Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1878 — Page 2

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General News Summary.

VMM WAMiieroa, Tnc po bUr-debt statement, as published on the Ist, Indicates the following: Total debt, tedmllnx Interest of *27,800,017, *2,329,107,901. Cash In Treasury, *800,002,881. Debt, leas cash in Treasury, *2,039, 105,02a Decrease during August, *6,475,804. Tu Secretary of the Interior, on tlie 3d, rendered pa additional decision to the <Jora mlssioorr of the General Land Office, lb respect to railroad land grants. An appeal hail been taken In the Dudymott case for a reversion or suspension of the former decision, but Sec’y Schurx declined to do either, and the first decision, by which large tracts of land, covered by land grants to railroads, were opened to settlement. Is to stand unless reversed by a decision of the courts. Immense numbers of applications had been made to enter the lands under the origins) decision, and It waa expected the railroad companies would take immediate steps to appeal to the courts. Gin. Lew Wallace, of Indiana, was, on the 9d, appointed Governor of New Mexico, (inAxtel, suspended. Tnn average condition of oats throughout the country, as shown by the August returns to the Agricultural Department, was represented by 100. The - average of-tobacco, as reported from twelve of the largest tobaccogrowing States, was about 89. The Secratary of the Treasury has lately issued a Treasury circular, announcing that hereafter silver dollars will he Issued, In sums not less than #I,OOO nor more than *10,003, in exchange for greenbacks, upon application at any Sub-Treasury or designated depository, and that National Bank notes presented for redemption will be redeemed in silver dollars. Sbc’t Sherman, on the 4th, Issued the seventieth call for the redemption of 5-30 bonds of 1865. The call is for *2,000,000 coupon and *3,000,000 registered bonds, principal and Interest to he paid on and after Dec. 4.

-rant cast. On the 3d, the House of Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in session in New York City, adopted a preamble and resolution deposing from the ministry Bishop McCoskrey, and Presiding-Bishop Smith, of Kentucky, formally declared such deposition. The State election in Vermont was held on the 3d. It was thought, on the morning of tk sth, that Proctor (Rep.) for Governor would have about 17,000 majority. The Republican candidates for Congress in the. First and Second Districts were probably elected. No choice In the Third. Orville Ghaxt, brother of ex-President Grant, was, on the 4th, sent to the Insane Asylum at Morristown, N. J. His mind ran on immense speculations, starting new business on a gigantic scale, etc. He was sent to the asylum at the request of liis friends and Dr. Morton. The National Ureenbackers, of New Hampshire, met in State Convention, at Manchester, on the sth, and adopted resolutions demanding the repeal of the National-Bank act; the issue of full legal-tender money; the immediate repeal of the Resumption art; that no subsidies be granted to individuals or corporations; that the public lands be reserved for actual settlers, and that a modification be made of the iron-clad Tramp law enacted at the last session of the State Legislature. Warren G. Brown was nominated for Governor. Dennis Kearney delivered one of his characteristic speeches to a large assemblage of workingmen in Union Square, New Y.ork City, on the evening of the 6th. A strike of the car-drivers on the Third Avenue Street Railroad, New York City, was ended on the 6th by the Company agreeing to pay the men *1.90 per day. A strike was in progress on the Second Avenue line. = Gold closed in New York, on Sept. 6th, at lift' The following were the dosing quotations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, #l.lo*@l.li; No. 2 Milwaukee, #1.13,g1.13*; Oats, Western, 28<g320. Corn, Western, Mixed, 46(g50*c. Pork, Mess, #9.75. Lard, *7.05. Flour, -Good to Choice, #4.35(tt5.00. White Wheat Extra, *5.10(85.75. Cattle, #[email protected] for Good to Extra. Sheep, #[email protected]. Hogs, #[email protected]. At East Liberty, Pa., on Sept. 6th, Cattle brought: Best, #[email protected]*; Medium, *4.00 @4-75; Common, *[email protected]. Hogs sold— Yorkers, *[email protected]; Philadelphlas, #4.30(8 1.65. Sheep brought #3.2s(B4.2s—according to Quality. At Baltimore, Md. on Sept 6th, Cattle brought: Best, #[email protected]; Medium, #3.60(84.37*. Hogs sold at *[email protected] for Good. Sheep were quoted at #[email protected] for good.

WWT AMD SOUTH. Diking the week ending Aug. 31, there were 734 petitions in bankruptcy filed with the Register in Chicago. Aggregated liabilities, •33,356,253; aggregated assets, $4,148,705. At Indianajiolis, the other day, a little daughter of Mr. Westfall was burned to death, In an attempt to light the kitchen fire with coal oil. Mrs. Westfall was badly burned while trying to save her child. A bot seven years old was found, a fgw mornings ago, oh the Illinois shore of the Mississippi River, about sixty miles below St. Louis, floating on a large cottonwood tree. From the evidence attainable, it appeared that the little fellow had been in that position five or six days without food. He was nearly starved when rescued. At Wheeling, West Va., a few days ago, three young girls, aged eight, ten and twelve years, respectively, daughters of a Mrs. McGee, started the kitchen fire with coal oil. The usual result followed. The eldest was burned to death, the second was fatally burned, and the youngest slightly injured. The National Firemen’s Tournament wa6 Inaugurated, at Chicago, on the 3d, by a grand parade, in which many thousands of firemen and soldiers, from Chicago and abroad, participated. It was estimated that from 25,000 to 50,000 strangers witnessed the display. The President and members of his Cabinet, Gov. Cullom, of Illinois, Gov. Smith, of Wisconsin, and many other distinguished gentlemen joined in the procession. In the evening. President and Mrs. Hayes gave a grand reee plion, which was largely attended. - The Northwestern -Exposition at Minneapolis, Minn., was formally opened, on the 3d. Senator Blaine made the inaugural address. There were 26,000 persons present —_ The Farmers’ and Mechanics’Savings Bank of San Francisco failed, on the 3d. The amount owing its depositors is stated to be •365,000. The bank officers say these will be paid in fulL The Republicans of Minnesota held their State Convention at St Paul, on the 4tb. John M. Berry was renominated for Associate Judge of the Supreme Court, Samuel Bt Nichols for Cleric of the Supreme Court and O. P. Whitcomb for State Auditor. The platform indorses the Administration of President Hayes: declares In favor of specie resumption, that tiie Nation is pledged to pay its debts in poio; favors the resumption of specie payfoent, and condemns the doctrine of an unlimited and Irredeemable paper currency. ?*■ Grand Central Hotel, at Omaha, was completely destroyed tsjr fire, on tlfe evening of the 4th. This hotel was bajlt in 1873 at a poster «oo, oo°, although It was sold recently |

under foreclosure for #130,000. Four firemen were killed and several others seriously hurt by falling walla. Postmaster Fillet, of 8L Louis, hat been removed for an alleged violation of Executive Order No. 1. The statement is made that he allowed his clerks to participate too much in politic*. The Minnesota State Prohibition Convention met at Minneapolis, on the 3d, and noml naied the following ticket: State Auditor, T. G. Carter; Clerk of the Supreme Court, Wm. Capp; .First District Congressman, 0. W. Green; Second District, J. C. Stearns; Third District, referred to the Central Committee. The Chicago Inter-State Exposition was formally opened, on the evening of the 4th, in the presence of a multitude numbering 15,060 persons. The display was an excellent one, and*vastly sii|>erlor, It is stated, to any that have preceded It. The Exposition will closb on the 19th of October. The Democratic State Convention of Kansas was held at Leavenworth, on the 4th. The nominations are For Secretary of State, L. W. Barton; Treasurer, C. C. Black: AttorneyGeneral) J. F. Cox; Superintendent Public Instruction, O. F. McKein; Chief-Justice Supreme Court, R. M. Ruggles; Auditor, O. Shannon. The resolutions adopted declare that Congress should provide a paper currency In such volume as may be necessary for the convenient transaction of busluess at all times, to stimulate'enterprise, etc.; favor the unconditional repeal of the Resumption act, the full remonetisation of silver, ami the retirement of National Bank notes, and the substitution therefor of greenbacks, to be made a legal tender for all purjioses.

The Minnesota Democrats met in State Convention, at St.'Paul, on the sth. Resolutions were adopted, declaring that the investigation of frauds committed nt the last Presidential election ought to have lieen made by the Electoral Commission; in favor of the gradual substitution of Treasury for National Bank notes, tube the sole paper currency of the country, to be a legal tender, on a par with coin; against any further contraction of the currency; opposition to a tariff for protection, etc. The nominations are: For Associate Judge of the Supreme Court, Wm. Mitchell; Clerk, Dillon O’Brien; Auditor of Btste, Mahlon M. Black: Frank Welch, Member of Congress from Nebraska, died, at Nellgh, Neb., on the night of the 4th, of apoplexy. The President reached St. Paul, Minn., on the st,b, and was enthusiastically received. At the Fair Grounds he delivered an elaborate speech, mainly devoted to the financial question. Pleasant speeches were also made by Att’y-Gen. Devens and Senator Butler, of South Carolina. In Chicago, on Sept. 6th, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at 88c cash; 88c September, and 88*c for October. Cash Corn closed at 36%c' for No. 2; 36%c for September, 37%c for October. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at -19'Kc; 21*c seller October. Rye No. 2,46 c. Barley No. 2, (New) #1.04 for cash, #1.05 for October (New.) Cash Mess Pork closed at #8.65. Lard, *6.70. Beeves—Extra, *5.00(85.40; Choice, #4.4O(jC 4.65; Good, #[email protected]; Medium Grades, #[email protected]; Butchers! Btock, #[email protected]; Stock Cattle, etc., *[email protected]. Hogs brought #4.oo@4<Co for Good to Choice. Sheep sold at #3.00(g5.40 for Poor to Choice.

THE YELLOW FEVER. A Memphis correspondent writes, under a recent date, that there were women of pluck and devotion iu that place, who were daring everything for those they love. “ The faithless are of the other sex. While one man forsakes his wife and leaves his children to die in strangers’ hands, while a son hies to Arkansas Springs and leaves his mother and two brothers to be borne by other hands to the grave, in contrast shines out the faithfulness of woman as a devoted mother, as a patient, attentive wife, as a life-risking daughter, sister, friend. She watches, and nurses, and cares for her loved one till he lives again, or passes beyond her hIJ. The penalty of her service of love is generally death.” Over #IOO,OOO had been contributed, up to the 3d, in New York City, #35,000 in Chicago, and corresponding amounts iu other Eastern and Western cities, for the relief of the yel-low-fever districts of the South. An order was issued on the 3d, by the Beeretarv of War, for rations for twenty days to be issued to 2,000 of the suffering poor in New Orleans. Memphis was reported, on the 4th, to he one vast charnel house. Over 150 deaths had occurred during the last twenty-four hours, sixty dead bodies remaining unburied at nightfall. The question of disposing of the dead had become a serious one, and cremation had been suggested, as corpses had been known to lie unburied for more than fortyeight hours, and it was with difficulty that men could be hired to haul them to the Potter’s field. The Finance Committee of the Citizens’ Association issued an appeal to the civilized world for aid, to enable them to feed and clothe the destitute there, furnish necessary material for the sick and dying, and to bury the dead. The destitute were crying for bread, and the sick for such care as can only be given by open-handed generosity. Urgent appeals for help were also made from Holly Springs, Greenville and Canton, Miss. The stores In Holly Springs were all closed, and all the people who could do so had left the city.

Between twenty and thirty cases of what was supposed to be a mild type of yellow fever were reported at Newport, Ky., on the 4th. Additional deaths of refugees had occurred in Cincinnati. The fever was still Increasing in Vicksbjp;. ■ The number of deaths at Memphis, ou the stb, was eighty-nine, eighty-six at New Orleans, forty-three at Vicksburg, twenty at Hickman and ten at Grenada. There were over seventy new eases at Holly Springs, and the disease there was very fatal, taking off some of the best citizens. The disease was rapidly spreading in all the above localities, and substantial aid was still, and would continue to be for some time, greatly needed. The new cases in New Orleans numbered 201. B*.rict quarantine regulations were decided upon at St. Louis, to go Into effect, on the 7th. Every house In Grenada had been visited by the scourge, aud the fever In New Orleans was spreading to every part of tlie city. It was reported, on the 6th, that the fever was spread ail over Memphis, and wa6 very violent in the southern part of the city, a locality never before visited by the scourge. One hundred and one deaths had occurred during the preceding twenty-four hours, and several volunteer physicians and a number of nurses were down with the fever. The total number of eases in New Orleans, to the 6th, were 4J502.; deaths, 1,323. .Great consternation existed at Holly Spring* Miss., and the town was nearly deserted, Only 600„ people remaining in the town. Little help of any kind. The new cases in Vicksburg numbered 186; deaths, thirty-seven. The fever seemed to haive exhausted itself in Grenada, for want of victims; six new cases and three deaths, on the 6th. Appeals for help were still being mule from all the stricken districts. rouiux MnUUKEHPE. The Town of Mickalcz, In Hungary, has been almost depopulated and destroyed by a hurricane. Up to the morning of the Ist, over 400 dead bodies bad been recovered, and 2W» persons were still missing. At Erlau, the River Eger broke through the town walls. Many rows of bouses werq, swept away aiid a great many persons drowned. Air etpursion-train on a British railway collided with a freight-train, near Sitting Bourne Junction, on the Ist. The train was completely wrecked. Thirty poisons were severely ffijyrpj gild eight killed. " r

The Sultan of Ttirkey lately sent a telegram to the Cur of Russia asking him to Issue an order directing that a period be put to the outrages on Mussulmans in Koumelia. The Cur replied, on the lit, that be waa sorry because of the prevailing anarchy and disorder, l'lit behaved 1 that (he reports thereof were greatly, exaggerated, u the Russian Generate had received strict order* to prevent and punish ail acts of violence. Accormxo to a Ragusa telegram of the 2d, the Mohammedan population of Kolaschin had seised the fortifications there, after a brisk fight with a couple of battalions -of Turkish regulars. ' • An insurrection recently broke out in Trcblnje, caused by the knowledge that the Turkish regulars Intended to surrender the citadel to the Austrians, in obedlentc to orders from the Porte. A Constantinople dispatch of the lid says the Bosnians interned at Nlcsics bad revolted, and that great numbers had l>een killed or wobnded liefore the revolt could be suppressed. The Turkish forces have defeated the Adona Insurgents and captured the town, after eight hours’ hard fighting. The Thames excursion steamer, the Princess Alice, was run down, on the evening of the Bd, Just off the City of London gas works, ■by the Bywell Castle, a screw collier, bound for Belfast.. Five minutes after the Alice keeled over and sunk in deep water. Of the 800 passengers on board, It was believed, on the 4tb, tiiat not more than 150 had been rescued. It was stated that the accident was due to a misunderstanding of signals. According to iDndon dispatches of the sth, France and Italy had Jointly notified the Porte that they should not 'permit the bombardment of the Greek coast in the event of war between Turkey and Greece-. It was alao reported from Constantinople that Greece had notified the Porte that, unless an answer waa shortly received to her demand for the appointment of a Commission for the rectification of her frontier, she would Invoke tl)e mediation of the Powers. Dublin was greatly rejoiced, on the 6th, over the release of Condon, the Fenian convict. He was given his liberty, at the Instance of Mr. Welsh, the United States Minister to the Court of St. James, on the ground of his American citizenship. A Vienna dispatch of the 6th says the Trebinje rebels had surrendered to the officer commanding the citadel, upon his threat to bombard the town. The Paris International Congress of [Weights, Measures and Coinage has adopted a resolution favoring a ore-tenth alloy for gold coins. Tnr Russian army for the occupation of Koumelia is to consist of 100,000 men.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—Senator Bruce, of Mississippi, and his newly-wedded wife will keep house at W ashmgton next winter. —The Marquis of Lome is called John George Edward Henry Douglas Southerland Campbell for long. —Charles O’Conor, the well-known New York lawyer, has retired from practice. He is eighty years old. —Myra Clark Gaines has been obliged to give up enough of New Orleans to bury the victims of yellow fever in. —The Washington Post notes as a sign of advancing civilization that the words “ man” and “ woman” are again coming into use. —After an absence of fifteen years, the brother of S. Afigier Chace, the Fall River defaulter, has returned to find in prison the brother whom he left prosperous and respected. —lt is said that the Marquis of Lome, very soon after he reaches Canada, will make a trip through the United States, making a stay of several days in each of the large cities. —Mrs. Fanny Washington Finch, the great-grandniece of Washington and supposed to be his nearest living relative, is keeping a boarding-house in Washington, and has recently had her furniture attached by a landlord for rent. —The fellow who goes about upsetting beliefs that have long been dear and sacred, now declares tnat Kosciusko did not fall; and it will probably turn out that Kos. crawled under abarn before the fighting began, and that freedom shrieked to get him to come out.— Chicago Tribune. —Pronounce it this way. A correspondent writes from the Northwest: “ By the way, talking of Manitoba reminds me that in this part of the world Manitoba is pronounced Manito-bah—-the accent on the last syllable —and Pembina, Pembi-nah. Tins prounciation prevails in Manitoba.” —Mayor Pierce, of Boston, recently did a generous act, which has been made public by the recipient of his kindness. An old man named Hickey, who is confined to his house by a cancer, has been seriously troubled by the erection of a high board fence by the Old Colony Railroad Company on a vacant lot of land between his house and the railroad track, thus shutting oft his view. Some of his friends called on Mayor Pierce to induce him to urge the railroad company to remove the fence, but, instead of so doing, he bought the land of the corporation for SBOO and made a present of it to Mr. Hickey, and gave him SSO beside. The fence has been removed.

A Little Traveler.

Among the passengers who reached this city, on Wednesday night, by the Western and Atlantic train from Chattanooga was a little, girl five years old. She had a bright, intelligent face, with sparkling brown eyes, and was placarded with a large envelope which was suspended from hor neck and displayed her name, Miss Annie Hilton. A letter on the inside of the envelope, directed to the conductors, and signed by S. M. Jay, General Passenger Agent of the Memphis & Little Rock Railway’, explained the fact that the child was from Austin, Tex., and was on her way to Wilmington, N. C., where her father resided. Mr. Jay made a request in his letter that the conductors on the line take good care of the child and see that'she ’was safely delivered to her father, who would meet her at Wilmington upon her arrival there.' Maj. H. H. Marmaduke, who reached this city on the same train from Little Rock, took her in his care at that place, but afterward resigned to Mr. and Mrs. Banks, of Charleston, S. C., who promised tp see her safely as far as Augusta, Ga. Miss Annie says that she was born in Texas, and has never seen her father. Her mother died, and her father recently married again in Wilmington. He had telegraphed for her to come to him. The little traveler had a small sachel and a lunch basket, also a few dollars of change. Since leaving Austin she had made eight changes, of cars, and will make as many more before She reaches her destination. She will then have traveled about 1,600 miles.— Atlanta (Go.) (lomtilulion, ,jjv N —AH i mosquito wants is one bite—just one, * ' "

MISCELLANEOUS STEMS. —The best doctor has the most patience. —An Unaristocratlc Lineage—Pennya-“ line”-age.— Fun. —A Maryland paper refers to a cow breaking her leg as a " tragedy.” —The man who stoops from age has been indorsed on the back by Time. —A conscientious lawyer will never take a case unless he deems It fee-sible. —Nothing makes a baldheaded man so mad aa a fly that doesn’t know when it has enough.— Hawk-Eye. —Marriage is a terrible punishment devised to expiate the offenses of the bad young man.— Chicago Tribune. —People who prononnoe it snout. Instead of the more vulgar moot. Somehow, instead of laying route. Say route. —/*uei. —Spikes says her parents are willing and ho likes the girl, and thinks he will take her if her old man will throw in a chromo. —Big snake stories are popular, but it is generally remarked tnat the man who saw the biggest snake wears the reddest nose.

—The stranger who sits at our table may be a good man, but he is also a cannibal, For he eats the flour of the family. —Boston Post. —Correspondents say that many of the summer resorts are short of men this season. Would’st know the wherefore? The men are “short” themselves.—Norristown Herald. —The San Francisco Post tells a story of a shark chasing a lawyer. Those .California papers most always blunder that way. Lawyers will, of course, understand how it was.—Nino Haven Register. —When, by reason of inclement weather, you cannot cultivate the soil, it will be wisdom on your part to cultivate the mind. A valuable harvest will reward all earnest and faithful culture. —Prairie Farmer. —A man who puts a watermelon I under his coat and starts for home will I learn more about arcs, circles, half circles, half rounds and so forth in fifteen minutes than he can get from a book in a whole year.—Detroit Free Press. —The plea of “ hysterics,” made in behalf of female felons, is catching. “ Sure, yer Honor,” said Norah, yesterday, when asked why she should not be sentenced for robbing a trunk, “I was in a historical condition.”— N. T. Graphic. —When riding on the cars if cinders .innoy you, persuade your neighbor next in front to close his window; that is where they enter. You may keep your own window open with impunity, unless your neighbor behind is a bigger man and compels you to close it.— Hinahamlor Remrblican.

—ln reply to “Claribel,” a correpondent, the Boston Globe says: “ Your essay is at hand, but we cannot use it until we are more definitely advised. Your nom <Je plume suggests’ red hair, and we cannot permit any red-haired women to write essays for our columns on ‘ Domestic Happiness.’ ” —The Jewish Messenger remarks that when Richard Coeur de Lion conquered Cyprus in 1171 he gave orders that no Jew should be present at the ceremony which completed the conquest; and that now, eight centuries afterward, England has to thank Benjamin Disraeli for its new possession. —An M. D. who lately opened an office was favored by a visit from his young wife. Wishing to start an interesting subject for conversation, he said; “My dear, how many people do you suppose pass by my office in the course of an hour?” “ I should judge they all passed by,” nonchalantly exclaimed the wife. —Dr. Johnson was once asked, “Doctor, don’t you think a man involved in trouble from which he cannot see how he can extricate himself would be justified in making way with himself by taking his own life?” “No,” said the doctor, “let him go to some country where he is not known; not to th# devil, where he is known.” —A curious battle between a fox and a swan occurred some years ago, in England, at a place named Peusey. The swan, sitting on her eggs on one side of the river, observed a fox swimming toward her from the opposite shore. Rightly judging she could best grapple with the fox in her native element, she plunged into the water, and, after beating him off for some time with her wings, at length succeeded in drowning him. —Th« elections in the United States of Colombia have just closed peacefully, and the regular revolution is being organized without alarm or trouble. The hew President will be shot to-mor-row and tranquillity will be restored. The people of Santander have adopted resolutions expressing their esteem for and confidence in the old President, whom they shot yesterday. There is no interruption to business. —Special Dispatch to Hawk-Eye , —Then tfi&re is the Sunday morning fly. It is not shown why he should be so much worse than any other fly—in fact, it is not shown wfry he should be in existence at all. Still, there is no fact so apparent in this dog-day sultriness and stickiness as that of his existence. A man never puts forth so extraordinary effort to make both ends meet as when the Sunday morning fly is present. It is this fly that has the shrillest voice, the quickest step, the hottest foot and the longest teeth. He is cayenne pepper on legs. He is a typhoon with spurs. He is—he is—weft, he is the Sunday morning fly, a beast that gains yonr ear to abuso your confidence, and employs your toe for artesian practices. —Danburv News.

“Conquered, but Not Crushed.”

The Democratic rebellion, that cost more than half a million of human lives and billions of wealth, was conquered by the faithful friends of thp Union; but the spirit of rebellion is still cherished by many of those who fought to divide tmd fuin the Nation'. Is any stronger evidence of this required than the . utterances of that arch-traitor, Jefferson Davis, and the hearty indorsement his recent speech has received from the Southern press and people? That man, now tottering into the grave, seems to delight in the opportunity to openly counsel his countrymen to cherish the spirit of division, hatred and rebellion. A generous Government forgave his political crimes and spared his life; but a long-forbearing people, after reading his seditious utterances, publicly spoken and often repeated, can scarcely refrain from making him tne subject of the poet’s prayer: Remember him, the villain, righteous Ha iven, in thy great day of vengeance! Bluet the fraibir. And hie pernicious counsel*. who for wealth. For power, the pride of greatness. or revenge. Would plunge his native land in civil ware. t - It were a small matter if this disappointed ex-Confederate President represented nobody but himself in giving expression £o Jjis rebellious sentiments '

Hut he is a representative man, and hia counterpart, counted by score*, is already high in office land largely in control of the law-making branch of the Federal Government. Well may it be said, and with all the truth in which tty) words were clothed when uttefed on,another occasion: The HUto it out of time; dm trading fear* Ami iealoa* doubt* Jar in our public oounaela; Amidst the wealthy city murmur* rise. Loud railing* and reproach on those that rale. With <>pep acorn of gorernment: beno* credit And public trust 'twixt man and man are broke. The golden atreams of commerce are withheld Which fed the wantaof needy kinds and artisans. Who therefore curse the great and threat rebellion. Of one thing every thoughtful mind is convinced, and that is, that the progressive events and political comblnations of the times claim the attentive consideration and decision of every true friend of good government. There is a power in the land known to be controlled by the determination to rule or ruin—an influence strong and unscrupulous that is seeking with increasing energy to crush the spirit and the party that saved the Union in the hour of its severest trial, and place in power those who conceived and consummated the rebellion that has involved the country in an enormous National debt, high taxes and all the evils of shattered morals, idleness, pauperism and crime that invariably follow in the track of a (protracted civil war. And the question now forced home for the decision of every advocate of peace, ortyr and protection to life and property is not whether we should have free trade or protection, paper money or coin, but whether the leaders in the late rebellion should be allowed to become the rulers in the counsels of the Nation and the chief executive officers in the Administration of- the Federal Government. If the preservation ot- our political liberties, in letter and spirit, is worthy of another united and patriotic effort—not by the sword, but through the ballot-box—-there is now in the work of the present campaign and coming election an opportunity for just such a demonstration. The more the bold, the bustling, and the bad Pres* to usurp the reins of power, the more Behooves it virtue, with indignant zeal, To check their combination. It isrfo-day the boast of the rebellious spirit of the South that, “ though conquered, it is not crushed,” ana it is that same spirit that now comes to the front and points to those who saved the Union to back seats for their future occupancy in the counsels of the Nation. Fellow-citizens, is this your fate? Patriots of the Union, shall that be your destiny? The ballot-box can alone decide these vital questions, and now, as in the Revolutionary times of a century ago, every good man feel and act as if the final result of the struggle at the polls depended on his own individual effort. —The New Republic.

Sec’y Schurz Adheres to His Former Railroad Land Decision.

A Washington telegram of the 8d gives the following synopsis of Sec’y Scliurz’ supplementary decision in the land-grant railroad question: The Secretary of the Interior to-day rendered an additional decision to the Commissioner of the General Land Office in the wellknown Dudvmott case. An appeal was taken for the reversal or suspension of the former decision. Sec’y Schurz declines to do either, and the former decision, by which large tracts of land, covered by land-grants to railroads, were opened to settlement. Is to stand, unless reversed by a decision of the courts. Immense numbers of applications have been made to enter lands under the former decision. It U. expected the railroads will take immediate steps to appeal to the courta. * Sec’y Schurz says it has been from the earliest history of this Government one of the most Important and benedcieut principles governing its land policy not to favor the creation of large estates, but to put the public lands at such rates and in such quantities within the easiest possible reach of the poor and homeless that the latter might acquire homes for themselves and their families, and thereby promote the healthy development of the agricultural resources of the country. This principle has evidently been kept in view bv the law-making power when aiding the construction of national highways by extensive grants of land, and In accordance with it it was wisely provided in this grant that, unless the lands granted were sold by the companies within a reasonable time, they should be opened to actual settlement under the auspices of the Government of the United States, and under the provisions of the Pre-emption law, so that they might be acquired and settled upon by persons of limited means, while the proceeds of such sales are to be turned over to the companies. I am, therefore, of the opinion that an actnal sale to a bona fide purchaser for a valuable consideration within the time limited Is the only disposition which it was Intended by Congress should exempt any of said lands from sale under the Pre-emption law.

Counsel have filed copies of certain mortgages (called deeds of trust) executed by said companies to secure the payment of a bonded obligation of the same. Counsel urge that the execution and delivery of these mortgages was in effect a sale and conveyance of a legal title of the companies to all lands inuring to them under such grant. For the purpose of determining the question thus presented, it becomes necessary not only to fix the character of the instruments executed by said companies, but also to ascertain whether a legal title to the lands therein described was t>y said instruments conveyed to the Trustees therein named. After quoting various prominent legal opinions on the subject of mortgages, to the general effect that a mortgage is mere security and does not vest in the mortgagee any estate in land, either before or alter the condition broken, and that payment after default operates to discharge the lien equally with payment at maturity of the debt, the Secretary expresses the opinion that the mortgages in the several States and Territories in which land granted by the act of duly, 1863, and the act amendatory thereof of July 3, 1864, are located, are not a transfer of the legal title, but simply a pledge, a security, a lien thereon, and that no estate is by such instrument vested in the mortgagee, either before or after the condition is broken. In each and every one of the mortgages presented in this case the title as well as the rights of sale and disposition of the lands therein described, is retained in the companies, the Trustees indorsing the mortgage with the full knowledge of the limitations Of the right and authority of the companies to make the same. While the companies by the terms of the mortgages had the right to sell and dispose of the lands, the Trustees were to receive the proceeds of ail sales of lands made. The right of the companies to sell landshaving ceased by virtue of the third section of the net of July 1, 1863, the security of the mortgagees will be subrogated by moneys arising from sales when made by the Government. In concluding, the Secretary says: “After full consideration, I am unable to find any reason for the suspension of my decision of July 33,1878, and you will, therefore, without unnecessary delay, cause directions to be issued to the local officers as therein direct ed.’

The Vicksburg Commercial is reliably informed that in the City of Wilmington, N. C., before the war, there were a number of turpentine factories, amd that during the time that these factories were in operation yellow fever was unknown. During the war, while these factories were inactive, yellow fever was a frequent visitor at Wilmington. At the close of the war these factories were again put in operation, and since that time no epidemic has ever attacked that place. —ln a recent divorce case at Norwich, Conn., it was shown that the young wife got drunk a day or two after the wedding, and remained so for three months. The divorce was granted. A shock of wheat doesn’t cause as much damage as a shock Qf earthquake, ' * , 'r : A

A Remarkable Story that Comes from Huntingdon County, Pa.

Some time ago a Mr. Neff, residing near Alexandria, Huntingdon County, this State, went to his well to get a drink and found it dry. He then went down into the well to make repairs, and was much surprised to find not a pint of water and tne bottom fallen out A cool breeze blew up strong enough to rustle the leaveaof a tree standing near. He tied a lantern .to a rope 100 feet long and let it down, and as the lantern still burned he rightly concluded that the air was pure. He then procured a spliced rope 300 feet in length, and to the end attached a basket containing a lantern, a dog and a cat. He let them down, striking bottom at 291 feet. At the end of six hours the basket was brought up. The lantern was still burning, and the only visible effect on the dog and the cat was chilliness. The next day the owner of the well, accompanied by a trusty neighbor, Mr. Lefford, descended to the bottom. What was their surprise to find an imniinse cave, stretching miles and miles in every direction. Stalagmites and stalactites of magnificent gorgeousness lent beauty and variety to the otherwise tomb-like scene. Here and there a flowing stream of water rippled over stony beds,, while thousands and thousands of bats fluttered their clammy wings, surprised at the intrusion of man. Petrified sea shells of a hundred varieties strewed the floors and protruded from the strata. After spending ten or twelve hours of continuous wandering, during which time they penetrated beneath and beyond Alexandria, and discovered a vein of nickel ore and a nugget of metal resembling antimony, they returned to the surface, where their half-stricken wives clasped them to their bosoms, thinking they had been lost. It is supposed that this cave is connected with those at Warrior Ridge and Sinking Valley, only a few miles away. Specimens of the nickel ore have been sent to Philadelphia and analyzed, and pronounced superior to the nickel of either Lancaster or Germany, the only two places on the globe where it is now mined.— Cor. Harrisburg Patriot.

New Fashions In Cloaks.

The first importations of the seasou are eagerly watched for, as they indicate the fashions for the coming winter. From these it is evident that long circular garments with simulated sleeves, and short sacque cloaks, will he equally fashionable. Most of the cloaks are black, the light colors which were used last year not having any place this season. Diagonal cloth, lleeee-liued, is to be worn, and black “ moussa” cloth interwoven with silk, which forms a rough knotted surface. One cloak, a circular with long sleeve pieces, has an admirable arrangement for making the garment a walking or a carriage cloak at pleasure. The sleeves are held in place by invisible buttons, which, when unbuttoned, allow the front .of the garment to be drawn forward, thus forming a cloak which may be worn for sleighing. It is trimmed with a deep band of velvet and cordelieres of silk; these cordolieres, or cords and tassels Of silk, are much worn; sometimes they are festooned across the front like the cords on a military garment, sometimes they hang loose in Front or at the back. All kinds of rich gimps and passementeries are much employed, in which finely-cut jet beads are profusely used; the colored bead trimmings are out of date. Dressy cloaks are made short, about thirty-seven inches long. These have various trimmings; narrow folds of alternate silk and satin, lapping each other, form square pockets ana cuffs, and are edged with marabout or handsome flat trimmings; grass fringes and fringes mixed with strings of fine jet are also used to finish the edges. A new clonk is called the “Turkish,” on account of a peculiar front formed by revers; this cloak also had a very graceful back cut into the figure, and nnibsed with a narrow piece set on do wn the middle of the back. A very natty and taking article is the hunting coat, iri velveteen corduroy. It consists of a short cutaway coat, like an Englishman’s shooting-jacket, and has double-breasted front with handsome buttons; no trimming is used except on a dark brown eorduroy, which has velvet cuffs and collar; the grays and mouse-colored ones are plainly stitched on the edges. Ulsters are made in all the newest tweeds, and these, together with circular cloaks, wilj be much worn. The circulars have peculiar pointed capes to finish them — N. Y. Evening Post.

The True and Brave Women in Memphis.

There are women of pluck and unsurpassable devotion in Memphis, who are daring everything for those they love. The faithless are of the other sex, of those whom the world in one of its greatest misnomers has dubbed “the stronger sex.” While one man forsakes his wife and leaves his children to die in strangers’ hands, while a son hies to Arkansas Sprifogs and leaves his mother and two brothers to be borne by other hands to the grave, in contrast shines out the faithfulness of woman as a devoted mother, as a patient, .attentive wife, as a life-risking daughter, sister, friend. By the bedside of the burning body, inhaling the poison of the sick-room, foul with the odor which tells the naturo of the dreadful disease, performing service which none other will do, wearing a smile while the hearts is breaking, and lifting up the bead when in the last agony, her person is befouled by that most repulsive and horrible of all sub-stance-black vomit—she sits and watches, and nurses and cares for her loved one till he lives again or passes beyond her aid. The penalty of her service of love is generally death. Instances come to the writer’s blind faster than he can record them, instances which are but few of the manv iVhich have become like a part of Heaven in so much of earth's hell. A Citizens’ Relief Committee man walked into an humble cottage in the southern part of the city. There he found two children ill. one weak and listless, but evidently convalescing, the other tossing in burning fever. A little woman in olack sat between the two, and was in the act of kissing thp brow of the little fevered one. "Can’t I send you a nurse, madam?” asked the visitor.* “ No, sir*” the pale* little woman smiled, “I have brought one clmd through, and I shall bring the other.” “But you are worn out. “ Oh, no, sir. A kind Italian womannear by comes in and helps me sometimes.” „ She would not yield; no other hand but hers could minister to her little ones. ,7 An old'grandmother to|d the Key,

Mr. Parsons not only of having nursed her grandson to his death, but,ln want of some one else to do it, had with her old hands prepared him for the grave. A child was stricken with fever on Alabama street. Go,”, said the mother to the father, 1* I shall never leave the boy, but you must not be endangered.” The coward complied, and saw from over the way a snort coffin borne out of his home. The mother is paying the price of her devotion, and by to-morrow will herself pas's to her last home in the city. A sick man’s lady friend wrote: “Please let me come.” And when his friends thought the die was cast, they consented to his summoning her. Boldly she laid aside her hat, pushed back her hair, and, forcing a smile to her Ups, entered the room. Some of his male friends stood outside on the doorsteps “to inquire how the dear old boy is getting along.” These are a lew of hundreds. Mothers have made their sons leave town, and then, relieved apparently of all alarm, have sunk down to die. Wivcjt ajssent have returned against positive orders and wishes of their husbands, preferring to die with those they love rather than to suffer the suspense away. God in his mercy has sent these ministering angels to make us forget for a time the horrors of wholesale death, and contemplate in them the glory anil beauty of a better world.— Memphis Avalanche.

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—During a heavy storm, in Macon County, Ga.. Mr. Henry Baretield was struck by lightning and instantly killed, also a dog that was near him. He held an infant in his arms and the child was not hurt. ’ —A West Northfield (Mass.) blacksmith has a Plymouth Rock rooster, the position of whose wings is exactly the reverse of the naturftl order, so that when he attempts to fly he only drives himself downward. This story will do very well for an Eastern paragrapher. —At Tiffin, Ohio, a few days ago, a twelve-year-old daughter of Andrew Robinson was tossing her infant brother in and out of a second-story window, when the little fellow jumped from her hands out of the window to the ground, falling a distance of eighteen feet, fracturing his skull, throwing him into spasms, in which he lay several hours, when death relieved his agony. —The funniest somnambulist to date is the Herkimer County (N. Y.) lover, who rose from his bed one night recently and walked a mile in undress with a lamp in his hand to call upon his lady. She and her mother were about retiring for the night wlieu they answered his knock. In astonishment they conductsd him to a chamber, receiving his explanations in the morning and procuring more suitable clothing for his return trip. —A man is now at work in Santa Barbara Uounty, offering to clear farms of squirrels for from' nine to ten cents per acre, according to size, and guarantees a thorough work. One rancher declined to pay by the acre, but would pay four cents per head for the dealt squirrels. Mr. Benton went towork and in a short time drove up to the man’s house with so many wagon-loads of squirrels that it required a check of SSOO to satisfy the demands of the contract. —California Paper. —Martin Hayner, of Brunswick, is the proud possessor of a flue pair of colts. One day last week they were pasturing on his farm, through which a ditch had recently been dug, quite a distance from the house. One of the animals fell into the ditch, in someway" striking upon its back, with its feet helplessly pawing in the air, and utter ly unable to regain its equilibrium. The other colt, discovering the predicament of its mate, began running from the house to the ditch, making more than half-a-dozen trips before Mr. Hayner’ s attention was specially attracted. He finally entered the inclosure where his colt was neighing, when it seized hold of his coat and pulled in the direction of its mate. Mr. Hayner found his other colt in the position mentioned, and with difficulty rescued it. Such intelligence is certainly remarkable, and worthy of the recognition we have accorded it. —Troy (A. F.) Times.

The Shadow of a Mystery.

Twenty-five years ago Miss Margaret Solomon was a belle of Baltimore. She was highly accomplished, praised, toasted and courted, and was finally won, married and carried off in triumph by an attractive foreigner who made a great display of wealth. The fine foreigner had painted to her fancy a luxurious home in South America, and a troop of connections and friends near the Imperial throne. Gold and diamonds were to be her playthings, a grand mansion embowered in exotics her dwelling-place, and a countless retinue of slaves and servants were awaiting her command. She left Baltimore with a great display, and all the wealth and fashion of the city saw her off to her South American palace and wished her long life and happiness. In four or five weeks she returned to Baltimore very quietly and alone. She was weighed down with dumb woe and wanted to be hidden forever from the world. Her family received her without explanation. She spoke no word of her husband or the cause of her return. She craved a hiding-place. That was all. All that was twenty-five years ago. In the after years she never once spoke of her marriage'or mentioned her husband’s name. Her past was entombed in the pageant of her wedding ami departure as a bride. As time went on her friends found out that she had returned home and invaded the family secrecy, but her appearance forbade them to refer to the past. So she lived on in the solitude of her own heart and thoughts; What the blow that fell upon her young life and brilliant hopes was no one beside herself and that other one ever knew. It was a tragedy without utterance, and to her forever unutterable. Early the other morning a woman aged fifty was foupd by an officer wandering about the wharf in Baltimore. She looked as if she intended suicide, and was either unwilling or unable to answer any questions put to her. She simply gave her name as Margaret Solomon. Her home was soon found. She has lately become subject to a deeper melancholy, and shows symptoms of restlessness—which render it necessary that she should be watched. That morning she rose and wandered off before the family were awake. Shelias always retained the respect and sympathy of,her friends, and sits silent in the shadow of her mystery.—Missouri Republican. > _- Somk prejudiced observer says that young women utter those little screams not from fear, but to attract attention,