The National Banner, Volume 12, Number 52, Ligonier, Noble County, 18 April 1878 — Page 2

The ational Banner : » gk e - o ¢ . P YA AN ' A J. B.STOLZ., Editor and Proprietor , eeee e S L LIGONJER, IND., APRIL 18, 1878. should be willing to hold it if counted in or placed there by fraud.”—U. 8. GanT, . Gold,-silver and greenbacks were quoted at par in Chicago on Monday. oty B e N Wit all his vagaries, Gen. Cary is certainly .one of the most effective stump speakers of the land. Ilis delinealing powers are immense. ' —_—————— P Tune DeEMOCRACY of Illinois and Oregon havesubstanially placed them- - selves on the Indiana platform, as regards the currency question. The par'ty is solidifying on that issue. =~ Tur Whitley Commercial has not yet answered our ‘question whether or not it is in favor of retiring the greenback eirculation. Come, John, don’t allow party interests to seal your lips. e e —————— THOSE who heard Gen. Cary at Ken- - dallville must have been genuinely surprised to hear George 11. Pendleton denounced as a “hard money aristocrat.” Pendleton isthe pioneer greenbacker. Gen. Cary should be a little more circumspect in his crivicisms. —————— THE dilemma in which some of the New York papers find themselves in speaking of the death of Boss Tweed, reminds usof a little anecdote. “Vell,” said a kind-hearted Dutchman, who ~ saw the earth piled in the grave of a - neighbor, while no one had a word to - Bay in honor of the deceased—*“Vell, he was a good schmoker.”

. A CITIZENS' CALL appeared in last week’s Plymouth Democrat for ' the holding of a National Greenback convention by the people of Marshall county “who believe that the United States government can create a money which if good for the ‘people 18 also good for the bondholder.” The con‘vention was called for last Saturday.

THE NOMINATION -of strong and

able men for the Legislature proceeds very satisfactorily. In Daviess county the Democrats have nominated Col. Samuel lE. Taylor, a gentleman of ‘marked ability—fit to serve the people in Congress. eis well and favorably. known t 6 anumber of Northern

Indiana Democrats. He was a dele- . gate to the Democratic National Con- - vention at Baltimore in 1872 and at .. Bt. Lous in 1876, _

SAM CARY made so many really ex-

cellent points in hisKendallville speech that it is a source of genuine regret ‘that he should undertake to charge the Indiana Democracy with; insincerity on the finance question. . Ile admitted "the excellence of their platform, but questioned the sincerity of its authors. This aspersion is unmerited and- unjust. We have unquestionable and unimpeachable.testimony to- refute that portion of the General’s speech. CoME to talk_rabdilt sincerity, we would' advise Gen. Cary to inquire a - little into the conduct of his own party in this State. Two years ago the Greenbackers nominated Anson Wolcott for Governor. At the eleventh hour the standard bearer of General - Cary’s party in this State sold out to the Republicans and did ‘his level best to deliver his supporters to the enemy. | He didn’t succeed in thé latter arrai]gement, but, patriotically pocketed the bribe. Sl Y

- WirHOUT saying dnything of the bungling perversion and gross misstatements that characterize the Kendallville Standar’s report or General Cary’s speech, we beg leave to inquire why no mention is made of the short but pithy address which the General delivered for the special benefit of the editor of that.paper,after the adjournment of the meeting? Did the General make the “blatherskite business” too uncomfortably hot for the editorial blatherskite ?. : :

T Ne e ¥ I 7 is to be regretted that a speaker of Gen. Cary’s power and ability shiould mar his otherwise admirable address by inaccuracy and extravagance of statement. There arg so many good . points in his speech that he could well dispense with matter that does not admit of critical analysis and careful scrutiny. Somuch is to be said against the republican financial policy that no one need be under the necessity of stepping beyond the limits of truth in * invoking-public condemnation. -

' THE ATTEMPT of republican papers o make pglitical capital out of doorkeeper Polk’s mismanagement of his office appears decidedly thin, in the face of the fact that Polk’s republican predecessors were guilty of the same offense charged against that decapitated functionary. Their new-born zeal for reform is.like the darkey’s description of the fare at his boarding-house: “dried apples for breakfast, warm water for dinner, and lgt "em swell for supper.” Warm water and swelling -are apt to do most of the filling.

" ON TUESDAY the Senate Committee on Finance again spent several hours discussing the question of finance. The text of the discussion was the propositions submitted at a prior meeting to formulate a-bill which should embrace, first, greenbacks receivable for custom duties after July Ist; second, making greenbacks receivable at par value for the purchase of bonds; third, the re-

peal of so much of thé Resamption Act as authorized the cancellation of eighty per cent. of legal tenders on the issuance of National Bank notes; fourth, the reissuance of greenbacks. A bill of this character would take the bowels out of Sherman’s resump‘ion act,—leave it 4 mere shell, so to speak. Why not lepeal the thing in toto, since nearly everybody now congodes its impracticability? = =

“THEN AND NOW.”

Under this inviting eaption aur esteemed contemporary of the New Era places before the readers of that remarkably independent sheet a number | of extracts from THE BANNER of 1875, contrasting them' with more recent utterances on similar topics. The purpose is to show that T BANNER has changed. front on the quesfion of fi‘narice, and that it does not see things | as it saw them three years ago. We congratulate our contemporary upon ‘this exhibition of industry and zealin conveying the information to his readers that THE BANNER i 8 a progressive paper, that ils motto is onward. and that it does mnot cling with hide-bound tenacity to theories and notions which time and events failed to confirm as infallible. [ln this connection the reader is respectfully referred to an article headed “ About. Consistency” on the 4th page of this week’s issue.] : The major portion of the Hra's extracts is culled from articles combatting certain statements which appeared in the Syracuse Enterprise,of which Mr. J. P. Prickett was then editor.— The subject under discussion was contraction and the appreciation of legal ( tender notes. Relying upon the official statements l;,repeatedl‘y made by treasury officials-whom Mr. Prickett helped to place in power, we denied that the currency had been contracted as alleged by the opponents of réesumption. At the firstsshot Mr. Prickett capitulated, as evidenced by the following: | When the article'quoted above, was written, we were fully aware that in 1865,the money of the country amounted to something over - $734,000,000, which was less by several millions than it is to day, yet we think that our contemporaries will find that a -much greater per cent. of the money of the country at the former period was in actual circulation than that of to-day.—Syracuse Enterprise, August 19, 1875." | L

Close application to tl)é study of finance during the past three years has conyinced us of the unsafety and folly of relying upon the ofticial declaratiors of men whom Mr. Prickett helped to boost into power, so much so that we are now prepared to produce facts and figures ‘which incontestibly prove the inaccuracy if not absolute falsity of Mr. Prickett’s exhibit of the svolume of currency in 1865. So, after all, the canjise of .our offending is directly traceable to a weakness for confiding in the official utterances of the Era’s pet statesmen and public officials. When Mr. Prickett once begs pardon for the part he took in making currency bonds payable in coin (1869), demonetizing silver- in 1873, and in the passage of the Sherman resumption act of 1875,—by votingand working for Grant, Billy ‘Williams, and Henry B. Sayler, each of whom were instruxp'enffal in placing these measures upon’ the statute books—it will be time enough to consider: the propriety of apologizing for a solitary though aggravating ease of misplaced confidence. '

GEN. CARY AT KENDALLVILLE.

On Thursday-afternoon, Gen. Samuel F. Cary delivered an address on finance, at’,Kenaallville-. The speaker was introduced by Mayor Thomas L. Graves, who is one of the active leaders of the ’“N ational” movement. ‘At the begimjing the audience wasnot as large as might have been expected, but additional listeners came in as: the General progressed, and as he approached the-conclusion of his address, the hall \ﬂas comfortably filled by an attentive and appreciative audience.

' Gen. Cary has made the question of finance a study for ryears, and having participated in nearly all the hotly contested campaigns of the past four years, it i but natural that he should display the utmost familiarity with matters pertaining to currency. He is radical in his'views, a pronounced advocate of the paper money theory,and unsparing in his denunciation.of the old hard money doctrine. ' The legislation of nbe' past sixteen years, wholly in. the ‘interest of capitalists and against the" interests of the laboring and producing classes, affords a speaker of Gen} Cary’s versatile genius ample grounds for constructing arguments that are well calculated to excite the irkcligna‘.tlon of a popular audience and|to Tender his own theories plausibletLand acceptable to the masses. With telling effect the General recited the iﬁnanmal history of this country, depicted the distress occasioned by class flegislation, and exposed the Tallacies of the goldites. lle demonstrated the utter hollowness of the gold basis banking system, its fictitious character, its instability, its tendency to deceive and defraud confiding depo itors. Referring to the vast discrepancy between deposits and bank capital he showed that the tendency of banks of issue has always | been and is yet to accumulate wealth | by the use of other people’s money, by the creation of fictitious credit, by “banking upon 10 per cent. capital and 90 per ceut.-confidence,” as the General sarcastically puts it. E ~ He dwelt extensively upon the insufficiency of a metallic circulating medium and the ladequacy of a metallic ~ba,;siq ; cited the fact that in all great emergencies governments are inyariably compelled to resort to the issue of paper money, and demonstrated that all great works of enterprise owe their consummation to the beneficent influence of the same medium. And instead of depending upon bankers to furnish the people unstable bills of credit he insisted that the government itself issue a circulating medium adequate to the business requirements of the country—a legal tender curreney, good for all purposes of a great industrial power. e : - The aboye is but a brief and meagre outline of the General’s main argu: ‘ments. . He dealt severely with the two great political parties and manifested an mmdnm for the growth and success of the new (National) patg His “ﬁﬁ‘-mm the democrats e importat act thatto the democratie

party is due the eredit of having steadily opposed all the financial measures which have so disastrously operated against the interests of the people, to say nothing of the fact that the passage of the silver bill—the first great victory of the people over soulless Shylocks in twenty years—is due to democratic votes. On this subject. we cannot do better than quote from the recent speech of Senator Voorhees at Terre Haute: f

It has been seventeen :i'ea'ts, gentlemen, since the democratic party has had the power either to enacta law or defeat a billin the American Congress. So that, without dwelling upon the calamities and miseries that have afflicted the land, and have brought bankruptey, misery and want, 1 say that every bit of it has arisen without your complicity or mine; every law on the statute bcoks on the great paramount question now in the public mind, the finances, has been enacted by our republican friends. Not one was ever placed there by democratic votes. The law of 1862, that founded the national debt, origindting “the bounded - system; the law which changed the contract in 1869 from the well known terms, by which the peo- ‘ ple could have paid this debt in the same money with which they paidthe ‘ soldier for his life and blood, thatlaw and all subsequent legislation that has brought paralysis, ruin, distress and misery upon the land, is to be charged Dot to you and myself, my democratic friends, thank God. It would be a load I would not want to bear. It is to be charged to the republican party. And in saying this I say nothing unkind to my republican nbighbors. I am speaking of those who have been in power and have abused power, and against whom your wrath is turned i to-night perhaps as strongly as mine. There is one party, and one party ialone, that has brought affliction to | the poor man in this country. Tell ‘me where, tell me when, the dsmocratic party has had the power to ' shape the financial policy of the country. Tell me where and tell me when it has by any vote fastened any of these evils upon the country,and then 1 will be prepared to listen to men who are saying that our skirts are stained with wrong and crime as well as the skirts of the republican party. American history upon this subject is plain,’ The money loving, money getting power of the United States have changed the laws when they did not suit them. They have done this, not by democratic votes, but in spite of them,‘and I challenge a single instance in the record of the country to thie contrary, so that I feel that in standing as I stood in the Senate of the United States during thie last winter I have been: acting in harmony with the record of the democratic party in opposing from the beginning the financial policy that has brought to your homes the misery with' which you are afflicted. . [Applause.] When men ask me whether, 1n taking the stand I have taken, I expect toremain in the democratic party (and I have been written to on this point,) I tell them that when this issue was first made in 1866, and made by a Democrat, George H. Pendleton, I took my stand in that year and canvassed Indiana upon it, and again in 1868. I never made such a canvass in my life as I did of this district upon that subject, when I carried it by about 150 majority, overcoming a republican ma‘jority of about 1,500. I have made my record inside the democratic party. Do I need to go outside of the democratic party to sustain a record I have made within its ranks, upqn this great question during the past twelve years, ever 'Bince it "was inaugurated? I think not—l think that what I have built up-as a Democrat I can stand by as a Democrat. [Applause.] But, my fellow citizens, while it is sometimes said that Indiana is all right, and while the humble speaker who is ad~dressing you is all right; we do not know whether we can trust to the future;. we do not know whether we can trust this public man or that, and sometimes I have heard it said they do not know whether they can trust me. :

This always comes from men who have been active upon what is called the greenback policy only about two years. I tell them I am'a pioneer. I started out on that line when most of them were denouncing and battling the democratic party. I reared aloft thé banner in this district, when you who are now loudest in saying you can not trust me were fighting to sustain the republican party in all its enormous legislation that has row brought ruin and desolation to the country. I'think, gentlemen, if I could trust them they might trust me. [Applause.] | .

The New Era advocates, principles, and as the new party failed to fill the bill, it did not become “infatuated” with that party as THE BANNER did. —Albion Era.

Ah, indeed. Principles—forsooth! You clamored for a new party, and when one was organized you slunk back ond enveloped yourself in a little thicker cover of republican wool.— Time and again have you laid claim to being the original,simon-pure greenback organ of the county; yet the Toledo platform doesn’t suit you, the Rome City resolutions don’t suit you, the democratic State platform doesn’t suit you; nothing seems to suit except his silver-biil-vetoing Fraudulency in the White House. While averring that neither of the aforementioned declarations of principles meet your approval, your boasted “indeper:dence” does not permit you to point out wherein you differ from them. Better be frank about the matter, and abandon the awkward attempt at concealing that huge republican cloven foot, for it will stick out. :

See Him Looming. (LaPorte Herald.)

Dr. Rerick, of the Lagrange Standard, is prominently mentioned in connection with the Congressional candidacy from that district. There is no man in the district who will fill the place with greater ability, or who desetves more from his party. A “Young People’s Christian Association” has been organized in Columbia City. If properly conducted it will certainly do much toward improving the morality of our young folks. We trust that the richeést blessings of God may rest upon it, and that great good may result from its labors.—- Whitley Commercial. _ Despite the temporary lall'in Europe, peace is not yet assured. It appears that Bismark considers a Congress possible, provided England and Austria consent to the retrocession of Bessarabia and the extension of Russia in Asia as far as Erzeroun. 1t is difficult to see how England can accept such a compromise atter mwmiam m? down in Lord Salisbury’s famous. note, A RISy

ROME CITY ITEMS.

Qur Elkhart localizer, Bro. “So” seems to be in somewhat of a muddle on the finance question. .He wants. “money enough to meet the demands of trade.” This is right—(see Rome City resolutions.) But he wants its basis to be bullion gold or silver.— Now, Bro. So, if you are required to have a dollag of bullion gold or silyer in the United States Treasury for eyery dollar in greembacks you issue, why not put the precious metal in cir: culation at once, and would not this operation require twice as much circulating medium as is necessary for the demands of trade,—one half lying idle in the Treasury, while the other half was in circulation? Would 1t not be better to make the greenback a le-gal-tender for all dues whatsoeverand then let greenbacks, gold and silver all go into circulation, and then we ~would have oneas good and no better than the other; and by this means we could soon have plenty of money and times flourishing. :

SENSATION.—On Saturasy morning last Mr. P. T. Cobbs was digging in the rear part of Lis lot in search of' angle worms, when he discovered the appearance of a grave wherein was a coffin about three feet in length, in a state of decomposiitnon, having the appearance of having lain there four:or five years, and in which was nothiig perceptible but dry bones. As might be expected the news spread rapidly. A coroner’s inquest was suggésted;— Some recollected of rumors/of dark deeds and foul murders near thatspot in times past. Learned M./D’s were quickly*summoned to the spot.. A large crowd soon became anxious spectators of the sceme. A critical and more minute examination of the bones revealed the fact that they were those of the canine species; and proved to be the remains of Jim Alexander’s fa--vorite bird dog, who fell by the hands | of Tobias Holsinger, and was interred there by order of his owner, who then occupied the premises about five years ago. lad this occurred on the Ist day of April it would have been rich beyond description. / : ' The remains of thé woolen factory have been mostly removed. Three ‘car loads of old irorvhave been shipped to Fort Wayne. The boiler, engine, smoke stack, &c., have been sold, but whether they. will be removed or put into operation here is a matter for future consjderation. We hope the purchasers may conclude to start up business here without the trouble and expense of removal. = -~ A number of our citizens availed themselves of vhe opportunity of go}ng | to Kendallville, on Thursday last, to hear Gen. Samuel F. Carey speak on finances. All were well pleased with the entertainment. Inasmuch as the editor of THE BANNER was present, we will leave it to him to speak of the merits:or demerits of the speech. As for ourself we only wish that every yoter in this county, especially our brother correspondents, could have heard that speech. We learn that the General will probably speak in either “Ligonier or Albion during the goming: campaign. ' e - We have succeeded in getting ‘our Rome City greenback songs printed on card board. They are five in number, and neatly executed, and will be furnished to greenback elubs or pri~vate individuals at cost. Send in your orders. 4 Bt :

The regular meetings of the Rome City National Greenback Club will shortly be resumed. They will probably occur every two weeks on Saturday evening, and a public address will be delivered on each occasion. The Hon.. Freeman Kelley,' of Waterloo, will probably be invited to re-open the ball. Rome City would be more than pleased to act in concert with Brimfield and have meetings alternately, and attend each other’s meetings and be sociable and neighborly. What do our Brimfield brethren think of the matter ? : ; +

The dancing -hall at the Mineral Springs will soon be in course of construction. Pic-nics: will commence early this year. . L,

‘The prospect for an ‘abundant fruit crop was never better in this vicinity. Wheat is looking extraordinarily well. Should the weather in the future be warm.and wet, we will no doubt have an abundant supply of mushrooms, frogs and other luxuries of the season. Live in hopes and be happy. 4

~ The old “town pump” has been succeeded by a new one. It is one of Free’s best force pumps. . It does. its work handsomely and to the satisfaction of all.’ Joshua Rinehart was the motive power in bringing this change about. Joshua produces convincing arguments on the finance question, especially when pumps are to be rigged. We are sorry to know that:Mrs, Gault has been compelled to abandon her.school for the time being, on account of ill-health, which threatens to be protracted illdess. She has, however, been fortunate in procuring the gservices of Mr. Rawson to fill her place, a gentleman who we believe is giving satisfaction ‘to all. We hope Mrs. G. may speedily recover and return to her charge. ; : The Mansion House has changed ownership. Rumor says that George Triplett will soon fake charge of the same. a : ; -Fishing on the lake is good, and fishing contrary to law is a little too common. Why: will people violate the fish law, knowing that they are liable to pay five dollars a piece for every fish they take in? ~ If anybody wishes to know whether the Kendallville Standaerd’s story about the greenback pork thieves is true, Jet them ask the Prosecuting Attorney, J. W. Bixler. who was present and tried the cause in person. Mr. B, will be very likely to tell you that.the paragraph is a tissue of falsehoods, and -that no jury in christendom ! would convict on such testimony, - .The closing up of Miller’s store adds monobonvg' to the dullness of our town: We hope that some change mii)e made soon by which business will be resumed. =~ - Why not ship your potatoes to Philadelphia? Neighbor Shumway shipped thirty-three bushels to that city, %ﬂdon%#mm 81"11%@"ceeds, he found that he had lost his entire lot of potatoes and owed thirty: nine cents on freight, Armxis.

ALBION RUMMAGES.

- “Be it ever so humble, &c.” Wonder whether the author of the above ever lived in a small clay-bank town ? Wm. M. Clapp lost by the fire, $4,000 instead of $4OO as that “devil” transfigured it for us in last week’s issue.. A few names were also wrong in their orthography. : George E. Gilbért and Samuel Wertzbaugh were discharged from the jail last Saturday, and the gentle tones of the violinist are heard no more.

The Presbyterian. Sunday-School-is well attended, and ably -conducted,but a few things are necessary. First, that they have a permanent organist, and, secondly, that they have, and use, such music books as have the written music right before them. : Last Saturday evening a slight difference arose between two of our boys. One' said the other was a d——d liar, and/he didn’t believe it, and immediately the arguments, on either side, became strikingly forcible, and resulted in the downfall of Burns. :

R. L. Stone will probably rebuild a portion of the “Burnt District” this summer. If the entire block could be rebuilt at once, and a few more “No. 1” business houses established, our town would soon bein the front ranks of business circles. - . i

Marquardt & Smith have bought the east room of the Deniuy Block (Loomis’ room) and will in a few days remove their meat market to that place. Then ye towns show up a better meat market than ours. S Hoff’s art gallery will reopen in a a few days. Shortly all our burnedout men will be re-established and only the piles of ashes will tell strangers that;our town 'has been visited by a fire. e

~ Working on the streets has begun. A new crossing has been put down between Marquardt & Smith and Ward’s shioe store. A few more would do no harm. ! :

John Renkenberger, of Swan township, believes, and freely gives it as his opinion, that real estate will never bring a good.standing price so long as we havé our present high-rates ofvinterest. Just as long as a man can make more out of his money than: he can by owning real estate, solong will the price of land depreciate and farms run down.: Our-next Legislature should think of this, and then act. Mrs. Horner, Miss Olive Horner and Miss Lottie Neff will start for Kansas soon. Mr. Horner has been there during the winter preparing a western home for his family. Misses Horner and. Neff have been teachers in the Albion schools the last year. The school will miss them., Theauthorities should look- well that their next will be as good. B Albion has sent eight lady 'teachers -out to teach the rural urchins how to weave the tangled webb of life, and even now the town has intellect to spare. ‘“Alexis,” where art thou? “Ask and it shall be given thee.” - |Our cow haslearned the ways of the city, and can -eat hay from farmer’s wagons with as much policy s any of Hhem. ~ - -

John Beck, late ‘employee of Jacob Kraner of Kendallville, is baking for Playad. = = Ay “Alexis,” we are a genuine greenbacker, but think the Democratic State platform 'greenback enough, consequently do not: just now think it necessary to take the “oath” of fidelity, as the “Nationals” do, unless, perchance, the fulfillment of that little story. ds e R

“Trash” (defunct), like the ancient Job, is’'smote with sore boils, and asks a permanent cure. ! o

Our great cattle feeding suit between Ward and Foster was decided in favor of Ward, who fed the cattle. Toster has made a mction to appeal. . Monday the “hub” was pretty well crowded with tax-payers. =

An examination of the students is being held in the lower rooms this week. The higher classes will undergo the same next week, and school close on Friday. Thishas been avery profitable term for all who tried to make it so. The lecture connected with the school will be délivered at the Methodist: Church next Friday evening: . ’ - . “New Leaf” was in town Monday, but did not call on us. You better not do dot way some more. . Billy McClellan, of Nappanee, made his friends at this place a short visit over Sabbath. In looks Billy is getting quite old, but he feels “just as young as he used to be.” Bl Diep:—ln Noble township, Rachel Stewart, wife of Virgil Stewart,-last

Sunday at 2 o’clock P. M. Deceased has been married one year, was twen-ty-two years old, and leaves a child one week old. Virgil has many friends who mourn his bereavement. JAP. § e Ed. Miller as an Inventoi.

[Blpomington (I1L.) Pantagraph, April 9.1 A few days ago the Panlagraph stated that Mr. E, D. Miller, the well known insurance agent, had obtained a patent for a slate pencil sharpener, which seemed to be the egg from which a bonanza might be hatched. The sharpener is in the shape of a centennial'bell about the size of an acorn. It is made of wood. In the bottom of the bell-shaped block is bored a tapering hole, the size and shape of the point desired on the slate pencil, This hole is lined with steel filings. By revolving the pencil in this it is reduced to th ‘proper shape rapidly and without|the excruciating noise so painful to sensitive nerves, and which causes thesharpening of slate pencils to be interdicted in schools. The sharpeners, which have so. far been made by Mr, E. D. Miller, have een made without special machinery, but if 18 Mr. Miller’sintention to fit up at once a factory for the manufacture of his patent at the.rate of 5,000 per day. 'The power will be derived from the water , prefsure of the city mains, and the ' work will be done by-special tools and machinery,’ The sharpeners will retail at 10 cents each. i o ee R -AR e Strimge Talk by an Eastern Journal, | iFriday’s New York World.]: = . | IE 18 rather early yet in the day to make up one’s mind that it will be a’ goad thing for the whole nation if the two existing political parties are disintegrated and destroyed. Whether both of these parties ought to perish is & thing to be decided by the bearing of both during the eminently trying times which are immedialely before them all over the land, ~

THE BOSS PLUNDERER GONE. -

Death of William M. Tweed.

William M. Tweed died in Ludlow street Jail at New York at noon of April 12. Among his last utterances were these; - - = S

“Doctor, I've tried to do some good if I haven’t had good luck. lam not afraid to die, I believe tlie guardian angels will proteet mg.” s At this moment Mr. Edelstein (one of Tweeds’ attorneys) came to the bedside to give the dying mandrink. Mr. Tweed called him by his first name and said, a faint smile coming over his face: . ;

“Well, Tilden and Fairehild have killed me, T hope they are satisfied now.” e o

SKETCH OF THE DECEASED.

William Marcy Tweed was born in New York, April 3d, 1823. Ile learned the trade of chair-making, and later in life was admitted to the bar.

In 1852-3, he was an Alderman; in 1853-5, a member of Goungress;in 1856, a Supervisor of the City and Chairman of the Board; in 1856-7, a School: Commissioner; from 1861-7, a Deputy Street Commissioner,and from 1867 to 1871, a State Senator. e In April, 1870, he was appointed Commissioner of the Department of Public Works, and while he held this office he and his ‘ring, especially in connection with the building and furnishing of the new City Court-house, appropriated vast sums of public money to privateuse. ' R ~ On October2Bth, 1871, he was arrested in a civil suit on charges of malfeasance, brought by Charles O’Conor on behalf of the people, and gave bail in the sum of $1,000,000. :In November of the same year he was re-elected to the State Senate, but did not take his seat. On December 16th he was arrested on a criminal charge of fraud, but was released on $5,000 bail, ' January 30th, 1873, the first of the suits was tried and the jury disagreed. ‘November 19th he was found guilty of fraud, and was sentenced to twelva years’ imprisonment on as many different counts, and to pay a fine of $12,550. i ! . 3

He was sent to the Penitentiary; on Blackwell’s Island. April the 7th, 1875, a suit was begun in the Supreme Court of New York torecover $6,000,000 from him. . S _ :

On June 15th the Court of Appeals decided that his further imprisonment was illegal, on the ground ‘that the Court below had exceeded its powers in the comulated sentence, and ordered his discharge. - L « F 1& was then ordered to find bail to the amount of $3,000,000 in the pendipg civil suits, and in default of the same was sent. to the ILudlow-street Jail. , ! :

On December 4th, while visiting his residence in charge of two keepers, he escaped from, custody. He continued his wanderings in foreign lands, his whereabouts being unknown’ to .the people of this country. S ; Finally he went to Cuba, where he was recognized and information of his presence was communicated to the authorities of this country. Aboub this time he sailed for Spain, but arrangements were made between this country and the Spanish authorities on his - arrival there, although no-ex-tradition treaty was or is in existence. He was accordingly arrested and brought back to New York. Sh

- He soon made his famous confession o a promise of release, but no Jrolease came. Ile hasmade other confessions, been used as a witness, and time. and again his hopes of freedom have been raised only to be crushed, and he has lingered, first hoping and then despondent till death released him. . |

He was a man of powerful will and without scruples. Ie was the greatest of American ring robbers, bnt he leaves many prototypes with as little honesty and far less ability. -

THE TRUTH AT LAST.

Elizabeth Tilton Makes a Full Confession of Her Relations With Beecher. -~

Beecher Denies the Story from First to Last.

- NEW YORK, April 16.—The following letter from Mrs. Tilton appeared in the morning papers to-day: - “To Mr. Ira B. Wheeler: s

“MY DEAR Slr— A few weeks since, after long months of mental anguish, I told, as you know, a few friends whom I had bitterly deceived that the charge brought by my husband of adultery, between myself and the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, was true, and that the lie I had lived so well the last four years had become intolerable to me. That statemgnt I now solemnly reaffirm, and leave the truth with God, to whom also 1 commit myself, my- children and all who must suffer. I know full well the explanations that will be sought by many for thig acknewledgement— a desire toreturn to my husband, insanity, malice, everything save the true and only one —my quickened conscience and sense of what is due to the cause of truth and justice. During all the complications of these years you have been my confidential friend, and therefore I address this letter to you, authorizing and requesting you to secure its publication. L e

“(Signed) ELizABETH R. TILTON. - “Brooklyn, April 13, 1878.” " ‘A FLAT DENTAL BY BEECHER.

Mr. Beecher was out of the city last night when Mrs. Tilton’s letter was made public, and his whereabouts was. not known save to a few friends. The New York 7ribune telegraphed him acopy of the letter at a late hour, and received the following dispatch in! reply from Mr. Beecher: i WAYERLY, N. Y., April 15, 1878. To the Editor of the New York Tribune: = |

Sir—l confront Mrs. Tilton’s confession with an explicit and absolute denial. The testimony to her own innocence and to mine, which for four years she had made to hundreds, in private and in publie, before the court in writing and orally, I declare to be true, and the allegations now made in contradiction of her uniform, solemn and unvarying statements hitherto made 1 utterly deny. I declare her to be innocent of the great transgression.

(Signed) HENRY WARD BEECHER. ‘lt is stated with the utmost positiveness that Mrs. Tilton called a number of her friends together about four weeks ago, among whom were several of. Mr. Beecher’s intimate friends—including, among others, it is understood, Mr. Rossiter Raymond and Mr. H. B. Claflin—and made to them ‘a full and unqualified statement, . alleging that the charge of her adultery with the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher ‘was truein factand in detail as brought out in Mr. Tilton’s suit. She requested that this confession should be communicated to Mr. Beecher, and it was 80 done.—~New York World. There is more inquiry folyand larger purchases of farm machinery and implements this season so far, than have been made in any of the past five years. This indipates great activity and agsurance among farmers,—lndiangmmey, < o o

_ The town of Clarksville, Tenn., has been almost entirely swept away by fire. Fifty-seven bgggihgs.embrscing the best portion of-the business section, were burned—supposed to be the work of negro incendiaries. The loss is estimated at half a million dollars. THE MARKETS. : LIGONIER. =« e GRAIN AND SEEDS.—Wheat, red, $l- - Rye, 56¢; Oats, 28¢; Corm, 35c; Flax Seed, $1 25 Clover Seed, $3 50;. Timothy Seed, $1 25. vl e s ~ Propuce.—Hogs, live, § cwt $3 00, Shoulders, per pound, 08¢; Hams, 10¢; Bees Wax, 26c; Butter, 14; Lard, 07c; Eggs, § doz., 08¢; Wool, 1b,55@ 40c; Feathers, 60c; Tallow, 07c; Apples, dried, 6¢; Potatoes, 15; Peaches, dried,o7c; Hay, tame, $10; marsh, $B. . CHICAGO, April 17, 1878, GRAIN AND SEEDS.—Wheat,sl 103 ; ‘ Corn, 40%5¢c; Oats,3s%c; Rye, 5815¢; Barley, 48¢; Clover Seed, $3 00@4 35; Timothy, sllo@l 25 ; Flax, $145.> PRODUCE.—Mess Pork,§® cwt, $BB5 @8 95%; Lard, $6 95@7 15; Hams, green, 064 @o73{c; Shoulders, 3%5¢; Butter, good, 28@33, choice, 24 @ 273 Eggs, ® doz., 09¢c; Potatoes, 40@45¢. Flour, per bbl, $6 00@7 00: Bran, per ton, $l2 [email protected]. /" s ¢ e ' PourLTrßY—Turkeys, dressed, 3 Ib, 12¢; Chickens, B doz. $2 50@$3 00. - TOLEDO.—ApriI 16, 1878. GRAIN AND SEEDS.—Wheat, amber, Michigan, $1 27; No. 1 whife do $1.30; extra do $1.32; Corn, 4314 c; Oats, 28¢; Clover Seed,s4.ls. --- .- " = . LIVE STOCK MARKETS. - CHICAGO, Apr. 17.—CATTLE, graded; steers, $5 02?5. 253 ehoice beeves, $440@4 80 ; medium grades, $4 00@ %4 35 ; butchers’ stock, s3so@s4 00;. stock cattle, $3 50@$4 15. e Hoes.—Sales of light weights were at $3.45@3 55; common to-choice heavy $3 40@360; packing hogs, $3 60@ $3 75; inferior lots, $3 00@3 25. . - SHEEP.—Choice $3 [email protected]; fair to good; $2 50@4'80. - . Bu¥FALO, April 9.—Cattle, Shipp’g, $500@5 50; Sheep, $4 75@6 35 ; Hogs, good heavy $390; light $365. =

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