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mm a iUIWJl t-il ^-^js^fiw*^^ Eteity (Ktabc BT. P. HALL. NO. 17 WABASHAW 8TBEET, ST. PAUL. Official IPaper of the City of St. Paul Ter ms of Subscription forth Dally Globe. By carrier (7 papers per week) 70 cents per month. By mail (without Sunday edition) 6 papers per week, 0 cents per month. By mail (with Sunday edition) 7 papers per week, 70 oenta per month. THE SUNDAY GLOBE. By mail the StmeAX GJJOBK will be one dollar per year. THEWEEKLY GLOBB. The WEEKLY GLOBE is a mammoth sheet, exactly flonMe the size of the Dally. It is just the paper for fcha nvestde.contziziinerin addition to ail the current UWB, oheice miscellany, agricultural matter, market report*, &o. It is furnished to single subscribers at $1.00 per year. Postage prepaid by the publisher on aU editions. AH mall subscriptions payable invariably in advance. Dally Globe Advertising Kates. Fourth Page 5 oents per line every insertion. Third Page 5 cents per line for the first week. All subsequent insertions 3 oents per line. jOlsplay Advertising (on Fourth Page Olfly) double ttove rates. All Advertising is computed as Non pareil, 10 lines to an Inch. Beading Matter Notices, First, Second and Fourth Pages, 25 cents per line. "Si/ecial Locals," Second Page, 15 cento per Use. xvding Matter Notices, Third Page, 20 cents per line. The GLOBE offers no yearly spaoe, but proposes to oharge by the line for the space occupied, and the charge for the last day will be the same as for the first, no matter how many Insertions are made. Bates are fixed exceedingly low, and no charge is made for changes, as it Is preferable to have new matter every day if possible. 6T. PAUL. MONDAY, DEC. 80, 1878, NEW YOEK mails for three days, delayed by snow storms, arrived here yesterday. Not an hour's delay by snow has yet oc curred this season on any railway in Minne sota. MBN who are looking westward are al ready inquiring whether Northern Pacific bonds will be available for the purchase of the lands to be acqnired by extending the road beyond the Missouri. REV. DIXON, who tried to commit suicide at Memphis Saturday because his New Al bany parishioners have talked about his in timacy with a ledy not Mrs. Dixon, is either afflicted with a conscience or has not studied with profit the experiences of Brother Beeoher. BETWEEN tue late reports of the treasury and the assertion of Secretary Sherman that every dollar of the public deposits in bank is secured by government bonds deposited in tb.3 treasury there is a discrepancy of only about $125,000,000. Mr. Sherman is called upon to rise and explain. BILL KING'S paper, in its endeavor to in duce Minneapolis to indulge in a half million debt for railroads, says the new bridge at Cleveland, Ohio, cost ten millions. The bridge cost $ 1,(100,000, and with the right of way for the approaches the total cost was a little over two million. What is the use of lying after eleotion? ONLY the three principal directors of the old State bank of Missouri are to be indicted on account of the mismanagement of that concern during the war and inflation period. That let's out at least one newspaper man but the fact that any are to be indicted is a reminder that of late years justice is fast overtaking the eminent financiers Of the war decade. MB. OTTO, of Peoria, 111., is accused by the Associated Press of I ebbing himself, bnt it appears he robbed his creditors by hiding the property which belonged to them instead of himself. Mr. Otto should have sold the goods, turned the proceeds over to his wife for household expenses, and failed like a gentlemanly pirate instead of a com mon swindler. FEED. GBANT has gone to Europe to join his father in his tour around the world. He has had a leave of absence from his place on Sheridan's staff, and is subject to telegraphic call at any moment. It is safe to say, how ever, that the telegraph will not be called into requisition to oall Fred, to his post of duty. He is not one of the kind to be subjected to such inconveniencies. THE Republican papers are now trying to throw the responsibility of Blaine's investi gation upon Senator Teller, of Nebraska. We don't think Teller has ever done any thing to warrant his being loaded with such opprobiwm. He is a tolerably clever old fellow, but is not in any way responsible for Blaine's weakness. Call it Blaine's commit tee, not Teller's, gentlemen. As was to be expected, the Republican or gans declare that Mr. Washburn cannot be defeated in the contest because his nominal majority was returned by the canvassing board as 3,000. The vital charge against Mr. Washburn is bribery and intimidation, and if proven, that charge will "stick" -whether his majority is three or thirty tnou eand. That oharge will be proven. IT is said that there is a strong lobby at Washington urging the annexation of north ern Mexico to the United States. It is pro posed to pay the government of Mexico a hundred millions for the grant of Sonora and Chihuahua, which comprise some of the richest mining sections of our neighboring republic. The territory may be worth the price pre posed to be paid, but we doubt the expediency of investing in real estate in the present depressed condition of the market. THE agricultural report for 1877, published by the government, has just been completed. Both this report and the report for 1876 are of great value, and we are authorized to an nounce that Congressman Stewart will be glad to furnish them to such of his con stituents as may apply. Those desiring them should drop a postal card or note to him at Washington, and he will promptly forward them. The papers in this district will confer a favor on their patrons by noting this fact. MB. HAXES is not very sanguine that the Blaine committee will develop results of im portance to the country or the party. In a recent interview with a correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, he said he thought it would not accomplish substantial results. There wt-re already indications that it would end where the Potter committee endedin nothing. Mr. Hayes is pretty nearly right, with the exception of the insinuation that :r-, illri$- ^-jf the work of the Potter committee has ended. Bsfore many days we may expect to find that iij work has not been all in vain, as the occupant of the White House will find out to bis sorrow. WHAT does the Governor propose to do about it? The Senate committee found gross mismanagement at the St. Peter In sane Asylum. They found the treasurer "Khort" several thousand dollars. They found one of the attendants guilty of fatal cruelty, and the other of criminal careless ness. All this was laid before the Governor weeks ago, bn the treasurer is still on duty, and the murderous attendants are retained as usual. Does the Governor intend to do his duty? THE Chicago merchants are about to start otx an expedition to Mexico -with the purpose of capturing the trade of that country. St. Louis in the meantime is debating the ques tion of extending her railroad lines to Omaha in the hope of capturing some of the trade that now rolls on from the Pacific to Chicago, by issuing three hundred and 'fifty thousand dollars in bonds in aid of a branch line. There is a parallel to those two cities very near home. While St. Paul has secured the trade of a vast tract of coan try, and is stretching her arms out for more commercial worlds to conquer, a neighbor ing city is talking about bonding herself to build narrow gauge lines of railroad to tap our arteries. Both Chicago and St. Paul can afford to lose a little blood in recompense for the great gain they will receive from the opening of new avenues of trade. St. Louis'efforts will not injure Chicago, nor will Minneapolis' frantic splurges injure St. Paul. O toe contrary, all tue lines which Minneapolis builds will find their terminus at St. Paul. MINORITY REPRESENTATION. A scheme is on foot among a few theorists at Washington to fHform our present system of government by introducing the system of minority representation in the selection of members of Congress. The plan, as detailed by the Washington correspondent of the Chicigo Times, a paper that has made a hobby of the subject, is to divide each State into districts, that the distriots may as far as possible be entitled to elect either three or five members each, thus permitting the ma jority of the voters to elect two out of three or three out of five. In case the district is entitled to three representatives, each elect or can vote for two candidates, and no more. In case the district is entitled to five Repre sentatives, each elector can vote for three candidates, an i no more. Where a State is entitled to only two representatives, as in the case of Rhode Island and Florida, it is to be t.ivided into two districts, each electing one member, as at present, as in this case majority and minority representation would be impossible. In all cases where there is an odd represen tative after the State has been divided as nearly as possible into districts to be rep resented by three or live members, a sepa rate district is to be set apart for this repre sentative, who is to be elected as at pres ent. The scheme looks very well on paper, but is altogether different in practice. The first objection to the plan is that it complicates elections in such a manner as to render it extremely difficult to arrive at a decision as to the will of the eleotors. If all men under stood the provisions of the lawpresuming that the measure proposed will become a law this objection might be obviated. But as men are at prasent constituted it is not with in the range of possibilities that the entire vote of any district will be properly cast. For instance, probably one-half of the voters in a district entitled to three members would cast their votes for more than the number of candidates prescribedall five candidates, of course, being on all ticketsand as a conse quence their ballots would be thrown out as illegal. "The effect of this bill," says the corres spondent, "will be to break up the solid South, and secure to the colored people a representation in Congress." We can hardly see it in that light. Take, for instance, the State of Mississippi, which is entitled to six representatives. It would have to be divided into two districts, each entitled to three representatives. There are not Re publicans enough in the State to make even a respectable showing at the polls. Suppos ing that three Democrats were nominated in each district and one Republican. By a lit tle manenvring it could be arranged so that all three Democrats would be chosen, and the Republican have no more than his party vote. Suppose that Smith, Jones and Brown were the Democratic candidates and Eobin son the choice of the Republicans. Smith and Jones might be placed on the tickets in some localities, and Brown and Jones in other sections, while Robinson would be left out of the cold, every person voting for him being compelled also to cast a vote for one of the three Democratic candidates. Thus it would come about that the Democrats could eleot all their candidates and increase their majorities by compelling Republicans to vote for one or the other of the Demo cratic candidates. Cumulative voting is not contemplated by the bill proposed, else there might, in districts where the parties were more evenly divided, be a chance for the minority. The effect in the Republican States of the North would be precisely simi lar to what it would be at the South. It is now possible for the minority in a State to obtain representation in Congress through the apportionment of districts by which Democratic or Republican voters may be grouped. Under the proposed plan, the mi nority would be nowhere. Even supposing that the results claimed would follow from the inauguration of this minority representation plan, it would be necessary that the districts be justly appor tioned otherwise the minority of the voters might elect a majority of the representa tives. This has been shown in Illinois, where the anti-Republicans, although in a large ma jority, have managed to control the lower house of the legislature ever since the adop tion of the system. But their cumulative voting is allowed, so that one-third of the voters of the district can elect a representa tive, i Minority representation is a humbug. With the appearance of fairness it but de ludes the citizen into a surrender of his rights. It is a device that will always be popular with the minority party, and there fore we may expect that it will be espoused by the Republicans at once. It is, however, at variance with the principles contemplated when our government -was formedthat the majority must rule and the minority bend to the inevitable. For nearly twenty years the Democracy, recognizing the justice of -../ff%*i& DEFECTIVE PAG E that principle, have submitted peacefully and honestly to being deprived of power in the management of the country. Now that they are about to resume their estate they will ob ject most deoidedly to any device that may be dishonestly used, as this minority repre sentation dodge may be employed in cunning hands, to deprive them of the fruits of their victory. We will have none of it. THE CASE OF JUDGE ELODCETT. The Associated Press has taken the trouble to communicate to the world a good deal of so-called news concerning the proposed im peachment of Judge Blodgett of the United States district court of Chicago. That "news," however, has been of the jug-handle descriptionall on one side, and that the side of the judge. The movement has been alluded to as a conspiracy, and emry means adopted to prove that Blodgett is a badly per secuted man. The GLOBS is not of tho.?e newspapers that regard a charge of mal feasance in office as a prima facie proof of guilt, but in this case it cannot fail to ac knowledge that if there is not good ground for a belief in the lack of integrity of Judge Blodgett, there is at least room for suspicion that he has not discharged the duties of his office with that impartiality and fairness that are incumtent upon officials in his high position. Judge Blodgett was for many years the attorney for one of the leading railroads centering in Chicago, and was appointed to the bench directly from that position at a time when there was considerable litigation affecting that road in the United States courts. Although he had been an attorney in interest, he did not scruple to sit in judg ment on cases where the interests of the company he had formerly represented were at stake, and his rulings at that time were the subject of invidious remark. He out lived that scandal, however, and it was sup posed up to three years ago that he would make a good and a just judge. But when the whisky thieves were brought before him for trial, his partisanship became so evident that many of the best attorneys in Chicago refused to conduct cases before him. With the mandate of President Grant before him"Let no guilty man escape" he so ruled that the most guilty of the gang an infamous lot of thieves and perjurers were allowed to turn State's evidence and es cape punishment entirely, while a fewa very fewminor thieves were punished by the infliction of mild fines and still milder terms of imprisonment As a result of those trials, in which about thirty persons were compromised in frands upon the revenue amounting to more than a million of dollars, half a dozen paid nominal fines to the gov ernment and were in confinement, in ele sjr.ntly appointed apartments, for a few months. Every guilty manevery man who was radically guiltyescaped. When the conduct of the government offi cers in Chicago came under review about two months since, Judge Blodgett took an active part. Among those accused of misfeasance was the register in bankruptcy, H. N. Hib bard, an especial pet of Blodgett's, who had grown rich from the pickings of his office. He had been charged by the bar association with extorting illegal fees, and under its di rection his oase was submitted to the grand jury. Judge Blodgett left the bench and went into the grand jury room on behalf of his friend Hibbard, and attempted to brow beat them into returning "no indiotment." He failed, for the jury was not to be intimi dated, and Hibbard was indicted. He then sought to set aside the indictment for in formality, but the assistant district attorney succeeded in preventing it, and temporarily putting a stop to his extra-judicial proceed ings. This last judicial outrage had the ef fect of leading some of the most reputable members of the bar to ask his impeachment. Their conduct, however, has raised a storm. The members of the bar who have profited by his outrageous decisions are in dignant at the proceeding, and so, it ap peal's, is the Associated Press. Nevertheless it is evident that Judge Blodgett has greatly exceeded his judicial authority in diverse matters, and that if he does not deserve im peachment and removal, his official acts need investigation. We are sure that when the whole truth is known, the judicial er mine will be found to be considerably soiled. One thing is certain: no judge who occupies the bench should be allowed to discharge the functions of his office as lone as there is the suggestion of fraud, corruption or favoritism about him. THE SWINDLING BRASS KETTLE. It Proves Not to Save Seen an Election eering Hodge, After All. Litchfield Independent. THE MINNEAPOLIS WHEAT BING. Last fall if complaint was made against the manner of grading and fixing the price of wheat by the abominable brass three-quart tester, a howl of derision was raised by Washburn's hireling supporters, and the Re publican newspapers denounced it as a "po- litical dodge" to defeat Washburn, one of the millers. But the subject could not, and did not, drop with the closing of the campaign. Farmers are getting more and more aware of the outrageous dealing they get. They know they are being taken advantage of, every time they sell a bushel Of wheat to this millers' ring. They are grinding their teeth at the swindle, and are looking for a remedy. In Alexandria, Douglas county, the farm ers and merchants became so exasperated with the exactions of the ring, (which graded 55 pound wheat No. 3 and paid 38 cents) that they held amass meeting and decided to build a citizens' elevator, store and ship their own wheat. The next day the millers' ring graded higher and raised the price 16 cents, but the farmers knew the game and went right on with their plan. Lately the decree has gone forth from the millers' headquarters to grade all wheat No. 3 that falls under 56 pounds. It has been customary to deduct a few pounds per bushel, when it lacked a little of 56, and grade No. 2. The result of the new rule is that little wheat grades anything but No. 3 and 4 with prices from 25 to 35 cents. The fact is mill ers know that farmers in debt must sail at what they can get. The association pays its own price and farmers have to submit. It is making paupers of debt loaded farm ers, taking their farms and property to satis fy mortgages, and depriving them and their families of absolute life necessities. Grain raising is the life and pride of Min nesota. It must be protected. Because the Minneapolis millers lost heav ily from the explosion, and Washburn sunk thousands in his campaign, is no reason why farmers should be made to pay it. Gold A tit an Good as I'aper. 1 Melrose Record.J The postmaster at this place the other day offered a gold eagle in payment of a money order, but it was refused, as the party had never seen that kind of money before, and would not be convinced that it wag as good as paper. Jt !SK!ffi$tByiSI!t9?#^'i!WgN i^4i^P^g^Sfc*.fe i THE ST. PAUL DAILY GLOBE, MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 30, 187a MINNESOTA NEWS. H. Alden, of Alexandria, is building new sawmill. The engine house at Redwood Falls was destroyed by fire the bther day. The building improvements of Alexandria, Douglas county, for 1878, aggregate $30,000. At last dates there were 18,000 bushels of wheat in the elevator at Alexandria awaiting shipment. David J. Parkinson, a promising young lawyer of Oshkosh, died Sunday night, De cember 22d. Bishop Whipple, of the diocese of Minne sota, goes to Florida to spend the remainder of the cold season. On Christmas day r. Bertrbme, of Man torville, had some of his ribs broken by the upsetting of a sleigh. In Wilimar the village council have fixed the saloon license for 1879 at $125, and the drug store license at $100. The Benton County Press hoists the names of Tilden and .Hendricks, for Presi dent and Vice President in 1880. Mrs. McGlashlin made the Presbyterian church at Owatonna a Christmas present of a handsome silver baptismal font. A little son of Dr. Flood, of Mantorville, was severely scalded on Christmas morning by the upsetting of a cup of hot coffee. At the Gauser saloon, in Owatonna, one night last week, a quarrel took place over a game of billiards. Pistols were drawn and fired, but no one was hurt. Hon. Amos Coggswell, of Owatonna, was married on Ohristmas day to Mrs. Mary A. Allen, at the residence cf the parents of the bride in Meriden, Steele county. P. Soucie, a Frenchman, lost his footing on a slippery platform in Faribault, and fell into an excavation, breaking some of his ribs and receiving other severe injuries. A few nights since some miscreant went into the stable of John M- Thompson, of Orlando, Sherburne county, and cut the throat of a beautiful and very valuable Arabian colt. A woman undertook to walk from St. Cloud to St. Joseph, a distance of eight miles, but took the wrong road and turned up at Little Falls, thirty-five miles from where she started. Many of the local papers of the State say that Sunday night, Deo. 22, was the coldest known in two years, the thermometer indi cating fifteen degrees, and at some points twenty degrees below zero. The new school building at St. Charles, Winona county, is completed. It is a fine structure, and furnished with a capital bell. The winter term of the graded school will be opened in the new building. Olof King, of Alexandria, this season has killed 13 deer, 255 dncks, 61 prairie chick ens, 51 partridges, 2 juck rabbits, and other game, and killed a great deal of valuable time in this wholesale slaughter. The Peter brothers, of Ellsworth, Meeker county, have been on a three weeks' hunt ing trip, during which time they killed forty-five deer and one bearten of the deer in one day, and not much of a day for game, either. An attempt was made some time since by an incendiary to burn the house of R. Arns trom, in the town of Washington Lake, Sib ley county. Kerosene oil was poured over the shing es on one portion of the roof and set on fire. The inmates of the house dis covered the fire in time to extinguish the flames. The house of Mrs. Annie Johnson, three miles south of Dodge Center, was burned with all its contents at 3 A. M., Dec. 24, with the mercury 15 degrees below zero. The family rely escaped with their clothes. One of the boys had his feet frozen in getting to the nearest neighbor, a half mile distant. No insurance. A few days since at Anoka a bottle con taining "th regular chalk mixture of the United States dispensatory" exploded while standing on a shelf in a drug store. It was of flint glass, and the fragments were thrown violently^ about the room, but luckily hit none of the persons present. Will chalk mixture explode? Lot cruggists beware. Miss Hicks, Alexandria, died at the Windsor house in St, Paul on the morning of Dec. 26th. Her recovery was scarcely looked for, but that she should die so soon was not expected. A special tram, by Man ager Farley, was placed at the disposal of the stricken mother and sorrowing friends to b?ar the remains to their darkened home in Alexandria. St. James Journal, Deo. 28: Hella Olena Boen, aged 9 years and 2 months, daughter of Helge Boen, of Long Lake, died at 12 o'clock on Thursday night of diphtheria. The child was sick several days, the parents supposing it to be affected with a cold. Be coming worse, Dr. Bacon was sent for on Thursday, and pronounced the disease to be phtheria, but the child was beyond human aid. Litchfield News-Ledger: The members of Father McDermott's congregation, with whom he is deservedly popular, gave him a pleasant surprise on Christmas day in the shape of a handsome Waltham watch, with heavy gold cases, to which was attached a magnificent gold chain. On the outside of the case are the initials, "F. McD. on the inside is: "Presented by the members of his congregation in Meeker and Kandiyohi counties, Minn." Father McDermott has reason to feel proud of his beautiful gift, not for its intrinsic value, but as a reminder that his efforts are appreciated by his flock. Twenty-five years ago last February, two brothers, Mr. Cyrus M. Lowry and Mr. L. L. Lowry, parted in Fond du Lac. The former returned t- the East, the latter re mained to pursue fickle fortune in the West. They have never met since until on the day before Christmas, when C. M. walked into L. L.'s place of business here and took a seat, but was not recognized until, when af ter a little while, he introduced bimself. Since they sepaaated, two and a half decades ago, the brothers have had their full experi ence of the vicissitudes of life covering a ter ritory all tne way from Yeimont to British Columbia. Lute is the younger of the two, although his hair is white "but not from years." He returned not long since from a three years' trip so far west that the sun didn't set there until next day. Albert Edward's New Estate in Walts. [London World.J The prince of Sft ales will create quite a sen sation in Bardland on taking possession of his Breconshire spoiting estate. To have a real prince of Wales in Wales itself will be quite an original experience, and the loyal Weishraen are already on the war-path. The Free-Masons in the eastern division of South Wales, under their popular P. G. M., Sir George Elliot, have concerted measures for the receptions of their royal brother and master. If the prince is as good a brother of the angle as ho is of the square, he will have rare sport, seeing that all round Brecon are concentrated the finest trout and halm streams in England and Wales. The Welsh will insist upon attributing to the Earl of Beaconsfield some of the credit of this eminently popular purchase. If the Druids will only leave him alone, the prince will get on well with his Welsh neighbors. Patti, it may be remembered, has a .house near Bridg end. Hoffman and Tilden. i New York Correspondence Philadelphia Press Rep.j Among the thistleblows of rumor floating in the air at the city hall is one to the effect that Ex-Gov. Hoffman is to be the candidate of Mr. Tilden for governor in the next State election. The residence of Mr. Hoffman is in the same part of town as that of Mr. Tilden and the former is often seen at Crramercy Park. There is enough in the in timaoy of the two men, and in the confer ences which have lately been held, to indicate that'Mr. Tilden has had this rumor put forth to try its effect.^ f,^ K. *5(WljfTi*' ^^a*54B^ssi^^,- THEEB MILLION DOLLARS. Lueh of a Kentucky Lady-She Suddenly Discovers That She is the Heiress to a Valuable Estate in Texas. About forty years ago a man named John C. Clark, a poor farmer of Indiana, whose circumstances became worse each year, pioked up his traps tod adandoned his fam ily, consisting of a wife and two little girls, and striking toward the Wabash river, hired himself out as a flatboatmen and shipped for New Orleans. From New Orleans he drifted to Texas, and that was the last ever heard of him by his family until they heard of his death, which occurred about fifteen years ago. His wife was then dead* and both his children had married, one remaining in Indiana, where she now lives, the other re moving to Kentucky and locating in Hardin county, about three miles below Stephensburg. When Clark died he owned an estate in land an money valued at something near $3,000,000, in Wnarton and Richmond counties, which, in the absence of any known heirs, escheated to the State. As Clark had never communicatad with any of his family, and they were ignorant of his whereabouts, except through emigrants, who had often seen him in Texas, they were never apprised of the fact that during the long years of his absence in Texas he had prospered in a way and had amassed such a fortune. When it became noised abroad in Texas that the man Clark had died, leaving an estate of such magnitude, and no heirs to claim it, bogus heirs at once began to spring up, and nu merous suits -were entered to recover it from the State, all of which were unsuccessful. It was only a few days since that one of the rightful heirs, Mrs. Marinda Buckles, wife of Asa Buckles, Esq., who was a daugh ter of Clark, and came to Hardin county after her marriage some thirty years ago, received by reading an account of the suits to recover the money, the first intelligence that she bad ever received of her father's death and the fortune awaiting her claims. She put herself at once in communication with her sister io Indiana, and confided her plans to lawyers, who will at once set about proving Mrs. Buckles and her sister as the lawful heirs of John C. Clark, the Texas million aire. The estate is intact, none of the claimants thus far having been able to prove their title to it, and Mrs. Buckles and her sister, who can set up a rightful claim, will como in for a good round $1,500,000 each. BRIGANDAGE ON A LARGE SCALE. Thousands of Armed Robbers on the Mace donian Borders. IPall Mall Gazette.] The Macedonian border is at the present moment in a very uncomfortable condition, owing to the proceedings of the semi bri.and, semi-insurgent bands commanded by Axelo^, Bodosi, and other chiefs, who, af ter the unsuccessful attempt to stir up re bellion in the province of Thessaly, crossed over from Greece, left the region of Mount Peiion and the neighborhood of Vola and of Macrinitza, and retired to the mountains of the three Macedonian disiricts of Grevena, Anasselitza and Castoria. TaeBe robtiers or rebels, numbering about three thousand men, are provided with long range French Gras rifles, and have a good supply of am munition. They commit ho murders, and have decreed the penalty of death against any of their number guilty of misconduct toward a woman but they have no like scruples as to robbery, their practice being to mulct the leading men of the villages in large sums of money, and in the event of a refusal to carry them off to the mountains, there to be kept until their ransom is paid. Their lawless deeds have excited a general pauic in the district. Turks and Christians alike are afraid of car rying on their usual occupations, and those who can afford it are, it is stated, making ar rangements for leaving the country. A cor respondent of the Constantinople Messen ger, writing from Statistaon November 15tb, says that all the rich families of Ciissoura are preparinig to leave for Constantinople, by way of Salonica, while all the notables of the neighboring villages of Statista have taken refuge in that town, where there are some regular troops, i nd where also lives the bish op of Sissania, whose presence, however, can hardly add much to the security of the place. DEMI-MONDE ACTltESSES. A Said Upon the Creatures Who Bring Disrepute on the Stage, The New York Star says in its weekly gossip of the stage and players: "The raid of women of the demi-monde on the stage has taken form in an open demonstration, 4he result of late strategic movements on their part. Another one of them, a notorious creature of this city, is to make her debut in a first-class theatre during the next fort night. There is likely to be a flutter in con sequence, but there are several birds of sim ilar feather on our stage, and it is not likely that the profession can be made too warm for the new artiste, besides she dresses well and needs no salary. No manager could pay suoh a woman enough to make it an object to her to work on the stage. Persons of her class prefer to work without any salary for the simple priv ilege of miking the stage a show-room for their charms. They have gentlemen friends, too, who wine and dine managers, and who try to buy up criticism their behalf. Tnese are men of the first society men whose names are often seen in print, coupled with honorable speculations and words of compliment. It is considered the style of thing for young bloods of the firct families to imitate London nobility by doing the honorable thing to their cast-off mistresses, which generally means paying for their dra matic education in Fanny Morant's school, and buying their way to the stage, to the shame and humiliation of the honest, hard working ladies of talent who seek to earn an honest livelihood in the profession. The re sult of this course on the part of the man agers is inevitable. As money can do any thing in the theatre, and as these vile women have plenty of money to back them, it will not require over two seasons more to drive all respectable women from the stage. The favorite argument of the aristocratic bloods to caviling newspaper man is: "You would not be the first to throw a stone at a Magdalen, would you?" And this generally silences him, and so the newcomer from a bagnio is assured that she may disport herself without fear of having any prejudices awakened in the minds of the public by allusions to her mode of life." New York Statistics. fNew York Times.l It will, we imagine, surprise most New Yorkers to learn that, according to the last census of this Staie, 12,659 families are now living in log cabins. Of the other dwell ings, 598,031 are built of wood, 98,290 of brick, and 18,718 of stone. More than one half of all these cost less than $2,000 apiece more than one-third less than $1,000, and 7,164 less than $50 each, showing that any extravagance which in terior New-Yorkers may have is not of an architectural order. In the county or city of New York, houses, as may be supposed, have much more value than in the country, 56,010 having cost 5,000 ^and up ward. Indeed, the dwellings of the metropo lis alone have cost about as much as all the rest of the State. Of 1,536,727 27ew-York- ers, 351,628 are farmers or farm hands. Of the working women of the State, one-half, or 137,416 of them, are house-servants. Over 150,000 men earn their bread as day laborers. There are 50,103 clerks, 40,406 tailors and seamstresses. Celibacy seems to be in favor with New Yorkers. There are 2,673,813 unmarried, to 1,776,018 married. Widows and widowers number 248,678, and divorced people 1,349. During the last oensnsyear, in only one family out -*4 'S. 3SS%Jl&$^^PMiM&&: of forty-five families was there a wedding, so that it would seem as if more New York ers than is generally believed carry out the principles which Malthas advocates in his little-understood work on population. GEN. MILES AGAIN. His Vietes on the Indian Question as Conveyed to Senator Saunders. WASHINGTON. Dec. 20.Gen. Nelson. A. Miles has addressed a letter to Senator Saun ders, chairman of the joint committee on the transfer of the Indian bureau, in answer to a reqnest of the latter for the former's views upon the Indian question. The lettsr ia as follows: WASHINGTON Dec. 17, 1878. Hon. A. Saunders, United States Senate: SUB* In answer to your request, I have the honor to submit the following views regarding the Indian qnestiozi: Th relations e^dsttnjr between the two races in thiB country at the present time are simply thefresnlc of "two hun dred years of warfare, of bad faith and mis management as a people and a government. We have on our hands about 250,000 Indians that are in the main a constant source of great expense and annoyance. To avoid such wars as have frequently occurred in the past few years, evils of which cannot be estimated, to better the condition of the Indians, save the government millions of money annually, to give protection to life and propertv along our extensive frontier. I would, for the following reasons, renew the recommendations I have frequently made in official communicaeion on the subject: FirstNo body of people can be successfully governed without some physical government. To continue the present system is to promote lawlessness and endanger settlanienta to mur der and devastation. SecondThe change from barbarism]to civili zation must be constant and gradual and in ac cordance with nature's laws. ThirdEducation, civilization, and christian ization must be mainly through the rising gen eration, and to make them in turn intelligent governors and instructors they should be under proper ixxScLexices- I believe the honorable secretary of the inte rior is doing everything in his power to reform that branch of the public service, yet he has not the means of controlling large tribes who are hostile or in a semi-hostile condition, and whose warriors are fully armed and numbered by thousands. I would recommend that a stnmger government be tried, at least for a lew years, allowing the civilized and semi civilized Indians who are living within settle ments or in the eastern part of Indian territory to remain as at present. I wonki recom mend: 1. That nomadic tribes who are now fully mounted and armed, namely, the Sioux, As Binaboines, Gros Ventres, Crows, Piegans, Araphoes, Cheyennea, Kiowas, Commanches, Apaches, Navajots, Urcs, BannockB, Spokanes, Umatillas, Blackfeet, and other like roaming tribes, be placed under the control of the war department. 2. That the honorable secretary of war be directed to detail officers of known expe rience and integrity to have charge of these tribes, and that the appropriations made by Congress be disbursed in such a way as to do the Indians the greatest good, preserve their loyalty, and enable them to become self-sus taining. 3. That the military force shall be u6ed to enforce treaties made with the Indians, to keep them on their reservations or within the terms of their treaties, to prevent intrusion by white men upon Indian reservations, to protect the Indians in their rights of person and pro perty. 4. That the secretary of war be authorized to make use of any unoccupied buildings at military posts for the stores and property of the Indians, and that any public animals not otherwise employed may be used in the break ing of ground, preparing of gardens and farms f'r localizing the Indians. 5. That any unoccupied military posts may be usf for the eFtablishraent of industrial schools where the children of the different tribes may sent and taught the English lan guage, habits of indiistiy, and the proper care of domestic stock, the science of agricultural and other ussful knowledge that would enable them when of suitable age to become educators of their race. I recommended several years ago that efforts be made to first make the Indians a pastoral people, as this -would be in accordance with their habits and tastes. I also recommended that educational work be carried 'on at large schools where youths could see the beneBtR and blessing of civilization. If the Indians are herded together in large camps, as at present, when the children can attend school, indolence, vice and disaffection are the results. If the Indians are scattered by their families on their reservations, with their flocks and herds along the villages, gehools are out of the question. Hence I urge the establishmsnt of industrial and normal schools near or within the settle ment. The military branch of the government I'B not desirous of undergoing the hardships of these laborious, hazardous and thankless Indian campaigns of the terrible risks of an Indian engagement, and would strongly advocate and support any measure of reform. The army is made up from people in all parts of the coun try, and every Christian denomination is rep resented in its members, and it cannot be said that it is in sympathy with any movement that would not improve the condition of affairs in the territories. As the army has for the past one hundred years been intrusted with im portant civil duties, particularity the great work of reconstruction, in which the lives and property of over eleven millions of people were involved, it cannot be said that the army is wanting in sympathy, integrity or executive ability to administer the affairs of a few thou sand Indians with ample and exact justice to all concerned. I would further recommend that Congress define by law the legal status of the Indian as regarda the rights of life and property as he becomes civilized and educated. I see no objection under the theory of our gov ernment to him giving the rights of citizenship as well as the African or Asiatic. I have the honor to remain, with the highest respect. NELSON A. MILKS, Col. Fifth Infantry, Brevet Maj.-Gen. D. S. A. THii rVVfiUtS. A Picture of Fair Girls and Noble Matrons. The season has been a dull one in New York until the Astor wedding broke the gloom since that sunburst all is gaity. It was perhaps as splendid a thing in the way of entertaining as a republic can show nothing but royalty and a hereditary nobility could go further. Imagine fave drawing rooms en suite, all opening out of a magnificent hail, furnished in different colors, and filled with works of art, and of course handsome furniture then a dining-room of baronial size then a ball-room, most brilliant, delicately decorated in Pompadour colors, and lighted by one crystal chandelier, 5 large size, which sends out a thousand rainbows, painting the ceiling with that "Light which never was on sea or land." Then underneath that a table spread with red velvet, on which were the gifts. The thou sand-year old va- from Japan jostled the de corative art teacups of to-day. All the cen turies came, bringing tribute to this fortunate bride, and flowers everywhere "Herself the fairest flower," Miss Astor is a single-minded, sensible, su perior girl, with brilliant black eyes, lighted from behind. She is very pretty, petite, and yet not too small. Her own modest worth makes all this power and splendor seem in significant. She wakes a true love match, and yet the groom is handsomely endowed with the world's" goods, an old family pestige, and is a very agreeable man so much for one couple's chances in happiness. It seems almost too much to have sense, and goodness, and mod esty, and everything els-e! We are very fortu nate in New York, and have reason ta be very grateful for the two Mrs. Astors. Their man ners are most cordial, gracious and dignified. They dispense the immense wealth of their husbands in an elegant manner, which cannot but give tone to our Republican society. Mrs. John J. Astor is a woman of high culti vation, very intense convictions, exhaustive knowledge of art and a prodigious worker. She is charitable to a degree, and has a fine, stately old-word courtesy, which is very becoming and rare. She condescends to dress beautifully, and with perfect fitness to herselfalthough a dignified lady of high degree. Mis. William Astor is t-ill, elegant and stjte ly, very amiablethe most agreeable hostess possible. She becomes her diamonds, and she and her lovely daughters make a pretty picture at the opera. Her oun people keep her in the front ranks of gayety, yet she too finds time for much unostentatious chanty. I hear no one speak ill of either ladv they both fill their conspicuous position's admirably without mur ing enemies, always making" friends. Her dresses are, to use a young lady'B expreflBion, "dreams." Aq it is rare to find two such re plete, fortunate lives, it i6 more rare to find two Buch noble women whom prosperity does not spoil. i&U^^M&n4&kk^^S^ Olive Logan weighs 190 pounds, has gray hair and a double chin. Sweet cider, ven if just from the press, is condemned by the MawaohusetU Total Ab stinence society. The English government has decided to try the electric light on a large scale at the London general puatoffice. A Boston physician of very large practice says that he has never known it to be so sickly in that city as now. Xn the houses o the Bnglish nobles a "lord of misrule" was appointed in former timet to superintend tha revels. A barman was sentenced lately to a fine of $100 in England for obtaining a situation by means of a false character. Fnneral obsequies" is a Tilhinons phrase. Disraeli used it in that famous first speech which the commons refuted to hear. It is taid that sixty-two Russian officers among them two generalsare engaged in strengthening the defenses of Cabul. George Washington will be hanged at Louis ville on the 21st of February, which will here after be known as Washington's deathday. A man went into a store ot Lincoln, Neb, and twisted the ear of a cat, but was promptly kicked into the street by an extemporized 8. P. C. A. It took just seven months and one day for a certain letter to go by mail from Springfield, Mo., to Boston. It contained valuable remit tances. Miss Elizabeth Lewis has just died at Ham burg, N. J., after a continned illness of thirty years, caused by accidental poisoning with arsenic. Disturbances are feared in Venezuela, and the varioua consuls have requested their gov ernment! to send ships of war to protect their subjects. It is proposed in Chicago to appoint an ele vator inspector, whose duty it shall be to see that the elevators in use throughout the city are in a safe condition. Times tire hard in Egypt and a good many people out (if work, consequently the khedive has consented to cut down his family allow ance to 11,500,000 a year. There are now 2,487 kilometres of subterran eati telegraph lines in Germany. The longest lire is that from Strasburg to Kiel, a distanae of 1,219 kilometres, say 760 miles. The young men of Fourmies, France, have formed a club where it is not permitted to p ale French, but all conversation must be ca: ried on in English or German. The remains of the grandmother o De Witt Clinton are buried in a neglected graveyard nt ir NaDauoch, Ulster county, N. Y. Several gr ves near it were washed out by tho recent fl. The Mississippi State board of health has aeced the Governor to call a special session of th legislature, but the Vickebur^ 2X&ra.l& pro te ts against it, saying that one scourge a sea son is enough. At Portland. Me., the other night, the police descended on a bar-room and found two colored wo nen, naked to the waist, fighting accordine to the P. R. rules, in the presence of a large aulience of men. By the st of February the day will lengthen to fen hours and eight minutes, and the change wiil then be noticeable. It is an old saying th: "when the days beijin to lengthen tho col 1 begins to strengthen." '"Miss Catharine Wiggm, spinster, of Queen Anne's mansions, Westminster," advertises th.it hereafter she will a'topt the name of Sum ner, that being the surname of her great t:ncle. General William Samner, of Boston, TJ. S. A. Charles Ross, of East Lansing, N. Y., put a eonple of small cartridges in his tobacco box for safe keeping, and, forgetting them, filled his pipe from the box. He wears a plas ter over his right eye to cover a bullet mark. At St. Andrew's church, at Montreal, on Sun day, a strong woman carried, in a birch basket lined with silk, Mrs. William McNulty'a trip lets, dressed in red, white and blue, forward to tho communion table, at which they were bap tized Louise, Lome and Victor. Mrs. Hamilton, of Portsmouth, N. H., died one day last week of diphtheria, and two hours afterwards, while the undertaker was laying her out, in the same room her little child died of the same disease, suffering fearful agony by suffocation, his hair actually standing on end. A gas clock has been placed on exhibition in England. The motive power is hydrogen gas produced by the action of sulphuric acid and water in a zinc globe. As the gas is generated it raises a glass bell cover, which as it ris^a moves a lever that controls the hand* of the clock. The irrepressible conflict between the school mistress and the big boy has broken out for the season of 1878-9 at Stanbridge, Quebec, where he attacked her with a clasp kuife and she had to fly for her life. The school mistress at Walden, Vt., practices revolver shooting at recess. They boast up in New Hampshire of an ex teacher, a lady who is a good English, French, and Latin scholar, who is now engaged in tree culture. She was recently seen felline trees and chopping them up into four-foot lengths. In all of her operations she refuses the help of tue robuster sex." An interesting trophy has just been rjresented te a museum at Berne, consisting of a cam paign alarm clock, which once belonged to the Duke of Cumberland, and was captured on the field of Fontenoy by an officer of the Swiss Guard, in whose family it was kept until quite recently as an heirloom. Mr. Cranston, of Floyd county, Ga., mar ried in 1872, deserted his wife in 1874, and, go inj to Tennessee, married another woman, and was killed in a railroad accident. His second wife sued the company for damages, and, his hi-tory having come out, the question is raised whether she or the wife deserted in Georgia should conduct the suit. "Just to see him kick," was the excuse given for his crime by an Arkansas murderer, who, however, was outdone in coolness by M. De bffe of le Pas-de-Calais, France, who cut a woman into fifteen pieces, and when the juge d'instruction confronted him with the ghastly remains said, "That's the woman, but I find her a good deal changed." A San Francisco paper suggests that the people on the Pacific coast shall break down the Pacific Mail and overland railroad monopo lies by encouraging shipments to New York by way of Magellan straits. The time, it says, will not exceed sixty days, which is not more than ten days longer than goods frequently take in their transit by existing lines. A girl working in a paper mill at Delphi, O., found $100 among the waste she was sorting. The proprietor of the establishment took them from her, but she sued him for them, and the supreme court has finally decided the case in her favor, holding that the purchase of waste paper does not give the purchaser a right to unknown valuables found in it as against the finder. Afraid Donnelly Will Win. LWindom Reporter.l Donnelly has finally served his notice of contest on Washburn, and his chances of his success ares favorable, not through justice, or because Washburn was not hon estly elected, but because the House of Rep resentatives will seat him, that many Re publicans of the Third district fear they will be represented by Donnelly. 'it i 4fcw)if 'W-*k +_