Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1875 — Page 1

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THE NEWS.

A Spanish column was recently defeated by the Caban insurgents near Manacas. The Spaniards lost 160 men. A young man jumped from the dome of. the Capitol in Washington on the 17th. He was instantly killed. Vyse A Co., large straw-goods dealers in New York, have failed for over sl,000,000. Catherine Cary, a witness for Tilton in the Beecher trial, testified on the 10th that she had seen Mr. Beecher go into Mrs. Tilton’s bedroom repeatedly, and that on one occasion she discovered Mrs. Tilton sitting on Beecher’s knee. On the 17th a juror was suddenly taken sick and had to be taken home by two officers of the court. A virulent railroad war has broken out between the Baltimore & Ohio and the Pennsylvania Central Railroad Companies. On the 17lh the former company were selling tickets from Chicago to New York for sls and to Washington for $lO. The Illinois State Fair has been located at Ottawa for the ensuing two years. A young lady living in Indianapolis, named Doyle, was fatally burned, on the 16th, while using coal-oil to hasten a sluggish fire. On the 17th, at West Jefferson, Ohio, a child of William Stratton upset a coal-oil lamp. Mrs. S. picked up the lamp, when it exploded in her hand—causing her almost instant death. The British Parliament, on the 18th voted 4hat John Mitchel, the latelyelected member from Tipperary, is ineligible on the ground that he is a convicted felon. A writ was ordered to issue for a new election. An extraordinary session of the Senate has been ordered by the President, to convene March 5. The Southern and Southwestern Democratic members of Congress have issued an address to the people of the South, which appeals to them “ for continued forbearance and hopeful reliance upon the virtue aud the sense of justice of the American people for the ultimate vindication of our rights, the protection of our liberties and the safety erf our republican form of government” The Legislature of West Virginia, on the 17th, elected A. T. Caperton (Dem.) to the United States Senatorship. On the 19th fifty-one persons lost their lives through the burning of a match factory at Gottenburg, Sweden. Two-thirdsof the city of Port au Prince, Hayti, was burned on the 11th, involving the destruction of from 600 to 700 houses, and the loss of about $2,000,000. The fire originated from the explosion of a barrel of kerosene.

On the 18th the National House of Representatives passed eighty-three individual pension bills. The examination of Mr. Tilton in the Tilton-Beecher trial was concluded on the 18th, and Mr. Bell, ex-Daacon of Plymouth Church; Joseph H. Richards, brother of Mrs. Tilton; Mr. Bratyher and Mr. Robinson, business partner of Mr. Moulton, were examined. Mrs. Moulton was on the Witness-stand on the 19th. The testimony of these witnesses was mainly corroborative of the testimony of Messrs. Moulton and Tilton. W. S. King, of Minnesota, has written a letter to the Legislature of the State in reply to the resolution calling upon him to resign if he could not appear before the Congressional Committee and explain his connection with the Pacific Mail subsidy. Mr. King characterizes the resolutions as “ very extraordinary in so far as they correctly illustrate your lack of knowledge es the common proprieties and decencies of official position, your painful disregard of truth in your official action, and your false and hypocritical pretenses of virtuous regard for the honor of the State of Minnesota.” He pronounces false the charge that he had accepted money as a consideration for his services in behalf of the Subsidy bill, and emphatically asserts, as he says he stated under oath two years ago, that he never accepted nor received a dollar in consideration of such service, and that not one dollar of the money received by him was ever intended or applied to influence a vote on such bill. 8. J. R. McMillan (Rep.), the present Chief-Justice of the State Supreme Court, has been elected United States Senator by the Minnesota Legislature. The wife of Senator-elect McDonald, of Indiana, died suddenly, a few days tw-

A negro was admitted into the senior class of the New Orleans High School on the 18th, and twenty out of the twen-ty-two members immediately left the school. On the 20th, at Washington, the leading Republicans and the Louisiana Congressional delegation agreed to leave out the question of the election of 1872 and to recognize Kellogg as Governor as long as the Government shall continue to sustain him as such; the four Conservatives unseated in the Legislature on the 4th of January to be admitted, and a new organization of the Legislature to be secured. A New York court has recently rendered a verdict of $15,000 in favor of a passenger, and against the New York & New Haven Railroad Company. The plaintiff was robbed of that sum while riding from New Haven to New York, and the court held that the company must protect its patrons, A railroad train was overturned and mostly burned near Mingo Junction, Ohio, on the 19th. No one was killed but several were injured, among them Mr. J. N. McCullough, first Vice-Presi-

THE JASPER REPUBLICAN.

VOLUME I.

dent of the P., FkW. * C. Railroad Company, who had three ribs broken and was otherwise injured. Snow is reported to be three feet deep on* level in the vicinity of Fort Sully. Late arrivals from the Black Hills report that an abundance of gold had been secured. • A broken rail, at Sheffield, 111., on the 20th, threw a passenger car and a sleeper into a culvert. Several persons were im jured, and F. L. Browning, of Annawan, 111., killed. Spain has agreed to pay $84,000 indemnity for the Virginias affair. The,Germania newspaper, printed at Berlin <having published the recent encyclical letter of the Pope to the Prussian Bishops, has been confiscated and the proprietors prosecuted. An explosion occurred in the safetyfuse works at Redraths, Cornwall, England, on the 20th. Five girls were killed. John Mitchel, on the 21st, issued an address to the electors of Tipperary, presenting himself again as a candidate for Parliament. A fleet of British men-of-war has bombarded and captured Fort Mombazique, on the island of Mombaz, off the coast of Africa. Two slave-ships have been captured, with 300 slaves on board. The next consistory, according to a Rome (Italy) dispatch of the 22d, will create four ecclesiastical provinces in North America. Sir Charles Lyell, the eminent English geologist, died on the 22d. Three representatives of the Conservative party in Louisiana had an interview with the President on the 22d. He said his duty was not to enter into any compromise, but he would be rejoiced if the opposing parties in Louisiana could come to some understanding by which the contentions in that State could be settled. He said he would consult with the other parties to the contest in Louisiana. It being suggested to him that some intimation from Washington would be necessary to influence the action of the Republicans in Louisiana, the President referred the committee to Mr. Wheeler. The committee called on Mr. Wheeler, who stated that he would do all in his power to settle the Louisiana question on the basis of his propositions. A proposition was then submitted to him by the committee, which he rejected, still adhering to his original propositions.

in Exeter, N. Y., during the recent cold weather, three children who had been sent by their parents on a basketpeddling expedition froze to death. The glue factory of Wahl Bros., in Chicago, was recently destroyed by fire, involving a loss of over $350,000. At Veedersburg, Ind., lately, Mr. Henry Eister and wife left their three little children—two girls and a boyalone in their house, and during their absence the building was burned down and the little ones perished in the flames. The prosecution in the Tilton-Beecher case on the 23d, at the conclusion of Mrs. Moulton’s cross-examination and the re-examination of Mrs. Kate Carey, announced that their case was closed, and the court adjourned till the following day. Mrs. Moulton testified that Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton admitted to her that they had committed adultery in 1871, and that each claimed to be the one most to blame. Mrs. Moulton admitted that on one occasion, when Mr. Beecher spoke of his great suffering and talked of committing suicide, with tears streaming down his cheeks, she placed her hand on his shoulder and kissed him on the forehead, and said if ever there was a good man she believed he was one. On another occasion, when Mr. Beecher was on his way to prayer-meeting, she had, in the presence of her husband, thrown her arms around Mr. Beecher’s neck and asked Mr. Moulton to save this good man. On the cross-examination on the 23d Mrs. Carey admitted that she had been discharged from one place for intoxication. Ernest Ortwein, the murderer of the Hamnett family, near Pittsburgh, Pa., last April, was hanged in that city on the 23d.

CONGRESSIONAL.

In the Senate, on the 17th, a bill was introduced establishing rules and regulations for the government of the army. The Pinchback resolutions were taken up and debated at length, the discussion thereon lasting until 1:15 on the mornof the 18th In the House the Tariff bill was considered in Committee of the Whole. In the evening the Judiciary Committee reported several bills which were passed. A lengthy debate followed on the Postal Telegraph bill, after which the House adjourned. In the Senate, on the 18th, the debate on the Pinchbeck resolutions was continued until four o’clock p. m., when a motion prevailed to table—B9 to 22. The Indian Appropriation bill was taken up and amended In some unimportant particulars, after which the Senate ad-journed.-..1n the House the Revenue bill was further considered in Committee of the Whole. The bill for the improvement of the Mississippi River was debated, amended slightly and passed... .The Select Committee on Alabama Affairs reported the Republican caucus bill authorizing the President in certain cases to suspend the Habeas Corpus act, which, after debate, was recommitted. The evening session was devoted to the consideration of the Pension bill. In the Senate, on the 19th, the Missouri resolutions for a branch mint at St. Louis were presented. Mr. Logan gave notice that he would ask for a vote on the Equalization Bounty billion the following week. The House bill to improve the mouth of the Mississippi River was referred. Several amendments

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RENSSELAER. INDIANA. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 26, 1875.

were made to the Indian Appropriation bi11....1n the House, a bill was offered to amend the act Incorporating the Texas Pacific Railroad Company. A bill was passed authorizing a bridge across the Missouri at Sioux City, lowa. The Army Appropriation bill ($27,701,500) was passed. Mr. Poland, of the Arkansas Committee, reported a resolution for the acceptance of the majority report and declaring it unadvisable in the Judgment of the House to interfere with the existing State Government. He gave notice that he should press its adoption early next week. In the House, on thp 20th, a select committee of five was ordered to examine into the working of the several branches of the civil service with a view to their reorganization. The House joint resolution giving precedence in appointments in the civil servfce to disabled soldiers, their widows and orphans was adopted. A bill was introduced allowing pre-emptors to pre-empt additional lands. The Indian Appropriation bill was considered. Messages were received from the House announcing the recent decease erf Messrs. Rice, Hersey, Crocker and Hooper, and after the cuijjpmary eulogies and resolutions the Senate adjourned... .In the House, the Tax bill was discussed in Committee of the Whole. The Committee on Public Lands reported in favor of allowing the Wisconsin Central Railroad to straighten its lines. The resolutions lately adopted by the National Grange were presented. Eulogies were pronounced upon the lately-deceased members, Messrs. Rice, Crocker, Hersey and Hooper, and the House adjourned. In the Senate, on the 22d, the Indian, Military, Military Academy and the Pension Appropriation bills were passed. The Postoffice Appropriation bill was considered. Among the amendments that were adopted was ■ one allowing the Congressional Record and all documents printed by Congress for general distribution to pass free through the mails. An amendment for the restoration of the franking privilege was rejected, as was also one for the free transmission of garden seeds and agricultural reports....ln the House, a bill was introduced providing for a meeting of the next Congress on the 4th of March. Bills were passed—River and Harbor Appropriation; concerning grand and petit jurors in the District of Columbia; in relation to immigration ; for the payment of the award ($750,000) of the Southern Claims Commission; to reorganize the Quartermaster’s Department A motion to set apart the evening of the 24th for the consideration of the Texas Pacific Railway bill was defeated—ll 7to 128. An evening session was held to consider the Tax bill for the District of Columbia. In the Senate, on .the 23d, the House bill to equalize bounties was reported upon favorably. The Postoffice Appropriation bill and the Army Appropriation bill were amended and passed. A memorial was presented from the Republican members of the Alabama Legislature asking that the President be authorized, in certain contingencies, to suspend the writ of habeas corpus. Adverse reports were made on the bills to establish a branch mint in certain Western cities, and a resolution was adopted directing the President to institute inquiries as to the proper place for a branch mint and report at the commencement of the next Congress.... In the House, majority and minority reports were made from the Special Committee on Louisiana Affairs and ordered printed. The Tax bill was passed—l 23 to 113.

THE MARKETS.

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INDIANA NEWS ITEMS.

Allen County. One of the Fort Wayne, Muncie A Cincinnati Railroad passenger coaches caught fire, at Fort Wayne, the other evening and was entirely consumed. Loss about $4,000. An overheated stove caused the trouble. Vaughan & Graham’s meat market, at Fort Wayne, was burned a few evenings ago. Loss $3,000; cause, defective flue. William Rutledge, of Monroeville, was shot through the right arm, the ball also entering his body, while hunting the other afternoon; He was not found until some time* after the accident, and then nearly dead from loss of blood. Bartholome w County. The peach crdssin the county is entirely killed, and some of the people think the trees are killed also, and are cutting them down, intending to cultivate tobacco instead. Boone County. Mr. James Riley, living eight miles north of Lebanon, attempted one day during the recent cold weather to walk from Lebanon to his home and was so badly frozen that he died the following day. Carroll County. A little daughter of William Long, living near Cutler, was killed the other night by falling down stairs, dislocating her neck in the fall. Bhfc and a sister ten years old were sleeping up-stairs together.-- On going to the stairway in the morning to call the girls Mrs. Long found the little girl dead on the floor at the foot of the stairs.

Delphi is considering the project of lighting the streets of the city with petroleum gas. Cm* County. ► In a drunken row at Clymer’s Station, five miles west of Logansport, the other day John Sturebaugh stabbed George Geyer in the side, inflicting a dangerous and probably fatal wound. Clay Cosaty. Fifteen hundred coal-miners of the Brazil district quit work on the 2d because the operators proposed to reduce the pay from eighty-five to seventy cents per ton, The men at Garlick & Co.’s mines at Brazil are working at employers’ rates. A few nights ago notices were posted in the mines, signed by the “ Molly Maguires,” that if the men did not come out of the mines the next day they would be waylaid and shot. Trouble is apprehended. Delaware County. The Munele Jfem tells the following ludicrous story: “ While George Addy’s cow was grazing on the line between the town of Manchester and the citv of Paterson George Spittel, the Patterson Poundkeeper, took her to the pound. Addy sued before a Justice of the Peace tor injuries done to the cow and for detention, but lost the suit. J3n an appeal it was before the Common Pleas bench on’Saturday. Counsel for Addy contended that the valuable part of the cow was her hindquarters, and so that was beyond the Paterson city limit, his client was entitled to a judgment. The Court scarcely agreed with eounsel, but said that the decision of the case might turn upon the exact length of the cow. Counsel for the plaintiff insisted, then, that she should be measured to the end of her tail. The Court directed that she should not be measured beyond the haunches, and deferred decision until the measurement shall have been made.” Fulton County. A terrible affray occurred at Rochester a few nights ago. Late in the evening John Wallace, Amos Selby, M. Green and J as. De Bolt went in a sleigh to the house of John Vanderkarr and demanded admittance. This was refused, and Selby became enraged and knocked the door from its hinges. Vanderkarr then fired into the party with a doublebarreled shot-gun, killing Wallace instantly and dangerously wounding Selby. Knox County. Police-Officer Watson Keever, of Vincennes, was fatally shot a few days ago while attempting to arrest a negro man named Cox, who was suspected of stealing horses belonging to farmers in the neighborhood. The Vincennes Sun hears that there is horse-thieving going on in the northern part of the county. U Grange County. Thomas Martin was arrested at Lima, a few days ago, upon the charge of drawing a money order, the proceeds of which should have gone to Thomas J. Martin. Laporte County. A man named Watson, incarcerated at Mich, igan City, recently, expressed a wish to die, and his fellow-prisoners, desiring to see every wish gratified, got a little flour of the prison cook which they made into pills. They were offered to Watson on condition that he would not tell who gave him the poisonous pills. He faithfully promised, and, taking them with him to the solitude of his cell, he laid his weary head upon the hard pillow and swallowed the fatal pills. He laid there four mortal hours, thinking of his past life, and forgiving everyone who had testified to his stealing that horse, and yearning for the poison to take effect. But somehow the swallows did not homeward fly, and finally, very much discouraged, he walked out of his cell, when the smiling countenances of a score of his fellow-prisoners apprised him that he was the victim of a cruel hoax. Marton County. The Supreme Court decided, on the 17th, that where a petition to secure a new trial is made on their own motion, in cases where the petitioners, under indictment for murder in the first degree, are convicted of lesser degrees, they are to be retried on the original count. This overrules the decision in Boone County in the case where Mrs. Clem was released from custody. Mankail County. Here’s the way they do it in some parts of the county, according to the Plymouth Democrat: A man by the name of Swallow was put in jail in this place one day last week for stealing forty dollars from Mr. Christopher Dolph, of Tippecanoe Township. He had been stopping with the man from whom he stole the money and suspicion was centered upon him as being the guilty party. He was arrested, and, while on the way to Tippecanoetown, he and the Constable were met by a party of men, who demanded to know of him where the money was; he iftnied knowing anything about it; they threatened to cut a hole in the ice on Tippecanoe River and shove him into it if he did not “ own up.” He still professed his innocence; the men cut the hole in the ice, which was very thick, and the water below it very cold, and as they were about to put him in he confessed and drew the money from a Secret pocket In his coat Monroe Conncy. The Bloomington JVopre«« says that one.

third of the real estate in the county could not to-day be sold for two-thirds of the amount at which it has been appraised for taxation, even if offered on three or five years’ credit. >■

Posey County. A little daughter of Mr. Joseph Kommerzein, who lives near Mount Vernon, was recently burned to death under the following circumstances: Mr. and Mrs. Kommerzein had left the girl and their other smaller children at the house, and were at work in the field a short distance off. It is not known just how the accident occurred, but it is supposed that in moving about the fire, which was in an old-fashioned fire-place, the girl brought her garments in contact with the fire. Her screams brought her parents to the house, but she was wrapped in flames when they reached her, and before they could be extingtflshed she was so badly burned that death resulted in a few hours. St. Joseph County. The South Bend Tribune puts it very neatly when it says: “ Figuring daughters at SSOO each and sons at twice the amount, Judge Alward’s exchequer was enriched this morning by exactly $1,000.” Vanderburgh County. The Evansville Journal tells the following good story: “ Saturday night the little boys were out ringing the door-bells and otherwise stirring up the elements of wickedness in the hearts of quiet householders. They became very outrageous at an up-town residence just after supper, and the gentleman of the house laid himself out for revenge. He got a bucket full of icy water and sta tioned himself at the window above the door to watch for a renewed effort at the bell. He was so wrapped in wrath that he failed to look vigilantly as to the person who next came. In a moment his daughter, attired in all her fine garments, came back from a visit to a neighbor’s, and finding the front door locked she gave a vigorous pull at the bell. In another moment she was catching her breath convulsively under probably the most chilly and unexpected cold bath that woman ever got.” Vigo County. A Terre Haute woman nearly died from hemorrhage the other day caused by extracting her upper teeth. A weather prophet of Terre Haute predicts that the lower Wabash Valley this spring will be subjected to the greatest overflow ever witnessed in the West, and further predicts that not a bushel of corn will be raised in the bottoms. John Fellender, a clerk in the Terre Haute Postoffice, has been arrested upon a charge of stealing letters coming to the office and containing currency. He is a son of one of the wealthiest German citizens of the place.

INDIANA STATE LEGISLATURE.

Senate, Feb. 17.—Immediately after assembling the Senate joined the House In joint convention for the election of certain State officers, which occupied, the remainder of the forenoon session....ln the afternoon the discussion of the Jeffries-Baxter contested election was resumed. A vote was finally taken, resulting in Baxter retaining! his seat by 26 to 23.... Adjourned. House. —After the transaction of unimportant business both houses went joint convention for the election of certain* ’officers. A ballot was taken for Directors of the State Prison North, and the following were declared elected: William T. Pratt, of Allen; H. E. Wadsworth, of Laporte, and T. Davenport, of Kosciusko. Col. James Kergwin, of Clark, and William P. Hammond, of Martin, were elected Directors for the Prison South. Other officers were elected, as follow’s: Trustee of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Dr. Milton James, of Delaware; Trustee of the Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home, George Sandford, of Lake; Trustee of the Insane Asylum, J. T. Richardson, of Carroll; State Librarian Lycurgus Dalton, of Lawrence....ln the afternoon the bill compelling railroads to fence their right of way was referred to the Judiciary Committee with instructions to prepare a new bill providing that owners of the property shall pay half of cost of such fences.... The per diem es County Superintendents of Schools was fixed at >3.... Adjourned.

Senate, Feb. 18.—A large number of reports were received from standing committees, several new bills were introduced, and numerous petitions were presented on various topics.... The Committee on Public Buildings reported in favor of building a new State-House....The majority report on the temperance question was debated at considerable length, amended slightly and ordered engrossed by 23 to 18... .Adjourned. House.—The bill amending the law creating the office of Superintendent of Schools was taken up by sections in Committee of the Whole and defeated... .Concurrent resolutions were introduced—thanking Mrs. Oren for fidelity and efficiency as State Librarian; providing for a joint convention on the 24th for the election of one Trustee for the Blind Asylum; for a standing committee to continue the investigation of the Southern Prison.... The bill compelling railroads to fence their rights-of-way, referred yesterday to the Judiciary Committee, was recalled and sent to the Committee on Rights and Privileges, with instructions to make the time for fencing four years, one-fourth to be done each year.... The Senate resolution for the appointment of a committee to consider the propriety of redistricting the State for judicial purposes was tabled.... Adjourned. Senate, Feb. 19.—The Senate passed its morning session in bearing sundry personal explanations, and in considering the bill for a uniform system of roads making Township Trustees ex-officio Supervisors of Roads, which shall be kept in repair by the lowest Didder; and providing for commutation of labor by money payments, which money shall be used for the purchase of gravel roads under certain conditions... .In the afternoon bills were passed—fixing the salaries of cer tain State officers; providing for the organization of Granges under the Voluntary Association act; limiting the expenditure of money by County Commissioners to one-half of 1 per cent, of the appraised value of property in the county, except when authorized by vote of the people; making it a misdemeanor to import Texas cattle into the State from Oct. 1 to April 1; providing for a keeping of registry of city orders, and stopping interest on all orders after proper notification has been given that there is money on hand to redeem them; authorizing the removal of any officer in the State for drunkenness; providing that foreign administrators may sell property within the State without filing any additional bond; fixing the pay of Judges and Clerks of Election Boards at ILSO per day; and providing for the publication of all claims allowed by County Commissioners. .. .Adjourned. House —The bill giving Justices of the Peace exclusive jurisdiction in all sums of >3OO and under, concurrent jurisdiction in cases of >I,OOO, and jurisdiction in confession to the amount of >I,OOO was ordered engrossed .... Bills were passed—legalizing the incorporation of the town of Chester, Porter County; providing homes for orphans in county asylums, and making the per diem of members >6.00, with >s.oomileage for every twentyfive miles traveled.... Adjourned.

NUMBER 24.

Senate, Feb. 20.—Bills w.ere introduced —ordering Trustees of towns and townships to levy a tax for the payment of the interest and principal of existing bonds; establishing state and District Boards of Equalization; providing for the punishment of seducers of girls under twenty-one years of age; for organization of military companies of not less than sixteen members in each Congressional district; for the abandonment of the State Prison at Jeffersonville and for the appointment of a com.mission of three, to be appointed by the Governor, for building a prison at Seymour.... Bills were passed—empowering manual-la-bor schools to receive and transfer letters of indenture: to allow the adoption of children, inmates of reformatory institutions, without, the consent of parents.... Adjourned. House. —Several reports from standing committees were presented....A bill was introduced for the farther protection of miners .... The House adjourned early on account of the funeral of Mrs. Senator McDonald. Senate, Feb. 22.—The claim of Mr.Walker, contestant for the seat of Senator Ladue, for per diem and mileage was referred to the Committee on Claims.... The bill setting apart the interest of the wife in real estate when ordered to be sold under judicial proceedings was passed—2s to 14.... The bill providing for a State Board of Health was refused engrossment—l 7to 21.... The report of the Judiciary Committee favoring the passage of the bill fixing the salary of the Governor at $6,000 and the per diem of members at $6 was made the special order for the afternoon of the 25th... .Adjourned.

House.—Bills were passed—regulating assignments; that property, instead of being sold on forced sale, may be duly advertised and sold to the highest bidder at private sale; authorizing the Trustees of incorporated towns to issue bonds to the amount of SIO,OOO for the purpose of completing public building®; providing for the appointment of three appraisers and by-road supervisors, who shall appraise material taken for the purpose of building or repairing roads; defining the meaning of the terms “auction” and “ auctioneers,” and fixing maximum amount which auctioneers may be charged for their licenses .... A joint resolution was offered instructing Indiana members of Congress to vote against any appropriation for the Texas Pacific Railway.. ..A bill was introduced for the appointment of three railroad commissioners....A special committee was appointed to investigate charges of cruelty preferred against the Buporintendent of the Asylum for the Blind ... .Adjourned. Senate, Feb. 23—Committees were appointed to investigate the affairs of ern and Southern Prisons.... Bills were passed —for the erection of fish-ladders at all milldams; to reduce the price of Supreme Court reports to $3; to allow Trustees to select textbooks for schools; providing for the commencement of prosecutions for felony by information ; providing that at least one-fourth of the purchase-money of school lands shall be paid in hand, and deferred payments to bear 8 per cent, interest; legalizing as holidays Jan. 1, July 4, Feb. 25 and Thanksgiving Day; the Local Option Temperance bill; providing for fencing lands subject to overflow with swinging gates across roads wherever crossed... .Adjourned. House.—The Committee on Public Buildings reported in favor of building two insane asylums.... The Committee on Rights and Privileges reported a bill requiring railroads to fence their right of way within the next four years, onefourth in each year.... Bills were passed—providing for organizing camp-meeting associations ; amending the civil code so as to require parties to raise their objection to errors in complaiut in lower courts; authorizing surveyors to use witness-stones as landmarks; providing that appeals may not be dismissed if appellant shall file a*ufficient bond; adding the President of Purdue University to the State Board of Education; prohibiting nepotism on the part of State officers; reducing the salary of the Superintendent of the Kingstown Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home; reapportioning the State for legislative purposes; authorizing a temporary loan to carry on the State Government for the next two years.... Adjourned.

Is There No Danger?

The substance of a letter from a Massachusetts Congfessman which we recently published, taking a serious view of the dangers of the present national situation, has elicited some light criticism in certain quarters, as if it were an attempt to sound an utterly false alarm. We know, however, that many of the best and most thoughtful observers of the times do not share this easy indifference, such as had its most, signal elimax in 1860. We have lately recorded the impression of the true-hearted Republican veteran of Ohio, Mr. Wade, that the country is in danger of seeing another rebellion undertaken. A letter in the Chicago Inter-Ocean, written, according to that paper, by “one of the most prominent men in public life at Washington,” declares that “ this very time in which we are is pregnant with more evil than any hour since March, 1861.” The writer states that the cause of apprehension lies in an “ organized, and so far successful, effort, by force of fraud, to gain possession of the Southern States, to substitute by violence and intimidation the will of a minority of these States for the will of a majority, and to control by any means found necessary, however criminal or violent, first the State Government, and next the Congressional representation and electoral vote.” In other words, there is a conspiracy on foot to neutralize and practically overthrow the last three amendments of the Constitution in their grand object of bestowing equal rights upon the freedmen of the South. The Democracy in that section, sustained by the party elsewhere, have determined that the negro shall not have the same rights as the white man. The negro is to be substantially suppressed out of politics and remanded to a subordinate, dependent, abject condition, socially and politically. That is the scheme at the bottom of the Penn movement in Louisiana, of the bloodshed at Vicksburg, the high-handed change of the Constitutions in Arkansas, and of the White League movement throughout the South generally. It enrolls in its support nearly all the wealth, intelligence, organized energy, social influence and—what is equally important—the race prejudice and rascality of the South. This combination, with its mighty reinforcemeat of partisan allies at the North, is, it will be seen, practically arrayed against the laws of the land, as welt as against the security of the grand fruits of the last supreme struggle for the Union —how, then, can it be otherwise than pernicious and, in proportion to its extent, dangerous? It is none the less so that it is engineered with a skill and shrewdness which have been learned from former failures. It is well known that many of of the secession leaders of 1861 have always deplored the madness which then caused tnem to give up the Government

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when they had complete control of the Senate and the Supreme Court. With such advantages thev think they might have thrown upon the Republicans the ignominy of a factious, if not of a rebellious,* stand. Now they propose to take the Government and, while holding it, practically nullify the Constitution. One of the most bitter of the repentant rebels—Mr. Hill, of Georgia—recently said: “When we seceded we left the Government in the hands of our enemies, and we left our friends in the hands of these enemies also.” This mistake, he insists, must not be repeated. With an affectation which would be amusing but for its terrible audacity, he continues: “ Let all who love the Constitution unite and save the country by ballot, if possible”—this being addressed to Northern Democrats, who are then told: “And if force, under pretext of any kind, shall attempt to defeat the will of the people let every patriot be ready to march under the old stars and stripes to the grave or to victory. Let us of the South go where we ought to have gone at first, and where, if we had gone, we should nave crowded out this sinister power.” What precise programme he is here outlining may not be so clear, but there is no mistaking the drift of his instigations. He means the recovery so far as possible of what the South lost by the rebellion in 1861—the reversal of what was secured by the triumph of the Union arms in 1865. So far the conspiracy goes on swimmingly in the eyes of its projectors. One branch of the Government has been secured, with a majority of the State Governments and a nearly solid South. All that is apparently wanted for remaining success is either blindness or else recreancy on the part of the Republicans of the country, who saved it in the former trial. Shall either fatality be recorded now? We do not believe it; the only ground of fear is that the slowness of the people to realize their danger- may increase .it and thus make the effort of averting it greater and more costly than it ought to be.— Boston Journal.

The Southern Democratic Address.

The address of the Southern Democratic members of Congress, published yesterday, is another shrewd attempt to mislead public sentiment in the North. Bo far as it is in reality addressed to ths South, it says substantially to the people of that section: “Don’t strike too soon! Wait until you can do so safety. Keep perfectly quiet for a little longer, and a deceived and hoodwinked North will give you unlimited power. Then go in, and do your worst!” “ Endure your wrongs with patience,” says the address. In the name of all that is just, what wrong has been done these people? Is it the amnesty that has been granted by the North to traitors against the country? Is it in allowing them every right and privilege which they enjoyed before their crime? Is it in’ placing them in a position where they could elect nearly 100 of the most prominent leaders in the late rebellion to the National Congress? Art these the wrongs which a vindictive party has heaped upon them? We had supposed that the • “wrongs” were on the other side. We had supposed the cause for complaint existed in those who have been driven by these Southern marplots from their homes, who have had their property destroyed, their plantations plundered and their friends murdered with a ferocity unheard of in a civilized land. We thought the wrongs had been suffered by the thousands of colored men and Northern Republicans who have been persecuted with a fiendishness worthy of savages and who have been hunted with the merciless-cruelty of wild toasts. The “wrongs of the South I” Let an impartial world judge-what these wrongs are. Let the official record of the 4,000 maimed ana murdered victims in Louisiana testify to the outrages committed and to the men who have suffered, them! Search the record through. You shall find among the victims Republicans of every hue, but not a member of the White League! Examine the list. You will find black and white by the thousands who have been spit upon, mobbed, deprived of their votes, but not among the number a single rebel! The latter do not complain of intimidation. They do not complain of lawlessness and assassination. They cannot point to a single instance where one of their number has been driven from the polls, or shot down like a dog because he dared to offer his vote. What, then, are the wrongs which they are advised to endure so heroically? But the address continues : “ Let us continue to deal with them (the blacks) honestly and fairly, and let us continue to invite to our midst those of any political party who either seek to know the truth or to find homes upon dur soil.” Was there ever more bitter irony than this? “ Continue to deal justly with them!” Pray, when did these people commence dealing justly with a race which they have beaten, sold, robbed since the beginning of the Republic? “ Let us continue to Invite to our midst those of any political party who seek to find hemes upon our soil!” Aye, these invitations have been given, and hornet, long and permanent, have been found upon their soil! The story has been too often told in these columns, and need not be repeated now. It should be burned by this time into the very heart and brain of the North. It is proper that such addresses as this should be signed by ex-rebel officers, and especially that it should be signed by Mr. John Toung Brown, of Kentucky, whose threats against all who dared to assist the Union armies we published a few days ago. We may have to wait, but the time is coming when the hollowness, treachery and wickedness of such manifestoes will be so plain that he who runs may read. It may not come until every Northern man shall have been driven from the South and every colored man reduced to a state worse than slavery, but it will come at last and bring its own retribution.— lnter Ocean, ffieb.2o. " Bruyere once said: “An inconsistent woman is one who is no longer in love; a false woman is one who is already in love with another person; a fickle woman is she who neither knows whom she loves or whether she loves or not, and the indifferent woman one who does not love at all.” A Clear empty dry-good box.