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STATE JOURNAL. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 20. 178. The Congressional recess will extend horn Di r. 21 to Jan. fith. Wade Hampton lost h leg, but ho got the U. S. Senator shin nil the same. Hi sumption resumes. Greenbacks sold lor gold lit par in New York, Tuesday two weeks ahead ol time. Idl men tire described by William Win dom as the Devil's reserves. Irom which lie is constantly drawing reorulls. It is not the White House but the Asia attic that General Grant is making fur j 1st now, savs the Courier-Journal. The Sugar Importers are making a !.tir. it it will result in a reduction t the sweet things ol lile, we shall bid it God speed. The editor of the Detroit Free Press, desiring to compliment Mr. Tilden as the "Old Guard ol the Democracy," was .somewhat slat tied to read it in print, "the Old Gourd ot the Democracy." He buihd'd better than he knew. A gentleman who has traveled over the Stute considerably since the election, and who has conversed with many ol the lead ing politicians ol North Missouri, gives it as his jtidgmtnt that the Greenbackers in the Legislature, nearly to a man, will support "Charlie Hardin" for United States Senator. This will doubtless be another good reason lor their exclusion Irom the Democratic caucus. It is estimated, says Senator Windom, that there are probably two million idle people in this country who would gladly work. The material losses that result Irom this cause are enormous, to say noth ing of the demoralization and suffering that accompany it. These two million of people are capable of earning $2,000, 000 daily. Every day they remain idle entails a loss upon the nation equal to the most disastrous period ol the war. St. Louis narrowly escaped a serious cor.fl igration list Tuesday night. Near 9 o'clock a lire started on Ffth street in the very heart ol the ci;y. One immense live story building, Powell's carpet house, was burned to the ground, and Jaccard's building, so well known to every St. l.ouis visitor, was considerably scorched. The super-human exertions ot the firo de partment there arrested the progress of the 11 lines, and saved a goodly portion of the city Irom destruction. The St. Louis evening paper troubles have come to a head, as follows: "The 6t. Louis Post and Dispatch.1' It would seem Irom appearances that the result has been accomplished by the absorption of the Lispatch in the Post. The Iranchises of the Lispatch may have been of some value to the Post, otherwise the profit of the arrangement is not discernible. The Post had established itselt as a most valu able paper, but it by its new arrangement it takes on any of the characteristics ol the Dispatch, it wiil lose cast and stand ing and all else that it has gained in a f hort time. We trust the Post will main tain its past individuality, and wish it a world of success. We do not think an investigation under the Blaine resolution will contrib ute anything to our knowledge ot the manner in which the Democratic party lias recovered ascendency in the South. Lost as that ascendency was in the hour ot the defeat and the downfall ol the Confederacy, alter a briet struggle, the party has recovered it, and, with it its old power of control in the affairs of the nation. Ol the shameful character ot that struggle and its disgracetul details the newspapers ot the land have given us a taithtul chronicle. Not only as a measure ot justice, but as an instrument ot self de fence, were the colored men of the South invested with political rights and intrusted with the ballot P At the same time ii was not unexpected that the race thus eleva ted to the dignity and responsibility of oitizenship would prove powerful allies of the Republican party in its contest for continued supremacy in the control ol the government. Constituting more than two filths ol the population of the contederacy, the investment ol the race with political privileges and power was regarded as sufficient provision lor its own safety and Republican ascendency. But against the fraud, violence and brutality of the white leaguers the race has proved its inability to cope, and no amount ot investigation can make the publio realization ot the fact more emphatic than it already is. We agree, furthermore, with Mr. Thur nun, that, were an investigation necessa ry, the remaining session of the present C ingress is ot too short duration lor its attempt now. Hut whv investigate P Is nol the record ot the hu see political wrong complete P Does it not stand admitted P Is it not only admitted but justified by Northern as well as Southern Democracy P What Democrat is truo to the precepts of his party who does not denounce as an out rugu the admission of the colored race to equal political rights and privileges in the South, where, in six states of the Union, that have thirty six representatives in Congress, they are the most numerous class. What Democrat forgets to affirm on any and all occasions that this is a "while man's government," especially, il he be an aspirant to the Uniied States Senate Irom Missouri? The truth is, the record ol the wrong is complete and admitted. Mr. Lamar calls it a "phenomenon" that is brought about by an agency which "intelligence, and virtue, and s.igicity, and other cvklcncics ot civilization, always bring upon classes that are ignorant and debased." But this does not change the aspect ot the political wrong. It admits it and attempts its jm tilication, leaving only to be considered the remedy that remains, and its enforce ment, and to this the Congress, without the delay and formality ol an investiga tion, should address itself. Ia his remark, upon the subject, Mr. Blaine called the attention of Cougres and the country very torcibly to the remedy the constitution provides. It is that for the abridgement of the political rights ot the citizens ot a state the representation ot the people ol such state shall be re duced in the proportion that the eit z;ns whose rights are abridged bear3 to the whole number of the citizens ol such state. The constitution thus provides a plain and explicit remedy. But how shall it be enforced P Until this is determined the uselessness ot an investigation into this political wrong and of the provision of the constitution prescribing the penalty ol it alike, is apparent. "What are you going to do about it P' and "how you going to do it?' are, inappropriately enough, how ever, first to be met and answered. Is it not a fact that the power to cor rect the evil can be expected Irom no other source than a Republican Congress ? MORE DEMOCRATIC ADMISSIONS. The Sun, the most rabid Democratic paper in New York City, makes the fol lowing damaging admissions la regard to South Carolina: The testimony proves beyond a reason able doubt that frauds of great extent were committed by the South Carolina Democrats at the polls on the 5th ot No vember. In that State there may be, and probably is, a legitimate Democratic ma jority on a fair vote. The avowed ob ject ot the late campaign was to swell the majority to the largest number possible by any means, and to wipe out ol exis tence forever the hope, heart, and organi zation of the Republican party in that State. That is what Wade Hampton calls "Redeeming South Carolina." He gave the key-note early in the canyass, when he b a-ued.that every Congressional dis trict would be carried. His red-coated riders bore the instructions into everv township and hamlet. The ballot-box st u tiers consummated the work on elec tion day. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS. Senator Edmunds' bill regulating the manner ot electing Presidents, has passed tho Senate, and in all probability will pass the House. It provides that the Presidential election shall be on the first Tuesday in October, and that the electors shall meet on the second Monday in January. The interval of three months is thought to be sufficient for the judicial settlement within each Stale of all the questions that may arise as to the validity of the result. The deter mination fixed upon in each State shall be final and conclusive. When Congress comes to count the vote on the 2nd Monday of February, the bill provides that it shall require the concurrence ot both houses to reject the vote ot a State which presents but a single return, or to accept the vote of a Stale which presents more than ore return. This resmbles Senator Morion's bill, which came so near passing a lew years ago. Fat Man It educed 50 Pounds. Mr. Chas. R. Dankortii, 91 Main St., Buffalo, writes as follows: "To The Pkopwetoks of Allan's Anti Fat : Gentlemen Some three months since I commenced the use of Allan's Anti-Fat. The first week I lost two and one-quarter pounds; the second week two pounds; the third week three and one-halt bounds ; and the tourlb week nearly three and three-quarter pounds. In about the above ratio, my weight decreased until I had lost 50 pounds. I now weigh 155 pounds, and leel healthy and strong. BUFFALO N. ., June 2ith, 1878. Gentlemen Yours received. My loss ol flesh has been permanent to date. Yours, C. It. D. Corporal Noonan. Corporal Noonan, ol the 7th Cavalry, whose "wife" died some weeks ago, com mitted suicide it. one ol the stables ol the lower garrison Saturday. It was repotted some days ego that he had deserted, but no one this side of the river had seen him. It now appears that the man had kept himself out of the way as well as he could for several days. His comrades had given him a sort of cold shake since tho return ol the regiment Irom the chase Bfter the Sioux, and this, and the shame that tell on him in the discovery ol his wile's sex, undermined his desire lor existence, and he crawled away lonely and forsaken and blew out the lile that promised nothing but intamy and disgrace. The suicide was committed with a pis tol, and Noonan shot himself through the heart. The affair created almost as in tense excitement at the post as did the announcement of the death of Mrs. Noon an, bu' there was a sigh ot relief on the corporate lips ! the 7th Cavalry when its members heard that Noonan by his own hand had relieved the regiment of the odium which the man's presence cast up on them. Thursday afternoon a reporter for the Tribune interviewed Noonan upon the unfortunate relations between himself and the man who represented himself as Noonan's wile. "When I married her, sir," said Noon an, earnestly, "I believed her to be a w nian, and I never knew to the contrary until 1 heard ot the post mortem " "Aro you prepared to say, Noonan, that during your marital expel ience vou never dreamed of what the medical officers dis covered P" "I mean just that. I dare not say that the medical officers wero wrong, but 1 know that I am right, and I know that my wile was a woman. There is some teriiiild mystery about this thing that I can't understand. She had acted as midwife and doctress here' at the Post. She was trusted and respected by a large number ot people, and I can only think she must have done something terribly wrong which demanded a disguise of her sex by the diagnosing physicians." "But her wrong must have been to one ot her supposed sex. audi can't undei- stand how the ulteration could benefit her " "Nor I. There is something dark and something terrible about this thing. Where it will end I don't know. I am but a sergeant, while those in control of this thing stand lar above me in rank. They can pronounce her man, woman, God or devil, as they see fit, but I am doomed to the inlamy and can find no re liel. As Almighty God is my judge, my wife was a woman, and I care nothing for post mortem examinations to the contrary. Why I tell you. sir, she at one time had an abortion procured upon her." "Sergeant," are you lying to me, or telling me the truth P" "The truth, so help mo God. I will swear betore my Maker that she was a woman. But I can't tell what could have induced this concealment ot her sex. I can't understand how she came to die. There is something beyond my wife's grave that must be settled at some time, and there will be a time when the mys toary will be cleared up. It may not be in your lifetime or mine, but I tell you, sir, the woman has been strangely wronged, and were I in a position to clear the thing up, I would defy the world to prove that she was not a woman." Such earnestness in facing the grave is entitled to weight. While Noonan spoke, the shadow ot death was in his eyes. There was something which awed the re porter. Noonan is dead. If a liar, he is damned. If he has told the truth, there is a fearful mystery somewhere. Bismarck Tribune. The hand that rocks the cradle, is the hand that moves the earth. Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup is the best remedy for all complaints children are subject to, such as Dysentery, Diarrhoei, Summer Com print, Wind Colic, etc. Price 25 cents. The False "Worship of Women. No doubt there are hundred ot sensible women who take all these things tor what they are worth ; but there are thousands who do not, and can we blame them. Instead of treating them as our equals, we have done the best we can to make spoiled children of them in the days ot their youth and beauty, leaving to them the task of finding out in later life how hollow the mockeiy has beeu. What wonder if some ot them rebel P What wonder il the young married woman seeks in the ball-room or elsewhere a renewal of the adoration which she has been taught to consider her due, ,but which her husband has ceased to pay P The one chief huit ot hypocrisy in one is untruthfulness in others. We have pro fessed to treat all faults as venial in wo men except one. We have talked about lips "that were so sweetly frsworn," and have made lor ourselves a code of moral ity concerning "lover's perjuries" and have set the whole relations between man and woman on so artificial a basis that it is the hardest thing in the world tor a woman to be truthful, and too common thing lor her to see no harm in being de ceitful. Ot course, wo ao not allude to anything so coarse and clumsy as lying, but an adept in the art ot deceit seldom descends to anything so inartistic. To cajole by pretense of tavors to which a fictitious value is certain to be attached is a much higher branch of the art. From the London Examiner. A good nurse is a blessing to every family, and all sensible nurses recommend that innocent but effectual remedy tor all the pains and ills that betall a baby Dr. Bu l's Baby Syrup. Prlco 25 cents. E0U. JL. S. STEPHENS, The (treat Statesman of the South, says: ''I Imve uied Durang's Rbeumaiio Kemedy for Kbeumatism with frreat benefit." It is a post live cure. Send for circular to Ilelphenstlne & Bentley, Druggists, Vabingtoi. D. C. ; or ask your Druggist for it. OutlwSm. ASTRADDLE ! A Female Horse Thief In Jail. Crime, like all else, has its wonders, and its latest development in this city is a female horse thief. She was brought in and consigned to our county jail last night by Mr. Win, Silvey, of Duroc, and Nat. Parberry, who lives a lew miles south of the city. It is A STliANCiE STORY, and this is how they tell their side of it: Amanda Huntiicut lives with Jno. Griffin, who she claims is her husband, but this is denied by Mr. Griffin, who only claims that he is engaged to her. She told her intended that she owned 120 acres of land near Duroc, and left on December the 5th to go down and attend to it. On her arrival in the neighborhood of Duroc, that same day, she went to the stable ot Mr. Wm. Silvey and stole two mules, a mare and a bi idle and saddle, and proceeded to Cole Camp, where she snccieded in sell ing the two mules to Henry Munkin, a saloon keeper of that place, for $35 00, and with the mare started in a westerly course until she struck the house ot r. Mose Mitchell where she offered the mare for sale. Mr. Mitchell traded her bacon, wheat and $15 in money for the animal, but tearing that something was wrong in the matter pos'poned paying the bill for several days, hoping to find out if her title was all right, while Amanda Hunicut went I ark to her home in Georgetown. She told Griffin about her speculations, accounting lor her possession ol the mare and mules by claiming to have disposed ol her real estate, and yesterday they started out together to Mr. Mitchells' to get the money and provisions. In the meantime, however, Mr. Silyey had not been idle, but had followed in her course and recovered all his property and had just left Mr. Mitchell's when he met Griffin and the woman on their way to his house. Tho meeting occurred with in two miles ol Mitchell's house, and then and there Mr. Silvey arrested them both and brought them to this city where they were lodged in secure apartments, a till charges brought against them belore 'Squire C.ark, who took up their exarni nation to day. Griflia was discharged as no evidence could be produced showing him to be a party to the theft, but Mrs. Hunnicui was committed to jail in default ot $1,000 bail. Mrs. Hunicut states that she is thirty years of age although she is probably older, and evidently ot Irish extraction, with a tali, raw-bone figure, and a coun tenance anything but prepossessing. Her previous history shows that her e has not been unmarked by events that were the direct results ot her want ot rinciple. A few months ago she was living in Duroc and stole a number of dress patterns from one ot her neighbors. Mr. Silvey then told her it was a peniten tiary offense, and she had better leave. Sho did so, and next appeared in a Ger man settlement a few miles westot Duroc. Here she abstracted a number of hams' Irom a larmer, who succeeded in finding his property and then-treated her to a severe horsewhipping. Mrs. II., who is a basket maker by occupation, did not even yet bethink her self of her trade, and what an honest sup port it would yield, but next appeared in the arena in the character ot horsethiet. She has probably stolen the last horse until after her term ia the. State prison shall have expired. Wheat In Chicago. Various rumors are afloat in the stock market about the tactics to be employed by Mr. Keene in getting rid ot bis wheat. Mr. Keene has been credited with consid erable' influence ever the management of one or two ot the trunk lines connecting Chicago with the seaboard. If he can use this influence to procure a real or ap parent quarrel between the roads, and a cutting ot rates, it is easy to see how he could market his wheat in New York or Liyerpool at a handsome profit, without any rise in price or without attempting a corner. This kind of deal is nothing new. It was a favorite one with James Fisk, Jr., when ho was running the Erie road. To carry it out successfully requires only the compliance or complicity of a railroad manager. The evidence that schedule rates are being slaughtered between Chi cago and Liverpool confirms this view. Keene is reported to have made engage ments tor 1,500 car loads of wheat to New York from Chicago for January, at a discouut of over 50 per cent. Chicago Tribune. II wo the Little Three Got In. The unaccountable appearance ot three Republicans in the South Carolina legis lature is explained at last. Ten thousand tissue ballots were shipped Irom Charles ton for Beaulort county, but the boat which bore them ran on a sand bar, and did not arrive till alter the election. In this way "negro ignorance" was enabled to triumph over "white intelligence and experience," and send three men to the Legislature. It is the one blemish on the bulldozer's reform escutcheon. Lepuosy in Louisiana. Some twenty years ago a persou attacked with the horrible disease ot leprosy settled on the lower portion ot Bayou Latourche. Now there is said to be 50 lepers in Lalourche. Il is becoming a very serious matter to the resideuts in this part ol the State, and we call upon the Legislature to eradicate the disease. There was one case in this town, but 'he yellow fever banished it. From the Thibodoux (La ) Sentinel. Thirtv-four years of constantly increas ing use have established a reputation for Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup second to no similar preparation. Il relieves Instantly and curws all coughs, colds, etc Useful If Not New. Tho following simple rules for preserv ing health Bad promoting personal cora lort, if not new to some of our readers, are none the less Important to every one: The object of brushing the teeth is to remove the destructive particles ot food which by their decomposition generate decay. To neutralize the acid resulting Irom this chemical change is the object of dentrilice. A stiff brush should be used utter every meal, and a thread of silk floss or India rubber passed through be tween the teeth to remove particles of food. Rinsing tho mouth in lime water neutralizes the acid. Living and sleeping in a room in which the sun never enters is a f-low form of suicide. A sun bath Is the most refresh ing and life giving bath that can possibly be taken. Always keep the feet warm, and thus avoid colds. To this end, never sit in damp shoes or wear loot coverings fitting and pressing closely. The best time to eat fruit is halt an hour betore breakfast. A full bath should nut bo taken less than three hours alter a meal. Never drink cold water before bathing. Do not lake a cold bath when tired. Keep a box ol powdered starch on the washstaud; and after washing, rub a pinch over the hands. It will prevent chapping. If leeling cold before going to bed, ex ercise ; do not roasl over a fire. The popular prejudice against propriet ary remedies has long since been con quered by the marvelous success ot such a remedy as Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. Used everywhere by everybody. Parisian Lunacy. A weli-dressed man lately presented himself belore a commissary ot police in Paris, saying that his lather, while a gal ley slave at Toulon, gained the friend ship ot a man who had murdered an old diamond dealer and his wile, and had hidden $80,000 in daimonds and cash, which he had stolen Irom them. The man expected soon to die, and revealed the locality ot the treasure. He died soon after, and his confident, on the expiration ot his senteuce, found the treasure, bought a fine estate in Switzerland, married, raised a family, and revealed the source of his wealth upon his death bed. The visitor of the commissary said that the revelation troubled him, and he desired to return the property to the heirs of the diamond dealer. His brothers and sisters refused and he poisoned them. Now that they were dead, he had come to Paris to seek the heirs. As the commissary could offer no suggestions as to llieit locality, his visitor threatened to blow his brains out. The commissary f uddenlj discovered that he had a clue, and called tor two of his subordinates, who he told the man, would assist him in his search. It is need less to say that they locked him up. A medical examination revealed that the man was insane, but his story proved to be true, except in regard to his having poisoned his brothers and sisters. They died before their fatcher. The name of the diamond dealer was Follet. He had been killed in Paris, but left no heirs. The lunatic was sent back to Switzerland, to be confined in an asylum. Evils Among Young Men. Of all the evils prevalent among young men, we know ot none more blighting in its moral effects than to speak lightly of the virtues of a woman. Nor is there anything in which young men are so thoroughly mistaken as the low estimate they form as to the integrity of woman. Not of their own mothers and sisters, but ot others who, they forget, are somebody else's mothers and" sisters. As a rule, no person who surrenders to this debasing habit is to be trusted with an enterprise requiring integrity ot character. Plain words should be spoken oc this subject, for the evil is a general one and deep rooted. It young men are sometimes thrown into society ot thoughtless or de praved women, they have no more right to measure all other women by what they see ot these, than they have to estimate the character of honest and respectable citizens by the developments ot crime in our police courts. Let our young men remember that their chief happiness In lite depends upon utter faith in women. No worldly wisdom, no misanthropic philosophy, no generalization, can cover or weaken truth. It stands like the record of itsell for it is nothing less than this and should put an everlasting seal upon lips that are wont to speak slightly ol women. The Denver Extension. J. H. Smith made a trip to St. Joseph 1 ist week. He says they are red hot on the railroad question and determined to have a southwestern branch fof the Den ver road built as soon as possible. The merchants and business men ot the Board of Trade are awake to the importance of securing the trade ot the rapidly develop ing country west ot us and feel thai their only chance is in the construction of a road that will make il tributary to that city, the It will be taken to Omaha and other points by the branches ot the B. & M. We may expect railroad builders here in a short time and let us give them a warm reception. Tally One for Baker, Alter "waiting and watching over the border" for nearly two years, Baker ot Jhe Commonwealth, has at last succeeded in captuiing Mul'onrd ot the Kansas City Times, on Kansis soil, and no sooner did he find him than he served on him the pa pers in that long deferred ibel suit, and now Munlord must measure words, (or, rather lawyers) with Baker, iu a Kansas court. May your troubles ouly be little ot,ei, and may you always havo Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup handy," said an old batchelor to a uewlj -married couple.