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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered From All Quarters.
CONGRESS.
Senate, April 14. The following bill
was introduced; Todpfine the amount and man
ner of the pure1- of nhlio loan, to be made
by the Nccretary of the Treasury. Mr. Voorhes
aulimittixi a rreolutmn instructing the Com
mittee on Pensions to report a bill autborixina
ticnsioris to surviving n liiirn and Bailors of the
leairan war. Hi. Consular and Diplomatic
bill wan passed Horsy.. The Indian Ap
propriation bill was cofiaidered in Com
nut tee of the Whole, and the hill nu
read bv .rotiona for amendments. When the
committee roae Mr. llutchina introduced a bill
toentablisli a uniform avalcm of bankruptcy.
At (he evening session tue bill creating a per
manent construction fund forthe nary, and th.
bill to equip an expedition to the Arctio seas
were laid aaid. for favorable report to th.
House.
Senate, April 15. Mr. McMillan,
from the Committee on Oommeroe. reported
with amenduieiita the Senate Joint resolution
introduced by Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania,
lu-oviding for a commission to consider and re
port what legislation in needed for the better
regulation of commerce among fttatee. Placed
on the calendar. The l'ost-route bill was
n'Bortrtd from the Committee on Postsnfnoea
and I'oatroads. and ordered printed and recom
mitted. The Geneva Award bill waa taken np
and pending disruption the rjenate adjourned,
Horns. - The following billa were panned i
Providing a construction fund for the navy: to
riuip an exiiedition to the Arctic bs. The
House then went into Committee of the Whole
mi the Indian Appropriation bill, but without
final action the Committee rone and the fiouae
ailjom ned.
Sknate, April 16. The Geneva
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Award bill waa taken np and diaouaeed until
tiin. for adjournment. Adjourned until tbe
I'.itb Hoc. The Senate bill removing
tue political disabilities of Roger A Pryor
waa paned. Mr. Cox, Chairman of the
f'ommii.fe on Koreign Aflaim. reported a
dutinn reiiuenting the Preeident to taka
'ali'pa to abrogate the L'layton-Uul er treaty,
'Ihe renolutiun wan ordered printed and
recommitted. The Houne then went into
Committee of the Whole on the Indian Appro
priation hill. Mr. Hookerauhmitted an amend
ment tranaferrinjr the Indian 'lureau from the
Interior to the Var Deirtiui t. auch tranafer
not to take effect until the expiration of the
next rlceal year. Mr. HanVett and Mr. Conger
rime to a point of order againnt the amendment
and pending diacuation the .ommittea roaa and
tiie Houne adjourned.
House, April 17. Mr. Manning offered,
under instruction, of the Committee on
Kleetiona, a resolution for the inreatigation into
the facta reliting to the reception by Mr.
H:irnin'r of no anonymoua letter relating to
lhnmellv y.i. Washburn. Adopted. The Houne
then went into Committee of the Whole on a
nttei'inl drheieiicy bill: but without final action
the committee rone aud the ilonne adjourned,
WASHINGTON.
(ietii ral Mile., wlii wu in Wiisliinpton on
the l'ltli, reported that the Mouse Indians were
uiixiotii to surrender theiiieelvcs to the Oov
ornneiit. The tolal value of i'Xmrta of refined petro
leum for the i.lne nioutlm cmliug- March,
mif MJ.V.V. 1114.
fn the l"uli there were 1,01!) Mil, and resolution!"
pending in the House, besides sixteen
I'liH-'.iun ta.e.H ui,dis osed of.
Of iiriiMttt of teiiiona tliere remained less
tl :i:i :i.(i).l caM' uninljiidieated on the Idtb.
The t.'tal n 1 1 1 1 j 1 1 i t (llluiii'ed np tn that date
m.i.. ?'I..i.iii,iHI0, ninl the tiuiiil.er of (l.iims on
lile for urn ais ain.miiti d to i:iV),tXK).
.V ileley-.ilinn of Slnwlione and llnnnoek In
i!tui!.. v. bo were at Wn-hinjrton on the 17th,
evjiroc I a n illint'iK'ss to net tie in pevernlty
ninl ailopt elvilized nietliuds of prnctirlngnllv-
rf
Apvil ri'tunm to the Department of A
i nltiue -how the Increase in aereiicc niwu in
wheat In: t full to be tliii leeti er cent, mure
Hum lo Hi.' fi.il movIiiMa I he u lienl cron w
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l iqwu icn in looh as iitMiraoie us in me spring)
THE EAST.
Terrible forest lires w ete racing in New Jer
sey on tbe Mill. The uitlre country about
Forked Kiver covering jiue hundred square
Miles of Hilar and pil e forest w as consumed
'I hoiiMii.its .f game ai.d other biids mid many
were suffocated. "
TlieMiissachusetlsllepiibllcanStateConvcn-I
tioii for the selection of delegates to Chicago.
wm. held at Worcester on the loth. The dele-
pules weie not instructed, but a resolution
was adopted recommending to the considera
tion of the Convention the Hon. George F.
Edmunds, of Vermont, as a licpubllcnn states
man who iKi.-sc-ses, in an eminent degree, the
requisite qualifications forthe high olllee of
President, and w ho w ill have the confidence
and upprovul of all who have hitherto acted
with the lteptiblican party.
A wealthy citizen of New York City has au
i lliorl.i d Cadet Whittakers counsel to offer
-' reward of 1,(KI0 for the detection and eonvlc
Hoii of the peSsoii or iiersous who committed
the outrage main the cadet on the night of
April 5th.
While some men were working In a pit un
derneath a large vessel which coiituincd
molten metal, in the Pennsylvania Steel
Works, near Ilarrisburg, on the 15th,
ratchet broke and the contents of the vessel
poured Into the pit. Two of the workmen
were falally and live others seriously burned.
The Maine .Democrat le State Convention has
been called for June 1.
The Vermont Greenback State Convention
will Ik- held at Mimt)clicr May 1.1.
Several sailing vessels on the Atlantic coast
were lost In the gales of the 17th.
WEST AND SOUTH.
General Grant and party arrived at Memphis
on the 13th.
Jnmes Hlack, a negro, who attempted
outrugo Mrs. Hiittie Ferries In Dinwiddle
County, Va., was taken from the Jail by nn
armed body of masked men, on the night
the 13th, and hanged.
Considerable excitement prevailed In White
County, Ga., on the 13th, over the discovery
gold lu tbe Niichoiichee Valley.
Alexander Wilson was burned to death
Covington, Ky., on the night of the 13th,
while attempting to save some children from
a burning building.
Republican State Conventions for the selec
tion of delegates to the National Convention
were held in Iowa, Missouri and Kentucky on
the 14th. In Iowa a solid Kluine delegation
waa chosen. The delegates from Missouri and
Kentucky were instructed to vote us a unit for
General Grunt.
A heavy shock of earthquake was felt at San
, Francisco on the evening of the 14th. No
i damage was done, although buildings rocked
so that the motion was plainly visible.
The newly organized Lincoln Guard
' Honor at Springfield, 111., held memorial serv
' ices at the catacomb of the Lincoln monu
; ment, on the morning of the 15th, in com
memoration of the fifteenth anniversary
Abraham Lincoln's death.
Nathan Faweett and Jacob Muldrow, col
ored, were hanged at Mexico, Mo., on the lfith,
for a murder committed in September, 1870.
On the sumo day William 8. bates was execu
ted at Barnwell Court House, 8. C, for the
murder of Stephen W. Bush at a dunce last
Christmas eve.
Efteuslve forest fires In the Wilderness
(Va.) region have done serious damage.
Two or three persons were burned to death
In the recent invest nies in ew jersey.
High waters have caused the Mississippi
break through the levees in many places, doing
much damage.
The Giant Powder Works across the bay
from Sail trauelsco, exploded on the 16th,
killing twelve white men and twelve oc fifteen
Clilnumeii. All the victims were blown
atoms. There were six houses Inside
works, and ull were blown to slivers, but
the workmen In them escaped. The cause
the explosion is said to have been carelessness.
A Petersburg, Va., dispatch on the 18th,
stated thut the forest fires which had been
raging In that vicinity for a week had become
' uncontrollable. Mums and stables in large
jniuibers had been Uebtroyecl, Jn many
VOL. XXVIIT -NO. 2.
PEItllYSBUllG, WOOD CO., OHIO, FRIDAY, APRIL 2.3, 1880.
$1.50 IN ADVANCE.
Rtaneei farrhcrii lind lout h11 llielr eropn, hornet
and farming implement.
A land elide at. Mlnenil Kinp, Cab, on the
17th, crushed tlio boHrdlnjf-liiiusc of Ihe Em
pire Mine. One ri'xu t ataled that llfleen men
were tnlsslnir and four know n to be killed.
Oilier advices stated that nil the men w ere allvt)
but a number w ere badly hurt.
The Judge of the. Superior Court nt Pan
Francisco, on the 17th, rendered a dccin.on on
Kearney's appeal, coiiflnnliifr, the judenient of
the lower court. Kearney, anticipating the
decision, had left the city.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
A flic and nn explosion by which eleven per
sons were killed and a number wounded, oc
curred near North Woolwich, England, on
the i;ith. .
The Burmese Anibassndor at Thyetmyosay.
there ia, not a particle of truth In the reported
massacre at Mandahiy.
Yellow fever has broken' out at Vera Cru,
Mexico.
Otero, who attempted to assassinate Kin(i
Alfonso on the With of December, waa execu
ted at Madrid on the 141 h.
It Is reported that the Pope will soon create
four more C'linllnals In the L'nlted States.
A fit. Petersburg (llspat.-h says that thelong
continuation of winter at Orenbiirgh has com
pletely exhausted the necessaries of life In
that region. Kunmrs tf starvation were dally
increasing.
Prince tiortschakoft's illness Is paralysis of
the bow els.
KriiHce, Ktissia and Italy have signified their
adhesion to the territorial arrangement made
between the Torte and Montenegro.
A large number of Hut-shin convicts, Bent to
Siberia in lbTO, have escaped.
The famine in East Pi iissin is Increasing.
The Duchess of Marlborough has severed her
connection with the Irish Relief Fund. .
The Canada House of Commons has passed
bill legalir.iiiginan iafrc with a deceased w ifc'a
sister.
The broken English-American ocean cable
lias been repaired.
Herr Ilraeke, a former well-known Socialist
member of the German Reichstag, is dead.
.Dr. Edmund V. II. Kcncaly, the well-kuown
counsel forthe claimant In the Tiehbome case,
is dead.
Nineteen German and other Socialist aglta
tntors, ordered out of France, left Paris on the
10th.
Callao, the chief seiiKrt of Peru, lias been
blockaded by the Chilians, und the Inhabitants
are fleeing in tenor.
A London dispatch says that In consequence
of the distress in Hungary 5,000 Magyars have
quilted that country for America during the
past winter.
Tbe St. Petersburg Slfrdiml (Jmrtlr, on the
17th, announced that several cases of spotted
typhus fever had appeared there.
LATER NEWS.
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A terrific w ind storm passed over the tow
of Marslifield, Mo., on the evening of the 18th,
nearly destroying the whole town. The rulua
caught fire, resulting In fearful loss ol
life. The total number of killed waa
i estimated at not less than one hundred,
and the wounded at eighty-five, many of them
seriously. F.yc-w itnesses of the slorm say It
waa i frightful looking black cloud lined with
fleecy white, funnel shaped, and moving In the
manner of a screw propeller. It moved with
wonderful velocity, literally destroying and
blowing away everything In Its path, which
was unoiiL nan a muc wiue. xne noise Ol
the storm, the crash of falling houses and
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made
a scene of horror that beggars de
scription. Out of two hundred dwelling
houses at Marslilleld, not more thau twenty
were left standing. Of Ihe eight hundred in
habitants w ho had comfortable homes, seven
eighths were left without houses, clothing,
food or means to procure thera. The storm
passed north doing; an immense amount of
In tllc Senate, on the 19th, the Geneva
tue Senate adjourned without coming to a
votc. Bills were introduced in the House as
follows: Providing that the Senate shall
submit to the Senate and House,
when assembled to count the votes
for President and Vice-President, all
packages purporting to contain Electoral
votes; donating public lands to the several
States and Territories which may provide col
leges for the education of girls. The bill pro
viding for celebrating the one hundredth an
niversary of the treaty of peace and rccognl
Hon of American Independence by holding an
International exhibition of arts, etc., in New
lork City in iss,'i, was -Hissed
Report of House Committee on the
Monroe Doctrine.
WASHINGTON, April 16.
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Representative Cox's report from the Com
mittee on Foreign A fairs relative to the Inter
Oeeanlc Canal and Monroe doctrine, quotes at
length from the President's Message upon the
subject (of March rjth, 180), and severely ar
raigns the policy of Clayton iu seeking to in
duce Great Britain to abandon her own un
founded claims upon the territory of an inde
pendent Spanish American State and inviting
her to share with us the duty and privilege pe
culiarly our own of proteetlngan luter-oceanle
communication of infinite interest aud concern
to this country. Having blundered thus at the
outset, the report says, lie went Into the most
complicated and ill-arranged series of transac
tions, the final outcome of which was the
treaty with Great Britain of April 19, 1850,
known as the Cluvton-Bulwer treaty.
The report continues: " Fortunately for
the country, the C layton-Bulw er treaty had
scarcely come Into operation before its funda
mental provisions were violated by Great
Britain by the firing upon the American
steamer Proniethiis, November 21, 1850, while
she was going out of the iort of San Juan de
Nicaragua, by the English brig of war Ex
press, then lying lu that port to enforce a
ISi ltisn 'oouiiniou over that part ol ft lea
raaua.' Other similar infringements follow ed,
the most conspicuous of these being the delib
erate establishment by Great Britain, on the
17th ot July, 1S5J, ol a new colony in Lent ral
America, oil the coast of Honduras, under the
name of the Colony of the Buy Islands, by and
on account of w hich Mr. Cass, In the Senate in
January, 1853, declared the treaty to have been
virtually nullified bv Great Britum."
The report then details the negotiations and
controversies between this Government and
Great Britain grow lug out of these occurrences
and the Ineffectual efforts to negotiate a new
treaty coming down to 1M10, aud continues:
The outbreak won after this of our unhappy
domestic troubles and the great civil war di
verted public attention from Central American
questions, aud the ill-advised Clayton-Bulwer
treaty was gradually suffered on both sides to
lapse into an oblivion from which it has but
recently been evoked by persons disposed to
controvert the policy and purposes of the Uni
ted States with regard to any protectorate of
life aud property over any part; of the Central
American States on the Isthmus. The cir
cumstances in which this treaty was origi
nally negotiated have been nrofoundlv modi
Bed by the lapse of thirty years, aud it apears
to your committee to be entirely clear that, as
an obstacle and (Kisslble periled way of com
plete and pacific assertion of the sound, neees-
ma A oil 111. a A .mi.-l.... llM 1IJ
IJ, PIIU llgmuiio nillblllAII punt J lIU
down in the President's message of March
Bin, isao, tins treaty stroma now De Dually
and formally abrogated. - It baa been
shown to have led only la great misunderstand
ings and controversies with the power with
which we were unwisely led to make it. It
has always been equally Inoperative either to
guarantee the independence of the Central
American oiair. or tu auvaut-e me srenoraj in
terests of commerce. Ho long as it baa even
formal shadow of existence it cannot but tend
to cloud and obscure the perfectly simple, Just
aud equitable policy of the United States la
regard to inter-oceanic transit. Your com
mittee therefore recommend the passage of las
following joiut resolution i
hfOlvU, By the HnuuU and Hou. of R.pre
seutaiivea aeneinbled. that the Pre.id.nt of
the Uuited Bute. b. and be is hereby reepoot
fully requeatad, if th. nam. in his opini.n shall
not be iinoorupatible with publio luterMt,- to
tak. irnmediaK atepa for the formal and final
abrogation of the convention of April lt. IMVI,
betweeu tbe United State, of Aineriua and Her
Britauio Majesty commonly railed the " Buiy
Canal treaty 1 nr " Clayton-fiulw.r treaty,"
OHIO LEGISLATURE.
8mnt, April IB. The following bills were
passed : Allowing the Comity Commissioners
of cei tain counties to use a portion of the
turnpike fund for the Improvement of streets
inside corporations : respecting the renderlnsr
of decrees or judgments against tbe rep
resentatives of a deceased person; allow
ing companies Incorporated before the
new code to organ Ire under the law In force at
tne lime ol Its organization; amending tne
law relating to safety heaters for railroad cars;
appropriating money to establish a fish hatchery
at Sandusky; appropriating $10,000 from canal
revenues for repair and replacement of locks
n the Erie Canal.
Hontt. The following bills w-ire rassed:
Prohibiting the runuiiia at larire of swine after
March 1st; providing for transferring of pau-
Sers to the county of legal settlement; provi
ing for the keeping up of general indexes of
County Recorders aud directing tbe same to
be paid from the county treasury; providing
for the completion of State roads and free
turnpikes; providing for the assessment of
lands not abutting ou roads for road improve
ments; to prevent wnoicsaie reinsurance witn
tut the consent of the assured; providing that
Councllmen be punished for receiving bribes;
allowing the Court of Common Pleas to have
Jurisdiction In writs of mandamus; reor
ganizing tne state Hoard of Chan
ties; authorising the Governor to re
move for corruption any officer ap-
S tinted by him; allowing three friends of cau
dates to. be present lu a room where votes
are being counted. The following bills were
Introduced: Requiring the County Sealer to
test weights and measures and mark them
with the county seal, In localities where com
plaint is made. Adine-ned.
Smalt. AwttU. The following bills were
Introduced: Changing the rale of levy fot
railroad purposes from three to six per cent. ;
repealing the law authorizing the In
corporation of building associations. Billa
passed. House bill providing condensation
for members of citv. county and State Boards
of Equalization In appraisement of real estate
ior isu; making mill exercise at the State
University compulsory.
liWM. The follow Ins- hills were nasned:
Providing that the Probate Judge's cita
tion shall be made to the widow of a
deceased testator, granting her one year's
timo to choose whether she will take the
provision of the will or take her lesal
share of his personal nronertv: nrnvidlno-for
evidence In the correction of errors In the re
cording of conveyances; providing forthe set
ting aside of a homestead for the widow of
decedent, which shall be exempt from
sale to pay the debts of deceased, and as long
as the minor child lives, though the widow
die; disposing of any unappropriated funds In
the State Treasury, by crediting it to the
general revenue fund, aud respecting
the duty of the Auditor In case any
warrant hus been Irregularly Issued;
to give City Councils the control of
wharfs and docks on all navigable rivers. Mr.
Marsh, from the Committee on Federal Rela
tions, reported, by bill, authorizing the Gov
ernor, Adjutant-General and Attorney-General
to settle with the United States forany war
claims due the State. The rules were sus-
ieuded, and the bill read the third time and
passeo. Adjourned.
Senatt. Avril 15. A messasre waa received
from the Governor making the following ap
pointments as trustees of the Cleveland Asy
lum fur the insane: James Baroett (Ken.) of
Cleveland, for one year; William M. Beebce
tnep.j ot summit County, lor two years;
Henry M. Mnssev (Dem.) of Lorain
''ounty, for three "years; Jubez W." Fitch
(Dem.) of Cleveland', for four years; Sidney
S. Warner (Rep.) of Lorain Co'uutv, for five
vears. Referred to the ( ommittee on Benevo-
leut Institutions. The following bills
were passed: Kelatini to the reinsurinir
of risks in insurance companies; relating to
the assessment of estimated expenses made by
County Commissioners ; providing that the ex"
elusive right of way aloug railroads shall not
be granted to telegraph companies; providing
mat, paupers shun be removed to the
comities to which they belotig; prohibiting
he further incorporation of building associa
ions: providing lor the punishment of iudcea
of election who do not admit candidates or
friends to the room where votes are counted;
giving Common Pleas Courts jurisdiction in
cases of writs of maudamus.
Tuu-n!. The following bills were passed:
Providing for the reports of Road Commis--.loners;
authorizing County Commissioners
:o appropriate from the turnpike fund for Im
provement of streets in corporate limits;
fixing the statutes of limitations to
those holding equitable titles of lauds against
inose noiiung leg-ui titles, mils Introduced:
Prescribing: rules tor the better management
of building and loan associations; providing
now exceptions can be taken In petitions of
error and in relation to Justices of the Peace
signing bills of exceptions; providing for the
removal of trustees when guardians are ap
pointed. Senate, April lB.The following bills were
passed: Providing for the relief of disabled
firemen In cities of the second grade, first
lass; preventing swine rrom running at large
The aow lnt nent of he Governor, reported on
the 15th, were conS m?d.
lluvse. The following bills were passed:
Providing that, in case of an assessment for
street Improvement in cities ot the first class,
the tax snail not exceed tweuty-nve per centum
ot tbe value of such laud as set down
In the tax duplicate; providing for the surren
der of unclaimed or unidentified bodies, buried
at public expense, to the medical profcsslru.
for dissection ; to authorize and require Hit
payment ol Dounues to volunteer soldiers;
making the same provision for the Improve
ment of plank roads as is already made fur the
Improvement of turnpikes.
Senate, April 17. After an hcnir spent iu
reading the journal, the House bill Increasing
the mileage ot Sheriffs to eight cents a mile
each way was takeu up and passed. A few
messages from the House were disposed of,
when the Seuate adjourned until Tuesduy,
January 4, 1881.
How. Very little business was done and a
few minutes after eight o'clock the Speaker
declared the House of Representatives ad
journed until Tuesday January 4, 18S1.
Peoi-le who have a weakness for be
lieving that the number thirteen is un
lucky, says the Jndependance liclge, are
requested to meditate upon the follow
ing fact, the authenticity of which is
vouched for: A young soldier, Seri
gieres by name, was born on the 13th of
the month of January, 1855. He lived
at Brussels in a house numbered thir
teen. On Friday, February 13, 1875, he
was drafted into the army by virtue of
having drawn the number thirteen. A
lottery ticket was inherited by him
bearing the number thirteen, which has
lately drawn a prize of two hundred
thousand francs.
Ik 3outh Carolina a man was put off
a train bocause ho had not purchased a
ticket and refused to pay the additional
fare charged by the road to those who
have no tickets. He sued the company
for damages, proved that ho had no
time to procure a ticket before the train
moved, and was awarded a judgment
for thirty dollars.
Prince Bismarck's present illness is,
by a Berlin paper, attributed to a strange
causo. One of the Prince's favorite
pastimes has. for several years, been to
attraot wild boars to his park at Varzin
by feeding thera with all sorts of delica
cies. All the boars for miles around
accordingly migrated to Varzin. One
of the Prince's neighbors, an enthusi
astic hunter, couldn t stand this sort ol
thing, and made repeated forays on th
Prince's domain, wiiero, in a few days,
he killed twenty-three boars, always
eluding the grasp of the game-keepers.
Bismarck flew into so violent a rage at
this intelligence that he became serious
ly ill. It is said that he meditates
building a line of forts around his park.
The gentlemen editorially employed
In the various departments of the Lon
don Timet have each a room to him
self, aud work uuder all tbe advantages
of seclusion and silenoe. These rooms
are spacious, often sixteen or twenty
feet square, with hich cellinrrs. well
lighted and ventilated, and substantial
ly furnished. They have something of
the comiortaoie air ol a university
chamber.
A wdM an' s-rights journal, LaDonn,
has boon established at Boulogne, under
the fluUoi'olitu of two tutlies,
Interesting Statistics for Union Soldiers.
The Wnsliinrrton RcpiMiann gives
statistics of the presont Democratic
Conpres? showing Union soldiors and
Union men how littlo they have to hope
for from the Democratic parly; ami
proving the arrogant boast of the
Okolona Southern States that the Con
federate soldiers have camped in the
Capital and intend to rulo the Nation.
The points brought out are thut the
Confederates furnish two-thirds of tho
entire Democratic strength in Con
gress; that, of one hundred and ninety
nine Democratic members in both
houses of Congress, only thirteen were
Union soldiers; that the Republicans
have not electod one single Confed
erate soldier to Congress. The ligures
are as follows:
Southern Democrats from tho Confed
erate army IW
Southern Democrats not In cither army. 2d
Southern Democrats from tho Union
army nono.
Of the Southern Democrats not in
tho Confederate army, many served the
Confederate Government in other posi
tions. Border State Democrat from the Con
federate urmv
Border State Democrats not
In either
army 87
Border Statu Democrats from the Union
army 1
Several border State Democrats also
served the Confederacy in official posi
tions. Northern Democrats from the Confed
erate army none.
Northern Democrat not In either army.. 67
Northern Democrats from tho Union
army 13
This shows that more than two-thirds
of the Southern Democrats served in
tho Confederate army, while less than
one-quarter of the Northern Democrats
served in the Union army.
Whole numlier of Democrats who
served In either nnny
Whole number of Democrats from the
Confederate at my
Whole number of Democrats from the
Union armv
83
Wb de number of Democrats from
neither army 117
This shows that more than one-third
of the entire Democratic strength in Con
gress served in tho Confederate army:
Southern Republicans from tho Confed
erate army nono.
Southern Heiiublienns from neithernnny 3
Southern Republicans from the Union
army g
Border Stutc Republicans from the Con
federate nnny nono.
Bonier State Republicans from neither
army 2
Border Stnto Republicans from the Union
army 1
Northern Republicans from tho Confed
erate army none.
Northern Republicans from neither armv 108
Northern Republicans from the Union
army 84
This shows that exactly one-third of
the Northern Kepuijlicans in Congress
served in the Union army:
Whole number of Republicans from tho
Confederate army nono.
Whole numlcr of Republicans from
neither army 113
Whole number of Republicans from tho
Union army 5"
This shows that over one-third of the
Republicans in Congress served in the
Union army.
Wholo number of Democrats from tho
Union a my 14
Whole number of Republicans from the
Union army 67
Whole number of Democrats from the
Confederate army 03
Whole number of Republicans from tho
Confederate army nono.
Wholo number of Democrats from
neithor army in
Wholo number of Republicans from
neither army 113
These are statistics which the people,
especially ex-Union soldiers, will do
well to study and preserve.
The Evil and Its Remedy.
Tho witnesses who have testified be
fore the Congressional committee en
gaged in investigating the exodus of
colored people from the South to the
North and West ngree in ascribing its
cause to be the Democratic misrule in
the South to the fact that, under the
Democratic State Governments in the
South, the negro is hopeless of protec
tion for his life, liberty, property, or
civil or political rights. He is cheated,
oppressed, bulldozed and robbed; and
the courts, tho laws and tho authorities
afford bim no redress or protection.
Testimony from all other sources is
universally to tho same effect. The
facts of history also tell the same story.
After the war, when the former slaves
were liberated, many timid Democrats
prophesied that the blacks would pres
ently overrun tho North, and disturb
the work and wages of the white work
ingmen. But the blacks did not come
North. On the contrary, for a couple
or three years, there was a perceptible
emigration of blacks from the North to
the south. So long as the Republican
party held rule in tho South there was
no exodus. Even tho Ku-Klux atroci
ties could not and did not drive tho
macks from tne south, so long ns
there was any present hope of a speedy
return of the Republican party to power
in ine souin, tne blacks bore all the
atrocities perpetrated upon them, ond
clung to their native soil with patient
fidelity. They aro a homo-loving race.
They like the climate of the South and
us pnysical conditions ot lite, li re
quired tho very strongest motives to
wrench them from the South and drive
them into exile. The exodus did not
begin until the Democratic party had
taken sure possession not onlv of most.
but ol au tne southern states. Then,
when there was no longer any prospect
of Republican homo rule, when polit
ical hope was extinguished then, and
not till then, did tho colored peonlo re
luctantly and sadly, as tho last resort
of despair, begin their exodus out of
the land of oppression into the land of
freedom and equal rights. These are
the indisputable facts of the causes aud
bistory of Uie exodus.
This exodus has only just begun.
There are abundant Bigns that it may
increase prodigiously that if tho same
causes continue and magnify, it- will
increase prodigiously. 1 las is a pros
pect which seriously troubles a good
many people, and not entirely without
cause.
Of course tho Northern Demoorats
are troubled because of their prejudices,
Thousands of Northern workingmen,
however, believe that the exodus pos
sesses features ruinous to their inter
ests. Their fears are not entirely base
less as to a few localities, though
baseless as to the country or any State
as a wholo. The migration of laborers
may become so large as to affect the la
bor market seriously in places; but,
course, taking the country as a whole,
wages muse rise in tho South from the
loss of laborers even more than they
can possibly fall in scattered parts
the North through an influx of labor-
ers,
If the South loses any large share
of her colored population, she will be
compelled to offer better opportunities
nuu oener n cauiioiii, ui eeiiieni iioui
the North. But the labor market of the
North and West is too immense to
appreciably affected, except in scattered
spots, by any influx of labor. We can
absorb millions from Europe; and
mill ion more or less from tho South will
hardly be felt,
Nevertheless those Democrat, those
workingmen, and those of any or nil
classes who distrust or dinlike an inllux
in large masses of colored laboring peo
ple from tho South can soo plainly the
oauso of it, nbove pointed out; and the
cause suggests the remedy. Many wit
nesses, some before the Congressional
Committee and others from elsewhere,
have already uttered this warning that
a Democratic victory in this year I elec
tions will certainly produce au enormous
exodus of colored people from the South
to tho North. On tho other hand, a
sweeping Republican victory will at
once arrest, if not extinguish, the exo
dus. The negroes are Hying from Dem
ocratic misrule. If the elections of
18M0 eon li mi and strengthen Democrat
ic misrule, the negroes will rise in mass
es and lly from the South. If tho Re
publicans elect a President and Con
gress, tho negroes will feel a revival of
hope, and cense to fly from tho South.
Especially if the Republicans carry some
of the Southern States, so as to give
promise of a revival of Republieon rule
in tho South to even a moderate extent,
or of such check to Democratic misriilo
as should correct its worst abuses, then
the exodus will cease, and some of
those who havo come North may re
turn to the South.
To all such as distrust or fear tho
exodus we have simply this advice to
give: if you do not want the North
overrun by colored refugees from the
South, vote the Republican ticket, and
elect a Republican President and Con
gress. If you do wish tho exodus to
Sow all over the North, vote the Demo
cratic ticket and elect a Democratic
President and Congress, and you cer
tainly will see Southern refugees in
vading every Northern State in large
numbers. Tho way to check the ex
odus is to secure the Southern negroes
a just Government where they aro, and
a National Government disposed to se
cure the common rights of nil men.
The way to increase tho exodus is to
encourage the Southern Democrats in
their misrule, and to deprive the ne
groes of all hope in the South, by
choosing tho Confederate Democratic
party to rule the Nation. In this as in
other matters, the road to peace, and
safetv, and quiet, is through justice and
equal rights to all men; while tho road
to further disturbances and all tho ills
which are dreaded is through the tri
umph of the oppressors. These are the
plain and manifest lessons of the exo
dus, which the voters of the country
should wisely heed and act upon. De
troit Post anil Tribune.
POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS.
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A small bar'l has been tapped in
Maryland, aud thut State will soon add
its pipe to the stentorian voice of Ne
braska, in booming for Sammy Tilden.
So tho ball rolls on. Lincoln (tfeb.)
Journal.
JUST' The Pennsylvania Democracy
seems to bo ns hopelessly split up as tho
New lork Democracy. 1 lie rivalry be
tween Randall and Wallace is stronger
than ever, and tho hope of a reconcilia
tion between these gentlemen is as far
off' as ever. How those Democrats love
each other!
JPa?" Hugo Prever, a socialistic green
back blatherskite, has written to a St.
Louis sympathizer to tho effect that the
time has arrived when the United States
Government should lie abolished, and
that all that is needed is a leader with
sufficient nerve and brains to preach re
pudiation ana revolution.
J6ay Ignatius Donnelly, of Minnesota,
who is contesting the seat of Washburn
in Congress, wauts an investigation.
He would want anything that would
servo to keep him before tho country
and add to his somewhat questionable
notoriety. Donnelly ia a very small
sample of his"class. Exchange.
JiSS Dan Voorhees having so misera
bly failed in his exodus investigation is
now trying to hedge by complaining
of tho threatening letters he is receiv
ing. Wo hope the committee will call
for all such letters. The only danger
to Dan, so far as lotters go, is from
those ho writes himself. The dodge is
a very thin one, Daniel. Kansas City
Journal.
J5 General Leslie Coombs, tho vet
eran Keutuckian whose age was a mat
ter of profound speculation in the last
century, rejects with scorn the sugges
tion of tho reuomination of your Uncle
Samuel. He pronounces tho peaceful
uhilosonher of Gramercv lily-livered
and lacking gall, and declares that if
"the Republican nominee is anything
short of being a horse-thief or a house
breaker ho will beat Tilden." Chicago
Tunes, Ind.)
Jfcaf Considerable testimony has been
taken by tho Congressional Committee
investigating the causes of tho exodus
of the colored people from the South.
Nothing particularly new has been
elicited, but one testilied that a refugee,
on being questioned regarding tho
danger the colored peoplo ran in vot
inn-, said: If I vote the Republican
ticket, 1 wakes up next morning in a
graveyard." Unit s what st lie matter,
ami you nave it, air. vooruees, in a
nutshell. Chicago Journal.
Stff" Solon Chase pays his respects to
tne Democratic party ol Maine in the
following words: " The Democracy in
this State has dwindled to an insignili
caut third party. It has for ca.ss stones
the old Bourbon leaders, who hold
themselves above ' common neonlo.' bv
reason of their wealth and superior cul
ture, but the ground tier is all gone ex
cept in a few cities. To 'fuse' with such
a party Is to lie down with a dead man
ami iigut i nu iiepuoncans lieu to a
corpse that has got a record blacker
than the ace of spades."
tejy Ignatius Donnelly has written a
virtuously indignant letter to the House
Committee on Elections demanding au
investigation ns to the authorship btthe
anonymous letter sent to Mr. Springer.
There is scarcely a particle of doubt
that Finley wrote the letter, and as he
and Donnelly wore hunting in couples
it is liar lly worth while for tho latter to
become virtuously indignant at tho sus
picion that ho was a party to the trans
action. Donnelly is effectually done
for, and he might as well reooguize the
fact.
Swff' It is evident that Ben Hill, whose
character is just now patched in many
places wilh black court-plaster, is the
real mover and engineer of the infa
mous scheme to unseat Senator Kel
logg, and seat the pretender Spoflbrd
in his place. There is considerable
doubt whether that scheme will suc
ceed; but Hill has managed to commit
the Democratic party to ft, to at least a
damaging extent. It will constitute a
preceaeiiu ii it succeeus, wuicn win ex
cuse the kicking out of the Senate of
any Democratic Senator provided it
were possible for any other political
jiurty to follow so dishonorable a pre
cedent the moment there is a change
in the political majority iu tho Senate.
VUroil runt aiul Tribune.
Desperate Democratic Devices.
There seems to be no end to tho
various devices employed by the des
perate Democracy to steal the Presi
dency at tho next election. Disfran
chisement, corruption, brilxry, for
gery, perjury, bulldozing anil ballot
box stuffing havo already been cm-
loyed to defeat tho will of tho ma
orfty In pursuance of tho advicei sent
out from (iramercy Pnrk. The sanio
infamous system of theft which was at
tempted in South Carolina and Oregon
has been also applied iu Maine und
Minnesota, but without effect. The
most recent efforts In thi;i direction np-
fiear in Indiana nud Delaware, where
nilldozing and disfranchisement are
the most favorite methods. In the town
elections in the former State on Mon
day the Mississippi plan was adopted
with gratifying success. In Shelby
County a genuine Yiwoo mob surrouud
od the polls and refused to let, negroes
vote, though they presented tho properly-attested
affidavits of citizenship.
If they insisted upon their rights, they
were set upon nud liea'eu. If while
Republicans interfered to protect them,
they were awarded the same treat
ment, and, as tho Democratic roughs
and bullies outnumbered the respoct
ablo voters, of course there was no dif
ficulty in driving awf y tho negroes, and
by preventing them from voting a big
Democratic majority was secured. It
adds to the infamy of this outrage that
tho mob was headed by the Democratic
county officials. Thus the Yazoo plan
was successfully inaugurated iu a North
ern State, and wo have the spectacle ut
our very doors of mob-rule at tho polls,
and Democratic officials preventino
citizens from voting by violence and
bloodshed.
In Delaware tho plan by which tho
Democrats propose to keep control
docs not involve violence, but an inge
nious plan of disfranchisement. Appa
rently there is no motive for disfran
chisement, as Delaware has always been
strongly Democratic, and has been the
political property of the Bayards and
Saulsburys. But during the last year
things nave taken a iiiiini-ent turn. 1 n
dissensions iu the Republican factions
have been healed, so that the party is
solid and in better shape than it has
been for ten or fifteen years past, while
the dissatisfaction with the Democratic
rings has driven many business-men
over to tho Republicans. That the
Democratic leaders fear they may lose
the Stale is evidenced by their scheme
to disfranchise Republican voters. Ihe
Wilmington correspondent of tho New
lork Inbune, in forecasting the politi
cal condition of the State, savs:
To Justify furthor their hopeiiilnoss those
gentlemen say f hut the t'ouniy of Newcastle,
Ineiudinur the Lily of iliiuuirtoii. has a loirit-
imate Republican majority of NM; that the
County of Kent, which ued to onset Newcti--tle,
will not glvo a Democratic majority this
your of over UH0: nud that Sussex, tho remain-
liitt county, is close, tho Democratic majority
nuving been cut down In recent years to liio.
Thus, if tho Republicans cull do as well ns
thevhave already done in two of Iho three
counties, and as well as they have reason for
thinking they can do In the third, tlio State
will bo Theirs next November wilh. its throe
Electoral votes. Indooil, they Insist thut if tho
r.lei-tion 1 mvs were of a kind to eneouniij-e In
stead of binder a full Republican vote, their
majority would be at least 2.0JJ.
It is in the application of these laws
that the Democratic lenders are seek
ing to disfranchise Republican voters
and to keep control of tho Electoral
votes next fall. The law provides that
before a man can vote lie must be as
sessed for n tax, and must bring his tax
receipt to the polls, and, of course, was
originally intended to wipo out tho
negro vote as far as possible. Under
the law, tho list of taxpayers is printed
toward the end of February, and three
days are allowed for correction. If a
voter is not put on the list by bis
Assessor and fails to get on the amend
ed list, the only way he can get his
name there is by tho application to tho
Levy Court in person to have himself
assessed. If therefore, a person does
not get on the assessment by tho 1st of
April, cither through tho Assessor or
the Court, he is disfranchised for a
year, and equally if he is assessed and
fails to pay his tax within a specified
time, though ho may ofl'or to pay tax
and penalties many t'iuies over. Taking
advantago of these provisions, the
Assessors, under instructions from high
official authority, omitted thousands of
names of Republicans from tho lists,
for the most part names of col
ored men, but including also many
whites who had paid their taxes
regularly for vears. They evi
dently considered that the negroes
were too ignorant to discover the omis
sion, or, if they should discover it, that
they were too jioor to go to county-seats
and appear before tho Levy Courts.
The Republican leaders, however, have
discovered the swindle and are making
every effort to thwart it by bringing the
voters before the Levy Courts, though
even in tho courts, which aro Demo
cratic and do the bidding of tho lead
ers, their efforts nre impeded by delays
and the consumption of the' utmost
possible time on each case. But having
obtained the appointment of Federal
Supervisors of Registration, something
hitherto unknown in Delaware, they
hope to make a stand against this out
rage and obtain their rights. The feel
ing of indignation is intense among the
business-men of Delaware, who are Re
publicans. The party did not go into
tho election of 178 at all, though it had
polled 10,752 votes for Hayes out of a
total of 24,135. and under a fair assess
ment list could poll 13,000 votes: but
this year it is going iu. The New York
Timet correspondent thus represents
tl(.e feeling iu Wilmington:
lly the aid of the United States law they
hope to vot something like fair play. Whoth
or not Ihey can "carry tho Stale is not the
uuestiou. It Is not merely mutter of con-
tending nan it-s and struggling partisans, but
one ustiy bigh-r-whethoi half or more ihim
half 1hu citi.i-nslill) of Ihe State is to bo
stripped of Its franchise, und whether by it
systematic uittptiiulaiioii or tne Mutes lane
Hons, 1-1.1100 of its voiers are to bo rclui-ed to
political bondage by another 11.0 0. Thera U
a princlplo involved that men h-ro hto con
tending for. They are dcplv iu earnest. They
tool indiirniint. as thov have a right to feel.
'J'hey menu to test to "bo bluer end the eupniv
Iv ot their partisan opponents to lo tiiem
further wrong and outrugo ill the clocl ions of
tho piosont year.
Now, let it bo remembered that these
Democratic outrages aro not in South
ern States which havo never been jiroji-
erly reconstructed, but m Northern
States where it litis been supposed laws
were obeyed and all classes ol people
had the riiriit to vote; una let it be
further remembered that in each case
these outrages havo been ordered by
high oflicial authority. Tho frequent
recurrence of these outrages shows tho
desperation of the Democratic leaders
and their conviction that they can only
succeed next fall by theft of fraud, and
that if there is an honest election they
will be defeated beyond all hope of re
demption. It behooves Republicans
everywhere to be ou the alert against
tho unscrupulous and desperate trick
ery that emanates from Graniercy Park,
aud is practiced by its agents iu the
North, now that tho South is considered
to be solid. Chicago Iribune
JSnay"-Vice-President Wheeler will prol
tibly be a wemi'or of the next Cougros .
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
Prof. Werner's great picture, "The
Congress of Berlin," will shortly be
completed and hung in tho festival room
of the Berlin City Hall.
Prince Dkmiuoff intends to build a
new palace at Pratoleno, near Florence,
Italy, and ho invites the leading archi
tects of the world to compete in furnish
ing designs.
Sin Baciie Cunard is now the owner
of Nevill's Holt, Leicestershire, one of
tho oldest places in England. It be
longed up to a very few years ago to
the Ncvills, who had held it for many
centuries, and contained one of the
most curious collections in England. It
was purchased by Sir Bache's brother,
who was recently killed while playing
at polo.
When the days lengthen the Empress
of Austria rises at six in the morning
and goes to hoar mas9 in the private
chapel near her apartments. She next
proceeds to the stables ana runng
school. Her favorito horses know well
her light stop and clear voice, and greet
her approach with a sort of affectionate
neighing. She olten takes her exercise
for hours in one of the riding-rooms,
especially if her sister, the (jdoen of
Naplps, is present to accompany her,
and their only attendant is an old Irish
man, who is the chief horse-breaker of
her stud. She loves not only to train
her horses to jump the bars, but also to
develop their intelligence bv teaching
them to fetch a pocket-handkerchief or
other articles.
A fair young bride has been selected
for the future Emperor-King of Austria-
Hungary by his parents, and tho wed-
uing win tiiKO pi lire snomy alter uiu
completion of the newly-betrothed
Princess's sixteenth year. Stephanie
Clotildo, Princess of tho lielgtans and
Duchess of Saxony, the second daughter
of King Jeoiwld 11. ana uneen fliane-
Henrictte, was born on the 21st of May,
18U-1, and is therefore nearly six years
younger than her intended husband, the
Crown Trince Rudolph of Hapsburg-
Lorraine, who will celebrate his twenty-
second birthday Aug. 21. Tho united
ages of this juvenile conple barely make
up tho small total of 38. Tho Archduke
and his fiancee are third cousins.
Value of Red Clover.
Vert few plants produce as much or
as valuable food for stock as red clover.
It makes excellent hay, although it is
more difficult to cure than tho common
grasses. Hogs will not do well on
grass, but they will thrive in a clover
pasture They will even eat quantities
of clover after it is cured. The cheapest
way to keep hogs during tho summer is
to give them the run of a clover pasture
well supplied with water. Clover pro
duces a large amount of milk which has
a pleasant aroma. Sheop are very fond
of clover, either in the green or dried
state. Clover affords in this region ex
cellent pasturage for all kinds of stock
Into in tlio season. Many of tho grasses
that produce much food in the early
part of the season afford very little after
the drouth that ordinarily provails dur
ing August. Clover, however, takes a
' second start," and grows very rapidly
on the occasion of the first considerable
rainfall.
Most crops exhaust the fertility of the
soil very rapidly, but growing clover
tends to render land more productive
No plant produced by farmers takes so
largo a proportion of its sustenance
from the atmosphere as clover. It ap
propriates various gases, hurtful to man,
from the air, nnd supplies the places
they oceupica withoxjgen ana perfume
Tho roots of clover extend deep into
the ground, and bring to the surface
substances that the roots of other plants
do not reach. On these accounts clover
is the best crop to raise for plowing
under. 1 lie cheapest if not the quick
est way to render worn-out soils pro
ductive is to raise a crop of red clover
on them and to turn it under the second
year after sowing. A somewhat slight
dressing of barn-yard manuro or com
nicrcial fertilizers, followed bv nlaster
as a top dressing, will cause a luxuriant
growth of clover which contains nearly
all the elements of fertility.
In many parts of Europe, and in
some sections of this country, clover
seed is sown in the fall. But our climate
is not favorable to this practice. Unless
there aro timely rains during the early
part of autumn, the plants make a
small growth before tho approach of
cold weather. In an open winter like
tho present one they have no protection,
and the repeated freezing and thawing
of the soil causes the roots to be thrown
out and killed. Red clover seed should
bo sown as early in the spring as the
soil is in condition to be stirred. Some
advocate sowing it on land prepared tho
previous full, aud allow the frost and
rain to cover it. Others sow it on a late
snow, if there chances to be one. While
clover seed should be in the ground
very early in tho spring there is little
gain in tho matter of growth in sowing
it before the frost is out of the ground.
Chicago Times.
Which Shall It Be, Cattle or Grain.
Both. A mixed husbandry is safest
for tho masses. Tho South has suffered
from scarcity of meat and milk, and
plethora of corn and cotton. Many a
Minnesota farmer has helped to feed
the East and England, while he has
boon destitute of milk for his coffee, or
butter for his superabundant bread. It
has been repeatedly shown that those
countries which produce corn and cat
tle most largely, boast a higher land
valuation than the great wheat coun
tries. It is not only in Indiana and Illi
nois, but in tho new State of Iowa as
well where spring wheat has ever been
a speciality. Taking a broad view of
the future requirements for meat and
bread, we see that it is tho policy of all
nations (Great Britain alone excepted)
to produce their bread at homo. They
dare not risk dependence in so vital a
matter. If a bad harvest makes a small
doficioncy, it can probably be made
good; a very abundant harvest may
give a small surplus. Meat is
less bulky and will better bear
tho expense of transportation; so
tho use of meat by European nations
is increasing, and the price has steadily
increased during tho past thirty years.
Ou the contrary, wheat, with tempora
ry fluctuations, is no higher than in the
long ago. James Caii a says the cost of
bread in England was a farthing per
pound both in 1770 and 1878, while
meat advanced from three and one-half
to nine pence between 1850 and 1878.
The recent aud unprecedented foreign
demand for wheat is tho result, iu part,
of a series of extraordinary crop failures
which will not permanently continue.
The enlarged demand for meat is in far
higher degree the result of causes more
permanent in their operation. The
outlook for meat is, therefore, better
than for grain. Yet both will be ro
quired, as population increases, in
rapidly enlarging rjuaiitii ies, jiural
A'i Yorker,
gmgsbnrg gonrnil.
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Prehistoric Relics.
We believe ftH the most eminent ge-.
ologists now admit that the hemisphere
called " the New World " is really the
older of the two ; this interesting, if not'
important, fact having been ascertained,
by elaborate geological investlgntiort
and comparison. It has also been dis
covered that the horse an animal sup"
posed to have been unknown in America
until the European invasion existed,
here Innumerable ages before ; and tho
fossil remains found by Prof. Marsh in
the far West, and now in the museum
at Yale College, furnished Huxley with
indisputable proof of the truth
of the evolution theory which.
that distinguished scientist utilized in
his lectures delivered in New York.'
The ancient river gravels of California1
have produced rude stone implements'
of various kinds, which, in the opinion
oi tnoso competent to judge, indicate
that human beings lived and died on the
Pacific coast during or before the glacial
perioa. xsow we nave a report of re
cent archir-ological explorations in Kan
sas by Judge E. P. West, which points
still more strongly in the same direction-.
" The geology of the region explored is
simple. Prior to the drift opochsthe
river channels were doeper"than now,
and the river valleys lower. Subse
quently the valleys were tided by a la
custTian deposit of considerable depth,
and beneath this deposit the remains of
an extinct race occur." They have
been found in seven dfferent counties
along the line of the Kansas Pacific
Railroad, or near it; and, with a single
exception, on the second bottom or ter
race of streams. In the majority of
cases they were struck in digging wells,
and at a depth of fronrtwenty to thirty
ieet oeiow tne sunace oi tne sou. They
consist of stone and bone implements,
pottery, and fragments of human skel
etons. From the fact that in the seven
counties there is not more than one well
to the square mile, and that the space
covered by a well is very small, it ia
thought the population must have been
very largo in the prehistoric era ; for it
hardly seems probable that tho wells
happened to hit upon the only spots;
where there are any remains. Judge
West says :
" Here we have a buried race en
wrapped in a profound and startling
mystery a race whose appearance
and exit in the world's drama precedes
stupendous geological changes marking
our continent, and which, perhaps, r
quired hundreds of thousands of years'
in their accomplishment. Tbe prize is
no less than determining when this
mysterious people lived, how they
lived, when they passed out of ex
istence, and why they became ex
tinct." There is no reason to suppose that'Kan
sas is an exception to the rule, and wo
are justified in assuming that many
other States and Territories, if proper-,
ly examined, would prove equally rich
in similar relics. Indeed, we know from
the Hayden survey that Southwestern'
Colorado was once peopled by a race
which had made very considerable prog-,
ress in civilization, and the immense
earthworks raised in Ohio and else-'
where by the so-called " mound build-'
ers" are equally emphatic testimony
which is supplemented by something
still more curious, the ruins of palaces
and temples in Central America. But,
of course, the remains in California and
Kansas are immeasurably older than
any thing yet found in Colorado, Ohio,
or Central America. They can not be
much, if any, younger than those dis
covered in tho valley of the Somme in
France, or in the South of England
caves.
So archreology as well as geology,
shows that the New World is old, very
old; how old it is impossible to even'
guess. If this antiquity only belonged
to the dull forms of inanimate nature, it
would scarcely provoke a passing
thought from other than a scientific,
mind ; but when it embraces beings like,
ourselves, what a lesson is con
veyed thereby. The single sim-;
Ele ' fact that tens, probably
undrods, of thousands of years:
before tho period which theological
chronology assigns for tho creation of
the world, men, women and children
lived in this Western hemisphere, played
their parts in the strange and sail drama
of human existence, and passed away
: . o- : . i.:.ii . I . . i i . T r
us Huinuieub lu &,iuuiu tuej comesi im
agination. Who were theyP What:
did they believe? How much or littlo
light did they have to guide them from
the cradle to the grave P " How lived,
how loved, how died they P" We can not ,
conceive that our civilization, our so
ciety, our arts, our religion, will ever '
be so thoroughly demolished and
swept away as theirs have been. X)oubti
less they thought theirs were immortal;'
yet all that is left of them and theirs .
only serves as material for geologists.'
archaiologists and antiquarians to quar
rel over. What right have we to pre
sume that we shall be any more fortun
ate P that ten, fifty, or a hundred thou-:
sand years hence, our scattered and un-'
recognizable relics will not be food for'
the scientific discussions of another
race? Verily, " what shadows we are, .
and what shadows we pursue!" St.,
Louis Republican. . , ,
New "Distinctive" Paper.
Tite Government's now "distinctive";
paper U. S. notes on the new ' dis-,
tiuctive" paper have been printed,
and are now being issued ' by
the Treasury Department. The notes
on the new paper have a different. ap-
pearance from the old notes. The pa.,
HT is darker and gives the note a do-,
cidedly different look. The fiber in the
new paper is silk and of various color. 1
Tho first paper on which the notes now
issued are printed has not fiber enough.
On the face of the new notes series of,
1880," the seal to the left of the picture
in the center has disappeared, Tbe
words "one dollar," "the one word,
printed through the other, have a large .
seal printed over and surroui.ding them.
The red eclipse that surrounded these
two words in the old note has disap
peared. WuMngton SUtr. - i
Chinese Colonies in Louisiana.
There are two or three settlements'
of Chinese located on the shores of Lake
Borgne, who manage to eke out an ex-'
istence by catching shrimps and raising
rice. In one of these settlements there
are nearly 300 of the celestials, who
have a large extent of laud under culti
vation. They are industrious and en
ergetio workers, and try to make out of
the land every thing it will possibly
yield. They send np supplies of shrimps'
to the stall-keepers at the French mar
ket, and in this way get enough money .
to supply thuui with the more pressing ,
necessaries of life. -V. O. 7'imts.
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Ex-Premieb Gl.lfSTONl states that
Lord Dei by has definitively joined the
Liberal party of England, .-.
Kyba crtipe is the latest imported
noyglty in dretw good.
