Ligonier Banner., Volume 16, Number 46, Ligonier, Noble County, 2 March 1882 — Page 2

The Ligonier Lanner, ':“ .3, B.STOLL, Editor. . " PHURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1882. " SPECIAL NOTICFE.

~ Persons wishing to confer with me per- 1 sonally will please call-at TOE BANNER ganctum from Monday morning until Wednesday noon. The remainder of the week I ‘am engaged on the Dafly and Weckly ‘Monitor ih the city of Elkhart. L / J: B.STOLL. ——— ~ IN the State of Pennsylvania it costs only $82,778.89 to collect $226,847.29 taxes in the shape of mercantile liv censes. Under the corrupt system in vogue in that ring-ridden commonwealth the people are oppressed with taxation that a pack of insatiable pap guckers may thriveand flourish. When, oh when, will the people arise in their majesty and put a stop to this system of legalized robbery? '

Tng BILL placing General Grant on tire retired list has at last passed the Senate by a vote of 35 to 17. The bill authorizes the President, “in recognition of the services rendered the na. tion” by U. S. Grant, late General of the army, to nominate, and with the consent of the Senate, to appoint him to the army, with the rank of General, to be placed on the retired list with pay accordingly, which will be $12,500 avear during hig lifetie. 3 -

TiEe PRESIDENT AND CABINET have decided to restore Fitz John Porter to the army, but are somewhat perplexed in regard to his pay. When he was cashiered he was a Colonel in the regular army, acting as Major General of volunteers, and the question to be settled is whether his back pay as Major General would accrue 'up to the time of his reingtatement or only up to 1866, the time when other 'Major (tenerals were musteréd outof service,

A.‘C_RANK‘ calling himself Doctor E. J. Tachmyntis -has been arrested. by the authorities at Brooklyn. Ie demanded of Doctor Dudley, President of the Long Island College Hospital, a position in that imstitution, adding that if the position- were not given him he would kill the doctor. “Tach: myntis” claims to be a Greek, and says that; if he is persecuted Jesus Christ will eame to his aid and punish those who are persecuting him. Heis the person wha, it will be remembered, offered to “cure” General Garfield.

Two ILLINOIS GIRLS are making a tour of the West on bicycles. They started early in the fall and when cold "weather came’ on they had reached Texas. Theirobject in taking the trip is not to gain notoriety, but 1s for di- " yersion and the benefit of their health, A man servant attends them, carrying a small quantity of baggage, their trunks being sent ahead by express. They intend to cross the country to Florida in the spring, then go north along the coast.” Their mode ot traveling isa novel one, but they will get all the enjoyment possible. out of it. f e — . THE OIL BUSINESS seems to be about as paying a business as mining. It is stated that a certain oil broker in Oil City, whose present commission is $6O- - per year, went to that place six years ago with but $6 in his ‘pocket; ‘and another, of Bradford, who is to- - day worth $500,000, was only ten years ago a bootblack and messenger boy. _But he had the necessary nerve, en: durance and daring, and when, five years ago, he had saved enough money to invest in the oil business, he began transactions in earnest. These are of course exceptional 7cases, but it shows what may be accomplished by will power and daring. Both had heavy odds to fight against, but both succeed- : ed£ in accomplishing their purposes.

THE STATE OF MISSOURI has its full share of ‘criminals, and those criminals can go ahead of all others whea it comes to committing atrocious crimes, but the one unpardonable sin in Missouri is horse stealing. The Governor of that State is réported to have declared recently that no matter how many petitions he received requesting it, he would not pardon horse thieves. Allother criminals might entertaln a hope for relief, but a horse ‘thief—never, When the prison door closed on him, the sentence was completed, as far as the Governor was concerned, unless the higher demands of the State:demanded a release for other purposes. The Governor does not say why, in his estimation,a horse thief is 80 much worse than any other criminal, but it seems as though such an explanation might be of some interest as showing why a horse thief is beyond pardon. : :

HoxN. JAMES W. GREEN, an able jur18t of Virginia, has writlen-an able and exhaustive argument in advocacy of an amendment to the constitution substituting a Chief Executive council of five, taken from different sections of the country, instead of the single President of the United States, Judge Green seems to have a thorough understanding of the nature and principles of our institutions and the history of our popular government. He believes that the Republic is in peril, and that how to meet the danger is the great question for the consideration of this generation, The.Judge thinks that, in view of the growth-and enlargement of the country, there should be a Supreme Executive Council of five instead of three, as proposed by Governor Randolph in the constitu tional convention. The plural exécu tive proposition before the convention was said to have had the sanction and approval of Jefferson, who was in France at the time of the convention; but who was. on the most intimate terms and in correspondence with Edmund Randolph in relation to. the proceedings of that body. Mr. Mason, a member from Virginia, in connection with this subject said: “We are not, indeed, constituting a British government, but a more dangerous monarchy, ‘ an elective one,” and Mr. Williamson, another member, sald: “Another objection against a single magistrate is that he will be an elective king, and will feel the spirit of one.” 1t is' but reasonable to mssume that if the men who | framed the constitution .could have

foreseen the extent to which the power of the President has been enlarged, they would have insisted on placing ' the single Executive ander the check of an eXseutive council of five, as was -proposed in the convention, instead of i aving a single unrestricted Executive.

A — " INDIANA WILL RETAIN the original number of Congressmen, as the apportionment bill still fixes the number at thirteen. - i

A WASHINGTON grand jury has, at last found indictments’ for conspiracy. against Brady, Dorsey, and. several other star route thieves.. .

GUITEAU has just found out that he received, or rather did inot receive, a large lot of valentines, and is said to be very angry because they were not delivered to him. He could have passed a pleasant hour in'contemplating ‘the beautiful, no doubt.

3|S e T JonN KELLY has at last come out in his true color~that of a Republican, and the New York Legisiature now has republican officers, elected by Tammany aid. Thgterms of the bargain are not yet known by.the public, but they will appear hereafter. ' The Demadcrats in New York are to be congratulated on having at last gotten rid of such a disreputable “boss.” Now. that he has gone outside the democratic party, he should be made to stay out. |Traltors and spies should be kept outside the walls of the fortress. A ﬁ:ILL has been introduced in Con’ gress by Hon. T. R. Cobbs, an Indiana ‘member, that all silver’ coin which has been defaced or wgrn by ordinary use ghall be received by the Goyernment and paid for in perfect coin at its original value. The mint officials first passed a decision diserediting worn and defaced coin, and then fied the value at an amount below the face value. That decision was an outrage ‘upon the people and subjected them to a loss which the Government should have borne. The bill introduced .by Mr. Cobbs is a just and timely one and should receive a unanimous vote, . *

A CONTRACT has been made by Messrs, Charles B. Farwell, J. V. Farwell, and Col. Abner Taylor, of Chicago, Col. A. C. Babcock, of Canton, 111, and James M. Beardsley, of Rock Island, Ill;, with the State of Texas for building a State-house. The .Texas govqrm_;nent agrees fqgive them 3,000, 000 aérgs, of land, and in return they are to build &’ State-house at Austin, whieh will cost aboiat $1,700,000.. Since thel making, of the contracts Messrs. Farwell & Co." have been offered $3,000,000 for the land. This would ledve them a handsome profit: of 81,300,000, buf it is not at all likely that they will accept. Some men have remarkable luck by way of making a forturie without much effort,

THE LIBRARY OF CONGREss has twice been burned, the last time in 1851, when only twenty thousand volumes were saved from destruction. Since that time it has increased rapidly; and inilBBl the library contained four hundred thousand volumes, besides one hundred and fifty thousand pamphlets, and several ‘hundred thousand copyright publications other than books. The remarkable increase is due to seyeral reasons. First, in 1852 Congress appropriated $85,000 for the purchase of'books; in 1866 the Smithsonian Scientiic Library was added to it; the Force Historical Library was purchas ed in 1867, and another reason is the enactment of the copy-rights, and the depository ef all publications to which exclusive right of multiplying copjes is secured. " -

CAPTAIN EADS is confident that Lis Ship Railway . bill will ~pass both houses, but the best informed men in both branches hold the opposite opinion. Ilels pronounced bold and cunning, and Blaine’s equal in blufling. His present strategy is to pretend to be very indifferent about receiving any help {from the Government, and thus throw off the suspicion with which his scheme is regarded. He says he can get money enough elsewhere, and nothing but his national pride led him to give the first chance to his own Government. The chances of ‘the bill passing the Senate are very slight indeed, but are better than the chances of passing the House. In the lower branch there is an organized opposition by some of the strongest men to defeat the bill. ‘

‘Miss AURETTA Hoyt tells: what she is pleased to denominate a good joke on the editor of THE BANNER. She tells with the utmost particularity how that much-abusged individual, upon a disagreeable and chilly day, went to Albion, carrying with him a small flagk filled with a first-class article of extract of rye; how. certain mischievous “boys” about the courthouse discovered this flask in his overcoat, consumed its contents, and| refilled the flask with “stained water.” Miss Auretta then proceeds to tell that the trick was not discovered by the aforesaid editor until the next day, when he and his help-mate, upon their return from a fire during the night, “sought to stimunlate away the chilliness of the night air.” The story is a good one, and from it may be drawn a.moral and a tale adorned. Suppose some enthusiastic.champion of the prohibition amendment had fixed himself, qut.

in like manner on a similar occaslon, is there any probability that he would have traveled through mud and rain a distance of twenty-four miles without even tasteing thepon;ents of that little flask ? Personal experience and observation warrants an opposite conclusion. We remember, for instance, of meeting .in the year 1872, at the residence of Henry Loung, in Germantown, Wayne county, Ind., a noted and gifted temperance lecturer, now dead. | Mr. Long prided himself considerably on' the superior quality of domestic wine of which he wasg the producer, and insisted- upon our sanipling it. Producing the article, he passed the noted and gifted tempera’n‘cgs lecturer, remarking by way of apology that inasmuch as then.ahd g.'t. 1. never indulged, none of the intoxicating' beyerage would be offered him. To: our infinite surprise and astonishment the total abstinence exhorter wistfully reached out his hand for the glass, saying ‘in a suppressed tone, “On the sly! On the sly!” Grasping the glass and stepping into a corner of the parlor, our famous apostle of total abstinence éemptied the glass withan avidi- | ty plainly betokening' previous practice and experience. The writer laisurely sampled the product of friend Long’s vineyard, meditating between his “sippings” how it could be possible for a man to damin that beverage from the rostrum and then at the first op‘portunity gulp it.down with a zest un-f‘ excelled by that of an old topér. = |

" EruAn WHITTEN, “an old and Tespected citizen of New Albany, was found dead in a gutter near Main street bridge on the morning of the 16th. It is supposed that in stepping off the bridge, he made ,;niﬁep and was precipitated down;v% iwo feels ‘Mr. Whitten had been for h$ years a bailiff in Floyd county and was always a faithful officer. He leaves a ‘wife and seyeral children. NOT CONTENT with undertaking to regulate what men shall eat and drink, Miss Auretta Hoyt presumes to dic tate how the editor/of this paper shall spell his name. This regulative dam- | s¢f thinks we ought to spell it"Stahl’ ‘However anxiousswe migit be to ac-‘ commodate Miss Auretta, due rever: ence for our ancestry impeis us to re:-‘i gpectfully but firmly refuse obedience to her mandate. We shall continue to spell it 8-1-0-L-L, and contioue to do business at the old shop, the spoiled child of a Teutonic mother to the contrary notwithstanding. | Thr CuicAco Timeslast week re!ce‘.ved crop reports from many locali= | ties in the west. L'he reports all speak: of the extremely mild weather and the advanced stage of farm work. In some localities the farmevs have already begun seeding, Largé sections of land were turned over last year, particularly in Northern Minnesota’ and Dakota. The increased acreage will be fully 25 per cent., and the mil: lers of Minneapolis are basing their -calculations accordingly.- ~Owing to the fact that farmers did so well with corn last year in Nebraska, more of that cereal will be planted than usual. The wheat in Kansas is revorted to be in a splendid condition, with a larger acreage than usual. Similar reports come from lowa, Missouri, Illinois, Michigan and Indiana. Unless some'thing unusual occurs to injure the {cro_ps this country need fear no immedidte Tamine. 0¢ & E 8 oTh

- CONSIDERABLE excitement has beén caused of late by the ‘development of facts in regard to a little incident in the: past life of General Hurlbut, the present Minister to Peru. Grave charges were’ made against him and he ‘was, it seems, found guilty of cor‘rupt practices while military . com‘mander of New Orleans, Hurlbut, has been: an active politician ‘and a ‘prominent Republican. ‘He was Ggént to Peru by Blaine, and is®one of Blaine's friends.” When he was found guilty by a military commission of falsehood, perjury and bribery, he was recommended to be put tnder arrest The recommendation was indorsed by General Grant and Edwin M. Stantor, but the arrest was never made, for that most obvious reason—he was a ‘Republican, and he went into politics and joined 'in'the howl about public honesty and the necessity of saving the country from the Democrats. And this same Hurlbut was sent to Peru by Blaine, and becamé mixed up in a s¢heme with Shipherd to steal from Peru. The exposure of Bluine’s friend is hailed with joy by the Stalwarts While the attack is ostensibly made on Hurlbut, if is in reality aimed at Blaine and his faction. The fight between these two powers is becoming more and more bitter. The Blaine men are swearing vengeance and-the prospect is that there will be some lively skirmishing soon. '

.~ INCONSIDERATE AURETTA, Miss Auretta Hoyt, the charming young lady who recently traveled thro’ this part of the State for.the purpose of “talking up” the prohibition cause, devotes four columns to a detailed statement of her speech-making tour through . DeKalb, Noble and Elkhart counties, and to a somewhat distorted review of the political career and status of the editor of THE BANNER. Ip speaking of her visit to Ligonier she Bays. ‘ : ;

“At Ligonier, the: wealth and the business is mainly handled by German Jews, and there is great indifference to temperance work among American people. We found a warm reception in the M. E. church, whose pastor, Rev. J. E. Ervin, is a faithful temperance worker. * * * Theother Protestant churches in Ligonier failed to suspend their revival services to give one even -ing to this important work.” : That's too bad. Don’t the members of the Christian, U. 8., Wesleyan, and Advent churches know that when Miss Auretta comes around, all other arrangements must be laid aside in order to afford her an opportunity of being heard on the “great question” of Prohibition, with a capital P? Why this indifference to the “great cause” and its eloquent champion? Can it be that the members of these denominations have.a distinet recollection of 1880, when a certain branch of the temperance orgavization insisted npon the nomination of that zealous and life-long champion of temperance, Henry Hostetter, for the State Senatorship? . But has the charming Auretta really a just cause to find fault with our people for their alleged indifference to temperance work? . ' ,

Let us see. from her stand-point all‘those who faver-the submission of the prohibition amendament to a vote of the people are to be considered true friends of temperance. A!l those op-i posed to that delusive proy.osition are agents and ‘tools of the “rum power.* Now we have residing in tnis place a_ “hold-over” State Senator-in the person . of Henry Hostetter who not only voted for the prohibition but also for the woman suffrage amendmeut... In al)’; fairness Miss Auretta should have made that gentleman her main-stay while sojourning in this place, . .Common courtesy plainly demands thatthe distinguished prohibition amendment Senator should have been invited to preside over Auretta’s meeting. Why was he not thus invited?. Why was' he not afforded an opportunity of raising his clarion voice in support of a ' measure for which heebravely, courageously and disinterestedly voted in the State Senate? Or was he, too, prevented from attending by participating in_a revival? By'thus slighting the chogen representative of our local temperance organization, Miss A uretta indirectly offered an indignity to these who 8o zealonsly labored for his nomination and election. Can theeloquent Miss Auretta hope to achieve distine'tion as a manipulator of polities by ['pu‘rsu-ing such a short-sighted course? We think not, and respectfully recommend that she be placed under discipline by the Grand Council of the ProBilition Leagne: .. ' i i © *QOysters in every style-at Kreager’s,

WASHINGTOR’S ANVIVERSARY DAY, Lessons that May Be Drawn from a st@dy of e Life and Charac- - _tl!'!} of the “Father of %t ﬁe exertises of the pupils of the Ligonier “High* School in honor of Washington’s'one hundred and fiftieth birthday, Mr. J. B. STOLL being called upon for ah address, responded in substance as follows: : - Ivls not my purpose to pronounce an elaborate eulogy upon the immortal Washington, nor to make .invidious. comparisons ' between him and- other ‘briefly a few of the marked characteristics of his grand character, which haye contributed so much to the, making of his name a household word throughout this grand republie. Washington was barely eig‘hteengears: of age when the governor of hif colony called him to hisaid toentrust him

with important business pertaining to the encroactiments of the French upon the rights of the Virginia colony. Washington’s mission to the French commander was not of a simple char~ acter involving only the bearing of dispatches, but required the sagacity of sound judgment and a comprehensive knowledge of inter-colonial relations. The mere fact of Washington’s 'selection by the Governor of Virginia to perform a mission, both difficult and complex, involving State craft of no meap order, is sufficient evidence of the high order of his intellect and the sounduess of his judgment. . Suppose the County of Noble had some very important business to transact, business that required the sagacity of mature minds to accomplish, and ingtead .of selecting from the many individuals of mature age and welldeveloped judgments, a youth yet not out of his teens, would be appointed v 0 enter upon the important undertaking, would we not feel surprised? Would we not ask, .why has one 8o young been selected to undertake business that required the maturity of age? Yet in the midst of such re;;ﬂectious. suppose there should be a general approbation manifested in the fitness ofithe appointment muade, would it not tend!to .exalt the ‘ability |of the young man’s character? Would Thot both old and young have great respect for a youth ‘of such attainments and nobleness of character? Such was the respect for Washington, that his contemporaries of mature age and | judgment fully confided in:his practi}cal good sense and sound juag'ment.‘ Do you suppose that a youth of desul- | tory habits and vacillating tendencies could have commanded the respect of his contemporaries as Washington did ? Certainly his was a lofty character, founded upon practical sense, honesty of purpose, pure motives and strict integrity. Such characters form models for emulation. There is, perhaps. no man in all history in whom 8o much of the nobleness and the goodness of true manhood, combined to make him great. From whatever as pect we study’ Washington, we behold the model man. lam truly glad that Washington is a character in the history of our country to whom we may always refer our youth as a man wor thy of their most careful study with the view of emulating his purity and integrity in his private or public life. Washington the soldier always displayed the same nobleness and grandeur of character that distinguished his ‘youthful life. His broad sympathy and comprehensive knowledge of human nature, made him a power among men. The spirit of his genius was far-reaching and seemed to inspire his followers with an‘ enthusiasm almost superhuman. The Continental army %at followed Washington to victory as weak and undisciplined as compared with the well equipped and brilliant arms of England, but what it

laqé(ed 1n numbers was fully made up by the force of love-and liberty which inspired its grand cpmmander. To comprehend the great struggle of the Revolution one must study carefully the history of the causes that induced patriotic men to leave their firesides for the hardships of the camp. .The grievances were many and of long standing. It was not a war hastily entered into. Its motives were pure and holy. . It was a struggle for the inalienable rights of man to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. As we study the causes which precipitated the American Revoiution, the true character of the patriots becomes more fully unfolded to our view. It is impossible to estimate the motives of one’s acts without a knowledge of the causges that underlie the acts, hence we cannot essimate the true life spirit of. Washington and his brave followers without a careful and scrutinizing study cof the causes whose effects were manifested ih the labors ‘of the great patriots. ' History. is the unfolding of the moral forces, which actuate men to perform great deeds, and hence; when : wg study the causes underlying revolutions we are led step by step to realize the true moral worth of the actors. It I 3 apparent, then, that the grandeur of Wasﬁlgton's character will shine with greatlr luster as we advance in the realizations of the causes that actuated his motives. Itis for this reasou that hig character is so eminently suited for the study of young wmen and women. It is an .epitome of all that is heroic, grand and ennobling. Young men and women could not fiad in-all hisgory a purer character, a more ennobling: spirit for emulation. . ‘'Washington was not only great as a, soldier, buf great as a'statesman. ' As. founder of the Republic he is deservedly called the*“Father of-his Country.” Helabored ‘zealously for the es-, tablisliment of, the goyefnment. upon. a sound basis. His deenlpﬂght Jin governmental affairs led him to-be-lieve that a government by the people to live, must hiave for its foundation the element of great strength,. while. at the same time it diffuses the spirit of liberty throughout the extent of its domatn. “TheWa Wi ‘scarcely over and peace declared, iyhen be. became oonselous that, the Articles of Confederation were inadegaaté to meet: the demands of' a great people: under one form of governmient. Thi§ fict led him to urge the reorganization of the government under & new constitution, A ‘convention was'‘called“to’ consider the question &*%%j&ﬁ;ﬁvishington was chosen President, and after months of boil~ and debate the present Constitution was' m‘ml and subittt the SLaas 0% aoptish. A

sufficient number of the States having. ratified the celebrated document, the Republtc of ‘America began its national carea;:ﬁpm%*zéa with the im‘mortal Washington as President.. As the fitsh Presidentiofithis great Repubﬁf a_* his ambii tion, to’establish and make séttire the liberties of Mscountrymen. Ilis love of country was the great element of his nature and all his acts locked to the accomplishment of rendering se‘cure the Dﬁnciples of liverty for which he had so nobly and bravely fought to secure. Politieal intiigue was foreign ‘to his naturé; his motives were‘whol-

ly..unselfsh. . Through. . his. po influence and good judgment the credit of the government was put upon a sound basis, and perfect order established throughout its departments. In ‘estimating his influence and executive ‘a,bility, we must pear in mind 'tl{e difference between one who takes' the; ‘helm of government in band after a ‘thorough orgamzation has been made, ‘Land one who has to organize the 'machinery. of state and adjust it to the’ demands of sound government.. Here again, we notice the'importance of becoming familiar with the ‘affairs of state in order to comprehend fully the importance of Washington’s influence ag first President of the nation, The study of the history of his administration is indispensable to a thorough understanding of the spirit of our Republican Institutions. It will not do: for one to atigmpt to gain that historieal knowle#gB by beginning with the present and going backwards, hoping thereby to become master of the principles underlying our system of government. You must go to the beginning and study the ground work before you can fully comprehend the super-structure. Another reason why you should begin with Washington and his times in order to lay a solid pasis for your Eknowledge of the science of government, is to avoid the prejudices of party zeal. If you have formed an opinion as to which prin ciples should govern in the affairs of state, from a partisan standpont, you are apt to approach the subject with a. bpiased mind. -The remoteness of Washington’s times enables one to ap- | proach the subject of government with |2 mind free from the partisan prejudices of to-day. If one wishes truth, he must seek the truth* through the | lid of reason, unclouded by the zeal of partisanship. It behooves every | young man and woman to study the nistory of oar country that he: or she may the better comprehend the prin¢iples upon .which rest his political rights, and liberty. Every voter ought to be able to understand the nature of our political institutions, and it is impossible for him to protect the sovsleignty of the Republic without a | chorough study ‘of its foundation as laid by Washington, the “Father of pis Country.” I have sometimes tho’t that it would be well if every voter counld be required toread Washington’s “Farewell Address to the American: People” before going to the polls to Jdeposit his ballot. By so doing there would be awakened a spirit of patriot--Ism instead of fostering prejudices, wnd narrow-minded partisanship. The administration of government, depending as it does uwpon the voting population, the rulers will invariably ve a reflex of the intelligence of such voters. When lotelligence becomes sufliciently diffused among the vqters to cause them to cast their ballots for sound government and not for mere partisan victory,bettergovernment will follow. It has been said that the libarties of our country depend upon the ballot-box, but I think the statement vught to be amended to read that our Aiberties depet[x%l;upon the degree of inielligence of the voting population. Let young men, then, who contemplate taking part in the affairs of state as voters ponder, and reflect upon .the teachings and examples of Washington. Let them ask themsgelves, how should we vote to make more secure, and to perpetuate thie grandest Republic ever known in history? The exercise of the ballot is a most important right, and because of its grave impor wanee, it carries with it a great responsibility, which the votér can only realizé through intelligence and sound jjudgment. - Study: then the history ot your country, thet you may become imbued with the influence of Washington’s zeal for good and pure government, and the stability of good zovernment will be made secure with vhe ballot ifi-the hands of such intelligent citizens. While speaking of political education allow me to digress from the :heme of Washington to notice the study of Political Science. I am indeed glad to know that so many of the young men and ladies of the Ligonier High School are zealously engaged in the study of Political Economy. 1 deem such an undertaking a most iaudable enterprise and feel that it is a step in the right direction, especially since you will have the co-operation and assistance of an instructor so pro ficient and thorough'as Prof. Luke, whose method of imparting information is so well calculated to make thipkers and reasoners of his pupils. The Science of Political Economy affords you an excellent opportunity for mental discipline, as well as a fine chance to make yourselves familiar with the trade and commerce of our country. The laws of trade grow out of the necessities for trade and are to a certain extent as firmly fixed as prin-i ciples of pure mathematics. To attempt to regulate trade by legislation, 8 a rule, must from the very necessiiy of the case prove useless. Inso far | s the government attempts to regulate the machinery of production, trade and ‘commerce, our choice of legislation will, to a certain extent, affect the general principles of wealth. That legislativn should be to the intexest of the producing and the commérg_:l | classes it 'will’tequirs the legislator to possess a clear knowledge of the forces underlying the systems of the industrial interests. Without such knowledge upon his part his legislation is Jjust as apt to be detrimental to the interests he would subserve as a benefit. It is the same with the voter, for if he does not comprehend the elementary principles of the laws governing the industrial interests, he is just as.apt to cast his vote against his, interests as. he is to cast it for the benefit of industry. Pernicious legislation can only be avoided by the infelligent voter voting. for persons who. embody. the .ideas, of a sound industrial gystem. To, this end" the voter must gualify himself to judge of the qualifications of candidates, of educating himsslf in | that science which formg the basis of all industrial economies. Young ladges ,)uge\giae%ave ‘need of the study of Political | ,cg?omy. for if they should, desire a calico dress apd could purchase it,in the absence &’f”mﬁn legislation for seven cents a'yard, but in view -of ;the; legislation they have o, pay eleven w a yard, they ought to #;:w ggh&k &mb@ case. .What f 0 «is. true of many; r kinds of goods, hence ﬁ&dieq _oqgg,t to _manifest .u.doém;nﬁar;gh in these gtudies as youpwm hough they are not voters their influence in doing ﬁuod is worthy of profound considera: won. . Qo iniw ¢ Lriies y,',, There is. another reason why yo ladies should take.a deeper ingel!éa:’:g general-culture; : The'man -of the fu-

ture will require of his helpmate some+ ‘thing more in'meéntal culture than the ‘theré ability to'ding-dohg¥on a‘;(‘lpiano ‘or organ.” He will not be satisfied with 4 ‘lady ‘whese education consists of nothing more’ than social embellish‘miénts and’ whose ignorance ‘of" génetal topics 18 pi'ommgl He wiil demand higher culture, aud witl .expect her to

have at least some knowledge of me] institutions of the ccuntry in which | she lives. Young men of intelligence | admire true eulture in women, "and 1 venture to_assert, that those young ‘women WhoF t ivileges, of a sound and liber#l education aref?eless ‘earnest in their” eman%for a - better education on mm . ‘,;vmnirmen. A nation of ted women in the true sense of education, would possess one of the most potent factors of civilization.

I do not wish to be a fault-finder, but the young men will pardon me if 1 say that there seems to be a lack of ambition upon their part to acquire a general knowledfa of ' the affairs of business, not only of business but of men in general. The young ladies it young men. Now Ido not wish to be understood as advoeating female suf‘frage, for Tam not in gvor of that, but in my experietice I have been most firmly impressed with the gross ignorance of young men upon‘ questions of public eoncern. It may be thatl have not formed a proper estimate of the condition of education among our young meén, but as & rule I dm safe in saying that our girls seem to excel the young men in attaining a thorough knowledge of general ' matters. This ought not to be 80, and I nope that in’ 4 few years our young men wili prove themselves equal to the requirements of a *generdl. knowledge.. There are many individuals engaged as teachers in '/ our common schools (Ligonier excepted) who are virtually robbing the State of its :school fund. They have no higher ambition than to obtain the pay. They have no qualifications to teach, since many of them cannot ‘write a half dozen lines without misspelling more than half the words they use, to say nothing abeut their grammar. This ought not to be. But where is the remedy? 1 answer, that the remedy lies in a more thorough training, the cultivation of a«desire to excel and a higher idea upon the part of patrons and school trustees of the importance of the teache@ profession. In the days of Washington the land was not dotted over ' with schoolhouses, but for all that, the young men of the period found opportunity to cultivate their minds and to obtain a liberal education. With the present upportunities of acquiring a sound education at little cost to the individual, there is no excuse for anyone remaining ignorant. There is no tax that the. ‘people pay more freely than the scheol tax, and it is but right that pupils should avail themselves of this grand opportunity afforded them by ‘the State to educate themselves for the business of Hfe. It must be manifest to the minds of. close observers that a government of the people demands for its stability the education of the masses in the true principles of govern‘ment. The industrial interests constitute the main basis upon which must rest republicanism ; if, then, these interests are imperfectly understood, or not understood at all by the people, good -government becomes a gam. of chance. 'Therefore good and bad iegislation must necessarily alternate ti! perbaps, by dint of the mere force ot circumstances good government may for a little while prevail. A government that can survive in the midst of peculations and fraud must have a population principally indifferent to 1 pure and honest administration of the orinciples Involved in the science of government. ‘An institution may for awhile seem to prosper amidst indifferent tendencies of its people with regard to the true functions of its purposes, but ultimately decay and ruin will follow. With an increasing population, the demand for higher culture in governmental sciences must necessarily follow, if we wish te keep what .we have or to strengthen the whole fabrie. All individuals, then, should study the underlying principles of our Republic that our -legislative halls may be filled with true and honest men, such as characterized the administration of Washington. Study such characters as Washington, Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, though there are many of Hamilton’s views that 1 .deem erronsous, but the study of his writings and the spirit of truth which actuated him to do all in his power for good government commands our re spect. I bave sometimes thought that there is 8 repugnance on the parf of the people of to-day to study that which is old, they seem to be constantly looking forward for something new to tackle. This tendency of the public mind is a bad one; for the study of old things often are of infinitely more profit. than new ideas that probably jcould have had no existence but for the old. I do.not wish to be under stood as being an opponent to the study | of new sciences, or to the study of new principles of government that may, from the necessity of an extended population grow out of the minds of the people. Far from it; but what 1 do hold is, that new principles of government are frequently incomprehensible without a thorough study of the old glements. I would have you study | the first pringciples of our grand Republic through the efforts of its founders. You should read that grand document, the “Farewell Address” of Washington, and ponder its teachings. It will bear re-reading often, and the more of its spirit you can imbibe the more intense will your love for pure government become. S

And now, 1n conclusion, allow me to say that by the assiduous study of Washington’s life, in his youth, his career as a general and a statesman, you will be enabléd to form an ' excellent idea of the duties of citizenship. Washington’s influence was net only great at home, but equally great abroad. It was not only a power in his lifetime, but continues to exert itself throughout the world wherever the name .of Washington is known. Study him, that-his leading traits may become mainsprings in the developing of your characters, for there is no man in the history of our nation whose life is more worthy of your faithful consideration. : :

HAWPATCH. As the correspondent from this part of the country has gone whete the woodbine twineth, we thought a few items might prove interesting to the readers of your valuable paper. The health on the ’Patch is very good. Our M, D’s are resorting to something besi&ea the practice of medicine in order to make a living. ,Thewheat crop looks splendid now. Some of the farmers fear the month of May more than they do March. They fear wheat will suffer from the ravages of the fly.’ s : * This community is li%e;) all . ofher places in some respects. Some people will die and some will b_e%qt married. Last 'week we wete invited to attend a wedding at Mr. David Canningham’s. There were algso quitée a number of other friends present to witness the ceremony by which Miss Celestia Cun‘ningham became Mrs. 'Levi 'Glant. Rev. Goodrich: performed’ the cerempony. after which congratulations were offered. ‘Dinner was then announced, and a grand dinner it was." ‘Tt would take t6O much of your ~valuable space 'to deseribe. half that was on the £b10.4 }.Wahadaou Doctor among us, and he, Jike: all other Doctors, when he got where there - were good things:to eat, and plenty of them, ate teo much ‘and ‘went home to.bewall his: impradence. levi.and his wife’ left -on the night train ona.pleasure trip to Ohio te rel--atives, They expect to-be gone two webksl &) v bosuvuisih wi i aJßall

L Gn‘);‘iirn‘im are Wnyha&nt t!lieh' prém appearanes’ 'is'’ annoying, ‘Patker’s Hair Balsamy’ gmnts* tn}e annoyanee by promptly resoring the youthfalolor, . Lo R D] b il a~f:o2v(,tmiﬂgimmm§baﬁmm ."Comimon Candies at Kreagsr's. {-"Watm Breakfasts at Kreager's. ' lWﬁymo Oan at Kreager’s, -

" “Tue nomination of Roscoe Conkling for “ssociate justice of the Supreme C 'urt is very sayvagely denouneed by the Blaine wing of the republican ya: ty. #e N. ¥. T'ribunesays: “The pis tolof Guitean has mAdeéw Justice o the Snpreme Court ’F*n W 4

Compiled from Latest ‘Dispatches,

: Congressional, Mgr. DAWES presented a petition in the Senate on the 21st, in behalf of the Indian tribes, and said that one hundred thousand citizens of influence had signed similar appeals. Mr. Plumb hoped to_see the relations of the Government to the Indians placed’ (::;“ a %;-ﬁcdcal §%&b£ viva voce vote. %ﬁs were introuced: By Mr. Plumb, amending the act of 1874 to encourage the T-qwth of timber on Western prairies; by Mr.. McMillan, to set apart a portion of Montana for certain Indian tribes, and to pay each tribe $50,000 per annum for- ten years. The resolution declaring that the 'law granting arrears of pensions _ought to . be repealed, and the amendments ,themd;o, again_came up as unfinished business, and, after several amendments were offered and rejected, the whole subject was tabled—26 to 23. Ad(joumed to the 23d.... In the House, in Commiifteeé of ‘the Whole, an amendment to the Post-office Appropriation bill was’ nﬁced to—Bs to 69—providing that mails shall be carried without extra charge on the fastest trains whenever the PostmasterGeneral thinks it desirable, and upon failure to comply with this provision the compensa~ tion of roads is to be reduced fifty per cent. After a long discussion an adjournment to the 234 was agreed to. IN the Senate on the 23d a ‘joint resolution was adopted authorizing the Secretary of War to rati for the' relief of the laboring d&mmwed rogion between Memphis and Vicksburg, and appropriating $lOO,OOO therefor. The bill for thg‘retireumnt of General Grant came up, and Mr. Bayard offered a substitute providing a pension for all ex-Pres-idents e?unlto one-fourth the amount of their pay while President, such pensiou not to be gmd in oase of a second Presidential term. 'his substitute was rejected—s te 31. An amendment by Mr. Sherman was agreed to ‘without discussion, making the proposed retirement additional to the number authorized %v law. The bill was then passed-—3sto 17, Messrs, Brown, Call, Davis (lll.), Jones (Fla.) -and Ransom voted aye with the Republicans. Otherwise the vote was 4 ?mfty one. The bill prohibiting other han Indians from trading with the tribes on reservations was passed....ln the House Mr. Chalmers introduced a bill for the: relief of sufferers by the overflow of the Misainsipg‘l. and an appropriation of $109,000 was passe In Committee of the Whole the Postoffice Asvprogr(ation bill was taken.up. It was resolved that no contractor shall be released untit a bond. has been made by the sub-con-tractor. A proposition to increase to $1,800,000 the amount set aside for postal clerks was rejected, as wag also an amendment increasing bty $300,000 the appropriation for route agents. ¢

A RESOLUTION, offered by Mr. Davis (W. V 4.), was adopted in the Senate on the 2ith, to in-qufre-into the expediencgy of giving to States and Territories more aid in organizing their militia. Mr. Bayard introduced.a resolution that the Committee on Foreign Relations be “hereby instructed to inquire whether any promises gntﬁpulsuon by which intervention b¥ the nited States in the controversies cxisting between Chiliand Peru or Chili and Bolivia haveibéen expressed or ims)liedly given by an person or persons officially connected widz the ' Government of the United States, or whether the influence of the Government of the United States has been in any way exerted, promiscd or intimated ih connection with, or in relation to, said contracts, by any one officially cunnected with the Government of the United States, and whether any one officially connected with the Government of the United States is interested direetly. or indi-. rectlg with anﬁv such alleged contracts in which the mediation as aforesaid of the United States is recited to be a condition.” The Immediate Deficiency bill was taken up, and amendments appropriating $60,000 for the expenses of the;funerals of the late President Garfield and the late General Burnside, and increasing the item fox-nnqdigion-

1 ¢lerk hire in the Post-office from $75,000 to. #150,000 were adopted, and the bill was then passed. Adjourned to the 27th....1n the Houss a resolution of inquiry into the alleXation that certain papers connected with the Chili-Peru-vian oorres*mndence had been lost or removed from the files of the State Department was adogﬁed. Bills were passed toretire William P. Chambliss with the rank of Major, and Carlisle Boyd with the rank of Captain, and to g&ntarrenrs of gension to the widow of Majoreneral Alexander Hays. THE Senate was not in sessiorion the 23th.... In the House Mr. Henderson asked unanimous consent to refer to the Committee on Military Affairs the Sénate bill retiring General Grant, but Mr. Springer objected. A resolution by Mr. Reed was passed to form a se-! lect committee of nine to consider all questions’ relating to woman's rights. Mr. Stephens resortad a bill a.uthorizing the coinage of silver ollars and fractions thercof on the metric system. Mr. Grout reported a bill to establish the Territor‘%(. of North Dakota. In Committee of the Whole on the Post-office Appropriation bill, Mr. Springer caused the passage of an amendment that all correspondence on official business shall be transmitted in J)enalty envqlnPes. The Committee rose and reported the bill to the House. Anamendment authorizing the Postmaster-General, in case of the subletting of a mail contract on a star-route, to declare the origmqt,l contract forfeited, and to enter into contract with the subcontractor, was agreed to—ll 2 to 9—and the bill was then passed. : 3 ;

Domestic. Tue will of the late Joseph E. SBheffleld, of New Haven, gives the Scientific School his mansfon and grounds on the death of his wife and son, as also one-seventh of his estate, which is estimated® at from $7,000,000 to $lO,A PACKAGE worth $lO,OOO was mailed by a New York bauk to a Charleston institution inDecember, but. hras not reached its destination. The Post-office Department is investigating, A PART of the Insane Asylum at Brooklyn, N. Y., was burned 'on the morning of the 21st. One inmate was burned to death and three escaped. - 3 £ RerorTs from the Mississippi Valley on the 22d showed the existence of a sad state of affairs owing to high water. - The' entire shore line between Memphis and Vicksburg on the Mississippi side, and the whole eastern shore of Arkansas, were either under water ‘or threatened with inundation. The inhabitants of a vast area of country were in great distress. Many had been forced from their bouses and were subsisting as best they could on rafts, and some on knolls or parts of the old levees: The destruction of live stock is beyond calenlation, and the waste of property is outside the limit of present computation. Arkansas City was completely submerged, not a single house in the city being free from the presence of the muddy flood. At Cincinnati fully 5,000 people were thrown out of work, and railroad travel between that city and Indianapolis was entirely cut off. JouxN W. EvANs, a piano-tuner, employed by Root & Son, Chicago, surrendered himself to the police on the morning of the 22d, stating that he had been assaulted by a footpad, and that he had killed the man. Thé man whom he killed turned out to be the yard‘master of the Lake-Shore & Michigan South. ern Railroad. ' Both men have hitherto borna good reputations, and the case is involved in much mystery. - i A CARLOAD of potatoes from Glasg v Scotland, were sold in Chieago on the 23(1(?012 $1.15 per bushel on the track. This is the first instance of the arrival and sale of Scoteh potatoes in that market. =

CLinTON H!SmiTH, of New York, a dealer in laces, has made an assignment, giving preferences for $llB,OOO. His liabilities aggregate

~ THE Erie Railroad has decided to-double] track its line west of Hornellsyille, N. Y. Tae State of North Carolina has offered land for the Hebrew refugees from Russia. THREE Italian sailors were drowned in New York barbor;on the 22d during a heayy squall..

A PETITION is in. eirculation. in New Yerk for the abrogation ‘of the reciprocity treaty with the Hawailan islands. ; ; THE crew of a wrecked British bark, consisting of the Captain, his wife and two children, and two seamen, were rescued on the 22d from.an ppen hoat off the coast of California'by the steamer Newburn. They were starving, ) ; ; e ~ Pror. BaMUEL JACKSON, the owner of the stock of fireworks which exploded at Chester, Pa., and Charles Van Horn, who assured the firemen that there was no danger of explosion, were.on the 22d held to answer at the next term of court. ; ;

BATzERN & BROTHER, wholesale liguordealerg in New York, whose liabilities are re--3 g;;ted gz_ggg),oog, »- lean gssig'gment;on thog FlnE on the 23d swept away the works of, ‘the Peabody Oif ‘Company at. Chester,” Pa,’ valued at $100,000; the manufactory of Esta.brook & Co., at Milford, Mass,, worth' $50,-' - 000, and #chuman’s flour-mill at Allentown, ‘ Pa., on which the:loss was $30;000, 7 : ONE of the boilers in the Vulcan Steel ‘works, in South Bt..Lonis; exploded -on the 34, fatally injuring four men. 5 TrEe HalinemannMedieal College,of Chicago, {graduated 110-homespathic' physicians on the S v ol A e EDT ‘

A GLOUCESTER: (Mags.;) dispatch of the 23d announced . the . probable, wreck: of three _achooneys from that. port, inyolving a loss of fifty lives. . . . : : At Omaha, Neb., a new National Bank, _called the Nebraska National Bank, was o ganized on the 23d, with a capital of Sﬁ@hQOO. A _party, of 325 Jewish refugees from gls--8% artived at Philadelphia on the 23d by the ‘steathshipTifidots, U 0 * SrEpiEY BROADBRENT, on¢e a leading 16t tery ght‘ih Matyland, recently, threw him'pelf Défore s traln at Baltimore and wds_horribly mangled. . e e »‘ &u%&oﬂtﬂdﬁeﬂ in Missi&sippi on the 252 was . y miles wide by sixty long. ' “THEbY ?rdf'& ortable saw-mill at -Néw “Carlislé, ), ‘éxpiaﬁ"u. ;kw%m ago with - buich forcé as to ki fve men and blow off the log of another. : =

- DENVER contains ‘an - estimated population Of 800 5 i i s Al e - DURING the séven days ended on the 23d there wore 128 busisess failures inf the United. wﬁ They * were distribated- as follows: Middle States, 30; Bastern, 10: "Southern, 85; . wkstggn. 34: Pacific coast and Territories. 12:° M Sork Citeer. o e { Homms, Brockuies & +Co,’s flint-glass manufactory, at Wheeling, W. Va., one of the- - fu the United States, was destroyed by fire a few mornings ago. “The loss’isestimated at £40,000, . e s IN Big Cottonwood Catiyon, Utah; a few days ago, 4 snow-slide buried a wood-cliopper and his wife and five ehildren:. --« Tite recent trial of Charles W. Stickney, at Denver, Col., for:the murder of Montgomery Campau, resultedsin the acquittal of the ‘accusedi s £ ELR B 0 E R IR e A EEW days ago. Dr. J.:N. Brandon,.of - Caneyville, Ky.; confessed.on his death-bed that: e was one Of the three vilains who caused %,;p@mgw tordeath of Wiley Barbry and six PhiTiieh Wty -00 s G TR . A HELENA (Ark.j> telezram of “the 24th states that the Missiseippi River -whs falling’ slowly, and the backwater was r'e'cedh’{g somewhat: Arrangements were being made tofeed sufferers. Reports'. ‘from | Clarendon, Ark. showed miich sufféring along the St. Francis, and the river was overflowing the country.”

Tt is held by the United States Gireuit Court at Bt."Louis that.railroads must provide facilities for express-business at ieasonable ratés, which are not to be fixed in advanee by therailfoad companies.. -- . TG ol A coLoORED mnan nained- -Major Ilicks ™ was executed in the jail st Covington, Ky., a few days ago for the murder. of, Henry: Williams. Hé confessed” his guilt:: On . the same day White Brown {¢olored) suffered death at Pine Bluff, Atk., protesting his innocence. - Tre express office at Lima, 0.; was robbed recently of a package-of *cuirency amounting to $7,00) Lelonzing & the Lake Erie & Westem Rallway.: o wiln oo oS e g

A Savr Lake dispatch of ‘the 25th states that the family swept off in° the Big Cottonwood snew-slide had heen: recovered, under forty tons of snow, not. frozén, but lying naturally in bed.: The husband, wife and -dinfant. ‘were in one bed, aud two boys and two girls—the.eldest ¢leven years old—im another, snypthercdinstantly in‘theit gleep, . 0 - Two Sheriffs from " Southern” lows, armed with a requisitioa “from Governor Rusk, sought to arrest two robbers ‘at Randolph, Wis., on the 25th.. :Sheriff Farrell ~was. shot fourtimes, and William Norrig sreecived fatal fnjuries. e BELS S .

Tug authorities of East. Hampton, Muss., on the2sth licld two seminary studeats in. $l,OOO cai tor kidnaping v freshman, two othere iy tie sane sum for haziug, and twenty more, - Fale.chas’witnesses: 7 o A Brr.iN Who Janded at - Custle Garden, New York, on the 25th, had a palr of horns an inch long protruding from hisforehead, and seemed proud of his pecularity. = ~ A XEW five-story brick. building on Second street, Bf. «Louis, occupied by ‘the groceryhouse.of Krafft, Holmes & Co:, suddenly Tell in on the mornihg of the 25th; burying goods valued at' 870,000, -~ eraeeene it A Hockberry, Arizona, a desperado nained. J. 0. Wildon," who had killed' John Bullock,’ was taken from juil on the 25th by fifteen men ‘and hanged to the beam of a blacksuiith-shop. ~ A noss'of nearty $100,000:was inflicted upon the town of Conway; “Ark.; by fire ‘on the St A AL P D - .ONthetnorning of the 2ith William Last, aged twelye, in Crabb, & Co:’s needlé factory, at Newark; N, J., was-passing a. coil -of* wire through, when a wife broke and coiled around him, cutting him eompletelyin two. - - A Piav-cak on the Richmond & Allegheny \Road was thrown from the track’on the 25th by a land-slide. David MeMinn, the paymaster's clerk; wis killed, and five others weranjured Lty 08 el e “A'SIX-DAY. walking mateh commenced in New York just after midnight on the 27th. Five of - those who started have made rezofds of over 560 miles in six days. Rowell wis the. Afuvorite. Sl e ke A MEETING 0f: citizens. of Crittenden Couns ty, Ark:, was held on the 25th, st Marion, to petition Congress for aid. Many people were said to have perished front absglute- staivation, and some were subsisting on the carcassex'of animals drowned in £he overflow: - s A pisparein from Cairg,-111, on the 26th -stated ' that the city was an island, being quite surrounded hy water. - The water was fifty-three feét above low-water mark. . Tak wholesale ~dry-goods house of Menken Brothers, ~at. . Mempliis, made -an assignment on the 25th to cover liabilities of $500,-g‘hn.boot-;shqp_ of Tullant & Co., at- West Brookfield, Mass.;. valued at $40,000, ‘was .burned on the 25th. A fireman named Willfam Aiken was. seriously injured by a falling Braelest vt i S e S

. Personal and. Political. lue Democrats of the Third Louisiau{ distret - have renominated Joseph Acklin for Congress.’ : e e ; THE injuries sustained ‘by Senator Lamar in the runaway accident.in Washington were so serlous that he has_been compelled to return to Mississippi to recuperate. 3 i | - Tug New Jersey delegation in Congress hag' unanimously dsked the President to review the findings in the case of Fitz John Porter, and cause his restoration to thearmy: ] “THE Governor of Virginia has vetoed the Anti-Dueling " act -recently. passed by the Legislature. SRR B ON the 22d a committee: appointed by exConfederates living’in Cineinnati and vicinity presented eulogistic and sympathetic resolu. tions to Mrs. Garfield as a‘tribute to tlie mem: ory of her,Jate husband. i sl

THE Greenback State,Convention of Michigan met at Grand Rapids. on the 22d, some two hundred .persons being present. J. W. ‘Begole, of Flint, presided.. The forenoon-was . mostly occupied by short speeches, reporting the state of political sentiment in- different localities. The. prevailing sentiment favored the adhering to the _existing name and. platform. After quite a lengthy debate a motion was carried to indorse Jesse Harper’s call for a National Convention. Greetings were telegraphed to the Indianapolis. Convention, and it was resolved to, hold a ‘Btate Nominating Convention at Grand Rapids, JuneB. . - ' Tuk Indiana: Greenback - State Convention” was held at Indianapolis on the 22d. - Gilbert De La Matyr was chosen permanent Chairman. A platform was adopted declaring that all "money should be “issued by the Government; labor shonld be protected by National and State authority;: the Eight-hour law should e enforced; the bonds ‘of the United States should not be refunded, but paid as | they become due in the lawful money of the United States; legal tenders should be substi_tuted foy "National Bank notes; the Burlingame treatyshould be abrogated; public domain should be reserved for actual settlers; Congress should regulate inter-State commerce; - denouncing railroad, -land and moneyéd corporations as' monopolies, and declaring that .men who loaned tnem money should never be: preferred to soldiers; demanding a graduated inecome tax; opposing . _an increase of the standing army; favoring the placing of all representatives of the peo- . ple on’an equal footing’; demanding a Govern.ment of the people, by the people and for the people. A resolution was also adopted fayor'ing the submitting of -the Constitutional and Suffrage amendments to the State. Constitution to. the people. -The foHowing nominmg~ ‘tions were; made: For Secretary of State, ‘Hiram Z. Leonard, Cass County; Audditor of State, -J.. N., Armantrout, Clintoh County; Treasurer of State, John' Btudebaker, Wells | ‘County; Attorney-General, M. W. Lee, Dela- - ware County; Superintendent of Public Instruction, -Howard. Bull, - Howard County; Clerk of S¥pmme Court, Jared Saiter; Clark County.. The nomination of candidates forJudges of the Supreme Court was referred to ‘the State Centrdl Committee. = = ; * WasHiNeroN’s birthday (February 22) was. geucrally. observed | thrawghout the coun‘try'as a hoMday, in sSome‘places by eivic’ pro= cessions, and in others by social festivities, ’

~AN.the Sprague divorce case on the 21st the -ex-Senator withdrew his counter bill, and the complainant struck out ‘all allegations excapt that of non-sipport. * The. divoree was thea granted, the question of alimony- only being hel&::'ga)@neb“? “Theé flired girls weresurren dered to the mather and the son to the father: Nerfites Hfanch of ®n¥rcssfwa"s in session on the:22d, out of respect 'to-thé memory of ;&hmm; S T “'THE Reform element weré successful in the recent Philadélphia municipal election. - -

SAMUELH. Owe¥s, ‘a promifient lawyer of Misgoufi, and«’ Makon-of high rank, dfed ins ihotel:at St Louts on the 22dy o /.0 Ty © ANri:MorMoN meetings were held in vari ous parts of the country on the evening of the 224, at which resolutions were passed asking :Congress to put a stop tothe evil.. ~ . Inis stated that the Auditing Committee in .charge of the accounts of the late President ' Garfleld’s illness have made the following allowances: Bliss, $25,000; Agunew and Hamilton, $15,000 each; Reyburn 'and Boynton, $lO,OOO each; and Mrs. Edson, $5,000; Crump, . -ELBVEN. of the twenty-two veterans of the war of 1812 in New York were”banqueted a few nights dgo by the Dahlgren Post of the Grand Ay - o ey :

' Tae Ohlp House has passed a bill to pre-v;wn@;-mnflw, railroad " stocks, grain, or 'otliér‘ébiﬁm&it'gsi fmposing & fine of from $2O to 8500 or confinement in jail for six \,months. : . ~ TaE Legislature of Michigan met in extrasession on.the 23d to consider the.new Tax bill s recommended by the State Tax" Commission, the reapportionment of the State into Congressional Districts and to dévise measures of relief for the fire ‘sufferers. = | Iris announced that General Brady has summoned the parties implicated in the aleged Star-route conspiracy to Washington for consultation. : - A pispArcH from Salt Lake City on the 23d indicated a feverishi —condition of - affairs in Mormondom. Petitionsto Congress asking to be let alone were being circulated, and other measures were being urgently pressed to ‘sweep back the rising flood of anti-Mormon feeling in the Nation. T

< Tae Illinois Legislature has been ul;ai to meét in special session on the 23d of March.. ~GENERAL D. H. RUCKER, recently appointed Quartermaster-General of ‘the army, has been placed on the retired list. w.th his new rank. General Rufus Ingalls has been appointed to the vacaney. . L Ex-SENATOR ROSOOE CONKLING was on‘the 24th nominated by the President for Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and A. A. Sargent, of California, for United States Minister to Germany. THE Republican leaders of Texas have recently resolved to extend their support to independent candidates for State officers. - i THE, bill which was passed by the United States Senate on the 23d for thé retirement of. General Grant authorizes the:President to nominate General U. 8. Grant to. the army, and to place him on'the retired list with the pay of a General. S e : . A PETITION Was received a.few days ago by ‘the House Committee on Invalid Pensions asking that the name of the widow. of President Polk be placed on the rolls. THE Election Committee of the House on the 24th refused to recognize the claim of either Campbell or Cannon to the seat for Utah, but declared the same vacant. :

. TaE first proof of the new five-cent postage stamp, containing the vignette of Presideut ‘Garfiéld, was ready on the 25th to be forwarded to Queen Victoria. "It had been inclosed in a costly frame of ebony, with a muatting of silyer and border of gold. /A duplicate would .probahly be sent to Mrs.' Garfield. A WasHINGgToN dispatch®of the 25th says: *Mr. Scoville, Guiteau's counsel, has' been in .the oity for several days. He said to-nigiit he was preparing his bill of exceptions, and was also at work on a book which will contain the'secret history of the Guitean trial, many of the facts and details of -which are wholly .unkpownto the public.” Tue Grand Jury at Washington on the 25tk ‘, found twenty indictments in the Post-office - straw-bond cases. 2 £

; : Forelgn, e - Tug Herzegovinians have defeated the, Austrians in several minor engagéments. An . attack was made on Mottia on the 21st in - which ten women ‘and six children were killed, but the insurgents were driven away. - Tae British and French Comptrollers-Gener-al in Egypt declare the present state of affairs. inthat country a practical nullification -of thetk dontiols = - s e . " Ox the 224 Mr. Bradlaugh was again expelled from the British House of Commons by - 201 ayes to 83 noes, 2 3 “RoUZEAUD, the husband 6f - Christine Nilsson, who became insane over the Tecent financial crisis in Paris, died in an asylim on - -the 224 d. . e M. Davirr was on the 224 jelected from - County Meath, Ireland, to the'seat in Parlinment rendered vacint by the f;esignation of A, M. Sullivan. This is considered an -indorsement of the no-rent policy. ; THE steamér City-of London, avhich started for New .York in Novgmber last, Went to .- picces off the coast of Ireland, “with & crew numbering forty. A signal locker bearing her name was &{mpng the wreckage which on the 22d floated ashored = .. ° : ; - Sk LzoNarp TiLLEY, the Canadian Minister of Finance, has estimated the cost of running the Dominion Government ‘next yedr at - $53,000,000, which i tén millions more than last year. . : , “THE mercantile firm.of Hill, Mac Master & - Plant, ‘'of Manchester, England, suspendedpayment on tBe23d, withliabilities of £70,000." Tue Bank of England has reduced its - discount rate to five per cent., and the Bank of Frauce and the Bank of “Belgium- have fol - lowed suit. | Sl 5 , A oaBLEGRAM from Bt. Petersburg on the 23d announced the departure of Lieutenant Harber and Master Scheutze, of the Uniteds . States navy, in search of the Jeannette’s third boat. S e Ewirio CasthLAß, in an article published at - Madrid, predicts an invasion-of Europe by the Slayonie Nations, and warns_the Latin races to ally themselves with the Germans. Trxe City of Hammah has been burned by the tribes on the frontier of Tripo!i. : ALL except two of the Nihilists on trial at Bt. Petersburg on the 24th pleaded guilty. “A RECENT cablegram announced the suspension of Steiner & Co., silk merchants of - Zurich, Switzerland, with liabilities of £BO,OOO, and the failure of Rhodes & Co., of Bradford,, England, for £120,000. =~ - : IT-was resolved in the British House:of Lords a few days since to appoeint a commit--tee to inquire into the’ working of the Land ‘act. ; ol Bt = . JuDGE TORRENCE, one of the ablest lawyers of Montreal, decided on the 25th thata divorce taken out in’ New York: was legal in ‘Canada. ) £ . 'THE death was announced on the 25th of Victor Theodore Junod, the celebrated Swiss physician and medical writer. f « THE recent elections for the Hawaiian Assembly indicated the complefe downfall of the old missionary influence in the Sandwich Tlslands. ‘ T = ‘A CABLEGRAM of the 26th states that Austrian troops had a battle lasting nine hours ‘with a force of one thousand insurgents, and _defeatéd them. '~ Two Austrians were- killed and six wounded. | . % "By an explosion in a coal mine in Styria, Austria, on the 25th, 150 persons were killed.

: LATER NEWS, ~ CaroLiNE Leroy WensTER, the widow of "Daniel Webster, died on the 26th ult. at New. ‘Roehelle, N* Y. Mrs. Webster was horn in New York in 1797, and was the second wife of Daniel Webster. ; - : - A CHICAGO & ALTON freight-car, loaded: with brick, in which ten“tramps had secreted themselves, was ditched near Joliet pn the 2ithult. Two men were killed and thefothers terribly ‘woundéd. Spipl SECRETARY LINCOLN on the 27thule ;érderé'd thedispatch of 100,000 rations from St= Louis to the sufferers by overflowed rivers in Arkansas and Mississippi. - ° SECRETARY HUNT, on being advised of the delicate condition of Lieutenant Vanenhauer, of the lost Jeannette, cabled orderson the 27th ult. for him and his party to remain in Russia until fully able to travel. =~ -~ At Helera, Ark., the Mississippi River was still rising on the 27th ult. Railroads were seriously damaged, anda further disastrous - rise wasanticipated. : . AT New Orleans on the 27th lt. the first car of through freight from Sah Francisco without * breaking bulk arrived. It was fourteen and ahalf days en routes ; ; * A DUBLIN cablegram of the 27th ult. states that all the farms.on Dursey Island, thirtyfour in number, had been sold for non-pay-ment of .rent. The Land League propose to build houses and support the -tenants on the- - . -~ 4

Tue seventy-fifth birth-day of Henry W. Longfellow, the poet, was celebrated in various parts of the country on the 27th ult... . IN the ‘Mason Court-martial at Washington o the 26th uli. the prosecution rested and the defense opened. . The testimony was to show’ the general good chatacter of Mason. The “Court, affer directing a physical examinatiou |of the prisoner by theé Post Surgeon, - adjourned: - ke R ¢ Ay armed party attacked a farmer's house in Feacle, County Clare; Ireland, oh the 27th ‘ult., shot the farmer in the leg, stabbed his sonin the head, and shot another son dead. ' THE memoridl services in honor of the late President were held in the National House of Representatives in Washington on the 27th -ult., in the presence of an immense muliitude. Among the prominent Governmental spectators were President 'Afthur and hisCabinet, the Diplomatic T():rmn& _x:;n;‘berl f reine Court, e y & avy 3@’.’-'3%?&&4 by Generals Sherman, S%eridan, HancockiMloward and Meiggs and Admirals Ammen, Rogers and Rodgers. ' Several States were also represented by their Governors. In the body of the hall the largemajority - were ladies, whe, out of respect for the occa_sion, were dressed in somber-hued : clothing. Al e s order, and § ter the Senate 2 ina boty. The VicePreajdent m‘;‘,.?"»p';‘:f:;"‘ on the of mjgjp% officer’s rand mﬁlf a sh(txr{.htraycr y the Cb.{‘;‘.in introQuged My Blide, e ‘orator of the day, e promaigs 4, ot gdem, e the Tate President Garneld. | s