Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1879 — Page 2

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General News Summary.

From WaiklnEton. Tn President, on the *4th, nominated John B. Huntlton, of Illinois, to be Supervising Saigeon-General of the United State* Marine Hoapiul Service; John M. Wilson, ol Ohio, Oonenl at Panama, and George Bcrogg», of Illinois, Consul at HaabuijrTn following oflloen went elected by the Damncratlr majority In the United States “ —-«- on the 34th : Secretary, John C. Botch; Senreant-strAnua, Richard J. Bright; Chief Clerk, F. £. Bbober; Executive Clerk, H. B. Peyton; Chaplain, J. G. Bollock. A WaaniHOTOJt telegram of the 25th says the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections has deoided, by a strict party vote, that Charles H. Bell was not entitled to s seat in that body under the appointment of the Governor of New Hampshire. % Tu President, on the 26th, nominated Andrew D White, of New York, to succeed the late B. F. Taylor, as Minister at Berlin, and Cornelias A. Logan, of Illinois, to bo Minister Resident to the Central American Btattt A joist caucus of the Democratic Members of Congress was held, on the evening of the 26th, at which it was finally agreed that a repeal of the law antborti nr the presence of troops at the poiti should be elected by Incorporating in the Army Appropriation bill a copy of the danse agreed to by the House at the last session; that the Jurors’ test oath should be likewise simply abolished by the Insertion of a repealing danse In the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill; that dauses be also attached to the same bill, in effect repealing the existing authority for the appointing of Chief Supervisors and Deputy Marshals for elections, and to restrict the functions and power of the two Supervisors of different politics, whose appointment would continue to be authorised, to those of witnesses and challengers only, said Supervisors to be residents and duly qualified voters in the products where they are to serve. The jurisdiction of the Federal Courts to punish such frauds in elections as may be reported by the Supervisors or other citiaens is not to be interfered with, nor will the Enforcement act, relative to suffrage and other civil rights, be disturbed. The proceedings of the Court of Inquiry tn the FIU-John Porter case reached President Hayes on the 27th. A Washington telegram stated that it could be asserted on good authority that the findings were in every way in favor of Gen. Porter.

The Republican members of the National House of Representatives held a caucus, on the 27th, at which a unanimous sentiment was manifested in opposition to the political clautes Which the Democratic majority bad determined to incorporate in the A,nry and Legislative Appropriation bills, and it waa agreed that every endeavor should be made by the minority to prevent the passage of the bills named, unless they should be relieved of such’polltical provisions. It wa? resolved that It was th* sense of the caucus that, until the Appropriation bills were disposed of, no pairs by Republicans should be made under any circumstances. A capers composed of about thirty members of the National House of Representatives, including Messrs. Reagan and Jones (of Texas), Springer, Stevenson, Ewing, Murch, Ladd. Kelley, De LaMatyr, Weaver, Warner, Wright and Wise, was held on the 2Stb, and resolved in favor of endeavoring to rass, at the present session of Congress, measures to Increase the coinage of silver to the capacity of the mints, and to issue certificates receivable for all public dues and the purchase of silver bullion at market rates; to reissue the greenbacks now held for the redemption of fractional currency, or hereafter retired, for the payment of arrears of pensions and in extinguishment of the bonded debt; to provide for the substitution of legal-tender notes for National Bank notes; to stop all further increase of the National debt; to provide for a tax on tncomes of over $2,009. A committee was appointed to prepare a Silver bill. The Secretary of the Treasury reports that of the 21,661,274 silver dollars coined, only 6,406,0T8 remain in circulation. A Washington dispatch of the 29th ult. says the Honest-Money League had made arrangements for a canvass of the States of Ohio, Wisconsin and lowa. Sec’t Sherman Issued a call, on the 29th ult.. for the redemption of $10,000,000 coupon bonds of 1867, interest and principal payable July 1, 1879.

The East. Tin tllal of Rev. T. DeWitt Talm&ge benn, on the 24th, before the Brooklyn PresbyThe principal charges were falsehood and deceit. He pleaded not guilty, and demanded an investigation, waiving all technicalities in his favor. It was finally decided to try him on all the specifications. 0» the 21th, Nathan P. Pratt, Treasurer of the Beading (Mass.) Savings Bank, was arrested tor the embeulemeut of the greater part of the securities belonging to the institution. The sum taken is variously estimated at from <60,000 to <IOO,OOO. Th* lower House of the Rhode Island Legislature favored a proposition, on the 24th, to give women the right of suffrage. The vole stood %to 21, a majority, but not the Constitutional majority required. aWxuiox occurred, on the 25th, between two trainaon the New York Elevated Railroad. Both engines were totally wrecked, and sixteen persons were more or less Injured—none fatally. About 150 women voted at the polls in Concord, N. H., a few days ago, for members of the Board of Education. A recent State law gave them this irivilege. There were nine tickets in the field, and the election retailed in no choice being made. Th* social circles of H artford, Conn., have recently been considerably excited by the announcement of the clandestine marriage of the youngest daughter of ex-Uov. Hubbard to her lather’s coachman. The man’s name is Frederick Shepard, a rather fine appearing young man of twenty-five, of American parentage and fair reputation. It seems the young lady formed a romantic attachment for the coachman while engaged in assisting him to acquire sn education. He had been in the employ of Oov. Hubbard for about six months. It was stated that the Governor would positively refuse all advances toward a reconciliation with his daughter. A six dats’ walking contest, engaged in by eighteen female pedestrians, was begun in Gilmore’s Garden, New York City, on the qteM or the 28th. One of the contestants withdraw soon after the walk began. It was stated that the women were subject to all manner of jesting and Insulting remarks from the crowds of men who were present Tn Woman-Buff rage measure was defeated in the Meeseebneette Hoaee of Representatives, on the fifth, by e vote of 85 to 82. Am invention in telegraphy has been recently made by which it is alleged messages can be eent with wonderful rapidity, by limply turning e crank, end et e rate not exceeding twenty-five crate for thirty words from Mew Turk to any point east of the Rocky Mountains. A company has been formed, "and; It U staled that Hneiwillbe in operation between the West end the seaboard by September. *./ . A MCBVT Union Greenback-Labor State Convention, in Rhode Island, nominated Samuel Hill, for Governoi; David A. McKay, for

Lieutenant-Governor; J. F. Smith, for Secretary of Stats; H. B. Wood, for AUorney-Ucti-erai, and A. 11. Moore, for Treasurer. \ The Tremont House, at Claremont, N. H., was destroyed by fire, on the 29th ult., and five persona—four women and one man—were burned to death. Two men and one woman were severely injured by leaping from the windows j ~ The following weVe the closing quotations for produce In New York, on March 29th: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, $1.0901.06; No. 2 Milwaukee, $1.0301 Oats, Western Mixed, 31033 c. Corn, Western Mixed, 45)4045J4c. Pork, Mesa, $9.59(810.50. Lard. $6.59@6 52*. Flour, Good to Choice, $3.95 04.50; White Wheat Extra. $4.550523. Cattle, $8.50011.00 for Good to Extra. Sheep, $5.0006 50. Hogs, $4.2504 35. At East Liberty, Pa., on March 29th, Cattle brought: Best, $5.2505.50; Medium, $4,500 A 00; Common, $3.8004.80. Hogs sold— Yorkers, $3.9004.00; Philadelphia, $4,500 4.60. Sheep brought $4.6005.70 —according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on March 29tli, Cattle brought; Best, $5.12)406 00; Medium $3.62)404.62)4. Hogs sold at $5 5906 25 for Good. Sheep were quoted at $4.0005.75 for Good.

West and South. Ninett-pocr Democrats, thirty-three Re--publleans and seven Fustonlsts and Nationalists have been elected delegates to the Louisl ana State Constitutional Convention. It was stated, on the 25th, that the financial troubles in New Orleans wt re over, and that the banks were paying on demand. without restriction. The; ConysoLof the Sisters of Loretto, at Cairo, 111., was struck by lightning, early on the morning of the 26th, and entirely consumed. All the inmates escaped. At Frankfort, Ky., on the 20th, Judge John M. Elliott, of the Court of Appeals, was shot and instantly killed by Col. Thomas Buford. The Judge bad rendered an adverse opinion iu a case Buford had bad In court some time ago. Buford was arrested. A negro named Bill Howard, who had perpetrated a horrible outrage near Fort Scott, Kan., was captured, on the 25th, and lodged in Jail. On the next evening a crowd of infuriated citizens, to the number of about 1,000, took the prisoner from the Jail and hanged him to a lamp-post near the public square. " They afterward took the body and burned it in a. lire made of dry-goods boxes and eoal-oil. Tub Governor of Louisiana has signed a bill, passed by the Legislature, repealing the charter of the Louisiana State Lottery Association. The funeral of Judge Elliott, the victim of Col. Buford’6 revenue, took place at Frankfort, Ky., on the 27th. In compliance with a request of Gov. McCreary, all the public offices were closed at noon on that day. The Ohio State Democratic Central Committee has issued a call for a Democratic State Convention, to be held at Columbus, oa the 4th of June. The Greenback Btate Convention has also been called to meet on the same day and at the same place. A Deadwood (D. T.) telegram of the 29th ult. says Little Wolf and his band of Cheyennes, numbering thirty-five lodges, with 250 ponies, had been captured on Box-Elder Creek, near the Yellowstone River, by Lieut, dark, of the Second Cavalry, four days before.

Ex-Congressman Riddle, of Lebanon, Tenu., committed suicide, on the 29th ult., by shooting himself through the head, with a revolver. lU-healtli and financial embarrassment were the impelling causes. In Chicago, ou March 29th, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at SSJ4OBB)4 C cash; ..Sfljjc for April; lor May. Cash Corn closed at 34)4c for No. 2; for April; 35%c for May. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 21)4c, and 25)4c seller May. Rye No. 2, 46)4c. Barley No. 2, 69>4@70c for cash; 09)4070c for April. Cash Mess Pork closed at $10.10010.12)4. Lard, $6.85. Beeves —Extra brought $4.9005.25; Choice, $4 50 04.75; Good, $4.2504.50; Medium Grades, $8.7504 25; Butchers’ Stock, $2.6503.90; Stock Cattle, etc., $2.7503.90. Hogs—Good to Choice, $3.0004.25. Sheep.—Poor to Choice $3-7505.50. - Foreign Intelligence. • According to Berlin dispatches of the 24th, Russia was strenuously endeavoring to secure the modification of the Berlin Treaty in respect te Eastern Roumelia. Sbe-had-proposed its occupation by a mixed contingent, but the Powers were disinclined to agree to the proposition. A severe earthquake 6hock was recently felt in Persia, Three villages were entirely destroyed, and 1,000 persons perished. The French Chamber of Deputies is discussing the removal of the Assembly from Versailles to Paris. An attempt was made, on the afternoon of the 25th, to assassinate Gen. Von Drentelen, the St. Petersburg Chief of Police. The latter was not badly hurt, ahd the would-be assassin escaped. Upward of 100 arrests have been made at Moscow, In consequence of the assassination of a Government spy.

A London telegram of the 25th says the Government had decided to lay a submarine cable to South Africa, connecting with the whole system of Eastern telegraphy. The Queen of Great Britain started on a continental tour on the 25th. % The British House of Lords defeated, on the evening of the 25th, a resolution censuring the Governmeut for its conduct of the Zulu War, by a vote of 156 to 61. In the course of the debate, it was stated that Sir Bartle Frere, the Governor, would be recalled, and Lord Chelmsford, the Commander of the British forces, court-martialed. A Constantinople dispatch of the 25th says the Porte had sent several men-of-war into Grecian waters, and was fortilying Epirus and Thessaly. Other warlike preparations were making. $ It was stated at Vienna, on the 26th, that negotiations were making most satisfactory progress between Russia and England relative to measures to be adopted in Roumelia alter the departure of the Russians, but the project of military occupation by neutral Powers bad been abandoned. Advices of the 26th state that the famine in Upper Egypt was causing terrible suffering. In some villages the people, naked like wild beasts; dug for roots. In one town women arid children fought over scraps of bread. The Inland villagers were said to be starving like dogs. The New Fork Herald correspondent at Tasbkend reported, on the 26th, that Afghanistan had been totally abandoned to the English, who were left free by Russia, not. only to take the passes, but even Hefat, If they so pleased. Gen. Kaufmann was convinced that the Afghans were quite hirinTees, AndTßatthe Ultimate success of the English was only a question of time aud money. , According to Constantinople telegrams of the 27th, the Turkish Government was entirely out of money and put to desperate straits to obtain the funds needed for daily expenditures. The Boltau bad sent a portion of his plate and jewelry to be melted for public use. The Commandant of Alessioand sixty leading Albanians have been arreeted for intriguing against the Porte. Prince Wald knar, third son of the Crown Prince of Germany, died, on the 27th, of heart disease. He was eleven years old. According l^ai<mtt^dispst^ee‘ > of the" 27th, all hope of a peaceful negotiation with Yakoob Khan had been abandoned and aw Immediate advance upon Cabal ordered. A DISPATCH from Berlin of the 28th says Information had been received there that

the Porte was determinedly opposed to the scheme for the mixed occupation of Rou-lui-lla, and that the project would, < therefore, have to be abandoned. _ A Vienna dispatch of the 28th say* the Roumella European Commission had formally notified the Powers that it was unable to execute Article 19 of the Berlin Treaty, becauae of the difficulties created by certain Russian authorities and the excitement among the Koumellatie. , An autograph-letter has been received by Gen. Graut, from the King of Blim, inviting him to pay him a visit at Bangkok. The plague has subsided on the Lower Volga, but Inflammation of the lungs and small-pox prevail, and tfiA rate of mortality is still very high. ' Joseph France & Co., metal-workers, of Newcastle, Eng., one of the most important metal firms in Great Britain, failed, on the 29th, for 1500,000. Tiie Socialist' Deputies In the German Reichstag made formal complaint, on the 29tli nit., that the Imperial authorities were violating the sanct ty of the malls In their search after Socialistic literature. On the 29th ult., ’he United States Minister to France handed to President Grevy an autograph letter from. President Hayes, congratulating him upon his accession to the Presidency. The final appeal of Pissanante, the wouldbe assassin of King Humbert, of Italy, has been rejected. The King has signed a decree commuting his sentence to life-imprison-ment. . On the 30th ult:, the Indian Viceroy telegraphed to the Government that the British forces had defeated an Afghan force, numbering 2.000, near Barce. According to Constantinople dispatches of the 30th ult., there was considerable skirmishing between the Macedonian insurgents and the Turkish troops, and several heavy engagements had been fought. The Italian Agent in Albania informs his Government that the Albanians had determined forcibly to resist the proposed annexa tion of Albania to Greece. ■ _

Congressional Proceedings. Communications were received in ihe Senate, on the 24th, asking for additional appropriations for the pay of letter-carriers and for an appropriation of $25,640 for payment of clerks for the Bureau of Education... .A bill was introduced to prevent the introduction and spread of infectious diseases in the United States ... A resolution was passed requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish ihe Senate a statement of the amounts of money drawn and paid Supervisors of Elections, general and special, iu 1876 and 1876, as compensation in exoess of the fees allowed bv law for Circuit Court Commissioners, and state the amounts expended in New York, Philadelphia and Cincinnati for the years aforesaid.... After a lengthy political discussion, participated in by Messrs. Anthony, Hamlin, Wallace, Crinkling, Bayard, Beck, Voorhees, Blaine and Eaton, resolutions were adopted declaring John C. Burch elected Secretary of the Senate; Richard J. Bright, Seageant-abArms; F. E. Sholier, Chief Clerk; Henry B. Pevton. Executive Clerk, and J. G. Bullock, Chaplain. Motions on the part of Republicans to substitute the names of other candidates were previousl y rejected by yeas of 23, 25 and :6, to nays of 35, 37 and 39 —the latter a strict party vote. The House was not in session. A joint resolution was introduced in the Senate, on the 25th, fora special committee to consider the best means of promoting agriculture.... A communication was received from the Secretary of the Treasury in answer to the resolution calling for information in regard to fees paid Deputy Marshals in the elections in October and November.... Mr. Hoar called up his resolution declaring that the failure of one house to pass the Appropriation bills, except upon condition of the repeal of existing laws, is revolutionary, and spoke at length in its favor. He was replied to by Mr. Beck, who moved to lay the resolution on the table, pending which motion Mr. Wallace moved to adjourn, and tne latter motion was carried— 37 to 28—a strict party vote. In the House, Messrs.-Harris and Cox asked leave to introduce resolutions, but Mr. Conger stated that he would object to the introduction of anything unless it had reference to the Appropriation bills. Various bills were introduced in the Senate, on the 26th, one of which provides that the principal officer, of each Executive Department may occupy a seat on the floor of the Senate and House.... Ah Executive session was held". In the House, Mr. De LaMatyr (Indiana) asked leave to introduce a bill for reference to the Committee on Banking and Currency, but Mr. Garfield objected- • ■ • Mr. Cox offered a resolution, wriicb was referred to the Committee on Roles, for the reappointment of Special Committees on Census, the Yellow-Fever Epidemic, Reform in the Civil Service, and the Declaration of the Result of the Election of President. .. Mr. Frye asked leave to offer absolution reciting that the extra session was occasioned by the failure of the last Congress to make t+ivnrcessary appropriations, fttMlhU Ihr business interests of the country*- and the welfare of the people demand rest and peace from legislation, and instructing the Committee on Rules to report forthwith a rule providing that no bills except those making necessary appropriations shall be reported from any committee, or considered by the House, during the special session. Messrs. Ewing and Regan objected, and Mr. Conger said he would then objeet to Mr. Cox’s resolution, but the Speaker ruled that the objection came too late. Mr. Conger then moved to reconsider the vote by which Mr. Cox’s resolution was referred, and Mr. Cox muved to lay the motion on the table, pending which the Douse adjourned—l 33 toTIt —

After the introduction of a number of bills in the Senate, on the 27th, Mr. Hoar’s resolution declaring the course of the majority revolutionary, etc , came up, and was debated by Messrs. Hoar, Beck, Bayard and Voorbees, but no final action was taken... .Adjourned to the 31st. The Army Appropriation bill was introduced in the House, bv Mr. Sparks, who stated that it was substantially the bill which passed the last House, with the reorganization features stricken out. The clause prohibiting the use of troops at the polls was retained. The bill was referred to Committee of the Who>e, when a motion to reduce the armv to 15,000 men was rejected—6B to 119. The provision in regard to railroad companies doing a general telegraph business was passed. The section relative to the use of troops at the polls was passed over, for the present. All but two or three ordtafry provisions of the bill were disposed of in committee. The Senate was not in session on the 28th. The House went into Committee of the Whole on the Army Appropriation bill. Mr. Tucker offered an amendment repealing the law which prohibits any person who has served in the military, naval or civil servioe of tbs Confederate Stateg from being appointed to a position in the Army of the United States, when a point of order was made and sustained by the Chair. The consideration of the bill having been concluded with the exception of Bee, 6. repealing the statutes allowing the military to preserve the peace at the polls, that section was read, and Mr. Conger rose to a point of order that such section changed the existing law and did not retrench expenditures. The question was debated at considerable length. The Senate was not in session on the 29th ult. The Army Appropriation bill was further considered in the House, in Committeeof the Whole, the question being as to the employment of troops at the polls, Mr. Stephens making a speech in favor of, and Mr. Garfield against, the repeal of the law authorizing the use of the military at elections. Investigation. The Senate Committee inquiring into the alleged frauds in the late elections. Senator Wallace, Chairman, met in Washington, on the 26th. and examined Mr. Gorham, late Secretary of the Senate. He said that during the Congressional campaign of 1878 about <106,000 was raised for Republican campaign purposes; <93,ooofrom Federal officers and employes by voluntary contribution, and the remainder from friends of the party nid holding office. Perhaps $7,000 or <B.oo# came from Congressmen. No contributions were asked from National Banks, as such. A canvass among wealthy friends of the cause in New York City resulted in obtaining about <13,000. l'here may have been some bankers contributing. Some lady employes of the Government insisted on contributing, Of <ll 6,000 abou r <26,000 was expended for documents, about <12,(01 was paid employes of the committee, and SB,OOO for furniture and other expenses. This left <56.600, of which 164 000 was sent to different States, and $1,600 was paid to speakers for expenses. Of the balanoe. *5.700 was lost bv the failure'V the German-American National Bank, and <3.0 remains on hand. its inquiyyynto election matters of 1878. Mr. Gorbatn was further examined, and produced the books of subscriptions in the Departments and the list of moneys sent to different States. Tho National Committee aided nineteen Southern Congressional Districts with an average of *663, and fifty-eight Northern Die-

tricts with an average of $712: no aid wsa given to 212 districts. 'lhe contnbntiona of the Federal officers in Wisconsin went to the State Committee. The subscriptions in the iwiqk used in the .Treasury Department are headed by the name Tit Bee'y Sherman; of the Post office Departments by the Second Assistant Postmaster-General: of the Agricultural Department, by Commissioner Le Dub; of the Sixth Auditor s office, by the Sixth Auditor. This money sent to Indiana was put in the hands of Mr. Blair, with the witnesa’ recommendation as to its nae. Ihe general policy was to devote the money to close districts; about nine diatriots in Ohio were thus helped. The Librarian of the Senate helped Mr. Gorham to compile a sort of Republican campaign teatbook. and was paid s26oi the work did not inter* sere with his official duties; no deduction was made in bis salary os Librarian on acoouat of bis working for the committee. The witnees thought the subscription in the Tieasurv Department might Amount U> sl2 000 or $13,600 instead of $7 000 or $8.1*4). as stated the day before; about $2,000 was sulmoribed in the Postoflice Department; very little was got from the Interior Department. .. ... James M. Kerns, United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, testified that he thought, ns far oa United Stales Supervisors and Marshals were concerned. Philadelphia could do without them very well. The exr rosea us United States Supervisors amounted to l 7 .440. Special attention was paid to Randall's district, liecause it was in a bod part of the city, where riot* frequently occur. THE SUB-COMMITTEE AT PHILADELPHIA. The Sub-Committee of the WallaceTeller Investigating Committee, consisting of Senators Wallace (Pa.). Garland (Ark.). MoDonald (Ind.), Hoar (Maos.;, and Cameron (Wis.\ met in Philadelphia, on the-28th, and commenced an examination of witnesses. The first witness was R, C. Howell, of the Second Division of the Twentieth Ward. He testified that Deputy-Marshal Charlea Oliphant waadrunk on eleetion day. and insulted every Democrat that came to the polls to vote. His testimony was corroborated by other witnesses, who also testified that Oliphant used eVery means to drive aw ay Democratic voters. ... John Warner, of the Twenty-ninth Ward, testified that 1 homas Herr, the United States Marshal in his ward, had a bad reputation. He arrested :t man for trying to vote, notwithstanding that parties were ready to vouch for him.- Arthur Vance, of the Fifteenth Ward, a United States Marshal, was also charged with intimidating voters. Janies Morris, John Hughes and John Brown swore that Deputy-Marshal Sanno was drunk all day. Niue or ten persons not on the list voted, but they did not know personally if they were illegal voters. Some forty or fifty Democrats were challenged. The Democrats were afraid to vote, for fear of being arrested. Patrick MhirleV and George Thompson testified that Deputy-Marshal James Brown was arrested in 1872 for illegal voting. The Clerk of the United States Court produced bis record and showed that Brown was convicted and sentenced on Dec. 14, 1872. . . A number of witnesses testified as to intimidation and their arrest by Deputy Marshals and the return of their poll-tax receipts without trial. ... Detective Charles Miller, of the Distriot Attorney's office, swore that a gang of repeaters visited the Seventeenth Division of the Nineteenth Ward. One of them was brought up hy a letter-carrier now in office and personated Mr. Motts. The witness knew Motts and arrested the repeater. The witnesa knew Philip Madden, Deputy Marshal. He was one of the worst men in Philadelphia, violent and dangerous. He has been out of Prison about eight months. Andrew I-amviUe is a fugitive from justice. Dan Bedding is a bad and dangerous character and has been tried for murder. George Cornelius is of bad reputation. Michael Slater ia a notorious repeater and thief. Pitta keeps a gambling place. He is colored, aed has been arrested. Henry Scott, colored, has a bad reputation. Rodney F. Springfield was tried for murder and acquitted. All these men were Deputy Marshals to the knowledge of the detective. He also mentioned several other parties of bad reputation.

What Will They Do With It?

For the last fifteen years the Democracy have been boasting and promising what they would do when they obtained power. During the period named their entire political stock in trade has consisted in abusing the Republican party, antagonizing all its measures, and promising what they, the Democracy, would do when they got in power. They were to reform all abuses, remedy all wrongs and cure all evils. They would substitute good times for hard times, prosperity for depression and good fortune for ill. Under Democratic rule there should be remunerative employment for every person, and the times, which they declared to be* so completely out of joint under Republican rule, were to be thoroughly repaired and put in perfect running order. This has been the burden of the Democratic argument for fifteen years past. Very well; at last they heve power, and now the 'question arises, ** What will they do with it?” They are in a position now to redeem all their promises and to inaugurate the “good time” which they have been predicting for fifteen years would come to pass when the Democrats obtained power. They now control the Legislative Department o? the government and can pass any laws they may see fit to pass. The only qualification 6T tinsstatement-Ernst-, dential veto, and that is riot a material qualification so far as the present case is concerned. The President v/ill not veto any measure of general utility of that is calculated to promote the National welfare or prosperity. On the contrary, if the Democracy will frame and pass any measure of that kind they can count on the President’s prompt approval and hearty co-opera-tion to carry it into effect. They have promised to cure hard times; let them bring forward their curative measure. They have promised to furnish employment for the unemployed; lea thern proceed at once to the fulfillment of their promise. There need be no fear that the President will veto any measure of public benefit or utility. If the Democrats can devise any measure that will lessen the burden’ of taxation or enable the people to carry it more easily; if they can pass any bill that will increase or develop the National resources, that will extend our domestic or foreign commerce, that will build up home manufactures or open new markets for our produce, that will enlarge the avenues of trade, attract immigration, increase the profits of labor, or the rate of wages, or the purchasing power of money—in short, if they can do or suggest anything that will tend to the general welfare, they can count on the hearty co-operation of the President. Are they talking about anything of this kind ? Are, they discussing any measure of public utility? Nothing of the sort. They are only concerned about the distribution of the House and Senate spoils, and about the repealpf the United States Supervisor law, "which is the only law on the statute-books to punish frauds in Congressional elections. Their present attitude shows that it is one thing fora political pasty to make grand promises as to-what it will do when it obtains power, and quite another to adopt a wise programme after it has achieved success. The Democrats have obtained power, and now the question is, what will they do with itP —lndianapolis Journal. —Sour-Krout. —Take one quart of souv-krout; do not wash it; if the krout is bought at the proper place it is quite as clean as are pickles or any other vegetable preparation. Put the sour- krout in an iron pot with a gill of water; it is wise to scour the pot carefully beforehand, for if the, metal Be rnsted the acids in the cabbage will dissolve the iron and inake the dish look blackish; let the cabbage cook slowly for an hour and a half; then add either a piece of fat brisket of thr.ef pounds, or a piece of pickled pork’, or the hock of a ham. Let the krout cook then, slowly for an hour and a half were;' awr eotMidd salfc, bu 4 a “dozen* 1 whole black peppers; when thoroughly cooked, drain the whole through a oolander. A Boston young lady speaks of her brother’s “ botit-jonn.”

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. —A sign of the times—To-rent—Sy-racuse Her aid. —Grate sympathy—That given to jailed criminals. — A Chicago verdict—“ Guilty, but. not very guilty." —He is a wise Egyptian who knows his own mummy. —Woman's sphere—That she will never get married. —The onion is said to be the early harbinger of spring. • —A French Count once said, “No fruit ripens iu England but a baked apple.” v. —The best are the cheapest. Thu is more especially so in t|»e matter of wives. * “ You can gamble your saccharine existence," is the way they say it now. — Clipper. —The revival of tho old Garibaldi waist is threatened by the English dressmakers. —Many a young fellow is more successful in walking into the affections of his girl than ift a walking match. —ln Mexico the most enterprising, of the newspapers are printed in the afternoon and distributed or sold the following morning. —A grave-digger bnried a man named Button and brought in the following bill to the widow: “To making one Button hole, $5." —“ Always pay as you go,” said an old man to his nephew. “ But, uncle, suppose I haven’t anything to pay withP” “ Then don’t go." —“Led astray,” remarked a fellow who was robbing a roost, as he felt some No. 9 shot pattering against his revolver pocket.— Wheeling Etader. —lt is understood that a distinguished bigamist in Illinois proposes to get married one thousand times in one thousand quarter hours.— Buffalo Express. —The foundation for the meanest man is laid when the small boy turns the worm hole in an apple for his companion to bite from.— Cincinnati Enquirer. —The New Orleans Picayune cruelly remarks that “ The heart of many a burned : out merchant has been hurt by thoughtless insfltance companies inquiring into the cause of a fire.” —When a boy walks with a girl as though he was afraid some one would see him, the girl is his sister. If he walks so close to her as to nearly crowd her against the fence, she is the sister of some one else. —lt is heartrending to make such corrections, but it is very necessary sometimes. “In speaking of President of our local bank last week," says a journal, “for ‘He skedaddled, 1 please read, ‘ His schedule.’ ”

—Every now and then some chap writes to a newspaper for a recipe to prevent hair from coming out. If men would;'go home from the lodge before midnight with their legs sober, their hair wouldn’t come out so rapidly. We always go home early, and we have more hair now than the day we were born. —Norristown Herald. —A seedy-looking individual stepped into one of our gentlemen’s furnishing stores recently, and asked for a pair of four-ply cuffs. The articles were handed him, and he examined them in a dubious sort of way, and then remarked: “ See here? these "ain’t the right tfatßgjT want the four-ply kind—them that you can turn four times without washing.” —Boston Courier. —She was really charming, and seemed to enjoy very much the “quail on toast” until her pearly teeth struck a couple of shot, then her countenance changed, her expression became wrathy, and she said: “It is too mean that they leave those nasty shot in the birds.” “Why,” said he, “they are good for the digestion.” “Yes,’ 1 said she, “ they may be, but I don’t want to die jest that way. ".—Danbury News. —ln the Russian paper Siberia is printed a curious petition of a nobleman to a high. ..imperial officer; “ All your petitioners usually trouble you about the affairs of this life; but I beg leave to trouble you about death. Though but thirty-seven years 'old, I shall soon depart this world, for my health is ruined. I trust mv soul to God and my body to you. The idea of its decay is the burden of my life; and therefore I respectfully request an order tjiat it be burned on the woodpile, for which I have already provided twenty-five cords of wood.” —There is great stir in fashionable circles in New York over the rumored visit of the Marquis of Lome and the Princess Louise to that city, in the month of May. Many efforts have been made to induce the Marquis and his wife to go to New York as the guests of private citizens, without success, and it is now said they are coming on their own account. They will lodge at the Windsor‘Hotel, perhaps out of compliment to the name of the building. The proprietors say they have rented a suite of twelve rooms especially for their accommodation. The rooms are now in the hands of the decorators and are being furnished anew with elegant paper hangings, frescoes* carpets and furniture. The arms of England will be emblazoned on the walls everywhere, and various mottoes appropriate to the occasion will also appear in the decorations. It is stated that the Marquis and his wife will be accompanied to New York by a large number of Canadian officers and gentlemen. They are expected to leave about the 7tb of May. They have chosen an excellent month for the visit Very few people will have gone out of town into the country then. . i

The Democratic Return to Power.

In the session 'of Congress which opened the other day, the Democratic party, for the first time in twenty years, will have a majority in both houses. The last Congress in which the Democrats held the same degree of power was the Thirty-fifth, and even at that time their waning influence had received a severe check In the election of Mr. Banks to the Speakership of the previous House, after a struggle lasting from the 4th of December ,to the 2d of February, and embracing one hundred and thirty ballotings. Still, the organization of the Democrats was in appearance compact, add their numerical strength great They had 39 members of the Senate, to 20 liepublicans and 5 Americans, and 131 members of the House, to 92 Republicans and 14 Americans. In the next Congress the Republicans had reached 25 in the Senate, to the Democrats 38 and Americans 2, while in the House they-hajdll3,to.the-DoßmeratslOl and Americans 23. And of the 101" Democrats, 8 were opposed to the Administration of President Buchanan, and represented constituencies which soon became Republican. Before the Thirty-sixth Congress came to an end

the Southern Senators and most of the Representatives, had withdrawn froth the capital, and left the Legislative Department of the Government in undisputed possession of the party which was from that moment to cany it through the terrible trial of Civil War and the scarcely less severe ordeal of reconstruction. "The issue on which the Democrats lost the Government was in form and general outline verf simple, though as wide aa the land in its application, and involving many and complicated results in its settlement. It was. Is slavery or freedom national P and the ift&indiale measure as to which the principles of, the opposing parties were asserted was, Shall Congress prohibit or protect slavery in the TerritoriesP On that question the South, seeing tho tendency of public opinion In the North overwhelmingly and permanently against it, rejected the arbitrament of the ballot and challenged that of Civil War. Although the Democracy for mapy years before the war had held professions of the loftiest devotion to the Union, its animating spirit was essentially sectional. It was for the Union so long as the South was dominant in the National Government. As a party its love for the Union broke down the moment the National Government passed into the hands of its opponents. During the war, as before and since, it was constantly hampered by its blind attachment to its Southern leaders, its besotted sympathy with the powerful section which nad always controlled its counsels and shaped its course. With the approach of war, a noble opportunity was presented to it. Had it had the sagacity and the moral courage to repudiate completely the aims ana principles of the South, to let slavery die as the consequence of the crime of its supporters, to hold up the hands of the Administration in the most energetic measures for the suppression of the rebellion, and at the same time to concentrate its force on the task of moderating and regulating the policy of the Republicans, it might have made for itself an honorable record, and disputed far sooner than it did the supremacy it had lost and which it has now partly regained, by means not creditable to itself or of advantage to the country. The Republicans assumed the reins of government at a time of intense excitement, and surrounded by immense perils and difficulties. Its leaders were in great degree untrained, and its opinions on all, except the one supreme Question of freedom and the Union, jvere unformed. It plunged almost immediately into serious errors. Its fiscal measures were crude, wasteful and extravagant; Its financial

measures were even worse, its organization of the civil service was blind and reckless. Had the Democrats, skilled as many of their leaders were, chosen the part of a rational and loyal opposition, they might have at all times commanded respect; they might not unfrequently have won important victories; and they would certainly have maintained a party existence very different from the shameful and humiliating one which they led for the next fifteen years. When they finally came again to have a majority in Congress, they would have been a party of distinct and practical principles, capable of administering the Government in a wholesome, and conservative, and honest fashion. That they chose an opposite course shows how true is the judgment that the essential spirit of the party was that of servitude to the South, and that once having lost the guidance of the leaders of that section, within the Union, they had no sound and living principles, based on an honest interpretation of the Constitution and a' sincere appreciation of the public interests, to fall back upon. The justice of this judgment is still further sustained by the manner in which they have partly regained power. The Democrats to-day have no positive and substantial claim to the confidence of the country. They owe their return to power in part to weariness with the ill use which the Re-

publicans have, to some degree, made of their opportunities, in part to fraud and violence in the solid South, and, in great measure, to their most outrageous pandering to the dishonest desires and ignorant prejudices pf a portion of the people with reference to the finances. There is not a single principle of sound Constitutional interpretation which they are expected to apply, not a single measure of wise administration which they are expected to enact. Under an entirely illusory and deceitful profession of extraordinary devotion to the rights of the States, it is known that they will not only refrain from repressing, but will encourage the attempts of the South to wrong the entire country by the perversion and corruption of the suffrage. Under alike pretense, equally known to be false, they will try to turn the ballot-boxes of the North over to. repeaters and fraudulent Canvassers, such as were furnished by Tammany in its palmy days. At the same time, in flagrant defiance of the principle they profess, they will try to sustain the most enormous and dangerous centralization of poWer in the houses of Congress, simply because these are in their hands. With like inconsistency as to centralization, and with a defiant disregard of sound financial principles, they will seek to make the Federal Government the absolute and arbitrary possessor of thp power to enrich or impoverish individuals by the control of the currency. By these two signs—the solid South and the usurpation of the power of Federal interference in finance—they have conquered, and by these they must be guided. It will be for the leaders of the Republican party to say whether their dangerous tendencies shall be brought to condemnation before the people, and whether a wiser, stronger, more honest party shall check their progress, and give to the country the substantial blessing of a wsally reformed Government. — N. T. Times. , ki*

the Democratic Majority in Congress.

Mr. Randall was elected Speaker by just one majority. To secure this result it was necessary to send out for the lame, and halt, and blind, and retarded Demohratio members from all sides. One man from the Pacific Coast spanned the continent in the style of Puck, proposed to “ Put a girdle round about the earth in forty minutea?’ 3 '" > Special trains, bolted meals, and sleepless nights were endured under this pressure of partisan zeal to secure a Democratic majority for the reorganization of the House. A paralyzed member was kept in' reserve to meet lha dreadfuL wnergencv of a possible. defeat O’Reilley, the Brooklyn Aiderman and Congressman, was forced, much against his desires, to surrender the superior honors and emoluments of Aldermanic life for the mere trifle of (tr.OOO a year and the empty privilege

of a seat in Congress, in order to fill up the quota necessary to elect a Democratic Speaker. Every Democrat wa* coaxed or bullied into a yorittce of personal or sectional prejudices, and, after all had been whipped into line, there was a bare majority of one for Randall and Demo-Confed organization . „ T , Aftdr this experience, the DemoConfed managers concluded that their margin of votes in the House was altogether too small to protect their party rule from accidents. The absence of a single member at any time might put the most important partisan measure in jeopardy. Even Democratic Confressmen get sick sometimes; they ave been known to get drunk; sometimes, but not often, they die; the privilege of their position protects them from arrest, but, nevertheless, there is a constant danger of one or. two members dropping out, and this ordinary occurrence might occasion extraordinary distress \vhere power is held by so frail a tenure as one, two or even three majority. Hence the very business at which the House Democrats set themselves was to enlarge their majority. There was only one way to do this, viz.: By turning out Republicans who had been elected and seating Democrats who had not been elected. No time was lost in going at this work, and Mr. Bisbee, o l Honda, was the first victim. The admission of Hull in place of Bisbee is a flagrant outrage, and in defiance of all law and right. In the last Congress, when the Democrats had a majority in the House large enough to rely upon, they did not dare to oust Mr. Bisbee from his seat, and subject themselves to public criticism, till the very closing days; then they admitted his opponet, Finley, as a means for giving tho latter as well as the former, the salary attached to the place. But, in the present Congress, the Democrats need tho vote of Bisbee’s Democratic contestant, and so admit him at once more ado. Hull has no lawful nor rightful claim upon the seat. His pretended election by thirteen majority was secured by barefaced frauds in two counties in his district. These frauds have been proved up beyond any doubt, and some of the persons who perpetrated them are now under indictment. The Florida Supreme Court (Democratic) had pa’ssed upon the case, and canceled the certificate of election which had been issued to Hull. This canceled certificate was Hull’s single claim to admission, but it was enough for the Demo-Confeds who wanted to increase their majority. It was in vain that Messrs. Garfield, Frye, Hiscock, and others expounded the true status of the case. It was iu vain that Belford, of Colorado, reminded tho Democrats that he had been excluded by them from the last House, though he held a Governor’s certificate of election which had never been canceled or disputed. The Confederates cared not for law, precedent, justice, or consistency; they felt the necessity of increasing their party majority, and for that purpose, and without other justification, they voted in an indicted ballot-box stuffer, Hull, who was not elected, and voted out Bisbee, who was elected. This action, at the very opening of Congress, is significant of the poiicy which the Demo-Confeds propose to follow. Their policy is to be not merely partisan but bull-dozing. There is to be a servile submission to all the caucus mandates. There is no indication that a single Democrat, elected and classified as such, will resist anv part of the bull-dozing programme. Democrats in the Illinois delegation, like Bill Springer, Sparks, Morrison, Townshend, and even Singleton, will be as servile as the most rabid Bourbon from Mississippi or Alabama. They all voted for Hull’s admission. The vote on the Florida case shows, however, that the Democrats have been counting without their host whenever they have reckoned upon the Greenback vote in helping them carry out their dishonest party schemes. As the Greenbackers started out independently in the Speakership struggle, so they seem inclined to act independently in other matters. Only one 6f them (Ladd, of Maine,) voted with the Democrats. Greenbackers of Democratic antecedents, like Wright, of Pennsylvania, and Stevenson, of Illinois, voted against the Democrats in this partisan matter, and, of course, Greenbackers of Republican antecedents, like Forsythe, of Illinois, and De LaMatyr, of Indiana, opposed the partisan outrage. This Greenback vote warrants tho expectation that the Greenbackers will act together independently and fairly in all questions outside or their special hobby; but they will scarcely be a factor in legislation,, for, in a few days, the Democrats will have unseated enough Republicans to render their own majority ample and reliable. —Chicago Tribune.

The Patent Buffer.

It was a reporter on a live daily who had glued his lynx eye to the keyhole of a Baldwin Hotel room the other day, when he was disgusted to find, on looking up, that the occupant of the apartment was beaming benevolently down on him from the transom. “Day, day!” said the guest, cheerfully, “ guess you’ve struck the wrong number. The man suspected of a forgery and being a politician is next door, and the man with four wives is just acrossthe hall.” “ I—really mus’ excuse,” stammered the for-once abashed special. , “ Not at all; don’t mention it,’ r put in the boarder, jumping down and pulling the quilldriver into the room. “ Fact is, I was just 'laying for one of you fellows; knew you’d be along presently.” “ Want to be interviewed?” .. “No. I want to show you press gentlemen si little invention of mine that ought to be in the possession of every reporter in the country, and it it will bo, too. I expect to sell no end of ’em to your paper alone.” “Do, eh?” . „ ><< Certainly. I call it the Reporters’ Patent Spiral Spring and India-Rubber Nose-Buffer. You nave often in the fulfillment of your duties had the door through which you were looking opened most unexpectedly, inflicting a severe blow upon the nasal extremity. This sometimes leads to inflammation, especially where the keyhole is brass; gangrene sets in, lockjaw, death! Now, all you fellows have .to do is to carry a patent buffer, put up in one of these elegant morocco oases, and ” But the newspaper man made a dash for the elevator,,.and escaped. —San Francisco Post. Custom-House decision in regard to Of a hill* they, shall be entitled to a draw-back;. —Stephen W. Dorsey, of Arkansas, is the youngest United States Senator; being thirty-seven.