Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1883 — Page 7

DEMOCRATIC HISTORY.

I. R. Chalmers, of Mississippi, Traces the Record of the Party of Which He Was So Lately a Shining Light. Communication to the Memphis (Tenn.) Avalanche. J Gen. Weaver says that the/Democratic party had been campmg every vear on the ground where the Republican party had camped the year before, and this is eminently true of the Mississippi Democracy/ In 1868 they decleared the reconstruction measures revolutionary and void, and bitterly opposed the Tfhifteentli, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments to the constitution as they earne up. At the next Presidential election in 1872, they not only stood on. llie reconstruction measures and the Amendments to the constitution, but they selected Horace Greeley us their candidate to stand on them, thus stepping over to the Republican platform on this subject. In 1868 they were the advocates of greenbacks for the payment of the Lnited States bonds, and declared there should be the same money for the bondholders ; and the plowliolders. Then followed the old doctrines of Calhoun and Jackson of opposition to national batiks and upholding the old Democratic idea that the Government, and not corporations, should make whatever the pepole were required to take as money. This doctrine was partially ignored by the National Convention of 1876, but the Mississippi Democracy clung to the old doctrine until 1880. In the Forty-fifth Congress, when Democrats were passing a bill to stop the destruction of Greenbacks, Mr. Bayard moved to amend the bill by taking away the legal-tender feature' of Greenbacks,’ while leaving the partial legal-tender fe .ture of national bank notes standing, and thus giving the national banks a monopoly of the paper money of the country. Mr. Lamar voted for Bayard’s amendment, and, when this failed, did not vote at all on the passage of the bill, and yet, in 1880, Mr. Lamar carried one-half of the Mississippi delegation to Cincinnati to vote lor Mr. Bayard for President, thus stepping over to the Republican platform on national banks. In 1876 the Democratic party was in favor of the recoinage of silver at its old Standard value, and in the Fortyfourth Congress Mr. Lamar, as a member of the House, voted for the Blair Silver bill. In the Forty-fifth Congress Mr. Lamar, as a Senator, changed liis mind, and in violation of instructions from his

State Legislature voted against tlie old silver dollar. In the Forty-sixth Congress Mr. Bayard,not. only opposed the Silver bill passed by a Democratic House, but by his arbitrary action as Chairman of the Finance Committee in the Senate defeated the consideration of the measure in that body. And vet Mr. Lamar, as just stated, in 1880 carried one-half of the Mississippi delegation to Cincinnati to indorse Mr. Bayard, and in 1882 Mr. Lamar was himself indorsed by re-election to the Senate by the Democrats of Mississippi, who thus passed over to the Republican platform on that subject. In Ih7(i the Democrats were for “a tariff only for revenue.” In itßo they were for “a .tariff for revenue only.” Now, in 1883, the Democrats of Ohio have adopted the original Republican platform of 185(5 in almost its exact language, and have nominated on it as their candidate for Governor a distinguished Liberal Republican who Test that party but a few years ago. And every Democratic paper in Mississippi has said amen, and bravely steps over to the old-time Republican platform. As'now construed, this platform of 1880 meant “a tariff for revenue—only for office:” But as the offices did not come on that platform, they now say a tariff for revenue must be supplemented by such discrimination as will afford protection to American industry. One is relegated to Its appropriate sphere, and that is to keep the conflicting elements, called Democrats, together until they can elect a President. “Only this and nothing more.” >ln 1881 the Mississippi Democrats were very bitter in denouncing the Independent party of Mississippi as the half-way house tp Republicanism. And the Vicksburg Coiiimerdal charging tins was reproduced and an attempt was made to foster it on me because I Lad ah interest in the paper, as being an admission of the ultimate purpose of the Independents. Now' the Democracy of Mississippi, in many counties of the State, are openly advocating a fusion with the Republicans simply to divide the spoils of office. They have passed the half-way house and are making the best possible time for the home base. This time they have surpassed their achievements, as described bv Gen. Weaver, and instead of resting on last year’s encampment of the Republicans, they propose to occupy the same campground together. When the North Carolina mover started West with his two-wheeled cart covered w ith white cotton and the old yellow dog tied behind, he almost pulled the old dog’s head off the first day to get him along. (Vide Democrats, pulling back and scowling over ' the reconstruction measures, constitutional amendments, etc.) In a few days tlie dog began to trot quietly along and sleep behind the Wagon. (Vide Demo- • crats sleeping on the Republican’s old camp-ground.) At last- the old dog jumped in and slept comfortably in the wagon. (Vide Lynch and Lamar sleeping quietly fogetiier after their arduous labor in dividing out the offices in the negro counties in Mississippi.)

Democratic Presidential Candidates. Tlie deficiency es the Democratic party in Presidential timber is attested by the number of logs which are floated down the current of public opinion; they are numerous enough to choke up the stream, but no man has been able to pick out one sufficiently imposing to set np for public admiration. The names are discarded almost as rapidly as they are suggested. _ Not long since, Mr. Justice Field, of

J. R. CHALMERS.

the Supreme CoiHt, came but with a bid for the nomination in a letter in-, tended to conciliate the Southern Bourbons. He declared in favor of a system of levees along the Mississippi river, and ‘'a tariff for revenue, with incidental protection.” He was also emphatic in advocating a return of the 70,000,000 collected from the .cotton tax —the only contribution the South ever . made toward defraying the expenses of j the war it forced upon the country, j Some of the Southern newspapers : caught greedily at the bait he threw out. Among others was the Chronicle j and Constilu tionalist, of Augusta, which, after epitomizing Judge Field’s propositions, said that “he would make j a model Democratic candidate in 1884,” j and spoke of him as “the coming man.” But the Louisville Courier-Journal. \ on the other hand, dismisses him sum- j marily by characterizing liis letter as \ “fatally weak and defective,” and as containing “a series of propositions which, making his nomination impossible; carry along with their absurdity their antidote. ” This is probably the last that will be heard of Mr. Justice Field as a Presidential candidate, and hence it is not worth while to discuss the preposterous character of liis Presidential j postulants. A few days later accounts were spread throughout the country of a mysterious j interview between Mr. Tilden and Mr. ; Hendricks, and about the same time the latter began making Democratic ; speeches in lowa, in which he reverted ! significantly to the “great fraud of j 1876.” But at that point Mr. Tildeu’s physician appeared on the scene with a .j statement intended to reassure au anx- j ions public as to the condition of the j old gentleman's health, but really making his candidacy impossible. The physician went on to say that Mr. Tilden was recovering his voice and was merely suffering from paralysis agitaros: We presume that this is a tri- ; fling matter in the eyes of a doctor in attendance upon a millionaire, but it is j more than the public can stand. The : contemplation of a President with par- j alvsis would be* Startling enough, but;! wnen agitans is added thereto the case I is po-itively appalling. “The old tick-j j et” has rt ceivi d a blow from this prod fessional revelation from which it will never recover. But New York comes up with two other candidates—Hewitt andj Cleveland —and starts out with the as-J j sumption ttiat, since Indiana has aban-j doned its October election and tliej Democrats in Ohio are quarrelling among themselves, the West has nq claims whatever upon the nomination,' because it has no pivotal State. That is all very we 1, but how is it going tej lielp New York with a couple of rival candidates, neither one of. whom can

command a united delegation from hid} own State nor the enthusiasm of thd party at all. Mr. Hewitt is the natural heir to all the antagonism entertained for Tilden among that class of Democrats, particularly at the South, who think Tilden should have resorted to Mexican methods in the spring of and should have attempted to seize tliej Presidency in spite of the cjecision, reached In' Congress. In addition to this antagonism within his own party, Mr. Hewitt has been too outspoken oq the tariff question to hope for united support from the ruling politicians whq think it to be necessary for the Demo* crats to straddle that issue in the apj proaching Democratic campaign. Gov. Cleveland is not as strong to-day as hq was wheu he was running for Ins present place. The Democratic politicians o| hisj, State are disgruntled over his dis? jjosition of the State patronage, and thq country has heard very little of himj since he was elected. Meanwhile McDonald and Hendricks, of Indiana, are engaged in a war of exterminatiou. They are proceeding iq their own behalf upon different lines - McDonald making free-trade speeclieq and Hendricks making protection, speeches—but each determined that thq .other shall not carry off the prize, i Actuated by the common purpose o| mutual rivalry, it is probable that eaeli will be successful to the extent of kill- ! ing off the other. Ohio Democrats j have destroyed their chances bv their, family quarrels at home. Bayard is set aside because he represents a “rotten-J borough” State. Hancock is scarcely i mentioned, because the recollection on liis imbecility as a candidate in 1880 ia too fresh in the minds of the people, j Who is there, then ? Perhaps Blainej ah.sSriircd the qtie'sfiO£i,tf'itbetruo,asTc-r ported, that he predicted recently thatj Ben Butler will certainly be nominated) if he shall be re-elected Governor of Massachusetts. We may be permitted to doubt, however, that Blaine predict-! ed Butlef-’s election,in that case, though it is easy to understand why lie, as a Republican, should say and do everything possible to encourage Butler’s advancement in the Democratic party. If Butler could secure the Democratic nomination for President, there Would be a sort of retributive justice in the event which would be peculiarly gratifying to Bepublicans. It would be a bitter dose to the Democrats, but they may as well prepare, perhaps, to take their medicine.—Chicago Tribune.

Political Notes.

The New Haven Xeics sajs that the first ticket was Adam and Eve, and “the rascals were turned out, too.” The New York Herald is of the opinion that Senator Logan is rapidly gaining ground as a Presidential candidate. The Rochester Post-Express labors under the impression that John Kelly’s olive branch has been cut from a blackthorn tree. In response to the standing Democratic howl that the “Republican party must gfo,” it can be stated pretty confidently that the Republican party will be there. , MB. Hendbicks has long been considered the most expert straddler in American politics, but his recent effort , in lowa distanced any pf his former achievements in this line.—Chicago Times. * Hon, Lawrence "Weldon, of Bloomington, 111., says David Davis is out of politics, having declared to him, before he went South, that he intended to pass his remaining days in quiet and *in attending exclusively to his private affairs. ■ \ 1 •_ "-V ?■' . • •*- V i- . ** " : V-; -' •

THE BAD BOY.

“Hello, got back again, have you?” said the grocery man to the bad bey, as he came in the store looking tired, with his clothes soiled and a general appearance of having been sleeping in freight cars with cattle. “Your pa told me he expected you had ran away for good and that*you might not come back. Where you been?" / “Chicago,” said the boy, as he took out a toad-stabber knife and proceeded to take the ulster off a smoked herring. ‘Been playing Prodigal Son, in two acts. But times have changed since that young fellow in the Bible went off on a tear and came back, ami the old folks killed a young cow for hhn to eat, and fell on his shirt collar and cried down the back of his neck. They don’t receive prodigal sons that way in our ward. They fill a prodigal son’s coat tails full of boots, and he can’t find cold veal enough in the house to make a sandwich.” “I thought your folks were pious and would be inclined to overlook any-. thing,” said the grocery man, as lie charged the herring and crackers t 6 the bad boy’s father. “You don’t mean to tell me they went back on the teachings of the good book and warmed your jacket?” “You have gues»ed it the first time,” said the boy. “ This prodigal son business is all right in theory, but in practice it’s a dead failure. You see at Sunday-school the lesson was about the prodigal son, and the minister told us all about how the boy took all the money he could scrape up and went awty to a distant country and painted the towns red, and spent his moneylike a countryman at a circus, and how lie took in all the sights, and got broke, and got hungry, and took a job at the stock-vavds feeding pigs, and he was so hungry he used to help the pigs eat their, rations, and finally ‘ lie thought of his home, where they had pie, and he went home expecting to be fired out, but his pa was tickled to see him, and set up a free lunch of calf on a half shell, and hugged the boy, and made him feel bully. When we got home pa and ma talked about the lesson, and pa said it was one of the most touching things he ever heard, and told me to think of it, and it would do me good. Well, the more I thought of it the more I felt like trying the prodigal business on, and I told my chum about it, and he said he hadn’t had any vacation, and he would go off prodigaling with me if I would go, and we could see the country, and have a good time, and come back and be received with open arms. Well, we got all our money together, and a brakeman on a freight-train, that goes to church, cause his wife sings in the choir, he hid us in the' caboose and we went to Chicago. Oh, my, but we had a good time! I never saw money wither the way it did with us. B We eat about twenty times a day, the first Two days, and then our appetite left us, because we didn’t have any more money. The first two nights we slept in a 2-shilling lodginghouse, the third night we walked around, and the fourth n'ght we slept in the police-station. When our money was gone half the fun was gone. If a fellow can walk abound with money in his pocket he feels good, even if he don’t want to buy anything; but when the money is gone he feels bad and wants to buy lots of things. We waited two days for our brakeman, and when we got on his train he put us on a cattle-bar, and it was vile. I traded my collar-button for a postal-card and wrote to pa that the prodigal would qoutoin an appearance at 9 p. m., and Tor him to prepare to fall on my neck, and to send down to the meat-market for a hind quarter of fatted calf and have plenty of gravy. You wouldn’t believe it, but there was no carriage at the depot, and we had to "walk home. I could have overlooked that if there had been anything to eat when I got to the house, but there wasn’t, enough for a I canary bird. Fa was there, however, and I was just going to hold out my ; neck for pa to get ou to weep when he grabbed it with his hand and came near i twisting it off, and then he turned me around . and began to play the bass drum on my clothes with his feet. I never was so annoyed in all my life, ! honestly. It was not the treatment I had a right to expect after what they had told me about the prodigal son of ancient tunes. As quick as I could catch my breath I asked pa what he would have thought if his pa had mauled him when he came home, and what kind of a story it would have made if it had told about the old man taking him by i the neck and kicking him all over the room, instead of falling on Lis neck and weeping, and giving him a veal pot-pie. Pa said he wasn’t running any old back-number prodigal sons, and he thought his way was the best, and he sent me to bed without any supper. That settleJ the prodigal business with Hennery. No more fatted calf for Hank, if you please, ” and the boy got up and shook the herring peelings off his lap. “Well, how did your chum come out ?” asked the grocery man, with much interesj,. “Oh, he hasn’t come out yet. He is in i the lockup,” said the boy. “His ma put the police onto him, and- when he | showed up they run him into the police station for a tramp. I think we have both demonstrated that this climate does not agree with the prodigal business, and however much they may try to teach us the beauties of such stories, they do not expect ns to try to imitate them. When Igo to Chicago after this I shall go in a’ parlor car, with lunch enough to last me, and a return ticket. I don’t understand it at aIL Now I didn’t do half the mean things in Chicago that the Prodigal son of old did in the far-off country, and yet he got taffy when he pot home, and I got my spine broke. It may be all right, but they do things different in the old counr try, yon know.” “If I understand the kind of a prodigal son you are,” said the grocery man, as he sprinkled the floor from a washbasin, preparatory to the semi-annual sweeping out; “you have got even with yonr pa before this, for his outrageous treatment. That is, mind you, I don’t suggest anything for you to play on him, but from what I know of you, the

account is even up before now. Am ] right ?” “Well, I should remark. Any person who thinks I cannot resent such an insult, makes a mistake as to the sort of a prodigal son I am. We had company at dinner to-day, and pa is always in Ins element when we have eompanv. He prides himself on his carving. iX’c had a roast of beef, and before it went on the table I took the steel that pa sharpens the carving-knife on, and made two holt s right through the roast, and then I took a rawhide whip that pa basted me with once, cut it in two, and run pieces of the rawhide in the holes of the beef. Pa lmgau carving with a smile, and asked the minister if he wofthl have his beef rare, or an outside piece. He was bearing gently on the carving knife, when the knife struck the rawhide and it wouldn’t go any further. Pa smiled and said he guessed he had struck a barbed wire fence, and he turned the roast around and cut again, and he struck the rawhide. The minister drummed with Lis fork and spoke to ma and said ‘we hail a splendid meeting last Wednesday night,’ and ma said it was perfectly gorgeous, and pa began to perspire and turn red in the face, and he said some words that would sound better in a brewery, and he tried to gouge off some meat, but it wouldn't come, and the ministei said, ‘ Brother, you seem to be having a monkey and a parrot time with that roast,’ and that made pa mad and he said he could carve his own meat without any sky-pilot’s interference, and ma said, ‘Why, pa, you should not be impudent,’ and pa said he could whip j the butcher that sold him that piece of j work ox, and lie sent the beef out to the kitchen and the company ate cold j liver. The girl set the meat in the ice-; chest, and pretty soon I went down j cellar ’cause I didn’t like cold liver, and pulled out the rawhide, and I had all the fatted calf I wanted, and I gave the rest to that lame dog you see me have here a spell ago. Oh. a boy. can get enough to eat if he has. got any originality about him. I think if pa would show a Christian spirit, and wear slippers when he kicks me, I would do anything to make ij pleasant for him, but when a man wears out huntinghoots on his own little prodigal, I think the prodigal is apt to get hard. Don’t you?” The groceryman admitted that perhaps the boy was right, and he raised such a dust^s weeping out that the hoy coughed, took a few peaches off the top of a basket, and went out whistling, “Home Again, from a Foreign Shore.” — Peck’s Sun.

Men and Horses of Former Times.

Mr. Gladstone is credited with having said that every symptom indicative of a nation which has seen its best days and is now slowly settling, may be discerned on every side of us at this moment. That there is far less vigor and endurance in ordinary men and ordinal y horses than existed at the commencement of the century is so apparent that none but the very young and very thoughtless can be blind to the fact. We find in the “Life of Lord Chancellor Campbell” that, in 1840, when he was 31 years old, be wanted to get from Stafford, where he was on circuit, to London with the least possible delay. “My plan,” he writes to his father, “was to go in a chaise to Wol verhampton and then to take the stagecoach; but there was r.o chaise tcebehad at Stafford, and I was forced to set off on foot. The distance is sixteen miles, which “I performed in less than four hours. At Wolverhampton I found the London coach rfcady to start, and, passing through Birmingham, Strat-ford-ou-Avon and Oxford, I reached the Temple next day at 2p. jn.” How many young barristers of to-day would be fit for a hard afternoon’s work after going through such an ordeal ? A stillliving veteran upon the stage, Mr. Chippendale, remembers the time when, as a young actor, be occasionally had to walk forty miles in a day from town to town and to playqit night for the noble stipend of 25 shillings a week. Sixty or seventy years ago such famous huntsmen as Squire Osbaldeston or the late Lord Lichfield endured, in getting to the covert side, fatigue and hardship which none bqt a madman would now ■ think of facing. Lord Lichfield, when I master of the Warwickshire hounds,! would take his jeat on a Sunday by the coachman’s side, at 8 p. m,, upon the box ©fir Hre Birßsin^hamriiGTeyhountL' 1 and. traveling all night, would arrive at Coventry about 6 a. in. on Monday. Having washed, put on his huntingclothes and breakfasted, he would ride perhaps twenty miles to meet his hounds, hunt all day, and, upon more ; than one occasion, return from Coventry j to London on Tuesday night by the j up-coach. When Squire Osbaldeston was master of the (juorn and Oakley hounds at the same time, his davs were often passed in hunting and hik nights in galloping from one pack to the other. The horses bestridden and ridden by these iron-framed spprtsi&en were, like their riders and drivers, more enduring than the animals now sold at Tattersail’s. —London Field. A Brave Girl. I have another brave girl to tell you ; of to-day. She is a brown-eyed, rosy-1 -cheeked lassie of 14, and her home is in | Jersey City. Since her mother’s death, j eighteen months ago, she has been her j father's housekeeper, and he says she is ; a very good one. But it was not foi her housekeeping that I wanted to tell i you about Mary Anne Atkinson. She is j a favorite with some young ladies who j live near her, and they have tanght j her to row. She is a fearless swimmer,; and manages a boat with ease and skill.; One afternoon she heard, the cries ol i four small boys who were adrift in a! boat in Communipaw basin. Suddenly j one of them—Thomas Koslow, 12 years j old, the only one who could handle the I bars—toll overboard. He bad' sunk j twice when Mary Anne, who had seen j the accident from the hank, and had i put forth to the rescue, reached him, j grasped and drew him into, her boat, j He was unconscious when she brought j him to land, but soon revived under the j measures which were at once taken. Meanwhile the brave girl rowed cut again, and towed in the boat in which were the little frightened .boys.—Hatpers T&ung Teople. >

COLORED CONVENTION.

~ ■■ ) —*- ’ v The Black Race Holds a National Convention. ■ —__- And Issue an Address to the People of the Country. The National Convention of the colored people convened In the large hall of the Ltederkranz building, at Louisville, Ky.. and was in session three days The convention was called to order by M. N. Holland, bt Washington, D. C. A Ml Green, of Louish ana, was made temporary Chairman. In accepting the chair he exhorted the delegates to stand by the principles eet down in the call, and refrain from all discussions of political questions. J. N. Gregory, of Washington, was made temporary Secretary. There was a wrangle over the permanent Chairmanship, and some disorder marked the proceedings. Too many delegates want ed to speak at once The Eastern men charged the West and South with a desire to dominate the convention, and considerable feeling was worked .up. The vexed question as to who should preside was finally settled by the cuoics fading upon Frederick Douglass, Who entertained the convention with a two hours' speech. Ho urged the people of his rnc: to move toward the goal of prosper ty and education, and to compel tiie world to receive them as e-;ua a He thought it time t .at outrageous iynchings bo stopped, and that college-, the’professions anti trades-union e welcomed the negro. Th i speaker tplit his beams that the colored race would never be proper.v recognized until one of its class was eleraAd to the'Mce Tresidency, or to u position in the Cabinet A resolution Was adopted that bis address I e sent to Congress as the sentiment of the convention. A good deal of time was spent in wrangling over the minor details ol the permanent organization, which was finally comp eted, and Committees on Civil light '. Education, lioils, and Address were appointed. Numerous resolutions intended to be sent to Congress asking for back pay, for money lost to depositors in the Freedin m s Savin '8 Bank, for Federal appropilations for the education of the colored people, etc., were referied teethe Committee on llesoluti ns. The follow.ng resolution was iut oduced by a delegate: Whereas, The administration of President C. A, Arthur is in harmony -with the prmt-tph-s of the grand old Republican party: thereto.e be it Resolved, That this Nztlunal Convention of Colored Men assembled give to the administra*tion their heartiest support. This caused the wildest uproar, and th« convention was on its feet The South and West pressed the resolution, while only a few irom the North and East appeared to favor it Personal violence was offered in one instance, and bedlam followed, but finally the resolution,-on motion of Herbert, of Louisiana, went to the Commitiee on Resolutions, from which it was never reported. A Kentucky delegate moved the following, which also made a great uproar: Resolved, That the colored peode of the United States in convention assembled do affirm our devotion anew to the Republican party, and will use our utmost endeavors for the continued ascendency and control of the National Government, believing it to be for the best interests of the whole people. The convention refused to adopt the resolution. Many protested against bringing politics into the deliberations of the body, and onlv the wise decision of the chair in sending the question to the Coramitee on Resolutions saved the convention from a split. “ ~: " The convention adopted the following address, after which it adjourned:

The National Convention of Colored Men respectfully present the following a< embracing and representing their view* and sentiments: 1. That we are grateful for, and rejoice in the miraculous emancipation that came to our race twenty years ago. The *hock of embattled arms was the lullaby of the nation born iu a day. We don’t, we can’t, forget the great sacrifice of the women and the heroic men who made possible the struggle in which treason and slavery were consigned to a common sepulcher. If we did we would be unmindful of the measure of devotion and patriotism that the IS6 white and seven colored soWiers rendered the nation. 2. We are not insens-ble to the fact that the Congress of ihe United States has spread upon the statute books many laws calculated to make us secure in or.r righi s as c itizens, nor would we b; forgetful of the magnificent amendments to the constitution Intended to render forever im possible the crime of human slavery. 3. We do not ask any more class legislation. We have had enongh of this;.hut we do.believe tha t many of the laws intended to secure us our rights as American citizens are nothing more than dead letters. In the Southern States almost without exception the colored people are denied toe fruit of their honest labor, defrauded of their political rights at the baliot-box.shut out from learning trades, cheated ont of their civil rights bv Innkeepers and common-carrier companies, and left by States to an inadequate opportunity for education and general improvement. 4. We regard labor on the question of education and moral training as" paramount to all other questions. We believe that, the question, especially in the South, needs recasting and that plantation credits and the mortgage system should be abolished. Honest labor shonld be remunerated. The landholders of the South should recognize that this qnestion is to be solved by encouraging the negroes to industry, frugality, and business habits, by inciting them to habits of thrift, bv assisting them to acquire an imerest in the soil, by paying them honest wages, for honest work, and by making tnem contented and happy in the land of their nativity. 'ihe white men and owners of the soil of the South can settle the question of labor and capital between white and bla k. We believe, in a broad and compr hensive system, looking toward the educa.ion of voung colored girls so that they may »ecorae iHtbeiligent*n*l.faitiilul women, and that young colored boys' may "learri" fradeST and' be-"' come u-efcl men andjfood citizens The religious and moral training of the yonth of our race should not be neglected. The hope, of every jjeople 1b adherence to sound social and ethical principles. The moral elem-: nt in the character is ot greater value than wealth of education, and this must be fostered by the family and encouraged by the pulpit. 5. The failure of the Freedman’s Savings Bank and Trust Company, established to receive the earnings of persons heretofore held in bondage and the descendants of such persons, was marvelous. It was established by the Government and was thought solvent. In changing the charter the Trustees transcended their au-thority-and thereby made themselvts liable. The Government, in appointing special machinery to close the insolvent Institution, violated the United States statutes on bankruptcy, and should therefore reimburse the creditors of the bank. v 6. The distinction made between white and colored troops in the regular army is urrg stefuL The white men can enter any branch of the service, while the colored men are confin' d to the cavalry and infantry serrt e, and in the appointment of civilians to the regular Brmy we ; believe it the duty of th; President ol the j United States to consider the * laims of the colored men. This distinction is carried into the navy as well. 7. It is not our province to dictate the policy for the government of our fellow-citizens In toe 1 several Slates. If is a matter that circumstances and patriotism should shape. 8. Asa race struggling and contending for our political rights, we are net unmindful or the i efforts of Ireland to gain her lights: and we extend to our Irish friends our ’profound sympa- ! thv and best wishes. We earnestly de»ire the 1 abolition of the chvin-gsng convict system and the admission to trades-unions of men of cur 'race, and employments in commercial pursuit*. 9. In nearly every State in the union, both f North and South, people of our race are not allowed to enter freely into trades or to gain emI ploynient in the higher walks of life. This,is unworthy of our Institutions and hurtful to the ; reputation of our country at home and abroad.

AMONG OUR EXCHANGES.

This year “doing London” has been the great thing among Americans visiting Europe. The mania for pet dogs has broken out i again among ladies and is worse than it has | ever been before i A sew fashion in baby cribs is to have them in pretty shapes, two of the favorites being a see-shell and swan. , Choice grapes are selling in California at S4O per ton. An acre of fair land there will produce Six tons, while fifteen to twenty tons per acre ia not aa unusual crop.

THE CHINESE.

Justice Field Decide Again* the Right of Hong Kong Chinamen to Land in This Country. rhe Question of Treaties Ignored by the Decision, WM*h Is Parefy Judicial. fSan Francisco Telegram.] Justice Field aqd Judge Pewyerhsve rendered their decision in the habeas corpus rase of Ah Lung, who, in hi* petition, admits being Chinese -by race, language and color, also a laborer, but, having been torn in Hong Kong, he claimed’ to be a British rubject, and that as such he did not come May 6,1884 Judge Field and Sawyer, in reviewing the case, find that the answer to the question depends upon meaning of the act, and not upon the Government to which the petitioner owes allegiance; that It waa not to be presatoed that Congress Intended to disregard the requirement* of the treaty, or to abrogate any of Its clauses Whether the treaty has been violated by one Government in ita legislative departments so as to afford a proper occasion of complaint by the foreign Government is not a judicial questionto the conrto. It is simply the case of conflicting laws between the act of May, 1882, modifying or superseding a pnor treaty. The court then proceeds, reviewing at length causes which ted to the agitation of the Chinese question, the appeals from white laborers of all classes to the Government which resulted to tha supplementary treaty of 1880, and the subsequent restrictive act of May, 1884 The decision concludes as follows: “ The act of Congress had a double purpose. It was to carry out certain treaty stipulations with China, and also to exclnde Chinese laborers coming from any part of the world. Its framers knew, as we all know, that the island of Hong Kong would pour Chinese laborers into our country every year in unnumbered thousands unless they also were covered by a restrictive act So the act declares in its first section that during the period of ten years the coming ot Chinese laborers to the United States, without any limitation of the country from which they might have come, la suspended, and during such suspension it shall not be lawful for any Chinese laborer to come, or, having come, after expiration of ninety days to remain within the United States. Ihe second section makes it a misdemeanor punishable by tine or imprisonment or both for the master of a vessel to knowingly bring into the United States on his vessel and land or permit to be landed any Shinese laliorers from any foreign port or place. The language in these sections is sufficiently broad and comprehensive to embrace aili Chinese laborers without regard to the country of which they may be, subjects, and the twelfth section declares Mat any Chinese person found unlawfully within the United States shall be removed therefrom by direction of the President to the country from whence he came. “Our attention has been called to a recent decision of Judges Lowell and Nelson, of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts, in which a different conclusion was reached by them. Those Judges considered that the act of Congress was simply intended to give effect to the stipulations of the supplementary treaty. Undoubtedly that was one of Its objects, but it is very evident, Loth from the circumstances under which it was passed and from its language, that it had a still further object The construction which we give renders all Its provisions consistent with each other. The whole purpose of the law to exclude Chinese laborers from the State would be defeated by any other construction. “The release of tiie prisoner must be denied, and he muiit be returned to the &blp from which he was taken, and it is so ordered ”

DISPOSING OF OLD HULKS.

Secretary Chandler’s Auction Sale of Old TSSfOlfi - [Washington Telegram.) Secretary Chandler's auction of old hulks proved more satisfactory than many persons supposed it would. Bids were received to-day for all the vessels offered, except the venerable Pawnee and the not less ancient but badly-rotted Florida, and there was some competition for several of the vessels. The aggregate of the appraised valuations of the vessels bid for was #27L3oft The whole cost to the Government of building, repairing and equipping these ships was 3 10,064, '.(Kt. Several of them, such as the Niagara, lfoanoke and Susquehanna, did good service In their time, and the Government may be deemed to have got its money's worth ont of them. Half a dozen of them are only tng-boata The New Orleans ts an old line of-battle ship on the stocks, and the others belong to the large class of shifts built daring and just after the war of white oak, because live oak was not to be bad, which have decayed rapidly. The 1 lor; da, for which no bid was made, was appraised at $64,400, considerably more.thaa.any other vessel on the hat .This engines are the principal thing of value about her. She was built for speed, and was probably the fastest steamer ever in the navy, but she only made one cruise Ten tears ago, when there was prospect of trouble with Fpain, she was partially fitted for sea According to a return made to the department. her engine received repairs and the boilers are not worth repairing. Her ma.hfnery cost 1795,000; and it appears that the Government must reduce her appraised valuation or retain her. The Congress, which was sold for #•-’6,006, contains machinery, the first cost of which was #412,000, built just after the war, and none of it is reported to be worth repairing. The lowa was appraised at #44.600, and was sold tor just s•> more than that The Niagara was appraised at 3 .v,0?6, and the highest bid was -.lactic that sum. The Secretary is in doubt whether he can accent that bid, because in inviting proposals it was stated that the ship would be sold for the highest above the appra’sed value thereof.. This sale does not inclnde the Alaska, Benecia, Saco, TuScarora, Nairaganeett, and old Monadnock, which are at the Mare Island yard.

Women of Affairs.

Miss Helen A Stewart, Ohio— Patent on s respirator. Mrs. Drake, Huron, Dakota—Successful farmer; SOO acres; big crop. Mrs. E. A Burke. Mew Orleans—Superintendent of Lafayette Square Miss Elia T. Greene. St Louis—Successful commercial traveler; salary, 91,500. Mrs. Louis Welch, East Concord, N. H.— Patchwork ouilt with 2.2C0 pieces in it Annie E. Wibon and Lsabeila M. Lev burn, Louisville—Editors and proprietors new magazine. , . The wire-fence war will engage an extra session of the Texas Legislature. Some of the pastures are fenced without a break for forty miles or more, ahd the only choice left to travelers is either to drive two days’ Journey ont of their way or cut the fence* Tmotht Shhelds. of Howard county, Md, stands six feet eight inches in his and weighs iO pounds. He has four children, three of whom are sons, averaging six feet two inchee in height, and weighing 213, £O, and 240 pounds, respectively. Daxala, Sara Bernhardt’s husband, ha* left the army and returned to the stage ■ .