Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1879 — Page 2

The Rensselaer Union. HI —— UDNKLAIK, INDIANA.

General News Summary.

From Washington. There were newly 1.400 new bills IntroIn the Natlousl House of Representatives, on the Site, assay of them relating to (HTtoiwui. on the 81st, Issued the ntnstT ninth mil f~~ the redemption of bonds ■jm. —n ■■— ttr tBS.SeO.3OO of 10-40 bonds of 1864. Principal end Interest will be paid on and after July 81, Interest to Cease on that gnc’T Brisin has ordered a revenue etnsmtr to proceed to Alaska for the protection of the Government Interest* In that Territory. Oh the 2M, the Bret Treasury warrant for the payment of arrears of pensions wss signed in Washington. It was thought back pensions could be paid as rapidly as the accounts could be made up. or at the rate of 61,500,000 a month, unless unexpected appropriations are hereafter made by Congress. Tun Secretary of the Treasury, on the 33d, leanod a call for the balance of the loan of 5-per-oeota, amounting to 6360,000. Thane bonds ore registered bonds, and can be exchanged for 4-per-oenta at par, or paid at maturity on the 33d of duly. The following have been named as the ExecutteMtOommlttee of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee: Representative Hubbell, of Michigan, Chairman; Senator Allison, of lows; Senator Rollins, of New Hampshire; Representatives Hiscock, of New York; Fisher, of Pennsylvania; Jorgenson, of ’Virginia; Davis, of Illinois; McKinley, of Ohio; Orth, of Indians; DunneU,of Minnesota. A Washington dispatch of the 34th says the Secret Service of the Government had come Into possession of what la said to be s most remarkable counterfeit twenty-dollar Untied States legs 1-tender note, and Is calculated to deceive even persons accustomed to handling notes of that denomination. Wbat makes It more remarkable is the fact that the work on the note is executed with a pen and ink. All the intricate figures and curves, all the heads, the seal, the fine engraving work, and even the fiber In the paper, are almost perfectly counterfeited by the pen and Ink. The signature of John Allison, formerly Register of the Treasury, Is almost exact, while that of John C. formerly Treasurer, Is perfect. The who!? bill, back and face, Is pronounced a wonderful piece of pen-work. It wss detected at the Bub-Treasory In New (Meant. Tup Army Appropriation bill was passed by the United States Senate, on the 25th, with the political legislation salt came from the House, by the following vote: Torn— Bailer, Bayard, Beck, Butler. Call, Cockrell, Coke. Davis (ill.), Eaton, Farley, Garland. Gordon. Groome, Grow. Hampton, Harifuw— Allison, Anthony, BelL Blaine, Booth. Brae. Burnside,Cameron(PadtOameron(Wisd. irons (Nev.). Kellogg, Kirkwood, Logan. MoMillan. Morrill. Paddock, Platt, Plumb.Ttollina, Davis (W. Va.) was paired with Windom, and Hoar with McPherson. On the 25th, Col. William M. Lowe, an exConfederate officer from Alabama, and the National Member of Congress from the Eighth District In that State, challenged Gen. John A Lpgan, Senator from Illinois, to fight a duel In accordance with the provisions of the code. The former bad charged Senator Logan with raising troops for the Confederate service during the earlier periods of the wsr, and this charge the Senator characterized as a lie. Tuu lower House of Congress, on the 36th, passed the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill, with the political legislation relative to Supervisors of Election, etc., by s vote of 140 to 119. All the Republicans voted In the negative. All the Greenback ere, except Barlow (Vt.) and Kelley (Pa.) voted with the Democrats for the bill. President Hates has issued a proclamation warning all persons contemplating a forcible settlement upon lands In the Indian Territory, that all so taking possession of such lands, without permission of the proper agent of the Indian Department, will be at once removed therefrom, according to the laws, and with military force, if necessary. The East. Gen. John A. Dix died in New York, on the night of the 21st. He was. eighty-one years of age, and had been in failing health for some time. At Penobscott, Pa., on the night of the 33d, three children were burned to death by the explosion of a coal-oil lamp in their sleeping-room. Oh the morning of the 23d, the roof of s mine belonging to the Wilksbarre Coal and Iron Company near WQkesbarte, Pa., fell In, imprisoning five miners who were at work in the chambers at the bottom of the slope, and also crushing two boys who were sent in the, mine to warn the men of their danger. It was thought the men could not be reached before life would be extinct At a mass meeting of the citizens of New York City, at Cooper Institute Hall, on the night of the 23d, to consider the negro exodus from the South, letters were read from Wendell Phillips, Wm. Lloyd Garrison and others. Resolutions of sympathy for the colored people, who were leaving the South for Kansas, were adopted, and liberal subscriptions made. On the 23d, the New York Senate, by a vote of 17 to 10, passed the Assembly resolution tendering to ex-President Grant the hospitalities of the State of New York, and also adopted a resolution—23 to 4—for the appointment of a joint committee of both houses of the Legislature to attend the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Bepnblic at Albany, on the 17th and 18th of June next Chaeijs H. Hartwell, conductor on the Old Colony Railroad, charged with manslaughter in cawing the accident at Wollaston, Mass., some time ago, was found guilty, on the 24th. , ’ Six men, named Charles Drews, Frank Steictaler, Henry Wise, Josiah Hummel, Israel Brandt and George Zechman, on trial at Lebanon, Pa., for mordering an old man named Joseph Baber, In order to obtain the insurance on his life, have been found guilty, the jury rendering their verdict after five hours’ deliberation. The amount" of insurance held by the murderers on the life of their victim was 610,090, divided among six comOh the evening of the 24th, burglars Mew open the safe of the Laconia (N. H.) National Bank, securing about 66,000 In cash and a quantity of securities. Jesse Pomhbot, the Boston boy-murderer, made ac unsuccessful attempt, on the 26th, to eecspe from the Massachusetts State Prison, by sawing through the bars of his eelL Tub following wow the closing quotations for produce in New York, on April 36th: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, [email protected]; N 0.3 Milwaukee, 61.00®L0A_OsU, Wetir £*#££* FWkTMe-, 69-00010-*. Lard’ 66.90666,26. Flour, Good to Choice, 63.95 aatil'-y mjw vt for Good to Extra. 'Vv .'VvV, ' ■"

AT East Liberty, Pa., on April 26th, Cattle brought: Beat,.AVOK.t.V,V): Medium, 6«.75@ A 00; Common, 65. , Uqt4.30. ‘Hogs sold— Yorkers, 63.4008.56; Philadelphia, »78@ 8.86. Sheep brought 63.3505.80— according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on April 26th, Cattle brought; Best, $5.00(46.76; Medium 63.25«4.2&. Hogs sold at 65.00(<t5.62‘< for Good. Sheep were quoted at 64.0005.50 for Good.

Went and South. , About one-half of the business portion of the Town of Kinsley, Kan., waa dettroyed by tin, on the morning of the ?lst. Lose, about 975,000. '• 1 v • ■- Tub Superior Court of Cook county, 111., haa aet aside the recent sale of the banking property of the suspended Fidelity Savings Bank, on the ground that it was sold too cheaply, r’ Tib Louisiana State Constitutional Convention met on the 21st, and organised by the electltg) of Gov. L. A. Wilts aa Permanent Chairman and A. C. Harris aa Secretary. A riBB in Eureka, Nev., while a heavy wind waa prevailing, early on the morning of the 22 1, burned over a apace of one-half ml,le in length on Spring, Buel and Main streets. The total loss waa estimated at nearly 91,t* h,000, on which there waa not over $125,000 Insurance. Cold weather, accompanied by a fall of snow, succeeded the Are, causing much suffering among the houaelesa people. There was no lack of-food, the provision stores meetly escaping the flames. AT Charleston, 8. C., on the 22d, Judge Bond, of the United States Circuit Court, in etructed the jury to And for the defendants in the Barnwell County election-conspiracy cases, because of a defect in the information. The remaining political cases were continued until the November term of the court. Ex-Tbkasuheb Cakdosa and ex-Cong ressman Small, of South Carolina, were pardoned by Gov. Simpson, on the 23d. While Edwin Booth was playing Richard 11., at MeVicker't Theater, In Chicago, on the night of the 23d, an attempt was made by a man named Gray to assassinate him, two pistol shots being fired by the would-be murderer. Intense excitement followed the dastardly act, and the perpetrator waa secured before he could fire the third time. Mr. Booth waa unharmed. It waa thought by some that Gray was insane, but he stated to a reporter that he had been trying for two years to asSagstnate Booth. He is from St. Louis, and twenty-three years of age. He positively refused to give the motive which led to the attempt on Booth’s life. -The Inter-Ocean says it was supposed that some morbid feeling regarding the assassination of President Lincoln by J. Wilkes Booth led to this murderous assault, though the man claimed some special reason for his act Thb Notre Dame University, near South BewLind.. was entirely destroyed by fire on the morning of- the 23d, No loss of life was reported. The total loss was estimated at 9200,000; insurance, 960,000. 'At a subsequent meeting of the faculty, it was decided to rebuild at once. Ox the 23d, a resolution was adopted by the Louisiana Constitutional Convention, to the effect that there was no intention whatever on the part of the' Convention of impairing or restricting the political, civil or religious rights of any class. Oh the 2Sth,' at his residence in Baltimore, Md., Rev. Edward R. Ames, D. D., LL.D., Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, quietly breathed his last He was seventy-four rears old. Dcbixo the session of the Louisiana State Constitutional Convention, on the 24th, a resolution that the members take an oath to support the Constitution of the United States was laid on the table by a vote of 64 to 63. L. D. Richards, the Kansas murderer, who, before his death, confessed to have murdered from twelve to twenty persons during his career, was hung at Minden, Kearney County, Kan., on the 26th.

The trial In Chicago of Peter E. Stevens, for the murder of his girl-wife last year, ended, on the 27th, to a verdict of manslaughter, the jury fixing the penalty at fourteen years to the Penitentiary. The trial lasted three weeks. After the rendering of the verdict, Mrs. Young, the mother of the murdered woman, attempted to shoot the prisoner as he was being taken from the court-room, but a handkerchief she held in her hand accidentally caught under tbe hammer of the pistol and prevented tbe discharge. She was immediately unarmed and taken to her home, where she was prostrated with severe sickness, insanity and brain fever being threatened. It was reported from New Orleans, on the 26th, that the Migration Relief Association (colored) had formally organized, and was prepared for correspondence with similar associations West, North aud East. The Rev. C. H. Thompson Is Chairman. A telegram from Vidalla, Concordia Parish, reported that 3,000 negroes were then on the river bank awaiting transportation Kansasward. A Manhattan (Kan.) dispatch of the same date says the arrival there of 2,00 colored refugees had the effect of setting the people to work providing for them. They were well sheltered aud cared for, and arrangements were being made to procure them work on farms and to families. A committee has been appointed to solicit aid. On the evening of the 27th, in Chicago, Joe Tinan, thirteen years old, snapped what he thought was mn empty pistol at the head of Roger Canfield, sixteen years old. The empty pistol proved to be a loaded one, and Canfield dropped dead. Tinan only wanted “to scare him,” he said. In Chicago, on April 26th, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at 88@ 89c cash; 89c for April; 89%@899|c for May. Caah Com closed at 33j*c for No. 2; 33%e for May; 3>c foi June. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 23%c, and 24J(c rellCT May. Rye No. 2,46J£@46>{c. Barley No. 2,67@65c for cash; 67i<$6Sc for ApriL Cash Mess Pork dosed at [email protected]. Lard. 66.05. Beeves —Extra brought [email protected]; Choice, 64 60 @4.80; Good, [email protected]; Medium Grades, [email protected]; Butchers’ Btock, 62.75(44.00; Stock Cattle, etc., [email protected]. Hogs—Good to Choice, [email protected]. Sheep—Poor to Choice, *[email protected].

Foreign Intelligence. The Japanese Government has officially notified the United Btates Charge d* Affaires of its desire that ex-President Grant shall be the guest of the Nation on bis approaching visit to Japan. A palace, was being fitted up for the occupation of the distinguished American. Servia has requested the Porte to send troops to the frontier to prevent any further incursions of Albanians. A Lahore (India) telegram of the 21st says heavy snow-storms had prevented hostile operations in Afghanistan. Bt a vote of 22,633 to 234, the Durham (Eng.) strikers have decided to continue the strike. About 7,500 colliers in Belgium have also quit work, on account of reduction In wages. According to Cape Town dispatches, received in London and published *** the 23d, Lord Chelmsford had, on the 4th, succeeded in relieving CoL Pearson at Ekowe, after a desperate engagement, in which over 1,200 Zulus were killed. On the 28th and 20th of March, CoL Wood, who was sent out with a cotuihn, tji a diversion in favor of Lord Chelmsfcrd, ftwght two desperate first cf which he was badly worsted- Next d*y he recovered his lost ground, and irt(Hcted signal panishment upon the Zulus, whore losses exceeded 2,500 men. Tfie British lost 220 men.

A FRiZE-noiiT between Tom Allen, of St. Louis, Mo., snd Jack Stewart, of Scotland, for the championship of the world snd £IOO, came off, hi Landon,|on the 22d. Twenty-four rounds were fought, during which neither received a scratch, and the referee declared the fight a draw and all bets off. Aooordino to Belgrade dispatches of the 22d, there had been continued fighting for three days between the Servians and Albanians. Daring that time the former had lost 700 men and had not been able to die lodge the latter. Accori>ino to the late census of Sptlu and Its adjacent insular dependencies, the populat lon numbers 16,635,860, an Increase of 925,334 Wince 1868. On tbe 23d, at Epsom, Eng., Parole, tbq American flyer, won the Metropolitan stakes, making tbe third race won, within a week, by the American gelding. By these race*, Lotlllard, his owner, Is over 6200,000 ahead. Tre Shakespeare Memorial Theater, at Stratford-on-Avon, was formerly opened, on the 23d, tbe 315th anniversary of the great poet’s birth, by tbe performance of the comedy "Much Ado About Nothing.” A brilliant audience was present. According to an Athens (Greece) dispatch of the 23d, tbe Cretans had again revolted against Turkish rule. A High Court or Criminal Justice has been organized, under the Presidency of the Grand Duke Constantine, brother of the Emperor, to try Solovieff, the Czar’s would-be assassin. On the 23d, German newspapers published a report, that tbe Tartar Inhabitants of the Russian-Town of Orak, fearing forcible baptism, had revolted, burned the town and murdered the town officials. Over 2,000 persons were arrested in St. Petersburg for political offenses during the week ending April 23. Turguenieff. tbe distinguished novelist, has been expelled from Russia. It has been ascertained that the number of persons killed by the fire-damp explosion in the Agrappo Coal-Mines, near Mons, Belgium, on the 17th, was 117. Up to the 23d, only fortyseven corpses had been recovered. Simla telegrams of the 23d sav that Persian troops were marching from Meshed toward the Afghan frontier. According to a London telegram of the 24th, Rev. Francis L. Patton, D. D., of Chicago, had been appointed to the Chair of Apologetical Theology in the Presbyterian College of London. The recent, inundation at Moscow, Russia, and vicinity caused the destruction of thirtyfour railroad bridges. The announcement is made that an International Congress, under the Presidency of M. de Lesseps, will meet In Paris, on the 15th of May, to consider the various schemes for the construction of a ship-canal across the Isthmus of Darien. According to the estimate of the Turkish Government, 200,000 men will be required for the occupation of Roumella. According to Victoria (British Columbia) dispatches of the evening of the 24th, the local Parliament 1 bad that day passed a striugent resolution, and directed that it be cabled to Loudon, asking that the Province be allowed to secede from the Canadian Confederation on the Ist of May. It was believed that the connection of Canada on the Pacific was seriously threatened. " On the 25th, several of the heaviest iron establishments in England were forced to close their doors, because they were unable to obtain fuel. This was one result of the Durham strike. The widow of Walter Savage Landor, the ooet, died at Florence, Italy, recently. A Belgrade telegram of the 25th says Turkish regulars had surrounded the Albanian rafders into Bervia, and forced them to surrender their plunder, which would be returned to the Servian owners. Sixteen Professors in the Russian Universities have tendered their resignations because of the spread of Nihilism among their students. The Russian Ambassador at Constantinople has requested permission to open all letters leaving that city for Russia. At 9:30 p. m., on the evening Of the 26th, the six days’ pedestrian match, In London, waa finished, the score standing: Brown, 542 miles; Corkey, 492; Hazael, 473; Weston, 450. Brown beat the fastest previous record (that of O’Leary) by 21 miles. Over 14,000 persons w itnessed the finish. The British squadron in the Pacific has been ordered to cruise in Peruvian waters. On the 26th, England and France addressed individual notes to the Khedive of Egypt demanding the appointment of English and French Ministers in the Egyptian Cabinet They also demanded that these should not be removed except with the consent of these Powers. According to a letter received in Paris, on the 27th, from Moeadoz, in Morocco, more than 13,000 persons had died in that town from hunger. The Public Prosecutor at Warsaw, in Poland, has been arrested for Nihilism. Rome dispatches of the 27th say the Pope had asked the representatives of foreign Governments whether he could rely «upon their protection in the event of an attack upon the Vatican by the Republicans. Some of them had replied affirmatively. Dr. Wiedb, of Zurich, Switzerland, has been arrested on the charge of conspiracy to assassinate Queen Victoria and the King and Queen of Italy. Dr. Wiede is editor of the Neue GexeUichafl. Congressional Proceedings. Consideration was resumed of the Army Appropriation bill in the Senate, on the 21st, Messrs. Bayard, Blaine and Maxey taking part in the discussion relative to the nse of United States troops to keep peace at elections. ....An Executive session was held. A large number of bills were introduced in the Honse. among them the following: For the distribution of the unexpended balance of the Geneva award: to prevent the further increase of tbe bonded debt of the United States; for the issue of fractional currency; for retiring the trade-doUar, and for the redemption of (he fractional silver coin; in regard to the observance and enforcement of the Eight-Hoar law; regulating the exchange of silver bullion for the standard silver dollar, and providing that gold add silver jointly, and not otherwise, shall be a fall legal tender; repealing the tax of 10 per cent, on State Banks—and several other bills relating to finance, and several relative to the Pacific Railroads; authorizing tbe Secretary of War to furnish tents and rations to oertain destitute ooloredemigrants in Kansas, and appropriating $75,000 for that purpose... Speeches were made, in Committee of the Whole, on the Legislative Appropriation bill by Messrs. Browne, New Frost and De aster. ~f A bill was introduced and referred ini, the Senate, on tbe 22d. for the relief of the destitute colored persons now emigrating from the Southern States.... The Army bill was again taken op. and Messrs. Garland and Davis (I1L) made speeches in favor of the proposed repeal of tbe Election laws, and Mr. Allison argued against such repeajL , The Subsidiary Silver Coin bill was amended and passed in the House; it provides that silver coins of smaller denomination than one dollar may be exchangeable into lawful money, when presented in stuns of twenty dollars; makes lawful money exchangeable into silver coins in like amount; makes subsidiary silver coins a legal-tender for all debts, public and private, in sums not exceeding twenty dollars, and makes minor coins receivable at Postoffioes to tbe amount of three dollars.... A Deficiency bill for ab0ut625,000 was reported and passed ...The Legislative Appropriation bill was further debated in Committee of the Whole. In the Senate, on the 23d, the morning hour was principally-occupied with the resolution relative to removals and appointments without the intervention of the.presiding officer, and several amendments were agreed to, bat no final action was taken.... The Army bill was further debated by Messrs. Williams and Jones TF7S.7,"M» which Mr. 'Blaine tritßtHevr'thcT amendment formerly offered by him, and gave notice that he would again submit it after the sixth section of the bill had been acted upon. A running and spirited debate ensued between Mr. Blaine ftpd Messrs, i<slier, Saolsbnry, Randolph, etc. ' r

Resolutions were adopted In the House appropriating $3,000 to meet the expense of the Labor Committee, and granting the committee leave to sit during rooms; requesting the President to consider the expediency of entering into a convention with nance lor the negotiation of a treaty which shall secure a move equal interrhaoire of the product* and manufactures of the two noon trite Additional speeches were made, in Committee of the Whole, on the legislative Appropriation bill. , Mb. Conklino made a lengthy speech In tbe Senate, on the 24th, in opposition to tbe repeal of the law providing for the nse of the army to prosei vs peace at elections, after which a motion to strike oot the sixth section of »he Army bill was rejected—26 to 96—a stnrt party vote. Mr. Blaine then renewed his amendment providing penalties for any officer or other person who should appear, armed with any deadly weapon, within a mile of any polling place, where an election for Congressman was being held, which amendment was also rejected -26 to 35. Other amendments, similar in character, were offered and met with a like fate. After discussion, it was screed that a vote on tbe sixth section of tbe bill and tbe amendments still pending should be taken at three p. m., on the 76th. The discumion on tbe Legislative bill was continued in the House, in Committee of the Whole, and the time for the termination of the debate was fixed at five instead of two p. m., on the 25tb. In the Senate, on the 25th, considera-' tion was resumed of the resolution relating to appointments by the Secretary and Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, and an amendment Beclaring that no Union soldier shall be removed except for canae. and that no Confederate soldier shall take the place of any dismissed Union soldier, was defeated by a strict party vote- 26 to 34; the resolution was then agreed t 0.... The Army bill was taken up, and an amendment offered dv Mr. Paddock to modify the existing law which forbids any part of the army from being used as a pone comltatut. so that troops may De so used in Nebraska, Colorado, Oregon, and other States and Territories, and In the Indian country generally, was laid on the.table—4o to 28. The sixth section of the pending bill was then read, which prohibits the presence of troops or armed men. under charge of any Government officer, at the election polls in any State, unless it be necessary to repel armed enemies of the U nited States, with a provision that nothing herein contained should be deemed to abridge the Constitutional duty or power of the President of the United States to comply with Sec. 4 of Art. 4 of the Constitution, on application of a State Legislature or Executive. An amendment offered by Mr. Edmunds that nothing in this section of the bill should tie held to abridge the power of the President under Sec. 6298 and 5299 of the Revised Statutes, recognizing the validity of providing by law for the presence of an armed power of the United State* to repress violence at the polls, whether at Federal or State elections, was laid on the table—4o to 28. Other amendments were proposed and laid on the table, and the bill as it came from the House was then liassed 41 to 80.... Adjourned to the 28th. Several speeches were mads in the House, in Committee of the Whole, on the Legislative Ap- • propriation bill, the debate closing at five p. m., when the committee rose and the House adjourned. The Senate was not in session on the 26th. The Honse went into Committee of the Whole on the Legislative Appropriation kill, under tbe five-minnte rale, the disenssion ending at two o’clock, when a motion to strike ont all the proposed legislation except the provision in regard to tbe test-oath was defeated without division. Mr. Garfield then offered an amendment, which was also defeated—yeas, 123; nays, 130—striking out all the proposed legislation. The committee then rose and reported the biU and amendments to the House, and all the amendments were agreed to without a division. Mr. Garfield endeavored to obtain a separate, vote .upon the political clauses of the bill, and Mr. Bragg upon an amendment- which he wished to offer abolishing the Southern Claims Commission, but both propositions were objected to. The bill was then passed—l4o to 119.... A motion to adjourn nntil the 80th was defeated—--91 to 162—and then an adjournment until the 29th was agreed to without division... .There was then a rash to introduce bills for reference, and several were so introduced and referred, include ing one to establish religious equality in the Indian Territory, and one (by Mr. De LaMatyr) to substitute legal-tender money for National Bank notes. Several other members were on the floor with bills to be introduced, when a stop was pnt to such proceedings by an objection from Mr. Kelley, who said he did not want to have Monday's sessions abolished, and then to have sheafs of bills introduced Saturday afternoon. .. .Adjourned to the 29th.

Sketch of the Life of Gen. Dix.

Ttzw York, April 21Gen. John A. Dix died at 11:35 to-night, after lying in a profound and nearly unbroken coma for seventy-two hours. The incidents of his illness were a long and painful attack of inflammation cd the bladder, convalescence after four weeks of suffering, and an accident a week ago Saturday that brought on the fatal relapse. Last Friday morning Gen. Dix was convinced that his end was near at hand, and took final leave of the few intimate friends who called that day, among them Bishop Potter and the Rev. Dr. Swope. He also dictated a brief good-by message and blessing to his absent daughter, Mrs. Walsh, now residing in Japan. He then passed an hour or more in conversation with his wife, his son, the Rev. J. Morgan Dix, of Trinity, and his daughter, Mrs. Blake, who has constantly attended him. He occasionally lost consciousness, and at length relapsed Into a state of coma, from which he did not once recover until the moment of his death. The four physicians in attendance who predicted his speedy death on Friday night were astonished at the tenacity with which lie clung to life. All last night he was reported visibly sinking, and to-night his extraordinary reserve of vitality Save out. During the day the condition of the ying man underwent no perceptible alteration, until about four o’clock, when his failing respiration sensibly gave way, and the death gray crept gradually over his features. At 11:30 Dr. Gilbert hastily summoned the members" of the family, and they had scarcely arrived when the heart of the old man ceased to beat., „ Gen. Dix leaves a large fortune, but so selfreliant and reserved was he that only the general particulars of it are known to his only son, Dr. Morgan Dix. The disposition of his real estate and other property will not be known to his own family until the will Is offered for probate. The deceased was the son of Lieut-CoL Timothy Dix, of the Revolutionary Army, and was bom In Boscawen, N. H., July 24, 1798. True to his Revolutionary antecedents, he entered the army when a mere lad, serving in the war of 1812-’ls, first as an Ensign, and afterward as Adjutant 6f a battalion. Later he was Aide to Gen. Brown, Commander-in-Chief of the Army. In 1828, having resigned his rank in the army, he settled in Cooperstown, N. Y., as a lawyer, and soon entered politics, espousing the principles of the Demo-cratic-party. In 1830 he was made AdjutantGeneral of the State, and In 1833 was chosen Secretary of State. He became a member of the General Assembly in 1842, and in 1845 was elected United States Senator to fill the unexpired term of Silas Wright, serving in that capacity four years. During that time he bore a part in the discussions on the annexation of Texas, the Mexican War, the Oregon dispute and the question of slavery in tbe Territories, espousing the views of the Free-Soil Democrats, whose unsuccessful candidate for Governor he was In 1848. He was Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, and a leading member of that on Military Affairs. Being an active supporter of Gen. Franklin Pierce for the Presidency, he was at first selected by that gentleman for his Secretary of Slate, but difficulties arising, Gen. Dix declined in favor of Gov. Marcy. In 1853 he accepted, temporarily, the post of Assistant Treasurer «f the United States, at New York Citv. He was Postmaster of New York City in 1859, and in December, 1860, was appointed by President Buchanan Secretary of the Treasury, in place of Howell Cobb, serving in that capacity till the Incoming of Ms. Lincoln’s Administration. While Secretary of the Treasury, he issued the memorable order: “If any man attempt to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.” , U+ Immediately on the inception of civil war Gen. Dix rook strong and decided grounds in favor of the Government and the Union. He was appointed Major-General of the New York National Guards In the opening cf the war, and was commissioned Major-General of the United States Volunteers May 16, 1861, subsequently receiving the same ranjc in the regular army. In 1862 he had charge of the Department of Maryland, and during the antidraft riots In New York in 1863 he was in command there, and quelled them. After the close of the war he was sent to Paris as American Minister in 1566. In 1872 he was elected Governor of New York, being defeated for reelection in 1574 by Samuel J. Tilden. Since then Gen. Dix has lived in retirement, spending much time in literary work, to which he had always devoted a largo portion of his leisure time. For several years Gen. Dix has had charge of the finances of Trinity Church, New Yofk City, of which his son is Rector, v —<The physicians of North Adams, Mass., attribute the sudden death of Miss Leonard, who dropped dead in that town a few days since, to the drying.up.of.her blood from the habit of eating large quantities of cloves every d »y- ; , ■ .... jOr the pounds of an average maD 116 is water. * >

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. —Fireside companion—this poker. 1 —A pretty cornseat—A No. 1 slipper. —lt is the duty of gate posts to stand by each other. , _ .—No dog-kennel is complete without a bay-window. * —An alien from the affections of his wife thinks this estrange world. —Within the past yoar eight Mormon girts have married colored men in Salt Lake. —lt Is now discovered agriculturally that the surest way to get rid of the weeds is to marry the widow. —What kind of a sin is it to rob an Indian of his foot covering? A moccasin, of course. Saturday Night. —For the frolicsome oyster the first of May is the merriest day of all the glad new year .—New Orleans Picayune. —A Pennsylvania Judge has decided that a woman is not an old maid until she has reached her thirty-fifth birthday. ), —The man who, when he was given an inch of his lady love’s golden nair, took a Nell, wishes he had married another girl. *««■*= —“Our First Baby” is the titlo of a new book. It is bound in muslin, of course, and has a weak back.—Norristown Herald. * —Truth is stranger than fiction, but then it isn’t half so interesting. And then, nobody likes to be familiar with strangers. —Hawk- Eye. —I have vertigo, go for the doctor quick. Of my iiudden illneaa he should quickly know, He lives ’round the comer—l am very sick. So the young man dida’t have vertigo. Yonkers Gazette. —An acre of bananas will produce as much food for a man as twentyfive acres of wheat, and they peel to the people for protection.— N. 0. Picayune. —A Jersey City man was recently arrested for smacking his wife asross the nose with a red and yellow worsted motto bearing the words “ Home, Sweet , Home.” —Greatness and usefulness in this world, little man, does not depend on size. The smallest thing about a man’s trousers is the suspender button. But just let it snap off while he is presenting his respects to his hostess at an evening'party. An ulster that would fit Goliath wouldn’t cover his confusion.—Burlington Hawk-Eye. —An art-critic, who has an unfortunate habit of occasionally indulging in more wine than his health demands, recently determined, one day after ..luncheon, to pay a professional visit to a private art-collection. Arrived in the first room, he found, himself opposite a large mirror. Mechanically he drew out his pocket-book and therein wrote: “No. I.—Study of a head; unnamed; an old toper. Fuddled condition excellently rendered; most likely a portrait. Seem to be acquainted with the original.”— N. Y. Evening Post. —A young lady named Susan Johnson, of Uniontown, Ky., whois addicted to reading novels, dressed herself in boys’ clothes, and armed with two pistols and a dagger, took the packet for Evansville, intending to lead a life that would be a terror to the foe. On the boat deck the deckhands were moving some freight, and a big rat ran out and scud in the direction of the hero. Miss Johnson jumped On a bale of tobacco and screamed. They carried her to the ladies’cabin, where she remained during the round trip, and she has now promised her parents to do her share in the kitchen and keep her end up at the sewing machine.— Peck's Milwaukee Sun.

—At the Cape of Good Hope, near Table Mountain, the clouds come down very low now and then without dropping in rain. At such a time, if a traveler should go under a tree for shelter from the threatening storm, he would find himself in a drenching shower, while out in the opening, away from any tree or shrub, everything would be as dry as a bone! The cloud or mist is father"'wannerthamfir leaves, you see, and so, when it touches them, it changes into clinging drops, which look Tike dew. Preen drops keep forming; they run together; and, at length, the water drips off the leaves like rain. And this process goes on until the clouds lift and the sun comes out again.— St. Nicholas for May. —The Elmira (N. Y.) Advertiser gives a strange account of a little girl afflicted with diphtheria. In looking into the child’s throat, the mother saw a micrococus moving, which she removed, together with another, which are now on exhibition in a city drug store, and being discussed by the medical fraternity. They are easily seen by the naked eye, though a glass helps one to see the “ true inwardness” of the critters. The largest one is fully one-quarter of an inch long, covered with hair, with a head something like a caterpiller, tapering body, and long, hairy tail. Its body Is formed in rings; its color is about that of one of those yellow “ thousand-legged” worms found nnder old boards and stones.-* The smaller one is about one-sixteenth of an inch long, being whitish in color, and requiring the glass to bring out its “ beauty” of conformation. It is not a pleasant thought to imagine suoh things in your throat, but they get there, and from there into the blood, heart and other organs, producing paralysis and sudden death when least expected. They are vegetable parasites, and exist in large colonies in the diphtheretic membrane. Dr. J. M. Flood is considerably interested in the mammoth bacteria that have come under his observation, which greatly exceed in size anything he ever saw.

Rules of Conduct.

Never exaggerate* at least don’t exaggerate so excessively as to cause undue remark. n Never laugh at the misfortunes of others, save in -the isolated instance of a man struggling between heaven and earth, with only the blue dome of the sky above him, and nothing to speak of under him, except a banana peel. Never send a present, hoping for one in return. Nine times out of ten you will slip up on your expectations. Freeze to the present you buy. You are dead sure of that. Never question vour neighbors’ servants or children about family matters. They are liable to fib to you. The best way is to “snook” around and find out for yourself. Always offer the easiest seat in the room to a lady or an invalid. A hard bottom, straight back chair is ustudhr considered the easiest thing there u made to sit on. A rocking-chair is apt to produce sea-sickness. , Never pass between two passengers who are talking together, without offering an apology. One of them may lift you a kick that will jaise you through the pier glass- U Never put a fire or warm dry sheets

in the spare room. It’s two awfully inviting, and these are hard times. Never insult an acquaintance by harsh words when applied to for a favor. It is just as easy, and ever so much pleasanter, to lie to him and tell him you haven’tgpt It He may know you are a liar, but he can’t deny that you are a gentleman. Never fail to answer an invitation, either personally or by letter. If it is an invitation so dinner, by all means answer it personally. If it is an invitation to a wedding or donation party, a letter will do just as as well ana is about ten times as cheap. Never refuse to receive an apology. You won’t be offered one more than once in twenty-five years, and you can keep them as rarities. Never thrust your foot out across the aisle in a street car. Somebody may spit on it. —Burlington Hawk-Eye.

Mr. Logan’s Speech.

The following is the Associated Press synopsis of the great speech recently delivered in the States Senate on the Army Appropriation bill by Senator Logan of Illinois: Mr. Logan spoke at length on the issues involved. He thought the question now before that body more important than any other that had arisen since 1861, when the same sentiments which prompted the present legislation wero expressed by many of the same men who are now uttering them, and led to war. He denounced the proposed legislation as bad in itself, and as being attempted by unparliamentary practices. There was no safety in the course the Democrats were now pursuing—no safety either to the North or South. They said that the President must approve their bills; otherwise the Government shall go to pieces. With the knife at his throat they demand that the President shall approve their bills or starve. Was it a new doctrine to those gentlemen that the President has as much right to approve or veto a bill as they had to vote against a bill? Mr. Logan quoted President Pierce’s message accompanying his veto of a bill in 1865 to show that Democratic doctrine had then regarded the independence of the Executive as a wholesome cheek on legislation. This legislation would not stand upon its merits, but its supporters felt obliged to resort to violent means to pass what was repugnant to all friends of good government. The people would hot be deceived by such methods. All the provisions now advocated to protect the ballot had been passed by the Republicans, together with another provision to keep the peace at the polls. The latter was now to be stricken out, making the whole law inoperative. What good citizen would object to having peace at the polls, and why Should not outrages be suppressed on election day as well as other days? Can it be, he asked, that the promoters of this bIH have an interest in disorder at the polls? He thought it looked so. An officer of the peace is not an object of terror or hate to good men. The Democrats say they want to place the power to keep the peace at the polls with the States. This was only another phase of State sovereignty. He assumed that ours is a Nation, per se; it could not be a mere aggregation of States with power to separate when they pleased. Men with sword in hand established the fact that this is a Nation, sovereign and supreme. What kind of Government was that that would not protect a free black man now when all its power was formerly employed to return him as a fugitive to bondage P The Democrats said that - the States would provide for protection at the polls. Had they done so? If this were true why were not the laws enforced? He held that the matter of protecting National interest should be provided for by National authority. Such an important duty should not for a moment be permitted to reside with the S tates. Sometimes a State may be in the interest of the men who commit violence, and therefore the State would not-bring the culprits to justice. Then whore was justice to come from? If the State courts failed to prosecute and the Governor declined to execute the law, where must the citizen turn his eye if not to the National Government? The Democrats want all the protective legislation repealed in order that they may perpetrate frauds and acquire all the votes they want. If the repeal be effected the popular tide would overwhelm them. They Were sowing the wind. Let them beware of the harvest. “I stand here,” Mr.’ Logan said, “to warn the men who are tempted to destroy this Government, that in peringwith it they must not go too far. Loyal men have not forgotten the perils they endured and the sacrifices they made to save the coun-’ try and protect free citizens. They are slow to believe what they do not wish to believe, but if the Democrats force the issue on the country, the people will be compelled to rise and save their rights from destruction. There will be no half-way work then. A spirit of kindness is passing into another feeling. I tell them they are. going too far and are troubling the-peo-ple. The sore once occasioned will be removed only by radical means. It will be cut beyond the wound to make the cure complete. In common with thousands of others, 1 sincerely hoped and expected that the ’Democracy of both North and South would interpret the desire of the country for peace, but I must confess I have been mistaken. The extreme conciliation extended to them has not been met in a similar spirit,' but with an aggressiveness which fills the country with alarm and apprehension. Duty demands that we should speak plainly. I make the open charge that the Democrats are tampering with the interests of the country, and to this end the people are awake. I charge the Democratic party, while expressing a desire for peace and harmony, with making attacks on principles purchased with blood and treasure. They are not sincere in their professions of protecting the Constitution while they are engaged in its I ■make the charge that eulogies are pronounced here,...upon the arch-traitor Davis as a patriot in the presence of representatives of the Amerioan people and the Government he undertook to destroy. I charge that the debt resting upon the country growing out of the late war is chargeable to the Democratic party. 1 arraign the Democratic party as responsible for whatever discord may exist. The Republican party want peace, and have always desired it They not only desired peace, but have shown it by every concession which honor and dignity would permit, and they would still'finake sacrifices to secure permanent peace; but the Democracy may as well learn now do nothing to give peace that is dishonor- , able to them or to the country. They : will not beg on their knees for reconciliation. They Will not relinquish the

principles whieh inured to the people, gained by theThirteenth,Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution. They will not permit the modification of the rights of four millions of people of the South who have been liberated from slavery and admitted to the rights of citizenship. They shall not be remanded to a condition of serfdom or penury. Lelwune invite them to a peace which is honorable and which will make us a model for all people for centuries to come—a peace which must be built in high respeot of citizens of a common country. It mast rest on the concession of equal rights to all citizens of the Republic, black or white, native or foreign-born —a peace that knows no State fines for abrogating the rights of American citizens; a peace which would enable all people to cluster around the Amerioan flag as on emblem of their sovereignty, patriotism and virtue; a people strong enough to defy the power of the world, and who will protect citizens in all their Constitutional rights on land and sea, at homo and abroad, elevating the great future of our country clear and full in the blazing sunlight of our hope.”

Centralization and State Rights.

We have heard a great deal in recent years from Democratic writers and speakers of the dangers of “ centralization.” No doubt the word itself strikes on the average Democratic ear with the sort of mysterious tesror always conveyed to the uneducated mind by strange and polysyllabic terms. Every person has heard the story of how a celebrated English wit silenced a foulmouthed fish-worn an by calling her “ a parallelogram.” If be had called her a fool, a drab or a liar, so far from being silenced she would have come back at him with greater violence than ever; but “parallelogram” overcame her, because she did not know what it meant. So probably the average Democrat is impressed and alarmed by the talk about “centralization,” because he is as incapable of understanding what it means as he would be of understanding a clause of the Constitution if some person should read it to him. If ho could be made to understand that centralization is the word applied by dem-o agogues to every exercise of legitimate power by the General Government, he might, perhaps, wonder why any danger should spring from that source, and it might even occur to him that a Government without any of the powers of a Government would be no Government at all. Yet that is precisely the sense and meaning of the term as used by Democratic writers and speakers in reference to politics. There has not been a single act of the Government during the last nineteen years that has not been denounced as centralization. Every effort of the Government to coerce the States, to suppress the rebellion and to preserve its own existence was called centralization; the raising of troops, the equipping of armies, the enforcement of the draft, and every step in prosecution of the war were denounced as centralization. The emancipation of the slaves, their subsequent investiture with the rights of citizens, the acts to enforoe civil rights, the legislation to secure free ana fair elections, the laws to punish Ku-Klux-ism and .election frauds—all these and a score of other measures that might be named, have all been denounced under the same comprehensive and mysterious term, until one might suppose that the sort of Government desired by the Democracy is a Government without any power or authority whatever, and without any means of enforcing the law or making itself respected at home or abroad. There is another political influence at work in this country far more dangerous than this Democratic bugbear called centralization. It is the influence which made the original articles of confederation a failure; which came near preventing the adoption of the -Constitution; which baseverbeeuoperating to undermine and destroy the Constitution since its adoption; which taught the doctrines and instilled the principles that led to 1 ’ the rebellion; which nerved the arms and pointed the guns of the Confederates during four years of war, and which has resisted every effort of the Government since the war to restore the Union and establish its authority on a solid and enduring basis. We mean State rights. If our present form of government is ever destroyed it will not bo by the centripetal but by the centrifugal power. There is infinitely less danger that the rights of the citizen ana of the several States will be trampled upon by the General Government than there is that the power and authority <rf the General Government will be sapped, weakened, and destroyed by the specious doctrine of State rights. Imperialism and centralization are imaginary dangers; that of State rights and State sovereignty is real. The contest now going on in Congress is but one phase of it, in which, the Democratic party denies the -right of Congress to pass any Jaws or the General Government to exercise any authority to preserve the peace at the polls in National elections, to punish frauds on the ballot-box, or prevent violent interference with such elections by individuals or organizations acting under the protection of State laws. For it must be remembered that this entire controversy concerning the right of the General Government to regulate elections refers not to State elections, but to elections for Members of Congress, and on this issue l the Democrats maintain that the National Government has no rights whatever in the premises. This is but one of many phases of the doctrine of State rights, & doctrine which, is utterly incompatible, not only with good Government, but with any Government at all, and which is now the central idea and ruling principle of Democracy.— Indianapolis Journal. —Of Miss Julia E. Smith, Of Glastonbury, Conn., whose marriage has been announced, a story is told Jn Jpartford that suggests her independence. Some time ago; being a stockholder in one of the Hartford banks, she called in at the institution a month or more before . dividend time and said that being in ! town she would take her dividend then. The President remarked that no dividend had been declared, and that she was a month ahead of time. Nevertheless, she demanded her money. “I don’t do things as people do, sir,” she said; ‘Tm a law nnto myself, sir, and r H take my dividend now/’ “Well, ma’am, you may be a law unto yourself,” was the answer got, “but you’re not a laiV unto me,’ r and instead of . gettdng^e£.dividend shejjot „ rangy. “ y, _ L _. > Whsn you wake up at night andhear the baby crying; look out for dangerfar there is a rock (ahead. i