Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1878 — Page 2

The Rensselaer Union. ——. RKNNBKLAKR. INDIANA.

General News Summary.

MMNB W-ft,4 01 the tMK the Halted State. Treasury kald (348,716JW0 In Government bond* to sceora National Bank circulation; (18,808,400 towcare public deposits, aud (4,860,600 to ncm aabecripCtOM to the 4-per-cent loan. Tn October retarna to the Department of Afrieultare indicate the average condition of the cotton crop to be 00. Compared with October, 1877, the growing crop show* an improvement of 11 per cent. Wlpi the Increased I acreage planted, the present crop promised to produce Kara than (,000,000 bales. kabt. A Firß at Edinburgh, Pa., on the 13th, al. moat entirely destroyed the town. About Ob buddings were bwrned, Involvings loss estimated at (860,080 to (400,000. Many families were rendered houseless, and much suffering existed. r~ Thb Greenback State Convention met at Providence, R. 1., on the Nth, and, after four hours' fruitless effort* to effect an organisation,' divided into two District Conventions. Lycurgus Sayles was nominated for Congress In the Eastern and J. Francis Smith in the Western District Jiismt 8. Morrill has been re-elected to the United States Senate by the Vermont Legislature. Ix the New York Ihroid of the 15th, Manton Marble publishes a sweeping denial of the charges connecting him with the cipher dispatches sent to and from the South daring the Returning-Board excitement in 1876. He afllnna that be never, directly or indirectly, sought, or assented to any scheme, to purchase or secure for Tilden the State Canvassers’ ssrtMcate of the vote of Florida. There was great excitement on the New York Stock Board, on the 15th, in consequence of the failure of the firm of Haar A Co., Wall-street brokers, for (230,000. The partners were subsequently arrested and held to bail in the sum of 180.000 each, to answer to a charge of fraud preferred by William Belden & Co. “ 7 The Concord (N. H.) Savings Bank suspended on the 15th. Tbb Prohibition State Convention of New Hampshire, at Nashua, on the 16th, renominated Asa 8. Kendall for Governor. Sawuel J. Tilden published a card in the New York newspapers, on the 17th. in which be denied emphatically that he either sent, received or authorized any of tbe cipher telegrams, lately published, and relating to the Presidential count in the disputed States. He says the Returning Boards were known to be corrupt before their acts proved it, and that his election was confessed by the self-con-victed participants in the fraud. His nomination and triumph were unbought and he was g- Thb returns for October to the Department of Agriculture place the average condition of the corn crop at 96 pe r cent., an increase of 4 per cent, over the September average. The total yield will not vary largely from 1,300,000,000. Tbe yield of wheat will exceed that of last year, a total of over 400,000.000 being indicated. The oat crop will probably be somewhat larger than the fine crop of 1877. Ciarkson N. Potter has declined a renomination in tbe Twelfth New York Congressional District ‘ . Gold closed in New York, on Oct 18th, at 100%. The following were the closing quotations for produce: Na 2 Chicago Spring, Wheat (New), 95%@96c; No. 2 Milwaukee (New), [email protected]. Oats—Western Mixed, 25%@31c. Corn, Western Mixed, 46@47c. Pork, Mess, (8.75. Lard, >6.60. Flour, Good -to Choice, ([email protected]; White Wheat Extra, ([email protected]. Cattle, (7.00@ 10.00 for Good to Extra. Sheep, ([email protected]. Hogs, ([email protected]. .AT.Jtast Liberty, Pa., on Oct Iflth, Cattle brought: Best, ([email protected]; Medium, (4.00 @4.35; Common, ([email protected]. Hogs sold — Yorkers, [email protected]; Philadelphias, |3.50@ 3.70. Sheep brought ([email protected] —according to quality. KT" Baltimore, Md., bn det. ißth, Cattie brought: Best ([email protected]; Medium, (3.62%@4.00. Hogs sold at ([email protected] for Good. Sheep were quoted at ([email protected] for Good. WEST AJB SOnH. Letters from the vicinity of Culbertson, Neb., were received at Des Moines, lowa, on the 12th, which stated that tbe Indians had murdered thirty white people in that section, and earned off two girls from a ranch In that neighborhood. The Indians were driving off all the stock they could. Eugene A. Cbosix, who enjoyed consider able notoriety during the count, died at his tome in Portland, Ore., on the 12th. A council was held at Camp. Sheridan, th Nebraska, on the 13th, between Col. Thornburg and Red Cloud’s band, at which the latter agreed to detain and surrender tbe Cheyennes if they at any time came to them. It has been ascertained that the Cheyennes tn their passage across tbe States of Kansas and Nebraska killed eighty-seven white persons and a large amount of stock. News was brought to Natchez, Miss., on tbe 15th, from Waterproof, La., that 2,500 armed negroes had surrounded the latter place, and threatened to sack and burn the town. A call for armed assistance was made on Natchez, and 100 men would be sent if needed. During tbe recent races on the course of tbe Chicago Jockey and Trotting Club, the horse Hopeful made tbe unprecedented time of a mile in 2:1634. to wagon. The owner of Hopeful has issued a challenge to "all tbe world for a trial of speed with his horse. President Hates was present at the State Fair at Winchester, Va., on the 16th. He was welcomed in a speech by Gov. Holliday, who introduced him to the assembled people. The President responded in a speech in which he alluded to bis first personal knowledge of the country there as having been obtained through the rough school of the great Civil War, and to tbe auspicious circumstances under which he this time visited its people. During the celebration of a wedding in a evening of dense: ly crowded, an alarm was given that the structure was falling. A terrible panic ensued, and tbe unreasoning crowd made a wild rush for the doors and windows. The bride, "gf®»m *Ha eight <sf their immediate attendants were crushed and trampled to death, and from fifty to sixty women and children more or less seriously injured. Ox the 16th, the California Constitutional Convention adopted a resolution memorializing the President and Senate of the United States to so modify the Burlingame Treaty as . to prohibit Chinese immigration. The New York Mine books, recently seized .. at Marquette while they were being used as evidence In the case of the United States against Samuel J. Tilden, were returned to the office from which they were taken, on the With, in obedience to an order of the United States District Court. Official returns from the late election in Ohio give the following totals for Secretary of .Mate: Barnes (Rep.), 374,120; Paige (Dem ), 270,066; Ray (Nat), 88,832; Robinson (Prohibition), 5,674. Barnes'plurality, 3,154. The Congratamen elected are: Republican—First District, Butterworth, 720 majority; Second. Young, W\ Fourth, Keffer, 5J110; Twelfth. N«s Blxteontb, McKinley, 1,8(4; fov-

enteenth, Monroe, 2,678; Eighteenth, Updegraff, 2,679; Nineteenth, Garfield, 9,618; Twentieth, Townsend, 5,810. Democrats— Third District McMahon, 1,087; Fifth, Lefevre, 1,828; Sixth, HtH, 4.088; Seventh, Hurd, 1,204; Eighth, Finley, 1,255; Ninth, Converse. 988; Tenth, Ewing. 334; Eleventh, Dickey, 1,368; Thirteenth, Warner, 128; Fourteenth. Atherton, 2,287; Fifteenth, Geddes, 4,578. . It waa reported, on the 16th, that a fight occurred with the negroes, tbe day before, In Goldman’s Field, some four miles above Waterproof, La, in which thirty-six negroe* were killed, and the remainder dispersed. Another account say* the killed numbered ten. The general Impression was that the negroes would not again assemble. Considerable excitement existed at Lincoln, Neb., on the 17th, concerning the safety of two surveying parties of ’forty men, wbo were surveying Government lands on the Niobrara River, in tbe immediate track of the Cheyennes on their recent raid. No word had been received from them for nearly two weeks. A detachment of cavalry from Ciimp Robinson had been ordered to search after them. In Chicago, on Oct. 18th, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at 80c cash; 81 %c for November; and 8234 c for December. Cash Corn closed at 34%c for No. 2; 34%c for November; 38%c for December. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 18%c, and 19c seller November.. Rye No. 2, 42%c. Barley No. 2, (1.05 for cash, (1.02 for December (New). Cash Mess Pork closed at (7.75. Lard, (6.20. Beeves —Extra brought ([email protected]; Choice, (4.15 @4.40; Good, |[email protected]; Medium Grades, (3.1 ft@B;4o BuU»her*’ Stock, ([email protected]; Stock Cattle, etc., ([email protected]. Hogs—Good to Choice, ([email protected]. Sheep Poor to Choice, ([email protected].

.. --- tßk jnnuuow FEVER. There were four cases of genuine yellow fever at Fulton, Ky., on the 14th. There was continued hot weather in the Mississippi Valley, on the 15th, and the outlook was very discouraging. The fever was making its appearance in new localities. The President of the Memphis Howard Association had-made an extended tour through Tennessee, and discovered sickness and destitution at nearly every point visited. Gwlng to tbe general suspension of business, people at various places were actually starving, and fresh appeals for aid would be necessary. Deaths In New Orleans, thirty ; cases reported, 135. At Memphis and vicinity there were thirty-one deaths. Four new cases and three deaths at Helena, Ark., during the twenty-four hours ending at noon, on the 15th. People were leaving the city in great numbers. Tbe Howards had all they needed except money, which they needed badly. During the same twenty-four hours there were two deaths and three new cases at Cairo, 111. Little Rock, Ark., was quarantined against Helena. There were four deaths and twentyJour_new cases at Chattanooga, Tenn., on the 15th. The only surviving son of Jefferson Davis, Sr., was among the victims of tbe fever, on the 16th. He was twenty-one years of age. There were eight deaths within and fifteen outside tbe city limits of Memphis. The deaths in New Orleans numbered twenty-six; Cairo, two, and three new cases; Chattanooga, four and fourteen new cases. There was no material abatement of the disease in the smaller towns. The situation at Brownsville, Tenn., wss very discouraging. There had been over 500 cases and 150 deaths to date, and 130 cases were then under treatment. The deaths within the preceding forty eight hours numbered ten. w It was stated In Cincinnati, on the 17th, that tbe yellow fever had not disappeared from Gallipolis, Ohio. Seven deaths had occurred within a week in the infected district, a short distance -below the latter city, where the steamer Porter had been anchored. The physicians pronounced them to lie genuine casesofyellowfever. The excitement at Helena, Ark., was abating, on the 17th. Six of seven physicians contended that the disease prevailing there was not yellow fever. A Memphis dispatch of the 17th states that people were still returning. ..to that city to fall victims to the fever, nearly all of that description proving fatal. The advent of cooler weather at the South had raised high hopes of permanent relief s<x>n, in many localities, where frost was looked for. The deaths in Memphis numbered, sixteen, and the new eases forty eight in-city and suburbs. At New Orleans 128 cases were reported, and the deaths were twenty-fonr. Six new cases and six deaths were reported at Mobile, Ala.; eight new cases and two deaths at Chattanooga, Tenn.; five new’ cases and one death at Brownsville. A Vicksburg telegram of the 17th gives news of the death ot Lieut. Benner, of the relief boat Chambers. He died on the morning of the 17th. The announcement of his death cast a pall of sadness over the entire city, and caused a deep feeling of sorrow at Washington and elsewhere throughout the country. He voluntarily accompanied the steamer on its .mission of mercy into the infected district, and had expressed the belief that, by his long service In the South during the war, he had become acclimated. He caught the disease by having given up his stateroom to a lady from the infected district, who was at the time herself suffering from the disease, though she may have been unaware of the fact. Lieut. Benner served throughout the war, in the Eighteenth Illinois Volunteers. In 1867 he was appointed Second Lieutenant of the Eighteenth Infantry (regulars), and was promoted to First Lieutenant in 1875. It'was reported from Washington, on the 17th, that Gov. Shepherd had, with the approval of the Secretary of War, telegraphed to Lieut. Hall to return with the steamer to St. Louis,-And there put it in quarantine. A light trost formed at Memphis and other Southern points on the morning of the 18th. Both frost and ice were reported eight miles north of Montgomery, Ala., and the frost at Little Rock, Ark., was a heavy one. Dr. Roswell Waldo, Surgeon of the Marine Hospital at Cairo," 111., died of the fever on the morning of the 18th. There were thirty-six deaths in New Or leans on tbe 18th; new cases, eighty-nine. Total number of cases to date, 12,182; deaths, 3,635. Twenty deaths at Memphis, fourteen of them being in the city proper. Several eases and deaths were reported from other localities. The hopes of the people were much elated by the cooler weather. According te a Constantinople dispatch of the 13th, the Russians were marching on Adrianople from the north. .; ~~~~ , Baboeski, a position near Constantinople, lately occupied by the-Russiana, was--httcly abandoned and the Turks immediately took possession. On the 13th, Gen. Todleben notified the Turks that the troops must be withdrawn or he would proceed to Miake' Tt forcibly. An order was issued by the Porte di reeling the withdrawal bf the Turkish troops. Bibhop DupaNUoup,' of Orleans, a member ot the French Senate, died suddenly, on the WiThe Poite, on the 14th, directed the immediate completion of the; defensive lines of Constantinople. Some of tbe nomadic tribes near Bagdad have revolted against their Turkish rulers. The latter have made an urgent call upon tbe Forte for reinforootßeata. Tt was repbHhd Viemta, on the 14th, that Montenegro and Routnanla had refused to givs-up fheii -Turkish prisoners until the allotment of territory agreed upon by the Berlin Treaty had been made, and their respective monetary compensation paid. i* The Turkish Government has Earned tbe CoMteutiuople press not*to expies anti.

Russian sentiments, as Turkey was on the most friendly terms with Russia. » AocoßDiNd to a l<ondon telegram of the 15ti>, the Turks and Cretans bad settled their difficulties. * A panic in tne Glasgow Iron trade prevailed, on the 15th, In consequence of the reported failure of several leading firms.— ' Berlin dlsoatches of the 16th announce that tbe Emperor William will resume tbe reins of Government on the Ist of December. The German Central Socialist Committee, being convinced of the certainty of the passage of the bill for the repression of Socialism by the German Parliament, have voluntarily disbanded. In their parting address they call upon the members ot the organization to labor for the propagation of their political Ideas in private. The Commander of the Austrian forces in Northern Bosnia has telegraphed his Government that he has subdqed the District of Kardlna at tbe cost 6f 500 killed and a large number wounded. lx consequence of over-production ot cotton goods and a consequent glut in the market, several of the largest mills in Lancashire, Eng., have suspended operations. The Rothschilds have agreed to loan Egypt (30,000,000 to clear off her floating debt. A crisis existed in the Italian Cabinet, on 'the 17th, attributed to the dissatisfaction of Aha.. Moderate* w-i;]j Jhp homw jyilicy of the Premier. The Archbishop of Salonica, the anti-Rua-slan candidate, has been elected Greek Patriarch for Turkey. ACOOXPIXO tOR fitlPfo (India) telegram of large numbers, in the Khyber Pass. The British were rapidly forwarding reinforcements to Peshawur and Kobat, to oppose a possible irruption of Afghaps Into India. The Sultan of Turkey Informed the British Minister, on the 17th, that he had written to the Ameer of Afghanistan, advising him, as a good Mussulman, to make terms with England., It was recently reported from Paris that the awards to American exhibitors at the French Exposition numbered 750, eomprielng ten grand prizes, thirty diplomas of honor, 134 gold, 200 silver and 220 bronze medals, and 156 honorable mentions. Tbe aggregate is larger than the whole number of American exhibitors at the Paris Exhibition of 1867, or at the Vienna Exposition of 1875, and is a larger proportion awarded to exhibitors than to sisy other Nation represented at the present Exposition. lx a letter recently received at New York from the City of Mexico it is stated that, on the 29th ult., at Atzala, a mob, incited bypriests, killed twenty Protestants and wounded a number of others. In Pueblo the mob threatened to break up the Protestant Missions. President Diaz had promised the Rev. Dr. Butler to do allln his power to protect all religious denominations. The report of the Committee of Investigation into the affairs of the» lately-suspended City of Glasgow Bank, published on the 19th, shows that the institution has been recklessly managed, being loaded down with bad debts and worthless securities. The losses aggregate £5,190,983, to meet which will require an assessment of £SOO per share. Austria has given notice that full amnesty has been granted to the Bosnian refugees in Servla. ~ ’ •’ The Mohammedans in the Dobrudscba have organized a military force to resist the Roumanian occupation of their territory.

How a Life Was Saved—The Reward of Perseverance.

There was a terrible accident at South Norwalk, Conn., twenty-five years ago. The draw over the railroad bridge had been by some carelessness left open, and the engineer, mistaking the signal, dashed on, and down thundered and crashed the train. The loss of life was terrible, and very many were crushed and badly wounded. Even now, after so many years, it is spoken of as one of the great horrors. People living near by, and ethers who were attracted to the scene of the accident, worked nobly, and rendered all the assistance they could. Men came in boats, and tenderly lifted the dead and dying bodies from the water, carried them up on the bank, and laid them gently down to be further cared for. Among those attracted to the scene was a middle-aged man,' who was a stage-driver, whose route was between New Canaan and South Norwalk. He saw them bringing up on the bank the bodies of those taken from . the water, and one body particularly attracted him. It was the body of a fair young girl, and a ~strange feeling seemed to tell him "that she was not dead. He felt of her hand. It was cold and clammy. Placing his ear over her heart he could detect no beating. Yet something within him said she was not dead. A physician, after making an examination, pronounced life extinct, and the driver to assist the othersin caring forthe wounded. He turned to go, and again that irresistible feeling impelled him to try to save the girl's life. Securing the assistance of two woman, he began a vigorous rubbing of the body. He labored on until the water fairly poured from him. The lazy curiosity-seekers gathered around and said it was a foolish task, she was past helping. Nevertheless, on he worked. No cnange was observed for half an hour, and his heart began to sink. For the last time he began a desperate renewal of his exertions alone, for the women had stopped, and, as he drew himself up to go away, the girl, with a low moan, opened and closed her eyeg. With a 1 rush, the; blood dashed to his heart, and he almost fainted, and with open-mothed astonishment the throngs again gathered around. After “a little attention She was restored-to consciousness, and “her life had-been saved. .

After she had learned the facts she went to her deliverer, and, with tears of joy, thanked him. She was the only daughter of very wealthy parents, and deep was their' fratitude. When the girl took him to er home, her mother kissed him, embraced him and cried for joy. Her father gave him a handsome gdliUwKrcirandctiatn-aTntclothing;-everything that wealth could lavish on him was done. He was urged to pass the remainder of his life with them; but he declined this, and went back to ness. This was twenty-five years ago. Regularly every, year since then, he ' Jias received a present in money sufli - cient to keep him in luxury for the next twelve months, beside presents without end from these grateful hearts. He has only to express a wish and it is gladly gratified. He lives in his lowly way, and he is an old man now, and slowly drawing near to his end.— N-. Y. Sun.' — < Last year ifi Massachusetts 12,737 couples were joined in the bond of wedlock. . £)£.these there were 9,915 bachr. elors who chose maidens to be their wives, and 608 who chose widows; while 1,396 widowers married maidens and 818 married widows. From this it appears that 788 more widowers than widows were married again, and that 1,396 maidens married Widowers, when brily 608 bachelors married widows.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Something of a wag—The tip of a dog’s tail. —The mosquito employs no collector to present his bill. —A true woman loveth flowers—the "kind the now fall bonnets are trimmed with.— Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald. —There are three things that no man can keep—a point on a pencil, a point* edjoke and an appointment with the dentist— Cincinnati Breakfast Table. —“ Exertion,” says a great writer, “is the price of a noble life.” Strange that a man never thinks of that whan he gets up before six o'clock in the morning.— Hawk-Eye. —There are three things no woman can do—cross before a horse, hurry for a horse-car and understand the difference between ten minutes and half an hour.— Harvard Lampoon. —“ Spell love,” said a young manto his girl one night. “ i-o-u,” she timidly essayed. The courtship had been a protracted one, but they are married now.— Norristown Herald. —None but a mother, tender and loving of heart, who has just traded her husband's $27 overcoat for a sixtyfive cent image of “ Samuel at Prayer,” can realize the Congressman’s love for his country.—Burlington Hawk-Eye. —Twelve years ago a poor man in Oakland, Cal., across the bay from San Francisco, pre-empted a long stretch of mud-flats onthe baysbore, erecting a shanty there and living in it. He has just been awarded $95,000 gold coin for its twelve years’ guardianship and his “ squatter rights.” —An Austin (Tex.) bachelor being twitted by some ladies with his single state, and asked how it was that he had never married, said: “I don’t know exactly how it is, but I have always felt an indisposition to marriage, and I can’t see why Jt should be, either. I surely don’t inherit it. for my father and mother were both married.” —No man can go down into the dungeon of his experience, and hold the torch of truth to all the dark chambers and hidden cavities, and not come up with a shudder and a chill as he thinks of the time when he undertook to talk politics with the deaf old father of his first sweetheart while the girl was present, — Cincinnati Breakfast Table. —A young man made his appearance at Deadwood, the other day, in a pair of white pants. He was promptly escorted to the cars, puton board of them, and an injunction placed upon him never to revisit the place. “We can stand a biled shirt, you know,” a miner explained, “but when it comes to wearin’ biled drawers, we just make them git up and git.” ~ A young man on being asked by his sweetheart why the continued flow of so many rivers into the sea did not fill up the sea and make it run over, replied, “Why, it’s the sponges,>my dear.” “What have sponges to do with it?” she asked. To which he responded: "Why, the sea is full ol sponges, ’way down at the bottom, and they suck up the water—don’t yos seeF’ —By thrift he had become a millionaire and he had a slendid St. Befnafd dog which he was very proud of. One day the servant came to him terrorstricken. “Master, master, Caesar is” He won’t touch water any more than if he was a crude apostle of temperance, and there’s as much foam about his mouth as if he was the sea in one of Swinburne’s poems.” “Great heavens! it is lucky you discovered it in time. We must not lose a minute. Take the animal at once, before he has bitten anyone” “Yes, sir.” “And sell him!”— Paris Paper. —A witness was testifying that on the morning after the murder he met the defendant at breakfast, and the latter “called the waiter and said” — “ Hold on!” exclaimed the attorney for the defense, “I object to what he said.” Then followed a legal argument of about an hour and a half on the objection, which was overruled, and the Court decided that the witness might state what was said. “ Well, go on and state what was said to the waiter,” remarked the District Attorney, flushed with legal victory. “ Well,” replied the witnesss, “he said, ‘Bring me a rare beefsteak and a couple of softboiled eggs.’”— Los Angeles (Cal.) Herald...,, ' - —Here is rather a curious remedy, but in many cases a very certain one, for the cure of indigestion. It is simply the cultivation of a habit of chewing, while out of doors, different kinds of green leaves and swallowing the juice. One can always cull a leaf from a hedge or bush as one passes. Almost all are good that are not nauseous, such as the ivy, or poisonous, as the laurelleaf. One of the latter, however, is a capital thing where there is slight irritation of the stomach. The chewing of leaves cures dyspepsia, principally, I believe, by increasing the flow of the salivary juice, and partly by the tonic and stimulating action of the leaf chewed. The leaves that occur to me at present, as most likely to be beneficial, are those of the pine-trees» spritce or Scotch fir, blackthorn, currant and rose-bushes, mint, the petals of many flowers, the stalks of mountain-daisies, the white portion of rushes, the baric of many young trees, and the tender parts bf tlie stalks of green wheat, oats, or almost any of the larger grasses; but your own taste must, in a great measure, guide you, if you elect to make trial of my remedy. I should say, however, that the chewing is better to take place before or between meals than immediately after. — Cassel's Family Magazine.

The October Elections.

The returns from the four States— Zl* ■ I »■ „ T/ittrn nvirl 17*1 Im —in which elections were held on Tuesday last—though not yet complete, afford substantial cause for rejoicing by the friends of honest money and politiespousea the National-Greenback doctrine, and, in order to secure votes, became a mere tender to the Greenback movement. Judge Thurman gave the key-note of the new departure, and it has been proved, by the r6sult of Tuesday’s wont, to have been -Hie deathknell of his Presidential aspirations, if not the end and funeral-dirge of his political career. Last year he and his party carried‘ the State of Ohio bv 22,000 majority; this year they have lost it by 10,000 votes. ’ Even the carrying out the order from tbe Speaker of the National House of Representatives, the Hon. Sam Randall, to redistrict the State in the ioterestof their party.has failed signally ol the sweeping results expected. In fact, some of the most prominent Democratic members who aided in securing legislation in favor of the nefarious scheme, have already been lolitically ignored and defeated. The Republicans in Ohio return at least ninq

members to the House of Representative*. Banning failed of a rejtomipation in Cincinnati, and Sayler of a reelection. Two Republican members succeed them in representing the city. Indiana, according to latest returns, will have one Greenback, six Republican and six Democratic members in the next House of Representatives. lowa will Ixj represented by two Greenback and seven Republican members. The State went Republican by about 16,000 majority. West Virginia will return its three Representatives, all Democrats. The State, as usual, elected Democratic State officers, but by greatly reduced majorities. The result of Tuesday’s work presents the Republican party to the country with a slight decrease in their National representation, but to the world, At home and abroad, as the advocates of honest money—the world’s money of account and exchange—while the Democratic party, committed through Thurman and other party leaders to the rag-baby, have in their political platforms and later in campaign speeches, indorsed and become a tender to the Greenback movement, thus going back upon all their former financial declarations, and leaving themselves, as a party, without a party policy pr prestige upon which to count upon any degree of success in the November elections. On the other hand the Republican .party, after seventeen years of brilliant achievements, stands squhrelyTTOt' only upon its honest-money platform but upon its entire past record. Upon these claims it will win, or it will court defeat rather than become the advocate of a depreciated currency and the tender of an upstart political faction. The result of Tuesday’s work cannot fail to leave a lasting impression upon the better judgment of the communities, the influence of which in the November elections will secure to the Republican party a decisive victory and to the country an escape from the villainies of Democratic rule, and ultimate repudiation and financial ruin.— The New Republic.

The (White) House That Sam Missed.

—r. This is the House that same missed. it. This is the Job to capture the House that Sam missed. in. This is the Rat* that bossed the Job to capture the House that Sam missed. iv. This is the Public that smelt the Rat, that bossed the Job to capture the House that Sam missed. ——Tv — This-is the Partyf that cursed the Public, that smelt the Rat, that bossed the Job to capture the House that Sam missed. VI. This is the Crcnin with crimson horns, that fooled the Party, that cursed the Public, that smelt the Rat. that bossed the Job to capture the House that Sam missed. VII. This is the Cipher ’bout Oregorn, that was sent to Cronin with crimson horn, that fooled the Party, that cursed the Public, that smelt the Rat, that bossed the Job to capture the House that Sam missed. VIII. This is the Tilden, all tattered and torn, that sent the Cipher .’bout Oregorn to Mr. Cronin with crimson horn, -that fooled the Party, that cursed the Public, that smelt the Rat that bossed the Job to capture the House that Sam missed. IX. This is the Marble, all craven and shorn, that toadied to Tilden, all tattered and torn, that sent the Cipher ’ bout Oregorn to Mr. Cronin with the crimson horn, that fooled the Party, that cursed the Public, that smelt the Rat that bossed the Job to capture the House that Sam missed. ; _ x. This is the key, as sure as you’re born—just see the Tribune dated this morn—that shattered Marble, all craven and shorn, that toadied to Tilden, all tattered and torn, that sent the Cipher ’bout Oregorn to Mr. Cronin with crimson horn, that fooled the Party that cursed the Public that smelt the Rat that bossed the Job to capture the House that Sam missed.* •Typographical error for Pelton. tßhort for Democratic party. c —, fPatois for proboscis. —Albany Evening Journal.

Call the Defense.

The Tribune has now placed before the people a mass of proof as to the doings of Mr. Tilden’s agents in Florida. That the evidence is terribly strong no one will deny. The absolute silence of those who for any reason wish to believe it untrue bears witness to its power. Journals which scouted the forthcoming'revelations at first, including some which have supported and defended Mr. Tilden hitherto at all lengths, now declare that silence on the part of those who are implicated is equal to a confession of guilt. There are others, however, who still wait for some answer. The Herald, which recognizes in a powerful article the force of the proofs submitted thus far and the immense political importance of the issue raised, nevertheless suggests, as a reason for the silence of Mr. Tilden and his agents, the answer of the Iri.simian to the question, ft Guilty, or not guilty?” “ Begorra, how can I tell till 1 hear the evidence?” But we must tell those whose characters are chiefly at stake that no such reply will serve them. This is no case for fooling. The Tribune has not spoken at random. It has taken care to be fortified at every point. It has not only given to persons implicated opportunity to be heard, but has urged them, again and again, before its publication of dispatches and since, publicly and by zealous reporters, to place before the public any explanation they have to give. -They are silent, Juhd they best know why." They know, as we do, what they did in Florida and South Carolina. They know of necessity, as \\edo, what their telegrams reveal. They have seen .that we now have in use every key or cipher in which any of their messages was sent. But thpy do not know how complete oiir file of their messages is, and they are not able themselves to recollect distinctly all the minor points these messages cover, If there is an honest defense it can be proffered at once; but a successful defense cannot be invented until they, have before them in plain print all the points of the case to be covered. That is precisely what they are npt going to get in a hurry. They know the arraignment, and if they are 1 •innocent they can plead promptly. As i to the details of the story, they may 1 rest assured that we shall publish so much and at such -J***' ...

our judgment as to the public interest. We are in no haste as to any of it. It will keep. If they wait for “ all the evidence,” they may wait foreVer. In the Florida case, for example, we have told the facts as they appear to be established by dispatches. Enough has has been told to force conviction in every reasoning mind, if no reply be mad". Whether it will be necessary to produce all or any of the corroborative evidence at our disposal, we shall judge-when any reply is offered. If none is offered, we know what the verdict of the people will be, and so do Mr. Tilden and his friends. Three replies are possible. The perimplicated can say that the dispatches are forged. In that case we should be very glad to have any responsible person make the assertion. He will learn quite soon enough for his convenience how we shall meet it. It is possible to say that the translations are incorrect. In that case we demand the only proof which will ever satisfy the public—production of the original keys and vocabularies used. Then the Eublic will judge. Finally, it is possile to say that the dispatches were sent, but with no criminal intent. In that case, the public will demand, What was the intent? Sooner or later, the persons accused will be forced to take one or another of these three defenses, or to confess guilt and take judgment. But it will be fatal to the accused if they wait much longer. They know what the world must inevitably and justly'thThk—What It surely and justly believe—if a man confronted with such charges has no answer to make. The innocent man, in such an emergency, waits not an instant. His indignant reply is as swift as the hot blood which leaps to his cheek. No matter how timid—and Mr. Tilden and his agents arb not bashful maidens in timidity—no matter how —startled by the shock of unimagined shame, the innocent man never fails to say "Not guilty” the instant an attempt is made toplace on his brow the brand of guilt. The whole country demands an answer from Samuel J. Tilden and his agents. Millions of; free citizens, who voted to place him in the seat of George Washington, demand from him a swift and clear reply. If he says nothing, it is a confession. If he resorts to legal shifts and excuses to get delay, the brand will be fixed before he knows it, and will never come off. There must be answer, or judgment will be rendered. The charge, has been made not in haste nor idly. The proofs are before . the people. And every honest man who voted for Tilden is ashamed of himself already this day, because four days have passed and bis candidate for the Presidency opens not his mouth.—N. Y. Tribune.

Mr. Marble’s Denial.

After more than a week’s delay, which we may readily infer has been passed in anxious consultation, one of the accused parties to the Democratic frauds in Florida—Mr. Manton Marble —has made a statement. It is a general denial of personal complicity in the scandal. It is not in the nature of an explanation or elucidation, butsuch a denial as Mr. Marble might have made with considerable more force on the very day the cipher telegrams were exposed. The. accused is evidently conscious of the weakness in his plea that has been occasioned by the delay, for he attempts to explain it by saying that he finally read the New York Tribune's exposuie at the request o; the editor of the Herald. This is puerile in the extreme, and is further calculated to damage Mr. Marble, for he will never be able to convince anyone that he remained ignorant for several days of the serious charges against him in an affair that had riveted the attention of the entire country. Perhaps Mr. Marble could not have done better than make this general denial, if he did anything at all, but it would have received more credit if it had been made promptly, and not after hesitation and consultation. A man of Manton Marble’s standing, charged with an infamous offense of which he was not only innocent but absolutely ignorant, would scarcely have waited eight days to say so. We have intimated that Mr. Marble, if he said anything, could not well put in any other plea than the one he has made. It would not do to denounce the cipher telegrams as forgeries that were never sent; the Tribune was evidently too well fortified to meet such a charge. Nor. would it do to set up that the dispatches had not been correctly translated, because the application of the different keys had been thoroughly verified, and any charge of inaccuracy in this respect would nave made it necessary for the Tilden faction to produce the correct keys and furnish the genuine meaning. Th "denying in broad terms, though unnecessarily diffusive, that he ever knew of any such dispatches being sent or received, Mr. Marble relieves himself of the necessity of construing their meaning or intent, and, for the time being, he occupies a. defiant attitude by challenging the production of positive proof of his alleged connection with the cipher mess'ages. It may be inferred from what the Tribune has said on this subject that it will be able to produce such proof. In the meantime it is clear that Mr. Marble, having consented to write out an elaborate statement where a brief denial would have served the same purpose, should have taken cognizance of some of , the suspicious circumstances, already made public, which tend to confirm the Tribune's charge that he was the author of some of the most damning "dispatches that have been published. First, it is a curious coincidence that the signature to many of these dispatches, " Moses,” is the first name of Mr. Marble, though he long since dropped it from use; in the next place it appears from the dispatches themselves that answers to the "Moses” dispatches were addressed to Man ton Marble, and that " Moses” replied to dispatches that were sent to Marble. This connecting link was brought opt by the interference of an indiscreet friend, Mr. Saltonstall, who was one bf Tilden’s lawyers in Florida. This gentleman could not whit for Mr. Marble's denial in nis own behalf, but rushed into print with the assertion that the Tribune had merely guessed” that Mr. Marble was the author of certain dispatches. This naturally brought out a statement from the Tribune, from Which we make the following extract: When '• Moses” in Tallahassee addresses a telenam to Gramercy Park rejuiring ah immediate answer, th® answer is promptly sent from New , York addieased to “ Manton Marble, Tallahasree:” when p, li ton Manton • Marble agarnsttrnstinr B—, rt nr Mosee-who replies that he has not trusted Barlow or anybody , else; and finally Paris, telegraphing in a differ- . ent key about one of the’ ” Moses” dispatolies, 1 speaks of it as '* Marble's,” The identity of *• Mones" Jind Mjifble‘tw absolutely proved; and so u the identity of “ Fox ’ and Woolley, and of •• Max ’ and Ooyle. Bat si r. Saltonstall says that names have lie. n signed in tne translations to dispatches which* are marked " No signature" fit

the cipher. If he had read the doeamenta bp watalking about he would have seen why. “ iKe?* oounted his signature as a part of the diapat. h and when the message was transpose,! the name was thus shifted into the body of it and buruxl there. The telegraph operator did not recognise it, and consequently marked the manuscript ‘No signature.” But, when the key is applied, 1 “ Mores” always falls at the end. Of these circumstances, one is a particularly strong confirmation of the charge that Mr. Marble sent the dispatch making the proposition about "50.00 G best United States documents” (950,000 in greenbacks). There was a Dictionary cipher used between two persons only—W. T. Pelton, in New York, aud E. L. Paris, in Florida. The translation of one of these dispatches ; (addressed to Havemeyer, as usual) is as follows: Tai.lahahhkb, Dec. i.-Htnry Haremeytr: Saturday secured several dispatches rent yon addressed to house. Have advised with friend. Bituaiton same; everything uncertain. Marble •ayh plan sent you Saturday must De acted upon immediately, otherwise unavailing. Plan unknown to undersigned; sixteen, twenty-one, twenty-three. J ust presented your letter. From this it appears that, if Mr. Marble insists upon denying that he ever signed or dictated the "Moses” dispatches, then he must follow up the denial by charging Paris with lying. Paris did not know what the plan was, and was not familiar with the "Moses” cipher; yet it was Mr. Marble who told him to insert "sixteen, twenty-one, twenty-three,” which refers to the dispatch to the New York paymaster in regard to the amount necessary to purchase the Returning Board. If Mr. Marble was and is entirely ignorant of all these dispatches and propositions, how comes it that the dispatches in reply to “ Moses” were addressed to him? How comes it that "Moses” replied to dispatches that had been sent to Manton Marble? How comes it that Manton Marble instructed Paris to urge action on the "Moses” proposition? The “general denial” is very far from satisfactory in the light of these circumstances. We have but one more comment to make on Mr. Marble’s denial pending the production of still more convincing proof of his connection with the bribery scheme, with which he will probably be overwhelmed, viz.: Marble does not undertake (as he has always before been eager to do) to defend Mr. Tilden, or to deny that gentleman’s knowledge and sanction of what was going on. This omission on the part of Mr. Marble to come to the defense of his chief is significant because it is exceptional. We take it to mean that Marble feels the situation to be perilous, and that he has acted upon the principle of sauve qui peut. He will be content, If he can escape from the trap himself, to let Tilden take care of himself. Of course Marbb might drop out of this scandal altogether as a comparatively insignificant person, and Mr. Tilden’s situation would be as desperate as ever, especially since the exposure of the South Carolina scheme; but we are inclined to think thakveven Mr. Marble will be obliged to make other statements, and stronger ones, before he clear his skirts. — Chicago Tribune.

CHEYENNE BUTCHERS.

Complaint from a Surgeon Who Followed in Their Trail. Dr. J. W. Scott writes as follows, under date of Wa-Keeney, Kan., Oct. 9, to the Chicago Tribune: I lav.ng seen in the Tribunt and other paper.-, for several days back, varied reports of the depredations committed by the Cheyenne Indians on their recent raid through this country, and having at hand the true state of the case from a personal observation, I would lay the facts before you for publication, if jdu see fit at this late day: On Wednesday, the 2d, I received a telegram ffom Buffalo to come to that point, and prepared to go to the Bappa Creek, sixty mile* north, in Decatur County, to attend those who had been wounded by Indians. In company wfih Dr. Gaucbenaur, of Ellis, and a bodyguard of sixteen mounted men, we set out. For forty miles north of the Kansas Pacific Road no depredations had been committed, tlie Indians evidently being anxious to get along as rapidly as possible at thia point. On the North Fork of the Bolomohßiver they began their deviltry, firing upon two land seekers f raveling in a wagon. One of the men was wounded in such a manner a* to prove speedily fatal. The other, running his horses for about ten miles, escaped, and warned the settlers on Bappa Creek, bnt. no attention was paid to the warning, so often, lately, had the same kind of reports been made. On the following morning the Indian* came suddenly into the Valley of the Bappa and commenced their damnable work, killing the settlers in the fields, after having made the strongest protestations of friendship. Before leaving this stream they bad killed outright seventeen men and left four more wougded. Nor weic these the whole of their outrages. Women were horribly abused and left insensible, children stripped naked and left upon the prairie, and stock destroyed and driven off. After haying taken care o( those wounded at this point, all of whom will probably recover, we were about starting for Beaver Creek, when news was brought by a courier that there was no demand for us there. All who bad remained there had been killed and mutilated in the most horrible manner. At all these places those living along the trail over which the Indians passed were robbed of all they possessed, and many women and children left destitute. The towns along the Kansas Pacific ROad near where the crossing was made were in a fever of excitement, and made repeated demands to the Governor and other* in authority for arms, which were disregarded until after the danger anticipated had passed by, and the n-d devils were beyond their reach. In fact, on tlie day we were summoned to proceed to the wounded, a telegram passed through here Horn headquarters at Leavenworth, stating that there was not the least danger along the road: that there were no Indians in this section of eonntry. ■ Jl.’rritile as this destruction of life and prop irty may be, it seems doubly so to us, »ho believe that, had proper measures been adopted, in view of the facts known at headquarters, this might have been prevented, the settlers were not only willing but anxious, hud they received the arms they requested, to have turned out en nuuse and intercepted the passageof the lndians nortiCT' ‘ —l= Twelve soldiers were stationed near the point where the Indians were expected to cross. At this point the settlers Were con-'riderably-alarmed, but without the slightest giom.ds, for the Indian* approached no town on i heir course. Moreover, they have never been known for year* to cross this road on their passages to and fro east of tlye cattletrail at Buffalo. As nearly as I can learn, about thirty were killed between this road and the Union Pacific Railroad, and six wounded. Tmre Indians were killed. These are the facts, a* observed by myself.

Infants are becoming too witty and smart in this marvelous generation* A fond and anxious mother, of Montclair, N. J., said to her little boy of three, at dinner, yesterday: “Now; Hennie, be careful and don’t swallow the bits of carrot in your soup, for you are sick, and carrot is indigestible.” “ Ah!” said the precocious baby, looking up with a twinkling eye, “you don’t think ’atin’ carats fine for the stomach, do you?” And hia little sister of four exclaimed, with emotion, “There, Hanky! .I guess ..you’ll jew-well-er nough, "after that!”—~ Graphic. The proper way to take vacation is as we go along. A day of recreation | or a couple of hours or so every day devoted to rest and entire forgetfulness of business cares, will sandwich labor so pleasantly and healthfully that 'strength will be preserved and life invigorathd~fo “ Nothing frightename,” said Smith, bluateringly. Quoth Mr. Jones, quietly, “So? I knew that next to nothing would dp ty.” Tableau.— Bnxtqn Transcript. *