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of the danger, nr. til a bloodhound at his throat would chohe the brave young life down there forever. I listened, in the intervals of the now" fitful storm, to Lear if he was breathing near me. I waited for the next lull. It came that deep hush that follows the g-u.sty wind. I put my soul in the sense of hearing, but no human shadow of sound greeted it. When the storm swelled again, I drew the bolt and looked into the night ; a bTack pall hung over the earth and shy. I had as good a chance to pass him in the obscurity as he to catch me. With my hnife in my teeth, and the massive thigh-bone of a, negro to fell him with, if I mnst, I drew off my shoes and stepped ont into the darkness. A sudden whirl of the tempest almost took me off my feet, and a brick, dislodged from one of the chimneys, grazed my head on its passage, and broke in half on the pavement. With bated breath, and a step like the tread of a panther scenting his prey, I parted the thick darkness and turned my face toward the hospital., lie might be cither here at any step along the passage or hid in the angle of the wall at the door through which I must enter. This seemed mst probable ; but there was another door known only to the doctors. I thought I would elude Mm. With infinite caution I began to scale the high wall, dreading horribly lest some sudden break in the sky might reveal me to the wild eyes that watched for me but no. Safely passing the summit, I threw my leg over for the descent, and felt my foot seized. It was but the climbing tendril of a wild vine skirting, the wall. Grasping my knife in my right hand, I crept along the bushes for fifty yards, then struck across the lawn for the side entrance. The darkness perplexed me, but I thought I was steering straight. Suddenly my foot struck bricks. What was this? I tried to recollect. There was no pavement round that part of the hospital. I pushed on uncertainly; and, feeling a weight in the air, put out my hand to grope for some clew to ray whereabouts. I was in an alley flanked with gtone walls far above my head, I gave a suddenturn. In an instant I knew I was in the subterranean passages of the asylum. Turning to retrace my steps, the opaque density of some heavy body crouched between me and the outer air. I heard its stilled breath its stealthy tread approaching. Just heavens! A struggle for life with a madman in these narrow, gloomy vaults to lie in a pool of one's own heart's blood in this undiscovered tomb and my young wife Constance! was maddening! For an instant my brain was on fire. Then I thought there might be an exit other devious windings in which I could elude my deadly pursuer. Going deftly backward, I turned the angle in the wall, and then plunged at the utmost speed cf a young and active man along the back passage. Instantly I knew I was pursued. Meeting another crossed path, I struck into it in the opposite direction. The maniac instantly followed me. Whr.t a race through those cavernous depths cf the madhoue! What trngle j. It: .11 mij.ht lurk at every step! What black and stagnant pool lie waitto in" if , :?! WL of icv II whnc&s i llCIi to e " ... i We were, fall forever! The j '3 crew m rrov-cr perhaps under the very center cf the building and furthest from the outer air. I li id tried to breathe noi-u le.ly; the efort e xLifustod me. I 1. new noth-ir-t t2 J ;ii iths; cw.' 1 only t s at our p'. siticn by the di-i -nco from the entrance. I hid counted the turnings vebl r-T?. I thcr-ht I ccnll rcTTy Eire . luthe war- no1.1 d i :rTrr: run n:c v-::. It lat th.-s wov.111? r. t.rrih'.e c:d uc. nccc-ity w. '5 L-amm t. I oul 1 try it.Re-.:. The 5u 1I f pe'd 1 a li d attir j fifty 3 -rids I turned the next .11 r:y L ' - the i ray inci rrow t i i: lean or .i: . I sac rv nr.:. -. -n, v,i'. t cl . 1

PAOLI, ORANGE claped my knife convul&iva'y, and seized Lira by the throat, resolved to die hard. It was hair it was shaggy. The hands against my chest had a thick coat of fur. I clasped him to my breash. It was "Lion" my dog, "Lion ! ' "Great Heaven, Ileenel what kept you the whole night in that cursed dead house? It is near day; the door has been open this two hours, and Derby and Lling have been asleep. I was getting on my boots to look for you." "Why in the name of common sanse did you let this dog out after me ? Will you tell me that?" " Why, he howled like a maniac, and clawed at the door till I thought yen were in some danger, and I could not keep him in." "Danger! Well, we can'c talk now. House yourself; I have had an interview with your maniac, and he is prowling round the place after me now. Call up the men. I must go after Fhilip immediately." "You don't gay so?" " Yes; don't waste a second." In five minutes the whole force of the hospital was out in the grounds. We took him in an angle of the great door, crouched behind the jutting wall, waiting for me. lie drew Ms lips back over Ms teeth in the dumb ferocity of a mad brute, as he saw me, and Ms eyes settled into a dull, lurid glare, impossible to describe, as he hissed out, " Ha ! tMs is twice twice you triumph ; wait till the third time ! " Around the blazing grate, in the closing hour of the tempest-tossed night, we shook hands over the gladness of our reunion, and after the story was over, and the horror first, and the laughter after (at the close of my adventure), and Derby and King had left, and Harry Leigh and I stood at the window watching the young winter day rise over the hills, there was something very like tears over the bold, bright blue eyes a3 he pointed to the granite walls of the madhouse, and said, " Constance would have gone there, Iveene, or died, and mine would have been a heavy, heavy life after." JJirOHTAXT TO JFAKMEUS. In these days, when a business man, bo he merchant, farmer, or aught else, sits down and deliberately counts the cost of running his business or farm, insurance is a very important item in his calculation, and naturally he ask3 himself, Where will I find a company offering the best inducements, combined with perfect security? Amongst the many annual reports made- to insurance departments, in compliance with law, by the various insurance companies of our country, we would notice the twentieth annual statement of the American Insurance Company of Chicago, wMch - shows a degree of solvency and volume of business most highly gratifying and satisfactory. In the States of Illinois, 'Missouri and Indiana, its cash receipts for premiums during the year 1S78 are in excess of any other company doing business in said States. Of the twelve companies reporting to the Illinois department whose premium receipts exceed C-o,CQ0 for 1878, the following is the list in order of receipts: American 01 . Dioasro, rvc a jsui.csMk) New York, " lMTi.!iy " Hirt.rd, 41 J-'i t'iA-l " iioit;. Hi. " v m.i7 n.. k -.r r.i.sv i -i ' New "kork, " K".!-Sli2 " Cliieacro, " 117. K!1! ml ..'.fr'fi.rl, " f7.!'".: 3d w York, " W.-T.'2.r Home, J ; r Kni i id, 1 h ' -x, T' rs 1 i'i '.ir, t'onunental irf. Association. " I'fiila.. " M .4 ;.!.- AcTH-ultural. " Watertown, " M.'.r 5.t,2 iiprinv-iieM. " Mass., 1.".-10.5-J When it is understood that the American cnf'nes iti I ".sinrE-i to the insurrr.:ii cf dwelling-houses, private barns, tht-ir c-:Ak nt-, Lirr.i property, chnrehts and school-houses writes no policies in any cf the 1.-TJ3 cities, rnd injures but ;3,"iC0 in any one ri.:k the immene number cf patrons of this old "farmer's ciri-i lr.v " is easily comprt bended. It :.-, i . iIt1:,C:3 p hci-.j in force; h:.s ca.-h i. r- tmonnti: T to ; 212,71.0,2 ; c, 't t--ir ! has gs i( Z "- pchcy-l.cld.rs .;" '2,V. '-.13; l.-j do: 3 br.-ir.c-i twenty v -t- r.r.l we rf t:2:- to c::r ret. h-rs, m-.. t err h aL -?y, th3 An- ..ri-c-t. i a f:.fe ccr.:; ,.ny in h;.Ii to i:.";re your tomes. livtiy c. 1 thV ? 1 I JO LI tlr.e r. :.y 1 f, t

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CO., INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1879.

! AT JILL. I'ourih Calendar Month. March winds and April showers Jirlisg forth II ay flowers. April, the fourth month of the year, was by the Romans dedicated to Aphrodite Venus, the goddess of all budding beauties ; but there is some difllculty in tracing the origin of the name, some believing the root to be Aphrodite Aphrilis Aphrilia Aprilis ; others that it is derived from the festival Fortuna Yirilis, celebrated April 1. I. All FooVs Day. Tho Public Advertiser for xipril 13, 1789, contains the following paragraphs: "Humorous Jewish Origin of the Custom of Making Fools on the First of April. This is said to have begun in the mistake of Noah in sending the dove out of the ark before the water had abated, on the first day of the month among the Hebrews which answers to the 1st of April ; and, to perpetuate the memory of this deliverance, it was thought proper, whoever forgot so remarkable a circumstance, to punish them by sending them upon some sleeveless errand, similar to that ineffectual message upon which the bird was sent by the patriarch. The custom appears to be of great antiquity, and to have been dorived by the Romans from some of the Eastern nations." 6. Palm' Sunday. So named in memory of the triumphal entry of our Lord into Jerusalem a few days before His passion. Branches of willow are now gathered and placed in churches. 10. Mau ndy Thursday is the day before Good Friday. On this Christ washed the feet of His disciples, and gave them a command to love one another; hence it is called Dies Mandati Mandate or Maundy Thursday. Formerly the church doors used to stand open the whole day, signifying that all who would might come in. The ceremony was first commenced, in 1362, and for a long time the English Kings observed the custom of washing the feet of a number of poor men equal to the years of their age, and of giving them shoes, stockings, and money. Money and clothing are still given by deputy, but the feet washing has long been discontinued. II. Good Friday, so named from the good and blessed work performed by Jesus Christ in submitting to a shameful, ignominious and painful death on the cross for the salvation of mankind. Next to the first day of the week and Easter, this was the earliest of the days set apart for the commemoration of the cMef events in the lite of Christ ; but when first celebrated we have no record. By the Roman Catholics and by the Greeks, as well as by the English church, it is regarded as a strict fast. 13. Easter Sunday has always been regarded as the very queen, or the highest of all the Christian festivals. The mournful season of Lent is past, the Savior has been crucified and buried, and " now is Christ risen indeed," " the first fruits of them that slept." The name is derived from Eostre, a goddess to whom the Saxons and other northern nations sacrificed at tMs season. The Paascha or Jewish" passover, celebrated at this time, lent its name to the Chri-tian Paschal season, but the precise time for keeping Easter Las been the cause of contention between Easdern and Yrcftern Christians. Customs peculiar to this t"joa are dying out in England, but, on the continent, Paschal eggsith colored shells, and toys in the shape of gignntic eggs, are given among all chinos. 20. Loc Sunday is so called because it was the custom to celebrate the Sunday next after Easter as a feast of the same kind, but somewhat lower in degree. 'i:. St. Jhhorr., o::2 of the four even is sappt ed to he tl:3 F,-.r." 3 r. i a u:::r:;' ci.izi. i'U-:r, rcid 1 a church at Alex. Jidda, mlure', iin-hla to lock on quietly while the denounced their ccircd them that -..try, v, -i.c.i so i; i o-ina Lh c-rds, ' !! h, pad tixv 1.5 IS TV-'' - I ,:r- i t picted Yeid v. : . . 1 t

confess that our quickest instincts are to think ill of others, or to magnify the ill of which we hear. There is a universal shrugging of the shoulders, as much as to say "Well, I expected as much" "It is just like him "I had my suspicions of her " -"I could a tale unfold," and thus on through an endless chapter, with which every reader will le somewhat familiar, from Ms or her own experience. Now one who says, "I could a tale unfold," yet holds it back, leaving the hearer to infer any and every evil, stabs character with the meanest, deadliest blow. Yet who is there that carries not this ever-ready weapon, this poisoned dagger? The charity that gives to help and not humiliate is good, but the charity that makes us "tliink no evil" is better. Let us seek to possess tMs charity and practice it, for it alone is the "charity that covereth a multitude of sins." INDIANA LEGISLATURE. Satuedat, March 23. Senate. Several legalizing bills were rushed through as a starter, and tl.en the Senate took tip tho House bill appropriating 000 to defray the expenses of the present session of the General Assembly, amended it eo as to appropriate $o5,tXX, and passed it under a suspension of the consiitu - tional rules The Fee and Salary bill was then taken up and passed. .. .Tho conference committee on the bill removing the legal disabilities of married women reported, recommending an amendment prohibiting married women from mortgaging any property derived by inheritance, or to otherwise endanger their possession by becoming surety for husbands. Thia report was concurred in. ....The conference committee on the Fort Wayne "Water-Works bill also reported certain amendments, which were agreed to The Senate passed the following bills: Authorizing cities and towns to fund their indebtedness; compelling the Auditor of State to pay 75 per cent of bia insurance fees into the State treasury; concerning warehouses The bill concerning the redemption of real estate from sale or execution was taken up and passed. House. A local-option bill was ordered engrossed. . . .The Senate amendments to the bill appropriating money to pay expenses of the present session was concurred in The House then took up tha Specific Appropriation bill and refused to concur m several amendments made by the Senate. . . .A few minor items of the bill were considered, and tho House adjourned. Monday, March 21 Senate. About 100 Hous8 bills were read the first time. The Metropolitan Police bill came up in the lot, and was killed by being indefloitely postponed. .. . The following House joint resolutions were adopted: Requesting a modification of the National Banking law so as to subject banking associations to regular rules of law; creating a commission to codify the insurance laws, and appointing a committee on the part of each house to ascertain what amount, if any, is due Marion county for gaa, heat, water, etc., used by the General Assembly .Senator Keeve introduced a bill providing for the appointment of five a'.tomeys to make a revision of the laws of the State no'w in force and publish them. . . . The House Homestead bill was taken up, and a substitute adopted, allowing forty acres of land in country and one-half acre in city as a homestead, provided it ia not worth more than 5700. It also exempts $300 worth of personal property from sale on execution. The bill as amended was then passed. House. Hills were passed : Including railroad tickets in the articles that may be embezzled; authorizing patrons of district schools to' select the teachers, and tho Senate bill declaring certain patents for swamp lands evidence of title to each lands. .. .Conference committees were asked for upon the Specific Appropriation and the Fee and Salary bills. .. .The House passed a resolution to adjourn sine die next Monday, provided that the Fee and Salary and Specific Appropriation bills have teen passed. Trasn ay, March 25. Senate. A large number of House bills were read a second time and placed on the files for a third reading to-morrow Ei'la wero passed as follows: Giving laborers a preferrel claim of $59 on the property of an insolvent corporation which is indebted to them; allowing appeals from County Commissioners in cases of annexation of territory to ciu?s and towns; creating a commission to revise and codify the laws of the S;ate and report the same" to tho next General Assembly, with each recommendation of changes ia the existing laws as they may deem necessary . . . .The report of tho Confn n?o Cotnmtttoo on the Specific Appropriation b. 11 was concurred ia. House 13-11.3 were introd iced: Provi-IIng for the more speec'y do'eri.iiiri'.ion cf causes ia Circuit and Supciior Court?; prcsriliug the duties of the A'trney General D'."? passed: Providing for ihe appointment of receivers by Judges of courts during vacation; providing for the c-retiin and management of workhjaea: proteci'.g te purity of the billot-box bv 0ufrancLLirg person1? fciad gn.'y cf selling their voh; providing for srpe?.3 in ca-cf elnniea of h-.hwaj s; perm.i::iig ro-arics publ.c to pilem'.'ze n.irrja"....T!.o corfrenco - ccmai.tt-'j ca tho S?ec:3- Ar-prorri-Iion till re'Trted cerraia arnei-J-menta agree! on, which were asrreel to . Ihe conif-i.tti.s aroirs'f .1 to hive- -are into tne a'Tairs of the Atinriry General's o'.ce report---J, e- 1 wete i-.,.:nici 1 to ecni.nuo the i-j.:i.-and report Lit K- sLor.li L-3 tkn'to r'.over tVe rrr-tny i. jV.iy tak- n f - fvf ... li.e I'o'jo refe- 1 tjT o h.-'-.r n t3 K ar.it:nd;riLj-t'i to t-a HiKoU ad Eirri-i :i a biLL WedmD-IT, Mirch 1 f Aiiz, EJIs rvv.l: Tor the transfer to tve IV-i -1 Sta'ts cf tho tle of Liujii to t:.o Anbt tir-i ITl Cuct rv; a'l'loru".' g a 1-st to pay t",e t rrporarv h-ic-Mjnr i '. at) the n ;r wicf ti: :-!.:-;- bv f .re.c- ex. n a o.r.7 j" a ; ar -nJ-i:. t t-a I '1 Lt,v; tj p.eDv ut no ei'd of a-'l r-f:r'-' .- r-:ri-:-iIi-;-'-:t-erra' '.: eo'rrli i..e nl f t ry ; a", "".i .1" Ik e . t & tth iA- . j ttrf t-c-r c h ..:..'M t. t;.o r' u '. i0! -Ttii;i; r I sri ; iccjrporatctl t"- na to t, .uvt h.Lti 7 t-t.'C-H wi.h r r jv. - f r i g I- l n t 'ir... - vy e.A r ', ..; ' ; c- i f-" ---.1 1 1 a 1 re- . re ; c i. . .. ,j t-.o i i -ia v t ; s : 1 tl 3 vl ji j-e v. i z

NUMBER 29.

THVESBiT, March 27. Senate. The Senate on assetabiiag took tip tha till codifying the School ltr, and its ecnsidcratloB. ocenpiwt the entiri morning teeaioa and a portion of the afternoon. AmeadmcaU were adopted, afcer conshloraUa disetueiors. limitirig the cxaminatioa fee to fl, and prohibit irg changes ia school books or furniture oftener thin every ten years, except fcv nnanimous consent cf the bchxl Board. The bill was then passel. . . .Tho cenference committee on the Fee and Saliry bill then repcrtc-d, and the report was cotsecrrcd ' m without dtbato. ....Tlie conference comniittee on tho till creating a Bureau of Statistics also report, d, and thfcir report itai adopted All the Kon? bills oa secohd readifig were taken up, read a second time, and passed to a third reading Several Seuato bills were read a second tirne and indeSoitehj postponed The conference committee on the Homestead Exemption bill reported that they could not agree. They were discharged and a new committee appointed. House. -.Bills passed: Legalizing "patentinsida" newspapers; amending the act concerning guardian and ward; amending the code; for tho publication of legal advertising m any paper of general circulation lntne county; amending the YolniiUry Assignment act; amending the law of descent; to prevent double prosecution in misdemeanors; exempting the property of wives and children from sale on execution fcr husbands' torts; to prevent the transfer of county orders by persons owing taxes; permitting towns to colle'et license from retail liquor-dealers; amending the code; requiring railroads to have whistles Bounded at road crossings; specifying what persons shall be admitted to the House of Refuge; requiring attorneys to submit charges to Judges lor rejection or acceptance before argument. .. .The conference committees'' reports on the Fee and Salary and Bureau cf Statistics bills were concurred in. Fetday, March 2a A bill passed to do away with Coroners' juries, making that official to examine and report alone upon the cause of death submitted to him . . . .The report of the conference committee on the Exemption bill, fixing the amount at $630, an increase of $300 over the present law, to be taken in real estate or personal property at the election of the debtor, was adopted The J3ureau cf Statistics biH has been adopted, and now there are no other important bills to be acted on.... At the close of the evening session of the House, the committee charged with the investigation of Messrs. Jameson and Evarts, of the Insane Asylnm, submitted their reports and ordered tne m Ibid upon the table till morning. The ma jority report, signed by Senators Smith and Treat, and lleprts entatives Hubbard, Saint and Thornbnrg, is very long, and, in the main, favorable to the respondent. Tho minority report, signed by Senator Foster, Chairman of the committee, and Representatives Reilcy, Edwins and Handy, finds Dr. Jameson guilty of not turning over to the State treasury moneys received for farm and greenhouse products", and for receiving, as Treasurer of the Commirasioners for the new Asylum building, $1,400, without warrant of law. Following this report, Messrs. Edwins and Handy submit a resolution censuring Drs. Jameson and Evarts for malfeasance in office, and requesting tho Attorney General to institute suit for the recovery of ? 1,400 wrongfully appropriated by Dr. James. A. QUEKIt nunc It was at a dinner party, composed of some of the survivors of Waterloo, a few of their young relatives, and the scion of an ex-King, on a visit from his home in America, and to whom our friend owed his introduction to the circle. Some question arose about bravery, when the younger members of the company were electrified to hear the venerable and heroic Exeelmans gravely and seriously declare that " men were all cowards in the dark." The General smiled at the fxpressions of dissent, remarked that it was very like youth, and proceeded, to tell the following anecdote in support of his strange declaration : There was a young hothead in the Emperor's service, who, burning for action, and Ms duties for the time affording no opportunity, at last resolved to fight a duel, and accordingly, choosing to construe some remark or other of an old and superior officer into an-insult, challenged him. The old soldier, waiving all considerations of rank, agreed to meet the young man, but on the following unusual terms : The time should be night; the rlace a room, in opposite corners of which they were to stand ; the seconds, having placed their men, were to withdraw ouiide of the room, taking their candles with them; the word should be given from without, when he viho had the first fire should di-chnrge his weapon, and the seconds bearing the lights, should immediately rush in. "These strange conditions were accepted ; the time arriveJ, and the seconds placed the pirties a.s agreed upon, with-drr-Tsir-g immor; .t'3y, r.nJ Living the men in the dark. The word givn, the

fire w- s he t2, th- d -rr w rt-i cn'-d, and there t::cl th? thlcr cf ih? t-.io ur right in tho corner, L: r.Ivcr.-ary's Ij.11 L.iiing tr-tcred the wr 11 to c' o to Li3 Leid th t esespe teemed little el-:-thr.n r-;:v is It v;. i x.-- th? eld Irs t-rn to Tre. Thcyv.fr-1 i -;nn 1 ft in tl e d trt, r 1 r- ;.rd wr,s i iveu from th-' out i 1 fil, in..in- - -ly ' i'.h tl.2 "' I th . cc n ! rr. ' h-1 in c . ; I f.: .1 th r ch 11 :r. -er pre;!- -8 upf n tie f cr, v.r t h:irj jit r:covtrrl h"- If fr? r hli i:h i j r.-. " 1 il 3 1 1 c-1 ' -Ir ') n, it .. i f 1 i -- ' - - lx2 I IV 1 Ihi. Tl yn-:rgr i - r. c 1 i 1 ' .' c - !r I-:,nd t m r . 1 v v - h 1 .'rTh't T I 1' r ;,,t';.i I m ' . . . It " r . - i f ', -;

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ft r r. ' -'. 1 si : :. ., - .f . v- , .- - . of United f -t.de-. ::ur.-ht in tin : of irt-w Yi. ih, 1'er.r.-; Iv.- -rhi, CI hs 1 1. sachuecths and M.-ir land, frr the "yment of weges or ices charged for services performed t j them or their s-pecht! deputies in rehXon to the condsct -;f elections in 11 jt ember, 1878, showing' the Rraottnt claimed by, or paid to, each cf said rpecial deputies snd the pjgrcgate claimed by the Jfarshals for services, docs not cover the whole ground byp.ny means. There is no mer.llm cf th.-1 Chi-.f t-n-P'Tij-rr's acoonn'-t f t -'.. ru i 1 XortJiein -Jt-w Yor! , vhic h I. ...I 1 .1 ke-pt back by tl esf cf.hi, ur.d v ,i not in poscs-.icn o tho di'putu." t three months after tho th rtru', f. rr.,.sons wMch may bo easily supp d. This resolution is ahso deft-t-tiM' in making no mention cf the JIai I . "general deputies" the number cf which is only restricted by his partisan discretion, and which are specifically named in the odious Election laws, an. I especially in section 5,522 of the Revised Statutes, under which they &vo clothed with tho arbitrary power to make "instant arrest without process" of any person who "refuses or neglects to aid and assist" them in the work of carrying elections by intimidation and threats. Tlie Comptroller of the Treasury furnished a statement to the Commit tee on Expenditures of the Department of Justice in the last House, covering the accounts of Supervisors and Deputy ilarshals in 1878, which had been settled up to the middle of February, "except for Chief Supervisors in Northern and Southern New York, which have not been sent to the department, those of Xew Jersey, Eastern New York, and Pennsylvania not fully adjusted." According to that report, excluding tho accounts which lial not been returned or closed, over202,0C0 were expended for Supervisors and Deputy Marshals at the elections last fail. An analysis of the localities in which these expenditures were made shows conclusively that this public money waa used to aid the election of Republican candidates for Congress, and that the Deputy Marshals were electioneering agents at the polls. The whole scheme was organized at Washington by the Republican Campaign Commit to?, with an understanding in the Department of Justice by which tlie Deputy Marshals were assigned to doubtful and close districts, North and South, in tlie hope of capturing a majority in the present House of Representatives. To aid that object, the assessment cf ofneeholders was openly made in all the departments, upon Chandler's model of 187G, with agents who personally visited every incumbent, tariff in hand, fixing the amount to bo paid from tho salary. Hayes, Evarts, Schurz and the whole fraudulent Cabinet, all the chiefs of bureaus, aad the bulk of the 4,000 or 5,000 subordinates, subscribed to this campaign fund; and when a clerh, who was deluded with the belief that there was something in the profession of civil-service reform and in the executive order forbidding assessments, refused to be taxed, John Sherman ordered his removal instantly. Shore than one-half of the whole expenditure for Supervisors and Deputy Marshals in 1878 was made in this State, as follows : Southern district $ 5"),2'i7.!n Eastern di (strict 5i8.i:t.:3 Northern district Js.i.Ui .tf Total $.ni,"!Xi.23 Chief Supervisor Davenport and his colleagues in Northern New Yofk withheld their returns, and the accounts of the chief of the Eastern district were "not fully adjusted " when the Comptroller of the Treasury furnished these figures. Davenport's operations here are well known, and the Congressional delegation in the House would seem to prove remarkable efficiency on the part of the other Supervisors and Deputy Marshals throughout the State. Over in New Jersey more than $13,000 of thi3 fund were put where they would do the good for the Republican candidates, and with sufficient effect to change the political complexion of the representation in the House. Pennsylvania got $14,000, chiefly applied to the Eastern districts, on the Cameronian plan. In Maryland, some $3,000 were successfully concentrated on the Sixth district with a knowledge of a Democratic defection to weaken the hold of the regular nominee. To defect Gen. Williams in the Detroit district, all of the force of the administration was applied to that point; so in Yirginla in the district no? represented by Jorgensen (Republican), of which fears were entertained ; also In South Carolina, to prevent the election of Mr. O'Connor, who got through in spite of the Deputy Marshals aad the notorious Maekey; so in the two Cincinnati districts, which will soon be investigated; so in the Eighth district of Alabama, where Lowe (Greenbacker) was elected over the regular Deir-rcrat; rnd to hi L. ni-";.m, v, Vrf the Rep".!!! ' r.s c"i 1. It) c-rry tr.-, t".l Tie is. T -.--.-.. f!,fi3 Tun' fl d.hl r chosen at Vt'.i-hintr n. afr rc rr i L-c-?c x.iij. tho R. -;hh"c. n in tr r The cr.r.:; J ;n f j:. 1 w .sr.: .11 y C: h on. the tt-.ts try f r th- rii rs : . I Deputy .7 Ir.r- h:.! :, 1 r u - un..i on thw.; V!I r ". i.t. I I ,T c :,ird : from f L 3 pt t ban!.- to ?.y m thir " cl th " ' iTi; . a;. Id . . : . 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