Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1879 — Page 2

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General News Summary.

Fran Washington. ttm the loformaUou of merchant!, muuhcfwn and o therm who may be dlapoeed to take part In the representation of natural and lnduatrial products of the United States at the Sidney and Melbourne exhibition!, the Secretary of Btata announced oo the 89th that " the oraaaisatJoa of the Oonataskm tor both exhibitions la aa follow!: Commissioner, Oliver M. Spencer, Consul-General of tbe United States at Melbourne, Viet Honorary OoeMßtaatouera, Augustus Morris, Sydney, N. 8. W.; Samuel C. Lord, Melbourne, Victor. C. C. Cor, of Washington, has been appointed Secretary of the Commission, and win snU from San Francisco on the 4th of Auguat All persona having occasion to do so can communicate with the Secretary of the Oneaialsalon to the care of tbe State Department, where the mail will be regularly made up.” Tun total amount of National Bank notes redeemed at the United States Treasury durfSg the last fiscal year, on account of failures, going Into liquidation and reducing circulation, was t 7,885,457, lr waa reported from Washington on tbe Slat nit. that tbe Mint at Carton City had been reopened, and coins.« would .be recommenced as soon aa the necessary bullion could he procured at market rates. Tbe Treasury waa making arrangements to avoid the neceaifty of running the Philadelphia Mint night and day during August to make up tbe deficiency In the coinage of standard silver dollars in July. Thx public-debt statement, Issued on the Ist, shows tbe following: Total debt (including Interest of *19,634.009), *2,316,198,873. Cash In Treasury, *282,905,273. Debt; less amount In Treasury, *2,033,293,630. Increase during July, *8,096.344. The** was paid during July for arrears of penetoua the sum of <8,694,600, which exhausts the special fund held for tbe redemption of fractions! currency. Information was received by the Secret Service Division of the Treasury Department In Washington on tbe 3d that photographic counterfeit five-dollar notes on the Globe Nations! Bank, of Boston, Mass., letter C, and the Dedham National Bank, of Dedham, Maas., letter D, bad made their appearance at San Francisco. Tbe total amount of refunding certificates received at the Treasury Department up to the fid Jo conversion into four-per-cent, bonds was 134,100,750.

The East. Six carrier pigeons were liberated at Columbus, Ohio, at 5:30 on the morning of the 27th. One of them arrived at New York City at 11:15 a. m., and a second at2:so p.m., on the 2Sth. The National Educational Association began its eighteenth annual session at Philadelphia on the 29th. Mayor Btokeley and Edward Shlppen delivered addresses of welcome, and John Hancock, President of the association, responded. Ox the 30th ult., Prescott J. Plllsburv, Cashier 'of the Lawrenee (Mass.) National Bank, was arrested for embezzling 165,000 of the funds of the institution. and lodged in jail in default of *£lo,ooo ball. It is stated by Professor Chandler, of the New York Board of Health, that the scarlet fever caused more deaths In New York State last year than the yellow fever did in the South, and yet failed to excite public apprehension, or to make people ordinarily careful to prevent the Infection. Os the 31st ult., the yacht Josephine capsized in the vicinity of Clayton, on the St. Lawrence River, and five of the passengers were drowned. Sixteen were rescued. The members of the Boston Commercial Exchange have resolved to follow the example and advice of the New York Commercial Exchange in adopting the cental system as the basis of trade. On and after October 1 next thsy wtU use the cental system in all their transactions, so far as existing laws will permit, and they have resolved to petition the Btate Legislature to make such changes as are necessary in the State laws to conform to the change agreed upon. At its session in Philadelphia on the 31st ult., the National Educational Association adopted resolutions advocating the donation of a portion of the public domain for tbe endowment and maintenance of institutions in the States and Territories for the higher education of women, and a committee was appointed to bring the subject more thoroughly before Congress and the people. The following were the closing quotations for produce in New York, on August 2d: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, *1.04@ 1.04}5; No. 2Milwauke«. *1.0401.04)4. Oats, Western Mixed, 33035)4c. Corn, Western Mixed, 42® 15c. Pork, Mess, *8.8538.95. Lard, *6.0006.02)4. Flour, Good to Choice, *4.8006.50; White Wheat Extra, *4.7505.25. Cattle, *6 25010.00 for Common to Extra. Sheep, 63.2 f 05.25. Hogs, *4.2004.50. At East Liberty, Pa., on August 2d, Cattle brought: Best. *4-9005.00; Medium, *l5O 04.60; Common, (3.0003.30. Hogs sold— Yorkers, *3.8003.95; Philadelphia, *3.950 4-00. Sheep brought *3.oo(o4.so—according to qualitv. At Baltimore, Md., on August 2d, Cattle brought: Best, *5.0005.12)4'; Medium, *8.0004.00. Hogs sold at *4.5005.75 for Good. Sheep were quoted at *3.0004.50 for Good.

West and South. The State Central Committee of the lowa Prohibition party have nominated Rev. D. R. Danger for Governor, to fill the vacancy caused by the declination of Professor Carpenter. Ox the 20th, Hon. Bland Ballard, Judge of tfe United States District Coart for Kentucky, died at his home in Louisville, of heart disease or apoplexy. John Kkakz, of East Farmington, Polk County, Wie., drove into a neighboring lake on the 29th, to water his horses. In the wagon were his six children. The animals became frightened, ran into s deep hole, upset the vehicle, and Krans and five of the 6ix little ones were drowned. Dn. A. H. 8. Born, of Livingston County, Ky. f on the 30th ult,, through mistake, gave his two young sons, who were ill, poison for santoniue, and the boys died in less than an hour after taking the fUal doses. S Actu has been issued for the meeting of' the Nebraska Bute Republican Convention ior the nomination of State officers. The place selected is Omaha, and the time, October L General Teebt received a dispatch from General Miles on the 31st ult, stating that, after the fight on Beaver Creek, the hostlles engaged fled northward, leaving their property acatt&ed'Uong the trail (or fifty miles. Their mala camp stampeded and retreated across the line into British territory. General Miles thotttht he had force enough to hold in check any fares that Bitting Bull could bring against IfrlHHiMiwatt Minnesota Republican Bute Conveutkm is to be held at St. Paul on the 2d of !■ Chicago, m August 2d, Spring Wheat N 0.2 closed at 86««86Hc cash; B>X@B«c tor September; ®X#BJU tor October. Cash Cora closed at No. 2; 34® 34# for September; Me torOetoher. Cash Oat* No. 1 aold u 26c; seUcr September; 23c tor October. Rye No. 2,51 c. Bari^ 1 No. 8, si®ssc for cast. Caah Mess IMt closed at •8.12X08.1A Lard, cash, Beeves—Extra brought $4.80® Al»; Chotoa, #4.40®4.00; Good, *4.00®

406; Medium Grades, *8.8003 90; Butchers' Stock, *3.400300. Stock Cattle, etc., *2.40 02.90. Hogs—-Good to Choice, *8.2003.60. Sheep—Poor to Choice. 2-5004.75. The Yellow Fever. The report on the 28th showed thirteen new cases and three deaths In Memphis. A census of the city had just been taken, tbowlng the number of parsons then in the city to be 16,110, of whom 4,983 were white and 11,827 colored; adults, 10,551, and children, 5,589; number who had had yellow (ever, 8,743; who had not had the disease, 7,867. Owe of tba three esses reported in New Orleans on tba 27th died on tha 28th, and an additional case was rejiorted In the'same locality. The entire neighborhood for four blocks around waa thoroughly disinfected, and the utmost precaution "was taken to prevent the spread of the disease. A special of the 29th to the Chicago TYthtuu says five clear and undisputed bases of the fever were reported In New Orleans on that day, two in tbe same neighborhood where the death occurred ’ on the 28tb, one further up town, and one In the heart of the city—the last case having* been brought in from Morgan City. The work of disinfecting the city was going on rapidly. Montgomery, Ala., and Vicksburg, Miss., quarantined against New Orleans on the 29th. A Memphis refugee (s child) died at the 8t- Louis Quarantine Hospital, of yellow fever, du the S9UJ. Another •genuine ease -of the fever (s broker from Memphis) was developed in Cincinnati. The daughter of the Chief of Police of Memphis was reported sick of the fever at Raleigh, Tenn. On the same day there were two additional admissions at the New York Quarantine Hospital. A ciroilar on disinfection was issued on the 29th by tbe Executive .Committee of the National Board of Health, In which they advise thorough sernbbing and moist cleansing, to be followed by the fumes of burning sulphur at the rate of eighteen ounces tier 1,000 cubic Jqet of space to be disinfected. There were twelve additional esses and only obe death rt ported in Memphis on the 30th ult. The fatal case was that of a man named Hatcher, who bad the same disease in 1873, and also last year, this being the third -attacks. 1 , ,

One hundred and seventeen deaths from yellow fever occurred in Havana, Cuba, during tbe week ending on the 26th ult. A fireman belonging to a steamer from Havana died of yellow fever at the Quarantine Hospital in,New York on the 31st ult. One case was reported at quarantine near New Orleaus on the 31st ult., and two suspicious cases of children in the city. Dr. Choppin said there was no danger of an epi demic in New Orleans. Two men connected with ocean steamers were sent to the New York Quarantine Hospital on the Ist, having the yellow fever. The number of new cases in Memphis on tbe Ist was seventeen, and four deaths were reported. The Committee of Safety held a meeting and passed a series of resolutions relative to tbe refusal ofmauy colored people to locate in tbe camps putside the city. lt was claimed that no unjust discrimination was made against the colored people, and that tbe plan adopted had the approval of the State and National Boards of Health. There were nearly 1,000 people already in the camps. Reports were received in New Orleans on the 2d from Mississippi City to the effect that the fever was spreading in the latter place. Four cases of yellow fever and three deaths had been reported in New Orleans during the week. One death from yellow fever (an imported case from Memphis) occurred in Louisville during the week ending on the 2d. There were eighty-two new cases of yellow fever reported in Memphis during the week ending on the 21. Total number to same date 216, and total cfcaths sixty-live. Twelve new cases and two*deaths were reported on the 3d. The colored people were still opposed to the camp system, and would not go out of the city unless forced to by the pangs of hunger. Two seamen from s vessel which touched at Havana were admitted to the New York Quarantine Hospital on the 2d, having the yellow fever. Italian and Portuguese ports have quarantined from the United States, because or the reported prevalence of yellow fever in this country.

Foreign Intelligence. ' A Trieste (Austria) dispatch of the 28th says a violent hurricane visited the Adriatic on the preceding day. Twenty persons lost their lives, and great damage was done to the shipping. Baron Von Golt, formerly Prussian Mim lster to the United States, died at Bonn on the 2Stn. A South Africa telegram, received on the 28th, announces the resignation of Lord Chelmsford, late Commander-In-Chief of the British forces in Zululand. A London dispatch of the 2Sth says the Colorado beetle had made its appearance near Cork, in Ireland. According to a St Petersburg dispatch of the 28th, an attempt had recently been made to destroy the Kremlin Palace in Moscow, by the Nihilists. The grand staircase was saturated with petroleum and fired. The damage was heavy. In Wadsworth Prison, England, on the 29th, Kate Webster, the Irish servant-girl .who murdered Jars. Thomas, her mistress, in March last, was hanged. The greater the East India docks in. London gave way. on the* 29th, Involving a loss of over a half million dollars. The Turkish Government has decided to grant to the new Khedive of Egypt all the prerogatives granted to the late Khedive by the firman of 1813, only stipulating that the foreign treaties he may conclude shall be submitted to the Porte. A Constantinople telegram of the 29th says a terrific fire had been raging in the City of Orta-Keni, on the shores of the Bosphorus, since the preceding day. '.-The- larger portion of the town had already been destroyed, and there was little hope gs saving the remainder. A Madrid dispatch of the 29tb says that, at a Cabinet meeting held there on that day, it was definitely decided to abandon the proposed marriage of King Alfonso with an Austrian Archduchess. , The statement was made from London on the 30th ult. that the Government would prorogue Parliament bn the 16th of August. All Indian troop-ships have been ordered to get ready for six-months’ continued service, to bring home the British forces from South Africa.

AT the Goodwood (England) meeting on the 30th pit. Lorfflard’s horse Geraldine won the Levant stakes. Before the race the betting was ten to one. against the winner. Serious disturbances have occurred in Bulgaria, and the authorities have asked for the return of a brigade of Russian troops to assist in maintaining order. Osman Pasha, the hero of Plevna, has been appointed to. the command of the Turkish Army of observation on the Greek frontier. According to a Rome (Italy) dispatch of the 31st ult. the differences between the Vatican pud the German Government had been satisfactorily arranged. According to 'a -London dispatch of the Ist, an expedition for the discovery of the North Pole will leave that country in the spring of 1860, and co-operate with the expeditions sent out by Holland, Sweden, Austria, Denmark and the United States. A Calcutta telegram of the Ist says the cholera was ■ raging fearfully among the troops returning from . Afghanistan. The 'Tenth Hussars lost forty men In one day, aDd the Seventeenth one hundred and ninetyflve men. - - ~— The failure of the Consolidated Bank of Montreal was announced on the Ist The rapid withdrawal of deposits Is the alleged cause of the failure. The bank had 1,700

shareholder#, distributed over Canada, tbe United States, Great Britain, Ireland and France. Their Investments are lost, and it Is to be doubtful If the assets will pay Its liabilities other than (he capital stock. Great financial trouble is caused by the failure. On Die afternoon of the Ist Melinite’ Block In Hamilton, Ont, waa destroyed by {jre. Among the sufferers were the Bank of Hamilton, the Hamilton Provident Loan Association, Livingston A Co., Mcfnnis A Co., and others. The estimated losses were about 11,900,000. Two persons were fatally injured ] Carr. Town dispatches, received on the 3d, announce Die surrender of Cetewayo’s brother and several important Zulu chieftains. The statue of ex-Prcaldent Thiers was uu▼eiled at Nancy* France, on the 3d, in the presence of aif immense tmtHHude. The United Slates Minister to Greece, General J. Meredith Read, has left Athens for home, havlnlf'been recalled. George Wall A Co., an extensive coffee firm of London and Coiumbo, have (ailed for *1.500,000. A Constantinople dispatch of the 3d says the excitement in that city over recent events was very great, and threats to depose the Sultan were openly made. Th 6 Sultan, fearing deposition, had shut himself up in his seraglio. AccordiNo to Berlin telegrams of the 2d, the Government, in view of recent Socialist victories at Breslau and elsewhere, was constilcriiig ilie practicability of a more vigorous execution of the Aati-SocislUt law. The French Bcnate and Chamber of Deputies have been prorogued. They will reassemble at Paris on the 20th of November. was male on the 3d that the cholera had entirely disappeared from Cashmere, in India.

THE ALLEGED CINCINNATI ELECTION FRAUDS.

John Frizzle, Democrat, testified on the 28th that Mr. Taylor, Deputy Marshal, gave him five dollars to give to one McCarthy, Democrat. for electioneering for the Republican ticket. Taylor said the five dollars was for McCarthy’s services on election day. Pat McCarthy tcetified that he saw George Clemens, Deputy Marshal, offer a ticket to a man. Witness acknowledged that he had been arrested for perjury. On the 29th, tfifc committee examined 8. H. Drew, Prosecuting Attorney, who testified that O. L. Francis, a private detective of Covington, Ky., bad thirty-seven men under bis charge on election-day, watch imr the polls in Cincinnati to prevent the work of Kentucky reK a ter*; the men were employed and paid bv the ipnblican Campaign Committee. Witness stated that these men were employed on account of the experience of the Republicans at tbe election of 1876. Witness’ impression was that Kentucky men were placed in the river ward*; they were assigned by Francis in the morning; did not thinK any of them voted; they were probably not of the best class of Covington society; didn t know that any of them had ever been arrested or convicted. Witness said he was familiar with the memorial and affidavits; he examined Mr. Follitt before the Grand Jury. and ho said he signed the memorial on account of tbe affidavits. Witness said that after the memorial had been presented to Congress he subpceqaAd all the signers, and all the parties who miure' affidavits, to appear before the Grand Jury: all the former appeared except Mr. Hill, who was absent from the city; did not get all the affidavit-makers. Witness asked the memorialists what they knew of each of the charges of the memorial, and every witness, ov nearly every witness, swore they knew nothing about the charges Many of the affidavit-makers swore their affidavits bad been alteiei beyond recognition. [At the suggestion of Mr. Conger, Mr. Drew here stated m substance what eacb witness said before the Grand Jury.] The witness then said notone of the memorialists confirmed a single one of the allegations before the Grand Jury, and the jury, which had subpccnaed sevtnty-tive witnesses, failed to find a true bill. James Healy was the next witness. He saw tbe Supervisors in the Sixteenth Ward handling tickets; Mr. Worth was Supervisor; the latter opened a ticket that a parry handed in. and asked him if that was the ticket he intended to vote; witness heard objection to this proceeding, and offered to make an objection himself, but was pushed aside by a policeman. The ticket opened was. that of a nqm who was challenged, and was afterward put to the box. Peter Ky an and Andrew Rogers testified substantiallv as Heaiy old. Patrick O'Neil, a policeman, testified that he Baw Supervisor Ferry handle nineteen ballots in the Second Precinct of the Twentieth Ward, and save an account of a trouble between Ferry and 'olico-Licutenant Brady, for which the latter was trieu in the United States Court and convicted.

GazzanGanotestified, on the 30th alt, that he was President of the Hamilton County Executive Committee in the last Congressional campaign; money appropriated for the campaign was Bhpposed to pass through .the Treasurer’s hands; did not know who the Marshals were before their appointment; Mr. Foraher requested Committee to Buggest good names for bupervisors; witness heard Mr. Francis was to have some men from Kentucky to prevent repeating by men from that State; don’t know who paid the men; don’t know who selected them; does not kndw that the Congressmen were furnished money by the Campaign Committee. Witness furnished the Campaign Committee with $2,600, to be distributed among ninety-three precincts; six or eight thousand dollars are usually distributed in similar campaigns; the $2 600 covered the expenses of stands, speakers, ticket-holders, etc.; a great deal was spent in advertising and billposting. Mr. Drew was recalled and said he told the Superintendent of the Custom-House that if he (witness) recommend men for* work on that building they would have to be Republicans, or men who would work for that ticket; didn’t think he ever recommended Democrats on condition that they would vote the Republican ticket. James Eagan (Democrat) testified that he electioneered for Butterworth; previously had met Mr. Butterworth at the Gibson Bouse; Butterworth told witness he was expecting money from Washington; brought men to see Butterworth to arrange to have them work tor him; they were to get two dollars down and twentyfonr dollars when the work was completed; Bntterworth said he didn't care who else they worked for so they worked for him and ’Squire McCullom; Butterworth gave witness fifty dollars in all; witness saw him give money to several men; Mr. Butterworth had a satchel in hill carriage; the money was taken out of that; saw five men vote in the Fifth Ward; three of them afterward voted in other precincts of the sime ward; they told witness they had Republican tickets; spent the fifty dollars spreeing among the boys; some ten days ago witness met Buttterworth. and talked about this investigation; Butterworth asked witness to come and see him at the office; witness went, bathe was ont; William McAllister showed witness a letter that he said was from N. Butterworth, in which he stated that he did not think witness would make an affidavit that he had sold myself like a hog to Mr. Butterworth; did not attempt to bribe or corrupt anybody; didn’t promise to try and prevent repeating against Voting; was afraid of the Deputy Marshals; was told that ,if he made an affidavit it would help Gus Clark and Buck Brady out of trouble; Tom Shaw drew up the affidavit; witness was given $2 for making it; did not buy any votes for Mr. Butterworth; Butterworth asked him how many men wuiked in the shop, and how much, vhey would cost; don't know that he meant anything about buying votes; took an interest in Butterworth’* candidacy on account of money that he paid him; would ha re worked for the other side for the same amount. In the cross-examination, witness acknowledged having made numerous false statements to parties asking him about the affidavit, but insisted that his statements here given are true.

Mr. Butterworth testified on the 31st ult. that the Campaign Committee did not give him a nickel for the campaign; received from other sources $2,500; told his friends he could not afford to wccep; the nomination to Congress, and they replied that they would furnish the necessary funds; received from Colonel Robinson, at Columbus, $1,600 and SI,OOO from the neigborhood of Ciuciunati; never received a cent from Washington; Never beard that $5,000 was sent from Washington; called on Eugene Hale when in Cincmnati, expecting to receive aid, bat did not get a cent; never received money from Judge Gorham; oould have spent much more than $25.00) for legitimate campaign expenses; had no list of persons whom be employed: never kept a list of foremen of shops; uid not give toe - foreman of Chamberlain’s foundry $250; had known Eph Holland some time; was informed that Holland and Duffy were not with the Democrats; replied that if they did not “stuff” or "repeat’’ iu the Fourth or Eighth Ward, he (witnees) Would be elected; Colonel Weitxelaaid that Holland and 'Duffy could prevent it; met Holland; asked him if it was possible to hold a fair election dn tbs Fourth Ward; he said it was possible. but not usual; asked him if he would undertake to stop repeating or stuffing in that ward in the interest of the Republicans; be said he would for 3300 or $400: refused to give it; be finally agreedt»do it for $150; witness didn't meet him again until after tha electioh, when he paid Holland three SSO demurred, and wanted sio more; either WeltaeLor witness paid it afterward at the Gikfion House; witness never heard of $250 being given to Holland or Duffy; never took any stepsMta send Holland to prison or to prevent his going thore; saw Holland first at the Gibson House; again on the morning of the election.aud the night of tbe .eJ ! ectitin..aod the day after; witness didn't remember that Holland was ever itrhis office; witness was over in Covington before the election, with his wife, to see a sick relative; was not In a saloon there, and never sent any one there in his interest.

Harris, who made an affidavit aa Co frauds, testified on tbe Ist that be did not •ay be eaw Francis with fifteen men on election day; there were statements in tba affidavit which be did not make, and Shay had put in thincs which witness did not authorize Mm to; witness deified making a majority of the statements in the affidavit as rend by Mr. Brown. Patrick Boland. City Marshal of Covington, Ky.. testified as to the character of certain Kentuckians who were alleged to have been brought from Covington by Francis. Borne were of pretty good ohiuacter; others rather dubious. John a. Goodwin testified aa to the character of tbe Kentuckians brought over bv Francis, and gave the majority rather a good character.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. —The man with a marble brow ought to have a cool head. \ —When doctors disagree common people can take their choice. *' —A Spanish proverb says: “The road of By-and-by leads to the town of Never.” , —Why is a ship the politest thing in tho world? Because she always advances with a bow. —lt is singular how much tho boy with a pair of now suspenders hates to wear a coat. —The old lady who kissed her cow was not more dizzy than the daughter who kissed a regular calf. —A sociable man is one who, when ho has ton minutes to spare, goes and 'Bothers soinehodywEonAllPC —■*“ 5 — —Figures cannot lie, but they sometimes get a little crooked in the cash-on-hand column of a bank statement. —When a number of doctors are called in to see a patient it is generally supposed the patient will die.— N. 0. Picayune. —There’s many a man whose highest ambition is to successfully contest a seat on anail-keg in a corner grocery. —lndianapolis Sentinel. —A young lady, parting with a friend, was heard to say; “I wish you would come up and be our coachman.” This is rather a neat way of declaring, intentions. —lt is said that one of the prettiest young ladies in Kentucky has, for no known cause, been given to Sts of crying ever since she was a baby. She must now be the belle of the bawl. —Astronomers tell us that it would take 1,250,000 provided there was a telegraph wire from the earth to the nebula in Andromeda, for a dispatch to reach there. So no wire will be put up. —Wise words from a Michigan lady: “It is not by fretting, or worrying, or plying the fan that we can keep cool; but by taking up our work, doing it bravely and cheerily, with as little fuss as possible.”

—“Whindoyez intend to go back, Mike?” asked one exile of another. “If I live till I doye, and God knows whither I will or not, I intind to visit ould Ireland once more before I lave this country.” —“Thermometer’s up to ninety, Mr. Putancall,” said a visitor to a Statestreet broker. “ Let ’em go up to par,” said the man of margins, abstractedly, I am not short on ’em.” —Boston Commercial Bulletin. —A newly-married lady was telling another how nicely her husband could write. “Oh, you should see softie of his love-letter 3!” “ Yes, I know,” was the freezing reply; “I’ve got a bushel of them at home in my trunk.” [Tableau.] —Sir Henry Thompson, the English Burgeon, says: “ Persons who drink water when dining probably enjoy food more than those that drinkwine. They generally have better appetite and digestion, and they certainly preserve an appreciative palate longer than the wine-drinker.” ' —The tornadoes this season can hardly be accused of partiality. One day they have an engagement at Kansas, then they sweep along the Atlantic coast, next they drop down on Minne*. sota. and again they touch up Michigan and Canada, lastly, they give classic* Massachusetts a shaking. They descend a]ike on the just and the unjust, as is shown by the descent on Detroit and Boston respectively. —Detroit Free Press. —Ladies ought to enjoy reunions or banquets much better than men, because they can sit perfectly unconcerned, and listen to all the good things that are being said, without any danger of being called up unexpectedly to respond to a toast and being obliged to wish the toastmaster and all the rest of the company were at the bottom of the sea. And still some women grumble about the hard lot of feminine mortality. —Rome Sentinel. —How true arc the words of Pickwick, and with what appalling vividness they come back to us after a stormy time. Either Dickens had a sad experience in his married life, or the man who suggested the character had weathered many a tempest. “ Ven you’re a married man, Samivel, you’ll understand a good many things as you don’t understand now; but vether it’s worth while going through so much to learn so little, as the charity boy said ven he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter of taste. I rayther think it isn’t.”— Exchange.

—Yesterday an intelligent, brighteyed English woman, who said she was seventy-four years old, visited police headquarters. She said she had been residing at & point one hundred and, thirty-eight miles from Bangor, Me., near the New Brunswick border. Some' time ago she decided to come southward to see her children, who reside at Chester. They sent her one hundred and eight dollars, but when she received it she resolved to pay off indebtedness incurred while she was ill, and so applied every cent of it. Then she made up her mind not to make any further drafts upon her children’s Durses, but to traverse the entire distance on foot. A little over three weeks ago she set out upon her journey. This she accomplished without molestation on the way, and with constant tokens Of kindness from dwellers by the roadside. Those who heard the plucky old lady’s recital of endurance in the pedestrian line were so pleased that they took up quite a substantial collection, and secured her transportation to Chester to rejoin her progeny. Philadelphia Times.

—Work horses are subject to have dry and brittle hoofs while plowing on hot dry ground. Occasional washing and application of glycerine t 6 the moist hoofs %Hl soften" the horn and remedy the briMiqnessf “At this season mischief is do&A bt, keeping old shoes on too long, {t ispecessary to remove shoes tp growth of the hoof; otherwise there is danger that the hoof may become bound. *7 ** A wife wanted her husband to sympathize with her in a feminize quarrel, but he refused, saying: “I’ve lived long enough ti know that one woman iras goes w another, if not better:’” “And I,” retorted the wife, “have lived long enough to know that one man is as bad AS another, if not worte.”

1654. il THE SILVER WEDDINQ." 1878. [The following “Stillwint” poem was written by Profeasot H. 8. Bockwood, ud send at the great Kepublii-an Jubilee at Mjklihuu, Wie., on the 23d of July:] Kiohteen hundred and flfty-four. Bailee that were, are babea no more; Boys ana ffirls who brenthed that air, Uanly and womanly forum now wears Men who walked in manhood'* prime ■ Show the toneh of the tyrant l ime; '~r~ Head* that wore that glorious day Kingly crowns of iron-gray Now lift np their drifts of snow, Glistening far in the sunlight s glow. While volcanic hearts below. Still with patriotic fires aglow. Keep their earlier faith sublime. More thap a match for the gray-beard time; Manv a head that then was fair. White with age or bowed with care, ’ Long ago in silence deep Dropped away to that dreamless sleep,Out nt whose restful quiet springs All the earn forte npytUtr hmnsjy ..... , Peace to their ashes, and passing peace Keep their soulii while the years increase. Parties are born of t»ur civic needs. Outgrowths they of political-creeds; fixed and exalted by noble deeds, Only debased by little breeds. Out of the wrath of God and man, Out of the faith of a stalwart clan Long reviled and under ban. Out of the Whigs’ old ilopo forlorn. Out of a Nation s pent-up scorn - Thus the ltepublican party was bom. What, do we say, is in that name? Twenty-live years of more than fame. Born of principles, sired by thought, “ Blaven are men, and not to be bought;” “ Wo are a Nation, "—arc trntha it has taught. Swiftly those terrible years have fled, Wbo arc the partisan patriots dead ? Lincoln and Stanton and Sewnrd, indeed. These werestatesmen-of ruMnean breed: Wilson and Sumner and Seward and Chase, Heroes embalmed in the hearts of a race.; Andrew and Harvey arid Morton and Yates, liulera of Commonwealths, Empires, Btates; Lovejoy, Hale and Old Ben Wade. V united by the rest of that mighty brigade, Greeley and Garrison, Birncy and Brown, Names which the ages can never tear down, Sealed by their lives unto earthly renown. '1 his is a roster no age can excel. These are the giants who fought and fell. Still in the realms of this upper air. Worthy each fallen mantel to wear, Able and willing eaph burden to bear. Walk in our midst with gallant tread Captains hy whom we are valiantly led— Peers of the mighty, illustrious dead. Here on this platform shall stand to-day Champions of liberty worthy as they— Men of the people well trained to serve, Strong of heart and steady of nerve. Fearing alone to lie or swerve— Foes of falsehood and friends of truth. Hern unto fame and immortal youth:— Burrows of Michigan, Williams of Bock, Scions of sound B< publican stock. Brilliant defenders of human rights. Dreading no traitors and shunning no fights; Garfield, wielding the law’s keen blade, Scorning the tricks of a demagogue’s trade, Swift tocut every Gordian knot made; Chandler, who never has turned his back, Mightiest hunter, on Jeff Davis’ track, Bitterest foe of the whole rebel pack, Michigan’s chieftain, the warrior. Old Zach; Matched by these in the halls afar, Conkling and Blaine and Carpenter are, Each a fixed Bepublican start Triune gods at the Senate’s bar. Masterful trinity of partisan war: Logan and Cameron, Windom and Hoar, Edmunds anil Foster, and dozens more: Hawley and Howe and the Washburns all, lteady to roll the Bepublican ball, • Beady to leap at their country's call;' Haves In the White House with veto in hand, Baffling the traitors that threaten the land; Evarts and Schurx with masterly skill. Counseling, guiding and governing still; Sherman with many a coin-crammed vault. Paying the debt without a default ; Thompson and Devens, McCrary and Key, Men of such stuff as rulers should be— Safely the Union Ship sails o’er the sea. Here at the helm of the Badger Slate, Smith and the rest of the “Stalwart” slate. Cheers for our ticket and cheers for our cause, Theirs is the triumph of unbroken laws. Such are the leaders of whom we Rre proud. \Vho are the followers? All the vast crowd. Farmers, mechanics and schoolmasters, too, Lawyers and doctors and preachers true— All the grand host that wore the blue, -They are the boys who never tarn coat, Crammed and rammed at the cannon’s throat. Smiting the rebel with bullet and vote; Nothing have they but scorn for the spasm Of. sentiment bridging “the bloody chasm.” Broken pledges and broken oaths— State-rights doctrines, the patriot loathes, Ku-Klux Klans on the midnight track White League blows on the freedman’s back— TS Moonshining murderers holding at bay All the great Government, day after day— Bulldozed electors and Butlerizedrtiolls Ex-Brigadiers calling old muster rolls— Champions and leaders of the once “lost cause,” Everywhere making and breaking the laws; These are the fruits of that bast Hid belief. “Trust and noj doubt, is the law for a thief.” These arc the issues we make in t his strife— These are the villainies leaping to life, Waiting the edge of our partisan knife:— These are the clouds, the size of a hand, Darkening the sun and shrouding the land. Ours be the mission to clear the sky, Have the Nation, or bravely to die.

Secession and the Fugitive-Slave Law.

Georgia has always been one of the most conservative and prosperous of the Southern States. In old times it was never a Democratic State. Even to the last its people were for the Union, and were betrayed and dragooned into secession and civil war, into rebellion and disunion. That was eighteen years ago, during which time wonderful changes have taken place. War has had its term, and peace has been employed in reconstructing and repairing the breaches committed by war, and in adapting the Constitution and the laws to* the new and changed condition of affairs. Slavery, the substantial cause of all our troubles, has been abolished, but even at this day the deep-rooted attachment and love for that human curse finds expression, and its destruction is mourned over with bitterness. The Savannah (Ga.) Recorder, in a late issue, thus gives vent to the old love of human slavery: The South had cause for action in 1861. Why ? Because the Northern States had passed their Personal-Liberty bills and nullified the acts of Congress. The State Governments would not render up fugitives, declaring those were not criminals because they stole slaves, which were not property: and the State Judges took it upon themselves, in their State Courts, td set aside the acta of Congress for carrying out the Fugi-tive-Slave law. These were the enormities that drove the Bouth to her condition of determined secession. And any adta of a hostile character in the future toward the South will precipitate a like action on our part, with this important and well-understood declaration, that secession may mean war, but we will be fullv prepared for it. As an expression of unrelenting hatred because of the destruction of slavery, this paragraph may be accepted as a fair expression of public sentiment; but, so far as it is given as a statement of history, it is utterly fallacious.

The slaveholding States were protected in the possession of their property by the encircling territory of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. These were slaveholding States, and, though the number of slaves held by them was comparatively small, all the laws and the government of these Stales were in the interest of the institution. The bulk of the slave property was south of these States. In all the controversy as to fugitive slaves, Florida, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina, which never lost a slave, were the most clamorous. The border States, which were most exposed to loss by that me&ns, never regarded it as such a serious grievance, never proposed secession for that reason, and never seceded for any cause. Over the border- of these slaveliolding States were the free States of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and lowa. In no one of these States was there any Governmental or legal hostility or nullification 6f the Fugitive-Slave law. In no one of these States was there any “ Personal-Liber-ty” bill that was not designed for the protection oF their own inhabitants, and none for the nullification of the Fugitive-Slave law. The people of those States were not as a rale zealous as volunteers for executing that law. Those States, after a solemn: decision erf the - Supreme Court that it was no part of their duty to provide for the execution of that law by State officers, did not enjoin on their

officers any such obligation.’ The Fugi-tive-Slave law was purely a National law. It was to be executed by the (Jbited States officers on process isshed from the Federal Courts. The Sheriffs of those States (were under no more legal obligatiod lo execute the FugitiveSlave law than they are to-day to execute the Internal-Uevenue act, or to enforce the collection of revenue on Imports. So far as that law was addressed to the people, it was not addressed to State Governments or State officers, but to individuals. Any Violation of the law was of necessity personal. The “States” did dividuals gave a fugitiva bread, allowed him a place of refuge in which to rest, or gave him a dollar or a railroad ticket: It was*matter of taste and of feeling. Some men publicly declared their abhorrence of the dirty work of catching negroes and returning them to slavery. Othert reluctantly assisted the officers when called on for that purpose, and occasionally there was a man who avowed his willingness to do all that “dirty work” that offered. There was a lino of Northern States 200 miles deep, between the Slave States and Canada, in which there was no nullification, no Liberty bills, or any other legal, legislative, or Governmental obstruction to the capture and return of fugitive slaves. No State Government refused to “ render up fugitive slaves,” because no State Government was under any obligation, legal or moral, to do so; and no State Government was ever called upon to render fugitive slaves. Slaves escaping into the North knew they were not safe, and hence their destination was Canada. The Fugitive-Slave law was executed, despite the universal sentiment of the people in all parts of the country. Ic was executed in New England and in'New York. New Jersey and Pennsylvania, It was promptly executed in Illinois and Indiana, and often in Ohio. Considering the fact that there was no legal or other obligation on t.he part of any citizen, except a civil officer of the United States, to execute any process under the law, and no obligation on any person to volunteer in hunting, capturing, or returning slaves to their owners, the law was as fairly executed as it was possible to execute’ ’ any law condemned by the united voice of civilized humanity. If this Georgia man really thinks secession was the result of Northern refusal to execute that law, he must place a low estimate on the intelligence of the South in supposing secession would afford additional protection to that kind of property. To erect the Slave States into an independent power would be to bring the Canada line, so far as slavery was concerned, down to the Ohio River. Then a slave escaping into the North would be as free as if he were in England. Then fugitives would escape by the hundred wherfc one could escape previously. Certainly an independent Slave Republic would be more powerless to protect slave property than if the Slave States had been in the Union. If the Georgian writer will read up the history a little he will find that secession was because slavery had lost political supremacy, and that thenceforth and forever the Government and policy of the United States were to be directed for the general interests of the country, and not in the special interests of slavery. ,J ’Jt was found that the people of the United, States were in sympathy with the civilization of the world in holding that the negroes were part of the human family, and not a separate and distinct race, set apart by their Creator to fill the condition of slaves. Without control and dominion in the Union, slavery was bound to perish, not violently, but certainly; and it was to avert this, and because of an unwillingness to submit to the then already determined change of National policy, that disunion, secession and independence were determined on. It was deliberately considered, deliberately planned and deliberately attempted by the politicians and leaders. It was not because of bad faith or violated compacts. It was because slavery had lost supremacy and control in the Union that slavery sought to dismember that Union, and, as an independent power, to seek a perpetuity against which humanity had imposed an immovable limit. The attempt failed. Slavery perished in the war much sooner than it would have done in the Un-ion, and, though there is a lingering hope, inspired by revenge and wounded pride, that the war may be renewed cession will be “better prepared,” arid that slave-owners may re-enslave the blacks, it is an idle dream. No people once freed will ever be enslaved, and woe be to those who attempt it. A war with such a purpose would be to invoke the contempt and the maledictions of mankind, and arm the human family against the men who would strike a blow for such an accursed purpose. Chicago Tribune.

Duty as Rose Terry Cooke Sees It.

Some of you appear to doubt if you can decide for yourselves what your vocation in life is. Do not hurry. “Do the duty that lies nearest thee: the rest will follow.” Learn to do well the simplest, commonest things; these all fit you for the future. And do not, above all. fall into that silly, ,childish cant of hating “duty,” and doing things only for “love.” It is the fatal weakness of these days that love is exalted, not merely above but in place of all other virtues; that selfdenial, self-control, courage, endurance, are all set aside for the sake of love, which is perverted to mean indolence and self-indulgence. This is not the love of the Bible, but a counterfeit weakness out of which spring evils innumerable, even in the very bosom of our homes and churches. Duty is the very breath of God and the outcome of love to Him, as surely as warmth is born of fire. Adhere to this, and the path of life will unfold before you and the voice of the Lord say to your souls: “This is the way; walk vein it.” And by duty I do not mean great action, suffering, or sacrifice, but the petty detailor daily life; patience with noisy, quarrelsome, perverse children; obedience to parents; devotion to the comfort and pleasure of those about you; attention to your own health, temper and appearance; a study of economy and neatness in tbe household; and, when the in-door’s duty is done, there remains always some lonely person to visit and cheer, some kindly, neighborly act to perform; some church-work to help in. Be faithful over these few things, Mary Ann, and the work of your life will find you out. in good time and welcome you. — Sunday Afternoon. Some of the most qniet old -men in the world are' those who have made a great racket in their young days. The postage stamp knows Its plttfSS" after it has been licked once.—A. 0. Picayune. . ' |

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A Boston woman poisoned herself and died rather than testify against a lady friend accused of arson. *• —ln Jefferson County, Tenn., two brothers by the nauio of Caldwell got up to look for burglars, and in one shot and killed the other. —A barn swallow has built its nest, under the guard of the Steamer Mary Powell, ana rides daily between Poughkeepsie and Now Yoix." V —A Baltimore negro wont homo drunk, and ducked into a bath-tub to sober himself; but ho forgot to take his head out of the water, and was drowned. / ’ —‘-At Stanley Court House, Charles Forrest, a farm laborer, the other day -got into a difficulty with his employer and made an attempt to behead him with a scythe, A warrant was issued ior the arresK of Forrest and placed in the hands of John Thompson, who attempted to servo it. Forrest warned him if he arrested him he would kill him, and .placed himself in a position of defense. The officer drew a revolver and killed him. —A correspondent of the Newburg (N. Y.) Journal, writing from Highland Falls, says that Charles Smith, on the other side of the river, while shaking from a duster dry paris green on his potatoes, a few days ago, inhaled some of the poison, and died in great agony. It is said the wind was blowing hard at the time, and this caused the poison to Hy about so that Mr. Smith inhaled it. —An ex-Mayor of Binghamton, N. Y., lias been poisoned in hands and face while handling the Government revenuo stamps used on cigar boxes. One hot Saturday he Stamped and canceled the stamps on a large number of boxes. Green dust Hew from the stamps and covered bis hands and wrists, and a handkerchief used by him for wiping his face and neck also became covered with the dust. The resiflt was a “severe and deep poisoning wherever the dust touched his body. —A lady offered one hundred dollars reward for the recovery of a pet white rat in the Syracuse (N. Y.) Courier the other day. The reporters learned that she was a morphine eater, and on a visit to her lather, a respectable gentleman of Syracuse. The drug was taken to allay pain. After her arrival, when under the influence of opium, the pet rat fell out of the bosom of her dress, where she was in the habit of carrying it, and was killed by market men. The lady says she cannot sleep till she has another pet rat, and has started for New York to obtain one. Her father says the rat was perfectly tame and devoted to its mistress, who is rational upon all other subjects except this pet and morphine or opium. She says she was robbed of valuable rings while under the influence of the drug, but added: “I can buy more rings, but will give five hundred dollars to regain my darling rat.”

He Forgot.

At the farm-house gate the other morning Mrs. Whitehall said to Joseph, as he was ready to drive into town. “Remember, now, what I told you. I want a spool of thread No. CO, ten yards of calico with a dot in it, and a yard and a half of brown drilling to lino the waist.” Joseph drove into the city as straight as a bee line and as happy as an old giraffe when the circus is out. He sold his butter and eggs, was on his way to a dry goods store, when he met a man who once came awfully near marrying bis sister. This was reason enough why they should drink together, and they drank. When a man meets a fellow who might have been his brother-in-law if a mule hadn’t kicked the prospeotivo bride across the dark river, he can’t tell when to stop drinking. Farmer Whitehall couldn’t remember whether he imbibed seven or seventeen glasses, but the result was the same. When he finally got ready to do his trading he entered a store and said: “ Shir, 1 want shixty spools of dots wiz a waist in 'em!" Thjat was as plain as he could make it in any of the half-dozen stores he entered, and. by and by he suddenly discovered that he wasn’t in the right mood for trading. He found another saloon and more beer, and it was evening when he entered a jewelry store and said:' “ Shir, I wan’t a yardan’ a half of dots wiz shixty in ’em!” He was turned out, and late in the evening he fell down on the street near the monument, too tired to go farther. As the oilicej raised him up ho murmured: “Shir, I want ten yard drillin’ to line ’er sphool thread wiz.” He was quite sober when walked out for trial, and, moreover, a little anxious to know what had beeomeof all his vest-buttons and one coat-tail. “Do you fed better?” tenderly inquired his Honor, as he looked down at the prisoner l . * “No, sir—l feel worse,” was the answer. “Nice time you had rolling around in the street, last night.” , “’Squar’,” began the man, as he faced around, “ this is the fust time I ever made a fool o’ myself with both eyes open! I’ve got ’leven--dollars , down here in tpy vest, and you kin take it all if.you’ll let me go. I’ll bet a cucumber the ole woman didn’t sleep a wink last night, and she’ll put one of the boys on a boss and send him up the road after me this mornin’.”

“Then you plead guilty?” “I do. I’m guilty and an idiot, to boot!” v “Doyou want to dust right outfox home?” Jf “Do I@* Why I can’t hardly stand still. 1 want to meet the boy as fur out as I kin, and I’ll tell him I got upsot.” “ Can you remember what your wife told you to get?” “I kin. She wanted sixty yards of v/aist lining, a yard and a half of dots, and ten spools of calico, and I’ll get. ’em as I go out.” “Well, you may go.” - Whar’s my hat- goodby e— whar’s that j ack-knife —good-bye, everybody.” But what did his wife say?— Detroit Free Press. —One -day last week two children about eight years bf age', a boy and girl, became involved in a quarrel on one of Judge Corker’s places, when the girl whipped the.vboy-. The latter, not satisfied with the turn affairs had taken, repaired to a closet in tho room where a pistol kept, and, tal i g the weapon, fired upon the girl, tLo ball taking effect in her left eye, producing deat hin about two hours. The coroner’s ijurystendered. a jyerdict of iffSfislaugbeerT SfitlHr ffißCOTlft bf thß * youthfulness of the party noarre6t was mado.— Waynesborough (Oa.) Ecrald.