Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1874 — Page 2

RENSSELAER UNION. JAMES A HEALEY, Proprietors. RENSSELAER, - INDIANA.

THE NEWS.

Spain Willing to Indemnify the United States. Great Fire in Cronstadt, Russia--10,000 People Homeless. End of the Safe-Burglary Con - (piracy Trial. Important Decision by the Supreme Court of Indiana. fwatiei of the Isdiua State Griwre-hdfpendent — — Pint Contention. Tnscnmbi* and Montevallo, Ala., Visited by Destructive Gales. b Gov. Garland, of Arkansas, Offers Rewards for Smith tnd Wheeler. Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc. FOREIGN. In the German Reichstag on the ‘2lst a motion made by one of the Ultramontane members, directing tbc release of several Democratic Deputies, was defeated. A Rio Janeiro dispatch of the 21st announces the surrender of the gunboat Panama, of the Argentine revolutionist flotilla. The mails from Buenos Ayres to Europe had been stopped. A London telegram of the 21st says Morocco had agreed to cede a port to Germany. A Dublin dispatch of the 22d says the Pope had written to Cardinal Cullen, thanking him and the Irish Bishops for their condemnation of the address delivered by Tyndall at Belfast, and declaring that nothing is to be so much decried as “those spiritual pirates whose trade is to despoil the souls of men.’' The Italian Parliament was opened on the 23d by King Victor Emmanuel In person. His speech related mainly to the reorganization of the financial system of Italy and to measures of public safety, and was warmly received. A Madrid special of the 24th says the Spanish Government had expressed a willingness to pay to the United States indemnity in the Vlrginius case on the same basis as that with which Great Britain was satisfied. A late letter from 8t Petersburg states that a fire recently occurred at Cronstadt, which destroyed the dwellings of 10,000 persons. The rhinoceros in the Zoological Garden at London on the 25th fatally gored two of the keepers.

Madrid dispatches of the 35th say the Carlists had attacked San Marcial, one as the outlying forts of Iran, but were repulsed with heavy loss. A later dispatch says the Carlisle were within 500 yards of Iran. A London dispatch of the 26th says deputations from fifty-two chambers of commerce had waited upon Lord Derby to present objections to the proposed reciprocity treaty between the United States and Canada. A frightful mountain disaster is reported to have recently occurred at Mount St. Bernard. Eleven persons were buried in the snow, and all are supposed to have perished. Large reinforcements for Cuba sailed from Madrid on the 2Sth. London dispatches of the 29th say that Disraeli was very ill and unable to attend to business. On the 29th a storm of great violence prevailed oil the coast, aud many easualties had been re ported, with heavy loss of life. A circular letter from Archbishop Manning has been read in all the churches in his diocese, declaring that all persons who do not accept the dogma of papal infallibility eease to be Catholics- l Madrid telegrams of the 29th say the Republican army now numbers 200,000, fully armed. ' (f

IHXIKSTIC. While Mrs. Riley, of Trenton, X. J., teas lighting s fire with kerosene oil on the 21st, the can exploded, and herself and her infant child were burned to death. In a trotting match at on the 21st “ Fullerton" won -the three heats in 2:20#, 2:20# and 2:20# ’' “ The first Presbyterian Oiureh of Louisville, Ky., has formally withdrawn from the presbytcry of that city, that body having, at its recent session, severely reprimanded Dr. Wilson, pastor of such church, and called upon him to resign his pastoral charge. A communication having been received from the Cheyenne Agency, Dakota, to the effect that about sixty white men, miners, are working in the Sioux Reservation in the Black Hills, Secretary Delano has requested the War Department to remove any person who may be found trespassing, that trouble with the Indians may be'avoided.

Gov. Garland, of Arkansas, issued a proclamation on the 23d offering' fI.OOO for the apprehension of Bmith and SSOO for Wheeler. It is stated from Washington that it was definitely known there that Smith was in the Government Arsenal at Little Rock. The recent heavy winds which prevailed in many portions of the West and South did considerable damage in some localities. Onethird of the residences in Tuscvunbia, Ala., were destroyed by the gale on the evening of the 22d, and twelve persons were killed and many others injured. Half of the town of IContevallo, in the same State, is also reported destroyed, and tap, persons were killed and twenty wounded. Much damage was caused and several lives were lost in different sections of the East by Die recent wind-6torms. * An engine on the Hyde Park dummy road, near Chicago, jumped the track at Hyde Park on the 24th, and the engineer, Charles L. j Morris, was crushed to death under the en- ~ gine, which had turned over, and a newsboy j named Dfive Brown was fearfully and fatally scalded by escaping steam. The Board of Trade of Chicago has been recently engaged in investigating charge* of unsapaunercial tnoeactioo* against W. X.

Sturgcs, who got up the late corner ou corn. When about to vote on the question of expelling - Mr. Sturgis, on the 24th, an Injunction was served upon the Board; thus putting a stop to the proceedings. Reports were recently current that C. S. Qulsenlrary, Treaturgrof the Missouri State Grange, had become a defaulter to the amount of 120,000. The facts appear to be as-follows: At the recent meeting at Kansas City, Mr. Qulscnbury was called J upon for the whole sum In the Treasury. $20,000, It being wanted to invest in a manufactory. It then came out that (Juiscnbury had Invested the funds of the Grange in various ways, and that they could not be realised at once. He raised $4,000 cash and lias since given to the Executive Board of the Grange deeds of trust on two farms .said to be worth SIB,OOO, and executed a bond of persona! security which has been accepted by the Board, and has agreed to pay the whole amount by next July. It is not believed that the Grange will lose a dollar. / A slight shock of earthquake was fell at Newburyport, Mass., ou the 24th. Tbc direction of the vibration was from west to east. The New York Graphic of a recent date announces that the New York Central and Lake Shore Railroads had in contemplation the formation of a joint company witli a view to continuing the two extra tracks (abrnit cotnpleted between Albany and Buffalo) on to Chicago—the two additional tracks to lie exclusively for freight. It seems that the hoax published in the New York Herald a few weeks ago, giving a detailed account of the pretended escape from Central Park of a large number of animals and the killing and maiming by them of a large number of persons, has caused the death of one man —Henry A. Martin, of Plainfield, N.J.—who became so excited over the perusal of the horrible story that be was taken sick and subsequently died. Independence, Mo., lost $150,000 by tire on the night of the 25th. There was an insurance of only $5,000 on the property destroyed. Wesley Underwood, under sentence of death at Palmyra, Mo., for killing Richard Menifee in March, 1871, hanged himself in-jail on the night of the 24th. He was to have been executed on the 27th. • •* In the Indiana State Grange onthe 25th a resolution was adopted declaring “ that the State Grange, in council assembled, has no sympathy witli any past, present or future attempt that may be made by any political party or political aspirant to absorb a Tittle reflected warmth, decency or support by persistently calling and publishing their meetings at the same time and place of ours, aud that a decent respect for our Order requires that such attempts be suitably rebuked by publishing this resolution.’’ In the safe-burglary conspiracy ease at Washington, on the 27th, the jury reported that could not agree upon the guilt Or innocence of Whitely and Harrington, but found Williams not guilty. It is understood that on the first ballot the jury stood eight for acquittal and four for conviction in Harrington's case, and in Whiteiy’s case nine for aeqnittal and three for conviction. The United States Supreme Court has derided that the Indians. in tßcir tribal relations, have no property Tights in fee; also that the timbers and minerals on the reservations are a part of the realty, and cannot be sold or leased. Z The ’longshoremen on the docks in New York city were all on a strike on the 27tii. A terrible condition of affairs is reported as recently existing in the Scranton (Pa.) coal regions', a large number of men were unemployed and riots were almost of daily occurrence, and the few men engaged in the mines were compelled to go to and from their work armed with rifles. Murders were frequent and thefts and assaults were of hourly occurrence. The body of an infant reported to have been stolen from the bedside of its mother in Ereemansburg. Pa., on the night of the 20th has been found in the river at that place, aud Mrs. Goss, the mother,-lias been arrested, charged with having thrown the child into the water. At a recent meeting in Indianapolis,of the Western Bureau of Railway Commissioners it was decided to advance the rates ou all classes of freight from Western points five cents per hundred pounds. Nineteen citizens of Lafourche parish. La., have been arrested ou warrants issued by the United States Commissioners, charging them with the violation of the Enforcement act. AT its recent session the Indiana State Grange made an appropriation of SI,OOO for the relief of the Nebraska sufferers, and a committee was directed to mature a plan far raising additional funds by ealling on subordinate Granges for contributions. The Secretary reported *409 Granges in the State paying dues, with' 53,141 members. There is a balance of $14,800.57 in the treasury.

Jones, of Kentucky, Clerk of the State Court of Appeals, but declared ineligible because of his having accented a challenge to fight a duel, will take liis ease to the court of which he was elected Clerk. The ground of his suit is that the Returning Board had no authority to inquire into the evidence. In his report the. Postmaster-General states the postal revenues for the year ending June 30, 1874, at $24,590,568; expenditures, $32.126,414; estimated expeaditures for the year ending June 80, 1875, $30,964,034; total estimated reVemte, $29,148,156 —leaving a deficiency to be appropriated out of the general treasury of “$7,815,878. These estimates do not include appropriations for steamship service and stamps, amounting to $2,098,500. The Secretary of the Treasury has directed the Assistant Treasurer at New York to sell $500,000 of gold each Thursday during De- | comber. .1

It is said that at the* next trial of the Washington safe-burglary case Nettleskip will turn State’s evidence. __ In Hamilton County, N. Y., recently a carpenter named Elias Williams, engaged ie erecting a building', got into a qbarrel with an employe of his named George Smith, while both were drunk. In the course of the struggle Williams threw Smith over a wooden saw-horse and sawed off his head, severing it entirely from his body. Williams soon afterward cut his own throat., A woman in New York city, named Janesch, has been held to await the action of the Grand Jury on the charge of having deliberately placed her little child Carrie or a hot stove and holding her there until she was fatally burned.

| Several Italian miners engaged in a riot near Shoustown, Pa., on the 29th, attacking houses and driving women and children therefrom. They were repelled by a small body of c-itizens, and were’ subsequently attacked by a larger force, and after fighting for nearly an hour were compelled to yield, and the rioters promised to leave the place at once. Four of their number were killed and several severely wounded. Xeno of the citizens were injured.

pkhmnal. A brilliant party was giv«n at the White , House a few evenings ago in honor of Mrs. Fred. Grant, who made her debut in Washing- - (on society. Abopt 300 invited guests were present, and the bride met with a hearty reeeption. Wilbur F. Storey, editor of the Chicago Time*, has given bail in the sum.of $1,500 in the charge of libel preferred against him by N. K. Fairbank. At the recent wedding of the daughter of Wm. Sharon, a San Francisco banker, the fatbet presented the bride with $1,000,000 as a j wedding present ' Supervising-Architect A. B. Mullett has resigned, and his resignation has been accepted by Secretary Bristow. The resignation is said to have been caused by the fact that the contingent fund for expenses in the Treasury building are, by law, under the control of the Chief Clerk of the Treasury Department, instead of Mr. Mullett, who has been in the habit of controlling this expenditure heretofore, and his attention being called to.the provDions of the law bearing an Rie ease. An appeal*has been taken by Mr. Beecher’s attorneys from the order of the General Term denying the motion for a bill of particulars in the Tilton suit. A court-martial has been ordered by Gen. Ernory for the trial of Lieut. Hodgson, upon charges preferred by Gen.'Mmrow, who wasserit to investigate. Hodgson’s actions and conduct in North Louisiana. - Grange .of Patrons of Husbandry met in convention in Indianapolis on the 24tb. The following are the officers elected for the ensuing year: Henley James, Worthy Master, Marion; C. W. Davis, Lecturer, Kentland; Russell Johnson, Steward; F. C. Phillips, Assistant Steward; B. F. Ham, Chaplain; G. H. Brown, Treasurer, Rensselaer; M. M. Moody, Secretary, Muncie: Alplieus Tyner, State Purchasing Agent, Indianapolis. The General Grand Chapter of Masons of the United States met, at Nashville onthe 24th. The order is reported to be generally prosperous throughout the country. At the recent meeting of the General Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons at Nashville, Tenn., the-following-named officers were installed for the ensuing year: John Frizzell, of Tennessee, Deputy General Grand High Priest; R. F. Bower Low, of Louisiana,Grand King; John McClelland, of Massachusetts, Grand Treasurer; C. G. Fox, of New York, General Grand Secretary; Henry Bostwiek, General Grand Royal Arch Captain. The following gentlemen will have seats In Congress this winter by election to fill vacancies: Ohio— William E. Finck (IX;m.), elect*!, ev:e Hugh J. .Jewett (Dem.). resigned. Sew York — Simeon" B. Chittenden (Ind.j, rice Stewart L. Woodford (Rep.); resigned : Richard Schell i3>em.), rice David B. Mellish (Rep.), deceased. , South Carolina— Lewis Cass Carpenter (Rep.), rice Robert B. Elliott (Hep ), resigned. The New York Evening Poet says, authoritatively, that James Russell Lowell has-been offered, and has declined, the Russian mission. The King of the Sandwich Islands arrived at San Francisco Oji -the 28th, en jroute for Washington.

POLITICAL. It was reported from Little Rock on the 21st that tUte Republican State Central Committee of Arkansas had received several letters from the northern part of the State offering—fivecompanies of old Union soldiers to Gov. Smith. John G. Price, editor of the Republican paper at Little Rock, lias published a card denying the authorship of a telegram alleged to have heen sent by him to Senator Dorsey at Washington, and claiming that business throughout the State was almost entirely suspended, and that the White League militia was roaming at large in consequence of the disturbance in governmental affairf. He says he never sent any such dispatch to Senator Dorsey or anyone else. W. B. Wickham was sworn into office on the 23d as Mayor of New York city. 11. B. Strait, Republican, has been declared elected to Congress for the Second Minnesota District, his majority being 228 as determined by the State Board of Canvassers. The official vote for Secretary of State o Indiana has been declared, as follows: J. E. Neff, 182,154; W. W. Curry, 164,902; J. C. Stout, 16,233. The official vote in the “First and Second Louisiana Congressional Districts has been announced. The following are the majorities: First—Randall Gibson, Dem., 6,7i5; Second— - E. J. Ellis, Dem., 4,759.

Gov. Houston, of Alabama, was inaugur:\tedon the 24th. in his address he said: “ I will regard it as one of my highest and most sacred obligations to 6ee that the laws are faithfully executed and the rights of all citizens," without regard to race, color, or previous condition, duly guarded and protected. The citizens of Alabama truly desire peace and perfect restoration of fraternal relations between all sections of our common country. They are loyal to the Government of the United States, and will readily yield cheerful obedience to its authority and laws. They only ask to-be permitted, under the Constitution and laws of the country, to exercise, secure from unwarrantable interference, the right of governing themselves at home by just and wisely-ex-ereised laws for local self-government.” The Indiana Supreme Court has decided that colored children are not entitled to the public- school benefits of the Sftate, because the SUte Constitution provides that only, the ehirdren of “citizens” are entitled to those benefits, and that colored people-, not having been “citizens” when a the State Constitution was adopted, the Fourteenth Amendment of the National Constitution, subsequently adopted, does not supersede this provision of the State Constitution.

A convention or meeting composed of the leading men oft he Independent party of Indiana and a number of delegates from other .Btatis met at Indianapolis on the 25th. A declaration of principles was adopted—favoring a new political organization and advocating the withdrawal from circulation of all National and State bank-notes and the issuing of paper money by the Government directly to tie people, such money to be a legal tender foe public and private debts, including duties on imports. A National Executive Committee was appointed.

The majority against the new Constitution in Michigan at the recent election wasS9,7t>2; against woman's suffrage, 95,877. The official returns from the Dakota election for Delegate to Congress are as follows: Kidder (Rep.), 4,597; Armstrong (Dem.), 2,189. Kidder's majority, 2,408. The official count of the vote of> Missouri gives Hardin, Democrat, for Governor, 37,402 'majority. The vote on the Constitutional Convention, with to hear from, gives ,1,108 majority for a convention, ;

The Tornado at Tuscumbia Ala.—An Appeal for Aid.

Tc*cc*bia, Ala,, Nov. 94. A tornado struck Tuscumbia about seven o'clock last Sunday evening. It extended over about two-tliirds of the Town, doing its greatest damage in the western and northern portions. Eleven lives were lost. Miss Bettie Sherod, daughter of John Sherod, living four miles southwest from here, was killed, their house being blown down. Mrs. EHa Moore, wife of State Senator J. B. Moore, and two children were killed. T. I). llodglins, editor of the Tuscumbia, Chronicle, his. wife, and four children were killed instantly, and their house was entirely destroyed. Mrs. Judith Winston was killed by- the falling ip of the roof and upper walls of her house. Mr. Martin D. Patterson was dangerously injured, his house being blown away. Mrs. Thomas Gibbs was badly hurt, and her house blown away. She was blown across the street. The railroad bridge was blown away, and the eastern-bound train from Memphis, which was due at about 7:‘Jf) o'clock, was wrecked at the bridge, but no lives were lost. « An appeal lor aid Lqs been made, as follows:

At a meeting of the citizens of Tuscumbia, Ala., at the Court House, on Monday, No*a 23 v thenuderj= igned. - were appointed a com? mittee to publish an address aud to make an appeal to the public with reference to the terrible calamity which has befallen our community. On Sunday evening, Nov.-23, a fearful tornado passed over our city, destroying many houses, and putting to instant death a number of our citizens. Over one-third of our town is laid in ruins. The Deshlar Female Institute, just completed at a cost *f some $15,000, the Catholic Church, several large and elegant brick mansions, and a large number of frame buildings were totally destroyed. Manv buildings are also more or less'injured. The fair-ground buildings and, two mills were also destroyed. In one house the parents and four children, composing the entire family, were instantly killed. The wife and four children of J. Burns Moore were buried beneath the ruins of his fallen house. But two of the number, children, were taken out alive. The amount of property destroyed is estimated at SIOO,OOO to *150,000. This calamity has necessarily brought grief, great distress, and destitution upon our community. More than fifty houses being wrecked, many families are homeless and penniless, and need immediate aid. The citizens will do all in their power to relieve the suffering and needy, but help is earnestly solicited from abroad, as the town is so impoverished it cannot possibly supply the needed help. God has brought this desolation upon us, and we ’confidently appeal to all persons throughout the country to aid us in this our hour of calamity. Donations from any source will be thankfully received, and rna}' be forwarded to Joseph Hillman, Tuscumbia, Ala. Signed, in behalf of the citizens: Joseph Hillman. Horace P. Smith, T. 11. Davenport, John D. Inman, Lewis B. Thornton.

Currency Report.

-s Washington, Nov. 27. The annual report of the Comptroller of the Currency shows that during the past year seventy-one National Banks have been organized, with an authorized capital of $6,745,000. Three banks have failed and t wenty gone into voluntary liquidation. The actual increase of National Bank circulation during the year is $3,576,297. The total circulation outstanding Nov. 1, including $3,136,094 due to banks for mutilated notes destroyed, was $351,927,246, -leaving $2,072,754 yet to-be issued of the $354,000,000 authorized. Since the passage of the act of June 20,1874, forty-six National Banks have been organized, with a capital of $4,019,000, to which circulation has been issued. Applications have been made for the organization, of -sixty-four other National Banks, with a capital of $5,110,000, and circulation amounting to #4,500,000 has been assigned to these proposed organizations under Section 4of the act of June 20, 1874. Seven million seven hundred and fourteen thousand live hundred and fifty dollars legal-tender notes have been deposited for the purpose of withdrawing from circulation the same amount of National Bank notes. The total amount issued to banks since June 20, 1874, is $3,330,180. The amount authorized to be issued to banks alreadyorganized is $3,707,000, and to be issued to proposed organizations $4,509,000, of which Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York and Pennsylvania receive none, but Ohio receives $1,395,*000, Indiana $864,000, Illinois $495,000, low-a $315,000, and others amounts smaller. The amounts subject to withdrawal under Sections 7 and 9 of the act of June 20, 1874, in States having more than their proportion of circulation is as follows:

Banks. Where situated. Amount. : = 4. . . New York City $1,383,538 17 Providence R. I. ——2.818,100 15....-. Connecticut 3,034.020 38 Boston 12.853,750 20 Massachusetts ...., 2,553.225 4 .Maine. 668.000 4 Vermont 595,600 12 Baltimore 2,112,876 1. ....... ... .Delaware —. 99.858 ,41............ Pennsylvania 3.967,195 11 New Jersey SJBO.OOO The amount of circulation remainiug unissued and the amount- to be withdrawn is $16,279,589. Total, $47,350,743.

Th« --Comptroller says: “If Congress should provide for the withdrawal of legaltender notes, and the issue of National Bank notes as needed in the place thereof, when the amount of legal-tbnder notes should be reduced to, say, $300,000,000, the legal-tender notes would then be in demand, and in proportion as they should be reduced in amount the demand for them would increase, until finally, when the amount of bank-notes issued should be largely in excess of the amount of legal-tender notys outstanding, tlie National Bank notes would themselves be withdrawn at certain seasons of the year, on account of the . difficulty or expense of obtaining lawful money "with which to redeem them, The gold coin of the country would then make its appearance in answer to the demand for an additional amount for lawful money, and specie payment would follow. Redemption in the proper | sense implies the exchange ©f a promise to play for the thing promised, namely: coin, or

its-representative, which is convertible into coin on demand. The effect of such redemption is to confine banks of issue to a legitimate business, which is the discounting of commercial paper. If banks of issue arc obliged to pay their circulating notes once iu sixty - or ninety days they must discount such promissory notes only as will certainly be paid within that time. If the payment of bank-notes be frequently demanded, banks of issue cannot safely invest their capital in real-estate loans, in doubtful stocks or bonds, j in accommodation notes which require re--1 newal, or in loans on doubtful security, but must have their capital at all times invested in loans which will be promptly paid at maturity. Such a condition indicates a health; ful business, and promotes sound bailkingand the reduction of the amount of legaltender notes, accompanied with such increase of National Bank notes as may be required, will secure a proper system of, redemption, •render free banking practicable; and gradually restore specie payments without necessarily decreasing the amount of the circulating medium.’’ Several amendments to the existing banking laws are recommended, and the Comptroller renews the recommendations contained in his last two reports for the passage of an act to prevent the issue and circulation of unauthorized currency, and requiring the words “counterfeit,” “altered,” “illegal”, to be stamped on all counterfeit or unauthorized issues; also his recommendation for the repeal of the fourth section of the act Of June 1, j 1870, so far as it applies to the prganization

of savings banks in the District of Columbia, and for the enactment in Its stead or a general law in reference to such savings banks, with judicious conditions and restrictions.—

The Railway Postal Service.

Washington, Nov. 27. George S. Bangs, Superintendent of the Railway Postal Service, has completed bis annual report. From tjiis report ft appears that, at the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1874, there were in operation fiftynine lines of railway postoffice cars, extending over 14,801 miles of railroad, was performed 34,925 miles of service daily and 12,747,625 miles'of service Annually, by 752 railway postoffice clerks. These -clerks are classified as follows: 283 head clerks, 379 clerks, aud ninety assistant clerks. By the establishment of new lines of railroad the postal facilities have been greatly increased. During the threatened refusal of the railroads to carry the mails au offer or the Baltimore A Ohio was accepted by the department. This gave daily service between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Chicago, 111., 310 miles. This completes a through line between Washington and Chicago, anti forms a connection between' the roads centering at Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Chicago.

* Of the. present condition of the railway postoffice service Mr. Bangs says: “The railway postoffiee cars are now in operation on most of the most important connecting and trunk lines of railroad, giving the most direct and available transit to the mails between the office of origin and destination, and forming nearly a perfect connection between the varion» railroads upon which service is perfortned by route agents. *■ The Pennsylvania Railroad system,perhaps the most extended and important m the country for mail transportation, is now used to-a great extent in the forwarding of through and direct mails; but, owing to the poor postal facilities at present furnished by that road, it cannot be utilized to any great extent in the distribution of mails in transit. As this company has expressed its willingness to grant improved accommodations the benefit to be derived would fully warrant the department in the acceptance of the same. .The necessity of this addition to the postal-ear lines can best be judged by the following statement of the bulk of mails passing between the East and West: New York city originates fifty-five to sixty tons of mail matter daily, as shown by their official statement. Forty-five to fifty tons of this is forwarded on the*trunk lines" leading to the West and Southwest. Three of these lines—the Pennsylvania Railroad, New York A Erie Railroad and New York Central A Hudson River Railroad—carry daily over their whole length an average of 93,000 pounds of mail, and as the bulk of this mail is deposited in the offices at the latest hour possible to make the trains, or arrives on connecting trains, it must be distributed in transit, taxing the present accommodations to the utmost, especially as the Erie Railroad is the only one upon which the department have such accommodations as are required. The propriety of establishing a fast and exclusive mail-train between New* York and Chicago has been discussed for some time and there appears to be a growing necessity for the same, this train to be under the control of the department so far as it is necessary for the purposes designed, and to run the distance in about twenty-four hours. It is conceded by railroad officials that this can be done. The importance of a line like this cannot be overestimated. It would reduce the actual time of the mail between the East and West from twelve to twenty-four hours, as it would necessarily he established upon one or more of tie trunk lines having an extended sygtem of connections. Its benefits would be in no wise confined, but extended to all parts of the country alike. It would also, if this line be established, be practicable to reduce to one line daily, beside this through line, the service upon the three trunk lines to the West. This reduction,would compensate for all the additional expense incurred by the fast mail train, especially as, by the operation of the law governing mail transportation, the more mail concentrated upon a single line of railway the less is the aggregate cost of transportation! per pound or ton per mile.” With reference to the complaints of some railroads that the compensation is inadequate, Mr. Bangs-thinks it advisable to recommend legislation placingthe compensation to railroads on the basis of weight alone. With regard to the extra cost of the railway postal service the Superintendent thinks erroneous opinions obtain,and that the amount ($1,692,620) is more apparent than real, owing to the fact that many minor distributing offices and a large amount of clerk hire along the railroad routes and at the terming not now required, would be necessary in the absence of the present system. The superintendency would- be necessary under —any system, as the distribution anil dispatch of mails would require the same general supervision as now to secure the best possible results. Not the least consideration in favor of the railway postoffiee is the avoidance of delays resulting from any other system than the distribution of mails in transit.

The Indian Question.

....WASBixoToxyNbvr27. The following are the main points of the annual report of the Secretary of the Interior to the President on the Indian Question. The report bears date Oct. 31, 1874: “The operations of the Indian Bureau during the past year are highly gratifying. They furnish conclusive evidence of the justice, wisdom and practicability of the policy inaugurated by the present Administration. The success of this policy is no longer a problem. If steadily pursued, we shall soon see all roving frihes located upon reservations. We may reasonably expect occasional dis.turbances in the future caused by individuals, or by disorderly bodies of Indians, but with a judicious and efficient execution of the .present igode of treatment it is not believed that we shall see another general, or even serious, Indian war.

The present -method of dealing with the Indian race aims to induce, and when necessary to compel, the roaming tribes to accept reservations as rapidly as possible. On such reservations they are instructed in agriculture and iu otherpursuits incident to civilization, and with the aid of our Christian organizations their intellectual, moral and religious culture is advanced as rapidly as practicatdo. When ,n tribe refuses to accept a reservation, and continues to violate the laws of civilization, it is treated with all needful severity, arid thus made to appreciate the advantages of accepting the kiHd aud humane treatment which? the Government surely extends to such as are disposed to peace. By the judicious exercise of power and persuasion it is the aim of the Government to deal kindly and justly with this unfortunate race, and to make them appreciate, as speedily as possible, the real motives and purposes of the Government. The execution of this policy is necessarily attended with difficulties which cannot at once be entirely overcome. I am happy iu being able to say that the earnest, active and cordial co-operation of several Christian organizations to which the right of nominating agents has been assigned, and upon whose nominations alone such agents are appointed, is constantly improving this class of employes, and thus we are, each year, to some extent, advancing the service bv obtaining agents more experienced and intelligent, and of greater capacity for their secular as well as their moral and religious work.

liie Indian population of the L'nited States, since the first occupation of our territory by white men, has been compelled to recede as the white population has advanced. The natural result has been the creation of a feeling among Indians that they have suffered great injustice at our hands. They have strong local attachments, and adhere with tenacity to the home of their fathers. They once occupied without dispute vast regions of Country which have been wrested from them. Under no circumstances cau it be supposed that they will accept the complete, change in their modes of life and iu their management by tha Government which is now being effected without complaint and resistance,

which may occasionally require the employ, ment of farce; nor can it be supposed that time is not required for the accomplishment of such change, j To aid iu prosecuting the work of Indian civilization I recommend the extension of the Homestead laws to Indians, with certain modifications hereafter to be more fuDy stated. These laws at present apply to citizens of the United States only, and their provisions cannot be enjoyed except by that small portion of the Indian race who are legally entitled to the privilege# of citizenship.

The department has arrived at the conclusion that when an Indian tribe is dissolved and its tribal relations ended, with the consent of the United States, either by treaty or legislative enactment, the members of such tribe become ipso facto citizens of the United States, and entitled to all the privileges and immunities belonging to other citizens. The department lias also decided that an Indian cannot voluntarily dissolve his relation with his tribe, and thereby become a citizen of the United States; that before citizenship can be created the tribal rejation must be dissolved by the tribe as a trilee, and that, too, with the consent .of the General Government, as shown by treaty or act of Congress. Reviewing these opinions, I feel assured of their correctness. It was, in my judgment, inconsistent with sound law, as well as with public policy, to permit an individual Indian, by voluntarily withdrawing from his tribe, to become a citizen without sumo act of the Government recognizing his citizenship. Under these Circumstanced, and in view ot the importance of this subject, I deem it ■proper to invite the attention of Congress to - the recommendation of the Commissioner of the General Land Office in favor of legislation in behalf #f Indians who desire to withdraw from their former associations, become citizens of the United States, and avail themselves of the benefit of the Homestead laws. An extension to the Indians of the benefits of the Homestead laws, under the safeguards mentioned, and 6ueh others as the wisdom of Congress may suggest, will greatly facilitate the work of their civilization. Tlie time has arrived when some general ( law regulating Indian citizenship is," in my judgment, indispensable. Occasionally treaty stipulations with Indian tribes are expiring, among -whom is found a greater or less degree of civilization. This compels the department to determine the status of sueli Indians in regard to citizenship. There are also many who desire to separate from their tribes, adopt the habits and customs of civilized life, and beco'me citizens.

THE BLACK HILLS. The military Tecounoissance of the. Black Hills country was regarded by the Indians as a violation of their "treaty, and produced a turbulent feeling among them. Its objects* however, were peacefully accomplished. Extravagant statements concerning the mineral wealth of the country created great excitement among the people, and exploring parties were organized for the purpose of prospecting the country. Subsequent information establishes the fact that no evidence of valuable mineral deposits was furnished, and that the lands in that region are undesirable tor cultivation and settlement by white men. Notwithstanding this, organized parties have attempted to explore it, and have been attacked and repulsed by the Indians. It is apprehended that efforts will be made to induce legislation for the extinguishment ol the Indian title to the Black Hills country and to bring the land into market. It is hoped that such efforts will be without success, because of the general unfitness of the country for settlement, and because any attempt to dispossess the Indians at present of a region of country upon which they located for security against the encroachments of .lie white man would meet with violent and determined resistances — ’ —“What!” exclaimed Mrs.. Tones when her son John asked permission to join a club—“ What, you become a club man!! No, John, emphatically no; I’ve set up too many nights for your father, and now thatehe is bedridden I am having some rest!” . —The amount of lumber now in stock in Chicago is t 0,000,000 feet iu excess of the stock held there at the corresponding period last ye^r —a sufficient quantity to meet all the demands of next year, unless there should be an unlooked-for extensive revival of business.

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