tbe hobtiles have broken into different bands, some travellingXnorth and some south on the back track." . . - Not Alice Same an Mellcan Man. New York, July 10. A Chinaman to-day made an application to Judge Choate United States district court, to become a citizen. The judge denied the application under a decision of Judge Sawyer, of tbe United States circuit court of California, in the case of Ah roup. Crop Prospects In Europe. The Paris correspondent of the London Statist writes to that journal: "It can not be denied that the hopes for an excellent crop in France are greartly lessened. In the north especially there is a contlriuancs of rainy weather, which does, great harm; in the center the position is better; in the southern districts farmers complain of continued dryness, but the vines 'are not damaged to a great extent. la th absence o( any true statistical summing up.it is difficult to say what are .the real prospects of crops. Generally speaking, the month of June is a rainy one in Paris, and as Paris is the heart of France, and the seat of the principal orcans of the French pres3, 1 have always observed'tbat the crops are judged in a gloomy way in June, and that the opinion improves toward July. In Paris there is none but the stock-dealing part oc the population which cares anything about 'he state of the crops, and jobbers are not alwajs particular to state facts otherwise than according to their own interests. Statistics in France are a ioint noir. Tbey are found to be a tedious matter, and the public d. not take the f ligetest interest in them. When writers tet to work for many hours to gather facts they are rarely rewarded by public attention; while a few humorous phrases cleverly thrown on tbe paper will at once bs talked of in all quartern Some official statements have been made by the Austro-Hun-gari-n government respecting tbe prospects of crops. In the western part of Austria there has been sufficient 'ra'nfill and fine weather; in the eastern part they complain of dryness. There are good prospects in western Hungary, Croatia and the Bukowina. Rye presents, oa the whole, good average prospects; so does wheat. Bailey and oils offer equally good yield, especially in the west. The barley in Daanaiii will be cut prf sently. Oats are excellent in Hungary and Istris. Potatoes are good nearly everywhere. Vines have already begun to "flourish in Dalmatia and in the Tyrolese. In Hungary, Styria. Dalmatia and south Austria tbe vines promise first clas result'. As to cocoons the news is equally good." Tbe Phonograph au Aid to Ibe Doctors New York Tlmes.l Some of the medical journals have great hopes of the extraordinary benefits which the phonograph will confer on physicians. It will, they say, make the nicest distinc tions between every, form &f bronchial and pulmonary disease, between percussion, succussion and friction sounds; between crepitus, fatal and placental murmurs; between arterial and aneurismal suggestions, when each can be produced at will, and managed according to profecsional notions at any time or place. The lecturer that is to come will use the phonograph instead of his tongue for instruction and illustration. The wonderful instrument will record the frequency, dura tion and 'characteristics of respiratory and muscular movements; differentiate pneumonia from phthisis; reproduce the sob of hysteria, the sigh of melancholia, the hiccough of collapse, ami the moan of tbe puerperal patient. It will interpret for the infant the inarticulate.expression of earache, colic, mns cular disorder and tubercular meningitis. It will be an expert in lunncy, determining accurately between insanity, mania &nd i.iiccy. It will make the subtlest and ablest of diagnoses; will translate all the ailments of human nature so clearly and directly, and render the mot ordinary doctor so capable of understanding something of medicine, that it may quite supercede the need of physicians, wlich can not fail to be a blessing to mankind. In short, the phonograph promises to be the great healer of the future. The death of old Marshal Baraguey d'Hilliers leaves only three French marshals living Canrobert, MacMahon and Le Bo.uf. Old as the soldier who has jest died was, he was not the senior of the army; that distinction belongs to General Schramm, who was born in lTt'J and entered the service In 13,

THE RED SPECTRE.

Trouble and Socialists As-'iailing the Czar. Has Communism Gained m Footbtold Amonr tbe Rmwiana? St. Petersburg Cor. New York Herald. The inquietude occasioned at Berlin by reason of the recent attempts to take the life of tbe emperor of Germany has had its counterpart here in St. Petersburg. But the conditions are different. The leading socialists of Germany may almost be said to carry out tbeir operations la the full light of day, for they elect deputies to parliament whose claims and tpeecbes are made public In Russia It is not so The efforts of all of those who relighting againttthe present governmental regime are all in secret, reaching to the inner centers of common life, and are consequently more effective in at'aining ends that will one day become terrible. No one denies that Russia is the land ot police par excellence. Every person who has traveled through the country has heard of the invincible third section ot the thancellerie the section cf gendarmes whose officers don the sky-blue uniform. It is there, high up among official life at the chancellerie, that the police system begin. Everybody, indeed, knows where this police power rises. i but that which puzzles mo&t is the point ; where it ends. To the casual observer it is I illimitable. Like tbe massive tenacles of tbe octopus, it teems to encircle socitty, which is powerlesi to withdraw from its grasp. The police are everywhere HOTEL SPIES AND DETECTIVE GUIDES. All the dvarniks similar to those who in France took the place or the bouse porters (concierges) are police agents, either from fear or interest. There is at least one in every establishment who can give information concerning the going aad coming of each individual those who goontand those who come in and tbe hour an which each returns at night, for the dvarnik sleeps outside like a watch dog, in his c'.othes, the chief of the door, whom it is necessary to awaken before you get in. House servants, guides, cice rones, interpreters who f.x about with strangers, are all in the pay ot the third section. Guides give information as to movements of foreigners, telegraphing their arrival at the German frontier, perhaps 21 hours before they alight in St. Petersburg. Tbe visitor Sees all his movements noted. This is not all. The third section extends its legion of voluntary agents even to tbe sacred faiuily circle. It may be temporary or permanent, according to necessity. HOW IXF0EMATI0X Is'ojlTAIXED. Let me assume an instance. A Tonne man or an old soldier the .margin is wide is in an embarrassed condition. He knows that the third section has its roubles there to be drawn out. It is sufficient if he sends anonymous information, with any mark whatever as to the authorship, for lc has simply to repeat this mark of identification when making a subsequent request for remuneration a request, by the way, that is never left unattended to in cases that are worthy. It does not cost the govern ment much, for the machines that Btamp the roubles seem, to have an inex haustible store to draw upon. It is unnecessary to go deeper into detail. It is sufficient to establish the fact that the hand of tbe police is everywhere, and that when this hand fails to catch tnose who plot ana wore in secret the association must, indeed, be powerful and the organization complete. The absolute secrecy in which aU the affairs of the socialist association remain enclosed would almost lead to the belief of its nonexistence if each day, each hour, it might almost be said, it did not manifest itself by (ome material facta. A BOCIALIST NEWSPAPER DEFiKS AUTHORITY. And what fact could tx- more palpable than the daily publication of a printed newsaper? Any one may write "one, ten era lundred anonymous letters and avoid prosecution for a long time, if he has no accomplice to give him up. But a printed journal requires a workshop, a composing room, material, an engineer, or some such person. The secret may rest between the proprietors, the workmen, those who furnish paper or ink, the editors, etc.; still tin secret is guarded. The third section. irritated, ends by promising a reward of $5,000 roubles ($1. v0) to ttbsey?r will name te printer. 3rtr7 morning the first word of the emperor on seeing General Meyensyoff, chief of the Third section, is to inquire if the presses of this socialist printing office have been seized. "Nothing yet," always "notaiDg." The sovereign was promised that tie guilty ptrsoas should do homage to htm on the annual fete day, tbe famous day when the first Romaneff should turn his sixtieth birthday. This birthday being turned, the printer of the anonymous letters remained in the background, where he continues to labor for his "cause.'' Moreover, the disseminating es tablisbment replied valiantly to the promise of reward the ne'xt day by 50 circulars, addressed from the Third section to the commissaries of police, offering to increase tbe figure. The same day the journal published tbe text of the circular, copies of winch were addressed to the proper authority, who immediately ordered the commissaries of police to return the circulars to the central administration. But one important link was missing he who delivered them to the Occult association. It will be said that this association, which has Its traeud agnta even in the police bureau, must be rich! No. In order to bring out a new number of the journal it is sometimes requisite that the editors have recourse to the pawnbrokers, where one of them orders an article of jewelry which is sometimes a revered family souvenir for an influential official friend. DUPLICATE KU.MBERS I'RIXTED. Besides, if they disCDver the printing establishment tne journal does not cease to appear. It is like the mucii quoted rtenix ever tising from its ashes. A duplicat-t set of forms h made, so that if one set falls into the hands of the authorities tbe other is immediately resorted to for the papers, which CDiiie out the same day or the day following. It might be supposed that this could not be done after the stupendous though sterile efforts of tbe police to place all tbe typographers of St. Petersburg under surveil, lance. But to watch the "typos" is an easy matter here, especially the journeymen, because all these are compelled to obtain a license and carry it about with them con stantly, renewing it at fixed periods; they are branded, in lact, like beasts or convicts. The recognized socialist journal appears irregularly as to intervals, but nearly periodically, so to write, as to number. Tbe circulation varies betwean five hundred and one thousand copiea, according to the greater or smaller significance which the propagandists attach to public events, among which events are classed the too numerous scandals of all kinds created by the nobles and aristocracy. Very often copies are sent direct to tbe authorities, especially when they contain "confidential circular" issued originally by the government. HOW SEDITION REACHES THE EMPEROR. The day after tbe acquittal of Vera rZxssulich a member of the journal appeared which caused great excitement on account of the inflammatory appeal to the people it contained. A copy of this number reached the emperor, it being carried to the winter palace by a messenger in the uniform of a gendarme and he was probably a regular officer of police In an envelope bearing this inscription: i TO HIH MAJESTY THE EMPEROR. FROM THE THIRD SECTION. ; I Tersonal. ; This address assured the senders that the

envelop would be opened by the imperial finger., only. I have secured copies of all the numbers of this clandestine sheet, and given a translation of the principal features and most interesting extracts. But before giving these, and in order that the reader

may the more readily appreciate them, it is necessary that he shaU understand the pres ent condition of affairs here from the point at which the "conspirators" gurttd, whose ran es nave Deen gradually augmented until they have reached the position where we see them to-day. In a worJ. it is necessarv tn give a brief historical resume cf the operau - : . . wuuvi ius sui-iausis, operai ions rarnea on notwithstanding the extreme vigilance of the Third section. HISTORY OK RISMAX SOCIALISM. The first germ a very small eerm it was of the movement dates from the year 1S00. Then it did not an:onnt to much". It was. - . . i . . . siiu persons in autnonty, simply the move of a few discontented men, "who demanded more privileges than tbeir fellow citizens enjoyed," and they hardly noticed it. However, in 18;2 the numbers of the new propaganda had increased so much that the Third section deemed it advisable to seize some of them and send tbem out of Russia tbat Is to say, lo scatter them without any oher form than marching to the Siberian frontier. It was then that the celebrated Tchernechewski wa- arrested. This persecution produced just the opposite effect of that desired and hoped by the government. Persecution, which has always been the best aid to movements of this kind, caused the se?ds of discontent to scatter to all the principal centers of population. Branches or lodges came suddenly into existence. Everywhere bodies of men asked to share in tbe movement and sympathize with the aspirations of the leaders. The third section redoubled its energy, arresting men right and left, and this time causing quite a panic among tbe new recruits. A REIGN OF TERROR BEGUN. Then commenced an era of terror. The government brought into play all their artifice for obtaining information. Favors and money were tbe principal agents emploved. Two men might be seen talking together and shaking each other by the hand over night. The next morning one of these had been appointed to a lucrative position, while the other was put en route for Siberia. This state of things continued until 1SG8. During 185!) and 1870 the number of arrests and orders of exile decreased. But that expurgation simply took out tbe men who were working to secure the entrance of the solid men who are in the association to-day. FIRT ORGANIZATION OF THE NEW PARTY. The time bad come when the idea? adopted should be defined i. e., the color of their flag and their principles, which had hitherto been all aspiration and enthusiasm, without any programme. At first it was called lyrism, then radicalism, or, as they would call it in France, "apportism;" but in 18f3 tbe principles were defined, and socialism, as it is now, was inaugurated. But at this time the time when Nitchaiew came upon the scene it was art for the sake of art and conspiracy for the pleasure of conspiracy. They wished to do something, without knowing exactly what For example, the attempt to take the life of the czar at Karakosow in 1SG0 was the end of one phase of the movement, and Mtehaiew the commencement of another of that which now exists. But Nitchaiew went under through a personal fight. He slew a man and fled to Swi'zrland. The government of Switzerland ar rested him and handed him over to Kusna. He was tried and condemned, but he suddenly disappeared without any one knowing what became of him. TnE TURNING POINT KNOWLEDGE NOT BLOOD. Nitchaiew'a crime will show that the socialists followed a wrong path. It was a negative result, but a useful result In this sense, that it taught tbe socialists tbey could do nothing when they had only one "man at their head. From tbat time the direction of affairs was intrvsted to congresses which, were charged to maintain unity every where. These congresses meet at useful periods, and they are not always composed of the same individuals. The members know, when they separate, the approximate time for the next meeting, and they only go who desire. No one is chosen in preference to his fellows None a-e elected However, when a meeting is organized, spontaneous though It Tuay be, the procedure is based upon the labors of the pr?vious meeting. It was a congress which decided to do away with aicb nel9i crime? ?s thst of Nitchaiew and the a.t-rkp'eJ tssaisi nations at Karakoiow, and adopted the princip'e the slow but sure method of propegatiDg their ideas through Ihc medium of the printing press. It was because such action was super3uous and rennipd sterile in 1SGS, the tiro for arms hid having come, that even a more dv lo, d at.d dtermiD'ed orgaoizition than the cmgrtss was dtemed necessary. GOVERNMENT FEKfECUTIOX MAKING SOCILISTS. They chit g to the pres.". Then a- number of suite were entered against the propagandists with a view o? scattering them in all the villages. The adepts or initiated members presented themselves everywhere, however, in the guise of workmen especially in the factories. Now tbey extend even to the Caucasus. For a long time the government vainly sought to discover the organization of the propaganda. They failed to discover it, because none existed as it was formerly understood. And this time aain persecution, instead of overcoming, fortified and strengthened the socialist enterprise. Some became initiated in order to trick the authorities; others, in order to become enrolled in the noble army of martyrs of tbe future But the strength of the socialist ranks continued to eugment. The meetings of the congress meanwhile brought into contact certain coreligionists, and tbe unity of these men comprise the only organiza'tion existing at present This organization arose spontaneously. It exists, but it is neither codified nor regulated by special rules, and is enrpposed of men who seek to preserve the spirit of independence, having really deterrniped no hing but their object, which is exclusively Realistic and in no way communistic "All forthe peop!e and by the people." WHOLESALE ARRESTS AND BANISHMENTS. But to continue concerning the socialists of the international. In 1873 a sudden move was made on the part of tbe authorities. One named Gikarew, who was procurtur general at Ztratow, offered his services tj the government to do what the Third section had been unable to accomplish, viz., to put an end entirely to the secret movement. The government gave him full powers. He ar-rt-bted thousand of individuals, and ended by dec'6ring that Russia was being devoured by the - prcitaiudis s and that they had rneiutMT in the governments of provinces as early as 1ST.7. This statement wasclearly the resaltofailGikarew'seffvrts.One hundred and seventy-three suit were instituted, commencing in November, 1ST", and lasting until January, 1x78. Again these suits served to biing the socialuttc doctrines openly before tbe public, which had hitherto been ignorant of tbe rapid strides made, and of the point Le attained. For the unenlightened portion of tbe public inspired discussion showed tbat it was only yout1!, always disparaged or desti;s?d, that had any gnerous esoirations. B "t it msy here be s'atcd that tbe instant these people cross their arms with resignation this "you rh"will create the only political arty that has ever existed in Russia. Important If Trne. Chicago Times. The gossip "Gath" is at Long Branch using bis ears and his other ample organs to small purposes. As he sits in his bathing house he hears "voices in the adjoining house of woe, shouting: 'Sally, are you on-stripped V Another voice, further on along the corridor, replies: 'Yes, I'm all on-stripped except me chimmy.' 'Well, says voice the first, Pm quite on-stripped.' This seems to me to contain a deep secret" Correspondence like this is extremely valuable.