The National Banner, Volume 12, Number 31, Ligonier, Noble County, 22 November 1877 — Page 2

The Fational Banuer | i ¥Na ) Sy ) . J. B.STOLY., Editor and Proprietor . LIGONTER, IND., NOV'R 22d, 1877. “‘No man worthy of the office of President should be willing to hold it ir counted in or placed there by fraud.”— U. 8. GRANT. : _ '%E editor of THE BANNER being absent from home on Monday and _Tuésday, and being confined to his bed by sickness yesterday and to-day, the readers will have to overlook all shortcomings and a-dearth of editoral matter|in this issue. < | ' SHRINKAGE OF VALUES is what “did thj business” for the three suspended savings banks of Rading, Pa. When real estate depreciates from 40 to 60 r:% cent., it is no wonder that substantial old institutions are forced to tumble. But the Shylocks bof Wall street care hothing for these disasters. Their interests ‘are centered in government bonds. R

FIFTEEN MUNDRED HOUSES Were oired at public sale on the sth inst. ‘by the Sheriff of Philadelphia. A goodly portion of these buildings were sold on account of delinquent taxes.— Think of it, 1,500 houses under’ the S'l#eriff’s hammer on a single day! This is unparalleled in the history of the country, and tells a woeful tale of the preyailing distress that John Sherm{an has brought upon the country.

|THE PUBLISHERS of a St. Louis age ricultural paper have forwarded to Cpngress “a farmers’ petition,” measuring 127 feet in length, and containing 5,573 name, asking for a financial system independent of a metallic basis. They .ipsist that the whole theory of specie resumption is unphilospphical and unsound; that values being relative, the only thing which can e said 'to be- 4 standard of value is necessity, tlie mean relation of all comodities; that money is simply a creature of law, an instrument of comerce, a standard of payment. These armers need to study a little political ¢onomy, = Theirtheory is wholly impracticable. v

| It is a melancholy despatch from the - t’énnsylvania city -of Reading about he panic that was raised there yesterday by the sudden failure of all ‘the savings banks of the place—three in number. In‘one of them, which was .an old and trusted concern, the saving , de‘posi-tg,rs ‘had placed nearly tﬁwo milHion of dollars for safe keeping; and now, on closing its doors, the bank puts them off with the promise, usually made in such cases, that the “assets, it is believed, will pay all of its liabilities.” Another familiar item of information is given in the words that the “loss falls heaviest upon the poorer classes, who have from $5O, to $l,OOO -.ondeposit.”. This isa dismal sentence, - 'heavy with lost years, blasted hopes, ‘and wrecked lives.—N. Y. Bun, N0v.17. : [ Yes, it is a melanchol y affair through- * out, but just what Wall street and its journalistic, hirelings are aiming to ~make general. It is their work—the i legitimatp' outgrowth of the pernicious - measures which the gold scalpershave foisted upon a suffering and distress;.ed people, >, 7. -+, -

. However the House may vote on 1 the bill for the repeal of the Resumption act, whatever may be“the size of ~ the majority obtained for if, there is no occasion for pdnic. Gold isn’t frightened, as the quotations :show. The chance of the Senate’s acquiesc“ing in the repeal 1s admitted on all hands to be slight; and, even if it should be successfully steered passed that danger, it would be morally sure - - tocome to wreck on a veto. Hayes, left to himself, might be unequal to the emergency; he is of a vacillating temperament. But John Sherman has . toobig a stake on the success of the new syndicate to be caught dozing upon his post—XH. Y, Sun. -+ : o Even a New York paper is once in & while tempted to let the cat out of the bag. “John Sherman has too big . & stake on the suceess of the new - syndicate: to be caught dozing upon his post.” That tells the story. The conversion of greenbacks into inter- . est-bearing bonds, through the operations of that syndicate in which John Sherman has a pecuniary interest, is the controlling idea.. What if ._.the business of the country languishes; ‘ what__i;,e-millions of unemployed people arefi‘n‘faptual want; so long as Sher man and the gold scalpers can fill their coffers, it is all right, and the - people must tamely submit. . Suicide of an Eminent Chicago Banker. ~Hon, W. F. Coolbaugh, President of ~ the Union National Bank, of Chicago, was found dead early Wednesday ~ morning of last week at the foot, of the ‘Douglas monument, on Thirty-fifth street. An elegant revolver, bearing the desd man’s name, lay near his " right hand, and a bullet hole in his head near the right ear completed the evidence making a reasonable presumption of suicide. The body layin @& pool of blood a yard in width, the ~ head resting on the third and upper stone step of the base leading up to ~the main entrance to the monument, _The cause of the suicide as ascer- ; glined ‘from relatives and intimate ends, w;? undoubtedly temporary inunit{v. It had been noted of late - that his intellect was somewhat im(me A card from thg National - Bank examiner, who had fortunately ‘just made ti mﬁt scrutiny of the aftairs ,‘Agwg' Union %ﬁ@hﬁl Bank, Sha sto s wre i o ealtiny - condition, and that the bank has uxGaRE) Jecn th phede It Dehed . caused Mr. Coolbaugh to shoot him- © self. That the deed should be done nt e e Te L L § his ;‘, I‘.3} ’a R _7( ”‘*““"1‘{);'«;4 Mt ::’-i'f Pa TRt k “,. a sdire Bt ST ‘W;Q‘h%%h'f’%ﬁﬁ (3 é:’i’ 1O * 4 o I ~,fhﬁ,, ‘M"(!’ .4

' THE'SILVER BILL, - "+ The Senate Finance Committée have practically decided upon the form in which the Bland Silver bill will be reported to the Senate. e - Though the silver men have gained a decided victory they have not been able to secure free coinage. Allamendments to limit the amounts for which silver should be a legal-tender have been voted down. ‘The manifest determination of the majority of the committee is to have adopted a bill making silver a legal-tender for all obligations due to the Government and to the people of the United States. The amendment propused by Senator Allison, limiting the amount of silver coinage puts an end to the present system of coinage.. This amendment directs the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase silver bullion at the market

value, to be coined at the U.S. Mint in. amounts not to exceed $4,000,000 and not less than $2,000,000 monthly. The profits accruing from this coinage are to be devoted to a bullion fund, until that fund shall reach $5,000,000. The bill‘is’ essentially the same as it passed the House with the exception of this limitation of coinage. =~ Senator Jones has made a careful canvass of the probable vote upon the passage of this bill in-the Senate, and thinks the vote will be; yeas 38; nays 20; doubtful 2. There is a manifest sectional character in the vote that is to be regretted, when the interests of the country as a wholeare to be effected. The New England States furnish gleven negative votes and the others conie from New York, Delaware,Maryland and New Jérse)l':‘ The majority for the bill will be _sdn?arly two thirds that the President will certafinly pause before placing his veto thereto, provided he'should be inclined to give ear to the Shylock bullionists. - = |

- The discussion upon the repeal of the resumption act, continues in the louse. A vote upon its final passage will be taken on Monday. That the bill will ultimately become a law there cannot be the semblance of doubt.

BONDS PAYABLE IN COIN, - i..The Chicago 7'ribune pointedly remarks that the false assertions :of ‘many of the Eastern press in regard to the kind of money in which the national bonds are payable is very provoking. They persist in declaring that the bonds are specifically payable in gold alone. It isamazing how they do lie on this point, when every motkher’s son of them well knows that the face of the bonds bears the words: “Thisbond . ~ . . isredeemable at the pleasure 6f the United States « o o W 10 cotn af the standard. value of the United States on said July 14,1870.” On the said 14th of July, 1870, the-silver dollar was standard legal-tender money equally with gold. The “said July 14” was the date of the approval of the Refunding act. The law fixed upon the coin of standard value on that day so as to prevent all subsequent disputes as to the kind of money in which the bonds were payable. There is nobody aboye the intelJlectual grade of an ape or an idiot but knows that the dollaf of 41215 grains of standard iilver was then a perfect legal-tender |for everything, without exception; aj‘nd continued to- be for three years. afterwards, and until secretly and fraudulently demonetized. All the bonds sold since said 14th of July, 1870, are redeemable at the pleasure of the Government in coin of the standard value of the United States on the said July 14, 1870. - That is the law; Messieurs, and you can’t' change it by ,how}ing ‘repudiation.’” No, ‘thank God, these journalistic hirelings ,of‘:WaAl street can’t change the law; but it remains to be seen whether there is il)x_,ﬁ”lcient.'backbone among the people to decide that the law sHall be respected. = - o

[— < ———— : : i HOW THEQE GOLD-SCALPERS DO LIE, \ A fellow named John Underwood writes thus to the Chicago 7ribune on the silver question: | “The plain statement of this case seems to be this: The bonds were issued by the Government at a time when both gold and silver coin were legaltender, and were of equal value in buyingg,’selfling, or paying debts; but in 1873 a law was enacted demonetizing silver, and by so doing reduced its value. This' was the deliberate act of the debtor; who alone had power to enact a law having this effect. The creditor bad no power over the matter, and, therefore, cannot be held responsible for its consequences.” | The 7'ribune bounces the impudenti falsehood of this cheeky lowa chap in & manner that must do the soul of every truthful man a deal of good. It BRYB: L 0 ' - “For cool assumption, this is alittle the cheekiest thing we have seen in a long time. When Mr. W. asserts that “the law demonetizing silver was the deliberate act of the debtor,” he either intends -an ironical pleasantry or a barefaced falsehood. He knows very well that the swindle perpetrated on the “debtor” and the country at large ‘'was managed in two bills, one passed in 1873,—a huge bill consolidating the scattered coinage acts, which among ‘other thing:~made a list of silver coins, including the trade dollar, and innocently omitting the regular dollar; the other slipped in by the statute-revisers of 1874, making the gold dollar the unit of value. He knowsthat it wasin this sneaking, indirect manner that the change from the double to the singlestandard occurred. He knows that. not one man in a million ‘knew what ‘had been dpne until a couple of years afterwards, and that President Grant' wag not aware of it twelve months afterwards. The ayes and noes were not even called on the act of 1873, and only the initiated few knew the effect of the bill on the silvér dollar, They klagt their‘r:ecxtets well, and accomplished by stealthy, fraudulent legislation in 18" m:;.'wha% if allowed to stand, will infliet on this country enormous damage. Shall this thimble-rig-ging be permitted to remain on the statute-book, now that the rascally act is exposed and known? Where ninehﬂtggéfi bhe American ba %;6* ﬂg‘fl Hills, ness Dendntod. A tow miners: mwm;% SRI el R e el E«L@ww“’mw

. ROME CITY ITEMS., i : ez ’ ah - The “Fete Champetre,” or “Rural Festival,” which had been so liberally advertised by posters over the country and favorably noticed in THE BANNER, came off on Friday last, but was not. so largely altended as had been expected and hoped for by the projectors. On the early morning train, at 6:45,. came a delegation from Sturgis, Mich., who immediately upon their arrival ‘repaired to the Lake Side House for breakfast. Next came the 8:45 train from the South, which brought several crack marksmen from Fort Wayne -and intermediate points, amongst whom we noticed A. C. M. Ringle and the proprietor of the Dodge House from Kendallville. By ten o’clock the people began to arrive from the country quite freely, so that by noon our village presented quite a lively appearance, and it might be said at that hour business had fairly ‘commenced. Turkeys were put up as a target at a | distance of 60 rods. The sportsmen were required to pay 10 cents a. shot and the first blood drawn took the turkey, but when it was found that a turkey seldom survived the second or third shot, the owner of the turkeys refused to sacrifice his game further in that direction. At the same thr&\e; at other points, other parties weré\‘ shooting at a target, the nearest shot taking the turkey. And it is said that at or about the same time on the site of the original “hunters home” several persons were engaged in what is sometimes called “old sledge” and flopping square pieces of bone npon which were spots or characters indicating numbers. ' The person striking the hardest trick at old sledge, or the one flopping the highest number of spots, took 'thg turkey. About two o’clock p. M. the exercise .of shooting pigeons on the wing'commenced in the vicinity of the G. R. & I. depot. This exercise was witnessed by a large number of spectators, male and female, and in which all seemed deeply interested. Very few pigeons failed to -come down at the first shot. This was the most interesting and exciting part of the entire programme and seemed to be enjoyed hugely by all parties except the poor pigeons. All seemed to pass off quietly and mirthfully until about three o’clock in the afternoon, when one of the marksmen south of town got into a snarl with one of our town boys. The town boy accused the country fellow of trying to “hornswoggle” by changing his centre to suit the shot (¢. e., after the shot was made.) The country boy at once be|came Indignant and told the town fellow that.he was a d—-d liar. Thereupon the town boy sent in a few *“old settlers” in the vicinity of the peepers, which were immediately closed for repairs. The country boy immediately made his way to thedrug store where, under the direction of Dr. Fitch, he received some much-needed repairs, after which, it is stated, he was able to be out, met his antagonist: the second time, asked pardon for the past, and was on duty at the “hunters home” until alate hour at night. He made his appearance'in town on Saturday, but it was difficult to tell whether it was himself or his brother, or some distant relation. : ; i

The dance in the evening at the Lake Side House was not so largely attended as had been anticipated. It was plain to be seen, both in the day time and evening, that Sherman’s contraction policy interferes with sportsmen as well as the business interests of the country. All passed off quietly at the dance, with one exception. One young fellow, near town, became boisterous and nojsy and could not be pacified until he received a visit from an old settler and afterward had two or three photographs taken 1n the mud, after which his: reason returned and he was perfectly calm during the remainder of the evening. ~ The panorama at the Baptist church, on Thursday evening last, did not pan out- well. © The indications of the crowd being small, induced the proprietors to reduce the admission fee. They let in 16 school boys for thirty cents; afterwards three fellows for a nickle. The entire receipts of the show were said tobe $2.00. The boys say that they just about got the worth of their money. | ; a

Capt. Eden Fisher has just received about 15 Ibs. (ten books) of public doeuments from Washington City. He is now better prepared than ever before to expound the finance questicn. Two good-natured, genial, well-be-haved, well-dressed, good-looking fellows visited our town on Friday last from Ligonier. They came for the purpose of procuring some turkeys for family use, as well as to supply some of their most intimate friends of the city of the “New Jerusalem” with a turkey for Thanksgiving. Not having in their possession any ﬁre-arms, they of coursghad to repair to the “hunter’s home” and adopt one of the devices therein established, .in order to procure the aforesaid turkeys. Fortune smiled upoa them and when eventide came, they found themselves in the’ possession of seven nice, fat turkeys. They were now happy, and their joy should have been complete; but like all other adyenturers, they could not be satisfied to let well enough alone. They tarried after night-fall and when the morning dawned they could not see even a solitary turkey for themselves or friends. For further and full particulars inquire at the Dodge House, at Kendallyille. =~

~ The teachers’ institute in our town was 80 thinly attended on Saturday ‘last that Prof. Abrabam adjourned the institution before dinner. As wehave i said before, it seems that these institutions have outlived their usefulness. The Chicago T'imes sneeringly says ‘ that the “rag baby now wants a silver ‘ dollar to cut its teeth 0n.,” The poor laboring voters of this country have ‘John SBherman’s contraction policy to ‘cut their teeth on, and we don’t believe they will forgetit when the next ‘election comes around. ik ~ We understand that some of our own boys who went west to procure

homes are on their way back again. Gnod homes in the west are not created in a day. : ’ An exciting law suit took place be: fore a jury of six men, presided over by Esq. David Law, on Saturday. We may take occasion to mention some of the particulars hereafter.” . We learned from what we considered a reliable source, that the mud in the streets of ‘Wolcottville on Saturday last was two feet deep and still on the rise. -

Wm. R. Myers dislocated his knee joint a short time ago, but now has so far recovered as to be able to visit his friends in Ohio.

- Parks & Gerber have sent an agent to California to operate with their patent scaffold. -

Rabbit hunting and quail shooting has. been fairly commenced in our vicinity. ! Sylvester S.Fitch of our town is tussleing with the yellow jaundice. He has now got the better of It, _ Jake Kraner, of Kendallville, was in town on Friday last distributing invitations for his great Thanksgiving dance at Mitchell’s llail, on the evening of the 29th. The fact of his having secured the services of Hobson’s Rome City Band is a suflicient guarantee that first-class music will be in attendance. ALEXIS.

. Three Reading Banks Close. \ READING, Pa., Nov. 36,—The busk ess community of this city was startled this afternoon by the following nodice, which was posted on the doors of the Reading Savings Bank, the oldest institution of the kind in the Schuylkill Valley: “The Reading Savings Bank is closed. A statement will be made as soon as it can be prepared. The assests of the bank, it is believed, will pay all of its liabilities. The assets of the bank will be immediately turned over to responsible parties in trust for creditors.” The President of this bank is A. F. Boas, one of our wealthiest citizens. E. P. Boas is the cashier. The bank was incorporated in 1858, with.a capital of $lOO,000, and has deposits amounting to over $1,000,000, for which the stockholders are liable. The cause of the suspension is that the bank . officers had invested largely in securities upon which. they could not realize at present, and also the general condition of trade and the shrinkage of values.— Mr. Boas says that he will make an assignment of all his property to-mor-row for the benefit of the creditors.— The excitement over the closing of this bank was rendered more intense when this evening the well-known banking firm of Bushong & Bro. posted on the doors of their bank that it was also closed, and, following right after, the announcement of Boyer & Sellers, of the Dime Savings Bank, that they would also close and prepare a statement as soon as possible. With this last all of the savings banks in Reading, three in number, have now closed. The excitement over these failures is intense. ’

A Horrible Outrage. Rosana Keenan, a girl of 18 years, was found last Thursday morning, by an officer,in Brooklyn,nearly naked and crying bitterly. . She told the officer that on the previous day she had left the house of the Good Shepherd, to call on a friend. In attempting to return she lost her way, and wandered about the streets allnight. At 6 o’clock next morning, being tired and hungry, she knocked at the door of a shanty near Canton street, occupied by James Powers and wife, and asked for assistance. She was inviled in, and having told her story was pressed to reinain a while and rest. - Mr. Powers, she says, gave her some liquor, and she “fell asleep after drinking it. 'While asleep ‘her ‘clothes was taken from her per--son and carried by Mrs. Powers to the pawnishop.’ While the wife was gone upon this errand Powers outraged her person, using great .violence, Upon the return of Mrs, Powers she was turned into the street. The man and wife were committed to jail, and the girl was detained as a witness.

Chicago’s Dry Goods Palace Laid in ¢ Ashes.

" The mammoth retail store in Chicago of Field, Leiter & Co. was destroyed by fire on Wednesday evening of last’ week. The loss is $1,200,000, and eight hundred persons are thrown out of employment, three hundred of the number being girls in the factory department. The insurance is in the neighborhood of one million of dollars. Three firemen were killed and several wounded. The killed lost their lives by the falling of the immense water tank in the attic, after its supports had been burned away. , The fire is believed to have been set by an incendiary, as it started next to the roof, in a portion of the building entirely isolated from the heating apparatus. Another start will be made by the firm as soon as the necessary arrangements can be effected. - The fire however is especially disastrous for the reason that the house had a very heavy stock of goods, and was entered upon the. busiest season of the year. .

Short Work with a Cold-Blooded Mur- ~ ‘derer.. i

Charles Strahl, the Monroe county, Mo., murderer of Goetz and wife, after being caught at St. Louis and returned, made a full confession of his double ‘marder beforé a justice of the peace. A large body of men were witness of the confession, and just as Strahl signed his name to the notes taken by the clerk, the noose of a rope which had been hidden under the coat of one of the men was slipped over Strahl’s head, and he was precipitately dragged and pushed at a high rate of speed in the direction of a neighboring piece of woods. The rope was long, and when' the woods had been ™=ched, those in the lead threw the end over a limb and ran on without coming to a halt, until the hapless victim came under the tree and was swung off from his feet and suspended in the agonies of death by strangulation. ,

LaPorte has a sensation in the shortage of the county treasurer, G. W. Mecum, whose term expired on the 15th inst. The shortage was discovered in making up the final sheets for the new treasurer. The deputy in the office, Mr. Mecum’s son, is the guilty chap. He has been living fast for a long time. The shortage is twenty ‘thousand dollars. The elder Mecum is an easy-going old gentleman, who did not suspect his'son. The old gentleman was worth about fifteen thousand dollars. This he has turned over as security to Lis bondsmen, who will have to make up the balance of the deficiency. By this act of the son his parents are made penniless in their ‘old age. What a soul-harrowing subjeet for contemplation, , e ) A — et ! It has just heen discovered that the Treasurer’s office, of Clearmont coun.ty, Ohio, has been robbed of $24,000 in a very mysterious way. It is nx‘xg: known when&’r how it wg:‘done, The ‘money was there geme four ‘weeks ﬁ go, in t& inner 7@% huGWhenehg‘

“Uncle Toby” vs. the Milford Independ-

‘To the Editor of The National Banner. h ‘ My attention has been called to a late issue of the Milford Independent, in which some editorial comment on the opinion and judgment of the Supreme Court in reference to the fish' law is indulged; with the ‘opinion of the Independent as to the advisability of such a law, or of this particular law, I have no quarrel; but the editor goes out of his way to attack Judge' Tousley, of this county, and Andrew Ellison, Esq., of Lagrange, and seeks to hold them up as only worthy of the contempt of honest men. These gentlemen are able to defend themselves, if .any defense is needed, and the Independent will doubtless learn with dismay that both will survive the attack of the sapient ‘editor of the Milford paper. Bat my purpose is not to defend these gentlemen or apologize for either. With their opinions of the fish: law I have no' concern, and since the Supreme Court has decided that the ‘law is constitutional, these ‘géentle‘men skilled in legal lore,” and all other good citizens of the State,will doubtless obey the law. It is idle now to discuss this law. 1t is the duty of all to obey it. Yet, while it was within the province of the legislature to pass the law, it works hardships on a class 0f people who are not able or lucky ‘enough to possess the patent rod ‘and reel.. I deny that the law was needed for public benefit, however much it was and is desired by fancy sportsmen. But to the real purpose of this communication, the editor of the Independent charges Judge Tousley with being the autLor of “Uncle Toby’s” ¢ommunication in THE BANNER a year and more ago, in reference to this fish law, and squirts his ink in the most profuse style upon thehead of Tousley. Now, “Uncle T'oby” is a peaceful old man, and dislikes to quarrel in his declining years; he loves above all things fair play and an honest, open fight.—: Yet here comes this terrible Milford man, with his ink jugs strapped to his side, and quilis at both ends, a patent fish pole in his hand, astride a horse mackerel, and takes a tilt at innocent Judge Tousley! And shall “Uncle Toby” tlook on unmeved? And not content to demolish the Judge, this valiant trooper threatens to “go to the bottom of the pork barrel!” Now there is danger indeed! If this terrible Milford man should put his horrible threat into execution, and “go to the bottom,” as he seems determined, then, farewell Tousley! 'And shall poor Tousley perish thus? No! It was Uncle Toby who “hurled a sarcastic shaft at the ‘paper-collared’ sportsmen!” No, mister Milford man! “Uncle Toby” and Judge Tousley are twoseparate and distinct persons. Judge Tousley did not write the communicatéon which even yet stirs up your gall. Pitch into your “uncle.” He did it all; and like the immortal G. W. he cannot, ‘ or at least’ will not, tell a lie. Stand then, thou valiant knight; upon my shield I catch thy poisonous spear.— While Uncle Toby is glad to hear that Judge Woods, of Goshen, had, by “his recognition of law, and persistency in maintaining it, earned the approval of ; the universal publig¢,” yet in the next sentence the.lnde-pgqndent man gets off something that would indicate that he regards all who questioned the policy of the law as worse than heathens.— Hear him! “Finally, while we live, shall we never surrender to vandals whether clothed in ermine or armed with' the barbarous spear!” “Uncle Toby” would suggest that this sentence is somewhat “mixed;”’ and a suspicion crosses his mind that the editor was somewhat out of his reckoning, when he rounded off with that virtuous sentence. Now Uncle Toby is not a Vandal (I spell it with a big capital), neither is Judge Tousley:a Vandalk Such an expression applie\\i to Judge Tousley is only calculated té\ hurt him who uses it. What connec-\ tion has the opposition to the policy of a given law to do with Vandalism ? The Vandals made the destruction of the monuments of literature and art a special object, in their incursions into Southern Europe. And is everyone who was, and is, opposed to the fish law, to be branded as a barbarian, and to be watched, lest he destroy a library or some elegant work of art? Surely the Independent cannot mean to include a large class of citizens in every section of our State, who honestly thought such a law uncalled for, as barbarians? For the gist of his strictures is that the opposers of the law—those who saw no crime in taking fish as they had always taken them, and not for the sport of fishing, but as a necessary article -of food, and to be taken as easily and expeditiously as possible--are everything else but honest men. Uncle Toby, nor Judge Tousley for that matter, does not advise infractions of the law. Let the Independent have no fears. He can cast his patent fly to his heart’s content. And as he idly sits beside the stream on a pleasant sporting day, bobbing for whales or horse-marines, may no ghost of Vandals suddenly shock his sight, may no “barbarian,” with his dreaded spear, appall his merry heart. Neiﬁxer Judge Tousley, nor | Andy Ellison, nor poor old Uncle Toby will molest or make him afraid. ‘ G UNCLE TOBY.

At last, the great Turkish stronghold of Kars in Asia Minor has fallen before the Russian army. Weassume -the Russian official dispatch to be true, though the Russian dispatches, official and unofficial, from Asia Minor, havee°ten turned out to be untrustworthy. It appears that Kars wastaken by storm vesterday, after a battle which lasted from 8 o’clock Saturday night till 8 o’clock of Sunday morning: The Russian advance upon Kars in the first campaign of this year was repulsed, and all the operations then carried on in Asia Minor were unsuccessful. But in the present campaign,the Russians had advantages that they did not previously possess. In the first place, the Russian army had heen strengthened by large re-enforcements, and, in the second place, the Turkish army had been greatly weakened by the withdrawal of forces for service in the European field. _, : ~ The Russians could make no progress in As%%Minor while Kars held out against them; bat now thatit has fallen, we may expect to hear of the capture of Erzeroum, and perhaps of the advance of their forces toward 'rebizond, while Batoum will be ac-ti-mmggmth& rear—~Chicgcago Tribume, Nov. 19, .

- EARNEST WORDS IN CONGRESS., | The People’s Representatives Demanding the Repeal of the Resumvption Act. i e 3.5 o i AN 2 { - Mr. DAvis (Dem,, N.C.) said that he was in favor of the coi\gage ‘of silver, and in such quantity as would suffice to pay all private and natinnal debts. The policy of contraction of the currency had been the policy which had . paralyzed labor and industry and en- ) terprise—the policy which had brought Ppoverty and disaster upon the country and want and starvation upon thousands and thousands of laborers. The gentleman from New York (Mr. Chittenden) had stated that all the gamblers and loafers were howling for the passage of the bill noew befure the House. There was a set of gamblers in Wall street who were not only' howling on the other side, but were planning to defeat the silver bill and the bill for the repeal of the resumption act. Those are the gamblers who made Black Fridays, corners in wheat and corners in.-cotton, and they were all on the side of the gentleman from New York. In his opinion the voice of the country, coming like.a whirlwind, demanded that the bill should pass, and that there should no longer be one money for the bondliolder and another for the laboring man. Mr. FELTON (Dem., Georgia) favored the repeal of the resumption act. ITe inveighed against class legislation, and opposed strikes of laboring men. Labor had no right to make war upon capital, but it was equally wrong forx’ capital to conspire against labor. The -act demonetizing the silver dollar was as unjust and wicked as the famous strikes which had reeently startled and alarmed the country. That act demonetizing silver was the most deliberate and inexcusable attack upon labor ever-known in legislative history, but that did not quite make New | York and New England the owners of the cotton-fields of the South, and therefore the black scheme of contraction had been consummated. Just as the wild delirinm of the war was subsiding into reason all encouragement was withdrawn and financial ruin ensued. During the war the bankers of New York and those antiquated Shylocks had spent every dollar, not expending in paying for substitutes, but in buying United States ‘bonds, and they became clamorous for contraction. They cared not for the resumption of specie payments. That was but a pretense which they had trumped up, and agitation had sent down the price of labor to starvation wages. The gentleman from New York (Chittenden) has said yesterday from his perch (the Clerk’s desk) that gamblers, and loafers, and bankrupts: demanded the repeal of the resumption act, The gentleman from New York must have kept a ledger, on one side of which the poor man was put, and the man who owned $300,000 or $400,000 in government securities on the other side,—the side which was grinding down the laboring man. As soon as Mr. Chittenden heard himself alluded to in Mr. Felton’s remarks he crossed over to the democratic side .in order to hear more distinctly what was said about him, and made several attempts to interpose a remark, but ‘was not permitted to do’ 80, as he himself gave notice yesterday that he would'not allow anyinterruptions. Mr. Fenton went on with his denunciation of the capitalists, addressing himself directly to Chittenden, who was standing in one of the aisles on the democratic side, the butt of jests and laughter on that side. lle said, “and yet you undertake to comfort the country by telling it that all these things will right themselves.— Yes, I know that these things will right themselves when they have touched the bottomless pit of despair and poverty. ILook yonder at that storm-driven ocean. Hurricanes and darkness are upon the deep; signalguns are firing every minute; ships are going down by the hundred; thousands of precious lives are being engulfed, and in the midst of all the ruins thére (pointing over to Chittenden) stands the wrecker (outburst of laughter and applause on the democratic side) waiting for the spoils, and assuring those in peril of destruction that all these.things will right themselves. by e

Mr. KeLLEY (Rep., Pa.) said he was ' going to continue an argument begun by him in that hall on Jan. 8, 1867. A fter reading extracts from his-speech of that date, he severely criticised recent utterances of Mr. Hugh McCulloch, as indicating an ignorance discreditable to the country that had had such a Secretary of the Treasury, and also downright mendacity. He (Mr. Kelley) had conversed confidentially with ‘many bankers, and he had not ‘found one of them who did not say that, although the Treasury might by law resume specie payment on Jan. 1, 1879, its supply of bullion would be exhausted on that day; the banks getting inin time would make a good thing of it; there would be no calculating how high the premium on gold ‘would go, or how long the next suspension of specie payment would continue. The necessary amount of gold was not in the country, and could not be obtained. The Geneva award of - $15,500,000 was not paid in coin, because the English Government was afraid that the withdrawal of so much gold would cause a financial erisis in England. Congress, in Jegislating for a resumption of specie payments, was legislating an impossibility. They might as well attempt to regulate the laws of gravitation or refraction as to legislate the flow of gold from’ creditor to debtor nations in an epoch like the present. The banks understood ‘all this. . Their representatives were in Washington and had yesterday invaded various committee rooms. They ‘had even gone, the newspapers said, with three Cabinet Ministers to the White House. . But hie did not believe ‘that story. He could not believe that forty or fifty men owning money bags ‘had Cabinet Ministers ready to drop 'their business and to escort them with ‘gervility to the Executive Chamber. The banks were not preparing for re}_sumption, The greenbacks, the “rag ‘baby,” had saved the Union. That ~which served so well in war was not - deserving of the contempt which was “heaped upon it in peace. That which gave the nation credit o the amount of $2,700,000,000 was certainly enough to sustain a credit of $2,000,000,000.— Qalling attention to the general shrink‘age in assessed values, he predicted ‘that, if the resumption. act was main: ‘tained, t,'ge : m;gfsting ng th%.?igt- t,w"%. _years, compared with the suffering yet '.!3.0%91."9.‘11‘1 be as light as‘?bha-chin ‘that blights tropical plants when compared with the Artie cold that builds _up the mountainous iceberg. =~ - We are not in favor of holding the State democratic convention to make the nominations for next fall eleci'?!i?;@é.c!;&!?{@ﬂ the Bth afJ&ﬁﬂar‘!M Nor are we in “fﬁveromxa@w%’m SECORY o Bista gapltol - (oA B it !ﬁ“’ s et o oot PR ae eER SR s e L e

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