Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1875 — Page 2

EENBBELAER UNIOK. JAMES * HEALEY, Proprietor*. IRNBSELAER, ’ - INDIANA

THE NEWS.

Reported Serious Defeat of Uphonso’s Forces. He Issues < Decree tolling for W,OOO Recruits. PreaNkMrt’e Message an Arkan« sas Afftrfrs. Aa Order Relating to the Relief es Grasshopper Sufferers. William S. King Found In Canada and Subpoenaed. Tlmilew Orleans Congressional Committee Concludes Its Investigation. ■Other Interesting News Items. FOREIGN. , r An “ official” diepatch from Madrid, of the Sth, admits that the Alphoneiets had received «aerious check in their advance on_ Estella and that military operations had been suspended. The Carlists claimed to have won a •decided victory, declaring that Alphonso lost 7,000 in killed and wounded and several pieces of artillery. The Carlist chieftain Menderi had been arrested and shot for treason, by order es Don Carlos. The Bishop of Strasburg having issued a pastoral letter to his clergy in which he alleges that the church is persecuted, the German authorities have seized the copies and forbidden the promulgation of the document. Twenty-three German Catholic Bishops have issued a protest in behalf of the entire Roman Catholic Episcopate of Germany against any such Interference in the Papal election as is implied in Bismarck’s late circular dispatch. Telegrains of a late date from Shanghae and other portions of China indicate that a civil war was imminent in that country. King Alphonso has issued a royal decree calling for 70,000 men to recruit his army. Fifteen thousand of these are to be sent to Cuba. Later advices from China are to the effect that the widow of the late Emperor did not commit suicide, as had been previously reported. _ - ; . DOMES33C. President Grant has signed the act to amend the Customs and Internal Revenue laws, and for other purposes, known as the Little Tariff >BL A Washington Associated, Press dispatch of he 7th says Atty.-Gen. Williams had been before the Select Committee on Alabama Affairs and had been interrogated as to his Bending troops into that State last fall, and it appeared that he had had no correspondence with the Governor of the State on the subject, but acted on information from other sources The following is the message of President Grant on Arkansas affairs: To the Senate of the United States: Herewith 1 have the honor to send, in accordnee with the resolution of the Senate of the 3d i net., all information in my possession not heretofore furnished relating to' affaire in the State of Arkansas. 1 wiH venture to express the opinion that all the testimony shows that, in the electron of 1872, Joseph Brooks was lawfully elected Governor of that State; that he has been unlawfully deprived of the possession of his office since that time; that in 1874 the Constitution of the State was by violence, intimidation and revolutionary proceedings overthrown and -a new Constitution adopted and a new State Government established. These proceedings, if permitted to stand, practically ignore all the rights of minorities in all States. Also, what is there to prevent each of the States recently readmitted to Federal relations on certain conditions from changing their Constitutions and violating their pledges if this action in Arkansas is acquiesced jnr I respectfully submit whether a precedent so dangerous to the stability of State Government, if not of the National Government also, should be recognired by Congress. I earnestly ask that Congress will take definite action in this matter, to relieve the Executive from acting upon Questions which should be decided by the legislative branch of the Government. U. S. Grant. Executive Mansion, Feb. 8, 1875. On the morning of the 7th the eastern.bound express train on the Missouri Pacific .Railroad, at a point one and one-half miles .•from Osage River bridge, 115 miles from St. Louis, encountered a broken rail, and the smoking-car, one passenger •coach and a sleeper jumped the track and® slid partly down the embankment The sleeping-car and the passenger coach were badly wrecked, and twenty j>eraous were more or less seriously injured, one gjftit, was thought fatally. • The first train was run through the Hoosac Tunnel, in Massachusetts, on the 9th. It was composed of three gravel-cars and one box-car filled with 100 passengers. The passage was made in thirty-five minutes. The' track was not yet in a condition fit for runsing regular trains. Mandi Gras celebrations occurred on the ”9th at Louisville, ; Ky., Memphis, Tenn.. Little Ro2k, Ark., Terre Haute, Ind., and Fort Madisoi)>Jowa. The Indiana State Board of Agriculture have decided to hold an.exposition at Indianapolis this year, to begin, Sept 9 and continue twenty days. The National Grange has adopted a resolutiondeclaring the existing Patent laws oppressive, and requesting Lz tigress to grant no mere extensions and to axiend the Patent laws bo as to alk w any perece to use or manpafacture any patented article vn the payment •of a seasonable loyalty. The .choice of the next place for the meeting of the National ittrange is left .with the Exeeualre Committee. A loan has been agreed upon to each Si 'ate Grange of $2.5U10r each subordinate Gr ange in .the State. > 1 Tie new Revenue bin reported to the Nation. U House of Representatives from the Ways’and Means Committee, on the 10th. provid ea tor an increase In the tax on distilled liquors, fixing the name at one dollar per proof gallon, and making the tax on all brandy, gin, ram, and on all compounds anil preparations of which distilled spirits Is a cXmipitaent part of chief value, embracing alf forms of distilled spirits Im.

ported from foreign countries, s2.so’per proof gallon. a A Little Rock (Ark.) telegram of the 10th •BJ’s the report of the Arkansas Investigating Committee and the subsequent message of the President had created considerable, excitement there, and business was very mu< b depressed on account of the unsettled condition of affairs at Washington. Thirty-four States and three Territories were represented in the National Grange at Its recent session in Charleston, 8. C. The Bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church have fixed upon Monday, Marek 1, aa a day of testing and prayer, and issued an address to the American people pleading for the enjoyment of everycivil and political right. The Commissioner of the General Land Office has replied to a request to permit the Union Pacific Railroad Company to select lands containing eoal and iron in lieu of the agricultural lawds, which latter the company proposed to release in favor Of actual settlers, to the effect that the company receives all its coal and iron lands without any diminution on account of the claim of any settler, and to allow it, in addition, to surrender agricultural lands and lake the reserved coal lands, of greatly increased value, would be an enlargement of the grant and an express violation of the act under which the claim was presented. A general order from the War Department with reference to carrying out the provisions of the act of Congress approved Feb. 10, 1875, to provide for the relief of persons suffering from the ravages of grasshoppers upon the Western 'frontiers says: It is ordered bv the President that the commanders of the Departments of tho Platte, the Missouri and Dakota shall cause to be made, as soon au,practicable. an enrollment of the inhabitants of th* States and Territories within these department* who have been rendered destitute by the ravages aforesaid, which enrollment will, so far as practicable, group families together, giving the name of each person entitled to relief; children under twelve years of age to be rated separately. Applicants for supplies should make statements ou blanks furnished them of their resources convertible with safety to their families into a supply of food, and the names of such person h as may be found to have resources so convertible sha’ll not be placed on the roll until such resources are exhausted.' The Supreme Court of Massachusetts has rendered a decision in the case of Jesse H. Pomeroy, the Boston boy-murderer, overruling the exceptions and ordering judgment on the verdict. He will therefore be sentenced to death. A new freight tariff has been adopted by the Eastern railway companies, and the following is the tariff agreed upon from Chicago: To Philadelphia and Baltimore—First* class, $1.35; second, $1.00; third, 75 cents; fourth, 35 cents; grain, 35 cents; flour, 70 cents; bulk meats, 40 cents. New York— First-class, $1.50; second, $1.10;- third, 85 cents; fourth, 40 cents; grain, 40 cents; flour, 80 cents; bulk meats, 45 cents. The Western lines have adopted the following tariff on freight east of Chicago, consigned to points west of the Mississippi River: From St. Louis, Louisiana, Hannibal, Quincy, Burlington and Davenport to Kansas City, Omaha, Council Bluffs, and other points on the Missouri River: First-class, 72 cents; second, 49; third, 38; B, $46. -—; < The National Grange has adopted a resolution in—favor of the Centennial Exposition and one in favor of the Texas Pacific Railroad. The improvement of the mouth of the Mississippi River was urged, and Congress was asked to repeal all laws taxing tobacco and to use its influence toward an adoption of the same policy by other Governments. PERSONAL. j, A Washington dispatch of the Gth states that William 8. King had been found "by a messenger of the Sergeant at-Arms of the House, near Compton, Canada, and subpoenaed to appear before the Committee on Ways and Means and testify as to his connection with the Pacific Mail subsidy business. J.-L. Routt, of Hlinois, Second Assistant Postmaster General, has been appointed and confirmed as Governor of Colorado, cut E. M. McCook, resigned. Whiting, who received $60,000 of the Pacific Mail Steamship subsidy, has been discovered in Hamilton, Canada, and a subpoena served on him by telegraph. The funeral of the late Senator Buckingingham, Of Connecticut, took place at Norwich on the 9th, and was largely attended. Wm. W. Eaton, Senator-elect from Counecticut, has been appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Buckingham, the terra ending March 4. Ex-U. S. Senator John M. Thayer, of Nebraska, has been nominated by the President for Governor of Wyoming. The Executive Committee of the National Grange has been enlarged to five members by the election of Dudley S. Chase, of New Hampshire, and John T. Jones, of Arkansas, to serve three years. The other members are D. W. Aikin,)of South Carolina, re-elected for three years,'"‘Wm. Sanders, of Washington, who holds over for one year, and E. B. Shankland, of lowa, who holds over for two years. A report of the committee on the address of Master Adams, indorsing his recommendation that subordinate Granges be fostered by the National Grange and that manufactures in the South be encouraged, was adopted by the National Grange on the 12th. - Representative Beck, of Kentucky, had his wrjst broken by a fall on the ice at Washington on the evening of the 11th. Hon. Samuel Hooper, Member of Congress rom the Fourth Massachusetts District, died n Washington on the 13th, of pneumonia. POLITICAL. The Congressional Committee on Louisiana Affairs concluded their investigation on rue 6th, and adjourned to meet in Washington. A Conservative proposition for a coranromise of the Louisiana diffiulties, submitted to the Congressional Investigating Commit, tee, has been rejecu-u by that body. The propoeal was to the effect that the election of 1872 should not be included in the adjustment: the election of the Treasurer and members of the Legislature in 1874 to be submitted. asd the lieuse organized on the ba sis of the committee’s award; the Kellogg Government not to be disturbed so long as it is sustained by the President, and the Senators' returned by the arbitration to be seated. C. W. Jones (Dem.) has been elected United States Senator by the Florida Legislature. The vote on the final ballot was: Jottos. 40; Bisbee (Rep.), 25; rest scattering. Jofffcs had the unanimous support of the Democrats and Independent Republicans. The Grand Jury at Little Rock, Ark., made S report on the 12th to the effect that, in pursuance of the instructions of Gov. Garland, the Prosecuting-Attorney had summoned before that body parties complaining of a reign,! of terror in the Stale, and that about forty complaining witnesses had 1

been examined and the jury Was not j abk, ufter diligent questioning, to find a single instance in which any man had been deprived of hia right to vote or any other right,' but, on tha contrary, unusual quiet pre. vailed. ' The Legislature of West Virginia have resolved to remove the capital of the State to Wheeling. CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate, on the Bth, the House, bill tor the relief of John W. Marsh (the SewingMachine Patent bill) was rejected—23 to 1* . A memorial of citizens waft presented and referred praying an amendment to the Constitution to uOolJeh the Offices of President and Vice-Presi-dent. and resting the powers now belonging to them in a council of seven members to be chosen ny the Uouoe of Bepresentatives, to which body they shall be responsible.... A message was receiv.-d from the President in regard' to uQkirfi in Arkansas . . .Mr. Morton, from the Committee <m Privileges and Elections. Huhmittea a report in the case of P. B. 8. Pinchhack, and a resolution declaring him entitled to a seat aa Senator from Louisiana from March 4. 1H73. Objection was raised that the report not being signed by a majority of the whole committee was not a majority report, but the Chair decidedthat -five members being present it tiie lime action war determined on, and four of the five signing the report, it became a report of t lie committee, which report was ordered printed, and notice was given of a minority report. In the House, on the Bth, among the bills introduced were the following: To increase the public revenue and decrease the interest on the public debt; providing for tax on incomes above S2,<MX); appropriating 31,000,000 for deepening the channel of the Missouri River from Sioux <Jity to its motjthrlor the improvement of. certain rivers and harbors.. The bill giving bounties to the heirs of soldiers who served less than one year in the army was passed—l9l to 23. ...Amotion to suspend the rnles and adopt a resolution declaring that, in the judgment of the House, the election of a President for a third term is against the traditions of the Republic, is in violation of the example of Washington—now sacred as law itself—and would be hazardous alike for the liberties of the people and free institutions of the country, was lost—s 7to 102.... An adverse report was made on the application for extension of the Wilson sewing mashine patent*. In the Senate, on the 9th, the House bill to reduce and fix the Adjutant-General's Department of the army was passed.... But little business was transacted, an oirly adjournment being had out of respect to the late Senator Buckingham, whose funeral took place to-day. In the House, on the 9th, after the passage of some unimportant bills and resolutions, an unsuccessful effort was made to have the committee's report in the case of Delegate Cannon, of Utah, considered... .The Indian Appropriation bill was considered in Committee of the Whole, and agreed to except the Choctaw and Chickasaw amendment,—This amendment was then rejected by the House — veas 88, nave 137—and the bill was passed—l 62 to 62. In the Senate, on the 10th, after the transaction of some other business relating; to the Dtetrict of Columbia, several bills making appro priations and providing sites for public buildings in Covington, Ky., St. Augustine, Fla., Topeka. Kan., and Harrisburg, Pa., were considered and passed... .The Steamboat bill was recommitted to the Committee ou Commerce. In the House, on the 10th, a bill was in troduced supplementary to the acts concerning im migration, relatiug to the coolie trade, providing that when immigrants 'have entered into a contract or agreement for a term of service within the United States such immigration shall not be deemed voluntary, and making it a penal offense for American citizens to be engaged in such trade .... A new. tariff bill was reported from the Committee dn Ways and Means and referred to Committee of the Whole... .The Postoffice Appropriation bill ($37,524,361) was considered in Committee of the Whole, and several proposed amendments were disposed 0f... .The evening session was held for debate only. In the Senate, on the 11th, a minority report was presented from the Committee on Wectrons, signed bv Messrs. Hamilton and Saulsbury. against the admission of Mr. Piachback as Senator from Louisiana.... The House bill authorizing the President to appoint a commission to attend the International Penitentiary Congress to be held iu Rome next year was passed The Senate bill granting the right of way to the Salt Lake & Walia Walla Railroad and Transportation Company, and for other purposes, was discussed and rejected—yeas 15, nays 23... .The bill to provide a government for the District of Columbia was taken up, and the amendment to have the Commissioners elected'.by the voters of the District instead of being appointed by the President was rejected—2B to 28. In the House, on the 11th, the Postoffice Appropriation bill was reported from Committee of the Whole, with ah amendment providing for the free transmission of public documents and seeds from the Agricultural Department through the mails, which amendment was re-jected-yeas 93. nays 125. An amendment canceling the Pacific Mail contract of 1872 was agreed to, and the bill was passed... .The Tariff bill was considered in Committee of the Whole, and a lengthy debate ensued, Mr. Dawes advocating and Mr. Wood opposing the measure. In the Senate, on the 12th, during a discussion on the Portland, Dallas & Salt Lake Railroad bill, it was stated that the Committee on Railroads had before them, during the present session, six or seven bills providing for subsidies, aud after careful consideration had concluded not to report any of them favorably to the Senate. The bill under consideration was’refused a third reading by a vote of twenty-six nays to two yeas .... The District of Columbia bill was further considered, and an amendment that two of the pro? posed Commissioners should be appointed by tfie President and one be elected by the voters of the District was rejected—yeas 13, nays 38. In the House, on the 12th, the Revenue bill was further considered in Committee of the Whole. Messrs. Roberts and Kelley,of Pennsylvania. making speeches on the same.... Several private bills were then disposed 0f... .A bill for the relief of certain loyal creditors whose moneys were confiscated by the Confederate Congress in Louisiana, providing for the distribution of $203,334 pro rata, was reported by the committee. Much opposition to the bill was manifested, aud a final vote was not taken. In the Senate, on the 13th, Mr. Eaton was sworn in as the successor of the late Mr. Buckingham, of Connecticut. ...A memorial was “presented from the Pacific Mail Steamship Company against the repeal of the subsidy granted that company, and a resolution was agreed to the Judiciary Committee to inquire and report whether the Government is legallybound to now carry into effect anv contract made under the act of June 1. 1872. respecting additional mail service between San Francisco, China and Japan.... The District of Columbia Gov-ernment-bill was further considered in Committee, of the Whole and reported- to the Senate, when the resolution to have two of the Commissioners elected by the votess of the District and one appointed by the President was renewed and further amended and again rejected. Iu the House, on the 13th, the bills to provide for the relief of certain loyal creditors whose moneys were confiscated by the Confederate Congress aud making compensation for supplies taken by Union soldiers during the Morgan raid were defeated ...The Pension and Military Academy Appropiation bills were passed, as was also the bill for the equalization of bounties—l 77 to 39—which provides lor the payment to every non-eommissioned officer, musician, artificer, wagoner aud private soldier, sailor and marine, including those borneon the rolisas slaves, who were mustered into the service anti Were subsisted, clothed and paid by the Government and were honorably discharged. Sb.SPs, per month for the' term of his service between the 12th of April. 1861. and Kh of May. 1865, with a deduction off all bounties i heretofore paid by the United States and. States — substitutes andsuch as were prisoners of war at ■ the time of enlistment, aud also such as were - sliscliarged as minors or at theirownraquest from other cause than disability, being-- ; excluded. , A heft the soldier is dead, the toanty is to be ■ paid to the widow, if not remarried, er to minor > child or children. ■ M exdell Phillips can, by calling on 1 Mons. De La Bastie, gain sonie valuable information. After six years of experiment the Frenchman has drived the problem of making malleable glass, which can be beaten or bent like copper and can be used for cooking utensils. One lost art is therefore restored. — —The annual statement of the Rhode Island savings institutions, thirty-seven in nuruber,* shows the total ameunt of. deposits to be S4B 771,501, a gain of $2,000,000 past vear. Toe number of depositors a gain of 5,286.

The Arkansas Investigating Commlttee’s Report.

Washuwtoit, Feb. 6. MA/OlilTY REI-ORT. The Select CommUtee’ on Arkansas Adairs conclude their report as follows: The new Constitution we regard as republican in fofm, and in many respects an Improvement upon that of IHttS. The committee are satisfied that the convention to frame the Constitution and the Constitution itself were voted for, and are satisfactory to the majority of the voters and people of the State. The State officers were certainly elected by a majority of the votes cast, ana we think by a majority of the votes in the State. The condition of the State has been as peaceful since the new Government was inaugurated as it has ever been. The mass of people on both sides are inclined to peace and good government, and to allow all the enjoyment of their legal rights. But there is a class ot men, the outgrowth of former society, who delight in disturbing and depriving the colored people of their rights. These are yOung men who caanot be restrained. This class of men, together with the general custom of carrying deadly weapons—another legacy of barbarism—are the real causes of violence and bloodshed. The changes caused by the war, giving freedom and political equalitv to the colored t people, are not well relished by the Southern people. But most of them would do nothing to disturb them. But the class to which we have alluded feel that they may invade the rights of colored men, especially in any political quarrel, and that their offenses will be winked at. We are satisfied that the true prosperity of the Southern States depends more upon just and stern dealing by them with this lawless class of men than any other cause. Arkansas probably presents no different condition from that of other cotton States where political control has passed into the hands of the class who ruled before the war. The people of every State have the right to make their own Constitution to suit themselves, provided it be republican in form and in harmony with the C onstitution of the United States, and the National Government has no authority to dep rive them of that right. The election held for the ratification of the Constitution was under form of law; - and the officers-who conducted it acted under appointment and under official oaths; and although we regard all as defective, however, being prescribed by the convention instead of the Legislature, still we believe they are entitled to be regarded differently from mere voluntary meetings held under no pretense of legal authority. The committee do not recommend any action by Congress or by any department of the General Government in regard to the State Government in Arkansas. This report is signed by Messrs. Poland, Scudder, Sayler and Sloss. , MINORITY REPORT. The other member of the committee — Ward, of Illinois—presents his views in opposition to the report. In his report he says: If banditti or a mob of armed men may take possession of a State, depose its officers, arrest its Judges, close its courts, intimidate its people through violence and murder, provide its own way for holding and its own officers to hold elections, and its own officers to declare the result, and the fruit of such defiance of law is binding upon the people of such State and upon Congress, then the present pretended Government of Arkansas is legitimate, and must be recognized as such, but not otherwise. Those who will read the evidence must be satisfied that there was a reign of terror throughout Arkansas during the period in which the so-called Garland Government was being formed and set inmotion, entirely jneone latent with a full and fair expression of the will of the people oh that subject. The report concludes as follows: If these proceedings in Arkansas go unrebuked, and are allowed to stand as a precedent to American history, then Constitutions may be overthrown and the right of minorities trampled upon by parties for any purpose in times of excitement, and there is po remedy. It is revolution legalized and secession made easy. This formula will apply as well to the National as to the State Government. The fearful consequences to flow from such a principle incorporated into our law I need not predict or speculate upon. There can be no stability in the State or in the nation on any such basis; no protection or security for minorities or protection to liberty. In this case every form of constitutional and statute laws was violated. The American people cannot indorse the result. Mr. Ward then proposes the following resolution: Resolved, That James Brooks, having been by the people of Arkansas elected to the office of Governor of said State, under the Constitution of 1868, for the period of four years ending in January, 1877, and said Constitution never having been legally overturned or abrogated and being still in force, la the lawful Governor of said State of Arkansas.

Mistaken Jealousy.

It not often that people are mistaken on a mere question of identity, but sometimes such things will occur. A very amusing incident arising from this cause occurred at the corner of Canal and Royal streets, in Orleans, the other afternoon. A lady about entering a Rampart street car saw, as she supposed, her husband taking leave of another woman at the point in question. Having heard repeated rumors of his gallantries she determined to settle the matter definitely. With a rather hasty judgment she rapidly regained the street and approached the lady, who, standing on the corner, w r as still looking after the gentleman who had gone into the store. “You seem to be very well acquainted with that gentleman!” was her sudden and unexpected salutation. • • “Madam!” was the surprised rejoinder, accompanied by a look which clearly denoted her questioner’s sanity. “ I say you appear to be acquainted with that gentleman!” “ Well, yes—somewhat.” “Ho .v long have you known him ?” “ A number of years. He’s my husband!” “ Indeed! He’s mine, too.” “What do you mean?” cried the lady, evidently excited. “ Just what I say. He’s my husband!” The lady darted into the store, and the next moment reappeared with the unfortunate Benedict. “ William, this lady says you are her husband!” One glance, however, was sufficient. The lady saw her mistake, and, crying with vexation and shame, frankly confessed it.

An Exciting Episode of Rough Life in Colorado.

Not more than a short two hours ago yOur correspondent was listening to a tale of dare-doing that, however unworthy the hero may be, was calculated to arouse all the interest of sympathy. He was a square-built r man, with an honest, open face, and pleasant though "deter-mined-looking blue eyes, that told the tale, and in not a tittle did his appearance indicate that he had once shot a neighbor with whom he had had a dispute by the light of his burning barn, which fin accessory had set fire to. For this crime he wte tried last fall here in Denver andacquitted, but when he went down to bis ranches on a creek emptying into the Arkansas he found the verdict of a Denvet jury was® not regarded as a passport to the safety of murderers by the friends of the murdered man. At any rate, although he affects to have had not an

inkling of tbeir intention, he knew the time had come when he must fight for bis life when he was aroused at the midnight that separated last Friday from Saturday by the hoarse demand, Was Gibbs at home? Gibbs answered that he wae, on whic|i he was told to get up and come ont, as somebody wanted to see him. Gibbs asked if morning would not do as well, and was told no; he was wanted then and there. He was next informed that his interlocutor Would give him ten minutes to get out of the house pnd fifteen to get out with his family, if he did not take advantage of which he and his family would be burned on one funeral pile. He made no answer to all this, and the next move of his enemies was to the other side of the ranche—a simpWlo'g cabin, lacking in the modern conveniences of windows, except on the side on which the parley took place, on which also was the door. Taking advantage of the fact that the dead wall presented no aperture through which Gibbs might get at them, they leisurely proceeded to do their best to fire the building, but fared ill in their attempt owing to the logs being old and full of water. Tired with their fruitless efforts Gibbs’ visitors came around to the side they first approached and began to pile hay and wood against the door for the purpose of igniting it. One es the would-be lynchers named Sam Boone was in the act of stooping with a lighted match in- his hand, revealing clearly his entire form, to set fire to the pile thus raised, when Gibbs fired with a revolver through a chink in the boards which served in place of sash and glass for the window, killing him instantly. His comrades retreated some distance at this, but soon returned, proposing to burst open the door by main force. While they were bunched together preparatory to making the charge that was to do this Gibbs fired again, hitting two men this time. He builded wiser than he knew, indeed, for the gun of one of them as he was falling exploded, killing a brother to the man first killed. So/woe qui peut occurred at one and the same time to the surviving assailants at seeing the untimely fate of their comrades, and they scattered and made off. Gibbs Ired at them, retreating, with a rifle, the bullet of which he heard h spat” on a revolver one carried, so that it did no harm. After seeing the backs of his enemies disappear in the darkness Gibbs on his part turned tail and fled, with his wife and three children and a neighbor and her child, over to his father’s ranch, situated some half a mile distant in a direction opposite to that taken by his foiled assailants. His friends gathered around him the next day, and when he was examined Monday the event resulted in his triumphal acquittal, ten of those who had tried to lynch him testifying to his having acted in self-de-fense. But thra spirit of fair play was not rife in the community, and not only Gibbs, but the Justice who presided at his trial and his friends an< relatives found their lives were in danger. Accordingly, the Justice, Gibbs, his brother and a friend named Gillard were obliged to hurry off immediately after the trial and make tracks for this place, which they seem to have considered their only city of safety. They had not gone a score of miles before the Philistines were upon them; and now came a race for life. Their pursuers numbered some two score, and their multiplicity enabled them to cover a tract of country which left little loophole for their escape. Gibbs first evaded them by calling on his party to separate and hide in a gulch till they had passed by, but this ruse did not avail for long. They were soon obliged to break cover, and then the pursuing party gained on them fast. At last by a desperate spurt they managed to get a start which gave them time to throw off all their surplus load and enable their horses to increase their speed materially. Their object was to reach a mountain near by, where they had determined to make a stand and sell their lives as dearly as possible, but their horses were so freshened up by their lightened loads that they were enabled to give the party in the rear the go-by completely. All this chase, I forgot to say, was done at night, the pursuers first appearing in sight a-little after midnight. The moon, however, was very nearly at the full, and, as the country was well covered with snow, the motions of the pursuers and pursued were equally visible to each other. It was daylight, nevertheless. when the chase ended, and the pursued quartet rode into a ranche at the head of Curran Creek and demanded food for themselves and horses at the muzzles of their revolvers. They rode all that day, and by sun-down were at the foot of Pike’s Peak on the west side, passing the night at a ranche. Although no signs all this time had been seen of their pursuers, the next day (yesterday) they were still so fearful of being again overhauled that they did not dare take the regular roadway through the mount-' ains, but preferred to go over the hills cross-lots. There was no trail, and their wits and the aun were their only guides. The mountain,'which, having no name, is best located by saying it is at the head of Dead Mali’s Gulch, rose some miles over the level of the plain, and over this tremendous elevation they scampered, till at nightfall they got down on to the plain again, and stopped to rest fifteen miles from Colorado City. From here to Monument, where they spent the night, taking the train for Denver this morning, was an easy journey. The distance traversed by the entire journey was over 100 miles.— Denver, Col., (Jan. 29) Cor. Chicago Inter-Ocean.

A Monstrous Story.

c The Blooniington Pantagraph- says: “ Mr. Damon, a gentleman selling shoes for i leading manufactory of Worcester, Mass., was in the city yesterday, and in addition to his other baggage brought with him a*d exhibited to a few admiring friends a shoe that has done good service on the foot of a reigning belle of Sandusky, Ohio. This delicate souvenir might well be placed in comparison with the glass slipper that compressed the arching instep of Cinderella. The Sandusky belle’s is numbered 1 seventeen, exira large.’ is on’y fourteen inches from toe .to heel, and six inches across the broadest part of the sole, and its former occupant is not happy, for the other shoe is just like it, and her feet grow one size every year. She is only sixteen years old—just budding into womanhood. We shudder as we contemplate the result should she live to a good old age and keep up her pedal development. “In addition toTthe main edifice there te a bay window on the east side of the gaiter, to accommodate a few r cx'otic bunions, and an extensive corn patch to the west. A back porch has also been constructed on the heel to protect a growth in that direction, while one tiny toe-nail has cut a gash like a spade slash out into daylight on the northernmost point of the structure.

“ The girl only weighs eighty five pounds, and has received a commission to go West next summer to tramp grasshoppers in Cnlorado.” -

FACTS AND FIGURES.

—Cleveland handled 170,000,000 feet of lumber last year. —The decrease of cotton shipments at Memphis this year was 22,000 bales. —The obsequies of Senator Sumner cost the State of Massachusetts $19,227.66. —The savings banks in Maine show an increase of deposits' the past year of $1,500,000. —lt is estimated that $8,000,000 was lost during the year 1874 in the punlication business. —A new census of Rhode Island is tobe taken. The people will stand up and be counted. —Of champagne wine 158,082 bottles were imported into New York and Boston in 1874. —On the Ist of January, 1875, there was in bond in the United States 11,730,538 gallons of whisky. —ltaly imported, through the port of Baltimore, last year, G,376 hog.-heads of Maryland and Ohio tobacco. —The amount of printing and wrapping paper manufactured in Maine the past year will exceed $3,000,000. —The foreman of a Cincinnati brewery gets SIO,OOO salary—the same as the Chief Justice of the United States. —The value of imports at Boston last year was $49,780,806; in 1873, $60,411,697, a decrease during 1874 of $10,620,891. —Since the beginning of the current year $60,000,000 in gold and silver have been exported from New York alone. —Cuba’s sugar crop is a weighty mat-ter—-1,600,000,000 pounds. Enough to sweeten about a fourth part of this very sour world. —There are 777 establishments for the manufacture of pottery in the United States, employing 6,116 hands, and having an invested capital of $5,294,308. —A heavy squadron of fiery steeds .- The total number of locomotive steam engines in the world is 45,667, of which 14,223, or nearly one-third, are in the United States. —The farmers of this country now number 6,000,000, constituting nearly half the voters; with their wives and children they make up more than half of the 40,000,000 of our population. —lllinois postofllces, during the last fiscal year, issued 134,888 more money orders than were issued in any other State in the Union. The amount of money received on these orders was sl,519,524 85—an average of nearly $11.55 per order. —The civilized nations number 56,289 sailing vessels, with 14,523,630 tonnage, and 5,365 steamers, with 3,471,079 tonnage. England, America, Italy and Germany lead off, and France comes next. In three short years, as one of the fruits of her disastrous war, the number of French vessels has diminished over 1,000. A YOUNG lady of Michigan avenue (linmissed her lover because he kept her so long oh the steps to say good-by one night that she took cold. Love that might outlive a fever will often succumb to a cold in the head. — Chicago InterOcean. A Utica editor, whose ear is shedding its skin, explains that he has not been anywhere to freeze it, but he has btfen exposed to a good deal of domestic discipline.—Dome Sentinel. A gaudy Chicago Justice of the Peace is described as “a red, round lump of flesh, with two cracks for eyes.”

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK, Feb. 13.1875. BEEF CATTLE ....SIO.OO @512.00 HOGS —Dressed 8.25 @ 8.75 Live 6.75 @ 7.00’ SHEEP—Live 6.50 @ 7.25 COTTON—Middling 15%@ .16 FLOUR—Good to choice 4.80 @ 5.25 WHEAT—No! 2 Chicago 1.03 @ 1.05 CORN —Western Mixed. 81 @ .82. OATS—Western Mixed 66%@ .69 RYE .91 @ .95 BARLEY—Western 1.35 @ 1.40 PORK—New Mess 19.20 @ 19.25 LARD—Prime Steam 14 @ .14%. CHEESE 12 @ .16 WOOL — Domestic Fleece 52 @ .65 CHICAGO. BEEVES—Choice $5.60 l@ $6.00 Good 5.60 @ 6.09 Medium 4.25 @ 4.75 Butchers’ Stock 3.00 @ 4.25 Stock Cattle 2.75 @ 4.10 HOGS—Live —Good to Choice.. 6.75 @ 7.00 Dressed 7.62'4® 8-00 SHEEP—Good to Choice 5.50 @ 6.25 BUTTER—Choice Yellow 29 @ .35 EGGS—Fresh 28 @ .30 CHEESE—New York Factory.. .17 @ .17% Western Factory... .16%@ .17 FLOUR—White Winter Extra.. 4.25 @ 6.50 Spring Extra 3.75 @ 4.50 GRAlN— Wheat—Spring, No. 2 .84%@ .84% Corn—No. 2 62%@ .62% Oats—No. 2 52%@ -52% Rye—No. 2 97%@ .98 Barley—No. 2 1.09 @ 1.09% PORK—New Mess 18.25 @ 18.30 LARD 13 50 @ 13.62% WOOL —Tub-washed 45 @ .58 Fleece, washed 40 @ .50 Fleece, unwashed 27 @ .37 LUMBER—First Clear. 52.00 @ 55.00 Second Clear 46.00 @ 50.00 * Common Boards.... 11.00 © 12.00 Fencing 12.00 © 13.00 “A” Shingles 3.00 @ 3.25 Lath.. 2.00 @ 2.25 CINCINNATI. FL0UR—Fami1y............ <4.95 @ $5.10 WHEAT—Red ... 1.10 @ 1.14 CORN 79 © -71 OATS .......... -59 @ 63 RYE 1-08 @ 109 BARLEY—No. 2 1.25 @ 1.30 PORK—Mess 18.90 @ 19.00 LARD 13%@ .14% ST. LOL I IS. BEEF CATTLE—Fair to choice $5.25 @ $5.75 HOGS—Live 6.50 © 7730 FLOUR—FaII XX 4.35 @ 4.50 WHEAT —No. 2 Red Winter.... 1.05 @ 1.05% CORN—No. 2 62 © .63% OATS—No. 2 56 @ .56% RYE—No. 1 99 @ 1.00 BARLEY—No. 2 '. 1.30 © 1.34 PORK—Mess 18.50 © 18.75 LARD... -. 13%@ .13% MILWAUKEE. FLOUR—Spring XX ~...54.60 @55.01 WHEAT—Spring No. 1 90%@ .90% “ No. 2... ABi © -Bs% CORN—No. 2... 62 @ .63 OATS—No. 2 50%@ vMe RYE—No. 1 100 @ 101 BARLEY—No. 2 1.16 @ 117 CLEVELAND. WHEAT—No. 1 Red s•l.l'’%© sl-11 No.' 2 Red o'- 1.‘4%@ 1.1-5 CORN.. @ .71 OATS—No. 1 59 © .60 DETROIT. WHEAT—Extra ,•••■ sl-13 l -‘® CORN ...... . . .ta%@ .69 OATS . (Xi ....... .56 %@ -57% DRESSED HOGS 7-80 ® 8.00 TOLEDO. WHEAT— Amber Mich.... $1.07%© $1.C7%.. No. 2 Red.... 1.06 @ 1.07 CORN—High Mixed 66 © .66% OATS-No. 2 buffalo. ® BEEF CATTLE. .. S’oo © $5.75 HOGS—Live.. 7.00 © 7.30 SHEEP—Live 5.35 @ 6.25 east liberty. CATTLE— Best.. $6.25 ©56.87% Medium... 5.50 @ 5.75 HOGS—Yorkers 6.80 & 690 Philadelphia 7.70 @ 7.90 SHEEP— Best 5.50 ■<> *6.50 Medium....:... .. . 5-25 @ 5.75