Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1879 — Page 2

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General News Summary.

Tn amount of United States currency outstanding on the 80th Ult to stated as foljinie. ■..■. 946,51,016 Ow-mr MM of I*9 0.146 ; is.?Mo© IWtal. 8362,850,006 Tn public-debt statement, issued on the Ist, shows the following: Totaldebt (Including Interest of 818.814.4 M), 82,273,462,432. Cash in Treasury, 8943606,298. Debt, less amount In Treasury, 82.030,766,204. Decrease during August <3,597,895. Increase since June 80, 82,568,948. Thb receipts by the Government of refunding certificates for conversion into four-per-cent. bonds up to and including the Ist instant aggregated 885,706.000. The total irnuee of the four-per-cent, loan by the Treasury Department amounted to 8740,975.800, leaving 8736.700 not vet disposed of. During the month of August the silver payments from the United States Treasury and the 'mints amounted to 81,865,000, exelusive of the amount returned for silver certificates. - The aggregate weight of the coin thus distributed is fifty-stx tons. The number of standard silver dollars coined during August was 3,787,05!); total number coined up to the Ist instant, 40,237 050. Thu Postmaster-General has ordered an actual daily count in all postoffices, from tbs Ist to the 7th of November, of all letters, packages, postal cards, etc. The publishers of newspapers are requested to furnish postmasters with the number of papers mailed during the same time. It was reported from y Washington on the 6th that of the ten-dollar refunding certificates there had been sold by the Treasury Department 840,012,780. For the purpose of making the sale 799 Government officers, mostly Postmasters, were .designated by the Secretary of the Treasury as depositariea. But 509 of that number, however 1 qualified by filing a bond, and through them eales were made to the amount of *28,560,900. Seventy-six National Banks sold sold by the United Blates Treasurer and Assistant Treasurers. Not a cent had been lost to the Government in the transaction. There had been up to date 885,860,650 of refunding certificates presented for conversion tntofour-ler-cent bonds.

The East. A Providence (R. I.) telegram of the Ist to the Boston Herald denies that Mrs. Sprague left Newport in a steam yacht on the 30th ult, and adds: “Governor Sprague denies in toto that be left any watch over his wife, or that he intercepted any of her messages or letters.” It was said that the Governor would take immediate steps to regain possession of his daughters. A special from Providence on the Ist to the Chicago Inter-Ocean it was probable Mrs. Sprague had been aided in her escape by old friends of her father, and that she would be landed somewhere oft the European coast and be guarded in her seclusion until some definite understanding and settlement with her husband should be arrived ah A special to the New York Timet at the 2d says Governor Sprague had stated that his wife certainly did not leave in consequence of any threat or act of violence on his part; that no act of wloJpKe was committed by him then or at any other time. Thb Republicans of New York held their State Convention at Saratoga on the 3d. Senator Conkling was unanimously chosen temporary Chairman, and Vice-President Wheeler was subsequently elected permanent presiding officer. A. B. Cornell was nominated on the first ballot for Governor, receiving 234 of the 450 votes cast A motion to make the nomination unanimous was adopted wiJh a single objection. The rest of the ticket nominated is as follows: For Lieutenant-Govern-or, George C. Hoskins; Secretary of State, Joseph B. Carr; Comptroller, James W. Wadsworth; Treasurer, Nathan D. Wendell; Attor-ncy-General, Hamilton Ward; State Engineer and Surveyor, Howard Soule. The platform, adopted declares the United States to be a nation, and not a league, and to be supreme within its own Constitutional sphere; denounces the doctrine of State sovereignty as being the baleful mother of nullification, secession and anarchy; arraigns the Democratic party for its policy during and since the war; declares that the Republicin party neither justifies nor* tolerates military interference with elections, but seeks only to protect the ballot-box from the Interference of force and fraud; that the successful resumption of specie payments is the crowning element of Republican financial policy; that it is the province and plain duty of the State to supervise and regulate moneyed and transportation corporations so as to secure just and impartial treatment of all interested; etc., etc. The New York Prohibition Bute Convention met at Syracuse on the 3d and nominated the following ticket: For Governor, Professor John W. Mears; Lieutenant-Governor, James H. Bronson; Secretary of State, A. H. Hopkins; Comptroller, C. W. AUi; Treasurer, Stephen Merritt; State Engineer, John J. Hooder; Attorney-General, Walter Farrington. a A reunion of the Smith family was held at Peapack, N. J., on the 4th. There were present 3,500 Smiths from various sections of the Union. East, West and South. Charles Demons, late Treasurer of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society, was arrested in Boston on the 4th, charged with embezzlement The amount of his defalcation was placed at over 820.000. A DISPATCH to the New York World from Kingston, R. L, on the 3d, says Mrs. Kate Sprague was then at Jamaica Plains, Mass., where some cousins of hers were spending the summer. la a conversation with a Dr. Perry, of New York, she had led him to bebelieve that her departure from her husband's residence was solely in consequence of the inability of her counsel to get Mr. Sprague to come to an understanding about the disposition to be made of the children. A Providence telegram of the sth says Mrs. Sprague had filed a petition in the Superior Court asking for the appointment of a trustee of her property and estate in South Kingston. Ex-Governor Seymour is reported, in a dispatch of the sth. as having declined being a candidate for Governor before the New York Democratic State Convention, and as haring, in a letter, rebuked the existing divisions in the party in that State. Mbs. William H. Keens died at Philadelphia a few days ago, of hydrophobia, the effects of a bite by a small Nack-and-tan terrier bu wvcbb uului e. Am entire family at Linden, N. J., was recemtly poisoned by esting toadstools in mistpke for mushrooms. - Two children died from the effects of tbe poison, and the other members of the family had a narrow escape from death. , The f<fllowfng were the dosing quotations for produce In New York; on September 6th: No. 3 Chicago Spring Wheat, [email protected]<; Na 2 Milwaukee. Oats, Western Mixed, 81«88c. Corn, Western Mixed, 42tf«4«Xc- Pork, Mess. 88.90.7J9.00. Lard, 86.15ffi6.90. Floor, Good to Choice, »4.50®6.26; White Wheat Extra. 8175'1*5.35. Crttiei”M7s«ia2sfor Common to Extra. 8a.50ffi5.25. Hogs, <3A0»4.00.

Ar East Liberty, Pa., od Septembrrfiih, Cattle brought: Beet. 85.00ffib.li6; ' Fair to Good, 84.80ffit.00; Common, 83.00ffi8.30. Hogs sold -Yorkers, 88.6003.70; Philadelphia, 48.80« 400. Sheep brought *8.00.1*4.50 according to quality. ("* At Baltimore, Md., on September 6th, Cattle brought: Best, 85.00J8A25; Medium, 88.50(34.50. Hoge sold at 84.75W5.50 for Good. Sheep were quoted at 83.00(4*4.50 for Good. - ? < Wert and Souili. Nbab Atlanta, Ga., the other day a little child fell over the steep aide of Stone Mountain, which has a perpendicular height of 1,630 feet. The little one caught on a ledge of rocks, and by sticking her fingers In the erevicea, managed to hold on until an alarm was carried to the town, three miles off. A large crowd hastened to the place, when they found the child fifty feet below the brink of the mountain, she having slid down rather than fallen outright. A man named Joy Goldsmith was let over the brink with a stout rope. He reached the child just as she was exhausted’, and they were drawn to, the top amid the most intense excitement. The mother awaited the child at the brink. The little girl wai considerably bruised, but all were thankful that matters were no worse, as the escape from death was a remarkable one. Thb following was the vote cast for Governor at the late Kentucky election, as officially announced: Blackburn, Democrat, 125,979; Evans, Republican, 81,882; Cook, Greenbacker, 18,954. Blackburn's majority over all, 24,963. A hurricane passed over New Orleans, Morgan City, La., and the section bordering on the Gulf and the Atchafalaya, on the afternoon of the Ist. A great many walls and buildings were blown down, coal-boats and steamers sunk and sugar-bouses destroyed. Scarcely a plantation between New Iberia and Morgan City escaped. At Frankfort on the 2d Governor-elect Luke P. Blackburn was duly inaugurated Governor of Kentucky, in the presence of a great multitude of people.

The Republicans of Minnesota met in State Convention at St Paul on the 3d. John 8Pillsbury, the present Governor, was renominated on the first ballot. C. A. Gilman was nominated for Lieutenant-Governor. The resolutions adopted indorse the financial policy of the present National Administration, which is claimed to be vindicated by the “eminent success which has attended the resumption of specie payments;” demand that “ every Constitutional means be exerted to maintain that liberty and security throughoutthe South which all citizens are entitled to under the Government;” favor Civil-Serv-ice Reform enactment by Congress; demand retrenchment in every department of the National and State Governments, and declare that “the Republican party sots its face absolutely against evervthing that savors of monopoly,” and will use all Constitutional means to protect the people against unjust discrimination and combination by rail road or other corporations. Tire Inter-State Exposition at Chicago was formally opened ou the night of the 3d. It will continue six weeks. At a meeting of the St. Louis Colored Refugee Board, held on the night of the 4th, reports were made going to show that there had been little falling’off in the’ negro emi gration northward, and that the number tni.ht be expected to Increase after the crop was gathered. It was stated that a better class of people was coming, and that the demand for assistance was not so pressing and genera] as it had been. On the morning of the st’i the steamer Alaska, of the Detroit and Put-in-Bay line, exploded the dome of her boiler while in Lake Erie near the mouth of the river. Both engineers and oue deck-hand were killed, and ten deck-hands seriously scalded—some fatally. One passenger only was hurt, and he slightly. Dispatches received Francisco on the evening of the sth say that threefourths of the vote cast at the late election had been counted. At that time Perkins, Republican, for Governor, led Glenn, Democratic, about 17,500 votes, and the indications were that Perkins’ plurality would reach 23,000. The Republicans had apparently elected all the Congressmen, though the vote was very close in the San Francisco District Kalloch was elected Mayor of the latter city beyond a doubt, and the Workingmen had evidently elected the Sheriff and some of the municipal officers of Bau Francisco. The trial of Henry Gully for the murder of Cornelia Chisholm, daughter of Judge

Chisholm, was begun at De Kalb, Miss., on the sth. People were pouring Into the town, and the deepest Interest In the trial was manifested. Several ladies from the country had requested seats in the court-room. Gen eral Woodford, who went to Mississippi as an escort- for Mrs. Uhlsholm, would remain jgt De Kalb till the close of all the trials, but would take no part In the proceedings. A Convention of Croquet-Players has been called to meet at the Palmer House in Chicago, on the 23d Inst., at two o’clock p. qh. for the purpose of establishing Natiorfal Rules by which all players may be governed. Several distinguished players will be in attendance. All organized clubs are invited to send delegates, and skilled players generally are invited to attend. Those intending to be present are requested to send their names and addresses to J7X Stoddard; T77Mi<Hson street, Chicago. 111. lx Chicago, on September 6th, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at cash; 87@87 Vc for October; for November. Cash Corn closed at for No. 2; 34X@34Mc to October; 33Xc for November. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 23X@23J<c seller October; for November. Rye Na 2, Barley No. 2, 73ffi74c. Cash Mess Pork dosed at 88 Beeves—Extra brought *4.80 5.15; Choice, 84.50£4.70; Good, 84.00@ 4.35; Medium Butchers’ Stock, *[email protected]. Stock Cattle, etc., *2.30 03.00. Hogs—Good to Choice, *[email protected]. Sheep—Poor to Choice, 2.50®4.00.

The Yellow Fever. There were three new cases in New Orleans on the Ist, one Of them being the son (aged eight years) of the late General Hood. One death was reported. Twenty-eight new cases (fifteen colored) and four deaths were officially reported in Memphis on the 2d. The fever bad evidently gained a foot-hold at Buntyn Station, six miles east of the city, eight cases in all hav ing beeti reported in that immediate neighborhood. Judge Jones gave the quarantine breakers at Houston, Texas, a healing on the 2d, on write of habeas corpus, and discharged the prisoners, the Judge holding that the Board of'Health had no power to declare ,quarantine, the power being vested in the Bpard of Aidermen alone. It was said the next proceeding would be to arrest the Mayor, Health officers and members of the Houston Board of Health on the charge of conspiracy to obstruct, and obstructing, the United Slates malt ’ - W. J. Smith, acting President, and T. Roane Waring, Secretary, of the Memphis Howard Association, issued an appeal on the 4tb, to the public at large, for substantial aid. Every dollar imtheir treasury had been used up, and no alternative was left them but to appeal to the cbarity of the Nation." They say: “The generous-people throughout the Union will not fall to respmffl to this call for help. We feel that we are performing ■ Batted duly to and distressed people atdoSg whom our lot is cast The bounty of . a common r people was showered uoon us i u 1878, ’ and to those same willing givers we appeal. If help U not Bprodfly furnished wo will be compelled

to abandon the work in which we have been engaged, leaving huudreda to suffer and die for want of a Howard's helping hand.” The official report showed twenty-seven now cases (fifteen colored) and ten deaths in Memphis on the 4th. Three additional cases were reported at Buntyn Station. A dispatch from New Orleans on the Sth, In noticing the enforcement of the National Quarantine law in regard to vessels leaving the “ Infected port of New Orleans,” says the population of the city was not less than 200,000, and there was then but orfe cam of yrildW fever there, and that was in the Fourth District, fully two miles from the business center. Total caves In the city so far, twentytwo, and deaths, nine. Ox the Sth five seamen, just arrived from Jamaica and Hayti, wore admitted to the yellow-fever quarantine hospital at New York. Nixmsex new cases (twelve white) and thirteen deaths were reported in Memphis on the stb. Liberal contributions were being received by the Howard Association in reE>nse to the appeal for aid. Jay Gould sent 000 by telegraph from New York, and expressed himself as certain that '‘generous jteople throughout the country will contribute liberally to aid your stricken city. At any rate (be adds) keep ou at your noble work till I tell you to stop, and I will foot the bill.” In acknowledging the receipt of this liberal donation, Mr. Binltl| says the expenses of the Association aggregated *I,OOO a day, and should the fever continue to spread the expenses must necessarily increase. There were seventeen new cases reported in Memphis on the 6th, nine of them whites and eight colored. The numbered seven,-five of whom were whites. The total number of eases reported during the week was 152—seventy-eight whites and seventyfour colored; total number to date 1,005. The deaths from yellow fever during the week numbered forty-three (thirty-three white), and the total number to date (6tb) was 27(1. The Odd Fcl lows ’ Special Relief Committee announced that they were again forced to the necessity ot appealing to the Brotherhood at large for material aid. Such contributions should rf»e sent to Marcus Jones, Grand Patriarch of the State and President Of the Comftiittee, Memphis, Tenn. Three new cases and one death were reported to the New Orleans Board of Health on the 6th. 1 I' The new cases reported in Memphis on the 7th numbered eleven (seven colored), and the deaths numbered eight. The Howards’ weekly report showed that they had’ 211 nurses on duty, attending 130 white and seventy-live colored families.

Foreign Intelligence. The Receiver of the East of England and South Wales District Bank closed, on the Ist, Thomas W. Booke & Co.’s sheet-iron and tinplate works, near Cardiff, Wales, which had been in operation since 1840, continuously. Over 1,500 workmen were discharged and paid off. ' '■ • x Kino Alfonso’s marriage to the Austrian Archduchess Marie Christine has beei/nxed for the 28th of November. The United States Consul at Alexandria has officially notified the Egyptian Government that the United States demands to be represented upon the Commission to provide for the liquidation ot the Egyptian debt According to Calcutta dispatchesof the 2d the British Resident at Mandalay had been forced to leave his post through fears of his personal safety. A conspiracy to depose King Theebaw had been discovered among his Min-i isters. On the 2d at Bonchamp, France, an explosion of fire-damp occurred in the coal-mines, by which fifteen persons were killed and a large number Injured. General Lazarbff, the commander of the Russian Expedition against the TekkeTurcomans, has latelydied, and LieutenantGeneral Tourgoukasoff has been appointed as his successor. Kino Theebaw, of Burmab, has gathered an army us 40,000 men upon the frontier, with the avowed object of making war upon the British in India. - . The National Railway of .Switzerland has been sold for 4,000,000 francs. It cost 32,000,000 francs. f According to a Cape Town dispatch published ou the 3d, Cetewayo was in full flight, accompanied by a few followers, and Lord Gifford was in pursuit, with a party of mounted natives. His Prime Minister, two of his sons and three of his brothers had already surrendered. , A conspiracy for the uprising of the Mohammedans of Eastern Roumelia has been discovered. The new .quay at Galatz, on the Danube, one hundred and eighty meters long, sunk on the 3d. The announcement was made on the 4th that the French Government had decided to tunnel Mont Blanc. A telegram was received at Gottenburg, Sweden, on the 4th, from Professor Nordenskjold, the Swedish Arctic explorer, dated Yokohama, Japan, September 3, announcing the safe arrival of the Vega at that place. According to a London telegram of the 4th, when the usual toast to the Queen was proposed at a recent banquet given at Limerick to Mr. Parnell, the Home-Rule leader, it was received with violent hisses and other disloyal expressions. It was stated thtrt the tcnrd-Lieutenafit of Ireland had directed the Limerick Superintendent of Police to report upon the circumstances attending these qnpleasant and unparalleled demonstrations.

Lurgan and some of the surrounding districts in Ireland have been placed under the provisions of the Peace-Preserving act Berlin telegrams of the Sth say the reported resignation of Prince Bismarck was a canard, originating On the Bourse, and intended to affect the price of securities. There was no truth in it On the sth the steamer France, plying between Bordeaux and Royan, exploded her boilers, killing one person, mortally injuring three, and seriously injuring twenty-five others. A severe earthquake shock was felt in the vicinity of Szegedin, Hungary, on the.4th. According to St. Petersburg dispatches of thes;h the murderer of Prince Krapotkine, Military Governor at Charkoff, some time ago, hul been arrested and taken to the latter place for trial. It is stated that he was bribed to commit the crime by one of the Socialists recently hung at Odessa. The crops having failed in Bulgaria, the Government has prohibited the exportation of cereals. The Portuguese Government has authorized the laying of an ocean cable between Lisbon, the Azores and the United States. The Viceroy of India received a letter from the Ameer of Afghanistan on the 6th announcing that twelve Afghan regiments had revolted and were at that time besieging both, himself and the British Embassy. Lord. Lytton immediately dispatched a large ‘ force to Cabul and made arrangements to thoroughly guard the passes. On the 7th another letter was received announcing the destruction of the Embassy and the massacre of Major Cavagnari and his entire suite, numbering seventy persons. “Cham,” the distinguished French .caricaturist, died at Paris on the 7tb. Ox the 7th the steamer Brest, en route from Havre to New York, weut ashore off the Lizard*, between Havre *nd Liverpool. Ot the passenk-ers.on board, seven were lost Recent heavy rains have caused the Neva to overflow its banks at St Petersbuigb, and Inundate all the ontlying suburbs. The destruction of property is very great ” Mass-meeting resolutions are like jerked beef, always cut ;i nd dried when u»ed.«r-Y. O. ficayune.

THE YAZOO METHOD.

Ih«' AwMMlnatlon of Mr. Utaon iu Obedience to the Heheete of t|>« Democratic Organisation—A Nlauimenl io the Public by .’lre. Dlxou, in Which Thia la Clearly Shown. (From the Vicksburg Herald. August 29. j To the I’uniJC: . Political animosity and iar»>nal hatred have at length accomplished their dire purpose. My husband was murdered in the streets of Vazoo City, on the morning of the 19th, by James A. JtareMtakJDfflnoyretic candidate for the of (’hanoerv Clerk. Still, persecution and outrage are not jetspent-calumny and prejudice pursuing him even into his grave. Charges cannot now harm the proud soul they were intended tooruab. It stands in the presence of a Higher Tribunal. But. above the storm of rage that is now sweeping over bis tanrily. may the voice of a wife be heard in behalf of the memory ot the father of her six helpless little ones?. Without proof, yet without remorse, have the epithets of liar, inbdel, murderer, gambler, etc., been heaped upon him. That this was done by a liody of men. no single one during to offer the resolutions, but simply moving that what was laid on the table should be read (before the mass convention called by Dr. McCormack, Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee, on Friday, August 16). makes it none the less hurtful, even though it left a brave man without the opportunities of manly defense. Of hie enemies 1 expect neither justice nor mercy l , but to his friends, and to the public here and everywhere, do I appeal that the memory of a brave man be not blackened for party purposes or private revenge. I can refute every slander ever produced against him. and it was the intention of him who was so ruthlessly and violently torn from the arms of his wife and little oncn. This so-called liar, infidel, murderer, gambler, etc., was the same whose name brave men wore proi'dly upon their besoms in 1875. as indicating his leadership of them jn the hour of his country's peril. Drawn up m rank and file on the streets of Yazoo City, my husltand and bis brave comrades received the commendation of Lamar. Singleton. George, and others, for his courage and fidelity to Ins country. Fair and true women evinced their gratitude in souvenirs, poetry, music, etc.; and, ra-the-ilfnminwtionof our city sgliich followed the political triumph of that time, his name blazed from the windows ot opr Sroudest homes. He was the man that people elighted to honor; and. in proof of my assertion. I have, among hie private papers, letters from the first and best men of this State commending his course. Yet the events which so glorified him at that time arc now. distorted by bis enemies and discussed to his injury. From the murder which is so elaborated in the scurrilous resolutions adopted in the mass convention, 'he was exonerated by the testimony of Col. Campbell, Capt. Wallace, W. A. Mangum, and others, of eq "al integrity and intelligence. If the jury by whom he was acquitted lacked virtue ana intelligence, as the ilcmocratic resolutions declared, let the Sheriff and counsel for the J prosecution, whose duty it was to eelect proper urymen, be responsible. In this present campaign, which has cost him his lite, when charged with midnight meetings and incendiary influences upon the colored race, lie repeatedly demanded an investigation of these charges, and challenged hia accusers to produce any responsible man, white or black, to assert this upon his personal knowlege, and promising, when they would do so. he would leave the county, never to return. In all his political meetings he invited the participation of his opponents, and.no one has ever been able to produce any argument or appeal from him calculated to bring about discord between the -races. He was called the "man of violence.” 1 leave it to the public to decide jwho were the men of violence during this-ojtnrfiaign. When the mob of tlie 26th of his life, and he was ordered, thief and outlaw, to leave his home and fdniily. and these demands made ta the preseufie of his family—the sanctuary of his hometiol 1 utedyfiy these lawless scenes, even over tag <n’adle of his almost dying babe—was therefrom him or hia friends one single act of violence or retaliation ? Midnight asaissins, in a band of twelve or fifteen strong, gathered themselves iu ambush on the public road, one mile frorti Yazoo City, to murder him on the night of his anticipated return to his home from a visit to some friends ip the country. Did Henry Dixon or any of his friends retaliate by highway murder, or any attempt so to do? And when the last heartrending scene of this dark tragedy was enacted and my busband lay slaughtered in these streets, was there any attempt at revenge? If he had used incendiary influence upon the colored race, as was asserted in the Democratic resolutions, would not this have been the wmasien for an outbreak of violence on the part of the colored people?

That he was gddicted to cards I admit, ns he •was also fond of the turf. He bad the means rand leisure to indulge in thesqamuseinente, and to the injury of no one; they were at his own expense, and often in the society of his accusers. W hile these amusements are not to be commended, when before were such charges ever used for political capital, and by men who were equally culpable? Were this test applied to all who occupy the highest offices of our country, 1 fear our Congress-halls and Senate-chambers would lose some of , their brightest ornaments. He was a strictly temperate man. anti no one had more regard and appreciation for the virtue and chastity of woman. As an enemy, he was bold and aggressive; as a friend, he Was warm, affectionate, and true as steel. That he was not the outlaw portrayed by his political tradneers, I refer to the fact that at his funeral was gathered a isrger cone, mrse of people than have ever assembled at this place to pay the last sad tribute of respect to the dead. Widows and orphans, who always found in him a friend, stood over bis pulseless form, and wept that his generous heart could never again respond to their appeals. Strong men showed the tenderness of women when thev came to look for the last time upon the form of him they had loved so well in life. He was the friend of the oppressed and the unfortunate, and his heart and hand always open to the cry of the needy. Btave almost to rashness, he would have scorned to take advantage of his bitterest foe. Tender and chivalrous, he was a friend to the weak and defenseless. When the bitter strife which rules the hour has passed away, then will justice be done the memory of my murdered husband, even in Yazoo County. For the take of his brokenhearted wife and six fatherless children, may this day soon arrive. That it is unsafe now for even his friends to express their natural sympathy tor his cruel death, 1 quote an extract from the Yazoo City Herald of the 22d. In commenting upon the assassination it says: "To men of the opposite party we would say, bridle your tongues, curb your paasiows, and do the young man who escaped unharmed, even though four shots were fired by his opponents (these shots were fired by my husband after he was shot in the back, his right hand broken and mutilated, the pangs of death already upon him; of course the young man escaped unharmed). no injustice by false accusations concerning him one way or another. It will put no money in your pockets or bring honor to yonr homes.” When before were charity and sympathy for a murdered man and hia family demanded to be suppressed for fear of doing harm or injury to his slayer! When the honor of men s homes and their purses ore threatened to cheek the outpourings of sympathy for an unfortunate friyad, or to prevent comment upon what they thunk a deed of violence or wrong, then indeed arc we no linger a free people. When the Czar of Russia, for State reasons, takes off toe head of a Nihilist, be could scarcely do worse than to threaten the friends with dishonor and poverty for an expression of regret or sympathy. “It brings no honor to their homes.” What does " dishonor to their homes” mean ? Not poverty, for that is also a separate threat “ Who steals my purse steals trash; tis something, nothing, 'twas mine, is his, and has lieen slave to thousands; but he that filches my good name robs me of that which not enriches him. and makes me poor indeed.” Friends of my forefather, friends of my youth, friends of my murdered husband, at the peril of your honor and your fortunes, dare not deplore or comment upon an act that took the life of a fond husband and father, a faithful and true friend. My ancestors lived and died among you without stain or reproach. I was born ana reared on Yazoo soil; yet the sympathies of good men and women must be denied me and mine for fear of injuring the murderer of my husband. If this be not a political murder, why is the Herald so careful to stifle public sentiment and so eager to prejudge this case? When before was a citizen of any town shot down without warning, the case tried, and judgment rendered beforehand by the journals? Andi if this was not a political matter, why did the Democratic Convention make tnat appendage to their scurrilous resolutions passed on the 15th of August, which reads as follows?: “The names of two reliable men have been handed to the Secretary of this meeting stating that threats of assassination have been made by H. M. Drxon against James Barksdale, Democratic candidate for Chancery Clerk.” Pointing to thia my busband said to some of his friends: "That means murder; 1 am to be assassinated; this is another way to prepare the public mind for it; 1 shall demand the author of this slander—hold him responsible; also inform James Barksdale I hr.ve never made such threats;” all of which he swears in his dying testimony, under oath, and in view of eternity, to have done the day before he was murdered. My husband was an infidel, say his accusers, the Democratic Committee. No one of their falsehoods has less foundation than this. In the Srivacy of bis home,find in his serious momenta, id he always avow bis firm belief in the Christian religion. While he was not a pious man, he was not a scoffer nor a skeptic. No man for his means contributed more largely to the support of the churches of this place than he. A few hours before his death he was baptized in the Catholic Church, and his last word was " Bible.” When dying be forgave his murderers, saying: "I had rather been killed than to have killed any of tn®!®." And at his bedside kneit two Stay ters of the Holy Order of Nazareth, anddfferea up prayers for the departing soul of him who during 4he epidemic of last year had nursed their priest and assisted in laying away their after the-shooting of my husband, telegrams were hastily sent from this place by the Chairman and others of the Democratic Committee, Mating that he was killed in a "street-fight,” “personal encounter, etc. It takes two parties to make an “encounter, a ” street-fight;” and in this affair the murderer was the only actor. ;. . My husband, after being shot in the back,ln th broken and mutilated hand, and in a fainting condition, crawled up a stairway opposite, and fired hia pistol four times, with broken right hand supported by the left hand. Here ta my husband’s dying testimony, taken by our estimable and faithful Mayor, who was the only ofiioer who dared perforin his duty wh< nthe mob of the 35th of July threatened to rash into our home '» ,

tear my hiuband from bis family, to oomchit the deed of violence fur which they were tbintinir. At UJO o’clock on the muroitqc of the 19th my hnsband wm (•ronght home on a lounge leirne by the populace, naked to lu* waist, Um: City rbvaimnu having tufn off hl* clothing nown the street, to yxamine hi* wounds. When placed spun hi* lied, my husband gasped: “Oh! fam murdered;'’ then, afters moment or so, "for nothing, if 1 could only live long enounb to tell it all." Then, upon the arrival of Mayor Holt, my hunband. being duly sworn, made the following statement: *' 1 was walking down the street As 1 neared McCormick’s drugstore 1 saw Jim Barksdale and W. D. Gibhs [who, by the way, is Democratic Htate Henator) standing in the do.>r. 1 thought I could get by without being attacked (although for two weeks I not gorire down the street expecting to get back alive), when, just ae 1 got opposite McCormick «, Jim Barksdale rushed out into the middle of the street..’and began firing at me. 1 felt that I was badly shot and made for a stairway near; crawled up, sat on the top step, and fired my pistol until I fainted.’ In a cross-examination Mr. Holt naked him if he saw Jim Barksdale with a gun. "I did see him with a Mr. Molt asked if he saw anyone else shoot "I did not” Mr. Holt asked if Jim Barksdale spoke at -all, and if Barksdale fired first. ” I did not bear a soubd. and did not dream of immediate danger until I felt that I was badly shot in the back." Mr, Holt asked my husband if he had ever threatened Jim Barksdale's life, or made any threats of any nature. " Never in my life, and only yesterday sent a friend who told him I was innocent of all charges. I wrote the same to the Democratic Executive Committee, also to John Posey (who was Secretary of the Mass Convention when those scnrrilous resolutions were read], and demanded of Posey the names of the two men who con Id say they had ever heard me plotting the assassination of Barksdale. He refused their name?., saying t at I wished to attack them. 1 ngain sent to him that I did not - I bad no desire or wish to harm any oneonly wished to clear ut> the groundless charges and the plot which I had seen gradually thickening against me. He again refused the names, saying that he would confront me.” My husband said, before dying: “I had rather been killed thnn to have killed any of them”; and. when I exolaimed; “Oh, no! 1 would that you had killed them all. and yonr life had been spared to me." he said, " No. no, von must not say that.” He also said: " I wish Jim Barksdale was here to sue a brave man die.” Then some members of the Democratic Executive Committee, or those who indorsed those scurrilous resolutions of the 15th of August, have reconsidered the convictions they held at the time of wiy husband’s imprisonment for the murder (as they in those resolutions call it, the cold-blooded" murder) of Samuel Harrison. 1 herewith append an extract from a letter written my husband by the Hon. John 0. Prewitt, brother-in-law to James A. Barksdale, while my husband lav in prison. He states in a letter of March 5.1878: "I know you are an innocent and persecuted man, and I sincerely hope that you may come out redeemed and cleanped from all stain. The people are always right; they will vindicate you in the end; and they will never forget the gallant man who drove out their plunderers and oppressors in the historic year of 1875.” Then again. April 13. he says: With kindest regards and the hope that you will be acquitted, not only on account of yourself, but your wife and children, and because of your innocence. I am. very truly and sincerely, J. C. Prewitt.” Thus, a man of legal ability, and never at any time a particular friend of my busband, declares his opinion that he was an innocent and persecuted man,” This ends my statement, honest and true, sacred to the memory of my murdered husband.

The New York Platform.

The New York Republican State Convention, which met at Saratoga on the 3d, adopted the following platform of principles: The Republicans of New York, pledging themselves anew to National supremacy, <s|iiul rights, five elections and honest money, declare these principles: 1. The Republic of the United States is a Nation and not a league. The Nation is supreme within its own Constitutional sphere. It is girded with power to guard its own life, to protect its own citizens, to regulate its own elections and to execute its own laws. The opposite doctrine of State Sovereignty is the baleful mother of nullification, secession and anarchy. Republicanism stands for National supremacy in National affairs and State-rights -jnStaie concerns. Democracy stands for State Sovereignty with its own twin heresy, that the Union is a mere confederacy of States. 2. To refuse the necessary supplies for the Government, with the design of compelling the unwilling consent of a co-ordinate and independent branch to odious measures is revolution. To refuse appropriations for the execution of existing and binding laws is nullification. We arraign the Democratic Representatives in Congress as guilty both of revolutionary attempts and nullifying schemes, and we reprobate their action as calculated to subvert the Constitution and to strike at the existence of the Government itself. 3. The safety of the Republic demands free and pure.elections. The Democratic Congress has attempted dictation by caucus, by threats of starving the Government, and by months of disturbing agitation to break down the National election laws. W e denounce this effort M n conspiracy to overthrow the ttab guards of free suffrage, and to open the ballot-box to the unchecked domination of the ride-clubs of the South and the repeaters of New York. We declare our uncompromising opposition to anv repeal of these just protective laws; and Republican Senators and Representatives in Congress, for their resistance to this attempt, and President Hayes for his veto messages, deserve and receive our hearty approval. 4. The Republican party neither justifies nor tolerates military interference with elections. It seeks only to protect the ballot-box from the interference of force and fraud. It repels the false charges and denounces the false pretenses of conspirators who, while professing free elections everywhere, sustain mob law in the Bouth; while inveighing against troops at the polls to protect citizens, refuse to prohibit armed clubs from surrounding the ballot-box to intimidate them, and, while affecting that the soldier’s bayonet will overawe free electors, remain silent while the assassin’s bullet seals the fate of political independence. 5. We call upon the people to remember that the Democratic party forced the extra session of Congress, without warrant or excuse; that it prosecuted its partisan purposes by revolutionary methods; that it persistently obstructed resumption, and still constantly presses disturbing measures; that it reopens sectional questions closed by the National triumph, and threatens to repeal war legislation; that its Southern element answers conciliation only with violence; that it’s hope of success rests ujone on a Solid South, and that its triumph would make the Solid South the ruling force of the Nation. We recognize that the great body of the people who defended the Union, of Whatever party name, are equally patriotic and equally interested in good government, and we earnestly invoke them to resist the dangerous designs of the party organization under the sway of those who were lately in rebellion and who seek to regain in the halls of legislation what they lost on the field of battle. #. The successful resumption of specie payments, despite Democratic prediction and hostility, is the crowning element of the Republican financial policy. Followed by returning National prosperity, improved credit, refunded debt and reduced Interest, it adds another to the triumphs which prove that the Republican party is equal to the highest demands. Our whole currency should bo kept at par with the monetary standard of the commercial world, and any attempt to debase the standard, to depreciate paper or to deteriorate coin should be firmly resisted. 7. The claims of the jiving and the memories of the dead defenders of the Nation conjure us to pretest against the partisan and unpatriotic greed which expels old Union soldiers from their well-deserved rewards and advances Confederate soldiers to their places. 8. As the pledge and proof of its economy In State Administration, the Republican party, in spite of prolonged Democratic resistance, proposed and passed Constitutional amendments which rest act the expenses of canals to their receipts, and reform the whole system of eaqal and prison managemeht, and by ex tingulshing the puldU indebtedness and relieving the people from any further tax, therefore, it effected a great savingin State taxation. These fruits of Republican measures the Democrats have brazeqlv attempted to apprrmiiute as their own. Appealing to the records in support of our declaration, we pronounce their claims unfounded and hold up their authors as public imposters. 9. The Inequalities of taxation which press most upon those least able to boar them should be remedied. To this dnd the Kcpuldicnn Legislature created a commission to revise the assessment and tax- laws, and to reach a class of property which now largely escapes; and wo remind the people that this salutary reform was unwarrantably defeated by the present Democratic Executive. 10. Moneyed and transportation corporations are not alone works of private enterprise, but arc created for public use, and with due regard to vested rights, it is the clear province and the plain duty of the State to so supervise and regulate 'such corporations as to secure the just and impartial treatment ofall interested, to foster the industrial and agricultural welfare of the people, and, with a liberal policy, favor public water-ways to maintain the commercial supremacy of the State. tVoTook to the ihqtflJynW in pregrbsß under direction of the Legislature to develop facts which will guide to all needed action.

A Shameful Outrage.

A Washington City Democrat institutes a parallel between the shooting of Kalloch in San Francisco and the assassination of Dixon in Yazoo City. The striking peculiarity of this attempted parallel consist in its defense of the Yazoo assassination and its condemnation of the alleged threats of the SandLotters of San Francisco, “to sack the pity and lynch thek political oppo-

nent.” He says: “I* MiMisaippi i» the refuge of fiends, what ia California? If Yazoo City should be swept from the face of the Sarth or sown with salt, what of San Francisco?” There is no parallel between the two cases. Nobody pretends for an instant that the shooting of Kalloch was the result of any political design whatever. 1 here was a political controversy raging, which degenerated into a purely personal quarreL and quarrel ended in the shooting of one of the parties to it by the other. Neither is it true, in point of factath at the “Sand-Lotters,” as a body, threatened to sack the city and lynch 'their political opponent. “Give the devil his due,” is an old saying which possesses binding force over the minds of all just men. Kearney couseled moderation, and the “ fsand-Lotters” dispersed peaceably; and it is one of the most notable instances of conservatism following close in the wake of responsibility that ever came to our attention. But suppose the Sand-Lotterff did threaten to sack the city and lynch their political opponent? ' They didn’t do either, 'lhe order-loving people and the authorities of San Francisco took care that they should not succeed in either in the event of the attempt being made. How was it in Yazoo County? A Democratic mob assembled ana threatened Dixon, the Independent candidate, with death in the eveht.of his refusal toretire from the political canvass. He did not retire, and they employed a cowardly, ruffianly Democratic candidate for office to shoot their unprepared victim in the back! And neither the authorities nor the citizens of Yazoo County raised a hand to prevent the threatened, impending brutal homicide. Kalloch prefaced his wordy assault upon De Young.by the announcement that “he felt justified in using the most vicious language of which he should be capable,” and followed up the announcement by offering the greatest personal provocation of which mere words are susceptible. On the other hand, Dixon declared with his dying breath that no cause of personal quarrel whatsoever existed between himself and his assassin. Thus every feature of the two eases, instead of showing a parallel, exhibits a striking contrast. The same is true of the resultant events following the two shooting as-

fairs. The shooting of Kalloch was denounced as cowardly, barbarous and the provocation, by nearly all the journals of San Francisco, and almost universally condemned by local public opinion. On the other hand, with a single exception, every paper in Mississippi, so far as we know, sustains both the mob which threatened to kill and the assassin who shot Dixon; and we have yet to learn of the Democratic citizen of Yazoo County wljohas raised his voice in condemnation of either the threats or the actual killing. The Democrat who assumes the task of instituting a parallel between these two cowardly, brutal affairs is either a knave or a fool. In the case of the shooting of Kalloch, DeYoung alone is guilty; he usurped the law to be avenged of a personal insult of a very gross nature; and, in the event of the death of his traducer and victim, the law which he defied will be invoked for his punishment. In the case of the assassination of Dixon, the Democratic party of the State of Mississippi stands accused of murder! Barksdale, the coward who fired the fatal shot, and his accomplices posted with shotguns in doorways and alleys ready to pour in a volley in the event of his failure to kill—these were mere agents of the Democratic party of a sovereign State! It is very diificult for tlxe civilized people of the North to conceive of a political party so abandoned, so brutal, and so bloodthirsty. And it is still more difficult to comprehend the cowardly character of Northern Democratic leaders who have no word of condemnation for such savagery. But there the Democratic party of Mississippi stands before the high court of public opinion, its garments dripping with the blood of its victim, charged with the crime of a deliberately-planned and coolly-executed assassination! And here, in the clear light of Northern civilization, trying to hide away from the shame of its vile association, but afraid to speak lest it shall be taken at its word and challenged to aid in the suppression of bulldozing—here stands the Northern wing of the Democratic party charged with the guilt of complicity in the crime of murder for political effect!— Chicago Tribune.

MRS. H. M. DIXON.

—Sir William Jenner, the distinguished English physician, has the whooping-cough. He is sixty-four years old. The London Lancet says that he has left that city “ in order that he may not spread the disease.” —Messrs. Moody and Sankey will hold meetings at Cleveland during October, and then go -to St. Louis for the winter, where Mr. Moody will lease a furnished house, put his children at school and make his home till next summer. —At a church exhibition given at Windsor Locks, in Connecticut, the other day, among the things displayed was a deed of land made in 1568 to Matthew Grant, one of the first sectiers of Windsor Ix>cks, and an ancestor of General Grant’s Mrs. Mary Batchelder, of Burlington Me., eighty years old, one day recently excited local wonder by mounting a load of hay and “pitching ” it on the mow in her barn as actively as a stalwart man of younger years could have done the job. —Some one asked General Toombs the other day in Atlanta, Ga., if he would be a candidate fpr Governor. “No, sir,” was the emphatic reply. “1 have not a single qualification—never made an agricultural speech in my life, and don’t know a single Sun-day-School hymn. —Mr. Henry T. Rodgers, who with Professor Morse established the first telegraph line operated in this country, and who received from the Professor the famous message, “What hath God wrought,” which was sent from Baltimore to Washington, died in Baltimore a few days ago, at the age of sixtynine years. He had been prominently identified with telegraphic interests in this country for many years, and was writing a history of telegraphy at the time of his death. —Owen Wall; the famous negro banjo player of North Carolina, rode, with a party of tourists through the mountains, near Rockingham, the other day, the gayest of the gay. He sat in his saddle Turkish fashion carelessly, picked on his banjo and sang “ Dandy Jim of Caroline,” the chorus of which runs: £dc^lin de eonntree, Of I look in de elans and toun’ 'twaa bo, Jcr as old mAmter told me, O. Just as Owen finished the song, and whi|e the gentlemen were applauding, he fell from the saddle, stone dead.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

NORDENSKJOLD.

Arrival of the Swcdlab Kxplortaf Steamer Vega at Yokohama, Japan —The Profeaaor’a Aceouut of I • Is Expsrlence In the Arctic Heglono-Tlie Northeast Passage. N«w Yobk, September 5. A special from Yokohama says; The Swedish exploring steamer Vega, belonging to the Nordenskiold expedition, arrived at this port last evening having successfully accomplished the Northeast passage. The health of the entire ship's company is excellent I have just seen Professor Nordenskjold, who says that daring the latter part of February he sent a letter to Dr. O. Dickson, of Gottenbnrg, from the winter quarters of the Vega, but he has no intimation that his patron has received it The Professor says: “We sailed from Gottenburg on July 4,, 1878, and four days’ sail brought us to Tromsoe (a Norwegian post on an island of the Sfijne name), where our outfit of furs and necessaries for the high latitudes was completed. Here we were Joined by the companion steamer, rhe Lena. “On July 25 both vessels sailed from Tromsoe, passed through the Yugor Strait (south of Nova Zembla) August 5. There was not a particle of ice to be seen between Waigatsch (Vaigatz, a Russian island) and the The Kara Sea, hitherto dreaded by all sailors in the Arctic regions, was equally free from ice, and anchor was cast at Port Dixon, near the mouth of the Yenisei, on August 6. “ After a three day’s delay there, the two steamers of our expedition steered northeast toward the dreaded Taimurland and North Gape. The ice arrested our passage and we were compelled to remain at Tajoyr (Cape Taimur) four days. On August 19, Tsejdekin, the extreme northern point of Asia was reached, where a short rest was taken. The Vega coasted the peninsula, very little ice being encountered, and anchored at the mouth of the Lena River on August 26. To the northeastward were the islands of New Siberia, which we soon sighted, but were not able to explore because of the great fields of ice that girt their shores. The mouth of the Kolwya River flat. 69 deg., 30 min.;long. 161 deg., 30 min.), abroad estuary, was found open, and we hastened to make all possible progress eastward.

rr Ouf~ difficulties soon began, however, and increased daily. We were delayed much by the ice between Cape Cook and Vankarema. We crossed Kalintzbm Bay on Sept. 27 with comparative case, but were imprisoned on the 28th near a Tshutcchi settlement (lat. 67 deg. 7 min. north; long. 117 .leg 21 inin. west ) “We wintered in the pack-ice at this point, one mile from land. The entire .ship’s company maintained the best of health and spirits. Not a single case of scurvy occurred on board. During the shortest day the sun was above the horizon less than three hours, and then only the upper limb was visible. At this point much time was devoted to interesting scientific and ethnographic studies. ' “There were four thousand inhabitants in the several villages near by, who subsisted by fishing and sealing. They are called the Tchuetchi, and are a very agreeable class of people for an exploring party to meet. They supplied the expedition with bear and reindeer meat: The cold was intense, averaging 36 centigrades (32.2 degrees below Fahrenheit). The game was abundant in the spring, wild fowl being taken in large numbers. We were detained in the ice at this point 264 days, but were released on July 18, and passed East Cape into Behring Strait on the 20th. Such is the story of our voyage. “I fully accomplished the object for which the expedition was sent out by Dr. Dickson, namely, a practical proof of the existence of a Northeast passage. Then the Asiatic coast was followed, and St. Lawrence Bay was crossed to Port Clarence, Alaska. Thence we crossed to Koniyan, dredging carefully in ordei’ to determine the formation of the bottom of the sea, many specimens of the fauna and flora being obtained. The location, breadth, velocity and approximate volume of the currents of the Arctic and Pacific polar currents were charted and calculated. Having touched at St. Lawrence Island, we next proceeded to Behring Island, where we received the first news from Europe through the Resident Agent of the Alaska Trading Company. “ The fossil remains on Behring Island are of immense variety. A new marine animal waff here discovered, which we named Rhytina Stellari. The Vega left the island on August 19, and had a pleasant voyage until August 31, when a severe gale was encountered, accompanied with lightning. During the storm, the lightning struck and shivered the main-topmast, slightly injuring several tryan. We arrived on Yokohama at half-past eight on. the evening of September 2. Ail are well, and no deaths have occurred during the voyage. “ The Vega is the first vessel to make the passage, and I think the voyage from Europe to Asia by Behring Straits is certain and safe, with very little more experience of navigation in the Northern Seas. From Japan to the mouth of .the Lena River there are no difficulties in the proper season for experienced sailors. The Jxma River taps Central Siberia, and a large prospective trade can be readily developed. The Vega will remain at Yokohama about fourteen davs.”

—“ Old Harry,” an odd character in Cincinnati, died there a few days ago. He was an aged negro, and he was noted for his reverence for the policemen. The officers in one of the stationhouses humored him by giving him a sort of authority over the tramplodgers, and he was supplied with a rawhide with which to keep them in order. This he used very vigorously. Every little while some stranger; tramp would come in early and ensconce himself in Old Harry’s bed. Be never did it again, however. The old negro would slip slily in, and, pulling the quilt suddenly off of the tramp, would . raise a dozen"welts on his body before the frightened man could awake and collect his senses enough: ,tp run for safety into his own place. —Mr. W. fl. Thompson, 'Who Won . easily the .big prize at a recent arcneiy tournament in Chicago, and is supposed to be one of the wpry best archers in the world, handleshis bow and arrow thus: He takes a firm, square position, at a full right angle to the target, gets a good hold of his bow, stops and looks for a second or two at the target, raises his bow, and drawing as he raises, looses the string immediately with a motion as quick as the arms can be separated, and the twang of bis bowstring is as sharp and clear as the snapping of a percussion cap. , J x