Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 29, Petersburg, Pike County, 27 November 1884 — Page 1

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NEWS IN BRIEF Compiled front Various Sources. i? , PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. / On the 17th President-elect Cleveland received numerous calls from distinguished citizens in the Capitol at Albany. President Arthur, has appointed Noah P. Leveridge, of Michigan, Second Deputy Commissioner of Pensions, vice Calvin B. Walker, promoted. . As the result of the official canvass of Cook County, Illinois, Brand. Democrat, lor State Senator, fs elected Instead of Deman, Republican. This gives the Legislature to the Democrats on joint ballot. The National Cattlemen’s Convention at Bt. Louis effected a permanent organization on the 18th by the election of exGovernorJohn L. Routt, of Denver, Col., President; General N. M. Curtiss, of Ogdensburg, N. Y., first Vice-President, and A. P. Atwater, of St. Louis, Me., Secretary. Louis Mart Quichbrat, member of the Parisian institute, and well-known author died on the 18th, aged eighty-three. Hon. Joseph E. Baown was re-elected Ucited States Senator from Georgia on the 18th, only two votes being cast against him. Father Doyle, of the Jesuit College, Detroit, Mich., died on the 10th. . A great deal of excitement has been occasioned by the suspension of the banking house of Hyatt, Levings & Co., Washington, Ind. Count Von Hatzeeldt, German Minister of Foreign Affairs, is presiding over the deliberations of the Congo Conference. Sullivan and Greenfield, the pugilists, were indicted by the New York Grand Jury for misdemeanor on the 19th, and were required to give bail in $1,000 each to answer.

^ 1HE President has appointed General Sanford as an additional delegate for the United States at the Congo Conference. In accordance with directions of the President, in view of a recent decision of the United States Court of Claims that they were not legally restored to the army after having been separated therefrom, the following have been dropped: Major Benjamin P. Runkle, First Lieutenant John H. McBlair and First Lieutenant Chas. P. Miller. On the 19th Mr. Daniel Manning, chairman of the Democratic State Committee of Mew York, and Miss Mary M. Fryer were married at Albany, Governor Cleveland "was present at the ceremony. * Minister Lowell will reside at Oxford, England, after his successor is appointed. Moody, the Evangelist, opened a three days’ convention of Christian workers in Buffalo, N. Y., on the l»th. He was greeted with an immense audience. Considerable interest was manifested. The entire campaign expenses of the Mational Democratic Committee amounted to $933,000. Of this amount $52,000 came through the popular fund, mostly in small sums, from the pockets of private individuals. Ox the 20th the Board of Directors of the Baltimore. & Ohio Hallway Company elected the following officers: President, Robert Garrett; First Vice-President, Samuel Spencer; Second Vice-President, Thomas M. King; General Manager, Bradford Dunham; General Superintendent, William M. ClemeMts; G. JT. Foreacie, Superintendent trans-Ohio Division. M. H. Dk Young, proprietor of the San Francisco Chronicle, who was shot by fcpreckles, is said to be in a worse condition than at first reported. The doctors are afraid supporation will cause his death. At the meeting of the National Woman Suffrage Association the annual report ' showed that $200,009 had been sent to Oregon in behalf of the cause. William Dudley Foulke, of Indiana, was elected President. George William Cnrtis and Senator Hoar are among the Vice-Presidents. On the evening of the 20th the Democrats of Brooklyn, N. Y., celebrated In an elaborate manner the election of Cleveland and Hendricks. The Vice-President elect, Kev. Henry Ward Beecher and others made speeches. The appearance of Mr. Hegdricks was greeted with warm applause. The breach of promise case of Miss Fortescue, actress, against Lord Garmoyle, ■was on trial in London on .the 20th. The attorney for the defendant offered to pay the sum of £10,000 to the disappointed maiden, assuring her and the court that hts lordship regarded her as a “daisy,” but on account of her pro Cession and the remarks of his friends he could not marry her. The offer was accepted.

President-ulect Cleveland in answer to questions of ap Associated Press reporter in reference to the general alarm among the negroes, assures them that their rights will be protected under a democratic administration. Wm. P. Sheffield has been appointed by the Governor of Rhode Island as United States Senator to succeed the late Senator Anthony. Mr. Blaine has leased the residence of ex-Secretary Windorn in Washington and will occupy it in a few days. The circle at the foot-of the grounds on the west front of the Capitol at Washington has been selected as the site for tlie Garfield statue. ^Heffner, the wife-murderer, confined in . jail at Lima, O., died on the 21st. A postmortem examination revealed the fact that he had swallowed long stripe of cotton doth, which were lodged in his intestines. On the 21st the Board of Canvassers at Albany, S. Y., finished their work and signed the certificates for thirty-six Cleveland and Hendricks electors. Admiral Courbet remains in statu qao at Keelung. He can not advance until reinforced. At the trial of Gunter, the Wealthy cut-tle-dealer, who killed Dan Thompson at Sherman, Tex., on the 21st, the jury rendered a verdict of acquittal. The will of M. Btiegliti, the decern ed Russian millionaire, bequeaths, six million rubles to Mme Mentor, the pianist. The Carnival Committee at Montreal, Can., will extend an invitation to Presi-dent-elect Cleveland to be present. According to United Ireland of the 21st, the Nationaliits want Earl Spencer, LordLieutenant of Ireland, impeached for conspiracy. - Alex. H. Davis, a colored minister who was Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi at one time, died at Canton, Miss., on the 21st. , Governor Carr^ion vetoed McCormick's electoral bill In Virginia, and the Senate has passed it over his veto. The Young Irish Society President, Frederick Allen, who is under arrest on a charge of treason-felony by the British Government, was released on bail on the 21st. f * Hon. Jo he Randolph Tucker, of Virginia, has bean appointed guardian tor the minor children of the late President Garfield, the trust covering all of the property owned by the, estate in Virginia. Lord Chief-Justice Coleridge of England some time since expelled his daughter from his house because she lovsd a barrister; and now the barrister is suing the ■on of the Lord Chief-Justice, who was the pause of the whole trouble.

The Postmaster-General answers a charge of National Committeeman Clarkson, relative to orders allowing letter carriers to take time to vote on election day. Mr. Hatton claims he did not order a holiday for the reason that he had no lawful right to do so. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Several villages in the Province of Aleppo, Syria have been desolated by recent floods. Many persons hsive been, drowned, and hundreds of camels and cattle have perished. Some villages were entirely destroyed. On the 18th, during a quarrel over a game of base ball at Pleasant Unity, Pa., one boy struck another with a bait, and he in turn stabbed his assailant, inflicting a fatal wound. A train of thirty loaded coal cars were wrecked on the Susquehanna Railroad near Parry ville, Pa., on the 18th. Huiuno the last fiscal year the number of casualties in the railway postal service was 154, including seven postal clerks killed, twenty-eight seriously injured and sixty slightly injured. On the 18th a negro girl was burned to death in an incendiary fire at Tazewell Court-house, Va. Much valuable property w as destroyed. On the 18th Hiram Bodine, of Ohio, clerk in the Sixth Auditor’s office at Washington, D. C., committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart while seated at his desk. A dynamite explosion in the Halvelny pit of the Auzin mines, France, on the 18th, caused much damage to property. No person was Rijured. On the fifth Toisnot, a North Carolina village, was destroyed by fire. _ On the 10th the Universalist Church at Norwood, Mass., with adjoining house, burned. Loss, $20,000; insurance, $12,000. On the 19th Henry Camp, Elias Wilnieyer and Adam Mertz were fatally injured

by the premature explosion of powder at Brush Valley, Pa. On the 19th Louis and Edward Gueld, Frenchmen, arrived in New York. On tho 19th Louis shot his brother and then killed himself. Both had been drinking heavily." On the 19th M. H. De Young,. owner of the San Francisco Chronicle, was shot and seriously wounded by Adolph Spreckels, son of the “Sugar King.” The trouble grew out of a publication. Chas. De Young, the senior proprietor of- the same paper, was killed several years ago by young Kalloch. On the evening of the 19th a fi re occurred in the Brush Electric Light Works at Toledo, O., damaging the machinery and building from $10,000 to $12,000. • The loss is covered by insurance. Fir* destroyed the depot of the New Central Railway at Batavia, N. Y., on the 21st. On the 21st a twenty-five thousand dollar fire visited Wilson, N. C. On the 21st three children were burned to death in a farm house near Vassar, Mich. On the 21st Janies H. Jones, of New York, was found guilty of wife-murder. He shot his wife in July last. A father and child were recently devoured by wolves in Eastern Hungary, and the mother, who Was dragged away by horses hitched to the sled in which they rode, died of fright. mSCKLXVNKOUS. The Philadelphia ingrain carpet weavers were notified of a proposed reduction of wages on .the 19th. It will affect 20,000 people. By the reduction expert weavers will only be able to earn twelve dollars per week. • The British House of Commons rejected the Irish compensation and improvement bills. Prof. Felix Adler laid the cornerstone of the crematory temple at Greenpoint, L. I., on the 19th in Mount Olivet Cemetery. A number of bodies already await cremation. TusiUnited States Supreme Court refused to consider an important insurance case appealed from the Virginia courts, on the ground that it had no jurisdiction, on account of the peculiar points involved, when Richmond was evacuated. On the 19th the Farmers’ Congress of the Unite&States met at Nashville, Tenn., and was called to order by Colonel Robert Beverly, one of the most successful and prominent farmers of Virginia. The Governor of Tennessee delivered an address of welcome. The National Farmers’ Congress, in session at Nashville, Tenn., adjourned on the 20th to meet again in New Orleans in February. It is said that Portugal proposes to maintain her territorial rights at the mouth of the Congo River, but will accept the principle of free trade on the whole river.

It is reported that great distress prevails among the people in Buchanan, Wise and Dickinson Counties, in the ex treme western portion of Virginia. There is a fatal disease raging, which is thought to have been caused by the prolonged drought. Thk opinion having been rendered by the Solicitor-General that there is no authority under., existing laws for the instructions contained in the Treasury Department circular authorizing the. transportation by bonded express companies of passengers’ t>*86hKe without examination, Secretary McCulloch has rescinded the circular. At Washington, Pa., forty coal miners, including President Costello, charged with conspiracy and interfering with non-union workmen during the late Fourth Pool strike, on the 19th entered a plea of nolle contendere and were fined one cent and costs. The National Cattlemen’s; Convention at St. Louis, Mo., transacted much business of importance on the 20th. A resolution was adopted favoring a National trail. It was decided to maintain permanent organization, with headquarters {in St. Louis. Another resolution was adopted urging Congress to establish a bureau of animal industry, so that the board can promptly co-operate with State authorities to prevent the spread of and to exterminate contagious diseases among cattle. On the 20th eight Texas negroes called on Mayor Edson of New York and wanted to be sent to Liberia. The formal opening of the German Reichstag took place on the 20th and the Imperial speech was read. On the 20th another sharp frost at Paris had a favorable effect In checking ravages of the cholera. Dullness of trade has compelled the Nova Scotia sugar refinery at Halifax to suspend operations. The Department of Agriculture has information that within a year 4,500,000 trees have been planted in Nebraska. On the 20th the National I Base Ball League at Its session in New York, made changes in the playing rules. N.Y. Young was elected President. The Harvard College students want the rules changed so that those over twentyone years of age need not attend chapel services if they do notjdenire to do so. On the 20th the Treasury Department purchased 355,7U5 ounces of silver for the New Orleans and Philadelphia mints. The Government of Stun has signified its desire to have that country admitted as a member of the Univerail Postal Union at the congress next February. On the 20th a sailor was found dying in the last stages of yellowf fever in a New York boarding-house. 3

At the University at Madrid the stndenft made a tumultuous demonstration in the streets on she 20th because of the action of one of the Bishops. Police had to interfere. A message was sent liy the Mayor of Philadelphia, Pa., to the Select and Common Councils on the 20th, recommending that the old -Liberty Bell, now in Independence Hall, be sent to the New Orleans Exposition. A force of 8,000 Chinese troops are on their way down Red River in Tonquin, and General Briers De Lisle, the French Commander, telegraphs that he expects a “picnic” very-soon. A number of Canadian villages are so badly affected with small-pox that they have been i solated and business almost entirely suspended. In Chicago fresh troubles have broken out concerning the quotations of the Board of Trade, the “bucket shops” being the main source from which they spring. In the annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture the waste in gathering timber and the reckless manner in which our forests are being cut down, is the subject for sensible comment. Alarmi.no reports of deaths among people in the extreme western counties of Virginia continue to be received. They are dying in large numbers. The disease resembles Asiatic cholera and is reported contagious. On the 21st another interesting session of the Cattlemen’s Convention at St. Louis was held. The constitution was revised and then adopted. It was decided to hold regular annual conventions on the third Monday in November; and it was decided to hold the next one in 8t. Louis. Resolutions were presented regarding freight matters, and much other business of importance zras transacted. An incident of the day was the taking up of a collection for the drought sufferers in Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky, and nearly $1,200 was realized. The business failures reported during the seven days ended the 21st, numbered 248 in the United States and twenty-nine in Canada, against a total of 230 the week previous. French farmers axe clamorous for the imposition of a duty on foreign corn and flour.

uiSEAS'S is said to b© decimating the ranks of El Mahdi's troops at the rate of about 100 daily. The railroad war between the Missouri River lines grows hotter day by day. The mills at Fall River, Mass., will not shut down this week as intended, trade showing more strength. The North Chicago rolling mills have shut down, and 1,800 men are thereby thrown out of employment. On the 21st John Rush (colored) was hanged at Lexington, Ky., for toe killing of a little girl nearly six years ago. Additional Chinese iron-cladu had arrived at Shanghai. Au attack will be made on the French at the Island of Formosa. The total assesed valuation of property in Texas is $1)03,000,000, and increase of $75,000,000 over last year. CniNA has offered to pay France a reasonable sura to settle the trouble, but France declines, on the theory that the sum is too small. In the Leavenworth (Kas.) Penitentiary a peculiar disease has broken out, and a number of prisoners have died. The Congo Conference Committee favors unrestricted navigation of the water way of the Congo River. On the 21st the School Superintendents of Massachusetts, in session at Boston, reported that there are over 30,000' persons in the Stale who can not read and write. The Armament Board appointed by Congress to» investigate the best guns to be used in defense of our harbors, have made their report, recommending a number of patterns of war machinery. In Philadelphia, Pa., nearly aH the ingrain carpet mills have closed, tecause the weavers would not accept a reduction in wages. Those running are operating with reduced forces and on short time. A lively scene occurred in the French Chamber of Deputies on the 21st over the republication of the minutes of the Tonquin committee. M. Ferry declares such an act inopportune, and threatens to resign if it is done. On the 21st the Mayor of Denver, Col., issued an order commanding the police to clear out the gamblers, and compel them to close up their houses. A number of them were arrested, including “Doc” Baggs, one of the boldest men in the profession in the West.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. j The Nauoii*i Lwi1m,noj» oil Castlemea con lailed its labors in St. Lou is on the SHd, anil derided to meet in that city again November 2od, IKS’). The election of permanent officers resulted as follows: President, Colonel It. D. Hunter, of St. LoaIs; \’ice-I*resident, General Brisbin, of Boise City, Idaho; Secretary, A. T. Atwater, of St. Louis; Treasurer, J. C. Moore, of St. Louis. The flint glass-works of Pittsburgh, Pa., have till ordered a reduction in wages. The distress among the English shipbuilding workingmen is increasing. A s loop engaged in smuggling Chinese capsized off the coast of California on the •bid, drowning nineteen Chinamen and two Americans. Tn*: Baltic ports are rapidly blocking with ice. An ordinance has been passed authorizing Cincinnati to borrow $200,000, with which to pay the police. Jap an is patting her army and navy upon a war footing as rapidly as possible. Sheriff Marshall, of Charlotte County, V a., was killed on the 22d by Jumping from from a train daring a collision. This German Government is Said to have its eye on several islands in the Pacific Ocean. So dense was the fog that hovered over Philadelphia, Pa., on the 22d that travel by land and water was much impeded. Wisdei.i. Pbesdorf, a Conservative, was el ct -d President of the German Reichstag. A ielegram received at Circinna'i, O., on tl.e 22d, announc'd the death of Bishop J. W. Wiley, a Methc dist miss oaary in China. French troops destroyed a Chinese fort and other works between Kee-Lung and Tamsui. Till cholera epidemic at Paris is fast dying out. Only a few cases were reported on the 23d. The Grand Opera-honse at St. Louis, Mo., burned on the afternoon of the 23d, nothing being left standing bnt a portion of the walls. The loss is estimated at .f 150,000, on which there is an. insurance of 1^,000. Manager Norton lost all his wardrobe and a flue library. Two firemen were injured during the progress of the fire, one having an ankle and the other both legs broken. In a fit of jealousy on the 22d Samuel Stewart, of Pittsburgh, Pa., brutally assaulted his sweetheart, Katie Hobson, inflicting probably fatal injuries. The official vote of Virginia gives Cleveland a plurality of 7,715. In some parts of Minnesota snow has already fallen a foot deep, and the wind has caused it to drift so that travel is greatly iwoeded.

SPEECH BY ME. BLAINE In Response to a Serenade by Friends in Mainer Thanks to His Friends—Respects to His Political Opponents* —Food For Reflection For All Parties* Augusta, Me., November 18. A large number of devoted personal and political friends of Mr. Blaine serenaded him this evening as an expression of the personal good will and admiration of liis.. conduct in the National campaign. They marched through the streets under the Marshalship or Colonel Frank Nye. When they reached Mr. Blaine’s house their compliments and friendly regards were expressed In a speech by Herbert M. Heath, Esq., of tho Kennebec bar. Mr. Blaine responded as follows, bis speech being continually interrupted by applause: MR. BLAISE’S REPLY. “Friends and neighbors, the National contest is over, and by the narrowest of margins we have lost. I thank you for your call,, which, if not one of joyous congratulations, is one, 1 am sure, of confidence and of sanguine hope for the future, I thank you for the public opportunity.you give me to express my sense of obligation not only to you, but to all the Republicans of Maine. They responded to my nomination with genuine enthusiasm, and ratified it by a superb vote. 1 count it as one of the honors of my public career that the party In Maine, after struggling hafd for the last six years, and twice within that period losing the State, has come back in this campaign to its old-fashioned 20,000 plurality. No other expression of popular confidence and esteem could equal that of the people among whom I have lived thirty years, to whom I am attached by all the ties that ennoble human nature and give joy and dignity to life. After Maine—indeed along with Maine—my first thought is always ot Pennsylvania. How can 1 fittingly express my thanks,for that unparalleled majority of more than 80,000—a popular indorsement which has deeply touched my heart and which has, if possible, increased my affection for tlie grand old Commonwealth, an affection which I inherited from my ancestry and which I shall transmit to my children. But I do not limit my thanks to the State of my residence and to the State of my birth; I owe much to the true and zealous friends in New’ England who worked so nobly for the Republican party and its candidates, and to the eminent scholars and divines who, stepping aside from their ordinary avocations, made my cause .their cause, and who to- loyalty to principle added the special compliment of standing as my personal representatives in the National struggle. But the achievements for the Republican cause in the East are even surpassed by splendid victories in the .West. In that magnificent cordon of States that stretches from the foot-hills of the Alleghenies to the Golden Gate of the Pacific, beginning with Ohio and ending with California, the Republican banner was borne so loftily that but a single State failed to join in the wide triumph.

THE EMPIRE STATE'S VOTE. -Nor should I do justice to my own feelings If 1 failed to thank the Republicans of the Empire State who encountered so many discouragements and obstacles; who touglit foes from within and foes from without, and who waged so strong battle that a change of one vote in every two thousand would have given us the victory in the Nation. Indeed, j a change of little more than 5,000 votes would have transferred New York, Indiana, New Jersey and Connecticut to the Republican standard, and would have made the North as solid as the South. My thanks would be still Incomplete if I should fail to recognize with special gratitude that great body of workingmen, both native and foreign bom, who gave me their earnest support, breaking from old persona! and party ties and finding in the principles which 1 represented in the canvass the safeguard and protection of their own firesides and interests. The result of the election, my friends, will be regarded In the future, 1 think, sis extraordinary. The Northern States, leaviug out the cities of New York and Brooklyn from the count, sustained the Republican cause by a majority of more than 400,000, almost half a million, indeed, of popular vote. The cities of New York and Brooklyn threw their great strength and influence with the Solid South and were the decisive element which gave to that section the control of the National Goveminent. THE SOLID SOUTH. * Speaking now, not at all as a defeated candidate, but simply as a loyal and devotee! American, 1 think the transfer of the political power of the Government to the South is a great National misfortune. It is a misfortune, because it introduces an element which can not insure harmony and prosperity to the people, because it introduces into the Republic the rule of a minority. The first Instinct of the American is equality—equality of right, equality of privilege, equality pf political power, that equality which says to every citizen: “Your vote is just as good, just as potential as the vote of any other citizen.” That can not be said to-day in the United States. The course of affairs in the South has crushed out tiie political power more thau 0,000,000 American citizens, and has transferred it by violence to others. Forty-two .Presidential Electors are assigned to the South on account of the colored population, and yet the colored population, with more than 1,100,000 legal votes, have been unable to choose a j single Elector. Even in those States where they have a majority of more than 100,000 i they were deprived of free suffrage and their - rights as citizens are f«*OTnf»ll) trcftdAi; np j der foot. The eleven States that comprised j the rebel Confederacy had by the census of 18S0 7,500,000 wliitepopulation and 5y‘i00,000 col- ; ored population. The colored population almost to a man desire to support the Republican party, but by a system of cruel intimidation and by violence and murder, whenever violence and murder are thought neeessarv, they are absolutely deprived of all politically power. If the outrage stopped there it would be bad enough, but it does not stop there, for not only is the negro population disfranchised, but the power which rightfully and constitutionally belongs to them is transferred to the white population, enabliug the white population of the South tb exert an electoral infiuence far beyond that exerted by the same number of white ocople in the North.

AS ILLUSTRATION. To illustrate just how It works to the destruction of all fair elections, let me present to you: Five States In the late Confederacy and live loyal States In the North, possessing in each section the same number of electoral votes. In the South the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina have in the aggregate forty-eight electoral votes. They have i, 8W,0U0 white people and over 3,000,000 colored people. In the North, the States of Wisconcousln, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas and California have likewise. In the aggregate, fortyeight electoral votes, and they have a population of 5,600,000, or Just double that of the five Southern States which I. have named. These Northern States had practically no colored population. It is, therefore, evident that the white men In those Southern States, by usurping and absorbing the rights of colored men, are exerting just double the political power of the white men in the Northern States. I submit, my friends, that such a condition of affairs Is extraordinary, unjust and derogatory to the manhood of the North. Kven those whoare vindictively opposed to negro suffrage will not deny that U Presidential electors are assigned to the South by reason of the negro population, that population ought to be permitted free suffrage In the election. To deny that clear proposition to affirm that a Southern white man in the Gulf States is entitled to double the political power of a white man in the Northern Lake States. It Is to affirm that a Confederate soldier shall wield twice the influence in the Nation that a Union soldier can, and that a perpetual and constantly increasing superiority shall be conceded to the Southern white man In the government of the Union. If that be quietly conceded in this generation its. will harden into custom until a badge of inferiority will attach to the Northern white man as odiously as ever Norman noble stamped It upon Saxon churl. INTERESTING TO NORTHERN LABORERS. This subject is of peculiarly deep interest to the laboring men of the North. With the Southern Democracy triumphant In their States and the Nation, the negro wilt be compelled to work for just such wages as the whites may decree—wages which will amount, as did the supplies of slaves, to a bare’ subsistence,' equal in cash to perhaps thirty-five cents per day if averaged overthe entire South. The white laborer In the North will soon feel the destitute effectofthls upon his own wages. The Republicans have clearly seen from the earliest days of reconstruction that wages in the South must ?be raised to a just recompense of the laborer or wages in the North ruigpusly lowered, and the party have steadily worked for the former result. The reverse Influence will now be set in motion, and that condition of affairs produced which years ago Mr. Lincoln warned the free laboring men of the North, will prove hostile to their Independence, and will inevitably lead to a ruinous reduction of wages. A mere difference of color of skin will not suffice to maintain an entirely dificrent standard of wages in contiguous and adjar cent States, and the voluntary will be compelled to yield to the Involuntary. So completely have colored men in the South been already deprived by the Democratic party of their constitut ional and legal rights as cltixena of the United States that they regard the advent of that party to National power asasignal of their re-enslavement,and are affrighted because they think ail legal protection for them is gone. CONFEDERATE RULE. Few persons in the North realize how completely the chiefs of the rebellion wield the political power which has triumphed In the late election. It is a portentious fact that Democratic Senators who come from States

of the late Confederacy all—and I mean all without a single exception—all personally participated in rebellion against the National Government. It is a still more significant fact that in those States no man who was loyal to the Union, no matter how strong a Democrat toe may be to-day, has the slightest chance of political promotion. The one great avenue to honor in that section is a record of zealous service in the war against the Government. It is certainly an astounding fact that the section, in which friendship for the Union in the day of Its trial and agony was a political disqualideation, should oe called now to rule over the Unjon. Ail this takes place during the lifetime of the generation that fought the war; and it elevates to the practical command of the American Government the identical men who organized for its destruction and plunged us into the bloodiest contest of modern times. 1 have spoken of the South as placed by the late election in possession of the Government and I mean all that my words imply. The South furnished nearly three-fourths of the electoral votes that defeated the Republican party, and they will step to the command of the Democrats as unchallenged and as unrestrained as they held the same position for thirty years before the war. THERE MUST BE EQUALITY OF RIGHT. Gentlemen, there can not be political ln» equality among the citizens of a free republic. There can not be a minority of white men in the South ruling a majority of white men in the North. Patriotism, self- respect, pride, protection for the person and safety 'for the country all cry out against it. The very thought of it stirs the blood of men who inherit equality from the Pilgrims who first stood on Plymouth ltock, and from the lib-erty-loving patriots who came to t he Delaware with William Penn. It becomes a primal question of American manhood. It«lemands a hearing and a settlement, and thot settlement will vindicate the equality of / merican citizens in all personal and civil r ghts. It will at least establish the equality of white men under the National Government, and will give to the Northern men who fought to preserve the Union as large a voice In its government as may be exercised by the Southern man who* fought to des troy the Union. aThe contest just closed utterly 'dwarfs the fortunes and fate of candidates, whether successful or unsuccessful. Purposely—I may say instinctively—I have discussed the issue* aud consequences of that contest without reference to my own defeat—without the remotest reference to the gentleman who is elevated to the Presidency. Tow ard him, personally, I have no cause for the slightest lUwill, and it is with cordiality I express the wish that his official career may prove gratifying to himself and beneficial to the country, and that his administration may overcome the embarrassments which the peculiar source of its power imposes on it from the hour of its birth. * At the conclusion of Mr. Blaine’s speech he invited the large crowd into his house, and for nearly an hour an informal reception was held, the hundreds of people passing through the rooms. The greetings were eepeciullv friendly and cordial.

The Amer • a i Humane Society. Pittsburgh, Pa., November20. The annual session of the American Humane Association met in the parlors of the Monon*ahela House yesterday morning. Ladies and gentlemen delegates to the number of forty were present. Tha President, Edw n Lee Brown, of Chicago, is the presiding officer of the Convention, and called the meeting to order. Prayer was offered by Prof. Eaton, of Pittsburgh, after which an address of welcome by Mr. Joseph Walters, of Pittsburgh, was made, to which -President Brown responded, giving in detail an account of the work done by the Association. Various committees were then appointed, and the Mehth annual report was read. After the rece ss for dinner, the reports from the various State and city organizations were heard. A paper, presented by Edwin Webster, Secretary of the Pennsylvania State Humane Society, was full of interesting facts relative to the transportation of cattle in cars uutitted for that purpose, and the overcrowding of stock cars. The report of the Treasurer of the Society showed a balance on hand at the last report of $2,113.24; to this had been added $1,726.91. From this had been pa it) out expenses of $2,494.18. Mr. Sontall, of Chicago, raised a deckled breeze by proposing that the society be divested of its formality, and in its stead meet as a Humane Congress, giving as reasons the liability to jealousy of the State aud city organizations at the assumption of authority of the National body, which had no authority. After much opposition, resolutions embodying the above were referred to the Committee on Resolutions. ^ ^ The National Bankruptcy Bill. Boston, Mass., November 2a The merchants of Boston held a meet* ing yesterday to listen to representatives of the National Bankruptcy BiU now before Tongress. The Hon. Leopold Morse said that the difficulty in securing good legislation in Congress lay in the ' fact that Republicans would not support Democratic measures and vice versa. He thought, however, that the bill would be passed in the coming session. The Hon. A. A. lianney said that the bill was not a. party question, yet the record showed that the opposition to it had been partisan. Now that Cleveland is elected, and the Democrats have the offices, perhaps, they will pass the bill. It will be passed if the people of the country favor it, Congress Is always eager to crystalize the people’s expressions into law. General 1). P. Collins differed with Mr. Ranney in that he believed that the opposition to the bill was not political, but sectional. It was the Sonth and West that opposed the bill; Northern ant)Eastern Democrats favored It equally with Republicans. To secure its passage appeal must be made to Democrats and Republicans alike in the South and Northwest. A Woman Mortally Wounded by a Visitor. Baltimore, Md., November 2a Miss Barbara Winterbauer,. twenty-five years of age, who lives at No 3 Calverton road, was accidentally shot by a young friend, Charles Leopold, Tuesday night. Leopold, in company with a friend, was spending the evening at the lady’s house. About ten o’eiock, as tlie visitors were leaving, Leopold took out his revolver to show it to Miss Wintcrbauer, who was anxions to see how it worked. He proceeded to explain the parts by removing the cylinder, the chambers of which were empty, with one exception. In returning the cylinder to its place his hold slipped, and the hammer fell upon the cartridge, discharging it. Miss Wintcrbauer threiy .her hand np to her right side, and exclaimed: “Oh, you have shot me!” The young men laughed at first, thinking she was jesting, but the appearance of blood soon convinced them that she was in earnest. Leopold, confused and terrified, seized his hat and ran for a doctor, bat hunted for some time before he could find one. The ball entered the lady’s right side and probably penetrated her left lung. She will die.

Facts About Counterfeiting. Washington, D. O., November 20. The annual report of Chief Brooks of the Secret Service Division of the Treasury Department shows that during the past year 433 arrests were made by secret service agents. The amount of counterfeit money captured or surrendered during the year was $684,630, a large proportion of which was in flash notes. A marked decrease is noted in the circulation of cards in imitation of United States Treasury notes and metal tokens in imitation of United States coin for advertising purposes. Manufacturers, becoming better acquainted with the requirements of the law, have substituted other designs for the imitation of gold and silver coins for use as bangles. The report says the events of the past year give evidence of a revival of the manufacture of counterfeit paper money, which was practically suspended during the years 1883 and 1383. Chief Brooks is of opinion that there is to-day in the bands of counterfeiters nearly $300,006 of new spurious notes of the denominations of $10 and $30, which have bee* produced since January 1st. 1884,

SPEEDY , JUSTICE, execution off Oliver Bateman for the Morder of Anstte and Adella McLaughlin Near Flag Springs In August last—The Murderer's Wish to Hare the Matter Speedily Settled Gratified—Thousands Witness the Final Act In the Tragedy. Savanna 19. Mo., November 2L At 1:30 o’clock this afternoon Oliver Bateman was executed in the.presence of thousands of people, for the murder of the McLaughlin children. He ascended the steps firmly, aad faced the black cap with remarkable courage. IIIS LAST NIGHT. Last night the parents of young Bateman visited the jail and bade him farewell. The scene was very affecting, the mother and sister weeping bitterly, but the prisoner was unmoved. He frequently reiterated bis confession, and said he had no accomplices. Devotional exercises were held last night by Bev. Hawkins, of the Korth Methodist Church, and Elder Voss. Bateman was a member of the Baptist Church. l THIS SCAFFOLD. was erected several days ago, about onemile south of Savannah, and a large police force and Deputy Sheriffs assisted the Sheriff at the execution and in preserving order. Hundreds of people came into town last night, but could not obtain sleeping accommodations, and. many camped out. To-day the crowd swelled into the thousands. THK CRIMR. The crime for which Oliver H. Bateman paid the penalty on the gallows to-day was committed near Flag Springs, Andrew County, Mo., twelve miles cast of Savannah, on Sunday afternoon, August 31st, 1884. It was one of the most hqinous crimes known to the criminal law, and was perpetrated by a young man twentytwo years of age, who was not a hardened criminal but was looked opon in the neighborhood in which he resided, until that eventful day, as an unsophisticated country youth. The murdered little girls, Austie and Adella, daughters of John McLaughlin, aged respectively nine and seven years, left their home near Flag Springs on Sunday morning of the 31st of August last and went to the residence of Thomas Bateman, the fattier of the young man, about a mile and a quarter west of their home, for the purpose of visiting the Bateman girls. . When the little girls failed to arrive at home their parents became uneasy, the neighbors were notified and search commenced at once which was kept up all night Sunday, and until their mutilated bodies were found at nine o’clock Monday morning, about half a mile from their home, in the cornfield of Dr. Lock

eti. The older girl was first found. A pis-tol-ball had entered her left temple, her mouth was bruised, a small abrasion was noticed on the right of the umbilicus which at the time of the burial was thought to have been made by a sharp instrument, but which after the body was exhumed and examined on September 8th was found to be a bullet-hole. The younger girl was found about 178 yaTds east of the older one and her jugular rein on both sides of her neck was severed, and there was also a cut on her right side. After the finding of the bodies 'Squire Wm. Elrod, acting Coroner, had’a jury subpeened and an investigation took place which lasted for several days and the jury returned a verdict that the girls died by the hands of some party or parties unknown to the jury. FEARS OF A MOB. During all this time the excitement in and around Flag Springs was intense, and in fact the whole section of country was aroused. Several parties were suspected, but the strongest suspicion seemed to point to Newton Bateman, the brother of Oliver, and it was thought for several days that a lynching bee would take place in that neighborhood, so great was the excitement. Sheriff Lincoln and Prosecuting Attorney Booher, assisted by a number of active citizens of the county, were all the time discovering new evidence that appeared to fasten the gqllt on Oliver H. Bateman, and th% body of Austlc, the older girl, was exhumed on the morning of the 8th of September, and what was thought to be an abrasion was found to be a bullet hole. A post mortem examination was at once held by Dr. E. B. Ensor, of Savannah, and Drs. Lockett and Kirk, of Flag Spring, and a twenty-two ball was found in the body which fitted the barrel of Oliver Bateman’s pistol. The ball entered a little above and to the right of the umbillicus and passed downward and backward through the left intestine and lodged near the spine. The finding of this ball dispelled all doubts as to the guilt, of Oliver Bateman, and when he was confronted by Sheriff John Lincoln and Deputy Circuit Clerk Thos. H. Ensor in the jail that evening, and told of the post mortem examination and the finding; of the twenty-two ball, he at once acknowledged his guilt and made a full confession, the sickening details of which have already been given in these dispatches. THE TRAIL. After making his confession, Bateman requested that a special term of the Circuit Court be called, as soon as convenient, 60 that he could plead guilty and have the matter settled at once. This Jndge Kelley granted him, and Thursday, October 2d| the day for the trial. Court convened on that ddy; a grand jury was impanelled, and after examining a number of witnesses, two indictments were found, charging Oliver H. Bateman with the murder of both the little girls, The Jndge offered to „appoint counsel to defend him, but he didn’t desire any. The indictments were then given to him, and Court adjourned until the Monday following. On Monday Bateman was brought into court and pleaded guilty, refusing to accept counsel, and the Judge sentenced him to be executed on the 21st dav of November.

A Terrible Malady. Leave WORTH, Kas. , November 22. An unknown but fatal fever prevails in one of the wards of the Kansas State Penitentiary. Sixty convicts were attacked in one day and ten have died. The disease hegins like typho-malarial fever, which lasts twenty-four hours and then cools off. The legs and arms of the patients then break out in sores-aud the victim dies in atew hours. Dr. Neely and a convict physician are doing all they can, and Warden Jones has had the other parts of the prison quarantined. There are 670 confined there. Will Reduce the Wages. Fali. River, Mass., November S2. Early in the week manufacturers feared they Would have to shut down the mills next week again. During the week, however, the market assumed a strong tone and the mills will all run next week, except on Thanksgiving Day. It is the general opinion of manufacturers that more shut-downs will have to be made, and that the coming winter will necessarily be a hard one for the operatives. The manufacturers said Thursday that a reduction of ten per cent, in the wages of operatives would undoubtedly be made before January, 1st, unless a material change occurs ; in the condition of the market.

President Cleveland's Statesmanship. Mr. Cleveland's record, brief as it is, has been so crowded with character and performance that no one who studies it with a candid mind can fail to find in it evidence of a statesmanship of the very sort that is emphatically demanded in the Presidency. A great part of this evidence relates to the simple, direct, honest discharge of duty, but the principles upon which he has acted in that discharge of duty arc radical and essential, and he has expressed with them a decision and clearness which leave no doubt of his intellectual capacity and his moral strength. His letters and speeches, his messages as Mayor and as Governor, are all characterized by the same forcible perspicuity; no one can be under any doubt as to their meaning; they do not admit of •two interpretations. When Mr. Cleveland was called upon to reform the municipality of Buffalo hfe made a short speech in accepting the nomination which struck the key-note of his service. “When,” he said, “we consider that public officials are the trustees of the people and hold their places and exercise their powers for the benefit of the people, there should need no higher inducement to a faithful and honest discharge of public duty.” “These 3re very old truths,” he added, but lie believed that the people wanted them, “sincerely and without mental reservation, adopted as a rule of -conduct.” When he addressed his -inaugural message to the Common Council he knew that there were those in that body who were not converted to such a rule of conduct, and he admonished them in terms similar to those he has lately used in reference to National affairs. The money of the people must not be diverted to other purposes than their protection and interest, there’' must not be a greater sum used in any municipal purpose than is necessary: “it sometimes appears,” he warned them, that “the office-holder assumes that a different rule of fidelity prevails between him and the tax-payer than that, which should regulate his conduct when as an individual he holds the money of his neighbor.” The jobbers in the Common Council got to work as-if Mayor Cleveland's words had meant nothing in particular, but they were undeceived when his notable veto of the street-cleaning contract award came. The Council had given the contract of cleaning the streets of Buffalo for five years for $422,500, more than $100,000 higher than that of another perfectly responsible party, and $50,000 more than the successful contractor had himself offered to do it for a few weeks before. His indignant veto message is a revelation of a rooted honesty of nature:

' his is a time for plain speec h, ami my objection to the action of yoOr honorable body now umif r uonsMerat on shall be plainly stated. 1 withhold my assent from the same because I regard it .as the culmination of a most barefaced, impudent and shameless scheme to betray tho interests of the people and worse than squander the public money. I will not bo misunderstood In this matter. There are those whose votes were given for this resolution whom I can not and wijl not suspect of a willful neglect of the interests they are sworn to protect; but it has been fully demonstrated that there are influences both in and aliout your honorable body which it behooves every honest man to watch and avoid with the greatest care. * « Clumsy appeals to prejudice or passion; insinuations, with a kind of low. cheap cunning, as io t he motives and purposes of others; and the mock heroism of brazen effrontery which openly declare that a wholesome public sentiment'is to be set at naught, sometimes deceives and leads honest men to aid in the consummation of schemes which if exposed they would look upon with abhorrence. * » We are fast gaining positions in the grades of public stewardship. There is no middle ground. Those who arc- not for the people, either in or out of your honorable body, are against them, and should be treated accordingly. There is a healthy ring in those sentences that left no doubt as to--Cleve-land's quality. The message made known to the Democracy of New York, as one says, that “a leader had arisen ‘with the courage and ability to perpet‘uate the reforms which Governor Tilden ‘had instituted into the State;*’1 but it made that known to the country as well. We need not repeat the story of how he saved Buffalo within six months a million dollars by veto messages, which, as a Republican paper said, “have become municipal classics,” and by careful personal administration of affairs. He for the first time in the history of the city made it imperative that the Auditor should really audit, by a thorough examination of the city "accounts, instead of a mere formal certification of totals. He substituted competition for work that had been used for political patronage. Everywhere he saw that the people gdt the. full value of their money.. He was not deterred by the danger of misconstruction from following his convictions; he vetoed resolutions appropriating money for a firemen’s benevolent association and for the Decoration Day observances, on constitutional and legal grounds, just as afterward when he Was Governor, he vetoed the fivecent fare bill and the Catholic Protectory bill. His practice of civil reform in the affairs - of Buffalo was recalled last year when he vdtoed the reconstruction of the Buffalo Fire Department, a Democratic measure, concerning which he said; “A tried, economical and efficient administration of an important department in a large city is to be destroyed, upon partisan grounds or to satisfy personal animosities, in order that"the places and patronage attached thereto may be used for party advancement. I belfeve,” he added, “in an open and sturdy partisanship which secures the legitimate advantages of party supremacy, but parlies were made for the people, and j am unwilling to give my assent to measures purely partisan, w'liich will sacrifice or endanger their interests.” That is an admirable sentiment and worthy of a statesman. Cleveland . has repeatedly expressed the soundest principles on this matter. In accepting the nomination for Governor, he said: “Subordinates in public place should be selected and retained for their efficiency, and not because they may be used to accomplish partisan ends.” Again: “The system of levying assessments for partisan purposes on those holding office or place can not be too strongly condemned. Through the thin disguise of voluntary contributions, this is seen to be naked extortion, reducing the compensation which should be honestly earned, and swelling ® fund used to debauch the people and defeat the popular will.”

JLho statesmanship of to-day tis face to face with the problems of labor and capital as they never presented themselves before." Labor in this country is demanding more than it ever did, and demanding it with formidable intelligence and purpose, and through organized associations. Capital is united and wielded by gigantic corporations. Cleveland has had something to say and to do in relation to the issues constantly arising. Corporations, he declares, should be protected in their legitimate sphere, “but when by combination or by the exercise of unwarranted power they oppress the people, the sttEae authority which, ere

a ted should restrain them and protect the rights of the citizen.” ‘•Thfc Taboring classes . . . should be protected in their efforts peaceably to assert their rights when endangered by aggregated capital, and all statutes on this subject should recognize the pare of the State for honest toil, and be framed with a view of improving the condition of the workingman.” These were Cleveland’s declarations before he became Gov

vi nor. Almost his first apt as Governor was to appoint the Railroad Commission of one Republican, one Democrat and one representative of anti-monopoly. He took an early opportunity to urge a {treater publicity of all corporation proceedings, by requiring minute and frequent reports, that the public may know how their funds are spent, and said the State should provide a way “by which the squandering or misuse of corporate funds should be made good to the parties injured.” He passed every bill but one of the seven introduced into •the Legislature last year by the State Trades Assembly, including • the abolition of convict contract labor and the establishment of a Bureau ot Labor Statistics. The Kill he vetoed was the bill to regulate the honrs of labor of conductors and drivers of New York City horse-cars.his reason being solely that it would not accomplish the object desired. . It will be found that in every instance where he Jity* disapproved a bill desired in the interest of labor, it has been from his faithfulness to another strong and wdrthy trait of his character, his uncompromising thoroughness. It shows also his absolute disregard for his own personal interests, which could have been so easily served by signing this and other defective bills. In sffort, "wherever we follow Governor Cleveland, we find genuineness, thoroughness, courage, subordination of self, a high sense of public honor and honesty, and a conscience for the service of the people. He said at the Buffalo semi-centennial in 1882: “We boast of our citizenship to-night. But this citizenship brings with it duties not unlike those we owe our neighbor and our God.” He has been faithful to this high conception of the citizen's responsibilities—faithful already in great things, and he has shown the capacity and the conscience to be faith-*' ful in the greatest things the Nation has to employ its servants with.— Springjichl (Mass.) Republican.

GARRISONED BY WOMEN. The Historic Tragedy of a Little Hamlet in the Carpathian Hills. A quiet little valley sfyut in on every side by dark hills; a long, low, manywindowed building far below, with red roof and white walls, pasfwhich—barely visible at this height—curve the slender iron threads of the railway; a painted palisade across the road about one hundred yards beyond it, marking the point where the Austrian Empire ends and *he Principality of Koumania commences; a few- tinv cottages, a little further down the valley (each encircled by its own pool of tilth) which are tho sole representatives of the “Predeal”' that make such, a figure in the local maps. Probably not one foreigner in a hundred has ever heard of even the name of Predeal, but among the native population it has gained an imperishable Renown from the memory of a great crime and a fearful tragedy. When the armies of Russia came swarming through the Carpathian Passes in 1849, to crush by sheer weight of numbers the gallant Hungarians whose valor had swept away the blustering tyranny of Austria like ehatl' before the whirlwind, it w»s by way of Predeal and the Tomos Gorge that the destroyers advanced upon the doomed town of Kezdi Vasarhely. But even these grim soldiers were chilled with a nameless horror at the first sight of the town. Not a living soul was to be seen. Every house was fast shut and barred, and the only sound heard was the dismal toll of the church bell, which seemed to be lamenting over the dead. And well it might, for every man of the population had fallen in the lost battle of the morning, and the houses were garrisoned only by women and children, who had sworn not to survive the ruin of their country. Shaking <>11' their first terror, the soldiers began to force the doors of the nearest houses, and the final tragedy began. Every house became a fortress, from which stones, boiling oil and scakting water rained down upon the assailants. hcaP>ng the forsaken streets with the dying and the dead. Savage yells, shrieks of anguish and the ceaseless crackle of musketiy filled the outer air, while the mournful bell boomed drearily through the tiproar; but those witlfin fought in stern silence, neither giving nor asking mercy. Till nightfall- this superhuman combat raged, and then the wearied slayers began to hope that their work was done. But just then a shower ol fire-brands, cast from the church tower overhead, by the crippled boy who had tolled the death-knell, fired the dry roofs of the houses, and the whole town was soon one red and roaring blaze, in which victors and vanquished perished together.—Philadelphia Press.

The First Bank. It is one of the most remarkable of phenomena that the first bank ever esj tablishcd won a success unequaled in later times. The Bank of Venice had its origin in 1171 from a forced public loan, raised to fit a fleet, and is the first appearance of a public funded debt. Every citizen was obliged to contribute the one-hundredth part of his possessions. The persons assessed were then organized as a chamber of loans for their common protection and for the receipt of the yearly interest of four per centum. Subsequently' its creditors were permitted to transfer their claims iu whole or in part. The Government, finding that these transfers were in demand, reduced the rates of interest until no interest was paid. Afterward it sold cash inscriptions of credit on its books. These inscriptions cost gold, bnt were not convertible into gold. As a matter of fact, although termed a bank, its issues were government paper, and its business was carried on solely for' thq benefit of the public treasury. This bank is still one of the foremost financial institutions in the workl. For two hundred years the Bank of Venice stood alone.—Albany Tintgs. .. —An anecdote. Years ago a Vermont farmer lost many sheep through the depredations of wolves. He journeyed to' Boston and returned with a wolf dog which cost him many dollars. * Ho started out the next day and soon his dog was following up a scent rapidly and disappeared in the woods. The farmer on horseback followed and met a chopper: “Wall, stranger, did v< e’er a dog and a wolf go by P” “IE “Wall, howjwas it?!’ “The dors leetle ahead "Somerville Jonrmti