Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1879 — Page 2

The Rensselaer Union. J. REN’QF.LAER, • - INDIANA.

General News Summary.

‘ From Washington. TaaakMUaU call tor the redemption of 5-90 bond* *m tamed by the Secretary of the Treaeaiy.ontheMth. Amount, 990,000,000teterart and principal payable on the 24th of Mr r]hw.lfl 5 • ? ■ 1 ■ F. F> Dawns, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Greenback party, has addreaaed a letter to Thomas M. Nicholls, Secretary of the Honest-Honey League, refusing to enter into the proposed public dlscusHon of the Greenback question unless the Hoaest-Money League “can show that It is authorised tn speak for one or both of the regularty-otifnnlsed political parties.” Tn public-debt statement, tamed on the Ist, shows the following: Total debt (Including Interest of 984.938,178), 92,478,500,099. Cash to Treasury, 9447,292,498. Debt, less cash in Treasury, 82.098,907,M1. Increase during February, 8311,411. Ox the night of the Ist, the President sent to the House, where the measure originated, his veto Of the bin restricting Chinese Immigrstiou. A motion to pass the bill, notwithstanding the objections of the President, was defeated by a vote of 109 yeas to 95 nays—not the requisite two-thirds in the affirmative. •lite East. Ox the evening of the 23d, ex-Con-gressmsn Hasbrouck died at his residence, in Kondout, N. Y. He was eigbty-cight years old. Ths failure of the Peru Steel A Iron Company at Clintonville, N. Y., is announced. Liabilities, 8250,000. At a meeting held on the evening of the 21st, the German Republican Central Committee of New York adopted a resolution requesting the President to veto the Chinese-Immi-gration bill passed by Congress. The New York Tribune of the 24th contained a lengthy letter from Senator Blaine, in reply to reflections cast by William Lloyd Garrison upon the Senators who voted for the bill. Mr. Blaine justifies the adoption of the measure on commercial, sanitary and religious grounds, sod advocates the protection of labor from the alleged evil influences of Chinese immigration. Ths Rhode Island Prohibitory State Convention which met at Providence, on the 25ih, placed tn nomination as candidates for State officers the present Republican incumbents. Thu people of Dexter, Me., decline to accept the detective’s theory that Mr. Barron, the Cashier of th. Savings Bank, of that place, committed suicide, and recently held a memorial service in honor of the man who was “faithful unto death.” Th* man who, some time ago, in broad dayight, tore the diamonds from the ears of Mrs. Deßary, on Fifth avenue, in New York City, has been sentenced to twenty years’! mprisonment in the State Prison. Thu Philadelphia Record says iron has advanced in price 81.50 per ton since the Ist of January, 1879. Gs the night of the 96th ult, the schooner David H. Tolck was blown ashore at Barnegat, N. J., and the Captain, his wife and three seamen were drowned. Ox the 27th ult, the New fork Chamber of Commerce adopted resolutions requesting the President to withhold his signature from the anti-Chtnese bill. lx a letter, published on the 27th ult, William Lloyd Garrison replies to Mr. Blaine, and attempts to show that the proscription of the Chinese Is akin to the persecution of the negroes in the days of slavery. He denies that the treaty has been violated in the past by China,.and denounces the whole antiChinese agitation as a development of the spirit of caste, against which, he says, antislavery men have made it the work of their Lves to struggle.

The following were the closing quotations tor produce in New York, on March Ist: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, <1.0301.04; No.2Milwaukee, <1.0301.04. Oats, Western Mixed, 33 034 c. Corn, Western Mixed, Pork, Mess, <9.75010.00. Lard, <7.02J4Flour, Good to Choice, <3.9504.50; White Wheat Extra, <4.5505.25. Cattle, <7.000 10.50 for Good to Extra. Sheep, <4.250 6.25. Hogs, <4.3004.40. At East Liberty, Pa., on March Ist, Cattle brought: Best, <5.0005.25; Medium, <4.40 04.70; Common, <3.6004.25. Hogs sold— Yorkers, <3.7004.05; 4.75. Sheep brought <3.2505.55 —according s to quality. " At Baltimore, Md.. on March Ist, Cattle brought: Best, <4 7505.62 X; Medium, <32-0425 Hogs sold at <5.5006.00 for Good. Sheep were quoted at <4.5006.00 for Good. " West and South. Os the 24th, the funeral ceremonies over the remains of the late Bishoy Foley took place at Baltimore. The attendance of clergy and laity was large, and the exercises imposing. A large number of citizens, who had assembled in a public hall in San Francisco, for worship, on the evening of the 28d, adopted a resolution, to be telegraphed to the President, petitioning him to sign the Chinese-Immigra-tionbill,. “as a measure vital to our civil peace, our business prosperity and our Christian civilization.” Ox the afternoon of the 24th, while the man train eouth was being shifted at Chambersburg. Vs., one car somehow left the track and ran down an embankment eight feet high and overturned. Of the twenty-fivegras-sengers on board, fifteen were seriously injured. Ow the morning of the 25th, at Chicago, Mme. LaChapelle concluded her task of walking 3,000 quarter miles—2,7oo in as many quarter-hours, and 300 in as many ten minutes. Her last quarter mile was made in one minute fifty-nine and one-half seconds. Capt. Paul Boyton has undertaken to float down the Mississippi from Pittsburgh Pa to New Orleans, in Ms life-saving suit He started on the morning of the 24th. According to a Portland (Ore.) dispatch of the 25th, a party of settlers on the Lower Weiser Lad lately followed a party of Indians, engaged in depredating the ranches in that section and killing stock and stockmen, into the mountains between Payette and the South Fork of the Salmon River. Here the savages were drawn into an ambuscade, and the entire party, numbering thirty-six. destroyed. C. W. Angell, the defaulting Secretary of the Pullman Palace Car Company, appeared before the Criminal Court in Chicago, on the 87th ult., pleaded guilty to the charge of embezzlement, and was immediately sentenced to ten years’ confinement in the Penitentiary at Joliet. 1 ’ Tua East St. Louis Rail MUI was recently entirely destroyed by fire, involving a loss of <l5O/100. , ... t . ' ~ * - Ow the morning of the 27th, the New Orleans Ttinet announced the contemplated resignation of Gov. Nicholls. Gov. Wabz Hampton, of South Carolina, .rerimed, zinthe 27th ult., and «r«e Immedintelf thereafter cmnmlsioued United States Tbb Ohio State Republican Convention will be held at Cincinnati, on the 28th of May. At a mass meeting of the people of San Francisco, on the afternoon of the 27th ult.,

resolutions were adopted requesting the President to sign the MH restricting Chinese immtgiation. Republlqen, Democratic and Workingmen speakers addressed the meeting, and great unanimity and onthustama . prevailed. At Baltimore, Md., a few evenings ago, a coat-olt lamp exploded in a house occupied by Mrs. Sharp (colored.) Clara Sharp and her son were burned to death, and a colored man, and Mrs. Sharp were severely injured. The house, was destroyed. Tua Democrats and Gre*nbackers of Michigan held their State Conventions at Lansing, on the 28th, and agreed upon the followtat nominations: For Supreme Judge, John B. Shipman; for Regents, George P. Sandford and Henry Whiting. The financial plank of the joint platform was as follows: “That money should be issued in sufficient volume to meet the requisites, of business; that the Government should regulate the value of money by preserving a uniform rate between supply and demand, and that this delicate and Important power should never be delegated to banks, corporations or Individuals.” Ox the night of the 27th ult., a sad and fearful disaster occurred at Carbon Hill, Ohio, a small place in the Hocking Valley. J. M. Luneford, who kept a small store attached to bls house, Was awakened by tire and smoke at midnight, and at once set about removing bls family. His wife and a baby, aged two years, were placed out of danger, and he then went up-stalrs to remove the rest of the family, but be was overcome by smoke and suffocated. Witbin five minutes from the discovery of the fire, the building was completely enveloped in flames, and the shouts and cries of the poor victims (seven in number) remaining In the building were heard by the neighbors, who had assembled at the fire, but they could not be reached, and the father and three daughters, aged.twenty, thirteen and ten years, and three shut, aged sixteen, twelve aud seven, peHsbed in the flames. It was feared the wife and mother would become a raving maniac.

Ax indictment has been found in the United States Circuit Court for the Western District of Virginia, sitting at Danville, against five County Judges in Virginia, on the alleged charge of withholding from negroes the right of serving on-juries. On the 28th ult., both houses of the Virginis Legislature adopted resolutions directing the Attorney-General to take proper steps to bring such proceedings before the United States Supreme Court for review and final adjudication. The action of the Federal Court was roundly condemned in the resolutions which were adopted. In Chicago, on March Ist, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at cash; 94,‘-$@ 94%c for March. Cash Com closed at 33%c for No. 2; 33,Vc for March; E7%c for May. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 23j4c; 23J-ic seller March;. for April. Rye No. 2, Barley No. 2, 79% @ 80c for eash; 79% (280 c for April. Cash Mess Pork closed at 810.10@ 10.15. Lard, 86.67%. Beeves —Extra brought [email protected]; Choice, 84.50 @4 70; Good, [email protected]; Medium Grades, [email protected]; Butchers’ Stock, [email protected]; Stock Cattle, etc., [email protected]. Hogs—Good to Choice, [email protected]. Sheep—Poor to Choice, [email protected]. Foreign Intelligence. According to Nantes (France) dispatches of the 24th, the River Loire had overflowed its barriers, and was disastrously inundating the surrounding territory. A Warsaw (Poland) telegram of the 24th announces the bursting of a large dam above the city, in consequence of the accumulation of drift ice, and the destruction of a large amount of property. This Khedive of Egypt and the King of Abyssinia have concluded a treaty of peace, the latter receiving a pension in exchange for the disputed territory. T(lb native British allies in South Africa have been disbanded, in obedience to orders from home. 1 On the 25th, a proclamation was circulated throughout the Turkish territory lately occupied by Russian troops, announcing the re-es-tablishment of Ottoman authoritv, and advising Christians by no means to abandon their homes. The North Staffordshire (Eng.) Colliery Company has been forced to go into .liquidation. According to a Paris telegram of the 25th, Marshal MacMahon was suffering seriously from opthalmia, which was complicated with other and serious general symptoms. The young French Prince Imperial has gone to South Africa as a volunteer. The Government has permitted him to join the staff of the Royal Artillery. According to London dispatches of the 26th, the cattle plague had made its appearance at Manchester and other places in England. The authorities had directed the immediate slaughter of the infected animals, and all others adjacent.

A heavy storm prevailed throughout Italv, on the 26th. Venice was inundated from the sea, the water in ,St Mark’s Place standing thirty inches deep, and the coast from Genoa to Naples was strewn with wrecks. The British steamer Silistria was wrecked at Salerno, and eighteen persons were drowned. Evans, Davies & Co., proprietors’ of the Lilydale Collieries, at Hanley, Eng., failed on the 27th ult Work has been commenced at Madrid on the buildings for the International Exhibition of 1880. The steamer Adriatic was recently wrecked near Dunkirk, Scotland. Of the forty : nine persons on board, forty-two perished. A Vienna telegram of the 27th ult reports a tremendous avalanche near Marburg, resulting in the death of twenty-one persons and the destruction of nine houses. Baron von Manteuttel, the distinguished German publicist, died, on the 28th ult. The Mayor of Sheffield, Eng., stated, on the 28th nit, that there were in that town 4,000 destitute persons, and 400 starving families. The Russian Government has ordered a criminal inquiry into the affairs of the latelysuspended Bank of Kronstadt, and directed the arrest of the Managing Director. A Vienna dispatch of the 28th ult. reports the revival of the Macedonian insurrection. The announcement was made, on the 28th ult., that Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, would, on the 13th of March, wed Princess Louisa Margaret, niece of the Emperor of Germany. In London, on the Ist, the following failures were announced: Campbell & Co.; London Numerical and General Printing Works; George Francis Dickinson. Aggregate liabilities, <1,500,000. A telegram was received in London from the Viceroy of India, on the Ist, announcing the receipt of a telegram from Yakoob Khan, stating that Shere All died on the 21st of February. j A St. Petersburg dispatch of the Ist says the rebellion against the Chinese Government in Kashgar had been completely crushed. According to a Calcutta dispatch of the 2d, the Viceroy had received from Yakoob Khan a proposition for the renewal of friendly relations ■ _ Congressional Proceedings. . Im the Senate, on the 24th, the House bill authorising the Secretary of the Navy to accept, for a voyage of exploration by way of Betaiug’a Strait, the ship Jeannette. tiered hy J.G. Bennett, was passed. ...The Army Apwee further considered, and a lengthy debate ensued on the clause in regard to allowing railroads to me their telegraph Rbra f grams are authorized to be transmitted by railtelegraph lines, and which shall file their written acceptance of the

Mrtricti<«ie and obligations imposed upon taleffmph comimntai.Jiy Title 66 of the Iteviaed Btalutea, for lb* Tlbvemuwnt and the general public at rate* .to lie fixed ‘by th* Government neeording to the piovMona_of Title 65 of the Revised Statute*.'' 1 fitbit! was reported to the Senate, and the amendment striking out the House clause fortlidding the use of tirorip* at the polls, and punishing officers for violations of this section. wm sustained—M to 88. The tall, as auu-nded m committee, was then passed ...During the consideration of the hill to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases, etc., it was ascertained that no quorum was preaent. and. after the Ser-geant-at-Arms had lieen instructed to request the attendance of • alisent Senator*, and bail reported that ' he had done so, a motion was agreed to that such officer be instructed to oompel the attendance of absent member*, except such as were ill. At 2JU on the morning of the 2 th the Senate was still waiting for the executinn of the order, some of the old employes of the Senate remarking that this whs the first time in the history of the American -Senate that such an order had been made. In the House, a Conference Committee was ordered and appointed on the disagreeing voles of the two houMson the Tobacco bill .... Bills wore introduced—for the payment of additional bounty to aoUMers during the late war: to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases, and to establish a National Board of Health . A motion to suspend the rules and pass the Sundry Civil Appropriation hill (416,936.100} was agreed to—lol to 79.

After securing the attendance of a quorum, on the morning of the 25th, the Senate passed the bill to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States and to establish a Bureau of Public Health... After adjournment, the Senate reassembled at one o'clock, p. m„ on the 2Bth and a Conference Committee was appointed on the bill to amend the Internal Revenue hw ■ A tele gram was submitted, and its reception objected to, from the California Constitutional Convention, thanking Congress for the passage of the bill restrioting the immigration of Chinese, and declaring that Senators and members who supported the' bill will receive the lasting gratitude of the people of California.... A motion to take up the resolution declaring David T. Coibin entitled to a seat as Senator from South Carolina, in place of M. C. Butler, the pre.ent incumbent, was defeated—yeas, 25: nays, 36.Messrs. Cameron (Pa.), Conover, Matthews and Patterson voting with the Democrats in the negnti ve.... Several amendments to the Deficiency Appropriation bill were azreed to. In the House, resolutions were reported from the Committee on Elections, declaring that R. G. Frost (contestant) is not, and that L. 8. Metcalfe (sitting member) is, entitled to the seat as Representative from the Third Missouri District. .... After an exciting debate m Committee of the Whole, on the amendment to the Legislative Appropriation bill repealing the law creating the office of Supervisors of Elections, etc., the amendment was agreed t 0—135 to 110. After other amendments had been adopted, the bill was reported to the House, and an attempt was made bv the Republican members to defeat, the adoption of the above-named amendment by refraining from voting, but the Speaker voted affirmatively. thus making enough votes pi constitute a quorum, the result being 143 toB. The bill as amended was finally passed-143t0 112... A Conference Committee was ordered on the Army Appropriation bill. A bill was reported by Mr. Edmunds, in the Senate, on the 26th, further to protect the Constitutional rightsof citixens, and to punish violations of the same.... The Conference report on the bill to amend the Internal Revenue laws was agreed to, and the bill was passed.... The Deficiency Appropriation bill was taken up, and a long discussion ensued on the amendment appropriating $250,000 to supply the deficiencies of the Department of J ustice for the payment of Deputy Marshals, when Mr. Beck moved to strike out the clause relating thereto, and insert an appropriation of S'SO.OOO as a sum to defray the expenses of thi -United States Courts, the safe-keeping ot prisoners, etc., which was rejected—yeas. 3i; nayt/ÜB. After being otherwise amended, the bill was reported from committee and passed ...A Conference Committee was appointed on the Army Appropriation bi 11.... At the evening session a large number of Pensioq bills were passed. In the House, the iCensus bill was reported from Committee of the Whole, with an Amendment vesting the appointment of the Supervisor in the President, by and with the consent of the Senate, and the bill as amended was passed.... The bill modifying the tariff on sugar was taken up, but no final action was reached.... A report was presented from the Conference Committee on the Tobacco bill, retaing the tax on matches, but pending its consideration a motion to adjourn was carried. In the Senate, on the 27th ult., Mr. Teller, from the special committee to inquire nto the alleged violation of the Constitutional rights of citixens daring the late elections, submitted the report of the majority, and said the minority reserved the right to submit a report. Mr. Teller also submitted a resolution continuing the committee until next session, and authorising it to Bit during the recess, but it was objected _to and laid aside ...The House bill making an appropriation for the payment of arrears of pensions was considered and amended. .... The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was reported with amendments. Speaker Randall made a personal explanation, in the House, in regard to charges made against him in a letter written in September, 187 G. by Special Agent Williams, to the effect that he (Randall) was largely interested in the manufacture of fiber paper for the Government, and after an emphatic denial of the statement, he demanded that the matter be submitted to a special committee for investigation. The committee was ordered, and the Speaker i/ro J<-m. (Mr. Carlisle) appointed Messrs. Chandler. Lynde, Throckmorton, Frye and Monroe as such committee... The Conference report on the amendments to the Tobacco bill was agreed to. The tax on matches is unchanged. .. After considerable discussion, a resolution reported from the Committee on Expenditures in the State Department for the arrest of George F. Seward, as a contumacious witness, was adopted—l4s t 044.... ■ A bill was passed providing that interest on called bonds, or those surrendered under the provisions of the act to facilitate the refunding of the National debt, shall cease after the expiration of forty days from the date of surrender or date of notice required to be given by the Secretary pf the Treasury,

A communication Was teceived in the Senate, on the 28th ult., from David T. Corbin, contestant for a seat from South Carolina, in which he stated that he had been before the Senate for two years, actively asserting his right, but that, as it will be useless for him to renew the contest at the next session, he withdraws from the contest. ...A number of private bills were passed... .The bill making an appropriation for the arrears of pensions was taken up. and an amendment was agreed to, providing that the pension shall commence from the death or from the time of actual disability, providing the application be made prior to July 1880. Other amendments were disposed of, and the bill, as amended, was passed—Bß. to 2(k...The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was then considered, and several amendments were agreed to. The Post office Appropriation bill was reported back in the House, and the Senate amendments were non-concurted in—the Vote on the amendment providing for the Brazilian Mail subsidy being 89 yeas to 159 nays, A Committee of Conference on the bill was ordered.... George F. Seward. Minister to China, was brought before the House charged with contempt, for refusing to produce the books and records of his office to aief in the investigation of the charges against Him, and for refusing to be sworn as a witness; and still persisting" in such refusals a motion was agreed to—ll 2to 103—referring the matter to the Judiciary Committee, and Mr. Seward was discharged from custody on his own recognizance. ... - The evening sermon Was confined to theconsideration of Pension bills, and to bills for the removal of political disabilities. A large number of amendments to the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill were agreed to in the Senate, on the Ist, and the bill was passed. One of the amendments adopted provides that *10.093 shall be paid to D. T. Corbin, late contestant for a seat from South Carolina..«< Conference Committees were appointed on the Pustoffiee and Deficiency Appropriation bills. ■ • • The Post-Route bill was reported and placed on the calendar.... The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was taken up, and the following addition was marie—29 to 26 to the House elause making an appropriation for the prosecution of offenses against the laws of the United States: ‘’And for defraying the expenses which may be incurred in the enforcement of the act approved Feb. 23, 1871. entitled ‘An act to amend an act approved May 80,1870, entitled '• An act to enforce the right of citizens of the United States to vote in the several States of the Union, and for other purposes." or any acts amendatory thereof orsupplementary thereto.’” An amendment was also agreed to—3l to 27 striking out the House provision repealing the test-oath-of jurors. The same disposition was made—29 to 26 —of the House clause repealing that part of the Revised Statutes providing for Supervisors and Deputy-Mar-shals of Electrons. Several other amendments were disposed of, and the bill, as amended, was passed —The River and Harbor Appropriation bill was also amended and passed. ....The vote by which the Arrears-of-Pensions bill was passed, was reconsidered- 23 to 27—and then the vote on Mr. Shields’ amendment extending the provisions of the bill to soldiers and sailors of the Mexican War was also reconsidered—27 t 024: amotion was then made and rejected—yeas, 24; nays. 26—to amend t-o as to provide that no person who served in the Confederate Army, or held office tinder the Confederate Government, should be entitled to a pension under this act: an amendment was then offered and debated, declaring that Jefferson Davis should never be paid a pension under this act

Among the bills passed in the Honse were—extending the provisions of the act of 1874 for the. relief of settlers on railroad lands; extend"-' tag the time fur the paxwwtpLpre emptipnaD public lands in Minnesota;. for the "protection of settlers on public lands; establishing- a land district in the Black Hills; for the payment of claims reported allowed by the a<counting officers of the Treasury: Senate bill for furnishing trusses to disabled soldiers.... Conference Committees were appointed on the Postoffice and Deciency Appropristi'an bi115....A motion to suspend the rules, and pass the Senate bill amending the Patent laws, with amendments, was (rejected .. .The Senate Yellow-Fever bill was taken

up, and a substitute whs agreed t 0—125 to 113 - a* an amendment, establishing * Board of Health te meet in Washington to fnuhe rules and rapnlatioiia and make invi stUations: the bill as lunended was then rdjeeted-yeas. 111: naps. 10 -•II tließepublicans V..ting agionsi tbill, to did kUo most of Uie members from New York. A motion to reconsider was murie and earned, and the bill wa* laid on the table-134 to 100.. .. The President's Message vetoing the Chinese Imiuigratiou.tall.waa read, aud the question a» to whether the Mil should pm», notwithstanding tlieoeto whs put, and resulted in yeas. 109; navs, 95—le*a than the neeswtry two-thirds in the affirmative, iuk! so the bill was rejected.. ..The report and re*olotion for tie impeachment of George F. Seward, late Consul-Genera! nt Bluinghili. and now United Stabs Minister to Chins, were presented-but the House refused—lo 9to 12ft-to consider the question.... A motion worn adopted—S3 to Bi-to hold a session on Sunday, for the piirpoM) of recniving messages from the President, from the Senate and from the Conference Committees. .

THE INVESTIGATION.

The Potter Committer. When the committee met, on the 24th, the Chairman read a letter from C. W. Wooley,, of Cincinnati, in which he stated that he was ill and unable to attend upon the sittings of the committee. He had read the evidence of one John F. Coyle, and desired to say tout so far as Coyle's statements related to him they were absolutely untrue. Ho respectfully asked that this letter, which he had sworn to, be placed upon the records of the committee. Mr. Wooley further wrote that, if the committee would receive and file a sworn statement from him as to all his transactions in political matters in Louisiana and Florida in 1876. he would prepare the same at once. This affidavit was not received, and the Chairman was instructed to write Mr. Wooley that the committee would hear him personally at the earliest practicable moment. The Chairman also read a letter from Alexander Thein, who, according to Coyle's testimony, offered to sell the Florida Returning Board for 81hl),(X)0. He asked is rmission to refute, before the committee, the charges against him. William E. Chandler put m evidence sundry letter-, to show that Gen. Barlow was acting in the Republican interest in Florida, and informed the committee that his Florida cipher and numerous telegrams sent by him were in possession of John I. Davenport. James H. Maddox testified that Wharton knew that (lov. Wells was for sale, and he proposed that they should see Packard in regard to it; they talked the matter over with him. and $30,000 was mentioned as the sum that would lie required; Packard did not decline to put up the money, but said that he would take the matter into consideration; a few days afterward it was suggested by Wharton that Packard should promise an office to Wells; Packard Said that lie could not promise him an office at that time, but he had done Wells many other nets of kindness, and he must judge from the past what he would do in future; wit-nei-s repui»ed the conversation to Wells, who declinrfotlie offer; he said that he might want to leave New Orleans, and did not want an bffice, but money; Wharton proposed that he(Maddox) should keep up the negotiations with Wells, to prevent his entering into any.other, but the witness declined. D. J. M. Jewett testified that he acted as Secretary to the Republican Committee in Louisiana in 1876, and knew that ta'se protests were made from several parishes. Witness gave an account of the Bossier massacre of 1868, and said the commander of the rioters wtas Jack Wharton, now United States Marshal; other details were given by the witness as to the drawing up of protests; the protests were drawn up upen the evidence and affidavits of the Supervisors, and they were obtained in some instances only by dint of considerable pressure; Wm. E. Anderson refused to make his protest when he arrived, but subsequently on the same day he made one; on the following day he repudiated it; bn the 17 th he readopted it and on the 23d it v as transmitted by letter to the Returning Board; the witness testified that he had the original of the Richland protest aud that it was drawn by Kellogg; on one evening he was asked to attend a meeting in the private office of the Postoffice, and he did sot met there Mr. George T. Smith, Member of Congress for that district, and a number of Supervisors; Smith stated to him that they wished him to draft protests for one or two parishes; the vault in the Postoffice was unlocked and a number of packages taken out, which proved to be the consolidated statements and legal indorsurfs of De Soto, Webster, Bossier and Caddo Parishes; the several Supervisors from these parishes were present; witness drew up the protests; they were afterward copied by the Supervisors and inserted in their projier package with the other documents. Referring to the second Electoral certificates, the witness stated his belief that Blanchard had no complicity in it: he (witness) received a letter from H. D. Clark during last summer, who was also charged with being guilty of forging names to those certificates; assured Gen Sewell that the forgery was not done -by him, but that it was his impression that it had been done by Thomas S. Kelly; had not a copy of any of these letters. Being again asked what persons were in the Postoffice at the time the returns were opened and the protests put in, the witness named the following: E. D. Smith, Cashier of the Postoffice, who had asked him to be present; C, 8. Ferguson, of DeSoto; F. H. Hutton; of Bossier; J. W. Morrow. Supervisor; Fred G. Heath, candidate for Legislature, - and Gen. Gardiner. Percy Baker, State Senator for Bossier, was also present; remembered the meeting with Weber and asking him if he had filed his protest; Weber’*reply in substance was: “My head is a cursed sight more important to me than Packard being returned.” The Chairman then produced the Jewett-Kellogg letter, butj having asked the witness if it was his bandwriting and the witness having replied in the affirmative,the document was laid on the table without further questions being put in regard to it. The committee went into secret session, during which it was resolved to take no more oral evidence, with the exception of Woolley and Solomons. if they can be brought before the Committee,

The committee, at an executive session, on the 25th, decided not to take any more testimony unless some one requests to be heard. It was voted to adjourn until the 28th, to consider the matter of preparing a report. The committee met in secret session on the motning of the 28th, all the members being present. The Chairman produced letters from Senators Allison and Ingalls, who were the Tellers on the part of the Senate at the time the Presidential election returns were presented, stating that they had no knowledge of wbat became of the Electoral certificate of Louisiana known as the "John Smith” certificate, which was withdrawn and suppressed from the records. A communication was read from Rogers, Private Secretary of the President, stating that the latter had no knowledge of a letter from Iheodore Bourne in regard to the confession of certain parties connected with the Florida frauds, and Inclosing a telegram from Bourne that a letter asking for information in regard to the matter had been received from the President. The committee appeared to consider that tbe production of the Tetter which, it is alleged, was sent to the President, is of great importance, and they instructed the Chairman to make a farther search for it. , A letter from Mr. Jewettt, to the effect that after a conversation with Mr, G. S. Smith he was satisfied that he had been mistaken in regard to that gentleman opening the New Orleans Postoffice vault for them to get the election returns was next read and laid on the table without comment.

The Teller Committee.

MAJORITY REPORT. Washington. Feb. 27. The report of the Teller Committees made to the Senate to-day, reviews the testimony of ninety-one witnesses in Louisiana and 107 in South Carolina. It states that the frauds in South Carolina, by the use of tissue ballots, extended to every county in the State but one, and that between thjrtv and forty murders were committed in Louisiana. The committee, in drawing their conclusions, say there appears to be a widespread determination in these States to restrict freedom of speech as to political questions, upon the claim that the discussion of the relations of labor to capital, employers to employes and other kindred subjects, is calculated to array tfce colored people against the whites, and thns endanger the safety of the people. This determination is not authorized by Stare enactment, but the Democrats, who attend political meetings not only of their own party, but also of the opposition, are in the habit of refusing to allow speakers to discuss tbe questions in their various forms. ' Any reference to the condition of the colored people before the war, and the causes that led to the war, are condemned as being of an incendiary character. It will be readily seen that if it is allowed to the attendance at » public meetingto determine what is and what is not incendiary or inflammatory material, and therefore objectionable and not to be permitted, there will be an end of all political discussion, unless the speaker shall consent to discuss the questions in accordance with the views of the majority that may be in attendance. Great liberty must be allowed in discussion of all political questions, and it will never do to permit a crowd of heated partisans at apdblic meeting to determine what is and what is not Ail incendiary speech, and what is not proper to be said on such Al 1 attacks which have been made on'colored people have been attempted to be justified or excused on thdground that the colored people have made threats against the whites. However false and destitute of foundation these repbrta may have been, they have been made the excuse for the most unheard-of atrocity against these people. As this pretended fear of negro insurrection is made the excuse for outrages on the colored people, it may not be amiss to say that the Democratic whites, when interrogated on that point, all agreed that the negro was peaceful and unrevengefnl. and that with all the reports of the uprising of this class of people to murder and outrage whites, there was no instance in American history within their knowledge when this’Hail lVeeh dbtie. Mid nil admitted that it would require great provoaition to induce the colored people to resort to violence agmust the whites. Respect for authority to law and attachment to persons and things are notable characteristics of the colored race. No prosecutions.have been instituted by the State of South Carolina against the violators of her laws, and no effort made to punish the men who have thus wantonly outraged her citizens, and when the

United Htatm Cahul* hare Ixwu renortel to for thepurpoae of punching outi«*<-a on the ballot. oofflpliJnnnt ba* iB very many iiutenee« Own Mr«ale<L otaarly in violation of law, by the State Auttoottttee. on cturjMfc of perjury, and oom nutted io Sail union M gave bail. Citizen* anthreatened that if they attempt to pcniab offenatn tn United Htatea Court*. witneeeee will be punirhod in the State Ccurta. and thua tbe Htate not only declines to puoiah these criminals. but refuses to allow it to be done in the United Hiales Courts; -'. "7-~~- — ■■■yi— - -553 The State Oovemment is a white Government No colored men are represented in it, and so far no man connected with it has had the honesty, courage or humanity Io attempt to redress the outrages on these unfortunate men of color. The laws of South Carol inn and Ijouisiana are undoubtedly sufficient for the'protection of all Uuur citixeua, but there has been a lamentable failure to enforce them. This course must in the end bo the destruction of government in these Htatea Thousands of persons in those Htatcs controlled by the political party profiting by these outrages condemn them, but they lack the independence and courage to make themselves heard in opposition to them. There never will he peace and good order, and consequent prosperity, in the South while any considerable number of white people deny the colored people the rights given them by law. To insure lasting peace to the people the fullest and the freest exercise ot all political rights must be conceded to all. The honor and prosperity ot 1 xiuisiana demand that these outrages against citizens, these violations of State and National law, shall be punished. That this duty devolves upon th<- State all admit, and whatever may he said of the duty of the General Government to redress the wrongs! qf ita citizens under these circum-itancea. no <me will excuse the State authorities for failure to punish these offenders. The committee say it was not possible, within the short time they had been in session, to investigate the elections held in all the Congressional Districts in Louisiana and South Carolina, but sufficient testimony was taken to show conclusively that in several districts in thdkc States not only the elections for Congressmen, but the elections for State and county officers as well, were neither fair nor free, and that by violence and fraud the honest expression of the will of those entitled to vote was prevented, and thousands of citizens of these States deprived of the elective franchise. In Ixiuisiana, both violence and trend Were extensively used. In South Carolina fraud was more largely relied upon. In both States these agencies, so disreputable in themselves and so dangerous to the stability of a republican form of government, were used, not only against candidates of the Republican party, but. against independent Democratic candidates, and candidates by whatever name known, who were in opposition to the regular Democratic candidates, thus showing clearly that the result sought for and accomplished was not the prevention of the so-called “ carpet-bag rule" and establishment of the so-called " home-rule,” but the success of the Democratic party in these States and in the Nation by whatever means and at whatever cost. South Carolina shares a like spirit with Louisiana. The Democratic leaders seem to be insensible to the fact that the stability of our Government is involved in these questions, and to be utterly unable to comprehend that their course renders the return of material prosperity to these people absolutely impossible. Without peace and good order there can be no obedience to, or enforcement of, the law. Material prosperity cannot come to these States in the .absence of this requirement, and there must be aradical change in the management of political affairs. The framers of the Constitution appear to have considered it safe to have “ the times, places and manner” of holding elections under the control of the Btates. but it is veryevident that they foresaw a condition might exist in the future under which the safety of the National Government and rights of citizens might require that the times, places and manner of elections should be under its own control, and not under that of the States. The time has come when Congress should exercise the power it clearly possesses of providing by law for the fair and free election of Members of Congress. The power to pass laws prescribing the times, places and manner of holding elections for Members of Congress necessarily implies the power to provide for the punishment of violations of the law. It will scarcely be contended, certainly it cannot be fairly claimed, that the National Government is compelled to rely for the punishment of offenses against its own laws upon the laws of the several States. -The minority of the committee have not yet prepared their views for presentation to the Senate.

Political Experimenters.

There are thousands of political experimenters in this country who are always impatient under party discipline?, and who occasionally vote against their party, with the general idea that they are asserting their independence, and are contributing to the wholesomeness of the political system; Republicans of this class are easily convinced that a change in State or National officers would be beneficial. While clinging to the principles of the party, they are easily' persuaded to support candidates for Congress, Governor, or President who are opposed to the principles. They present the curious spectacle of men holding certain convictions trying to forward them by putting in power men who are pledged to do their men having such convictions. As well might men interested in saving their heads vote for men pledged to cut their heads off, or men interested in the safety of buildings turn their property over to those who are paid to burn it. Since 1872 there has been much experimenting of this sort. Many men who had been Republicans voted for Greeley, and a few for Tilden. This did little harm in either case, but the same men experimented further, and voted against the party candidates for Legislators and Congressmen. The results of the experiments are now before us. The Republicans who fancied that they were contributing to the purity of politics, or the interests of the Nation, by giving the Democrats a majority in Congress, must be thoroughly disgusted. The Indiana Republicans who, through indifference or carelessness, or a fondness for experimen ts, contributed in any way to the election of Voorhees to the Senate, must feel Tike the individual who wanted some man to kick him down stairs. Any Ohio soldier or member of the old party that gave Brough a hundred thousand majority for Governor, who contributed to the elevation of Thurman and Pendleton to the Senate, must now feel as though he had walked with eyes open into the enemy’s camp. The gentlemen who believed that a change would be good for the country, and that there was so little difference between Republicans and Democrats that there could be no danger in trying an experiment with the latter, .should now be satisfied. The Democratic Congress is under control of men avowedly hostile to the National Government, and is fast undoing the work of reconstruction. States that are really Republican are represented in both houses of Congress by Democrats, have Democratic Executives and Democratic Legislatures. All that unscrupulous managers and desperate partisans can do to perpetuate the reign of the Democratic party, and to advance the influence of a disloyal ininority, has been done. Measures the most partisan and methods the most disgraceful have marked the rule of ths Democrats in Congress, and in the States where they have come into power. Not one hope of the so-called independent voters has been realized. They* sacrificed party for the sake of change, believing that they would not depart from the old principles of political fellowship and action. They find that they have, in striking a blow at the party, struck a crushing blow at principle, and pushed into prominence and power men at war with all their cherished convictions. The experiment has proved a failure, and the result, disastrous as it is, opens the way to other disasters sure to follow, unless all the Republicans of 1868 and 1872 turn again to the ranksand do their full duty as party men devoted to party principles. —Chicago InterOcean,. i., ‘ A bereaved widower, while receiving the condolence of friends, acknbwledged that it Was indeed a loss, a sad bereavement, that he had suffered, and ac|ded: “ And just think! Only a few days ago,l, bought her a whole box of pills, and she hadn’t had time to take half of them before shddied.”

MISCELLANEOUS items. —-. " 0 -A pressing necessity— A flat-iron. —A “busted’’ merchant is the Croatnre of —The Montgomery (Ala) Advance is edited by a colored man. —A oyer premiums at a county’ Fair. —The first fire-alarm is said to have been when Cain struck A-beL Drawers of checks and drawers of cigars are knowji by their Stubs. —Some tramps are good singers until they strike a chord—of wood. —A set of wash-pitchers are ewers, whether you p*y for.them or not. . —Scarlet fever is on the increase and diphtheria on the decrease in New York City. —New York is charged with spending ten times as much for tobacco as for bread. —Type-setters are the galley-slaves to the barge of progress. — Baltimore Every Saturday. —A little knoll edge is a dangerous thing in turning a sharp corner with a heavy load.— Vanbury News. —“There’s music in the heir,” says Jones. Jones has a brand-new baby at his house.— Boston Transcript. —We were presented with a pocketbook; but the value of it was only one purse sent.— Danielsonville Sentinel. —The ancient Egyptians did not use tobacco, and, mark you, the ancient Egyptians are dead.— Buffalo Express. —A farmer’s boy on being asked to yoke up the cattle late at night replied that he “ wasn’t used to such midnight haw, gees.” — New Hawn Register. —A young lady while on her way to be married was run over and killed. A confirmed old maid savagely remarked: “She has avoided a more lingering and horrible fate.” —Winter is the time for planning, as the summer is the season for execution. Winter is the time for thought, as summer is the season for carrying thought intd' action.— lowa Slate Register. —There are those who take up so much time in profession that there is none left in which to practice! They are like the cinnamon tree, for the bark is the best part of them.— N. Y. Herald. —One of the brightest little sons residing on James-Street Hill saw his father fixing the billiard table with a spirit level. After the old man had finished the job he remarked: “ Now, pa, see if my head’s level.”— Syracuse Standard. —An exchange tells of a young man who swore off smoking, and was worth ten thousand dollars in five years. That’s a mistake. We know a young man who has sworn off fifty times in five years, and isn’t worth a cent.— Bridgeport Standard. —Speak gently,’ speak gently; no matter how much bigger* and ’ how much broader across the shoulders than yourself the other man is, nor how cross he looks, speak gently. The bigger and broader and Grosser, the gentler. — Burlington Hawk-Eye. —“Sound,” said the schoolmaster, “is what you hear. For instance, you cannot feel a sound.” “Oh; yes, you can!” said a smart boy. “John Wilk’jis,” retorted the pedagogue, “How do you make that out? What sound can you feel?” “ A sound thrashing,” quickly replied the smart boy. —The other day an Irishman was passing the graveyard, where he saw two men, friends of a countryman who had just died. They were seeking fora buYial lot. “ Who’s dead?” he asked. “John Leary,” was the reply. “When did he die?” “Yesterday.” “Well, bejabers, he had a foine day for it.” —lt is said that the reason why bigamy is of such rare occurrence in Hungary is that once on a time a man who was convicted of this crime was sentenced by the Court to live for two years with both wives. The punishment was considered cruel, but it had the desired effect.— N. Y. Herald. —A contemporary says the following couples were “ proclaimed in matrimony” last year, in Scotland:

Thoma* Rlack and Mary White, Peter Day and Ellen Knight, Solomon Bank and Catherine Vale, _ James Hill and Susan Dale, Isaac Slater and Jane Thatcher, John Barker and Mary Butcher, Stephen Head and Nancy Heart, William Stately and Jessie Smart, Joseph Reed and Julia Hay. Thomas Spring and Mary May, Joseph Brown and Kitty Green, John Robins and Jenny Wren. William Castle and Nancy Hall, Peter Chatter and Fanny Call, Joseph Mann and Eliza Child, James Merry and Luoy Wild; Thomas Bruin and Mary Bear, James Fox and Catherine Hare, Andrew Clay and Lucy Stone, Michael Blood and Lizzie Bone, John Cloak and Julia Hood, Edward Cole and Nancy Wood, James Broom and Ellen Birch, Charles Chapel and Susan Church. - —At the time of the Franco-Prussian War a highly nutritious but inexpensive food was made in immense quantities for the German soldiers, called esbswurst. It was really a pea-sausage made by mixing in proper proportions pea-meal with bacon-fat. It was then suitably seasoned and pressed into skins before being boiled, it was impossible to get sufficient skins or bladders in which to pack the sausagemeat, butchcmistrycametothe rescue. A quick-witted and practical chemist remembering that gelatine mixed with bichromate of potassa when exposed to the light becomes insoluble in either hot or cold water, propo.ed thit the* food when pressed into form be dipped into bi-chromate gelatine solution and exposed to daylight Thus a thin skin was formed which allowed-of sufficient boiling. The problem was solved and the German Army thrived on peasausage. —Exchange.

Opening the Door to Fraud.

Mr. Hewitt, of New York, declares that it is impossible for Republicans to understand the motives which govern the Democratic party in i “their desire and fixed determination to erase from the statute-books every provision which infringes the personal liberty of the citizen.” All wrong, Mr. Hewitt. The motives of your party leaders in seeking the repeal of the Federal Election law, for instance, are palpably obvious. The pretense that "the person al liberty of the citizen” has anything to do with this desire is too shallow to deceive the merest novice in politics. The Jaw is- not aimed at citizens possessing the right to vote, but at persons attempting to exercise a right they do not possess. The Supervisor’s law seeks to protect the liberty of the citizep by preserving from nullification his honest vote, through the depositof a fraudulent ballot. The Supervisor seizes the scoundrel ip the attempting to pollute the ballot-box by the deposit of a fraudulent vote, and hurries him off to Jail. Tfetus the personal right, of j the honest citizen to cast one ballot is protected equally against the repeater who would cast a dozen ballots, and the

person who, possessing no right to vote at all, impudently’ offers to cancel a legal vote with'a fraudulent vote. This is the exact character and effect of the law which the Democratic party proposes to erase from the statute-books. The proposition to •• erase" it, then, becomes not a grand effort at the enlargement and protection of the liberty of the citizen, but a despicable conspiracy to rob honest men of their votes by affording an opportunity for repeaters and fraudulent voters to mingle with them ballots which are printed lies. The indulgence of Democrats in glittering generalities about “the liberty of the citizen,” as a pretext for the removal of a necessary guard for the protection of that “liberty,” willnotsave the Democratic party from the scorn of all honest men. It is a fact of history that all laws devised for the preservation of the purity of the ballot-box in this country have been devised and pressed to adoption by the Republican party. It is equally true that, almost invariably, necessity has compelled the enforcement of such laws as against Democrats and the Democratic party exclusively. A striking instance of this fact is found in the records of the two great political parlies on the subject of the registry "of voters in large cities. The Democratic party invariably opposes a registry, and the Republican party as invariably supports it. The tendency of Democrats to commit, and of the Democratic party to wink at, election frauds is so manifest and strong that the Republican party has been compelled to hedge about the bal-lot-box with special protective laws. But all these enactments have proved insufficient to entirely repress the evil; and at every important election, even in the most enlightened cities of the North, necessity has compelled the organization of corps of unofficial guards to act outside the polling-places in the repression of the very general desire of Democrats to vote more than once, of to vote when they have no legal rightto exercise the franchise. So notorious is this fact that an essential precedent condition of a Republican victory in any and every urban district in the United States is hot merely the polling of every Republican vote, but an adequate provision for preventing the polling of fraudulent votes by the Democratic party. Under the regime in New York City, repeating, fraudulent voting and ballot-box stufling was carried to the lowest deeps of infamy by the Democratic party. Even Mr. Hewitt has not the hardihood to claim that the Democratic party of New York reformed the abominable practices of Tweed and the Tammany Society. He says that the “people cured the evil,” and argues that “ abuses of this sort” can be “much more effectually remedied by the people than by a centralized power.” The inference from his argument is that the Nation must submit to fraudulent elections of Congressmen until the States from which they are sent choose to reform their election practices—a stale, flat and unnrofitable conclusion.

There is logic in the Democratic party position, however, if there is neither a sense of public virtue nor personal honor in the attitude of individual members of the party in advovatjng the repeal of all laws enacted for the protection of the purity of elections. For we venture the assertion that there is not on record in the whole history of elections in this country an instance of an organized effort on th? part of the Democratic party to guard the ballot-box against _fraudulentßepublican votes. And the fact that there is no such instance is evidence that the Democratic party has.no fears of Republican repeaters, or of fraudulent Republican votes. This, then, is the situation: The Democratic party, as a party seeking power, has nothing to gain and everything to lose by affording the protection of the law to the purity of elections. Hence it proposes, in the language of Mr. Hewitt, to “ erase from the statute-books every provision which infringes the Jiberty of the citizen;” that is to say, the “liberty” to vote whether he has the right to vote or not, and the “liberty” of the repeater to repeat his vote as often as he can do so without getting in the Penitentiary—a villainous creedof a villainous party. Mr. Hewitt cannot point to a single instance of the abuse of the privileges of the Federal Election law, cannot name one honest citizen who has been deprived of the rights of suffrage by it; but he proposes to sweep the law from the statute-books, assuming that it infringes the liberty of the citizen. This is mere twaddle, and it is quite impossible in view of this utterance to regard him as more honorable than his Democratic fellows who vote for the measure with the distinct, definite hope and expectation of benefiting by the fraud to which its passage would open wide the door. No act of the Democratic party sincethe close of the war more clearly shows its corrupt character than the proposition to repeal a provision of law looking solely to the protection of the purity ot the ballot-box. The solid Democratic vote for it in the House shows that every Democrat “ will get what he can” by fair means or foul, and that the party as a whole is animated by no higher aims than during the late war, when it sympathized with the cause of rebellion, and gave aid and comfort to rebels.— Chicago Tribune.

.A clergyman in the west of England, who bad every gift butthat of extemporaneous speech, was recently announced to preach the principal sermon in an octave, the announcement drawing a large audience. To his horror he discovered that he had left his manuscript in his study, twenty miles away. Growing desperate, he gave out the text he had intended to preach from and proceeded: “In the first place, I should have remarked, etc. It was then my intention to point’out, etc., after which I would have gone_on to indicate,” and so op. It was all over in. a quarter of an hour, and the congregation in those fifteen minutes had a very lucid explanation of a discourse which, if it had bten delivered as it was written, could not have been gone through in fifty minutes.

—T|vo little children went to church alone fin Westfield, Mass. They became tired during the long sermon, and the (older one, supposing the school rules held good in churches, led his sister up in front of the preacher and said: “Please, sir, may we go home?” He said ,7 Yes,” and they soberly walked out. —A curious pair are two brothers in Hertford, Conn., employed at the same place of business same -miles from their homes, who had a falling out some dozen years ago, and have never spoken to each other since, though they ride to and from work in the same wagon, preserving,amoody silencctoward each other. ; ~ ■