Ligonier Banner., Volume 14, Number 43, Ligonier, Noble County, 12 February 1880 — Page 2

The Figonier Banner, ‘ J. B. STOLIL. Editor and Proprl?@r. , LIGONIER, : : : INDIANA.

EPITOME OF THE WEEK. XLVlith Congress. A RESOLUTION was adopted in the l Senate on the 4th direoting the Secretary of the Treasury to communicate to the Senate the reasons for the order issued’ by the DeB::tment to Collectors of Custéms, dated emtgar 15, 1879, directing them, when-‘ ever written requests to that effeoct shall be ﬂled'b{mlsh?pers or consignors, to cause to be withheld from publication for not exceeding' ninety days statistics relating to the importation or shipment of any par- ‘ ticular merchandise imported or shiqfed | by them. Mr. Kirkwood introduced a bill to~ a)rovide for the pt}yment of additional bounty the soldiers of thé army of the United States during the war of the rebellion. The bill authorizing the conversion of National Gold Banks intp National Banks was passed. ....A joint resolution was ado&ted in the House—l6s to 69—appropriating $20,000 to enable the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries to represent the United States at the Inter-. natig.nal Fishery Exhibition in Berlin in April nex ; : Tat bill to amend the act to provide for taking the tenth and subsequent censuses, approved March 3, 1879, was taken up in the Senate on the sth, and, on motion of Mr. Pendleton, a substitute, reported by the Census Committee, was considered instead and passed; the bill, as Eassed, provides, among other things, for the free transportation of mail matter relating to the census, requires the enumeration to begin June 1, 1880, and that the enumeration in cities having over 10,000 inhabitants shall .be taken within two weeks from that date, and ap;t)qupriates $350,000, or so ' much . thereof as may be necessary, to pay enumerators for additional services req}:ured by this act. Adjourned to the 9th....The Senate bill for the conversion of National Gold Banks was passed in the House, and bills were introduced and referred—making silver certificates receivable at the United States Treasury in the redemlgtion of circulating notes of the issue of the National Banks; requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to pay current interest on all registered United States bonds without respect to date of assignment or transfer. THE Senate was not in session on the 6th....A bill was introduced in the House, by Mr. Washburn, for the relief of settlers on public lands. The bill to remove the political disabilities of John Owen, of Virginia, was taken up, and Mr. Conger opposed it, on the ground that the petition alluded to the *‘war of the Confederacy,” while the Fourteenth Amendment mentioned the “ war of insurrection;” Mr. Goode replied, and was answered ‘by Mr. Conger, when Mr. Wood objected to further debate, and the bill was then passed—--166 to A 6. But little business was transacted in Cotnmittee of the Whole on the private calendar, Adjourned to the 9th.

; % R TRRES S i it Domestic. FrANCIs A. WALKER, Superintendent of the Census, bas written a letter to the Peoria (I1l.) Transeript, in réply to gn inquiry relative to a circular issued from Chicago by a so-called’ “Census Information Burean,” in which he.says: “I would say that the persons, whoever they may be, issuing this circular are not, and are not likely to be, and certainly can hayve no right to be, in possession of any informatipn not common to the whole body of citizens; that they have, and can have, no legitimate means of promoting the success of any applicant for appointment as Census Enumerator; and that the circularf in question bears, to my eye, the aspect-of imposture, if not of fraud.” COUNTERFEIT five-dollar gold pieces have recently made their appearance on the Pacific coast. The imitation is said to be perfect except in weight, the coin being only 700 fine. Mexican doubloons of a similar character are also being offered for sale. JUDGE MCALLISTER, of the Appellate Court eitting in Chicago, has recently ren‘dered decisions to the effect that prospective but unplanted crops are not subject to mortgage, and that railroad companies. are not compelled to furnish seats or refuse to take passengers, although they may do the latter when their cars are erowded, and that persons who insist on boarding trains already full must take their chances, and if injured have no remedy. ‘THE proprietor of the New York Herald has given $lOO,OOO for the relief of the distress in Ireland. In announcing this donetion the Herald of the 4th says; ° The multi- ‘ tude of people who are starving are relatives ‘ of our own citizens, and it would be a disgrace to look on coldly while they perish by the most piteous. of all deaths.” It engages to see that this $lOO,OOO and every dollar added thereto goes to the relief of actual want. - THE Secretary of War has recently submitted a report to Congress, from which it appears that the organized strength of the militia force of the different States consists of 145 general officers, 1,605 regimental, field and staff officers, 6,198 company officers, and 117,087 non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates. The unorganized force or number of men available for military duty s put down at 6,516,758 : 4 i A -FEW mornings ago ten Chinamen ~wore burned to death in a SBan Franeisco washhouse. They were all on the first floor of the. burning building, and could have escaped ¥ they had not been stupefied by opium. _ A NEGRO cabin near Columbia, S. C., was burned a few nights ago, and two men, a woman &and six children perished in the flames. ¥lrrY-FOUR colored emigrants from the South arrived at Indianapolis on the 6th. GENERAL ADAMS and party arrived at Los Pinos on the sth, and Captain Jack . and Sowerwitk left immediately thereafter for Grand River, at which point the White River Indians were said to be encamped, for the purpose of making another attempt to secure the surrender of thg twelve guilty Utes. Jack made no promises and wouldset no time for his return, but said he would do his best to bring about the surrender of those wanted. ; :

ON the 7th the body of Dolly Hartman, aged ecighteen years, was cremated in the Le Moyne furnace at Washington, Pa. Incineration was complete in a few hours, ‘The father of the girl said he would sprinkle the ashes upon the -garden-plot and plant flowers, as he was satisfied this would have been Dolly’s desire if she could hayve expressed ‘it. The- girl weighed only seventy pounds, - ' : O~ the morning of the Bth three " young men in jail at Los Vegas, New Mexico, for the murder'of the Marshal of that city, - were taken out by a mob and lynched. - A LATE special from South Charleston, Ohio, to the Cincinnati Gazette says: *¢John Campbell, gﬁled seventeen, aceidental- . 1y shot his sisper Hulda, aged ninete¢en. He .. was standing six feet from herin the kitchen, T in the presence of another sister, when he -playfully pointed a ‘pistol at her, demanding her mon?y or! her life. Bhe answered, ¢ Neéither,” when the pistol went off and the - ball pierced her heart. The boy said he did ot know it was loaded.” ¥ : . Los Pivos advices, received at Den- " iver on the 7th, state that on the day before ‘a runner had arrived at the ngency with a ;message from Jack to General Adams, stating | that thirteen days must elapse before his re{tura. ' From this it was inferred that Doug [lass had information of Adame’ coming, and

had left for his former camp on Grand River. Chief Shawano had accepted the invitation of General Adams to accompany him to Washington. Bhawano favors the policy of Secretary Schurz—that the Indians must settle down on 160 acres and go to work. He is said to be the onlylndian except Ouray who has entirely discarded the Indian mode of dress and adopted that of the whites, and is the first and only Indian from the Nation who ever farmed extensively enough to be able to sell anything. ' o EARLY on the morning of the 7th three masked men broke into the National Bank at Knoxvﬁle, IIL., and seized Mr. Runkle, the President, who lives in the building, bound him hand and foot, bandaged his eyes, and demanded the combination of the safe. Mr. Runkle declared he didn’t know it, whereupon the burglars burned his feet, knocked him on the head and hung him by the neck, but not fatally, and finally gave up the undertaking. They secured a little over $3,000 contained in a private safe, the key of which they found in Mr. Ruunkle’s clothes. Mr. : Runkle told one of the burglars that he recognized him by his voice. The burglar, in reply, admitted that he was a Knox County man, and wished to shoot Mr. Runkle as a measure of safety, but another member of the gang interfered.

Personal and Political THE Republican State Convention of Pennsylvania was held at Harrisburg on the 4th. Delegates-at-Large to the National Republican Convention were chosen and instructed, by a vote of 133 to 113, to vote for U. 8. Grant, and to cast their votes as a unit. John A. Lemon was nominated for AuditorGeneral; Hon. Henry Greene, for Judge of the Bupreme Court, and E. L. Benson and Henry W. Oliver, for Electors-at-Large. Resolutions were adopted, deprecating further financial legislation; advocating continued adherence to the tariff policy of the last twenty years; opposing the establishment of new tariffs through commercial treaties; reaffirming adherence to the following principles: the Union of the States, protection to person and property in every portion of the country, the strict performance of all obligations, security and freedom of thought, speech and press, a free and pure ballot, honesty in elections, and an honest count of ballots; congratulating the Maine Republicans on their late victory; deprecating the growing tendency to 'set aside elections on technicalities and informalties; ete., ete. : . : THE Massachusetts Republican State Convention to choose Delegates-at-Large to the National Convention is to meet at Worcester on the 15th of April. GOVERNOR DaAvis, of Maine, delivered a lengthy inaugural message before the State Legislature on the sth. Referring to the action of ex-Governor Garcelon, he characterized it as a great public wrong, which should receive the condemnation of all honest citizens. He recommends a thorough revision of the methods of returning and ascertaining the results of elections, and . congratulates the people on the maintenance of law and order during the late protracted contest at the State Capital. - . AporLpH E. BoRiE, ex-Secretary of the Navy, died in Philadelphia a few days ago, aged seventy-one years. He had been in illhealth for a long time. AT New Orleans on the sth J. N. Gallaher was consecrated Episcopal Bishop of Louisiana. THE United States Senate, in executive session on the sth, rejected, by a vote of .42 to 10, the nomination of John M. Morton to be Collector of Internal Revenue for the First District of California. i

THE record of the Reno court-martial was presented at the Cabinet meeting in Washington on the 6th, and, after a short discussion, it was decided that .the sentence of dismissal from the army should be approved. THE Board of Indian Commissioners, at their session in New York on the sth accepted the report of the Special Committee appointed to investigate the charges against ex-Commissioner Hayt, and adopted a resolution approving the action of the Secretary of the Interior in removing him from the office of Commissioner of Indian Affairs. THE Tennessee Republican State Convention to nominate candidates for State officers and appoint delegates to the National Oonvention will meet at Nashville on the sth of May. : ‘ : - ON the 7th the lowa House of Representatives adopted, by a vote of fifty-seven to thirty-one, an amendment to the Constitution of the State, 8o be submitted to a vote of the people, making white women eligible as members of the Legislature. ; THE Supreme Court of Illinois has yecently decided that the State has power to provide by law for the organization of the militia, provided that the State law is not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of the United States so far as theyrelate tothe same ‘subject. It has decided that the Militia law of Illinois is not so repugnant, and is, therefore, constitutional. In the opinion of the Court, it is no valid objection to the State ‘law “that it does mnot require the entire militia of the State to be enrolled as active militia.” Also in the opinion of the Court the State may forbid bodies of men not under discipline or command of the United States or the Btate to paragde with arms in populous communities. In other words, the State may provide for the maintenance of internal peace affirmatively by enrolling as many in the active militia as may be deemed necessary, and negatively by forbidding bodies of men threatening the public peace to parade with arms.

Foreign, ) - A RAILWAY collision occurred at Argenteuil, France, on the 4th, and seven persons were killed and over forty others more or less seriously injured. Heavy snows have recently fallen in the mountains of Afghanistan, and military operations are entirely suspended. ABouT twenty masked men entered the dwelling of a family named Donnelly, at Lucan, Ont., on the night of the 3d, and murdered the father, mother, one son and a niece, and then set fire to the premises. The nehigborbood had suffered severely from thieves and incendiaries, and as the Donnellys were supposed to be the guilty parties, the wrath of the mob fell on them. A boy named Connors, belonging to the village, was staying in the house over night. When the attack was made he crept under the bed without being discovered. When the murders were committed, the house fired and the gang decamped, the boy emerged from his hidingplace, started for the village and informed the authorities. Another son, residing about three miles from the homestead, was called 'to his door about the same hour and shot dead. - G : THE reception to General Grant at the Vice-Royal Palace, Havana, on thenight of the 3d, is said to have been a splendidlyarranged affair. The elite of Havana socie‘ty and many transient and resident Ameri‘eans were present, The palace was eleganily

decorated with flowers, and the illuminated staircase was lined by the Captain-General’s body-guard in fu'l uniform. Generals Grant and Callejas, with their wives, received the vigitors. : AT the opening of the British Parliament on the sth a speech from the throne was read, in which biief reference was made to the late war in Africa, the present war in Afghanistan and the impending famine in Ireland. ' - THE Berliner Zeitung, a radical nonSocialistic newspaper published at the German Capital, has been suppressed for publishing a sharp attack upon the Government. IT was reported in Dublin on the 6th that a large body of tenante of the town of Atheny, headed by the parish priest, had beaten off a party of process-servers who were under protection of a small detachment ot constabulary. Some shots were fired, and the officers beat a hasty retreat, taking their unserved papers with them. It was reported that attempts had been made to assassinate bailiffs in Dunstable. o : - AT an election in Liverpool on the 6th Whitley, the Tory candidate for member of Parliament, was successful by a small maJjority. . : A BErLIN dispatch of the 6th says seventy-two youths had been sentenced there to a fortnight’s imprisonment and a fine of one hundred and fifty marks each for emigrating' without permission, and thus evading the conscription. GENERAL ROBERTS, commander of the British forces in Afghanistan, reported on the 6th that he had hanged eighty-two persons for complicity in the revolt at Cabul. THE Great Council of the Canton of Appenzel, Switzerland, has voted for the reestablishment of capital punishment.

THE Paris newspapers severely blame the United States House of Representatives for placing its hall at the disposal of Parnell and Dillon. A CANDAHAR dispatch of the Btb states that a bloody struggle had taken place between the rival parties at Herat. The local troops attacked. the Cabulese stationed there, unawares, and inflicted heavy loss be fore the latter could bring their artillery tc bear on their assailants. When this was accomplished the Herates were defeated witl great slaughter. G s AccorpiNG to a Lahore (India) dis patch of the 7th great scarcity of food pre vailed in Jellalabad. Mahomed Jans’ emissa ries were said to be gaining influence in the Maidan District, and stopping all supplie destined for Cabul. - LoRD SALISBURY, the British Ministex of Foreign Affairs, was suffering from a severr attack of gastritis, with typhoid symptoms, or the Bth. A GREAT quantity of contraband powder has been lately found concealed in aSt Petersburg (Russia) synagogue. : 'THE Monde, the organ of the Papal Nuncio at Paris, in referring to ission them of Parnell to the United States, says: ‘' By the mouth of a Protestant, Catholic Ireland calls Protestant England to account. - Whoever outrages justice paves the way for terrible expiations.” MONTENEGRO has ordered 4,000,000 cartridges from an Austrian manufacturer. Dr. SIEMENS an eminent Germar “electrician and engineer has written a letter “in which he claims that he was the first to devise the electric light and to utilize it for practical purposes. | ~ Ir is said to be untrue, as reported, that Austro-Hungary, England and ‘France have agreed to make a joint representation to the Porte for the speedy execution of the treaty of Berlin respecting Montenegro ané Greece, and the questiong of reforms in Turkey. ; THE Lord Mayor of Dublin has written a letter for publication in which he says that the Duke of Marlborough, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in refusingtzattend the Mansion House dinner, descendéd from his position as the representative of the Queen | to that of a representative of a party. THEY are building a railway from Quetta in India to Candahar in Afghanistan

: - Later News. A Maprip dispatch of the 9th says, the trial of Gonzales, the would-be regicide, had resulted in a verdict of guilty and a sentence of death, the court declining to admit the plea of lunacy. DuURrING a fete in a three-story building used for barracks in Constantinople on the 9th the structure gave way, and two hundred soldiers were killed and over three hundred badly injured. . WASHINGTON telegrams of the 9th state that Majo® Reno had asked, in view of the approval of the sentence of the courtmartial dismissing him, that he be allowed to resign, and the President had the matter under consideration. f IN the United States Senate on the 9th Mr. Logan, from the Committee on Military Affairs, presented a minority report on the bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter. Mr. Wallace introduced a bill to prevent the arrest of election officers on election day. The bill to revive and continue the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims was taken up and debated, Messrs. Davis (I1l.), Garland and Thurman advocating, and Messrs. Edmunds and Blaine opposing, the measure, after which Mr. ‘McDonald introduced a substitute for the bill. Among the bills intro’d‘uced in the House were one, by Mr. Kitchin, to remove the duty on iron and steel, and one, by Mr. Buckner, to reduce the duty on printing and other paper. : o IN Wall street, New York, on the 9th, Government four-per-cents advanced to 106, the highest point reached since the placing of the bonds. The rise was stimulated by predict ons from Washington that the House would agree upon a continuance of refunding intg three-and-a-half-per-cent. bonds, and that no more fours would be authorized, and by the presence in the market of an order, supposed to be for Mr. Vanderbilt, for $2,000,000 more of four-per-cents. |

THE ashes of Dolly Hartman’s body, which was cremated in Dr. Le Moyne’s oven on the 7th, weighed four pounds and fourteen ounces. The cremation took two hours and fifteen minutes. It was said to be the most successful yet. - ; ON the morning of the 6th at Corwin Center, a small railroad station near Bradford, Pa., two men were driving a team ate tached to a sleigh which contained, besides themselves, one hundred pounds of nitroglycerine. The cutter overturned and the stuff exploded, killing the two men and the horses, and demolishing several barns and houses. . : . AT a conference of ministers with Mr. Moody in Bt. Louis on the 9th it was decided to hold a convention of Christian workers in that city, commencing Tuesday, February 24 and a cordial invitation was extended to minfsters and laymen interested in the cause throughout the West to attend and take part. G 5

INDIANA STATE NEWS. SYLVESTER G. KLASSEN, who stole a horse’ and buggy from R. Case, Michigan City, in 1&76, escaping to Kansas, and who was caught after three years’ pursuit, was on the 6th convicted in the Circuit Court at LaPorte, and sentenced to the Penitentiary for four years, diffraachised for five vears and fined fifty dollars. GOVERNOR WILLIAMS has granted a respite of six months to Arthur Bessot, convicted in the Lawrence Circuit Court of murder in the | first degree. The prisoner is a hopeless consumptive, and cannot live out his respite. CHARLES CATEY, a prominent farmer living in the north part of Kosciusko County, was instantly killed on the 6th by a gun accidentally discharged while he was climbing over a fence with it. Heleaves a large family. Lo~N KEksk, a young farmer living south of Indianapolis, was dangerously, ‘and it is believed fatally, wounded on the sth, while out hunting, by the accidental discharge of his revolver, the ball penetrating the body from the left side. / MarrHEw TrRACY, who mysteriously disappeared from his home in Whitley County on the night of the 22d of January, is still missing: The theory that he decamped is no longer entertained, and the belief is universal that he was murdered. Henry Forrest, who’ lives in the vicinity, is stronglygsuspected of ‘knowing what has become of him. It is known that he and Tracy had a difficulty some time ago, and that he had made threats }against Tracy. He has been active in the search for Tracy’s body. On the night of the 3d, however, he disappeared. < Tue Lafayette Journal says: ‘ The country is full of wheat and oats, and, with good roads for hauling, plenty of money will be paid out forgrain. - As far as the corn crop is concerned the smallest portion of it has reached the market. The cribs are yet piling full, and what has been brought in can scarcelv be missed.

" THE millers of New Albany are sighing for more wheat. The voice of the grinding is low in the land. . THERE is war to the knife between liquor dealers and temperance agitators at Seymour. THE improvements made recently to the Indianapolis Rolling Mill will enable the Company to turn out 2,000 tons more of rails than heretofore. Tue other day Judge Gresham of the United States District Court, at Indianapolis, sentenced Dr. W. H. Clark, convicted of making fravdulent pension affidavits, to the Noble County jail for nine months, being thus lenient én account of the doctor’s age. He was quite broken down when sentence was passed.on him, and the Court assured him that while it had sympathy with him the fmprisonment could not be omitted, that being the punishment for such erimes. ° THE store of James Bridges, six miles edst of Greencastle, was broken into the other night and a safe blown open, but the burglars were discovered before they had a chance to get at the valuables. THE Attorney-General has delivered the following opinion on the eligibility of township trustees to hold office more than two consecutive terms: OFFICE OF ATTORNEY-GENERAL, INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 26, 1880. - Siß—Your favor of the 15th inst., referring to me the letter of the Auditor of St. Joseph County for my opinion on the 3uestion therein contained, has been received and carefully considere('l. The question asked is, whether a person elected Township Trustee in 1876, and again in 1878, is eligible to hold the office for theterm beginning in 18807 ‘The statute is as follows: *“ That any person who has held the office of Trustee of any township in this State ror two terms consecutively, at the date of the next general election in October, 1878, shall not be eligible to said office for the next ensuing term, q,nd that hereafter no person shall be eligible to the office of Township Trustee more than four years in an% period of six years.” . he Supreme Court, in the case of Jeffries vs. Rowe (63 Ind., 592), decided that ‘‘a Township Trustee who had held the office for two consecutive terms immediately preceding the first Monday of April, 1878, was not eligible to re-election on' that day, though his last term had not continued for the two years for which ‘he bhad been elected.” i

It is now insisted that, by the latter clause of the section above 3u()ted, parties who were clected in 1876, and, not being disqualified, were re-eleeted in 1878, are entitled tohold the office of Township Trustee for four years from the time the act went into force. The law is not very glain in its terms, but I think the intention of the Legislature can be best carried out by holding that the disqualificationfof four years applies as well to the time which had run before as after the taking effect of the law; and that, therefore, parties elected in 1876, and again in 1878, are not eligible to reelection for the next term. = I have the honor to be, vexX respectfully, T. W. WOOLLEN, Attorney General. To Hon. M. D. Manson, Auditor of State, etc. Proressor PROCTOR, the distinguished English astronomer, is delivering a course of lectures on his favorite topic before the students of the University at Bloomington. BircH Bros. & Co., proprietors of . the Kokomo foundry and machine shops, have failed, with about $15,000 liabilities and $5,000 assets. . A SINGULAR case of contagious suicide has ocewrred at Greensburg. A few days ago a young man named Rybolt was found -dead, and a friend of his, in' discussing the matter, remarked that there was ‘‘no chance for a poor man in this country,” and *if he only had the nerve he, too, would commit suicide.” After indulging in these reflections he retired to his room and shot himself. Tne sister of Mayo, the convicted cashier of the National bank at Lafayette, is in Washington, importuning the President for a pardon for her brother before he is sentenced. THE contractors for the new State-House at Indianapolis are busily hauling stone, and hope to get enough stone on hand this winter to work uninteérruptedly all next season. OvER three thousand five hundred signatures were secured in Huntington County to the petition to Congress for a ship canal ulong the bed of the Wabash and Erie canal. TnE Secretary of State is sending out to Sheriffs the ballots and tally-sheets for the approaching election (April 6) on the amendments to the Coustitution. Tue women of the National W. C. T. U, of Indiana are agitating the plan of establishing an Ex-Convict’s Home. = - Tue public schools in Kokomo were closed on the sth because of the prevalence of scarlet Tever. : Tue f«)ll())ving are the Indianapolis grain quotations: Wheat, No. 2, Red,s.24@ 1.26. Corn, 354 @3614c. Oats, 36@38%4c. The Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat, [email protected]. Corn, 39@40c. Oats, 39@39}{(, Rye, 85@ B6e. Barley, 83@S9c. ;

The Negro Exodus. The investigation of the causes of the negro exodus by the Senate committee brings out a number of important facts -be:mng;l on this remarkable movement. Yesterday Mr. Charles Otuy, a colored man, the editor of the Wasﬁington Argus, a weekly paper devoted to the interests of the colored f‘leople, told a quite remarkable story. He is a native of North Carolina, a graduate of Oberlin Coll%ge and the grmeipal of the Howard niversi? School; and he was one of the founders of the National Emigrant Aid Society, whose object it was to assist the poor emigrants who were

accumulating in great numbers at St. Louis on the way to Kansas and other! States, and were in a destitute and suffering condition. It seems that scarcely was this benevolent society formed, when Republican politicians tried to get control of it and use it to further their own partisan ends. A Mr. Mendenhall wanted to divert the emigrants from Kansas and ¢‘send about 5,000 to Indiana, as that was a doubtful State in the coming election.” ‘Mr. Otuy ogpos’ed this plan on the ground that the colored people ‘‘ had been used long enough as tools.” They had support:;(% the Republican party in the South as one man, but got no return for it. He opposed the migration to Indiana to help the Republicans carry the State, because the colored people could have homesteads in Kansas, where the{ had been invited, but could not have them in Indiana, where they were not wanted. After the exodus from North Carolina began he addressed letters to .{J‘rominent colored ‘men in all parts of the State, inquiring \ the cause of this sudden movement. He says: :

“All answers were that there was no cause for it; that the more ignorant were deluded by three men named Perry, Williams and Taylor, who had been North, and returned with such glowing news that the people could not resist them. An investigation revealed the fact that these three men had been among the most ignorant of the country geople, and had told them that the United States Government wanted them to go to Indiana, and would give them money to begin with; that they would receive one dollar and a half per day during the winter, and from two dollars to two dollars and a half during the spring, summer and fall. Some who hesitated were toid that they would receive new suits of clothing at Washington. These men registered the names of those consenting to go, charging them from twenty-five cents to two dollars, according to their ability to pay. They called meetings in country churches, held with closed doors, and bound to secrecy those whom they had deluded. The first batch that went, being few in number, were well received and immediately employed. These wrote back to their friends, advising them to come, and hence, said the witness, it is easy to understand the great exodus from North Carolina.” This plain statement of facts floods the subject with light. It shows that the secret spring of this migration is political, and that Republican é)olitivcians are using it to get Ipower in States ‘they cannot now control. This intelli‘gent witness states that the condition of the colored people, although suscept‘ible of improvement, is on the whole highly favorable. They have no adequate motive for quittinf the State. “Every intelligent colored man is opposed to it,”’ and ¢ although an exodus from the Southern States may be a blessing, the exodus from North Carolina is a fraud and a curse.” This is the testimony of an educated colored Republican, and it puts the conduct of the managers of that party in its true light. They are the realienemies of the colored people they pretend to defend only that they may use them for political aggrandizement.—N. Y. Express.

The Third-Term Movement. - The Grant boom is in imminent peril of losing its momentum before the meeting of the National Republican Convention. Intelligent Republican opinion is settinf strongly against the Third Term, and it is more than likely that Senator Cameron and the rest of the Grant managers will find a great deal of trouble in carrying out their well-laid plans. To begin with, the German element in the Republican party is in open rebellion against the Third-Term idea. It is believed that not one in ten of those German Americans who have hitherto belonged to the Republican party will vote %or Grant should he be nominated by their party. The uncompromising hostility of Carl Schurz to the re-election of Grant is well understood and his opinions are potential with a large class of German citizéns. The other day the Hon. Sigismund Kauffman, a distinguished German Republican, of New York city, published a letter in which he declared that “a Third Term is at once a dangerous excess of reward and a dangerous confession of weakness.” ““Such a confession,”” continues Mr. Kauffman, ¢ will not be made without its inevitable sequence, and we shall have a king in fact long before we have one in name. If we must have a strong man and a strong Government, let us return to Bismarck and his iron rule.” This is the language of a man who was the Republican candidate for Lieutenant-Governor of New York in 1870, and . who sup(f)orted Grant for President ip 1868 and 1872. The antiConkling ﬁe üblicans of New York, under the leag of George William Curtis, also are organizing in opposition to the Third Term. These constitute a powerful factor in the (Eolities of that State. Conkling's candidate for Governor, Cornell, lost the vote of this element at the late election, and its defection would have insured his defeat by an immense majority had not the Democratic vote been divided between two candidates, Robinson and Kelly. Some of the ablest Republican journals are also speaking out in most emphatic style against the Third Term. The Cincinnati Commercial, the Springﬁeld (Mass.) Republican and the Philadelphia KEvening Telegraph are notable among these. The last named had an editorial the other day on the subject of Grantism which*ught to be read by every voter in the I%nion. We make the following extract: - o

““Tt ig the truth of history that the Government was never so debauched by political corruption as during the time he was President; it is part of the truth of history that the country was never, except in time of war, in 8o disturbed a condition; it is part of the same historical truth that political scandals were never before or since so rife, and part of the same historical truth that the faults and crimes of our Government were never before or since 8o conspicuous. It was an era of political injustice, of political blunders, of political corruption, of gift-taking, bribe taking, n?ot.ism, of usurpation, of constitutional methods set aside and personal methods set u&) in their place. The men who made that Administration the shame of the countg that it was are the men who came in General Grant’s train on the 16th instant—the Babcocks, the Belknaps, the Robesons, the Camerons. Theg came as the vultures come when the scent o pr%v i 8 in the air, Theg come to shape the new Administration as they had shaped the old. Is it any wonder that the ﬁeat soldier, whom the people honored for his soldiery deeds, and who wanted to forqet forever his civil record, was received so coldly by them when they recognized his ambition to again fill the g‘l)ace he had so illy filled, and when they saw about him again the same rapacious crowd of political adventurers? If the great ovation was intended to test the popular feelini it was ‘:;5:;8“ success; it did that, and, desp te all the efforts: of its authors to the oontrarr' it has shown that the leaders of the Republ ea.n;im.rty could do no more suicidal thing than to insist upon the nomination of General Grant for the third term. The voice of the s)eopie has been heard upon that question, and its voiceis potential.” An opposition sd earnest andvx%g: ous cannot fail to make a profound im-

pression on the minds of delegates to the Republican National Convention. o We grant thatit is not likely that either the Pennsylvania or the New York delegation to Chicago will be influenced to any appreciable extent by such arguments as are employed in the article above quoted. The -creatures who are made 3ele ates to Republican conventions by Con%ding and Cameron understand no logic except their masters’ will. Beside theyare usually per-sons-who want nothing better than the revival of that licentious rule which gave the country during the Administration of Grant a Saturnalian riot of - political corruption. But the representatives of the party in other States, ~especially in the gVest. will pause and consider before they give their approval to a candidate whose record will put the Re}t)lublfic'an party on the defensive from the Yery hour of his nomination. It may be that these too will be seized with the fetichism which seems to have made slaves of thg Republicans of NewYork and Pennsylvania. -We can only wait and see.—Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot. ;

INDIAN COMMISSIONER HAYT'S REa MOVAL. Report of the Investigating Committee * Sitting in New York — Secretary Schurz’s Order of Removal Approved by the Board of Indian Com= missioners.: s IR A New York special of the sth to the Chicago T'ribune says: - . ‘ The action of Secretary Schurz in removing Mr. Haxt from the office of Commissioner of Indian Affairs was approved by the Board of - Indian Commissioners yesterday, after the .adoption of the report of the committee ap-' aointed to investigate the .charges made by eneral Clinton B. Fisk. The protracted discussion and the examination of new witnesses that preceded the final action of the Commissioners did not result in anty modification of the report as originally: drafted by the committee. Mr. A. C, Barstow, Chairman of the Board,is the only member of the committee who has not signed this report. 5 : #On the day of our appointment,” say the committee, ** we .visited the Indian Bureau, had a brief interview with the Commissioner, made a hasty inspection of some of the records, returned and reported progress, con--vinced that a full investigation would require a considerable period of time.” ‘‘The case,” say the committee, * must generally be divided into two parts—the first concerning the interests of tkhe.lndians, and the second the prosecution of an ex-Agent who had left the gervice in consequence of malfeasance in office. As to the first part our investigation has brought the committee to the conclusion .that when the offenses of Agent Hart were discovered pr&per’ steps were taken by the authorities in Washington te investigate their nature, to remove the Agent from the service, to remedy the abuses - existing at the Agency, to "put the Agency under proper control, and to protect the interests of the Indian. The responsibility for the long delay which haﬁ\pened inturning over the property by-Agent Hart to the one properly authorized to receive it cannot be justly. charged to the Indian Office. Astothe second part—the prosecution of ex-Agent Hart—we } find that a number of affidavits bearing'evidence of great misconduct on the part of Hart were delivered to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs by Inspector Hammond in the month of May; that in June Hammond was directed ' to return to Arizona for the purpose, among otner things, of comgletin%l the testimony; that in the meantime these affidavits remained at the Indian Office unacted upon;that inJuly another case of malfeasance on the part of the ex-Agent was sworn to by Colonel J. Biggs, transmitted to the Indian Office by Inspector Hammond, and forwarded to the Depart- - ment of . Justice for the prosecution of Hart; that the aflidavits first spoken of remained unacted upon in the Indian Office after Inspector Hammond had returned from Arizona in October without bringing any additional testimony; that on ‘the 23d of October the Commissioner recommended to the Secretary of the Interior that the Department of Justice be requested to emgloy an asgistant to the District-Attorney in Arizona in the prosecution of Hart, which request was promptly forwarded to the Department of Justice; that, however, the affidavits communicated to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs by Insglector Hammond in May still remained-in the I'ndian Office until the 7th of January, 1880, when they were sent up to the Interior Department for transmission to the Department of Justice, accompanied with a number of letters from Inspector Hammond and various other per sons. touching thecase., =

‘* The delay of action on the part of the Com missioner of Indian Affairs on the affidavits last mentioned is explained Ey him by the allegation that it was best to keep them until the facts sworn to in them were supplemented by testimony expected from Inspector Hammond, and other sources. It seems to us that this explanation cannot be considered sufficient, inasmuch as the additional evidence and correspondence transmitted to the Departmentof Justice, together with the affidavits in January, does not add to the strength of the testimony sufficiently to show why the same affidavits might not have been transmitted betfore. We cannot avoid the conclugion that while one case against the ex-Agent, Hart, was promptly @ forwarded to the Department of Justice for prosecution, with regard to the other. cases, involving -more serious charges, neither the Commissioner. nor Inspector were sufficiently : in earnest. Inspector Hammond admits that in the spring ot 1879 he was personally interested in the proposed purchase of the Washington Mine, and that in Aulgéust, upon the arrival in Arizona of Edward Knapp, the so-called nephew-of the Commissioner, he deyoted much time and attention in assisting er}i Knapp in securing the mine for Mr. Hogencamp. : ; . "jl?ate in the progress of our examination the following facts were elicited: When Mr. Hogencamp telegraphed Mr. Hammond that he would send out a special agent to purchase | the mine, he replied to Mr. Hogencamp, ‘ How shall I know him?’ To which Mr. Hayt sent the following answer: ‘You know Knagg.’ which circumstance, if true, connects’ Mr. Hayt with the mining transaction. Mr. Hayt, as hereinbefore stated, does not admit sending such reply. } ; * Another fact *was elicited—viz.: that Ed‘ward Knapp, the so-called nephew of the Commissioner who figured 8o congpicuously in this transaction, was passing under an assumed name, and was really Edward Knapp Haslt, the son ot the Commissioner, and that he adopted this name at the suggestion of his father. These : circumstances, coupled with the fact that the Commissioner declined to give his testimony until after General Hammond had testified, his alleged unwillingness to have General Hammond correct his statement concerning the genuineness of his letter to Hart, and the lJong delay in the prosecution of Hart. though furnishing no positive evidence of complicity or guilt in compromising a crime for a consideration, as was charged, may be taken as sufficient proof that the Commissioner was cognizant of the sale of a mine by an ex-Indian Agent, charged with gross offenses, through his own son, under an assumed name, to some of his intimate friends, a fact which can-scarcely be relieved by his own assurances that he hadwno interest in the transaction. “ 1t is proper 10 state that the Secretary of the dnterior has been kept fully and constantly advised during the gmgress of our examination. - His desire has been repeatedly expressed that we ‘should probe: this matter “to the bottom,” and promptly notify him of all the important facts that inight be .developed. It is also but right to state that we have found no traces of any officer, clerk, or empioye of the Indian Service in the above transaction except those named.”’ : The report is signed by Albert K. Smithey | api(tltwmmm S‘tickne%, a majority of thg com--“mittee, i) T ; * The resolution adopted by the Board is as ~follows: Gran R R * “ Resolved, That, in-view of the faets_d?veloped in the report of the special committee touching the conduct of the late Commissioner, this Board approves the aetion of the Secretary of the Interi&r),in removing Mr. Hayt from-the office of Commissioner of InA, C. Barstow presented a minority report, in which he says: ‘* General Hammond's testi~mony, which, of all the evidence offered, alone directly conulects Commissioner Hayt with the wrong-doing m‘l’ was taken January 29, —..g}mtwats;afte ward altéred. &%&%&r&tion +his testimony on.one Important point. was en?ﬂtrely‘ reversed. %m m’ many susﬁcisms- circumstances wkts;g bear against ﬂar. Hayt sufficient to justify his removal, they do ~:t»o: n’“ﬁw &l&eﬂ ,;t!ltﬁﬁe fiit tigaémJ B 8 raise douLs, IRe a( M 10d 18 enti to .the% efit ofem-uhp i iy aged, but hopes for better times soon.