Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1879 — Page 2

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General News Summary.

From Wsudrinffton. Ow tt* IM, Vice-President Wheeler was called »w*y by akkaeaa ta Mt family, and the Senate elected Senator Thurman, of Ohio, a* President pro tan. The Republican, voted for Perry, of Michigan. Pnor. Cr*ca Thomas, State Entomologist of mtnota, Bm been appointed to and declined the position of Kntomoloztst to the DepartBMntof AettenlUtre at Washlnuton. A DECISION baa been rendered by the At-tontey-General of the United States, affirming a former ruling of the Asrtstant AttorneyGeneral for the Poetoffice Department, that a renter publication. designed primarily for advertising purposes, cannot be sent through the mails at rates charged legitimate newspapers. Tn entire lot of 4-per-centa having been subscribed by the New York Syndicate, Sec’y Sherman, on the 18th, withdrew Ms late circular calling in for redemption the 10-40 loan. The Secretary further announces that “ the |lO refunding certificates will hereafter be exchanged for lawful money, In sums not to exesad 6100 st one time, by the Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer* of the United States, and by all public officers bonded for thst purpose. They will not be issued hereafter upon the certificate of any National Bank depositary. Oocamissions on such exchange heretofore or hereafter made will be allowed at the rate of Xof 1 per cent on any aggregate of 61.000, without regard to the period in which such exchanges are made. Departmen t circulars of March 12 and 26,1879, are modified accordingly. ** . > Tu Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, as announced at a joint caucus held in Washington, on the night of the 18tb, la as follows: Maine, Representative Lindsey; New Hampshire, Senator Rollins; Veramt, Representative Tyler; Massachusetts, Representative Crapo; Rhode Island, Senator Burnside; Connecticut, Representative Walt; New Turk, Representative Hiscock; New Jersey, Representative Robeson; Pennsylvania, Representative Fisher; Maryland, Representative Urnea ; Virginia, Representative Jorgensen; North Carolina, Representative Martin; Mississippi, Senator Brux; Louisiana, Senator Kellogg; Ohio, Representative McKinley; Tennessee, Representative Houck; Indiana, Representative Orth; Illinois, ; Michigan, Representative Hubbell: Florida, Horatio Bisbee; lowa, Representative Allerton; California, Senator Booth; Minnesota, Representative Dunnell; Kansas, Represent ail re | Nebraska, Senator Paddock;. Colorado, Representative Belford; Washington Territory, Delegate Brents; Dakota Territory, Delegate Bennett. President HaYes had an Interview with Chief Moses and other Indians, at the Executive Mansion, on the 19th, at which he said be was glad to see them, and that he hoped Sec’y Schurt would make a settlement with them which would be satisfactory. The President expressed a desire to deal justly with them, and he hoped the Indians would always be the friends of the Government as the Government was their friend. Borne of the Umatilla Indiana, while at the office of the Secretary of the Interior, expressed their dissatisfaction with the terms agreed upon, on the 18th, but Chief Moses stood to the contract Bxc’r Sherman, on the 18th, issued the ninety-eighth call for the redemption 'of bonds, the cal) being for 6160,000,000 10-40 bonds of 1864—>46,775,000 being coupon, and 1118,225,000 registered. The principal and accrued Interest will be paid on and after July 18, interest to cease on that day. Os the 19th, 910,000,000 of 4-per-cents were shipped tp Europe. Tns Secretary of War addressed a letter to Gen. Sherman, on the 19th, directing that in case Bitting Bull or any of his followers crossed the border, they be held prisoners of war until further orders from the President The East. R. G. Dux & Co. place the number of failures in the States and Territories during the quarter ending March 31, 1879, at 2,524, with liabilities of 643,112,665. For the same time last year the failures numbered 3,355, and the liabilities amounted to 682,078,826. Miss Jcub E. Smith, the surviving sister of the celebrated tax-fighting sisters, of Glastonbury, Conn., was married, a few days ago, to Mr. Amos G. Parker, of New Hampshire. Both bride and groom are eighty-six years old. ' John p. Phair, who was recently hanged at Windsor, Vt, left behind him a statement, in which be insists that he was unjustly condemned, and declares that he was innocent of the crime for which be was to suffer. At the Talmage trial before the New York Presbytery, on the 14th, one of the members moved to dismiss the charges. The defense strenuously objected, claiming the right to show their utter groundlessness, and the motion waa withdrawn. A New York telegram of the 17th| states that a Syndicate, composed of banks of that city and Boston. uart-sutaeribed for 6150,000, - 000 4-per-cent. Government bonds and 640,OOQ/klO funding certificates, this being the largest single subscription ever made to a Gove: ament loan in this or any other country. The subscription was made according to the terms prescribed by Sec’y Sherman In his circular as the 16th. A wife-murderer, named Hezekiah Shaffer, was hanged at Chambersburg, Pa., on the 17th. He was carried to the scaffold ip a blanket, the loss of blood consequent upon an attempt at suicide, a few nights before, rendering him unable to walk. The New York Assembly have adopted a resolution tendering to Gen. Grant the hospitalities of the State on his return from his travels abroad, and the Philadelphia Common Council has decided to send a committee to California to welcome him on his arrival. Tu following were the closing quotations for produce in New York, on April 19th: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, 99c©61.01; Na 2 Milwaukee, [email protected]. Oats, Wesvera Mixed, 31@31*<c. Corn, Western Mixed, 44#@45c. Pork, Mess, 69.40©10.37jf. Lard, Flour, Good to Choice, «3.95 ©4.50; White Wheat Extra, 64.55tf5.25. Cattle, 68.75©10.75 for Good to Extra. Sheep, 64.25(96.25. Hoga, [email protected]. At East Liberty, Fla., on April 19th, Cattle brought: Best, [email protected]; .Medium, 64.65© 4.86; Common, •3.80&4.25. Hogs sold— Yorkers, >3.50©3 60; Philadelphia, 63.90@ 4.00. Sheep brought [email protected]—according to quality. AT Baltimore, Md., on April 19th, Cattte brought; Best, Medium 68.M©4.«7tf. Hogs sold at 85.0035.75 for Good. Sheep were quoted at 64.00@612X for Good, Wert and Booth. Or the afternoon of the 14th, a eyctone visited the Town of Collinsville, in Madison County, fit, centering in the main street of the village. Fifty bouses snd business structural wen leveled to the ground, three persons were killed and several others iporo or less hurt. The cemetery just outside the town was laM waste and every tombstone in it destroyed. Arftatata, M, « tM4th, Judo? Bond, of the United States Circuit Court, de nied the motfcm of defendants in the election Sto ret aside the juries as illegally court; alto a motion to continue the caass,

and a motion to prevent the teat oath from being administered to the jurors. Hie associate, Judge Bryan, dissented, and Judge Bend announced that, pending appeal ts the Supreme Court on these lasuas, the accused, if convicted, would be admitted to bait About aoon, on lhe IMb, some daring thieves entered the State Treasurers' office st Springfield, 111., and, while the attention of thednkin charge was directed elsewhere, reached over the railing and stole a 15,000package of currency. Upto midnight, no clue had been secured to the thief or thieves, although two persona had been arrested on susVioksuvro (Mias.) dispatches of the 15th say the negro exodus continued, every Bt. Louis packet taking great numbers. At every landing between Vicksburg and Memphis were negroes on the levee awaiting transportation. i Tua lowa State Republican Convention has been called to meet at DcsMoincs, on Wednesday, June 11, to nominate candidates for Governor, Lleuteuant-Governor and other State officers. ..., A special election was lately held in the Sixth Texas District to elect a Member of Congress tn place of Hon. Gustav Schleicher, lately deceased. Returns, -received on the 16th, Indicated the election of Upson (Dem.) by 3,000 majority over Maney (Greenback.) The Refugee Relief Committee of St. Louis, on the 16th, made an additional appeal for aid, stating that the tide of colored emigration from the South had again set in. and the committee were not only out of money, but were several hundred dollars in debt So far over 6,000 emigrants had arrived there of whom about 2,000 were able to pay their way to Kansas. The remainder were sheltered, fed and partially clothed while in St. Louis, and their passage was paid to Wyandotte, Kan. Aid in money or clothing may be sent to Rev. John Turner, 1512 Morgan street, or Rev. Moses Dickson, 1211 Morgan street. Thh full returns of the late election in Wisconsin show that Judge Cole, the Republican candidate for Justice of the Supreme Court, •eceived a majority of 33,133 votes. The Illinois House of Representatives have released Frank E. Nevins, the recusant reporter of the Chicago Tribune, who refused to testify as to certain charges against some of the members, from imprisonment An application was recently made by the Mayor of Wyandotte, Kan., to the Secretary of War for the issue of rations to feed the colored people who have lately landed there from the South In a destitute condition. The Secretary replied thit ba had no authority to grant the request, and referred the petitioners to. Congress. The Citizens’ Relief Committee of that city have issued an appeal to the i üblie for contributions to aid the suffering immigrants. The jury In the Olive murder trial, at Hastings, Neb., brought in a verdict, on the 17th, of murder in the second degree against J. P. Olive and Frederick Fishe, and the Judge sentenced both the prisoners to the Penitentiary for life. The crime for which they were tried was that of murdering Luther Mitchell, by shooting and burning, in Custer County, in December last. Four other parties were to be tried for the same crime. A terrible windstorm passed over the lowerportion of South Carolina, on the night of the 16th, causing great destruction to life and property. In the Village of Walterboro, more than one hundred dwellings and all the churches were swept away. Fifteen persons were killed and many others wounded. A burglar, who was attempting to escape from the police, was shot dead on LaSalle street, in Chicago, on the night of the 17th. On the 17th, James Carroll (colored), accused of an outrageous assault upon a white woman, at Licksville, Md., was taken from a railroad train, at Washington Junction, by a band of masked men, pulled across a field to the nearest tree and hanged. It is authoritatively stated that the President has set aside a very large reservation in Washington Territory for Chief Moses and bis people, with such other tribes as may affiliate and the Secretary of the Interior may send. On the night of the 18th, a train on the Hannibal & St. Joe Railroad struck the bridge over Fishing Creek, near "Kearney, Mb., just after it had been set on fire by a passing locomotive. When the train reached the middle the whole structure gave way, and the engine and thirteen stock-laden cars were precipitated into the stream twenty feet below. One man was burned to death and all the train-men, except thp fireman, who saved himself by. leaping overboard as the engine went over, were more or less injured. At a Colored Convention, held in New Orleans on the 19tb, a resolution indorsing emigration was passed unanimously. A committee was appointed to attend a mass meeting in Mobile. The New Orleans tobacco cases have been compromised by the payment of a large sum to the Government. In Chicago, on April 19th, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at cash; 86%c for April; 87%@87%c for May. Cash Corn closed at for No. 2; 33Xc for April; 34%c for May. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 81c, and 24%c seller Mav. Rye No. 2, 46X@48c. Barley Na 2, 69X@70c for cash; 69X©70cfor April. «Cash Mess Pork closed at [email protected]. Lard. 65 87X- Beeves —Extra brought $4.80(85.10; Choice, 14 50 Good, »[email protected]; Medium Grades, $3.85(34.10; Butchers’ Stock, $2.65®3.90; Stock Cattle, etc.. [email protected]. togs— Good to Choice, [email protected]. Sheep—Poor to Choice, [email protected]. Foreign Intelligence. An unsuccessful attempt was made to tjke the life of the Czar of Russia, on the morning of the 14th. While he was walking near his palace in St. Petersburg, four shots were fired at him, but he was unhurt. The would-be assassin was arrested by a crowd which assembled on hearing the noise of the firing. The city was Immediately decorated In thankfulness for the Czar’s escape. A Berlin dispatch of the 14th announces the discovery of a very productive petroleum spring near Pechelbroun, in Alsace. Official announcement has been made that the Russians will begin the evacuation of Roumelia and Bulgaria, on the Ist of May. Gen. GARiBALDJ.has written a letter strongly advocating universal suffrage throughout Italy. According to St. Petersburg dispatches of the 15th, the feeling in official circles, in consequence of the recent attempt upon the life of the Cztt, was one of mingled terror, rage and mutual distrust The report prevailed that the heads of the secret police force had tendered their resignations because they had learned that three fourths of their subordinates were Nihilists. The name of the Czar’c assailant had been ascertained to be SoJdwjeff. « London dispatches of the 15th say that many of the striking miners were emigrating to the United States and the Colonies. Berlin dispatches of the 16th say that Solowjeff, the would-be assassin of. the Ozar, had confessed that he waa appointed by lot to shoot the I A Cairo (Egypt) telegram of the 16th says the Khedive had recalled all furloughed officers and disbanded taildiers. The striking miners in the Durham District numbered 40,000, on the 16th. It was believed, however, that the trouble would be speedily settled. According to Cape Town dispatches, received In London on the 16th, Kinfc Cetewayo with overtures of peace. Thj Ekowe relief, column was started on the 28th Of March. W the 80th, in a fight with 20,000 Zulus, the column lost seventy-seven m< h.

The fl re-works factory at Angouleme, France, exploded, on the 16lh. Seven persons were killed outright and many more were mlsslqg. ■ , , Disratc'nss from 8L Petersburg, received on the’l7ih, ssy the Chief of Police of the City of Archangel had been eseesslnated. Tbs Chief of Police of the Town of Yells, In the Crimea, had been arrested as a revolutionist. TheCaarhed appointed a special Commission” er to devise repressive measures against the Nlhlllsta, Berlin papers of the 17tb say that Russia had demanded the extradition of certain Nihilists domiciled In London, and that England had refused to honor the demand. A Conbtantinopxk telegram of . the 17th says great financial distress prevailed there and throughout Turkey. The currency was greatly depreciated, 610 In paper selling for 61 in gold. On the 17th, an explosion of fire-damp occurred in the AgrappoCoal Mine, near Mons, In Belgium. There were 240 men in the pit. According to a Constantinople telegram of the 18th, the Sultan, In receiving the Egyptian envoy, had expressed his disapprobation of the Khcdlve’a conduct, but said he did not Intend to dethrone him. Several of the German prelates have offered to resign their seats to facilitate nego nations between Germany and the Vatican. The rivers forming the Theiss have again overflowed their banks and sulonerged hundreds of square miles of territory. Szegedln and several other important Hungarian towns were again threatened. The Russian newspapers have beau forbidden to make further allusions to the late attempt on tpe life of the Czar. London dispatches of the 18th say England’s trade with China would have to be abandoned, for the reason that American opposition and enterprise bad killed British rivalry in that portion of the world. An American horse. Parole, won the stakes at the Newmarket (Eng.) laces a few days ago. The Turks are fortifying the coast of Epirus, and Turkish men-of-war are cruising iu adjacent waters to ward off all anticipated Italian and Albanian attacks. ,A revolution recently broke out iu Panama. There was fighting in the streets of that city for fourteen hours, and many were killed. All was quiet at last Accounts. Up to the evening of the 18th, eighty-nine persons had been rescued from the burning Belgian coal mine. The Czar issued a ukase, at St. Petersburg, on the 18tb, directing the appointment of a Governor-General for each ot the most populous districts In Russia, with despotic powers, exceeding those even of Generals in time of war. A gas explosion recently occurred in the coal-mines at Departure Bay, Vancouver’s Island. Eleven men were killed outright and fifteen or twenty were seriously injured. According to St. Petersburg dispatches on the 19th, a riot recently occurred at Rostav, on the Don, which was only suppressed after tbe military had been called out. TheffightIng continued during one entire night, and the residences of the Chief of Police and Town Overseer and the police station and police records were destroyed. Several policemen were killed. '• The publisher of a Paris newspaper was fined 6,000 francs and sentenced to eight months’ imprsonment lately, for printing a scurrilous attack on Catholicism. A Belgrade dispatch of the 19th says an Albanian force had taken possession ,of Kurshumlie, and massacred all the Christian inhabitants. According to a Paris telegram of the 20th, the epidemic of glanders prevailed to an alarming extent in the cavalry stables at Lyons. Already over 400,QU0 francs’ worth of horses had been slaughtered because of the malady. The Sultan has finally ratified the NoviBazar Convention with Austria. Bombay (India)dispatches, received in London on the 20th, say intelligence had been received from Mandalay that the King of Burmah had declared to his counsellors that henceforth he would neither listen to or speak of proposals for an accommodation with Great Britain.

Congressional Proceedings. Various memorials and bills were introduced and referred in the Senate, on the 14th, among the latter being one to amend the Constitution in regard to appropriations, and one to amend the Revised Statutes in regard to the election of United States Senators, the design being to remedy a defect in the existing law, which was brought into public view by the New Hampshire ca«e.... Consideration was resumed of the Army Appropriation hill, the pending question being on the amendment ottered by Mr. Blaine, prohibiting the appearance, within a mile of a polling-place, of any person armed with a deadly weapon of any kind, and Mr. Blaine addressed the Senate in opposition to the proposed repeal of the clause conferring on the General Government the power to use the military to keep the peace at the polls. Messrs. Withers and Wallace followed in reply. Mr. Logan obtained the Boor, when an Executive session was held. In the House, when the Speaker called on the States for bills for reference. Mr. Ladd, of Maine, introduced a bill to put the coinage of gold and silver on the same footing, when Mr. Conger raised a point of order, which was overruled by the Speaker, and an appeal was taken, which was finally laid on the table—l 39 to 75- - the dilatory motions being made for the purpose of preventing the introduction of new bills relating to the finances ot the country; the morning hour was thus oonattmed.-.. A resolution was offered and defeated—yeas, 108; nays, 117—declaring that in the judgment of the House, the business interests of the country required that no legislation changing the law in. regard to the currency or the tariff should be undertaken at the present session of Congress....A bill was introduced to increase the efficiency of the National Board of Health and to prevent the introduction and spread of contagious diseases.... Bills were filed, under the head of petitions—providing for the free coinage of the standard silver dollar of 412 H grains, the same to be a f nil legal tender, except when- otherwise provided by contract: authorizing and requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase from time to time silver bullion, at the market price thereof, to the amount of such bullion as may be offered, provided such bullion is the product of any mine within the jurisdiction of the United States; such bullion to be coined into standard dollars to the capacity of the mints, in connection with other coinage: to regulate inter-Btate commerce, and to prohibit unjust discrimination by common carriers; to amend the Revised Statutes concerning commerce and navigation, and the regulation of steam vessels. In the Senate, on the 15th, the Secretary read a note from Vice-President Wheeler announcing his summons home because of the dangerous illness of his sister.... Mr. Bayard offered a resolution that Mr. Thurman be chosen President pro ttm. of the Senate. Mr. Anthony moved to substitute the name of Mr. Ferry, which was disagreed to—yean, 18; nays, 28—and the resolution was passed. Mr. Thurman was then conducted to the chair by Mr. Ferry, and returned thanks for the mark of confidence.... Bills were introduced and referred—to provide for an increase of the army in an emergency; to provide for the speedy completion of a line of railn sd and telegraph between the ports of the lower Mississippi River and the southern frontier of the United States, and to aid in the construction of the same, and for other purposes. ....Mt. Hoar asked to be relieved from service as a member of the Committee on Agriculture, and Mr. Cameron (Wis.) asked to be relieved from service as a member of the Committee on Routes to the Seaboard, and Mr. Bell was appointed to fill the vacancies thus occasioned. .... Mr. Lamar was appointed to fill a vacancy in the Committee on Education and Labor.... rhe Army Appropriation bill was taken np. and Mr. Logan spoke against the proposed legislation enacted by the House; Mr. Beck replied to Mr. Logan’s remarks. , In the House, the Senate bill for the purchase or construction of a refrigerating ship for the disinfection of vessels and cargoes was passed, with a trifling amendment.... A petition was filed by Mr. De LaMatyr fora bill prepared by him for the substitution of United States legaltender paper money for National Bank notes.... The Legislative Appropriation bill was further debated in Committee of the Whole, and a motion to insert a clause repealing the law creating the Southern Claims Commission was finally rejected-A3 to IOT. . was intnxlu&ed aed referred in the Senate, on the 16th. providing for the establishment of a steamship mail service between the United States and Brazil.... Mr. Beck concluded his remarks on the Army bill, and was followed by Mr. Dawes, who replied to the argu-

mrata of Mr. Beck... Wade Hampton waa aworn in and took hia aaat M Senator from Booth Carolina, taking the inodifioi uatb. A bill waa reported iq the Houae, from the (fomoiitteemidoiiiaHß. Weighta and MeaaUrea. for an inter Mange ot MiUi.riaxj coin fav Mnltendar m«MH, iu aunui of tan doUam and muHlplea th«reof, an«i making coin a legal tender >H SUSisfffiStti’aJte’Jta: tioui and the point of order waa raiaod that no bill on the aubject having been referred to a coinunttee, the committee had no right to make a report, which ixiint of order waa overruled by the Speaker...,A bill waa paaaed relating to the organization of* the Nauonal Board of Health...-The Legjaiative Appropriation bill was taken up in Comnuttae of the Whole, and a propneed amendment to repeal tbe acta eatablmhing the Southern Claima Commiaaiou, and directing the transfer of all pending caaea to the Court of Claima, we rejected. All the bill was diapoaed ot except the portions especially reserved for general diseoMioa. being the provieiona in respect to the inode of selecting Grand and Petit Jurors, repealing the JnrorV test <Mth. and in respect to Bupervtoom of Elections and Deputy Marshals. An effort to limit the apeechm tn thirty minutes each failed, and the Chair said there were ninety-aix names in the list of those desiring to speak. Mr. ijewis opened the debate and who followed by Mr. Sanford after whom Mr. Kelley obtained the floor, bnt be yielded to a motion that tbe committee rise, which motion was adopted. The discussion of the Army Appropriation bill was continued, in tbe Senate, on the 17th, Mr. Voorhees advocating, and Mr. Toller opposing, the proposed political legislation contained in the bill as passed by the House. In the House, a motion to refer to tbe Committee on Banking and Currency tbe bill, re ported on the 16th, providing for the exchange of subsidiary silver coin for legal tender* in all sum* not exceeding ten dollars waa rejected—88to 97—thus bringing the bill before tbe House. .... A motion was agreed to 131 to 91—that the debate on the legislative Appropriation bill should close on the 26th .. In Committee of the Whole, the legislative Appropriation bill waa debated by Measn. Kelley and Carlisle. A resolution offered by Mr. Wallace, to alter the rule* so that removals and appointments of officers of the Senate may be made by the Secretary and Serge*nt-at-Arms, respectively. without the approval of the President of the Senate, was considered in the Senate, on the 18th. ..The Army bill was further debated, Messrs. Randolph and Groome speaking in favor of the proptnen legislation repealing the law authorizing the nse of tbe army at elections... .Adjourned to the 21st. The morning hour was dispensed with in the House, and the Subsidiary Coin bill was not taken up.... The Legislative Appropriation bill was again taken up in Committee of the Whole, and speeches were made by Messrs. McKinley, Blackburn, House, Burrows. Gibson, Coffroth and Dickey, Mr. Price obtaining the floor just before tbe committee rose. The Senate was not in session, on the 19th. The Subsidiary Silver Coin bill came up as unfinished business. In the House, and a substitute was offered by Mr. Mills, providing for a silver dollar of 412 K grains, half dollars of 206*4 grains, quarters o( 103*;, dimes nf 41*< and half dime* of 20?» grama, and that all of them should be legal tender for any sum whatever; an amendment, offered by Mr. Garfield, was agreed to, substituting the words " lawful money of the United States, for “ legal-tender moneyan amendment waa also agreed to, increasing the legal-tender quality of the subsidiary silver coin to twenty dollars: several other amendments were offered, and the bill, with the pending amendments and Mr. Mills' substitute, went over without action. ..In Committee of the Whole, an exciting peson&l debate occurred between Messrs. Frye and Blackburn during the discussion of the Legislative bill. Messrs. Steele and Price also delivered speeches on the pending measure ... A motion to adjourn over Monday was defeated—39 to 67.

THE ARMY APPROPRIATION BILL.

An Interesting and Eloquent Speech by Senator Blaine—The Political Amendments to the Bill Fittingly Characterised—The Democracy Caring More for the State-Sovereignty Principle Involved than Fearing the Preoence of Federal Troops. The Senate, on tbe 14th, resumed consideration of the Army Appropriation bill, the question being on Mr. Blaine’s amendment prohibiting the appearance within one mile of a polling-place of any person armed with a deadly weapon of any kind, and Mr. Blaine addressed the Senate. He said the method adopted in the pending section to get rid of the eight closing words of the section of the Revised Statutes proposed to be repealed, namely, “or to keep the peace at the polls,” was an unusual and extraordinary method, lhe ordinary way to repeal a single sentence is to strike out the particular words objected to, but tbe mode chosen in this bill is to repeal and re-enact the whole section except the last eight words. He was persuaded that this unusual course was not taken accidentally, but designedly. If he so might speak, it came of cunning, the intent being to create the impression that the Republicans iu the administration of the General Government had used the troops right and left in every direction, and that as soon as the Deinbcrats got into power they proceeded to enaci this prohibitory sixth section, and the Democratic stump-speakers would doubtless make great political capital out of this idea, whereas every word of it from first to last was an enactment of the Republican p.irty. Whether intentionally or not, the issue thus presented was a dishonest one. The law was passed by a Republican Congress. There were forty-six Senators sitting in the Senate Chamber at the time, of whom only ten or at least eleven were Democrats and the House of Representatives was overwhelmingly Republican. We were in the midst of the Wai*. The Republican Administration had 1,010,000 or possibly 1,200,000 bayonets at its command, and. under the circumstances, with the amplest power to interfere with elections, had they so chosen, with soldiers in every hamlet and county of the United States, the Republican party themselves placed that on the statute-book and Abraham Lincoln signed it. He asked attention to the fact that this was the first instance in the legislation of the United States in which any restrictive clause whatever was put upon the statute-books In regard to the use of troops at the polls, and that was passed by the Republican party and signed by Abraham Lincoln when he had more troops under his control than Napoleon Bonaparte ever had. But the point is, said Mr. Blaine, to strike out the few words authorizing the use of troops to keep the peace at the polls; and the country is alarmed, or, he would rather say, amused, at the effort made to create the impression tiiat tbeßepublican party relied lor its popular strength upon the use of bayonets. This Democratic Congress has attempted by raising an issue false in every detail to create the impression, not only in America, but in Europe and throughout tbe civiliz.d world that elections in ibis country are attempted to be controlled by the bayonet. He denounced the issue as false, and though not at liberty to say that any geutieman making it knew its falsity, ■nd though he hoped they did not, he proposed to prove its utter lack of foundation. He had 1 n his band an abstract of all the troops of the United States east of Omaha, including the States bordering on the Mississippi River on tbe west, embracing a territory populated by 41,000,000 at least of the 45,000,000 supposed to be In this country to-day. By this statement he showed that in all that great territory only 2,977 soldiers are stationed. Within this domain 45 fortifications are manned and 11 arsenals protected. To every million people there are about 60 soldiers. The honorable Senator from Delaware was alarmed about the over-riding of a popular ballot by troops of the United States, but there is not a single Federal soldier in Delaware. Tbe honorable Senator from West Virginia (Hereford) had spoken of his State being trodden by tbe iron heel ot military despotism, but there is not a man in United States uniform on the soil of West Virginia In Maryland, 192 artillerymen at Fort McHenry gugyd the entrance to Baltimore’s beautiful harbor. In Virginia, there la a school of practice at Fortress Monroe. Outside of that school there Is nqt a Federal soldier in the, State. There are but 30 soldiers in North Carolina guarding a fort at th* mouth of Cape Fear River. In South Carolina there are 120 artillery men to guard the entrance to Charleston Harbor. There are 29 soldiers in Georgia, and 182 in Florida. There Is not one in Tennessee, Kentucky or Missouri. There are 57 iu Arkansas, 32 in Alabama and 239 in Louisiana. The great State ot MiseiMiDPi has not one on its soil, nor has Texas, except those guarding the frontier on the Rio Grande. In the entire South, said Mr. Blaine, there are 1,155 soldiers to intimidate, overrun, oppress ■nd destroy the liberties or 15,000,000 of people in 1,023 counties, or not quite 1 soldier to each county, or 1 soldier to about 700 square miles of terltory. There was an old saying, be continued, that there wer£soothsayers in Rome who could not look each other in the face without smiling, and no two Democratic Senators on the floor can go into the cloakroom and look each other in the face without smiling, or rather blushing, over this talk, the whole thing was such a miserable pretense, such a miserably manufactured false issue. In New England they had 380 soldiers, eg about 120 to every 1,000,000 people, whereas the ratio in the South was not quite 70, yet the peopte of New Vbiglanfl nevet eWMplsnwW of military power. The tendency ot this talk, as he had said, wat, to misrepresent us abroad, and tbe Democratic party stood indicted, and he hereby charged them with the public slander ot their country, creating the

Impression in the civilized world that we are under military despotism. But, continued Mr. Blaine, the real uritre o< the Democrats must lx- looked for elsewhere. IvJ* simply U> get rid of Federal supervision at election*, to get rid of thecivß poweg-of the United (Hates in the election of Representatives tA.Conitees, and therefore thia bill connects lIMIf dMctly with the bill which ni before Conxreii at the last session known aa the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill. He waa aware that parliamentary rules forbade him to discuss a bill pending beforadhe House of Representative*, but be slab knew thit nothing forbade him to apeak of what was nut done in the House, but in a Democratic caucus, Where this legtalalion was decided upon. Mr. Blaine discussed the legal questh m involved and, continuing, said: The de lzn now is to get rid of ail ctvti officers of the United States under the pretense of keeping troops Sway from- the poll*, and the amdbry ments which will be ottered will test the sincerity of the Democratic side on that point and show whether the Federal Government would be allowed representation at the polls at all, except by two men of straw, without any power, who can merely look on. He yrould go ao far as to say that it the bill went through In its present form the remainder of the law in regard to Marshals and Supervisors would be worth nothing, stnee there would be no power vested in the Federal Government to enforce Its provision*. We are told, said Mr. Blaine, and it is rather a novel thing, that it we do not agree to the bills as offered we are not to have an appropriation. That has been announced in Loth branches of .Congress, he supposed on the authority of the Democratic caucus. Not merely the Army Appropriation—they did not stop there, but in the Legislative bill, as it came from the caucus, there was an appropriation for defraying the expenses of the Supreme Court, Circuit Courts and District Courts of the United States provided that certain sections of the Revised Statutes be repealed. He had always understood that the Government was divided into three distinct Departments —Legislative, Executive and Judicial. But now the Legislative branch steps forward and says if the Executive does not sign the bills it offers it will starve the Judiciary. This was carrying the matter further than he bad ever knewn it to go before and beside starving the Judiciary the other side would refuse to appropriate s dollar for the expenses of the Capitol building and grounds, for public printing or for the Congressional Library. The Department of State, of which the country had reason to be proud for its conduct of its' foreign affairs, was to be disabled, and bar diplomatic relations must cease unless the President signs these bills. The beacons and warning lights on seventeen thousand miles of coast must go out; the mints of New Orleans, Denver, Ban Franeiaco and Philadelphia must stop; the Pension Bureau must suspend operations; all Executive functions of the Government are taken by the throat in highwayman style and commanded to stand and deliver in the name of the Democratic caucus. A leading Democrat, an eloquent man, who had courage, franknisq and many good qualifications, boasts publicly that the Democrats are in power for the first time in eighteen years, and that they do not Intend to stop until they have wiped out every vestige ot the Republican war measures.- . Forewarned <r forearmed, and the. Democrat* began properly on a measure signed by Abraham Lincoln. The picture was a striking one and strange. The time had come when men, fresh from the battle-fields of the Rebellion, took their seats here and proposed to repeal laws enacted while they were trying to destroy th* Union. The Vice-President of the Coniederacy had

stated that for sixty or seventy years preceding the Rebellion, irom the foundation of the Government, the South, though in a minority, had, by combining with what be termed the anti-Cemralists in the North, ruled the country, and in 1866 the same gentleman said In a speech before the Georgia Legislature that by a return to Congress the South might repeat the experiment with the same success. He (Blaine) bad read that speech at the time of its delivery, and had little thought that he would live to see the prophecy fulfilled.' But now we see those measures matured in the Democratic caucus in which the South has an overwhelming majority of two-thirds in the House and thirty out of forty-two Senator*, twenty-three of whom, a positive and pronounced majority, participated in the war against the Union either in civil or military situations, so that our legislation is shaped and fashioned by n catcus in which the ei-Confederates have a majority, and Mr. Stephens’ prophecy is realized. Very appropriately the Congress controlled by the South says to the President, the remaining branch of the Government elected on Republican principles in opposition to the party now in power, that he Shall not exercise his power to veto a bill. They ask if we call It revolutionary, continued Mr. Blaine, to put amendments on an Appropriation bill. Of course not. There have been a great many amendments put on bills, some mischievous and some harmless, but 1 call it audacity of revolution for any Senator or Representative of any caucus of Senators or Representatives to get together and say that they will have certain legislation or stop the Departments of the Government. That is revolutionary I don’t think it will be revolution. It will be a revolution that will not revolve; it won’t work. It is a revolution if persisted in, and if not persisted in it must be backed but from ignominiously, and the latter will prob-. ably be the result. Mr. Blaine concluded as follows: “1 do not profess to know, Mr. President, what the President of the United States will do when these bills are presented to him, as I suppose in due course ot time they will be. I certainly should never speak a solitary word of disrespect of a gentleman holding that exalted position, and I hope I shall not Speak a word unbefitting the dignity of the office ot a Senator of she United States, but as there had been speculation here and there on both sides as to what he would do, it seems to me that the dead heroes of the Union would rise, from their graves if be should consent to be intimidated and outraged in his proper Constitutional power by thieats like these. All the Wat measures of Abraham Lincoln ire to be .wiped out, says a leading Democrat. The Bourbons of France buried themselves, I believe, after their restoration in removing every trace oi Napoleon’s power and grandeur, even chiselin?. the N from monuments raised to perpetuate his glory, but the dead man’s hand from St. Helena reached out and destroyed them in their pride and in their glory. And I tell the Senators on the other side of this chamber, I tell the Democratic party North and South, the South in the lead and the North following, ihaffctoah**? unmoving fioget-uz the tomb of the martyred President, from the prairies of Illinois, will wither and destroy them. ‘Though dead, he speaketh.’ ([Great applause in the galleries.] When you present these bills with these threats to tha living President, who bore the commission of Abraham Lincoln and who served with honor in the Army of the Union which Lincoln restored and preserved, I can think only of one appropriate response from hit lips or nls pen. He should say to you with.all the sqorn-Mflt-ting his station: ‘lsthy servant a dog* that he should do this thing.’” —An extraordinary incident occurred recently in a trial before the- Police Tribunal of Marseilles, France. A female fortune-teller and charlatan named Debard was being tried for.robang an inhabitant of Bandol (Vary, to horn she hid sold some of hex remedies, of a sum of 2,200 francs. Eight witnesses affirmed that she was in the locality on the day of-the robbery, but three others swore as positively that she was at Carpentras and at Cavaillon, a considerable distance from . Bandol, on the day in question. A doubt was apparently arising id the, mind of the Judge, when a man named Pont declared to the court that, on- the previous evening, he' had heard a niece of the woman declare at an inn that her aunt would not be condemned, as they had good witnesses, and that the money would not be found where she had concealed it. The niece being in the court with the daughter of the defendant, the Judge ordered them to be at once arrested and searched, and beneath the clothes of the daughter was found the mpney in a leathern bag attached round her waist. Both women were then ordered to be sent to prison with the three witnesses who had sworn the alibi. A colored firm of Chicago recently dissolved partnership, and posted the following notice to the public: ‘‘De dissolution of coparsnips heretofo resisting betwixt me dud Mose Jones, in de barber profession, am. heretofo dissolved. Puseons who owe must pay to de auWibcr, .Jfofo o*e must call oh Jopes, as de firm m ilsolved.” ' • . The last language spoken on earth will probably be the Finnish.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. S*-In<!reenßmd flbe wdtocn 'palfit their faces blue and yelfew. | —JonajtwHs th&rst Man to go a fish im-CtoXaTpaßcanF —Nmntennfttatokre iron oftancommon cents.—New Haven Register. —On what sort of milk does the eagle’s scream rise?— Rome Sentinel. —How is that for eyeP” was origin, ally said of Argus.— Fork World. —Why should yachtsmen be happy? Because they yacht.— Boston Transcript. - —Letters that always keep together inddofo-fhflt two t>’s.-((7owanzfo Bn- —“ As the fcro4 flies”—but what are crow flies? Anything like horse fliesP —Exchange. —A word to the tramp —Green peas in Florida and mosquitoes in Jersey.— N. Y. Express. —The flute-player stops when he loses his teeth. The fiddler goes on forever. —N. (J. Picayune. —There is a bill before the Pennsylvania. Legislature which makes it a punishable offense to keep a Spitz dog in that State. Life is but a span. Marriage is a double team Youth wedded to old age is a tandem. . A cross old bachelor is single and all sulky.— N. O. Picayune. —"Don’t you think that a good likeness of BMP’ r says the pretty wife to her husband. “Verygood,”.h«ahswers, “ except that there is a little too much rdpose about the Month.” —Of course no woman ever did snsh a thing, but supposing now, for the hake or argument, as it 'were, that 1 a woman was to go to church for the purpose of showing off hpr new sacque, would it be sac-religious, so to speak? —Boston Traveller. -r-“It seems to me your leaves are not of the same weight,” muttered a fault-knding housewife to a baker, as she poised a couple of loaves from his basket; "do you suppose you can cheat meP” "1 don’t want to cheat you,” replied the man of bread, not relishing such an insinuation; “I know the loaves were weighed, every one of them, and one weighs just as much as t’other, by gracious! >qud more too, I dare say, if the truth was known!” —This is the way a Louisville teacher illustrated the subject: Teacher — “Jimmy, if you so wicked as to steal your mother’s preserves, and she were to find it out, and were to be ever so grieved, and ask you to promise not to do so any more, wouldn’t you feel Very, verysorry,e®d”—JimJttiy—“No, jnP " Teacher—“ You. J ’ wouldn’t?” Jimmy—“l’d feel powerful glad, I tell yer!” Teacher —“ Jimmy! James Storms!” Jimmy—“’(pause why? she didn’t wallc® like she allugdoes^that’s Why.’?— Louisville Ceu-AerrJournal. —liere ik a story tMd <Nf a patriotic Russian which shows how for the worship of the powers that be can go. He was boasting in the presence of an Englishman of the excellence df the Czar. He proved beyond a doubt that he possessed more gifts and virtues than all the other crowned heads of Europe put together. The Englishman naturally rebelled, and at last said, in tones of superb /‘Well, my friend, youWilljtt least acknowledge that the Czar is not equal? to the Almighty.” The Russian, unwilling to admit even that, replied evasively: “ Perhaps not; but you know the Czar is yoang.yet.” —A writer on household adornment says: “One can easily transform a long and uninteresting parlor into a series of small, artistic rooms, full of sentiment. Gather there easy-chairs, foot-stools, lounges strewn with pillows, workstands, writing-tables, jardinieres, bits of buhl furniture, screens, etc.” Oh, yes! These trifles cost comparatively nothing. And you might also bring up the wood-horse and saw,' and the washing-machine, and fill in with twq or three rosewood pianos, and strew a few coal-sieves overthefjoor, and hang tnd wash-boiler, anj several iron pots on the walls—and. you.will be surprised at the effect.— Norristown Herald. —Mr. —— combi to be the victim of an accident, and as they are placing him on a stretcher to carry him upstairs from toe hack,’h» summons the servant girl, an honest young peasant, and tells her, “ Hurry up-stairs and let my wife know about this accident to nw;.:b*tj lon’tjgive her » /shock—put oh a cheerful face while y»u are telling her.” The faithful domestic discharges her mission with enthusiasm, and remarks in a husky voice: “My master shut me—heffiel, Ifol—4o tell you that—ha.! has na! ha!—-he had—hoi ho! ho!—he had—(therw- I’ve burst foy.sfoy-lages) -r-fie had—lt was too funny, r h.nd I’ve laughed till my . sides are sore—he had broken his leg—' hot ho!”. (>liß pets in ecstasies qf laughter.)— French fl 1 1 .IFml 11 —Ok! John Walsh was a banker, bnd also a money-lender. He was accounted p.greedy.close-fisted old <?hap, yet he possessed a sort bf grim, rigid humpy,- which, in. some j-cases,. was rMbffinJnniqp.O 'One any- a. dashing, want to borrow five hundred.” ¥fer how long?” “ Six months.” “•What security can you give meP” The young fellow drew himself proudly, up. “My own personal security, sir,’’ he replied with a flourish. Old John turned and opened «• stoutyiranphest by‘"His side. “Get in fibre, sir,” snake. The young blade lookqd first at the qhest'ah&then *nt WWh! 7 “ Whattor?”WdfiA VW cause hejp is where,l always keep all of -my pemronaL. seouritiei.’’—Philadel- ■ phiaEfccMngei Lv

The Struggle for State-Sovereignty.

The YriAwie has'eonteadefl from to« velry outset bf the present Congfefoiottal controversy tilfo toe purpose of the Democratic agitation for the amendment of the Army la#> and. the repeal of theqjjlectibn law is to reimpose ■ the tire AmerrctaTi people. Mr. ciaine s Democratic side, mu<t aid, in impressingthia View foe matter u)>on the general public. W’ith £he directness, and fore*, anfl aptness which hreehiteacteristic of Mr. Blaine’s public utterstripping the Democratic ease of every pretense that the proposed apolitical legislation iameqpqsary-to remedy Any existingovilw’prerent iafiiy itopenfling abuses. Thqjnethod adopted by the DqmooratsQd secure their purpose is one that coiiTfl scarcely be excused by the' ntmoafcdnr«BcJi wf the- National welfare, aafl yHita iim is noJiigher or I tyjti»'-i>racwpsJ,tolUi to fifoHnon the, National lawsfne stam’p or ataie”lii- 1 pnmpnjf | abandonment in theory of mi the practical achievements in the way of National existence that were

wrought out by the war, is the immediate scope ot the proposed Democratic legislation. Success to this extent would soon be followed by a similar abandonment in practice. The telling point in Mr. Blaine’s address was the absolute demonstration that there is hot in the existing condition of things so much a* a suggestion of danger from military despotism, though such an apprehension constitutes the refrain of ail the speeches on the Democratic side. The use of the sword and bayonet to influence an election either North or South is a ludicrous assumption in the face dT'tho actual size and disposition of the United Stales army. The statistics*produced by Mr. Blaine cover the entire area in which a menace of armed interference to control elections would be possible, and include about 41,000,000 out of the 45,000,000 or 46,000,000 people now estimated to be the population of this country. The total number of troops within this vast domain is less than .8,000, and they are distributed so as to guard eleven signals and forty-live fortifications. There are about sixty soldiers to 1,000,000 people, and, if they were all detached frbm their regular duties and permitted or used to interfere with elections, every individual soldier would be Required to intimidate about 40,000 able-bodied voters. The chivalrous people of the Southern States are especially exempt from the danger of military despotism, as there is only one soldier to overrun and terrorize every 700 square miles. There is not a solitary military despot—not so much as a high private—in Delaware or West Virginia; not one in the Old Dominion jftate outside of a school of instruction at Fortress Monroe; only thirty in North Carolina, twenty-nine in Georgia, thirty-two in Alabama, fifty-seven in Arkansas, a couple of hundred in Louisiana, about half as many in South Carolina—all occupied in guarding United States property — and not one in Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky or Missouri! In the State of Texas there are none except those guarding the Rio Grande border, and the people of that State are constantly complaining that the force is too small to protect them from the ravages of the Mexican banditti. And this is the actual condition of things on which the Democratic orators base their rhetorical flights about “ the iron heel of military despotism.” The bare statement of these facts is enough to show that there is not the smallest occasion for any such alarm as the Democrats set up in explanation of their attack upon the use of troops to keep the peace at thajpolls. jwi— are other circumstances which confirm the cfeffSCtions from these facts. There has been no effort, either on the part of President Hayes orrtey anyone under his Administration, to call upon the United States troops to keep the peace at elections; and if the scenes of violence enacted in South Carolina, Louisiana and other Southern States have not prompted such action, it is not easy to predict any state of things that will induce the civil authorities to avail themselves even of the existing authority of the law. Again, it is evident that the Democratic movement is not directed against possible armed interference at elections, since, if that were the purpose, the Democrats would accept Mr. Blame’s amendment, which prohibits the appearance within a mile of a poll-ing-place of any person armed with a deadly weapon of any kind. That Would be an assured protection against all armed interference, whether of United States troops, or State troops, or volunteer organizations of bulldozers. But it is not protection against, but license for, armed interference which the Democrats are seeking. If they can put the United States laws in such a shape that no civil officer of the Government may call upon National troops to keep the peace at the polls, then they will have secured immunity from Interference for their own companies of “ Red-Shirts,” “ Whitq-Liners,” and other organized, armed and drilled bull-dozers, who may terrorize the people and intimidate voters to apy extent that may be necessary; Neither Mr.. Withers nor Mr. Wallace—one from the South and one from the North—who undertook ‘to reply to Mr. ‘Blaine, was able to deny his statements or weaken the force of his argument. They admitted that there were no abuses urging a change in the law stands. They were compelled to confess that they were fighting on the ground of State Sovereignty. “The preservation of the peace at the polls should be left to the control of the State,” said Mr. Withers; “ its protection rests with the States, and the Federal. Government has nothing to do with it,” added Mr. Wallace. These .two sentences makeup afair statenfopt is » blunt denial of the right of the National Government to supervise, regulate or protect the National elections from any fraud or violence which any State, of any city under sanction of the State authorities may see fit to perpetrate or condone. To this end the Election law mpst be so amended that National supervision will be merely nominal and Utterly inefficient; the power to call upon Government Marshals or Government troops to protect Supervisors or to keep the peace at the polls must be repealed; and, finally, the jurors’ test oath must be expunged from the stat-ute-books in order that juries may be made up to acquit in ,any case where arrests have been or shall be made, for frapds already ciommitted. The scheme is very complete and consistent, but it is palpably a scheme for State-Rights’ nullification, and it must be resisted in every part as well as in its entirety. A trfomph of State sovereignty in themanipblatidn and control of National elections will make the way easy to all the other Southern schemes which depend upon the recognition of that fatal doctrine.—Chicago Tribune. —A Cornish miner was recently found dead in a mine and was duly buried, A neighbor of the deceased the Jiext night areamed that agentlerffoß in a cairiage and pair hpd driven up to she house of the mother of the deceased, and said her son was not dedd, but had been buried alive. This dream being noised abroad, the next night seven or eight men went to the graveyard, dug up the coffin and carried It to a chapel. They unscrewed the coffirt lid, and there was the body of their comrade, apparently still liv; ing and breathing. So convinced were they of this that they sat him qp, and, wmle’some attempted to revive him by stimulants am) friction, others ran off to the nearest eurgcon, twqmiles distant.. The surgeon arrived and examined foe body, amid great excitement, and then Btatetl that the man was dead, and had bfeeh dSad iorriiS days: United drops of perspiration are pore relations.