Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Volume 5, Number 47, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 21 May 1874 — Page 2

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AT noon to-d «y, Honator'Morton was rigidly* io favor of contraction, and HHiUJlfd of llio wjsdom and patriotism of CJrunL No later report lius been received.

HKN BUTI.KK ia still Hick nnri.il in said that, encouraged by the uiiivergill execration of him, the electors in ItIM own district aro preparing to throw olT thoyoko bo bus nitulo them wear for years.

AiioiiT tho beat thing Congress could do would IWJ to pasa a law, culling all old scores of debts Aquare, and enabling everybody to Htart froHh and oven with the world. "Oh happy d\y, happy day, When Congress shall wash our debts nwuy.

TUB Indlauupolla Journal made Its fltttappearance yesterday morning an a produot of 1X10 new Bullock prosa. Its political management has been, for sometime, under the control of (look of old ram« whose idea of the obief end of man liae been, something to butt or be butted,

AitcniMEDES thought he could move tho world if bo only had a lever long onough. Wo moderns have seen the World—tho New York World—moved to teara, In fact nil "ahook up" BO to upoak, by a paltry meeting of a handful of tho excluBIVOB of tho Manhattan Club, to rejoice over tho eleOvlona in Now Hampshire and Conncotiot which can only be figured by ulgobra, Into Demooratlo vlctoriow. Thin Is an ago of progress, and tho world niovos.

A PETITION is being circulated among the ofllcors and soldiers of tho llfth army corps for slgnaturoa to bo sent to the President, with a view of seouring a rehearing in the OURO of lta old commander, Fitz John Portor, court-martialed for ullegod diaobedlenoo to orders at the second battlo of Bull Hun. The proposition meetH with great favor among the members of the corps and oilloerH generally. For President Grant to do less than exert himself to havo tho case re-opened, will bo to exhibit something more than care for the country's welfare. Porter ought to havo a ro-hearing, and that, at onoe.

TWBNTY-.FI via thousand dollars Is the amount a bounteous Congress proposos to lavish on the beautiful green Wabash. Wo aro reliably informed that it is proposed to expend tho sum on revolving, cane-bottomed, double back-acting spring chairs for the accommodation of tho desolples of Isaak Walton in this city. There fturq uuuuii" Carolluaians, of tho people of Massachusetts and of Loulslaua, aud of all the States betweon, being expended here in our midst, so to speak, which would be unalloyed wore Its heels not trodden upon by tho toes of tho reflection that for overy cent so shed upon ours aro

on us, about, nlnoty-uluo of squandered elsewhere.

Tim St. Louis Globe plumes itself upon its success in "pulling people through" elections, and securing the adoption of such measures of polioy as it favors and advocates. Will 1 now "pull through" Senator Schurz to a ro-oleotion? lie bus given Mis sourl a name aud a fame iu the Son uto and over tho country of whloh she may well bo proud, and such as that sturdy Commonwealth has not enjoyed since the days of Benton Hero Is a good work, worthy the best efforts of tho Globe. Schurz Is In perfect accord with It upon uatlona flnanoes, and that muat bo tho nb uorblng issue of tho near Aituro. paper that has arguod this currency question as ably as It haB from day to day,oanuot fall to admire the master ly manner in which the Senator has discussed the same question. A sue cossful "pulling through" of Schurz by tho St. Louis Globe, and any aud all other papers, this full, will entitle it and Its lleuteuauls to the thanks of the country at large, which takes a just pride in tho learning, the elo queuco, the spotloss Integrity aud tho noble and ohivalrous charaoterof the greatest living Senator. Let tho Globe lead the march to victory it never drew pen iu a worthier cause fought for abettor chieftain.

Tho West on Inilatiou.

Out of a total of 887 newspapers iu the nine States of Illinois, Indiana Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa, 408 are opposed to Intlatlou of the ourrenoy while only 88ft are In favor of it and yet there are persons who claim that the West Is clamorous more money. The above urea we take from Cbloago Tribune, which of tho papers in the great West, most vigorously and ably opposed the inflation heresy, and whloh, to asoertaln tho sentiments of newspapers on this subject, issued a circular to all the papers iu these nine States, asking for their opinion. Of these papers, it Is proper to remark, that the ^arge newspapers hi the olties are almost uniformly opposed to inflation For example, in Cbloago, where all the papers,- even the- poorest and weakest, have larger constituencies of readies than the largest aud strongest Iu smaller places, every paper ctaving that latest venture, th4 Inter-Ocean, is in favor of a return to specio payments. In St. Loi^la, tho Democrat, with the smallest olr cle of readers and dwindling JQ fluence, stands alone In fa vor of Inflation.' It would probably not be exaggerating to My that whereas the proportion between tho number of papers opposed tt ahd iu favor of Inflation is abo,Ut as Hve ui four, that the'aggregalte iiumbpr of readers of aqtMnflation papers 14 ai tea to.,tot ho. aggregate, number of readeCTLQMnfwlQif p«pere. Thwf beat thing for Congresar«to do^ Dnder tho oferoumstafioe^Tia UrmdJbHfl/ifnfi let its members come home aud learn how shamefully they have been misrepresenting the people, their constituents, in this matter.

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1 ho North rn Pacific Job. gain the Northern Puciflc Rail' road is knocking at the doors of Congress for another permit to plunder the natioijyil treasury. Of course, it into cost tii Government uothlug. Ait that la nefitM i« for (he Government to guarantee the payment of the Interest on five per ceut. bonds to be issued at the rate of forty thousand dolinra per mile. For this little service nil aorta of flue things are to be done for the Government, notf* only Inaurlng it hgniiiftt all possibility of lose, but uctuully, It would aeetn, making tho liquidation of the national debt a mere bagatelle through lite aid of taxes to bo levied upon the rich and vailed resources that aro to bo along the line of this equatorial isothermal road, whero the banana and tho palm would Hourish if only the soil and thcclimato were different. ft Is, of oouse, hardly necessary to tell an Indiana Congressman that the way to bring himself disgracefully into private life for the rest of his days Is to lend his voice and vote to helping along this swindling snheme. The people of Indiana, whose hard earned dollars would be tuken from them by the Ihousauds in taxes to bolster up this rouri, are not interested one farthing's wortli in It, aavlng n« tax payers. Built, equlpt, and in the full tide of active operation, they would not le benefitted by it at all. It won't build up our State, it won't exteixi our business, it won't increase our population, it won't raise the value of our proper ty, it won't do anything if this bill passes, but be perpetually begging at our doors for alms, and they aro uncomfortable beggars to have around, these tax gatherers, with their peculiar little ways of turning out property for sale if their behests are not heeded.

To say that this actually calls for no money, but is a mero loan by tho Government of Its credit,which costs nothing, and tho giving of which leavea It nouo the pooror, would be a good Jolco wore it not so cruel and costly a one. Our Government's credit is, to be sure, better than that of the Northern Paclflo Kail road, and it is better than that of soino of the Southern States, but still it Is nono of tho best. The State of Massachusetts unri the city of Boston can either of them borrow money cheaper than our Gov ornment can. France oau borrow money much ohoaper than wo can So can England. So can Germany. It is safe to say that the low condition of our national credit, made low by tho reckless way in which we havo loaned It out to every beggarly enterprise that was started aud our erratic llnunolal theories costs us annually, because of the high Interest wo pny on our public debt, from ten to twenty millions of dollars. Credit is about as valuable a tiling as a nation can havo that has to borrow, and a "mighty handy" tiling always to havo about the house.

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STATE SOVEKEIQNTY was a pet Idea of tho South in the old ante bellum days. It was no petty degree of sovereignty, either, that was believed in, advocated, and afterwards fought for. A State, they

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and boyond tho coutrol of tho Bisterhood of States. Upou all lawB of the nation tho State could trample. obeying such behests as ouiy to tajom rovicv. .v.. met the approval of each. Freo from all restraint, they held each Stato to bo invlolublo that interference in their local polltios by tho general Government could not be tolerutod, even In thought, for a mo ment. Such interference in the in- .# /mwvium III i« UVMIV) Ma against others, during many years, would have brought together all those discordant and clashing inter ests and moulded them Into one homogenous whole, united In their opposition to the common enemy, Tho right of eaeh State to control its local affairs, without let or hlnderance from any other State or the general Qovernuient, was the cardinal doctrine of the South, and Insofar aH they confined themselves to this dootriue, they were beyond all peradventure right. Only us they atretcbed this belief Into tho creed that a State could aeceed, and subvert any an all national laws, even those referring to the whole Union, and in no way infringing upon the right of a Stato to control its own local polltics, did they enter upon untenable ground. That, therefore, the South, which was so testy once upon this question of State's rights, should havo now come to this pass, that every little difference of opinion among Its politicians, as in this case of Arkansas should, at once bo made the occasion of dispatches imploring the assistance of the President to interfere and settle their disputes Is a matter greatly to be wondered at. Carried to this extreme the South is now likely to infllot as great a wrong, and effect as disastrous change in the old and true theory of our Government aud Its functions, as it ever oouid have doue by the most violent and extreme advocacy of the right of secession.

Cigar Tips.

A correspondent of tho Clnoltt uatl Gazette, wrltlug from Berlin has a most extraordinary story to tell of.how tbo rusident Germans who ate addicted to the use of tobacoo, out off and carefully preserve the tips of the cigars they smoke. The cigar tips, it seoms, are colieoted together, chop ped up and sold for sraoklug tobacoo, and the proceeds devoted to charlta ble purposes. Iu Dautztc, one poor hoy is fed, clothed, and schooled each year, from the result of these sales, and in Berlin a small asylum failed, is supported by them. There is something bordering on the sublime in the thought of a perron on tho point of consuming a teu cent oigar for tho preservation of his life and health, cutting off aud preserving this one-tenth-of-a-mill-in-value cigar tip and establishing an asylum for himself. If now/ oigar smokhfg was, instead of a necessity, a sort of luxury whloh the person so indulg lug could dispense with altogether, to* his not eternal loss and so save ten oent8, there would seem to be something funny about this practice. As it is, however, the spectaoieof cigar smokers preserving these tips, as it were thte ^crutplp, /atjhig frpm their table and devoting them to charitable persons, bfts'ln it something of pers theGpdMIKo- Let UAlmitate theto Germans, brethren, and save out oigar tips, Julceless tobacoo quids, and worn out chewing gum and educate a boy for Congress..-

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Shall We Get Drank

Tho events of last fall, the Congressional debates during the winter, and the general agitation of the financial question, through the press, In the counting room, and on the *treet», has done much to educate the people up toa full comprehension of the subject. In the hlgbtofthe panic the prominent idea was that then was a good time to stand from under. But it is our duty to look further ahead and further back than from the rising to the setting of the sun. There i» a strong party in tbla country which believes that our financial system, based ns It is on nothing but the

Government'* suspended paper, Js a salutary ouo. Tho eventa which have happened, though, ought to have undeceived people by this time. Experience teaches but one lesson on tbia question of the currency—that no money consisting of paper not convertible on demand into theactu al quantities of gold or silver, represented on its face, can be safe or permanent. France reaped a speedy harvest of ruin from her aaaigna1». England suffered per haps greater severity of puntah mout for attempting the same experiment that we are trying—undertaking to make irredeemable paper a permanent standard of value Her experience extended over forty years, and not until the great panics which culminated In 1837 was the old paper system fully uprooted. Rag log with the fever of speculation prostrated by the inevitable reaction from the close of tho greut wars with Napoleon In 1815 to the grand down full of 18.17, she led the life of a gambler la our history to furnish a similar repetition of England's blunders? Are we to learn nothing from the experience of our fathers and and grandfather, aud of every civil ized nati#n that has tried and failed

In the same experiment Our currency la depreciated. The premium on gold, tho Increased cost of living, and the complete withdrawal of coin from circulation, affords sufficient proof of that. It Is depreciated because too much has been Issued. To add to tho volume will only depreciate it the more. When greenbacks were made a legal tender, and prices began to rise, tho debtors of the country found that their debts could be settled for much lorfs value than they originally received from the creditor. Speculations wore thus en couraged, and an era of reckless borrowing was Inaugurated. The fever of gambling spread on every side. Tho moruli of thousands of moil in business became contaminated. Wo sowed the wind, and we now reap the whirlwind. The insidious disease, which for teu years and more has been poisoning the blood of the nation, now shows its horrid work to the light of day aud tho eyes of the world. Fathlessneas to their trusts in officers of government from the highest to the lowest, und iu custodians of private funds rapacity and uuacru pulousness of corporations cowardIce and venality of those who should bo the guardlauB of the honest and simple—these havo at last worked out their inevitable results. The in dignatlon of the public Is sound. The ooufldenco of the public is gone.

With the forces that are shaking the fabric of publlo credit, oveu Secretary of the Treasury is power less to contend

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bo to revive the energies of the drunkard with his morning dram Tho balances of paper In the possea sion of the Government will soon be down to a minimum, if the Treasury suapendn its Bales of gold aud purchaaes the bonds that are offered at 1688 luUll pur. /iU OApAUBIUU Ui UUV legal tender circulation, we regard as wholly unjustifiable, und calculated only to increase the difficulty which it is inteuded to diminish. We believe in resorting to the recuperative forces of the whole country, rather than the doubtful power of one man, to add to the existing volume of legal tenders. Currency Inflation Is, at best, but the brandy bottle, aud we have little faith In the knowledge or skill of the physicians who habitually presoribe that stimulant. It does not pay to get, and keep, drunk, as a business.

THE article from Soribner's Magazjne on "Tho Great Temperance Movement" reproduced in another column of to-day's GAZETTE is an elegantly written rhapsody on the crusade, aud as such, If on no other grounds, Is deserving of a careful perusal. However, the facts In relation to its success would hardly seem to warrant tho high praise bestowed upon this novel method of reforming the world. With opportunities of observation far surpassing those of the brilliant writer for Soribner's and uhequaled, per haps, by any other person in the WeBt, J. H. Beadle, of Kockville, has been reporting for the Cincinnati Commercial the progress of the movement, almost from its first inoeption at Washington Court House, in Ohio, until now, finds himself compelled to declare that the movement has not been a success. In the comae of long and very thorough review of tho movement, he takes occassion to says that "the crusade had largely degenerated into persecutions under the Adair law, suits for slander, neighborhood feuds, general ill-feeliug, and rather dirty politics." II this be the net result of the great upheaval aud reform, It is, of course, sad to contemplate. Its failure leaves mankind where it was before, groping In tho darkuess amid the ruins of its own vicious appetites, and wallowiuK in wretchedne«s under the shadow of a great and Llighting curse. We had hoped sluce man bad failed to work his own reformation, that woman would teach bim how. Now this last hope has

GENEHAI. WHITTOHNE, of Tennessee, presented to Congress, day before yesterday, a petition from one Watson, a constituent of his, praying Congress to issue $400,000,000 of green backs, and buy up with them the bonded debts of the Southern States. The Interest on these bonds, at five per cent., be proposes to have paid, not by the several States to the Government, but by the Government, whloh would own them,to the States, which would owe them, for the purposes of education. This is an inflation measure good for the—South. Ouiy one thing further is needed as an amendment to this proposition to make it perfect and that ia that the Government pay the debt of every State, county, oity, and Individual, and then pay the debtors annually the interest »n these debts. We then should reach that heayenof debtors, where everybody would be able to live oomfortably and happUy op the interest on' tils debts. On, that would be Joyful 1 v'isr1

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The Swliur-Patton Heresy* Whatever their sympathies may have been, or however strong their predilictions in favor of Swing were, all parties who have bad the leisure, and been at the pains, to read the three days' speech of Dr. Patton, unite in the declaration that he has proven himself a most perfect dialectician and an accomplished rhetorician. It is by no means uncertain that be will not succeed in his endeavor to drive Swing out of the Presbyterian Church, by proving bim to be at variance with its doctrines and Its teachings. The question is not at ail whether what Swing preaches ia right, or whether or not what tho Presbyterian confession of faith declares to be the doctrines of that church Is wrong, but simply whether these twain are one and the same thing. If the tenets of the Presbyterian faith are no longer acceptable to bim, two courses, and only two, are proper for Prof. Swing to pursue either to go into an open synod of the church aud propose a revision of the Westminster cateohSam, and failing In that, or not caring to undertake such a task, leave the church. Creeds are plenty, aud susceptible of still further multiplication if none of tbo present ones exactly suit bis taste. A man of Swing's broad humanity and splendid talents need entertain no fears of having an amplo following wherever he goes, or whatever banner he erects. No church edifice or theatre has yet been able to accommodate tbo crowds that have flocked to hear him. Once doue with this equa'oble and out of the church—free to utter his changing thoughts—unless his tougue has lost its cunning, or his heart lta general warmth and kindliness—should he preach with his old flre aud vivid inspiration, not all the

North Side, were it left aB bare of houses as it was after the great flre, could hold the congregations that would assemblo to listen to him. He la, or ia believed to be, a very great and a very good man, and as the times and men are, these qualities cover a multitude of- irou-ciad doctrinal slua^

TIIB following extracts aro taken from a speech by the late lamented Senator Morton, delivered on tho lO^li day of December, Anno Domini 1868. They should be read slowly, considered carefully, compared with his late speeches in the Senate, and more particularly with his letter to Indianapolis Journal, prayerfully the reader will then be prepared to concede that Morton la the great 1 was:

If tho currency Is doproolatod, and deceptive, tbo prosperity of th'o country must inevitably be sorlously injured, and lta Roneral development delayed.

fluctuating, and deceptive, tbo pros of th rlou progress) "In whatever country papor has boon made a legal tendor, It has In variably driven gold and silver from tho circulation, and In groat part from the country. Thus it was during the French revolution, when the aaaignats, a logal tonder currenoy like our own, drovo Fronph gold Into all of tho neighboring countries, so whon tho aaaignats (paper money) Anally collapsed, as ttioy did In a single day, Franco found hersolf destituteof coin. "Why is our ourrenoy depreciated? And why would it be depreciated if the Government did not owe a single bond? Because the greenback .note is a promise by the Government to pay so many dollars on demand, which it does not pay. Tho promise is dally broken, and bas long been dishonored The note draws no Interest, and tho Government has fixed no time when it will pay it. Under such circumstances, the note must be depreciated. wiiio'h tho faith' of the nation' is sol emniy plodgod. The redemption of this pledge is not only demanded by evory principle of national honor, but ia imperatively demanded by tho Interests of tho people, collectively and Individually. "Jf the groonbank noto Is to bo regarded as an obligation, for the payment of whloh the faith of the Government is plodgod, the continued failure

regarded in any other light than repudiation. "It can not bo Shown that the legal and moral obligation to pay those bonds (of tho United States) at maturity, is greater than that resting upon tno Government to make prompt provision for the redemption of tbo greenback currency."

IN the German Reichstag tho voting hereafter ia to be done by telegraph. Wires pass from the desk of each member to that of the presiding officer, and ty one or the other of the two buttons, the member can record his assenting or dissenting vote. This Invention ought to be introduced into our American fog bank. An eleotrio spark is needed there. The advantages of the system are obvious. It would do away with the present tedious and prodlgal-of-time system of aye and nay voting, beside destroying the advantage trudlng politicians, with names conveniently near the end of the alphabet, now enjoy in the way of dedglng questions and preserving their record by voting right when tbey see that a bill they have been bribed to support Is certain to pass without their assistance. If, now, the Congressional Globe oould only be dispensed with, and this telegraphic system extended so that when a member was seized with an oratorical fit-he could grasp the Instrument, and ease his overflowing soul, by pouring forth a flood of electric light upon the BUbject, theu the country might he happy. All oould talk.at ouce, and noono would need to lake the trouble of listening...

IN a recent speech on Southern election frauds, delivered in the Senate, McCreary, of Kentucky, who Is not exaotly what might be called a lover of the African race, made some damaging charges in relation to the Intelligence of the Southern negroes. The Radicals had asserted that the polls had been so placed that the blacks were obliged to travel long distance* to the polls, which, Iu every instance were near and convenient to the whites. Illustrating how this could happen, McCreary said that lu the Red river country there waa a bend in the river, forty milea around It by water, but only four miles across the neck of land at the nearest points. The colored voters, he alleged, went around by the river, taking five days for the trip, while their white brethren, unwilling to be subjected to the like luoonveuience, took a direct line acroes the neck of land, went to the polls, voted, and went home again before dinner. He thought it would be a difficult matter by legislation to preserve an exact equality between the raoea so as to do away with these Invidious discriminations imposed by nature. McCreary was right for once.

TICK Journal wants free witter for the city. That is not Demooratlo doctrine.. ltJs,»uother hind of liquid that the ancient Democracy created so muoh fuss about being made free.

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FBOM the Terre Haute Journal we learn that the Marlon county Democratic convention met 6t Indianapolis on Saturday last, and selected a full set of candidates for the various county offices'. A curious featuro of the work of this Democratic convention was that all the candidates nominated are llepubllcant of the most rampant otder. How the Bourbona of Marlon county came to make a mistake of this glaring character we are not informed by the Journal, and are utterly at a loss to account for the strauge phenomenon. It is precisely what the Republicans have been advising the Democrats to do for years, but with very small success heretofore. This crowning act of contrition, however, must atone for the many siuful acts of Democracy in the past, and place them ia good odor again with their ancient and bitter foes. It will now be in order for the Democracy of Vigo, at its county convention, to endorse Postmaster Filbeck, Instruct their delegates to vote for Hunter for

Congress, and express their confidence in Morton and Grant. Will tho Journal commend such action and pronounce the convention, as it did the Marlon county affair, to be a very large one, with the utmost harmony and good feeling prevailing?

THE financial bill which passed the Senate last week, and will probably bo taken up out of lta order in the House to-day, ia a worse Inflation measure than the original one vetoed by the President. Small difficulty la expected lu securing its passage through the House. What reason there ia for expecting the President to sign it we are sure we do not know. Every reason ho gave in his veto against the original bill applies with double force to this one. This bill makes provision for a return to specie payments, by withdrawing one dollar of greenbacks from clrcu latlon and substituting therefor four dollars of National bauk currenoy That species of crawfishing it proposes to continue until the greenback issue ia reduced from its present amount of three hundred aud eighty-two millions, down to thrco hundred millions. In other worda, the promises at firat hand of tho Government will bo reduced elgbty-two millions of dol lars, while its second-hand promises to pay will be increased four times eighty-two millions, or Juat three hundred and twouty-eight millions of dollars. This is returning to Bpccle payments this is redeeming tho plighted faith of the Government, with a vengeance

We Infer that Grant will sign the hill our reasons being as follows Tho original bill, everybody expected him to sign. Ho wanted to show everybody that ho could do as ho pleased, BO he vetoed It. Now, everybody expects him to veto this bill He will sign It, to show everybody that this is his Government, and to sort of square thiugs all around. The uncertainty of a scrub horse race attaches to the actions of our beloved Chief Magistrate.

THE man who sends special dis patches from Washington to the Iu diauapolls Journal Is guileless, almost to the extent of Idiocy, us witness this charming little opinion In refer enceto a proposed succeacorof Secretary Richardson. He says: "Commissioner Douglass, of the In terual Revenue Bureau, on account of his protest against the Sanborn business, and his coming out unscathed from any questionable connection with the transaction, together with tho facta that the House has takon occasion to corn oilmen the administration, of ,t" wrnch cicato claims some recognition Grant's Cabinet, is being mvorabiy spoken of in intluential quarters as tho coming man lor filling the position as Secretary of tho Treasury."

The idea of a man being promoted because he came out unscathed from a questionable connection with the Sanborn business, and that, too, by Grant, who appointed John A. Bing-

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was mixed up in the Credit Mobllier business! This Washington correspondent of the Journal, in tho language of the late lamented A. Ward, Is a "facetious little cuss."

THE mammoth twenty-four page ipBue of the Indianapolis Journal which was promised on the day that establishment got Its new Bullock press, but failed to come to time, makes its appearanoe this morning. This la the biggest issue, it is claimed, that waa ever made In the West, Bullock or no Bullock. It Is a wholo flock of little bullocks. It Is as much inflated above Its ordniary size as its editors want the currency inflated over and above tho present amount. It is prodigious, and though wo have never agreed with the Journal lu politics since the days when the Republican party fell from' its high estate, as the party of liberty, union, and reform, to beoome a mere brokerage concern for the sale of office, and the humble adorer of the worst President we ever had, we make no bones —as the crematlonlsts say—of declaring that this mammoth edition of the Journal Is aa good as it is big.

A CORRESPONDENT of the American National Record gives the fol lowing theories upon the origin of the dollar mark: 1. It is a combination of U. S„ the initials of tbe United States. !£. That It ia a modification of tbo tigaro 8, tbe dollar formerly being called a piece of eight. 3. That It la a combination of andS from tbe Spanish peso dura, signifying hard dollar. 4. That it Is derived from a representation of tbo "pillars of Hercules," consisting of two pillars connected with a scroll. 6. That it ia a combination of S, tho mark of the Roman money unit.

Fst our part, we Incline to the first theory that it is a combination of the letters U. S.,standing, however, In tbe oase of our unhappy currency for the caballstio phrase Un-Sartin. However, iu the language of the showman, "you paya your modey, If you have auy, aud you takes your choice."

Tns Terre Haute GAZBTTB has a leading editorial headed "Shall wo get drunk?" It refers to tbe currenoy question. The fact that it appeared several weeks ago in the New York) Trlbune.as a leader does not detract from its merits. It Is really a very good article of its kind, but we are divided, as between priority and State pride, in deciding upon its authorship. —Ind. Journal.

We plead guilty to the soft im peachment, with this appeal to the court for mercy, to-wlt: That in condensing tbe at tide from the Tribune to suit the limited space of tbe GAZBTTB, it became necessary to copy portion*,- and thus through a mistake in the news room, the credit was loet, and by acoident It went in as original matter. If we mistake not, a similar acoident occurred iu the JournaL without auy explanation from It We are glad to learn that the GA« ZETTE IS read so oarefully by oar Indianapolis contemporary. The habit oontlnued In will be beneficial to the Journal.

EVEBYTHINO indicate® another upheaval of French society. The vote in the Assembly shows diminishing oonfidence in the ability of MeMahan. This week may bring about a complete change In.the Ministry the next may tisfcer in a revolution. There is no calculating twentyfour hours before hand what such a volatile people aa the French may do. Divided into factions warring against each other wltii even greater energy than they fought a foreign foe, they seem utterly lucapable, as a people* ol comprehending the value of conservatism, or of appreciating the advantage of being oontent with a half when it la Impossible to have the whole loaf.

TIIE opinion is gaining ground that Shorraau's amended finance bill Is a disguised contraction scheme of the most rigid character. The reason for this belief lies in the fact that Morton supported it. He, as everybody knows, cannot sleep o' nights for thinking of the disgrace the nation suffers in not returniug immedi ately to specie pay moots. Pure minded redeemer of every pledge he ever gave, It grieves Oliver sorely to think of the plighted faith $1 the nation going to protest.

Editorial Notes.

Tim Decatur Republican aays that tbe Paris A Decatur depot Is rapidly approaching completion, In that olty.

MK. CAT.. ELMOTT had three wild geese placed in the west end park, yesterday, with their wings clipped.—2nd. Sentinel.

What will the Indianapolis Journal do for editors now Is It to be run by tamo ganders hereafter?

MR. MKLLISII, tho member of Congress who has gone insane on the financial question, ia a contractlonlBt.—Express. "They who light tho battles of tho mind must oxpoct to have most fall In the conflict." Thero is no danger of Logan, for example, or Oglosby, going crazy from over study of tbo financial question.

Tnn Greoncastlo Bannor announces that the interest in temperance work is still Increasing. McCoy Wenekes succumed on Friday, and signed an agroemout to go out of the business, and not to re-engage In tho same.

AntmiuEDBs thought he could move the world If ho only had a lever long onough.— Gazette.

If wo remember rightly, ho wanted a fulcrum to plaeo his lover on.—Journal.

Ho would havo been cheerless with either vvoro 'tother Instrument away. TnKSt. Louin Globe devotee an ontire column to tbo description of doublo wedding, which took placo In that city, rocently. -The exponses of the ontertainuient wore estimated at $25,000, whllo the prosents wero valuod at $250,000. Tho groom is tbo eon of a prosperous butcher, and tho brido tho daughtor of an equally successful ornamental plasterer. Olioor up, thon, Bad soul—oven wo peauut merchants may bo happy yot.

AN exchange aays: "Prof. Swing says thoro aro a hundred gates to salvation, and ho propos OB to Swing some of them wide open.'

Yes, in our childhood we havo swung upon many a gate, but what wo got for the same smaokod rather of tbe other placo than of heavGn. More rocently wo wero more fortunate. Indeod wo onoe thought wo leaned upon tbo gate whloh was called Beautiful, and we called iior an angel, wl\p liolpod us to loan upon that gate.

THE all absorbing topic iu Kvansvllle Is still the change of name. The Courier ha« rlnn'asools^T its cry. The editor takes nothing but Lamasco for breakfast, mixes Lamas co bountifully with his dinner, sweetens his tea with Lamasco, writes La maaco editorials ai! day, has Lamasco pastod upon the headboard of his bedstead, falls to sloop Hwootly murmur Ing Lamasco, dreams of equal parts of Elysium and Lamasco—wo beg pardon --of Lamasco and Elysium, and wakes rOlltiHlJUU UUU Mill *w t4llU Lamasco, swout Lamasco.

WAH litis boon inaugurated by the City Council of Indianapolis againat the signs which cumber and obstruct tho sidewalks of that olty. Tbe same might bo done hero and rooelvo tho hearty among of the walking public, What is more damaging to tbe general appearanoe of Main street, and vexatious to tho avorago pedestrian, than tbe standing signs, and hanging samples of wares displayed by many of our merchants. This man displays one-half his slock ofclothlug, pendent from awning supports, another saddlery, a third boots and shoes, and so on through the whole list of trades whoso wares oannot be damaged by a chance blow. What man bas not felt tbo nuisance of having perpetually to dodge coats, boots and horse collars in bis hurried passage along the streets. If only some crockery man would put his goods in a similar situation, one might have his revongo by smashing something occasionally, but it is post, tlvely useloss to light a pair of No. 12 boots or a neck-yoko. Wo incllno to tbe heretic belief that tho cliiof design of a sldowalk Is tho accommodation of tho walker and not the merchant. At least, If a man puts one-half his stock on tbo pavemont, he should pay the city rent proportionately.

io Kind-Hearted Spirits. From the Alia Callforalan. Ibe Hon. Charles E. Do Long Is consoled for bis sudden recall from .Japan. Tbrongb the kinduess of bis father-in-law's ghost, he has made more money than his successor as Minister did wheu ho drew his hack pay. Mr. and Mrs. De Long wore at a sceance at tbe Grand Hotel in San Francisco when the an cestral shade sent them a message to the effect that be, when In the body, had invested |000 In land tbrouuh a certain Madden that he bad not accounted to bis executors for the invest* ment and that he should be made to settle at once. Neither Mr. nor Mrs. De Long had auy knowledge of this transaction. The next day tbe ex-Mlnlster called upon Madden and asked blui if be had not some unsettled business with the estato of Mr. So-and-so. Madden at once said he bad. Tbe result of tbe matter was that Mrs. De Long received a deed tor 025 acres of land, for which she bas already refused $18,000. It may be that the medium knew of tbe eld transaction, aitbongh this would be strange, since nene of those noarly interested in it had heard of it. Tbe facts, which we take from tbe San Francisco Chronicle, are certainly remarkable. Few persons would decline to be tricked by a medium wben the trickery gave them a small fortune^,

Southern Phraseology..

A correspondent from the South says: "Many of tbe whites speak a language strange to Northern ears. It is quite a common practice among the first families to give tbeir daughters names which everywhere else belong to the masculine sex. I know three young ladios here who were christened MOharTie,' •Willie,' and •Bobbie/ •Bable' is common, both aa a Christian and a nickname. Among surnames there is a Mr. Turnlpseed,' and a Widow 'Snipe.' The wbites have borrowed from tbe negroes tbe fallowing expressions: 'Low down,' meaning degraded: 'donegone,' meaning gone 'howdy,' meaning how do you do. Intelligent people say,'Now, you've done goue ana done it,' meaning you've done it. A lady threateninic punishment to her child says. 'I'll snaieh yon bald-beaded.' In aeselbIng a scene In church where the audience waa affected to tears,.a lady told me tbat 'every one in church looked glaas-eyed."

Tho Chreat Temperance Movement. From Soribner's Monthly. For years, and years, and weary, suffering years, multiplied iuto decades, have the women or Araorica waited to see tbat traffic destroyed which annually sends sixty thousand of tbolr sons, brothers, fathers, and husbands Into the drunkard's grave. Thov have been impoverished, disgraced, tortur- In mind and body, beaten, murdered. Undor the Impulse of maddonlug liquors, tbe bands tbat were pledgod before heaven to provide for and pro-' tect them, have withdrawn from them the means of life, or smitten them in the dnst. Sons whom tbey have nursed upon their bosoms with tenderest love and countless prayers, have grown tote beasts Of whom they wore afraid, or have sunk into helpless and pitiful slavery. They havo been compelled to oover their eyes with shamo In tho prosence of fatbors whom it would have been bliss for them to hold In honor. They havo been compelled to boar children to men wnose habits bad unfitted them for parentage—ohlldren not only tainted by disease, but endowed with dobased appetites. They have seen themselves and tbolr precious famillos thrust into soolal degradation, and cut off forevor from all desirable lllo by tho vice ol tbe men thoy loved. What tho women of this country have suffered from drunkennoss, no mind, however sympathetic, cau measure, and no pen, howover graphio, can describo. It has boon the unfathomable black gulf into which infatuated multitudes of mon have thrown thoir fortunes, tlielr health, and their Industry, aud out of which have eoino only—in flro and stench—dishonor, disease, crirno, misory, dospalr and death. It is tbe abomination ef abominations, the curse of curses, tho boll of hells 1

For weary, dosparlng years, thoy havo waited to see tho rolorm that should protect tbom from lurther barm. Tbey have listened to loctures, thoy havo signed pledges, they havo enooura cd teinperanco societies, thoy havo asked for and secured legislation, and all to no pratlcal good end. The politicians have played thom false the officers of the law are unfaithful the government revenuo thrives on tbe thrifiineas of their curse multitudes of the clergy arb not only apathetic In their pulpits, but self-indulgent in their Boolal habits newapapora do not help, but rather hinder them tho liquor Interest, armed with tho money that should havo brought them prosperity, organlzos against thom fashion opposes them a million lleroo appetit08 are arrayed against them, and losing all faith lu men, what can thoy do? Thoro Is but one thing for thom to do. There Is but one direction In whicli they can look, and that Is upward I Tho women's temporanco movement, begun and carried on by prayer, 1B as natural In its birth and growth aa tho oak that springs from the acorn. If God aud tho God-liko elemont In woman cannot help, there la no help. If tho pulpit, tho press, tho politicians, tho reformers, the law, cannot bring reform, who is left to do It but God and the women

Wo bow to this movement with reverence. We do not stop to question mothoda wo do not pause to query about pormanont roaults. Wo simply say to tho glorious womon engaged in this marvelous crusado: "May God help ami prosper yon, and give yon\thc desire of your hearts in the fruit of your labors,"

It becomes mon to bo olther humbly helpful or dumb. We who h«vo dallied with tbla question: wo who havo dispassionately drawn the lino betweon temporanoe wo who havo deplored drunkennoss with wine glasses our hands wo who havo consented to Involve a groat moral roform with politics wo who have boen politically afraid of tho powor ol tho brutal element associated with tho liquor tnulic wo who havo spilt hairs in our discussions of publlo policy wo who havo given social sanction to habits that In tho groat cities havo miulo drunkards of ovon tho womon thomaolves, and led their sons and ours into a dissolute life wo who liavo shown olthor our unwillingness or our impotenco to savo tho country from tho gulf that yawns bofore It, can only stop asido with sbamo-faced humility, while tho

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crusade goes on, or heartily glvo tour approval aud our aid. This is not a crusado of professional agitators, clamoring for an abstract right, but an entorprlso of Buffering puroand dovotod women, laboring for tho overthrow of a concreto wrong. It is no pleasant holiday business In which these women are engagod, but ono ofsolf-donylug hardship, pregnant in every part with a senso of duty. It is tbo otfspring of a grand religious one siiporb t&Yicff'<5T1ioV'6Isih". ancf rodeoms it from its political debasement and the degradation of Its materialism, It is a shame to manhood tbat is is noo easary It is a glory to womanhood that it is possible.

If th» •wpwrJenco or the last century his demonstrated anything, it is that total abstlnonco Is tho only ground on which any woll-wlaher of socloty can stand. Tho liquor trafllo has been bolsterod up for years, and is strong to-day, simply through influence that Is deemed rospectable. It must be made innuiuus eonrtblnatlon of ail the rospectable olomonta of socloty against it. It must ceaso to bo respectablo to drink at all. It must ceaso to bo reapoctable to rent a bulldin in which liquors aro sold Thero Is no practicable middle ground. So long as men drink temperatoly, men will drink Intern-

peratolj', whether It ought to be otherwise or not and it ia with reforenoo to tbe devoiopmont of a healthy public opinion on this subject, th«t wo particularly rejoice in the woman's crusade. Our own vision Is so blinded and perverted that we can only see tho deformity of the monster which oppresses us through weman'a eyes, uplifted In prayer, tearful In shame and Buffering, or bright in triumph as tbo strongholds of hor life-long onotny falls bo fore hor.

Webster on Paper Money. From tho Boston Ulobo. Daniel Webstor was a profound student of currenoy. He devoted years of labor, he exerted evory faculty of hie great intellect, to dive into tbo Inmost secret of the matter end wo queto his deliberate Judgment to shame, if not to enlighten, gentlemon in ttio Houso and Senate, who pretend to bo statesmen. "A disordered currenoy," he says, "Is one of tbo greatest ot political oviis "It underminos tho virtues noccsaary for tho support of tho social system, and encourages propensities destructive of its happiness. It waa against industry, frugality and economy and it footers tbe evil spirits of extravagance and speculation. Of all tbo contrivancestor cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been moro effectual than that which deludes tbom with paper money. This is tbo most effectual of Inventions to fertlllzo the rich man's field with the sweat of the poor man's brow. Ordinary tyranny, oppression, excessive taxation, those bear lightly on tbe happiness of the mass of the community, comparod with a fraudulent ourrenoy, ana tbe robberies committed by depreciated paper."

Webster Is tbat one of our statesmen who was most careluland calm in his use of denouncing adjectives. "Every word of his weighs a pound." said, a stout farmer who listened to one of bis speeches. And yet we find such terms as "cheating," "fraudulent," "robbery," applied to schemes which certain Congresamon a»e now trying to leglnlate Into laws. They are all absurdities or rascalities sometimes the absurdity is combined with selfseeking and borders on rascality sometimes tho rascality takes on itself the peculiar rhotoric and iogio of absurdity but both are unworthy of being heard In an educated legislative assembly. Tho press should say that the real business ot a constitutional government can be conducted without sucbaids. Swindling by logal enactments is the great danger to which we are now exposed. Let everbody who bas a voice in tbe press protest against every Senator or Representative who shows that he la ou the side of such schemes.

An Evansvllle man has proved himself a satirist, though probably at the time be uttered tbe words which have since made him famous he was unconscious of the stinging sarcasm contained in a few syllables referring to a prominent feature of American life. He had fallen into a ditch on the outskirts of the town in such a manner that he was unablo to extricate himself, A kind-hearted pedestrian helped bim to his feet, aud after the thing had been accomplished, our hero said "All right—hie—I'll vote for yod The stranger looked at him doubtfully, and wished to know what for. "What office ver runnln' for?" "I? None at an." was tho answer. "Not a candidate?" "No why?" "Why—hlo—why? "jause I dott't knowaa any man'd— d—-help 'nother as you Tfld 'tliout being a candidate W'

^Steal Fi Icings

That genius must bo of a startling order whloh makes abed spring. The spanking period is appropriately called .he palmy days of childhood.

Auything Midas touched waa turned to gold In these days, touch a mau with gold, and bo will turn into auything.

A Yankee wanted a bridge of sighs poiuted out to him, and thon wanted to bet that America had gov* eral bridges twice the slsse.

A backward spring—that of the man who thought he could get out without stopping the omnibus, and—

Peach trees are in bloom, and the purple blossoms have a tinge of beauty equaled only by tho flush upon the delighted equash raiser.

An Irish post boy having driven a gentleman a long stage during torrents of rain, the gentleman civilly said to him, "Paddy, arc you not very wet?" "Arrali, thin, 'tis not the wit I molnd, but plaxe yet honor I'm very dry."

The Brunawicker, of Missouri, aays "Thero is an undellnable something about sumo meu which oomuiands our respect, whether we see them heading a conquering squadron, leading a child to thosauotuary, or bending in lowly toll over an onion bed.

It has been determined In Iowa that no true gentleman will fix a trap gun in his corn crib and thus be tiie means of sending somo unprepared soul Into eternity, but on tho other hand acorn crib ha& certain rights which must bo respected.

A literal-minded youugster was picked up by a visitor of the family who, dangling him on his knee, Bald: "I wish I hud this little boy I think there Is niouey In him. To which the child promptly replied: "I know thoro is for I swallowed a cent when I waa at grandma's the other day.

An Irishman, having accidentally broken a pane of glass In a window of a house, was making the best of his way to got out of Blglit, but, unfortunately for Pat, the proprietor etole a maroh on hltn, and having seized him by tho collar, exclaimed "Didn't you break that window?

To be sure I did," replied Pat, '"and dldn' you see me running homo after tho money to pay for it?"

Ex-Secretary IHcCuUocli on Spceio Payments. Ex-Secrotary Hugh McCull.och, In his letter to the London Times In rogard to the contraction of the United States curreucy, said "When the policy of contraction was commenced, and was being pursued, It was necessary for mo to Institute

measures for funding the floating debt (shott date obligations) of the Government, at that tliuo amounting to nearly $1,300,000,000, in addition to the legal tender notes In circulation, which measures could not lmve been successfully curried out If the money market were roally dlKturberi by contraction. It became, therefore, necessary for me to watch carefully the ellect of contraction, not only upon industry, but upou the money market, und tho result of any observations was that contraction did not paralyze or diminish Industry, nor a fleet Injuriously the money mar ket.

It was not tho realized eflect of contraction, but an unwise and unfounded apprehension of its futuro effects, that raised the clamor against It which resulted iu the ropeal of the laws authorizing It. My policy, of course, was not to reduce the real money of the country, and to appreciate tho value of the currency In circulation by reducing tho volume. My conviction at the time was clear and decided, und this conviction had been confirmed by subsequent observation, that tho only way back to specio pay mon ts was by reducing the circulation until the dollar in papor should bo equal In value to tho dollar In coin and I have no doubt, If this policy had not been Interrupted by a repeal of the law, that the specio standard would before this bave been restored, without diflturbance to a healthy money

THE INFLATION VETO IN EUROPE

Comments of English Journals From tuo I-ondou Ually News. "All's well that ends woll." nnd Americans may be thanIcI'ul that al most any currency legislation shelved for a time but wo hope tho breathing tlmo now permitted by l'res lriont Grant, will bodillgontly employ ed by tho wiser American politicians to dllfuso some common senso among tho Amorioan eleetoratoon questions of ourrenoy and bAiiklng. Tho failacios of education are piausablo enough to tho uneducated, aud to tho borrowing class, nothing seems moro tempting than to mako money plentiful by die oasy agency of the printing press.

From the London Dally Telegiapli. What tho United States should do but probably will not do, Is to loave matters as they stand, arid boar manfully all the Inconvenience and even trials of a gradual shrinkage in tho volume of their currency. That was iu progross beforo tbe crisis, aud It must coino someday bettor face It now than havo a fresh era of Inflation to buoy up the country on an unnatural tldo of prosperity, and placo ail transactlwnson an artificial lovel,which must In duo course lead to another and worse crash.

Congressional Burying Oronutl. It is not a Mummoth Cave this time, but a collection of bones and pipohoads, that tolls of prehlKto.-lc man, A Virginia paper toils tbo story that somo work mon, whllo ongaged iu making excavations on a river bank, about a mile from Weldon, discovored a vast heap of skoletona, packed elosoly to cether. Tho skulls. It is said, were nearly an Inch In thickness. This fact suggests the thought that tbo work meu bad come across a Congressional cemetery. At any rato the morosuppo sltion that tho original owners of these Bolid crania were eight or nine feet high scarcely warrants tho doduotlon tbat tho bonos aro relics of "a lost and forgotten race," as the Virginia paper boldly announces.

A Brookvlllo Iudy who ia frequent ly annoyed by her husband coming home at a late hour iu a doubtful condition, was awakened tho other night by a voice in hor room. LookJug up, she saw her llego lord endeavoring to trace the lines on her Dolly Varrien, which was hung agaluat the wail, while a boon companion was holding tbe lamp. "What do you moan by bringing a man into my room at this hour of the night?" inquired tho indignnnt wife. "Juat you keep quiet, (hie) ole 'oman. Bill says Punx'twaney's directly south, (hie) und I'm goln' to rove him a (hlc) liar If he holds tho lamp (hie) atill long 'nough for me to find it (hie) on thla map."

There ia evidently some outcome in the boy in Professor Hallman's school who wrote the composition upon "the pin," a subject chosen by bis teacher. Knowing the boy's aversion to literary etlorln, lily teach er exacted but two sentences. After considerable effort, the little hero produced the following: "Pins are very useful. They have saved tbe lives of a great many men, women and children—in fact, whole families." Iu reply to his astonished teacher's question as to tho manner in which the llvts of BO many people had been saved through tho instrumentality of pins, ihe boy Innocently remarked. "Why, by &wt,ewallowing them I" **-y.

A gentleman gavo a letter of introduction to a student of mualc, about to visit Lelpslc, who wished to put himself under the instruction of Professor a famous teacher In music in the latter city. Upon the student's return home, the gentle, man asked: "flow did you like tho Professor?" "Oh, wonderfully He gave me fine lessons but lie ia a very singular man. He kept praying all the time he was teaching me." "Praying I Why, what do mi 9" \ygf|

you mean "Well, wlillo playing, be oiasped his hands, lifted Dl« eyes to the celling, saying, 'Good Lord, what sin havo I committed to deserve thla punishment?"9

Telegraphic News.

MAPWD, May 13.—The new Ministry is announced thin morning, as follows: Sabello, President of the Council and Minister of War Sagaato, Minister ot the Interior Alloa, Minister of Foreign AfTairs Comacho, Minister of Finance Alonzo Martinez, Minister of Justice Alonzo Colemenares, Minister of Public Works Itomero Orta, Minister ot Colonies Hoderlr.ne* Arias, Minister of Marine. S

NKW Yonir, May 14.—TheSilk Association of America, held Its second annual meeting yesterday, at which the Secretary's report waa road, and the officers of tho prececdlng year, wero ro-appolntod. The report gave a review of the operations for the past year, and aald tbat whllo many trades aro languishing, andsomo in ruinous disorder, it- is apparent tbat the stlk trade Is well In hand and controlled by conservative counsel*, watchful for tho firat awakenings which only legitimate wanln should arouse, and fully content to bide tho time which shall give to patience and wiso self-rellanco their sure reward. Tho replies to tbo requests of the Association for statements is conformatlvo ovldeuce, and a gratifying fact that the operatives In silk mills throughout tho the country havo thus far beon very generally maintained in their regular visitations, tho percentage of reduction from tho usual hours of labor being iu all tbo mills only 12 por cent., In tho past year. In Now York, silk operatives havo beon employed 72 per cent, or tbe usual hours of labor in

Now Jersey, por cent. In Pennsylvania, 88 per nent.: ia Massachusetts, IWJ* per ceut.j in Connecticut, 03^ por cent. The report reviews the statlaticfl of ribbon manufacture aud tho trado in ladles' dress trimmings, frlugos, glinpi braids, oto,, upholstery trimmings, sowing elite, and machlno twist. Of dress silks tho report rooords a marked decreaso lu tho production, owing to the September panic. In conclusion the report says, all considerations load to tho oonvlotlon that the 'natural fuolhtles for the American manufacture of nlllc goods, are becoming more wldoly known abroad nnd bolter understood at home. The American stlk Industry Is a power

In tho iand, and must bo reapeoted. The mills do an annual buslnoss of nearly $10,000,000. In tbe evening, tho Association gave its second annual dinner, at whloh addresses wero mado by woll-known members and others.

Tho Kpola. of Af.»drld, baa published a letter addressed by General Juan llurrioi to tho Itovero Dus Deux. Mon-dt-s, explaining and defending his courso at .Santiago, in ordorlng tho execution of tho prisoners taken on bburd tho Vlrglnlus. After citing tho lawa and orders, which he claims gavo warrant for his actions, Gouoral ilurrlel says: "It Is not permitted to military men to vacillate when they havo peremptory orders, and still more, wheu thoy aro gravo and Important, and refer to acts bt war. Consequently no consideration whatever could makomopauso beforo this duty, and still less tho protests, prosentod without right by tho American Viae Consul, ir tho laws of Spain aro too sovera In their ludgment of foreigners, I am not tho one culled upon to arrest their action, and they aro at llborty not to tread tho soil of Spain If Its method of ruling and governing Itself does not suit them. Thoir protests in these ox*tronio cases should not he hoard, for thoy only scok thoroby to hinder tho action ot tho law. Let their respective Governments come with reclamations, and this Is the way to modify tho lawa, if It bo deemed nocoHsary to do so.

SAN FwANfcisro, May 15.—Tho accounts of Ouptain Vasquoz and two of his gang dllfor. Tho most reliable statement is that he waa sUrprlsod while at dinner with his weapons in a another room, ho received several wounds in tho attempt to oacape but his physicians say ho will recover. Tuere is groat oxeltemont at Lee Angolos, the (ail is guarded by a strong forco of mon io prevent tho oscapo or lynching of tho prlsonor.

MADUID, May 10.—Tho Government has oaiiod into actlvo service forty battalions or reserves.

NKW YORK, Muy Ifl.-Tho Journal do Paris announces tho death of Mile. Tosteo. No other papor makes montion of tho faut, but tho Journal afllrtUH that sho diod at Pan, of grief at tho loss of her daughter. Mile, lostoo was tho original Grando Dnohessu and llello llelooo in this country.

TAUNTON, May JO.—Owing to tho ox

traordlnary depreciation of tho assettH of the estato or Oakes Amos, tho exeonfrru i.«— noneluded raprMant tub estate as Insolvent, and commissioners havo boen appointed. It Is bo. llcvcri that witli sufficient time to realise from tho investments tho estato will bo ablo to pay nearly or qulto In full.

IlArnBNViiJjB, May 10.--'Tbo largo resorvolr about four miles north of this place, burst about 8 o'clock this morning, and the water carno rushing down the hills, carrying ovorytlilwuf boforo it. Tim flood struck tile southeastern portion of Williamsburg, a village two miles north of tills place, oairylng away a largo number or dwellings, and sweeping along to Snlnnersville, It demolished Skinner's silk mills, and his boarding and dwolilng houses continuing on, the wator struck the large brass manufactory of Hayden, Ooro »fc Co., swooping it away In an instant. Largo stores and machlnory w^.ro swept through tho main streets at a fearful rato, and well built houses were Instantly crushed, not giving the inmates ii moment's warning, The flood caught the village of Leeds, where a largo number of shops, dwellings, oto., wore swept away, Tho IOSN or life Is very heavy In killed and drowned, wholo families having boen carried over dams. It ia impossible at this time, to give tho number of lives lost. Twouty-throe bodies so far have been taken oat of the rubbish on tho shores. A whole block of tenements filled with women and children wero swept down tho stream and all the inmates lost. At noon bodies aro constantly being brought lu and laid in the church.

FfiOHKNCB, May 1(1.—There is great excitement In this neighborhood over the loss ot life and destruction of property In consequence of the bursting of tho rosorvolrabove Williamsburg. At Leeds the silk factory and button factory wero both carried away, and tho station ngout of tho N. 11. & N. K. It,, with his wife and many otners wero drowned. Sevoral bodios wore seen going down tho stream but so swift is the current that thoy could not bo recovorcd. The waU.r is now falling, and moro corrovt and definite particulars may

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be obtalnod.

NKW HAVKN, May 10,—Tho reservoirs which burst through their ombiinkments thU morning, causing such havoc, woro constructed to supply tho manufactories of Williamsburg, Leeds and Llaydenvlllo. These towns have been nearly destroyed. Ono hundred lives are supposed to havo boen lost.

MEDICAL^

MOTT'S

LIYEB_PILLS!

An ol1 physician once said that nearly All (lldtitHcH orJgfnnlo from a dUc-HHfd condition of the JL.lv«r. ami this ntweinent Is true,»:though Jt irny at fliotseeiu llkean exaggeration. When tin) Liver S out of order the whole xys'eta and every organ and (unction miflt-r moro or less IIICOHHOqnence. In the incipient stages of thedlai ease a man DOES KOT KNOW WHAT AILS 11131, lie is moody, restless and despondent and that Is the Unie to take a simple rem©, dy that will rentoro him to health

IN JL SI NOJLIC DAY, and provenU a wholo tralu of diseases that may follow.

MOTTW LI 1£U PILLS feu torpidity of the Liver. MOTT'S LIVER PILLS give tone to the stomach.

MOTT'KI LIVER PILLS cleanse the tem of bile. ., MOTT'rt LIVER PILLS drive ont feb fle affeeiions.

MOTT'H LtVKIt PILLS strengthen the whole ys'etn. MOTi'B LlVBIt PILLH rcgalato the Liver, and are moro reliable us a Liver medicine than any of the mineral preiiara-' tlons that do mora harm than K"od.

For sale by all Druggists. Price Z5 cents por box. JOH NT P. HKMRY, CUItttAN & CO.,

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200

Proprietors,

8nnd 0 College I'lace, New York.

TICK'S

FLORA! GUIDE

'.... For 1874. !1 000 BSJOItAVlNOVhnd

COLOUFCI)"" PLATR *rubilshcii

Quarterly, at !M C«nU Year. Flmt So. for 1874 Just lsNiiod. A German edition at rlc

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