Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1889 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC). * There is a big boom in iron and steel. Electric street cars Were a failure at Richmond, Va. Chicago has already subscribed 18,000,000 for the world’s fair. The St. Paul Chamber Of Commerce has announced itself in favor of Chicago for the World’s Fair. Excessive rains and worms have done great damage to the cotton crop in the Memphis district. A clerical mistake, it is believed, invalidates the Michigan high license law so far as it relates to druggists. Five thousand acres of peat land in Geneva county, Minn., is on fire, and 6,000 tons of hay have been destroyed. Gen. Lester B. Faulkner, eonvieted at Buffalo of making a false bank report, was Friday sentenced to seven years imprison mcnt. • 22 William O. Endicott, son of the ex-Secre-tary of War,was married at Lennox,Mass., Thursday, to Miss Louise Thornton, of Boston. Edwin Booth and Madame Modjeslca began their season together at Pittsburg Monday night in the “Merchant of Venice.” Helena, M. T., it is believed is infected withagungof firebugs: Four attempts at incendiarism were discovered and frustrated Friday night. = A deputy United —Stßtes collector une pectedly appeared at Guthrie, Ind. T., and arrested twenty-two liquor-sellers, such sales being prohibited.

Methodist Parson Fletcher L. Wharton was arrested while at a banquet given by a Milwaukee Grand Army Post in his honor. The charge was slander. George Johnson and John Hanlon fell seventy feet by the giving way of the seaff<Slding of a church steeple at Rockville, Conn., Friday. Both were killed. Mike Kelley, the HO,OOO ball player, was ejected from the Cleveland grounds, Wednesday, for disorderly conduct. He was intoxioated and attacked the umpire. Advices were received Friday to the effect that the steamer Eammoor from Baltimore to Rio Janeiro foundered in a gale Sept. 5, and twenty-eight lives were lost. The mayor of New Orleans is attempting to close the gambling establishments of that city. Two of the gambling fraternity, as a result of the mayor’s proclamation committed suicide Friday. Two women, three children and ten men lost their lives by the sinking in a collision of the sailing vessel Minnie Swift, of St. Pierre. The Swift collided with the transatlantic steamer Geographic. W. M. C. Young, a somewhat prominent man of St. Louis, who has been making love to different young ladies and to one or two became engaged, was publicly horsewhipped, Tuesday, by the mother of one of the girls. It was learned that he had a wife in Scotland. Among the emigrants who arrived at Castle Garden, Monday, was a prepossess ing young woman named Godborg Bjanardottis. She comes from Reykjavik,lceland, and will make her home with a friend in Brooklyn. Tho young woman’s head-gear attracted much attention. It consisted of a black skujl cap with a long silken pendant hanging down over her shoulders. She ealled it a Scotthufa. - At Moss Point, Miss., Thursday night about 8 o’clock, during prayer meeting services at the Presbyterian Church, some one fired a shot into the congregation through the front door of the building and instantly killed Dan R. Mclnnis and m ortaily .Wounded his little daughter,Miss Nellie. Mr. Henry Blumer was also seriously wounded, receiving five buckshot in his left breast and shoulder. There is no clew to the perpetrator of the horrible act. The old Hatfield-Coy feud has been re newed v *ad three more lives were sacrificed in the bloody vendetta which has now lasted more than seven years. A daughter of one of the McCoy gang proposed to wed a member of the Hatfield gang. Just as the bride and groom were standing before the minister to take the matrimonial vows a volley was poured through a window, which killed both of them and fatally wounded the clergyman. Society circles in Utica, N. Y., are greatly agitated over the marriage of Annie Louise Cushing, a pretty young woman aged twenty-four, and a boy named Eddie Frey, aged fourteen years. Miss Cushing has for many years been organist in different churches in Utica, and while acting in such capacity in St. Geooge’s Episcopal Church, became acquainted with young Frey, who was a member of the boy choir. When Miss Cushing rehearsed in the church Frey was always around pumping the organ.

FOREIGN. Small pox is said to be raging at Socorro, New Mexico. Three children were playing with matches in a powder house at Cayuga,Out., Friday. Ohe of them ignited a quantity of powder and was literally torn to pieces. The other two were fatally injured. It is reported that General Boulanger will leave London and take up his residence on the Isle of Jersey. [lt is said that the change is due to hiß desire to reduce his expenses, as the persons who have been furnishing him with financial support ace refusing to continue to supply him with money. He has had a quarrel with Henri Rochefort. M. Rochefort will visit Egypt and pass the winter there unless.he; is granted an amnesty by the French government. .1

NEW DEMOCRATS.

New York Democrats met at Syracuse on the Ist. Jones of Binghamton was made temporary Chairman and made a speech eulogistic of President Cleveland’s administration. The platform says: The Democratic .party of the State of New York, Jn convention assembled, re-, news the pledges of its fidelity to Democratic faith and reaffirms of the national platform of 1888, adopted at St. Louis. We have not advocated and do tot advocate free trade, Ml wo steadfastly advocate the principles of tariff reform, believing that adherence to the right carries in itself the certainty of We

heartily indorse the honest and fearless administration of the National Government by Grover Cleveland. Second—We charge that the Republican party at the last federal election obtained power in the nation by corruption and false pretenses, by intimidation and coercion of voters; by promises unperformed; and by shameless trafficking of Cabinet and other offices in its gt/t to the highest bidders; and though its candidates by these unscrupulous means received more than half the Votes of the Elecloral College,"-its doctrines and principles were repudiated by a majority of the voters of the country. We arraign the chief Executive of the United States for a disgraceful violation of the pledge contained in his letter of acceptance, to-Wit: “In appointments to every grade and department fitness and not party service should be .the essential and discriminating test, and fidelity and efficiency the Only sure tenure of office;” in that not in exceptional instances, but with sweeping hand he has removed hundreds of honest and capable officers before the expiration of the terms for which they were appointed. Third—Maintaining as heretofore, that improper combinations of capital which limit production, fix the price of commodities regardless of the cost of production, reduce the wages of labor and crush out the smaller independent dealers, and thus strangle legimate competition, are conspiracies. —. •. : The Republican party in this State, is next arraigned for having, last year, made the heaviest tax rate since 1875, heing an increase of from 39,000,000 td|12,500,000. Governor Hill is, on the other hand,lauded for having saved to the people, by his vetoes, about $2,000,000.' The plank dealing with the excise question, in part, thus: We do not favor the unrestricted sale of intoxicating liquors on the one hand, nor prohibition on the other hand. We believe that the liquor traffic should be restrained and regulated by just and equitable excise laws, rigidly enforced, which laws,in their operation, should be substantially uniform throughout the State. We believe all excise revenues, whether called license fees or taxes, should belong to the local treasuries of the localities under whose authority licenses are issued, to be applied in reducing the burden of local taxation. We oppose the passage of the prohibition amendment, upon which the next Legislature is required to-act, and we denounce hypocrisy of the Republican party of this State, and of the States of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, in submitting, or proposing to submit, prohibition amendments only to defeat them at the polls. We arraign the Republican party for its dishonest treatment of the temperance question. Frank Rice was nominated for Secretary of State.

SCOPE OF GAS LEASES.

They Cover On'y the Right of the Lessee to Use the Land for the Purposes Named: Judge Pendleton, of the Court of Common Pleas at Findlay, 0., Thursday, delivered bis decision in the injunction suit of the Standard Oil Company against the Toledo, Findlay & Springfield railroad, to restrain that corporation from constructing its road-bed over lands on which the Standard held leases, on the ground that an oil or gas lease carried with it absolute control of the premises for all purposes save alone agricultural. The Judge dissolved the injunction, and in doing so rendered a. lengthy opinion denying the position taken by the Standard that its leases of lands included the right to control the surface to such an extent as to prevent the owners from giving or selling the right of way across it for a railway or other highway. Judge Pendleton decided that the leasses made to the Standard by the owners of the land did not cover the control of the surface of the lands, but only gave the leasees the right to use such of the surface as was necessary to the prosecution of their work in developing and utilizing the gas and oil in the interior. A decision in favor of the company would have given them and other companies absolute control over hundreds of thousands of acres of land in Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania. The Standard’s’ attorney gave noticj of appeal.

NOVEL ELOPEMENT.

The Wife of a Deputy Sheriff Releases a Highway Robber and Runs Away With Him. Quite a sensation was created at Little Falls, Minn., Thursday, by the discovery that Mrs. J. P. Sand, wife of the deputy sheriff, had taken her husband’s '-revolver, keys and 150, and, after liberating John Mitchell, sentenced at the late term of the District Court to the State Reformatory at St. Cloud, eloped with him. She was seen to board the midnight-train north, and it is supposed that he took the same train from the side opposite. The sheriff and deputy are in pursuit, but will probably not get Mitchell, as he is well acquainted with the Cass county woods. Mitchell was convicted of highway robbery, and now that he has even robbed the jailer of his wife’s affection aud also his money, he is looked upon as quite a novelty in the way of a crook. Mitchell is twenty old and the woman forty, and leaves a husband and three children, tho eldest about twenty.

FLAMES AT GRAND HAVEN.

v The Residence Portion of the C>tj De-•truyed--AXo.fi of 9500,000. A special from Grand Haven, Mich., says: A large part of the* beat part of the residence portion of this city was wiped out by a great fire, Tuesday morning. The fire was discovered at 1 o’clock. The flames spread with great rapidity, 'f'he fire department and the herculean efforts of the citizens could not do much to stay the spread of the flames. Among the buildings burned are the following: The Cutler Hotel; residences of Dwight Cutler, Mrs. Clayton, T. A. Parris, George B. Sanford, Captain MoCullom anff A. sie;_ three churches were burned—First Heformed, Unitarian and Methodist. Ih> -sides these, about thirty residences. No lives were lost! The total loss is about >(500,000, with a fair amount of insurance.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Hog cholera ia reported from Martin county. Inks and Ivory [ts the “battery" of a Goshen ball club. Eighteen thousand people attended the Jay ooonty fair at Portland, Thursday. Two men, unidentified, were killed by a Vandalia work train at Glendale, near Torre Haute. _ Joseph S. Miller, of Danville, the first man in Indiana to volunteer in the late war, died, Tuesday. : James Nichol’s cooper shop at Terre Haute, the largest in the State, .burned Friday. Loss 97,000. '• The total attendance at the recent State fair was fully 150,000. About 914,000 was cleared above expenses. Walter J. Mendenhall, a gravel road contractor, is missing from Tipton, and is ahead of confiding people about 92,000. Nineteen men were seriously injured, two of whom will die, by the wreck of the construction train on the Mackey road eighteen miles west of Bedford, Thursday. J. M. M. McClelland, agent of the Michigan Central Railway, was Tuesday found to be short 91,300 ia his accounts. His father made the defalcation good and he will not be prosecuted. Theodore Foust was playing circus with s number of young playmates in Martinsville, Sunday, when, in doing the flyingtrapeze aot, he fell some distance to the ground, broke an arm and was injured internally.

Some scoundrels broke the leek on the •table of James Turney, who livee nea.* Montpelier, and broke his buggy up, shaved bis horse’s tall and mane, and out the harness te pieess. There is no clue to the persons who did the deed. Mr. Turney is a fanner and a peaoeable man. Eli Howes, of Memphis near Jeffersonville, made 9179 net on one acre of black •op raspberries this year. The fruit growers of this section will plant about 20,000peach trees, not to mention other fruit trees, and set out nearly 500,000 Derry plants. The area of fruitgrowing is rapidly increasing, and it will not be long until •11 the available land on the knobs and bluffs will be ooVered with orchards and ; berry gardens. Patents were issued to Indiana inventors Tuesday as follows: Msrtha A. Carter, Amo, fruit-can nor; Edward Dawson, Torre Haute* Tise; Ghas. N, Ellis, New Albany, gatelatch; Henry. Fa tic, Middletown, oane •r corn harvesting machine; Phillip J. Harrah, Bloomfield shafbholder for vehicles ; Geo. E. Richotts, Goshen, brush (or moistening the sheets of copying-books; Robert S. Taylor and M. M. Slattery, Fort Wayne, automatic) synchronizing commutator. W. J. Perrin leit on our table, Saturday Bvening, a young twig cut from an apple tree—the second. growth for thia year—that is four and one half inches in length, and bears at the point four young halfblown blossoms, and between them a young apple, also of second growth, that has attained the rise of an ordinary pigeon’s sgg. On tho same limb, a few inches below this “freak,” were several large, full grown and fully matured apples sf the “grindstone” variety.—Seymour Democrat A daring robbery was committed three miles west of Scettsburg, Sunday night i Jim Boatman, a were boy, had recently ; received <B,OOO on the death of his fatoss. Jts was in the house alone with another boy when two persons entered threatening to eh op them up with axes I unless the money was given np. The guests knew the hiding place and produced 9110. The robbers dropped <BO on the ' floor in their hurry to be gone. They i escaped, but a neighbor and brother of | Boatman’s stepfather named Johnson, only fifteen years eld, is suspected. He is j dodging the The Thirty-eighth Annual Report of the State Board of Agriculture for 1888-1889 has been printed and is being distributed. The report and accompanying features j comprise a volume of MS pages, and includes the proceedings es the annual ■ meeting es 1889, meeting of eattle breeders, 1 swine breeders, wool growers,bee keepers, sane growers, State florists and State Horticultural Association. Every farmer in Indiana,and every citizen interested in any es the special vocations above mentioned, should be in possession of one of these volumes, as the papers and discussions set forth will be found an invaluable aid to the intelligent pursuit of these vocations. The Secretary, Hon. Alex. Herron, is deserving of high praise for the careful mah- : ncr in which the book has been edited, j Indiana ought to feel proud of hfir sons Ihi the new States. Of those elected in those States who hail from this State are: I A. C. Mellette, Governor es South Dakota, fromMuncle; John R. Wllsen, member Of I Congress from Washington, from Crawford sville; H. C. Hansbrough, elected to I Congress from North Dakota is a native ' Hoosier, Gideon C. Moody, frees New Albany and Gil. A. Pierce, from Laporte, will be elected United States Senators from South and North Dakota respectively. Jerre R. Celling, elected Treasurer of Montana, hailed from Wabash and Loganspert. The Auditor es State haa completed a tabular statement showing the number of white and colored voters in the State. The statement is compiled from returns made by the County Auditors. According to the statement, the total number of msdes over twenty-one years of age is 061,048. Of this number 540,006 are white aed 11,043 color ed. Marion county is credited with 37,554 voters, of which 34,663 are white and 2,891 colored. Center Township and Indianapolis alone have 31,008 voters, 28,801 of I which are white and 2,696 colored. It will | thus be seen that more thaa one fifth of all the colored men in the State are located in Marion county. Next to Marion county f Yigohas the largest voting population, baI ing credited with males over twenty. J one years of age. Then comes Vanderburg comity with a voting population of 12,717. , - r St. Louis* Man (to New Orleans man)—Got tiny yellow fever An your I town yet? j New Orleans Man— No, but we have the Sal vation Army. —Pittsburg Chronime.

THE FOUR HEW STATES.

Election* on th» First Recall in Favor es Republicans in Ihrss and the JUemo--.rats in One. Elections in the four new States, North aud South Dakota, Washington and Montana, were held on the first instant, and the voters have eiven expression to their political virfws, a sort of announcement of birth, and te their elder brothers in the Union of States congratulations are to be extended frr the acquisition of four -prosperous commonwealths as members in full in the body politic. The Capital fight in South Dakota and Washington called out the few voters who might otherwise have been classed as stay-at-homes,'while closeness of the State acted in a similar way in Montana, Work was not by any means abandoned for votes, the Sunday-school children in Aberdeen, S. D., marching in procession during the day to influence the vote on the prohibition amendment. Those towns in South Dakota which were not themselves capital aspirants were filled with workers for the contesting cities. The two Dakotas . had .been conceded to the Republicans early in the day, the point to be settled being only as to the size of the majority. The interest in North Dakota was centered in prohibition,the friends of which were hopeful,and the ..district judgeships. Also there was much interest in the Legislature a$ regards the feelings for or against tho senatorialcandidacy of ex-Governor Pierce and Ordway. The returns at this writing are not sufficient to give aotual majorities. In South Dakota from all directions come reports of the heaviest vote ever polled in the history of the Territory. The city of Sioux Falls alone polled a vote of 3,150 and gives a small Republican majority. Reports from different parts of the State come in slow, but enough has been received to show that the Republicans have carried the day. Mellette for Governor, and Pickier and Gifford for Congress will have a majority of not less than 10,009. Prohi bition is running well, and has certainly been carried by a small majority. Indications point toward Sioux Fails as the selection for the capital. Reports from different sections indicate that the Republi cans have the Legislature by a majority of about 120 on joint ballot. This insures both United States Senators. The State Constitution is carried almost unanimously, but minority representation is defeated. The vote was the largest ever cast in Washington. Indications all point to the election of Ferry and the entire Republican State ticket, including Wilson for Congress, by a majority averaging 4,000. Scratching was general on both tickets. Tho complexion of the Legislature must remain in doubt until the vote is fully counted, as the battle was concentrated on that field. The separate articles to the Constitution, embracing the prohibitory and woman suffrage planks, are unquestionably defeated by a large majority. The constitution will be ratified, but not by the majority its supportera thought it would obtain. 2 a. m.— Returns indicate that Washington has elected a Republican Governor and Congressman by 7,00 t), and the Legislature by fifteen majority. Returns show almost a complete change in the vote in Montana from the last Congressional election. The counties of Deer Lodge and Silver Bow, in which the towns of Anaconda and Butte are situated, and which gave last year a Republican majority of 2,500, have gone Democratic this year. The Democratic managers olaim the entire State ticket and a majority of the Legislature. The Helena Journal (Republican) claims the State for Carter by 2,500, and says Power will not run 500 behind it, and says the Legislature canpotbe forecast, but is confident of a Republican majority. The Journal says the country districts show large Republican gains over Carter’s majority of 5,000 last year, and returns from Butte and Deer Lodge cannot overcome Republican country districts. Later dispatches indicate that the vote is close, with the probabilities in favor of the Democrats, who seem to have elected the Governor and the Legislature. The congressman is in doubt, with Carter (Republican) running ahead of his ticket. LATER. The Democrats claim Montana by from 300 to 300, and the Republicans by 600 to I, The Legislature is probably Democratic by ten or fifteen majority. Republicans made gains in Dem->cratic strongholds but lost in Republican counties. Carter, Republican, is elected to Congress and Toole, Democrat, is elected Governor. The Republicans elected a majority of the minor State officers. In South Dakota the contest for the State capital overshadowed all else. Pierre is believed to have been successful, the vote so far reported being Pierre, 13,934; Huron, 11, Sioux Falls, 11,410. A Blunt, S. D., dispatch, says: The west-bound train for Pierre passed through here at 5:30 o’clock loaded with Pierre boomers. The rush to Pierre will be unprecedented and farm property has already taken a jump of 100 per cent. An estimate from Washington is as follows: The Washington Constitution has fieen adopted by eighteen to twenty thousand majority. The whole Republican State ticket has been elected by eight to ten thousand. Of 110 members of the Legislature in both houses, the Democrats nave not elected more than 13. The prohibition and woman suffrage clauses of the Constitution have been defeated. For the State capital, Olympia is largely ahead of all competitors, and may have a majority over all, though the better judgment is that another ballot wiil be necessary to decide it All of the principal towns, Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane Falls, Olympia, Fort Townsend and Vancouver, voted heavily for the Constitution and gave large Republican majorities. , North Dakota gives a Republican majority for the State ticket and for .members of Congress of from ’ 5,000 to 7,000. The State Senators are twenty Republicans, five Democrats and one' Independent, and the House forty-two*Republicans and ten Democrats.. • •’ * Prohibition carried In, ;■« ortfi .J)akota. Pierre, the'new ('apjtaL pt South Dakota, is elebratiug its victory in a robust manner.

WASHINGTON NOTES.

David P. Liebhardt of Indiana has been appointed Superintendant of the Dead Letter office, vice Geo. B. Hall, resigned. Sal ary <2,500. ■ The charge is made against Gen. Rosecrane that he is drawing two salaries from the government—one of <4,600 per annum as Register of the Treasury and one of <4,125 as a Brigadier General on the retired list of the army The Department of State has received a telegram"from General Franklin, United States Commissioner General to the Paris Exposition, saying that the United States exhibit has been awarded 53 grand prizes, 199 gold medals, 271 silver medals, 21b bronze medals, 220 honorable mentions and indicating that the collaborators awards,.not yet announced, will undoubtedly increase this number. General B. M. Prentiss, appointed" post master at Bethany, Mo., is a Democrat. He owes his appointment to Secretary Noble, to whom he applied last winter for a place. Noble speaks of him as a splendid fellow and fine soldier, and adds that he does not in such a case care what a man’s polities is. General Prentiss’s entire com-i mand, with himself at’ its head,} was captured at the battle of Shiloh, and there has been much controversy over the facts.

The public debt was decreased <13,685,094 during September. Expenditures during the first three months of the current fiscal year aggregated <94,849,099, against 177,867,599 during July, August and September, 1888. The increased expenditures in 1889 over the expenditures for the first quarter in 1888 are accounted for in the following items: Rivers and harbors, |3,200,000; in military establishment, 11,965, r 000; construction and miscellaneous, <900,OCO; for Indians. <326,000; deficiency in postal revenues, <1,696,600; for pensions, <10,568,000; making a total of <18,655,000. From this should be deducted $1,675,000 interest and premium paid less in 1889 than in 1888, leaving a net increase amounting to <16,930,000. ’This increase is subject to further reduotion when the full repay ments for the quarter ending Sept. 80,1889, Shall have been received, yet the payments from the Treasury are larger at this time than in the same period for 1888, because of the smaller drafts Upon the Treasury for funds last year while awaiting the passage of the large appropriation bills.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.

Forty Lives Lost by the Explosion of a: Boiler on a Miaslss ppi River Boat. The steamboat Coronah exploded her boilers at False River, nearly opposite Port Hudson, at 11:45 Thursday morning, causing the loss of the steamer and about forty lives, mostly employes of the boat, The Anchor-line steamer City of St. Louis, Captain James O’Neal, was near by, and with his crew and boat saved many lives. The surviving passengers were taken on board by Captain O’Neal, and very kindly cared for by him and his crew. The boat had a moderate cargo. She was in mid stream, just below the landing at Arbroth, and had just whistled to pass the City of St. Louis, fortunately coming down at the time. The explosion had a downward tendency, and blew out the bottom of the boat, causing her to sink immediately. The cabin was torn in two, the rear portion floating down stream and bearing a number of the saved. Captain Sweeney happened to be forward and started at once to put out the flames, which began to burn at several places. He says the boat would undoubtedly have burned had she gone down immediately. None of the books, papers or other valuables were saved. The City of St. Louis, which was about 500 yards above, at once put Out her boats, and she did noble work in saving lives. The Anchor liner stayed there several hours rendering all tbe assistance possible, and taking on board the rescued passengers and crew. When nothing more could be done, she came on down to Baton Rouge, where physicians were summoned and everything possible done for the injured.

LOOKING FOR DESERTERS.

The Difficulties in the Way of Convicting Men When Caught. New York Bun. Efforts are being made to j capture deserters from the army of Uncle Sam, and to punish them severely in the hope thereby of reducing the number of desertions. It is said that there were so many desertions from the army last year' that the Secretary of War contemplated raising the reward of S3O for the apprehension of a desferter to SIOO. Local detectives are all the time on the lookout fbr deserters. - * -Most of the recruits find the life of a soldier entirely different from what they pictured it to be,” said Detective J. M. Fuller yesterday, “and after three or four" weeks in idleness become deserters. Our lists show that nearly 500 have deserted during the summer. I. believe that nearly all of these men came to this city. lam informed by army officers that there is a set of men who follow up enlisting in the army and then deserting as a business. It is certain that some of those whom I have captured have admitted that they enlisted twice or three times. The purpose was to defraud the Government out of bounty money and their clothing. “As a general thing it is easier to learn that a man is a deserter than it is to prove it. The information in possession of the Gbvernment of an inlisted person is meagre indeed. The color pf his hair and> eyes, and miy birth marks he may," halve recorded. Some of the men,,do not recollect themselves thO name under which they enlist; so that the name sometimes is. worse than useless.”

MR. BLAINE SPEAKS

Tp tile Members of tfce Anatan Utter* ....’ *. national Congress. ■ Abbot noon Wednesday, the delegates to the International American Congress called at the Department of State, and Secre tary Blaine delivered the following address of welcome : Gentlemen of the International American -Congress—Speaking for the Government of tne United States, I bid you welcome to this capital. Speaking for the people of the United States, I bid you welcome to every section and to every State of the Union. You come in response to an invitation extended by the President on the special authorization of Congress. Your presence here is no ordinary event. It signifies much to the people od all , NwA’tis.'a, to-day. It may signify far more in days to come. No conference of nations has eVer assembled to consider the welfare of territorial possessions so vast, and to contemplate tne possibilities of a future so great and so inspiring. Those npw sitting within these walls are empowered to speak for nations'whose borders are on both the great oceans, whose northern limits are touched by the Arctic waters for a thousand miles beyond the straits of Behring, whose southern extensions furnishes human habitations further below the equator than is elswhere possible on the globe. :r While considerations of this character must inspire Americans, both South and North, with the liveliest anticipations of future grandeur and power, they must also impress them with a sense of the gravest responsibility touching the character and development of their respective nationalities. The delegates whom lam addressing can do much to establish permanent relations of confidence, respect and friendship between the nations which they represent. They can show to the world an honorable and peaceful conference of seventeen Independent American powers, in which all shall meet together on terms of absolute equality; a conference in which there can be no attempt to coerce a single delegate against bis own conception of the interests of his nation; a conference which will permit no secret understanding of any subject, but will jrankly publish to the world all its conclusions; a conference which will tolerate no spirit of conquest, but will aim to cultivate an American sympathy as broad as both continents; a conference which will form no selfish alliance against the older nations, from which we are proud to claim Inheritance; a conference, in fine, which we seek nothing, propose nothing, endure nothing that Is not, in the general sense of all the delegates, timely and wisely peaceful. And yet we cannot be expected to forget that our common fate has made us inhabitants of the two continents which, at the close of four centuries, are still regarded beyond the seas as the new world. Like situations beget like sympathies and impose like duties. We meet in the firm belief that the nations of America ought to and can be more helpful each to the other than they now are. and that each will find advantage and profit from an enlarged intercourse with the others. We believe we should be drawn together more closely by the highways of the sea, and that at ro distant day the railway systems of the North and South will meet upon the isthmus and connect by land routes the political and commercial capitals of all America. We believe that hearty co-operation, based on hearty confidence, will save all American States from the burdens and evils which have long and cruelly afflicted the older nations of the world. We believe that a spirit of Justice, of common and equal interest between the American States, will leave no room for an artificial balance of power like unto that which has led to wars abroad and drenched Europe in blood. We believe that friendship avowed with candor, and maintained with good faith, will remove from American Stated the necessity of guarding boundary lines between themselves with fortifications and military: force. We believe that standing armies, beyond those which are needful for public order and the safety, of internal administration, should be unknown on ‘both American continents. We believe that friendship and not force; the spirit of the law, and not the violence sf the rhob,should be the recognized rule of administration between American nations and in American nations. To these subjects, and those which are cognate thereto, the attention of this conference is earnestly and cordially invited by the Government of the United States. It will be a great gain when we shall acquire that common conference on which Ml international friendship must rest. It will be a greater gain when we shall be able to draw the people of all American nations into closer acquaintance with each other—an end to be facilitated by more frequent intercommunication. It will be the greatest gain when the personal and commercial relations of the American Btates, South and North, shall be developed and so regulated that each shall acquire the highest possible advantage from the enlightened and enlarged intercourse of all. Before the conference shall formally enter upon the discussion of the subjects to be submitted to It. lam instructed by the President to invite all the delegates to be the guests of the Governmen t during a proposed visit to various sections of the country, with the double view of showing to our friends from abroad the condition of the United States and of giving to our own people in their homes the privilege and pleasure of extending the warm welcome of Americans to Americans. Mr. Blaine then withdrew and he was then named as President of the Congress. Several committees were appointed. The Congress then called at the White House and were given a reception by the President.

THE MARKETS.

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