Ligonier Banner., Volume 13, Number 43, Ligonier, Noble County, 13 February 1879 — Page 6

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EPITOME OF THE WEEK. 7 THE OLD WORLD. TROUBLE has arisen between Russia ind Roumania over the possession of Arabtabia, a small frontier post of the Dobrud-. scha. Both Governments claim it, and the Roumanian General has been ordered to hold It by force if necessary. It was rumored, on the 4th, that Russia wasmoving up her forces, and would fight for its possession.: ' ° STeeELE & CRAIG, grain merchants, at Glasgow, have failed for $400,000. DrurY LANE THEATER, in London, was closed, on the sth, in consequence of the actors irefusing to submit to a reduction in salary. : Sl - S ENGcLAND and Portugal have agreed to joint operations against the slave trade between :‘Mozambique and Madagascar. Apour 80,000 persons are supported by charity in Glasgow. ° R LATE reports from Afghanistan are to the effect ‘that the. inhabitants of Cabul were fighting among themselves, and that ‘atter anarchy prevailed. .. . . , " ON the 6th, Mgr. Guibert, Archbishop of Paris, replying to a letter from Pere Hyacinthe, notifying him of the opening of a Reformed Church in Paris, writes that he regards his correspondent as deranged and a dreadful example of Divine chastisement for Infidelity. : :

Ex-PRESIDENT GRANT and party left Aden, in Arabia, for Bombay, on the 6th.

' IT was estimated that from 30,000 to 85,000 sailors and dock laborers were on a strike in Liverpool on the 7th. There had been considerable violence, and the police were compelled;to)call for reinforcements. JUCHANBOEF, the former Treasurer of the Mutual Credit Foncier Company, of Russia, convicted of; embezzling £200,000 has been sentenced to sixteen years’ imprisonment in Siberia. - Ary British troops in Afghanistan have been.ordered to return to Candahar. ONX the Bth, the definitive treaty of peace between Turkey and Russia was signed by the representatives of the two Governments. Next day the Russian troops began the evacuation of Turkish territory. THE Montenegrins occupied : Podgoritza, Bpuz and Veliberdo, on the Sth. ENGLAND concluded a convention with Turkey, on the Bth, for the purchase of the State domains in Cyprus, with the exception of the Sultan’s private estates, ! IN a village near Astrakhan, recently, the inhabitants massacred all the doctors, believing that they had poisoned all their patients. L ’ ; . A CArE TowN (South Africa) telegram, published on the 10th, reports that a British column, consisting of a portion of the Twenty-fourth Regiment, a battery of artillery and 600 native auxiliaries, had been utter1y annihilated near the Zugela River by 20,000 Zulus. The latter captured 102 wagons, 1,000 oxen, two cannon, 400 shot and shell, 1,000 rifles, 250,000 rounds of ammunition and a large quantity of provisions. It was estimated that 5,000 Zulus were killed or wounded during the fight. Among the killed were fortyeight British officers. In consequence of this disaster, the British forces had been compelled to rédcross the border. ' . |

ADVICES from the interiorof Russia, received in Bt. Petersburg on the 10th, state that general unhealthiness and predisposition to epidemic existed. The plague, typhus fever and small-pox had appeared at Tver, Orsk, Keiff, Tamboy and Rostov. The cattle plague had also appeared at Ekafermoslay and twenty-seven adjacent villages.' Of 2,500 head attacked more than half had perished. DELBECQUE, the Director of the French Mint, has been sentenced to six years’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of 125,000 francs for embezzling 140,000 in bullion lodged in the mint by the Rothschilds. Delbecque substituted galvanized copper bars for the silver abstracted. . N

! *HE NEW WORLD., ‘THE President, on thesth, nominated Algernon 8. Badger to be Colleetor of Customs at New Orleans, vice G. L. Smith, to be removed, and W. 8. McMillan to be Postmaster, vice Badger. } . H. A. McINTYRE, a Lake City (Col.) banker, has been sentenced to five years’ imprisommentin the Lincoln (Neb.) Penitentiary, for making false entries in his books. , JonN C. HULBERT, ex-County Judge, and President of‘the First National Bank of Saratoga Springs, has been arrested and held tobail in the sum of $lO,OOO, for embezzling the funds of the bank. THE Edmunds resolutions, adopted in the United States Senate, on the sth, read as follows: - : Resolved, As the judgment of the Senate, that the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States have been liga.lly, ratified, and are as valid and of e same paramount authority as anﬂy other Pm of the Constitution, that the -people of each Btate have a common interest in the enforcement of the whole Constitution in every State of the Union, and that it is alike the ‘right and dn(;r of Congess to enforce said amendments, and to proct every citizen in the exermg of the nﬁ hts boAo g i Bl il acter ’ or p , an by further a roPriatelepshnou.' i .?E’:“n ch enfo:;oemen? En gmteotan are not ueeure:lnby existing laws, and that it is the duty of the Executive Department of the Government, faithfully and with diligence, to carry all such laws into impartial execution, and of Congress to mropg‘ate all moneys needful for that end. (s to provide b law 00 o foil dnl cipocsai W e and im sroteanon of all c’itizeng of the United States, ulaanhﬁed in the right to vote for B&pmsentatives in Con , and to this end the Committee on the .‘F.ntfx{oin? be, and it is hereby, in&DL For the mootantion of ot tobin end ! a or on of such rights, and punishment o%oﬁonn thereof. !

Hon. N. P. BaNks, Member of Congress from Massachusetts, was, on the 6th, nominated United States Marshal for the District. of Massachusetts,

THE di:gatches received by Government officials in Washington, on the 6th, discredit all former advices about Sitting Bull having recrossed the Canadian border into this country. : ' B

- THe *“Mississippi Valley Cane-Grow-ers’ Asgociation” wag organized in Bt. Louis on the 6th. Delezates were present from Illinojs, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Towd, Missouri dnd Kansas, John Walker, of Missouri, was chosen President; J. A, Hedges, of Bt. Louis, Corresponding Secretary ; George Longman, Recording Secretary; E. W. Douglass, Treasurer; G. W. Bel¢her, of Bt. Louls, Expert. Mr. Belcher examined a sample of sugar made in Minnesota, and pronounced it

equal to the best New Orleans sugar, and worth in bulk five cents per pound. :

THE view of the detectives that Barron, the late Cashier ‘of the Dexter (Me.) Savings Bank, committed suicide because he was a defaulter to a large amount, the Boston Journal and other Eastern newspapers declare’ to be untenable. Mrs. Barron has published a letter denouncing the conclusion as an outrage upon the memory of her dead husband, and says she will not rest until its untruthfulness be fully demonstrated. THr New Orleans Grand Jury has found indictments against twenty-five persons in Caddo, Tensas, Natchitoches and Orleans Parishes for violation of the Election laws. : FROM a recent circular from the Agricultural Department, the following facts are noted: The crop of corn for 1878 was 1,000,000,371 bushels, an increase of 29,000,000 bushels over that of 1877 ; the aggregate value: of the cropin 1878 was $44,000,000 less than for 1877; the wheat crop was larger in:1878 than in 1877 by 57,000,000 bushels, but was was worth $60,000,000 less. T ] SEC'Y SHERMAN made another call for 20,000,000 5-20- bonds, on the 6th, interest and principal payable May 6th. » Aoy

AT New Orleans, on the 6th, J udges ‘Woods and Billings rendered 'a decision éveré ruling the demurrer of the prisoners ind,ﬁcted for violating the Election laws, at the| late election. The prisoners claimed that t#e indictments was improperly d@rawn, and'Secs. b 506 and 5509 of the United States Revised Statutes were unconstitutional. The Court %ecided that the indictments were properly rawn, and affirmed the Constitutionality of the sections under which they were bound..

Messrs. WELLS, Kenner and Casanave, of Returning-Board . fame, appeared before the Superior Criminal Court of New Orleans, on the 6th, withdrew their plea of not guilty, and filed a demurrer to the infor-~-mation against, them, in which they claimed that, under the Supreme Court decision in the case of Anderson, they'were entitled to a nolle pros. . The Attorney-General holds that the decision in the Anderson case is not res judicata, and holds good only in that case. Ex-Gov. HARTRANFT was, on the 7th, appointed Postmaster of Philadelphia.

Four Deputy United States Marshals made an attack upon a party of five moonshiners in Patrick County, Va., on the 6th. The latter were fortified and resisted. A fight ensued, in'which two moonshiners were badly wounded. The remaining three left their fort and commenced a retreat, when four or five mountaineers, under command of one Lineburg, came to their rescue and drove the Government officials from the field, badly wounding two of them. i

A WasHINGTON dispatch of the 7th says the Agricultural Report, just issued, gives the average price of the cotton crop for the whole country at 814 cents a pound; the value of the crop for 1878 was $194,700,000. The average price of tobacco was 5 6-10 cents; total crop of 1878 estimated at 893,000,000 ‘pounds, worth $22,000,000. Horses increased 3 per cent., but the price very materially decreased. Cows show an increase in nearly all the States, and sheep increased nearly 5 per cent. The prices for hogs have been ruinous1y low, while the increase is about 5 per cent. Mules increased about 2 per cent. &

A BILLIARD TOURNAMENT, in New York City, closed on the 7th, with Jacob Schaefer as champion player of the United States, and winner of the $l,OOO prize. ‘On the last offine, between him and George Slosson, the latter made a run of 464, but the Yormer won the game, the averages being 85 5-7 and 814-7. . .

- THE Congressional Sub-Committee investigating the charges made against Judge Blodgett, of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, closed their labors in Chicago, on the 7th, after a session of nearly two weeks. A report of the evidence would be submitted to the full Judiciary Committee of the National House of Representatives, who will consiiler the same and report to the House such action in the matter as may be de?med desirable. WirLiaM H. HEATH, Auditor of St. "Louis County, Mo., from 1866 to 1876, has been found guilty of embezzling about 143,000 of the public funds, and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment in the State Penitentiary.

A WasHINGTON dispatch of the Bth says the President had directed his Cabinet officers to submit to him the names of all the important offices under their- respective departments which expire within the ensuing thirty days, the object being to send in either new names or reappoint the old ones before the Senate adjourns and passes into Democratic control. ¥ f Suir has recently been brought against the proprietors of a skating rink af Worcester, Mass., for not allowing colored men to skate on their ice. - - THE Cheyenne Indian prisoners from Fort Robinson, Neb., arrived at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., on the Bth, under a strong cayalry guard. They will ‘be turned over to the State authorities for trial for raiding, depredating and murdering citizens in Western Kansas, last fall. 3 THE House Democratic caucus has agreed to report a bill repealing the test oath at present required to be taken by jurors. ' At Flora, 111., on the 9th, all trains on the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad were delayed by the enforcement of the State Sunday law. iR : ON the 10th, Hon. Isaac P. Christiancy placed his resignation as United States Senator in the hands of Gov. Croswell, of Michigan. " - HoN. JosepH CAsEy, Chief-Justice of the Court of Claims, died at Washington, on the morning of the 10th. He was first apvointed by President Lincoln. ; At Troy, N. Y., on the /10th, G. F. Simmons, crazed by the elopement of his wife, poisoned his three children and then cut ‘his own throat. b g i

CONGRESSIONAL. / " SENATE.—MTr. Cameron (Wis.), from the Committee on Privileges and 'Elections, submitted a majority report, on the 4th, signed by the Republican members of -the committee, declaring David T. Corbin duly elected Benutor from South Carolina, and en 1o the seat. A minority report was presented by Mr, Hill, from the same committee, signed by the Democratic ‘members,in favor of the incumbent, M. C. Butler,...The nom bill hn’n_thox&a oeﬁi.-ﬁ,. cates of deposit in aid of refnn;hnag e public i e’ roseTutichy, Tolelv ot b m resolutions e by ! the .ggnutitutional Amendments were fu,rgixer considered. ‘ . r House.—The Army Appropriation bill was: considered in the House, in Committee ‘of the Whole. andd mo&iﬁna to reduce talxdea army to 15,000, 17,000 and 20,000 were severally debated and defeated, the last number by a vote of 66 yeas to 118 nays. v SENATE.—Consideration of the resolutions of Mr. Edmunds, declaring the validity of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution, was resumed, on the bth, and, after a lengthy debate, and tho

rejection of proposed amendments and substitutes, the resolutions were finally agreed to—2s to 17—as follows: Yeas—Anthony, Booth, Bruce, Burnside, Cameron lg’a.h Cameron {Wis.), Edmunds, F'exﬂr. Hamlin, Hoar, Howe, Kellogg. Kirkwood, McMillan, Mitchell, Morrill, Oglesby. Paddock, Plumb, Rollins, Bpencer, Teller and Windom—23, Nays—Bailey, Ba.g‘nrdb Beck, Cockrell, Coke, Davis (W. Va.), Eaten, Garland, Gordon, Harris, Hereford, Hill, Kérnan, Lamar, Maxey, Mor%n and Voorhees—l7. Messrs, Allison, Dawes, Blaine Saunders, Chaffee, Conkling, P&ttemnkghmtmna%, Dorsey, Matuhews, Jones (Nev.&. Sharon, Wadleigh and Conover, who would have voted aye, were paired with Messrs. I&lc()reer{j Barnum, %Vallaoe. %antler, Eustis, McDonald. Dennis, Jones (Fla.), McPherson, Thur~man, Ransom, Saulsbury. Whyte and Wxthers. who would have voted in the negative. House.—The Mississippi Levee bill was passed —155 to 73....The Army Appropriation bill was further considered in Committee of the Whole.... Majority and minority reports were made in the Florida contested-election case .of Finlay and_ Bisbee, the majority report favoring Finlay, and the minority Bisbee.

SENATE.—On the 6th, the bill to provide for taking the Tenth and subsequent Censuses was passed—46 to 4.... A resolution was agreed to instructing the Committee on Agriculture to inquire in regard to the reports concemmi infectious diseases among horned cattle....A message was received from the President inclosing the report of the Secretary of State in r&mrd to the fmoeedmgs of the Interna.tltc‘ullg.Yls onetary Conference held in Paris Augus o i g

House.—A Dill was passed making appropriations for the payment of claims reported allowed by the Commissioner of Claims....A resolution was adopted calling on the Commissioner of Pensions for statements in relation to the amount required for arrears of pensions....The Army Appropriation bill was considered in Committee of the Whole.

SENATE.—The Senate and House %ills to restrict the immigration of Chinese to this country were reported, on the 7th....The House bill to relieve certain political disabilities of women, providing that any woman who shall have been a member of the highest court of any State or Territory, or of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, for the space of three years, and shall have maintained a good standing before such court, and who shall be a person of good moral character shall, on motion and the production of such record, be admitted to gracgwe before the S_ugreme Court of the United tates, was passed without amendment—4o to 20.

Houst.—The Senate amendments to the Naval Appropriation bill were non-con-curred ir....The Conference report on the Indian Appropriation bill was agreed to, and further conference was ordered on the Fortification Appropriation bill.... Several private bills were passed.

SENATE.—The credentials of James D. Walker, Senator-elect from Arkansas, were presented on the Bth....Conference reports on the Indian Appropriation bill and on the bill to abolish the volunteer nav§ were a}t,rteed to, and the bills were passed.... New Conference Committees were appointed on the Naval and Fortification Appropriation bills....The House bill growdmg for the pa.sment of officers and soliers of the Mexican War of the three months’ extra pay gronded-for bé’ the act of July 19, 1848, was amended and passed. ]

House.—Mr. Beale took his seat as successor of the late Beverly Douglas, of Virginia....A new Conference Committee was appointed on the Naval Appropriation bill....The Army Appropriation bill 'was taken up in Committee of the Whole, and several amendments were disposed of, the pro%osmon for a transfer of the Indian Bureau tothe War Department being r?i'ected—‘yeas, 88; nays, 101. The bill was reported to .the House, angi amendments were agreed to, for the reorganization of the army—--116 to 92— expunﬁfmg_ the authority te have troops at the polls on election day—llo to 95—and reEea.lmg the law which requires that military eagguarters in time of peace shall be established at points where the Government owns buildings and barracks. Other amendments were also agreed to. and the bill was then passed. SENATE.—The credentials of Senator Carpenter, of Wisconsin, were placed on file, on the 10th.... A bill was introduced and referred authorizing the conversion of National gold bonds. ...The House bill authorizing an issue of certificates of deposit of the denomination of ten dollars, in aid of the refunding of .the public debt, was passed, with an amendment increasing the interest to 4 per cent.....A Be§ltlon of the Catholic Young Men's National Union was fresentegi and referred protesting against an aleéged discrimination’' in the appointment of Army Chaplains and Indian _Agents, whereby Catholic soldiers, seamen and Indians are deprived of the benefit of their religion and are placed in the charge of dénominations in which they have no interest or confidence.... Mr. McCreexgspoke in favor of the transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War Department....A resolution was agreed to instructing the Committee on Agriculture t&conmder what can ot ought, to be done by the General Government to better g.éivm&e, encourage and foster agricultural inres :

House.—Bills ,'were introduced—to restore the franking privilege as to letters sent or received by Members of Congress; to abolish the mileage of Members of Congress, and tosubstitute the payment of actual traveling expenses. ....Motions to suspend the rules and pass the bill repealing the law in regard to the test oath of jurors, and also the law for the appointment and payment of Supervisors of Election and their aids, were rejected—yeas, 126; nays, 113— not two-thirds in the affirmative....A motion was also defeated—yeas, 39: nays, 184—to suspend the rules and pass the bill to establish postal savings banks....The Legislative,*Executive and Judicial A(]_),propnatmn bll (%15,154,475) was considered in Committee of the Whole, -

THE TELLER INVESTIGATION. A IN WASHINGTON. The committee met in Washington, on the 4th. Col. Mackey, of South Carolina, was examined, and said the Republicans were. in numerous ways, prevented from having a full and free vote in Charleston Countfv, and that the Democrats resorted to frauds for that purpose; notwithstaning Gov. Hamptou had given assurance that he would agt fairly in the appointment of Commissioners, and give one Republican to two Democrats in each county, only five or six Republicans were appointed in _the thirty-two counties of the State; witness did not believe the Republicans had a single Manafer of Election in 400 precinets; some of the colored men, who put on red shirts, said they did so because they were paid $2 a day for service: mgﬁess in order to counteract the Democrats, had 5,000 tissue-tick-ets printed, and these were to be used only in tbe event that the Republicans were certain the Democrats were using tissue-tickets; some few Republican tickets had been given out the night before tue election, and six of them oul)v,'l were voted in - Charleston; fuILY) 4,000 suc tickets were in a package handed by witness to Senator Teller; in coming to the conclusion with Bowen to have printed tissue-tickets, they did so with a view of counteracting the Democrats, so that, when the Democrats came to t.a.km‘f tickets out of the ballot-box, they could not discriminate between the two kinds of tickets; witness -did not know how the D.emgorpts could get an undue number of tissue-tickéts into the box, but he believed they were printed by the Democrats for fraudulent purposes. : E. M. Wallace, United Stales Marshal for South Carolins, testified to arresting Democrats for breaking up Bepublican meetings, but no conviction Tresulted; the Democrats regarded -the voting of tissue-ballots as a hufe joke on the Repnbhmnﬁgmnmthnt thex had learned tricks from the KRepublicans, and wptg nowrle)samng them at their o&:_ game; not one colored man out of a th would, if left free to himself, vote the D,gmogatxg ticket, although a number of them vo or fear of losing or hope of obtaining em%gymenb. In reply to a a}‘ue'sﬁon by Senator McDonald, witness said he knew of half a _dozen pmﬁment negroes who attended :It)ndﬁddmed public meetings in behalf of the emocrats. LA

THE POTTER INVESTIGATION, IN WASHINGTON, . The committee reassembled on the Eth. ; 5 Gen. Lyman Sheldon, one of the Hayes Klectors from Lonisiana, testified relative to the cértificates which have been claimed to contain Eotgedjdisﬁtpm,mﬂe stated tgst %lmaw og!f'no orgeries V 1 n commi : ew 11 of?he_“smit_!:w,eertiﬁcate and never hnea.rd oi it nntil he saw it mentioned in the newspapers. Joscph H. Maddox was exa relative to the charges contained in Bt. 18" affidavit, In axgwe_i;‘lib the inquiries of tl ee‘ o e, ‘witT'he crom eraminaiion oﬁnﬁi'rxless was detez;reds: J. H. Maddox wss recalled, on the 6th, and testiﬂe% further relative to the Bt, Martins affidavit, Every oharge embraced therein was specifically danived.‘es%eoiauy that referring to Maddox having offered St. Martins money to return home. e = On the 7th, Geo. W. Carter, of New Orleans, denied the assertion made in St. Mars

tins’ affidavit to the effect that he (Carter) had given or offered Weber money to influence his testimony; did not believe Wcber received any money for testifying. % . A. M. Gibson testifled that he first met Weber in this committee-room; never had any negotiations with him; never paid or offered to etrtg.y Weber money for testifying as- was charged in St. Martine’ affidavit; first saw St. Martins in New Orleans; never gave Bt. Martins money and never had a conversation with him outside the committee-room; made a general and particular denial of all the chwes in Bt. Martins’ affidavit; furnished no money for the payment of witness, and did not believe any was paid; had no information as to the $450 alleged to have been paid to Dula, . 5 The committee went into secret session, and agreed to discharge St. Martins.

' —+ IN NEW YORK. The sub-committee met in New York, on the sth, and began the investigation of the alleged cipher dispatches. Smith M. Weed testified to going to North Carolina under instructions received at the Everett House; had a clghe; at that time, but had since destroyed hot! c.lglher and key; thought the dispatches, as published, I&rle;‘tty nearlg correct; at Columbia met Wade pton and others; thought that money could be used, and telegraphed 1f it could be furnished; only telegraphed to Henrv Havemeyer; a definite pro sition was banded witness saying that for %&00: 000 or $BO,OOO the Bouth Carolina Canvassing Board would make things all straight for the Democrats; went to Baltimore with representatives of the Canvassing Board, where witness EOSltlvely declined to receive the proposition to and over the State to the Democrats: declined to identify several dispatches signed "' W,” and thought he did not send them; the translation of the Havemeyer telegram was substantially correct, he thought; offer to secure the board was made by & man named Solomon; often saw him and Dunn, one of the board, in -closecon~ sultation; told witness that the money need not be paid over until the goods were delivered; met Col. Pelton in Baltimore; he said the ** old man,” mea.nmdg Tilden, had received a telegram . from Edward Cooper, stating that he could not raise the money, and a telegram was received from Tilden, making a similar statement; told Solomon so, and he sent a dispatch to Columbia: in thred or four hours after the Canvassing Board decided the other way; met Tilden subsequently at the Everett:- House, and he took witness to task for making the proposition, aa(fging that he never ; authorized any such proceedings, and would never become President under such circumstances: the dispatch signed ** Pope,” sent to him from Columbia, was sent to obtain $6,000 from the National Committee to enable the South Carolina Democrats to nieet necessary expenses, and had no connection with the project of buying the Canvassing Board; never mentioned the plan of purchasing the board to anv other person than Mr. Havemeyer; got the cl&t)xer from Mr. Pelton. Mayor Cooper testified that he saw Pelton, the evening before he went to Baltimore, at Gov. Tilden’s house; he was about going to the train and said he was gomg to Baltimore to meet Weed and others, and he said he might want to telegrabh me to send him some money; next déloy, received a telegram from Pelton, asking for $60,000 or $80,000; was astonished. and went at once to Tilden’s house, and he said Pelton must be telegraghed to_return at once; never was authorized to send Pelton any money, nor did he intend to do so: Tilden was also surgns_ed at Pelton’s dispatch. Mr. Gooper here submitted a statement of the expendiiures of the National Democratic Committee, of which he was Treasurer; the total amount expended was $15,340 from the day of the election up to the present; it was made up of incidental and necessary expenses incurred. Mr. Cooper further testified—cannot say whether Gov., Tilden knew where Pelton was iomg; he seemed angry and impatient when he heard Pelton had gone to Baltimore, and on hearing of the disg_atch said Pelton should be ordered home immediately ; his impression of Pelton’s dispatch was the same as witness’'—that he was neﬂmtmg to purchase an Electoral vote; never knew of Tilden making any attempt to purchase Electoral votes; never knew of any pro%mtlon to use anv money in Florida; did not know the cli)her used between Weed and Pelton; believed Tilden, Hewitt, Pelton and others had nothing to do with sending gentlemen to Florida, South Carolinaand Louis--lan4 to.look after the Returning Board ; thought Pelton took on himself the responsibility of trying to purchase the Florida Returning Board or an Electoral vote, and although confidential with Mr. Tilden, the moment the domains of corrug}i‘on were, touched kept all that secret from Mr. Tilden; could not account for Pelton’s telegraphing witness for so large a sum of money; it astonished him very much, but don’t think he . called the attention of ether members of the National Democratic Committee to his action; Pelton was not an officer of the ,committee, although he took a very active part in its work; was satisfied the moment he spoke to Mr. Tilden about the dmfm.tch from Pelton he was totally unaware of Pelton’s negotiations; that Mr. Weed should be in' Baltimore at the time with Pelton made a strong impression on his mind; think he mentioned the sact to Mr. Tilden; know nothlpiabout money for Oregon; whether it was furnished, where it came from, or where it went to; thought Pelton’s -action in telegraphing him for such a large amount of money was preposterous; had no such amount of money to give away or lend; did not tell Mr, Tilden of the matter with the ideathat he would raise the money, and even if he concluded to raise it would not be a party to sending it to Florida; there was no effort made to sever Mr. Pelton's connection with the National Democratic Committee after his action, because as he was not an tggicer of the National Committee they could take no action in the matter, and as Pelton could get no money except throu%h wit~ ness as Treaspurer or Mr, Tilden, it seemed there was no danger of his! bquﬁfrmnch with them, and so the matter dropped; Mr. Tilden had a teletg'l'a»_ph wire run into his house during the eleciom. ; :

Col. Pelton was called before the sub-committee, on the 6th, and testified that he had destroyed his cipher key; did not remember the namesof all his correspondents; Weed'’s disQfﬂtches were addressed to g)avemeyer and translated to witness; after this they were sent to the sEverett House for the inspection of the com‘mittee; in ‘witness’ absence they were opened fbf' the National Committee: did not remember ‘all the dispatches; thought the published - dispatches got near the point, but they weré inaccurate; did not remember whether or not he used the word Denmark as hissignature; labored for de]aim the decision of the Returning Boards because he thought such delay would be favorable for the Democratic party; had made no arrangements for raising money, but thought it best to commit the members of the boards to his proposition, and intended to submit it to the committee for action; acted solely on his own responsibility and without consultation with anyone; the original of the Tallahassee dispatch signed ** Marble,” and stating thata decision in favor of Tilden could be secured for $200,000, apgga.red to be in Marble's handwriting; senta ispatch declining the offer—it was too high; subsequently received dispatch from Wooley isaying that a vote could be secured for §50,000, ‘to which he on his_own ressonslbxhtv assented; remembered receiving’a dispatch from Weed that the Bouth Carolina Board demanded _575,000, and this he accepted; was told by Cooper _and . others that -the last-named sum could not be raised; and he so informed Weed when he saw him at Baltimore; Mr, Tilden was excessively annoyed at what he had done, and denounced: his action in severe and unmeasured terms; Mr. Tilden had not the remotest idea of the -ne%otmtlons_ pending in his behalf, and witness did not adyise him of his corresgoqdenoe with Marble, Wooley and Weed he told witness, dxstmotalf _that he wanted no such work, and would sooner die: than allow himself to be put into the |Presidential chair under fa.fse Jretenses: when witness subsequently showed the Governor the whole correspondence he was still more exercised, and denounced the whole proceeding em&l:a.t;cauy: witness led the Flori and South Carolina people to believe that he ha it gk el el L WO sanction any con e him would be faithfully carried out; l:ga.dvno{ seen Marble since Anguat. and had not lived in Gramercy Park since that time; the sole source from which he expected to raise the.monege to secure the Florida Board was the National Democratic Committee; wished it to be understood that he telegraphed Marble an unconditional ac‘ceptance on his own reapomxbxlit&i and that he expected to get the money from the source indicated above; knew he could not get the money from Mrv, Tilden. ' L i

- Manton Marble testified, on the 7th. ‘He went to Florida to look after the Electoral vote; could not say that he went under the instructions of the Democratic Committee; did not go under the specific request of anyone; had no ‘communication with Gov. Tilden on the matter; he called on the Governor the evening that he left, and simplﬁ& bade ' him ** Good-b%:" ‘on ‘his way met nd,olgn, Blair: and and -of course canvassed 't matter with tilem; think he got a cipher from Pelton at the Everett House, and used it subsequently; neither sent to mor received from Tilden any. telegrams; addressed his dxgqatphes. to Pelton; his object in| Eomgo to Florida was to take care of the Klectoral vote; the cipher dispatches, as published, so far as he was concerned, are gimply rubbish; what witness did not do ‘wasto buy Florida votes, although they were for sale. Several of the tellefmms were. read as published, some of which Mr. Marble acknowledged he sent and others of which he, did not recoflect or repudiated. Mr. Marble did not explain the dis¥a‘boh.aak;ng Goy. Grover, of Oregon, to refrain rom issuing au Electoral certificate to an Elector claimed to be ineligible. Witness said he _did not recollect the dispatch to Pelton stating ,trhlag he had pecelfv;%d athprogi)ut};: to necu.rg @ 3 en dQOI. on D e Orl Bo&!d ‘xor 3*50,000; wxﬁxed the committee teo understand

that none of the pecuni positions were his; C. E. Dyke, editor of the ?[lallaha.sae_e Floridian, was the representative of the Returning Board in the negotiations; the telegram offering a decision for $60,000 was not his; thought it a device on the part of the board to secure a better price from, the other side; received the telegram from Pelton accepting the $50,000 proposition, but did not reply to it: had no conversation with Tilden before going to Florida or_after hs return about buying out the Electoral Board, and did not believe the Democrats made anv attempt of the kind; had conversation with- Mr. Chandler of a general character. Witness said, I again repeat that so far as these pecuniary arrangements are concerned I had nothing to do with them, except this w:g: I transmitted by wire all propositions made to me, but as to their consummation I had nothing to do;”’ was not aware that Wooley was anthorized to buy out the Returning Board; met Gov. Tilden lon%a.fter the decision of the Returning Board. He denounced the whole _proceedmi. and said that under ‘no circumstances would he have countenanced any such a.rrangement. “My friendly relations with Goy. Tilden have not been changed, for, as I have already told you, he knew that 1 had nothing to do with those propositions, and merely 13£uded them in my. cipher messages to accommodate the parties who made them.” Mr. Marble, in answer to questions from the Republican members of the sub-committee, said he received proggsxtxons from_ Dyke and Cole; told the latter that no proposition to purchase a vote would be entertained. . E. 1. Paris testified that he sént dispatches from Tallahassee to Col. Pelton, Mr.| King and Havemeyer, and received several frox_n New York. Witness, with the aid of a key, deciphered several of the dispatches, and showed that the signature might be Wooley as well as Marble. -

On the Bth, Gov. Tilden appeared be fore the sub-committee and testified. Witnes had read the dispatches and their translation in the New York papers; did not recognize a single dispatch he had ever seen before; never entered into alg arrangement to purchase the vote of South Carolina or Florida; had no_information or suspicion that any such communications were being carried on until the dispatches appeared in the New York 7'ribune, had no knowledge and no dealings with any parties to thesé negotiations, and never authorized vhem in_any rormj; on Nov. 20, 1876, first learned that Pelton had left the city for Philadelphia; later in_ the day Mr. Cooper told him_he had received an offer from some party offering to secure the vote of South Carolina for money; told Cooper he would authorize no such transaction, nor sg‘end mol;:-,{v for any such purpose; obtained Pelton’s address in Baltimore, and telegraphed him to come home; know nothing of tne cighers that bhad been passing between him and others, and could not have translated them; never saw one of the tel(iframs cither in cipher or translation in regard to Florida; did not know and was not intormed that negotiations were going on in regard _to ulegallﬁoaobtmnmu certificates of the Returning rd: had heard Marble i%)eak generally of the corruption of the Florida leturning Board; did not know that the Oregon dispatches came in cipher until after the meeting of the committee to investigate them; did not know that any of them were delivered at his residence; Col. Pelton’s habits of mind and witness’ were very different; none of the Democratic statesmen who went South were authorized to do anything that a gentleman might not do; from Nov. 7, 1876, until Dec. 6, did . not enter into any combination to seek certificates by venal induce--ment; there never was an hour or minute that such a thought was entertained; qugc‘i it to the 4,000,000 citizens, who, as he believed, elected him President of the United Btates, to proclaim' that he would not yield one jot or tittle of his right; whatever evils resulted trom this subversion of the Electoral system and free government, he resolved he would enterinto noauction for the purchase of the Chief Magistracy; resolved that he would continue to protest against a wrong by which the people were defrauded out of their rights; did not recollect having received the dispatch to Geo. W. Bmith, his private secretary, suggesting that the Governor of Oregon refrain from issuing a certificate to one of the Electors, and had no knowledge of such dispatch; did not know if Smith had a cipher, and knew nothing abou¢ ciphers himself; did not get from Pelton when he returned from Baltimore any information about his negotiations; was told by Cooper of the South Carolina vote being for sale. but never heard of a,ng attempt to bribe until tke fact was published; first heard of the Florida bribery negotiations from Marbie, on his return; Marble gave no details and witness made no inquiries; did not' consult Pelton about the propositions to bn& or sell, and was only'interested in stopping them; Pelton ceaged to reside at Gramercy Park about tke Ist of Januag'; did not ask him to resign his porition, but manifested great displeasure, and he left; knew nothing of Weed’s presence in South Carolina, and did not hear from him of this ‘proposition to buy votes; had confidential relations with Marble: Pelton was the last man in the world he would select if he had intended to enter into such a transaction as purchasing Electoral votes; did not_refer to the Baltimore transaction in his published card, because * if was not partinent.”

On cross-examination. Mr. Tilden stated that he did not converse with Weed before he left for the South; saw the dispatch received in New Yotk‘ saying, ‘‘You are imperiling the result here.” In reply to the question why he did not call Cooper’s or Hewitt's attention to Pelton’s course lest the Democratic General Committee should be compromised, Gov. Tilden said he supposed that they had full knowledge and would be able to take care that nothing wrong should be done; the civil law doesn't recognize purposes fintil they are embodied in actions; the Church punishes the purposes of criminals, even if they are not carried out; the atmosphere at that time was full of rumors of fraudulent Returning Boares; ‘' I declare betore God and my country that the votes of Louisiana and Florida were bought (meaning by the Republicans); [ would scorn and condemn xg'g righteous title if the Democratic party ha secured my seat by fraud.” Witnessdid not remember receiving any special information in regard to the expenses of legal proceedings in the disputed Southern States; he knew nothing about it, but supposed these matters were under the charge of some member of the National Committee. In answerto the question if it did not occur to witness that he ouﬁht to investigate Col. Pelton's relations to the National Committee after he learned| of Pelton's Baltimore transaction, Mr. Tilden said he thought the best way to deal with such transactions was to stop it, but to do it himself and not to let anybody else do it; he thought that such course would have been better in Florida than what was done there; when a certain party set up a high standard of morality, he proposed to analyze that standard, and see if they lived up to it themselves; Col. Pelton thought it excusable to fight fire with fire, and adopt the tactics of the enemy; Mr. Pelton’s act was-an inchoate offense; the acts of the?other side were consummated, and gave the Presidency to a man not elected; he did not attempt to excuse Col. Pelton; the lavter did not act up to his own standard of morality. . ; ‘ E. L. Parris testified that his telegrams, though addressed to Mr. Tilden, were intended for the National Committee. . g George W. Smith, Gov. Tilden's private secretary, was ({mt on the stand and swore that he rem%bere nothing in regard to the cipher dises. . . :p%l‘he committee went into executive session, decided to examine no more witnesses, and left in the evening for Washington.

Important to Pensioners. ' The Commissioner of Pensions has issued the following circular letter, erhichﬁis of interest to all claimants for arrears under the recently-enacted Pension-Arrears bill: ' WAsHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 27, 1879, Sir: Persons who are entitled to arrears of pension, under the Act Jgranting Arrears, approved Jan. 25, 1879, and whose pensions were granted previous to that date, will not require the assistance of a claim agent in obtaining , the amount due. them. All correspondence in relation to any claim for such arrears, will be with the person entitled, and »o i:laim agent will be recognized in such claims. , S " A letter addressed to the Commissioner of Pensions, signed by the person who was in receipt of the pension at the date aforesaid, and two witnesses, in the presence of a magistrate, will be the only application required ~Land upon whieh the rights of all parties concerned will be adjusted. - 135 The Pension Cerlificate should not be :gnt. to this Office—but it must be exhibited to e magistrate._ga . ‘The letter should be in the following or equivalent form: S

Lo the Commissioner of Pengions. . / I ........, apensioner under pension cer-: tificate No. ...., hereby apply for the arrears" dpe me, under the Act granting Arrears of Pensions, :&pproved January 29, 1879.. My Postoffice address is— ‘[here ingert the name of the Postoffice, and, if the claimant resides’ in a city, the name and- number of the street and residence must also be given.] Hi . E ; . Name of ¢l ‘Two Witnesses, ‘ .a Wi aimant' STATE OF —, COUNTY OF ——, 88" § Bigned in my presence, by ...., who is. known to me to be the person he describes hgmelt t 0 be, and at the same time he exhibited to me his pension certificate, which is numbered .... Maugistrate’s signature. YVery respectfully, J. A. At Fo o quiuimerow“

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Mucs sickness is said to prevail at Logansport. : plesiline s L A TErRRE HAUTE man has a - Roman penny (denarius), worth, by weight, fifteen cents in Federal money. It was struck by the Emperor: Valerian, who reigned A. D. 251. i A FEw days ago, George Sheeks leaped or fell from the Ohio & Mississippi bridge, at : Shoals. Public opinion is divided as to whether or not his death ‘was accidental or suicide. JosepH W. BROWN was - chloroformed and murdered at Martinsville, in Morgan County, the-other day. Itis thought the crime wasnot committed for money, as the murderers only secured about seventy to .one hundred - dollars, but that other motives prompted them . to deal the death-blow. = . e : ; - FrRANK WHITE, who for nearly seven years Jgps been United Sfates Revenue Collector of the Terre Haute District, has signed his resignation of that position. Mr. D. W. Minshall, a bankgr’ of Terre Haute; is named as. his successor. | i g _ THE latest 'reports from Indianapolis give the following as current prices for leading staples: Flour, Family and Fancy. $4.00@ 5.50; Wheat, No. 2 Red, 91 @ 93c; Corn, 30@31c; Oats, 28@24c; Rye, 45@4blgc;. Pork, [email protected]; Lard—Steam, 614@6%c; Hogs, [email protected]. e ;

THE LEGISLATURE. - S SENATE.—On the 3d, the Senate did not meet until two p. m., and took up bills on sec ond reading. After several bills had been read a. second time and the reports of commijttees thercon acted upon, an amendment'to a pending bill was’ offered and the ayes.and noes demanded thereon: The call of the roll. showed no quornm present, and the Senate adjourned, being unable. to drum. up thirty-four members. bz St House.—Metat usual hour. The morning session was occupied: in reading bille a-second time and referring them to committees. Several unimportant bills were introduced, and at two p.. m. the House took up the special order, the resolution on the rubject of electing officersin the gift of the Legislature. The Democritic members: of the Judiciary Committee, to. whom had been'referred the resolution, -reported that.-the ' action of the last General Assembly, in electing officers, was void, in not electin%l' in themanner prescribed by statute, and, therefore, full. boards of oftficers for the various institutions should be elected. The ~National member: of that committee submitted a ‘minority report, holding the election two years ‘ago invalid, but tnat the ob%)ect' of the statute was complied. with, and full oards should not be elected. The Republicans of the committee presented 'a second minority re})ort, taking the ground that the stafute was mere-. y directory, not mandatory, and-that thé offigers elected are as legally entitled to hold office as though they had been elected undcer all the forms . })resicribed by law. The majority Teport was finaly ado?ted. The resolution was then adopted by a vote of 48t0 30. . . s g

SENATE.—On the 4th, bills were introduced—to prohibit the marriage of drinkards and repealing the act for the ‘appointment of students to Purdae University: for the appointment of Public Administrators, to 'gi&ve‘.cont‘rol of all estates in each county; providing'for a syste of cumulative voting; giving laborers prefer,r{& liens; re%ulatin-g th 2 practice of dentirtry: abolishing the oflice ot State- Geolegist. The- afternoon session was mainly taken up by the-consideration of the bill legalizing dissection of persong dyingin Poor-Houses and Penitentiaries whose friends de not claim their bodies. . After a number of amendments, the bill was ordered engrossed. : ' House.—Little business of interest was transacted, the entire session being occupied in disposing of committee reports. The bill prohibiting appeals from Justices when the amount is Jess than $2O was ordered engrossed. . A communication was received from the.Superintendent of Public Instruction, showing ‘where local school levies might be reduced from 24 to" 50 per cent. A bill was introduced authorizing the State “of Maryland to transferall the title of the.State of Indiana to the National Cemetery at Antietam to the General Government. - Mr. Humphréys' Legislative Agportionmqnt bill was made thespecial order for Feb. 7. The joint resolution favoring resumption was reported back with the recommendation that it be indefinitely postponed. On a call of ycas and nays on the question.of cencurring in the repori, np quoram voted, and the House adjourned: ¢ i S

SENATE.—On the sth,” Senator Winterbotham denied that he was the head of a ring which controlled the Northern Prison, and courted the fullest investigation into his connection with the institution.. The remainder of the session, except during-the time the Senate was in Joint Convention with the Houre, was taken up .in discuss- ¢ ing a joint resolution instructing Seénators to vote for the Inter-State Commerce bill, now pending before the Senate of the United States. The ¢ Judicinrfy Committee, to whom the resolution had been referred, -reported, recommending its indefinite postponement, but the Senate refused to concur in the report, and the resolution was passed. House.—lndiana’ members' of Con- - gress were instructed to vote fora bill to amend the Revenue law 80 as to-allow farmers to gell tobacco raised by them in leaf or twist, without being com pelled to take out the usual Government license, and to reduce the fees and salaries of Federal officers. The bill making seventy pounds a bushel of corn was ordered engrossed. ‘A number of com- - mittee reports were received and acted upon. In Joint Convention, Miss: Maggie Fitzgibbon was elected Librarian; Thomas W. Shea and P. L. D. Mitchell, Directors .of the Southern . Prison; John Lee, Fred Hoover ‘and Simeon Wild, Directors of the Northern Prison. - Lol SENATE.—On the 6th, the House joint resolution for the clection of Presidents of Boards of Trustees of benevolent institutions was. . made the special order for-Feb.l3. A resolution was adopted instructing Conﬁressmen to vote forthe Inter-State Commerce bill. . The Interest bill was taken up and amended. Before finishing the ‘bill the Senate adjourned. o o ; House.—The sessions were mainly occupied in the bill fixing the date of the election « to ratify the Constitutional Amendments. It was finally referred to the Judiciary Committee with instractions to revise and report. ke Tl SENATE.—On the 7th, the bill abolishing the offices of City Assessor and Town Treasurer and providing for ‘the election of Town Marshals was ordered engrossed. The Interest bill was passed. The bill making. it felony to rob a gmve was ordered engrossed. Sundry unimportant ills were introduced. Elradsip vetn ] House.—The ' session was' entirely occupied in discussing the Legislative Apportionment bill, which was finally ordered engrossed for a third rgnding, © - . - o SENATE.—On the Bth, bills were introduced—regulating transportation of freighton and over railroads; providing for a Statc Board of Engineers ;—authorlzipﬁthe adoptionof Campbell’s Road System; to furnish Justices copies of the statutes; amending the code; regulating the rates of freight and passenger traffic. St e h ' House.—Bills were- introduced—to regulate the practice of mediciné; to cheapen the-’ .cost of ~ text-books, 'aud " preventing frequent - changes; prohibiting the sale or transfer of county orders wi:e_re the person holding the same is indebted to the county for taxes; prohibiting the expulsion of seholars from public Bchools on account of the kind of book or.books said pupil may want . to study, provided they be of the standard school books commonly sold in the markets; authorizing : the erection of connty work-houscs; to punish the embezzlement of railroad tickets. A resolution ' was adopted to investi‘lgatq the néw Insane Asylum.. 'The Committee ?‘n risons. were instructed to: find out what has become of the money for which the bricks of the old Penitentiary weresold. = . - —First Small Boy—*Your father’s. ;ﬁxing. tolecture - to-night, ain’t he? My father and mother “are. lgolmsg, and lam going, too. - Ain’t you?” .Second Small Boy—*¢ Pooh!.1 guess I've heard 12&‘;::& you will. . Pap speaks it afore the looking fl@“‘ every. n-%ﬁ.: - It's fun 98¢0 him, 1 ;tell :yer.'~~Bosion, Trans | bl S ey A SRR SSR : " | —Miss [Hewins, tho librarian of a. large popular library in Hartford, . Cosay suyt thatmm%ebﬂﬂr of that sity read too.mush. .. Sng, fey s toad 102 story books, and a girl 112 novels in six Bmm'h’ AT AR S