Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1878 — Page 2

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General News Summary.

Tn* Paymaster-General of the Army, In his ■■Mai report to th* Secretary of War, gives the total disbursement* daring the fiscal year ■ettag Jane 30, ISM, at •U,5M,90A7K The number of deserter* in the army during the yaarwaa M?l~a lam number than tn any praatoo* year atece the war. Tmi traa beM In the United State* Treaamv. <m the toth, 8348,714,600 In Government bondatoeeeure bank circulation, and 813,908,400 to eeeere public deposits. Arr’r-Ghw. Drrns recently aent instrucUona to the United Statet Attorney at Charles teat 8. (X, to toe eSeet tost be wanted no r*ffcktnff with Off guarantees from parties charged with toe violation of tbe laws in iw-1 ttrttotiMamtoeof tte elective franchise, bat that be desired judicial InveatlgaUon of outrage* alleged to have been committed upon unoffending people, in toe exercise of their ilgbteaa dttMM of toe United Btatea. Tn Secretary of State made public, on the Mb, Me recent correspondence with the Gov imient of Great Britain tn respect to the payment of the 85.500,(XX) fishery award, doe an to* Mos November next. The Secretory forcibly expresses hia aurorlse and indignation that the Province of Newfoundland had been permitted to pees laws which pracUcallv abrogate of the Treaty of Wash ington, and declares tost toe swan! will not be paid until toe obnoxious legislation be repealml Uosnoamoxxn Williamson, of the General Land Ofltee, In hia report to toe Secretary of the Interior, shows that, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 8,086,178 acres of public tends were disposed of, and 8,041.011 acres were surveyed, tn addition to 721,618,748 acres previously surveyed. The total number of acres of public domain still unsurveyed is something over 1,000,090,000 acres. The disposals were mainly as follows: Homestead entriee, 4,418,344; timber-culture entries, 1,870,484; deeert-tand entries, 310,353; cash entries, 877,555; grants to railroads, 606,340; swamplauds patented, 202,936; othergrantsto States, 214,992. The cash receipts amounted to 82,being 8569,567 more than the receipts ■for the preceding year. ■ Frmident Harns has officially protnul■toted, through the State Department, the which had been ratified between States and all the Nations of Ku Great Britain, togeiher with American Republics, pro establishment and maintenance Ma International Bureau of Weights

report of the Auditor of totajtostotliee Department, ending BfeGerHl • Mne ’ i 1 l» ■Bfiv:..; Commissioner of Washington dispatch of the 31st ult says Mr. Gibson declare* that statements made hr James E. Anderson, in his recent affidavlt, affecting him (Gibson) are false; he never heard of the things of which Anderson speaks. Maddox and Sypher also pronounce the statements made by Anderson, relating to them, to be false. ; ■- Th* public-debt statement, as published on the Ist, indicates the following: Total debt —(indudteg Interest of 828,916,961), 82,299,417,556. Cash In Treasury, 8275,217,473. Debt, less cash in Treasury, 82,024,200,083. De ereasa during October, 81,708,402.

T«B lA»T. Ok the morning of the 27th, the Manhattan Savings Bank, of New York, was entered by burglars and robbed bf hearty *3,000,000 in cash, bonds and other securities. The burglars obtained the key of the bank doors and the key and combination of the janitor. The latter’s statement is tn substance that •even masked men entered the room while he was dressing, handcuffed himself and his wife, and compelled him, under a threat of killing him if he refused, to give up the keys and combination. Thus gaining access to the vault, they broke open the doors of the various inner compartments and helped themselves to what they wanted. Up to the morning of the 28th, no trace of the thieves or the plunder had been obtained Thb Arctic schooner Florence, Capt. Tyson, Commander, supposed to be lost, reached Provincetown, Mass., on the morning of the 26th. She was leaking badly, and it was only by incessant pumping that the crew were able to keep her afloat The last morsel of food on board was eaten just before reaching portTyson reports that be encountered a succession of heavy gales, and eats the cold throughout the Arctic region was intense, the thermometer at times sinking as low as 52 deg. below aero. Tub Board of InTe *tlgation Into the Pita 4ohn Potter case adjouriiefch dmlinth wit, O meet at West Point, on the 18th of Decem- ■ bar. - ———— - Thb Philadelphia I’m of the 31st Uli COB-' talus a sworn statement of James E. Anderson, of Louisiana, declaring that E. L. Weber was bribed to testify before the Potter Com mittee, and that the sum paid him for such testimony was >IO,(XX). - - Apotre 150 Mormons arrived at New York ir°h Enrope ’ °“ 9801 U M«« for Tb » Prophetic Conference, called in the interest at those of all religious denominations who believe in the pro-millennia] coming or . Christ, assembled at Use Church of the Holy Trinity. fa New Yorit, ea the 80th uIL Will lam Reynolds, at Peoria, presided. Papers were read relating to the future advent of the Savior, by gey. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr. Prat. Keflo.g, Of Allegheny, Pa., and frSta Bev. Ur. Tyogi hr,, who was unable to bepretent in person because of illness. In the evening dajegstes, on 'W* BeiWß papere were read and in **• ereofajf Dr- Goodadn, of Chicago, expressing bis firm CQDYtetfottthst the pro-mfilen a|al coming

OfChrtu was the clear and unmistakable teaching of toe Word of God. Tun dosing day’s session of toe Prophetic Conference was held, on toe Ist. The resotatoms adopted declare that toenscood coming of toe Lord Jesus Christ is everywhere represented In the Scriptures as Imminent, and may occur at any moment, the precise day and hour being known only to God, and that toe duty of the Church la to watch and pray , to work and wait, and to go into all tot world and preach the Gospel to every creature. Gold dosed In New York, ou Nov Ist, st 100)4- The following were the dosing quotations for produce: No. 8 Chicago Spring, Wheat (New), 90094 c; No. 8 Milwaukee (New), 94J*@95c. Oat* - Western Mixed, 28030 c. Corn, Western Mixed, 46047)4e. Pork, Mees, 88.00. Lard, 86.25. Flour, Good to Choice, 88.9004.50; White Wheat Extra, 84.5505.95. Cattle, 86 500 9.50 for Good to Extra. Sheep, 84.0004.50. Hogs, 88.4003.60. At East Liberty, Pa., on Nov. Ist, Cattle brought: Best, 84-5004.75; Medium, 88.75 04.00; Common, 68.260A50. Hog* sold— Yorkers, 88.0003.15; Phlladelphisa, 83.300 150. Sheep brought 83.0004.25—according to quality. AT Baltimore, Md., on Nov. Ist, Cattle brought: Best, 84.50 0 A 75; Medium, 83.5004.00. Hog* sold st 84.0004.75 for Good. Sheep were quoted at 88.0004.50 for Good. WEST AMD SOITH. Charles Ethxridok, a well-known insurance and loan agent, of St. Paul, ba* absconded. Examination of bis accounts shows that be is s defaulter to hl* principal in the sum of from 830,000 to 850.000. Several renegade Cheyenne* were captured, on the 26th, after suffering for fortyeight hoOr* from cold and hunger, by the troop* under Col. Carlton, and were taken to Camp Robinson. Neb. Lyman Potter, toe wheelbarrow man, readied San Francisco on toe afternoon of the 27tb. He wa* met on his arrival there by a large crowd of people. '■ There was published, in the Indianapolis 2/emM of the 26th, an account of an interview with James E. Anderson, then shopping in that city, in which be exonerates Sec’y Sherman from al) complicity in toe matter relating to the celebrated so-called Sherman letter. He says the authorship of 'ltreTettertay between Senator Kellogg and Conquest Clark, who was his private secretary at the time; that Mrs. Jenks never saw it, and that the original letter is now in the possession of a gentleman in Philadelphia, and can be produced at any time. He said Kellogg could exonerate Sherman at any time, and would do so as soon as the Louisans appointments made in the former’s interest were confirmed. A Des Moines (Iowa) telegram of the 26th says Senator Kellogg, then in that place, had stated that there was absolutely in this pretended statement of (Kellogg) knew nothing of He man letter, never saw Sherhis secretary ever did not believe that a Phfladetajdjjßrit The best evidence the prodimMßpuia gentleman had it would be

InterejMmion of it. He (Kellogg) had no ■■HRnn any Louisiana appointments; on ■■contrary, they were all made and conexcept a few minor Postoffices, in he had no interest. Mr. Kellogg exHbssed himself as being willing that every fuspatch he had written or sent regarding the Louisiana election affairs should be published to the world. > The official returns of the recent election in I lowa give the total vote for Secretary of State Ds follows: Hull (Rep.), 134,503; Farnsworth [(Greenback and Dem.), 125,114. Hull’s majority, 9,389. This is about the average majority of the rest of the Republican State ■kccoKDiNu to intelligence received at on the 29th, from military otfiMfrs on the Rio Grande, affairs on the border ■ere more peaceable. It was asserted that Eiere was a larger number of incursions into Mexico by Indians than by Mexicans into Texas. Mbs. Noonan, wife of SergL Noonan, of tbe Seventh Cavalry, who died at Fort Lincoln, on the 81st ult., proves to have been a man, who had been playing wife and laundress in the regiment for over nine years. He wss a Mexican. A Mormon named Miles, who lately married three women in Salt Lake, has been held to ball in tbe sum of 81,500 to answer any indictment that may be found by tbe Grand Jury for bigamy. In Chicago, on Nov. Ist, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at 82}<c .cash; 82)4c 10r November; and 84c for December. Cash Corn closed at- 34c for No. 2; 33?gc for December; 32%c for January. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at an( 7 <9Xc seller December. Rye No. 2, 44)(c. BarleyiNo. 2, 91J4c for cash, 91c for December (New). Cash Mess Pork closed at 87.00. Lard, 85.85. Beeves —Extra brought 84.5004.75; Choice, 84.00 @4.25; Good, 83.2503.80; Medium Grades, 83.0003.25; Butchers’ Stock, 82.1002.60; Stock Cattle, etc., 82.2502.80. Hogs—Good to Choice, 82.2503.30. Sheep Poor to Choice, 82.2503.25.

THI YILLOW HVBB. Heavt frosts prevailed throughout the greater portion of the fever-infected district on the morning of the 28th, and it was announced from Memphis, Cairo, etc., that it was perfectly safe for refugees to return to their homes. Twenty-three additional deaths and twenty-one cases were reported in New Orleans, the total deaths to date being 3,894, and cases, 12,950. The deaths at Memphis were six—four within the city limits, and two in the suburbs. One death at Cairo; five at Mobile; two at Baton Rouge; oue at Jackson, Miss. Tbn deaths and fifty-two cases were reported in New Orleans, on the 29tb; light rain in the morning. A drizzling rain prevailed at' Vicksburg; one death reported. At Baton Rouge, La., there were thirteen new cases undone death; at Jackson, Miss., sixteen new cases and four deaths; at Holly Bprings, four new cases and one death; at Chattanoogo, Tenn., three deaths and three new cases. The relief-bout Chambers returned to St. Louis, on the 29th. The officers and crew were all « ell. Lieut. Hall, commander of the boat since the death of Lieut. Benner, says the suffering of the people in the little towns on the river bank, and a few miles back, wasvery great, and demanded immediate attention. In some places the people were almost starving, food being scarce and the crops there very scant. Kaix fell at Memphis dhring the entire day, on the 29th. There was no doubt that the' fever epidemic was at an end, and absentees were flocking tp the city, and business was being resumed. The physicians had ceased repeating new cases of sickness, they occurred so rarely. The deaths in the city numbered four. —Tsmut were thirteen deathsln ..New. Orleans, bn the 30th ult., and the cases reporb ed numbered thirty-four; total. deaths to date, 3,917, and total cases, 13,036. It was thought that the Board of Health would, on the 81st, declare the epidemic in that city at an end. A Meridian (Mias.) dispatch of the 29th ult. says there had as yet been ho abatement of the yellow fever there, and funds were badly needed for the relief of the sick and destitute. The Meridian Aid Association appealed for assistance. Carr. Rickard Blazbb died of the fever, at .<m .the <iyeni O g 29th ult He had exposed himself to attack by attending his brother’s family, who' were suffering from the disease. Nbarlt all the absentees from Cairo, Hi., had returned to tlut city on the 31st ult., and bqsfaMe was nwuming its wonted sctMtjr.

Tbe news from tbe infected districts in tob South wa* to the effect that tbe epidemic wa* rapidly dying out because of the cooler weather. DDUIDM nmuhUMßMca. John Inmm Wxiorr A 00., of London and Glasgow, have failed. Wright was on* of the imprisoned Directors of toe City of Glasgow Beak. A CoNSTANTiNonji dispatch of toe 28th say* toe Porte had addresaed a circular to the algnatory Power* In reaper* to the new rebellion south of toe Balkans, in which the charge Is substantially made that the trouble is tbe result of Russian Intrigue. The circular further states that the rebellion has for It* object the securing of a seaport on tbe -Kgean Sea, a* provided for In toe San Stefano Treaty, and the erection of Bulgaria into an Independent Slavonic State. Over 18,000 Turkish troop* had been sent to subdue the insurrection, and an energetic demand made u;>on KuMia for assistance. Nine inches cf snow fell In the northwestern part of Ontario on tbe night of the 27t0, doing great damage to the fruit and other trees. It was reported from Constantinople, on toe 29t0, that Russian troops to the number of 60,000 bad entered Routnelia by way of Bourgas. The Begum of Bbopal ba* placed her army at the disposal of the British. , The Coroner’s Investigation of the recent railwav disaster at Pontypridd, Eng., has resulted In a verdict of manslaughter against toe signal man. On the HOth uTt., a resolution was offered in the lower house of tbe Hungarian Diet, proposing the impeachment of the Ministry. Cardinal Edward Howard is reported to have declined the Archbishopric of Dublin. A CoPBNHAGitN (Denmark) telegram of the 30th ult. announces the formal betrothal of Princess Tliyra to tbe Duke of Cumberland. The Greek Cabinet has resigned in a body because of the differences with the Chambers. The resignation has been accepted by the King. According to a Simla dispatch of the 30th uIU, the Indian Government had sent an ultimatum to the Ameerof Afghanistan, demanding compensation for past indignities and guarantees fcr future good conduct.

The Directors and other officials of the defunct City of Glasgow Bank fiave been committed for trial on charges of theft and fraud. Several persons prominently connected with the bank have disappeared. The North-of-England Carriage and Iron Company, and Thompson <fe Nephews, merchants, of London and failed. Linbilltles have London at a of the 30th ult. say that, council held on the preceding decided to require from all the signatories of the Berlin Treaty a strict and literal observance of all the conditions of that According to Constantinople dispatches of the 30th ult, the difficulties between Turkey and Greece were likely to speedily eventuate in war. The Porte was willing to make a slight rectification of the frontier, but Greece would accept of no other boundary than that Indicated by the Berlin Treaty. Meantime both countries were preparing for ultimate hostilities. According to a St Petersburg dispatch of the 31st ult., the Rusdan Army in Turkey would be increased to 200,000 men. ” Fanuy was run into and sunk off Tuskar by the steamer Helvetia. Seventeen of the Fanny’s crew perished. The negotiations between England and Portugal in regard to the cession of Delagoa Bay (an inlet of tbe Indian Ocean in Southeastern Africa, fifty-five miles in length from north to south, and twenty miles across,) have been completed, the harbor, the natural port for the Transvaal region, thus becoming a British possession, for which Great Britain paid to Portugal toe sum of 82,904,000. A majority of tbe Reichsrath Committee, in reply to a speech by the Emperor, on the Ist, adopted an address in .which Count Andrassy is censured- for not consulting the Reichsrath on his Eastern policy. A portion of the Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical College of Maynootb, Ireland, was destroyed by fire on the 31st ult Loss about 850,000, mai.v of the students losing all their personal effects, and some of them narrowly escaping with their lives. It was reported from Pesth, Hungary, on the 2d, that the British note, protesting against tbe Russian movement iu Turkey, waa presented at Bt. Petersburg, on the 24th ult. The note expresses the hope that Russia would soon ,be able to resume the withdrawal of her troops, and that they would not pass the line which they had then reoccupied, as such a step would compel England to take precautions.

Regulations for the Registration of Third-Class Mail Matter.

Postmaster Palmer, of Chicago, has recently issued a circular giving information of general interest regarding the postage and registration of thirdclass mail matter. The regulations are as follows: No package Of such matter can be received until a proper examination can show it to be entitled to tiausmission as such matter. Great care must be exercised to prevent the .registration: 'find admission into the mails of matter that is uumallable. and also to prevent the admission at third-class rates of matter upon which | ostage is properly chargeable at first-class rates under existing laws and regulations. Postmasters should require packages to be put up securely, so as to safely bear transportation, but not In such a manner as to prevent an examination of their contents, either at the mailing office or at the office of delivery. Matter offered for registration in violation of these requirements "ill be treated as now provided by law and the postal regulations. Both postage' and registry fee must be fully,prepaid, with postage stamps affixed to the packages. Registered packages of third-class matter will, as far as practicable, be treated in the mails the same as registered letters. The name and address of the sender must bs indorsed, either in writing or In print, upon each package of third-class matter offered for regist ration; and there may be added to this a brief description, in wrltingbrin print, of the number and names of the articles Inclosed. No additional written matter, except the address, is permitted by law. A request to return may also be printed, but to write such request would, by law, subject the package to I ostage at first-class (letter) rates. Unclaimed registered packages of third class matter will be treated the same as unclaimed registered letters. Third-class matter is divided into two divisions. as follows: The firstdivlsion includes pamphlets, occasional publications, transient newspapers, magazines, books, periodicals, handbills, posters, sheet music (printed), prospectuses, maps, proof-sheets. corrected proof-sheets and regular publications designed primarily for advertising purposes or for free circulation at nominal rates. The second dirisioH ineludes printed cards and blanks, lithographs, prints, chromo-litbo-grapbs, engravings, photographs, and “stereoscopte views, book manuscripts, unsealed circulars, seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots and ’ scions, flexible patterns, samples of ores, rpetals, minerals and merchandise. Sample cards, photographic paper, letter-envelopes, postal envelopes and wrappers, unprinted cards, plain and trnamental paper, cardboard, or other flexible material, and all other mailable matter of the tdrd-tiMS, not herein enumerated. The rate of postage fax artietae sfl IhKfltalt Uvision, is one cent for every two ounces, or fractional part thereof. The rate Of postage for articles in the Second division is one cent for each ounce, or fractional part thereof. The fee for registration is ten cents for each package; the weight of each package not to i-xcred four pousdte .......... In Ireland this year there were 5.203.705 acres cultivated, a decrease of 62,196 acres asoom pared with 1&77. The chief decrease Was in oats, potatoes and

The $3,000,000-Bank Robbery in New York.

Nxw Y..RE.00L27. Between six and nine o'clock this morning m**ke<l burglar* entered the Manhattan BavIncs Bapk bu Mine, corner Brand way and Bieecker Mreei, and, after handcuffing the janitor, made him, under threat* of instant death, reveal tbe combination of the safe to them and deliver up th* keys of toe bank. They rifled toe vault of presumably * large amount ot money, *• twenty tin boxes known to have contained bill* were found on the floor quite empty At d’ektek, Wendel Kohlmsn, who keep* a barber shop In tbe basement, wa* startled hr the appearance at the basement stairs of toe Janitor, Louis WerteL white with fright and excitement, with hia hands handcuffed tightly and toe key of toe bank clutched between them. He wa* only balfdreeaed, and gasped, “Thieve* I Robben I Come and see!’’ The barber accompanied him into the Imnk, and saw the doors of the great vault wide open and the floor littered with tin boxes, all emptied of their content*. Burgtan’ tool* were scattered In every direction. The barber notified the police, who soon appeared. Tbe janitor’s statement waa to toe effect that at 6:10, white he wa* dressing, seven masked men suddenly rushed into hl* room and handcuffed him and bls wife, and demanded too keys of the bank. Hl* motber-In-taw, an old lady, who wa* present, *crearned, when the burglars drew platote and threatened Instant death to any one who made noise They then carried him into an adjoining room and forced him to deliver np the keys of the street doors. With these four or the party went down stairs, leaving three on guard In hi* room. Three honrs passed, and Wertel heard a clock strike nine; just then one of the men from down stairs returned, and after a whispered consultation, they all left. After he regained hl* courage he went to the barbershop as described. Wertel admitted to Superintendent Walling that he had given the combination of the unlocking of toe doors Of the vault to the robbers. He gave it under threats of Instant death, but he failed to state how he got possession of tbe combination. Hi* wife corroborated bls story of toe attack, but said there were only five men In the party. Mr. Lent, a Broadway merchant, passed tbe bank soon after seven a. tn., ana saw a young man dusting the shelves and desks inside. It is supposed this was one of the burglars, endeavoring to make thing* look as natural as possible. Officer* Van Norton and Tully said they looked through the bank window between six and seven o’clock, and all was quiet. The vault can be seen from the street Inside the main doors of tbe safe vault tbe burglars found the space with shelves, upon which were tin boxes filled with jewelry, silverware and valuable papers. These they emptied. They overlooked one box on-a back shelf, containing 850,000 in valuables, the property of Edward Schell, President of the bank. TheAUtei^QaaM l six feet between the and the door of of the vault glars amnta^jot^“» er M 7e, gave the burto work in. They pried ■RmRe compartment containing 811,000 In small bills. They next forced the bottom drawer, but got nothing of value therefrom. The wedge* were found in the upper compartments, which they were trying to force when they were evidently disturbed. A doxen drills, a sledge-hammer, three sectional jimmies and other tools were found scattered around. The officers of the bank admit that the janitor possessed the combination to toe vault. It was given him months ago, so that be could take out the books and make ready for business. The officers of the bank are Edward Schell, President and Treasurer; C. F. Alvord, Secretary. The following is the bank officers’ statement: “ The Manhattan Savings Institution was, on the morning ot Sunday, Oct. 27, 1878, robbed ot securities to the amount of 12,757,700, of which 82,505,700 were registered in the name of the institution, and are not negotiable, and 8108,000 are made payable to it, and 873,000 are in coupon bonds and 811,000 in cash. For the purpose of preventing loss to depositors, it is deemed advisable that no payment be made without sixty days’ notice, as provided by the by-laws of the institution.” A New York special of the 23tb says: “It is asserted, despite the officials’ reticence, that at least sixty bank-managers in this city intrust the safe combinations to their janitors. “ A run on the bank seems improbable, as only 130 of the 17,000 depositors have notified tbe bank of an intention to withdraw their accounts. “ A* to losses, the bank officers say the depositors, with one exception, had no realizable valuables in their boxes, and their papers and securities were left undisturbed. One man claims a loss of 87,500 in notes. The burglars, therefore, got only 811,000 in cash, and 887,500 in securities that can be realized upon when the burglars dare risk detection.’’

Thanksgiving Day.

President Hayes has issued the following proclamation: The recurrence at that season at which it is the habit of our people to make devout and public confession of their constant dependence upon Divine favor for all the good gifts of life and happiness, and of public peace and prosperity, exhibits in the record of the year abundant reasons for our gratitude and thanksgiving. Exuberant harvests, productive mines, ample crops of the staples of trade and manufactures, have enriched the country, the resources thus furnished to our reviving industry and expanding commerce hastening the day when discords and distresses, through the length and breadth of the land, will, uur der the continued favor of Providence, have given way to confidence, and energy and assured prosperity. Peace with all Nations has remained unbroken ; domestic tranquillity has prevailed, and the Institutions of liberty and justice, which the wisdom and justice of our forefathers established remain the glory and defense of their children. The general prevalence of the blessings of health throughout our wide land has made more conspicuous the sufferings and sorrows which the dark shadow of the pestilence has cast upon a portion of our people. This heavy affliction, even, the Divine Ruler has tempered to the suffering communities with an universal sympathy and succor which have flowed to their relief, and the whole Nation may rejoice in the unity of spirit in our people by whictrthey cheerfully share another’s burdens. Now, therefore, I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States, do appoint Thursday, the 28th day of November next, as a day of National Thanksgiving and Prayer, • and I earnestly recommend that, withdrawing themselves frpm secular cares and labors, the people meet.together on that day in their respective places of worship, there to give thanks and praise to Almighty God for His mercies, and to devoutly beseech their continuance. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this 90th day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and third. J.

Bv SrePresident: ‘

Wilaum M. Evabts, Secretary of State.

Patchwork.

In a pleasant room, full of bright sunshine, a little girl is sitting in her rocking-chair. sewing as fast as she can make ner chubby little fingers fly. Around her are scattered pieces of cloth of as many different hues as Jacob’s coat of old, while in hqr lap she has numerous scraps, from which she takes one, now ana then, joining it to those she holds in her hand. Very often she stops, and with a most expressive frown, rips out some unlucky stitch that has gone astray by means of her own tiny fingers; but never discouraged, she sews on, and if we may judge by the smiles that come and go over hes dimpled, baby face, she is thinking how nice and warm her dolly will be kept through the cold winter, by the quilt she is so busily making. We look again, and instead of the child, we find a young girl of about eighteen summere. Her surroundings are very much like those of the little one, and her thoughts are also straying into the future. It must seem very bright and beautiful to her, for there is such a happy look on heirntoe. of whiah-w© oatch -a glimpse now and then; and her eyes are full of a tender light, as she sews on. We wonder what she is so busily engaged in, and if wp should ask her »he would say:

“ Why, do yon not know that, according to the good old country custom. we must least * dozen quilts before we have a house of our own?” Now, as we look once more, a vary peat change is seen. Instead of the bright little child or the happy young girl, we find an old, old woman, bent over by the cares and sorrows of threescore years and-ten. She holds in her trembling hand a nit of patch work, and M She looks st it, tears fill her eyes; then, as if by magic, a gentle smile finds its way over her furrowed face, and she sees ip the far-away past a little girt sitting in her arm-chair, eawing so fast on her dolly’s quilt; then the loung girl with her happy face, and as er thoughts come back to the present, she lifts ner heart in thankfulness to Him who has arranged the patchwork of her life no wisely, putting a bit of sorrow here and there, making the happy days seem happier and better for the contrast, and who she trusts will say in the peat hereafter, “ Well done, good and faithful servant.”— Golden Rule.

Jim Anderson’s Bargainings.

After Anderson had given his evidence before the Potter Committee he was not discharged as a witness until the final adjournment of the committee in August, and during these two months be drew witness fees at a rate of $8 a day. In the meantime. having lost his position as night editor of a Philadelphia newspaper, he was provided with a place as a proof-reader on the Washington Post at a salary of sls per week. He was not contented with this position, considering it to be too humble, and the salary too small for a man of his dignity and resources. The editor of the paper would not tolerate him in either a reporter’s of editor’s position, however, and his connection with the paper was severed. Since then Anderson has been accommodated with small loans from persons who admired his candor and who were associated with the Potter investigation. But, having exhausted his thb h~*9»xbSP p eaWflfte’contract with him should be carried out and he be “ taken care of.” He complains that he has been repulsed and insulted, and that his treatment has not been such as a gentleman would endure.

Finally Anderson warned his sponsors before the committee that their agreement must be complied with, or he would make other arrangements. Anderson then commissioned a friend lately to make a proposition to Judge Shellabarger, which, in effect, was that he should either prepare and make oath to a full and complete denial of all his testimony heretofore given, so far as it related to Sec’y Sherman, and append a statement of the manner and means by which he was induced to testify; or, when the Matthews Committee should reassemble, he would withdraw his refusal to testify before that committee and answer truthfully all questions that should be put to him relating to the Sherman letter—how the story was invented and put in circulation, how he was bribed to testify falsely, and reveal fully the full story of the manner in which he was led to make his statements before the Potter Committee. As a condition to all this, Mr. Anderson was to be granted absolution for all the sins committed in the past and immunity for the future. As a guarantee of good faith, Anderson offered to put in writing a statement to be read by Judge Shellabarger which he would make oath to, if an understanding should be arrived at. This is in brief the statement that is made by Anderson and his friends. It is of course partially denied by those whom he has been serving. They say that the trouble with him is his failure to obtain money as a reward for his testimony.. They deny that there was such an arrangement as he asserts. His evidence, they say, was voluntary and given for motives of revenge, ana that since he told his story all demands for a reward have been denied. They claim that payments of money were never made to him, and that he merely drew his witness fees, as did all others who testified. Money has been loaned to him when he claimed to be in want, but with the understanding that it was a loan, and not a gratuity. The “ coparceners” assert that they always regarded Anderson as a dangerous man and unfit to be trusted, and that they have allowed no dealings him that could be construed as meaning bribery. They admit having been warned by Anderson that he would reverse himself” unless he. was taken care of, and they acknowledged an understanding that he has offered himself to Judge Shellabarger as a witness for the defense. Judge Shellabarger, they say, is welcome to him, and that Sec’y Sherman may have 'all the benefit that can be derived from his statements; but how, they ask, are the Republicans to get around Senator Matthews’ letter? They charge specifically that Anderson demanded $2,600 as the price of his silence, that amount being necessary to set him upon a chicken farm in Louisiana, which is his present ambition. The gentleman with whom Anderson has been conducting his negotiations only a day or two ago received the following '’letter from Anderson, who is now in Indianapolis, visiting his wife’s family:

My Dear Sib: 1 wrote you last week upon my arrival here, but as yet have had no reply. I wish you would attend to that matter at’Once and let me hear from you by a night dispatch. I have an oppo> tnnity of making an excellent investment in fancy chickens here, bu t don’t ( wish to do ao until I know definitely what will be done. Should you see Sypher. write me the result of your conference. Ask * * * if he could work me into the SehtlMrl office here should I desire to stay, or, what would be better, on the New Orleans Democrat. Let me hear from you as soon as possible. Truly yours, - . Jamis E. Anderson. Judge Shellabarger was asked, this morning, about this matter. He said that it is a fact that he has received propositions from Anderson of this sort. He has received several of them, not from Anderson personally, but through his friends and gentlemen whom he has convinced that hqjs sincere in his intention to undo, as far as possible, the harm that he has jdone, and in the future to have square dealing and honesty f but the Judge said he has told'all of th ese gentlemen that if Anderson wants to do right and inend the damage he has done, there is no necessity for either himself or Sec’y' Sherman having any knowledge of or ]part in his repentance; that the plainest and most common-sense course for Andcr son to pursue is to repent and offer such recompense as he is able, without hav ing any dealings with Bets y Sfiennan or ins counsel. Judge SheUabarger said that neither or the Secretary cares one whit for what Anderson proposes to do, nor do they care whether he makes a retraction or not; he may do so it he chooses, but it will destroy the effect of. any retraction he may make, if they enoour-

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age it or offer inducements in that direction. ’’Has Anderson asked any inducements from yon in the matter?’’ was asked. ” None whatever,” said the Judge. “Those who have called upon me in his interest have merely represented that he was sorry he had lied about Sec’y Sherman, and that he was now anxious to do the right thing. They never Intimated that he expected any reward, but said that he was remorseful and wanted to unburden himself. But I told them all that I would have no dealings with Anderson personally or indirectly, that I would not allow him to come to my office nor speak to mq. I understand that he has attempted to approach Sec’y Sherman in the same way, but the Secretary will have nothing whatever to do with him.” “Do you know that he has made a statement contradictory to his evidence before the Potter Committee?” “I hate hoard so, but I do not know it. It was intimated that such a document was ready in case Sec’y Sherman or mvself wanted to see it. But I refused absolutely to compromise myself with him io any way. I told his friends I did not want to see the paper, and that Sec’y Sherman did not. We have had all along an abiding faith that such a rascally fabric of lies as were woven into Anderson’s story would not hold together long, and we felt that we had only to wait to see the story contradict itself. For several montns we have been continually m receipt of letters offering to furnish evidence, and making propositions in regard to this matter, but we have taken no more notice of them than to file them away for preservation. Hernia a lot I have Just this moment received from the Secretary, and here is a note of transmittal.”

The Judge here exhibited a bundle of papers and a note from Sec’y Sherman, in which the latter asked Judge Shellabarger to place these papers with the others of the same sort, and said’ that he was of the same opinion fore, that jpyas bggt.tg hiyWria~ ileal-" jhT. ~<ui any person in this matter, but to let it adjust itself, as it. certainly would in due time~r I < Anderson failing to open negotiations with Judge Shellabarger has attempted to reach Sec’y Sherman's ear through other channels, and has made at least two propositions to official subordinates of the Secretary, but they have declined to do anything in the matter. Anderson’s “ true story” is now for sale to the highest biddeir, and will doubtless soon appear in print. asserted from a thoroughly trustworthy source that Anderson has made an affidavit before Dr. Houston, of the Pennsylvania Republican State Committee, wherein he (Anderson) sets forth that the testimony be gave before the Potter Committee was false in every particular, especially that portion which related to the writing by SeJy Sherman of the Weber-Anderson letter; that he was paid for this perjury; and that the person who induced him to perjure himself, and paid him therefor, was a man by the name of Gibson, who has been closely connected with the Potter Committee through the Whole of its labors.— Washington Cor. N. Y. Tribune.

Comments on Tilden’s Denial.

Washington Sunday Herald (Dem.) The Democracy owes the Tribune some gratitude for putting it out of Mr. Tilden’s power to do their party any further injury. HEARTLESS OBSERVATIONS. New York Evening Express (Dem.) Pelton has acted the part of an amateur ass. The Old-Man-with-the-Wicked-Part-ners is very down in the mouth. DIVISION OF LABOR. " * Troy Times (Rep.) Mr. Tilden to Pelton: i’ll do the denying, nephew; you do the explaining. Hey, there, Smith Weed; can’t you deny better than Tilden or Marble? HOW ABOUT THIS, MR. POTTER? New Orleans Picayune (Deni.) The question to be ciphered on now is whether the New York Tribune will adjourn or not before the Potter Committee dissolves. A QUESTION AND A FACT. Albany Journal (Sep?) ” Is Tilden a secona Washington? If he isn’t, how do you account for the following historic parallel: I cannot tell a lie, 1 did I cannot tell a lie, I did it with my little hatchet. 1 it with my little neph—George WaMnglon. jew.—ZL</. Tilden. If Mr. Tilden’s statement had been (a) Written by Jonah when he was sojourning in the whale’s belly; (5) Put to soak for a week in abarrel half-foil of mackerel; (c) Dried between layers of cod in an eel-net; (d) Carried in an old salt’s pocket for a month; It couldn’t smell more fishy than it does now.

A OF CENTER SHOTS? Burlington Hawk-Eye (Rep.) “ A little disfigured, but still in the ring.”— Samuel J. Tilden. “lam one of the people,” says Mr. Tilden. You are, Sammy, you are. One of the worst kind of people. The elevated railway doesn’t appear to trouble Mr. Tilden a particle, but he thinks some man ought to invent a cipher dispatch that wouldn't make more noise in the world than a powdermill explosion. Man ton Marble ought to sue the telegraph company for not delivering those messages. They were plainly addressed to No. 15 Gramercy Park, but Mr. Tilden declares he never got them. Marble has got a good thing on the telegraph company—if he can only prove up. The other day Mr. Tilden laid down his favorite paper, the New York Tribune, and picked up his Bible and read: “For there is nothing covered that should not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. Therefore, whatsoever ye have spoken In darkness shall be heard aadthaLwhich ye have spoken in the ear in closets, shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.” And Mr. Tilden laid the book awav and groaned in the bitterness of spirit, ana said he would bet SIO,OOO that wasn’t in the original text, but was a fraudulent interpolation by the Tribune man. SIGNS OF UNEASINESS ABOUT HIM. Cinoinruiti Enquirer (Dem.) Col. Woolley’s greatest distress ajpears to be for his acquaintances. If Col. C. W. Woolley would only visit a few more cities and talk a little more freely about cipher dispatches, etc., He would place Mr. Tilden and his friends under everlasting obligations. SOMETHING FOR MOSES TO CONSIDER. Bricksburg (N. J.) Times and Journal (Rep.) - Jf Mr. Manton Marble would putin .a public appearance he would draw almost as well as a six-legged horse in a country village. Says Mr. Manton Marble: “ Real Of pretended brokers overran Tallahassee, flushing the game which Noyes bagged.” That's «ll right, Mr. Marble,,

•o long a* Noyes bagged game honorably; but who in the name of platy, early and late, flushed Mr. Manton Marble when the Tribune bagged him? WHY THE UNCLE DOESN’T BOUNCE THE NEPHEW. Albany Evening Journal (Rep,) The ory is going up in various quartan, Why don’t Tilden repudiate Pelton? We have do doubt the old man is aching to—that he yearns to load that reprehensible nephew by the ear to the front door, and give him a lift with his boot from the threshold that should land him beyond the Rocky Mountains on all fours. But, if we interpret the Unele aright, the reason which forbids him from presenting Pelton with such a testimonial of his regard lies in the fact that he is aware that there is exceeding much tar upon his own as well as upon the nephew’s garments, and that the presence of the defilement upon both is due to the impingement against them of one audthe same stick. MAKER IT BAD FOR TILDEN. Richmond (Va.) State (Dem.) In an interview, which appears to have been forced upon him, Mr. Charles W. Woolley, one of the parties implicated in the famous cipher dispatches, throws not a little light on the question of their genuineness. He owns, in the first place, to one of them—the one which was signed by Mr. W’oolley as “ Fox,” urging the New York managers to stop Mr. Marble’s proffers to Returning Boards. Thus he allows that the cipher st least is correct whenever used. Again, instead of denying the others, be answers the interviewer by saying that he has nothing to say. Likewise, instead of having any idea of prosecuting the Tribune for libel, he says that he has consulted a skillful lawyer to know if he himself call be prosecuted for what he did in Florida, and that the lawyer assured him that he did nothing to bring him under the criminal law. Thus Mr. Woolley damages the case against Gramercy Park even ynore-Ahan did Mr. Marble, the -aftehce of Peltou, and the declaration of Mr. Tilden, which neglected to declare anything but that he did not know of any such transactions as those conducted through the ciphers. Indeed, the case against Mr. Tilden, far from growing better, grows worse, and the Democratic party will be false to itself if it does not insist upon an investigation by the Potter Committee, aud let its late candidate sink or swim according to the verdict found.

SARCASM. New York Evening Express (Dem.) The 7’ribune'e ciphergrams, taken in connection with Mr. Marble’s card and Mr. Tilden’s disclaimer, will call for another Congressional investigation. Mr. Tilden will rejoice to have an opportunity to make his positive denials under oath, and Messrs. Pelton, Marble, Smith, Woolley, Weed and others will be most happy to tell all they don’t know. Thus, at last, Mr. Tilden will have the coveted opportunity to vindicate himself thrust upon him. A RATTLING WHACK AT MOSES. Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution (Dem.j Mr. Manton Marble was the recognized marplot of the campaign. Conceited,intolerant, whimsical,"and with a well-defined vein of intrigue perco-: lating his system, he repelled all decent gentlemen and marred all reasonable schemes. It was understood, also, that he was jeopardizing the character of his colleagues, by paying repeated visits to Cowgill, and talking dim villainy to that worthy, who repeated it at once to the Republican caucus. Mr. Woolley had more sagacity than Marble, and was minus Marble’s offensive habits. Gov. Brown was the master-spirit of them all. Had the campaign been placed in the hands of Brown, Woolley and Saltonstall, and Marble had been smothered in a barrel of pomade, Florida would have voted for Tilden, and not a dollar would have been spent. Cowgill was not amenable to principle, but he was subject to fear, and was somewhat careful of his threadbare reputation. Had the case against him been made absolute and rigid, he would voted right. As it was, Marble showed Weakness by sneaking into his house with doubtful gibberish, and Cowgill, strengthening as Marble weakened, slipped through the gaps that divisions and bickerings had left in the Democratic argument. Marble spoiled the Returning-Board campaign in Florida. It is hardly more than we expected that he has compromised Tilden.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—Mr. B. F. White, of Calais, Me., one of the members of the Maine House of Representatives, is famous for his great strength. He recently lifted a weight of 748 pounds. —Kimball, the obligation raiser, goes about the country, knocking where he sees the tallest steeples, inquiring “ Do you want any church debts lifted here to-day?”— N. 0. Picayune. —The wife of Gen. Sherman is quoted as saying that her husband first aroused her admiration at the early age of ten years “ because he caught rabbits better than any of the other boys.” —lt is stated that the doctor who examined Montague’s lilngs a few hours before he bled to death, and pronounced «>hem sound, sent in his bill after the actor’s death for $l5O. —Blood was the name of the juror who hung the panel in the Billings murder case recently tried a t Ballston, N. Y. Eleven men voted Billings innocent, but Blood hangout for blood. —Senator Bruce, of Mississippi, contradicts the report that he will remove to Ohio at the expiration of his term. He says that he is a tax-payer in Mississippi, and intends to pass the rest of his days jn that State. —Sir David Wilkie’s spelling was not perfect In his letters the reader finds “shaddow,” “melowness,” “exellence.” —“ excelli” “ Morillo” (.for Murillo), “cecede,” “two low,” palates” (for palettes), etc. Some of his brother artists may reap comfort from the fact. —A nice point will have to be weighed at the next trial of the Rev. Mr. Hayden for the murder of Mary Stannard. Since the discovery of the arsenic in the stomach of the victim the theory of the State has been that when Hayden, as he testified, bought an ounoe of arsenic with which to kill rats, he really intended it for Mary. Haydentestified also that he had not used a particle of the poison and had put it away in his barn, where it has been found since. If there still remains an ounce or almost an ounce the defense will contend that none of it was used to poison Mary. On the other hand the prosecution win -assert that as arsenic is sold very cheap the druggist was careless about giving exact weight and threw in considerably more than an ounce. On this delicate point the life may depend. •