Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1875 — Page 1

PUBLISHED JtVXHY FBIDAY, BY CHAB. M. JOHNSON, Utaral Binßihi. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. JOB FBIK7INO- A SPECIALTY. Y«nu of BmbKrlptlon. Oire-Qwter Year 60

THE NEWB.

About 40,000 troops were massed in the vicinity of Taflala, Spain, on the 27th, under the personal leadership of King Alphonso, to attack the Carlists near Pampeluna. The Commissioner of Agriculture reports that the area visited by the grasshoppers in 1874 considerably exceeded 100,000 square miles and that between 75,000 and 100,000 people are suffering from the effects of such visitation. Another incendiary fire was started in the Navy Department building at Washington on the 26th. The fire was extinguished before it had gained much headway, and little damage was done. Mrs. Sartoris, ruse Nellie Grant, and her husband arrived in New York, from England, on the 27th. Tneodore F. Randolph (Dem.) has been elected United States Senator from New Jersey. King Kalakaua has reached San Francisco, en route for the Sandwich Islands. An unsuccessful attempt was recently made by four or five men to capture the James boys at their mother’s residence near Kearney Station, Mo. The assailants were driven off. A hand-grenade thrown into the house was cast upon the grate by Dr. Samuels, step-father of the James boys, and its explosion killed a lad ten years old and so injured the arm of Mrs. Samuels that amputation was necessary. It is asserted that the James beys were not at the house during the fight. The State Central Republican Committee, in session at Concord, N. H., on the 28th, telegraphed to the Republicans in Congress, advising them to stand firm for the Civil-Rights bill. A circular has been issued by the Mayor of Philadelphia urging renewed exertions for the discovery of Charley Ross. A reward of |S,(XK) is offer^MH Mr. Woodruff and Mrs. Bradsh^Btiave :: i testified in the Beecher-Tilton dH ‘l !*> evidence of the latter was The former corroborated Moult^wf v ;S||| port of the interview with Tracy he (Tracy) said lying was this case, and recommended that Tilton or Moulton be sent to Europe. Tilton was called on the 28th, and the question of his being permitted to testify was argued until the court adjourned. qp On the 27th the Illinois Houss of Representatives adopted a series of resolutions censuring the Administration for its conduct of Louisiana affairs and its maintenance of the Kellogg Government, and especially for the alleged military interference in the organization of the Legislature of that State. A Madrid telegram of the 29th says three important positions had been captured from the Carlists in the valley of Carascal, and that there had been a gradual advance all along the lines. Zaranz had been occupied by a Spanish battalion.

The Thomas Paine memonal building in Boston was dedicated on%he 29th. Late reports from Fort Sully, D. T., state that the recent cold weather there was the severest ever known in that country. The thermometer for several days ranged from thirty-eight to fortyfour below. Many cattle - and ponies were frozen to death. Russia has recognized King Alphonso. The American expedition to New Zealand made successful observations of the transit of Venus. The German party successfully observed the transit of Venus at the Auckland Islands. An understanding in relation to the indemnity to be paid on account of the Virginius affair has been reached by Mr Cushing and the Spanish Ministry. The Cuban insurgents have recently captured the town and fort of Jibara* A Republican Senatorial caucus was held on the 30th ult., at which it was resolved to support the President in his policy toward Louisiana. # Rev. Mr. Trask, the anti-tobacco apostle, died a few days ago. The Minnesota Legislature has adopted a resolution calling upon Hon. W. S. King to explain his connection with the Pacific Mail subsidy business or resign *is seat in Congress. The following is a statement of the condition of the public debt Feb. 1:

Six per cent, bonds $1,157,066,100 Five per cent, bonds 562,025,200 Total coin bonds $1,719,110,300 Lawfni money debt 14,678.900 Matured debt 11,343,260 Leeal-tender notea ... 388,072,147 Certificates of deposit. 45,406,000 Fractional currency.. 45,037,075 Coin certificates 24,6554900 Interest 21,9084225 Total debt t $2.269,209.306 Cash in TreasuryCoin $69,465,064 Currency 10,343,060 Special deposits held for the redemption of certificates of deposit, as provided by law 45,406,000 Total in Treasury $125,213,135 Debt less cash in Treasury $8,143,996,172 Increase during January 1,897,870 Bonds issued to the Pacific Bail way Companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal oatstanding $64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid... 883,117 Interest paid bv the United states.. 264264,108 Interest repaid by the transportation of mails, etc .. 5,602,165 Balance of interest paid by United States 90,661,986 A National Convention of reformers was recently held in St. Louis to secure an amendment recognizing God and the Bible ip the Constitution. Speeches were made and resolutions adopted in keeping with the object of the gathering. Prince Bismarck has been directed by the Federal Council of Germany to conclude an extradition treaty with the United States.

THE JASIPER REPUBLICAN.

VOLUME I.

B. G. Caulfield, the successor of the late Hon. John B. Rice, has taken his seat as member of Congress from the First Illinois District. Mr. Tilton was decided to be a competent witness, on the Ist, in the Beecher case, only being prohibited from disclosing confidential communications from his wife. While a messenger of the Southern Express Company was delivering a money package at the reputed office of W. R. Parker & Co., Memphis, on the Ist he was set upo4pby two white men* and three negroes, a rope thrown around his neck and a bag over his head, after which they succeeded in getting away with his sachel, in which were a great number of money packages. The Empress of China, overcome with. grief at the death at her husband, has committed suicide.

Several representative colored men have issued an address to Congress appealing for action in their behalf by “ enacting and providing for the enforcement of appropriate laws for the better protection of persons, property and political rights” in the South. The address claims that a wretched state of affairs in the South will grow out of the neglect of Congress to pass such laws before the adjournment of the present session. According to a Harrisburg telegram of the 2d, a difficulty of considerable proportions occuMMd during the preceding evening’s session of tSfo Pennsylvania House of RdprescEEives. During a discussion in a contested election case, Mr. Wolf (RepT came in contact with the er, who ordered his arrest, when the Republican members rushed to the defense of their colleague and wrested him from the hands of the Sergeant-at-Arms. In the midst of the commotion the Speaker fdionraed the House. Pistols were Hoping the difficulty. • y. . ■keridan has left New Orleans for Louis People’s Savings Insti’jglfetßL suspended in consequence of ffiiEHsconding of the Cashier with a large portion of the money belonging to

CONGRESSIONAL.

In the Senate on the 27th the Postal Telegraph bill was introduced and referred. A resolution to repeal the twenty-second joint rule relating to counting the electoral vote was ordered printed. Messrs. Thurman and West spoke to the -Louisiana resolution after which the Senate adjourned....ln the House, after routine business, on a motion to reconsider the action of last session recommitting the Civil-Rights bill to the Judiciary Committee, filibustering began and was continued until the close of the Press dispatches, at 1:35 a. m. on the 28th, with small prospect then of speedy adjournment. In the Senate, on the 28th, a bill was passed to appoint a commission to ascertain the rights of British subjects in the lands adiudicated upon by the Emperor William under the treaty of 1871. Mr. Conkling spoke to the Louisiana resolutions until adjournment....ln the House, the dead-lock continued during the entire day and night, with a prospect that it would not be removed before Monday, when the Civil-Rights bill, the hope of contention, could be reached and disposed of by a majority vote. The Missouri Louisiana resolutions were presented on the 29th. ‘ An adverse report was made on the bill for the relief of settlers on the public lands in certain sections of lowa, Minnesota, Kansas and Nebraska. The debate on the Louisiana resolutions was continued by Messrs. Conkling and Gordon. Mr. Bchurz moved to amend the preamble of his resolutions by incorporating words to the effect that military interference with the organization of a Legislature is repugnant to the principles of constitutional government, and that such interference in Louisiana was without warrant of law. Adjourned to the Ist... .The dead-lock in the House was broken at 10:25 a. m. by a vote to adjourn, after a continuous session of fortysix hours and twenty-five minutes. The adjournment was carried by ayes 75, noes 60. The Senate was not in session on the 30th.... In the House, no business was done, the minority insisting that the journal of the preceding session should jae read in order to consume the time and prevent notice of a resolution to change the rules. Up to the hour of adjournment eighteen of the seventyseven roll-calls had been read.

The joint resolution of the Indiana Legislature favoring the payment of pensions to survivors of the Mexican war was presented and referred, together with a communication from the Commissioner of Pensions stating that the number of such survivors is 85,604; number of widows about 12,000. The House bill to amend the National Bank act was amended and passed. The Louisiana resolutions were further debated by Messrs. West and Merrill. Adjourned....ln the House, resolutions to change the rules so that the Speaker need not entertain dilatory motions during the pendency of a question were referred to the Committee »n Rules. A motion was twice made and defeated to suspend the rules and allow the committee to report. A motion prevailed—l7o to 49—to suspend the rules and pass the Grasshopper Relief bill. A recess was taken until Tuesday, the 2d, at ten a. m., thus continuing Monday’s session. James Brooks, of Arkansas, presented a memorial in the Senate on the 2d, claiming to be the lawful Governor of that State, and insisting that the present Government was an usurpation. A bill was introduced for a pontoon bridge across the Mississippi River at Dubuque. Executive session and adjournment.,.. In the House, a motion prevailed to suspend the rules and allow the committee to report a new rule forbidding dilatory motions in certain cases. Such rule was reported and agreed to—l7l to 87. Messrs. Randall and Cox resigned their membership on the committee, which resignations were accepted. A bill was passed appropriating $9,000 to pay tbe expenses of the Louisiana Committee. A mo tian was made to take up tbe Senate Civil-

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

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1875.

Rights bill, pending which the House adjourned.

THE MARKETS.

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A French Madman Captured.

A French maniac is doubtless the maddest of all madmen, and the French method of capturing him may be classed among national novelties. It comes to us fresh and interesting as the announcement of the latest fashions. In a small town in France there was a French madman. He shut himself up in a lonely house and fired at the passersby. After several people had been wounded in this manner the police were informed of the case. A Brigadier and two gendarmes were dispatched to capture the madman. They found him guarding his door with a double-barrel gun. They appealed to his reason to surrender, as they were three against one, but he could not see cause and threatened to kill the officers if they approached. They approached, the madman fired, killing the Brigadier and blinding one of his men. The other man, supposing there were no more shots in the locker, sprang forward and received a pistol-bullet in his heart. This ended that squad of police. The telegraph brought all the magistrates of the neighborhood, the Captain of gendarmes and a large force of policemen to the scene. It was intensely dramatic. The force besieged the lonely house, and the siege lasted all day. Shut up in his house the madman dared any of the outsiders to approach. They kept at a respectful distance, and finally retired under cover of the night. The next day the siege was renewed. The madman fired a shot now and then to remind the force that his flag was still there. It was very uncertain how many arms and how much ammunition he had. Another Brigadier had been killed and several gendarmes severely wounded. The magistrates got out of patience, and they ordered the house to be fired. This was done. Now the scene was ravishingly dramatic. The madman refused to yield or come out of his fortress, and he died fighting the flames and defying the besieging army. But the madman was captured, and the last act was horribly dramatic.— St. Louit Republican.

—A New Compound Verb—Sudden apparitioff—“ I’apa, dear, yon know that mamma said that if we had butter with our toast we weren’t to have anything else! Well, George has not only buttered his toast, hut he’s actually been and Liebig’s-extract-of-beefed it as well!” The young aspirant for journalistic honors who came into our office four days ago abd wanted to learn to be a reporter has proved himself an indefatigable wofker. We sent him out after an item, and he’s been out after it ever since.— New York Commercial Advertiser. A Philadelphia man says that when his wife gets up in the morning with a jerk and, neglecting to do up her hair, goes silently about her work she is materializing her domestic row, which before night will sh&ke tbe house to its foundatiops. *-

Senator Conkling in Defense es the Administration.

Washington Associated Press dispatches of the 29th and 30tli «tt.#re the following report of Senator Conkling’s speech in the Senate on the Louisiana question: Mr. Conkling began by saying that the drama which entertains the Senate must have its ran, and that a time had now come when silence only serves to prolong the wrangle. The Presidential contest for 1876 has been opened in the Senate. The way in which my amendment was received by the Senator from Ohio (Thurman) told us instantly that we were to be charged all along the line. Every Administration supporter was ready to vote for the resolution if made courteous. The course of the President was prejudged. The Opposition had almost the entire newspaper press of the land with them. After it haa become notorious that our action would be anticipated if we longer delayed, the resolution was passed The plain, manly message came, ana now lies upon onr table. Then discussion should have ended, but it did not. The Senator from Missouri came forward with his resolution, and so the machine for grinding out political capital runs on. Senator Thurman occupied the attention of the Senate for hours yesterday, and others are doubtless waiting to take his place to-morrow. He is the recognized leader of the Democratic party, but he did not tell us what to do with the great Louisiana question. It was for the Senator from Ohio (Thurman), to whom the nation looked more than to any other man, to originate the policy of his party. The honorable Senator (Thurman), when commenting upon Southern outrages, said, in effect, if such was the condition of society in the South, it was time that the party which had been in power through the war and since the war should give way and let another party come in. There was the clew which uaraveftd this web. That had been the gospel of the Democrats since the beginning: malm reconstruction a failure; make it a iqkcarriage; keep up an agitation; disturb, ferment and revolutionize, and the time will come whep the country, wearied and worn with commotion, will accept anything for a change. The *>le policy of the Democracy seems to be to oppose % measure which originates with Republicans. The honorable Senator from Ohio, in his argument, went back to the election of 1872, and made that period a background for the events of three weeks ago. Who made the election in 1872 a fraud? It was Warmath, the leader of the Opposition in Louisiana, the champion of the Democracy, who was to carry the State for Greeley, and thus help to make him President. The election of 1872 in Louisiana was an organized fraud. The testimony before the Senate Committee showed that Wannoth’s control of the election machinery then was equal to 20,000 votes. In every formJn which.this question had been tried the decision had been against MpEnery. The cagirts, both houses of Congress and the have decided against McEnery. for the doings in New 4th of January touches the States. The first mformat4dlHHMB d in re g ard to t lii'in was information given to all citizeniyMMßpK’ape newspapers of the folio wintrday were his Erst informers. If there were who knew that a on the 4tboof J anuaryjlhe of the United States was nofafee of tpE** Mr. Conkling next referred to the reasons which induced the PresElent to send Gen. Sheridan to New Orleajgfcnd said before this letter of the lieshJent^^«ig^Gen. SherideaL*^^^^hTn!!^eoLieern theeapßn, but they concerned the lives, property of those who had never been faHesto their country’s flag, and, under that flagFwere hunted as if the? were wild beasts. These entreaties the Chief Magistrate to his IWMrOne of these entreaties had reached him bill-three days before. It came from one who, for twenty years, had been a resident of Shreveport; a judicial officer, not appointed by the President but •’appointed bythe court. He said troops were stationed in Louisiana, and their presence there was lawful, because the slender remnant of onr army must be stationed somewhere. It must be stationed in some State, and.no matter where found, its right to be there was unquestioned, and its withdrawal from New Orleans would have been possible only with a Chief Magistrate in open connivance with murderers and traitors. What would Gen. Washington have said about ordering troops away from New Orleans, where the air was murky and heavy with violence, and stationing them somewhere where all was peace ? This question was presented to Washington when four counties in the western part of Pennsylvania resisted the whisky tax. An Inspector and Surveyor were resisted, and Washington ordered out and put on foot 15,000 men, and went to command them himself. The revolt was abandoned, but armed men trod the soil of Pennsylvania to preserve peace and prevent any further outbreak.

The Senator then referred to the seizure of arms in New Orleans in September last by the White League, and said they had never been given up, although the President, by his proclamation, called upon the insurgents to lay down their arms ana repair peaceably to their homes. Yet, after more than three months had elapsed, they stood defying the Federal Government. The arms not returned consisted of two mountain howitzers, 624 Springfield breech-loading rifles, 301 Winchester rifles, 664 Enfield rifles, ninetythree Spencer carbines, and 1,594 bayonets. These arms were carried by these men today, and they were in rebellion against the S reclamation commanding them to lay them own. The Chief Magistrate required no defense for allowing soldiers of the Union to remain in the State of Louisiana after the 14th of September, when they had been summoned there to arrest a business so bloody. Fortv-eight hours before the message of the President was sent to the Senate the honorable Senator from Missouri (Schurz), declaring he intended to speak with calmness and impartiality, told the country he was then In possession of all the information necessary to form his judgment, and proceeded to arraign the President as the doer of the deeds in Louisiana

on the 4th of January. 0 Mr. Conkling here read from the remarks of Mr. Schurz in reference to the President, and said that was the language ot the Senator from Missouri, who, standing as it were upon the ashes of human ambition, assumed to weigh in his hand the motives and acts of one charged with the administration of laws. The meanest culprit is entitled to be heard in his own defense, and there was an assumption of his innocence until he was proven guilty; but for an American President in an American Senate there was neither hearing nor assumption. Such is passion; such is the hot breath of party feeling! Gen. Sheridan war equally undeserving of praise or blame for the doings in New Orleans on the 4th of January, as he was not in command when tbe Legislature met Mr. Conkling here sent to the Clerk’s desk and had read Sheridan’s dispatch to the Secretary of War, saying “ I see my way clear if you will only have confidence.” Commenting upon this dispatch, he said Gen. Sheridan, in a seething caldron of corruption, feared that rumors might cause his superiors here to feel a distrust in him, and sent this dispatch to the Secretary. It was then the Secretary replied in haste, “ All of us approve your course.” Later in the day he sent him another dispatch to the effect that the President and Cabinet were firm in the belief that all acts of his in New Orleans had been and would be judicious. Referring to the banditti dispatch, Mr. Conkling said Sheridan did suggest impossible and violent modes of procedure. If Sheridan called the murderers banditti what code bad he offended ? He applied the term to*the notorious malefactors, those who robbed and plundered, and suph as he bag offended ob-

jected to it The right of Sheridan haa been challenged in this chamber to breathe the free air of the Republic, but should the day come when a degenerate apostate would judge him unfit to breathe the free air of this Republic then we had bettor burn the memorials of our forefathers, dance on the tomb at Mount Vernon, and fling down the obelisk on Bunker HilL Sheridan’s sword was not the stained sword of an assassin. The blood upon it was of those who tried to destroy the fairest fabric of free government that the world has ever seen. It was the sword of a soldier who had been fighting that free government might not perish from the earth. He (Conkling) would gladly, in this chamber, let bygones be bygones, but when the most illustrious soldier wss denounced, the retrospect was forced upon him. Sweeping denunciations and disparagement of the national authorities will not pacify the South. They will not carry the next Presidential election. When Gov. Kellogg is impeached or indicted, when Gen. Emory or Gen. de Trobriand is prosecuted by court-martial or otherwise, then grave questions may arise. The Senator from Ohio (Thurman) cried out yesterday, What excuse has Emory? He (Conkling) did not know. He did not appear for Emory. He did not appear to vindicate t'»e President of the United States. He needed no vindication. He was a stranger to the whole proceedings. He did not appear to champion the Republican party. The Republican party was in no sense privy to the record of the transactions in New Orleans.

The Senator said much had been done in Louisiana, on both sides, which he could not approve. He did not appear for Gov. Kellogg, but he spoke for common sense, for common right. If there was a defect in Kellogg’s title To the office of Governor, that had nothing to do with this case. He argued that the laws of Louisiana required the Clerk of the former House to call the roll of the succeeding one, and that was made for the veiy purpose of avoiding such a stratagem ana conspiracy as was witnessed in the Legislature on the 4th of January. Mr. Conkling then argued that H was the encouragement which the Democrats of the South received from those of the North that caused them to commit outrages. Tflfe Senator from Ohio had spoken of the butcheries in the South as hoipicides not warranted by law. It was no way to deter strong-headed Tmen from violence by tellings them that they were right in complaining of all their grievances. If the Democrats wanted to deter viothe South, they could not do it by denouncing the laws of Congress. It had been contended that the Governor of Louisiana had no right to interfere in the organization of the Legislature. No one said a Governor could organize a Legislature. The Governor of a State had nothing to do with consecrating a Bishop or dedicating a church, bat if a tumult should arise at such consecration or dedication the civil magistrate had as much right to suppress it as if it had broken out at a race-course, in a play-house, or a skating rink. The civil authorities in Switzerland had nothing to do with baptizing chil-dren,-but the other day, when such baptizing in Geneva was attended by disturbance, not only the civil authorities but the military laid strong hands upon the offenders.

He next referred to the recent disturbance in the Penitentiary at Lincoln, Neb., and the call of the Governor for Federal troops from Omaha, which were immediately sent. Mr. Thurman asked where was the law for furnishing-troops for disturbance in the Penitentiary. Mr. that humanity went so far toa^Wmin»N onv i c t' B ' n the Penitentiary of Nebraska not without somebody to speak for Jthem. Why was it that of all those who had supported the temple of liberty none bad brought forward a resolutionin regirei to the use of troops at Lincoln? There had cot even been a spasm of virtue here in regard to it. The Senator continued: In the preseqpe of all the turbulence, disorder and din which ruled the hour in the Louisiana Legislature or Jan. 4, Senators said that everything was peaceful, that the Governor and all others should have remained silent spectators. The Republican party, the President of the United States, and much of the residue of mankind had been threatened with destruction because those whom Gov. Kellogg summoned, and who responded, were soldiers —soldiers of the United States—hirelings they were called by the honorable Senator from Maryland (Hamilton). He said they were hirelings, and withered them by saying they received only *8 a month. Hireling! But for such hirelings there might not now be a Senate chamber to reverberate with the eloquence of the honorable Senator from Maryland; but for these hirelings we might not now be permitted to breathe the air of the Republic; but for tbese hirelings it is certain we would not be permitted to breathe the air of a free Republic. This remnant of our army must remain somewhere, but if found south of Mason & Dixon’s line somebody’s nobility was offended. The soldiers of the nation found in that

section were buried under the anathemas of the Democratic party, branded with the epithets of carpet-bagger, scalawag, white nigger and the like. Their lot was a hard one. One political party never called soldiers hirelings until they were summoned to trample down a rebellion which lifted its bloody hands to stab the Republic to the heart. It was not always so. Tne Democratic party was once the soldiers’ party and war party. It applauded soldiers in a former war, and sighed for new wars for Cuba and for conquest; but this was In what was once free America. He borrowed the words from the honorable Senator from Ohio (Thurman). This was once when slavery needed room to expand In 1814, when Andrew Jackson set a military guard over both houses of the Louisiana Legislature, and imprisoned a Judge, the Democratic party glorified him and made him President of the United States. When the Democratic Executive and Democratic Secretary of War dispersed and humiliated both houses of a State Legislature, Congress and the country rang with Democratic plaudits. That was one page in one of the most revolting chapters in the history of human tyranny and wrong. Those who occupied seats around him-re-membered the occasion. When violence, intrusion and outrage, carrying the banner of human slavery, stalked with high head in Kansas, trampling- the laws and right under foot, did the Democratic party apologize for it? Did the predecessors of these Senators apologize for it? No, they only sought to laugh it out of court; they only sought to smoke it under with ridicule. “Bleeding Kansas!” He remembered how that cant term flew at the mast-head of the Democratic papers. There was no apology. Oh, no! Border ruffianism in Kansas was denied in this chamber just as Southern outrages are now. The honorable Senator from Ohio (Thurman), astute as he is, would not make an apology for these outrages.

Mr. Conkling here read from the report of the committee which investigated the Kansas troubles, and said when Gen. Sumner, commanding the men whose bayonets flashed in the sun, entered the legislative ball of that State, he declared that the dnty was the most painful of his life; and by force he compelled the retirement of the Legislature. Again, at the municipal election at Waehingington, in 1856, under a Democratic administration, United States marines fired upon a crowd, killing five men and wounding seventeen; yet there was not even an investigation by tbe Democrats in Congress. Again, in 1861, Gen. George B. McClellan, through Gen. Banks, arrested as many members of the Maryland Legislature as be could, Maryland not being in secession at the time, yet a Democratic party at the* first opportunity afterward strove to make McClellan President on a peace platform, a platform devised by a convention which brought out the whole constitutional army, which pelted Lincoln with all their arrows and heaped upon him all tbe denunciation of their brilliant vocabulary. The Democratic party always was the keeper of the Constitution, and during the war it was in charge of tbe Democracy North and South. The Northern wing and the Southern wing vied with each other in their zeal to guard and protect that sacred instrument.

NUMBER 21.

He next referred to the arrest of Burns in 1851, in Boston, and said he was arrested for the crime at being a black man. The army and navy under a Democratic President gathered about the spot, and Federal bayonets were thick. Joha-Brown -was tried in a court in a sovereign Stale, and the gibbet upon which he died quaked with the tramp or Federal regiments and the rumble of Federal artillery. Yes, soldiers are hirelings. Senators are hirelings. A great body of the American people are hirelings, but no man forfeits his citizenship or his rights In this country by being a hireling. Soldiers are citizens. Their uniform does not deprive them of this attribute, nor does it relieve them of the duties of citizens. Mr. Conkling argued that soldiers could be called upon as a posse comitatus in quelling a disturbance the same as citizens, and in support of his argument sent to the Clerk’s desk and had read from the Law of Riots, compiled by Wise, a British Baronet Besoming, he said the loud outcry might scare 40,000,000 of people, and make them fear that their liberties were in danger; that they were in peril of being trampled down by an army of 25,000 men scattered by corporals’ guards all over the continent. It may be that the three men in blue pantaloons who, in New Orleans the other day, accosted wrongdoers and trespassers and made them change their seats from one place to another in the same room should have been three other men dressed in other pantaloons. Stoughton, a patriot and jurist, says it would have been more regular had Gov. Kellogg first called upon the soldiers of Louisiana, and, had they been inadequate to the task of quelling the disturbance, then upon the soldiers of the JJnited States. It may be so. If disturbance existed, Kellogg might easily have been misled by the fact that the Democrats or Conservatives first declared that the military power of the United States might be invoked, appointed a committee to wait on the military, received that military with approbation, and returned to it the thafiks of the State of Louisiana. Wiltz and his Conservatives, it seemed, still wanted the interference of the military, as Wiltz had addressed the President of the United States some very respectful interrogations and urgently requested—demanded—that the troops of the United States should be ordered to restore the House to the position it occupied before the interference. This Conservative Speaker, this incarnation of the law-abiding spirit of the Democratic party, now, after the great lights of the party had spoken here, after a long radiance of their views had reached all the wav to the Gulf, addressed the President of the United States, asking him to march the soldiers of the United States into the halls of the Legislature of Louisiana and reseat him in the chair.

Mr. Conkling read from the memorial of Wiltz. find, resuming his argument, said he ( Conkling) was only looking to see if it was really true, as charged here, that never since the separation of the Colonies from Great Britain had there been such danger to the country. Was it true that the pillars of the temple of the Republic were about to ci amble ? That civil liberty was about to fadr, and that the Republic was about to “fold its tents like the Arab, an* as silently steal away?” He was done with one scene Just enacted in the sad history of Louisiana, and now turned to another. What was the excuse for the disturbance there? What the apology for the commotion in her borders? The flea was heard from the Senator from Ohio, t was that, Kellogg was not in truth elected but was falsely counted in. Suppose he was? Did that justify the nameless horrors which have stained toe annals of toe State ? Other States have known deeper wrongs than Louisiana’s. New York had known deeper wrong. It was an open secret now that in 1868 John T. Hoffman was counted into toe office of Governor when toe people had elected John A. Griswold. The count was falsified more than 30,000 in two counties. John T. Hoffman was falsely counted ih. Who did it? The managers of toe Democratic party, and they seated in toe Legislature year after year men whom the people voted down at the ballotbox. The same regime made courts and made them corrupt They issued fraudulent naturalization papers by tens of thousands. They appointed Returning Boards and made them corrupt. They appointed inspectors of election who polluted and debauched the ballotbox. They so divided toe chief city of the State as to bisect blocks and houses so that men domiciled in the same house could vote and repeat in different election districts. They held a State of 5,000,000 of people by the throat four years. By such astounding means a political party dominated that great State, usurped power and plundered her Treasury by the most colossal robberies of modem times. What did toe RepuDlicans do ? They did not resort to ruthless violence. They did not resort to the blade, the bullet and toe torch. They did not butcher men, women and children. They did not seize toe chief city of toe State, barricade its streets, shoot down its police. No, they persevered in peaceful efforts. They asked Congress to break the hold of organized fraud on the ballot-box, that the citizens of New York might vote. How was the prayer received in this chamber by toe Democrats ? The people of New York were blasted with all toe constitutional anathemas of toe Democracy. Those who remained in this chamber mute, while they were pelted with storms of denunciation, have not forgotten history, nor the cost of this legislation, but toe law was passed, and for toe first time in years there was an election In New York approaching fairness. A leading Democratic paper called upon toe populace to arm ana pitch the oflacers of election into the river, but rioters have a wholesome dread of toe claw and beak of toe Federal power. They did not arm themselves. How different was the course of toe men in Louisiana who complained of fraud and dishonest elections! Thirty-five hundred murders and woundings in eight years, says Sheridan, for political purposes. Search toe annals of Search toe tearful story of man’s inhumanity to man, and where in modem times can you find a picture of such Goddaring and man-hating monstrosity?

Finally, in September, under a formal proclamation of Penn, the Government of the State was seized by open revolution, and her citizens shot down. Was it any wonder her securities had lessened in value? Show him a mode of pacifying the Bouth, and no matter what party opposed it his vote it should have. No party could live to stand in the way of the pacification of the South. Bluster and revolution will not pacify the Southern people. Bloodshed will- not make friends. If he had the power to make his voice heard and believed in every Southern hamlet, in the sincerity of his heart he would say: Build, mend, heal, sow, plant—in short, go to work. Let a fair day’s wages be paid for a fair day’s work. Dwell together in fraternity, and all will be well.

The honorable Senator (Thurman) said the record was a National Police Gazette, and he did not like it He (Conkling) would tell that Senator how to stop it Dismount the masked riders; disband the White Leagues; discontinue the bloody assizes of the Democratic party, and then the record will cease to be a National Police Gazette. When the fate of the nation trembled in the uncertain balance of war, the colored people struck no blow against it They prayed for the Union, ana the American people said they should be free. They imbedded their will within the bulwarks of the Constitution. The nation forgave its enemies, but at the same time conferred the right of the ballot and selfgovernment upon those who had been oppressed for centuries. They were made citizens. There stand the amendments to the Constitution. Civilization is for them. The nation is for them. God is for them, and political parties mid revolutionists shall not prevail against then*. Social equality is no part of them, but hate and pride rebel against them. This is tbe moral rebellion of to-day. Drop it in good faith, manlike, snd tbe South will be tranquil in a year. Who doubts it? His friend before him (alluding to Howe) says -in sixty days. He (Conkling) guessed so. This was

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the issue in the South. He feared for awhile it would remain the issugfbut those most concerned could untie the Bfct. Those who have their confidence cp«lmgMHA| them to discontinue their outrageS-EMMc wlßld not woukhoof be brought about wNPse than apologies for wrong. It would come, sooner or later, in an honest, manly acqui-. escence in the system under which we live — the best system of human government mankind has yet known, although, like everything human, it sometimes falls short of working out full, exact, even justice.

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A Fairfield (Me.) youth announces that he will give a ctaromo to the young lady who will take him “ for better or for worse.” No special rates for clubs, however. A Philadelphia doctor pronounced it an “ electric fit;” the Coroner’s jury rendered a verdict accordingly, and the poor man went to his grave with that terrible stain on his character. An elephant is 1,227,886 times larger than a flea, but yet there are women who growl at paying two shillings to visit a menagerie and will turn a feather bed over for half a day to hunt a flea. Pbof. Morse says that there are probably not over 100 moose in Maine, where not long ago they were annually killed by the thousand. He thinks the species will become suddenly extinct, the conditions growing more and more unfavorable for its continuance. You may go on inventing washing-ma-chines for the next fifty years, but to the average eye you can’t patent anything equal to the sight of a lady’s diamond rings flashing in and out of the sparkling suds as she humps a wet towed up and down the wash-board. — Detroit Free Pros. At.t. accounts agree in describing the weather oa the North Atlantic this sear son as almost unexampled in slverity, the prevailing winds being from the northwest, which reach to the height of the hardest gale and blow with tremendous fury, day after day, with scarcely any cessation. Jones and his beautiful bride are on their way East, and the Nevada editors are all wishing that “No cloud may ever lower upon the path of the -happy couple.” We take pleasure in adding that any cloud associated with Jones will be very likely to have a silver lining. —Brooklyn Arons. Pbetty Ballie Adams, of Portland Me., brought the man she loved to the popping point by saying to him, while gleams of love-light shot from her half-shut eyes, “ I have had two offers of marriage. The first did not please me, and as for the second I—l have a superstitious regard for odd numbers.” If a man finds himself “stuck” on a one, a five, or even a ten dollar bill be stoically resolves to “ grin and bear it,” as it won’t “ break” him, anyhow, but a counterfeit SSOO greenback is a disagreeable thing to find in One’s small change. A. very well executed counterfeit of that denomination has lately been discovered in circulation in Maine. Probably the largest elm ever cut in the State was recently cut on his farm by Mr. Harrison Farrar, of Paris, Me., and hauled to the Paris Hill Manufacturing Company. It scaled 2,850 feet, and 290 rings were counted from the outside to within three inches of the center, where they became too indistinct to be counted. It was probably 300 years old. A little six-year-old girl in Monroe went into a store where her father was the .other day, and. slyly approaching him, said: “ Papa, won’t you buy me a new dress?” “ What, buy you a new dress, Susy?” “Yes, papa, won’t you?” “ Well, I’ll see; I’ll speak to your mother about it.” Elongation to an alarming extent rapidly spread over that little countenance, but a thought suddenly struck her, and with a smile she looked up into her father’s face and said: “ Well, papa, if you do speak - to mamma about it, do it easy, or she may want the new dress herself!” The father at once saw the point, and the new dress was purchased. —Littleton {Mass.) Republic. Jennie June’s notion of a sleigh-ride isn’t bad: “ Young ladies snugly wrapped up in white buffalo robes, their bright faces peeping out from abundaot wrappings, have been taken through the park to High Bridge by devoted cavaliers, and there regaled with the customary hot lemonade and mince pie, while laughter and sleigh-bell, all through the night, waking one not unp’easantly, though at unseemly hours, out of a quiet sleep, tell of impromptu parties a long ride shortened with jest and fun, wi h an oyster supper at one end of it, and a stolen kiss or tender band-pressu* e at the other. There are hours that never do return ; a few of them have to suffice for a lifetime.”

If we cannot bury our dead in the ground for fear of unwholesome gases generated from them, nor yet burn them and let the odor be wafted into ihe air, what shall we do with them? A London medical journal now tells thia story about cremation: “The remarkable statement has been recently made that the immense number of corpses burned by the Hindoos, who are compelled by the worship of Brahma to burn their dead, is the real cause of Asiatic cholera. The poisonous gases generated in this way hover in the air during the day, but at night sink into the lower atmosphere, mixing with the water and the various kinds of food, and permeating the lungs in the process of respiration. In HindoBtan the Asiatic cholera is endemic, yet, subject to certain influences in the atmosphere, it becomes epidemic, and then causes ruin and destruction in the remotest countries.”