Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1879 — Page 2

The Rensselaer Union. _ K*N*BELAXH, . * INDIANA.

General News Summary.

1 Vuanorai i»lipM of the 2d says it Im4 bswi Miltity MtiHtl that Sec’y McStotot f^tbi* Judicial To public debt state meat, lacoed on the ML, abowa tb« foUowiau: Total debt (lodu.lte* Interest., of #27,832.362), *2,457,773,765 Onto lu Tressuxy, *430,661,297. Debt, lea* cacti la Tttesnrj, *3,087,183,488. Increase daring Mar, WRW- Decrease since Juae AooouDnra to estimates by Government official* ta Washington, there will be *3,000,08b available tor the payment of arrears of psailoua during the present month. Tn funeral of K. C. Ingersoll occurred at Me residence In Washington, on the 2d. The oeremoslsi were extremely simple, coo si sting merely of viewing tbs remains by the relatives sad Mends and a funeral oration by Col. R. G. IngersoU, brother of deceased. A large number of distinguished gentlemen were present. Tn Democratic members of both branches of Congress held a Joint caucus on the afternoon of the 3d, and adopted a programme previously agreed-upon by the Caucus Committees. The plan decided upon provides for the la traduction to the House of the Army Appropriation bill, divested of the political amendments on which the President’s veto was based, but eontainlng a proviso that so money appropriated by the act shall be paid for the expense or compensation of any part of the armv to be used ae police force to keep peace at the polls at any election held within any State; the Legislative and Executive Appropriation bill to be introduced without any political clauses, but the Judicial appropriation* to be provided for in a separate measure, In which no provision is to be made for the eompeneatton of Supervisors or Dep-uty-Marshals of Election, and which will contain, substantially In the same terms, those sections of the vetoed btll which provided for amendments respecting the metbol of drawing Juries, and far the repeal of the Jurors’ Test-oath; It is also provided that no portion of the moody appropriated in this set shall be used as compensation or to defray the expenses of any person employed under the statute authorising the appointment of Supervisors and Deputy-Marshals of Elections, and that no officer of the Government shall mane any contract or incur any liability before a sufficient sum to meet such contract or liability shall have been appropriated by Congres*. 'f Oh the 4th, the Secretary of the Treasury tuned a circular giving public notice that the ten-dollar refunding certificates would be received at the Treasury Department in exchange for the four per cent. Government bonds on and after June 9th, but that they mutt be furnished for exchange without expense ta the Government. Tn Finance Committee of the United States Senate took up the Warner Silver bill on the 6th, and are reported to have decided to postpone further action on the same until December next. Those voting t# postpone were Measrr. Ferry, Allison, B ayard and Ker nan; against postponement were Messrs. Voorbees, Beck and Jones.

The East. The mystery attending the robbery of the Manhattan Savings Bank, of New York, last October, was dispelled by tbe arrest, on the • night of the Slet nit, of John Slevin, tbe' night watchman. After a day’s confinement he was induced to squeal, and reveal tbe names of bis confederates, and shortly after, John Dobbs and Johnny Hope, two well-known burglars, were gathered in. The watchman says the Job bad been in course of preparation for over three years. It seems the burglars entered the building by means of false keys which they bad caused to be made from wax Impressions secured by the unfaithful watchman. Once inside, they secured tbe combination from tbe janitor and plundered the vaults, u has been heretofore published. Thk Greenback State Convention of Maine was held at Portland on the 3d. Resolutions were adopted, reaffirming the plat form of IS7B and expressing pride and satisfaction at its indorsement by the people at the September elections; favoring tbe unlimited coinage of gold and silver, to be supplemented by full legal-tender paper money sufficient to carry on the business of tbe country; the substitution or greenbacks for National Bapk notes; etc. Joseph H. Smith, of Oldtown, waj unanimously nominated tor Governor. AT New Boston, near Woburn, Mass., on the night of the 2d, tbe works of the Merrimac Chemical Company were totally destroyed by firt, involving a loss of from *70,000 to *IOO,OOO. The vitriol, as it escaped from the tanks, flowed into the gutters surrounding the building, and several persons who stepped Into them were badly burned. A-jV. 1 Weeks, tbe company’s book-keeper, was burned fatally from this cause. ~ Th* next session of the General Council of the Beronned Episcopal Church will be held in the City of New York. Is New York City on the 4th, James Orton Woodruff, the projector of the “ Woodruff Scientific Expedition,” which collapsed a few A weeks ago, died of brain fever. The New Hampshire Legislature met on the 4th, and effected an organization by the election of Republican presiding officers. Judge Blatchford, of the United States Court at New York, gave a pro formn decision on the 7th, overruling the plaintiff’s demurrer to defendant’s amended answer in the suit to test the validity of the re-issue of legal-tender notes, and dismissed the complaint In order that an appeal may be taken to the United States Supreme Court in Octo- ■ /'her<tet the evening of the 7th, as a woman named Mrs. Honors Lacy was driving from Wilmington, DeL, to her home in Chester County, Pa., a lot of cotton and straw in the carriage wae set on fire by a match, and in an instant the whole interim-of the vehicle ias to a blase. The horse became frightened and ran away, and, before it was stopped, Mrs. L*cy was literally roasted alive. Oh the 7th, the iron manufacturers of Pittstough, Pa., signed the scale of prices demanded by the puddlers, and the lock-out was declared ended. The following were the closing quotations for produce in New York, on Jnne 7th: No. 3 Chicago Spring Wheat, *1.0501.07, Na 3 Milwaukee, *[email protected]. Gate Western Mixed. SB«3BJ4e. Corn, Western Mixed, mm P«i, Mess, #9.00010.1)0. L*d, •fi-27J<@3 30. Flour, Good to Choice, *3.95 Q4.GO; White Wheat Extra, #4.5505.25. Cattle, [email protected] for Common po Extra. Sheep (clipped), #8.0005.25. Hogs, *3.60® 3 80. AT East Liberty, Pa., on June 7th, Cattle brought: Best, *4-8005.00; Medium, #4.300 4 75; Common, #3-7004.30. Hogs sold— Yorkers, *3.4501«; Philadelphia, *3.700 8-75. Sheep brought *B.ooo4.2s—according to quality. At Baltimore, Mi, on June 7th, Cattle brought; Beet, *6.00055.50; Medium *&39ofeiKi HG£l sold at #fcMOMO for. Good? Sheep were quoted at *8.5004.35 for ■ West and SontH. GHtbe3d.au appeal was isaued for asliataucefot lb* people living totbe region

lately devastated by the cyclone. Contributions may be aent to J. 8- Walker, Treasurer of thfi Relief Committee, at Irving, Kan. The Cities of Atchison sad 81. Joseph, Mo., bad each contributed *OOO, and tbe Village of Irvlux*m ' Oh the evening of tbe 2d tbe- United States Saringf Bank of St. Louie dosed Its doors and decided to go Into Mfnedlate liquidation. The liabilities of tbe bank are sifted to be *190,000, and the usual promise of full payment at a not very remote period Is made. Ah election of Judge* was held In Illinois, on the 3d. In Cook County tue five candidates nominated by the Democracy were elected by very large majorities. Judge T. Lyle Dickey was also elected as his own successor on the Supreme Bench. Or the 3d, the steamer China sailed from San Francisco for Hong Kong, having on board seventeen Chinese letters who, for several months, had lieen inmates of the County Fett-Houae. They were sent home by the Board of Supervisors. > A Statu Prohibition 'Convention has been called to meet at Des Moines, lows, on the 4th of July next, for the nomination of a State ticket Thu lows Greenback nominee for State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Prof. J. A. Nash, has declined the candidacy. At the General Council of the Reformed Episcopal Church, In session at Chicago on tbe 3d, Rev. A. 8. Richardson, recently elected Bishop of the branch of tbe Church in Great Britain, was confirmed in his office by a vote of fifty-two to twenty-five— those in tbe negative favoring postponement for one year. A revarkahlt elofe conjunction between the planets Mars and Saturn will occur on the last day of June, the distance being, at their nearest approach, only the sixtieth part of a degree. Tn* workingmen of California met in State Convention at San Francisco on the 3d and 4th. Dennis Kearney was chosen permanent President.. The platform adopted repudiates communism aud agrarianism; advocates the enforcement of tbe letter and spirit of the new State Constitution; demands tbe restoration to pre-emption and sale of forfeited railroad bonds; advocates the election of President and Vice-President' and Senators of the United States by t direct vote of the people, and no second term for President and Vice-President. A resolution wag also adopted condemning the President for the veto of the anti-Chinese bill. The Democratic State Convention of Ohio met at Columbus on the 4th. Samuel F. limit, of Cincinnati, was chosen permanent Chairman. Thomas Ewing was nominated for Governor; A. V. Klee, for Lieutenant-Gov-ernor ; Anthony Howells, for Treasurer; Charlesßeemelin, for Auditor; W.J. Gilmore, for Judge of Supreme Court; Isaiah Pillars, for Attorney-General, and Patrick O’Marah, for Member of Board of Public Works. Tbe resolutions adopted demand free and fair elections, and to that end denounce all interference with elections by the military powfer; declare that tbe Election laws of Congress interfere with State elections, under pretense of. regulating the manner of Congressional elections, and that the same are unconstitutional and ought to be repealed; denounce the Republican minority in Congress for refusing to vote supplies for the maintenance of the Government unless the majority would agree to the use of troops at’ the polls, etc., and condemn the President for his unprecedented use of the veto power in order to perpetuate the objectionable laws aforesaid; declare that not a dollar shall be appropriated by Congress to pay soldiers, Marshals, Deputy-Marshals, or Supervisors of Elections, to interfere with or control elections; reaffirm the financial principles heretofore advocated by the Democratic party of Ohio; etc., etc. -

On the 4th, the Ohio Greenback State Convention met in Columbus and nominated the following State ticket: For Governor, General A, Saunders Piatt; Lieutenant-Governor, Hugo Prey or; Auditor, Andrew Ray; Treasurer, Charles Jenkins; Supreme Judge, A. M. Jackson; Attorney-General, James C. Crogan; Member of Board of Public Works, George W. Platt. The platform demands the Issue by the Government of an ample volume of legal-tender currency, opposes the issue of ln-teriest-bcarlng bonds of any description; insists upon the abolition of the National hanking system; favors a protective tariff for the present; demands the abolition of all inter-nal-revenue taxes, and the substitution therefor of a graduated income tax; advocates the calling in for payment of all Government bonds, etc., etc. On the sth, Post & Co’s manufactory of railroad supplies aud electrical apparatus in Cincinnati was destroyed by fire, involving a loss of about *125,000. During the afternoon, while a number of workmen were overhauling the debris, the roof near the elevator fell in, and a section of the five floors, twenty-two by twenty-five feet, was carried into the cellar. About a dozen men were at work under the falling mass, and were borne to tbe basement below. Of these, five were killed outright, aud all the rest were more or less seriously injured. The Supreme Court of lowa lias lately decided that the law prohibiting the sale of wine and beer within two miles of any municipality where such sale has been forbidden by a vote of the people, or within two miles of any voting-place at any election, is constitutional and valid. The Governor of Illinois has vetoed tbe hill passed by the late General Assembly making illegal tbe payment of wages in store-orders or goods, instead of cash, oil the ground that it contravenes public policy. 1 ~ On the 4th, at % Robrersv<]lc, Mil., L. S. Miller, a lad of fifteen, shot and killed Charles Norris, about the same age. It seems that Miller had been teased by the boys and called nicknames. He procured a gun, loaded it, followed his teasers and fired into the crowd. Norris was hit, and died instantly. . 1 The next session of the German., Catholic Convention will be held In St. Louis.. At San Francisco, Cal., on the sth, the Workingmen’s State „ Convention re-elected Dennis Kearney permanent President of the party. The following State ticket was nominated: Goveru/y, William F. White; Lieuten-ant-Governor, W. R. Andrews; Secretary of State, A. A. Smith; Treasurer,CharlehKrug; Comptroller, Hugh Jones; Attorney-General, C. W. Cross; Surveyor-General, H. P. Stevenson; Superintendent of Public Instruction, H. D. Trout; Chief Justice, R. F- Morrison. Information has been received from Fort Belknap that 800 lodges of Sitting Bull’s Indians are south of the British line. No acts •of .hostility had been reported up to the 6th. Rev. Samuel Harris, of St. James’ Church, Chicago, has been chosen Episcopal Bishop of Michigan, to succeed Bishop McCoskry, deposed. It has been recently decided by the lowa Su; preme Court that, where a party gives a note which is subsequently “ raised" and sold to innocent third parties, the maker 6hall not be liable for more than the original bona fide contract. '. '1... At Chicago on the afternoon of the 7th, as two messengers from the office of ,the Illinois Central Railway werti'tfn their way ~£6 deposit the day’s accumulations In a bank, they were met by two men, who assaulted them and threw pepper into their eyes, seized their packages, leaped tofb-a baggy standing bard by, and escaped. The thieves secured about #IO,OOO. Thh five persons indicted in the United Jtates Court at Chicago for fraud la the construction of thfi Custom-House in that city were, on the 7th, declared by a jury, alter a trial lasting twenty-eight 1 days, to be not guilty. In Chicago, on June 7th, Spring Wheat No. 2closed at cash; *Lo2Ji(di

1.03)4 for June; 99#«995(c for July. Cash Corti closed at 90c for*- No. 3; 88c for June; 3fi)fc f«n J uly. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 32)4c, 0»d 32J<c teller June. Rye No. 3, 52)4052Vi Barley No. 2,61006 c for cash, - Cash Mess Pork closed at $9.63)4 09-05. Lard closed at *8.07)406.10. Beeve* —Extra brought *4 9005.10; Choice, *4 06 04 90; Good, *4.2504.50; Medium Grades, *3.7504 15; Butchers’ Stock, *2 25.33.25; Stock Cattle, etc., *2.3503.25. Hogs-Good to Choice, *3.5003.00. Sheep—Poor to Choice, •2.7505.00.

Foreign Intelligence. The Portuguese Government lias lately coneluded a treaty with Great Britain, havlnir for It* object the suppression of tUc African slave; trade and the development of African commerce and clvlllaailon. . Korn Nihilist conspirators were hung at KlefT, Russia, on the 2d. Acoohimno to a Bt. Petersburg dispatch of the 2d, an attempt to blow up the court where the military tribunal for thn trial of Nihiliats was sitting had »ecn discovered and frustrated. Baron Lionel Nathan I)e Rothschild, chief partner In the banking house of Rothschild it Co., died In London on the 3d. K ■ A Paris telegram of the 3d says there had been another serious outbreak of the natives In Algeria against French authority. Burn,in telegrams of the 3d say that a barricade hail lately been found In the streets of St. Petersburg, near Pcterhof Palace, but that the police had managed to destroy It before any great number of Nihilists could occupy it On the 3d, astcoWr left Malta, by way of the Suez Canal, for Behring’s Straits, In search of the steamer Vega and the Swedish Arctic F.xploring Expedition. Tin Porte gives notice that. It objects emphatically to the new Uoiimclian Ministry, because It Is exclusively Christian. The project of holding an International regatta on Lake Geneva, Switzerland, has been abandoned for this year. ,/Trouble has arisen between Germany and Egypt, owing to the refusal of the latter to pay its creditors, many of “whom are of the former nationality. Feais of serious complications prevail. According to official reports published on the 4tli, it was impossible to exaggerate the distress caused by the famine in Cashmere. It was stated that thousands had already perished for lack of food. Dispatches from Cape Town, received on the 4th, report the complete collapse of the transportation and commissariat service of the British army. Dis. Andrew D. White, the new United States Minister to Berlin, arrived in that city on the sth. On the sth, a dispatch was received in London from the Prime Minister of the King of Burmah, in which the reports of disorder at Mandalay were characterized as falsehoods. No ireshJevics of troops had been mode, and the Cabinet was endeavoring to strengthen a good understanding w ith friendly powers, and cultivate peaceful relations with others. NWs was received from Melbourne on the 6th that the Australian and European Bank of that place had suspended. The liabilities to depositors are stated to be $2,500,000, and to hill-holders *150,000. A Ferrari (Italy) telegram of the 6th announces the overflow of the River Po, and that thousands had been rendered homeless in consequence. » The workmen In the Swedish lumber ports have struck for higher wages. On the 6th, 10,000 men were idle. _ A London telegram of the 7th says Bolivia had authorized privateers sailing under her flag to seize Chilian merchandize, even if carried by neutral ships and not contraband of war. ,'LoSdON dis[ atches of the 7th say divers had recovered the bodies of three men from the cabin of the Pomerania, sunk in a collision off Folkestone last November. Alexander Soi.ouviEFK,*the Russian who not long ago attempted to assassinate the Czar, was tried for Ihe offense on the 7th, found guilty and sentenced hung. The sentence was immediately carried into effect, he being executed at five o’clock on the afternoon of the same day. lie was thirty years old, and is said to have been a man of education and culture. He maintained great composure to the last.

Congressional Proceedings. In the Senate, on the 2d, Mr. Blaine gave notice of an amendment to a resolution of Mr. McDonald .to infer part of a Rhode Island petition relative to elections in that State to the Committee on Alleged Frauds in the late election, that the said committee be also instructed to inquire into the election in certain Congressional Districts in Georgia, North Carolina and Mississippi, and the morning hour was consumed in debate... .The House bill authorizing the Secretary of War to use part of the appropriation for the construction, etc., of certain works on the Great Kanawha and Kentucky Rivers for the purchase of sites for such improvement was debated and passed—29 to IS. In the Douse, under a call of the States, very many bills were introduced and referred, among which were: For the taxation of promissory notes, bonds and mortgages and making it unlawful to exact more than 5 per cent, interest for the loan of money; prohibiting the funding of United States bonds (payable in currency) into coin bonds; to substitute legal-tender currency for National Bank currency; prohibiting any soldier stationed within two miles of any place where a Congressional election is being held, from leaving his barracks for any purpose except that of relieving guard or casting his vote on the day of election.... The bill for the appointment of a Mississippi River Commission, and appropriating $175 000 : to' meet-its expenses, was passed... .Columbus Upson, successor of the late Gustav Schleicher, was sworn in from the State of Texas, taking the modified oath.... A resolution was agreed to appropriating $2,000 for the expenses Of the Labor Committee....A joint resolution was passed ■ 138 to 62—appropriating $20,000 to provide for the representation of the United States at the International Exhibition to be held at Bidney and Melbourne, Australia, in 1879-80.... The Bpeakcr announced the appointment of Mr. Upson on the Committees on Military Affairs and Enrolled Bills. House bills were passed in the Senate. on the 3d. extending the time for the payment of pre-emptors on public lands in Minnesota and Dakota, and establishing post-route^. The bill amending the statutes relative to the removal of causes from State to Federal Courts was further debated in the House, Mr. Cox making a lengthy argument in favor of the repeal of the jurors' test oath. In the Senate on the,4th, Mr. Bayard, from the J udiciary Committee, reported, with an amendment, the Senate bill repealing Sec tions 820 and 82t|of the Revised Statutes (which prescribe the Jurors’ Test-oath, etc.).... A resolution, offered by Mr. Voorhees, was adopted, directing the Secretary of War to inform the Senate of the circnmstnncos leading to the arrest and removal of J. M. Bell and other Cherokee Indians from the Cherokee Nation.... A bill was passed to amend the act in relation to Judicial Districts in Texas.

In tbe House, tbe Senate amendments to the Grasshopper bill (extending the time of payment by pre-emptors) were agreed t 0...: A resolution was adopted—l2B to 64—directing an investigation into the affaire of the Ocean National Bank of New York and the German National Bank of Chicago, and especially into the management of their assets by the respective Receivers.... A preamble and resolution were agreed to relative to the report of the Committee on Expenditures in the State Department in the last Congress in connection with tbe charge against George F. Seward. Minister to China, referring such report, the articles of impeachment, etc., to. the Judiciary Committee, wjth instructions to consider the same, take other testimony if necessary, and report to the House at the next session .. cTbe Senate amendments to the Post-Route bill were concurred in. The Qouse joint resolution appropriating money to enable the United States Government to participate in the International Exhibitions to her held at Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, in 1879-80, was adopted in the Senate, on the stb. .. Tbe bill relating to the repeal of Sections 83) and 82] of the Revise Statutes (prescribing the Jurors Test-oath) was taken up and debated, several amendments being offered and rejected, The committee’s amendment (be-ing*-substitute for the original bill) was then s«reed to, and a motton to recomwit tbe biU was^ The Legislative bill,as agreed upon by the Democratic Caucus Committee, was reported in the! House, ordered printed and recommitted A message was received from the President and or-

dared printed, with the accompanying docnnirnta,'nuiaiaiUing the proceed ms* ami report of the Board of Officer* m theaaecof Ftta-Johh Porter. The President aUtra in the nieanspn that be had givan to the report aurh an .-zommatum aa antiafietflUm that be ought to lay the proceeding* and aflnclnaioaa of the board before Congress. u wma without power, in the absence of l<qrinlntio|(, t<> not upou the recommendation of the report further than by Submitting the aame to Congress. , Ik the Senate on the 6th, Mr. Coke naked Mr. Bayard, Chairman of the Finance Committee, what action had been token on the Warner Silver bill: he (Coke) had understood that the committee had agreed to postpone its further consideration until December. Mr. llayKtd did not feel authorized to sav what bad token place in the committee: hq would only say that no member had been instructed to report on the bill. Mr. Coke then offered a resolution, which was objected to and went over, to discharge the committer from the farther oonsidertionef the bill, and to declare the bill before the Senate for action... The bill to repeal the Jnrom’ Test oath statutes came up and was debated at considerable length by Messrs. Edmunds, Thurman, etc., after which a motion by Mr. Bayard to recommit the bill was lost- 15 to 27 and the hill whs then passed- 28 to 16-a strict party vote ... Adjourned to the 9th. In tho House, the Army Appropriation bill was reported, ordered printed and recommitted. •It ptovides that no money appropriated shall be paid for tbe subsistence, equipment, transportation, or eompensHtion of any portion of the army to be used os a police foroe to keep peace at the polls at any election held within any State.. The hill making additional appropriations for the Postoffice Department whs denied in Committee of tbe Whole. Tiif. Senate was not in session on the 7th. A joint resolution was passed in tbe House legalizing the action of the President and Secretary of War in sending rations and tents to the vellow-ferersufferers....The hill making additional appropriations for the Postoffice Department was amended in Committee of the Whole, reported to the House, and passed as amended in committee.

OUT AT LAST.

The Story of the Manhattan Bank Bobbery, as Told by One of the Perpetrators- ConlcsHion of a Night Watchman. New York, Jnne 1. The whole story of the Manhattan Savings Bank burglary is at last out, through the confession of one of the burglars. Saturday night Capt. Byrnes and his detectives arrested Henry Glenn, Patrick Slevin and William Kellv, on a charge of being implicated in the robbery, whereby money and securities worth nearly $3,000,000 were stolen on the night of the 27th of October, 1878. One of them has confessed the whole plot to Capt. Byrnes. A burglar known as Little Tracey first concocted the scheme, and organized a band to rob the bank. It was broken up, however, by, the arrest and conviction of most of the members of the gang for other crimes. Then he organized a second gang, in which were Jimmie Hope, George Howard, John Dobbs, Jim Brady and others. They also bad in league with them a man employed as watchman at odd hours in the bank. Two attempts were made bv this gang to rob the bank, but each failed through the inability of the watchman to meet his engagements. This gang also broke up. But Hope, thoroughly convinced of the feasibility of his scheme, lost no time in reorganizing his forces. Dobbs (“Big Kid”), who was “on foot” again, and others equally skilled and desperate, joined him, and work began in earnest. On Sunday morning, when the friendly watchman was on duty in the bank, Hope was let into the building, and used his opportunity to thoroughly examine the vaults. The next Sunday he returned, and taught the watchman how to use wax in taking an impression of the keyhole. The watchman (Patrick Slevin) was an apt scholar, and soon returned the lump which the burglar had brought, with an impression from which the latter was able to make a key for the outer street-door on Bleecker street, which was fotlnd to fit, and was put by fqr use. This attempt also failed for want of time, but an entrance to the vault containing the safes was effected. Eight moiups later negotiations wjsre again*-opened with Watchman SlevfrE Finally the job was put up Ter Sunday morning, the 27th of October, ana in it were Jimmy Hope, Kelly and Dobbs, together with the night-watch-man, Slevin. It was thought Slevin would have charge of the bank that night, but an accident frustrated it. The gang resolved, however, to carry out their plans after the night-watch-man had left and when the day-watch-man came on. How well it was carried out every one knows, and nearly $3,000,000 were carried away. Kelly stood guard over the manacled janitor. He gave them the combination to the ■ safe, being in mortal terror of his life. The detectives went hard to work, and, after a long search. John Dobbs and the younger Hope were arrested. Watchman Slevin was shadowed early and late, and was found drinking hard and spending money lavishly. He was arrested a few days ago, and finally confessed the whole plot to Capt. ByrneS, and Kelly was arrested on his return from Jerome Park. Slevin says each member of the gang was assessed S6OO, after getting their money share, which was sent to Washington.to defeat the bill introduced in Congress to duplicate the stolen bonds, as, if it passed, it would "be difficult to negotiate the originals. Meanwhile, the various town bonds stolen were negotiated, and Slevin got $2,000 as his share therefrom, and Jimmy Hope went to Washington to have the bill stopped. Kelly, when arrested, denied his guilt, but, when eOrUranted with Slevin, he burst into a fit of swearing, and said: “The bank has to pay a dividend bn June 1, and, to do it, will have to come to terms and settle with us.”

There are three more members of the gang yet at large, but they are known and will soon be arrested. The trial of the younger Hope begins Wednesday ■ ■ -ra • tei Only a little while, vain man, only! a little while, and when you come home from the office at even pr noon, the wife of yodr bosom will meet you at the door with an anxious look in her eye and a fly brush or an apron in her hand. She will hold the door open just three inches for you to crowd yourself through, and as you make hopeless efforts to sidle in through that space, above your head and under your feet and around your legs that fly brush will whirl and nestle like a restless meteor, and when you finally crowd iii and two flies follow you, ' the goddess of your home will bang the door and weep, and say that she can gt) In,and out of that door fifty times a day] and never pass a fly inside, while you can’t come into the house without bringing millions of thens in with you., It is hard, poor man, we know; it isn’t fair on you, and it isn’t just, but it’s got to come, and you might just as well make up your mind to stand it. — Burlington Hawk-Eye. A man who cannot even write his own name can put his money in a savings brnik, by a wise provision which allows the witnessing of a cross mark, and his chances for getting it back again are just as good as if Jie had been in .Q, Picayune. It is better to be the Czar, when he js shot at, than the crowd.—DerrtcA.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. —No quarter—A twenty-cebt piece. —A bar is the only thing that beats a mosquito. —A column article—a monument — —Steubenville Herald. —When is a man obliged to keep his words When no one will take it. —No matter what rank vegetables may attain, the cabbage will always bo ahead. * —English ladies in high life are usually allotted about $2,5(10 a year for pin money. « —The rook on which families are established is rock the cradle. — N. 0. Picayune. —T|ie milk of human kindness will hardly bear the test of the lactometer. Rochester {N. Y.) Express. —Postofliee statistics show that it requires 64,487 males to run the mail department of the United States. The following letter explains Itself,” is the common introduction to a communication that has no point to it. -•A railroad eating-house is kept on the you-rope-in plan, where they beat a gong twenty minutes for refreshments. —Exchange. —A cynical old bachelor says women are so full of their own secrete that it is absolutely impossible for them to keep the secrets of others. Solomon was the wisest of the paragraphers and the wealthiest, with one exception. Our modesty forbids an explanation.— Oowanda Enterprise—Speak of a man’s marble brow, and he will glow with conscious pride; but allude to his wooden head, and he's mad in a minute. Language is a slippery thing to fool with much. - —A painter’s apprentice fell off a scaffold with a pot of paint in each hand. He was taken up insensible, but as soon as restored to consciousness he murmured, “ I went down with flying colors, anyhow.” —Now is the season of the year when the man who sees the sign, “ Fresh Paint,” will walk up to the door, leave the marks of liis dirty fißgers on it and go away muttering'to himself, “That’s so.”— Hackensack Republican. —A Scotch Justice refused to renew a young woman’s license to sell liquor, the other day, on the ground that the temptation of her position as q dealer in liquor was great. It wasn’t his business to protect the publicans, but chivalry required him to look after the girl. — English Paper. —The Louisville (Ky.) Democrat tells of a Kentuckian who, criticised by a friend for bad playing at cards, turned and said quietly: “An qld gentleman by the name of Ross had two sons, Robert and William, who each made a fortune. Robert Ross attended to hio own business, and William let other people’s alone.” The hint was taken. —lt is not often that a soft answer tarns away wrath, after all. He wanted to appear modest, far more modest than he really was, and sb when she shyly • asked, “ What are you?” he answered with a sigh, “ I am nothing.” Then her woman’s wit rose right up, and she said in gentle tones, “Then, sir, I suppose that I must be next to nothing.”— N. Y. Herald. ■ —Dressy little kerchiefs of pink or white crepe lisse are trimmed with Breton insertion and edging, and are used for caps, for cravat bows, or as a pocket-handkerchief. Others, of muslin embroidered in colors, have the center caught up in a puff, and held by a cluster of flowers. This may be used either on the head or at the throat.— Harper's Bazar.

—As some lady visitors were going through a Penitentiary under the escort of the Superintendent, they came to a room in which three women were sewing. “Dear me!” one of the visitors whispered, “what vicious-looking creatures! Pray, what are they here for?” “Because they have no other home; this is our sitting-room, and they are my wife and two daughters,” blandly answered the Superintendent. —“Does that hurt?” kindly asked the dentist, holding the young man’s head back, and jabbing a still probe with back set teeth clear down through hin-ffefring tooth and into the gum. r Does that hurt?” he asked, with evident feeling. “Oh, no,” replied the ybung mran, in a voice suffused with emotion and sentiment; “oh, no,” he said, tenderly, rising from the chair and holding the dentist’s head in the stove while he dragged his lungs out of his ears with a cork screw, “Oh, no,” he said, “not at all; does that?” But the dentist had the better of the young man after all, for be charged him fifty cents and didn’t pull the tooth then. By that time the astonished tooth had forgot its aching. —Burlington IlawkEye. —The fine gold-weighing scales made in Philadelphia for the New Orleans Mint, and placed in position yesterday, are marvels of mechanical invention and accurate workmanship. The larger of the two has a capacity of ten thousand ounces troy, or about six hundred and eighty-six pounds avoirdupois, and, when loaded to its full weight, will indicate a variation of one-thousandth part of an ounce, or the millionth part of its weighing capacity. Another pair of scales is the one intended for weighing gold only. It has bearings composed of the finest agates, which have been ground with wonderful precision. So delicate is this machine that.it will give the precise weight of a human hair, and is susceptible to the slightest atmospheric changes. Millions of dollars’ worth of precious metals will be weighed annually upon the§e scales.— N. V. Times.

The State-Rights Heresy.

The debate in the Senate of the United States upon the Legislative, Executive and judicial Appropriation bill showed th*t the old heresy of State rights, in opposition Jto the absolute supremacy of the National Government, is not yet dead, as a Southern theory. Mr. John Ci Calhpun, the patron saint of this theory, hot only believed in negro slaved but also held that the Union is founded upon a mere compact or league between the States, actinain their organic and political capacity, and that, when anyone or in ore of them should choose to do so, ’such State of States would have the Constitutional right tol terminate the compact, and thus dissolve the Union. This heresy, more by the influence of Mr. Calhoun than by that of any other man, had, prior to the war, become the prevalent doctrine of the Southern people, especially those belonging to the Democratic party; and it was this heresy, in connection with slavery, that led to the great Rebellion, which it cost so much blood and treasure to conquer. Though Daniel Webster exploded it by argument half a century ago it still uved, ana finally dhlthinated in a terrible war.

The pleven States that openly engaged fa) the Rebellion claimed tfae right to manage what they oalled their own affairs in their own way, independently altogether of the General , Government, and, if necessary, to the extent of rejecting and wholly excluding its fiuthority. This right they asserted in their secession ordinances, and proposed to fight and did light for its maintenance. The loyal Stales, on the other hand, hrfld that the Government of the United States is within its sphere.the sovereign authority, clothed ample power to enact and exocute its own laws; that all the people are subject to this authority; and that no State can escape from its application and control, except by successful revolution. These two theories met each other on the field of battle, and, after a bloody contest of four years, the one conquered and the other was defeated. It was generally assumed after the war that the question was settled for all time that, under the Constitution of the United States, there are no State rights which imply any right of secession or resistance to the authority of tho General Government Calhounißm in all its forms was supposed to be a dead heresy. .The peoSle had decided by the swora that the National Government isnotonly a Government in the strictest ana fullest sense, but also the supreme Government in this country; and, consequently, that all State powers are subordinate, as compared with the central authority. j Some of the speeches recently made in the Senate —aA, for example, those of Senators Williams, Beck and Eaton imply, however, that the old heresy of State rights still lives in at least a portion of the Democratic party, especially at the South. These speeches remind us of those that used to be made by Southern men before the war, when they were threatening to dissolve the Union in certain contingencies; and it is worthy of note that this sort of talk is resumed just as soon as the Democrats gain political control of the two houses of Congress. We hear again the old story that the Union is founded on a mere compact; find also hear the new story that it is the province of the State Governments to enact all Election laws, anc|, hence, that the present Federal Election laws are an unwarrantable interference with their sovereign powers. The representative men of the South have never conceded that the rebellion was wrong or that secession was unconstitutional. All that they have admitted is their own failure, and even Jefferson Davis does not dispute this fact. They were right, though they had not bayonets enough to establish the right. The Rebellion was conquered; yet the theory which gave it birth still lives in Southern democracy, and to some extent in the hearts of Northern Democrats. Senator Blaine, in his late speech, did a good service in exposing this fact. The people should understand that the great heresy upon which the Rebellion was sought to be justified-is by no means yet extinct. It has not only not been disavowed by its former advocates; but has been openly avowed in the Senate of the United States. As formerly, so now, Democrats and Democrats onl j are the men who either put forward the extreme doctrine of State rights or accent lit as a true exposition of the Constitution. Had they controlled the Government during the war, the Rebellion would have been a success; and their control now would obliterate from the statute-bbok of the Nation nearly all the laws enacted to secure the proper results of the war. The way to prevent this result is to keep the Democracy out of power, and keep the Government in the hands of the party that conquered the Rebellion and saved the Union. The people should see to it at the ballot-box, as they did on the field of battle, that the supremacy of tho National Government is maintained against all its foes".— N. Y. Independent.

The Executive and the Army.

Now, that there is so much interest taken in the' use of the United States soldiery for the purpose of. securing obedience to the laws of the country in times of great emergency, and to the further efforts of the Democrats to mislead the people on the real issues growing out of the present attempted legislation of Congress, it is proper that the attention of the people be called to the consideration of the letter of James Buchanan, the last Democratic President, in reply to a memorial of citizens of Connecticut to him in regard to bis use of troops in the Territory of Kansas. Has any President since the days of Buchanan been so radical in the expression of his views? The letter is lengthy, and we offer only extracts from the same. Referring to the condition of the Territory when he assumed his office, he says: “In fact, I found the Government of Kansas as well established as that of any Territory. Under these circumstances what was my duty? Was it not to sustain this Government? To protect it from the violence of lawless men, who were determined either to rule or thin? To prevent it from being overturned by force?—in the language of the Constitution, to * take care that the laws be faithfully executed?’ It was for this purpose, and this alone, that I ordered a military force to Kansas to act as a posse comitatus in aiding the civil magistrates to carry the laws into execution. The condition of the Territory at the time, which I need not portray, rendered this precaution absolutely necessary. “In this state of affairs, would I not have been justly condemned had I left the Marshal, and other officers of a like character, impotent to execute the process and judgment of courts of justice, established by Congress or by the Territorial legislature, under its express authority, and thus have suffered the Government itself to become an object of contempt in the eyes of the peopleP And yet this is what you designate as forcing ‘the people of Kansas to obey laws not their own, but of tbe United States; and for doing which you have denounced me as having violated my solemn oath. I ask, what else could I have done, or ought I to have done? Would you have desired that I should abandon the Territorial Government, sanctioned as it had been by Congress, to illegal violence, and thus renew the scenes of civil war and bloodshed which*every patriot in the country hid deplored? This would, indeed, have been to violate my oath of office, and to fix a damning blot on the character of my Administration. -t “1 most cheerfully admit that the necessity for sending a military force to Kansas, to aid in the execution of the civil law, reflects no credit upon the character of our country. Bat let the blame fall upon the heads of the' guilty. W T hence did this necessity arise? A portion of the people of Kansas, unwilling to trust to the ballotbox— the. ii.rfiwedy.for4 the redress of all grievances—under- 1

took to create an independent government for themselves. Had this at-L tempt proved sifooeasful, it would, of course, have subverted the existing Kvernment, prescribed and reoqgnizea Congress, and substituted a revolutionary government in its stead. •• • * • Such a principle, if carried into execution, would destroy all lawful authority and produoe universal anarchy. “ * * * In the opinion of the Territorial Legislature of Kansas, the time had arrived for entering the Union, and they accordingly passed a law to elect delegates for the purpose of framing a State Constitution. This law was fair and Just in Its prorisions. It conferred the right of suffrage on * every bona tide inhabitant in the Territory.’ * * * The members of the Convention were legally elected and properly. * * The Convention will soon assemble to perform the solemn duty of framing a Constitution for themselves and their posterity;and, in the state of incipient rebellion which still exists in Kansas, it is my imperative dutv to employ, the troops of the United States, should this become necessary, in defending the Convention against violence while framing the Constitution, and in protecting the bona fide inhabitants qualified to vote, under the provisions of this instrument. * * * Following the wise example of Mr. Madison toward the Hartford Convention, illegal and dangerous combinations, such as that of the Topeka Convention, will not be disturbed unless they shall attempt to perform some act which will bring them into actual collision with the Constitution and the laws. In that event they shall be resisted and put down by the whole powt er of the Government. In performing this duty, I shall have the approbation of my own conscience, and, as I humbly trust, of my God.” This use of tho army, and his defense of the same, by Mr. Buchanan, was approved and indorsed by the Democrats, North and South, at the time. The use of the army then at the polls was to secure an expression of the people of Kansas in favor of the extension of slavery into that Territory. The Democrats never objected to the use of the army at elections if the interests of slavery could be promoted by it If they should get control of the Executive branch of the Government at the next election, and the colored men in any of the Southern States should become stronger than the white rifle clubs, and overpower them, the country will see the army called into requisition very promptly. The Democratic party did not hesitate to use the army at Harper’s Ferry when John Brown made his raid upon slavery. They did not wait for proclamations from Governors, nor for the Judges of the Courts to determine whether it should be used. It may be said that John Brown’s raid was made upon Government property, and was attempt to seize a Government arsenal. This is true, but we observe that the State of Virginia was allowed to try and execute him for art offense against her laws. No case can be found where Democrats ever condemned the hasty use of the army in suppressing negro insurrections or protecting the masters against the slaves. The fact is that, for fifty years, they multiplied forts and arsenals in the Southern States for the expressed purpose of keeping the negroes in subjection. The use of the army for a quarter of a century was about equally divided between the protection of the Western frontier against the Indians and the Southern masters against their slaves. When the army was improperly used for hunting down fugitive slaves and for hunting down and returning Indian prisoners, no Democrat has made complaint. When it is used for the purpose of enforcing the Revenue laws and compelling Southern rebels against the laws to submit to the authority of theaGovernment, we hear a great howl from the Democracy against military rule.— Indianapolis Journal.

THE VETO: A FABLE. A &>lony of rata, one stormy night. Assailed a cpm-crib. full of golden ears; When, lo! a fence of bayonets bright^—— tFlasbing around, awoke their fears. They fled away in fright; “ We have.” they cried in tears, “ Mot had a bite In twenty yeare!” Then, hungry and dishonest, old and young Burrowed a tunnel underneath the ground Into the corn-crib, and they clung Together till their toil was crowned; And reckless songs thoy sung When daylight glimmered round, merry tongUft_ju u ; The rascals found! With glnttonous appetite and clamorous cry, Into the tunnel the marauders poured; But eie they left its mouth, to die. They quickly stopped with one acoord. For there the farmer, nigh. Waited, without a word'. And swung on high The “ Veto” sword. Not being anxious to pay nature's debt. They fled to quit tbe end they entered at; Alas! beside the hole they met W bat tended to prohibit that; For there, the farmer’s pet, Aipietty terrier, sat Waiting to get A feast ofrat -itts • ’. . His name, "Vox Populi”—they called him so— He liclced his chops, and waited for bis proy; The other end the sword of woe; The rats were stricken with dismay. You ask, " Where did they go ? i Or did they Btarvo and stay?" I do not know; I came away. r-W. 4. Croffut, in Chicago Inter-Ocean.

Human Thorns.

There are certain disagreeable people in this world who seem to take a special delight in annoying others by reminding them of things they would willingly forget. They are human thorns, forever torturing their fellowmen for the sake of torturo. Has a man met with misfortune in his business, they are forever recalling the fact. Has a man in times that are gone wandered into devious paths, they ai e forever reminding him of it often by congratulating him that that is past. Has a man blundered, they are forever telling him what “might have been.” When the Thorn is of masculine gender, there is one way of getting relief. He can be knocked down and taught manners. When the Thorn fs of the feminine gender, the case is different and not so easily disposed of. Bat Causeur hears of one such scourge in petticoats who got her deserts the other everting. It was a little partyv where some score ofpeople were gathered together. The Thorn sat nefir a young man who, in days gone by, had been guilty of • follies that Cost him dearly. He had put them all behind him. But the Thorn took occasion to recall them, in -a subdued and confidential tone. The victim, who had bqen subjected to the same torturo before, spoke up so that all could hear. “ Madam,” he said, “for five years I have been trying to forget all that. You have been trying to remember it. You have succeeded better than I. I congratulate you.” subsided-—Joetoi • Transcript. »