Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1874 — Page 1

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THE NEWS.

The Department of Agriculture expresses the opinion, based upon reports recently received, that the wheat crop will nearly average that of last year; that the crop of oats, potatoes and hay will be a fair average, but that tobacco will yield less than half a crop. The War Department has sent four cavalry companies to Western Alabama to suppress alleged violence. A mail train and a freight train collided on the Allegheny Valley Railroad, near New Bethlehem, Pa., on the 30th ult,, in consequence of the telegraph operator at New Bethlehem failing to hold the passenger train for orders, as directed. Four persons were killed, and the car containing the mail, express packages and baggage was burned. A National Congregational Council met at New Haven, Conn., on the 30th ult. The insurance companies connected with the National Board of Underwriters have threatened to withdraw from Chicago, and several ceased issuing policies on the Ist. The Northwestern and Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroads, according to a Madison (Wis.) special of the 30th ult., had concluded to comply with the requirements of the Potter law. Lyman K. Bass was renominated on the 30th ult. by the Republicans of the Thirty-first New York District. On the 30th ult. Gov. Kellogg, of Louisiana, issued an address to the people of the United States in which he declares his willingness to have all his official acts subjected to a rigid and critical examination. The recent statement that the Queen had paid the private debts of the Prince of Wales is contradicted by the London Times of the Ist. London dispatches of the Ist announce that the direct cable had parted during a recent gale, and that the vessels engaged in laying it had returned to Queenstown. The London papers of the Ist contain advices that the Carlist army in the North of Spain is fast disintegrating: Several of the insurgent leaders had been shot by order of Don Carlos for proposing a cessation of hostilities, and others had surrendered to the National forces. Secretary Bristow has given notice that $10,000,000 in 5-20 bonds of the issue of 1862 will be redeemed on the Ist of January, 1875. The following Congressional nominations were made on the Ist: Democratic —First Tennessee District, William McFarland; Third Michigan, Fidus Livermore; Fourteenth New York, George M. Beebe. Republican—Fifth Tennessee, H. H. Harrison, renominated; Twentyseventh New York, T. C. Platt, renominated; Second Texas, F. W. Sumner; Sixth New Jersey, Marcus L. Ward, renominated. Reform—Eighth Wisconsin, C. W. Cate. Democratic-Liberal—Thir-ty-third New York, A. F. Allen. The public debt statement for Oct. 1 is as follows: Six per cent, bonds $1,207,204,600 Five per cent, bonds 517,025,200 Total coin bonds $1,724,229,800 Lawful money debt $14,678,000 Matured debt 6,457,710 Legal-tender notes 382,075,407 Certificates of deposit.. . 56,350,000 Fractional currency 46,731,018 Coin certificates 26,415,600 Interest 32,681,177 Total debt $2,289,618,712 Cash in Treasury— Coin $77,409,677 Currency 16,115,840 Special deposits held for the redemption of certificates of deposit, as provided by law 56,350,000 Tola, in Treasury $149,875,517 Debt less cash ih Treasury $2,139,743,195 Decrease during September 435,417 Bonds issued to the Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding $64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid. 969,352 Interest paid by the United States.. 24,325,396 Interest repaid by the transportation of mails, etc 5,469,979 Balance of interest paid by United States 18,855,417 The Grand Hotel, at Saratoga, N. Y., was entirely consumed op the Ist. The loss aggregates about $300,000. The law providing for a special election of Judges and Attorneys of the judicial districts into which the State was divided by the Legislature in 1873 has been declared constitutional by the Indiana Supreme Court. A barge laden with powder and lying near the London Zoological Gardens exploded on the 2d, killing and wounding a number of persons and shattering houses and bridges for two miles away. The bodies of five persons had been recovered from the canal. Several valuable animals in the garden were killed.

The recent typhoon proved more destructive in Japan than in China. A late arrival reports that several steamers and over 1,000 junks were wrecked, 6,000 houses destroyed and 300 lives lost at Kobe, Nagasaki and Sagaken. The Attorney-General has recently advised the appointment of Deputy Marshals in remote parts of each Southern District, to act at once in the arrest of parties committing outrages in the vicinity. Elmer Washburn, once Police Superintendent at Chicago, has been appointed Chief of the Government Secret Service. Mr. Beecher attended the weekly prayer-meeting at Plymouth Church on the evening of the 2d. He was warmly received by his friends. Charles Sumner’ssestate has been appraised and is valued at $134,758. The following Congressional nominations were made on the 2d: Democratic and Independent—Ninth Illinois District, L. F. Ross. Liberal—First Michigan, A. 8. Williams. Gov. Kellogg has removed two officials, upon the recommendation of the new

THE JASPER REPUBLICAN.

VOLUME I.

Advisory Board, because it was charged that they obstructed registration. The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has recently decided that parents, and not teachers, have the right to prescribe the course of study their children shall pursue in school. The Nevada Independents met at Carson on the 2d and nominated a ticket composed of seven Democrats, four Republicans and three Independents. For Governor, L. R. Bradleys Lieutenant-Governor, A. J. Hatch; Congressman, A- C. Ellis. The King of Italy has dissolved the Chamber of Deputies and ordered a new election. According to a recent Madrid letter Germany had sent a note to France insisting that an army of 20,000 men should be stationed on the Spanish frontier to prevent aid from reaching the Carlists from French territory. Unless this were done Germany would feel compelled to do so herself. On the 4th the Ministers of Great Britain and France presented their credentials to Marshal Serrano. It was noticeable that they made no reference to the Spanish Republic. The United States Government, according to a recent Washington dispatch, is vigorously pressing its demand for indemnity for the Virginius affair.

Theodore Tilton and Francis D. Moulton were indicted for malicious slander by a Brooklyn Grand Jury on the 3d, on complaint of Mr. Beecher. In his testimony before the Grand Jury Mr. Beecher characterized their allegations with reference to Mrs. Tilton, another lady and himself as “ malicious falsehoods.” Mr. Tilton printed a letter on the 4th in which he solemnly reaffirms the literal and absolute truth of his charges against Mr. Beecher and demands an immediate trial. Mr. Beecher preached to a large congregation in Plymouth Church on the 4th. The Alabama Democratic and Conservative State Executive Committee have issued an address to the people of the United States, in which they declare that there is no truth in the recent reports', of outrages in Alabama, and that such charges are made solely for the purpose of influencing the elections in the North and West, and to excuse the sending of troops into Alabama to control the coming election. The Northwestern Railway Commissioners at their recent session at Madison, Wis., prepared a form for reports for the easy collation and publication of the railway statistics of the Northwest. The next meeting of the Commissioners will be held at Springfield, 111., on the 9th of December.

Commodore M. R. Woolsey, U. S. N., died of yellow fever at Pensacola, Fla., on the 2d. Nearly 10,000 voters of Charleston, S. C., assembled in mass meeting on the evening of the 3d to demand the removal of the Board of Election Commissioners, on the ground of their unscrupulous partisanship. The Vicar of Posen has been forcibly ejected from Germany, having disobeyed an order to leave the country within twelve hours. The Sultan of Morocco has promulgated a decree forbidding the exportation of corn for three years. According to a Santander dispatch of the sth, a serious mutiny had broken out in the Carlist camp at Durango. Don Carlos had been seriously wounded, a shot taking effect in the stomach. The Commissioners appointed to close up the affairs of the Freedmen’s Bank at Washington say that only $45,000 of the $600,000 required for a dividend of 20 per cent, had been collected up to the 5 th. Several important failures occurred in New York on the sth—among others the banking-house of Clews & Co. On the evening of the 4th a lot of Texan steers got loose in the streets of New York, and before they were shot fifteen persons were run over and seriously injured. The following were the Congressional nominations on the sth: People’s Party —First Illinois District, B. G. Caulfield; Second District, C. H. Harrison; Third District, J. V. LeMoyne. Democratic — Fourth Arkansas, Thomas M. Gunter; Twelfth Ohio, William E. Fink. According to a recent dispatch from Montgomery, Ala., several of the parties implicated in the murder of Billings, a Northern man, had been arrested. A New Orleans dispatch of the 4th, published in the New York Times of the sth, says that, upon the arrival of United States troops at Coushatta, several prominent White Leaguers, supposed to have been implicated in the recent murders, left the place and fled to Texas and Arkansas. On the sth a letter was received at the Postofiice Department in Washington from a special agent sent to investigate the murder of a colored route agent in Alabama a little over a month ago, which says: “The reign of terror existing in this country at present far exceeds anything of the kind I have seen. Armed men are riding over the country, and colored people are afraid to go into the fields to save their crops from waste and ruin.” On the 6th, at Northampton, England, after the of the vote by which Bradlaugh was defeated for Parliament, a mob of his supporters attacked the house of one of his opponents with stones and other offensive missiles. 'Hie police were unable to quell the riot, and called upon the military for assistance. During the struggle which followed many persons were seriously injured.

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

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1874.

According to a Santander dispatch of the 6th the report that an attempt had been made to assassinate Don Carlos had been confirmed. Several important failures occurred in New York on the 6th, and stocks were very generally depressed in consequence. There will be a total eclipse of the moon on the night of the 24th inst., visible in this country. The eclipse will begin a little before midnight and end about three o’clock on the morning of the 25th—the total eclipse occurring about one o’clock. According to a recent address issued by the Louisiana Conservative State Central Committee the White Leagues were organized as an offset to Black Leagues, composed of colored men, which at one time they say were numerous throughout the State.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Cotton.—Middling upland, 15%@15%c. Livx Stock. —Beef Cattle —[email protected]. Hogg —Dressed, [email protected]. Sheep—Live, $4.50@ 6.00. Brbadstutts.—Flour —Good to choice, $5.50 @5.80; white wheat extra, [email protected]. Wheat —No. 2 Chicago, [email protected]»/4; lowa spring, $1.14 @1.15; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, [email protected]. Rye —Western and State, [email protected]. Barley—sl.3o@ 1.35. Corn —Mixed Western afloat, 95@95J4c. Oats—Western, 60@63J4c. Provisions. —Pork —Mess, [email protected]. Lard —l4H@l4%c. Cheese—llM@lscWool.—Common to extra, 45@66c. CHICAGO. Live 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, 30@35c. Eggs— Fresh, 18@19c. Cheese—New York Factory, 14@15c; Western Factory, 13@14c. PorkNew Mess, $31.25aH.5). Lard—l4Q@t4V4c. Bbeadstuits. —Flour —White Winter Extra, [email protected]; spring extra, [email protected]. WheatSpring, No. 2, 92@92<4c. Corn—No. 2, 79 @79Mc. Oats—No. 2, 49@49tfc. Rye—No. 2, 84@85c. Barley—No. 2, [email protected]. Wool.—Tub-washed, 45@57c.; fleece, washed, 40@50c.; fleece, unwashed, 27@35c. Lvmbbb.—First clear, [email protected]; second clear, [email protected]; Common Boards, $10.50@ 12.00; Fencing, [email protected]; “A” Shingles, [email protected]; Lath, [email protected]. CINCINNATI. Brbadstuffs.- -Fleur—[email protected]. WheatRed, $1.05. Corn—B4@B6c.‘ Rye—9Bc. Oats—s4@ 58c. Barley—[email protected]. Provisions.—Pork —[email protected]. Lard —13*4 @l4c. ST. LOUIS. Livb Stock.—Beeves —Fair to choice, $4.00@ 5.75. Hogs—Live, [email protected]. Brbadstuws.—Flour, XX Fall, [email protected]. Wheat—No. 2 Red Fall, [email protected]%. Corn—No. 2, 81@83c. Oats—No. 2, 52@53c. Rye—No. 2, 90@91c. Barley—[email protected]. Provisions.—Pork—Mess, [email protected]. Lard —l4@lsc. MILWAUKEE. Bkbadstutfs. —Flour —Spring XX, [email protected]. Wheat—Spring, No. 1, [email protected]%; No. 2,96@ 96!4c. Corn—No. 2, 84@85c. Oats—No. 2,49@ 49!4c. Rye—No. 1,86@87c. Barley—No. 2, $1.02 @1.03. DETROIT. Brbadstutts.—Wheat Extra, [email protected]& Corn—92@93c. Oats—49@soc. TOLEDO. Breadstuits. —Wheat—Amber Mich., SI.OB @1.09; No. 2 Red, [email protected]. Corn—Mixed, 82@83c. Oats—so@slc. CLEVELAND. Brnadstutfs.—Wheat—No. 1 Red, sl.lo@ 1.11; No. 2 Red, [email protected]. Corn—B4@Bsc. Oats—s2@s3c. BUFFALO. Live Stock. —Beeves Live, [email protected]. Sheep—Live, [email protected]. EAST LIBERTY. Live Stock.—Beeves Best, [email protected]; medium, [email protected]. Hoge—Yorkers, $6.00@ 6.25; Philadelphia, [email protected]. Sheep—Best, [email protected]; good, [email protected].

The Marriage of General Sherman’s Daughter.

Washington, Oct. 1. Lieut. Thos. W. Fitch, of the Engineer Corps of the navy, was married to-day to Miss Maria Sherman, eldest daughter of Gen. W. T. Sherman. The ceremony took place in St. Aloysius’ (Catholic) Church. The marriage was solemnized by Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, assisted by clergymen from New York and Brooklyn and the resident priests of the District. The bridesmaids were Misses Lizzie and Ella Sherman, sisters of the bride; Miss Phillips, of Cincinnati; Miss Fanny Marcy, daughter of Gen. Marcy, United States Army; Miss Alice Bartley, or Washington; Miss Maria Patterson, of St. Louis; Miss Ella Ewing and Miss Bessie Smith, of Cincinnati. The groomsmen were Charles Rae, of the Engineer Corps; Lieut. Hunter, Paymaster Cochrane, Edwin Wells, of the Engineer Corpse Lieut. Wood, United States Navy; Lieut. Russel, of the Marine Corps; Thomas E. Sherman, brother of the bride, and Mr. G. Alvin, of Boston. The bride leaned upon the arm of her father. The groom stood within the sacristy, near a door leading to the sanctuary, and as the bridal party approached the altar he passed through the sanctuary, leaning upon the arm of Gen. Hugh Ewing, the brother of Mrs. Sherman, and met the bride near the sanctuary, where he received her from her father. The entire pstty then approached the altar railing, and, after kneeling a short time, took the positions assigned them. AH being in readiness, the Archbishop entered the sanctuary from the sacristy, and proceeded with the marriage ceremony. The bnde and groom first received the holy communion. At the conclusion of mass a special blessing was given, and the ceremony ended. Before the mass Archbishop Purcell read portions of the Scripture relating to the sacrament of matrimony and then addressed the congregation. He said that the marriage ceremony had never before been performed in the United States under more interesting circumstances than the present He was told that among those in the church was the ruler of the great Republic, the greatest

nation of ancient or modern times. Here also was the father of the bride, who had achieved such fame as a soldier and was a most devoted patriot. There were other brave officers and Generals present who had gained the admiration and respect of every nation of the earth. He then referred to the sanctity of the marriage tie, and said when the marriage union was consummated under such auspices as were witnessed to-day there was every reason to believe that Almighty God would bless the couple. The Archbishop next spoke of the family of the bride, referring to her grandfather and grandmother, Judge and Mrs. Ewing, and the noble traits at their’characters. ’ He again spoke of the sacrament about to be administered, and said marriage is essentially a religious ceremony, and not a mere civil contract. It had been raised to the dignity of a sacrament by the Savior of the world. He congratulated the vast assembly in attendance upon the good order maintained, by which was shown respect.for the house of God and for our divine Lord here present, as well as His Excellency the President and the bride and groom. The ceremony over, the bridal party returned to Gen. Sherman’s residence and received their friends from one to four o’clock—the bride and groom in the back parlor, while Gen. and Mrs. Sherman occupied the front parlor. The bridal party received congratulations in the front of a niche containing a bust of Gen. Sherman, under a canopy of flowers draped with smilax, from which also was suspended a marriage bell of snow-white flowers. During the reception ceremony the Marine Band,stationed on the grounds west of the parlor, played appropriate airs. The newly-married couple left in the evening for a bridal tour North and West, intending to reach St. Louis, their future residence, about the 15th.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A lady physician in Utica has a practice amounting to $4,000 per annum. Porter, Me., prides itself because it has already Had ice almost thick enough to skate on. An Ohio man well posted in arithmetic says it takes thirteen hours’ work and four quarts of soap to remove a coat of tar and feathers from a martyr’s back. — Detroit Free Press. Last Thursday there wasn’t a single horse “swap” at Pittsfield, Mass., for the first time in six years, and the inhabitants felt as lonesome as if it were Sunday.—Detroit Free Press. Boston men can’t believe what they see. One of them had to feel a steam auger in Chicago to see if it was really whirling. It really was, and three or four of his fingers fell down behind an Alderman’s cravat. An old man in New Hampshire, who in his youth followed the trade of a tailor, stuck a large needle into his leg just above the knee twenty-five years ago. He never experienced much trouble, but always joked about it, saying he intended yet to make his shroud with it. A few weeks since it came to the surface and was taken out entire. But as soon as the atmosphere touched it it dropped to pieces, and the old man’s burial robe will have to be made by a machine, after all.

Protection for poor, annoyed, outraged housekeepers at last. A New Hampshire jury has awarded $145 actual damages to the man whose female servant was enticed away by his envious neighbor, notwithstanding the sum of SSO had been paid for her passage by the man who was thus vexatiously deprived of her services. If every one who entices away his neigh bor’s cook shall be mulcted in such damages hereafter, housekeeping will soon be relieved of one of its greatest perplexities.—Providence Journal. During a performance in the Metropolitan Theater, in Sacramento, Cal., a few nights ago, it was ascertained that a large number of young “ hoodlums” had managed to gain access to the loft of the building, from whence they could look down through the ventilators upon the stage, and several men connected with the theater, accompanied by two policemen, went to dislodge them. While doing so the occupants of the loft flew around nervously to avoid arrest, and three of them, in their flight, made missteps, and their legs passed through the ceiling and dangled in sight of the audience below. The falling plaster and the jar of the building occasioned by the general shrinking of the audience created the impression that an earthquake had occurred, and quite a panic ensued. Frank Mayer, a miner, walked into an abandoned shaft near Chestnut Hills, Pa.,, a few days ago, and fell to the bottom, a distance of over 100 feet. When he returned to consciousness he found himself encompassed by the carcasses of horses, cows, pigs and goats that had blundered into the shaft at various times; and the horrid hissing of snakes that crawled about him warned him that although he had escaped death by his fall he was in danger of a more painful and lingering death by the slow poison of venomous reptiles. -All that terrible night he lay quietly at the bottom of the shaft. The next morning he made an attempt to climb out, but sojon discovered that all human efforts would be futile. He then sought to attract the attention of the people in the upper world, but as the shaft is a hundred yards from the public road it was several hours before his cries were heard. Ropes were brought and a dozen strong men with willing hands soon had the sufferer out of the pit. Physicians .examined him but found no broken .bones and hardly a bruise.

Gov. Kellogg’s Address to the People.

Nbw Orleans, La., Sept. 30. Gov. Kellogg has prepared an address to the people of the United States, reviewing the political and financial condition of Louisiana since the war, and vindicating the course of his administration. He says: Events that have recently transpired in this State have turned the attention of the whole nation upon Louisiana affairs, and have caused a resuscitation of false statements and perversion of facts, which forthwith have been circulated far and wide, and which appear to have been accepted as true by a considerable portion of the press and the I have waited until the public feeling excited by the startling occurrences that have taken place here should have a little calmed down so that a statement of actual facts might be dispassionately received. Close observers of Southern politics have long been aware of a determined action to overthrow Republican rule in Louisiana, strongly Republican as the State is known to be, and from the vantage point thus gained to carry the movement into Mississippi Mid other Southern States in which the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States are still respected and, to some extent, enforced. In 1868 organized violence was resorted to for this purpose, and was only defeated by the prompt action of Congress. Fraud, as employed in 1872, was also wanted to achieve the desired result. In 1873 the unification dodge was tried; the colored people were promised mixed schools, employment on street cars and in foundries and workshops, equal rights in all bar-rooms and soda-stands, and, in short, more than the strongest advocate of civil rights had ever asked for them, on the implied condition that they would put the Democratic party in office. This movement failed, and now, 1874, all the prin ciples of unification have been reversed, and under the organization of a white man’s party, an appeal has once more been made to arms.

The events of the 14th of September last are too well known to need recital. There was no honest motive, no substantial cause to justify the misguided and disastrous movement. The sole purpose of the insurrection was to obtain possession of the offices of the State. The reasons assigned for this criminal disturbance of the peace of the State were, first, that the State is not Republican, and that the present State administration was not elected, and, second, that the State administration had been corrupt and oppressive. Reversing, for the sake of greater clearness, the order of these charges I proceed to show that neither the one nor the other is correct. No candid reader will fail to have observed that the charge of corruption and oppression, like all the accusations that have been made against the State administration, is couched in general terms and no specific acts are brought forward, much less sustained by proof. I propose to confront these general charges of wrong-doing by a specific statement taken from the official records of the financial condition of this State when the present Government came into power and of its financial position now; and also to show where the responsibility of the heavy State debt, which is most unjustly charged upon my administration, properly rests. When the present State Government came into office there were outstanding from previous administrations Auditors’ checks on the Treasury known as State warrants, which the Treasurer had been unable to redeem, to the amount of $2,300,000. [Auditor’s report of 1872, page 36.] There were outstanding bonds issued before and since the war to the amount of $21,800,000. Since I have been in office I have signed 576 bonds of SI,OOO each, and 125 second mortgage bonds of the same denomination, the latter issued upon a section of ten miles of completed railroad. In both cases the issuance of these bonds was authorized by acts of the Legislature, passed previous to my coming into office, and was rendered obligatory upon me by a decision es the Supreme Court as to the first issue, and by the written opinions of the law officers of the State as to the latter. No act of the Legislature has been passed during my occupancy of the Executive chair to authorize the issue of a single bond to increase the indebtedness of the State. The outstanding $2,300,000 of floating indebtedness left by previous administrations has been reduced under my administration to less than $1,400,000. This reduction has been accomplished by no increase of taxation, but by an energetic collection of delinquent taxes and an honest appropriation of the taxes so collected to the liquidation of the past due indebtedness of the State. To effect this result the law officers of the State were compelled to appeal to the courts to set aside an iniquitous law Sassed mainly by Democratic influence, uner the previous administration, which virtually transferred all the receipts from back taxes to a brokers’ ring. The State has thus been enabled to pay, under our financial management, more than $900,000 of the old floating debts of the State with the old assets, and the delinquent taxes now due and unpaid are sufficient, if collected and applied under the policy we have inaugurated, to pay off the balance of the old floating indebtedness.

The Governor then states that the current receipts from State taxes and licenses from Jan. 1 to date have amounted to within $670,000 of the expenses, and that had it not been for the overflow the receipts would probably have been in excess of expenditures. He institutes a comparison of appropriations by the Legislature during his administration and that of his predecessors, as follows: First —The Democratic Legislature of 1865-6-7, and composed exclusively of white men, McEnery ana others of my present opponents being influential members, made total appropriations of <17,129,554, while the total taxes collected during the same period were <3,379,000, leaving an excess of appropriations over revenue by this Democratic Legislature of <13,750,554. Second— Gov. Warmoth’s administration made appropriations for current State expenses, exclusive of school, levee and interest funds, as follows: For 1868 and 1869, <2,700,000; for 1870, <2,135,720; for 1871, <3,722,969; for 1872, <1,819,856. Total, <10,378,745. Thirds- Gov. Kellogg’s administration has made appropriations for current State expenses, exclusive of levee, school and interest funds, as follows: For 1873, <1,554,255; for 1874, <1,172,124; total, <2,726,379. As will be seen, the earing the first year of my administration over the last year of my predecessor was <157,213. In the second year a still further saving was effected of <517,732. At the same rate during the next two years my administration will cost <5,452,758, while the administration of my predecessor for the same time cost <10,378,983, and the Democratic administration of 1865-’6-’7 cost <17,129,554. A statement made by the Auditor of this date, now before me, shows the bonded debt of the State Jan. 1,1869, tc have been <9,833,562; increase of bonded and floating debt during Gov. Warmoth’s administration <14,250,685; total debt when Gov. Kellogg came into office <24,084,247; Increase during Gov. Kellogg’s administration by bonds authorized by laws passed previously <701,000; reduction of debt during Gov. Kellogg’s administration by redemption of past due bonds, funding operations and retiring of outstanding floating obligations <1,626.023; showing a net decrease of debt under the Kellogg administration of <925,033. Gov. Kellogg then enters into a history of the funding act passed by the last Legislature mainly through the strenuous exertions of the Governor, whereby the outstanding bonded State debt is to be exchanged for new consolidated bonds at the rate of sixty cents on the dollar as being the most the State is able to pay. He calls attention to the constitutional amendment recommended by him and

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adopted by the Legislature, fixing the limit of the debt at $15,000,000 and the rate of taxation at twelve mills on the dollar, excluding the tax for schools; also the amendment restricting the revenues of each year to the expenditures of the same year, the absence of these restrictions being a prolific source of financial abuse heretofore. The Governor sums up in these words: We have in two years paid off over $900,000 of the old floating indebtedness with the old assets of the State We have reduced the debt by the Funding bill from $25,000,000 to $15,000,000, not to be increased until after the year 1924; we have reduced the State taxes from 21X mills to 14% mills, not to be increased until after the same year; we have provided that parish taxation shall not exceed State taxation, so that the greatest amount of taxation any one parish can be called upon to ■pay in any one year is 29 mills; we have enabled the city of New Orleans to reduce the taxations mills; we have largely reduced State expenditures, and confined them strictly within the limit of our revenue, and we have paid up over $8,000,000 of contingent liabilities. All this has been effected by us, without aid from those who arrogantly claim to represent all the virtue and intelligence of the State, and while contending against violence within the State borders, ana organized vilification abroad, and while the very existence of the Government was b ong threatened. This is the financial record of the Administration, which our opponents assert has been so corrupt and so oppressive as to drive the State into bankruptcy and the people into riots.

After stating that the financial reforms proposed by constitutional amendment are opposed by the white men’s party, and that the legislative records will show educated Democrats to have been equally implicated with colored Republicans in jobs, the address proceeds: The second charge brought against me by my opponents is that I was not elected to the office I hold. Mr. Marr’s committee in their recent address attempt to fortify that assertion by extracts from the census of 1870, showing a small excess of white over colored males over the age of twenty-one. The whole force of the argument is destroyed at once by the fact which Mr. Marr designedly or accidentally fails to mention, that the same census shows that there are nearly 15,000 alien males over the age of twenty-one in this State who are, of course, disqualified from voting. Deduct these 15,000 aliens from the total of white citizens claimed for the Democracy; deduct also the 5,000 or 10,000 known Republicans, and add that number to the colored male adults, all made citizens by the war, and the census argument establishes a larger excess of Republicans over Democratic voters in this State than even the Republican party claim. There are two other points that may be mentioned in this connection. First, that there are a large number of colored men in this State so nearly white as to pass for white, and who are doubtless so classed by the census enumerators; and, secondly, that there has been for years past, and still continues, a steady immigration of colored people to the fertile alluvial lands of the State from other Southern States. The Governor scouts the idea that the Republican party was divided during the last campaign, and asserts that Warmoth and McMillen carried no votes over to the Fusion camp but their own, and that the only reason Warmoth was wanted by the Fusionists was the belief that he could so manipulate the registration and election that it would appear that the Fusionists were elected. He says:

Notwithstanding that the whole strength of the opposition was thrown into the fight against me, even the Fusion returns show that I ran far ahead of my ticket in this State. When I was nominated for Governor the Conservative papers, in many instances, spoke approvingly of my nomination, and warmly commended the course If had pursued in the Senate in advancing the material interests of the State. The New Orleans Picayune editorially said that the nomination of Senator Kellogg was a source of gratification to all good citizens. The question as to whether Mr. MeEnery or myself was elected Governor of this State is one that I have several times proposed to submit to arbitration. When the suit brought in the United States Court was still pending, I offered, through my counsel, Mr. William H. Hunt, a Southern man and one of the foremost lawyers at the bar of this State, that the returns should be submitted to prominent and disinterested citizens, two to be chosen by each side, and the fifth by the four, and I proposed to abide by the result of their decision; but this proposition was declined. I am prepared to show before any competent tribunal that a portion of the returns upon which Mr. MeEnery bases his claims are forgeries, manufactured in this city. lam able now to produce the judicial officer before whom a portion of the blank tally lists and returns were sworn, to be subsequently filled up here in this city and lalmed off on the public as the genuine reAirns of an election held in strong Republican parishes far distant from this city. Even Senator Carpenter, in his speech in the Senate on the 4th of March, said: “I do not think MeEnery was in fact elected, though the returns show he was.” I hold myself now ready to impeach the returns relied upon by the fusion Boards as altered, defaced, and, in some instances, forged outright I charge, moreover, that the returns from Iberville, St James, Terrebonne, St. Martin and other Republican parishes were thrown out by the Fusion Returning Boards for no just reason, but because they gave myself and the Republican ticket a heavy majority, and I assert that by the genuine returns, counting the votes actually cast, I was elected by several thousand majority, and upon this issue I am ready to stand or fall.

The address concludes with a reference to the forthcoming election, asserting that the Republicans desire that it shall be fairly conducted, and citing in substantiation of this statement the improvement in the Registration law passed by the last Republican Legislature and the compromise recently entered into by which an Advisory Board is to be established to conduct the registration. The Governor says: There is no just and proper safeguard that can be suggested to me which I will not be willing to throw around the conduct of the coming election. The Republican party is willing to be judged by the verdict of that election, provided it can be held without intimidation or violence. It our opponents can show at a peaceable election that they have a majority of the qualified voters of the State, we shall uncomplainingly abide the result If, on the other hand, ihe Republican party should triumphantly vindicate its claims to the Government, we shall have a right to expect the acquiescence of our opponents, and the active support of all law-abiding citizens throughout the country. In the event of our success the nation can certainly leave the interests of this great State in the hands of those who in so short a time, and against such adverse circumstances, have done so much to reduce the burden of the people and advance the material welfare of the community with greater safety than would attend the surrender of the lives and liberties of more than 80,000 peaceful, industrious Republican citizens to a party which has never attempted anything for the redemption of State, which, during its brief resumption of power immediately after the war, showed itself utterly incapable of honest government, and which has three times within the last six years attempted to override the known will of the majority, twice by violence and once by fraud. I ask those Republicans of the North who have lent a willing ear to the indiscriminate denunciation of Northern men who hold offices in the South, and of the Republicans of the Southern States, to reflect that those denunciations proceed from those who hate Republican prlnci-

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pies everywhere, and who can see no virtue in any man who is not identified with them in sentiment or in interest, or in both. If I consulted only my personal feelings, I would rather be relieved of the position I now hold than continue to retain it in the face of the difficulties and calumnies which beset me at every step, but there are higher questions involved than mere personal feelings. My resignation would simply transfer the Executive duties to the next in rank, and would make no change in the status of the State. Either the Republican party in Louisiana is in the right or in the wrong. If we are right, I owe it to the National Republican party and to the General Government to maintain my position. If we are in the wrong, and the people at the coming election should so declare, the Constitution and the laws of the State provide a sufficient remedy. We confidently await that verdict, and, meantime, ask from the people generally, on this plain showing of the good we have done and the evil we have refrained from doing, a iuster judgment and more generous sympathy than have yet been given to the Republican State Government of Louisiana.

A Specimen Brick From New York.

A good illustration of the difference between Republican and Democratic rule is furnished by New York. When Gov. Hoffman turned the government of that State over to Gov. Dix there was a deficiency of over $6,500,000 in the State sinking fund, and now, after two years of Republican administration, this deficiency is made good and $15,000,000 are placed in the funds, being the full amount required by law up to the present time. The deficiency was not a defalcation, but an unlawful expenditure. The amount now to the credit of that reserve is there in compliance with statutory provision. In 1868, when Hoffman came into power, the fund was intact. Gov. Dix explained the deficiency which occurred during the Hoffman administration as follows, in his first message:

During the last few years the sums voted by the Legislature for various objects were greatly in excess of the current revenues. By this improv! dent legislation deficiencies to the amount of more than $6,000,000 accrued, and were left to be provided for by succeeding Legislatures. I believe it to be a just and salutary rule that no appropriation of money should be made without providing simultaneously the means of payment. No better safeguard could be found against extravagant and Inconsiderate legislation; for it is hardly to be supposed that a legislative body would have the recklessness to run a State in debt by wasteful expenditure, and incur the additional odium of laying taxes upon the people to defray them. The money thus voted for appropriations in excess of the taxes was supplied by taking it from the sinking fund. The accumulation of the reserves required by law was a gradual work. It has at last been accomplished. The people of the Empire State will hardly consent to turn the Governor who has acchieved this result out of office, and restore to power the party which is responsible for the unlawful extravagance which depleted the sinking fund. — Chicago Journal.

A Sharp Swindler.

This is the way George Davis, a smooth-tongued young man, whose forging operations were recently noticed in the Bridgeport Standard, “ came it” over a shrewd merchant in New Haven: Passing along the street in that city he saw at a fruit store a basket of fine fresh oranges, and bought them, basket and all. Then, taking the basket in his hand, he started down the street, and stepping into a well-known store he said: “Mr. Bishop, here is a basket of fine oranges which I have the honor of presenting to you. They are samples of a cargo I have at the wharf which I wish to get discharged to-day, but am short of cash. I have plenty of good paper in the shape of notes, etc., which I would be willing to leave as collateral for a small amount of cash which I must have to get the fruit through.” Mr. Bishop looked at the notes (a whole handful being shown by Davis) and then at the basket of luscious oranges. “ The collateral” seemed sound as well as ample, the fruit palatable and tempting, and his generosity was stirred to the very depths. A man who could show a pocketful of notes and present a basketful of oranges, although a stranger, or comparatively so, was not a person to be kicked out of doors when in distress fpr want of a few dollars in ready money. So, turning to Mr. Davis, Mr. Bishop says, “ How much cash will it take to get your cargo discharged?” “About $300,” says Davis. Thereupon Mr. Bishop turned to his desk and drawing a check for S3OO handed it to Davis, who, leaving his collaterals, departed, but not to get his oranges ashore. The “ originals” were not to be found, and of course Mr. Bishop had to pocket the loss. Davis made haste to get out of town after getting the check cashed, and has not taken the trouble since to call and inquire what disposition his victim made of the notes he left as collateral for the check.

They tell a tough story about two sagacious mules out in Virginia City, Nev. The mules were as good as can be made. Hank Blanchard, their owner, was driving them one day, with a friend—Fagan —in the wagon. The mules came to a place and stopped and refused to move a step further. They both looked toward the roadside. Hank looked, too, and saw what was the matter with the mules. There was a sign there, which read: “Hay $23 a ton,” the regular price being $25. Hank got out of the wagon, went and talked to the man of the sign, came back and told Fagan that he had ordered ten tons of that hay at greatly reduced rates, and that his mules might consider themselves in clover. He got into the wagon, and the mules trotted briskly off. Hank and Fagan suppressed their laughter for obvious reasons. The mules will doubtless seize the first opportunity to kick Hank to death for lying. —A. New York State Quaker was found in a patch of grass behind a fence, looking at a circus procession, and he turned it off by saying: “Friend, hast thee seen the king-bolt' of my wagon around here!” —The cream which rises first makes a better quality of butter than that which rises last.