Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1875 — Page 1

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THE NEWS.

The new Revenue bill reported to Congress on the 10th fixes the tax on distilled liquors at one dollar a gallon, and the tax on imported and domestic gin, brandy, ram, etc., at $250 per gallon. Ex Senator Thayer, of Nebraska, has been nominated Governor of Wyoming Territory. The uncertainty in respect to Arkansas affairs at Washington has caused a depresstftg effect upon business at Little Kock. There was considerable excitement therein the TOth, the disturbing causes being the report of the Arkansas Investigating Committee and the subsequent message ot the President. At the recent session of the National Grange >t Charleston, 8. C., thirty-four States and three Territories were represented. Twenty-three German Catholic Bifoops have protested in behalf of the entire Episcopate against the interference in the Papal election, indicated in Bismarck’! recent confidential circular. Civil wrfr is said to be imminent in China.

The colored Methodist Episcopal Bishops have appointed Monday, March 1, as a day of fasting and prayer. They have also issued an address to the American people pleading for their race the enjoyment of every civil and political right. *„ : ~ • The proposition of the Conservatives for a compromise of the Louisiana difficulties haa been rejected by the Congressional Committee. The proposal was to the effect that the election '0f7872 should not be included in the adjustment; tire election of the Treasurer and members of the Legislature !h 1674 to be submittedy and the House organized. on the basis ©f the-committee’s award; the Kel-. 1 ogg Government not to be disturbed so long ap it is sustained by the Presidept, and the Senators returned by the arbitration to be seated.

C. W. Jones (Dem ) has been elected United States Senator by the Florida Legislature. Mr. Jones was supported by the Democrats and Independent Republicans. Anaerdenhas been- issued by the Spanish Cabinet to .raise, by 000 mqp for the army: Of these, 13,000 are to be sent to Cuba. It is now said that the Empress oi China did not commit suicide, as previously reported. The Commissidnet of the General Land office has declined to allow the Union Pacific Railroad Company to exchange agricultural for mineral lands. ' ? The President has orderedan enumeration of the* grasshopper sufferers, with a view of carrying out the provisions of the act of Feb. 10,1875, for their relief. Th| _ Executive Committee of* the National Grange has been increased by the of New Hampshire, &nd J. T. Jones, of Arkansas. It now consists of five members. A reperVof the committee on the address of Master Adanis, indorsing his recommendattott that Subordinate Granges be fostered by the National Grange and that manufactures in the South be encouraged, was adopted by the National range on the 12th. A Little Rock (Ark.) Grand Jury reon the 12th that they were not able, after-diligent questioning, to find a single instance in which any man had been deprived of his right to vote or any other right, but, on the contrary; unusual quiet prevailed. Mr. Hooper, Member of Congress from Fourth Massachusetts District, died at Washington on the 13th, of pneumonia. Tite Massachusetts Supreme Court have the exceptions in the case of Jesse H. Pomeroy, the boy-mur-derer, and ordered judgment on the verdict Tgygyy 'W - VV. a• t • A ;»ew freight tariff has been adopted by the Eastern Railway companies, and following is the tariff agreed upon from Chicago: To Philadelphia and BSgjWufffd—First-class, $1.35; second, $1.00; third, 75 cents; fourth, 85 cents; grain, 35 cents; flour, 70 cents ; bulk meats, 40 cents. New York —First-class, $1.49; second, $1.10; third, 85 cents; fourth, 40'cents; grain, 40 cents; flour, 80 cents; bulk- meats, 45 cents.' The Western lines have adopted the following tariff on freight east of Chicago, consigned to points west of the Mississippi River: From St. Louis, Louisiana, Hannibal,.Quincy, Burlington and Davenport to Kansas City, Omaha, Council Bluffs and other pointe on the Missouri River— First-olass, 72 cents; second, 49; third 38; fourth; 20;' special, 24; class A, SSO; class B; $45. ' . .. The National. Grange has adopted resolutions in favor of the Centennial Exposition’mid the Texas Pacific Railroad; the improvement of the mouth of the Mississippi and the repeal of all laws taxing tobacco. • The Legislature of West Virginia have resolved to remove the capital of the State to Wheeling. *' A Ministerial crisis prevails in France in consenfuence of the opposition of the Assembly to sotne of the pet constitutional measures desired by the Government, and President MacMahon finds some difficulty in inducing any one of the prominent statesmen to undertake the formfctianof > new. -Cabinet until these questions be fully determined. ■ A Singapore telegram of a recent date reports that a serious revolt had broken out among the Chinese prisoners copfined there, which was not quelled until sixty-seven persons had been shot.’

THE JASPER REPUBLICAN.

VOLUME I.

Great Britain has recognized King Alphonso. - z * * The Archbishop of Dublin, in a recent pastoral fetter, condemns the mission of the Chicago revivatwtar-Moody and Sankey, in England, who, hesayu, salvation by foolish sensationalism, without requiring repentance.” The recent general order of the Secretary of War in relation to furnishing aid to the grasshopper sufferers is to be carried out with the utmost dispatch. The Pacific Mail Directors have approved the order of. Manager Hatch |nstituting suits against the parties Who received Subsidy money. ' A bill has lately passed the Kansas legislature to loan $95,000 for six years to destitute counties, without interest. M. L. Dunlap, the agricultural and writer, died at Champaign, 111., recently, agedrsixty years' *> l | The British steamer George Balters recently foundered at sea and all on board* ’Were lost. John Mitchel has been returned to the British Parliament from Tipperary, Ireland, and Dr. Kenealy, the counsel for the Tichborne claimant, from Stoke-on-Trent.

At the Connecticut State Democratic Convention, held at Hartford on the 16th; the present State officers were unanimously renominated. The resolutions favor hard tttoeyt e ft(er|l Executive interference in the States of Louisiana and Arkansas and the increase of Federal taxation'at a time when the industry of the country is so greatly depressed. The house of D. B- Mellott, of McConnellsburg, Pa., was burned en the 16. h, and in it three of his children. _ ;irj The Missouri State Woman’s Suffrage Association held - a largely-attended meeting in St Louis bn the evening of the 16th. | The National Grange adjourned on the 16th, after instructing the Executive Committee to arrange for holding the next session at Chicago. Among other resolutions, adopted was one indorsing and recommending the construction by the National Government of a system of wafer-ways so that unrestricted channels of trade shall be opened and not only brought the entire length of the Mississippi, but connecting that river pith the Atlantic Ocean by way of the lakes by the Ohio, Kanawha and James and by the Tennessee and -Savannah Rivers,. .

CONGRESSIONAL.

On the 10th, in the Senate, after the transaction of business relating to the District of Columbia, bills Were passed making appropriations to purchase sites and erect public buildings in Covington, Ky , St. Augustine, Fla., Topeka, Kan., and Harrisburg, Pa. The bill relating to steamboats was recommitted to the Committee on Commerce....ln the House, a bill was introduced making it a penal offense for citiz -ns of the United States to engage in the coolie trade. The Committee on Ways and Means reported a new Tariff bill, which was referred to the Committee of the Whole. The Postoffiee Appropriation bill ($87,524,361) was considered in Committee of the Whole. An evening session was held for debate.

In the Senate, on the 11th, a minority report was made against the admission of Pinchback, a Senator from Louisiana. The President was authorized by bill to appoint a Commission to attend the International Prisoftottongress at Rome next year. The bin granting the right-of-way to the Salt Lake & Walla Walla Railroad Company was rejected. The District of Columbia bill was taken up, and an amendment authorizing the election of the Commissioners provided fcr in the bill instead of their appointment by the President was rejected—2B to 28. Pending further consideration the Senate adjourned .... In the House, the Postoffice Approprlatioh bill was passed, an amendment providing for, free transmission of seeds and agricultural reports being rejected—93 to 125. An amendment canceling the Pacific Mail contract for 1872 was carried. The Tariff-bill was considered in Committee of the Whole. The House then adjournad. TL. 4 -~ 4 , In the Senate, on the 12th, ft wits 3 stilted that the Committee on Railroads had decided to report adversely on all-hills for subsidies. The District of Columbia bill was further considered, and an amendmeotproyitf ng for the election of one of the three Com-' missioners defeated-ijadjoumed.... In the-. House, the Revenue bill was further considered in Committee of the Whole, after which: several private bills were disposed of. A bill to relieve certain legal creditors Whose moneys were confiscated by the Owffetierate gress led to a debate which was not concluded at the hour of adjournment.

In the Senate, on the 13th, Mr. Eaton, of Connecticut, was eworn in as the successor of Senator Buckingham. A memorial was presented from the Pacific Mail Company protesting against the withdrawal of the subsidy heretofore granted them. A resolution was adopted instructing the Judiciary Committee to inquire if the United States be liable on the contract entered into under the act of 1872 for increased mail service to China. . The. bill for the government of the District of Columbia was considered in Committee of the' Whole and reported back to Hie Senate. J Pending its consideration the Senate adjourned ... .In the House, the bills for the relief of certain loyal creditors and to pay for supplies taken during the Morgan raid were defeated. The Pension and Military Academy Appropriation bills were passed. The bin' to equalize bounties also passed—l 77 to ttm rf'hta Semi"; and May 9,1865, all bounties given by any State or the United States being deducted. Substitutes and such as were prisoners of war at the time of eplistment and all yyhp were^ls-; charged as minors or at their own request for other causes thaudis ability are excluded. If the soldier is dead the money H to be" to his widaw if she be not remarried, .art-obis, minor children. - ' * In the Senate, on the 15th, in the absence of the Vice-Presidon ty Mr. Anthony, of Rhode' Island, wds cnoSeh ' Vice'-Presidefit prb tern. 4

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

■ RENWAE6, WiANA, TRIDAY; FEBRUARY 19, 1875.

TM report of foe Conference Committee on the National Bank biU waa agreed to. The House CSvh-Kighta bill was reported without amendment A bill was introduced to secure depositors tn the Freedmen’s Bank from ultiproviding for the admission of Ptncitback as Senator from Louisiana, upon which Mr. Morton addressed the Senate at length. A House message announced the death of Representative Hooper, of Massachusetts, and the Senate, after adopting a resolution to attend the funeral on the 16th, adjourned out erf respect to his memory... .In the House, a bill was introduced to amend the charter of the Freedmen’s Bureau and continue the same. The Texas Indemnity Bond bHI was passed and the Senate bill to allow Thomas W. Fitch to accept the wedding prasfint to Jus—wife from -tbe Khedive of Egypt Announcement was made of the death of Representative Hoopet>ef■xswsas the House adjourned. In the Senate, on the Ifitfa, after the conclusion of Mr. Sargent’s speech on the Pinch, back resolutions, a report was made from the Committee on Judiciary concerning the meaning and purport of the so-called “ Press-gag law,” which the committee believed conferred no power to bring a person charged with libel into the District- or ifend him ant of ik The Senate adjourned to attend the funeral of Mr. Hooper....ln the House, the Post-route biH was pas»qd andtte Sundry Civil and River and Harbor Appropriation bills reported from committees. A bill was introduced to return one-half of the Japan indemnity and dispose of the remainder. The Committee on Elections reported a proposed amendment to the Constitution in relation to the election of President and Vice President similar to Mr. Morton’s proposition. The funeral services of the late Mr. Hooper occurred in tire afternoon,- after-whieh theHouse adjourned.

THE MARKETS.

HEW YORK. Cotton. —Middling upland, 16®15%c. Livx Stook. I—Beef 1 —Beef Cattle—sW.oo®l2.so. Hoge -Dretoed. $8.26@8.<5; Live, [email protected]).. Sheep—Live, $6.5006.75. Brbadbtuits.—Flour—Good to choice, $4.80® 5 Jfi; White wheat extra, $6.25©5.W>- Wheat—No. 2 No. fi Northwestern, $1.06 ©1.08; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, [email protected]. Rye—Western and State, 92@96c. Barley [email protected]. Corii—Mixed Western, 80@81c. Oats—Western, 66®68 l Ac, Provisiqms.—Pork—New Mess, [email protected]—Prime Steam, 14@14%c. Cheese—l2® 16V. Wool.—Common to extra, 52265 c. CHICAGO.

Livk Stock.—Beeves—Choice, $5.6006.00; good, $5.250560; medium, $4.2504.75; hutahew’ stock, 53.00tg4.-S5; stock cattle, $2.7504.10. Hogs-Live, [email protected]; dressed, $7.1008.00. Sheep—Good to choice, $5.0005.75. . /■' Provisions. —Butter —Choice, 30086 c. Kggs Fresh, 26027 c. Cheese—New York Factory, 17@17%c; Western Factory, PorkNew Mess, $lB 25018.« O. Lard—slfctt)@l3.ss. Bbbadstuvfs. —Flour —White Winter Extra, spring extra, $3.7504.50. WheatSpring, No. 2,83%@88%c. Com—Lo. 2, 61% @62%c. Oats—No. 2, 51%@52c. Rye-No. 2, 97097%c. Barley—No. 2, [email protected]& Wool Tub-washed, 45@58c.; fleece, washed, 40050 c.; fleece, unwashed, 27@37c. LUMBBR.-Firet clear, $52.00055.00; second clear, $46.00050.00; Common Boards, sll.oo@ 12.00; Fenclhg, $12DO013.OO; “A” Shingles, $8.0003.25: Lath, $2.0002.25. CINCINNATI, •• i ' n Bnn*i»[email protected]. WheatRed, $1.1001.14. Corn—67@6Bc. Pye—sl.o4% @1.05. Oats—s9o63c. Barley—No. % $1.85 01.40. Provisions. —Pork —$18.90019.00. Lard —13% ~ ” ST. LOUIS. Lira Stock.—Beeves—Fair to choice, $5,250 5.75. Hogs- -Live, $6.5007.25. BnaADSTurrs. —Flour —XX Fall, $4.3504.50. Wheat-No. 2 Red Fall, $1.06%@L06. Cora-No. 2,64065 c. Oats—No. 2, 56%0'7%c. Rye—No. 1, $1.0001.01. Barley—No. 2, $1.3001.35. Pbovibionb.—Pork—Mess, $18.40018.50. Lard -13%@13%c. milwaukbb . Bhxadbtuffs. —Flour—Spring XX, $5.2505.50. Wheat-Spring, No. 1, 91%@91%c; No. 2, 86 ©sß%c. . Corn—No. 2, 61%@61%e. Oats-No. 2, .Rye—No. 1,96%@97c. Barley—No. 2, $1.1601.17. DETROIT. BBBADSTtfras.—Wheat —Extra, —57.7506.00. TOLEDO. BbwadstwtVh.—Wheat-Amber Mich., $1.07% 01.08; No. 2 Red, $1.0801.07. Cora-Mixed, Bbjsadstui’Fs.—Wheat—No. 1 Red, $1.10%0 1.11; No, ' Rady. s*[email protected]. Corn-70 071 c. Oats—s9o6oc. - > r BUFFALO. ' Lira 'Ateoitf [email protected]. HogeLive, $7.0007.40. Sheep-Live. $5.2506.00. BAST LIBERTY. Lira Stock.—Beeves Best, $6.2506.75; medium, $5.2505.50. Hogs—Yorkers, $6,900 7.20; Philadelphia, $7.«[email protected]. 8h eep—Best , You want to obtain customers. In no way cau you so rapidly tell thousands as through the columns of that never-rest-ing public servant, the newspaper—read while you are awake, read while you sleep, amid winter frosts and summer heat, always in 'somebody’s hand carrying its messages of joy and sorrow, hope and fear, mingling the announcements of enterprising merchants and manufacturers with all Jjv.np,. other way Can you so cheaply keep your announcements be-' ,fore upon people’s minds the impression you would place there. The first consideration., to determine that you advertise is, that “it pays.” After a fair use of advertteingyour reason for continuing will be, ” It Pays-”— Toledo Commercial. Evans, the author of “ Beulah,” “ St. Elmo” and other similar novels has given up literary work and is living with ber hueband, an elderly gentleman by the name of Wilson, twelve miles from Mobile, Ala. She devotes her energies to farming“dho —Truth is one of the rarest gems. Many a.yoiNfrhae> been lost in society b| allowing a falsehood to tarnish his char- * acter aid fbblishly throwing it away. If this gem still shines in your bosom, suffer nothing to displace or diminish its uster

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Iris difficult timll how much* fish wiH weigfe by looking ts the scales. have been added to the other punches in Chicago saloons. -U- - •- X Tur old-time trotter Flora Temple is still alive and, perhaps, kicking. She is over thirty years old. ‘ J The salaries of bank Presidents in Boston range from four to fifteen thousand dollars per annum. a Had—-A Vermont, paper says: “Th< town pump is frozen up and the handle is busted; no insurance.” His name was Hamlet, he was sexton at Norton,<Maas., and was killed by fall-, ingintoa new-made grave. At a dinner party a lady once asked Dr. Johnson.if hedikedchildren. “Don’t 'iitew, ma’am. Never ate any,” replied fog doctor. ' It’s high time that grocers got out’ their old stock, melting it over in the back room and hung out signs of “ New maple sugar.” A WhxtkhaW refused to buy her a seal-skin sficque for Christmas, retired gooAfor evil by giving him the sack. ■> A thickhbm of newspapers between the will help wonderfully jo keep you warm these cold nights. ‘‘ ( Now fiHthe time to subscribe.’*■*< r ? - ; A cowstamj attempted to levy on a Rhode Island woman’s sewing-machines month ago, and he isn’t out ,of bed yet.j She struck with her foot. An. aged la<sy of Fpnt&inel>lvau left hei_ physician, an enormous; oak chest as a legacy. On opening it he found all the drugs and potions he had given her during the past twenty years. Thene is scarcely any perceptible change in the styles from month to month in By the first of March we may to look for the ad vance spring fashions; but St present there is not much that is new. A professedly religious paper, the Bchp de Rome, was fined 1,000 francs a few days ago, and its printer imprisoned for three months, for an article grossly insulting King Victor Emmanuel. The paper has since been suppi eased. The total number of species of birds included in the fauna of Norway is 250. Of these 174 have been observed within the polar circle, and 160 of the 174 have ranged as far north as within the limits of Tromsoe Amt, while 150 species belong to the fauna of Finmark proper. In England a Town Clerk affirms that, in his observation, the majority of hus-band-and-wifo quarrels take their.rise in the fault of the wife, by her “in fernal tongue,” aggravates her husband to assault her. This, of course, has no application to the United States. A rich old widower of Oswego, N. Y., told a young girl there to drop her other beaux. She obeyed. He often took her Out riding, and assured her that “ when we get ready we can go off, sudden like, and surprise the gossips.” The young lady did net demur.- Then the rich old widower popped off, very sudden like, and married a rich old widow about his own age. The jury is asked for $15,.000 damages. " •

Noting that common usage adopts longitude 180 degrees from Greenwich as the point where a person traveling westward around the globe will find his Monday changed to Tuesday, a correspondent of foe New York Evening Poet calls attention to two curious exceptions. Manilla, in the Philippine Islands, is; one day behind the rest of the East Indies in Its expression of the days of the week, while Alaska is one-day ahead of British Columbia. The explanation is that the Philippine Islands were colonized by Spaniards, who first came there from foe* eAst across the Pacfificf but the rest of the East'lndies was colonized by Europeans, coming from the opposite direction. Each set of colonists brought its own day of the week, consequently it happens that Manilla is weekly keeping its Bunday while the neighboring islands are having their Monday. Bo in regard to Alaska. That country waK-first settled by Russians coming from the weSt, while the remainder of/fee-eastern poa»t of the Pacific waa seitlecf from th& 6ast. Thus it Happens that when Alaska is keeping Sunday it is only Saturday on the rest of the coast. And > more wonderful still, Alaska, being ninety degrees east of Manilla, will have already enjoyed onefourth ot R» Mantiuy .before the latter; place enters upon its Sunday. The discovery of valuable bluestone quarries in a tract of land in Bhohola, Pa., which was won by Abram C. Westfall by "fc wager on foe result of foe Presidential ejection of 1856, has led to a curious lawsUft. < Tfie !knd belonged at the time stated tojfiaj. C. L. Seymour. He staked ft against a tract of land owned by Westfall on a wager that Fremont would be elected. ’ Each made out a deed IWr lite property and placed them in the; hands of D, M. Vaa Auken. Westfall winning the bet, the deed for Seymour’s property was’ given to him.Since then immense quantities of bluestone have been discovered in the east-

stone. The tract in question is found to ; be thejnoM yahiablc m thewhqteregion, and nvaf companies have been ofJhe « 1 * » \ • 9 ■■■■ # 4-1% time ceased, |fcymour claims that, ah

theVhole transaction w» illegal, being the result of a wager on an election, which is strictly prohibited by the Penn.sylvama statutes. Heller-elaima that he was an innocent purchaser and has a good title to the property, which is now estimated in worth from $15,000 ~to $2°, 000 , _ .'.^1 'V' '-X

The Dangers of Democratic Ascendancy.

There is abundant cause for anxiety in the political outlook; anxiety, not for place, or power, or the perquisites of office, but for the real welfare and good being of the country. The next House will contain a majority of members who are not only opposed to the Republican party as at present constituted, but who have been opposed to it and its measures for the past twelve years,. It is but .reasonable to suppose that they will do what lies in their power to remedy any legislation of the pa4t which they believe to have been unwise and pernicious, as well as to defeat any legislation of. a similar character in ,the future. What has the Republican par y done to which the men who are about succeeding to power in the House object? Let u& enumerate, beginning witii the constitutional amendments. The thirteenth article abolished slavery and was ratified by Republican Legislatures, every State having Democratic Assemblies voting against it. , a The fourteenth, article declared that all persons born or naturalized in this ebunwere citizens, and that no Blate should make laws abridging their rights.; it also based the apportionment of Representatives to the States on the voting population, and abolished- the odiotts and unjust three-fifths rule which had previously obtained.. A» important part of this amendment is contained in the following words: 8«o. 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services, in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or, pay any debt or obligation Incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any sTave; but all ench debts, obligations and clainrs shall be held illegal and void.

The fifteenth article prohibits the denial of the right of suffrage “ on account of race, color or previous Condition of 'servitude.” *ln connection with .the point we are considering, it is well to remember that every Democratic Legislature, North as well as South, voted to reject these amendments, and that ewry Democrat in Congress, both in the House and Senate, voted against the joint resolution proposing them. It will be observed that the section from the Fourteen'h amendment, above quo ed, asserts the validity of the public debt, including that incurred for payment of pent-ions and bounties, and prohibits the payment of any claim contracted in aid of the rebellion. This was thought by the Republicans a wise provision, but it appears the Democrats thought differently, fbr they voted against It. They were so-, bitterly opposed to it, indeed, that when they came into power in the,States of Ohio, New Jersey and Oregon they Withdrew the Republican ratification of the amendment, and would doubtless have done sotn other States where .theysucceeded to power only for the reason that such action was soon found to be nugatory. But what could not be done by recession can be done by affirmation. Though Democratic Legislatures cannot retract a ratification they can adopt other amendments which will render the former void and of no effect. The question te, will they do this? They thought these amendments wrong;' vicious, unjust at the time they.were adopted. Do they think so now ? What they think or What they may do cannot be determined as yet, for they have not gained control of a> sufficient number of States to make such an attempt successful; but if the time -ever comes when they can ' safely make this venture there can be little doubt but that itWill be boldly tried. And what js true of the Fourteenth Amendment is true of the rest.. But let us go a ‘little further. The next Congress will contain eighty-five members who served in the rebellion. About eighty of- these will be in the House of Representatives, enough to control the Democratic majority, even if a large proportion of the latter members were firm union men, which we are sorry to say ia not the case. The result will be that the eighty ex-rebels of the next House will hold the purse strings of the Government, and can dictate the expenditures. Though powerless to enact laws they are potent to prevent them, and in this way can suspend the payment of any or enerv pension now awarded to Union soldiers. Nor is it by any means certain that their power will continue to lie in negative acts alone. It has been thought that the Senate could not be changed for the next two years, but a death or two among tbe present members might easily place the majority either in Democratic hands or in the hands of those elected by Democratic votes. There will be, on the 4th of March next, twenty-eight pronounced Democrats in that body. •' Besides these .- there will be eight members, perhaps nine, whose. course can only be determini d from experience, but some of Whom have before this shown themselves capable of erratic flights not at al} encouraging to predictions regarding their future action. This makes tmrty-six members who may be classed as Democrats, or more or less uncertain, not counting Minnesota, yet to elect. Of, course we have every hope that men like Mr. Camerbn, of Wisconsin, will prove faithful to Republican principles, but the latter's 'acceptance of Democratic support is not ip bis favor, and we do <pot like the fusion platform to which he gave his adhesion and which reaffirms the odious doctrine of State sovereignty. Stijl we have hopes that, if worst comes to worst, the calamity which threatens the country may at least be partially averted by the aM of such men as these, and that rime maybe given the Northern people for Section beforp the final, barter of their rights is consummated; With undisputed Iway in the House and Senate the Democratic party could in one brief term not only undo the work which it hae taken a decade to accomplish, but precipitate a flood of evils on the country from which recovery would be almost impossible.— lnler-Ocean, Feb.s. i -A Newburyport (Mass.) yqung map has ju»t sold sos. $30,000 a patch of land that cost him but S3OO a few years ago Cause, the eilver-gjJiie nfania.

NUMBER 23.

The Republican Position Unshaken.

)¥ho defines the ; position of the-Re publican party? Who speaks for it upon thereat commanding questions of the timet Thio makes its policy and declares its principle! Clearly it is no weak Kellogg in Louisiana. Clearly it is no obscureßeturning Board. Clearly It is no miserable set of politicians New Orleans. These characters do not speak for the Republican party of determine its attitude or action. The position of the party is declared by its recognized and authorized representatives—by the ' controlling voice of its press, and by the deliberate utterances of its chosen and accepted exponents. One of these, and the chief among them, is the President of the United States. Now, we direct, attention to. the significant and suggestive fact that the message of the President on the Louisians question has nowhere been successfully impeached or shaken. No assailant or critic has been able to point out a position in ( that document which was not well considered and fortified, and which tfte country does not sustain. Of course, the Democratic newspapers have, in their usual fashion, filing coarse, genertf epithets at the message; but no one has taken it up in a candid, reasoning' way and been able to show that ft enunciates any principle which is not essentially sound or asserts any position which is not substantially correct. And for the truth of this Mate-' ment we appeal to the intelligence of all wfe»have watched the course of the discussion. Gn the question of military action, on the question of unusual methods of dealing with the White League disturbers of the peace, on the question oLestablishiug tegitimate government in Louisiana —in short, on the whole question Raised hy the proceedings at the organization ot the Legislature, by SherL dan’s-dispatches, and by the allegations of fraud, where does the President toke n false position? We assert that no critic has befin able to show Ohe. Amid all the reckless tfamor, isn’t ft well to remember that fact? And, in spite of all the violent. assaults, doesn’t it follow that the real position ot the Republican party stands unshaken? Of course, something remains to be done—if the message is regarded, something will be done v . But baking the President as the chief exponent of the party attitude and policy, the treatment of the Louisiapajquestion in his message has nowhere been successfully assailed. —J.?b<iny Evening Jmjurnal. -

Remarkable Incident.

Some years ago I was present at a duel, that was fought between a young man of the name of MacLoughlin and another Irishman. MacLoughEn was desperately wounded; his second ran up to him and thought to console him with the intelligence that ,his antagonist had also fallen, tie only replied: “I am sorry for it if he is ~ suffering as much as I do now/’ -I was struck by the good feeling evinced in this reply and took an interest io the fate of the. young man. He recovered; and a few years after my interest was again powerfully excited by hearing that he had been arrested on suspicion of having murdered his father-in-law, his mother’s second husband. He was tried and found guilty on the evidence of a soldier who happened to be passing in the middle of the. pight near the house in whioh the murder was committed. Attracted by a light 'which gleamed through the lower part of the window he approached it, and through an opening between the shutter and ; the frame was able to look into the room. There he saw a man in the act of lifting a dead body from the floor, while his hands and clothes were stained all over with blood. He hastened to give information of what; he; had MacLoughlin and his mother were apprehended, and the forintr, "having been identified by the - soldier, was found guilty. There was no evidence aeainst the woman and she was consequently acquitted. MacLoughlin con-, ducted himse f throughout the trial with determined calmness and never could be induced to acknowledge his guilt. The morning of his execution he had an interview with his mother; none knew what passed between them, but when they parttd he was heard to say; <tM6ther, may God forgive yon!” The fate of this young man made a deep impression on me, till time and passing events effaced the occurrence from my mind. It was several years afterward that I one day received a letter from a lady (a very old and intimate acquaintance) en’ rearing that I would immediately hasten down to the assistance of a Roman Catholic priest who was lying dangerously ill at her house and the symptoms of whose malady sire described. Her description left me doubtful whether the mind*or the body of the patient was affected. Being unable to leave Dublin I wrote to say that .if the disease was bodily the case was hopeless, but if mental I should recommend certain lenitives, for which I added a prescription. The priest died, and shortly after his death the lady confid ed to me an extraordinary and dreadful story. He had been her confessor and intimate friend, and in moments of agdny and doubt produced by horrible recollections he had revealed to her a secret which had been imparted to him in confession. He had received the dying confession of MacLoughlin, who, as it turned out, was not the murderer of his father-in-law, but had died to Save the life end honor, of ’his mother, by whom the crime had been really committed. She was a woman '•of violent passions; she had quarreled with her husband in the middle of the night, Mid after throwing him from the bed had dispatched "fifth by repeated blows. When she found he was dead ahe was seized with terror, and hastening to. the apartment of her son called him to witnew the sbocklog .peclwle and to ber from th. ooMequertoe. 0( her crime. It Was at this moment, when ho was lifting the body and preparing to remove the bloody evidence of iris mother’s guilt, that the soldief passed by and s>W

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him in the performance of .dreadful task. To. the priest alonb hfir ftcknpwledged the tenth* but hft last words to his mother were now explained.—GrevSfe’s Jfommirc.

Light in the School-Room.

Although the friends of public schools *■ and popular: education may survey with general satisfaction the hygienic Jm.--provement of the present day, there is, at least, one painful exception to the general progress, whose correction ne • ceusitates the most careful attention and indefatigable exertion of . teachers. Young children devote much more time to study in school and out than formerly. So eager is the dehire for promotion in our public schools, particularly of th© graded class, on the part of teachers and pupils, that a considerable .portlbn of. each day and evening is spent, voluntarily or cbmpulsorily.in close application ' books end slates. This intense application,'fostered by parents as well as teachers,results frequently in the exchange of a greater for a lesser good. Could the eyes of pupilifwhohave spent al few years ia the public schools of any city beerjlipal.. ly examined, foe startling fact-would be disclosed that A large pet cent, of the whole are impaired in’ etmctiire or furiction,in consequence of some form of abuse resulting from the pupil’s connection with school. Such was the case in the public schools of Prussia, and there is no reason to doubt that similar evils* are as prevalent in our own country. That the eyes of children may be used without injury in ,as fax as practicable, teachers should insist on the Observance of certain hygienic principles. Light i« essential to vision; but if excessive or deficient in intensity,. or if ft fails improperly on the page, foe use of the eyes in study may result in , injury, necessitating the severance of the pupil’s connection with school, prolonged absence from study and loss of time. The desks of school-rooms should be so arranged that, fjjr ordinary study, the light which falls on the page should enter behind foe pupil; that direct rays may be largely excluded. The construction of lamps for foe purpose of study, or other operations requiring close inspec- . tion, which permits only reflected light to ante? the eyes," seems to be a general confirmation of the truth of this statement. In cloudy days the ligixt of the school-room may not be sufficiently intense for the healthful action of foe eyes in siudy. At auch times study might be suspended and oral instruction, reviews or general exercises substituted for it. Although the construction of houses is usually beyond foe supervision of those hating charge of them, instances; have occurred in which the hygienic .< knowledge of teachers has been of signal service to school directors in determining the interior arrangements of scfiool buildings. iV-.j ... • There is one defect of the eye resulting largely from its improper use ip the school-room, which,, unlike pervqus . weakness, comes so insidiously ripbn 1t as to be almost imperceptible untirit haspassed beyond the possibility of cure. Many children in the public schools are constantly becoming near ■ sighted through the Inexcusable negligence of teachers to insist upon the observanbe of the proper distance of. the eye from the page in writing, drawing, ciphering and ordinary, study. In writing.and especially, the universal practice of pupils is extremely pernicious. ’ Instead of' maintaining a distanee of fourteen or fifteen inches between the and, the in performing the operations alluded to, a glance* into almost any school-room will slrw that foe intervening space is only about six - or eight, inches. In consequence of this unphysiological habit thei eye surely, though Imperceptibly, loses its power of adaptation to ,Jn, distance, and henceforth only near objects will be distinctly seen., It is not easy to modify what seems to be a constitutional tendency" tn children. Vigilance and perseverance bn the part of teachers, if not entirely successful in the prevention of this evil, will be productive of immense good. Efforts to cotmteract the tendency to near-sightedness may be considerably aided by a permanent vertical line placed conspicuously on the black-board, representing foe proper distance of thefeye from the page. He who has 'suffered the inconveniences of this defect in vision resulting from improper use of bis eyes in school days wifi not need to be urged to save future men’and women From similar misforC. Delano, in Science of Health. ,' i. ■ —A sailor’s wife bad just received intelligence that her husband perished at sea. She was visited by a neighbor who sympathized with her on her loss and expressed a fear that she would be poorly off. “ ’Deed will I,” said the widow; “but he did all he could for me—lie’s saved me foe expense of his buryin’.” —To have fine tuberoses choose bulbs that have a clear skin, and are firm, and not long at the top, Bake a box of sand to have ft dry, and keep your bulbs in it in a cool; dty, dark place, where they will not freeze. For early flowering, start the bulbs next March in pots, in a warm dark place, Mid set out after all danger of frost is passed.—Totetto Blade. —Senor Mato, a Spanish Spiritualist, says that the disembodied hover for a time between the earth and the moon; and whirl in space so much a longer or shorter time according to their righteousness or wickedness here below.