Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1883 — Page 7

WASHINGTON NOTES.

There are 400,000 claims now pending in the land office. * The pension appropriation bill has been reported to the fall committee. It appropriates $81,000,000. The Chippewas are in Washington to protest against their removal to White Earth Reservation. Both democratic and republican caucuses have determined that the tariff bill must be prated to passage. The total deficiencies in appropriations for the various departments for the fisoal year ending June 30 next are $1,549,843. The sub-oommittee which has charge of the postoffioe bill has retained the clause providing for a reduction of letter postage to two centaper half ounoe. The marriage of Miss Mabel Bayard, the eldest daughter of Senator Bayard, and Mr. Samuel D. Warren, of Boston, took place at the Ascension Ohurch Washington, on Thursday. The Senate committee on appropriations, im reporting the appropriation for continuing the work on the census, has reduced .the amount from $200,000 to 9100,000, on the ground that the work is in a very unsatisfactory condition. Congress will give John F. ,Slater, of Connecticut, a gold medal on aooount of his bequest of $1,000,000 for the pnrpose of “uplifting the lately emancipated population of the Southern States and iheir posterity by conferring on them the blessing of Christian education.” One of the counsel for the defense in the case informs the Post that the expenses,of Brady, Dorsey and Yaile in the recent and pending trials will be fully $200,000, of which Brady and Dorsey are reported to have spent $75*000 each.

Notwithstanding the opposition offered to Rufus Hatoh and others who desire to lease the Yellowstone Park, the oompany continues to make preparations for building their hotels on the park grounds. The office of assistant secretary of the interior appears to be headquarters for the company. The grand jury returned a presentment against William Dickson for corruptly endeavoring to influence the vote of his fellow'jurors in the last star-route trials. It is stated, that the delay in the proceed* ings which gave rise to the rumor that the bill had been ignored arose from technical imperfections in the bill. The friends of the whjsky bill are quite •disheartened at the decisive vote—s to 1 —by which the House refused to consider their bill, and have about given up all hope of passing it at all this sdtsion. The sentiment seems to be growing in the Bouse that tire people must be relieved as far as possible, of the taxes on necessaries, and that the luxuries of life, such as whisky and tobacco, should be made to bear the chief burden. The amount in the treasury, Jan. 1, 1883, of standard silver dollars, was $94,016,842; fractional silver, $26:521,692; total silver, $420,538,534, or about 3,600 tons. It is apparent that this Congress should either discontinue coinage of the standard silver dollar or make suitable appropriations for building additional vaults in the East and for transportation of silver ooin from San Francisco, no further space being available for building at that point. The lowest rate for transportation of silver from San Francisoo obtainable is sls per SI,OOO.

The olaim of Bed Cloud, presented in the Indian Bureau, is for ponies seized from Indians and sold by General Crook in 1876. The amount realized,ss,ooo,was to have been applied to the purchase of cows for the benefit of the Indians, but Bed Cloud asserts that this was not done, and a partial search of. the reoords of the Indian Bureau does not show that any return was ever made of the money. The persons who made the side will be called upon for an explanation if further searoh does not reveal a satisfactory aocount of the transaction. The National Republican contains an interview with General Grant on the subject of the reciprocity treaty between the United States and Mexico, and the political and commercial relations of the countries. The treaty proposes the entry into Mexioo of articles uqder seventythree different heads. He laid special stress on articles of machinery, agricultural implement?, railway materials and vehicles. the manufacture of which in this Country for use in Mexico would give employment to thousands of people, and open up to c nterprising Americans th ?ee mines of untold wealth and plantations of vast extent. The. work of collating and preparing the result of the census for publication is in such a backward and confused condition that it is not likely the pending census deficiency bill will be recommended for passage until substantial assurances are furnished that the proposed appropriation will be employed to produce clearly defined results, aad bring the work speedily to a dose. Secretary Teller contemplates recalling ex-Superintendent Walker to oomplete the work, his successor being prostrated by siokness/Speoial-

iris identified with the cenaM, it mm*. i i MiiWimiinir tn hum trmtimi nave DBSI-mOßSUinng W wobbw upon their own pet subjects published at the expense at the government. The Woman’s Suffrage Convention adopted resolutions declaring that woman suffrage means stable institutions, wages and equal pen ty for men and women; pronouncing the pending reforms in the civil servioe a dishonest pretense unless women are graded in the service the same as men; denouncing the to disfranchise the women of Utah for no crime whatsoever” as “a cruel display of the power which lies in might alone,” and asserting that Women should be given the ballot to preserve the integrity of society and the permanence of American institutions, in view of the fact that immigration to this country now averages 500,000 per annum. Clara A. Scott, of New York, presented through Speaker Kiefer, a petition asking for SIO,OOO of Congress, partly because of her services as a nurse during the war, and partly because of the pt rsecution of a certain United States Senator not named, who drove her from the department in 1860 because she would not yield to his temptations.

Great indignation has been expressed among the Indiana delegation and the friends of ex-Senator Henry S. Lane over the publication in the Washington Post, of Mcnday last, of an alleged interview with Miss Clara G. Scott, in whioh she is reported as having made serious charges against the late Senator from Indiana. Your correspondent has taken the pains to investigate the matter, and he finds that the woman, who is a "crank” of the most pronounced type, never mentioned the name of the Indiana Senator, and never knew him. On the contrary, she avers that‘she told the Post reporter that it was Senator Lane, of Kansas. The Post reporter explains his mistake, and will make the proper correction in this way. The woman spoke of the late senator from Kansas, and on returning to his office to write,up his notes he discovered that he had not taken the initials, and not knowing them himself, he enquired of some one in the room what were the initials of Senator Lane. “Henry S.” was the reply, whereupon the Senator from Indiana was made responsible for the alleged piccadilloes of the redoubtable James H. Lane, of Kansas.

The Cherokee Indians, situated in the Indian Territory, are anxious to lease a portion of their land, and cattle men are desirous of securing the use of it Secretary Teller is waiting for the report of a special agent sent to investigate the subject before rendering a decision. As-sistant-Secretary Joelyn favors granting the leases. He says: “The Gherokees want to lease the west end of their nation. They can get $200,000 for it, while now they do not receive a cent The land is fit for nothing but grazing, and there are plenty of cattle men who would like to place their herds on it The $200,000 ought to be divided, and one-half of the sum used to buy stock for the Indians, and the remainder used to buy farming implements and for school houses. By these means the Indians in a short time would become self-supporting. Secretary Teller in his report refers to what has been done for one tribe of Indians, and the result. In November, 1879, the Gov-

ernment appropriated $30,000 for the Navajo Indians, of New Mexioo. This sum was used in purchasing 14,000 sheep and 1,000 goats. Now those Indians have 900,000 sheep and 200,000 goats. The wool clip in 1881 was 1,000,000 pounds, 200,000 pounds of which was used in making blankets. The Navajos number 16,000. In 1871-’72-’73 the Government appropriated $500,000 for these Indians. In 1881,1882 and 1888 a sum but little over $50,000 was appropriated,the amount for this year being hut $5,000. Next year no appropriation will be neoessary, the Indians having become self-supporting. This is the only way to solve the Indian problem. Prepare the way for them to make their own living.” A plan similar to the above has been sent to the Indian Department by Indian Agent Hunt / of the Indian Territory. He proposes to make three of the wildest tribes self-sup-porting within ten years by appropriating about $250,000 for the purpose of purchasing cattle for the Indians.

Foot Prints of Genius.

A coolness has arisen between Kosciusko Morphy and Mrs. Hufnagel, one at most fashionable ladies of Austin. Inhere was a lawn party at the Hufnagel mansion. Mrs; Hufnagel showed Mr. Murphy over the grounds, and asked him what he thought of their arrangement. “I am delighted, madam,” was the reply. “Wherever I look I see the footprints of your genius.” As Mrs. Hufnagel has a foot almost as big as a wheelbarrow, she supposed there was something personal in the remark. She did not feint exactly that she was not glad to have him stay for sapper, but she opened the gate and poipted into the Btreet, and Murphy, who is very sensitive, strolled away, * '

> STAND TO YOUB GUNS. BT CHABUCB i. BEATTIE. • ——. ... ■ - -o, Stand to your guns! Clone the ranks (rant and rear. With your face to the foe, no repining, no (ear. Raise high our proud banners, now lowered at half mast, Where it mefully hangs, all the mourners have passed. Stand to your guns! Save the ahipiSqlear the wreck. The tan of Colombia must muster on deck; Launch again on, the ocean the flag of the free. The pirates and emngglen to sweep from the sea. Then cast overboard every sailor who skulks From his duty, or colors, who grumbles, or sulks With a mntinons snarl, or sneer on his lip, While pirates are plnnd’ring and scuttling the ships. Oram ont every soldier who sneaks from the ranks While the foe is assailing the front and the flanks; Comrades who desert while the battle is hot By the laws of all nations is doomed to he shot. Drive oat the camp rubbish,' who blaster and brag, The caverns who stand not by £qn or by flag;] The Hessians, who battle for rations and pay. Arse ure to sorrendel, desert, 'or betray. In contests for freedom, for country, or oreed. Deserters and trimmers can never succeed; The soldier in siege, or in field wbb has won— Is he who has loyally stood by his gun. The past has its glories, the present its hour To break every fetter that curbs freedom’s pow’r, New duties arise and new triumphs most come— Full freedom for women and freedom for ram. Then dose np the ranks—let battles begin— There are fields to be fought, there are sieges to win, There are legions to conquer—warm work to be done— j Then muster each man who will stand to his gun —[Chicago Inter Ocean

A BORDER VENDETTA.

AfFather’tt Death Avenged.—A Fend Which Began with the Late War. Denver Tribune. Wm. 0. Fletcher, passing through Little Rock, en route to the Texas border, where he has been for more than ten years past engaged in the cattle business, gave a correspondent a history of a tragic event whioh occurred recently on the border of the Lone Star State, the particulars of whioh have never before been made public. At the beginning of the late civil war, Abraham Hall lived in one of the thinly settled border counties. He was seventy years old, and reputed to be wealthy, owning a large tract of land, great numbers of cattle, and a large but by no means costly residence. He had a family comprising one boy, aged ten, and four girls, ranging from eight to sixteen years. Though the State was in a tumult, the old man claimed to be neutral, and while his neighbors were buckling on the armor, Hall remained at home. The South called for every man capable of bearing arms. Texas was scoured. Hall was called on to volunteer, but declined. One night a party of twelve persons rode up to the house and repeated the demand for volunteers. The old man said he preferred death. He was taken from the house to a little ravine 200 yards away, a rope put around his neck, the end of which was thrown over the limh of a tree, and Hall was once more asked to reconsider his refusal The old man declined, whereupon he was drawn up and let down senseless. Reviving, he again refused, and again he was drawn up. This horrible scene was continued until the victim ceased to breathe, and the party rode away. The son of Hall had followed the party when they dragged his father from the house, and hiding himself behind a clump of bushes he was a silent and horrified spectator. He saw everything, and, more, he recognized every actor in that cruel affair. When the men galloped away he ran from his hid-ing-place, cut down the body and, flinging himself upon it, he registered an oath to slay every man who had taken part in his father’s death. Time passed, the war ended; young Hall managed his father’s estate and prospered. His sister aided him in the work. Almost their nearest neighbor was Frank Parker, who led the band that hung old hall in 1865. Twenty miles east lived John and James Mantooth, two members of the party. The remainder were scattered throughout the State.

One day in October, 1878, young Hall bade his sister bood-by forever, saying: “The time for revenge has oome,” and, without further explanation, mounted his horse and rode swiftly away. An hour later he drew rein in front of Frank Parker’s dwelling. Parker was in. the yard. “I oome to ask, you why you killed my father,” Hall said to him. Parker gave the reason, adding that his conscience had troubled him ever since. Hall asked him if he was armed, and when the man drew a pistoi.Hall did likewise and fired. Parker dropped in the agonies of dea% •‘tf he day Hall visited the jMantooths. John Man tooth he shot dead on the open prairie, after explaining the object of his visit. Thomas Man tooth met a similar fate on the public highway Before spring another of the twelve had

been slain. Hall killing hie man in * sa Emwixn oan Antonio, uj tins time the remaining members of the band had become alarmed, and Hall suddenly paused in his oereer of For more than a year nothing was heard at him, and the surviving objects of his hatred were beginning to think he had perished, when he suddenly reappeared. This time his victim was named Kindred Bose, one of the twelve, but hedied only after a desperate struggle. The men met one afternoon in the winter of 1880 in a little village on the Mexican border. A street fight ensued and Rose was killed, falling from his hone and dying on the street, while Hall, though wounded in three places, pat spare to hie horse and dashed away. The friends of Bose punned him into Texas. The pursuit was continued three days, friends of his former victims joining in the ohase. Hall at last was run to oover in sight of his home, and near the spot where sixteen years before the father had met his death. Here Hall turned on the pursuing party and fought until he was riddled with bullets. His oldest sister was a horrified spectator of ofthetragio end of her brother. A year after she met one of the party in a neighboring town; she was in oompany with a female friend, and despite the entreaties of her companion, called the man to her, slipping her hand into the pocket of her drees as she did so. "Captain Davis,’ said she, when the man oame up, "you helped to kill my brother; take that!” and drawings revolver, she fired at him. Davis was seriously wounded, but the girl escaped. This act alarmed all who had taken part in the death of young Hall, and they resolved upon the extermination of the entire family of Halls, of whom only three were living—the eldest girl and two sisters. One night after Davis’ life had been attempted, the Hall homestead was surrounded by masked men, the barred doors were broken down, and the three girls were mercilessly -murdered. The assassins then fired the house and disappeared. The tragedy oaussd a sensation, but the explanation by interested parties that Indians or Greasers had murdered the grls, plundered the house and set afire. This was generally accepted, and only lately have the facte in the case leaked out

Rebellion Reminiscence.

Washington Special Chicago News. The death of Daniel Ratcliffe, at Baltimore, recalls the fact that he Jwas the last survivor of the trio of citizens who planned and carried out the capture of Harper’s Ferry by the Confederate Government. Mr. A. B. Taloott, who was in charge of the Washington telegraph office at the outbreak of the rebellion was a very loyal man. Early in April, 1861, he took off a dispatch sent by Ratcliffe to Richmond authorities. The dispatch said: "I recommend that you go ahead at onoe with troops and possession of Harper’s Ferry in the name of the State of Virginia. It is important that you aet at once.’' Mr. Taloott took a copy of this dispatch to Gideon Wells, the Secretary of the Navy. He showed it to Simon Cameron, and it was afterward carried to Mr. Lincoln. Neither Cameron or Wells thought the Riohmond authorities would dare to go ahead, and so took no action. The night of April 18th Mr. Taloott took off another dispatoh from Ratcliffe to the , Riohmond people. It said: “Your wife and family have arrived. Everything looks favorable.” Mr. Taloott took this dispatch to Mr. Welles. He read it over and over, and then he said: “Mr. Taloott I know yon are a very zealous man, but I think you are exceeding your duty in bringing me these dispatches. It is a grave impropriety.” “This is a cipher dispatch,” Taloott explained. “It means that the Riohmond troops have finally arrived at Harper’s Ferry, and that everything is favorable to the capture of the government property there. At this Mr. Welles awoke. He consulted with Simon Cameron. The latter telegraphed to a Massachusetts regiment, then on its way to Washington, to stop at Baltimore and go to Harper’s Ferry. The riot in Baltimore on the night of April 19 put a stop to the advance of the Massachusetts regiment That night Mr. Taloott out off the connection between Baltimore and Richmond and it was never established again till after the war. The next news that came from Harper’s Ferry was of its capture after the Federal officer in charge had partially destroyed the property in his charge before retreating to Ghambersburg. If the first information had been promptly acted upon Harper’s Ferry oould have been easily held by the federal authorities.

An Alligator that Sweetly Smiles.

Bangor Commercial. A lady in Bristol has a five-foot alligator tor a pet She makes him a warm bed by the stove at night, and during the day be moves around the sitting room at his own sweet wilLHe likes to have his back stroked, and will open his mouth,, and smile in a way that is too oh arming for anything. I The eight Baptist churches in Mexico \ are located, four in New Leon, and four! in Cohuila.

A LITTLE SPICE.

Translated ftpm the Omnibus: "Say ,Aimt Marianne there I yesterday in the Zoological Gardens a quite old n»n» seen, who had ear-rings on. He js per* haps at onetime a little girl bam.” Boston Post: Elisabeth Cady Stanton advises billiards for the girls of the period. If a girl handles a billiard cue as dextrously as she throws a stone* the man four feet to the left of her is likely to have an eye poked out Over 140,000 plants are known to botanists, and yet out of the lot the rthrmints oan’t make a mixture that Will undo in ten minutes the work a hornet does in two seconds. Does w>n amount to much? —Boston Post Translated from the Omnibus: “But mother, must I with the Mr.' Smueokle danoe, and he so very (fid a man?” "Old man! Have I not myself, in my single days, often and much with him danced, and myself never about hie age troubled?” Boston Transcript: "Yes,” said the man with the big ndoktie, * 068, 1 think Charley’s play is a work of decided merit The characters are entirely original. No one ever saw, heard or dreamed of snob persons, and no one ever will hear or dream of suoh. Yes, Charley, is original, dreadfully original” "Are you the judge of reprobates,” said Mrs. Partington, as she walked into an offioe of a judge of probate. “I am a judge of probate,” was the reply. "Well that’s I expect,” quoth the old lady. “You see my father died detested, and he left me several little infidels, and I want to be their exeoutioner.” S. W. A., West Chester, Pa.: "I have a horse that has lately suffered from periodical fits of dizziness. Please answer through your valuable paper and let me know what I should do with him. I’m afraid he will get worse if something is hot eone soon.” Our advioe, 'based on a careful perusal of Every Man His Own Horae Doctor, would be to 1 ake him some time when he is not dizzy and sell him to a stranger.—Texas Siftings. A matter of syntax: "Whioh am de properest way to suppress one’s self; does yer say: ‘We eated at de table,’ or *We has done ate at de table?”’ asked one Austin darkey of another, they being engaged in a grammatical discussion. As they could not agree the question was referred to Unole Moee for his decision, which was: "Indeoaeeof you two niggabs none of you am right” "What am de proper way to say ‘We eated at de table,' Unole Moee?” "De properest way for sich cattle as you two am to say: *We fed at de troft.’ ” —Texas Siftings.

Habitual Criminals in France.

St. James Gazette. London. The bill which has just been introduced into the French Chamber for dealing with habitual criminals provides that a sentence of transportation for life shall be passed upon all persons coming within the following categories: First, those who commit a fresh felony within eight years of their discharge from prison tor a first crime; second, those who after being found guilty of felony, shall within a period of eight years from their discharge be twice sentenced to three months imprisonment for theft, embezzlement, abduction of minors, or indecent behavior in public; third, those who within the same period after their discharge have bepn sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment. All persons who have been sent to prison four times within eight years for certain minor offences will also be liable to be transported for life, this being left to the discrimination of the presiding Judge. Among these minor offenses is vagrancy, which the new measure defines as follows: Vagabonds are persons who have no fixed residence 'or means of livelihood, who have no regular profession, and who live upon the proceeds of gambling and prostitution.”

How to Make Cows Give Milk.

A writer in the Southern Farmer says that his oow gives all the milk that is wanted in a family of eight, and that from it, after taking all that is required, for other purposes, 240 pounds of butter were made this year. This is in part his treatment of the oow: *lf you desire to get a large yield of rich milk give your oow every day water slightly warm and slightly salted, in which bran has been stirred at the rate of one quart to two gallons of water. Ton will find, if you have not tried this daily practice, that your oow will give 26 per cent more milk immediately under the effects of it, and she will become so attached to the diet as to refuse to drink clear water unless very thirsty. But this mess she will drink almost any time and ask for more. The amount of this drink neoessary is an ordinary water pail full at a time, morning, noon and night” ' ;

The Boss Claim.

Two regiments of Rhode island voluaI teers, who were in Uncle Sam’s service in [ 1868, elaim that they were netfer mustered ! out and are entitled to back pay amount'ing to $5*100,000. *#4