Ligonier Banner., Volume 14, Number 15, Ligonier, Noble County, 31 July 1879 — Page 2
A SHOCKING TRAGEDY. The Suicide of Two Sisters Near Chi= cago—The Story of a Surviving Sis--ler. § * 5 g 2 A shocking tragedy was wrought in an elegant three-story residence on Langley street, in the village of Hyde Park, near Chicago, a few nights ago. The house was oecupied by three maiden sisters, named Elizabeth, Anna and Nona Trowbridge. They were fortythree, forty and thirty years old, respectively. Brought up,to a life of luxury, they found themselves unable to face a life of privation, rendered inevitable, as they thought, by the failure or anticipated failure of theirresources,and -decided to seek surcease of sorrow by oing unbidden to the great hereafter. .gfhey talked the matter over and all agreed, after asceason of prayer, to put a period to their troubles. At the supréme moment the courage of the younger failed, and she concluded to endure for a time the evils she knew rather than encounter those possibly in store for her after she had shufiled off her human integuments. The two elder sisters remained firmly fixed in their intention of leaving the world which had caused them so much trouble. As the afternoon settled down into night they made their ghastly preparations, and robed themsclves in white. After this they read the Sermon on the Mount and knelt down to pray. Then they closed the klinds, nailed up the windows, ?nd drove two spikes in the wall, one just over the center of thefolding hall-door, the other in a similar place above j;he open double doors of the connecting parlors. . There was another prayer, the three embraced and Nona retired to her chamber above. There shivering, sobbing and moaning like one bereft of reason, the poor girl sat until nine o’clock. She listened with that sense of the horrible upon her which, in her case, was unique.- She heard the preparations, heard the chairs drawn out "of - place, heard the chairs fall, heard choking protests, and - thed™ came silence—silence -awful and torturiug. She went, down stairs and saw the, hideous sight ~she expected to see—two loved sisters ‘hanging limp and inanimate from ropes tied to the spikes driven in above the doors. Two chairs lay beneath them and an open Bible upon the cen-ter-table. The poor girl ‘fell fainting to the floor. But merciful oblivion was not long granted to her, and she awoke again. She crawled to where they hung, and, in piteous accents, tried to call them back to life. Neighbors heard the wailing and entered, cut down the inanimate forms and laid them tenderly upon a couch to await the Coroner’s inquest. - . The inquest was held next day, and Nona, the surviving. sister, made the following statement to the Coroner: ¢“My mother has been dead about twentyfive years, and my father, Alva -‘Trowbridge, lives at Morgan Park. My father married a second wife about three years after mother’s d eath, and his wife died about two years ago. My mother left some progerty to n’}y gisters and myself by will when-she died. his property was afterward sold by.mgfather through the courts, he being my guardian, as I was a qinor. ‘‘My sisters and I lived -at home with my father until about two years ago, when we felt that we must leave home on account of his conduct. - We accordingly did, and father deeded my two sisters some property on Halsted strget. There was then five hundred -dollars back taxes due on the property, and my sisters held a receipt for the payment of their taxes. There has been a great deal of ‘trouble recently over this property, and this bhas worried my sisters a great deal. They felt that they were persecuted, and they became tired of life, and they have meditated death for several days, the final conversation on the subject occurring dast week. ' They felt that we must leave the house they occupied on the Ist of August. o ‘‘The subject was discussed yesterday, and preparations were made for the suicide. They talked with me about it, and praayed with me, and read the Bible, and seemed to be happy after these preparations were made. The talked of different methods of taking thefl' lives, andfinally decided upon hanging themselves as the easiest method. They accordingly bade me farewell, and at’ about six o’clock, fhavin% fastened up the house, they left me " up-stairs and requested me not to come down nor make any noise for ag, hour or two. They: went down into the parlor, and in a few min.utes I heard a chair fall'in the parlor, and I knew they had accomplished the act they had 'comiemplated. . ‘I went down in a little while to the kitch«€n, and soon after I went to the parlor and ' found my sister Elizabeth suspended by the neck between the front and back-parlor door to a screw-hook fastened into the door-casing. My sister Ann was suspended in the same manner from the casing of the door leading from the J)arlor to the hall. I touched them both, and found them both .dead. I then went up stairs and to the front chamber, then to the back window, and was there when Mrs. Hanson rang the door-bell.. The hooks from which they su?ended themselves were - screwéd into the door-casings yesterday morning. The bottle of chloroform found in the house was bouEht yesterday morning, and the knife found there was bought at the -same time. They -did not discuss the use of the ‘chloroform, but they talked of putting the :knife into théir hearts. : { ‘“We had discussed the idea of my taking my life with'them, but they did not want me to, and, while I knew that my only protectors ‘were leaving me, yet I thought I would stay 1o tell the reason for their act.”’ - Nona was evidently out of her mind on the day of the inquest, and was placed in the charge of her friends. After reading the account which appeared in one of the Chicago papers that morning, she beamed with ~delight, and, in an exultant manner, she -exclaimed to her friends, “I want to cut that article out and keep it, for it gives such a lovely account of my sisters’ death.”’ %m appeared to think ‘that her sisters difd right in destroyin% ‘themselves in the manner they did, an that they were happier for so doing. The fact appears to be that the sis‘ters were insane upon the question of mongy.‘ - The evidence adduced before the Coroner showed that they were in receipt of a comfortable income, sufficient to support them in the station in which they were accustomed to move, #nd that their alleged wrongs were imaginae?’, and their fears of poverty fancied. Their father had nearly impoverished himself in providin% for their wants, and there was really no reason for their untimely taking off.
A Practical Joke, j -JOo¥ SKINNER was once the greatest joker in Oil City, and one of his tricks came near bringing on a riot one day. Joe was walking along Sdgheca street, when suddenly he' stopped and began poking in the mud with his cane, at the same time allowing his other hand to slide over his shirt bosom as if in quest of something which was there.
His movenients quickly attracted abootblack, who ran up and asked: ‘¢ Lost suthin’, mister?’’ and began looking about. Sl € Then came a merchant and two cletks’ "of the store, and began looking up and down the walk. A teamster jumped off his wagon and joined in. A barber remarked, ‘ Was it your diamond pin, Joe?’’ and this was caught up and echoed amon the crowd which had gathered, unti% the story grew that a diamond pin worth two thousand dollars had been lost. The crowd extended. until it filled both-sides of the street, and all manner of suggestions were made. One man proposed to shovel up all the dirt and mud and have it carefully looked over. Another man 'said the sidewaik ought to be torn up. A man crowded into a’'place and trod on the toes of another man, who gave him-a push. A blow followed and a fight took place, and in two minutes the police were hauling a man off to the lock-up, while Joe got outside the clbwd and laughed at his awful hoax until the tears ran down his cheeks. The search continued for two hours.— Oil City Derrick.
General Miles’ Recent Fight With the ; Indians, : A dispatch from St. Paul, received at General Sheridan’s headquarters yesterday, confirmed the reports of yesterday’s papers in regard to the engagement between General Miles’ command and the Indians on the 17th of July. On that day the advance column under Lieutenant Clark, of the Second Cavalry, composed of Lieutenant Barden’s company, Fifth Infantry, Lieutenant Hopkins’ company, Second Cavalry, and fifty Indian scouts, met a party of about four hundred hostile Indians between Beaver Creek and the mouth of . Frenchman’s Creek; and had an engagement. The Indians were routed and pursued twelve miles to the north, where the troops became separated. The Indians crossed to the north of Milk River. The troops fought' well, and the Indians with them, Cheyennes, Sioux, Crows, Assiniboines and - Bannocks, acted well, fightiug with the troops and Kkilling several hostiles, and forced them to abandon much property. Two men of Company C and two Cheyenne scouts were wounded. A scouting party that had been sent to the north of Milk River, near the head of Porcupine Creek, reported: that the main camp of Sitting Bull, composed of 1,600 lodges, had removed from Frenchman's River to the Little Rocky, and the report was corroborated by others who had been in the hostile camp as late as June 16, at the former place. Miles expected to move up between Frenchman’s and the Little Rocky, where he anticipated another engagement with the Indians. ; . The commanding officer at Custer telegraphs that Lieutenant Lanint, of the Second Cavalry, at Terry’s Landing, reports that Wolf's band of Crows was at the landing, with information that three hundred lodges of Sioux were south of the Missouri, on the way to the Tongue River to make friends with the whites. _ ! - Dispatches received at Sheridan’s headquarters reg}ort that Major Ilges, commanding at the mouth of the Muscle Shell, says that ten Sioux, with thirty stolen horses from the Judith, crossed the Missouri, June 19, eleven miles above his station. Lieutenant Vanarsdale. commanding the Seventh Infantry, with eight men, followed and caught up with five of the Indians and kitled one and drove the others into the ¢ bad lands.” -
General Sheridan expressed an opinion yesterday that the trouble between General Miles and Sitting Bull’s band was at an end. He says it was only a hunting party met androuted by Miles’ treops, and they probably returned to Sitting Bull's camp, which is in British America, that night, as they were but thirty miles from the line when they met the tx‘pf)ps. As to their returning, he thinks"lt will not be until Miles has left that part of the country, for it is ali humbug to talk about so many thousand Indians belonging to Sitting Bull’s command. .The 1,600 lod%es there number all the Indians, including those who went from Minnesota in 1863, and they are peaceful and will remain so until disturbéd in their homes, which will never be by the United States soldiers. The hostile Indians did not number more than 700 or 800 warriors, and Miles had abeut 1,000 men with him. Three thousand lodges of the Indians who had been in that country had already gone south of the Tongue River, to make friends with the whites. — Chicago Inler-Ocean, July 24.
Currency per Capita. ' Mr. Warner, the author of the Silver bill that passed the House of Representatives, and upon which the Senate was prevented from taking action by the stubborn hostility of Senator Bayard, has written a letter, showing the volume of currency circulation in the United States from 1865 to 1879, which embodies valuable- facts and figures with which the people should be familiar. The letter was written toHon. H. L. Muldrow, of Starkville, Miss., as late as June 30, and the figures given, as Mr. Warner says, ‘ were taken entirely from official Treasury statements made at different times.”” It will be observed that Mr. Warner has included nothing in his statements that was not strictly currepcy as conceded by the Shylocks, although a strict adherence to well-establishefi facts would have permitted a different summing up of totals. But as Mr. Warner’s . purpose. in writing the letter was not controversy, but to tabulate figures drawn from official sources, it was probably better that he should _have.geit . out, items about which there has been a deal of dispute; using only such dates as all must concede to be as near the facts as it is possible to . arrive at. It will be observed that Mr. Warner, by his statements, shows that the amount: of currency per capila has Stéadi? decreased from 1865 to 1879. And this demonstrates the fact that contraction has steadily been going forward, directly, by reducing the volume of circulation, and, indirectly, by the increase of Sopnlation, the two factors show% a decrease per capita from thirty-nine
dollars in 1865 to fourteen dollars in 1879.. The statements of Mr. Warner are so full and complete that we reproduce them entire: o CIRCULATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1865. : .- Volume of Currency. June 30, 1865. State Bank circu1ati0n................5142,919,638 National Bank circu1ati0n............ 146,187,860 Demand notes, acts July 17 and Au- ; GO TN ... .. o e i Legal-tender notes, acts February 25, 1862, July 11, 1862, and March 3, QOB c 0 G e ARD BRTOOH One and two-year notes of 1863, act of March 8,1868......c000c00000nce. 42,888,710 Compound Interest, acts March 3, 1863 and June 30, 1864... .......... 193,756,080 Fractional currency, act of June 17,
AOtml e o o o SURY R6H Total pog%lation in 1865 (estimated).. 34,748,000 Deduct from this population of the States 'in rebellion, which was® BEOE o A 0 And we lave in round numbers $983,- - 000,000 to » population 0f........... 25,000,000 Or over $39 per capita. . Volume of Currency., = . June 30, 1873. ° State Bank circu1ati0n................ $1,294,470 National Bank circu1ati0n............ 347,267,061 Demand Notes. ... ...... Lociiin 79.967 Legal-tender n0te5.................... 856,000,000 One and two-year notes of 1863....... 142,106 Compound-interest n0te5............. ‘479,400 Fractional currency.................. 44,799,366
M o coeeee. ... $760,062,368 Total population in 1873, estimated, in round numbers, 42.000,000—giving a little less than $l6 per capita. Volumeof Currency. June 30, 1878. - State Bank circulation. ....... ...... $426,504 National Bank circuiation... .... .. 824514284 Pemind notes. .= .l i 63,297 Legal-tender n0te5........ .......... 346,681,016 One and two-year notes of 1863.... ... 90.485 Compound-interest n0te5............. 274,920 Fractional currency....:............. 16,547,768 Fractional silver c01n5................ 40,000,000
DTé)ta.t..f.!:..i_. i ....1..i.'...t5728,597,275 educt fractional currency lost, a WG il L TI0000:00D Deduct legal-tenders held in Treasury, under act of 1874, for redemption of National Bank currency, BYEORO. oo ..l i i 20,000,000 Deduct legal-teriders held in Treasury to redeen fractional currency.. 10,000,000
~_Actual circu1ati0n..................5688,597,275 Total population in 1878, estimated, in round numbers, 47,000,000, giving . about $14.50 per capita. : ‘ CIRCULATION IN THE UNATED STATES 1879. . . Volume of Currency. - June 30, 1879. Legal-tender notes, June 30, 1879. ....$346.651,016 National Bank notes, June 30, 1879.... 328,338,197 Demand notes, June 30, 1879........ .. 61,630 Fractional curremey........ ....c0... 15,874,777 Silver dollars in circulation, June 28, . s L bt Fractional silver in circulation, June 60, 1870, L ons e oUI T o 5 599 G 0 Jootal . R From which should be deducted— Fractional currenc¥l destroyed. .. .....$10,000,000 'Legal-tender notes held in the Treasury under dct of 1874 for redemption of National Bank notes and t%iled : BOIRR oo i e 5,000:000: [As bank notes are counted, the legaltenders held for their redemption plainly ought not to be counted al--80 as part of the volume.] Legal-tenders still held for redemption of fractional currency......... 9,000,000 Actual circulation........ G . $689,425,643 In addition to the above: there was coin in the Treasury April 80, 1879, according to the Secretary’s report to the Senate, $138,000,000. : & But plainly; neither this coin nor other currency that has been purchased by the sale of bonds and held under the Resumption act as a hoard, or gathered in the Treasury as the result of an excess of revenue.over expenditures, “ought to be counted as part of the circulation, for certainly it can have' no- effect whatever upon prices. - . Taking the present pppulation of the United States at 49,000,600, the above volume ($689,424,643) gives $l4 per capita. » No ‘account in the statement for either of the above periods has been taken of the gold and gold notes (now about $1,500,000 of the latter) in circulation on the Pacific coast. The coin in circulation on the Pacific slope has been variously estimated from $15,000,000 to $25,000,000, but whatever it may be it has not changed enough to affect the comparison of the different periods given. In addition to the circulation in- the United States, Mr. Warner gives some valuable statements relating to the monetary situation in various' European countries of great value, as they enable the reader to form correct conclusions upon matters of vital importance: : ; CIRCULATION IN ENGLAND, 1878, Bank of England n0te5...............5137,035,000 Prvatebanks - ... 7L e 1 510000 Joint stock bank 5..................... 11,675,000 Soetch bank 5....... ... ..o oot 97.500.000 dnsh baslks.. .. ol oo icmaadiil il 84925000
Fotal oo 00l 0L Lol oL R 4 000 Gold and bullion in England in 1876, as estimated by Ernest Beyd and contained in mint estimates—gold. 650,000,000 0therc0in5.............. ..o aO. .0 195:000,000 Increase since 1876, estimated........ 25,000,000 i oadnadk 00l o L 992 445,000 Deduct bullion in the issue department, Bank of England, against which notes are i55ued.............. 75,000,000 ;Actual circulation. ............ ..$917,445.000 Estimated population in 1878, 34,000,000, giving nearly $27 per capita. CIRCULATION IN FRANCE—DECEMBER, 1878. Notes of Bank of France............. 5442,000,000 Coin in Bank of krance (Bulletin de _Statistique) December 381,1878..... 196.720,000 Silver in Bank of France............. 211,620,000 Estimates of coin in circulation dif- - fer considerably, ranging from $l.000,000,000 to $1,400,000,000; taken at 1,200,000,000 * the estimate of a recent writer in ' Economiste Francais, gives a total including a reserve in the bank, of 2,050,340,000 Total population in 1879, 87,000,000, . . making over §55 (fer capita; or deducplnf ccin beld in the bank, we - have $1,642,000 000 in actual circula-~ tien, making over $44 per capita actual circulation. : : - CIRCULATION IN GERMANY, 1879, [From L’Economiste Fr&ncais.] Notes of the Imperial Bank-......... 5139,777,250 Other banks, not given............... Coin in the bank..................... 130,884,750 Coin in circulation, estimated...:... 590,000,000
. T0ta15864662,000 Total silver coinage of Germany is £432.000,000, of which about $269,000,000 have been replaced with gold. Population of Germany, 48,000,000, which gives about $2O per capita. - Of the metallic money of Europe and the United States, ten %}'eat public treasuries—viz.: England, France, Austri, Russia, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Spain and the United States—hold = $1,165,000,000. Eight crediter nations—viz.: England, Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Denmark’ and Sweden—containing a total population of 180,« 000,000—possess about $2,700,000,000 (out of 2 total of $8,500,000,000) of gold and silver held by all. Europe, which gives to these States named £2O per capita of metallic money, rwhile the rest of Europe, with a: population of 180,000,000, possess only ' $600,000,000 of eoin, or a little more than $3 per capita. . i . The nations comprising this population are all debtor nations, whicg s‘fio_wa the eftedt of national debts in the dis» tribution of metallic money, . S - Russia has an interconvertible paper currency of about $800,000,000; Austria about $460,000,000; Italy about -$240,000,000, but there are no reliable estimates of the quantity of the pre-
cious metals held in these countries outside of the public treasuries, but as gpecie pa{mem is suspended in these tates, the amount is probably not Ala_.l:ge. : - The quantity of coin in circulation in the three countries given—Enlfila.nd, France and Germany—it should be remembered, too, are estimates only, but are estimates by those most competent to make them. , In comparing the volume of currency in different countries, it is necessary, in order to correctly measure the relation of velume of money to prices, to consider the business habits of the people dnd the economizing appliances used. Thus in England t%e clearinghouse, the bank check and other forms of credit do a part of the work which in France is done by money only. In other words, in France there is less use of credit instruments and greater use of money, and consequently the money volume is larger. But in France there is less exnansion and contraction, and fewer panics than in England. - While these differences in the money volume of different countries exist, it nevertheless is strictly true that prices depend on the relation of the money volume to commodities and trasactions, and it is a matter of the most vital importance to understand thatthe volume ‘of money in any country can never be materially contracted without breaking down prices, checking enterprise, stifling, production and producing idleness, bankruptey and the long train of miseries that follow.—lndianapolis Sentinel. @ -
How They Are Executed. A little inquiry into the actual operation of the notorious Deputg-Ma.rshal laws will aid people to judge mote accurately as to their character. We will waive for a. moment the discussion of the unconstitutionality of these Eléction statutes and take a glance at their practical workings when they have been put in execution. There are antagonistic theories touching these laws, which we will drop for the present while we attempt to arrive at a theory concerning them by the inductive process. How have they worked? It is the Republican claim that to put the elections in all the States in the hands of men—Republicans—selected by the Executive Department of the Government at Wash‘ington would secure more fair and honest elections than to leave them in the hands of the local or State authorities where the Constitution left them, and where the laws left them for fourscore years. It is the Republican theory that Republican manipulators of elections chosen from Washington are certain to be honest, and that the officers of the States are certain not to be. It is the Republican position that the elections should be taken out of the hands of the State and local authorities, and.placed in the hands of agents of the Washington Government, on account of the superior integrity of the latter. The argument must be that there is something in the nature of Federal employment under Republican auspices that inevitably imparts honesty; otherwise it might properly be dsked who shall “guard and scrutinize’ the Deputy Marshals? What do the facts show? How much do, or may, the Deputy Marshals cost the country? How isthe money expended? = What class of men are employed to secure honest elections? I}iow do they use the power intrusted to them? In /1876 the amount expended for election services of Deputy Marshals and Supervisors was $275,296.60. Of this sum only $44,774.60 were expended- in the Southern States, while $280,000 were expended in the Northern States. In 1878 the expénditure for similar service was $202,091.09, onky $24,639 of which sum having been expended in the South, while $177,652 were expended -in six Northern States. There was no limit upon the number of Deputy Marshals that eould be appointed, and a million of dollars might have been used as easily as a quarter of a million. If under the laws as they stand—the appropriation for Marshals having failed —-there is any authority to appoint these Marshals and contract for their })ayme_nt, the authority is still without imit as to number, and one or two millions may be promised, which is a large sum to use in one election. In the City of New York, in 1876, about one hundred thousand dollars ‘were expended in this manner, we shall presently see for what purposes. One instance of the workings of these %fitutes might well answer for all. ere is no difference in kind; the operations only differ in detail. We will take an illustration from St. Louis in 1876. In the contested-election case of Erost vs. Metcalfe it was proved that E. T. Allen was appointed Chief Supervisor for the City of St. Louis. He testified that there was no occasion for the appointment %f Deputy Marshals at that election, %s the elections in that city had always been peaceful and fair. The United States Marshal for that Distriet, Mr. Leffingwell, was of the saume opinion, and refused to appoint ;?et_;ial deputies. A Mr. Barnard, a National Bank Examiner, who had se-. cured for Mr. Leffingwell his place, went to that gentleman and threatened him with removal if he did not appoint the Marshals. Leffingwell thereupon ;i‘a.ve Barnard control of the Marshals. he spirit in which he executed thelaw can be gathered from his own testidiony: 0 s ¢
Q. Was there any more necessity for the appointment of Marshals for that election than for any previous electionlf A. Oh, well, you gentlemen know very well that in a political struggle for party ascendency it is necessary for the co-ordinate branches of the Government to be in accord; and there was an effort on the part, so I interpreted it, of the E.rty which T acted ‘::inh to gain control of the House of Representves. . For this purpose one thousand and ,twenty-eith Deputy : Marshals were appointed to elect three Republicans to Congress. It is the uncontradicted testimony that numerous Democrats were made Deputy Marshals on condition that théy should vote for the Republican candidates. One of the Deputy Marshals testified that he was appointed eight days before the election, with instructions to ‘‘move around the ward” and help Metcalfe, the Republican candidate. Deputy Marshals were efiiv,en lists of voters, and went from ouse to house m&rkingVDemograts, for challenge or “arrest. Witnesses testi-
fied that the duty for which they were l appoiniéd. Deputy Marshals was to work ¢ for Mr. Metcalfe’s interest.” They were. instructed to ‘‘arrest all the Democrats they could, and keep them from voting.” ‘Twenty thousand dollars were expended in this manner. Five thousand seven hundred names of Democrats were marked for intimidation by challenge or arrest, and St. Louis, that two years before had elected three Democrats to Congress, under this plan returned three Republicans. These are facts taken from the undisputed testimony in a éontested election case. They reveal exactly the purpeses for which and the manner in which the money of the people is expended under the Deputy-Marshal laws. - b In 1876 John J. Davenport had in his employ, in the City of New York, one thousand and seventy Supervisors and twenty-five hundred Deputy Marshals, at a cost of $94,587. In 1878 he employed twelvé hundred and twen-ty-five Supervisors, thirteen hundred and fifty Deputnyaf%shals and an army of Commissioners. He is Chief Supervisor of Elections, Clerk of the United States Court and a United States Commissioner. In May, 1878, he caused one of his assistants to swear to a single complaint against ninetythree hundred persons of foreign birth who held certiticates of naturafiization issued from the Supreme and Superior Courts in 1868, and on which they had voted since that time. On this complaint he caused to be issued five thousand and four warrants, returna- ' bie before himself in' his capacity as ‘Commissioner. About thirty-four hun‘dred persons under such pressure sur‘rendered their naturalization papers, ‘which were perfectly valid. ‘Thirtyone hundred persons were arrested in this high-handed manner. The Depu‘ty Marshals dragged from' the polls lawful voters by the hundred and robbed of the right of suffrage. Nine or ten thousand persons, fullyentitled tovote, ‘were thus made the victims of these men appointed to ¢‘secure a fair election.”” In some cases those agents of the Federal Government seized the naturalization papers and retained them till after election, and by these methods not far from eight thousand voters—Democrats—were lawlessly deprived of the right of suffrage in our city at one election. No similar conspiracy against suffrage has been known in our history north of the Ohio and away from Returning Boards; and this was accomplished under the operation of the Deputy-Maishal laws of the United States, in the name of a “fair and honest election.’” - This is the proved, practical working of these laws. It has been and will be essentially the same wherever these statutes are applied. Senator KEaton recently described the character of the men who were selected by the Federal Government to ‘ gWard and scrutinize'’ the election, clothed with power of instant arrest. He showed that these guardians of ¢‘the peace of the United States’’ were thieves, gamblers, bank robbers, highway robbers, cut-throats, murderers, keepers of houses of prostitution, ‘‘roughs’ of all descriptions, the very worst criminal classes of the great City of New-York. The Senator. from Connecticut gave the names and occupations and characters of these men selected on account of their superior integrity to conduct elections on behalf of the United States, with painful particularity. His showing alone would be sufficientto damn the DeputyMarshal laws; and this is only a glimpse at their disgraceful workings. — Cincinnaty Enquirer. :
The Negro Exodus. In a recent letter to the Hon. John Goode, of Virginia, Chairman of the House Committee on Eduecation and Labor, the Hon. W. ‘C. Whitthorne, of Tennessee, has made a valuableand interesting contribution to the discussion of the negro exodus. A Southern man by birth and familiar with both forms of negro labor, Mr. Whitthorne has never been accused of any prejudice against the colored population on account of race. He shows that when the sudden and tremendous revolution in the condition of both races is cdnsidered they have borne themselves' toward each other with great forbearance. History does not record so violent a political change. Suddenly the blacks of the South were elevated from a condition.of slavery to the full enjoyment of citizenship, while their former ‘masters, impoverished by the war, were deprived of their political rights. ‘When the. impartial historian rcviews ‘this revolution he will wonder ‘that more strife has.not arisen between the whites and blacks of the South. In recordin% it he will be astonished that the violent change in their social and political relations has not produced a cpirofoun‘d hatred of race, and he will o full justice tothe whites of the South when he considers all they suffered at the hands of the dominant party from carpet—ba.% rule and reconstruction. In a recent Plymouth-Church sermon the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher bore® the following eloquent tesbimonMn corroboration of the views of . Whitthorne: : o | Ido say that in the whole history of the human race there never has been an example of a people that bore such reverses, on the whole, with as much patience, as much graudeur, & much pa,tr;ptism as they bave done. [q} uppleume.]l The speciacle of moral grandeur in this revolution, the substantial patience, the substantial good sense of those so terrifically: E):rr:aved. is without & ?agane,l m.huymj
Mr. Whitthorne presents a Fpictfi,rej' of the condition of the South immediately after’ the war.. The war had brought the land to the verge of financial ruin. Private property was disturbed 'and the old slave-owrders were bankrupt. The value of farm land was reduced from 1860 to 1870 to the amount of $771,760,905. The loss of personal properlfi’r‘ of all deseriptions amounted to billions. This was the condition of eight millions' of whites, while the co%ored race, suddenly emancipated, was scarcely in a condition to protect itself from hunger and disease. It need not be wondered tbat the whole population must endure years of privation. But instead of considéring this situation the South has been reproached for denyinF the colored people their le%al and political rights;. for depriving them of the just reward of their labor; and for keeping their lives and liberties in constant
jeopardy. Mr. Whitthorne takes considerable pains to refute the second charge, as it is' assigned as the- principal ground of the negro exodus. The other two are ‘entitled to little consideration as they have long ago been exposed as mere reckless partisan’ exsggeration. .w.lie. - . -As‘to the other charge that the negroes do not receive a fair return for their labor Mr. Whitthorne shows that the production in the Seuth since the war has increased, and that 4 corresponding proportion of this increased production was for the benefit of the laborers. - From 1869 to 1878 the increase of live stock in the South, including swine, ‘was more than three ‘million héads. In the eight years that preceded the war 27,142,285 bales of cotton were produced, while in the last eight years the produection was 83,226,531 bales. In 1871, 7,657,679 acres were planted in cotton against 12,000,000 acres in 1878. « Mr. \%’ hitthorne estimates that .the produets of Southern labor to’the amount of $200,000,000 are exchanged for the merchandise and manufactures of New England, New. York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In regard- to wages the following data are presented. In the Northern and ‘Western States -the farm-laborer receives. -seven = dollars. per. . head of the population; in the Southern States he receives more-than ten dollars per head. In the Southern States in a population of little more than nine millions $97,907,174 is paid to laborers. In the Northern and Western States in -a population of more than fifteen millions only $114,892,864 is paid. This much is certain that production in the Southern States has considerably increased since the war, and that this means an increase in general prosperity and the improvement of the condition of the laborers. Whatever -the negroes may have suffered in the first years of their freedom- their present condition is not such as to justify their exodus. - Necessity does not drive them forth'so long as they are willing to work for fair wages. If a great-majority of the negroes renfain poor in spite of the increaseof production and wages, that is not the fault of their employers. As to the political oppression that is praeticed on them, it is the old story of southern ‘‘outrage,’”’ thathaslostitsinfluence with the public. In political matters the colored people of the South understand that they do best in following the advice of their white neighbors. In Kansas their political condition would not be improved, but under the most favorable circumstances they must toil and save in order to live. Wnscrupulous politicians under: pretense of humanity, hsve united with the Kansas speculators in railroad ldnds in seducing the negroes to this exodus. Butthe negroes are waking up from their delusion and there are significant signs that the emigration fever which at one time threatened to dépopulate portions of the South israpidly declining.— Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriol. . i : —The coming woman will be armed with lancet, pills and powders. One hundred lady students were matriculated at the last term of the University at Zurich.—Americ an Cullivator.
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