Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1875 — Page 1

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THE HEWS.

Ob the 19th eleven Legislatures balloted for United States Senator*. In Indiana, Maine, Missouri, New York and Pennsylvania candidates received a majority vote in the separate booses and are virtually elected. In the order above named the successful ones were: McDonald (Demj, Hamlin (Rep.), Cockrell (Dem.), Keraan (Dem.), and Wallace (Dem.). Unsuccessful ballots were bad in Michigan, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Nebraska and Tennessee. Leading Spanish Republicans and Carlist leaders, according to a Paris dispatch of the 20th, had agreed to bury the hatchet and unite in opposing King Alphonso, the future political condition of „ Spain to be determined by a plebiscite fat case of success. War, according to the Pad MM OaxetU, has been declared by Montenegro against TUrkey. The President recently sent a special message to Congress asking speedy appropriations for the defense of the seacoast. The Connecticut Republican Convention, which met at New Haven on the 20th, made the following nominations: Pot Governor, Jae. Lloyd Green, present Mayor of Norwich; Lieutenant-Governor, Charles L. English; Secretary of State, CoL Augustus Penn; Treasurer, O. B. Arnold; Comptroller,- Gen. R. B. Crawford. The President's special message to Congress on Louisiana affairs was indorsed by the convention. Henry L. Dawes was elected United Status Senator by the Massachusetts Legislature on the 20th on the second ballot. The Cook County (Ill.) National Bank suspended on the 19th. A most disastrous storm swept over Colorado, Utah and California on the 20th, causing great loss of life and property. . Several towns were submerged and many bridges carried away. Five persons were killed and fifty seriously injured by a boiler explosion in a factory in Yorkshire, England, on the 21st.

King Alphonso’s civil has been fixed at 28,000,000 reals. Forty-seven Carlist officers have given in their adhesion to the present order of things. Hon. J. P. Christiancy (Rep.) was elected United States Senator from Michigan on the 22d. The Democrats and bolting Republicans united to defeat Chandler. Three hundred miners are reported to be at work in the Black Hills. The Illinois State Farmers’ Association, recently in session at Springfield, has adjourned. The next session will be held at Bloomington. The Michigan State Grange recently held its annual session at Grand Rapids. According to the Master’s report there are 565 Granges in the State, with a membership of about 50,000. ’ Hon. Thos. F. Bayard has been reelected United States Senator from Delaware. The British Government has demanded an explanation and apology of Peru for forcibly taking a passenger from a British steamer at Callao some time ago, Ex-Gov. Paddock (Rep.) has been elected United States Senator from Nebraska. The recent snow-slides in Utah were fruitful of calamity. In the Cottonwood canon six men were .killed and six were killed in the city of Alta. Many more are supposed to have perished, but their bodies are covered to a great depth by the snow, and they cannot be found for some time. In one demolished house was found the body of Mrs. Carey, sitting in a rocking-chair, with an infant clasped in her arms. Near them were the husband and a little girl. All had been suffocated by the snow. The following persons, Mr. Richard B. Irwin states in a recent examination before the Pacific Mail Subsidy Investigating Committee, were the recipients of hia bounty ; Charles Abort, $7,000; O. J. AverQl, $10,000; J. G. Berrett, slo,* 000; E. H. Cormack, $2,000 or $«,000; A mass B. Corwin, $8,600; L. E. Chittenden, $5,000; B. H. Cheever, $5,000; Hamilton G. Fant, $12,000; John WForpey, $25,000; Samuel A. Hatch, about $80,000; S. R. Ingham, $10,000; Alex. W. Randall, $10,000; John H. Rice, $2,500; William B. Shaw, $15,000; Chas. H. Sherrill, $500; John G. Schumaker, $300,000 ; A. H. Whitney, SIOO,OOO. Witness said the above list comprised the names of all persons employed by him, and that he knew of the employment of only two others—William S. sting, to whom he paid $125,000, and Richard S. Parsons, who was Stockwell’s personal attorney. Witness paid Parsons SIO,OOO on Stockwell’s account He gave Schumaker $275,000 in New ¥ork and sent $25,000 more from. California. He subsequently added to the list as follows: Mr. Morris, of the Ohronfefe, $1,500; SIO,OOO to $15,000 to William Moran for writing letters, etc., and $85,000 to ex-Postmaster-Gen. Randall for the special purpose of buying off the Washington agents of a combination of New York stock operators who were fighting the Pacific Mail subsidy while it was before the Senate. King Alphonso has issued two proclamations—one addressed to the CarHsto, offering full amnesty, and the other to the army, demanding abnegation and energy. Rev. Canon Kingaley died in London on the 28d. Several Northern cotton-buyers and merchants at Shreveport, La., have published a card denying the recent statements of Msj. Merrill in relation to the

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anarchy, etc., prevailing in the Shreveport district The signers say the only ftssonun men xiiown wen causeu uj Merrill, just before election, sending his soldiers raiding over the country and arresting unresisting citizens for imaginary offenses, who had not been held for Mai because there was no evidence of guilt. On the 28d the Kansas House of Representatives adopted resolutions commendatory of the course of the President and Gen. Sheridan in relation to Louisiana affairs. The Conservative members of the Louisiana House have proposed to have the Congressional investigating Committee take the returns of 1874, together with all fair and relevant testimony, and upon such returns and evidence declare what members of the Legislature were fairly elected. On the 23d Hon. B. G. Caulfield, mem-ber-elect of the Forty-fourth Congress from the First Illinois District, was elected to fill the vacancy in the Fortythird Congress occasioned by the death of Hon. J. B. Rice. A farm-house occupied by a Frenchman named Pierre Dulude, in Boucherville, Canada, was burned on the morn ing of the 26th, and his wife and eight children perished in the flames. Dulude was fatally burned while trying to save his family. A portion of the building occupied by the Navy Department in Washington was seriously injured by fire on the 25th. The Carlists have abandoned the Biscayan provinces and moved into Navarre. Fugitives from Estella say that Don Carlos had shot a number of his officers for treason. His troops had fired into an Engliih steamer off the coast of Biscay. The Emperor of China died on the 12th of January. Turkey and Montenegro have withdrawn their troops from the border. The annual report of the Centennial Commission says that enterprise is making satisfactory progress. Congress is to be asked to appropriate $400,000 for premiums for exhibitors. Negotiations for a reciprocity treaty with the Sandwich Islands are about completed. Gen. Burnside and ex-President Andrew Johnson have been elected United States Senators from Rhode Island, aud Tennessee, respectively. Lent will begin this year on the 10th of February, much earlier than it has done in any year since 1869. During the cross-examination of Mr. Moulton in the Beecher trial on the 26th he received a telegraphic dispatch announcing the death of his mother.

CONGRESSIONAL.

Memorials of the Conservative and Republi can members of the Louisiana Legislature were presented in the Senate on the 20th. A bill was presented to protect States from invasion. The Ohio Louisiana resolutions and the protest of the Republican members of the Ohio Legislature concerning the same were presented. The Legislative, Fortification and Diplomatic Appropriation bills were passed. Pending the consideration of the proposed amendment to the Constitution providing for the election of President and Vice-President by a direct vote, the Senate adjourned.... The Honse directed that the resolution ordering the incarceration of Irwin in the District jail de rescinded. A bill appropriating SBO,OOO for the purchase of seeds for the grasshopper inlected districts was passed. The memorial of the Louisiana Legislature was presented. The Indian Appropriation bill was defeated—lll to 120. A message was received from the President asking appropriations for coast defense. Wetmore was remanded to the District jail for contempt, and the House adjourned. The President’s message on coast defenses was presented to the Senate, on the 21st, and appropriately referred. The Civil Service Committee reported adversely on the bill to reducejthe salary of the President. The remainder of the session was devoted to the discussion of Mr. Morton’s proposed amendment to the Constitution providing for the election of President and Vice President by direct popular vote, in which Messrs. Thurman, Conkling and Morton participated.... The House reconsidered the vote on the Indian Appropriation bill and sent it to the Committee of the Whole. Mr. Wetmore, the recusant correspondent, apologized to the House for his faisoience and was discharged from custody. The Committee on Elections submitted a report unseating Delegate Cannon, of Utah, on the ground of polygamy The report of the Conference Committee on| the “Little Tariff” bill was concurred in—i 188 to 99—after which adjournment. The credentials of Messrs. Pinchbeck and; Bayard, Senators-elect from Louisiana and Delaware, were presented and referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. A bill was introduced to establish a court for toe consideration of contested elections. After a speech by Mr. Anthony in its favor toe proposed amendment to toe Constitution regulating toe manner of toe election of President and Vice-President was laid over until the 27th Mr. Sherman defended toe conduct of the Administration in relation to affairs in Louisiana, and Mr. Johnston replied ....In toe House, several private bills were introduced. Objection was made to toe introduction of a resolution demanding of toe President his authority for interfering with toe courts of Mississippi. A number of pri▼ate bills were passed, after which toe House adjourned to toe 25th. In toe Senate, on the 25th, Senator Antoony was elected President pro tern, in toe absence of toe Vice-President The Secretary of War transmitted copies of correspondence in relation to Louisiana disorders. The discussion of toe Louisiana resolutions was resumed, Messrs. Johnston and Mr. Pease participating .... In toe House bills were Introduced—to establish postal telegraph lines; to establish a branch mint at St Louis; to improve the Little Rapids, on toe Minnesota River. R. B. Irwin was dis charged bum custody. A motion not to en. tertain afiy dilatory motion during the remainder of the session was defeated for want, of a two-thirds majority. A motion to sus-

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

RENSSELAER. INDIANA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1875.

pend the rules and take up the Civil-Sights the 26th, from the President, transmitting the report of the commission appointed to submit a plan tor the reclamation of the alluvial basin of the Mississippi. A bill was introduced regulating the counting of the votes for President uid Vice-President. Messrs. Pease and Thurman further debated the Louisiana question, after which adjournment.. .In the House, majority and minority reports were made on the proposed constitutional amendment regulating the election of President and Vice-President—the former favoring the plurality system and the latter a direct vote by the people. A Joint resolution was offered proposing an amendment to the Constitution extending the President’s term to six years and making him-ineligible for re-election, whleir failed to receive a WO-thlrds affirmative vote—ayes 134, noes 104.

THE MARKETS.

HEW YORK. 30% Cotton.—Middling upland, 15*@15*c. Lit* Stock.—Beef Cattle—*lo.oool2.oo. Hogs -Dressed, *[email protected]; Live, *6.0006.87*. Sheep—lave, 9&.50Q7.00. Bbbadstuvfs.—Flour—Good to choice, *4.750 5.30; white wheat extra, *5.3005.90. Wheat—No. 2 Chicago, 91.09Q1.12*; Ho. 2 HorthwesternAUl @1.13; Ho. 2 Milwaukee spring, *14301.15. Rye—Western and State, 99Q96c. Barley—--91.30Q1.36. Corn—New Mixed Western, Bfi*@B6c. Oats—Mixed Western, 66Q69c. Provisions.—Porte—New Mess, [email protected]. Lard—Prime Steam, 13*@14c. Cheese ISC. ' * ■' ■ ' Woon. —Common to extra, 43@45c. CHICAGO. T' v Livx v Btook .—Beeyes—Choice, 95.50Q8.00; good, [email protected]; medium, 94.25Q4.50; butchers’ stock, *[email protected]; stock cattle, *2.7508.75. Hogs—Live, good to choice, *6.4006.75; Dressed, *7.1007.50. Sheep-Good to choice, *8.5005.50. Provisions.—Butter—Choice, 30087 c. JBggs - Fresh, 26026 c. Pork Mess, *17.680 17.70. Lard—9lß.l2*@l3.ls. Cheese—New York Factory, 15*@16c; Western Factory, 15@15*c. Bbbadstujts.—Flour—White Winter extra, *4.2506.50; Spring extra, 93.75Q4.75. WheatSpring, No. 2,BBX@BBXc. Corn—No. 2, New, 66 @6s*c. Oats—No. 2, 50@52*c. Rye-No. 2, 96*@97c. Barley—No. 2, *[email protected]. Wool —Tub-washed, 45@57c; fleece, washed, 40048 s; fleece, unwashed, 27@36c. Luhbbb.—First Clear, [email protected]; Second Clear, [email protected]; Common Boards, 911.00@ 12.00; Fencing, [email protected]; “A" Shingles, *3.0003.25; Lath, *2.0002.25. CINCINNATI. BKKADgnrrrs.—Flour Red, [email protected]. Corn—New, 70@72c. [email protected]. Oats—6o@6Bc. Barley—*l.36ol.4o. Provisions—Pork—9lß.2o@lß.2fi. Lard—l3* @ 14*c. ST. LOUTS. Livn Stock.—Beeves—Fair to choice, *6.50 @5.75. Hogs—Live, *[email protected]. Bbbadstuvfb.—Flour—XX Fall, [email protected]. Wheat—No. 2 Red Fail, *1.05*01.06*. CornNo. 2 New, 64@67c. Oats—No. 2, 55*@B6*c. Rye—No. 1, [email protected]. Barley—No. 2, *1.46 @1.47*. Provisions.—Pork—Mess, *[email protected]. Lard -13@18*c. MILWAUKEE. Bbbamtotts.—Flour—Spring XX, *[email protected]. Wheat-Spring, No. 1, 94*@94*e; No. 2, 89* @9oc. Com—No. 2, 62*@63c. Oats—No. 2, 51 @sl*c. Rye—No. 1, 96@96*c. Barley—No. 2, *1.30* @1.31. TOLEDO. BhXadstctfs. —Wheat Amber Michigan, *1.07*01.07*; No. 2 Red, *1.05*01.06. CoraHigh Mixed, New, 69@69*c. Oats—No. 2, 58* @570. CLEVELAND. Bbbadstuvm.—Wheat, No. 1 Red, *l.lo*@ 1.11; No. 2 Red, *1.04*01.06. Corn—New, 71 @72c. Oats-No. 1,59000 c. ■» . DETROIT. Bbsadstutvs. —Wheat—Extra, *1.18*01.13*. Cora—69*@7oc. Oats—s6@s6*c. Dressed Hogs —*[email protected]. BUFFALO. Lrvn Stock.—Beeves—*4.7so6.l2*. Hogs— Live, *6.5006.75. Sheep—Live, *5.0006.25. EAST LIBERTY. Livx Stock.—Beeves—Best, *6.2506.62*; medium, *5.2505.50. Hogs—Yorkers, *8.4006.85; Philadelphia, *7.4007.50. Sheep—Best, *5.750 6.25; medium, *4.7505.00.

Presidential Elections—Proposed Constitutional Amendment.

The following is the full text of Senator Morton’s propose;} amendment to the Constitution providing for a change in the manner of electing the President . and Vice-President of the United Stated: Resolved by the Senate and Mouse of Representatives, in Congress Assembled, Two third* of Each. House Concurring Therein, That the following article is hereby proposed" as an’ amendment to the Constitution of toe United States, and when ratified by toe Legislatures of of the States shall be valid to all intents and purposes an part of, the Constitution, to-wit: Article 1. The President and Vice-Presi-dent shall be elected by direct vote of toe people in toe manner following: Each State shall be divided into districts equal in number to the number 'of Representatives to which the State may be entitled in Congress, to be composed of contiguous territory, and to be as nearly equal in population as may be; and the person having the highest number of votes in each district for President shall receive the vote of that district, which shall be counted one Presidential vote. 2. The person having the highest number •f votes for President in toe State shall receive two Presidential votes from toe State at large. 8. The person having toe highest number of Presidential votes in toe United States ■hall be President. 4. If two persons have toe same number of votes in any State, it being toe highest number, they shall receive each one (Presidential vote from the State at large, and if more than two persons shall have each toe same number of votes in any State, it being toe highest number, no Presidential vote shall be counted from toe State at large. If more persons than one shall have the same number of votes, it being toe highest number in any district, no Presidential vote shall be counted from that district. 5. The foregoing provisions shall apply to the election of Vice-President. 6. The Congress shall have toe power to : provide for holding and conducting the elections of President and Vice-President, and to establish & tribunal for toe decision of suciu elections as may be contested. ! * 7. The States shall be divided into districts by toe Legislatures thereof, but Congress may at anytime by law make or alter toe same. According to Le Monde, weevils may be expelled from a grapary by placing in it a few bundles of -raw hemp.

INDIANA STATE LEGISLATURE.

Senate, Jem. 20.—-The MBs making husband aud wife competent witnesses •gainst each other and subjecting lands of married women to the payment of their own debts were indefinitely postponed.... The Committee on Judiciary recommended the hadefinite postponement of the bill repealing the act allowing interest on judgments to be the same ae the contract on which judgment is taken.... A recess was taken to compare the vote for United States Senator....ln the afternoon the interest question was debated, and its further consideration postponed until tile following day... .The discussion of the local-option project was postponed until Thursday, the 28th.... Adjourned. House.— The Judiciary Committee re ported a number of minor bi 115.... The minority of the Temperance Committee reported a bill embodying the localoption feature, fixing the license fee at *4OO, with bonds of *2,000, making drunkenness a misdemeanor, and providing penalties for selling to minors and for selling on Sunday....A bill was reported favoring the payment of a debt of *38,168 contracted by the State Normal 5ch001.... The hour for the Senatorial election having arrived the Senate and House met in joint convention and balloted for Senator, McDonald receiving TO votes, a majority of all the ballots cast The joint convention then adjourned.... In the afternoon bills were introduced—providing lor the admission of colored children Into the public schools where separate schools are not provided: fixing the salaries of Judges... were introduced—looking to the passage of a law compelling Treasure rato account for interest on public moneys; instructing the. Committee on Railroads to inquire whether the Ohio A Mississlppi Railroad Company has compiled with its charter.... Adjourned. Senate. Jan. 21.—The twenty-eighth annual report of the Trustees of the Wabash & Erie Canal was submitted.... The joint resolution asking Congress to pension Mexican war veterans was passed....A resolution was adopted authorizing the Prison Committees of both houses to investigate the conduct of prisons.... Bills were introduced—allowing labor schools to issue indentures; allowing cities bordering on lakes to build harbors at public expense; to erect an asylum to insane asylum, and appropriating *500,000; repealing the discretion of County Commissioners in making allowance and permitting appeal.... The At-torney-General submitted an opinion that the term of office of J. H. Smart, elected Superintendent of Public Instruction, begins March 15, and runs for two years from that time.... Adjourned.

House. —The report of toe Trustees <ff toe Wabash A Erie Canal was submitted.... The report of toe Committee oa County and Township Business on toe hill limiting toe power of County Commissioners Was laid on the table and ordered printed .. . .The bill providing for a general assessment of lands In 1879 and every six years thereafter Was discussed, and resulted In an amendment assessing lands in 1880 and every five years thereafter....Thebonqurrent resolution providing for a joint convention to elect prison and benevolent Boards on toe 17th of February was adopted... - Resolutions were Introduced asking Congress for aid In the improvement of toe Ohio River and its tributaries.... Adjourned. Senate, Jan. 22.— 8i11s were introduced—allowing married women to sell their real estate by attorney in fact; reimbursing taxpayers for expenses incurred in successfully contesting issuance of illegal orders for money by County Commissioners or other authority; re-enacting the Liquor law of 1869, with an oath added to the application for license; providing for a hoard of seven prison commissioners, with power to supervise the north and south prisons and any other that may be ejected; limiting grand juries to five members, and requiring annual statements from officers of gravel and plauk roads of counties to be published in the county papers.. ..The hill giving Justices of toe Peace exclusive" Jurisdiction of misdemeanors punishable by fine only" was indefinitely postponed... .The consideration of the interest question was set for the 26th, and the resolution making the buyer and seller alike liable in all cases of violation of the Temperance law on toe 28to....Adjourned to the 25th.

House. —The bills amending the law in relation to toe publication of the tax-lists and authorizing toe organization of Boards of Trade were reported on favorably... .Bills were introduced —giving Justices entire jurisdiction where claims do not exceed SIOO and concurrent jurisdiction when claims do not exceed $800; riving Justices exclusive jurisdiction in all criminal cases punishable by fine and imprisonment in county jails; adding the President of toe Purdue University to the State Board of Education... .The Senate concurrent resolution relating to prison investigation was adopted.... The joint resolution asking Congress tp pass the act giving Mexican war veterans $8 per month pension was passed.. . .Adjourned to the 25th. Sswato, Jan. 25.—The Judiciary Com) mttiee reported favorably upon the bill providing for toe removal of public officers for intoxication, either habitual or during busiaess hours. ...Bills were introduced—making it a misdemeanor* for a railroad to charge more than three cents per mile for passenger 'Are; authorizing the Trustees of towns to select school-teachers: making it necessary for courts to be satisfied of the security for the- -maintenance for illegitimate children where toe mother is a minor before charge of bastardy is dismissed against defendant; repealing toe present Interest law and declaring it a misdemeanor to keep a house of illfame or assignation.... Adjourned. House.— Sundry temperance petitions Were received and referred.... Bills were passed to a third reading—House bill 222, amending Sec. 2of an act for toe protection of wild game by making it unlawful at any and all times to kill quails, blackbirds, robins and other small birds, or to destroy their eggs, and fixing a fine of $lO for each offense; repealing Secs. 272 and 273 of assessment of Tax law; amending Sec. 208 of the Civil Code act, authorizing courts to grant changes of venue in civil as well as criminal cases.... Bills were introduced—appropriating |IOO annuallyto the State Horticultural Society; abolishing the eighth Judicial Circuit.... Resolutions were passed favoring a repeal of toe law providing for semi-annual payment of taxes, and disapproving of any adjournment hereafter for a longer period than from Saturday noon to Monday morning at nine o’clock. Senate, Jan. 28.—A petition was presented asking for an Investigation into toe affairs of toe Southern State Prison... .Bills were introduced—tp cut down the compensation of the Reporter of toe Supreme Court one-third; to authorize five or more persons to do free banking; providing that Auditors of counties shall not pay exceeding twenty cento per tract for toe publication of delinquent lists; authorizing toe organisation of Granges of Patrons of Husbandly.. ~The afternoon session was devoted to debate on tlie bill repealing toe law allowing 10 per cent, on judgments. Hie report of the committee favoring indefinite postponement was concurred In by ayes 28, noes 22.... Adjourned. " - ; i v. House.—Bills were passed—providing for a re-appraisment of real estate In 1880 and every fifth year thereafter; for toe election of township Assessors every two years, who shall have power to appoint one or more deputies if neeeeaary; authorizing toe County Cl»rk to receive money paid on judgments, and also all money ordered to be paid in by the courts, and making him responsible for

toe same: providing for the publication of the delinquent tax-list at twenty- five eepta Sovcraroro? to’acquire title to certain lands in Evansville upon which toerect apoetoffices limiting toa powers of County in making expenditures exceeding *99,000 except by vote of toe people; changing toe time of holding court in toe Twenty-first Judicial Circuit; authorising toe election of Marshal in towns by people instead <rf by Trustees.... Adjourned.

Indiana Postal Changes.

The following are the postal changes in the State for the week ending Jan. 23, 1875: . Offices Discontinued —Christy’s Prairie, Clay County; Prairie Edge, Montgomery County. Postmasters Appointed—Blue Grass, Fulton County, William Potter; Clark’s Hill, Tippecanoe County, John W. Milligan; Clinton Falls, Putnam County William R. Mead; Cortland, Jackson County, Columbus Sickels.

The President’s Message on the Arming of Coast Defenses.

Washiwoton, Jan. 20. Tent President sent the following message to Congress to-day: To the Senate and House of Representatives: In my annual message of Dec. 1, 1873, while inviting general attention to aH recommendations made by toe Secretary of War, your special attention watt invited to toe importance at preparation for war in toe arming of our sea-coast defenses. Proper armament is of vastly more Importance than fortifications. The latter can be supplied very speedily tor temporary purposes when needed. The former cannot These views gain increased strength and pertinence as toe years roll by. I have now again the honor to call special attention to toe condition of toe armament of our fort! fications and the absolute necessity for immediate provision by Congress for toe procurement of heavy cannon. The large expenditures required to supply the number of guns for our forts is the strongest argument that can be adduced for a liberal annual appropriation for their gradual accumulation. In time of war such preparations cannot be made; cannon cannot be purchased in open market, nor manufactured at short hotice. They must be the product of years of experienced labor. I herewith inclose copies of toe repents of toe Chief of Ordnance and of toe Board of Ordnance Officers on toe trial at toe eightinch rifle, converted from toe ton-inch smoothbore, which shows very conclusively an economical means of utilizing toe useless smoothbores and making them into eight-inch rifles, capable of piercing seven inches of iron. The 1,294 ten-inch Rodman guns should, in my opinion, be so utilized, and the appropriation requested by toe Chief of Ordnance of *250,000 to commence these conversions is earnestly recommended. 1 > j . s

While convinced of the economy and necessity of these conversions, the determination of the best and most economical method of providing guns of still larger caliber should no longer be decayed. The experience of other nations, based on the new conditions of defense, brought prominently by toe introduetion of iron-clads into every navy afloa\ demands heavier metal and rifle guns of not less than twelve inches tn caliber. These enormous masses, hurling a shot of 700 pounds, can alone meet many of the requirements of the national defenses. They must be provided, and experiments on a large scale can alone give toe data necessary for the determination of toe question. A suitable proving ground, with all toe facilities and conveniences referred to by. toe Chief of Ordnance, with a liberal annual appropriation, is an undoubted necessity. The guns ready for trial cannot be tested without funds, and the estimate of. $250,000 * for the purpose is deemed reasonable, and is strongly recommended. The constant appeals for legislation on “ armament of fortifications” ought no longer to be disregarded, if Congress desires in peace to prepare important material the want of which in future wars must inevitably lead to disaster. This subject is submitted with the hope that toe consideration it deserves may be given it at the present session.

(Signed)

Executive Mansion, Jan. SO, 1873.

The Resell of the “Democratic Victories.

Xt is worthy of special remark that every “ Democratic victory” that has been gained, North or South, since the close of the rebellion has been virtually a triumph of the pro-rebel element of that party. The first out-and-out Democratic victory after the war was won in Georgia, where, soon after, Alexander H. Stephens, the Vice-President of the “ Southern Confederacy,” was elected to Congress, and Gordon, a rebel General, chosen United States Senator.. The next important Democratic victory was in Connecticut two years ago, followed last year by the election of Eaton, an outspoken copperhead, to the Federal Senate. As the result of Democratic victories' last fall, besides the election to the lower House of Congress of quite a flock of men who were either rebels or sympathizers with the rebellion, three of this same style of “patriots” have recently been chosen United States Senators, namely: Cockrell, a rebel General, from Mistourk Kernan, a bitter copperhead, from New York; Jo McDonald, another hitter copperhead, from Indiana. At this rate, how long will it be before* the Democracy will convert the United States Congress into the Congress of the “ Confederate States?” In the Tennessee Legislature, yesterday, even Jeff. Davis was among those voted for for United States Senator I —Chicago Journal. Foe a number of years various deserving charities of liondon and other parts of England have received anonymous gifts of £I,OOO at a time, which, it is needless to say, have been of great assistance in their works. Efforts to find the giver have been fruitless, although now and then a pretender has aspired to the honor. Recently, at Cheshunt, in toe diocese of Rochester, a Mr. Attwood, a somewhat eccentric old bachelor, died, and his books show that he was the mysterious benefactor, fils gifts altogether amounted to nearly £850,000, or nearly $2,000,000, and during the past year he has given away nearly $250,000* v - ...

Soon after the meeting of Congress, in December, the House of Representatives created a committee to investigate the Southern situation. They were authorteed and directed to inquire into aßeged outrages. This committee was divided into sub committees, one of which, consisting of Messrs. Foster, Phelps and Potter, proceeded to New Orleans, and was there at the opening of the Louisiana Legislature. Its report has just been submitted to the public. It was written by Potter, a Democrat, and has the signatures of the other members, both of whom profess to be Republicans. The account given of the organization of the Louisiana House of Representatives, and the so-called military interference, is almost identical with that given by Gen. Sheridan. A careful comparative examination fails to disclose a Single material difference in the two accounts. This is all the more significant from the contrast in the prevailing tones of the two reports. The most npticeable thing about the Congressional report is its silence upon the main feature of the situation. No one would suspect from anything contained in this document that Louisiana

had been the scene of assassinations, collective or isolated. It would not be inferred that life is specially insecure in that State, or that there is any more immunity from arrest and there than there is in toe North generally. The correctness of representations, herein, made by President Grant aha Gen: Sheridan, is not brought in question. The committee simply Jgnore the subject. We submit that this omission is disgraceful. A good deal is said about taxation, the rarity of white Republicans, the mode of procedure before and by the Returning Board and kindred matters, all of weighty importance in themselves, but all combined of less consequence than the insecurity of life. Several wholesale butcheries have occurred, and the aggregate of isolated cases amounts to over 1,200, and the assassins go scot free. Such, we say, is the representation made by the President and toe Lieutenant-General of the United States, and the committee is entirely oblivious of the whole matter. Such a report is a disgrace to those who make it, and ought to be rejected by the House. The latter should demand a report on toe main issue of the case. It looks very much as if Foster and Phelps had made a play-spell of the investigation, allowing Potter to run the business to suit himself. We are disappointed in Foster. He had done some good work in Congress. Phelps is a conceited fop, with immense inherited wealth and a silly affectation of wit. He is just the fellow to be made the tool of a crafty and polished politician like Mr. Potter. The latter did just What-was to be expected of him. He tout his eyes to all evidence against the Democracy, and distorted. and magnified all toe evidence against the Republicans. Even then he has not made out his case. It is not claimed by the Republican party that Kellogg is a paragon of political virtuo, or that everything done by the party in that State is justifiable. On the contrary, there is a desire to have toe entire facts in the case brought to light, and every man, from Kellogg down, receive his deserts," be the same rewards or punishments, small or greet. Fortunately the disreputable omission of toe Congressional report will not be very important, practically, for Gen. Sheridan is at work preparing a full statement touching assassinations in Louisiana. The committee, hv confirming his report of the attempted but abortive Wiltz usurpation, has prepared toe public to accept with infplicifcf aftfe in its accuracy that forthcoming report. In this way the committee has rendered valuable service, albeit Foster and Phelpß were simply Clay in the hands of the potter.— Chicago Journal , Jan. 18.

The committee say that there was no intimidation of the colored voters last fall; that theelection was conducted with remarkable'fairneißs: The stories of oppression- and lawlessness by White League are fictions. The report of the sub committee of Congress who visited New Orleans .thus summarized by a Democratic newspaper. Taken altogether, this is perhaps the most remarkable report ever submitted by a committee of Congress. If there is anything stranger than the report, it is that such a committee were ever sent to Louisiana to make it- We know of no other instance in which a dominant party has delegated work of like importance to individuals' ' all of whom were either opposed to it or were utterly indifferent regarding the subject investigated. If the report were not so palpably and transparently false , it might cause the country to believe that all the stories of outrage in the State named were purely imaginary; but the sub-committee have gone so far in thoir prejudices that they have overreached themselves, and their report will only create a smile of contempt. - “ There was no intimidation!” Where, then, the necessity for such certificates as the following: ; <- -v »■ * New Orleans, Nov. SB, 1874. This Is to certify that Charles Dnrassa, a barber by occupation, is a member of the First Ward Colored Democratic Club, and that at the late election he voted for and worked in the interests of the Democratic candidates. William Alexander, President First Ward Colored Democratic Club. Nick Hove. Secretary. Was this to insure the safety of the bearer of it? Everybody knows it was, and for this reason the colored men clung to these certificates as they would to a life-preserver. Those who did not have them occupied dangerous ground indeed. “No intimidation!” Wherefore, then, such words as the following, from the Westville Newt, which were substantially repeated by every White League organ in the South: u « , The white man’s party is the only salvation for the State. Show the negro his place and mate him keep U. If we cawt vote him down we can knock him down, and the result will be the satne.% “No intimidation I” Why was language like the following by the Shreveport Times again and again: The white people are determined to protect themselves to the last extremity, and by the moie desperate means the better. We say again, to carry the elections in this State “But toe stories of lawlessness and oppression are fictions.” Are they, indeed! Pray what kind of peace, quiet and liberty are indicated by the following? T%e victims, it need scarcely be remarked, were ail Republicans:

U. S. GRANT.

NUMBER 20.

Louisiana Sub-Committee.

What Are “Fictions?”

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An inquisition taken for the State erf Louisian at Caspian* and Campo Bella plantations, tnvhe parish, upon toe bodies of six unknown men, three of whom are on the Caepiana plantation and three on Campo Bella plantation, lying dead. The jurors, whose names are hereunto subscribed, being dulv sworn, do hereby render as their verdict that said six men came to their death by gunshot wounds produced by parties unknown to us. r , ,--.7 Signed by W. J. Hutchinson, Foreman, and eight other jurors, and attested by John Marion, Justice of the Peace, acting as Coroner. But why quote these positive acknowledgments of guilt from the members of the White League themselves? Have they not been given again and again, and if the committee would not believe men who confessed themselves guilty of murder, and boasted of it, what testimony oan satisfy them? “There was no lawlessness,” and yet this committee were walking the streets where a few weeks before an organized army of rioters defied the law, murdered the guardians of the city’s peace to the number of a score, tod only retired when driven out by the power of the Federal army. Even while the committee were there in persotrthey witnessed an attempt toovprturn thelaw of the Btate by violence, and organized the Legislature by force; tod yet they have toe temerity to say that all is peaceful and serene! The report is an insult to the intelligence of the country, and the feeble-minded gentlemen who made it have evidently mistaken their calling. — lnter-Occan.

Continued Outrages.

Washington, Jan. 18. The following dispatch has been re-, ceived here: Nbw Orleans, Jan. 16. To Hon. W. W. Belknap, Secretary of War: A report has Just been received from Maj. Merrill, at Shreveport, which is too long for, telegraphic transmission, but will be sent by mail. The following is an epitome, almost in Mai. Merrill’s own words: Threats made before the election to drive from the community all that voted the Radical ticket are being carried out. Combinations among the whites we forming and recruiting by every form of pressure, by which all negroes who voted the Radical ticket are to be refused work on leases. All whites not belonging to toe combination are to be ostracized. Already more than 500 families, including at least 2,000 people of all ages and sexes, are wanderers, without means to gd elsewhere, powerless to find other. homes' Where they are. and on the verge of starvation in midwinter. Theft and other crimes may result, and it is feared that the fitter feeling naturally resulting from a sense Of injustice received may run into one of revenge. These homeless people will naturally drift together, and toe white people are not slow, qs toe past has shown, to set afloat inflammatory rumors of intentions of organized violence on the part of the negro; and where the revolver aud mob-law are common resort in such cases, as they usually have bepn here, disorders, more or less extensive, are sure to result If some preventive is not found for such a state of things. P. H.Bheridan. Lieut.-General.

Letter to the President from the Governor of Iowa,

Washington, Jan, 22. The following letter has been received at the Executive Mansion: State or lowa, Executive Department, 1 Deb Moines, lowa, Jan. 13, 1875. j To the President: I have watched with anxiety the progress Stall development of toe Louisiana imbroglio, and in the recent climax of an insurrectionary spirit and purpose shown by the people of New Orleans, representing secret organizations hostile to the Government, I have been gratified by the promptness with which the revolutionary schemes. were met and defeated. It is also a source of gratification and an earnest of toe wisdom and moderation with which the military arm will be used to suppress this incipient rebellion that toe commander of this department Is a General whose past services to the country, whose brilliant reputation as a soldier and whose patriotic devotion to freedom are recognized and trusted by every man whose heart was with toe Union during the war of toe rebellion. These people do not believe that be will abuse his power, and they know that he will not suffer the rights for which he and his comrades periled their lives in toe past to bp trampled down by an organized mob. I may safely say that the masses of lowa, who sympathized with you and your army when you confronted the rebellion lat Vicksburg and Richmond, sympathize with you in your policy to-day when confronting Its lingering spirit at New Orleans. It is true that the people who were with you when civil liberty Was imperiled by undisguised and recognized warfare will be glad when the’spirit of law. and order shall So far take the place of turbulence, and insubordination, and tranquillity and peaceful industry shall agKlir #6 generally prevail, that military Interference to preserve peace and prevent bloodshed will become unnecessary, in any of the States. But If the Government of any State is to be a government of force they prefer Federal bayonets is toe hands of men who have proven their fidelity to the country to shot-guns and bowie-knives in the hands of White Leaguers and Union haters. With great respect, trply

C. C. CARPENTER.

yours,

A Zealous Watchman.

A. bucolic individual who recently came to Chicago and was employed as a night-watchman by one of the “ Captains” in the ‘businqgg showed extraordinary zeal in the discharge of his duty the first night he was placed on beat. At a clothing store op West Madison there are “ forms” or figures, containing heads, but minus everything* else except a wire-bust. Rusticus peered into the store about two a. m., holding his darklantern above his head. He beheld a dressed-up figure confronting him, and, not haying received any previous information regarding the images, thought of fame and renown, and pictured in an instant, in his minu’s eye, visions of greatness. Here was a chance, and he drew his little gun and let fly at the supposed burglar. Then he ran and yelled “ Police!” blew bis whistle, clubbed the lamp-post, and stamped up and down the sidewalk, screaming frantically meanwhile. Two regular patrolmen and a half-dozen citizens came to his assistance, and he pointed at the store in breathless excitement, exclaiming: “I’ve killed him; I shot him right throngh!” The officers ran to the store with Busticus and, by the aid of his lantern, discovered" the prostrate form on the floor. The true situation dawned upon the minds of of the regulars at once, and what a moment before was excitement wa&changed into merriment, and the small erowd laughed heartily at the expense of the countryman, who has not been seen since. —Chicago Tribune. ;r y, » Soft- soil* should be kept in adr place in a cellar, and should not be used for three months after it is made.