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OTTAWA FREE TRADER; SATURDAYJDECKMBEK 31, mi.
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OUR CLUBBING
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with the lollowingputilieutionsaumishing both
ki rue prices named, postage prepaid. The
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p ist Ol!l.?i! Ill 'llO County IS the CHEAl'KST
KVKU mib ill this county:
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Vul'i Tuincii umi 1,'lilciiiro Weekly Inter
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Frkk Ttumsu ttnri Chloi','o Weekly Journal. 2l.
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Tliii Mississippi river is still open to St.
Paul, ami dm steamer Kuby has gone up for
a cargo of flour.
Tho total number of immigrants nrrivin.tr nt
New York fur the year will be about .110,0(10.
It is estimated thr.t $',',.'500,000 wiw paid out for
Inland transportation, and that $!,000,000 in
Com was brought over ly I tie new-comers.
The St. Louis Gluhe-fieiiuirrnt is one of the
first to kick the sleeping lion, Blaine, under
the- mistaken impression that ho is dead. It
respectfully alludes to him as "Guano Jim."
"He is a magnificent contrast to Hayes at
any rate," tries a stal nrt journal anent Ar
thur. To which the Chicago riiw cruelly
adds: "This is hardly doing Arthur justice.
Any robust person, not an idiot or an untaxed
Indian, would be a nmtrniflcent contrast to the
gentleman from Fremont."
The smallpox pest Is still raging at an alarm
ing rate in Chicago. The pant week has aver
aged about twelve new cases a day, while the
hospitals are full ot patients. The tramps on
the street have caught the infection, three in a
body having applied to the Hoard of Health
on Thursday for hospital quarters.
According to yesierdny's Times the patients
in the small pox hospital at Chicago number
112. An eruptive disease of a serious nature
has broken nut among the student of the
medical college nt DiiUiqiie. It is said to
have been obtained from the dissection of n
cartavar from Chicago.
The Hon. II. I). Dement, secretary ol state
of Illinois, places us under obligations for a
package of slate documents, including copies
of the Senate anil House journals of the last
session of ihu legislatur e a Keport of the Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics, a licport ol the Man-
Bgers of the Illinois Industrial University, and
A Catalogue of the Illinois Slate Library.
It seems to he understood on all shies nt
Washington that the public printer Defreesis
to be removed and lhat S. 1. Hounds of Chic.t
go is to have his place. Thd Chicago Times
Mays that Hounds has written to his friends
tint he needs no more help, as he has assur-
ances Irom the President direct that ho will be
appointed and that his name will lie sent to
the senate immediately on its meeting in Janu
ary. Tlie Times adds: "The government
printing office is one of the largest printing
establishments in the world. It has nearly
always been iiiismnnagcd,atid particularly so
under the last public printer, Mr. Defrees. It
is believed that Mr. Hnnnds's high character
and long experience will enable him to redeem
the management of this Innir-ahused olllce."
A terrible disaster occurred on Tuesday at
West Point on York river, Va. The steamer
Wtflt Point had arrived there early in the
morning and a gangol laborers began the clis
charge of her cargo. They cleared out all the
freight between decks, and had gone below in
to the hold to take out a quantity of kerosene
oil, when nt ten minutes past twelve, midday,
an explosion occurred which blew olT the side
ot the vessel into the river, and set tire to the
chip. Nineteen persons, including four of the
crew ami nearly all the steward's hands, per
ished. The captain, licing on shore, was sav
ed. The crew was mostly from Balilmorit
and the laborers from Richmond and West
Point, all except one being negroes.
The war between Secretary lilaino and the
stalwarts is about to be intensified by the pub.
lication of a correspondence between the for
mer and Mr. Angell, our minisier to China.
It seems, while Gen. Grant was traveling in
the East the Chinese and Japanese sought his
mediation in certain matters of difference be
tween them anJ as dome trouble has arisen
over the matter they applied to minister An
gtll about it, who wrote to Blaine. The latter
directs our minister lo inform them that while
the American people were gratified by the
honors shown our great commander It should
be remembered that he was merely a private
citizen, traveling for his own pleasure, and
that Lo had no power to represent the govern
ment, and that any pretense of doing so, the
neocsbary inference would be, was an impu
dent assumption.
Ileprtnentative Henderson, ot Illinois, hog
become the fuhject ot severe animadversion
on the part of the bucchc press of his part)
in this state for offering a resolution in con
jjrcM iin 1 procuring its adoption, appointing
iae G. A. Bacon, a democrat, to the positieu
t assistant doorkeeper of the house. Of court
with a party that can give no better reason loi
iU organised existence than that it wants tin
offices, such an offense calls for explanation,
and Mr. ITeuderson gives it in a way as direct
8 simple. The necessity of having a demo
cratic assistant door keeper of the bouse, b
frays, grows out of the secret caucus system ol
part)- leadership. The caucuses of both pw-
ties are held in the representative ball, and as
the door-keeper in charge at the time is neces
sarily cognizant of what transpires, it Is but
decent courtesy that each party should have a
door keeper of its own that the secrets of the
caucus nt the one may not he revealed lo the
other pnrty. Mr. Henderson simply got a po-
sition for his democratic friend Bacon which
otherwise the democratic triend ol some other
republican member would havo got.
THE TABIFF QUESTION.
There is every indication from Washington
that in the present and coming sessiousot con
gress and before the people on the hustings in
the coming; election campaigns, the tariff
question will he the leading and commanding
theme until it is settled on a new, better and
very different basis from that on which it now
rests. The present taiilf, its friends admit
had its origin when the country was in the
throes of civil war, when our foreign trade was
almost entirely cut oil", and when every interest
stood on a different footing from that it now
occupie.,. A tariff adapted to such a stulu of
affairs is necessarily now nn anachronism.
Then this country exported comparatively no
cotton, grain, pork or petroleum. JS'ow it sup
plies the world with these articles. The
best labor the muscle and sinew of the coun
try was absorbed by the army, and our cur.
rency was at an enormous discount yet it was
necessary to have vast supplies of manufactur-
rcd goods and lood products to feed and cl ithe
tiie army, and as our foreign trade was stop.
ped and these had to be produced at home',
government "proiectiou" to the last hunt had
to be resorted to anil was justified to encour
age home production.
While the end of the w ar ended the necessi
ty for most of this "protection," no correspond,!
ing changes in our tariff' legislation were
made. The result was, as trade revived and
our currency unproved in value, an enormous
increase in the profits of tin; manufacturers,
leading to enoruious over-production, enor
uious credit expansion and currency inflation,
and a terrific financial crash. Then what
thousands on thousands ol operatives
were discharged from the .New L'ugland and
Pennsylvania cotton, woolen, and iron facto
ries and driven upon the farms or sent roving
over tlie country as tramps. Meantime the farm
ers went to work to raise tlie grain ami cotton to
send i.broad and bring in tlie gold to enable
tlie country to resume. As Henry J. Philpott
puts It: "The piolccicd factories were closed
1 lit; 'American laborer was turned out to
tramp, to riot, to burn buildings. The farm
ers now had to feed them gratis. And while
they wero doing that they were pinching and
toiling to earn the 'British gold' with which to
'resume.' They had to bear Iho burden of re
sumption. Tlie protected factories, instead of
sending their products abroad for gold and
helping them to right things, only made them
selves a greater burden tnan ever. They lay
idle, went into bankruptcy, and the money
they had 'salted' in flush times was loaned to
their victims on 10 per cent, real estate col-
laterals."
And now that the patient toil of the farmers
has once more brought about peace and plen
ty and good tunes, these "protected" factory
men again leap to the front and demand not
only a continuance of the protection of ar
times, but an inciease, to be followed by ano
leer rouiiu oi iiitjiiuon, over production ami a
grand smash. Meantime having stimulated
the lanners to the production ol 2,")0,000,000
more bushels of wheat per year than our pen.
pie can consume, they are putting arguments
into tlie mouths of K.iropeaus to cut our far
mers oil Irom a tu irkei lor lhat surplus. 8i n
u lor Beck pul tlie case admirably in a recent
speech in congress, from which tlie follow ing
is an extract :
The protect ion ist insists that each nation
ought, so far as possible, exclude the products
oi every oilier nation in order lo protect home
production. He taunts Kugmnd, whose people
now buy 5.1 percent, ol all our exports, with
folly for allowing our wheat, pork, beef, butler,
cheese and other products of our farms lo enter
her ports duty free. He says to the English
"fair-trader:"
''Discriminate against us if you are wise.
Protect your iiomu industries. No country or
system of government can succeed that allows
Iree competition."
The American protectionist makes war on
our export trade. His theory carrieu into cf
feet tends to the rum of our f anners while pro
tecting inauul'actureis. Those laws of Eng
hind which give us an equal chance with per
own colonists in her markets he in effect de
nounces, and it is to be remembered that all
arguments are heard and weighed as lutelli
gently in Europe as they are here. A system
that is enforced here and lauded as the besttor
this country must be, they might say abroad,
ihe best, lor other countries. It the arguments
and deductions of our protectionists should
prevail in England w hat would be the effect
upon us? To illustrate: Leaving out of the
question all of her great colonial possessions
in
iiuiia, Australia and elsewhere, and her
dependencies all over the world, England has
great colonies on this continent w hose people
are entitled to her protection, if proiectiou and
restriction are lo be again resorted to as trui
national policy.
Mr Beck then gave as a result of his own
observations in a trip to the Winnepeg coun
try lasi summer, a brief account of the vast
grain and cattle country which the Canada
Pacific railroad waj opening up north ol
Hie American line, capable of producing
enough (o glut the market of the world, and
could be delivered at tide water at :i0 per cent.
less cost than ihe like American products; and
lie added :
The American protectionists not only tell
English statesman, but denounce all of us w ho
do not urge that policy, that it is their duty to
protect l.anadiau products against American
competition in England. 1 assert, without
tear of suecesslul contradiction, that if Eng
land lakes their advice, and, in order to have
"fair-trade" and protect home industries, shall
impose a tariff tax of 10 or .0 cents xr bushel
uH)n American wheat and other grains, allow
lug Canadian wheal and other products to en
ter her ports free, she can bankrupt the larm-
ersofour northwest. iSlie ran, by a like dis
crimination as to beef, pork, butter, cheese and
other farm products, crq pie, if not ruin, our
t irmers all mr the country, U-caiise it is too
tpparent l need argument that, With our vast
railroad system and ihe agriiultural land d
vclied by it, our own l-oplecauuot consume
what cur farmers pioduce. France and Ger
uixuy are moving r ipiuiv in ine direction ut
i'rd try American r Mm tionists, and there is
nullding up a ait in Ei gland which is iTc-m
ng warmly the same n as are bed b.
American protectionists. The lanut d arMor
lacyo! England is at tLc back of this party,
and in their greed, the advocates of this policy
may yet succeed in overtnrowing ana destroy,
ing the agricultural interests and prosperity
of this country.
These are considerations which, of course,
are rapidly forcing themselves upon the atten
tion of our farmers, and when once thorough
ly aroused to their interest, it is impossible
but that vast revolutions and new combina
tions in party organizations must take place,
until this whole tariff monopoly business is
placed upon a new and more just and reasona
ble basis.
GUANO ANO SALTPETBE.
In attempting in our last to give our readers
an account of the disgraceful diplomatic mud
dle in w hich our stale department at Washing
ton had Involved the country in the affairs of
Chill and Peru, to promote a huge and disrep
utable job, we stated that the whole specula
tion was based on the claim of one Lamlriau,
the precise nature of which was not fully re
vealed. The papers since then, however, bring
full details on the subject. The claim of Lan-
dreau, like that of Cochet, was based wholly
on alleged guano discoveries, and, like the
Cochet claim, had always been repudiated by
the Peruvian government. All these claniH had
the same origin. As long mo its l.lll, w hen
the Peruvian government, like that of Mexi
co at a latter date, to replenish an exhausted
treasury, entered upon the laudaUe business
of robbing the churches, jhe issued the follow
ing decree:
That any one after the publication of these
presents who shall have discovered property
belonging to any suppressed convents, or oth
er property belonging to the state, shall hate
a right to a third of the said property.
This of course related to nothing but con
ceaicu cnurcu properly , Having iieen ls:,ued a
quarter of a century before such a thing as gu
ano in Peru was heard of. Later, however.
on the discovery of guano and when that arti
cle obtained a high commercial value, ceiiain
Peruvian speculators undertook to make the
clause in the above decree, "or oilier property
belonging to the slate," apply to guano. The
first to put forth such a claim, it appears, was
the Frenchman Cochet. Meantime another
Frenchman named Landreuu, who hud been
expelled from Ecuador for cheating the gov
eminent in the wine trade, had set himself up
in Lima as a dealer in arms, in which, in a
country in a state of chronic revolution, he for
a while drove a brisk trade. But as things
settled down this business fell off Then this
stir about guauo arose, and Landreau, who
didn't know guano from gum-arabic, went a
prospecting, and coining hack to Llmadeclar
ed ho had found guano at fifty places, cover
ing all the spots where guauo was likely to l c
discovered; and as thirty or forty persons
madeslmilarclaiius, the Peruvian government
"ually shut down on all of them. It is to be
noted, however, that in his claim upon the IV.
ruvian government the highest figures Lan
dreau ever put m were $7,000,000, which the
New York Company, now nreteuding to own
the claim, put in at $100,000,000,
Landreau, .
wo have said, like Cochet, was a Frenchman, j
but he bad a brother in New York, and to him
ho conveyed an Interest in the claim on condi
tion of bis becoming naturalized as a citizen
of the United States, and it is in this way that
tho Landreau happens to differ from the Coch
et claim In being an "American claim." It is
to ho noted, however, that tlie New York Com
pany has bought Up both claims, estimating
the two, which, as made on Peru hy Landreau
and Cochet never amounted together to over
$14,000,000, at ;00,000,000, and thus owning
both and consolidating ihem, put in the whole
as an "American claim."
It was to promote the recognition of this
claim that Blaine instructed Minister iiiirlnut
to "use his good offices," after llurlbut him
self had written to Blaine that he had "no
fatth whatever in the honesty or value of these
claims' and less in J. II. Shipherd and his
New York Compauy." It was to promote
this claim that Blaine instructed llurlbut so
hastily to recognize the government of Cahier-
on, after the latter had agreed with the New
York Company to sign tho papers binding the
Peruvian government to pay it; and it was to
promote this monstrous job that, under Blame's
instructions, Minister llurlbut insulted the
government of Chili by reading to Command
er Lynch a long lecture on the enormity ol
Chili demanding territorial indemnity of Peru
for war expenses, and intimated lhat any such
attempt wuld provoke the interference of
"my government."
OUITEAU.
The Guiteau trial, of which we give pretty
full notes up to Wednesday on our (Hi page,
presen'ed no marked variation on Ihe other
two days of tho week from the usual daily rou
tine. Dr. Callender, of the Tennessee iusane
hospital, and Dr. Barksdalc, of the Virginia
Central iusane asylum, testified on Wednesday
as "experts" for the prosecution, both holding
the prisoner to be perfvetly sane; and on
Thursday Dr. Waller Kcmpstcr, superintend
cut of the Wisconsin insane hospital, testified
to the same effect.
On Wednesday, on account of his constant
Interruption ot the witness wiih spiteiul com.
uieuts, and his attempt io sinke one of his
guards, Guiteau wild placed liithedoik, -villi
which he protcsscd lo be delighted an I in
which he was quite as noisy as ever. Ou
Thursday a letter was produced showing that
ihe pll-onei had recently applied to I)"li Cam
eron tor a loan of $.100 on the ground thai he
wus "a stalwart of the stalwarts," mid needed
the money to conduct hisca-c, a-t his brother
was a uuisance and Scovilie a jackass. As
the Court was alsiut to adjourn on Thursday
evining ihe prisoner asked tor pun ami ink to
answer bis voluminous cmri spondeinv, an I
announced to the audience that his letters now
come addressed to lion. Chrle llii't'-an. An
unpleasant rumor floated uls.i.t ihe courtroom
on Ibursilny and on the si I eels that one of the
j irors had t-Xprco-scd the npililou that GuileaU
Wt an Iliad tu a Man . hale.
IHtlloKIZKK lit V .Skt.S Nii.(,MI. - ( J
WidiK-soay ol I tils week a h.rge I,k!j ,
dr'inki n iM-ErM n-.s. i.il.le.l ut I'linouili, N .
('., mikI ihieatnml 0 burn the town and kill
Ihe cil'Zei a. I'ne irounle grew oi.t of thf ar
rest of a lug ii S t'uruuy fr klabbmg
white man In a rw. lie wis Lcu iu th&jgu
and committed to the town lock-up. Tin
darkies, the most of whom had Iieen imbibing
Christmas whisky, swore that the man h uld
bo released. Ever since the arrest the negtoo
had been grumbling and asserting lhat the
would be revenged. On Wednesday abmr
two hundred men and boys of that lace aruie''
themselves wuh old army guns, h'. css pi
tols, pitchforks, rusty swor.l-, and every nil.i-i
conceivable weapon, and marched throiul
Plymouth, swearing lhat liicy intended to an
nihilate the whole town. The while men
armed themselves and made ready for I'cfcusc.
Every effort was made to quiet th.- t ri iKei
mob of blacks. A messenger was .-eui i Hi
leigh with a request that (iiw.juius wuuii.
send a company of state troops to the scene ot
threatened conflict at o.icc to ,-upprcs- the out
break. The Governor promise. I lo accede u
the request.
AN INTEB OCEANIC FLOP.
With the rohiistuous but simple urmled dei
gate Flanagan of Texas, who, i i t ic great
Chicago Kcpuhlican National Convention ot
1SS0, wanted to know"Vh- t are we lu ie for T
not to get the olhcesV ao one un leiH'and.
and filter uppieciMUs the mission of his pariv
troni Cue Flanaga:i r tamlpoiut. .lmn Senatoi
J ihn A. Logan, or has n ual'v been lieu,
adroit in so dislnbul ng the oliiccs as lo il.
himself and his parly the most good. Ii look
however, as if, lu ei posiiu ol fie Clncigi
Colleetorship, John had made a in isiiike. Tim
was a posiiioii upon which Mr. Nixou, rdilm
of the I liter On an, hud in I cnanv set ho
heait. He knew il.ul Logan lia'l thedispoMtl
ol il, and to entry ni luvor un-ie is ti-irii mo
degree of sei villi v to which Xi.vm had not
descended. The inter u i only utioiiinl
ed day after day in fu 'some laudations of Lo
gau himself, but the who':- t -i ; i Mui. n::;
was taken into its highe t I'.wi.r mi bis accoiuo
The day came, however when ihercwtir
for all this truckling was n ady to he iloci
out, and "phany Ihe phcclinx" of poor N'ixm.
when he louud ll.tl Ihe had' his hiiugi) y
had so longingly and eagerly gaa-d Uj'on ha
been carelessly tossed to aliollu l. Is il a wui
der that from thai instant and ilieiici loiih 1 1 .
stalwarllsni of the Inter Oeran ceased to I..
sUlwarl? That Irom that instant and tl.enie
forihJohn A. Lo.'an cea-ed to have air organ
in Chicago; ami that Irom ha iiManl inn
thenceforth the Inter 0tan I ecaiiie an end u-
siastic convert lo Uiu caused it e h.i.fiueed
and feathcr-hcails?
That Mich is laiin i.U'ji) Hie IV I. '.he
Ocean leaders paxnim any day sime lust
In tn
v i.
day sufficiently demonstrate, especial
leader of that day, from w hich the 1. 1
lo.V I. J.
is un extract:
"We have a Senator in our miilst. It i r
hi) I) an never been elected to nut ii"Ki't'i'ii I'1
eole ofVhieatju, ami it may lit, douijtji I unii
er lie could tie no eUcted, inil o nun on.nc ih
powers at Washington look for advice an
counsel in selecting local siiuuilinuic-t in Cm
cago. Indeid, if ihe reporis el in- Ii u mis a
irue, (us ttii lienor heiiui :aicei m-i : - u
vi.-e and counsel, bin raihei dii i s o t te I
sidenl and Cabinet what iney sh
H:;o, fioine inuoceui inigiit s i noil inc
of tlie people ought lo In- more le-li nl II n
even Senator or Congressman, uu tin.lt r in
rule it cannot make itself heard. It. i.-. in.ru
a thousand fathoms under inesii moi lan u'ic
of llio Senator."
Iu every view this is ha I lor Logan. Tl i
loss of an organ to a siatesni oi ol the L"j.-.
siatnp is a most serious iii.ciir, ai d n u
take a dozen of colieciorsliijis lo Inn einihi
so able and Influential, and ai ihe same times
obsequious and uusri'Upulou .. 1 u..nM m
have been so bad if Ihe n an lo whom J
gave the cilice had been a conspicuously bet.
ler man than Nixon, but such is not the case
It is a libel to say that Nix-ai is id m even
sense as good :t man as Jesse Spunlding is or
ever was
ASTH0X0XICAL.
Professor Swift, director of ihe Wan er Ob
servatory at Uochester, N. Y., sends us a veiy
interesting review of ihe nunc hoiahlc asiro.
mimical occurrences of the past jeur, more
particularly in regard to iheco.i.eks, tor which
the year was so memorable. L'p to lbSl, in
the present century, tho diseovciy of comets
any year had not averageil over about one in
every 5J mouths, but during lbtil, between
M:y 1st aud November lC'h, no less than ev
en cornels were discovered, avciaging a little
over one a luonlh, two of ihem U-iug visible
to the naked eye aud one so conspicuous as to
take rank with the most remaraable of mod
ern limes.
Following is a list of the comets of the year
iu the order of their discovery:
Comet A Sw ift Uochester, N. Y.
do li. . . . I'obbult South Africa
do C. . . .Schnaeberle. . . Ann Arbor, Mich.
do I). . . .Encke's. .(periodic aud expected)
do 10. . . .Kar.iard .Nashville, Teen.
do F Brooks Phelps, N. Y.
do ii. . . .Swift Uochester, N. Y.
Of these it is curious lhat the two more no
table B and C were discovered iu almost
exactly the same quarter ot the heavens, aud
moved iu exactly the same direction. Both
were remarkable comet, each having two tails,
.ind the latter would any other year havo been
pronounced a fine comet, when not outrivaled,
as this wits, by another its predecessor B.
Comet B was successfully photographed by
several astronomers notably by Prolessor
Henry Draper, a feat never before accomplish
ed. Several small stars were shown on the
negative ohiniug through tho tail, though their
light passed through probably 100,000 miles
of comelic matter. This shows the exceeding
tmnsparaucy of the.e auomalous bodies. Iu
fact it is one of their distinguishing character
is!ics.
What has been learned about comets! Very
little. Comet B was the brightest that has ap
pearetl since the invention of the spectroscope"
aud being f exceptionally well placed for ole
nervation and tqiectroscopic analysis of its nu
cleus, coma and tail, promised much to sci
ence. Nothing, however, was observed but
the usual sptclra revealed by faiuter comets.
A; side from ihe apparition of the above com
ets, to astronomical events of very great sci
entific value occurred. The niot notable were
i ,o toul eclipse of tlie moon on the evening of
June 11th, and the transit of Mercury across
the sun's face n November 7:h. It was gen
erally invisible e--t of the Mississippi, but in
the extreme
We:-tern States and Territories
ouie valuable observations of it were made
')' parlies especially equipped for the work.
An important addition to our knowledge ol
olar physics, and one destined to have an
inportant bearing on meteorology, was made
v Professor Lauglcy Irom the lop of Mouui
Whitney, 15.000 feet above the se,i. He prov
ed to his satitsciioii that the solar constant
f heat, as estimated I v Sir John llcrschel,
Pouillet, Woilaston and others, U very much
greater than they supposed. From the top of
tins mountain, amid the snow un. ice, so ran
and pure was the air that va'.er was boiled by
he direct iinconceiitraied rays of the sun.
F0BEION
"Three hundred and fiity prominent. Irish
men lying in j til without tri.J, (iO.OOO armed
men iu the country and the laic ol agrarian
mirages does not lecrc;.e," is, in a sentence,
the summary for ihe e u of England's policy
iu Ireland. I he way the work ot pacification
is progressing under the "cru.di the ltadi iV
polity is biiowu hy items like these among the
alest cable lispulchc
The police have ai rented n in, in named Cor
n il in Hie County Cork, charged w ith having
oius di it proclaimed district, A number ol
0. 11h-d revolvers were found in bin possession,
li is hclieved lie is the lender ol the gang w ho
1. tve been committing the o'ltnigcs m Mill
in i t during the past year. Among the doeu
. cuts louml in his possession is one contain
in: a list i f the persons upon whom tho out
ig were to Le committed.
I'he police found a large quaiilily ef rilles,
mwuicIs and cartridges in a vault of the Pro
cs'uni church at Kilkishen, County Clare.
D icuuieuts found on Council disclose a plot
o murder two farmers. Council was ruiinnd
d lor a week.
."several stands of arms, a quantity of sinui
d on, and a number cf pikes were discovered
ear Listowcl.
At Castleton, on Monday, Miss llenolds, n
1. 1 mlier of the Ladies' Land League, was sent
t jad on tho charge of abetting a criminal
.! 'iispuacy to prevent payment of rent. M can
ine the Ladies' League has summoned a mcct-
i ig of all branches to meet on Sunday to con-
mi about the case.
The L nited J rinlonen new spaper, suppressed
oi Dublin last week, re-appeared in its usual
i' win iu London on Saturday. It contained a
c irtoon depicting Irish landloids as
t id the tenants as prosperous. 1 he police
eiz'd 500 copies, all they could find.
rive arrests under the coercion act were
ii'ide on Saturday. The city and county of
Dublin and nine othercounties have been pro
1'iiiiied under the arms net.
A meeting of the Irish Home Manufactur
t' Association adopted a resolution to com
'I'luicato with the inenriers of the late indus
ir al exhibition comuii lee, with the view of
laving an exhibition of Irish manufactures
u
At a meeting of bankers and merchants in
L uidoii on Tuesday a resolution was passed
n favor of tho forimtiion of an association to
ousider the rehabilitation ot silver, and Heu-
y Ilucks Gibhs, one of the directors of th(:
H-ink of England, was chosen president of the
ouncil
The Mormon missionaries held a conference
n London on Sunday, nt w hich u appeared
t ml Mormonism iu London has been unsuc
cessful, but many converts have been made iu
the provinces. It is proposed to take converts
o Utah early in 1882. Some of the elders will
emaui to proselyte. A number of them will
el urn lo Uiaii Fifteen huudred converts
uivebeen made iu England since last August
Emigratii n from Germany til 1882 promises
o become more coloal eveu than iu 1881.
Fourteen thousand ti.kets are already taken
for transportation by vei-scls leaving Bremen
lor America in the spring. Almost unequal
number of emigrants go Irom Hamburg.
The Pope on S tuird ty gavg the customary
Christmas-eve reception to the cardinals, in re
ply to whose address he said his position wa
ix coming more and more intolerable. When
he claimed leniioial power in order to secuie
independence of spiritual power, he wasacciis.
d of being u rebel aud enemy to Italy. Culho-
lies who demanded efficient guarantees for
freedom for the head of their church were
imilarly stigmatized, and pilgrims to Home
were insulted by llio press and populace.
During the celebration of high mass in Un
church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw on Christ
mas, a pickpocket was caught at work, who,
to facilitate his escape, gave an alarm of fire,
and in tho panic which ensued thirty persons
weio killed and many injured. The criminal
was soundly beaten by the crowd. He being
a Jew, four t-hops iu tht viciuily kept by He
brews were completely gutted, several pnhce
meu being injured in the tumult. Military
were called into use to patrol the disturbed re
gion.
It seems tho Hon. Lionel Sackville West
tho new British Minister at Washington, pre
sents in his person auoiher Sarah Bernhardt
case, aud even Washington society, usually so
little troubled with prudishness, is badly tore
up about it. On examination of the Bible of
tho British aristocracy, the Peerage Book, n
is found that Mr. Sackviile-Wcst is a bacheloi,
yet ho appeals In Washington with a family
of four or five children! They are said to be
tlm fruits of a liaison with a Spanish actress
while he was connected with the British lega
tion at .Madrid.
Siiekmax'b Pi,umkk. While Mr. Allison,
who has charge of the senate investigation in
to the conduct of the Treasury under Sher
man, with particular reference to the Pitney
charges of converting large sums of public
uiouey to private use under the nime of can
dles, &.C., is carefully conducting the inquiiy
with closed doors aud examining only such
witnesses treasury clerks of Sherman's ap
pointmentas he has reason to believe will
swear that runev is a nar, ne occasionally
wakes up the wrong passenger. Such proved
to be one of the colored messengers, w ho hap
pened to be cal'ed before the committee od
Tueday, and at a time, too, when the usual
precaution of Kicking the doors had been neg
lected. To Allison's horror this itness swore
in the most positive manner that along in the
winter of 180, when Sherman was runuing a
cortmittee room in Washington, in charge of
Mr. Mculton, Sherman's brother-in-law, to
work up his "boom" for the presidential noni
Jiuatioa at Chicago, nc naa ouc aay oeen in.
structed to take a large bos from the stationery
room over to tho Sherman committee rooms.
This box was so large and heavy that it re
quired all of his strength to lift it. When he
got over to the room he placed it down in the
presence ol Mr. Moulton, who helped him
open it. Tho witness was then asked what
there was In tho box. lie said inkstands,
prns, blotters, pencils, and a largo quantity of
hratclass stationery. Ho was asked if it
was the regular stationery of the treasury de
partment, and replied that it was tho same
that he was in the habit of carrying about
from the stationery room to the various bureau
offices. He was asked if the quantity was not
small. Ho said, ou the contrary, it was very
large reams of it. He said that the box was
unpacked in tho presence of Mr. Moulton,
who apparently expected and knew all about
it. Next day ho had carried over another
b .v of tho same sort, and ut various times
afterwards he carried over large supplies from
the stationery department ot tho treasury to
tlie same rooms. His testimouy was very
clear aud remained unshaken by a most rigid
cross-examination. Allison adjourned the
day's sess'iou the moment tho witness was
dismissed.
Nlierltr ' IVe.
I-'ilitiirs vf the Free Trader In your issue
of the 21th lust, appeared a letter charginirmc
as a public officer with defrauding the county
out of a large sum of money. In answer, I
have only tins to say. If the writer had in
vestigated the facts, as shown in my report, (a
public record open to nil tax-payers), I can not
conceive how he could so grossly misrepresent
thein, unless inspired by personal malice, and
falsehood would answer his purpose better
than the truth. It is true that my report, as
published, does not show the items of fees re
ceivedsuch as attendance upon tho supreme
and appellate courts, taking prisoners to Jollet,
paid by the State of Illinois. But if any
responsible person in La Sallo county, or any
committee of tax payers, will take the trouble
to call at the sheriff's office and they are
heartily invited to do so they will find every
item mentioned in the letter referred to above
credited to La Salle county under the head of
"Miscellaneous Business.
As to tho large amount of $2,7r2.8:J, which
1 am charged with either witholdiug or steal
ing, I will say, that though credited to me, it
was never in my hands, never drawn from the
county treasury, and certainly not appropri
ated, ns will be seen by the receipt of the coun
ty treasurer, of Dec. 10th, endorsed upon my
report.
V ith thanks for your very evident fairness
in your editorial comment upon the letter re
ferred to, I am, very respectfully,
Taos. t'LAKK, Sheriff.
Speaker Keifor is no doubt largely and just
ly censured for his manner of matting up the
committees of the house, but no man, on criti
cally examining the composition of those
committees, will accuse him of stupidity or
of not acting with almost devilish ingenuity
to a purpose. When Kerr and Randall ap
pointed the house committees they arranged
them so as to check jobbery, save public mo
ney, and strangle the measures ot the lobby.
In this they succeeded so well that the lobby
for several years actually ceased to exist as a
live, palpable agency in congressional legisla
tion. Keifcr has framed the committees so as
exactly to reverse this policy. Every noted
henchman of the jobbers Hobesou, Hiscock,
Orth, &c. is given a promineut place on com
mittees charged with the disposal of public
money, while not only arc such guardians of
iho treasury among the democrats as Uandall,
Hewitt, Holman, Ac., hidden away on the
most uuiiiiuoitanL committees, but even repub
lican members who had made a record as
sticklers for honesty and economy, arc equally
slighted and assigued to obscure positions.
As m the matter of the revenue and appro
priation committees, so in regard to the bank
ing and currency committee, Keifcr knew ex
actly what he was about. Congressman Buck
tier, formerly chairman of that committee,
says tho gentlemen selected by Speaker Keifer
will report favorably on any bill recommended
by Comptroller Knox or the national bauks.
Aud as to the clectious committee, it is admit
ted that it is arranged with hellish mgenuity
to get a report in favor of every republican
claimant, no mailer how baseless his claim.
Don't worry Keifer made no mistakes he
kuew what he was about, "you bet."
Em'oucisu tue Law. Ohio, with as rigid
temperance laws as Maine, has manufactured,
next to Illinois, more whisky than any other
state In tho Union aud her people, man for
man, can punish about as much bad whisky
as the inhabitants of any other state. At (he
same time tho state can outvie Maine iu tho
fiery zeal of its temperance enthusiasts, aud as
all attempts to cuforce the rigid teetotal lawa
of the state iu the legal way Have proved
fruitless, they have not scrupled to invoke the
aid of Judge Lynch. At Cedarville, in that
s ate, last Saturday morning, long before day
light, a patriotic baud of disguised men and
boys suddenly made a raid on Mr. Berryman's
hilliard and pool room, where it was alleged
liquor was sold, and in a few minutes nothing
remained of bis four billiard and pool tables
hut fragments aud splinters, the destruction of
property amounting to $1300. The drug store
of Mr. Caldwell was next attacked, the doors
broken in aud the heads of two barrels of
whisky knocked out and the contents allowed
io run over the floor. Then the mob scattered
to their homes, leaving a note to the owner of
the buildings that had been invaded to the
effect that if he meant to rent them as places
in which liquor was sold ho bad better have
ihem heavily insured, as they might take fire
An attempt to "enforce the law" in Kansas
on tho same day, without the aid of Judge
Lynch, resulted somewhat differently. A mo
Wright, ho keeps abiiliard-rooin at Parsons,
was suspected of selling liquor, and a w arrant
was issued for his anest. Constable Bruce
visited Ihe place, and was met at 'lie door by
Wright with a double-barreled shot gun. The
aid of Sheriff Bender and a pos e ot tw-nty
citizens was prtcurcd, but the billiard man
kept them at bay fioru 9 a. m. until dark, when
he made his escape.