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VOLUME X.
PEI1SEVERAXCE COXlUER."
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1874.
NUMBER 7.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Condensed from Telegrams of Acccmpanjinj Holes.
Monday, May 4. Dispatches received
in Madrid on the 2d confirm a previous report
that the Carlists had been driven from Bllboa.
Dispatches from Carlist sources, received on
the 3d, deny the correctness of this report and
state that Portugalete was occupied by Serrano
on the 1st, and that he immediately marched
toward Bilboa. A desperate battle be
gan on the morning of the 2d, the
ramlt of which had not been ascertained
on the 3d .... A decree has been issued by the
Spanish Government, calling for a levy of all
persons liable to military duty over nineteen
years of age....Ernzt Mintzing, alia Love,
the murderer of the Hamnct family
near Pittsburgh, Pa., who was ar
rested in Allegheny City on the night
of the, 1st, has made a full confession
of the terrible crime, and says he murdered
the family with an ax, the object being to ob
tain possession of Hamnet's money, he sup
posing that a considerable sum was in the
house. He says lie only got about fifteen
dollars. ...Ou the evening of the 2d, as the
employes in a large paper mill (Con
dit's) in the village of Shawangunk,
N. Y., were about leav'ng that estab
lishment for the day, a large rotary
boiler exploded, nearly demolishing the build
ing, and burying many laborers in the ruins.
Seven persons were killed and three fatally
wounded. The explosion was terrifie, the
boiler, weighing five tons, beiDg thrown COO
feet. Intense excitement prevailed, and a
mob threatened to lynch the superinten
dent on account of alleged criminal care
lessness in using a condemned boiler....
A report favoring Council Bluffs as the
legal terminus of the Union Pacific Railroad
has been agreed upon by the House Commit
tee on Pacific Railroads.
and annulment of all such contracts, and provid
ing that the Court of Claims shall have no author
ity to consider or decide upon any claims for
damages by reason of the discontinuance of snch
contracts or for any profits or percentages under
them . . . . Aajournea.
Tuesday. May 5. Senate. The bill for
the relief of persons suffering from the overflow of
the Mississippi Kiver, which appropriated fw.uou,
with an additional section directing the Secretary
nf (Tip in lni ti-mnnrtrr snnnlies of food audi
armv clothing to those suffering, and appropriating
$60,000 additional for that purpose, was
reported from committee, and an amendment
was offered providing that the provisions of the
hill shall expire on the 1st of September next, and
after considerable debate the bill was recommitted.
A favorable re do rt was made from the Com
mittee on Public Lands on a bill to extend time to
ii.hntnr on nnhlic lands in Minnesota to make
final pavments.... The Supplementary Civil Right
bill was further considered.... Adjournea.
House. A bill -was passed providing
that in the adjustment of all railway land grants,
it v of ihn land minted he found in possession
nf an artnal spUler whose entTV Of filing has
v....... .-rl nnrtr thA lr-eTnnt ton or Homestead
laws subsequent to the time when the right of
th rnilwav romnanv was declared to have at
tached to such lands, the company shall be entitled
1 1 auluft an nil al onanritv of other lands in lieu
thereof, from any public land within the limits of
the grant to which the company shall secure title,
the same as though originally granted The bill
defining the risuta and duties of citizens abroad
was recommitted to the Committee on Foreign
Affairs The Centennial hill for an appropnaiion
of $3,000,000 was debated at considerable length in
Committee of the Whole. . . .Adjourned.
Wednesday. May C. Senate. The
Ilonse bill amendatory of the National Currency
acts and to establish free banking was reported
from the Finance Committee and placed on the
calendar, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute... .Bills were passed to establish an
assay office at Helena, Mont.; to facilitate the ex
portation of distilled spirits, and amendatory of
the acts in relation thereto Executive session
and adjournment.
House. A minority report was made
from the Judiciary Committee, and ordered print
ed, on the condition of affairs in South Carolina,
briefly reciting the list of grievances complained
of, and predicating from them that the charges of
tne memorialist-are true, atid stating that, "in
It therefore decided to award theJWiewof the whole Case we cannot '
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Tuesday, May 5. M&d id dispatches
annouuee the occupation of Bilboa by Ser
rano. In the evening Madrid was brilliantly
illuminated in honor of the deliverance
of that city. The main body of the Carlists
were retreating in the direction of Guipuzcoa,
but detached commands w ere surrendering in
hopes of amnesty. An attempt was made by
an insane priest on the 4th to assassinate
Senor l'i y Margall....On the 4th a party of
men under Capt. Williams, of Baxter's forces,
arrested Judges Searl and Bennett, of the
Arkansas Supreme Court, and brought them
to Little Kovk, where they were kept in
close confinement. It was said they were
detained to prevent their holding a session
of the court until after the 5th.... The New
Orleans Kelief Committee reported offi
cially to the Governor, on the 4th, that up
to that date they had been distributing 40,000
rations a day to the suffering in the overflowed
portions of the State, and that, in their judg
ment, 50,000 rations would be required daily
for the next sixty days.... In response to the
application of railroads interested Messrs.
B. R. Curtis, of Massachusetts, and Wm, M.
Evarts, of New York, have examined into the
new Railroad law of Wisconsin and give the
opinion that said law is unconstitutional.
Wednesday. May C The Czar of
WaOOnS, Russia was in Berlin on the 4th, en route tor
CUgiaua . . . . 1 lie .ic lurit i.tj;iciaiun; av iia
recent session passed a Compulsory Education
bill . . . .Municipal elections were held in sev
eral Indiana towns on the 5th, and the
returns indicate that the anti-temperance
tickets are elected in a majority of
the towns where the liquor question
was at icsue A meeting of the Advisory
Committee of the Illinois State Farmers' As
sociation was held at Bloomington on the 5th,
at which independent political action was de-
termined on, and a report was adopted arrang
ing the details for the calling and meeting
of a State Convention at Springfield
on Wednesday, June 10. The platform
adopted at the Decatur Convention in Decem
ber last was reaffirmed Dispatches
from Little Rock on the 5th say that
Chief-Justice McClure caused a writ to be
served on that day upon Gens. Churchill and
Blocke, commanding them to produce the
bodies of Messrs. Bennett and Searle, Associate
Justices of the Supreme Court. These officers
"replied that martial law prevailed in Pulaski
County, and they knew of no orders except
thnse which came from their superiors. A
duplicate seal of the State, ordered by Bax
ter. was captured by Brooks' forces on the
morning of the 5th.
Thursday, May 7. A Madrid dispatch
says Gen. Olio has arrested four Brigadier
Generals in the Carlist army on the charge of
treason. The Republican army was marching
on Durango. A body of Carlists had been de
f eated in Valencia and forty of their number
killed Capt.-Gen. Concha, of Cuba, has
issued a decree ordering the formation of
eiuht battalions of colored militia.. . .An
appeal has been published in Washing
ton urging immediate relief of sufferers by the
floods in the Southern States, and stating that
over 142,000 people have been driven from
their homes and are now without food or shel
ter, and that to furnish these with provisions
alone will cost $ir,000 a day.... The
Connecticut Legislature was organized on
the Cth by the election of T. E. Doolittle as
Sneaker of the House. The Governor's mes
sage was read in joint convention.
The Indiana farmers arc to hold a State
convention at Indianapolis on the 10th of
June The Iowa Stat Republican Conven
tion has been called to meet at Des Moines on
Wednesday, July 1. The basis of representa
tion will be the vote cast for Hon. James
Beck, Supreme Judge, at the last general elec
tion, to-wlt: one delegate for every 00 votes
and one for each fraction over 100 votes....
C l n t- I A correspondent of the rsew urieans rua
oNuP !Vn says the country adjacent to the lower
I fT...S..-i,i.i! n, K m li in t i il.iIirM,. ( 1, a n if urns
in 1SC7, and that at the present time nearly
150,000 people are without food and shelter
The Michigan State Woman's Suffrage
Association met at Lansing on the Cth. About
300 delegates were present. Hon. Randolph
Strickland was elected Chairman.... The
captured Judges of the Arkansas Su
preme Court reached Little Rock on the 6th,
having been surrendered to the United States
forces by the officer having them in charge.
The court immediately assembled and the
case of Brooks vs. Baxter was submitted and
the same taken under advisement. One hun
dred and sixty stand of arms loaned by Baxter
to the Industrial University, at Fayetteville,
had been seized by Brooks' adherents.
President,
Vice-President.
Cashier.
. .Assistant Cashier.
phis dispatch says a planter Just arrived from
Chicot County, Ark.; brings distressing ac
counts of the suffering among the laborers
and their families in that vicinity. Many of
them, he says, have sub6isted,for several days
upon the carcasses of cattle that have died
from starvation or been drowned in the over
flow. From a mass of correspondence received
by the Governor of Louisiana and the Relief
Committee of that State the following is
selected as showing substantially the pur
port of the whole: Mr. Reddock, writing
from Cuba, Ouachita Parish, says: " All the
country for miles around is submerged.
Twelve farms are almost entirely under water
within three miles of this place, with a popu
lation of 700 persons, from the breaking or
the Cuba levee. The levee broke April 8, and
the current of water was so strong that It
washed away everything on my lot except my
dwelling-house a stone house. -My corn,
horses and oxen are all gone. The
water in my dwelling is four feet deep,
and rushes through in such a current as to
make it tremble like a leaf. But do not look
tome alone. There are 000 or 700 others
similarly situated within three miles. W.J.
Ellis has lost everything. The water on the
floor of hia dwelling is five feet deep, ana he
has not one pound of provisions on hand for
himself and fifteen freedmen, and no chance
of getting any in the neighborhood ....
Four of the five Judges of the Supreme
Court of Arkansas met iuside the Brooks line
on the evenii.g of the Tin ana aenvereu uu
opinion on the application of Brooks lor a
mandamus against Henry Page, State Treas-
. who refused to pay Brooks' warrant.
The court decided that the Circuit Court of
Pulaski County had jurisdiction to render the
iudment in the case of Brooks Baxter,
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and that its judgment appcarea io ue result
and valid
writ of mandamus as prayed for. On the 7th
of October last the same court decided that
the determination of the question whether the
person exercising the office of Governor had
been duly elected vestea solely in me general
Assembly, and that neither the Supreme Court
nor any other State Court had jurisdiction to
try a suit in behalf of a claimant. The
Baxterites claim that the decision renaereu
on the 7th amounts to nothing, first, because
ale-al court is composed of the full bench;
second, that the question of Governor is one
for the Legislature alone to determine. As
the time for the Legislature to meet was
drawing near, men were coming in from all
sections of the State, mostly as reinforcements
for Baxter, though Brooks received a few men
on the Cth In the Michigan woman s bui-
frage Convention at Lansing, on the ith, otb
cers were elected and a fund was raised for
campaign purposes. Arrangements were
made for county organizations in au couuues
of the State. The Executive committee was
authorized to employ speakers and provide
for a thorough canvass. Great confidence
was expressed in the success of the canvass.
Saturday. May 9. A Madrid telegram
announces that the Carlists under Don Alfonso
have been again badly defeated by the National
troops. The Carlist loss is said to nave Deen
heavy. In Bilboa tne nouses ui bci.
prominent adherents of uon Marios uavc uccu
burned by the infuriated populace. ... A ter
rible conflagration occurred in Jan
uary last on the Philippine lsianas.
Two children who were left to
themselves set a house on fire, and the flames
extended so rapidly that in the course of four
hours nearly 2,000 houses were burned. Mul
titudes of cattle perished and fifteen persons.
including six children, were burned to aeatn
.Washington dispatches state mat rresi-
dent Grant haa receivea a caoie icicg,.-.."
from the Hon. E. B. Washfoume, declining the
nomination for Secretary of the Treasury....
n t f Illinois, has issued a
vtuv . uevcnu, - . -
proclamation appointing the 30th :nst. as me
day for decorating the soldiers' graves. He
recommends that the occasion be observed by
a general cessation of business, and mat on
the Sabbath following appropriate services be
held in all the churches in memory
of the loved ones and in eympainy
with those who still mourn The fol
lowing is a list of officers elected
by the Michigan Woman's Suffrage Associa
tion for the current year: President, Jonas
n. McGowan, Coldwater; First Vice-President,
the Rev. Dr. Fisk, Grand Rapids; Second
Vice-President, Mrs. Jonn J. uaK.ej, ,
Third Vice-President, .hiss b-
Wayne County, and seventeen others; necoru
ing Secretary, Mrs. N. Geddes, Adrian;
Corresponding Secretary ana iru.u,
George Stickney....At Palermo, about
twenty miles above Little Rock, on
the Sth, a Brooks force of about 200
rvd. J. Brooker attacked
Report on the Sanborn Contracts.
In Washington, on the 4th, the House Com
mittee on Ways and Means made their report
on the Sanborn contracts, reciting the circum
stances under which they were executed and
the conclusions they had reached. In the
opinion of the committee a very large per
centage, if not all, of the $437,000 of
taxes collected by Sanborn were not a
proper subject of contract under the law, and
the taxes should and would have been col
lected by the officers of the Revenue Bureau
in the ordinary discharge of their duties, re
ferring to the conflict of testimony between
the Secretary, Assistant Secretary and the So
licitor of the Treasury, the committee say:
" The disagreements and contradictions given,
respectively, by these gentlemen, as appear
from the testimony, is a matter greatly de
plored by the committee, as by it they are un
able to fix upon any one, or anywhere, the
responsibility for the maladministration of
this law; and they look with serious appre
hension upon the apparent efforts or these
gentlemen to transfer the responsibility each
from himself to the other. While the com
mittee, therefore, are unable to determine
where the responsibility rests, they cannot
in justice to themselves ignore the fact that
these three persons deserve severe condemna
tion for the manner in which they have per
mitted this law to be administered." In view
of the facts presented the committee recom
mended that the law of May 8, 1)573, be re
pealed and that the contracts made thereunder
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be revoKea ana uunuucu. iucj muunntu
the draft of a bill for that purpose.
may
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and authority to go into the State of South
Carolina and fully inquir and investigate into
the condition of the Slate and the
charges and complaints of the memorialists....
Bills were passed to amend the Consular and
Diplomatic bill; Senate bill for the relief of set
tlers on the Fort Randall military reservation in
Dakota, confirming the right of settlers who had
nf their lands nrior to June,
ixko u-hfn th nxtrvation was established, and of
those who made settlements in good f ailh between
1(7 and 1870, when the reservation was not occu
ninrf or miliiarv nnrnoses The Centennial Ap
propriation bill was further debated in Committee
of the Whole. ...Adjourned.
Thursday, May 7. Senate. Sundry
memorials from citizens of isconsln asking it
an appropriation for the improvement of the Fox
and Wisconsin Rivers and the mouth of the Mis
sissippi Kiver were presented and referred Bills
....n....j iinnn hill for the relief of persons
suffering from the overflow of the Mississippi
Kiver, with an amendment as an additional sec
lion which authorizes the Secretary of War
to issue temporary supplies of food and army
clothing to destitute persons there, and appropriat
ing 100,OU) for such purpose, the provisions of
the bill to expire on the 1st or hepiemoer,
authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to
transfer, from time to time, to the office of the
AdJ.l.nt TmBHIirpr At New York, from tne
null lAtl Tll Tl f r,f the assay office at New
York, refined pold bars bearing the United States
Kora from anV melt of iOTVitm gold COlll
or buliion of a standard equal to or above that of
the United States, and to apply . the same
t v-.u .-...i..mnti.in of coin certificates or
in exchange for gold coin at not less than
..o- M.,Ki..-f n anrh regulations as he may
nrescrihe: giving the assent of Congress for the
improvement of Wolf Kiver across the Menomo-
Wisconsin A Con,
fnmm-,ttaa auL-ed for bv the House,
and ordered, on the Senate amendments to t he bill
u.-.iinto ihp TtmMiiinn of distilled spirits ana
amendatory of the acts in relation thereto Bills
were introduced amendatory of the act to aid in
the construction of a railway from the Mis
souri Kiver to the Pacific Ocean, providing that
the bridge across the Missouri River from Omaha,
twk fn.ini.ii Rinffa lnira. shall be operated aa
pari of the continuous line of the Union Pacific
Railway; for the relief of settlers in odd-num-i,..,
.UMnn. nf land within the limits or the
iT..i.in Pacific Railwav in the Territory of Dakota
Executive session and adjournment.
House. The Senate amendments to the
House bill to facilitate the exportation of distilled
spirits and amendatory of the act in relation 'here
to were non-concurrea in nu"".
. ... u a nr..roA Tli Centennial Celenra-
tion bill was taken np in Committee of the W hole
and, after a lencthy debate, a motion ordering the
bill to a third reading was rejected yeas Vi,
. . , - - J n Mutontiinfr
nays 13M. a motion was uiaue v ,
a motion to lav the motion to reconsider on
the table was lost 117 to 120 and the motion to
reconsiderwas agreed to 114 to 114. 1 he result
. i k. .hint Ki. tti nprsnnaj influence ana
persuasion of the Pennsylvania members, with the
understanding that the bill would be recommittett.
A motion was then made to lay the bill on the
tlil Adjourned.
h RIT1AV. Mav 8 Senate. Several House
,:i, . .,u.t. .iinn were tiassed. in
puts Ui pilw V, m
eluding one to relieve certain peraftna, members
of the Fifty-eighth regiment of Illinois olun-A.-.
,t mntinT A favorable
leers, iruiu mc v. , v. --- j . ,
report was made on the bill explanatory of the
resolution for the relief of the aetUers upon i the
ci i,i. : k'mau The bill to enable
Indians to become citizens of the Lted 'a"
was reported without amendment. ...Tne Geneva
Award bill was on motion taken up and briefly de
bated.... Executive session ana aajournmeui.
tit th 11th.
IT mi it!. The motion to lay the Centen-
nial bill on the table was withdrawn, and the bUl
was recommitted. . . -The Senate amendment , to he
bill for the relief of the sufferers by the Mississippi
Kiver overflow, changing tne imm 7;.-
. .. in Tbe rule setting
Late Crop Statistics.
The following is a synopsis of the leading
information furnished by the Xational Crop
Reporter (Indianapolis) of the 2d :
The unusual backwardness of the season
has delayed very much all kinds of spring
work, ana at lue aate 01 tne nisi iuu repui u,
prepared April 15, there had been practically
no seeding at all in the State of Minnesota, and
but little plowing in Wisconsin. At the
date mentioned about 40 per cent, of the
estimated area had been sown in wheat, and
but little more than one-fourth of !he oats.
The average area sown in wheat in the States
of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri aud Wisconsin was
$7 per cent, of the estimated probable total,
C2 per cent, of the oats, aud of potatoes uu per
cent. The prospects 01 uie iruu viujj w
date are of the most encouraging char
acter. The condition of the roads at
the date of reports was: South of
the forty-fifth parallel uniformly oau,
owing to the prevalence of wet weather.
North of that line the ground was generally
frozen and the roads in fine condition. Prices
of leading articles the first half of April in
the States of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Minnesota. Missouri, Ohio ana iscoiisiu
6how a slight advance in corn, oats and hay,
and a decline on swine and potatoes, wheat
remaining unchanged.
The rroposed Sew Currency Bill.
The following is the full text of the bill re
ported in the United States Senate on the 6th
by Mr. Sherman, from tne inance vamuuiil
tee, as a .substitute for the House Currency
bill:
Sfction 1. Be it enacted, etc.. That the act to
provide a national currency, secured by a pienge
of United States bonds, and to provide for the cir
culation and redemption thereof, approved June
18tt4. shall be berealier known as mo
Bank act of 1864. , , . .
Sec That Sec. si 01 tne auoiiiu v
13li4 be so amended that the several associations
therein provided for shall not hereafter be required
to keep on hand any amount of money whatever.
MuBn eT in." ami 111 11 L 111 1 1 1. 1 n.ri" . - -
bv said section to
be kept at all times on hand shall be determined
by the amount of deposits in all respects as pro
vided in said section, and snch National Banking
.;..wi .h,n kpininit maintain as a part or
,y.Zi. u.uAr nn.fnnrth nartof the coin received
bv them as interest on bonds of the United States
aepositea as securnjr iw
SEC. 3. mat ecs. 01 uu o- . -; .-
j. .a v -n;r;r.n that oaeh nf said associa-
tions shall, witnm ninety uays ,.:"",.
this act, keep its lawful money reserve within its
. . ih. niara whre its ooerauons or
oi-onnt and denosit arc carried on, and all pro
visions OI said sections requiring w "J
of said associations to keep any poruon of its law-
..1 ... ia-via p RPWMcre man iu lie vwu
vaults, or requiring or permitting the redemption
of its circulating notes elsewhere than at its own
counters, except as provided for in this act, are
heTTeai?. f .Hid act and the sev
eral amendments thereto, so far as they restrict
... ........ nt of nntna for circulation under
bill. BUlUUUl " ' - . .
rt-. he. and the tame are hereby.
nl-wl . anrl lha nriV1rtO 111 LUC linn. Ptvuuu
IVT .sV ..r.7,o;n .fnlv 1-2. 1870. entitled -'Au
act to provide for the redemption of the 3 percent.
temporary loan ceruncico u -"r
National Bank notes," prohibiting to bank
thereafter organized a circulation of over ..,,
and the proviso in the third section of said act lim
iting the circulation cf the banks fhonzed to
Issue notes reaeemaoie iu kj -".' ;
and Sec. 6 of said act relating to redistribution of
25.(ltO,(.O0 of circulating notes, oe auu. 111c
arc hereby repealed; that every association here
after organized shall be subject to and be gov
erned by the rules, restrictions and hmita. 10ns,
nd possess tne ngois, P"'.,
now or nereatter to oe prercnucu uj
T." .. . : 1 II - L- in ,r AHm-lfillOIlS. WIIU 1 lie pamv
prescribe, of the denomination of
f.-jO, or some multiple or mat sum, re
eemahle in coin of the present standard
value, at the pleasure of the United Stales, after
ten years rrom the date of the issue, aud bearing
interest pavable quarterly in such coin at the rate
of 5 per cent, per annum : and the Secretary of the
Treasury may issue the United States notes so re
ceived, or. if they are canceled, he may issue
notes to the same amount, either to purchase bonds
or redeem ihe public debt at par in coin, or to meet
the current payments for the public service;
and the said bonds and interest thereon shall be
exempt from the payment of all taxes or duties
or the Lnltea stares as wen as irum mani... ...
any form by or under State, municipal, or local
authority; and said bonds shall have set forth and
expressed upon their face the above specified con
ditions, and shall, with their coupons, be mide
pavable at the Treasury 01 iuo niiwu -"''-'- '
tided, however. That the Secretary of the Treasury,
in lien of such bonds, may redeem said notes iu
cold coin of the United States.
Sue. 10. That nothing in this act shall be cons'rned
to authorize any increase or the principal of the
public debt of the United States.
Mr. Ferry gave notice that tne report oiu not
represent the views of the minority of the
committee, and said he believed such minority
represented a majority of the Senate.
The Southern Inundation A louen-
ins Appeal for Aid.
To the People of the United States: .
The undersigned citizens 01 tuc lchii in
the Missi.-sippt, now so disastrously aetugea
with ihe Hood-waters, wotuu rcpiniuj
to .aL- tim foihtwiii!? statements and renewed
appeal for your helping hand in this unequaled
calamity. !tS ...
We know lull well your cimruies, jui lib
eralities in this and in former calamines to
our own city, and other cities alliicted by pes
tilence aud by tire, and we would render you
on behalf of a grateful people their blessings
and their thanks. ...
But we are compelled by the sau iacis 10
represent to you the vast magnitude 01 me
present affliction, passing by many-fold any
disaster that has befallen the people of tnis
continent. And we regret to have to state
that its extent is not yet asueriaiueu, out
known to be expanding. While the river lias
receded somewhat along mo iiuie uuuuiu
front this has been at the expense of the
flooded area. The relief apparent to strangers
is only delusion. ihe ieita uoous
increase as the river falls by pouring more
water on the land; and tlieir uurauou ii.usi
coutinue for some two months to come. -Most
of the lands will be uutit for crops too uue
for cultivation this year. nat men u i uc
done with aud for the 140,000 people ariven
out by the waters, and wiUi no supple ui
any kind whatever".
We would apoend a statement of-the pop
ulations of various counties and parishes and
specify all the localities but for the length it
would give misstatement nuu
it, that the total amounts to 140,000 people to
be subsisted and transported, sheltered,
housed aud supplied with utensils for house
hold uses and implements for farming aua
planting for the next lour niouuis, uuu i.j
much longer. ,
The enumerations in the New Orleans papers
up to the 20lh, and derived from our kuowl-
edge, gave an estimate ui uis "f "
LOI IS1ANA 14,000 S"CARE WILES "NOEK WA
- ... ;n it.M nuriMhea neloW ntl
producers "on Washita and Black
Cotton producers iu nine parishes with 75,
liCO people above Ked Kiver, half under
waiter
MISSISSIPPI 5,000 U ABB "LE.
On Biff IMack 5,00 Bayou "
Cole' Creek 50o, M. tarucnuc-iw, ""-4
if..nkWfn tu n
Coahome County (Uusbpucbana aud Sun-
llowe
Sn
Kiver.
Cotton
Kivt
87,500
Bo)ivarCounty(Williams' Bayou and Bayou
Failau, and along Mississippi Kiver).... .
Washington and Isaqnena Couuties (Steel s
9,000
5,000
5,000
. 10.0C0
and
. 4,000
6.000
6,000
lu.oon
3,0tl0
2,400
8,000
the steamer Hallie, having on boara a squau apaVt Frld.,e and Saturdays for private i power to amend, alter and repeal proviacu u,
At me 1 was cnangea so m l" ..." ' 7.a ti -iionai pnumus
in
B-lf
POST OFFICE BC1LDISG,
PLATTSMOtrrn, seb.
Friday, May 8. Castelar has tendered
his congratulations to Serrano on his success
in the north of Spain. In reply Serrano says
the Carlist movement is only shaken, not van
quished. Don Carlos has issued a puxj.ima
tion to his followers expressing confidence that
his cause will eventually triumph A reduc
tion of about SOO is to be made in the number
of emploj-es in the Treasury Department at
Washington, and a notice has been issued to the
efftct that all of such employes who will now
send in their resignations shall receive leave
of absence and pay from the date thereof un
til July 1 The United Estates Supreme Court
has recently rendered a decision confirming
the act of the National Government in confls
eating the property of Slidell, one of the Con
federate leaders, under an act of Congress.,
The Ohio Constitutional Convention has
adopted a plan for legislative apportionment,
Including a provision for cumulative voting
ia all counties where more than two Repre
sentatives or two Senators are to be elected
in which cases all the votes of any voter may
be concentrated on a single candidate.... The
floods at the South are subsiding. A Mem
f ituripr men and 160 stand of arms,
first fire one man on the steamer was killed and
several were wounded. The Baxter men re
turned the fire, killing one and wounding an
other of Brooker's men. One of the shots from
Brooker's men passed through a steam pipe on
the Hallie, disabling her, and she floated down
the river to the opposite shore from where
Brooker's men were, and the squad then left
the boat. The Brooker men then took pos
session of the steamer. The Brooks forces
were stopping the trains on the several rail
roads to prevent any more Baxter men and
members of the Legislature from reaching the
city. A full quorum of the latter had reached
Little Rock, but it was thought Brooks would
attempt to prevent their assembling.
F0UTY-TIIIKI COXGKFSS.
Saturday, May 2. Senate. Not in ses-
on.
House. Several private bills were passed,
incluuins one authorizing tne appneauuu iui u
extension of the patent of John M. Marsh 'or trim
ming attachments to fcwwuiuiun....".
was reported from the Ways and Means Commit le8
to amend the customs revenue laws aud to abolish
moieties . . . . Adjourned.
Monday, May 4. Senate. Bills were
introduced to resume legislative control of the
District of Columbia and provide for a govern
ment thereof; relating to army distinctions; to
aid the construction or a steamboat canai irom
Gadsden to Wetumpka, Aia....A 0111 was re
ported, wilh an amendment, from the Committee
on Pensions amendatory of the act to amend, re
vise and consolidate the laws relating to pensions.
. . .. i . . in.. ............ Kill to .a.
Flaced on tne caienaar .. uc cuio .....
vive and continue certain grants of lands hereto
fore made to the Territory and State of Minnesota,
to aid in the construction of the several hues of
the St. Paul & Pacific louiway tomiJ.
was passea s io tiuucc
ine. in compliance with a resolution by the
Senate requesting tne nmereiuiu mo um
propriatlns $JO,tiO0 for the relief of persons suf
fering bv the overflow f the Mississippi River, on
motion the vote by which the bill was passed was
xwonuiriamo and n imrnnmcui was uuhc
rofarmn snnronriatin!? 250.000 in-
BIIU ... .
stead of $JO,000 The Supplementary
passed
under
di-
the
nr that TllirnOge A Dill WBS
.v. f . ,
reenns me --, -
advice of the Attorney-Oeneral, to compromise,
adjust and settle all demands, legal and equiuble.
erence.U, railways. 1.
S-d chafVtua. rket vaUe
Ker. 5. That every association onram.ru
be organized under the provisions of said act, and
of the several acts in amendment thereof, shall at
all times keep and have on deposit in the Treasury
of the United States, in lawful money of the United
States, a sum equal to 5 per cent, oi us ureui.iiuu,
to be held and used only for the redemption or
anrh rire.nlation. and when the circulating notes
of the' properly purchased, at the date of the pur- f ench organization or association i shall be
-f-.u1! ;i ;...... several snvate oilla I ,,.a r... pmntnn In sums of 1.0f 0 or any
n.d An eveniwr session was held for .,,,,,, thereof to the Treasury of the United
debate Adjourned.
ltavnii. sunflower. Yazoo aud aiissisaippi
Ki vH) . . . -. . - -- "
Desha County (on Mississippi, Arkansas ana
Bartholomew) ;,-" V
Chir.nt CJountv (on same, Ba-ur KiVtr,
Bayou Macon)
Arkansas
Phillips
Crittenden
Missisppi
MISSOURI 5,000 SQUARE MILES.
Four front counties
14i.M0
luim
n- a tiiia contains an exagger
t e iivi utn . . -ii
..:.. i..a items, and especially
from Arkansas and Missouri, are probably far
too small. ... .
Such a vast population w ill consume in pro
. . I. t.i.ont a fcinirie. luxury or med-
VISIOUS nilllic, .ii""'" " ""(--- - - .-.,..:,..
ii . ..- ...o.i. wr Hnv. Their clounug,
i. ' j ,h;,.o1 ,tt..nrlnoe for most of
tneiier auu mm.... Viil.
v u.iti ndd nearly half as
much; aud their transportation to shelter and
to places where they can go to work and at-
oonT Wi thcrwith supplies of
iii. ..o 5m,i.menta. will add another
io (m Ti.na we reach an asgregate of over
itoiooo'perday that has to o snpplied if w e
oV am.it. the famine now actually
prevailing and the pestilence which mil ! w
if the people return to their desolated homes I
in midsummer, July and August, when the
These people (over areas extended 000 miles
north and south, and thirty to v,ty-he
miles wide) in their escape irom " "I"
such as are so fortunate, fall upon tbe nearest
population, on either side, ana at,
tnescauty means ol Tthe upland dwelle s thus
uTrunn nr t n mi fa. iii. u v
isappallinir beyond our aouuy w K',, '
describe. And this calamity cannot oe an. -:j
o momnnt. A l the homeless Vt 111
have to be provided for aunng uw
months, till corn can be raised for partial ai-
ipv-Hiinn. and the other half for longer periou,
t Pnri- iod knows when; for no crops can
!.. ti.o mi nmn ana winter.
"I'TZ o" .nod Triple of the Northern,
Western and Eastern States, you who live
moderate prosperity, we appeal to you in the
name of our suffering people, colored and
T . A . r.j-vv-nA OT rill f HI LUC lCOt
Lil Lf, it; viiv ,vww - - ,
Conffssion or a .Murderer.
The murderer of tin' Hanuu-t fjmiiy at
Homestead, Ta., Ktnst Mmtziug, o!ta i.ove,
was arrested in Allegheny City mi the Cd.
Iuteuse cxeilement prevailed, and it required
the strongest efforts of the local police forte
to keep him from the hands of the enraged
crowd and place hita safely in the lock-up.
Mintzing soon after his incarceration mane
the following confess-ion: "1 left llaiunet's
houc ju.t after supper on Ihe i veiling of the
murder and vent tiiieetly to Homestead. 1
called at a saloon and drank two glasses of
beer. That was ull 1 hud that nicht. After
leaving the sulooti I went to a grocery
store, kept by a German, and pur
chased some ciirars and live cclIs worth of
.andy for the children. I don't know the
name of the store-keeper, but I had beeti there
several times. I think I was at the store
about 9 o'clock iu the evening. Just us I was
leaving it came into my head that 1 must
have Hamnet's money. I thought he had a
great deal of money in the house, and us 1 felt
so queer all at once in my head I thought I
must get it. I went directly to the house, but
don't know how I got there. 1 suppose i
must have been out of my mind. After get
ting into the house I found .Mr. ana .Mrs.
Hamnet had not conic homo. It occurred to
me that to get the money 1 must kill the
children. I found an ax in the kitchen, auu
taking that with me 1 wetit up into the room
.... i ,ii U. ..:. n...l
over tne Kilclien wnere iooeit omnn "
myself slept. The bed was in a corner of the
room, aud I saw that Robert was bleeping
soundly, with his face toward me. I took a
position at the front of the bed and w ltn
one blow killed the boy. lie never moved. I
can't say how it was that the boy's throat was
cut. I may have struck him twice, but he
never groaned. After the boy was dead I
went into the adjoining room, where Ida una
little Emmie were sleepiug. There were two
beds in the room one in the corner, und the
other, the one occupied by the children, near
the center. Both of the little girls were
sleeping. I struck Id.l and she never moved.
I then raised the ax and struck, til fciuinie.
She uttered a cry and I hit her a second time.
She did not groan again. After this I went
dow n stairs and took a position just iuside the
door of the room adjoining the kitchen, and
waited for Mr. and Mrs. llamiiet to
n., . 1.
como home. iney came neineen n-u
and eleven o'clock. Mr. minuet came
into the room first. 1 was standing so
that he could not see me, and I struck him
from behiud, using the same ax. He fell to
the floor. Mrs. Hamnet then came rushing
Into the room, and as the passed through the
door I struck her, but did not kill her. She
shrieked once or twice, Oh, God, John!' and
then I struck a second blow, which killed her
instantly. Mrs. Hamnet and the baty were
the only ones I hit tw ice. The nthcrs were
t-iiipd with one blow. I used the ax an tne
time.
" I committed the deed to get Mr. Hatnnet's
money. 1 scareliea Mr. uamnci e pockets unu
obtained his pocket-book. It contained only
15 in paper money. I found Mrs. Hamnet a
pocket-book on the sew ing machine. There was
only fifty cents In it. 1 looked overine noust
hut. nil the money I trot wits ?!. luo stiver
money I spent on veste'rday I brought with
me from Germany. I did not get it iroiu mc
house.
"My only motive for doing this deed was to
get money. I never had any ill-reeling towaru
anyof the Hamnets. I alwas liked thel
tie children, aud always bought them candy
when I went to Homestead. The boy
Smith and I were good friends, and I always
liked Mr. and Mrs. Ham net.
r ftirl not fire the house, and it was not a
part of a plan to cover up the murder. hen
searching the house 1 put an on lamp hi me
sittin'' room, and when rushing away from
the building it was overturned. I thought it
-oi,i o-o out! I did not think the house
would burn."
1:
a baptism or liioou anu "uiiering n conse
crated all his powers, all his life, and all his
hopes. In that work he himself itrcw great.
Around about It, as a center, all the attributes
of his mind and elements of his character
called into active service and put to constant
task, were developed till, like the one muscle
of the blacksmith's ni;it nun, they attained a
growth and strength unlike nil others.
He was an eloquent man. nut iiiroutju an
his rhetoric gleamed the battle-ax, cleaving
the chains of the Mtive and beating down tho
hoary head of caste. His orations were not
set with diamonds nor decked with (lowers.
but they thundered along the unbending track
of logic, irresistible and crushing. They had
one purpose, Ihe consummation oi ins nie-
work, uud be in llieiu in.iisnaieu tnu wiioiu
artillery of rhetoric and of speech for tho
assault. Learning he acquired as no other
man In public life, but he devoted it all to this
his one greut struggle; and while he levied
upon ancient lore and modern research alike
for illustration, fo- argument, fur admonition,
and for et.eouragement. It v.as only as for so
many recruits to the forces he commanded in
a life-campaign against human bondage. Thus
it is that his public addresses, w till lew excep
tions, stand us monuments both of hi owu
power as an orator una ot no irunscciiue m
work to which ins wiioieiuo nuu neen set
iip.u t. Vet on those rare occasion w lien no
permitted himself tin if in relaxation to in
dulge in current debite or Iu popular address
he has left ample evidence th il ins inlnu was
richly endowed with ull those rare gifts
of oratory which have in all times charmed.
Instructed and swayed tun popular iniiiu.
Some of these orations are masterly produc
tions, of wide spread fame.
To speakef the work itself to which Mr.
Sumner set apart his life, und for which ho
laid it down, would bo to attempt not only
the history of his country from Ida entrance
Into public lite to the hour wiicn ins lanors
ceased, but also that of human rights and hu
man equality the world ot r. una cannot no
attempted here. 11 q'pily it is not needed to
complete the duty of tne Hour, inaiworit,
once derided, denounced, scoffed at and spit
upon, has now conquered ull opposition ana
to-day commands a support well-nigh univer
sal. There remains no forum in which its
justice is debated, and no home or heart so
lowly th.it Us ellleiicy Uocs not reucu it. ii
wus not permitted him to see the formal enact
ment of a civil rights bill he had so long la
bored and waited for. I'ut he knew thut this
key-stone of the grand arch was already fitted
to its place. What he suffered, what he sac
rificed, what he lifted and carried lo the end
of all things on earth to him, In the hone that
his own work might lie completed by his own
hand, cannot now be put in words.
I have said that Mr. Sumner was some
times misunderstood. I i-peak not now of
thut common lot of public men w hich sub
jects t hem to the misrepresentations and de-
uuneiations of opponents olien as indiscrimi
nate as unjust. There ia a more trying ordeal,
when the vision of frirwt becomes dun und
familiar faces turn away for a time in doubt
and distrust. Then the statesman who la
faithful to his convictions will wait patiently
and silently in the path of duty till, the mist
lift inir unit the liirht breaking in. the blinded
see again the outline of that pathway and hail
anew his advancing footsteps. Ihus recently
his own beloved Commonwealth, proud and
long-trusting as she is, yet tor a moment los
ing her vision in a "bewildering twilight,
turned her f ice away from Mr. Sumner and
his work. N'tit a word of complaint fell from
his lips. Conscious of a lolty and noble aspi
ration, and with ti unliiltertng iaun inai
time would bring him vindication, he waited
patiently for the dawn of a brighter day and
the opening or a clearer vision, i ney mine i
last, but only just in time, to save her, in this
her day of mourning, the tunica pang oi uu-
atoned injustice.
I b.ive no snaci; to sneak of those varh'd ac
complishments, that wealth of knowledge and
that kindliness or Henri wiucn were mc cinuni
of social life. But I dcMte Ui put on record
my deep obligations for an uubrokcu friend
ship oi Kevenieen ears, begun in a common
public service, und Interrupted only by that
great event w hich h is alike crushed private
friendships and social ties, and brought lrrc-
irable loss upon the public hcr.icc, wio
country and mankind.
Mr. Summer reared Ins ow n monument nnu
has left it complete. It w ill stand peerless
through all the ages that free government anu
human equality shall exist on the earth. An
enslaved race, lifted lo freedom, to citizen
ship, and to equal righ'f, will crown it with
1 1.. ii-nrhinds of fresh Holt und victorious
struggle toward a completed manhood. The
Commonwealth whose son he was and whose
commission he bore w in ciicnnu ienuei ij inn
memory, and point proudly to the name
which is at once history ana inspiration.
Oata
Civil
ltu-hta bill was further considered, and an amend
ment was submitted providing that its I
rro visions
shall apply to schools and public institutions of
learning or benevolence authorized by law and
indorsed by the United States, or hereafter in
dorsed by any State or the United States. ...Adjourned.
House. Among the bills introduced
were the following: For the issue of addinonai
bank-note circulation to Slates or Territories hav
ing less circulation than 10 rer caDita of popula
tion, and for a withdrawal or the leeai-ienaer notes
at the rate of 25 per cent, of additional issue of
National Bank notes until the outstanding legal
tenders shall be reduced to $:l5rj.lK.0uo, and
prohibiting the National Banks charging more
than 7 3-10 per cent, for interest or discount; to
extend for six vears the time to complete the rail
way from the St. Croix River to the lake at the
lowest end of Lake Superior, and to Bayfleld.'VTis. :
to promote internal improvements by the issue of
United States bonds, and to provide for a sink
ing fund to facilitate the resumption of specie
payment. ...Bills were passed to establish an
assay office at Helena, Mont. : to create two addi
tional land districts in Kansas; extending to In
dians the penalties provided against the liquor
traffic among Indians. . . . A report was made from
the Ways and Means Committee on tbe Sanborn
contracts, the committee recommmending the
passage of a bill repealing the provisions
of the act of May 8. 1873. under which those con
tracts were made, and directing the revocation
THE MARKETS.
NEW YORK.
May 9, 13.4.
rvvrrov. Middling upland. 17fi177.c.
lavs Stock. Beef Cattle $10.8512.25. Hogs
Dressed. 7.37V4Q7.50. Sheep Live (clipped).
7 rkvas.!i0.
BBEADSTtrrrs. Flow Good to choice, fG.503
R 7S- white wheat extra. 6.757.20. Wheat No.
2 t-hiratro. t.5Cai.5a: Iowa spring, 1.511.53;
Nn 2 Milwaukee soring, f L&4&L57. Rye West
ern and State. 1.073LU. Barley-fl.6Sai.67.
Corn Mixed Western afloat, 62236c
-Won WtJrn- fwtZLflfi'.iC.
Provisions. Pork New Mess, fl7.0OS17.10
Lard 10V410?.c
Wooh. Common to extra. 4tX2."0c.
r-iimA'ftfJ.
T T-r smm Beeves- -Choice. f5.70G6.O0 gi1A-
$5.3335.60: medium, fte55.!to; DUtcners
stock, f 3.75-34.75; stock catUe, f-3.50&4..5.
Hogs live, fo.3035.93. Sheep Good to choice,
f7.008.E0.
Pbovisiojis. Butter Choice, 3033c Eggs
Fresh, 12ai3c. Pork New Mess, fl6.403
16.50. Lard f 10.0 510. 15.
Brbabsttjw. Flour White Whiter extra,
f 7.009. 00;. spring extra, f5.37!36.t0. Wheat
Spring, No. 2, f 1.21 ? 31.23. Corn No. 2, bl
62tfc. Oats No. , 477.348c, llye No. 2, D33
93 c Barley No. 2, f 1.431.48.
Wool. Tub-washed, 435c; fleece, washed,
36348c.; fleece, unwashed, 2S332c; pulled,
35a40C- CINCINNATI.
Brbadstcvts. Flonr f6.757.00. Wheat -fl.47.
Corn 72575c Rye-fl.08. Oat 50358c
Barley fl.5531.60.
Provisions, Pork f 17.25317.50.
311c.
ST. LOUIS.
Lrv Stock. Beeves Fair to cnoice,
6.00. Hogs Live, f 4.75(35.75.
BBE-.D8TCTFS.-Flour-XX Fall, f5.505.S0.
Wheat No. 2 Red Fall, fl.5iai.61tf. Corn No. 2,
68368tfc Oata No.2, 51tf53c Rye No. 2,
9&398C. Barley fl.K1.60.
PROVIPIONS.-Pork-Mess, tl7.00317.25.
lOSlO'.c
" MILWAUKEE.
RRiiDfiTrm.-Flour Spring XX, f5.756.7?.
Wheat Spring No. 1, f 1.3031.31; No. 2, fl.27
ai27VC. Corn No. 2, 63363tfc Oats No, 2.463
47c Rye NO. 1, DUiWiiC. jariey o.
1.6itf.
Lard lOtf
Lard
DETROIT.
Bbxadstu-ts. Wheat Extra, f 1.663l.C6tf .
Corn 71375c. Oats 65355tf c
TOLEDO.
BRBaDSTtm-i. Wheat Amler Mich., fl.473
1.47tf; No. 2 Red, f 1.45S1.40. Corn Mixed, 73
S71C Oats No. 1. 64356c
CLEVELAND.
BBZADe-mTS. Wheat No. 1 Red, f 1.55(31.56:
No. Red, fl,4e3U7. Corn 78379c Oate &5
States the same shall be redeemed in United States
note. All notes so redeemed shall be charged by
the Comptroller oi me currency io "
L.niinih mi. and he shall nouiy
them severally on the first day of each month, or
oftener, at his discretion, or tue mu"i
j.-nii..n. vhpniinnii each association so no-
JT..a ii.n .ih.;ih itoiuwit with the Treasurer
of the United States a sum equal to the amount of
its circulating notes so redeemed ; and al notes or
National Banks worn, defaced, mulilated, r
otherwi-e unfit for circulation ehall, when re-
h. anv A.ai.tnnt Treasurer, or at aiy des
ignated repository of the United States, be fr-wa-riri
to the Treasury of the United States for
redemption as provided herein, and. when such re
jmr.i!.n, hav been so reimbursed, the circulat
ing notes so redeemed shall be forwarded to
the respective associations by whom they
. i . K- if mrh nntM are worn, mnti-
lated, torn, defaced, or rendered otherwise unfit
for use they shall be forwarded to the Comp-.-ii..-
,i, rnmnrT and destroyed and re-
nlaurl aa nour nrovifled bv law: Provided, That
.....k or uto a.-oAtntiona. ahall reimburse to the
Treasury the charges for transportation and the
-,,f o ---o-tinT aaiH nntpa and the associations
-hereafter organized shall also severally reimburse
as shall be PTti each aM,V.22Pcl
Iv: anil th nmonnt assessed upon each assc.a,
tion shall be in proportion to the circulation re
deemed, and be charged to the fund on deposit
with the Treasurer. .
Sec 6. That anv association organized unaer
th rt of hich this is an amendment, desiring to
withdraw its circulating notes in whole or in part,
may upon deposit of lawful money with the Treas
urer or tho United states, in sums oi uui ictb m
f il.OOO, take np the bonds which said association
has on deposit with the Treasurer for security of
such circulating notes, which bonds shall be as
signed to the bank in the manner specinua m mc
nineteenth section of ihe act of 18ft. and out
standing notes of said association to an amount
equal to the legal-tender notes deposited shall be
redeemed at the Treasury of the United States and
destroyed, aa now provided ny law: to, iuu
the amount of bonds on deposit for circulauon
shall not be reduced below f . 10,000.
Sec. 7. The Comptroller of the Currency shall,
under such regulations as the Secretary of the
Treasury may prescribe, cause the charter nnmber
of the association to be pruned upon all Nauonal
Bank notes which may hereafter be issued by him.
Sbc 8. That the entire amount of United Stales
notes outstanding and in circulation at any one
time shall not exceed the sum of $382,000,000. and
within thirty davs after circulating notes
to the amount of fbOOO.OOO shall from time
nprt to Xational Banking Associa
tions under this act it shall be the duty of the Secre
tary of th Ti-Minn to retire an amount of United
States notes equal to 60 per cent, of the circnlat
m? nots so issued, which shall be in reduction of
the maximum amount of f 3o2,Of 0,000 fixed by this
section, and such reduction shall continue nnul
th ma-rimnm nmonnt of United States notes out
standing shall be f 300,000,000; and for that pur
pose he is authorized to issue and sell at public
sale, after ten days' notice of the time and place of
sale, a sufficient amount of bonds of the United
stta nf thn character and description prescribed
in this act for United States notes to be then re
tired ar.ri ranrpled.
Si?r a Tht on and after the 1st day of January,
1877, any holder of United States notes to tbe
amount of f 1,000, or any mnltiple thereof, may
nnwnt ihpm for tiavment at the office of the
Treasnrer of the United States or at the office of
the Assistant Treasurer at the city of New York
mrA ihannnn tha KcrftATv of the TreasnrT shall.
in exchange for said notes, deliver to snch holders
an ennai amount of coudocs or registered bonds
of the United States, in eucb form as he
opeu nana
neUWhoods; appoint your active men and
women to make collections in money aud
clothing and in provisions where that is prac-
''Tlnnr churches let appeals be made, and
a collection be taken ou very alternate
. . v. u-t .- or four months.
ti t.i u-nmtd.? of our itnpoverlshed
i Vuw Orleans, surrounded by this
scene of desolation, is worthy of all imita-
T-t... ool.-ii.-rl neon ft. tne cieiJiB, iui
:' ..mun and even the poor car-drivers,
o .-..tii ,iiH have resolved to divide
..i.,-ia ami live, on half rations during
Lllvll caiai ivo --- - - .
. : ..iij 4i0 hnmplpa UDu starv inff
To railway and express companies all over
i a -. .,.itn mihlish vour offers to
SrS efe all the supplies
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.:i..itol
rAA v..llnwH and other organlza-
tions, if ever in your history you poured out
your charities, let them be extended bow.
T tl. of Xew Orleans. Natchez,
Vieksburg, Memphis, and other towns on the
Mississippi will be safe and proper repositories
of all contributions.
- joai.ir O. Forshft, Civil Eng'r,
v iov. P. O. Hkrbert,
, (Jov. John McEsert,
G. W. Morse, Civil Engmeer,
Gov. J. Maoison Wells.
V. 11 life-long citiaens of Delta.
.Ai Hon. L. M Wiltz.
With approval oi . New 0rieaus.
M &yui ui .
An.lwoare authorized to add the emiiw.
co operation of the delegations in the Houe
of Representatives and the Senate from the
States Involved in xne munuaueu.
Washington City, May 4, 18.4.
Political " Fanners."
The more closely and carefully the so-
called " State Farmers Association
which, at its caucus at liloomington yes
terday, resolved to hold a political State
nominating convention in June ia
watched by men of honesty and discrimi-
nation, the more tneviiaoiy w in tuey i eai.ii
the conclusion that it is a cunning game
of the repudiated and sore-head politicians
of the old parties to pet up a new deai for
their own Denent. it is omy iui, auu
nothing more, and the honest farmers and
the sincere opponents of monopolies had
better 6teer clear of these fellows, or pre
pare at the outset to be betrayed, sold out
and delivered to their enemies, bag and
baggage. They mean no good to the
genuine farmers' movement they have
but one object in view, and that is to
nro-anize a new party by combining with
the fragments of the old Democratic party
such Republican sore-heads and dead
heads as they find lying around loose m
irinn rArt of the State, in order to get
thornsplvM elected to coveted oQces.
That ia what, thev are after, and tliat
only. Chicago Journal,.
3Ir. Dawes on Mr. Sumner.
Amonir the eulogies pronounced in the
..- . , . .
TTnnon nt lnrf'Sf litatlVCS ill USU HlgK u
nn tho 27tli ult.. on the bite Senator bum
ner. was the following by -"Mr. u.iwes, oi
AT nQanrhiiRRtts :
The life and times of Charles butnner win
l. a i hanter in the world's lut-tory, ttatidiiig
1 . m m A. & .. 1 a . I . . -
out all alone aua by nseir. loitie laiesiti.iy
that it will be read of men mere w in oeiounu
in it nothing ordinary, but, from its inception
in ti i- nu. fvervifiintr was can in
ahii.h hail nn iiriitiitviii'. and on a scale by
which nothing else had been measured, if
we go back from the grand consummation to
the beginning there will be found the same
pvtraordinarv conditions which have attended
every step of his great career upwuru nu mi
ward to its end. He had never held public
fti e till be entered the Senate Chamber in
n....mv.f.r 1S.M. Calhoun hud und in tne
nrpviniiH vcar. an d both Clav and Webster in
r . . ,, ., r. i ti., ,.....
tiiovi-ar wnien ioiioweii. xis -i:. iunini-i -.-
toroH thn arena made illustrious by the great
struggles of the giants of thai d:ty,and sought
his own position iu coming coullicls, Mr. lieu-
ton said to bun:
You have come upon tne singe too nnu,
.. . i ......... Mr
sir: all our great men iiuvu iurvu onu.
Calhoun and Mr. Clay and Mr. Wcboter are
nrniP NVit mil v have the great men pusheu
but the irreat issues too. raised from our
form of government and of deepest interest to
its founder and tlieir mimeaiaie ueseeuuains,
have lieen settled also. The hist of these was
the N"ation:il B.ink. and that has been over
thrown forever. Nothing is h ft you, sir, but
i.nnv K.-ftioiiiil uuestioni and petty strnes
about slavery aud fugitive slave laws, involv
ing no national interests."
How limited is numunw.-ioii; iui;K:nnmu
nrl tbe then trreat issues with wnicniiiey
wrestled filled, as they were receding irmn uis
view, the whole horizon of a statesman whose
own participation iu public affairs covered in
that, verv forum the unparalleled period of
thirty years. But 86 men sometimes build bet
ter than thev know, so more often do tiiey
i.iiito in a wa v and tread a path they know
not of
Winnn. and Clay, and Webster did, indeed.
n wav. P.ut the sun w hieh seemed to set
ith thPtn rose arrain. almost simultaneously,
with a tii-w ar.d a grander glory. And there
m-aa no. rit trl.t.. Seward, and Chase, and Sum
ner stood up in the places made vacant by
those niightv Intellects. And issues more
momnt.tmiH and far-reaching than ever before
confronted statesmanship sprung up under
their very feet, and out of the ashes of strug
gles vainly supposed to have become extinct.
Tli world's history furnishes no parallel to
the pages which shail truthfully chronicle the
character and consequences of the contlicls into
which slavery and fugitive-slave laws hurl, d
the nation almost from the hour of this
lamentation over repose. And the young Sen-
w r ....... v. ..,o -'. ' '
ator rroiu"ras'ia.-w - uw utfiumi u)
wait for opportunity. He was summoned to
the very front of the conflict, and, w ittiout
hesitation or delay, took the rosiuou wbicti
conviction of duty as well as public exigency
assigned him. If, therefore, it had been
permitted to Mr. Sumner, stauding at the
goal aud looking back along the years of his
labor, with all that increased knowledge
end wider experience, that wealth of phi
lanthropy and expansion of heart which
crowned his last days had It then been per
mitted him to choose, could he have selected
a moment more fit or crowded w ith grander
opportunities for the enlistment of his vast
and varied powers than th. one which called
him to his work Hardly bd he entered upon
it before he received upon his own person the
concentrated malignity of that barbarous sys
tem of society with which he grappled, in
blows the effect of which never left him, but
which, failing lo silence, consecrated him to
the sublime misrion he so grandly filled.
That work thus begun had many phases ai;d
led him along many ways w hich toiucliines
for the moment seemed devious, and w hich
ofttimes compelled him to invoke instrumen
talities pronounced doubtful by the bystander.
But all the while ii grew upon his hands it
broadeued and it deepened toweiiii" above
and dwarfing all other work which fell to the
lot of other statesmen. Grand ia its very
simplicity, sublime iu its very comprehensive
ness, it enlisted the noblest aspirations oi tne
statesman and lifted his whole being into aa
atmnsnhere and life and viyor all its ow n.
Absolute human equality secured, assured
and invulnerable was the work to which with
South Carolina.
It will be remembered by our renders
that the Democrats oi ttoutn curoiina
want the General Government to interfere
in behalf of honesty in lhtir Mate Govern-
mcnt. The matter was rcicrreu io tne
Judiciary Committee of the House. A
majority report agaiiiht intervention w;i
made a lew days ago, aim yesicruay
minority, through Mr. Wdridge, of Wis
confin, reported in favor of intervention.
" It is impossible," says Ihis minority re
port, "to turn a deal ear to the supplicat-
ing wall ot the otio.u'w opi rcss.-u nuu
despoiled citizens of that once prosperotin
and happy &tiie." uui wneii tne wan
came from those held in moot cruel slav.
ery the Democracy rould easily enough
"turn a deaf ear." What is heavy taxa
tion to the loss of all personal liberty 7
But, waiving all tbat, we still lind no
justification for intervention, nor for the
charge that tne lupuony pany m
South Carolina is reHjf !e for the
nresent condition of aflairs in that Stato.
The correspondent oi mo ew mm
Tribune, which paper is ceitainiy not
partial to the Republican party, writing
from Charleston, enarges inai uic jeootiq
among the old regime which embraces
the men who formerly upheld slavery and
always opposed reconsttuction steuuny
reiused to accept Ihe oilers of assistance
made by Northern Ik-publicans living in
the Skate, and have continually denounced
and ostracized them without regard to
tlieir personal character. "They have
lumped them together," he says, "as a
set of thieving carpet-baggers. 'I hey now
turn to Congress for the relief which
they well know Congress cannot give, but
which they could themselves have
wrought with the aid of the bolting Re
publicans in 1872, had they had the
minds, and sense, -1 may add, to do so.
They are reaping the harvest of their own
folly. It is a bitter one, but one of their
own sowing." In proof of this he adds
the following resume of facts:
Indeed, most of the Northern-bom Republican
living In the State who toolt part in political af
fairs, with the aid of a fow native Republicans like
Gov. Orr, made the only organized op:M.siiin to
Moses and the corrupt wing of the Republican
party which was made in the State, lliey nomi
nated for Governor a uauve of Pennsylvania, Reu
ben Totnliiison, against whom not one cbsr'o
which bis opponents rould pretend to substantiate
was maue. and a State ticket comixi-ed of men,
against who-e character no charges of corrup;ion
could bo brought. 1 ha TouiiiriBon ticket received
' -t ot every prom-
Hie uiKtualitleu anu earL'-m fno.i -. men
inent .Federal olllcial tn the Slate. Iu...
made a gallant fight, ami before the nomination
were ma.le were led by the anti-Republican news
papers to believe t! !' their ticket would receive
thevotciof the native wht'e citizens at the polls.
But what did iheee snnie white citizen- do tu
ner tho lead of m Charleston A'etv aud paper- or
like sort they asaerted in so many words that
while they knew Tomlinson wa au honest man
they prtferred a native whom they all knew and
admitted to he corrupt and unprincipled beyond
measure to a Northern IU;pnblican, and so St). 00
of them stayed away from the polls, while many
other even went so'far as to vote for the Moses
ticket. And the effort to purify the Republican
party and to give the State an honest administra
tion failed. . , , a
To the native whites, the properiy-holders, ard
the men w ho chiefly composed the late Tax-Pavers'
Convention Gov. Moses in a great mc.--ure
is indebted for hi election. Totnliuson di
vided the colored vote, getting :i5 or SO perceat.
cf it, and had these native tax-payers been as anx
ious to get a good St-t'e government as they were
to denounce all Republicans w ho were not born in
SonthCaroiina as "carpet-baggers" the position
of South Carolina would be very diiTereut from
what it is now.
There are some mean men in the Re
publican party. The proportion of scoun
orels is larger at the South than in the
North; but if the tax payine Democrats
would loin with the honest Republicans
reform could be secured. If they are
unwilling to do tha then let them sutler
the consequent robbery. The adage is as
true now as ever, that " the god help
those who Lelp themselves." Chwjo
jQUTnil.
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