Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1875 — Page 1

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LATTEST NEWS.

Another Steamer Foundered in Mid-Ooean. Frightful Accident In a New York Church* Dismissal as a Naval Cadet for Color Prejudices. Alimony and Counsel Fees Awarded to Ann Eliza. An Atheist Expelled from the North Carolina Howe of Bepreoentatfree. The Public Debt Statement for March 1 1875. The Civil-Rights Bill Signed by the President. Kvy,, Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc. THE OLD WOULD. Ox the 34th the French Assembly passed the bill for the organization of the Senate by a vote of 448 ayes to 341 noes. Tu steamer Hong Kong recently foundered in the Indian Ocean. Twenty-four persons were drowned and nineteen were saved. On the 26th seven Carlist battalions attacked Bilbao, Spain, and three forte were taken and retaken three times. The Carlista were finally repulsed and were subsequentlyattacked by the National troops, who were in turn repulsed. Mona Burrs? has been re-elected President of the French Assembly by a vote of 4*9 to 68—an unprecedented majority. THE MEW WORLD. Gen. Joseph R. Hawley has been renominated for Congress by the Republicans of the First Connecticut District According to a New Orleans dispatch of the 24th the Conservative caucus had, after an exciting debate, accepted the Wheeler proposition for a compromise by a majority of one vote. The Ohio State Prohibition Convention met at Columbus on the 24th and nominated the following State ticket: For Governor, Jay Odell, of Cleveland; Lieutenant-Governor, H. A Thompson, of Franklin; Attorney-General, S. Adams, of Cleveland: State Auditor, Belmont Locke, of Lawrence County; State Treasurer, Kn. rraug, „^ B ,-apreme Judge, D. C. Montgomery, of Knox; Member Board of Public Works, J. R. Buchol, of Akron. On the evening of the 24th at New York city, while the congregation of St. Andrew’s Church were assembled in the building, the walls of an adjoining structure, burned a few days before, were blown down by high winds and fell upon and crushed through the church roof, falling upon the east gallery principally, which was crowded by people. ' Six persons were killed and twenty-five seriously injuied. The Conservative Senators and Representatives of the Alabama Legislature have signed a protest against the memorial presented in the United States Senate on the 23d. It is said several Republican members of the Legislature deny having signed any such memorial. On the 25th, at New Orleans, Speaker Wiltz, in the Conservative caucus, entered a protest against tbe Conservative members returning to the hall of the House, “ from which they were driven by hostile bayonets, until they can do so without stultification or any concessions whatever.” About thirty members afterward signed the protest A letter of acceptance has been presented to Representative Wheeler from tbe Conservative caucus of New Orleans, agreeing to his proposition for a compromise of the Louisiana difficulties. A Washington dispatch of the 26th says it was understood that the whole Congressional Committee would remain after the adjournment of Congress, and then canvass the returns, which would be forwarded to Washington for their inspection, and determine the result, which would be carried to New Orleans by Mr. Wheeler and put into effect under his personal supervision at an extra session of the Louisiana Legislature.

Gordon Claude, a naval cadet, has been dismissed for refusing to fence with a colored midshipman. According to a Salt Lake (Utah) telegram of the 26th Judge McKean had decided that Ann Eliza Young should receive >3,000 attorneys’ fees and >SOO per month alimony pending her trial against Brigham Young, the alimony to date from the filing of the complaint, about twenty months ago. J. W. Thomas, a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives, has been expelled from that body for expressing his disbelief in the existence of a God. Stone Cale, a noted Cheyenne chief, and 1,600 of his tribe have recently surrendered to Gen. Pope. Two white captives were recovered. In the opening address to the jury in the Beecher trial Mr. Tracy, of counsel for defense, arraigned Mr. Tilton, Mr. and Mrs. Moulton and H. C. Bowen as conspirators, uniting together to compass the ' downfall of the defendant He claimed that the original complaint against Mr. Beecher was not for adultery, but that the letters and conversations ot the defendant have been misinterpreted to mean the greater when a leaser offense was implied. Mr. Tracy was very severe in his remarks upon the characters of both Tilton and Moulton, and scouted the idea of Kate'Carey’s testimony being worthy of any credence. He was very eulogistic in his comments upon the life, character and services of Mr. Beecher. On the 26th ult Mr. Bowen published a card denying the charge of conspiracy so far as it related to himself, pronouncing the accusation a malignant falsification from beginning to end, “as said Tracy can learn if he will call me to the wit-ness-stand, in which event he will find out that I do not believe in the doctrine said to be taught by him—* that lying is justifiable under certain circumstances.’ ” The attorney for the Pacific Mail Company

THE JASPER REPUBLICAN.

VOLUME I.

left New York on the 26th ult for Minnesota to attach the property of W. 8. King, to recover the amount paid him in connection with the subsidy. - * **• . It is reported that Hon. Angus Cameron, United States Senator from Wisconsin, will act with the Republicans. The capture of old man Bender at Florence, Arizona, was reported on the 27th. The Kansas State authorities had sent a requisition for his delivery. The Nebraska Legislature adjourned tine die on the 26th ult. The Virginia Assembly has chosen State Senator H. Y. Thomas Lieutenant-Governor to fill the unexpired term of- R. E. Withers, elected United States Senator. The following is the statement of the condition of the public debt March 1: Six per eent. b0nd5.>1,151.992,500 Five per cent, bonds 572,137,750 , Total coin b0nd,51,724,130,250 Lawfill money debt 14JR8,000 Matured debt...... 8.779AT0 Legal-tender notes 382.072,147 Certificates of deposit 45,855,000 Fractional currency 44,904,963 Coin certificates. ■■ ■ 22,269,400 Interest 26,426,738 Total debt.>2,969,116,168 Cash in Treasury— . rflM Currency• - 10,319,097 Special deposits held for the redemption of certificates of deposit, as provided by law 45,855,000 Total in Treasury >131,800,180 Debt leas cash in Treasury>2,lß7,3ls,9Bß Decrease during February 6,680,184 Bonds issued to the Pacific Rail way Companies, interest payable tn lawful money, principal outstanding >64,623,512 00 Interest accrued and not yet paid... 646,285 12 Interest paid by the United States.. 26,264,102 84 Interest repaid by the transporta- „ tion of mails, etc. 5,724,214 20 Balance of interest paid by United Statues 77. 20.539,888 06 The New Orleans Committee of Seventy met on the Ist and adopted resolutions that the members of the legislative caucus who had voted for the Wheeler compromise did not reflect the wishes of a vast majority the Conservative people of the,State; that such compromise was unwise and impolitic, and announcing in beMflf of the Conservative people of the State an unalterable determination to continue to oppose the Kellogg Government regardless of the action of the caucus. A Siocx City (Iowa) dispatch of the Ist says there is no question about there being gold in the Black Hills. The State Senate of Minnesota has indefinitely postponed the proposed woman-suf-frage amendment to the Constitution. Thb President has signed the Civil-Rights bill.

CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate, on the 24th, petitions were presented, signed by 48,883 farmers of the Northwest praying for an appropriation for the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, were passed—directing the promulgation of the regulations for the government of the army: for the admission of Colorado as a State—43 to 13; for the admission of New Mexico as a State—3l to 1.... Adjourned. In the House, a bill was passed for the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers .... Majority and minority reports were made in the contested election case of Sheridan and Plncbback, the former being in favor of Sheridan and the latter of Pinchback....A report was also made in favor of Hodges ,of Arkansas, the sitting member.... The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill (>25,285,978) was considered in Committee of the Whole. An evening session was decided on to consider the bill, but resolutions being offered to take up other business filibustering was resorted to and the session prolonged till after midnight. The Democrats refusing to vote on one' motion for the yeas and nays, the record indicated no quorum. The Speaker on being appealed to said it was the duty of members to vote, but he knew of no way to compel them to do 50... .At 2:40 a. m. the House was still in session. In the Senate, on the 25th, the bill to provide for the counting of votes for President and Vice-President was considered, amended and passed—2B to 20.... The Civil-Rights bill was taken np and it was decided that it should be debated until the afternoon of the 27th, when a vote should be taken... .Adjourned. In the House, after a twenty-nine hours’ session, during which the Democrats, by dilatory motions and filibustering proceedings, prevented the taking np of the caucus Force bill giving the President power in certain cases to susoend the writ of habeas corpus, amotion was finally adopted—l7o to 89—to take up the bill, and sundry amendments were offered.. ..Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 26th, an adverse report was made on the bill to secure the depositors with the Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Company, aud the bill was indefinitely postponed.. . .The Civil-Rights bill was taken up and considered until adjournment. In the House, the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was considered in Committee of the Wh01e.... The caucus Force bill was debated at the evening session until adjournment. In the Senate, on the 27th, Messrs. Allison, Boutwell, Conkling, Merrimon and Eaton were appointed the committee to examine into the condition of the civil service, during the recess, under the resolution recently adopted.... The resolution in relation to a branch mint in the Western States, introduced on the preceding day, was adopted.... The Civil-Rights bill was then taken up. and Mr. Carpenter addressed the Senate in opposition, after which it was adopted without amendment, as follows: Yeas— Alcorn, Allison, Anthony, Boreman, Boutwell, Cameron, Chandler, Clayton, Conkling, Conover, Cragin, Edmunds, Ferry (Mich.). Flanagan, Frelinghuysen, Hafrey, Howe, Ingalls. Jones, Logan, Mitchell, Morrill (Vt.), Morton, Oglesby, Patterson. Pease, Pratt, Ramsey, Robertson, Sargent, Scott, Sherman, Spencer, Stewart, Washburn, West, Windom, Wright—3B. Nays— Bayard.Gordon, Ransom, Bogy, Carpenter, Cooper. Davis, Dennis, Eaton, Ferry (Conn.), Goldthwalte, Hager, Hamilton S'ex.) Hamilton (M<L), Kelly, Lewis, McCreery, errimon, Norwood, Saulsbury, Schurz, Sprague, Stevenson, Stockton, Thurman, Tipton—26.... At the evening session the Annual Post route bill was taken up and passed, and the conference report on the bill to reduce and fix the AdjutantGeneral’s Department of the army agreed t 0.... Adjourned. In the House, on the 27th, the Select Committee to investigate the Pacific Mail subsidy reported a resolution to transmit the testimony to the next Congress, to the end that Messrs. King and Schumaker may be properly dealt with, and to censure ana deprive of his seat in the gallery any reporter or correspondent who received any portion of the corruption fund.... The majority and minority reports of the Select Committee on Mississippi Affairs were presented... .The Force bill was then considered, and an amendment agreed to limiting the suspension of the writ or habeas corpus to Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi, and limiting its term to two years and from thence to the end of the next session of Congress. The bill as amended was finally passed—yeas 135, nays 114—thirty-five Republicans voting against it. ...Adjourned. In the Senate, on the Ist, the Force bill was received from the House and read by its title, when objection was made to its second reading, and it went over under the rule..;.Bills were passed—to promote economy and efficiency in the Marine Hospital service; authorizing a pontoon wagon bridge at or near Dubuque. Iowa; - also for a bridge at or near Grand Chain, Hl.: for the further security of the navigation of the Mississippi; authorizing a bridge across tbe Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Ark... .The Tax and Tariff bill was debated and tabled—3o to 29.... Adjourned. In the House, the resolution of the Louisiana Select Committee recommending the Louisiana House of Representatives to reseat the ejected Conservative members was agreed to—-

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

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1875.

124 to 85—and then the resolution recognizing the Kellogg Government was also agreed to—MH to 89....’Hie Senate amendments to the Areqr Appropriation bill were non-concurred in... The conference report on the Militanr Appropriation bill watt agreed to....Someof the Senate amendments to the Indian Appropriation bill were nonconcurred in, and conference committees were ordered.... The Deficiency Appropriation bill (>1,800,000) was reported...-The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was considered until adjournment. THE MARKET!. Mabch 1, 1875. NewYobk.—CtoMon-WMOWc- Ttottr—Good to choice, >4.9005.30; white wheat extra, >5.30© 6.00. Wheat-No. 2 Chicago, >1.0T%©1.1014; No* 2 Northwestern, >1.0801.10; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, >1.1001.12. Bya-Western,[email protected]. Corn—S3&Mc. Oats West ern, 67@69%c. Port—New mess, >19.25019.37%. Lard— Prime steam, 13%©13Mc. Cheese — 12© 16c. Wool—Domestic fleece, 52065 c. >10.00012 50. Hops—Dressed, Western, 58.25@ 8.50; live, >6£7%©7.25. SAsep—Live, >5.50© 7.25. Cmccoo.—Beeves— Choice, >5.6006.00; good. Cheese—N err fork Factory, 17@17%c; western Factory, M%017e. flour— White winter extra, >4.2506.50 ;Tprine extra, >4.0004.50. Wheat —Spring, Sol £ 85@85%c. Corn—No. 2, 64@64%c. Oats-No. 2.53053% c. Rye- No. 50.00; Common Boards, >11.00012.00; Fencing, >12.00013.00; “A” Shingles, >3.0003.25; Lath, $2.0002.25. Cincinnati.—>4.9sos.lo. Red, >1.0701.10. C'om-6a©66%c. >1.1%>1.14. Gate—s9©62c. itarfcy - >1.2501.30. P0rt>18.75019.00. Lard—lß%®l4%c. Sr. Lovis.—Cortte—Fair to choiceAS.OOasj®. 1, @1.22%. /ont-Mesa, >18.20018.25. Lard-13 ©13% c. Milwaukbs.— flour— Spring XX, >4.6005.00. Wheat— Spring, No. 1,90@90%c; No. 2, 85% ©B6c. Corn—No. 2, 63©68%c. Oafr—No. 2, 52% ©s3c. Rye— No. 1, 99c©>1.00. barley— No 2, >1.1201.12%. Cleveland- WA«tt—No. 1 Red, >1.10%© Lil; No. 2 Red, >l-04%©1.06. Com —7l ©72c. Oats-No. 1 State, 60061 c. Detroit.— Wheat—Extra. >1.12%@1.12K- Com -69©69%c. Cate—6B%©s9%c. Dressed H0g5>7.5007.75. >7.5007.75. WAeat—Amber Mich., »[email protected]%; Buffalo.— Beeves— >5.0005.75. Hoge— Live, $6.5007.40. Bhetp— Lire, >5.0006.25. East Lxbekiy.— Cattle— Best, >6.2506.75; medium, >5.4005.75. Hoge— Yorkers, >6.6506.80; Philadelphia, >7.7007.90. Sheep- Best, >5.50© 8.25; medium, >5.0605.50.

The House Yeas and Nays on the Force Bill.

The following are the yeas and nays on the final passage of the Force bill in the National House of Representatives: Yem — Albright, Averill, Barber, Barry, Bass, Bcgole, Bradley, Bundy, Burrows, Butler (R. K.L Cain, Cannon, Carpenter, Cason, Cessna, Clark (A., Jr.), Clayton. Clements, Cobb(B. A.), Coburn, Conger, Corwin, Crooke, Curtis, Danford, Darrial, Dobbins, Ddhnan, Duell, Dunnell, Eames, Field, Fort, Frye, Gooch, Gunckel, Hagans, Harmer, Harris (B. W.) Hathorn, Havens, Hawley (J. B.), Hayes, Hazelton (G.W.), Hazelton, (J. WJ, Hodgee, Hoskins, Houghton, Howe, Hubbell, Hunter, Hurlbut, Hyde, Hynes, Lansing, Lawrence, Lewis, Lofland,. McDiil Gl." MmSoUmiU, kcKeeT McNnlta; Monroe, Moore, Morey, Myers, Negley, Niles, Nunn, O’Neill, Orr, Orth, Packard, Packer, Page, Parker (Isaac C.), Parsons, Pelham, Pendleton, Platt (Jas. H., Jr.), Platt (Thos. C.), Pratt, Rainey, Ransier, Rapier, Ray, Robinson (Jas. W.), Ross, Sawyer, Sayler (Henry B.), Scofield, Sessions, Shanks, Sheats, Sherwood, Sloan, Smart, Smith (A. Herr), Smith (Geo. K.), Smith (John Q.), Snyder, Sprague, Stevens (Chas. A.), St. John, Stowell, Sypher, Taylor, Thomas (Chris. Y.), Thompson, Thornburg, Todd, Townsend, Tremain, Tyner, Waldron, Wallace, WtUs, Ward (Jasper D.), Ward (Marcus L.), White, Whitely, Wilber, Williams (Chas. G.), Williams (J. M. S.), Williams (Wm.), Wilson (Jas.), Wilson (Jere. M.), W ood worth —185. Nays— Archer, Arthur, Ashe, Atkins, Banning. Burnnm, Beck, Bell, Berry, Bland, Blount, Bowen, Bright, Bromberg, Brown, Buckner, Burchard, Burleigh, Caldwell, Caulfield, Clark (J. 8., Jr.), Clymer, Comingo, Cook, Cox, Creamer, Crittenden, Crossland, Crounse, Crutchfield, Davis, Dawes, De Witt, Durham, Eldredge, Finck, Foster, Garfield, Giddings, Glover, Gunter, Hale (Eugene), Hancock, Harris (H. R.), Harris (John T.), Harrison, Hatcher, Hawley (J. R.), Hereford, Herndon, Hoar (E. R.), Hoar (G. F.), Hunton, Kasson, Kellogg, Knapp, Lamar, Leach, Lowndes, Luttrell, Magee, Marshall, McCrary, McLean, Merriam, Milliken, Mills, Morrison, Neal, Nesmith, O’Brien, Perry, Phelps, Pierce, Poland, Potter, Randall, Read, Robbins, Roberts (E. H.), Roberts (Wm. M.), Robinson (Jas. C.), Sayler (Milton), Schell, Schumaker (J. G.). Scudder (H. J.), Sener, Shoemaker (C. D.), Sloss, Smith (H. B.), Smith (J. A.), Smith (Wm. A.), Southard, Speer, Standard, Standiford, Starkweather, Stone, Storm, Vance, Waddell, Wells, Whitehead, Whitehouse, Whitthorne, Willard (C. W.), Willard (G.), Williams (Wm. B.), Willie, Wilson (E. K.), Wolfe, Wood, Young (P. M. B.)—114. Not Voting— Adams, Albert, Barrere, Biery, Buffington, Butler, (B. F.), Chittenden, Clarke (Freeman), Cobb (Clinton L.), Cotton, Farwell (C. B.), Freeman, Hale (R. 8.), Hamilton, Hendee, Holman, Kelley. Kendall, Killinger, Lamison, Lamport, Mitchell, Niblack, Parker (H. WJ, Phillips, Pike, Richmond, Rusk, Scudder (I. W.), Sheldon, Small, Stephens (A. H.j, Strait, Strawbridge, Swann, Thomas (C. R.), Wheeler. Announcements were made that Kelley, who would have voted aye, was paired with Swann; Rusk, aye, with Mitchell; Richmond, aye, with Hamilton; Chittenden, sick and absent, would have voted no: Buffington, aye, paired with Holman; Butler (B. F.), aye, with Stephens; Biery and Barrere, sick, would have voted aye; Strawbridge, aye, paired with Lamison.

Where Your Perfume Comes From.

Our fair readers may be interested to learn where, for the most part, the flowers grow, the sweet perfumes of which are found in those pretty flacons on their dressing-tables. The chief places of their growth are the south of France and Piedmont, namely: Montpelier, Grasse, Nimes, Cannes and Nice; these two last especially are the paradise of violets, and furnish a yearly product of about 13,000 pounds of violet blossoms. Nice produces a harvest of 100,000 pounds of orange blossoms, and Cannes as much again and of a finer color; 500 pounds of orange blossoms yield about two pounds of pure Neroli oil. At Cannes the acacia thrives well, and produces yearly about 9,000 pounds of acacia blossoms. One great perfumery distillery at Cannes uses yearly 140,000 pounds es orange blossoms, 140,000 pounds of rose leaves, 32,000 pounds of jessamine blossoms, 20,000 pounds of violets and 8,000 pounds of tuberoses, together with a great many other sweet herbs. The extraction of the ethereal oils, the small quantities of which are mixed in the flowers with such large quantities of other vegetable juices that it requires about 600 pounds of rose leaves to win one ounce of otto of roses, demands a very careful treatment The French, favored by their climate, are the most active, although not • always the most careful, preparers of perfume; half of the world is furnished by this branch of their industry.— lnter-Ocean. The difference between the sexes may be stated thus: A man gives forty cents for a twenty-flve-cent thing he wants, and a woman gives forty cents for a twenty-flve-cent thing she does not want. The people in some parts of the country this winter pump water with an ax and bring it home in a basket.

The Louisiana Reports.

Washington , Feb. 28. In the House, this morning, the majoritv rPYw-kYt nf th#* LmiiiiianiL Investigating ivy IcUUfl VI VUC DVUlDiauo xur vdda*,wvaia & Committee, signed by Messrs. Foster, Phelps, Potter and Marshall, was presented. The foilowtog Conclusions have been arrived at; The undersigned majority of tbe Committee on the State of the South respectfully report that they cannot agree to the report made to the committee by Messrs. Wheeler and Frye. The laws inimical to the colored people of'Louisiana, referred to in their report, have bean repealed for yean. Except during the schism of Gov. Warmoth, in 1872, the Bepublitma party has long had control of the machinery or the State. The late registration shows an excees of the colored over the white voters, giving 80,781 colored to 76,828 white. In the absence of any direct evidence that the late election was not free and fitir, the Assumption of the minority, that enough colored voters must therefore have been prevented from voting at the late election by the recolfettion of the Colfax and Coushatta Killings (tiPaauses and circumstances of wMehure disputed), and by other acta whteh occurred years befortqdo have changed the resale of the election tkrateKit the State, is an assumption so vmlent, whEF- it is recollected that both those parishes elected the frill Kellogg ticket by iucressefl Republican majorities, as not to be received if aby other cadre for the vote of the State can be found. Such causes exist and areobvtoas. Amtfog them are: firet— The registration was incorrect, and exceeded the true colored vote. The registration was wholly in the hands of the Kellogg officials, with whom a Republican committee, with United States Marshal Packard at their head, co-oper-ated. In only three Parisfom did the Republican Supervisors of Registration make any complaint of unfair or insufficient registration. On the other hand, very great complaint wa« made by the Conservatives, who 1 , specified, with proof, 1,200 cases of conceded ftfisaregistratton in New Orleans alone, and those Conservatives who had been co-operating in the Jfont Party Committee to secure fair registration gave up the effort in despair. The census of 1870, the correctness of which 1b not impeached, showed .87,086 whites and 86,918 colored males over twen-ty-one years of age. All we statistics and evidence before us indicated nepchange in this proportion in favor of the colatea voters. Yet the registration of colored vote* exceeded by 4,000 the total number of adult males returned by the census, while the registration of white votes was 10,000 less. . x Second— The whole number «f raters registered was 167,607. Of these 146,523 mKL JTma > 8 « larger proportion of registered v<Wts than usually vote in any of the Northern States. In an agricultural State, scantily ftttled, where long journeys had often to be madstrto reach the polls, it is unreasonable to suppose ti»t a greater proportion of the registered blacks would have turned out to sustain the Government under which the prosperity of the State aud Aeir wages and the value of their shares of production had steadily declined th*fi usually vote at tetections North or South, Third—Wlh was a year of ptettieal change, in which the vote throughout all the States was seriously affected against the Republican party, a change resulting largely from financial distress of the people, and which should therefore naturally have been even greater in Imuisiana than elsewhere. „ fourth— lt became the interest pt the Conservatives, at least at the last election, not to intimidate, but to acquire by every fair means the colored vote. Parties who were alleged to have threatened the blacks even with refusal of employment were subject to prompt arrest. It was known that pretexts would be sought to deprive the Conservatives of the result if they prevailed in the election. It was therefore their interest to avoid giving any such pretexts. Accordingly, they determined everywhere to co-operate wits and conciliate the blacks. They voted down the propositions or suggestions which were made in the early part of the Campaign for a refusal to employ those colored voters who would not co-operate with them, and generally sought by combining with colored voters to cany the election, focal combinations against the Kellogg candidates were made in many parishes by Conservative voters was voted Tor and elected. An intelligent colored witness testified that he “ desired better government,” and to that end “ was willing to swallow the white man if the white men would swallow the colored.” These causes and feelings naturally united to swell the Conservative vote in such localities as indicated by the returns. fifth — The entire want of any direct evidence to show any general intimidation of colored voters. Of course, in so large a State it would be impossible there should be no instance of refusal to employ, or of intimidation. Such occur in every State; but the evidence certainly indicates no general intimidation of colored voters, and that such intimidation as did exist in the State was rather in the interest of the Republicans than of the Conservatives. United States Marshals, whose chief was the Chairman of the Republican State Committee, armed, in some cases, with blank warrants of arrest, and aided by Federal troops, made constant arrests before the election, but not afterward. The oversight of the election and returns was in the hands of Gov. Kellogg’s officials. Their account and return did show twenty-nine majority of members of the lower house elected by the Conservatives without any protest whatever, except in three parishes, although it was their province and duty to proteat in any case where violence and intimidation, or fraud, existed. Indeed, the direct evidence as to the election of 1874, as well as tbe circumstances, clearly indicate a peaceable and fair election. In fact, after the visit of the first committee and revisit of the special committee, the Kellogg party, with all their machinery for collecting evidence, were unable to produce in the entire State more than half-a-dozen persons to testify to anything impeaching the freedom and fairness or the late election who were not officeholders or connected with officeholders. Against such facts it seems to us idle to assume that the disturbances so vividly pictured by the minority could have kept up throughout their State such a feeling of intimidation as would justify the assumption that but for that feeling the State would have gone Republican. All experience shows that the result of the election of 1874 in Louisiana, as returned to the Returning Board, was natural and to be easily accounted for by the reasons we have given. We hold, therefore, that in November, 1874, the people of the State of Louisiana did fairly have a free, peaceable and full registration and election, in which a clear Conservative majority was elected to the lower house of the Legislature, of which majority the Conservatives were deprived by the unjust, illegal and arbitrary action of the Returning Board. To the resolution reported to the House from the committee as to the action of the Returning Board we all agreed. We understand the committee to be unanimous in finding the fact thai the action of the Returning Board has defeated the will of the people as expressed by them at the polls in November, 1874. The people then elected to the lower house of their Legislature a majority of Conservative members. A portion of the Conservative members thus elected were refused their certificates. This is an act of great injustice to individuals, of the gravest danger to the State and free government, and ought to be immediately corrected by any power competent to correct it. The resolution commending the recognition of Gov. Kellogg is based upon the general impression, net upon evidence. On this point no testimony was taken either by the committee or any part of it. Kellogg may or may not have been elected in 1872, but there Is no evidence to show the fact, or if there be it has been neither sought nor found by this committee. Messrs. Foster and Phelps think that the popular belief, taking both Conservative and radical circles, inclines on the whole to justify Kellogg’s claims, and that, as Kellogg is and has been acting Governor of Louisiana for the past two years, to deny his right and install another in his place after this lapse of time might involve incalculable mischief ot the legal and political interests of the State. The committee conclude as follows: To avoid mischief and the confusion of a change, the majority of the citizens of Louisiana seem willing to accept, aa a compromise, Kel logg's recognition and the restoration to the Con eervatives of the control of the lower house. For these reasons Messrs. Foster and Phelps do not wish to oppose the recommendation that ne administration of the Governor, Kellogg, be recognized. Neither, in view of -the fact that they know nothing of its merits as judged by competent evidence, do they wish to be understood aa urging it. They only wish to accord their agreement with those of their associates who believe such a conference might, by making a termination to thSfUncertainty in Louisiana, be, on the whole, lesalntolerable than the present situation of that distracted people, but, to any resolution recognizing Kellogg, Messrs. Potter and Marshall are utterly opposed. They find nothing to justify the belief that Kellogg was elected; that he seized the Government by the aid of the Federal troops, through a void and fraudulent order. which prevented the counting and returning of the votes, should be a standing presumption against him. When the people, outraged by the abuses of his Government, had successfully regained the office which he had usurped, he was

again reseated by the Federal power through forms of law by which he had intrenched himself. He once more sought to nulGfr the choice of the people at the late election, ana to that end called In the Federal troops to break up the meeting of the Legislature, for Congress to recognize a usurpation so gross, so oppressive, is, they think, to establish a precedent by which, under pretexts that can readily be found, any State Government may be overthrown, the will of the people nullified, and fraud and violence made permanent, and republican forms perverted to destroy liberty. In their judgment all that is needed In Louisiana is to withdraw the Federal troops, and leave the people of that State to govern themselves. Chables Foster. William Walter Phelps. Clarkson N. Potteb. Samukl~S. Mabshall. THE MINORITY REPORT. G. F. Hoar, Chairman of the committee, made the minority report, closing with the following resolutions: Whebeab, Both branches of the Legislature of Louisiana have requested the Select Committee of the House to investigate the circumstances attending the election and returns thereof in that State for the year 1874-5; and Whebeas, Said committee has unanimously reported that the Returning Board of that State, In canvassing and compiling said returns, and promulgating the results, wrongfully applied an erroneous rule of law, by reason whereof persons were awarded in the House of Representatives seats to which they were not entitled, and persons entitled to seats were deprived of them; Received, That it is recommended to the House of Representatives of Louisiana to take immediate steps to remedy said injustice, and to place the persons rightfully entitled in their seats. Received, That William P. Kellogg be recognized as the Governor of Louisiana until the end, of the term of office fixed by the Constitution of that State. The majority and minority reports were ordered printed. As the result of the colloquy between members as to which was the majority report and which the minority report, it may be stated that all the members of the committee report against the action of the Returning Board; that Messrs. Foster, Phelps, Potter and Marshall unite in the majority report that there was no general intimidation in the State, but a free and fair election, which resulted in favor of the Conservatives, who were deprived of the result by the wrongful action of the Returning Board; that Messrs. Hoar, Wheeler and Frye unite in a.minority report and that Foster assents with Hoar, Wheeler and Frye to a compromise recognizing Kellogg as Governor and giving the majority in the House to the Conservative delegates. The report signed by Messrs. Hoar, Wheeler and Frye is summarized under eleven heads, which are briefly as follows:

first— That there exists In the White Men s party a purpose to take possession, by force or fraud, of the State Government, without regard to the question who may have numerical majority at any &ir election. , ... Second— That, in the execution of this purpose, they will not hesitate to use any instrumentalities which they think designed to accomplish their end, whether the same be murder, fraud, civil war or coercion of laborers by their emPl % e ”d—While there are many white men of moderate means who do not themselves use or approve these unlawful means, such men desire the accomplishment of the same end and are powerless under the leadership of their more influential causes have made it easy for the white men to so unite: The fact that the Administration party in Louisiana is made up almost altogether of negro votes, with a few white votes, largely from other States; the fact there has been maladministration by Republican officials; the belief by a large number of the white people that they have been twice defrauded of the results of the successful election. J!Wta-.Whlle these things are deplorable, the course of thß~WflTte pwlite thcino«»vwr hag-tended to bring them about. The simple and peaceful remedies of obedience to law and decent treatment of opponents would, if they had pursued them, have proven effective long ago. Sixth— While we believe Gov. Kellogg received a majority of votes in 1872, and while we believe there was violence and fraud in many of the parishes in 1874, the Illegal order of Judge Durell and the illegal conduct of the Returning Board in attemptingto cure one wrong by another have furnisned substantial basis for complaints. Seventh— There has been much dishonesty and corruption in Louisiana. For these the Republican officials under Warmoth’s rule are largely responsible, although many of their opponents have been equally guilty. Eighth— The effect of all this has been to put an end to the authority of law throughout a large portion of Louisiana, to deprive the negro of freedom and suffrage, and to destroy the safeguards provided by law to secure fairness in elections. This state of things overthrows republican government in Louisiana and seriously menaces the whole country. Ninth— A new election under national authority is desired by neither side. Tenth— Congress should exercise its constitutional powers. We think William Pitt Kellogg was the choice of the majority of the voters in 1872, and should be recognized. Eleventh —These remedies are but superficial. Efficient educational aid would have done ranch to prevent the evil, and may do much to effect the cure. The public sentiment of the rest of the country, without distinction of party, may do much to remove, as it has already- unfortunately done much to aggravate, the evils of Louisiana. The people should be made to understand that the authority lodged in the National Government to preserve a republican form of government and to Srotect the rights of all citizens will be kindly ut fearlessly and steadily exercised, and that no party in this country will accept the alliance of men who are seeking power by such methods as we have been compelled to describe. Unless this can be done the overthrow of the free institutions of the whole United States will not long survive the destruction of those in the South.

The Chinese Theatricals.

A newly-imported troupe of Chinese actors and gymnasts opened a season at the theater on Jackson Street last evening, and met with a flattering reception. The theater was crowded in every part, the dress-circle and third tier being filled with the elite of the heathen society, and the beauty and fashion of Chinatown in its most gorgeous array. The orchestra was augmented on the occasion by the addition of half-a-dozen gongs and tomtoms, and developed much power in the execution of the latest airs from the Chinese opera. The piece presented was evidently in the low comedy line, judging from the great merriment of the audience, excited by the dialogue; but the leading features were the grand military spectacles, jugglery and acrobatic performances. At different times Chinese soldiers of the old style appeared upon the stage to the number of forty or fifty, and exhibited their mode of warfare with spears and other ancient weapons. The fencing exercises and combats with the double swords displayed marvelous dexterity and agility, and demon strate that the Chinaman on his na tive heath, and with his own style of weapons, is a dangerous antagonist. The mode of combat with hatchets and meatchopper, and the utility of the cumbersome bamboo shield, is also displayed. The jugglery, which consists of running each other through with swords and spears, braining one another with meataxes, etc., is thrilling, but rather ghastly in its effect, and most wonderfully deceptive. The blood is seen streaming down the naked bodies of the apparent victims in appearance that is wonderfully real, and, after being decently slain in one of the terrific combats, it is quite surprising to observe the deceased arise again and go prancing off the stage with a meatcleaver stuck in his skull. As with most Chinese performances, however, there is little regard for the tastes or feelings of the fastidious from a civilized point of view, and the Jackson Street Theater is not likely to become a popular resort outside the heathen circles of society,— San Francisco Cau.

NUMBER 25.

Tonsorial Delights.

There ia a faint life-picture in the old memory-chest of nearly* every man in tbe land, the central figure of which is a tow-headed youth, perched on a milkingstool in a Windsor chair, a long calico apron tied at the neck, and revolving about this center a spectacled dame, cruelly wielding a pair of not overly-keen shears, while to the cheerful chirrup of the rickety mowing-machine great shocks of the ripened straw fall scattering to the kitchen floor like chaff in an autumn breeze; and tears, bitter as a November rain, go coursing over the face of the nut-brown boy. But it is done differently now. The apron-strings are broken—the spectacles have become a relic, the boy a man. He saunters into a tonsorial parlor, suave, bronze statues become animated at his approach, deft hands remove his outer garments, and half a dozen arm-chairs are at his service. Into the nearest—if he has no preference—he casts himself with the abandon of a convicted felon, despair settles on his countenance, and “ a little straighter up, sir,” restores him to consciousness. The comb, the brush and the tongue perform a trio. He must select a style—“very short,” “ shingled,” “ half shingled.” The teeth of the comb are sharp, the hand that holds it is powerful, but never turns back. Oh, that ears were made removable or constructed Of tin! “ Sharp-pointed shears, with about three rough spots in the blade, will be the rage this season,” is the way Marie Le Baron would say if she were writing a barberus fashion letter. Not more than a dozen hairs are cut at a clip, but the plow crashes through the scalp incessantly. Suggestions are in order. “ Shampoo, sir?” (Heads are like watches when experts get a look at them, you know. “Hair is coming out, sir; better have a bottle of my restorer, sir;” and still the snip, snip, scratch, scratch goes on till another change in the vocal solo suggestive of coloring: “ Gray hairs pretty thick, sir; try my hair color; made without any lead, sirand this leads up to cologne, oil, bay rum and other equivalents for the perfume of a wet dog, and the agony is about over. No; for the crop of clippings is about equally divided between the lap of the apron and the ears and neck, and .nettles are no sharper than well-anchored bristles in a woolen garment. Hair shirts are only for penance. When the martyr again emerges from the close and choky air of the shop he belches forth a great sigh of relief, consults his watch, finds he has missed an engagement, and sneaks awav with the guilty air of a petty thief, thinking, after all, the new-fangled way is not so much better than the old.— Louisville Commercial.

An Instance of What Conversion Does for a Man.

The following correspondence, says the Chicago Post and Mail, which has recently passed between a new gospeler and one of the railway Superintendents in this city, explains itself: “ Dear Ser—Over twenty years ago I rode upon th<-trains of your road three liiDfs between ——- and—- without paying fare. Once upon a passenger train the conductor passed me, supposing that I had paid. Once upon a freight and once upon an excursion train where I purposely avoided paying fare. Three times in all. lam now trying to preach the Gospel and wish to clear my conscience of this wrong. Please let me know how much money I must send to make restitution. Respectfully yours, “Dear Sir: Yours of the 26th, expressing your contrition for riding upon the trains of this company without paying fare, Is at hand. Your repentance is evidently so sincere that I am not disposed to press you for payment of the fare at this late day; and if you will give us the benefit of your prayers for as many years in the future as you have had the benefit of the fare in the past we will call the account square. Very truly, “ ” You have not fulfilled evfiry duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant. “Guilty of assault with intent to frighten,” is a late Utah verdict.

The First Trial of Salem Witches.

The magistrates took seats in front of the pulpit, faced the assembly and announced that they were ready. The prisoners were brought in and put upon a platform, in sight of all present. The officers in charge of them said they had made diligent search for images or puppets belonging to the accused, but had found none. Prayer was offered, and Sarah Good was examined. This woman was an object of general dislike. Her husband, a weak, dependent person, had become alienated from her. She was forlorn, friendless—broken down by her sad condition and bad repute. The minutes of her examination are in the handwriting of Ezekiel Cheever, the village schoolmaster, as follows: “ Sarah Good, what evil spirit have you familiarity with?” “None.” “ Have you made no contract with the devil?” “ No.” “ Why do you hurt these children?” “ I do* not hurt tnem; I scorn it.” “ Who do you employ, then, to do it?” “ I employ nobody.” “ What creature do you employ, then?” “No creature, but 1 am falsely accused.” “Why did you go away muttering from Mr. Parris’house?” ' “ I did not mutter, but I thanked him for what he gave my child.” “ Have you made no contract with the devil?” “ No.” Hathorne, the magistrate, desired the children, all of them, to look upon her, and see if this were the person that hurt them, and so they all did look upon hers and said this was one of the persons that did torment them. Presently they were all tormented. “ Sarah Good, do you not see what you have done? Why do you not tell us the truth? Why do you thus torment these poor children?” “ I do not torment them.” “ Who do you employ, then?” “I employ nobody; I scorn it” “ How came they thus tormented?” “What do I know? You bring others here, and now you charge me with it.” “Why, who was it?” “ I do not know, but it was some you brought into the meeting-house with you.”

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“We brought you into the meetinghouse.” * - ' - “ But you brought in two more.” “ Who was it, then, that tormented the children?” “ It was Osburn.” “ What is it you say when you go muttering away from people’s houses?” "If I must tell, I will tell.” “ Do tell us.” “Then if I must tell, I will tell; it in the commandments. I may say my commandments, I hope.” “ What commandments is it?” “If I must tell you, I will—it is a psalm?” “What psalm?.” (After a long time she muttered over some part of the psalm.) “Whom do you serve?” “ The God that made heaven and earth” (though she was not willing to mention the word God). Her answers were in a very wicked, spiteful manner, reflecting and retorting against the authority with base and abusive words, with many lies she was taken in. It is alleged that her husband had said that he was afraid she either was a witch or would be very quickly. The worshipful Mr. Hathorne asked him why he said so of her —whether he had ever seen anything by her. He answered: “No, not in this nature;” but it was her bad carnage to him, “and indeed,” saith he, “ I may say, with tears, that she is an enemy to all good.”— The Galaxy for March.

English Domestics.

Col Forney jots down these observations: “Take domestic service in England. There are almost as many grades in it as in high rank. Each is appointed to his or her place; each has definite privileges and deference to the one ahead is the rule. The butler or stew art is the chief and exacts respect from all below; and from him through all the grades of waiter, coachman, cook and dressingmaid there is always somebody above to follow and obey, lliere is a rude maxim that every Englishman is the idolater of some bigger Englishman right before him. The wages of a servant-of-all-work in London is about £l2 (sixty dollars) a year, and for this she does all the labor and is often the cook as well, getting few perquisites. I know some places in the great capital where one poor girl for this money is as utter a slave as ever worked on a Southern plantation. She washes, sews, scrubs, cooks the meals for the boarders, does chamber-work and tends the door for five dollars a month! If such a poor creature rebels the az., swer is prompt: ‘lf you leave me you shall never get another place, because I will give you no certificate of character.’ But it is a mistake to suppose that this rule has not many exceptions. In well-ordered private houses the seryvants are models of comfortable propriety. There the ladies’ maids and upper servants are rarely called by their Christian names; it is always ‘ Brown,’ or ‘ Jones,’ or ‘ Robinson,’ while the lady of the house is ‘ mistress,’ and the gentleman ‘ master.’ The cook is invariably ‘ cook’ when she is spoken to. The governess, no matter how gifted, rarely sits at the table with the family, and never When thcr® ta company. A lady friend advertised for a governess for her children, and the number of applicants was legion, proving the heavy struggle among girls Tyho are fighting the battle of life in a great city. Situations like these are well paid and comfortable. I have already referred to tbe generosity of the English Government in providing for hundreds of females in the General Postoffice Department. But nothing is more interesting than Lhe domestic establishments of the noblemen or gentry, especially when three or four hundred invited guests from London gather in one or the country palaces during the shooting season, each guest with his retinue of servants of both sexes. The quarter set apart for these latter is divided into as many grades and tortured by as many jealousies as their superiors’, and they live often as sumptuously. During the holidays the servants must be specially provided with presents according to their rank, but this rule has its exceptions in the humbler walks. There the one servant often gets little enough during the holidays.”

A Parisian “Industry.”

There is an artful dodger in Paris whose operations have been so clever as to deserve respectful notice. He is a middle-aged person of an innocent aspect, and his pretty plan was to meander slowly along, and, seizing the first mildeyed old gentleman he met, to lisp in a childlike manner: “Totty has lost bis mammy; take Totty back to mammy.” The mild-eyed would naturally feel somewhat confused and alarmed, when to him would further appear a confederate of Totty's. who would remark in accents bland that Totty was a harmless idiot, and if the stranger would see Totty home it would be a real charity. Fired by benevolence, the old gentleman would undertake to bear the soft, sweet Totty to his abode, and would trot along the boulevards among the toy-shops, which appeared to enchant Totty. That gentle being would observe: “ Totty wants a harlequin; buy Tot>y a harlequin;” and his antique warder would hasten to gratify that mild longing. Before the ingenious Totty reached his home he was usually laden with the marketable results of the kind-hearted old creature’s benevolence, and did a thriving business until several benefactors happened to compare notes, and Totty’s innocent industry was quenched. A certain eminent lawyer is celebrated at the bar for the following mode of examining a witness: “Now pray listen to the question I am going to ask you. Be attentive; remember, you will answer as you please; and remember, I don’t care a rush what you answer,” etc. One of the Judges, somewhat tired of the monotony of his exordiums, one day accosted him in the street: “Hal hit you, T Now pray listen to the question lam going to ask you. Be attentive; remember, you will answer as you please; and remember, I don’t care a rush what you answer. How are you f What is the longest word in the English language? Smiles; because there is a mile between the first and last letter. —Chicago has strawberries in market, but dealers have to keep a stove for every strawberry, and prices are awful. —During 1874 the Roman Catholic lost by death three Bishops in this country— Wheelan, McFarland and Bacon.