Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 14, Number 17, Jasper, Dubois County, 31 May 1872 — Page 3

tit-ant and the Guluea-Jlnglers.

rroiu Ihe Nw York World, M 17. In matter upon which the (MJMN ha been so thoroughly loxed mi upon he Executive handling of the lroaty of Washington it is not perhaps surprising that the authorities concerned therewith should have got themselves It one or another time into line with all imaginable kind of things and people. H i certain that they have niade themelves quite as amenable to the jurisdiction of the poets and the satirists as 0f Tuttendorf and Vattel. Nothing could more accurately apply to one most imiortant feature of tue American side of the case, tor instance, or more exactly describe the attitude of Loth Knirland and America, than this couplet," taken, with but a slight modification, from Tennyson's well known poem of "Looktdey Kall" I Kur Hi" jlHKliuKof Mi guinea lulpn the hurl that honor leeli, And Ii"'' "at"1" but murmur, marling it ach other' mm, ... . It is the special disgrace and the most stinging of President Grant's administration that its conduct and its misconduct have been so persistently colored and determined by pecuniary influences. In all that he has done and all that ho has left undone President Grant has steadily pursued one dominant object that ''profits might accrue." If he has any intense sympathies at all they evidently are with people who are either in hope of making a good deal of money or in fear of losing it. How plainly this appears in the interior history of the treaty muddle as in part revealed by the correspondence just sent in to the Senate! The whole tone of President Grant toward England, and with it the whole aspect of our case, evidently began to be changed fro u firmness to softness, and from quiet persistency in our rights under the treaty to nervous and feverish anxiety about the treaty itself, from the moment when imperilled stock jobbers and stockholders began to assail the Presidential ear. Up to the time when Minister Schenck began telegraphing from London, the attitudeof the United States, in spite of Bancroft Davis's hideously stupid "case," was more than decent: it was respectable and consistent with the national dignity. On the 2')th of April, Schenck begins to squirm under the electrical applications of the Government u syndicates," and declares in a spasm of obvious and not discreditable vexation that England has been ' encouraged in her position" and that the " difficulties of the situation have been wonderfully increased by much speaking, writing and telegraphing not always wise and considerate." Mr. Cyrus W. Field and the "syndicates'" may reasonably suspect Mr. Fish, we think, of a malicious intent toward themselves in publishing that letter, for it really reveals nothing else than their selfish and meddlesome interference in favor of Great Britain and ag:nust the reputation and honor of their own country. Mr. Cyrus W. Field, in particular, had a double motive in the hope of present gain and in the fear of future loss to excite him into this sort of pestilent activity. A diplomatic tlurry between England and America meant a sudden storm of cable dispatches and cable tolls, while a serious rupture between England and America would mean a formidable .falling off in cable dispatches and in cable tolls, and a war between the two countries would mean no dispatches and no tolls, and perchance, also such are the amenities of modern civilization no cable. From the date of April 25 onward the money-jobbing influence over President Grant is plainly to be traced on both sides of the water in this whole business. Those who take an interest in the summer junketings of President Grant at Long Branch are well aware that he has always there combined business with pleasure in this sense, and in this sense oniy that his associates on the beach and at the board have eeen associated with him in the bartering and handling of property of all kinds. AmoHg these associates the proprietor of the Philadelphia Pub'ic Ledger, Mr. Childs, has been conspicuous. It is to be wished that all of them, by the way, might have been as respectable, personally, as is Mr. Childs. Well, on the 27th of April, two days after his growl about the ''syndicates" and Mr. Cyrus W. Field, Schenck receives Mr. Fish's first telegram proposing to withdraw and nullify the objectionable part of our "case." On the 29th of April the London Times has a telegram from .Philadelphia, dated April 28, and announcing that the Ledger of that city states that Fresident Grant is willing to withdraw the " indirect" claims. And the next day, April 30, the London Timet bad still another telegram from Philadelphia, dated the 20th, in which the substance of Mr. Fish's note of the 27th paving the way to our surrender was fully recited. On the 1st of May (mark the dates in all this) the London Times had an editorial showing perfect knowledge of Mr. Schenck's telegram of April 30, the preceding day, sent to Washington in reply to Mr. Fish's of April 27, and containing the results of the interview, "strictly confidential," which Schenck in that telegram tells Mr. Fish he had on the 29th with Earl Granville. The Times- in this leader of May Leven in corporated Mr. Fish's idea expressed to Mr. Schenck April 27 that up to that time the American "case" nad only made a claim, while the demand for damages would only be made, if at all, in the argument of June 15, so that we could forbear if Great Britain would make us sate as to the future. This idea takes shape in the leader of the iimr.tas a suggestion that the American Senate need not be consulted in making things snuff, because the process of making them so would only be an ar rangement under the treaty, not a modification thereof. Rather a fine

and attenuated point that, one would

say, especially for a point of honor ! The "syndicates " anu Mr. Cyrus W. Field got to work, as we have seen, about the end of April. They operated at Washington both through President Grant and through Minister Thornton, the latter making his first demonstration in that extraordinary speech at the St. George's dinner of April 23,for which, had there not been a joint effort going on to stultify the American " case" and to lower the national crest, he would have been promptly disciplined by any self respecting American Executive. On the 27th of April, Mr. Fish informs Mr. Schenck that we had never asked for money, and that Sir Edward Thornton had offered to do thus and thus if we never would ask for money. Yet three days after, April 30, Earl Granville pretends not to know that Sir Edward Thornton had made any "movement " at all in the matter. He-Election of Senator Ferry. The election of Mr. Ferry by the Connecticut Legislature, yesterday, is the most significant public event that has occurred since the Cincinnati Convention. It can be hardly less mor tifying to President Grant than it is to Gen. Ilawley, the defeated Republican candidate, who, three days ago, had the most confident hopes of a triumphant election. The money se profusely spent by Grant's supporters in the Connecticut canvass turns out to be a bad investment. The election of Jewell, the Republican candidate for Governor, was a trivial matter. It can affect nothing but loenl politics and administration. The real bone of contention was the United States Senatorship, and the re-election of Mr. Ferry is the next best thing to the election of Gov. English, which would have been the result of a Democratic triumph in April. By the circumstances of his re election, Senator Ferry is released from any further obligation to the Republican party. He is secure of his present office till the 4th of March, 1879 nearly seven years hence ; and long before the expiration of that period the Republican party will have dissolved and disappeared from politics. Mr. Ferry is hereafter in a position of complete independence ; and there in no reason to distrust his fairness and patriotism. Owing his election to the Democratic party, and freed from the restraints of Republican party discipline, he will act hereafter in accordance with his excellent judgment and sense of public duty. He of course sees, as all sagacious men see, ihat the party which supports Gen. Grant is on the eve of dissolution. In the new era which is opening, Mr. Ferry is as valuable as an out-and-out Democratic Senator; and in one respect more valuable, because he is bound by no previous ties, and is therefore at full liberty to act in accordance with the emerging situation. The country is in the very crisis of a grand transition in its politics. Old political ties are loosened and dissolving, and after a transient chaos we shall witness an orderly reconstruction of parties, in which like will be attracted to its like in accordance with natural affinities: and there will be some hope of restoring the Federal Government to its original basis. In this period of transition and confusion, we must not mistake the disorderly heaps of bricks and lime casks and the temporary scaffolding for the symmetrical building to be constructed from these materials and with this aid. Hude agencies may be employed to demolish the old building and clear away the rubbish ; but these will be flung away when they have served their purpose. Let us hope that the politics of the future will be constructed on foundations of principle and public morality, and that hereafter men of honor und independence will be free to follow their conviction without slavish subserviency to caucus dictation or the behests of any base set of office-holders or office-seekers. The breaking up of the legislative caucus system in Connecticut is one if the most hopetul signs ot tue times, iv is bii?h time that a stop be put to hooting down indeuendent men by this form of at-in pant uartv dictation. No form of servility is so degrading or intolerable than that which has so long been imposed by the political wire-pullers who, - r m by base arts, get control oi parvy caucuses and conventions, and make them encines for suppressing all indepen dence of judgment and all freedom of political action. JSew Xork worm, may Unearthing a Dead Miser's Hoard. A Mr ri ilnririst. who lives near (OHIO. 4 . ... i ' .. - , - i Miss., luckilv fell into a fortune lately in a romantic sort of way. His wind- - . i i -i - i fall, however, may ue legauy ciauueu from him bv the heirs ot one matterwhite. The old Satterwhite, who was a miser and died in a lunatic asylum, lived in a long shanty which formed the kitchen to Mr. Gilchrist's house. It was built forty years ago, and occupied by Satter w lute, anct it is saiu oy wmr of the old citizens who remember him that it was one of the idiosyncracies of l - .I.mAUm . ...... Mai. 1 Iii. mrknnv IIIS COIlBl IIUUUU IU tuniir! " J by hiding it about the walls, or in the cracks, or other out of the way places, and that in lS4t he became so much deranged that his friends carried him back to South Carolina, and that they believed there was a large sum of money concealed about the premises, with valuable papers, by Satterwhite, as a portion of his money was missing ; but the matter passed off and nothing has been said about the fact, as Satterwhite rlid without revealinc anvthins in con nection with the lost treasure. Last week Mr. Gilchrist, while tearing down t.ha nlrl kitchen, found an immense pile of monev under the hearth there is no inllimr linn mil eh John II. White, of Memphis, is a grandson of the old miter, and is taking steps toward the A t . v

recovery oi tne property.

Hon. Horace Greeley's Letter of Ac eeptauce. THE TENDER Or THE NOMINATION. The following is the official notica to Mr. Greeley of the Liberal Republican nomination : Cincinnati, May 1872. Dear Sir The National Convention of Liberal Republicans of the United States have instructed the undersigned, President, Vice President, and Secretaries of the Convention, to Inform you that you have been nominated as a candidate for the Presidency, of the United States. We also submit to you the address and resolutions unanimously adopted by the convention. Be pleased to signify to us your acceptance of the platform and nomination, and believe us, very truly yours, C. Schurz, President. Geo. W. Julian, Vice President. Wm. E. McLean, J no. G. Davidson, J. II. Rhodes, Secretaries. To Hon. Horace Grbelit, New Yrk city. MR. OKEELEV'S REPI.T. New York, May 20, 1872. Gentlemen: I have chosen not to acknowledge your letter of the 3d inst. until I could learn how the work of your convention was received in all parts of our great country, and judge whether that work was approved and ratified by the mass of our fellow citizens. Their response has from day to day reached me through telegrams, letters, and comments of journalists independent of offi

cial patronage, and indifferent to the smiles or frowns of power. The number and character of these unconstrained, unpurchased, unsolicited utterances, satisfy me that the movement which found expression at Cincinnati has re ceived the stamp of public approval, and been hailed by a majority of our countrymen as the harbinger of a Wet ter day.lor the Republic. I do not mis interpret this approval as especially compli mentary to myself, nor even to the chivalrous and justly-esteemed gentlemen with whose name I thank your convention for associating mine. I receive and welcome it as a spontaneous and deserved tribute to that admirable platform of principles wherein your convention so tersely, bo lucidly, so for cibly set forth the convictions which impelled, and the purposes which guided, its course a platform which, casting behind it the wreck and rubbish of worn-out contentions and bygone feuds, embodies in fit and few words the needs and aspirations of today. Though thousands stand ready to condemn your every act, hardly a syllable of criticism or cavil has been aimed t your platform, of which the substance may be fairly epitomized as follows : 1. All political rights and franchises which have been acquired through our late convulsion must and shall be guar anteed, maintained, enjoyed, and re spected evermore. 2. All the political rights and franchises which have been lost through that convulsion should, and must, be promptly restored and re-established, so that there shall be henceforth no proscribed class and no disfranchised caste within the limits of our Union, whose long-estranged people shall re unite and fraternize upon the broad basis of universal amnesty with iinpartial suffrage. 3. That, to our solemn constitutional obligation to maintain the equal rights of all citizens, our policy should aim at local self government and not at centralization; that civil authority should be supreme over the military: that the writ of habeas corpus should be jealously upheld as the safeguard of personal freedom; that the individual citizen should enjoy the largest liberty consistent with public order, and that there shall be no subversion of the internal policy of the several States and municipalities, but that each be left free to enforce the rights and promote the well-being of its inhabitants by such means as the judgment of its own people shall prescribe. 4. There shall be a real and not merely a simulated reform in the civil service of the Republic, to which end it is indispensable that the chief dispenser of its vast patronage shall be shielded from the main temptation to use his power selfishly, by a rule inexorably forburning ana precluding nis re-eiecuon. 5. That the raising ot revenue, whether by tariff or otherwise, shall be recognized and treated as the people's immediate business, to be shaped and iirected by them through tneir repre sentatives m Congress, whose action thereon the President must neither overrule by his veto, attempt to dictate, nor presume to punish by bestowing office only on those who agree with him, or withdrawing it from those who do not. 6. That the public land shall be sacredly reserved for occupation and acquisition by cultivators, and not reck lessly squandered on the projectors oi railroads for which our people have no present need, and the premature con struction of which is annually plunging us into deeper and deeper abysses of foreign indebtedness. 7. That the achievements of these grand purposes of universal beneficence is expected and sought at the hands of all who approve them, irrespective of past affiliations. 8. That the public faith must, at all hazards, be maintained and the national credit preserved. 9. That the patriotic devotedness and inestimable services of our citizens who, as soldiers or sailors, upheld the flag and maintained the unity of the Republic, shall ever be gratefully remembered and honorably requited. These propositions so ably anil forci bly presented in the platform of your Convention have already fixed the at tention and commended the assent of

a large majority of our countrymen, who joyfully adopt them, as I do, as the basis of a true heneficeni national reconstruction, a new departure from jealousies, strifes and lintes which have no longer adequate motive, or even plausible pretext, into an atmosphere of peace, fraternity, and mutual good will. In vain do the drill-crgean i of decaying organizations flourish menacingly their truncheons, and angrily insist that the files shall be close-, and straightened. In vain do thewhippersin of parties once vital because rooted in the vital needs of the hour protest against st ray in " and bolting, denounce men nowise their inferiors as traitors and renegades, and threaten them with infamy and ruin. I am confident that the American people have already made your cause their own, fully resolved that their brave hearts and strong arms shall bear it on in triumph. In this faith, and with the distinct understanding that, if elected, I should be President not of a party, but of the whole people, I accept your nomination in the confident trust that the masses of our countrymen, North and South, are eager to clasp hands across the bloody chasm which has too long divided them, forgetting that they have been enemies in the joyful consciousness that they are and must henceforth remain brethren. Yours gratefully, Horace Greeley. To Hon. Carl Schurz, President; Hon. Geo. W. Julian, Vice President ; and Messrs. Wm. . McLean, J no. G. Davidson, J. II. Rhodes, Secretaries of the National Convention of Liberal Republicans of the United States.

Farm and Garden. Castor Bean. The castor bean (Ricinus Communis) has been cultivated with varying success in the North, but not with profit above the latitude of St. Louis. A good deal of interest is being manifested in Kansas in this industry. The seed should be planted four feet apart each way, on warm land naturally rich, or made so with manure, and the plants thinned to one in each hill ; the planting to be delayed until all danger of frost is over. The plant came originally from India, and is extremely sensitive to frost, and even to cold winds. At the South it is perennial ; instances being known when it has continued to fruit, year after year, for eight years; consequently the yield will be in proportion to the length of the season. The crop must be kept entirely free from weeds, since, when ripe, the pods burst, and the seeds are often thrown out to a considerable distance. These are regularly picked up and carried to the drying floor provided for the purpose, or the ripe pods are cut just before they open, ana carried to the place prepared for drying. The crop must not be bulked together until thoroughly dry, since it is liable to heat. Plant the light-colored, small, firm, Northern beans, not only on account of their earliness, but because the quality of the oil manufactured therefrom is better than from the coarse Southern varieties. In Texas, Florida, and other favorable localities South, from seventy to one hundred bushels of seed arte reported per acre. In Southern Illinois, Missouri and Kansas, from twenty-five to forty bushels of clear beans would be a good yield per acre. Bleeding of Grape Vines. A correspondent of the Gardener's Chronicle recommends as preferable to the method of placing a potato on the freshly-cut end, to stop bleeding in grape vines, to use flexible collodion, which has been found so thorough a styptic for wounds of the human body. Two dressings were given with the end of a feather, thoroughly covering the wound twice in the course of a few minutes, the third or final coat being put on about half an hour afterwards, when the cut was completely sealed up, and in the course of a few : v. 1 1 .1.. mill Ulf ueuiuie ijuiit- nai'i, du hi... there was not the least sign of any bleeding. In the course of ten days the vines grew away strongly and vigorously, and have since continued to do so. Some choice pelargoniums were also cut down and dressed twice ; this was quite sufficient to heal the wound, and in the course of three or four days the eyes were starting again, showing great vigor. It was found equally efficient with Avlielandia Leopoldii, Euphorbia jacquiniaßora, and Luculia gratissima. In the treatment of the Euphorbia, and all the tribe of plants that bleed at the same rapid rate, it was found necessary to have a small piece of sponge to wipe off the milky juice, so as to get the collodion to adhere, and they require to be gone over as many times as the vines. Hoot Crop for Hogs. But a very small, percentage of farmers grow root crops tor stock. Occasionally a patch of carrots or mangolds are found, but as a gen eral thing they constitute no part of the standard farm products, still all ex perience points to them as among the most economical crops to be ted out upon the farms, and at the same time they constitute a healthful and nutritive article of diet. In a recent letter to the Rural World, W. J. Neeley, of LaSalle county, Illinois, says that last year he grew five acres of mangolds,which yielded about thirty-one tons to the acre. He says that hogs are very fond of them, and in the fall will, when the other food is scarce, eat them, tops and all. He thinks one acre of them will produce as much food as five acres of corn. Mr. J. S. Tibbits writes to the Michigan Farmer that he raised sugar beets for his hogs last year, lie is ready to believe them a very valuable food for fattening hogs, and superior to any other root crop for stock of all kinds. Grass Lands. The proper management of grass lands will be, before long, if it is not now, the key to successful agriculture in America. We find a difficulty in maintaining the productive

ness of our meadows and pastures, even with annual top dressings of b.trnyird manure. There needs to be something more. Not only abundant urtificia resources are necessary to maintain perennial vigor, but the mechmiical process of harrowing and rolling are needed. These destroy moss, loosen and open the surface, admit the fertilizers to the roots and prevent th" formation of tufts and herbage, which in time would render the surface uneven. By these means grans lands have been kept productive for centuries in European countries. Value of Straw. Straw, if properly managed, can be made to serve a more profitable purpose than mere Littering, or to aId bulk to the manure pile, in England, and among the English farmers in Canada, most of the bullocks are fed and fattened on straw, with roots and meal. No hay is used, that being kept for the horses. Thus a larger number of the stock can be fed. Straw cut. wetted and sprinkled with ground food or oil-meal,, will carry cattle very well through the winter. Oat, barley, rye and wheat straw are proportionately valuable in the order in which they are placed. Pea straw is more valuable than oat straw. Food for Queens when Laying Eggs. Flour is fed to bees for pollen by apiarians in spring, as soon as they begin to fly. Pollen and water is the chief food of the queen when laying eggs. She must have pollen, and hence the necessity of supplying it to the bees before they can gather it from flowers. Oatmeal, finely ground, is regarded by many bee keepers the best substitute for pollen. A Valuable Cow. At a late sale of Shorthorn stock in England, a cow, " Rose of Promise,'' was sold for $340. She was fourteen years old, and at the same sale nineteen of her decendants were sold at average prices of $1,500 each; one cow, six years old, "Rose of Warlaby," bringing $2,870. Decrease of Sheep in Great Britain In consequence of two successive bad seasons, the number of sheep has very much decreased in England. The loss in value is estimated at forty million of dollars. The price of thutton had advanced to twenty cents per pound.

Locomotive Explosion. At half-past 7 o'clock this morning the eastern and central portion of our city were thrown into a state of great excitement by a terrible rumbling crash. Interest at once centered in the locality of the depot of the Utica and Black River railroad. Here the cause was plainly to be seen. All that remained of the engine "Charles Miller" stood upon the track, directly in front of the depot. Such portions of the locomotive as were not visible had been distributed all around the neighborhood for a quarter of a mile. The scores of flues lay exposed to view, and there was scarcely a square foot of the boiler remaining in position. The smoke-stack, after a trip of 200 feet into mid-air, came down about 30 feet from where it started, between a couple of freight cars. One of the heavy driving-wheels was thrown 10 feet, and the steel connecting-rod which held the two drivingwheels was twisted like twine. The windows of the houses near by show the force of the concussion. The block on the corner of Mill street and the square bore marks in the shape of demolished glass, one store losing every front light. On the north side of the Baptist church not a pane of glass remains, and the sash in many cases is stripped entirely out. The depot buildings were badly shattered, fragments of iron penetrated the roofs of several houses, und the inmates rushed to the street in a panic. A piece of the boiler, weighing fully half a ton, landed in the door yard of a residence 40 yards from the scene of the explosion ; the bell of the engine came down m a yard some rods further otf. The engine is a total wreck. Those who witnessed the explosion describe the sensation as most peculiar and bewildering. The air seemed tilled with fragments, large and small, which traversed the atmosphere with the rapidity of lightning and the wonder thai no person was injured increases, as we learn where the different pieces struck, and, in some instances, of their vast weight. Watertown (N. Y.) Times, May 9. A Man's Eyes Blown Out. A singular accident occured yesterday afternoon at Falconer A McCullough's foundry, at Nos. 42and 44 Hudson street, Jersey City, by which a workman had Iii eves blown out And was nrobablv fatally injured. The piston of a small steam engine was given to Wm. Foster to have the rod removed. In order to accomplish this the piston was placed in the forge and heated to a red heat. Foster, the injured man, was attending the forge, when suddenly and without apparent cause the piston exploded, entirely demolishing the forge and its surrounding, and hurling Foster some distance. When picked up his face was covered with blood and cinders, and an examination showed that the explosion had expended its force in his face, fearfully disfiguring it and putting out both eyes. The injured man was attended by Dr. Mettill and removed to his home, near Claremont. The immediate cause of the explosion is supposed to have been the generation of gas or the overheating oi the air which was confined in the cavity between the two sections of the piston plate, from which there was no vent. New York World, May 17. The brig Abbie Clifford arrived at New York from Pernambuco on Saturday, her captain, mate, and two seamen having died of yellow fever during the passage. The captain's wife took charge of the vessel on her husband's death, and successfully navigated her into port.