Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1878 — Page 2

The Rensselaer Union *r- • _— -MNBBELAEH, • W- INDIANA.

General News Summary.

bll leTwit^oarili sssr *23? liMutmuto tfca War Department, and rhnnaAT tfi v r He thought Ik, proaeut law gowning luffian thin 111 —* J *~~ amended, and aaM the Indians •AmM In loealteefl od properly educated. Ifr tfn 4 | IBt ~* t W - I~,l.n« aahl they ware unanimously opposed to the Or the 19th, the Joint Commission on the ftupuead Traaafer of Urn Indian Bureau to O*JFv Dmiirtmeat doaed Ita hearing of TU Mil for tbe payment of invalid and oHAr pfcmline tor the next Becal year, a* It pamedUie^HoeMM, on the 13th, appropriates Hon Aw the present fuel year. Dcim eleven months of the present year, earitaf on tbeSOthak-, the anmber of immigrant* arriving at the port of New York was 2MIZ, gainst 58,00* for the same period last freer, and far the name period the year ATOCRG lady named Botham, daughter of a vralfrkaowa resident of Htllaide, Pa., was left at home, on the evening of the 7th, vKh twp younger slaters, aged nine and twelve, reapeetlvnly. About half-poet eight o’clock, her brother Jaecph reSOmed home from a spelling - bee, and undertook to frighten his staters by peering himself off for e tramp, and succeeded ao well that hh eldeat alsUr shot him dead aa ho stood on the porch In front of the door. The only words he uttered, after receiving the Mil Shot, were, “My dear sister.” T« stsetton for Mayor In Boston, Mass., on the Nth, resulted as follows: Prince (Dem), IAM; ffdasan (Rep.), 18,001; King (Workingmen's candidate), 48L The election in Lynn, on the aame day, resulted lu the choice of Sanderson (Workingmen Veandidete) faya ptorality of A 000; the entire WorMnettien’ii' ticket was elected. At Worcester die Cftteens’ candidate (Pratt) received ASH 1 Votes to 1,047 for Dickinson, nominated by the Butter Chib. New England and Middle States, oa the 10th. Mott of the streams overflowed their banks and a great many villages were flooded. At Breton rvilie, Vt, the Portland train ran Into e washout and was badly wrecked. Two persons were killed and several badly injured. The Montreal express also ran Into a washant Ut SewalTs Palls, N. H , the engine and tendir going down an embankment 150 feet high, and telescoping one of the passenger ham. Seven passengers and the engineer and Etonian were badly bait. No liven were lost. Mill River Veltey, in Massachusetts, was also overflowed, and telegraphic communication -TlNt Belgian steamer Herman Ludwig, formerly the Clyde steamer Andes, left New York on the Nth of October, for Antwerp, with forty peiWM on bnar<l. Since that time no things have Been received from her, sod she is believed to have foundered in mid-ocean. The date of her departure coincides with a series of very destructive gales on the Atlantic BmffSri shr is believed to have perished In ode •< them. The Ludwig was worth BIBO,* 000, and her cargo was valued at SIIO,OOO. Ok the 11th, additional details of the great storm of the preceding day throughout New England and the Middle (States were received. - The river which skirts the Town of Westfield, Maes., overflowed its banks and poured through the center of the village, destroying a huge number of dwellings and several large factories, and involving m loss of from #BOO,000 to 0500,000. On the Troy A Greenfield RaOroad a freight train plunged into 7 fiftyfoot wnahout, and a similar acpident occurred riser Wentworth, N. H. The dam of the Sot. Son Mansfaeturing Company, at WOkinsonVUIe, Maas., was carried away, causing a loss of 980)000. In Maine, the Grand Trunk, the Aadtoseuagin and the Maine Central Railroads were very seriously damaged, and the running of trains suspended. In Leominster, Mass., several dams wen swept awsv and many factories destroyed. Great damage was also caused at South Fitchburg. Mill River Valley, from Goshen to Northampton, suffered . store of between 0100,000 to #300,000 In The destruction of roads and bridges. The Ashfleld (Maas.) reservoir gave way and destroyed the Village of Conway, a few miles below. Many other places in Western Massachusetts suffered to a greater or less extent, the damage to that section being estimated at from #750,000 to $1,000,800. In New Hampshire and Vermont also great damage wa« dore. All through Pennsylvania the stonu was exceptionally severe and a great amount of property destroyed and several Uvea lost. In the vicinity of Port Jervis, N. Y., several fine bridges were carried away and great desolation wrought. The damage at Kingston, 'Wilbur, Eddyvtlle and Roundout, N. T., is fohghly estimated at $500,000. Several lives Were lost in tbst vicinity. „ Ni*» wal received at Auburn, X. Y., on the feth, of the death, hi Glasgow, Scotland, of Henry Write, of the Miner city, founder ol Jfre great express fins of Wells, Fargo A Co. In First National and the Commercial Banka, of Saratoga. N. Y., suspended, on the 18th, owing to a run growing out of the defalcation of County-Treasurer Wright. Uou> doaed in New York, on Dec. 18th, at MO%. The following were the closing quotations fur produce: No. $ Chicago Spring Wheat, Ko9oc; No. 8 Milwaukee, 98099 c. -Data, Western Mixed, 29%(3 Me. Com. Western Mixed, 15946 c. York, Maas, $7.20(37.80. Laid, #5.8005 91%. Flour, Good to Choice, #4.1504.50; White Wheat Extra, 54J6&5.25. Cattle, $7.50(310.50 for Good to Extra. Sheep, $4.0006.13%. flogs, $8.12%@3.18%. Ax East Liberty, Be., on;Dec. 13th, Cattle Best, $4.7505.00; Medium, 14.350 4.50; Common. #8.7504.00. Hogs aold— Yorkers, #17002.75; Philadelphia*, $2.85(3 AM. Sheep brought $3.5004.75-aecording to quality. -‘-* r ‘_i_ Ax Baltimore, Md., on Dec. 13th, CatDo brought; Bolt. $4.5005.00; Medium, 9MSOm Hogs aoid at $8.7504.13% for GaoA Sheep were quoted at $3.50(35.00 for Good. _ van ai» aouTB. - > Gov. Mampvok was, on the 10th, elected United States Senator by the South Carolina thglalstare. The vote in the Senate wav nsnHaona, ana the House, with two excepDona, also voted for Mm— the exceptions bofng Mfflar and Simmons, the colored msmtian from Beaufort, who voted for Mackey, flow. Hampton was dill severely suffering from the injuries received several *bsfcs before by being thrown from a mule ' while ogt banting. One of htelegs had been amputated below the knee. His Immediate said W» condition was not dangerous. . { T« lowa and Ohio Jriate Granges met In , hpnnal Convention, on the 10th -the former mil ngwkftfjifoamre ta ak. i-Aa _* ' ■* •fwpsw* *ttwr) it toiaiDDUP. Forty-right members were present In tbe lowa MfeMWrifcMb. Reports wore read' hr the Ohio the organization in the. fhrietobfr(n| r heplthy ooqdltipo. The 8«s-

*** 4< ‘ r; - - - • fr .. 1 rotary raftturted 117 eubaadinate Granges In vrorkinc order, with about 48,000 members. A morion ito amend the oonatitntiou of the NHomri Orange sons to redone the monthly duet from ton to ffv* cents, was defeated. of aaxmriff entitled to seats, nt toe*session of the Itova Mate Orange* oethe nth. Rcso lutions ware adopted denouncing the repeal of the Maximum Railroad tew, demanding Ita restoration, mad declaring that “we will vote for no mao, no matter what party may nomlante him, who is not deffnltely and reliably pledged so use hte beet endmvors to secure such restoration ” Hte monthly dues were rodueed fnvm ton to live oenta. In accordance wRh the aoiUon of the National Grange, and the dues of Jodioe were abolished. OO'I lonue were elected by the Ohio Stater Grange on the Uth, as follows: Muter, 8. M. Kitts, of Warren; Overseer, T. F. Joy; Lmbnrec, J. W. Ogden, of Champlain; Treasurer; Rmbert Stevenson, of Oreeue; Secretary, W. PC Miller, of Erie; Steward, Davtd Whcppy; Chaplain, 8. Y. Baldwin; Gate; keeper, L. F. Smith* Ceres, Mrs. 8. fl. Elite; Bomona, Mnv T. P. Shields; Flora, Mra. W. W, Miller; K'xeeuUve Committee, J. H. Brigham, A. Paxtif and David Brouse; Business Agents, W. H. Mill, of Cincinnati, and V. E. T. Ensign, of C We land. Hox. J. J. Wt too***. In his opening addrum before th * Michigan State Grange, which met at L. Vising, on the 9tb, took ground in favor of • reduction of interest. He said that the hig b rate of interest during the war cannot be m tintaiued in the present condition of the conn try, and the demand for lower interest was Imp vretfve. Tax Ohio State Gran;re, on the 12th, elected J. H. Brigham, of Wans eon, Master, In place of 8. H. Ellis, declined. Mr. Eitls was elected Chairman of Die Executive Committee. Bt an explosion of nitro-glyceiime and gunpowder, in a coal mine at Earlingto n, Ky., on the 18th, a train of mining care, the mules and driven (colored) were blown to atoms. The shock was frit for miles. Ax the meeting of the State Grange of Mtehlgaa, on the 12th, officers were elected for ftes ensuing year aa follows: Master,.!. J. Woodman; Treasurer, 8. F. Brown; Secretary, J. T. Cobb; Ceres, Mrs. T. !L. Whitney; Pomona, Kn.Q. W. Ewing; Flora, Mrs. J. J. Woodman. - La Chicago, <m Dec. IStli, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at 83%c cash; s3%c for January; 84%c tm February. Cash Corn dosed at 81%efor No. 8; 31%c for January; 35%c fox May. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at So%c, and 39%c seller January. Rye No. 3, 44%c- Barley No. 2, 95@37c for cash, 06097 c for January. Cash Mess Pork rioted at $6.75. Lard, $5.60. Peeves —Extra brought $4.4004.75; Choice, 84.10 04.25; Good, #34008.85; Medium Grades, $8.0008.85; Butchers’ Stock, (3.1002.60; Stock Cattle, etc., $3.26(32.65. Hogs—Good to Choice, #2.2502.90. Bheep—Poor to Choice, FT SOQtei 50

FORRIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Russia has claimed from the International Commissi ou that Turkey shall pay her 23,000,000 francs far the expenses of the Bulgarian occupation. . , Ax American was arrested, on the 7th. in Constantinople for conspiring against the Sultan. The American Minister made an energetic demand f or his release. Ox the Bth, a reply from the Ameer to the British ultimatum was received. The letter te aaM to bo aa mrfrieudly as his former one. The messenger who brought it said that it wee delayed be sense he readied All Musjld during Hte flghring, and returned to Cabul. ■flie Ameer was incensed at his return, and ordered him to proceed at once. Mahmoc f» Daw ad Pasha has been banished to Barbary, having been appointed Governor at Tripoli. Russia has Imposed a duty of forty kopecks gold per Cpu B. Hammkh has been elected President, and Dr. E. Welti, Vice-President, of the Swiss Confederation for 1879. AWVkses have been received from Mogador that a terrible famine prevails there. The deaths number fwenty-flve Bally. The anniversary es the fall of Plevna was celebrated throughout Ronmania, on the 10th. Commemorative services were held in all the churches. '* Ok the Mth, a vote was taken in the British House of Commons, on the resolution censuring the Government for its conduct of the Afghan War. The resolution was defeated by a vote of ayes, 66; noes, 301. A resolution that the expenses of the war he defrayed from the Indian revenues was adopted without division. Wiixiam Johnstone, formerly Clerk in the Saline County Bank, of Marshall, Mo., arrested in Scotland, some time ago, on the charge of forgery, was examined,"on thb 10th, and held for extradition. Acoordixg to Bt. Petersburg dispatches of the 11th, a large number of Rneaian officers belonging to the Army of the Caucasus had been sent to Teheran to reorganise the Persian Army. A Bkklix dispatch of the 11th 6ays Germany had proposed to Great Britain that she assume a protectorate over Constantinople. Ik the Italian Chamber of Deputies, on the 11th, the order of the day, expressing confidence in the ability of the Ministry to maintain order with liberty, was rejected by a vote of 257 to 185. The King bad been asked to dissolve Parliament.

The Turkish Government has surrendered Roroer, the citizen of the United States, who was charged with conspiring against the Sultan, to U. S. Consul Heap. Tat rebellion in Macedonia has been subdued by Turkish troops, and 30,000 insurgents hare Sect to Bulgaria. THE French Chamber of Deputies adjourned nine die, on the 12th. Edward O’Kelly, the last Fenian prisoner, has been ordered to be set at liberty on or bofore Christmas. According to a Bombay dispatch of the 12th, an Afghan official had arrived at Gen. Browne's camp, from Jelalabad, and invited the British to advance to Cabal and establish a new government. He stated that a general rising against the Ameer had occurred. Dispatches from Dakka, received on the 12th, say that the Ameer had blown from the cannon’s mouth the late Commandant of Fort All Musjid, following the British precedent set some years ago in dealing with the Indian mutiny. The Russian Ambassador notified the British Government, on the 13th, that Russia would occupy Mery and the district adjoining the Afghan frontier. An offer of Russian mediation in the war with Afghanistan was slab made, to which Lord Salisbury replied that he would treat with noboby but the Ameer, who, if be submitted unconditionally, would receive, honorable terms. The announcement was also made that the British Government did not intend to in Russian influence at Cabul in any form. i, i_i _ .f,, , ~ , . the 13th, the officials and notables of Jelalabad had reached Dakka to tender their submission and services to the British authorities. A P*SHAwra dispatch of the 13th says the troops at the front were suffering greatly from pneumonia.. GtK regiment had lost fifteen men in four days, and another had eighty sick. ' ■ Pnnrcßss Alice, Duchess of Hesse-Darm-stadt, second daughter of Queen Victoria, died, on ike evening of the 18th. Vy W**s dispatches s#y the Chiefs of the Albanian League bad fjbtnamlefi. that all Albanian Districts bp incorporated as autr.no-, mov* Provinces. They declare that they shall act op the defensive, and in the future ignore the authority of tfce f*or»C-

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

A preamble and resolution were submitted in the Benats, on the Bth. by Mr. Winder. eetllM forth that the United Matos Httent Office “ ha* become aa institution of onmaiou,” end directing the Commit*** on Pntente to eowddsr the expediency of eome other mode of compensating in venture In place of the pm ent eyeSMn... A reeolution wee agreed to nq nesting the President to fnntiah the Senate with copies of the report* of United Hu.tr* Mnrehele and other officers, and aoch other noneapondence aa he might haro. relative to the Carolina and lxmjci"ft» •■ Mr. Edmund* spoke in favor of the bill to amend the Revised HUtntea relating to Presidential election*, sjid to provide for and regulating the counting of votea for President and V ice-President, and the decision of question* relating thereto.... fteeol ntioru were agreed to—instructing the Committee on Incline Attaint to inquire into the expediency of providing for the TSSrWuu of existing laws regulating intrroonmc with the Indbui tribes in the Indian Territory) requesting the President to transmit to the Benaieeopieeof correspondence reapeoting the immimity of the diplomatic agents of n foreign Government from judicial proceeding* against them while received aa such and maiding Tn the. United BUtm. Among the bills introduced In the House were the following: To compel National Hanks to receive the standard silver dollars aa an equivalent in vain* to the gold ooin of the United HUfea; to make minor or anbaidiary coin legal-tender for all debts doe the Government; amending the Silver Remonetization act; to enforce the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments to the Constitution ; to make silver standard dollars interchangeable with g01d....A resolution was ottered and referred for a holiday reoeas from the 2ut of December to the 6th of finnary.... A mo. tbm wm made arid defeated-yea* 160. nayaiti (leas than two-thirds in the affirmative)— to suspend trie rules and adopt a resolution declaring that the legal-tender quality of the standard silver dollar shall be maintained and enforced, and that any discrimination against them, by any National Bank refusing to receive them and treat them aa legal dollars, shall be deemed a defiance of the laws, etc... A resolution was adopted for the appointment of a committee of nino members to investigate the method of preventing the introduction and spread of epidemic diseases. A bili. w»a introduced and referred in the Senate, on the 10th, to authorize the exchange of subsidiary coin for trade dollars.... A bill was reported favorably from the Committee on Military Affairs authorising the appointment of Dr. Jnmus Powell aa an Assistant Snrgeon in the army. In explanation, it was stated that the Doctor had already rendered services aa AasistantBurgeon. but conld not be regularly appointed because he bad served in the Confederate Army when a minor. The bill was then passed—% to zl A resolution was agreed to requesting the House to transmit to the Henate a copy of the testimony of James E. Anderson relating to Senator Stanley Matthews, taken before the House Committee . The bill relating to Presidential elections wns further debated. Messrs. Morgan and Kdmnnds supporting, and Mr. Jones (Florida) opposing the measure. In the House, the Speaker announced, as members of the Yellow-Fever Inquiry Committee, Mesara Young, Gibson, Goode, Hartridge, Morse, Garfield, Harmer and Chittenden... The Consular and Diplomatic and the Naval Appropriation bills (tbs latter appropriating sl4,olß,4*>‘J) were reported from Committee of the Whole and passed. . The Speaker announced appointments to fill vacancies in committees... .The request of the Senate to }>e fnmirhed with a copy of Mr. Anderson's testimony relating to Senator Matthews wm, on motion of Mr. Potter, complied with.

Th* Fortification Appropriation bill was reported in the Senate, on the Uth, aa was also the House bill to correct the error in the envrollihent of the Bnndry Civil Appropriation bill of last session.... Bills were introduced—for the repeal of the section of the Revised Statutes which prohibits the appointment to the army of any person who served under the Confederate Government: to fix the salary of persons in the Hallway Mail Service... The Honsa bill making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy was reported, with amendment*.... Tbe resolution submitted by Mr. Blaine in regard to an inquiry as to whether, at tor recent election, the Constitutional rights of American citizens were violated, was token np, and Mr. Blaine made a speech in its support, and was replied to by Senator Thnrman -Messrs. Kdmnnds and Lamar also participating in the debate. The Pension Appropriation bill was reported in tbe House, referred to the Committee of the Whole and made the special order for tbe 12th. .... Tbe bill reported last session from tbe Committee on Commerce to regulate inter-Stote commerce, was taken np, debated and passed—--139 to 110. It provides that it shall be nnlawfnl for any person or persons engaged in the transportation of property by railroad from one State to another, or to or from any foreign oonntry, to receive any greater or less amount of compensation from one person than another for like service, and prohibits the pooling of freighta, eta The Fortification Appropriation bill was passed in the Senate, on the 12th, with amendments increasing the appropriation fox the armament of sea-coast fortifications from $125,000 to $250,000, and for the preservation and repair of fortifications from SIOO,OOO to $200,005. . ...The House bill to correct the error in the enrollment of the Bnndry Civil Appropriation bill of last year, was pamed....A report and a bill “ to reduce and organize the Army of the United States, and to make roles for its government and regulation,"were submitted from the Joint Select Committee to Prepare a Plan for the Reorganization of the Army; the bill provides that the army shall consist of not more than 26,009 enlisted men, and was made the special order for Jin. 8 ...The House bill making an appropriation for the support of the West Point Military Academy was amended and passed. A bkholution was offered in the House, directing inquiry into the conduct of Chief Supervisor of Kleotions Davenport at the last election in New York....A| resolution was adopted ordering a recess from Dec. 20 to Jan. 6... .Speeches were made on the Geneva Award bi 11... .Bills were pewed—repealing so much of the Bnndry Civil bill as appropriates $39,(100 to tbe payment of the claims of O. P. Bnrkirk, late Indian Agent of the Ponca Agency: a substitute for the Pension .Appropriation bill; removing the political disabilities of ex-Scnator Chesnnt. of Bonth Carolina.... A bill was introduced and refereed to repeal the dnty on quinine. Bills were introduced in the Senate, on the 13th—to provide for the temporary increase of the army in emergency; to amend tbe law relating to pensions; to secure a more efficient collection of tbe revenue from cigars.... A bill was passed to authorize duplicates of the registered bonds stolen from the Manhattan Savings Institution of New York... .The bill in regard to the count of the Electoral vote waa farther debated and finally passed— 36 to 26. .. Adjonrned to the 16th. Is the House, the bill lookiiur to are investigation of the conduct of J. J. Davenport, Supervisor of Elections of New York, was amended so as to make the investigation extend to his conduct on the days of registration, and was then adopted without objection... .A hill was introduced and referred, to make the trade dollar a legal tender.

The Small Joker Plague.

The man who professes to be amusing is usually such a bore that we overlook his wit when he has any. Small jokers, the great talkers, are more plagnc than pleasure. They worry us when we want rest, and are so afraid of our missing their point that they extinguish any possible amusement by overestimating if not by explaining it. For company, the sprightly man is better than the witty man, and the sprightly woman better than either; but who ever heard of a funny woman? Yet, on the average, women greatly exceed men both in liveliness and wit. A good joker should have a short memory, both jest he should remember and repeat the jokes of others, and lest he should He troubled by remembering them when he repeats his own. If he has constantly to think whether he said this or that in the same company before, be will lose all the freshness, which is an important element in his success. Ib is no doubt, a mistake consciously to repeat;' but when itis done unconsciously it is of very little consequence, so long as the repetition is merely verbal. The best fun does not bear repetition or description, bnt vanishes when written down. All Sidney Smith’s recorded jokes would not' account for the great reputation he had as a wit; but tit was well said of him, as of many other funny men of slighter pretensions, that after you had been in his company yon remembered, not so much the witty things he said, as the amount of laughing you yourself had undergone. —London Saturday Review. “ Poortkllow! He died in poverty I” said a man of a person lately deceased. “That isn’t anythin*,” exclaimed a seedy bystander. “Dying in poverty is no hardship. It's living in poverty that pots the thumbscrews on afellow.” An Atlanta (Ga.) physician urges the Legislature to restrtetthe sale of opium and chloral, the widespread use of which jf doing irreparable harm,

SENATOR BLAINE.

■te lysteh M (he TtoUtUm it Oex■iUmlmml Hfhtt. In tbe Senate, the resolution of I*. quiry as to whether, at the recent elections, the Constitutional rights of American eMzens were violnti-d, was taken up, on the Uth, and Mr. Blaine spoke as follows: . Mb. Pmbidbxt: The pending reflation was offered by me with a two-foM purpose In view: 1. To place on record, In a definite and authentic lonn, the frauds abd outrage* by which Some recent elections were carried by tbe Democratic party In the Southern States. 2. To find If there be any method by which a repetition of these crimes against a free ballot may bo proven ted. The newspaper la tbe channel through which the people of the United States are informed of current events, and tbe accounts' given in the press represent the elections In some of the Southern States to have been accompanied by violence; in not a dew cases reaching the destruction of life; to have been controlled by threats that awed and intimidated a large clast of voters; to have been manipulated by fraud of tbe most shameless and tbameful description. Indeed, In South Carolina there seems to have been no election at all in any proper aenae of the term. There was Instead a series of skirmishes over tbe State In wbich the polling-places were regarded aa forts to be captured by one party and held against the other, and where this could not be done with convenience, frauds In tbe count and tissue-ballot devices were resorted to In order to effectually destroy tbe voice of the majority. The*:, in brief, are the accounts given in the non-partisan press of the disgraceful outrages that attended the recent elections, and, so far a*- I have seen, these statements are without serious contradiction. It la but lust and fair to all parties, however, that an impartial Investigation of the facta shall be made by a committee of tbe Senate, proceeding under the authority of law and representing the power of the Nation. Hence my resolution. But we do not need Investigation to establish certain facts already of official record. We know that one hundred and six Representatives in Congress were recently chosen in tbe States formerly slaveholdlng, and that the Democrats elected one hundred and one, or -possibly one hundred and two, and the Republicans four, or possibly five. We know that thirty-five of these Representatives were assigned to the Southern States by reason of the colored popnlatlon, and that the entire political power thus founded on the numbers of the colored people has been seized and appropriated to the aggrandizement of its own strength by the Democratic party of the South. Tbe issue thus raised before the country, Mr. President, is not one of mere sentiment for tbe rights of the negro—though far distant be the day. when the rights of any American citizen, however black or however pqor, shall lorm the mere dust of the balance io any controversy; nor is the issue one that involves tbe waving of the “bloody shirt,” to quote the elegant- vernacular of Democratic vituperation; nor still further is the Issue as now presented only a question of the equality of the black voter of the South with tbe white voter of the South; the issue, Mr. President, has taken a far wider range, one of portentous magnitude; and that is, whether the white voter of the North shall be equal to the white voter of the South in shaping the policy and fixing the destiny of this country; or whether, to nut it still more baldly, the white man who fought in the ranks of tnc Union Army shall have as weighty and influential a vote in the government of tbe Republic as the white man who fought in tbe fanks of the Rebel Army. The one fought to uphold, and the other to destroy, the Union of the States, and to-day he who fought to destroy is a far more important factor in the government of tbe Nation than he who fought to unhold it.

Let me illustrate my meaning by comparing groups of States of the same representative strength North and South. Take the States of South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana. They send- seventeen Representatives to Congress. Their aggregate population is composed of ten hundred and thirty-five thousand whites and twelve hundred and twenty-four thousand colored; the colored being nearly two hundred thousand in excess of the whites. il>f the seventeen Representatives, then, it is evident that - niue were apportioned to these States by reason of their colored population, and only eight by reason of their white population ; and yet in the choice of the entire mventjwn R°pr..|y>ntat.lves the rnlored voters had no more voice or power than their remote kindred on the shores of Senegambia or on the gold coast. The ten hundred and thirtyfive thousand white people had tbe sole and absolute choice of the entire seventeen Representatives. In contrast, take two States in the North, lowa and Wisconsin, with seventeen Representatives. They have a white population of two million two hundred and forty-seven thousand—considerably more than double the entire white population of the three Southern States I have named. In lowa and Wisconsin, therefore, it takes one hundred and thirty-two thousand white population to send a Representative to Congress, but in South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana, every sixty thousand white people send a Representative. In other words, sixty thousand white people in those Southern States have precisely the same political power in the government of the country that one hundred , and thirty-two thousand white jieople have in lowa and Wisconsin. Take another group of seveuteen Representatives from the South and from the North. Georgia and Alabama have a white popnlatlon of eleven hundred and fifty-eight thousand, and a colored population of tan hundred and twenty thousand. They send seventeen Representatives to Congress, of whom nine were apportioned on account of the white population. But the colored voters are not-able to choose a single Representative, the white Democrats choosing the whole seventeen. The four Northern States, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska and California, have seventeen Representatives, based on a white population of two and a quarter millions, or almost double the white population of Georgia and Alabama, so that in these relative groups of States we find the white man South exercises, by his vote, doubla the political power of the Whiteman North.

Let us carry the comparison to a more comprehensive generalization. The eleven States that formed the Confederate Government had, by the last census, a population of nine and a half millions, of which, in round numbers, five and a half millions were white and four millions colored. On this aggregate population, seventy-three Representatives In Congress were apportioned to those States—fortytwo or three of which were by reason of tne white popnlatlon, and thirty or thirty-one by reason of the colored population. At the recent election the white- Democracy ol the South seized seventy of the seventy-three districts, and thus secured a Democratic majority in the next Honse of Representatives. Thus it appears that throughout tbe States that formed the late Confederate Government, sixty-five thousand whites—the very people that rebelled against the Union—are enabled to elect a Representative in Congress, while in the loyal States it requires one hundred and thirty-two thousand of the white people that fought for the Union to elect a Representative. In levying every tax, therefore, in making every appropriation of money, in fixing every line of public policy, in decreeing what shall be the fate and fortune of the Republic, the Confederate soldier Bouth is enabled to oast a vote that is twice as powerful and twice as influential as the vote of the Union poidier North. But the white men of the South did not acquire and do not hold this superior power by reason of law or justice, bnt in disregard and defiance of both. The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was expected to be and was designed to be a preventive and corrective of ail such possible abuses. The reading of the clause applicable to the case is instructive and suggestive. Hear It: Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective dam ben, counting the whole number of persona in each State, excluding 'lndians not taxed. Bat when the right to vote at any election lor the choice of lueolors fox President and Vice-Presi-dent of the United States, Representative* in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officer* of a State, or the member* of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitant* of such State, being twenty-one year* of age, and citizens of the United Staten, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basts of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which tbe number of anch male citizen* shall bear to the whole number of mala oitbeiu| twenty-one yean of age in such State. The patent, undeniable intent of this provision WMuthat U any class of voters were defied or iff any way abridged in their right of auffrage, then the class so denied or abridged should not be counted in the basis of retiresentation; or, in other words, that no State or States should gain a large increase of representation in Congress by reason of counting any clsss ot population not permitted to take part in electing such Representatives. But the construction given to this provision is, that before any forfeiture of representation can be enforced, the denial or abridgement of suffrage must be the result of a law specially enacted hy the State. Under“OMif construction, every negro voter mar hate his suffrage absolutely denied Or fatally abridged hy th*

violence, actual or threatened, or lrrcepontible mobs, or bjr tree da and deception* of State officer*, from the Governor down to the last election clerk, and then, nnleae torn* State law can be ahown that authorise* the denial or abridKcment, the State escapee all penaltj or parti of reduced reprceentatiou This etm•trnrtkw may be upheld by the courts, ruling on the letter of the law, “which killeth,” bat the spirit of Justice cries aloud against the evasive and atrocious conclusion that deals out oppression to the innocent and shields the guilty from the legitimate consequences of willful transgression. ■ ‘ The colored oltlien Is thus most unhappily situated; his right of suffrage Is but a hollow mockery: it bolds to hla ear the word of promise but bresks It always to bis hope, and he ends only in being made the unwilling Instrument of Increasing the political strength of that party from which he received evertightening fetter* when he was a alare and contemptuous refusal of civil rights since he was made free. He resembles indeed those unhappy captives In the east who, deprived of their birthright, are compelled to yield their strength to the upbuilding of the monarch from whose tyrannies they have most to fear, and to tight against the power from which Slone deliverance might be expected. The franchise Intended for the shield and defense of the negro has been turned sgalnst him and against bis friend* and has vastly increased the power of those from whom be has nothing to hope and everything to dread. The political power thus appropriated by Southern Democrats by reason of the negro population amounts to thirty-five Representatives In Congress. It is massed almost solidly and offsets the great State of New York; or . Pennsylvania and New Jersey together; or the whole of New England; or Ohio and Indiana united; or the combined strength of Illinois, Minnesota, Kansas, California, Nevada, Nebraska, Colorado and Oregon. The seizure of this power IS wanton usurpation; It is flagrant outrage; It is violent perversion of the whole theory of republican government. It inures solely to the present advantage, and yet, I believe, to tne permanent dishonor, of the Democratic party. It is by reason of this trampling down of human rights, this ruthless seizure of unlawful power that the Democratic party holds the popular branch of Congress to-day, and will, In less than ninety days, have control of this body also, thus grasping the entire Legislative Department of the Government through the unlawful capture of the Southern States. If the proscribed vote of the South were cast as its lawful owners desire, the Democratic party could not gain power. Nay, if It were not counted on the other side against the instinct* and the interests, against the principles and the prejudices of its lawful owners. Democratic success would be hopeless. It Is not enough, then, for modern Democratic tactics that the negro vote shall be silenced; the demand goes farther and insists that it shall be counted on their side, that all the Representatives In Congress and all the Presidential Electors apportioned by reason of the negro vote shall be so cast and so governed as to insure Democratic success—regardless of justice, In defiance of law, And this injustice is wholly unprovoked. I doubt If it be In the Dowor of the most searching investigation to show that in any Southern State during the period of Republican control, any legal voter was ever debarred from the freest exercises of his suffrage. Even the revenges which would have leaped into life with many who despised the negro, were burled out of sight with a magnanimity which the “superior race" fall to follow, and seem reluctant to recognize. I know it la said in retort of such charges against the Southern elections as I am now reviewing, that unfairness of equal gravity prevails In Northern elections. I hear It in many quarters and read it in the papers, that in the late exciting elections In Massachusetts Intimidation and bull-dozing, If not so rough and rancorous as in the South, were vet as widespread and effective. I have read, and yet I refuse to believe, that the distinguished gentleman who made an energetic but unsuccessful canvass for the Governorship of thst State, has indorsed and an- . proved these charges, and I have accordingly made m; resolution broad enough to include their thorough investigation. I am not demanding fair elections In the South without demanding fair elections in the North also. But, venturinglo speak for the New England States, of who& laws and customs I know something, I dare assert that in the late election in Massachusetts, or any of her neighboring Commonwealths, it will be impossible to find even one case where a voter was driven from the polls, where a voter did not have the fullest, freest opportunity to cast the ballot of bis choice, and have it honestly and faithfullx counted In the returns. Suffrage on this Continent was first made universal in New England, and In the administration of their affairs the people have found no other appeal necessary than that which is addressed to their honesty of conviction and to..their intelligent self-interest If there be anything different to disclose, I pray you show It to us, that we may amend our ways. But whenever a feeble protest la made against such Injustice as I have described in the South, thb response we get comes to us in the form of a taunt, “ What are you goiDg to do about it?” and “How do you propose to help yourselves?” This is the stereotyped answer of defiance which intrenched wrong qkwavs gives to inquiring justice; and those who imagine it to be conclusive do not know * the temper of the American people. For let me assure you that sgalnst the complicated outrage upon the right of representation late,.ly triumphant In the South, there will be arrayed many phases of public opinion In the North not often hitherto In harmony. Men who have cared little, and affected to care less, for the rights or the wrongs of the negro suddenly find that the vast monetary and commercial interests, great questions of revenue, adjustments of tariff, vast Investments in manufactures, in railways, and in mines, are tinder the control of a Democratic Congress whose majority was obtained by depriving the negro of hla rights under a common Constitution and common laws. Men who have expressed disgust with the waving of bloody shirts and have been offended with talk about negro equality are beginning to perceive that the pending question of to-day relates more pressingly to the equality of white men under thjs Government, and that however careless they may be about the rights or the wrongs of the negro, they are very jealous and tenacious about the rights of their own race and the dignity of their own firesides and their own kindred.

I know something of public opinion In the North. I know a great deal about the views, wishes and purposes of the Republican party of the Nation. Within that entire great organization there Is not one man, whose opinion is entitled to be quoted, that does not desire peace and harmony, and friendship, and a Satriotfc and fraternal Union between the forth and the South. This wish is spontaneous, instinctive, universal, throughout the Northern States; and yet, among men of character and sense, there is surely no need of attempting to deceive ourselves as to the precise truth. First pure, then peaceable. Gush will not remove a grievance, and no disguise .of State Rights will elose the eyes of our people to the necessity of correcting a great National wrong. Nor shonld the South make the fatal mistake of concluding that injustice to the negro is not also injustice to the white man; nor should it ever be forgotten that for the wrongs of both a remedy will assuredly be found. The war, with all Us costly sacrifices, was fought in vain unless equal rights for all classes be established in all the States of the Union; and now, in words which are those of friendship, however differently they may be accented, I tell the men of the Sooth here on this floor and beyond this chamber, that even if they could strip the negro of his Constitutional rights, they can nevo((j permanently maintain the inrquility of white men in this Nation; thev can never make a white man’s vote in the South doubly as powerful in the administration of the Government as a white man’s vote In the North. In a memorable debate inthe House of Com--1 mons, Mr. Macaulay reminded Daniel O’Connell, when he was moving for repeal, that the •English Whigs had endured calumny, abuse, popular fury, loss of position, exclusion from Parlmient rather than the great agitator himself should b? less than a British subject; and Mr. Macaulay warned him that they would never suffer him to be raonj. Let me now remind you that, the Government under whose protecting flag we sit to-dav sacrificed myriads of lives and expended thousands of millions of treasure that our countrymen of the South should remain citizens of the United mares,“Mm* TSJUH —personal- rights and equal political prtveleges with all .other citizens- And I venture, HOW and here, to warn the men of the South, In the exact words of Macaulay, that we will never suffer thorn to . be more! *• f —A globe, purchased four years ago by the Trustee of a school ilistrict of dochecton, Sullivan County, N. Y. r has ever since been a bone of content tion among the people of the some of whom objected (dost decidedly to the introduction of gled arrangements.” The matter oalinitiated at the annual school meeting this year, when they took the globe outdoors wd stoned Hto pieces, .. I . J -u. ; * " - ' l-\ I *

NASBY.

Mr. Hamby filven Mia Mans o 4 Ska Klw liana la the tails am luua. Dae. 1. 1878. i (From ibe Toledo Bteda.l The KadiJtela uv the North are gittin excited over the “ Solid South,’” and are agin commencing to persekoot us uv the former slave States, wich made a struggle for our rites, but was crushed out by the iron heel uv despotism under the tirent Linkin. Wat does the North want? That’s the question—wat does it demand uv us? * . Suppose the South hex sent up a ■olid Domikratic Congressional dclcgashun? Suppose there ain't a jnisable Radikel from any of the Southern States in Congris. Suppose—but what’s the use of supposin. Does the North know how we arc fixed? Does the North know that we uv the South are livin among a people wich yoosed to furnish us with bread and butter, and summers at Sar&togy ? Does the Nort h know that the tirent Linkin emancipated them people and put em out from under our control, and that they are in condishen to do ez they please? Nay, more. Does the North know that them people kin vote, and hey jist ez much to say about polisies and things cz we hevP Those things sliood be considered. The North shood remember that we uv the South—l meen the white men—are a sensitive people, and we hev feelings. We can't git down to the level uv a common man at wunat. We hey bin cradled in the lap uv luxury. Wo hev bin yoosed to hevin our work done for us, and hev been accustomed to livin by the swet uv other people's brows. It is not to be supposed that we kin accept so radikel a change ez bein compelled to go to work ourselves without a protest. - ■ %•" We make our protest in our own way. . By the result uv the war the nigger wuz given the ballot. All rite. He hez the ballot. We don't beleeve he onght to hev it, but ez the Fifteenth Amendment gives it to him, we accede. We hate the amendment, but ez it is law, we yeeld. We are law-abidin citizens. And so we give to the Afrikin his rites, and lay down quietly to him. He kin vote ez mutch ez he pleezes, and ez freely «z anybody. Fan the North ask anything more? Still we hev our way of regulatin wat we consider evils. Here in the CrossRoads our method is very simple, Joe Bigler and Pollock wuz off buyin a car-load uv mules. They wuz not here on eleeshun day, and conaekently we wuz not in terror uv Bigler’s revolver or Pollock’s tongue. We knowd they cood not get back m time to vote, or even to marshel the 500 niggers that hev the franchise at these poles. Therefore we proposed to send up a complete and clean Democratic offishary from this precinct, and at the same time obey the law. We respect the law. The nigger hez the rite to vote. We understand that and respect ijt. But there must be limitashuns. He may vote—the law sez that—but. the law don’t say how he shel vote. That is for us. We determine that. We are the roolin class, and the inferior class must be guided by the sooperior intelleck that don’t like to work. Es we cood hev trustedjthe nigger, we wood hev done it, but we coodent. We knowd he hed a predeleckshun for radikelism, and wuz, ez a rool, ppposed to appropris shuns. He cood not be trusted with the ballot without gidanse. Wat did we do? Joe Bigler and Pollock wuz away buyin mules, and the niggers were without their leaders. Then we organized. We notified em that they shood vote—that we didn’t want to interfere with ther rites, but that they must vote according to our noshens. We sed to em ez follows: “ Yoo are entitled to the ballot under the laws. We_ don’t approve uv the laws, but they is laws and we shel respect em. Far be it from us to break laws, or in any way interfere in their proper execooshens. Yoo shel vote. Yoo.shel exercise the rites uv citizens. Everyone uv yoo who wants to vote step up. We will give yoo aDimocratic tiokot and yoo shel vote it. Es you refooze to vote that ticket, we shall immediately perceed to blow the top uv yoor hed off. We want the utmost freedom uv opinyun, and the ballot-box shel be inviolate, pervided yoo vote rite. We shel say wat is rite. Now don’t go and complane that you hev bin refoosed the privileges uv an Arnerikin citizen.” The niggers come down and attemptid to vote. We hed shotguns and navy revolvers, and stood at tne poles. Ez they filed up. we demanded a site uv the tikkits they perposed to vote, and, es it wuz our tikkit, it went in all rite. Es it wuz any other tikkit, the presumpshus retch wich offered it hed jthe top uv his hed blowJ off immejitly, ez a warniu to the others. We ooodent stay foolin about, wen our rites wuz involved. Uv course, the result wuz a clean Dimocratic vote. Ther wuz no Rjdikel tikkits In the box, wich shows that the South hez but one Sentiment. Watever our views is, they are yoonanimus. and that is all ther is about it. Let the North look at our poll-lists, and the North will git a clear idee as to wat the South reely desires. I suppose there will be a howl about the fact that there wuz a yoonanimus Dimecratic vote at the Cross-Roads, when it is wall known that there are 500 niggers in the precinct wich would vote the Ablishn, Radikel tikkit. I suppose that it will be made the excoose for another raid and another demand for violent measures agin the sufferin South. Let it be so. Es the North supposes that we phel Jay still and let niggers offset bur votes, when we want the Southern war debt paid, and a system of Southern internal improvements inoggerated, the North is mistakin. The Southern Dimocrat knows how to protect himself. He obeys lawq, perviaid the lans run his way.- - • Petroleum V. Nasby, Statesman.

A Swift Witness.

Hon. Jeremiah Maguire, of jjlmira, who was Speaker oi the Democratic Assembly in 1875, the first year of Tilden’s State"AdmTulstFatioD, and who was among the foremost of those Democrats who opposed Mr. Tilden’s political projects, has beem staying at the Kenmore for a few days. To-day, in replyto inquiries .he gave the follow-, ing views regarding the cipher dispatches: “ I never read the dispatches as tifey Appeared,” said he, “ with much interest, because in December,' 1876, and January, 1877, 1 knew thoroughly all that was going on down in the disputed Southern States. 1 was kept informed of it by friends who were in it themselves. I know that Smith Weed start--94 for South Carolina, on 10th of

November, right from Tftden’s own hoftse, in Gramercy Park. He stopped over at Raleigh under the name of Keith. Why, 1 always call him Keith to this day on aooount of it He went from Raleigh to Columbia, and was there on the 13th, the day the College met 1 knew, ftrom sources that cannot be doubted, that 950,000 were offered to a cplored member—and it is to the credit of his race—to a ‘nigger’ member of the Electoral College to give his vote for Tilden, and he refused it sternly and persistently.” •* And who offered it?” “Why, Weed, of coarse. There can’t be any dqubt about that” And the ex-Speaker laughed. “ There was plenty of chances to buy, but nobody but Tilden himself was willing to buy, and he delayed and haggled too much. 1 saw in the report of some proceedings down there that two men came on to New York and offered to sell a Tilden vote for 91,000,000 to John Morrissey. When I read it I went up to Morrissey’s room and asked him what there was in It ‘Well, it’s all tree,’ said he, ‘ but it was too high. I could have got one for 950,000.’ ‘ Then,’ said 1, ‘ why don’t you do it? You are considered Tilden’s especial champion. Why didn’t you do it? 1 ‘Because,’ said Morrissey, ‘ 1 wouldn’t cross the street to make Tilden President that way. He’s ungrateful and deceiving, ana if it had come out he would have denied all knowledge of it and thrown all the odium on me. Beside, nobody wants him in Jthe White House, anyhow.’ When I told John that I thought he was an especial champion of Tilden, he delared that he wasn’t, hut he was opposed to John Kelly, and so joined forces with Tilden.” “ You have observed, Mr. Maguire, that Mr. Tilden has denied any complicity in the cipher dispatches P” “No, he hasn’t” responded the exSpeaker. “He denies that he reoeived them, that they were read to him, or that their contents were imparted to him, but he does not deny that somebody in his confidence received them and had power to act and did act for him in regard to them. It was just like him to keep himself so far clear of them that he might mako such a denial, and yet know all that was necessary about them. If there is ever an investigation by Congress, and he has to get on the stand, a sharp cross-ex-amination will show it all up.”— Cor. N. Y. Wines. —Even as no human being ever saw Louis XIY. without his wig, so no one ever surprised the late Garnier-Pages out of full dress. Whether at home or abroad, he was always in irreproachable black, with snowy collar and cravat. One day, under the Empire, some one asked him why he thus went about in solemn sables, and the following reply was returned: “Perhapsthis afternoon, or to-morrow, or- again it may not be till next week or next year, there will be an 1 incident; 1 a revolution will follow. I never can tell at what moment Paris may rise and the people demand that I shall lead them to tne Hotel-de-Villo. One should always be ready for the emergency, and I mean to be.” M. Garnier-Pages waited eighteen years, and on the 4th of September, 1870, the rising came, Paris called for him, and in full dress and faultless cravat the leader of 1848 was borne to the Hotel-de-Ville. —A clever little passage at the expense of a member of the Belgian Legation is current iu Washington. A young attache recently reached here fresh from London, his last station, and greatly vexed over what he was pleased to call his exile. “At all events,” he was in (he habit of saying, and the remark came to be widely quoted, “I shall speak no English in Washington. I learned it in London, and I don’t intend to spoil my aocent.” Time passed. The attache was at a reception. Somo friend of his asked a bright young American woman to permit him to present the attache to her. “ Oh, dear, no,” was the reply, and it has traveled over Washington;' “ I couldn’t think <sf such a thing. I learned my French in Paris, and it would ruin my accent to talk with a Belgian."

The Act for the Resumption of Specie Payments.

The text of the Resumption act is as follows: Bictioh 1. Provides that the Secretary of the Treusury is hereby authorized and required, aa rapidly as practicable, to cause to be coined, at the mints of the United States, silver coins of the denominations of 10. 26 and 50 cents, of standard value, and to issue them iu redemption of an equal number and amount of fractional currency of similar denominations, or. at his discretion, he may issue such silver coins through the mints, the SubTreasuries, Public Depositaries and Postolllces of the United States; and, noon such issne, he ia hereby authorized and required to redeem an equal amount of such fractional currency, until the whole amount of each fractional currency outstanding shall be redeemed. 1 Sac. 2- That so much of Sc<). 3,624 of the Revised Statutes of the United-States as provides for a charge of one-fifth of 1 per centum for converting standard gold bullion into coin ia hereby repealed, ana hereafter no charge shill be made for thatfcervlce. tffib. 8. That Sec. 6,177 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, limiting the aggregate .amount of circulating notes of National Banking Associations he, ana Is lierehy, repealed; and each existing banking association may increase ita calculating notes in accordance with existing law wilhoat respect to said aggregate limit: and new banking associations may be organized in accordance with existing law withont respect to said aggregate limit: andthe provisions of law lorthe withdrawal and redistribution of National Bank currency among the several States and Territories are hereby repealed. And whenever and so oflen as efreniating notes shall be issued to any such banking association, so increasing its capital or circulating notes, or so newly organized as aforesaid, it shall be duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to redeem the legal-tender United States notes In excess only or 6300,000,000, to the amonntof 80 per centnm of the sum of National Bank notes so issued to any such banking association as aforesaid, and to continue such redemption as such circulating notes are issued nntll there shall be outstanding the earn of $800,000,000 of each legal-tender United States notes and no mon. Ana on and after the first day of January, A. D. 1870, the Secretary of the Treasury shall redeem, in coin, the Unitqd States legal-tender notes then outstanding, on their presentation fur redemption, at the office of the Assietant-Treasurer of the United States In the City of New York, in sum* ofnot less than S6O. And to enuhle the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare and provide for the redemption by this set anthorizeitywrequired he issnthorized to nse any surplus revenues, from time to time, Ih the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and to Issue, sell and dispose of, at not less than par, in coin, either of the descriptions of bonds of the United States described In the act of Cktnffress approved July 14,1870, entitled “An act to autoorixe the refunding of the National debt," with like qualities, privileges and exemptions, to the extent necdseary to carry this act Into frill effect, and to use the proceeds thereof for the purposes aforesaid. And all provisions of law inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved Jan. 14, 1875. This act provided that the legalreader circulation should not be contracted below (800,000,000. On the 31st of May, 1878, a bill was approved, which has had the effect of fixing the legal-tender circulation at (846,681,016, -The text of this bill is as follows: That Horn and alter the passage of this act It shall not be lawfltl for the Secretary of the Tress ury or other officer under him to cancel or retire any more of the United States legal-tender notes. And when any of said note* may be redeemed or be received into the Treasury, under any law from any source whatever and shall belong to the United States, they shall not be retired, cancelled or deslrnyetl, but they shall be reissued and paid out again and kept in circulation: /VJfWnt, That /nothing herein shall prohibit the cancellation aqd destruction of mutilated note* and the leans of . other note* of like denomination in their stead, aa now provided by law. All acta and parts of SC*» Id conliot herewith are hereby repealed.