Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1874 — Page 1

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THE NEWS.

According to a London dispatch of the* 4th the French Government bad ordered all Spaniards to be expelled from the frontier towpa to prevent them from participating m the Carlist attack upon 1 Irun, which had already began. The Washington Democrats celebrated the late victories on the night of the 4th with bonfires, processions and illuminations. Senator Thurman was serenaded and delivered a congratulatory address. The war claims of Indiana against the General* Government, amounting to $3,000,000, hare, been settled and paid. According to a Berlin telegram of the sth the relations between Spain and Russia had become cordial, and it was probable that Russia would speedily recognize the Republic. The troops under Jovellar recently defeated the Carlists at Albocear with considerable loss. Eight battalions of troops have been sent to reinforce Irun. According to a London telegram of the Sth it had been decided to hold a great international Catholic Congress in London, with the object of maintaining the doctrine of papal infallibility, reasserting thfe Pope’s right to tempbral as well as spiritual power, and declaring it to be the bounden duty of all Christians to return to the allegiance of Rome. It is stated that this proposed Congress Is the result of direct instructions from the Vatican. The Episcopal General Convention adjourned on the 3d. The next session will be held at Boston in 1877. Late dispatches from the Nebraska grasshopper district represent that there is great' suffering, and that relief must be freely given or hundreds w*ill starve before winter is half over. On the morning of the sth a passenger train due at Grand Rapids, Mich., about nine o’clock was wrecked near Moline, and one man killed and thirty more or less injured. The accident was caused by the breaking of an axle under the tender, which threw the rear passenger coach and sleeper off the track and turned them over on their sides. An election riot occurred at Eufaula, Ala., on the 3d, originating, it is said, in the attempt of a negro to whip another negro for voting the Democratic ticket. The assailant drew a pistol, and the result was three negroes were killed and four mortally, seven seriously and eight slightly wounded. Five or six hundred shots were fired. According to a Hendays dispatch of the 6th the Carlists had begun to throw petroleum shells into Irun. The Democracy of New York held immense congratulatory meetings on the evening of the sth to rejoice over the late Democratic victories. Among the speakers were Senator Thurman and Governor-elect Tilden. The official returns show that the Republican majority in lowa, at the October election, was about 39,000. On the 6th the Committee of Seventy of New Orleans issued an invitation calling upon “ the people of Louisiana to meet at their respective places of worship on Thursday, Nov. 19, to return thanks to Almighty God for their deliverance from political bondage.” Mrs. Rawlins, the widow of Gen. Rawlins, formerly Secretary of War, died at San Francisco on the 6th. O. C. Parmley’s livery stable at Peoria, 111., was burned on the 6th, and with it 100 valuable horses. According to a late Rome dispatch the Pope had been taken with a sudden and serious illness. A late arrival from Japan brings the intelligence that Corea had offered to send to Japan the heads of all those who had insulted the Japanese Government. Prominent merchants of Memphis, Tenn., were, on the 7th, arrested upon the charge of violating the Enforcement act by discharging colored employes for refusing to vote the Democratic ticket in August last. They were bound over to the Circuit Court in the sum of $2,000 each. The Eastern and foreign insurance companies which withdrew their agencies from Chicago some weeks ago are returning and resuming business. Two girls aged fifteen and thirteen respectively, and one boy aged ten, were stolen from John Martin, of Fort Wayne, Ind., about the Ist of October, and have not since been heard from. No reason for the abductions is known. Great excitement existed in Northern Louisiana on the Bth, caused by the alleged arrest by Lieut. Hodgson and Marshal Selye, of parties without process of law. The Lieutenant and Marshal had been subsequently fined SIOO each for disobeying a writ of habeas corpus ajid sentenced to ten days’ imprisonment In the parish jail at Vienna. D. M. Jewett, United States Commissioner, had been held to bail in the sum of SI,OOO to answer to the charge of kidnaping. The Conservative Committee of Seventy, according to a New Orleans dispatch of the Bth, had telegraphed to President Grant asking that the military forces be withdrawn from the State. According to a New York dispatch of the Bth there were 193 deaths from diphtheria in that city during the two weeks preceding. A scientific investigation was likely to be made into the causes of the prevalence of the disease. Two persons were killed and three in.: jured in London on the 9th, in the erowd that witnessed the Lord Mayor’s procession. The Prince Imperial is said to have been betrothed to the Russian Grand Duchess Marie.

THE JASPER REPUBLCAN.

VOLUME I.

According to the report of the Third Assistant Postmaster-General the Government loses in revenue every year over $1,000,000 through the use of washed postage stamps. William Cullen Bryant was presented with a memorial vase costing $5,000 on the occasion of his reaching his eightieth birthday, which occurred 61 the, 3d. iieut.-Gen, Bh?ridan returned from the 'lndian country oDtthe Bth. According to the Chicago Journal of that date the Indians had been pretty thoroughly subdued and he anticipated no further trouble from them. A statement appears in the St. Louis papers of the 10th, signed by Prof. A. B._ Smith, in which it is stated that there are fully 40,000 people in Kansas and Nebraska who are either now or will shortly be in absolute want of the- necessaries of life. The Archbishop of Tours died on the 9th. The first attempt of the Prussian Government to compel congregations to select their oWn priests was made recently at Landsberg, and proved a total failure, only eleven persons voting. An effort was making, at last accounts, to secure the deposition of the Biehop of Paderborn for contumacy. The Turkish Government has arrested thirty of the leaders in the recent massacre of Christians in Podgoritza. The total of enlisted men in the army is 26,441. A mail from Cologne, France, was recently received in New York, which was started from the former city Oct. 15, 1872. The Eastern manufacturers of fancy cassimeres have agreed to reduce production 25 per cent. Massachusetts’ vote: Gaston, Dem., 95,901; Talbot, Rep., 89,243; Andrews, Labor Reform, 131. In the recent election for Congressman in the Second Vermont District, Dennison, Ind., had a majority of 2,634 over both opposing candidates. Two hundred men have recently been discharged from the Brooklyn NavyYard. Gold medals were presented to Cheney, Graves, Hillman and Day, the Milißiver heroes, on the 10th. On the 4th Big Horn, a noted Cheyenne chief, with his warriors, women, children and ponies, unconditionally sur-. rendered to Col. Hall, at the Cheyenne Agency. —■ The majority for Gen. Hurlbut, in the Fourth Illinois District, is 1,128. Harrison, Dem., in the Second, has seven majority. Gen. Orton, of the Western Union Telegraph Company, has complained to the War Department that his telegraph lines in Louisiana have been cut by United States troops and demands the reason therefor. The matter has "been referred to Gen. Emory for report. In Terre Bonne Parish, La., on the Bth> a negro Sheriff who was elected on the compromise ticket was attacked by seven other negroes. Simms ran from the party three squares, and, being pursued, turned upon them and fired, killing one and wounding another. Simms immediately surrendered himself, and was sent to jail.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Cotton.—Middling upland, 14«4@14%c. Live Stock.—Beef Cattle—[email protected]. Hoge —Dressed, [email protected]; Live, [email protected]. SheepLive, $4.00®5.50. Bbeadstufts.—Flour —Good to choice, $5.05 @#.75; white wheat extra, [email protected]. Wheat —No, 2 Chicago, [email protected]; lowa spring,'sl.o6 @1.08; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, [email protected]. Rye —Western and State, 88@90c. Barley—sl.27@ 1.40. Corn—Mixed Western afloat, 88@90c. Oats—Western, 60@61c. Provisions. —Pork —Mess, [email protected]. Lard —l3X@l4c. Cheese—l2*4@ls«c. Wool.—Common to extra, 40@68c. CHICAGO. Live Stock. —Beeves—Choice, [email protected]; good, [email protected]; medium, $3.75®4.00; -butchers’ stock, [email protected]; stock cattle, [email protected]. Hogs—Live, [email protected]. Sheep—Good to choice, [email protected]. Provisions.—Butter—Choice, 30@38c. gs— Fresh, 22@23c. Cheese—New York Factory, 15@16c; Western Factory, 14@15c. PorkNew Mess, [email protected]. Lard—l2@l2&c. Bbeadbtuffs. —Flour —White Winter Extra, [email protected]; spring extra, [email protected]. Wheat—. Spring, No. 2, 853£@86%c. Corn—JJb. 2, 75% @7sfcc. Oats—No. 2, 47>4@47fec. Rye—NO. 2, 83@88V4c. Barley—No. 2, [email protected]. Wool. —Tub-washed, 45@57c.; fleece, washed, 40@50c.; fleece, unwashed, 27@05c. Lumber.—First clear, [email protected]; second clear, [email protected]; Common Boards, sll.oo@ 12.00; Fencing, [email protected]; “A" Shingles, [email protected]; Lath, [email protected]. x CINCINNATI. Breadstuffs.- -Flour—[email protected]. WheatRed, [email protected]. Corn—New, 61®63c. Rye—--93@94c. Oats—s3@s6c. Barley—[email protected]. Provisions.—Pork—s @ Lard—l2*4 @12)4 c. ST. LOUIS. Live Stock.—Beeves—Fair to' choice, $4.50® 5.50. Hogs-Live, [email protected]. Breadstuff^.—Flour, XX Fall, $4.25®4.75. Wheat—No. 2 Red Fall, [email protected]. Corn—No. 2, 66@68c. Oats—No. 2, 52%@53c. Rye—No. 2,87@88c. Barley—sl.os@l. 12. Provisions.—Pork—Mess, [email protected]. Lard —12@12%c. MILWAUKEE. Bbbadstuffs.—Flour—Spring XX, [email protected]. Wheat—Spring, No. 1, 95®95%c; No. 2, 86® 8614 c. Corn—No. 2, 80@81c. Oats—No. 2,46® 47c. Rye—No. 1, 93@94c. Barley—No. 2, $1.20 @1.25. DETROIT. Breadstuffs.—Wheat — Extra, [email protected]%. Corn—77@7Bc. Oats-51@52c. .TOLEDO. Bbeadstuffs .—Wheat —Amber Mi eh., $l4B ’@l.lß*4; No. 2 Red, $1.0414@1-oo.'‘ Corn—Mixed, 66@66*/Jc. Oats—so‘4 @sl c. CLEVELAND. Breadstuffs.—Wheat—No. 1 Red, sl.ll@ 1.12; No. 2 Red, [email protected]. Corn-65 @66c. Oats—so@slc. BUFFALO. Live Stock.—Beeves'—:s4J2s@6. SO. Hogs— Live, ss.Bs®s*®. Sheep—Live. [email protected]. 4 / EAST LIBERTY. Live Stock.— Beeves Beet, [email protected];

OUR AIM: 5 TO* FEAR GOD, TELL THE* TRUTH AND MAKE MONEY.

RENSSELAER, .INDIANA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1874.

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ELECTION NEWS.

TraJatest news received up to the mornifig of the 10th from the recent State elections indicated the following results: T .• ILLINOIS. The' Opposition have probably gained six Congressmen. The “elected f First District, B. G. Caiffflrtfi', 'Bern., gafaf Second, C. H. Harrison,' Deni.,' gaki; Third, C. B. Farwell, Rep./J rejected; Fourth, Stephen A Hurlbut, Rep, re-elected; Fifth, Horatio C. Burchard, Rep., re-elected; Sixth, Thomas J,Henderson, Bep.; Seventh, Alex. Campbell, Ind. .(probably); Eighth, Greenbury t. Fort, Rep., re-elected; Ninth, RichardH. Whiting, Rep.; Tenth, John C. Bagby, Ind. (probably); Eleventh, Scott Wike, Dem.; Twelfth, William M. Springer, Dem.; Thirteenth, Adlai E. Stevenson, Dem., gain; Fourteenth, Joseph G. Cannod, Rep., re-elected; Fifteenth, John R. Eden, Dem., reelected; Sixteenth, William A. J. Sparks, Dem., gain (probably); Seventeenth, William: R. Morrison, Dem., re-elected; Eighteenth, William Hartsell, Dem., gain; Nineteenth, William' B. Anderson, Ind. (probably). Thog. S. Ridgway, Rep., is elected State Treasurer by about 20,000 majority, and 8. M. Etter, Opp., State School Superintendent by about the same majority. The Opposition vote for State Treasurer was divided between Charles Carroll, Dem., and David M. Gore, Ind. Th# Legislature will be composed as follows?’ Senate—Republicans, 24; Democrats, 23; fn' dependents, 4. House—Republicans, 66; Democrats, 65; Independents, 22.

WISCONSIN. The State Legislature is probably Republican in both branches. The Congressional delegation is probably as follows: First District, Chas. G. Williams, Rep., re-elected; Second, Lucien B. Caswell, Rep.; Third, Henry'S. Magoon, Rep.; Fourth, William Pitt Lynde, Reform; Fifth, Samuel D. Burchard, Reform; Sixth, Alanson M. Kimball, Rep.; Seventh, Jeremiah M. Rusk, Repi, re-ejected; Eighth, Geo. W. Cate, Dem., gaiiy MICHtOAN. The new Constitution overwhelmingly defeated. The woman suffrage amendment also defeated, but it received a larger vote thaq was generally expected. Bagley, Rep., for Governor, is elected by a majority of about 3,000. Balance of the State ticket Republican. The Republicans have a majority in the Legislature on joint ballot. Congressmen elected: First District, A. 8. Williams, Dem., gain; Second, Henry Waldron, Rep., re-elected; Third; George Willard, Rep., re-elected; Fourth, Alles Petter, Dem., gain; Fifth, William B. Williams, Rep., re-elected; Sixth, George H, Durand, Dem., gain; Seventh, Omar D.’ Conger, Rep., reTelected; Eighth, N. B. Bradley, Rep., reelected; Ninth, J.ay A, Hubbell, Rep., reelected. KANSAS. « Osborne, Rep., re-elected Governor by about 12,000 majority. Congressional delegation: First District, William A. Phillips, Rep., re-elected; Second, John R.Goodin, Ref., gain; Third, Wm. R. Brown, Rep. Legislature Republican. MISSOURI. Hardin, Dem., elected Governor by about 35,000 majority. Legislature Democratic by’ a large majority. The following Congressmen are probably elected: First District,’*E. C. Kehr, Dem., gain; Second, Erastus Wells, Dem, re-elected; Third, William H. Stone, Dem., re-electecl; Fourth, Robert A. Hatcher, Dem., re-elected; Fifth, Rich’d P. Btynd, Dem., re-elected; Sixth, Charles H. Morgan, Dem., gain; Seventh, John F.Phillips, Dem.; Eighth, Benjamin J. Franklin, Dem.; - Ninth, David Rea, Dem., gain; Tenth, R. A. Deßolt, Dem., gain; Eleventh, John B. Clack, Jr., Dem., re-elected; Twelfth, John M. Glover, Dem., re-elected; Thirteenth, Aylett H. Buckner, Dem., re-elected.

MASSACHUSETTS. Wm. Gaston, Dem., elected Governor over Talbot by about 7,000 plurality. Balance State officers Republican. Congressmen elected: First District, James Buffington, Rep., re-elested; Second, Benjamin W. Harris, Rep., re-elected; Third, Henry L. Pierce, Rep., re-elected; Fourth, Rufus S. Frost, Rep.; Fifth, Nathaniel P. Banks, Ind., gain; Sixth, Charles P. Thompson, Dem., gain (over Butler); Seventh, Join# K. Tarbox, Dem., .gain; Eighth, William W. Warren, Dem., gain; Ninth, George F. Hoar, Rep., re-elected; Tenth, _ Julius H. Seelye, Ind., gain; Eleventh, Chester W. Chapin, .Dem., gain. The Legislature, which is largely opposed, to prohibition, will stand: Senate Rep. 24; Dem, 16; House, Rep. 151; Dem. 85. ” ’ NEW YORK. Tilden, Dem., for Governor, has a majority of fiom* 30,000 to 40,000. State Assembly Democratic by about twenty majority. The Congressional delegation will probably stand as follows: First District, H. B. Metcalf, Dem., gain; Second, John G. Schumaker, Dem., re-elected; Third, Simeon B, Chittenden, Rep;; Fourth, Archibald M. Bliss, Dem., gaffi; Fifth, Edwin R. Meade, Dem.; Sixth, Samuel 8. Cox, Dem., re-elected; Seventh, Smith Ely, Jr., Dem.; Eighth, Elijah Ward, Dem., gain; Ninth Fernando Wood, Dem., re-elected; Tenth, Abram 8. Hewitt, Dem., gain; Eleventh, Benjamin A. Willis, Dem., gain; Twelfth, N. Holmes, Odell, Dem.; Thirteenth, John O. Whitehouse, Dem., re-elected; Fourteenth, George M. Beebe, Dem.; Fifteenth, John H. Bagley, Jr., gain; Sixteenth, Chas. H. Adams, Rep., gain; Seventeenth, Martini. Townsend, Rep.; Eighteenth, Andrew Williams, Rep.; Nineteenth, William A. Wheeler, Rdp.; Twentieth, HenryH. Hathorn, Rep"; Twenty-first, Samuel F. Miller, Rep.; Twenty-second, Geo. A. Bagley, Rep.; Twenty-third, Scott Lord, Dem., gain; Twenty-fourth, William H. Baker, Rep.; Twenty-fifth, Elias W. Leavenworth, Rep.;. Twenty-sixth, Clinton D. MacDougall, Rep., re-elected; Twenty-seventh, David A. Pierpont, Dem., gain; Twenty-eighth, Thomas C. Platt, Rep., re-elected; Twenty-ninth, Chas C. B. Walker, Dem., gain; Thirtieth, John M. Davy, Rep.; Thirty-first, George Gt. Hoskins, Rep., re-elected; Thirty-second, Asher P Nichols, Dem-, gain; Thirty-third, Walter L. Sessions, Rep., re-elected. BK?iNB¥LVAi,'IA. Democratic on the State ticketby-from 3,000 to 9,000 majority. Legislature Democratic on joint ballot. Congressmen elected; First district, Chapman Freeman, Rep.; Second, Chas. O’Nejll, Rep., Third, Samuel J. Randall, Dem., re-elected; Fourth, William D. Kelley, Rep., re-elected; Fifth, John Robbins, D<£m., gain; Sixth, Wash. Townsend, Rep.', *re-elected; Seventh, Alan Wood, Jr., Rep.; Eighth, Hiester Clymer, Dem., re-elect-ed; Ninth, A. Herr Smith, Rep., re-ejected;

Tenth, William Mutchler, Dem., gain; Eleventh, Frank D. Collins, Dem.; Twelfth, Winthrop W, Ketchum, Rfikl Thirteenth, James B. Reilly, Dem., gah« Foprteentb, John B. Packer, Rep., re-elected;. Fifteenth, Joseph Powell, Dem.; Sixteenth, Sobieski Ross, Bep., re-elfeeted; Seventeenth, John Reilly, Dem.; Eighteenth, William 8. Stenger, Dem., gain; Nineteenth, LeriLMaish, Dem., gain; Twentieth, Louis A. Mackey, Dem., gain; Twefity-flrst, Jacob Tumey, Dem., gain; Twenty-second, James H. Hopkins, Dem., gain; Twenty-third, Alexander G. Cochran, Dem., gain; Twenty -fourth, John W. Wallace, Rep.; Twenty-fifth, George A Jenks, Dem., gain; Twenty-sixth, James Sheakley, Dem., gain; Twenty-seventh, Albert G. Egbert, Dem., gain. NEW JERSEY. Judge Bedie, Dem., is elected Governor by about 12,000 majority. Legislature Democratic by 11 majority. The Congressmen elected are: First District, dement H. Sinnickspn.Rep.; Second, Samuel A Dobbins, Rep., re-elected; Third, Miles Ross, Dfem., gain; Fourth, Robert Hamilton, Dem., re-elected; Fifth, Wm. W. Phelps, Rep., re-elected;- Sixth, Frederick H. Teese, Dem., gain; Seventh, Aug. A. Hardenburg, Dem. VIRGINIA. Congressmen elected: First District, B. B; Doiglass, Dem., gain; Second, Jas H. Platte Jr.,’ Rep., re-elected; Third, Gilbert C. Wiker, Dem., gain; Fourth, ’VYllliam H./ H. Stowell, Rep., re-elected; Fifth, George C. Cabell,’Dem., gain; Sixth, John R. Tucker, Dem.; Seventh, John T. Harris, Dem., re-elected; Eighth, Eppa Hunton, Dem., re-elected; Ninth, William Terry, Dem. ■' l TENNESSEE? State Democratic by-40,000 to 50,000 majority. Legislature largely Democratic. Congressmen elected: First District, William McFarland, Dem., gain; Second, Jacob M. TJipmburgh, Rep., re-elected; Third, George G. Dibreil, Dem., gain; Fourth, John W. Head, Dem., gain; Fifth, John M. Bright, Dem., re-elected; Sixth, John F. House, Dem., gain; Seventh, Washington C. Whitthorne, Dem., re-elected; Eighth, John D. C. Atkins, Dem., re-elected; Ninth, William P. Caldwell, Dem., gain; Tenth, H. Casey Young, Dem., gain. KENTUCKY.. Al the ten Congressional districts probably Democratic. Democratic gains on the vote throughout the State. LOUISIANA. Returns, official and unofficial, give Moncure, Conservative, for State Treasurer, 7,159 majority. The Republicans still claim Dubuclet’s election by a small majority. MINNESOTA. Legislature Opposition on joint ballot. Congressmen elected: Mark H. Dunnell, Rep., in The First District, re-elected; H.. B. Strait, Rep., re-elected, in the Second; Wm.'S. King, Rep., in the Third. Republic** majority in *the State on Chief Justice abowt 5,000. MARYLAND. The six Congressmen all Democratic—a gain of two. * ARKANSAS. The Democrats elect the four Congressmen —a gain of three. GEORGIA. The entire Congressional delegation, nine in number, Democratic —a gain of two. RHODE ISLAND. The Republicans elect both Congressmen in this State.. SOUTH CAROLINA. D. H. Chamberlain, Rep., elected Governor by from 10,000 to 20,000 majority. The five Congressmen are all Republican. ALABAMA. The Democrats elect six Congressmen certainly—a gain of two. Many colored voters supported the Conservative ticket. Legislature Democratic. Democratic majority on State ticket about 15,000.

DELAWARE. Returns incomplete, but all .three counties probably Democratic'. James Williams, Dem. (gain), elected to Congress VERMONT Dennison, Ind., in the Second District, is elected over Poland, Rep., by a large majority. TEXAS. Returns from the principal towns show a large Democratic rrtajority in every district. The Congressional delegation of six is Democratic. ’ '' FLORIDA. Both districts probably -elect Republicans to Congress. The State Senate is a tie. The Republicans claim the Legislature by a majority of three on joint ballot ARIZONA. The election of Stevens, Ind., to Congress by about 200 majority is generally conceded. NEVADA. Woodbum, Rep., is probably elected to Congress. Bradley, Dem., for Governor, probably elected by about 1,000 majority. Legislature probably Republican. ~ , WASHINGTON TBRSITORY. O. J&cobs, Rep., is elected Delegate to Congress by aboutsoo majority. There will be an Opposition majority of over sixty in the next lower House of Congress. The Senate will remain Republican by about nine majority.

Treasurer Spinner’s Report.

Washington, Nov. 9. Gen. Spinner’s report is completed and in tha Hinds of the printer. He devotes considerable space to an argument in favor of issuing interchangeable bonds, to bear interest at the rate of 3.65 per cent. Hiaargumepts op thjs . point are, in the main, -the same as those oMast year, except that he believes that it would be<jyi»e to allow, holders to exch angethe* 3.65 fdr odtstfindteg 5 and 6 per cent, bonds. He says that the greatest objection to a metfhlTc currency is its lack of elasticity, and is of the opinion that the adoption of the convertible bond will correct this evil. He thinks the rate of interest will be high enough to sell the bonds, to the absorption of any surplus currency, at any time, while it will be enough to force a return of the bonds in exchange for legal-ten-der notes when the business of the country demands more currency. The rate of interest at one cent a day on the hundred dollars would be popular with the people, he says, because it •is easy of computation. He argues that the conversion of .the 5s aud sis into tow-rate bonds in the event of the condition of the currency demanding ,such conversion would result in the material reduction of the interest on the public debt, and make it payable entirely in national currency at home, and not in gold to foreigners,

Annual Reports of Army Officers.

Washington, Nov. 9. ' OEN * SHERMAN. * V ' , Gen. Sherman’s annual report to the Secretary of War shows the total number of enlisted men in the army off Oct. 15 to have been 26,441. It estimates that this number will probably be reduced through natural causes by the Ist of January, 1875, to the 25,000 allowed by law. It deprecates the inadequacy of so small, an army for the demands of so large an area,of territory as it has to be scattered over, involving the necessity of with-, drawing troops from one department to meet the requirements of other? a long distance away. It compliments the high efficiency of Gen. Sheridan and his subordinate officers in maintaining comparative peace in the Indian country. It says the reports of the commanding officers demonstrate that the small army of the United States, called a peace establishment, is the hardest-worked body of men in this or any country. The discipline and behavior qf the officersand men have been worthy of all praise; and whether employed on the extreme and distant frontier, or in aiding civil 1 officers in the execution of civil processes, have been a model for the imitation of all good men. In regard to the removal of his headquarters to St. Louis he says: “ I am prepared to execute the duties that maybe devolved on me by proper authority. Here I am centrally located, and should occasion arise I can personally proceed to any point on this continent where my services are needed.”

GEN. SHERIDAN. Lieut.-Gen. Sheridan, in his annual report, touches slightly upon Gen. Custer’s Black Hills expedition, which it pronounces a successful reconnpissance. The country of the Black Hills was found to be touch better than was expected, with plenty of good timber and considerable good soil at high altitudes and an abundant supply of good water and grass. Some gold was found near Harney’s Peak, but of its abundance there is at present no reliable information. Sufficient time could not be given by an expedition such as that of Gen. Custer’s to prospect and determine its quantity. Gen. Sheridan again recommends the establishment of a large military post in the Black Hill country. Of the Indian troubles Gen. Sheridan says: “I respectfully differ with Gen. Pope as to the chief cause of these Indian troubles, and attribute it to the immunity with which the tribes have been treated. In all their raids into Texas for the past three years their reservations have furnished them the supplies with which to make the raids and sheltered them from pursuit when they returned with their scalps and plunder. No man bf close observation, it seems to me, can travel across the great plains from Nebraska and Wyoming to Texas, and see the established ranches, with their hundreds of thousands of head of cattle, sheep and horses, together with the families of the owners, and reasonably think that these people, so much exposed and having such valuable interests, are desirous of provoking Indian wprs. There was a time, possibly, when the population of the Indian frontier may have been desirous of Indian troubles, but that has passed lohg ago.”

“Independent” Journalism.

Having purchased a majority of the stock of the Chicago Tribune Company, the Hon. Joseph Medill has resumed editorial control of that paper. In his article announcing this change he has this to say concerning “independent” journalism and the course the Tribune will pursue in the future: “ But it has seemed to me unwise for a great representative journal, for the purpose of correcting some alleged abuses of administration, to desert its party organization and turn its guns on its old friends, or help into power and place the leaders of the organization whose political records and whose official conduct show that they are insincere in their professions of desire for administrative purification. As a general rule, a man can exercise more influence for good among his friends by remaining en rapport with than by assailing and traducing them. The same rule holds true in regard to newspapers. The Government of the nation must be conducted through the instrumentality of parties. 1 know of no other agency which has succeeded in free countries. The party in the majority must assume the* responsibility of governing. A party is simply a voluntary organization of citizens united to carry into effect certain principles and purposes. It must employ and intrust individuals to collect ana disburse taxes, to perform executive and police duties for protection and security of person and property; men must be engaged to construct public works, carry the mails, administer justice and make and execute laws, and do a thousand other things which the public well-being requires; and these individualswill often prove careless, inefficient or corrupt. But a party whose aims and purposes are good and patriotic, and whose record is grand and glorious, should not be condemned and thrown out of power on account of the defective work or misconduct of a few of its employes, in order to make place for an antagonistic organization whose record cannot be defended, But is regarded with sorrow and shame by its best members, and whose conduct when in power never fails to show that its reformatory professions when out of power are a delusion and a snare. “ Buch being the case in regard to the necessity and machinery of parties in free countries, the press to be useful cannot avoid* being partisan in greater or less degree. If an editor undertakes the role of supporting both sides his position is equivalent to a double affirmative which amounts to a negative; If he habitually, censures and condemns both he is soon regarded as a common scpld and a nuisance. To be entirely unpartisan, leaves him in the condition of a cipher; and when a newspaper under-

NUMBER 9.

takes to be wholly “ independent ” of its party, and yet discuss politics, it is on the nigh road to the camp of its political : opponents, whether its conductor so intended atthe -outset in? deed, he takes refuge in the -coward’s harbor of. neutrality and abdicates bis duties altogether, which is a most contemptible and despicable position. But it is not essential to the prosperity or influence of a party paper that ft should willfully misrepresent its opponents, and behold nothing but evil pud depravity in fill’ their action?, or discover only treat sonable designsin all they propose to do. ' Candor and fairness in the treatment of political opponents will detract nothing from the influence df a paper, nor will it injure the prospects of its own party. “ Such, in brief, are the views I have long entertained of parties and the relations- which the press should bear toward them. A political newspaper, to be of service to the public, must give one party or the other the preference. And, while the Democratic party embraces many excellent and worthy members who would be an honor to any organization, yet I sincerely believe the Republicaii party comprises a much large*proportion of the intelligent and educated classes, of the moral wdrth and business enterprise as well as of the patriotic elements of the nation; ..and therefore the Government of the country and the civil rights of the poor and Wfeak can be more safely and prudently committed to its keeping than to that of its antagonist, whose past history and antecedents furnish so much cause for misgivings and dread of its future behavior. “ Looking, then, at the individual composition of~ the two great parties—all other parties- being mere fragments, ephemeral in duration and narrow in object—and at their respective records and underlying principles, I cannot hesitate to give the decided preference to the Republican party. Hence, the Tribune will be conducted as a Republican journal.”

Republican Reverses of 1862 and 1874.

The Republican reverses at the recent elections in various parts of the country bring to mind with startling vividness the returns of the fall elections of 1862. Then, as now, there was a general political revulsion—almost a revolution. The Republicans lost- States and Congressmen, and, being the second year of the war, .it was feared that the adverse results meant copperhead rule and the dissolution of the Union. But, fortunately, it was not so bad as that. In 1862. New York, Illinois and other important States, after having given large Republican majorities two years previously, returned to the Democratic wallow. Horatio Seymour was-elected Governor of New York that year, and “Jim” Allen Cengressman-at-Large from Illinois. Congressmen dropped away from us “here, tnere and everywhere,” and there was danger that the Administration of Mr. Lincoln had really lost Congress, and that thus the Government, besides having the rebels to fight in the front, also had the sympathize/s of the rebels to annoy, harass and embarrass it in the National Capital. It was a dark and lowering day in current political history—that November morning after the election which gave the country the tidings of Republican defeats, apparently involving the nation in new and unlooked-for perils and dangers, at the very moment when the clouds of war were full of lightning and thunder, and patriots looked forward with dread in anticipation of the worst. But the political gloom of that day soon dispersed. It was not as bad as it seemed. It was not the doom of the Republic, nor of Republicanism. Nay, rather it was the dawning of a new political era. The Democratic victories had a marvelous effect upon the Republican masses, who, instead of falling into the dumps, were instantly, as if by magic, shocked into a -realizing sense of the grave danger of permitting the Northern States and the Federal Government to glide into the control of the po litical party whose leaders were disposed to look with tenderness, if not with sympathy, upon the secessionists. The effect was that, not only were the successful Derifocrats deterred from openly giving aid and comfort to the rebels, hut at the next general election, two years subsequently, the masses turned out to a man all over the country and E plied the biggest Republican vote ever nown in. the Northern States. The Republican catise was reassured, the Republican strongholds newly fortified, and Democracy, rendered temporarily hopeful by its successes in 1862, was completely overwhelmed everywhere. In short, the Republican disasters of the “off year,” 1862, aroused the Republicans to such an earnest and determined effort in 1864 that more than full amends were made for their apathy and folly two years previous. May we not hope that the unfavorable result of the recent elections will have the same effect now, and that by the time of the next Presidential election the patriotic people, many of whom have neglected their duty, will have become thoroughly aroused to the danger of placing the affairs of the Government in the hands of the Democracy and turn out en masse to reassert their faith in Republicanism and their determination that the affairs of the preserved Republic can and shall be intrusted only to those who were truly and actively loyal to it in its days and years of imminent peril?— Chicago Journal.

HTThe Democrats at Washington came boldly forth from their lurking places oh Wednesday evening, burned a number of tar barrels, roared awhile under Senator Thurman’s window, and jubilated generally. The affair being over, bills were presented by the people from whom accommodations had been (Nasby-like) gotten on trust, which bills the jubilants openly repudiate and set at naught, “The whole affair,” says our Washington special, ‘‘seemed to be chiefly m the hands of a set of gentlemen who went into retirement when the last company of rebels crossed the long bridge in 1881,” and of lobbyists and that ilk who have hung about the capital for years without.visible means of support other than their legs. There is to b< “ a newdeal.” Noble army of dead-beats, to the front?— Chicago Inter-Ocean. ’ * ~

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The November Electiens.

Our dispatches have already detailed the results of the elections in the. several States on Tuesday. The gains for the Democratic party must have far exceeded the most -Sanguine expectations of its leaders. Of course they had reason to hope for the election of their State ticket in New York, and, judging from their successes in Indiana’ and Ohio in October, to look for accessions to their strength in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. But that such a staid old Republican commonwealth as Massachusetts, Which had elected no Democrat as Governor or member of either house of Congress since there had been a Republican party, should now not only, elect a Demo crat as Chief Executive, but send five Opposition members to the lower house of Congiess, is one of the of politics. No man can demonstrate absolutely the reasons for this popular convulsion any more than he could for that Which occurred in October. Of course the issues of temperance and anti-temperance and the effects sos good or evil growing out of the late temperance crusades cut no insignificant figure, taking over to the enemy thousands of Germans who had formerly acted: with the Republicans. Of course dissatisfaction with specific acts of legislation, State or National, or of executive administration. State or National, might have culminated at last in local expressions of discontent. But, in our judgment, the almost universal avalanche of popular insanity in behalf of the Democracy manifested in the late elections was precipitated largely by the industrial and financial stagnation and embarrassment? of the people." Rightfully or wrongfully, the dominant party has been held responsible for this condition of affairs. In an article published by us immediately after the October elections we showed that in the grain-growing States of Nebraska and lowa, where the people had realized good crops and handsome prices, and were financially content, they were politically coptent, as was proven by the increased Republican majorities over the preceding year; while in the States more largely devoted to manufacturing, like Indiana and Ohio, where capital and labor were idle and discontented, there was political discontent and revolution. The November elections seem to confirm this theory, for in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Republican candidates have been overwhelmed remorselessly, while in'Michlgan, 5V iseonsin and Illinois Republican nominees have more nearly received their party strength. These important reverses to Republicanism, and especially the loss to the party and the country of the next House of Representatives, are calamities beyond estimate. They will serve to embolden the rebel outlaws of the South to fresh.acts of barbarity upon Union blacks and whites alike. They will encourage the craven Northern allies of treason to new efforts to nullify the guaranties of the amended Constitution, They will have the effect to strike a staggering blow at the national credit at home and abroad. But if these immeasurable evils shall ultimately result in rousing the Republican party to the dangers which menace the Government through Democratic domination in the executive as well as legislative departments; if, in brief,, the loss of the National House of Representatives in 1874 shall serve to save the election of President and both houses of Congress in 1876, through that patriotism in presence of peril which has so many times during the last fourteen years saved the Republic, the loyal masses of the North and South can afford to bear the humiliation and mortification of the present visitation of adver-sity.—lnter-Ocean.

Petrifaction—A Human Body Turned to Stone.

A well-authenticated and rather astonishing case of petrifaction of a human body has recently been reported to the writer, but names and localities are omitted in deference to the wishes of the relatives of the deceased lady whose remains furnish the phenomena herein alluded to. The circumstances of the case are substantially as follows: A lady residing in the southern portion of the State died about eleven years ago, apd was buried—the body remaining undisturbed until a few days ago, when her husband and friends deemed it expedient to remove them to another burial place. Workmen were employed to disinter the coffin inclosing the body, and in due time they had uncovered the coffin, but upon attempting to lift it to the surface were surprised to observe that it was of extraordinary weight. Subsequent investigations revealed the fact that the body, instead of showing the deeay which is presumed to be the lot of all humanity, had actually been petrified during the eleven years intervening between its burial and disinterment —the body and features retaining their bony outlines, but completely solidified or turned into stone. The case is an unusual and interesting one, but the friends of the lady, some of whom are now residents of St. Paul, for gbbd and sufficient reasons dislike to have the name given to the public unless some good and useful purpose can be subserved thereby.■— St. Paul {Minn.) Preen. HTOne year of Opposition rule in Wisconsin was more than enough. The State went anti-Republican last year tty a majority of about 15,000. At the late election the tables were completely turned. Just how the vote stood remains to be seen, but it is certain that the Republicans have fully regained their former power. Herein is. a prophecy of the result in the next general election. — Chicago Journal. The Chicago Temperance Monthly it the title of a new forty-eight page illustrated magazine, to be devoted tp. the cause of temperance, and the first number of which will be issued in January next, by Mrs. C. Augustus Haviland, of as ths Wsst,~ 1 ** -.»*•** **