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VOLUME XXIX.
CANTON, MISS., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1870.
NUMBER 40.
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CURRENT TOPICS.
Til National Lilieral .League met at
Cincinnati on the l:!lh, for the purpose
of forming a new party. About 300
delegates were present, representing
nearly every Statu in the I'nion. A
preliminary declaration ami platform
was adopted. It is very long, anil re
solves, among other things, that the
general motive of the National Liln-ral
party Is to realize more fully than has
ever yet been done the main obji-ct of a
Government by the eople as expressed
in the Declaration of Independence and
preamble of the Constitution of the
L'liitetl States; that to secure these
purposes a new part3- is necessary to
atlminister and reform the whole Na
tional and State (governments. The
principles enunciated are equal and ex
act justice to all men, of whatever state
or persuasion, religion or politics ; pence,
commerce and honest friendship with
all nations, hut entangling alliances
with none; the support of the State
Governments in all their rights as the
most competent administrators of our
domestic concerns and the surest bul
warks against anti-republican tenden
cies; the preservation of the General
Government in its whole constitutional
vigor; freedom of religion, of the press,
and of persons ; protection of the habeas
corpus and trial by juries impar
tially selected. Lalor reforms
of various kinds are asked for
and legislation against tramps eom
demned. Keforms in the currency, in
the use and occupation of lands, female
emancipation, universal compulsory sec
ular education, the election of all public
officers directly by the people, the re
peal of all Sabbath, sumptuary and
temperance laws are also demanded.
Hon. Elizur Wright was re-eleeted
President. Among the principal speak
ers were Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Prof.
Toohcy of Boston, and Elder Evans,
the Shaker, of Lebanon, N. Y. The
President of the League was author
ized to call a National Convention at
his discretion to nominate candidates
for President and Vice-President in
im.
Tub monthly crop report of the le
partniont of Agriculture shows a heavy
decline in cotton during August, the
general average being 85 against 91 for
the month previous. Corn 95 against
93 for August. Tobacco is put at 87, an
advance of 10 per cent, from the Au
gust condition anil an increase of 6 per
vent, over the condition at the same
time last year.
The celebration of the iniarter-centeii-ni:d
of tin; settlement of Kansas, held at
liismarck Grove on the 15th and IC.th,
Wits a grand success, fully 20,000 people
being present. Col. John W. Forney of
Philadelphia delivered the principal ad
dress. Other prominent speakers were
Gov. St. John, ex-Gor. Charles Robin
son, Col. Anthony of Leavenworth,
Mayor Usher of Lawrence, George W.
' Julian of Indiana, and Edward E. Hale
of Boston.
The distress among the lain ring classes
throughout Great Britain is becoming a
matter of great national concern. The
Mayor of Middlesborough writes to the
Home Secretary: ."Trade has not re
vived here, and great distress in the dis
trict has so .seriously affected those
who previously subscribed . to re
lief funds that our local resources
are not to lie depended upon. I am,
, therefore, obliged to ask for Govern
ment assistance." As a proof of the
depression in trade, the Chairman of
the Annual Congress of the Trades
Unions stated that four of the principal
. Unions spent .. 260,000 iu relieving
members during the past year.
To add to the unavoidable distress, in
the large cotton manufacturing towns of
A.hton and Preston thousands of work
men are voluntarily idle on account of
strikes ; and a recent Glasgow dispatch
says that in consequence of a strike of
the workingmen 54 iron furnaces have
licen blown out in Scotland, rendering
3,000 men idle.
Jkffersox Davis has written a letter
. to the editor of the Brookliavcn (Miss.)
'Ledger, in reply to the question whether
he would permit his name to go before
the next Legislature as a candidate for
United States Senator. Mr. Davis says
no, and gives a number of reasons
why. The vital issue before the
country, . he thinks, is the con
test between " State rights and
consolidation; all oilier questions
Jie considers subordinate and easily ad
justed. He says: "In the Northern
mind there is an unreasoningopposition
to the doctrine of State rights; and my
assertion of it, with whatever conclu
sions were necessarily deducible there
from, hits made me the special object of
sectional hostility. It has, therefore,
followed that others could say, without
creating excitement, that, the like of
t which, if uttered by me, would
be swollen and distorted for use.
in partisan agitation." . . .
" Did I desire to return to political life,
the considerations herein presented
would outweigh that desire. But the
fact is the reverse. To the public con
siderations given might lie added pri
vate reasons which, conjointly, under
existing circumstances, render me averse
to public station. You are authorized
to annonnce that my name will not be,
with my consent, included among the
candidates for the United States Senate
to represent Mississippi in that body."
The Massachusetts Republican State
Convention was held at "Worcester on
the llth. The ticket chosen was as fol
lows: For Governor, John D.
long; ' Liiutenant-tiovcrnor, Byron
Weston; Attorney-General, ;. W.
Marston; Auditor, Charles K.
Ladd; Secretary of State, Henry K.
Pierre: Treasurer ami Receiver, linrles
Kndieott. The platform declares that
"the United Slates is a Nation, ami
that while local self-government in
all matters that In-long to the States
I should be fully recognized, the
j National Government should secure
I to its citizens, from whom it
claims allegiance, complete liberty and
; exact equality in the exercise of their
I civil and political rights." The Demo
cratic party is taken to task for its al- j
leged "defiant declaration of a purpose j
to reneal laws made necessary bv the!
War and enacted to secure the re
sults of the War." The Repub
lican party is congratulated upon
the fulfillment of its promises " to main
tain national honor and to preserve na
tional credit." President Hayes is
thanked for "his firm and patriotic
course in maintaining the constitutional
prerogative of the Executive," etc., etc.
General Sherman has written a let
ter declining to attend a reunion of Con
federate anil Federal soldiers at Salis
bury, N. C He says: "There were a
very few I'nion soldiers in North Caro
lina during the War (though we lielicve
the people generally were opposed to se
cession and war), so that your meeting,
which is confined to the surviving sol
diers of North Carolina, will be, in fact,
a Confederate reunion, where I would
certainly be out of place. All soldiers
in their social reunions glorify their
deeds of heroism, and this reunion will
hardly be an exception, ami it would be
a strange sight for General Sherman to
cheer the victories of his enemies anil
res)Mnd to the claim that, because the
soldiers of North Carolina were brave
and true to their State and section, their
cause was sacred as ours, which finally
triumphed and made our I'nion more
glorious and more resplendent than be
fore." The Massachusetts Butler Democrats,
so called, held a State Convention at
Worcester on the 17th and nominated
the following ticket of State officers :
For Governor, Benjamin F. Butler;
Lieutenant-Governor, A. C. Wood
worth ; Secretary of State, Michael J.
Donohue; Treasurer, D. N. Stallings;
Auditor, I). S.King: Attorney-General,
William D. Northeml.
The British troops have captured King
Cctewayo.
Indian Aok.nt Meeker, at theAVhile
River (Colo.) Agency, reorts that the
Ute Indians have revolted, burned the
farm buildings, and declared they will
do no more farming. Mr. Meeker was
personally assaulted and driven (mm
his house by Chief Johnson.
The Indians are since reiiorted
to bo raiding along White and Bear
Rivers. Troops have been ordered to
the Agency. It is supiiosed that the
prospecting and mining in National
Park, which is the hunting ground of
the Utes, h:is excited the outbreak.
More complete returns from the
Fourth Congressional District of Cali
fornia show the electionof Berry, Dem
ocrat, instead of McKenna, Republican,
as heretofore reported.
President Haves made an address
at Youngstown, ()., on the 17th, the oc
casion being a reunion of his old regi
ment, the Twenty-third Ohio. He spoke
mainly regarding the political issues de
termined by the War, chief among
which, he said, was the doctrine of
State rights, which ho construed to
mean that each State was sovereign and
supreme and might nullify the laws of
the Union or secede from the Union at
pleasure, and the recent Constitutional
amendments. These questions, though
generally regarded as settled, he said,
had been revived by recent, events,
and there still remains in some
communities a dangerous practical de
nial to the colored citizens of the politi
cal rights guaranteed them by the Con
stitution as it now is. "No man," he
said, " can truthfully claim that he faith
fully accepts the true settlements of the
War, who sees with indifference the Fif
teenth Amendment practically nullified.1
In conclusion he said : " All that is
needed for the permanent pacification
of the country is the cordial co-operation
of all well disposed citizens to secure the
faithful observance of the equal-rights
amendments of the Constitution.11
The Massachusetts Independent Con
vention, held at Worcester on the 18th,
indorsed the nomination of Gen. Butler
for Governor and the remainder of the
State ticket nominated .by the Butler
Democratic Convention. Gen. Butler
has now received the indorsement of
three distinct organizations the Greenback-Labor
party, the Butler Demo
crats, so called, and the Independents.
A meeting of citizens of Memphis,
temporarily resident in St. Louis, has
been held to consider plans for improv
ing the sanitary condition of the city. A
number of leading tax-payers were
present. A proper system of sewerage,
the substitution of stone for wood pave
ment, and the improvement of the Bayou
Gayoso were the three principal
things considered. A resolution was
adopted that the improvements proposed
are necessary to make the city - habita
ble, and that they were willing to pay
any tax necessary for that purpose. It
was recommended that the Governor be
requested to call a special session of the
Legislature, in order to give the city full
authority to prosecute the work.
The New York papers contain the re
port that the Texas & Pacific Railroad
is to be immediately and vigorously
pushed westward. Colonel Thomas A.
Scott, who lately returned from Europe,
having made all the necessary financial
arrangement to bring about that much
desired result while abroad.
Hon. James G.Jenkins of Milwau
kee, a prominent lawyer and politician, '
has been nominated for Governor of!
Wisconsin by the Dsmocratio State Con- !
tral Committee, in place of Hon. Alex- i
antler Mitchell, declined. j
- I
Additional particulars regarding the
revolt in Afghanistan, received up to the
20th, are as follows: The troops at
Herat mutinied and murdered all the
civil and military authorities. The
Viceroy has notified the Ameer that a
strong British force will march speedily
on Cabul to his relief. The re
ply of the Amccr is that he
has so far preserved himself anil
family by the good offices of those who
were friendly to hini, and hopes for an
opportunity of showing his sincere
frendship for the British Government,
and of securing his good name before
the world. It is believed in many quar
ters that the Ameer is playing false with
the British Government, and is really in
league with the insurrectionists.
The Colorado Republican Stale Con
vention was held at Denver on the llth
and nominated Hon. Thomas M. Bowen
for Judge of the Supreme Court, the
only officer to be elected this year. The
Convention adopted a resolution pledg
ing the vote of ('(dorado for Gen. Grant
for ""resident, should he decide to be
come a candidate.
General Conway has been iu con
sultation with Governor St. Jolm of
Kansas in reference to the negro exodus
movement. It has been determined to
hereafter direct the course of the emi
grants to the older Western States,
where there is now a -very considerable
demand for their labor. There an;
none of the refugees in Kansas, it is
said, now depending on charity.
.
General Grant arrived at San Fran
cisco, in the steamer City of Tokio, on
the evening of the 20lh. The most
elalKirato preparations had been made
for his reception, and nearly the entire
population of the city seem to have turned
out to witness his arrival. The ap
proaching steamer was met outside the
harlnir by a tug containing the reception
committee and various officials, and
they were subsequently joined by
the l". S. steamer MePher
son, with General McDowell on
board, and a large flotilla of
smaller steamers, yachts, etc., the whole
gayly decorated with flags, and present
ing to the view of the assembled thou
sands who covered the adjacent hillsides
a most magnificent and novel pageant.
As they came up the bay, cannon thun
dered from the various forts anil batte
ries and cheer after cheer rent the air.
Arrived at the pier, (Jen. Grant was met
by the Mayor, who made a brief ad
dress of welcome and tendered him the
freedom and hospitalities of tin
city. Gen. Grant responded in
a few brief sentences, and was
then conducted to his carriage and took
place in the grand procession, military
and civic, that escorted him to the tfttl
aee Hotel. The houses along the entire
route of the procession were handsomely
decorated and illuminated, and many
triumphal arches spanned the streets,
while a continuous blaze of fireworks
addeil brilliancy to the scene. The Gen
eral expected to spend several weeks in
and about San Francisco and the Pa
cific coast, and will probably reach Chi
cago about Nov. 5. Mrs. Grant accom
panies him in all his travels.
PERSONAL AND' POLITICAL.
Liett. Smith S. Leach has been
made disbursing oflicrcr of the Mississippi
River Commission, by the direction of Sec
retary of War MeCrary.
PiiESOOTT J. PiLi.snrijy, the default
ing Cashier of the Lawrence National It:iuk
of Lawrence, Mass., has been given a mini
mum sentence of fiveyears" imprisonment in
the Lawrence .Tail.
Gen. John A. Ixhjan delivered a po
litical , speech at .the Opera-house, Pes
Moines, Town, on the 1.ith.
Miss Frances E. Wii.lard of Chica
go has been canvassing the State of Massa
chusetts in the cause of temperance. Sin
spoke in Boston the other evening to a lanro
audience.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, a Wash
ington letter says, has taken a house iu FUr
raut Square fur the eoniiuir season. Ilis
wife is considered the irreatest acquisition to
society that "Washington has hail for years.
M. AVaddinoton, the French Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs, is an Englishman. Tie
and Eujrene Schuyler married sisters, the la
dies heinji American.
Hon. A. II. Stephens attended the
Louisville Exposition on the l."th anil was
friven a pxand reception, military anil civic.
Tie made a speech, referring principally to
the industrial progress of the country "d
not touchini; upon politics further than to
express the hope that all partisan feeling
would he wiped out and the people of the
whole Union united for promoting the com
mon good.
President Hayes made an address at
the Michigan state Fair, at Detroit, on the
JHth. He confined himself chiefly to finan
cial and industrial topics.
The editors of the Paris JHx-Nenvifiite
.S'lVe'e and the MarwilhtiHe recently
fouplft a duel. Both were sliijhtly
wounded.
Rev. Rollin H. Neale, D. D., the
oldest laptist minister in Nt-wKn-rland, died
on the isth, ajed 72.
Hon. Georoe B. Smith, a prominent
Wisconsin lawyer and politician, died at his
home in Madison, on the lSlh.
Dr. Wm. Sti cm, an old and eccen
tric physician of Cincinnati, committed sui
cide on the lflth. He was bom in Saxony in
17fr and served as a surgeon in Napoleon's
army.
" Uncle Daniel 11 Drew, formerly a
well known speculator in M'nll Street, New
York, died on the lmh, aged S2.
Coi nt Ledociiowski, ex-Archbishop
of Posen, has been condemned by the
Prussian tribunal to a tine of 2,000 innrks or
70 days' imprisonment for excommunicating
unlawfully a Catholic priest who had o!wyed
the May laws.
The "Francis P. Blair Monumental
Association " has been orgtoiized in St. Louis
for the purpose indicated by its name. Any
person is entitled to become a member upon
the p:iyincnt of one dollar.
Mrs. Kate Chase Straw k lias
taken up her rcsideneu at her old home,
EilgewiMid, near Wa-hiiciloii. She lias her
three daughters with her. The son remains
with his father.
An Indianapolis drug clerk tried to
maintain a Biblical disoute and put up a
prescription at the same time. Tin
friends of the ih-i-cascd sell led the case
for lifli.-en hundred dollars.
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Addition;.. listurl:inti'.s orrunvd at
Lnr,!r;n, livlaiid, on th niirht of tin- Kith,
arising out of the stuliWurof a 4 "at hot ic in a
imrlNan affray. AH the police of tho town
were called out, and a conflict with the mob
lasted some hours. Several arrests were
liuulc.
Charles MrKeno-h, ir-d 7, died at
M'lnayuuk, la., from hydrophobia, on the
Mth. lie was bitten by a d two months
previously.
Tho Corbin Hotel, occupied by Henry
('orbin, at AVestervillc, Franklin County, O.,
was blown up by gunpowder, on the niirht
of the 14th. The building was occupied by
a number of people, hut fortunately no one
hut Corbin was inlured, and he not fatally.
It is not known who placed the powder in
the building, but Corbin asserts that it was
done by some of the villagers, and that
it is the. result of his refusal to cease selling
lii-uorh. the village. Four years previous a
building occupied by him as a saloon was
blown up in the same manner. The tem
perance people of the place indignantly deny
the charge that they had any knowledge of
either affair. The injury to the hotel and
adjoining buildings is said to be about .H,
(HH. Charles Glas.s, colored, was haugvd
at Cairo, 111., on the Kith, for the murder of
Carter Newman, also colored, in March last.
The trouble that led to the murder orig
inated iu jealousy.
A tenement house on Gold Street,
South Boston, Mass., occupied by a numlter
of German families, caught lire on the night
of the ISth. Mst of the inmate were asleep,
and the flames spread so rapidly that escape
was out off. Mrs. Mary lluldreth was burned
to death and her husband was badly burned.
Ferdinand Muth and his wif and son jumped
from the roof to the ground. The husband
was killed outright and the mother and son
were badly injured. A young woman and
two children and another man, name un
known, are supposed to have been burned.
It 13 announced that the Treasury
Department will soon make arrangements to
exchange gold and silver coin for United
States notes at the Sub-treasuries in different
parts of the country.
A party of Sittinjr-lSull's Indians re
cently crossed the line after buffalo and were
attacked by United States troops. Xine In
dians were killed and three Americans and
two friendly Chiefs wounded.
A riotous crowd of strikers at Fall
River, Mass., on the 17th, stoned a party of
Canadian workmen, men, women and chil
dren, who had come to take places in the
mills. One woman with a babe in her arms
was knocked down and severely hurt. Other
me m Iters of the party were more or less in
jured. The Wisconsin Ieaf and Dumb Asy
Intii, at IeleTan, was burned on the morn
ing of the Kith. No lives lost. The build
ing cost $i"rf,00f upon which there Is no in
surance. About CO families have been rendered
homeless by a recent fire at Caribou, Colo.
John 15. Kumer, aed 7, died in Cleve
land, ., on the 1.1th, of hydrophobia. He
was bitten by a mad dog about the first of
August. Policeman Cowen was bitten at the
same time by the same animal, and he has
likewise exhibited symptoms of the dreadful
malady.
Governor Wallace of New Mexico, on
the 17th, telegraphed the .Secretary of War
that the Indians were committing horrible
atrocities in Grant County ,and asking for au
thority to put three or four regiments of
volunteers in the field. Secretary MeCrary
replied that he had no legal authority to au
thorize the recruiting of volunteers, but
would order the disposal of regular troops
in such a way as to meet the emergency if
possible.
Doe. Middle-ton, the notorious horse
and cattle thief, has Iteen sentenced to five
years in the Nebraska Penitentiary for steal
ing horsca from Curry H rot hers in Wyo
ming. There :ire other indictments against
him in Nebraska.
J. Atbrer & Co., bankers; J. E. Adg;cr
& Co., wholesale dealers in hardware; and
fieorge If. Walter & Co., cotton factors, of
Charleston, S. C-, suspended on the l!Hh.
The failure of the linn last mentioned pre
cipitated that of the others.
The steamboat Hard Cash, from St.
Louis for Walnut Kend, Ark., on the ISth
struck a snag near St. Mary's Island, about
.V) miles below St. Louis, and sunk.
Louis Gueti was hanged at Indian
apolis on the 10t h. )n t he I0t h
of September, 1S"S just one year
previous to his execution he shot
and killed Mary Mcfilew, a beautiful Irish
girl, who had once promised to marry him,
but who broke off the engagement on ac
count of her lover's dissipated habits. He
was not quite 20 years of age.
The province of Santiago deCuba has
been declared in a state of war by official
-proclamation. It is reported that a large
number of officers who served in the last
revolution and were suspected of being in
sympathy with the present uprising have
Itecn mercilessly slaughtered. Many slaves
are said to have risen in rebellion against
the Spaniards and joined the patriots, taking
with them a large proportion of their mas
ters cattle.
Three hundred and sixty-five Mormon
emigrants, men.women and children, mostly
from Kngland, arrived at New York on the
Kith.
Kkaterinaslav, near the Dnieper, iti
South Russia, has been nearly destroyed by
lire, presumably of incendiary origin.
The St. Louis Exposition opened on
the 2:td, with an unprecedented display and
a large attendance. The Fair proper occurs
on the week beginning Oct. i.
Joseph Jones & Sons and Campbell &
Johnson, two well known Chicago provi
sion houses, suspended on the I'.Mh. They
were caught on the wrong side in the recent
rapid advance in provision-.
THE YELLOW FEVER.
On the 15th, at Memphis, there were
10 new cases of fever reported and eight
deaths. Six new cases were reported at Con
cordia, and there had been three deaths.
Neighboring towns have all fpiarantined
against Concordia.
On the loth there were 25 new cases
of fever at Memphis and nine deaths. The
epidemic has appeared at Hern Lake Island,
18 miles southwest of the city. Thirteen
cases are reported at Morgan City, La., with
two deaths. There is no longer any doubt
that the epidemic at Concordia Is yellow
fever and that of the most virulent type.
On the 17th at Memphis there were 10
deaths from fever and nine new cases report- .
cd. Tht! medical inspectoral Helena report- j
ed 10 ca-es of yellow fever al i 'arson's Land- ;
ing. Miss., m miles below Helena. !
On tho ISth, at Memphis, there were ;
si t ileal Its from fever and 10 new eases re- ;
ported.
on the VMh, at Memphis there were siv
deaths from fever and (I new eu-cs reported. '
At Concordia, Mis., there were four new j
cases reported and one death.
On tho 2Mb, at Memphis, there were
two deaths from fever and nine new cases re
ported. For the week there were SI deaths
and SO new eases reported. Total number of
deaths to date, .Vtli.
On the 21st there was one death and
13 new cases reported. The President of the
Hoard of Health has issued a proclamation
warning absentees not to return to Memphis
until such time as the authorities may give
notice that thev mav do so with safetv.
HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES.
Probable Strength of Earh Tarty Wlien All
Vnranrlpii are Filled.
From the Philadelphia Times (Ind.-Iteiii.).l
The election of four Kepublii-ans to
C'on-fross from California is now conceded,
anil the close condition of parties in the
House attracts very general attention. All
the members of the present Confess are
now chosen, with the exception of a vacancy
in the Westchester Iiistrict of Xcw York, oc
casioned by the -death of Alexander Smith,
.(-publican, who died on the day he was
elected, and a vacancv in Inwa, occasioned
by the death of liush Olark, Republican, who
died durin-; the late extra session. Hoth
these vacancies will be tilled at the fall elec
tions T hat in Iowa in October, and that in
New York ill November. The New York
district is strongly Democratic, havin-: given
Tililen 12,l.")4 votes to !),f74 for Hayes, and
havin-r elected Clarkson Potter to Confrress
in ISTH by 4,ilil majority; but Smith, Repub
lican, was elected in J.S78 by a plurality,
through a large Greenback diversion. It Is
reasonably certain that a Democrat will be
chosen, uilless the internal dissensions of the
I cmieraey throw it awav. A Republican
will doubtless be elected in Iowa to succeed
Clark, as the district gave Clark 8,VJ ma
jority in lSTii and 2,1!4 in 187. Assuming
that the two members to leelected will be in
accord with the overwhelming political sen
timent of the districts, the House will stand
as follows when it meets in Ileceniber:
R;D.i;i IS ! I: o
Alalmma 1 7: li Missouri ..... ..' 12i J
Arkansas ' 4 ..i Nebraska .... 1. .- ..
(-iilifomiu 4..l..j Ne-aila 1 ..: ..
I'olonnb l..!..j N. Hampshire 3 ..! ..
Connecticut .. :i l'-.j New Jersey.. 4 3..
Delaware 1 ..' New York 24 n ..
Florida 2 .. N. Carolina ..' 2 H ..
;corfia '. ..! Ohio 11 ..
Illinois 12 ft: 2 IVnnsvlvania 17 S 2
Indiana 8, 1' Oregon ' I ..
Iowa 7j.. 2 ilthoile Island 2 ..i ..
Kansas 3,. ...:js. Carolina .. .. ft' ..
Kentuekv ;10;.. iTennessee... 1 !1 ..
Louisiana t tt!..'!Tc.as 5 1
Maine 2 i Vermont 3j ..; ..
Maryland 1! 5 .. Virginia li S! ..
Massachsetts..;0 1.. West Va. 3) ..
Michigan !.... Wisconsin... 5 3i ..
Minnesota .... 2 li.. . :
Mississippi ...!.. ... Total 134 147 12
Counting one Republican to lie elected in
October.
tConnting one Ilemoerat to be elected In Oc
tober. Leaving out of the count the two members
yet to be elected, the Democrats have 1441
"votes, or just, one less than a clear majority
of the whole House. There is no doubt
about the election of a Hepubliean in Iowa,
but it is remotely possible, in the present
factious wrangles of the Democracy of New
York, that a Republican may be elected in
the Westchester District, ill which case the
House would stand 1411 Democrats, 1:15 Re
publicans, anil 12 Greenback men, givingthc
combined opposition of Republicans and
Greenback men 147 to 14i straight Demo
crats; or, in other words, leaving the Demo
crats in a minority of one, and the Republi
cans in a minority of 12; but as the Green
back members can rarely, if ever, be solidly
combined with either of the old parties, the
House will present the singular spectacle of
neither partv having a reliable majority if
New York should elect a Republican, and if
the Westchester District elects a Democrat
that party will have the narrow majority of
one over all opposition.
But, while the Democrats will he either
in a minority of one oriiave only a straight
majority of one,1hat party will doubtless have
a practical majority of from 10 tit a dozen on
most issues. In ail its contests with t he Ad
ministration over the military control of
elections and the repeal or miwlilication of
the Federal Klection laws relating to Mar
shals and Supervisors, the Democratic ma
jority was usually about 20. Most of the
Greenback men, "especially Yocum and
Wright of this Slate, voted uniformly with
the Demix-rats on all political issues, ex-s-pting
in the organization of the Jlouse, al
though Wright was elected by the Demo
crats and Greenback men, and Yocum was
elected by a fusion of the Greenback men
with the Republican. Of the 12 Greenback
meliiliers, Stevenson of Illinois, Ladd of
Maine, anil Wright of Pennsylvania, are of
positive DcmiK-ratic antecedents; Lowe of
Alabama and .Jones of Texas are also old
Democrats, but against the ruling Dt-moc-raey
of the South, and not likely to unite
with the Democracy on any vital 'test issue.
De La Matyr of Indiana Was elected by a
Democratic fusion with the Greenback men,
but is deliaiitly independent of both the old
parties, and Mureh of Maine occupies much
the same position, ltoth are of Democratic
priM-livitii-s, if they have any lingering sym
pathy with either of the old parties; but
neither would marshal under a Democratic
partisan banner. Weaver and Gillette of
Iowa, Forsythe of Illinois, and Ford of
Missouri liiay be classed as more
antagonistic to the Democrats than to the
Republicans, and Yocum of Pennsylvania
seems to have lost the trust of both parties
by Irving to barter with both to retain his
seat ui the pending contest with Gov. Ciirtin.
For all praclical purposes, the Democrats
are likely to have a majority of from 10 to 12
over the Republicans, although they can not
count it as legitimate party strength. Of
all issues which have come up between the
Administration and Congress, the Greenback
members have uniformly voted almost solid
Iv with the Democrats. " There are two con
tested scats those of Orth, Republican, of
Indiana, and Yocum, Greenback, of Penn
sylvania, and t he Orth iontest involves the
control of the vote of Indiana in the House
for President, in case of the failure to eli-ct
bv the people. California having elected a
Republican delegation gives the Republi
cans the votes of It States for
President in a contest in the House,
and the Democrats have but IS, with
Indiana standing six Republicans, six Dem
ocrats, and one Greenback member holding
the balance of power.
fNoTK. Later returns from California
show the election of Berry, Democrat, in
stead of McKenna, Republican, in the Third
Congressional District.)
The Cabul Massacre.
London, September 17. Indian offi
cials telegraph further details of the attack
on the British Residency at Cabul. It is re
lated by the trooper who escaped that when
the mutinous troops were making the out
cry for their pay a soldier cried, " Let us kill
the Envoy and "then the Ameer." The mu
tineers then rushed upon the Embassy and
stoned some of the servants. The troops
composing the escort of the Embassy tired
upon the mutineers without, orders from
the British otlieers. The mutineers
then went for their weapons. They wrere
absent about a quarter of an hourduring
which time the British nnieers might have
escaped. The Residency was defended from
the windows and from a'treueh made on the
outside with a mud roof. A trooper was
thelearerof n letter to the mutineers, then
on the roof of the Embassy, promising them
six months' pay. He was seized anil thrown
from the roof and made insensible. When
lie recovered he was brought before Gen.
Keriin Khaiu, commander of the mutinous
brigade, who said he was powerless against
the mutineers, and ordered thiftrooper to he
impri soiled.
Another account from Simla gives the fol
lowing additional particulars: The roof of
the British Residency at Cabul was com
manded by other houses, and consequently
untenable bv the besieged, who made a
trench outsiile. At about 1 o'clock in the af
ternoon on ihc day of the massacre Maj.
Cavagnari received a wound from a ricochel
ting bullet on bis forehead. Mr. .Ii-nkvns,
Maj. Cavagnari's assistant, who arrived at
tin- Resideuev during the attack, wrote lo I he
Ameer for lielp, and the Ameer's reply
was: "God willing, I :uu making arraligc-nn-nls."
A previous request for aid from
Ma). Cavagnari had met. with the same re
ply. Al r. .b-nl, n w rote again w hen Maj.
i 'avagnari was wounded, bur the bearer of
tin- letter wa-cut to pieces by a mutineer.
A trooper I in-ii started but was ili-aruinl
anil imprisoned, lie succeeded iu escaping
at daybreak on the 4th of September, and
visited the Residency, where he said the
corps of Lieutenant Hamilton, commanding
the escort of tile British Mission, was lying
across a mountain gun. He says that Mr.
.letikynswas with a person called Yahayaliah
Khali, and he is therefore presumably'aiivc.
The escaped trooper nw no troops on
the road from Cabul to.lellalabadand Dakka,
and as far as he knew none were coming, and
a comrade who was confined in Cabul in
formed him that Lieut. Hamilton shot three
of the ntiit ineers with his revolver, and killed
two witli his saber. Dr. Kelly, who was con
nected with the Mission, was lying dead in
side the Residency. MajorCavaguarf was in
a room which was burned, and which had
fallen in. His body had not been found.
Three native otlieers of the guides were
burned to death near the Residency.
Sen York Democratic Platform.
The following- is the platform adopt
ed by the New York Democratic State
Convention on the 1 1th of September:
The Democratic party of the Btate of New
York, in Convention assembled, profoundly
sensible of the important consequences de
pending upon the immediate result of their
dclitteratiuna, do declare and re-assert the
Srinctples or popular liberty and rights laid s
own by Washington, Jefferson and other j
founders of tho Republic. Wo hold to the i
Constitution, with all its amendments sacred-
ly mnintnmerl and enforced, and to the rights
of the States under the Constitution. Tho
tendencii-s of the Republican party to ecu
tralization and consolidation are contrary to
the principles of our institutions. The United
States form a Nation in the sense and to the
extent and for the purposes denned in th
Federal Constitution, and we resist every at
tempt to transform it into an F.mpire.
We insist on unity, fraternity and concord,
and that the issues settled bv the war shall not
be revived. We deprecate the efforts of the
Hepuhlicnn managers to revive sectional
feuds and to kindle the passions of the past.
We demand honest elections and an honest
count of votes. Never again, by fraud or
force, shall the popular will be set aside to
gratify unscrupulous partisans.
The Democracy oppose all favoritism. No
single interest or class of persons should bo
protected at the expense of the other. Democ
racy means the Government of the whole peo
ple, for the whole people, and by the whole
people, but if auy class Is to receive special
consideration. It should be the working people,
whom all other Governments oppose and
crush. The rights of the people should be
scrupulously guarded from the encroachments
of capital and tho despotio greed of corpora
tions.
The Democracy believe now, as they have
always believed. In gold and silver as the Con
stitutional money of the country. We con
demn the speculative methods of the present
Secretary of tho Treasury; the questionable
favoritism he has shown to particular mone
tary institutions, so-called Syndicates, and the
extravagances he has permitted iu his Depart
ment in connection with his refunding
schemes.
We lixik with shame ond sorrow on the dis
graceful repudiation of their professions of
Civil-Service Reform by the Executive and his
supporters. The Federal offices have been
freely given for despicable partisan services.
The leading otlieers of the Government are
making partisan speeches, managing political
campaigns and requiring their subordinates to
contribute to campaign funds in derogation of
every prfnciplo and promise of honest Civil
Bervice. The one hundred and four thousand
Federal otlieers constitute an army, moving
under a single direction to keep the Republi
can party in power, and this vast patronage is
now used as a corruption fund against the
people.
V e congratulate tho people of the State of
New York: on the results of the Democratic
Administration in the payment of tho State
debt, the reduction of expenses, and the dimin
ished burden of taxation.
We condemn the efforts of demagogues to
create Jealousy and antagonism between the
City of New York and tho rest of the State,
when their intorests are identical. The growth
of the one is the prosperity of the other. The
people of New York farmers, manufacturers
and merchants, alike demand that they shall
have all the advantages which accrue to them
from their favorable position, and that the
railroads they have chartered and endowed
with vast and profitable privileges shall be
operated for their benefit and not for their
ruin.
The Democratic officers of the State of New
York, by tho ability and fidelity in which they
have discharged their duty during the past
three years, by their conscientious application
of Constitutional tests to the acts of every de
partment of the State Government, by their
successful resistance to private and partial
legislation and by their economical conduct of
the finances and reduction of tho expenses of
the State Government, have entitled them
selves to the gratitude of their fcllow-citizenfl
of all parties.
We therefore Indorse as our expression of
the foregoing principles, the following:
1. Honesty, efficiency and economy in every
department of the Government.
2. All property should bear its just propor
tion of taxation, and we pledge the Democratic
party to reform the laws of assessment to that
end.
3. Lessening the burdens and Increasing the
advantages of the working people.
4. The equal protection of the rights of labor
and capital under just laws.
5. Railroads to be prohibited by law from un
just discrimination and from favoring locali
ties or individuals.
6. The tolls upon the canals to be kept at the
lowest rates possible consistent with economi
cal and elltcient management.
7. The maintenance of the public schools, the
pride and hope of a free State.
8. Prisons are for tho punishment and
reformation of criminals, and not for tho
Injury of honest labor, which should be pro
tected, as far as possible, from such competi
tion. 9. Municipal self-government In local affairs.
10. That the successful efforts of our Iemo
cratic Representatives in Congress in restoring
a fair and intelligent Jury system, and in pro
tecting the freedom of the ballot and prevent
ing the unconstitutional interference of the
Federal Administration with State elections,
is approved, and the action of the Executive
in vetoing the legislation designed to prevent
the presence of armed soldiers and tho em
ployment of paid Supervisors and Marshals at
the polls, and the use of publlo funds for this
purpose. Is denounced by the Democracy of
the State of New York.
11. And as the foundation ot all liberty and
Erosperity, privileges and rights, under our
overnment, we shall continue to uphold the
system of tint ram melcd suffrage absolutely
free from Federal force or supervision.
12. It is the duty of the State alike in the in
terest of taxation, temperance and equal and
exact, justice to tho community, to make such
a revision of the excise laws as will better se
cure the rights of the citizens to life, liberty,
property and public order.
Grasshopper Gruel.
In Sierra, and Martis Valleys the In
dian huts can be seen, and in and around
them are eoiigrefpited the warriors and
sipiaws of the tribe, their sisters, and
their cousins, and their aunts, all intent
upon the accomplishment of the frrand
result. As usual, the squaws do the
work, while their noble lords loll upon
the rreen sward, smoke their pipes, and
dreamily and lazily -raze upon tho count
less myriads of buzzing hoppers that fill
the air and devour vegetation. The
squaws, carrying cone-shaped baskets of
great capacity, scoop the grasshoppers
with a ian-shapeil implement into their
baskets, and when loaded carry the wig
gling mass of insects to camp, and then
prepare them for food. The grasshop
pers, killed and subsequently dried, are
mixed with niasheil pine nuts or cracked
wheat and made into a kind of flour
which is afterward made into a bread,
most delicious to the palate of the
Washoe. White visitors to the ramp,
are always invited, in accordance with
Indian hospitality, to partake of the
compound, ami great is the astonish
ment of poor Lo at the disgust ex
pressed by the white man for this kind
of food.
Keki-ino Grapes j-resh. Take a
wooden box ; put in a layer of cotton
batting; then a layer of grapes (do not
let them touch one another) ; then an
other layer, and so on, until full. Keep
them as cool as possible ami not freeze
them; ilip the cud of the stent:
in melted beeswax as soon as picked.
. .
A -oiri-i.E at Tuscola, Midi., quar- j
rcli-il and separated at the church door, '
after their marriage, and have not seen !
each other for six months. j
The Klu-il'iM- of i'gypt has an Auu-ri- I
can in hi-; service, to-n. I!:ilcln-ll-i-, who ,
is now visiting friends in tin? "Tiiiteil ;
Slates. !
Some Mistakes of Sherman.
The facts that have been brought to
light in regard to Secretary Sherman's
favoritism to one of the New York
banks cannot be denied or explained
away. They are damaging alike to him
and his party.
The lirst National Bank of New
York, with a capital of only $500,000,
subscribed for 4137,OO0,00O in four-percent,
bonds, expecting to be able to
work them off at a prolit. These bonds
were to be delivered the first of July,
at which time the money for them was
to be paid. The first of July came and
the money was not paid for them. The
lirst of August also came and over 92of
000,000 was still unpaid of the sum due.
After this time it became known that
Secretary Sherman had extended the
time for payment until the lirst of Oc
tober. It further transpires that Mr. Gil
fillan, the Treasurer of the United
States, at one time drew on the First
National Bank of New York for $"4,-
000,000, on account of this money
due the Government, and the Secretary
of the Treasury interposed and hail
payment of it, or its presentation for
payment rather, stopped, before it had
passed through the Clearing-house.
In the first place he favored this
bank by extending the time of pay
ment, and next he protected it when
the presentation of a draft due the
Government would have seriously em
barrassed it.
But this is not all. This first Na
tional Bank of New York has been
specially favored at other times. It is
not many months since the fact was
made known that an average deposit
of $40,000,000 belonging to the Gov
ernment had been allowed to lay in
the vaults of this bank for months
without interest. In Wall street,
where interest is counted by the day
and often by tho hour on large sums,
the magnitude of such favoritism is ap
parent. When John Sherman went up into
Maine, a few weeks ago, to preach the
doctrines of resumption he proclaimed
that the funding operations were
closed; that the bonded bebt of the
Government . had been refunded at a
low rate of interest, and everything
was cleared np. When he was here in
Cincinnati last week he was compelled
to admit that the funding operations
were not closed, because he had not
pushed the New York banks for the
money in payment for the four-percent,
bonds.
He didn't tell the business men on
"Change here that he had allowed that
New York bank to cut off the coupons
and draw the interest on those bonds
for which it had not yet paid. But
such was the fact. Is this what would
be called fair business principles be
tween men doing business on an equali
ty? Is it customary for a debtor to pay
interest on money before he receives
it? Would Mr. Sherman do such a
thing, he himself being the borrower?
For, after all, these financial transac
tions between the Government and the
banks should be measured by the same
rules as though they were the transac
tions of private individuals. If a man
or a bank loans money to the Govern
ment, it should be under the same re
strictions as though it were to another
man. An officer should show no favors
because ha represents the Government,
nor should he ask any. Let it be busi
ness and that alone.
Last of all, the fullest publicity should
be given to all transactions between
the Government and its financial agents.
The enforcing of such an order of
secrecy as Mr. Sherman promulgated
yesterday will only add to his embar
rassments. The press of the country
will not be kept in ignorance of the
doings of the Treasury thereby, but
there will always be a suspicion that
something is being kept back. There
is no crisis impending to require the
suppression of the facts as they occur.
Mr. Sherman had far better take the
people of the country into his confi
dence if he wants to enjoy theirs.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The California Election.
California has undoubtedly gone Re
publican by a large plurality on tho
State ticket, with a probability that
three Republican Congressmen have
been chosen. In the light of tho re
turns the cause of the Republican suc
cess becomes clearly apparent. The
Democrats this year did precisely what
the Republicans did in 1875. They
split into two or three parties, and the
Republicans, who were nearly solid,
had a plurality, though falling far short
of a majority. At the last election of
National importance previous to 1875,
the Republicans had shown that they
were in the majority in the State. The
independent judicial movement iu 1874
drew largely from the Republican
fiarty, anudemoralized the party badly,
n 175 the Independents appeared in
the field with candidates for State offi
cers, and more than three-fourths of
their vote was drawn from the Rejmb
licans. The Democrats nominated a
strong candidate, and their organiza
tion being in splendid condition they
fairly swept the State, receiving more
votes than both Republicans and Inde
pendents together. Yet the very next
year the Presidential contest welded
the Republicans solidly, and they car
ried the State on the heaviest vote ever
polled. Since then the Workingmen's
movement has assumed wide propor
tions. It was instrumental in securing
the framing of a new Constitution, and
when that instrument was submitted it
was adopted by 11,000 majority, in the
face of the opposition of a large major
ity of the Republicans and a considera
ble minority of the Democrats, regard
ing the voters according to their old
party affiliations. A new Constitution
party was formed which assumed a
special identification with the instru
ment; but the Workingmen's party
kept up its organization, and the regu
lar Democracy put a ticket in the field.
The original Republican supporters of
the Constitution voted the new Consti
tution ticket, but the Democratic vote
was divided nearly in twain on the
Governorship and into three fragments
on many of the remaining candidates.
The Republicans, not suffering any
thing like the anticipated defection, had
the largest following at command, and,
therefore, although their vote was mtmh
less than half, they secured the fruits
of the election. If the Democrats knew
as much before the election as they do
now, the opposition would not have
been so badly scattered; but the lesson
will not be lost upon tlti-m. Nextyenr,
when no distracting State issues will
engross attention, there will ben square
stimil-up light between the Republicans
ami Democrats, and this year's result is
therefore no criterion. Detroit i'ret.
1'rcss.
...
"lit i! 22" w as iliscovereil written in
a delicate female hand on the cuff of a
Muscatine young man ; ami that young
man still sticks to it that it was only
"Aug. 22."
WIT AND WISDOM.
The New Orleans Picayune sa's: It
requires a man of good sense to fall iu
love with a plain woman.
Sara Bernhardt jokes regarding
her own thinness, and there is nothing
attenuated in the jokes, anyhow.
" When I get into the ear of a balloon,"
she says, it has the same effect as if
they hail thrown out ballast."
" I'VE a new thing a big thing!" ho
said; I'm going lo get up a matrimo
nial agency!" " The scheme is venera
ble," said a cold-hearted by-stamler.
" Not on my plan!" was his proud re
ply ; " ' All goods not satisfactory cheer
fully ami promptly exchanged.' "
Puck. .
A Rangoon correspondent, says that a
pretty accurate notion of Burmese music
may lie obtained by starting half a dozen
lunatics to play the bag-pipes and at tho
same time presenting all the children in
the neighborhood with penny whistles
and kettledrums.
'Tis tho sweetest thing in life to seo
the childlike simplicity and defercneo to
maternal authority which a maiden of
85 or 40 will exhibit before a room full
of people as she skips across the floor to
ask dear mamma if she may walk
up and down the piazza for a little
while.
The editor of the London World finds
that sleeplessness is a malady to which
women are peculiarly subject, and that
tobacco in moderation acts as a soother
to irritable nerves. Men who have tried
going home at 2 a. m. for weeks at a
time, strongly seentcd with tobacco and
other sedatives, report that the supply
of sleeplessness was large, but the reiu
edy failed to act.
A Mayor of one of the communes in
France lately made tho following entry
upon the register: " I, Mayor of ,
found, yesterday, in the forest of ,
a man by the name of Rollin, commit
ting an act against the laws. I com
manded him to surrender, whereupon
he set upon me, heaping me with insult
and contumely, calling me a ragmuflin,
an ass, a precious dolt, and a scare
crow all of which I certify to bo
true." .
Cooking by Steam.
A stove has been invented by a New
York man to be used in connection with
the Holly steam-heating ajiparatus as
introduced in Lockport, N. Y., Spring
field, Mass., and other places. An ex
hibition trial of the new stove, held in
Lockport recently, is said to have lieen
a great success. Different kinds of
meat, vegetables, eggs, bread and pastry
were roasted," boiled, baked, fried, and
broiled with astonishing rapidity. Tho
Journal says :
" The roast beef was finely carbonized
or browned, and was remarkable for its
juciness and the delicious flavor which
it contained. The chicken was nicely
browned, very tender, and of fine flavor.
The white potatoes were both mealy and
well baked. The ham, which was
broiled in the short space of three
niinules, instead of being hard
when cold, remained soft and juicy.
The mutton-chops and beef-steaks were
especially commented on for their ten
derness and fine flavor. A loaf of bread
was baked in the oven in the short spaco
of 30 minutes, and when taken out it
had a good brown crust; but, what was
more remarkable, tho bread was re
turned to the oven and allowed to re
main there one and a half hours without
being injured in the slightest particular.
The coffee was boiled in one of Mr. Ash
eroft's patent pots in about 10 minutes,
without losing any of its aroma. This
cooking by steam is a wonderful im
provement tijion the ordinary mode, and
can not help but come into general use.
Succulent vegetables contain sufficient
water to cook themselves; anil the dif
ference in flavor when boiled in their
own juices than when in water one can
not believe until he has tried the experi
ment. By means of this stove and
broiler, the meats, vegetables, etc., can
be either fried, broiled, or baked, with
out being scorched; and no food can bo
spoiled from over-cooking."
The Peruvian Natives.
A Bolivian paper has the following ac
count of the council of war held by tho
Carapucbo Indians of Pern, when it was
decided to help against the Chilians :
" The 20th day of last moon a great
assemblage of warriors met under tho
ancient tamarinds of the hamlet of the
terrible Traumaean, Chief of the Cara
ptichos. There were over 800 warriors,
of frightful countenance and sinister
mien, whose gestures showed the joy
the prospect of destruction and murder
had aroused in their ferocious minds.
Traumaean was seated on a rude stool
formed of the bones of ten chicTs over
come by him, and under the pauopoly
made by the skulls of loo warriors whom
he had slain with his war-clul) or saber,
and he presided over the hellish assem
bly like tho dark genius of the wood. .
"Soon the grove thrilled with the t r
rilic howl of Aottin, Chile a inn,
Chile!"' that is, Death, death to tint
Chileans!' bellowed by the stxi throats
still reeking with the blood of human
victims devoured on the preceding cvi t -ing.
Next day an ambassador clad iti
feathers left the royal village carrying i
communication to the commandant jiif
Fort San Ramon to the following effec,
as officially transcribed into Spanish :
Traumaean, the terrible l'ajarc,
purple Lord of the Lightning: Knowiii r
that the Araiiunniau potbellies have o'
fered to the Chief of Chile (im) lanci s
wherewith to desolate Peru, 1 place at.
tli v disposal 1,(HH Carnpucho archer,
conquerors of the Cashivos, priiil'd
wilh sharp ari-ows and heavy macaiut ,
well anointed wilh tictinaatnt curare, lo
defeat our people. Whatever encn y
escapes our in.-u-attas with uncraeKi d
skull shall exhale hi last breath by our
poisonous arrows, even before death
lnt'.h seized his bodv."
"