Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1879 — Page 2

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General News Summary.

- -. Washington Ti * President sent a massage to the National Hoots ot Representatives on the SflVl, yotoiog the taiptemautary Judicial Appropriation hi), and one announcing his approval of the Amy Appropriation Mil. Tn total Bales of refunding certificates up totha SBd aaountel to taa,HSU,mu, leaving but $!«,« to bn disposed of. Information has recently been received at tha Dapartnaeat of State in Washington that the period tor resetting applications for spar* In ilia International Exhibition at Melbourne, Australia, has boon extended to October 81, 1879. Tn Secret Service branch of the Treasury Department baa lately oeeu informed that a new counterfeit Ove dollar legal-tender note has been put In drcnlatlon in various parts of the country. It purports to be of the aeries of 1835, and besua the names of Allison. Register, and Wyman, Treasurer. It Is executed on printed imitation fiber, which la lighter than the genuine. Experts pronounce It to be a dangerous counterfeit. Tn Democratic members of both houses of Congress lull a caucus on the afternoon of the 95th, to receive the joint report of their Advisory Committees on the subject of making further provision for next year’s Judicial expenses. The report presented recommended the passage ot two Mbs In lieu of the bill that had just bean vetoed, one to provide for the ordinary expenses of the Courts, and the second appropriating #600,000 for fees of United States Marshals and their Deputies, bat prohibiting the use of any money appropriated for the payment of Marshals for service in connection with elections on election date. A resolution was rejected—4l to 70— declaring in favor of the passage again of the recently-vetoed bi!L The report of the Advisory Committees was, after an animated discussion, dually agreed to, the btlie to be reported to the House through the Committee on A >| roprtations. During the year ended May 31, 1879, the excess of exports of merchandise over imports amounted to #269,709,876. Tub Uulted flutes Senate, on the 28th ult., rejected the nomination of D. T. Corbin, of South Carolina, to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah. The East. A negro named Chastine Cox was arrested in Boston on the 23d, charged with being tbe perpetrator of the mysterious murder of Mrs. Hull, of New Tore. He was formerly em ployed as private waiter at Mr. Hull’s bouse. A portion of the jewelry stolcD from the house at the time of the murder was found In a pawn-shop in Boston, and Mrs. Hull’s watch was found on his person. He made a full confession, saying that he entered the house on the night of the murder for the purpose of jobbery only, and that he did not Intend to kill her. A fxw days ago, Professor Swift, of Rochester, N. Y-, discovered a new comet in the constellatioa Peiseus, right ascension, two minutes thirty aiconds, declination north, fifty-eight degrees. It is quite bright and has a short tail, and Is moving eastof north at the rate of shout one degree per day. hf v. Hknrt C. Rxii.lt was consecrated Episcopal Bishop of Mexico, at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 24th. Ox the afternoon of the 23th, at Hamburg, N. Y., a special coach attached to the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern express, and conalning a funeral party bouud east, was thrown from the track and overturned, the heat having spread the rails. O. E. Britt, a prominent Milwaukee merchant, and Mrs.d£dwin Marshall, of Medina, X. Y., were fatally, and five others severely, Injured. Oxthe2slh, by a party vote, the- New Hamp-h re Legislature adopted resolutions commending tte course of the President In vetoing the various appropriation bills. At Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 23th, Ralph Woods, seven years old, undertook to kindle a fire in the kitchen stove by pouring kerosene 0.l upon the hot embers. Tbe inevitable explosion followed, and the burning oil was scattered in all directions, fatally burning Ralph, and slightly burning his infant brother. Thb Maine Republican Btate Convention was held at Bangor on the 26th. D. F. Davis, of Corinth, was nominated for Governor, on the third ballot. The resolutions adopted declare that this country is a Nation, and not a confederation of States; that it is the right and duty of the Government to protect the citizen and insure an honest and pure ballot; that the action of the Democratic majority in Congress is a revolutionary attempt to coerce the Executive; pledge to tbe President and the Republican members of both houses of Congress a hearty support in their efforts In opposition to the alleged revolutionary course of sueb Democratic majority. A boiler in an engine bouse attached to a saw and planing mill on Front street in Philadelphia exploded on tbe morning of the 27th, shattering to pieces tbe buildings adjacent. One bouse was razed to the ground, so that a stranger would hardly conjecture its previous existence, and in the ruins were buried a wnole family. The engineer was instantly killed. A Mrs. McAvoy and her three children and Claude and Stella Long, children of one of the tenants, were killed in the rules of the house above mentioned. In one bouse one «nd of the exploded boiler shot through the brick wall and lodged on tbe second floor, and so demolished wverything that all evidence of habitation except the building ltseir was extinct. Thx body of Madame Holland, who was lately carried over Niagara Falls, was .recovered on the 27th. At New London, Conn., on the 27th, the eight-oared race between crews from Harvard and Yale Colleges occurred, the former proving an easy winner in twenty-two minutes ami fl f ♦mmki aftfirtn ila ; _< ill Let? II SrntiHiH. A strike was in progress among the spinners at Fall River, Mass., on the 28th ult., and a slight disturbance occurred in one of tbe mill -on the afternoon of that day. Aid waa being solicited throughout New England and In New in behalf of the strikers. The following were the closing quotations for produce in New York, on June 28th: No. B. Chicago Spring Wheat, 81.1! @1.15; Na 2 Milwaukee, #1.1101.15. , Oats Western Mixed, Corn, Western Mixed, 40ai3tfc. Pork, Mess, [email protected]. Lard, •8.33® i Flour, Good to Choice, *4.15 ® t 50; White Wheat Extra, #4.5505.25. Cattle, #8.00010.00 for Common to Extra. Sheep (dipped), #8.0004.50. Hogs, *3 90® 4.20. At East Liberty, Pa., on June 28th, Cattle brought: Best, 84.9005.00; Medium, 83.800 4.40; Common, fl.ttiof.OO. Hogs sold— Yorkers, #10601.05; Philadelphia, $4,150 4.89. Sheep brought sß.ooo4.7s—according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on Jane 28th, CatUa brought; Bart, $4.5006.60; Medium $8.6001.28. Hogs sold at $4.7505.50 for Good. Sheep were quoted at $8.0004.20 for Good. _) Wait and South. Rxr. Robert Colltxr, the distinguished Chicago Unitarian clergyman, has resigned the pastorate of Unity Church in that city, and accepted a call to the Church of tbe Messiah to New York City. Thx rnrtdeaoe of J. F. Reynolds, In Jones NtXW, <!•., wue destroyed by fire on the mprplagof the 93d, and his daughter and sister-in-law, young girls aged twelve and sixteen yean, respectively, perished In the flames. Reynolds was also totally burned.

A call tor a State Convention of tbe Greenbsckers of Wisconsin has been laaard. Tbe place is Watertown, tbe time July 13, and the Object, the nomination of a State ticket. Aoooanixatoa Frankfort. (Ky.) dispatchof the 23d, abend of unknowu men attacked the house of Samuel Faulkner, at Sand R *<\ twelve miles distant, on tbe eight of the 91st, sail severely wounded him as be was escaping from the batk door. They then set fire lo the house and it was burned to the ground. The inmates, Henry Russell, seventeen years old, and Faulkner’s two daughters, aged twelve and three years, respectively, perished in the flames. At Beloit, Wisconsin, on the 341 b, Miss Martha Feet, in 187 ft Chairman of th< Wisconsin Women’s Centennial Committee, committed suicide by hanging. The First National Bank of MouticiTlo, Ind., fa ted on the 241 h. A Convention ot the Nationals who withdrew from the Columbus Convention was held In Toledo, Ohio, on the 24 th/ The Convention refused to nominate a State ticket, but adopted a plitform declaring that the United States should exercise its roost vital function, the coinage of money, without the interference of any foreign power; that the Government should supply the entire currency medium; that all bank issues should be suppressed; that the so-called specie resurrifc tion is a fraud and a swindle; that tbe locking up of the people’s money In the National Treasury is in atrocious and Inexcusable crime; that the coinage of the silver dollar ol 41214 grains should be unlimited; etc. On tbe morning of the ‘2sth, at Kansas City, Mo, C. L Hart and wife died from drinking tea made of stramonium, which Mrs. Hart liuil prepared under the impression that, it was boneset The River Improvement Convention, called to meet in Quincy 111., til July, has been postponed until some time In the Fall. Congress being in session, and many Senators and Representative' being, consequently unable to he present, arc the alleged reasons for the postponement. The Ohio Democratic State Central Committee met at Columbus on tbq 20th, and organized by electing John G. Thompson as Chairman; J. Frank McKinney, as Chairman of the Executive Committee; Irving Duugan, as Vice-Chairman, and J. G. Rinehart, as Treasurer. In the evening, in response to a serenade. General Ewing and General Klee, the candidates for Governor and LieutenantGovernor, respectively, made elaborate speeches. The boiler of the Government tug Clytle exploded on the Missouri River, a few miles below Nebraska City, Neb, on the 27th. Four persons were killed or fatally injured, ar.d several others were badly scalded. At Wytlieville, Va, on the 38th ult, as the east-liound mail train was passing a bridge, the engine and three cars broke through and plunged Into the creek, eighty feet below. The express messenger was killed outright, aud the conductor, two mall agents and several passengers were more or less seriously hurt. On the 28th ult, the steamer May Queen exploded her holler while backing out from Rockwell’s Island, in Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota. The boat was utterly destroyed. Captain Rockwell, the owner, and Haines, the engineer, were fatally scalded and bruised, and some half score of passengers were more or less injured. A seventy-five hour walk between Dan O’Leary, the Chicago pedestrian, and Peter Crossland, the English Champion, was concluded at Chicago on the evening of the 28th ult., O’Leary proving the winner. His distance was 250 miles, ami Grassland's 225 miles and three laps. The stake was SIO,OOO and the gate receipts. Baltimore, Md, was visited, on the 38th ult., by a terrible wind aud rain storm. which dgjuged the principal streets and unroofed between forty and fifty buildings near the Custom-House and In the vicinity of the Maryland Institute. On the 28th ult., the Louisiana Constitutional Convention adopted a resolution, by a vote of 62 to 50, instructing the State officials not to pay the July Interest on the State bonds until so directed by the Convention. In Chicago, on June 28tb, Spring Wheat Na 2 closed at $1.070107)4 cash; 97&@ 97)4c for July; 91){®91%c for August Cash Com closed at 36<<130>6c for No. 2; 36)4 c for July; foi August. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 324£c, and 32%c seller July. Rye No. 2,53053 V& llarley No. 2, 70®70'jc for cash. Cash Mess Pork closed at $9.85 @9.87)4. Lard closed at #[email protected]){. Beeves —Extra brought $4.7505.00: Choice, #4.45 @4.65; Good, $4.1004.40; Medium Grades, $3.7504.00; Butchers’ Stock, #2 5003.75; Stock Cattle, etc., 82.4003.40. Hogs—Good to Choice, $3.6503.93. Sheep—Poor to Choice, *2 2504.75.

Foi-eiem Intelligence. The London Timex of the 23d says that great depression characterized business affairs at Sheffield. ■ During the week preceding there bad been local failures, with liabilities aggregating $10,000,000. - It is reported from Paris that the first sod of the Darien Canal will be turned on the Ist of January, 1880, and that the enterprise will be completed eight years afterward. According to London telegrams of the 24th, the ex-Empress Eugenie continued very much depressed, and there were great fears that she would succumb to her terrible affliction. Os the evening of the 24i.h, the Prince Jerome Napoleon issued a manifesto declaring that he adhered to his former declarations of republicanism; that he- was not a pretender to the Imperial throne, but that he was lawfully and by the Napoleonic rule, established by the founder of the house, the head of the family, and that its policy as a family or a dynasty should be and could only lawfully be dictated by himself. His dormant claims barred the succession of any other pretender. Several cases of yellow fever have recent* ly appeared near Lislion, Portugal. A committee of the French Assembly has reported in favor of the re-cstablishment'of divorce in France. A street disturbance occurred in Paris on the night of the 24th, between the Radicals and the Imperialists. A large number ol the former had gathered about the doors where the Imperialists were in consultation, and as the latter came out greeted them with loud cries of “Hutrah for the Zulus! Down with the Imperialists!” etc. The Imperialists, irritated by these exclamations, made a quick onslaught on the brawlers, and a lively street fight ensued, which was, with considerable difficulty, quelled by the police. According to St. Petersburg telegrams of the 26th, arson was rife in that city and throughout the Empire. The Town of Szyran, on the Volga, had been nearly destroyed by lire, and many persons had been arrested at Kieff, St. Petersburg and Moscow for clandestinely dealing in incendiary explosives. Abdul Rapmax, pretender to ihe Afghan throne, who has hitherto lived in Central Asia under , Russian protection, lias invaded Afghanistan, and the Afghan troops in Balkh have revolted. A Cairo (Egypt) dispatch of the 26th says the Sultan had that day issued his firman deposing the Khedive of Egypt, and appointing his son, Prfoee Mohammed Tewfik, As bis ■accessor. The latter had been publicly proclaimed Khedive from the walls of the citadel. The Khedive had expressed hie intention to reside permanently In' Paris, and to take his favorite wife thither. Tub Russian Nihilists recently stole 100,000 roubles from the military chest at Kieff, and left behind them a receipt signed by'the lutionenr .Committee. . j,.. Am insurrection has broken jqut In (be Djuraa district in Turkey, and tb* Governor of Ralonica has made an argent call npon the Porte for reinforcements.

Rome dispatches of the 27th say the Pope had abandoned for the present the ides of diplomatic relations with England. Ait'ohdinu to London dispatches of the 27th, a Protestant school-house in Maynus, Galway County, Ireland, had been sicked by a mob of Irish Catholics, and the. Bibles used therein thrown Into the scs. The late Prince Imperial’s will was opened on tbe 27th. His property is bequeathed to his mother, and Prince Victor Na;>oleon is designated an,jits aucccsaor. ..... According to Paris dispatches of the 28th ult, the Government had decided to require of all Generals of the Army a renewal of the oalli of allegiance to the Republic. A Tin.ia telegram, received on the 9Hlh nit, sajs the Tckkc Turcomans had made an Irruption a lnto Persian territory, captured and destroyed two forts and taken many prisoners. Tiik editor of the Paris Triboulel has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, and to pay a fine of 3.000 francs for caricaturing President Grcvy. , Diking asevero thunder-storm which passed over Paris on the night ot the 29th ult, several (icraons Were killed ty lightning. According to a Bt. Petersburg telegram of the 39th ult, the Russian Minister of the Interior had issued orders to repress the truveliug4gftalors who were Inciting the peasants to disturbance by spreading false repprJs of the impending redistribution of land. It was dispatched from Constantinople on the 29th ult. that England and France had notified tljp Porte that they would not consent to the abrogation of the trade of 1861, which authorized the Khedive to conclude treaties with foreign powers and maintain an army.

Coiiffrcssiona] Proceedings. In the Senate on the 28d, a concurrent resolution wan reported from tho Committee on Appropriations fixing the date of final adjournment on the 20th.... A few unimportant bills were panned, and a resolution wan adopted directing the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish information an to the action of the National Hoard of Health under the act authorizing the contract for the purchase and construction of refrigerating ships, etc. Among the bills introduced in the House was one to remove the duty on quinine, and one to prevent the payment of per diem to Members of emigres* when absent from their duties, except in esse of sickness... .The I’resident's message vetoing the Supplementary Judicial Appropriation bill was read, and the vote on the question whether the bill should be passed, notwithstanding the objections of the President, resulted in 104 yeas to 78 nays- not the necessary two-thirds in the affirmative. Ho the bill was defeated. In the Senate on the 24th, the resold tion fixing the 25th as the day for final adjournment was recommitted.... A joint resolution providing thirty days’ extra pay for Congressional employes bciDg under consideration, Mr. Ingalls offered in amendment, as an additional section, the provisions of the J udicial Expenses bill, just vetoed, divested of the political and jury clauses. Mr. Wallace moved to amend the amendment by adding the clause of the vetoed Judicial Kxpenses bill precluding the appoint ment of Deputy Marshals, which latter amendment was agreed to by a party vote. Mr. Wallace also moved to amend the resolution by adding the jury clause of the vetoed bill. In the House, a resolution for final adjournment at five o'clock on the 25th was defeated—--82 to 103—several Democrats voting in the negative. Among those voting no were the following Qreenbackers snd Democrats: -Acklen. Bouck, De La Matyr, Klam, livins, Felton. Ford, For, sythe. Gibson, Gillette, Herbert, Jones, Kinglaiwe, March, Myers, New, Parsons, Phister. Kichardson (H. C-), Stephens, Stevenson, Thompson. Upson, Weaver, Yocum...The Speaker announced the appointment of the following Select Committee on the Alcoholic Liquor Traffic: Davis (Mo ). Bouck, Nicholls, Simonton, Williams (Ala.), Brewer. Norcross, Miller and Updegraff (0hi0).... Mr. Briggs was appointed a member of the committee to investigate the alleged election frauds in Cincinnati, in place of McCook. dediued. ■. .The so-cal led Political Assessment bill was taken up. and the Republicans availed themselves of dilatory motions, etc., to prevent action upon it. A resolution was introduced in the Senate on the 25th, by Mr. Vest, declaring that the complete remonetization of silver, its full restoration as a money metal, and its free coinage by the Government, are demanded alike by the dictates of justice and wise statesmanship .. A concurrent resolution, submitted by Mr. Beck, providing for a joint committee of five Senators and seven Hepresentativea to reiiort next December what change, if any, should be made in the mode of guarding and collecting the revenue. and as to whether any change should be made in the method of appropriating money, whether by annual or permanent appropriation, was, after debate, referred to the Finance Committee ... Mr. Burnside introduced a joint resolution, which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, declaring that the people of the United States would not view without serious inquietude any attempt of the Powers of Europe to establish, under their protection and domination, a ship canal across the Isthmus of Darien, and such action could not be regarded in any other light than as, a manifestation of nnfriendly feeling toward thes*> United States... .The joint resolution providing additional pay for the employes of Congress was taken up, and a lengthy debate followed on the pendinu amendment to add the language and provisions of the recently-vetoed Jndicial Expenses bill relative to Deputy Marshals and the jury question. Resolutions were adopted in the House instructing the Committee on Kules to sit during vacation for the purpose of codifying and simplifying the Rules of the House, and calling on the Secretary of War for information as to the number of massacres which have been committed by Mexicans and Indians in Texas since January. and also as to the number and class of troops under the command of Brigadier-General Ord.

In the Senate on the 26th, the report of the Conference Committee on the Letter Carriers'Deficiency bill was adopted... .A substitute for the House bill extending the provisions of an act entitled “ An act for the relief of certain settlers on public landß until October 1, 1880, was reported and passed. ..A favorable report was made on the joint resolution providing for a committee to investigate' the best means of guarding and collecting the public revenue, etc., and the resolution was passed—the committee to consist of three members of each house... .The new Judicial Expenses Appropriation bill passed by the House was received, read a second time and referred to tho Committee on Appropriations. in the House, the bill prohibiting political assessments came up hs the business of the morning hour, and dilatory tactics were resorted to by the Republicans to prevent action on the previous question.. The Judicial Expenses Appropriation liill was considered in Committee of the Whole, amendments were offered and rejected. and the bill was reported to the House and passed—92 to 67. All the Oreenbackers present except Forsythe, voted for the measure. ... A motion was then made to go into committee on the bill muring appropriations to pay fees of United States Marshals and their general Deputies, general debate to close in one minute. A motion to increase the time for general debate to one hour was adopted—l 27 to 32—and the House then adjourned. In the Senate on the 27th, the resolution providing for additional pay for Congressional employes wn* again taken up, and the pending amendments wore withdrawn, and the resolution was passed as it was reported from committee, with slight amendments... .The House Judicial Expenses bill was reported from committee, and a motion to add $600,000 for fees of United States Marshals and Deputy Marshals was rejected--15 to 38-and the bill was passed without amendment— 29 to 16.... The House joint resolution fixing the 30th as the time for final adjournment was referred to the Committee on Appropriations... .A resolution was adopted providing for a joint committee to codify the laws relating to the survey and disposition of pnblic lands, etc. . .The House bill making appropriations to pay the fees of United States Marshals and their deputies, was read twioe and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. The morning hour was dispensed with in the House, and the bill appropriating $600,000 to pay the fees of United States Marshals and Deputy Marshals was debated in Committee of the Whole, reported to the House and passed -88 to 69. Though several Greenback members were present, only one (Stevenson) voted, he casting his rote in tbe affirmative.... A bill was passed correcting clerical errors in the Army Appropria tion bi 11.... A joint resolution for final adjournment on the 30th was adopted -93 to 73 - a strict party vote, with the exception of Aeklen. who voted in tbe negative. All the Oreenbackers present voted in the negative. - In the Senate on the 28th ult., Mr. Vest's resolution declaring in favor of free coinage was taken up. and an amendment was offered and rejected—2o to 21-to insert the words “at as early a date as these objects nan be accomplished consistently witn the public welfare.’’ -. ..The House bill to,correct two verbal errors in tbe Army Appropriation bill was passed Tbe bill making appropriations to pay the fejjs of United States Marshals and their deputies was reperted from the Committee on Appropriations, and, after debate and the rejection of amendments to strike ont the clause making it a penal offense to violate any ad the provisions of the bill or of the various sections of the Revised Statutes, and to strike Out all of the provisions of the bill except the clanse appropriating $680,060 for the payment Of tbe fees of the Marshals and their deputies, the bill was passed without amendment—2s to l#—* strict party vote. In the House, the Senate bill exempting from ffißkJSWb.not propelled wbotrrtly sal! or iblernAl motive power of their own. sms amended so as to provide that nothing in the act of in the existing laws shonld be construed to require the enrolling or licensing of any flat-boat, barge, or like craft not pro-

'polled by sail or internal motive power of its i own. and the bill m amended waa then passed . The joint resolution providing for a further treaty with Mexico, authorizing the President to appoint onenor more Commission era, not to exceed three, at a salary of $6,000 cash, to take steps with a view of entering into a farther treaty with that country, was adopted ...A Conference Committee was ordered on the Senate Joint resolution in reference to comittoe clerks, etc.

ANOTHER VETO MESSAGE.

The Judicial Bxprnsee Bill Vetoed by President Hayes He Lives Hie Reasons for Withholding Hie Signature from the Measure. Washington, Jane 23. The lollowing is the text of tho President's Messago vetoing the Judicial Expenses bill: To the Hoorn of Representatives: After a careful examination ot the bill entitled "An "Act mating appropriations lor certain Judicial Expenses," 1 return it here-, with to the House of.. Representatives, In which It originated, wfth tbe following objection* to Its approval : The general purpose of the bill Is to provide for certain judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, for which the sum of 1 2, 690,000 .a appropriated. These appropriations are rvqu red to keep In operation the general functions of the Judicial Department of the Government, and il th s ;art of the bill stood alone there would be no objection to its approval. It contains, however, other provisions to which 1 des re respect ully to ask your attention. At the present session of Congren* a majority of both houses, favoring a repcjl of the Congressional Election laws embraced In. title twenty-six of the Revised Statutes, parsed a measure for that purpose as 'part of a bll entitled “An Act making appropriations for the Leglrlative, Executive and Judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, and for other pur|Kises.” Unable to concur with Congress In that measure, on the 29th of May last 1 returned the bill to the House of Representatives, in which It originated, without my approval, for that further consideration for which the Constitution provides. On reconsideration the bill was approved by less than two-thirds of the House, and failed to become a law. The Election laws, therefore, remain valid enactments, and the supreme law of the land, binding not only up >n all private citizens, but also alike and equally binding upon all who are charged with du'.ies and resiionsilillitles of the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Departments of the Government. It Is not sought bv the bill before me to repeal the Election laws. Its object is to defeat their enforcement. The last clause of the first section is as follows: "And no part, of the money hereby appropriated is appropriated lo pay any salaries, compensation, fees of expenses, under or ill virtue oi title pqi of the Revised Statutes, or any provision of said title." Title 26 of the Revised Statutes, referred to in the foregolngeiause, relates to the elective fianeh se, and contains lhe laws now in force regulating Congressional elections. The second section of the hill reaches much further. It is as follows: Section 2. That the sums appropriated in this act lor the persons and public a. nice embra ed in i;s pro\isious arc in lull for such persons and public service for the fiscal jear ending June 30, 1880, and no department or officer of the Government shall, during said fiscal year, make any contracY.or incur any liability lor the future payment of money under any of toe provisions oi idle 26 of tbe Revised Statutes of the United Slates, atiIhoiL.ing the appointment < r payment of general < r special Deputy Marshals it.r s n ice in connection with an election or on election day until an appropriation suliicient to meet such contract or pay such liability shall have fiist been made by law. This fectlon of the bill is Intended to make an extensive and essential change in the existing laws. The follow ing are the provisions of the statutes on the 6ame subject which are now in force: Section 2,079. No department of the Government shall’expend, in any one fiscal year, any sum in excess of the appropriations made by Congress for that fiscal year, or involve the Gov--eminent in any contract for the future payment ol money in excess of such appropriations. Section 2,732- No.eontract or purchase on behalf of the United Slab s shall he mado unless the same is aulhori/.cd by law, or is under an appropriation adequate to its fulfillment, except in Ibe Maraud Navy Departments for clothing, subsistence, forage, fuel, quarters or transportation, which, however, shall not exceed the necessaries of the cunenl year. The object of these sections of. the Revised Statutes is plain. It is, first, to prevent any money from being expended unless an appropriation has been made therefor; aud, second, to prevent the Government from being bound by a contract not previously authorized by law except for certain necessary purposes in the War and Navy Departments. Under the existing laws, the failure of Congress to make the appropriations required for the execution of the provisions of the Election laws would not prevent their enforcement. The right aud duty to appoint general and special Deputy Marshals, which they provide for, would still remain, and the Executive Department of the Government would also be empowered to incur the requisite liability lor their compensation. But the segond section of this bill contains a prohibition not found in any previous legislation. Its di sign is to render the Election laws inoperative and a dead letter during the next fiscal year. It is sought to aecoinpli«h this by 'omitting to appropriate the money for their enfoiecment, and by expressly prohibiting any Department or officer of the Government from incurring any liability under any of the proviflons of title 26 of the Revised Statutes, authorizing the appointment or payment of general or special Deputy Marshals lor service on election days, until an appropriation sufficient to pay such liability shall have first been made.

The President is called upon to give his affirmative approval to a positive enactment Which, in effect, would deprive him o£ the ordinary and necessary means of executing the laws still left ou tee statute book and embraced within his Constitutional duty to see that the laws are executed. If he approves this bill, and thus gives to such positive enactments the authority of law," he participates in a curtailment of his means of seeing that the law is faithfully executed, while the obligation of law and of liia Constitutional duty remains unimpaired. Ttie appointment of special Deputy Marshals is not made by the statute a spontaneous act of authority on the part of any Executive or Judicial officer of the Govern meet, but is accorded aa the popular right ot citizens to call into operation this agency for securing the freedom of elections in any city or town having 20,0U0 inhabitants or upward. Section 2,021 of the Revised Statutes puts it in tbe power of any two citizens of such city or town to require of the Marshal of the district the appointment of the two special Deputy Marshals. Thereupon the duty of the Marshal becomes imperative, and its nonperformance will expose him to a judicial mandate ot punishment, or to removal from office by the President, as the circumstances of hi 6 conduct might Ttquire. The bill now before me neither revokes this popular right Qf citizens nor relieves the Marshals of the duty imposed by law, nor the President of his duty to see that this law is faithfully executed. I forbear to enter again upon any general discussion of the wisdom and necessity of the Election laws, or the daugerous and unconstitutional principle of .Ibis bill, or the assertion that the power vested in Congress to originate appropriations involves the right to compel tbe Executive to approve any legislation wtiich Congress may see fit to attach to kuch bills under the penalty of refusing the mean? needed to carry out tbe essential functions of tbe Government My views on these subjects have been sufficiently presented iu special messages sent by me to the House of Representatives during its present session. What was said in those messages I regard as conclusive to my duty in respect to the bill before me. The arguments urged in these communications against a repeal of the Election laws and against the right of Congress to deprive the Executive of that separate and independent discretion and judgment which the Constitution confers and requires are equally cogent.,in opposition to this bill. This measure leaves the powers and duties of the Supervisors of Elections untouched. The compensation of those officers is provided for under the permanent law, and no liability for which an appropriation is now required would, therefore, be incurred by their appointment; but the power of th* National Government to protect them in the discharge of their duty at the polls would he .taken away. States nny, employ both the civil and militant power at elections; but by this bill even the civil authority to protect Congressional elections is denied to us. The object is to prevent any adequate control by the United Slates over National elections by forbidding the payment of Depnty Marshals, the officers Who are clothed with authority to enforce the Election laws. The fact that these laws are deemed objectionable a majot ity of both houses of Congress Is urged as a sufficient warrant for this legislation. There are two ways always to overturn legislative enactments. One is their repeal; tde other is the decision of a competent tribunal Against their validity. The effect of this bill is to' deprive the Executive Department of the Government of tbe means to execute-the laws which are not repealed, which have not been de-

claret) Invalid, and which It la, therefore, the duty ot the Executive and of every other Department of the Government to obey and enforce. I haveln my former message* on thl* subject expremed a willingness to concur In suit-, able amendments for the improvement of ihe Election laws, but 1 cannot consent to their absolute, entire repeal, and 1 cannot approve legislation which seeks to prevent their enforcement. (Mitnt-d) lti'fiiEHroitn Bt Hates. Executive Mansion. June lit, 1ST!).

Arrest of the Murderer of Mrs. Hull.

Bouton, Mass., June 23. The murderer of Mrs. Hull, of New York, was arrested in this city to-night, and is in the custody of the police authorities. His name is Chastme Cox, a negro who has been employed as waiter for a year and a half in the neighborhood of the Hull residence, in New York City. This negrff made his appearance in Boston a week ago to-day, and, as is now known, went into a pawnbroker shop, where ho disposed of a cameo set of jewelry. About tho same time the Superintendent of Pawnbrokers received from New York a description of the property, and this set was found by an officer in a pawnbroker’s shop in this city. The pawnbroker then furnished the officers with a description of the party who pawned it. The search, which was then commenced, revealed the fact that the negro Cox, after getting rid of the jewelry, went to New York and remained there two or three days. In the meantime he made some alterations in tfie character and color of his clothing. Mr. W. R. Batch, a newspaper reporter in this city, had obtained a description of this man, and this evening, while walking along Shawmut avenue, he observed a colored man in front of him in company with another man, and the appearance of the negro impressed Balch as very much in accord with the description that had been given by the pawnbroker of the man who had pledged the cameo. After a careful observance of the party, Balch approached him and inquired if he could direct him to Bunker Hill street, and to this inquiry the negro responded that he eould not, as he was a stranger here from New York. This tending to confirm the impression that he was the person wantea, Balch watched until he saw him enter the colored church, and then hastened to inform the police authorities, who sent a detail of officers and roadethe irriportant arrest. Cox made no resistance, but went quietly to the police station, where he vyas searched, and Mrs. Hull’s watch was found on him and thoroughly identified. He was not reticent, and said, in answer to questions, that he had lived for a long time opposite Mr. Hull’s house, and at the time of the robbery he entered through a lower window and went up-stairs to her room. He further said that his purpose was robbery alone, and he did not intend to kill- her. The negro has appeared very calm and indifferent since his arrest, and has talked without much hesitation in giving details of his crime. He went home on the evening of the night on which Mrs. Hull was murdered at six o’clock, and remained in the house where he was employed until ten o’clock, when he went out again. He had a key for the door of the Hull house, but was unable to make it fit, and consequently he raised the window in the lower story and fastened it up, so as to provide for himself easy means of making his escape from the house. He had a candle with him. On ascending the stairs he heard some one snore, and thought it was a man. He blew the candle out, walked into the room, and stepped up to the side of the bed. Mrs. Hull, awakening, asked, “who is it.” “The Doctor,” replied the negro. She put her hand up and touched his face, as he was standing close to the bed. The robber threw her hand back so she could not touch him, at the same time laying his hand heavily over her mouth! He then got hold of a cologne bottle and dashed cologne into the face of the struggling woman; after which he got upon the bed and made a gag of the bed-cloth-ing. She was by this time in an exhausted condition, and he tied her ih the manner in which she was found in the morning after her murder. Afterward, Cox relates, he relighted the candle, and, holding it close to her face, the cologne ignited, which accounts for the singeing of the eyebrows and other burns on the person of the murdered woman. The robbery was then committed, and the robber made hisesGape, soon leaving New York for Boston. He repeats his statement that he had no other motive than robbery in the assault that he made.

Sharper Than a Lawyer.

A wag of a lawyer was sitting in his offiee, the other day, deeply engaged in unraveling some knotty question, when a f< gentleman entered and inquired, ‘‘ls tjjis Mr. Z?” The student of Blackstone, raising his eyes from the legal book before him, replied: “If you owe me anything, or have any business in my line, then Z. is my name; if you have to present 1 am not the man. If you called simply for a social chat, you can call me any name.” “I propose to present you with some business in your line. I have a note of twenty-five dollars I want you to collect,” and handing the lawyer a note, departed to call the next day. As soon as he was gone the lawyer ascertained that it was one of his own promises to pay. —; — : — The next day his client appeared and inquired, “ Well, what success?” All right; I have collected the money. Here it is, less my fees,” handing him fifteen dollars. ‘‘Good!” said the client. “I have made two dollars and a half by this operation.” “ How so?” said the lawyer. “Well,” replied the client, “I tried all over the city to sell your note for twelve dollars and a half, but couldn’t do it.”— lowa State Register. “ It’s a dreadful warm night,” said a young married lady to her husband, “ and I wish you would go and get me a quart of ice-cream.” “Me get you a quart of.ice-cream?” said the husband. “ Oh! you don’t mean it. If you want ice-cream go ahd get it yourself. Before you were married one ten-cent plate was ail you oould eat.” “ Well, then. I’m going homo to mother’s to live, you brute. Didn’t you promise to love and cherish me? Oh! you mean man. To-morrow morning you can get up and make your own fire. I won’t be a slave for yon any longer.” This might have continuwMor hours if John hadn’t rushed out with a tin-wash-pan and brought it back filled with cream.— N. Y. Express. J The boy who left a piece of ice in the sun to warm up was no more foolish than the man who opened a stopaasd-ejipoefced -people to mint him out and buy his goods. free Press.

The Democratic Back-Down.

A glance at the condition of the appropriation bills will show the extent to which the Democrats in Congress have backed down from their original programme. That programme was the unconditional repeal of the law authorizing the use of troops by ttye President to preserve peace at the Spoils and of the United States Supervisor and flection law, or, as an alternative to snch repeal, the withholding of supplies and starving of the Government. This was the Democratic programme agreed upon in caucus some months ago and announced with a great flourish of trumpets. Tho public cannot have forgotten the groat number ot violent speeches made m support of this programme and the threats of dire vengeance on the President, tho Administration an,d the Republican party if it was not permitted to be carried out. The subsequent course of events is equally fresh in the public memory—how the Democrats attached their political riders to tho appropriation bills, how the President vetoed them once and again, how they caucused and caucused day after day and night after night, still pledging themselves to die in the last diten, and seemingly only anxious to discover the true way of getting into that position. At last, however, it began to dawn on them that the President was master of the situation, that thev could not coerco him into signing a bill which his judgment and conscience did not approve, and that he would not sign any measure repealing the laws against which their rage was directed Then they began to hunt about for a way to back down and a hole to get out at. The last 3ix weeks have been spent in this search, and the result appears iu the.action of Congress. - ..' First, the starvation policy has been utterly abandoned long since. From having started out with the bold assertion that they would not vote a dollar in support of the army or civil departments of the Government if their demands were not complied with, the Democrats are now exceedingly anxious to have it understood that they never seriously entertained any such idea. Every intelligent American knows better. knows that this was their original plan, and that they were forced to abandon it by the firmness of the President and the unmistakable expression of public opinion. This was back-down number one. Second, they have passed the Legislative Appropriation bill without any political proviso Whatever. This is back-down number two. Third, they have passed the Army bill, not with a rider repealing the President’s authority to use troops to preserve the peace at the polls, but with a proviso that the army shall not be stationed and used “as a police force, at the polls.” As it never has been so used, and as no law authorizes it to be so used, the proviso amounts to nothing. It still leaves the President free under the Constitution and laws to use thfc army, if necessary, to enforce the Election laws or any other United States statutes against local resistance or nullification. In other words, the clause does not repeal the present law, nor tie the hands of the President in any manner. It is simply a dodge on the part of the Democrats to create the appearance of enacting a law to prohibit the. President from using troops to preserve •peace at the polls, when in reality they are doing nothing of the kind. The enactment* repeals nothing, means nothing, and accomplishes nothing. This is back-down number three. Finally, the Democrats have passed the Judicial Expenses bill without making any appropriation fqr the payment of United States marshals or deputy marshals to be used at elections, and forbidding any ollieer or department of the Government to make any contract for their payment, hoping by this means to nullify the election law by rendering the President powerless to enforce it. This is an entire departure from the original programme, and to that extent it is a further backdown. Thus it will be seen that the Demfocrats have been forced to completely abandon their original programme and adopt a series of paltry expedients to cover their retreat. The President promptly signed the legislative bill and the army bill, since the former contains no political legislation at all, and that in the latter amounts to nothing, and he vetoed tho Judicial Expenses bill. This will drive'the Democrats to caucusing again, and doubtless end in a further backing down.— Indianapolis Journal.

Peonage at the South.

A cause of the negro exodus not fully understood bv the people erf the North is the penal laws of the Southern States. The exodus thus far has been exclusively from Louisiana and Mississippi, in which States the laws beam hardest on the laborers. Both States have a Lien law the purpose of which is to authorize the mortgaging of property not yet in existence. The effect of this law is to encourage dealings in “futures” by landlords and tenants alike. Speculative gambling is thus legalized and made reputable, and the raising of a crop becomes as risky a business as buying lottery tickets. It is make or break with the negroes. They are gamblers by instinct, and willing to take chances. One bad crop reduces them to bankruptcy and impoverishes the country. The evils of this law have been clearly perceived by the best class of planters at the South. The truth was acknowledged at the Vicksburg Convention, May 5, when the repeal of the Lien laws was recommended in one of the resolutions adopted by a unanimous vote. But there has been a counterinlluence at work, both before and since; the Vicksburg Convention, the object of which has been to make the Lien laws still stricter and the penalties for failure to fulfill the obligations imposed by them more severe. Up to this time only one thing has been wanting to make the virtual re-enslavement of the negroes possible. This one thing was the power to imprison for debt. If the Lien Ifcws were supplemented by a law to enforce the contracts under penalty of line or imprisonment, the negroes would be liable, without any fault o£ their own, to a term of service with a prison-contractor. The Constitutional Convention of Louisiana, it was reported last fall, intended to make changes in, the organio law that would permit legislation of the kind desired by the planters to be adopted. The Convention was chosen with this understanding.- Before it met, however, the exodus began, largely in consequence of the proposod changes and speedily assumed such proportions that when the Convention assembled it did not dare Ao-carry out the original.programmo. It has adhered closely to the old laws in this respect, which are sutlicient to, strip the. negro of nearly all the results *

of hia labor, though he may still retain his personal freedom, if he does not commit an open crime. Tho people of Mississippi have not, it appear*,, taken the lessons of the exodus as well to heart as their neighbor* of Louisiana have\ A letter printed in another eoiumn from a resident of Jackson, Miss., who is everyway trustworthy and well-informed, reveals a design on the part of certain people in that State to re-enslave the negroes. It may bo that this plan was formed before the white men of Mississippi had become alarmed at the exodus; but this is only another reason to justify and explain that remarkable movement of the colored people. Jbe Mississippi plan of re-enslavement, as related by our correspondent, is to force all persons confined in the county jails, before trial, to accept service with a prisoncontractor. It is true the pretense of an option is offered; but the diet of those who refuse to labor is made so miserably poor (consisting of only six ounces of bacon, or ten ounces of beef, and a pound of bread, and water per diem) that there is no choice between the contractor and starvation. The arrangement is completed by estimating the worth of a day’s labor at twentyfive cents, and providing that a prisoner shall work out the cost of feeding and prosecuting him at that rate, while tho cost of a day’s keeping is reckoned at twenty cents. This leaves only a margin of five cents per diem for the convict.' To offset the possible chance of faithful service and an early release on these terms, it is further provided that Sundays shall not be counted to the benefit of the prisoner, and that for every day he is sick he shall work two extra days for the contractor. With this system in vogue it is not difficult to believe'the statement of our correspondent that a prisoner sent to jail for some petty offense or on a frivolous charge will often be compelled to work not l#ss than five and possibly eight or ten years for the contractor. It is a very simple thing in the South to send a negro, guilty or innocent, to jail. A petty offense, such as chicken-stealing, may doom him to labor for five years; and, in the absence of an offense, a frivolous charge will do as well. The infamous penal laws of Mississippi and Louisiana are the product of a variety of causes, among which are class-prejudice, the demand for cheaplabor, and the greed of prison-contract-ors. The most important of these ate perhaps tho last two, which mutually support each other. The planters, by their demand for prison-labor, which is cheaper and more tractable than any other, encourage the prison-contract-ors to use every means in their power to increase the number of convicts. It is within the power of the contractors, who are men of means and political influence, to get such bills as they choose through the Legislature. When men like Colonel Richardson, of Jackson, who is the wealthiest planter in the South, enter into active competition for the sole control of the prison-labor, there is reason to*suppose that there is a good deal of money in it. Colonel Richardson is a humane man, and if he had obtained the contract would doubtless have treated the convicts kindly. But they are now in a far worse condition than that of slavery. THey are worked in gangs, often in chains; sometimes under a broiling sun for twelve hours at a stretch; sometimes up to their waists in water. They are often worked on Sundays, and are alWays compelled to turn out in bad weather, when no other negroes leave their cabins; and they cut wood, mend fences, dig ditches or do other such drudgery ip the rain. Any convict who attempt to escap* can' be shot down by their keepers, and bloodhounds are used to track them as regularly as in the old days they were used to chase slaves. Is it any wonder that, with the prospect of this bondage staring them in the face, so many of the negroes of Mississippi are seeking homes at the North P— Chicago Tribune.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—The Marquis of Lome is writing a book about Canada, to be illustrated by his wife. —General Grant’s two Arabian horses were shod in New Haven, and the blacksmith preserved the nails from the old shoes. He sold one nail to a Bridgport man for one dollar, and refused ten dollars for one of the cast-off shoes. —James Larrabee, of Stark, N. H., a veteran woodsman eighty-six years old, has furnished spars and masts for five hundred vessels; he has not been ill for fifty years, and can still remain up day and night for two days at a time while engaged in his work in the forest. * —At the funeral of General James Shields in Carrollton, Mo., the two swords presented to him by the States of Illißois apd South Carolina for gallantry in the Mexican War were crossed .over ■; the coffin. The gift of Illinois "cost $2,000 and that of South Carolina SB,OOO, and both are richly studded with jewels. The immediate cause of General Shields’ death was the opening of the qld wound received by him at the battle of Cerro Gordo. —The following story is told of General Grant: He met and recognized a man in Washington one day whom he had not seen for years. The man, who was distinguished for dirty shirts and collars, was so much gratified by the ' -recognition that he related the circumstance to a friend, who in turn told the President how much the recognition had been appreciated. The General could not recollect the man until his chief characteristic was mentioned, when he quietly remarked: “Oh, yes; I always wonder who wears his shirts the first day.” —Mr. W. D. Eaton, formerly of Dexter, Mfe., but now a wool merchant of Boston, was connected with the savings bank in Dexter when it was founded, and was intimately acquainted with its officers both before and since Barron’s death. He says that no man’s habits could be more simple than Mr. Barron’s, and that without doubt the Cashier alwavs lived far within his income. Mr. "Eaton scouts the notion that the books of the bank have shown clear evidence of the Cashier’s wickedness, as he also does the allegation that the present officers of the bank have made alterations or false entries. j-'Captain Calvin Hall, who recently died in Somers, Mass, at the age of pinety-four, was one of the most eccentric farmers in Western Massachusetts. He would never begin apiece of work on Friday, would cut his fin-fer-nails at stated times, would never ill a hog for his own use unless the moon was growing larger, so that the meat would swell while coOking, would “ talk” to burns to cure the pain, and had as many superstitious notions as a heathen. To look op and see an odd number of crows 'was to him an omen of bad luck, and to see the new moon over his right shoulder indioated that good, fortune lay in his pathway.;