Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1874 — Page 1

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THE NEWS.

Edna Dean Proctor, the authoress, has commenced suit for libel against Moulton qu account of his reference to her in his fecent reply to the statement of Mr. Beecher. She assesses her damages at sieopoo. The annual convention of the Diocese of Illinois cm the 16th, at Chicago, elected Rev. George F. Seymour, Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the General Seminary of New York, to be Bishop of the diocese, to succeed the late Bishop Whitehouse. The Arkansas State Republican Convention assembled at Little Rock on the -16th, but adjourned without making nominations. An address to the people of Arkansas was adopted, and also resolutions denouncing the Constitution recently framed, and declaring that the Constitutional Convention was a conspiracy of White League, Ku-Klux and leaders of the late rebels to overthrow the reconstructed Government; that all the troubles in the South were but an attempt to revive the lost cause. Thirty-five delegates were appointed to the Chattanooga Convention of Southern Republicans which meets on the 13th of October. The following Congressional nominations were made on the 16th: Republican—R. H. Whiting, Ninth Illinois District; E. H. "Roberts, Twenty-second Naw.York, renominated; Henry S. Magopn, Third Wisconsin. Democratic — W’R. Morrison, Seventeenth Illinois, renominated; J. J. Robinson, Second Michigan; Allen Potter, Fourth Michi" gait Reform—David C. Fulton, Seventh Wisconsin.

Col. Villette, the Aid-de-Camp of Marshal Bazaine, has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for aidins: his chief jto escape from St. Marguerite. A dispatch from Madrid of the 17th reports that the National troops had recently been successful in several engagements with the Carlists. On the 17th the cashier of the Wellsboro (Pa.) bank and his family were gagged and bound by five robbers, who forced him to open the safe, from which they stole $50,000. The Democracy of New York met in State Convention at Syracuse on the 17th, and placed in nomination the following i ticket: S. J. Tilden for Governor; William Dorsheimer for Lieutenant-Governor; Adin Thayer for Canal Commissioner; Geo. W.‘ Wagner for Inspector of State Prison*; Theodore Miller for of the Court of Appeals. The resolutions demand : Gold and silver and no currency inconvertible with coin; steady steps toward specie payment; honest payment of the public debt in coin; revenue reforiri; federal taxation for revenue only; no Government partnership with protected monopolies; home rule and no centralization r/equal and exact justice to all men; nogag laws, uniform excise, but no sumptuary laws; no’third term, etc, The following Congressional nominations were made on the 17th: Republican—John K. Green, First Ohio District; Job E. Stevenson, Second Ohio; W. H. Rogers, First Arkansas; John M. Clayton, Second Arkansas; W. J. Hynes, Third Arkansas; Chas. H. Lander, Fourth Arkansas. Independent —J. F. Farnsworth, Fourth Illinois; Bagby, Tenth Illinois. Democratic— Alexander Campbell, Seventh Illinois (the Independent nominee); M. D. Wilbur, Fifth Michigan; W. J. O’Brien, Third Maryland, renominated; Thomas Swann, Fourth Maryland, renominated; C. BL Morgan, Sixth Missouri; A. H. Buckner, Thirteenth Missouri, renominated ; Bagby, Tenth (the Independent nominee). > According to a Memphis special of the

17th the Grand Jury of Gibson County, Tenn., have found indictments against forjy of the persons said to have been engaged in the recent Trenton massacre. M. M. Hann, the lowa member of the National Democratic Committee, has issued an address to lowa Democrats advising them to support the entire AntiMonopoly ticket at the coming election. At the Tennessee State Republican Convention held at Chattanooga on the 16th Horace Maynard was nominated for Governor by acclamation. The resolutions adopted favor public schools and the improvement of Southern rivers; a State Constitutional Convention; the Civil-Rights bill, etc., etc. * According to late Constantinople dispatches a serious famine prevails in Angora. On the evening of the 17th two stages running between Malvern and Hot Springs, Ark.; were overhauled by footpads, who robbed the passengers of several gold watches and $2,000 in money; The Sheriff of the county immediately summoned a posse, which started in pursuit, and at last accounts there was good prospect .that the robbers would be overtaken and captured. Gov. Brown, of Tennessee, on the 18th sent a message to President Grant protesting against the arrest of citizens of Tennessee by United States officers, upon the charge of .being concerned in . the Trenton massacre. He says the duty of punishing offenders belongs to the State, and demands that all prisoners shall be turned over to the local tribunals for trial and punishment. Three men who participated in the Custer Black Hills expedition telegraphed from Bismark, D. T., on the 15th that Prof. Winchell did not know what he was talking about when he said that there was no gold in the Black Hills. They declare they found, diggings that would pay ten dollars per day per man. The State authorities, on further examination, have decided that the Milwaukee & Prairie du Chien Railroad

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does come Within the provisions of the Wisconsin Potter law, and the AttorneyGeneral is about to apply to the Supreme Court for an injunction against tnht road also. Reports made to the Department of Agriculture indicate that the quantity of this year’s crop of wheat will fully equal that of last year. The acreage is 7 per cent, more and the average 2 per cent, less. The President replied to the message of Gov. Brown, of Tennessee, on the 19th, saying that he was glad to know that the State authorities were disposed th repress and punish lawless acts, but the Constitution made it his duty to enforce the acts of Congress, and Congress had passed laws giving the United States concurrent jurisdiction in such cases. He would give the Governor a more definite answer when the report of the United States District Attorney had been received. One of the buildings of the Granite Mills at Fall River, Mass., was burned on the morning of the 19th, the fire breaking out after the operatives in the mill had commenced work. Many of the operatives lost their lives either by suffocation or jumping from the windows, and many others were injured. The loss by fire is over $300,000. Further particulars are given elsewhere. The Democratic State Central Committee of Tennessee have issued an address condemning all acts of violence, whether committed by whites orblacks. The address condemns in unmeasured terms the Civil-Rights bill. On the 19th Senator Brownlow addressed a letter to Gov. Brown, of Tennessee, thanking him for the energetic steps he had taken to preserve peace and punish assassins. Denmark has recently demanded of Germany an explanation in regard to the late expulsion of Danish subjects from Schleswig-Holstein. A London dispatch of the 21st says that Dockeray, the American ex-Consul recently sentenced to death in Cuba, had reached Santander, Spain, where he was closely imprisoned and badly treated. The persons indicted for conspiracy and safe-burglary at Washington will be tried on the 21st of October. The United States Marshal on the 21st served upon Moulton the proper process in the libel suit of Edna Dean Proctor.

On the 21st W. A. Burleigh was nominated for Delegate to -Congress by the Democrats and Anti-Monopolists of Dakota. The Fusion police force of New Orleans was replaced on the 20th by regular Kellogg police. The McEnery parish officials at Franklin, La., who had recently taken possession of the offices,, surrendered them to Kellogg Government on the morning of the 21st. A St. Petersburg telegram of the 22d says that the Emperor had consented to grant to the Mennonites exemption from military duty except as hospital attendants, in the hope that thus the extensive emigration of this sect might be prevented. The efforts of Germany to secure the key to the Baltic through the absorption of Denmark would be vigorously opposed by the Russian Government. The delegates from the United States to the International Postal Congress reached Berne, Switzerland, on the 22d. The Treasury Department paid to the representatives of the British Government, on the 21st, $1,928,818, being the award made by the American and British Mixed Claims Commission. In accordance with an executive order issued by the President on the 22d, the civil-service rules have been extended over New York and Boston. The incomplete official returns of the recent Maine election indicate that Dingley’s majority is about 11,000. The steamship companies plying between New York and Europe on the 22d reduced the price of steerage tickets to fifteen dollars. The Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America will meet in Chicago on the 7th of October. The recent reports of political outrages in Alabama were contradicted on the 22d, on the strength of a dispatch from U. S. -Commissioner Jones, of Marengo County. The following Congressional nominations were made on the 22d: Liberal — Third Wisconsin District, C. F. Thompson. Democratic Sixth Wisconsin, Gabe Bouck; Ninth Missouri, David Rea. Prohibition—Fifth Michigan, J. A. McKay. Republican—Twelfth Ohio, David Taylor. Democratic and Liberal —Sixth Michigan, George H. Durand.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Cotton.—Middling upland, 16*4@16!4c., .Live Stock.—Beef Cattle—[email protected]. Hoge —Dressed, [email protected]. Sheep—Live, $4.25@ 0.26. Bmadstutts.—Flour—Good to choice, $5.50 @5.85; white wheat extra, [email protected]. Wheat —No. 2 Chicago,[email protected]; lowa spring, $1.15 @1.17; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, [email protected]. Rye —Western and State, 90@98c. , Barley—....® .... Corn—Mixed Western afloat, 96@97c. Oats—Western, 65@67c. Provisions.—Pork—Mess, [email protected]. Lard —l4«@lsMc. Cheese—ll®l3Mc. Wool.—pommon to extra, 45@66c. CHICAGO. Ltvk Stock.—Beeves—Choice, [email protected]; good, [email protected]; medium, [email protected]; butchers' stock, [email protected]; stock cattle, [email protected]. Hogs—Live, [email protected]. Sheep—Good to choice, [email protected]. Provisions.—Butter—Choice, 28@34c. Eggs— Rresh, 14@14 1 / Jc. Cheese—New York Factory, 13*4@llc; Western Factory, 12H@13Hc. PorkNew Mess, [email protected]. Lard— BBkadbtuits.—Flour—White Winter Extra, [email protected]; spring extra, [email protected]. WheatSpring, No. 2, 98%@99c. Com—No. 2, 8# @Bo>4c. Oats—No. 2, 505@51%c. Rye—No. 2, 91K@92c. Barley—No. 2, [email protected]. Wool.—Tub-washed, 45@55c.; fleece, washed, 40@48c.; fleece, unwashed, 27@35c.

OUR AIM; TO FEAR GOD, TELL THE TRUTH AND MAKE MONEY.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1874.

Lukbb*.— First clear, $90.00058.00; second clear, $47.00049.50; (fommon Boards, slo.oo© 11J50; Fencing, SIO.OOOII -50; “A” Shingles, $3.0003.25; Lath, $2.0002.25. CINCINNATI. Bbkadstutts.- -Flcar—ss-2505.50. WheatBed, sl.lO. Corn—B3oß4c. Rye—9Bc. Oats-48© Me. Barley—sl.lool.Bo. Provisions.— Pork —594.50025.50. Lard—l 4 015 c. ST. LOUIS. lay* Stock..— Beeves—Fair to choice, $4,000 6.00. Hoge—Live, $6.0007.75. Bbbadstovts.— Flour, XX Fall, $4.2504.75. Wheat—No.2RedFall,sl.lßMol.lßK. Corn-No. 2,89083 c. Oats—No. 2, 53K054c. Bye—No. 2, 96098 c. Barley—sl.o7ol.l2Ml. Pnonsioirs.—Pork— Lard -14M015tfe. MILWAUKEE. - -- Bbzadstustb.— Flour—Spring XX, $5.2505.50. Wheat-Spring, No. 1, $1.0401.05; No. 2, 97© 97%c. Corn—No. 2,88084 c. Oats—No. 2, 48© 48%c. Bye—No. 1,89090 c. Barley—No. 2, sl.lO 01.12. DETROIT. Bbeadbtuffb. —Wheat Extra, 91.1901.19%. Corn—Booßlc. Oats-50051c. ; TOLEDO. Bbbadstufm.— Wheat—Amber Mich., $1.09 01.09%; No. 2 Bed, $1.0801.08%. Corn—Mixed, 82©82%c. Oats—s3©s3%c. CLEVELAND. Bbbadstotts.— Wheat—No. 1 Bed, sl.ll© 1.12; No. 2 Bad, $1.0601.07. Corn-85©86c. Oats—s3os4c. BUFFALO. Live Stock.— Beeves—$4.7506.85. Hogs— Live, $6.0007.80. Sheep—Live, $4.0005.00. EAST LIBERTY. Livb Stock. —Beeves Best, 96.2506.75; medium, $5.0005.75. Hogs—Yorkers, $6.50© 7.50; Philadelphia, $8.0008.40. Sheep—Best, $4.5005.00; good, $4.0004.50.

A TERRIBLE CALAMITY.

Burning of a. Cotton MUI at Fall River, Maas.—Several Lives Lost. By the burning of a large cotton mill at Fall River, Mass., on the 19th, several operatives lost their lives and many more were fatally injured by jumping from the windows. The operatives at work in the fifth story were penned in by the flames, and, bewildered, refused to avail themselves of the fire-escapes. A dispatch from Boston on the night of the 19th gives the following particulars: Mills Nos. 1 and 2, of the Granite Works, Fall River, had been running about twenty minutes when the operatives in No. 1 were startled with the cry of fire and the escape of smoke from the fourth story- In this, next to the upper floor, was the mule-warp spinning department, and there were nearly 100 girls at work, under a male overseer. On the upper floor, the fifth, about thirty girls were employed, spooling and warping cotton. These were the youngest of the operatives. With the alarm the flames seemed to leap to tills attic, coming ‘from the windows below and up the great tower in the center of the building, in which were all the stairs communicating with each story. The fire caught in the mule-spinning-room, in the northwest corner of the mill, from friction in a mule-head, and.spreading, by means of oil on the floor and about the machinery, with great quickness, rushed toward the center tower, the only means of escape for those in the fourth and fifth stories besides four fire-escapes, two on each gable end. Once getting into the tower, the flames ran up to and through the single entrance to the fifth story, then, springing to the roof timbers, filled the two great rooms, 450x90 feet, with dense black smoke and flame. While the flames were making such terrible headway the operatives became fairly wild. The overseers saw there was no way possible to check the fire, and gave their sole attention to those whom they had at work. They called to them to save themselves, and pointed out wavs of escape, principally fire-lad-ders. The overseer of the spooling-room, who remained till nearly suffocated, states that the scene in his room—and it must have been worse in the room below—cannot be depicted. Children ran about crying and begging piteously to be saved, yet wrenching themselves away when taken forcibly to the tower while yet there was some chalice, or to the iron ladde* that reached two of the scuttle-windows of the south end opening upon the roof of the balcony at the head of the Twelfth street fire-ladders. It was impossible to get the great majority to take this method to save their lives. Some wanted clothing, others something else. As the fire frightened them away from ladders they rushed to the windows at the south gable end, nearly sixty feet from the ground, but dared not jump down. Cotton ropes were put < out for them to slide down by, but no sooner would a rope be lowered than there was a rush for it from below. Too many would take hold, when it would break, and all clinging to it would come down in a bunch. Similar scenes were going on in the mule-spinning-room. The flames had ascended rapidly to the entrance of the tower on the fourth floor, cutting off their means of escape, but the operatives had two ladders of the south gable directly before them, and were urged by the overseers and citizens below to take them. Some did, but others rushed headlong upon the balcony and dropped or threw themselves from the guards. There was ample time for every one to have been saved had the girls taken the course directed. Fall River dispatches of the 20th say the number of killed would reach twenty, missing three, and . wounded—several fatally—between thirty and forty.

It is reported that the Dodge gold mine in Lisbon, N. H., is yielding far richer ore than heretofore, and the company is realizing a handsome profit. Twenty dollars is realized from a ton of ore. A block of gold worth over S4OO was taken from the mine a few days ago. T —About $6,000,000 worth of sugar was lost during the flood in Louisiana. Of the rice crop destroyed by the overflow it is estimated that about 5,031,940 pounds have been lost, which, valued at six and a fourth centsj aggregates $311,996 —The prospect is that this season will turn out (he largest cotton crop gathered since the war, and that the wheat crop will be an increase of 25,000,000 bushels over last year’s.

The Revolution in Louisiana.

The Associated Press dispatches from New Orleans on the 16th furnish the following intelligence: The city continued quiet, and there was a very general resumption of business, with no gatherings of people or evidences of excitement in any quarter. A telegram had been sent to President Grant, signed by the Presidents of the Chamber of Commerce, Clearing-House, Cotton Exchange and Merchants’ Exchange, informing him that “ this city is perfectly quiet and free from all disturbing elements, and business has been resumed as usual. No further trouble is anticipated.” This dispatch was supplemented by one signed By James F. Casey, dated at the “ Custom-House, New Orleans, Sept. 16,” in which he says: “The statement that the city is perfectly quiet is true, and business is proceeding as usual. Property and persons are safe from insults or injuries except from some rowdy or drunken man.” The following telegram was also transmitted to President Grant: A petition has been forwarded you to-day by express, signed by 500 of the leading business men of this city, as follows: “ We, the undersigned merchants, representing the commercial interest of New Orleans, and deeply interested in the welfare and prosperity of the State, gladly embrace the recent change of government, and guarantee impartial rights to all. We respectfolly ask the sympathy and support of the Executive.’’ (Signed) E. B. Whmlock, Chairman of Committee.

Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge had turned out the Kellogg officials and installed McEnery officers in city and parish. Livingston Parish had also declared for McEnery. The adjacent parishes would do the same. No disturbance. A Shreveport dispatch, dated the 16th, and signed by W. B. Egan, J. C. Moncure and A. H. Leonard as committee, savs: The last vestige of the Kellogg Government has disappeared from North Louisiana without a word or act of violence to whites or blacks. Perfect quiet and order prevail, and can only be disturbed by extraneous interference. The people are buoyant, and now hopefal of a future material prosperity. A New York dispatch of the 16th says D. B. Penn, signing himself “LieutenantGovernor and Acting-Governor of Louisiana,” had telegraphed to a newspaper in that city as follows: " The North can form no idea of the robbery and spoliation to which we have been subjected. My movement was necessitated by the attitude of the people. They demanded it. I am now in full possession of the Government of the State. The colored people are satisfied and contented. A strong brigade of colored troops, fully organized and armed, and la the service of the usurpation, refused to fire a shot in its defense. Thp most perfect peace and good order prevail. We are thoroughly loyal to the Federal Government, and in the operations of the past two days there have been no excesses or violations of law. This Government is the only one now tn existent* in Louisiana. ! • Gov. Kellogg, in a telegram to the same paper, says: ■ Amid all the troubles which have beset the State, I have redifted State and parish taxation each fully one-third, and measures have been passed providing for a reduction of the State debt ana the constitutional limitation of debts, both on State and city; also an amendment limiting taxation. The obnoxious features of the Blection and Registration laws, need by the Fusionists in the last election, have been repealed, and, in the appointment of officers of registration, I have voluntarily tendered to the opposition a representation, which they entirely denied to the Republican party at the last election. Finding, as the registration progressed, that they would be left still more in the minority at this election than ever before If the voters were allowed a free, untrammeled, nnintimidated franchise, they have, by a long-pre-pared plan, violently overthrown the Govern-’ ment, even before the election, to prevent the evidence that they had not had a majority before.**Upon shallow pretext of violence, and by incendiary statements and appeals, they have got together their clans, which they have organized in secret and drilled in their club-rooms in the city, and have taken possession of the public offices by violence and bloodshed. Personally, I have no desire to discharge the very onerous and vexatious duties of Governor, but I feel it a duty I owe to the State and to the party to hold on until relieved by competent authority. Gen. Emory and staff and McEnery arrived at New Orleans on the evening of the 16th. McEnery visited the State House and received the congratulations of his friend?. He would probably relieve Penn ®n the 17th. Instructions were sent to Gen. Emory from Washington on the 16th to “under no circumstances recognize the insurgent Government of Louisiana. Within five days from date of proclamation to the insurgents such action will be taken as the emergency may require.”

The situation of affaHß ,in New Orleans on the 17th was according to the telegraphic of that date: s Gov. McEnery had addressed a letter to Gen. Emory, that there did not exist in the State ofnLouisiana any insurrection against the McEnery Government ; that there was not anywhere in the State any assemblage of insurgents to disperse; that there was but one Government in existence in the State, which was the one elected and . chosen by the people in 1872 and installed in 1873, of which he (Jo!m McEnery) is Governor and D. B. Penn LieutenantGovernor; that throughout the State this Government was recognized, supported, adhered to, respected and obeyed by the people, and was both de ure and de facto the Government of the State. He thgn gives a history of recent events in New Orleans, and attempts to show that the President’s recent proclamation did not rightfully apply to New Orleans or the people of Louisiana, who were not in a state of insurrection. He then distinctly announces no attempt would be made tor forcibly resist the military forces of United States, and concludes as follows: “We will occupy the State Housw.and other State property in this city until the appearance and occupation of th&same by the authorities of the Government of the United States, when we rfall retire, knowing we have surrendered the same alone to the Government oflhe United States.” Governor, also issued an order acceding to a demand from Gen. Emory tMhrall armed men on the streets should begfletired and their arms returned to the a raffia al. in the evening, in accordaqopTSwith previous arrangements, Gen. Jz < R. Brooke, • accompanied by Lieuts. Wallace and Roe, went to the Executive office, at the St. Louis Hotel, and afW formal salutations Gov. McEnerynfygted to Gen. Brooke that he gave him possession of the State Capitol and all State buildings within the

limits of the city, and then read to him an address in the shape of a protest, to the effect that the surrender was in response to a formal demand of Gen. Emory; that they had neither the power nor inclination to resist the Government of the United States; that the people had overthrown the Kellogg administration because they could no longer bear its “wrongs, tyranny, arrogance and insults.” The protest concludes as follows: “I know as a soldier you have but to obey the orders of the Government of the United States, but I feel that you will temper your military control of affairs with moderation, and in all things exhibit that integrity of purpose characteristic of officers of the army. I now turn over to you, sir,, the Capitol and other property of the State under my charge.” At the conclusion of this address Gen. Brooke was seated in the office, and required from Lieut.-Gov. Penn a statement of all records, etc., which were in the building when they took possession. Gov. McEnery and his followers then withdrew, leaving the Capitol of Louisiana in possession of the military officers “of the Federal Government. At seven p. m. two companies of the Third Infantry marched down and were quartered in the building. Col. Thomas Boylan, McEnery’s Chief of Police, remained on duty with his force. The city was very quiet. Gen. Emory had'issued a circular announcing the appointment of Gen. Brooke to command the city of New Orleans until such time as the State and city governments could be reorganized. McEnery and Penn had issued an address to the people advising a cheerful obedience to the constituted authorities.

On the 18th Gen. Emory sent a communication to Gov. Kellogg to the effect that the insurgents lately in arms against the State Government had surrendered, and that he would afford him the necessary military support to re-establish the State Government. Gov. Kellogg acknowledges the receipt of the communication and requests Gen. Emory to assume the maintenance of peace and order of the city during the coming night, as, owing to the disorganization of the police force, the Commissioners of the Metropolitan police would not be able to get their officers on their beats until the next day. The following order was subsequently sent to the official journal: EXECUTIVE ORDER. " AH State officers who have been prevented, during this recent trouble, from performing their duties will immediately resume their official functions. Ti® Board of Metropolitan Police will at and organize the police force of NejTOrleans, and assume the maintenance of the peace and order of the cityr * (Signed) William P. Kellogg, Governor. f . A difpattfb-tp Gov. on the 18th, from reports that town attacked ths night before by negroes. The attack was repulsed. Gen. Emory had ordered troops to that point. In accordance with the Executive order of Gov. Kellogg the old State officers took quiet possession of the Louisiana State-House on the morning of the 19th. When Gov. Kellogg reached the Executive Office Gen. Brooke approached him and informed him that he was prepared to turn over to him the State-House and all the records and public property belonging to the State which had com 3 into his possession at the time of the surrender of the insurgents to his command. Everything, the General said, would be found in precisely the same condition as it had come into his hands. The Governor accepted the transfer and Gen. Brooke thereupon retired. Gen. George Baldy, VicePresident of the Board of the New Orleans Metropolitan Police, proceeded to the police-station at the head of about 200 police, and the building was quietly surrendered by Acting-Chief'' Boylan, and the Metropolitans were soon placed on their old beats. Gov. Kellogg advised that the ranks of the Metropolitans be filled from the retiring force of Chief Boylan.

Unmitigated Falsification.

There are lies* so stupendous as to force a qualified respect, and there is a degree of impudence so overwhelming as to be almost sublime. The following paragraph from the St. Louis Timet is as strong a combination of falsehood and audacious impudence as ever came to our notice. Says that journal: < The terrible scenes that have been forced upon the people of New Orleans were deliberately planned in Washington to subserve the two-fold purpose of defeating the election in Louisiana and helping out the Republican party in its canvass in the North; a vile plot, in which the liberties and lives of of a State were thrown into the scale against the success of a party which has shamelessly plundered the South for partisan ends. When the reader notes the following namely: that the White League wasMjpenly organized with the avowed purpose of carrying the approaching electionfet all hazards; that its organs declared that henceforth negroes should be deprived of. all part in the control of State affairs; 4hat large quantities of arms were purchased in New York, shipped to New Orleans and distributed to the White League clubs; that a demand on Kellogg towbdicate was made when the plot was coipplete; that upon his refusal he was driven from the StateHouse and some of his adherents murdered; that up to that time Kellogg had not requested the interference of..the Federal authorities, and that noy&tep toward interference had been takepfc that then Penn declared himself Governor and Acting-GoverwiroFLouis-iana, and directed every office the State to be seized and held in his name —when these facts are idea may be formed of the reckßssness of a newspaper which so impudence and falsehood as to arrest attention and inspire awe. all things have their uses, it is well,/jt possible, to turn the* audacity and falsification of the St. Louis Times to Impest account. The Times is a per; it contends for the restoration to power of unadulterated BoufTOnTJbmocracy. The White League of Louisiana constitutes a wing of the national Democratic party; the White League sought to restore the Democratic party tfeapwer in Louisiana, and it committed numerous assassinations to accomplish its unlawful purpose; it succeeded temporarily, only to fail permanently and disastrously. If the White League forced an unlawful contest through which innocent persons

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lost their lives, the White League is responsible for bloodshed; and, as the organisation is merely a wing of the national Democratic party, that party is responsible for compassing the New Orleans assassinations for partisan ends. To deny that the White League is responsible for a score or two of murders would be extremely weak; to assert that the Federal Administration forced the contest which ended in murder upon the people of New Orleans is very strong, and as easy as lying. The Time* adopts the latter course, and so clears the skirts of the Democratic party of a grievous offense. Having thus opened its campaign the Timea will doubtless soon find it practicable to advance to the charge that, in oeder to overawe the people of Louisiana and prevent a free vote, Kellogg massacred a large number of Democratic White Leaguers at New Orleans on the 15th of September, 1874.— Chicago Inter-Ocean,.

Senator Morton on the Situation.

Indianapolis, Sept. 18. Senator Morton addressed an immense audience at Masonic Hall this evening upon the past and present condition of the South. He spske earnestly and calmly, and his remarks were applauded Thousands who came to hear him were turned away for want of room. The following is a condensed report of his speech: We are tild that reconstruction is a failure, and that the recent disturbances by the White Leagues are evidence that it was based upon false principles. I dissent from this entirely. So far as reconstruction has failed, it has been by the conduct of its enemies, not because of the intrinsic defects of the system. The resistance offered to it by murderers and desperadoes does' not prove it unsound any more than the violation of the criminal law by felons proves the law to be unsound. The system of reconstruction is based on the broadest principles of justice, equality and republicanism. The Fourteenth Amendment excluded a certain class of rebels from holding office, but that class has been diminished by Congress until it does not number over 150 men. The resistance to reconstruction grows out of the fierce opposition to the abolition of slavery and to the elevation of the negroes to civil and political rights. The proposition to establish a white man’s government, excluding the negro from participation, is at war not only with the system of reconstruction but the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. The White Leagues are an armed organization, having but a single principle, which is that all political power, State and National, shall be vested only in white men, excluding.negroes totally. They rfecqgnizatiso line of demarkation in politics color li#c; their weapons are mur■«der airosperjury, and they point to their own deeds of murder as evidence that the system of reconstruction is unsound and a failure. The recent outbreak of murder and violence, not only in Louisiana, but throughout most of the Southern States, has, in a great part, grown out of a notion that the President would not again interpose to suppress violence the South and to protect the lives and»Hberticßof*tlie people and to mairftain the State Governments in the exercise of their authority. They were 'mistaken, and the President has again interposed; has disarmed the insurrection in Louisiana, and has notified them in Other States that he will enforce the laws for the protection of life, liberty, and property. This shows what would be the condition of things in the South if there was a Democratic administration at Washington that would not interfere for the protection of life and property.

For two months in a majority of the Southern States there has been a high carnival of murder—a reign of terror has again been established the like of which has not existed since the war. But a small part of the crimes are made known to the Northern public. When negroes and white Republicans are shot in droves we hear about it with all the excuses and justifications that can be offered, but of the solitary shooting of negroes in the lonely fields and woods, and in their cabins, the public hear nothing. The men who send out the news from the South are, with few exceptions, Democrats and sympathizers with these crimes; sometimes participators. If they give news of even the larger massacres they accompany it with apologies and justifications. The solitary killings pass unnpficed. In many parts of the South the newspapers dare not publish them; the telegraph is loaded with reports that the negroes are rising, and have conspired to exterminate the whites, and that the whites are standing on the defensive; but when the facts fin ally come, it turns out that only negroes and white Republicans are killed. These stories are disgustingly stupid and silly, and when Northern -newspapers republish and credit them they degrade their own intelligence. We remember how the negroes behaved during the war when they knew their masters were fighting for their perpetual slavery. All the negroes ask is to be let alone; they know very well that they cannot cope with the whites in any struggle with arms; they have little property and comparatively few arms; they are not able to defend themselves. These wicked calumnies are made the pretext for assassination. In every part of the South the White Leagues, or the Ku-Klux, for they are the same, go gunning for negroes; they hunt them like squirrels; they murder them singly and by the score, upon false pretexts or none. In many cases white Republicans are murdered. It is not a war of races —it Is a war of one race upon another and, broadly, it is a war against the Republicans of the South, white and black. This Us not from apprehensions of social equality or fear of the Civil-Rights bill, but to make this a white man’s government and reduce negroes as nearly as possible to slaves. You have heard of 'the butcheries recently committed in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and other States, and I have not time nor strength to enumerate them.

The recent outbreaks have not been confined to one State; they run through nearly the whole South. Louisiana is just now attracting more attention than the other States. On Monday the White League conspiracy broke out in Louisiana, overturned the State Government, and attempted to establish a new one. In the conflict in New Orleans thirty men are reported killed, and fifty wounded. To understand the condition of Louisiana we must go back eight years. During that time the State has been made a vast slaughterhouse, the murders extending to almost every plantation. In 1860 the Republicans in a convention at Mechanics’ Institute to propose amendments to the Constitution were set upon by the police and a vast mob of armed ruffians, and more than 200 killed and wounded in less than thirty minutes. The details of that butchery, given by the committee that investigated it, are sickening, and never excelled in atrocity. In the spring of 1868, the State being reconstructed, an election was held under protection of the Government of the United States, confessed by all a fair election, and the Republicans carried the State by 26,000 majority. In the summer the Ku-Klux were organized. Between Sept. 1 and the November election they killed and wounded over 200 persons, mostly negroes, as shown by the report of the committee of Congress. The cruelties perpetrated were never exceeded by the Indians, nor did that committee examine the whole State. A reign of terror was created; Republicans were kept from the polls, and the Democrats carried the November election by 41,000 majority, making a cliange of 67,000 votes. In some parishes the Republicans cast not a single vote, in others two, and in others ten. After that negroes, for some time, were not shot in droves but the stream of solitary dropping murders rolled on. Warmoth, then a young man of character and promise, had been

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elected Governor in the spring by the Republicans, but he turned out to be corrupt, and engaged in many schemes of fraud, in which most of his partners were Democrats. la 1871 the Republicans cast him off, and the Administration at Washington rejected him. Then the Democrats, who had denounced him as having ruined the State, took him to their embrace and formed a coalition by which they were to carry the State, and he was to be made United States Senator in the bargain. His control of the machinery of election, which was all in his hands as Governor, was counted equal to 20,000 votes. Louisiana was notoriously Republican as clearly as Vermont and Mississippi. The Democrats believed that Warmoth could commit fraud enough to overcome that majority. Their entire hopes were based on fraud. They Went into the election with the full knowledge that they could only succeed by fraud. It was the most fraudulent election ever held in the United States. Senator Carpenter and the majority of the Senate Committee declared it an organized fraud and void. Republicans went into it,knowing they were to be swindled. When the election was over they still claimed that they carried toe State by 4,000 or 5,000 majority, and that if the election had been fair they would have had 15,000 or 20,000 majority. It was proven before the Senate Committee that returns from seven parishes, that were relied on to elect McEnery, were forgeries out and out The majority of the Senate Committee, through Mr. Carpenter, reported a bill to provide for a new election, and that nobody was elected. I made a minority report insisting that Kelwas elected, having a majority. Notwithstanding, it seems to be understood by many that toe majority reported in favor of McEnery; they did no such thing. They reported that he was not elected. Ido not say that toe Republicans did not also commit frauds; to use toe language of toe committee, they determined to fight toe devil with fire. The Senator then proceeded to discuss toe composition and proceedings of the Returning Board that counted the votes. The Supreme Court, three of the four members of which had been elected four years before, and were not connected in any way with these troubles, declareddhat the Lynch Returning Board was the lawful board, and that their decision that Kellogg was elected was conclusive. The Senator described the interference of United States Judge Durell and its effect. He did not justify the interference of him nor toe irregularities of toe Lynch Board, but that interference did not change toe question of right or invalidate what had been done. The Supreme Court has repeatedly decided that toe Kellogg Government is toe lawful Government. The President, in five different ways, has recognized it; the House of Representatives recognized it by admitting a member on Kellogg’s certificate; toe Senate did so by repeatedly refusing to pass the bill for a new election.

The Senator reviewed the Colfax massacre, where 100 colored men were killed under circumstances of peculiar atrocity, and only one white man was hurt. He then sketched the Coushatta murders. For all these inhuman crimes not a man has been punished. lam no advocate of Kellogg, but it is only justice to say that he has not belonged to any of the plundering rings, and no robbery or stealing has been Brought home to him. 4The Republicans of Louisiana are not free from fraud. I havesao apology for them. But they are trivial when compared with the system of tnurder by which their ranks have been decimaftd and the whole State demoralise. A relgif of terror destroys the integrity of men as well as their courage. Their enemies in Louisiana claim that charges of corruption and misgovernment which they _ make against Republicans shall sbscure and hide the fact that Louisiana has been one vast scene of murders during the last eight years. If the people of Louisiana would not prove their State to be blighted they must stop the murder business. They cannot expect the Government to. We have got past the point where it was necessary to inquire who was elected. Government cannot exist in any State without there be some tribunal to determine who has been elected; without something can be considered settled. The Kellogg Government has gone on nearly two years. The seizure of the State by the McEnery faction was in the nature of a Mexican pronunciamento. If it is tolerated in one State it will be adopted In others. It would be the introduction of Mexican politics. There is one salvation for the South, the recognition of the equal civil and political rights of the colored people, the protection of lire, liberty, and property. There must be toleration for all opinions and for all parties; it must be as safe tor Republicans as for Democrats. Whatever may be said of the irregularities by which the Kellogg Government was established it is undoubtedly true that it represented a majority of the people of the State. But if McEnery had been placed in ofllce it would have been by a fraud unequaled in extent and wickedness. To expect the negroes of Louisiana to observe the laws sensibly and maintain order upon all occasions while they were being murdered on every hand was absurd. Two apologies are offered for the murder of black and white Republicans throughout the South generally: that whites are driven to it by the robberies of the carpet-baggers. This is a self-evident, weak and senseless falsehood, for the murders and punishments have never fallen upon the thieves, but upon the innocent and the poor. The thieves have always found Democratic partners; when discovered and kicked out of the Republican party they have been warmly received by the Democratic party. The case of Warmoth is a notable fact. Gov. Moses, of South Carolina, is not a carpetbagger, but a native, and is said to have some of the best blood in the State in his veins. He has been kicked overboard by the Republicans. If he offers to join the Democratic party he will probably be received, and thenceforth they will be silent as to his crime*. The next excuse is that the negroes have conspired and armed themselves to exterminate the whites, and these murders are committed by whites in self-defense, These are stupid lies, manufactured by knaves to be believed by idiots. . Gov. Hendricks, in hi* speech the other night, complained that the Government was sending troops into the South, but made no mention of the causes for which they were sent, no allusions to murders and massacres which have taken place; he left his audience to infer that it was simply an outrage on the part of the Government and without cause, and then went on to tell how the white people were outraged and exasperated by the formation of oath-bound, armed leagues of negroes. That was an old story thathad done service in 1868,1870 and 1872. It was impossible for the Governor to pick it out of the gutter, put it on its legs again, and make it serve as an for these murders. The beginning of all improvement and all restoration in the South must consist in the cessation of murder. While that prevails it is idle to hope for reform. It is the greatest of all crimes, and where it prevails it demoralizes and destroys the integrity and character of the people. Nothing Is so destructive to all characteristics of a nation as a reign of terror, and until the stream of murder is dried up people will net go to the South to live, and many who are there will get away as fast as they can. There can be no improvement, education, agriculture, manufactures, nor in any department of business until there Is security for life and property. Excellent Common Cake. —Two cups of sugar, one cup of butter, four cups of flour, one cup of sweet milk, whites of six eggs, three or four teaspoonfuls of baking powder, or one teaspoonful of soda and two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar. —Lemonade Ice. —One quart of nice lemonade, whites of six eggs lieaten to a froth; freeze it.