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THE ADVERTISER, THURSDAY, DEC. G, 1877. Xhe pope la woree.. Sehat6rBlain"e has returned to the Senate. Rande,f.he-outlaw, when arraigned, plfad "not guilty." Recently 400 Turks in Sohrpka Pass surrendered to the Russians. Bishop Marvin, of the M.E. church, died at St. Louis on the 28th InBt. - . o Navigation on the Mississippi river above .Keokuk closed for the season last week.- ' 32t.fJov. Hendricks recently lectur ed In Indianapolis for a church bene fit. Hisstibjeotwas "Revolution." , The JJ. S. Senate elections commit tee have reported iri favor of seating Eustis.pf-Louisiaha In the Senate. The London Telegraph says It has In formation" that Kara fell through the trca-cherj; of a'Pasha, who was paid liberally for his treason. The Cleveland Pldindcaler was re cently purchased by Hon. R. C. Par sonsjind Col. W. P.Fogg, the consid eration being $100,000. E. H. Buckingham, District Ator ney. of the JhrrH judicial district, died hi Omaha on the 28th ult. He was In the 28th-year of his age and unmarried-. In London, England, on the 1st hist", at. 10:30, a. m., the fog was no dense that midnightdarkness prevail ed.. That must be a pleasant old town in a fpg. TJieNez Perces rhdians. captured by" Col. Miles, Including Chief Joseph, .have been taken to Fort Leaven worth where they will be guarded and. fed until a reservation is provided for them in the Indian-Territory. At the mint in Philadelphia during the mouth oflNovember silver pieces were coined In the following numbers!- Trade dollars 400,000; half dol lars, 834.000 quarter dollars, 722,400; dimes, 140,000; total number of piec es, 2,006,400; value, $1,011,600. On last Friday night the U. S. Sen ate was in session nearly all night, considering the Louisiana and' South Carolina Senatorial questions, aud at 2 o'clock Saturday" morning, William 1'itt Kellogg,' of Louisiana and M. C. Butler of South Carolina, were sworn Ytr as Senators. And so ends that row. A "patent outside" of last week comes to the rescue as folio wes : "As mosquitoos are just now in order it is well for the housekeeper to know," etc.,, and- then we are told bow to kill "the pests. These auxiliary editors are eo: felicitously seasonable that they ought to be awarded a leather medal occasionally. A correspondent of the Kearney Press, referring to the State Universi ty building, says: "The University building has been repaired from base ment to cupola. And there Is certain ly no danger whatever now of the building tumbling down, and doubt ful It Is If there ever was any danger at aU. The new white limestone foundation, the window sills and caps, and the tie Btones on the corners, covered with & coat of cement, the paintingand penciling of the outside, and the proposed calciraining of the inside, will make it one of the best and most imposing buildings in the state; while Lincoln has paid for nearly all the repairing." Ex-Gov. Joel Parker, one of the ablest jurists aud purest men of New Jersey, says, "The man who was chosen by a majority-of 250,000!to pre sideover the republic was cheated out of his rightful claim by the infamous four who constituted the Returning Board of Louisiana. Neb. City Neivs. That good man lies if he says Louis iana was not Republican' by at least twenty thousand majority had the Democratic bulldozers permitted a fate eleotion. So it is extremely cheeky to talk about Republicans Cheating. -The National Grange, in session at ChtchHiatl last week, declared on the silver and resumption questions, as follow-) : "The National Grange, represent ing as it does the agricultural senti ment of every part of the Uuited States, without intending to infringe any feature of its organic law which forbids the discussion of any question of party politics, believes it to be not only its privilege but its duty to give expression to the universal voice of its membership in condemnation of alLsuob legislation either on the part of the General or State Government as tends to the injury of the great pro ductive Industries. In this spirit and with no purpose to take part in the partisan politic of the country, we do hereby declare our disapprobation of the law demonetizing silver and com mitting the Government arbitrarily to any fixed day in the future for the resumption of specie payment.and do, therefore, hereby express our sympa thy with the effort now being made in Congress for the resumption of these obnoxious measures." m w The ex-Republican officials of South Carolina are now suffering terrible political persecution. F.L. Cardoza . .. m..onrDr has been tried and found guilty of conspiracy to defraud the State, and senteneed to two years Imprisonment and to pay aflneof $4,. 000 Ex-Congressrasn Smalls, for ac cepting a brib of five thousand del ta while amemberof the legislature, has been sentenced to three years ,m baflbeen And T,. C. Carpenter, nrlsonment. Ana xi. y - .duor of .two p.p ;;m-;t i a in two years Imprisonment, tenced to two .J lbeseJ nndlopr-y&mB01 " I,v ' cases will be appealed to the Supreme court, but will avail the victims noth ing, if tried by the South Carolina court. Cardoza and Small9 are colored Re publicans, and this, it Is believed is the real cause of their punishment. If they have committed penitentiary offenses they should be punished, but it would establish greater faith in Southern courts and juries and in the law abiding virtues of the people, if there wbb no respect of persons, or fa vorlteism shown In the punishment of crime. Ballot boxes are tampered with by election officers, people are mobbed, whipped, intimidated, killed for opinions sake and' for voting con trary to the wishes of the ku-klux, but we hear of no prosecutions for any of these high crimes ; a Mr. But ler can Instigate, lead and take a hand in slaughtering a dozen black men, his crime is accounted a virtue and re warded by an eleotion to the U. S. Senate; a Democratic politician In New Orleans can offer a large bribe for an electofal vote, but hlB crime is winked at. All these politi cal crimes and misdemeanors go un punished because the offenders are Democrats, and Southern purity is "vindicated" by the hunting down aud prosecution of negro Republicans. Such vindication Is not vindication is but perfidy added to perfidy, because the instigation is malicious and not for the love of right of law and or der. m m How wonderfully observing and knowing the Boston press is becom ing on the money question. The Boston Herald speaking of silver as money, saj-s: The London Times in its financial column says: "There is an entire absence of auy disposition to pur chase. No quotation can be given." The Herald after taking a pinch of this London-jTmics-Rothchilds'suuff, sneezes, and turns up itsnose exclaim ing: Nice stuff for monej this. A pre cious metal, perhaps, but a precious poor metal, undoubtedly. It don't suit the London Times, you see! And the Times is the organ of the great London Banking House, which spent a half million dollars as Iobyist at Washington to demonetize silver in the United States ! The Boston Commercial Advertiser, referring to the present agitation on the silver question, claimB that Sen ator Jones of Nevada, wlicr is recog nized as the leader in the movement to remonetize silver, does not repre sent the silver iuterest of the country. That paper says-: He is not among the Mackeyesand Fairs and Floods and O'Briens, of Virginia City and San Francisco, nor does he represent their real interest in silver bullion or their sentiments on debasiug the coin or inflating the cur rency of the government. They are content with the market which they already enjoy, as producers of gold and silver bullion and as exporters of the trade dollar of 420 grains. Their interest, aside from their profound re ppect for the public faith is largely in United States gold-bearing bonds, principally 5s and 4Ja, and they have but recently offered to enlarge their investments to the extent of $20,000. 000 in the new 4 per cents. And while this offer was declined by the London Syudicateand the bonds have since fallen below the par of gold, they would doubtless be prepared to renew it if such people as Mr. JoneB and Mr. Bland are made to take a back seat in Congrepp. Mr. Jones, we conclude, is as great a fraud as the nretended renresentativp of the real bonanza intprept of the Pacific slope, as his debased silver dollar would prove. It matters not If Senator Jones be worth more or less than "the Floods and the O'Briens," the difference be tween them is taking the Commer cial Advertiser' 8 word for It, Mr. Jones is laboring to favor the industry of the country and people, while the other California millionaires named, prefer to fill up their personal coffers at the expense of prostrating the bus iness of the country, aided by the in fluence of such papers as we quote from. The Inter-Ocean thinks therepubl: can party can cut its own nose off more frequently, and make more clat ter about gluing it on again, than any other "instrumentality." "organ ization" or "thing" on the face of the earth. Yes, for Instance when the Repub lican party conferred the elective fran chise upon all the colored people iu the South, and then did not take time to sleep until it removed all disabili ties from rsbels restored them to all the rights and privileges of the best union men in the country turned the "nigger" over to their tender mer cies! That nose would not glue on again t The financial manipulations by the Republican party is another nose that will not glue on ! At New Albanyvlnd., Matt Wolfe has been found not guilty of murder ing his father several' months ago. The ground of defense was insanity, and the jury acquitted him on this plea, as the murder was proved be yond all possibility of doubt. The evi dence was to the effect that Wolfe had been drinking heavily, for several days, and that his father had notified several saloon keepers not to Bell him liquor; that this exasperated young Wolfe, and he threatened vengeance on his father. On the Sunday of the murder, while Wolfe was still suffer ing from mania apotu, he walked to an out-building, where he procured a heavy hickory club. With this club in his hand be returned to the house, and thence walked out into the orch ard near the residence where his fath er was sitting in a chair. Approach ing the gray haired old man be raised the club and with all the power he possessed brought it down on hla fa ther's head. He repeated' the blows until the father's head was beaten and skull fractured in a terrible manner, causing almost instant death. Recentlv at Great Bend, Kansas, a man named Mullen while intoxicated i was placed in the calaboose. Soon afterward the building was fired In some way, and the uruncen man perilled In the flames. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. Felloio-CUizcTU of the Senate and Houseof Rep resentatives: With great gratitude to the bounti ful Giver of all good, I congratulate you that at the beginningof your first regularsesslon, you find your country blessed wfth health and peaoe, and abundant harvests.and with encourag ing prospects of an early return of gen eral prosperity. To complete and make permanent the pacification of the country continues to be, and until it is full accomplished, must remain, the most important of all our national interests. The earnest purpose of good citizens generally to unite their efforts in those endeavors is evident. THE SOUTHERN POLICV. Suspicion, distrust and aversion, that have been of frequent occurrence and havo alarmed the public mind, have almost entirely ceased, and a spirit of mutual forbear?uce and hear ty national interest has succeeded. There has been a general re-establishment of order and of the orderly ad ministration of justice. Instances of remaining lawlessness have become of rare occurrence. It has found ex pression in the resolutions announced in 1S70 by the national convention of the leading political parties of the country. There waa a wide spread apprehension that the momentous re sults in our progress as a nation, marked by the reoent amendments to the constitution, were in imminent jeopardy ; that the good understand ing which prompted their adoption in the iuterest of a loyal devotion to general welfare, might prove a barren truce, and that the sections of the country once engaged in civil strife might be again almost as widely sev ered and disunited as they were when arrayed iu arms agaiust each other. Any course whatever which might have been entered upon, would cer tainly have eucountered distrust and opposition. These--measures were, in my judgment, such as were most in harmony with the constitution and with the genius of our people, aud best adapted, under all circumstances, to attain the end' iu view. The benefi cial results already fappareut", prove that these endeavors are not to be re garded as a mere experiment; and should sustain aud encourage us in our efforts. Already In the brief pe riod which has elapsed, the immedi ate effectiveness, no leBS than the jus tice of the course pursued, is demon strated, and I have an abiding faith that time will furnish its ample vin dication in the minds of the great majority of my fellow citizens. The discontinuance of the UBe of the ar my for the purpose of upholding local government in 0wo- states was no less a constitutional duty and requirement under the circumstances existing, than it was amuchneed measure for the restoration of local self-government and the promotion of national harmony. The withdrawal of the troops from suoh employment was ef fected deliberately and with solicitous care for the peace and good order of society and the protection of property and persons and every right of all classes of citizens. Thelresults that have followed are indeed significant and encouraging. All apprehension of danger from remitting those states to local self-government; is-dispelled, and a most salutary change in the minds of the people has begun and is in progress iu every part of that sec tion of the country, once the theatre of unhappy civil strife. Political turmoil and turbulence have disappeared, use ful industries have been resumed, pub lic credit in the southern states has been greatly strengthened, and the encouraging benefits of a revival of commerce between the sections of country lately embroiled in civil war are fully enjoyed. Such are some of the results already attained, upon which the country is to be congratu lated. They are of suoh importance that we maj' with confidence patient ly await the desired consummation that will surely come with the natur al propiess of even'.g. PROTECTION OF TFIE COLORED PEOPLE. It may not be Improper for me here to say that it should be our fixed and unalterable determination to protect by all available means under the con stitution aud the law, the lately eman cipated race in the exercise of their rights and privileges, and I urge upon those to whom heretofore the colored people have sustained the relation of bondmen, the justice and wisdom of humane aud liberal local legislation ; with respect to their education and tbeir general welfare, a firm adher ence to the laws, both national and state, as to the civil and political rights of the colored people, now ad vanced to full and equal citizenship. The immediate suppression aud sure panishment by the national and lo cal authorities within tbeir respective jurisdiction of every instance of law lessness and violence toward them is required for the security alike of both races, and is justly demanded by the public opinion of the country and the age. In this way the restoration of harmony and good will and the com plete protection of every citizen in the full enjoyment of every constitu tional right will surely be attained. Whatever authority rests with me to this end, I shall not hesitate to put forth. Whatever belongs to the power of congress and the jurisdiction of the courts of the Union they may con fidently be relied upon to provide aud perform; and to the legislatures, the courtsand the executive authorities of the several states I earnestly appeal, tosecureby adequate, appropriate and; reasonable means within their borders, thoso common and uniform rights of a united people which loves liberty, ab hors oppression and reveres justice. These objeotB are very dear to my heart. I shall continue most earnest ly to strive for tbeir attainment, and the cordial co-operation of all olasses of all sections of the country and of both races is required for this purpose ; and with these blessings assured, and not otherwise we may safely hope- to hand down our free institutions of government unimpaired to the gener ations that will'succeecf us. The course to be pursued which, In wmmammmmmmmmmammmmmaBmmmmm my judgment, seemed wisest in the presence of any emergency, was plain ly indicated in my inaugeral address. It pointed to the time which all our people desire to see when a genuine love of our whore country and of all that concerns its true welfare shall supplant the destructive forces of mu tual animosity of races and, 9f section al hostility. Opinions have, differed widely as to the measures best calcu lated to secure this great end. This was to be expeoted. Tho measures adopted by the administration have been subjected to severe and varied criticisms. THE PRESIDENT'S FINANCIAL VIEWS. Among the other subjects of great and general importance to the people of this country, I cannot be mistaken, I think, in regarding as pre-eminent the policy and measures which are designed to secure the restoration of the currency to that normal and healthy condition in which, by the resumption of specie payments, our internal trade and foreign commerce may be brought into harmony with the system of exchanges which is bas ed upon the precious metals as the in trinsic money of the world, in the pub lic judgment. That thisendshould be sought and compassed as speedily aud securely as the resources of the people and the wisdom of their government can accomplish it, there is a much greater degree of unanimity than is found to concur in the specific meas ures which will bring the country to this desired end, or the rapidity of the steps by which it can be safely reach ed. Upon a most anxious and delib erate examination which I have felt it my duty to give to the subject, 1 am but the more confirmed in the opin ion which I expressed in accepting the nomination for presidency, and again upon my inauguration, that the policy of resumption should be pursued by every suitable moans, and that no legislation would be wise that should disparage the importance or retard the attainment of that result. I hare no disposition and certainly no right to question the siuperity or in tegrity of opposing oplnionsand would never conceal nor under-value the considerable difficulties and even oc casional distresses which may attend the progress-of the nation toward this primary condition to its general and permanent prosperity. I must, how ever adhere-to my most earnest con viction that auy wavering in purpose, or unsteadiness iu methods, so far from avoiding or reducing the incon venience inseparable from the transition from an irredeemable to a redeemable paper currency, would only tend to increased arvi'prolonged disturbance in values, -which unless relieved, mustend in ser ious disorder, dishonor and disasterln the financial affairs of thegovernment and of the people. Tbe mischiefs which I apprehend and- earnestly de precate are confined to no class of peo ple, but seem to me most cer tainly to threaten the industrious masses, whether their occupations are of skilled or common labor. To them, it seems to me, it is of prime impor tance that their labor should be com pensated in money which is in itself fixed in exchangeable value by being irrevocably measured by the labor necessary to its production. Thisper manentquality of all the money of the people is sought for and can only be' gained by the resumption of specie payment. The rich the speculative, the operating, the money dealing classes may not always feel the mis chief of, or may find casual profits in a variable currency, but the misfor tunes ofsuch a currency to those who- are paid salaries or wages are inevita ble and remediless. READJUSTMENT OF THE COINAGE. Closely connected with tills gener al subject of the resumption of spocie paj'ments is one of subordinate, but still of grave importance. I mean the readjustmen t of our coinage by renew al of the silver dollar as an element in our specie currency, endowed by leg islation with the quality of legal ten der to a greater or less extent. As there is no doubt of the power of con gress, under the constitution, to coin money and regulate the value thereof, and as this power covers the whole range of authority applicable to the metal, the rated value and the legal tender quality which shall be adopted for the coinage, the consideration which should induce or discourage a particular measure connected with the coinage belongs clearly to the province of legislative discretion and of public expediency. Without intruding upon this province of legislation in the least, I have yet thought the subjeot ofsuch critical importance in tbe ac tual oondition of our affairs as to pre sent an occasion for the exercise of the duty imposed on tbe president recommending to the consideration of congress such measures as he Bhall judge necessary and expedient. Hold ing the opinion, as I do, that neither the interest of the government nor of the people of the United States would be promoted by disparaging silver as one of the two preoious metals which furnish the coinage of the world, and that legislation which looks to main taining the volume of intrinsic mon ey to as full a measure of both metals as their relative commercial values will permit, would be neither unjust nor inexpedient, I must ask your in dulgence to a brief and definite state ment of certain essential features in any such legislative measures which I feel it my duty to recommend. I do not propose to enter the debate repre sented on both sides by such able dis putants in congress and before tbe people and in the press, as to the ex tent to which the legislation of any one nation can control this question, even within its own borders, against the laws of trade or the positive laws of other governments. The wisdom of congress In shaping any particular law that may be presented for my approval may wholly supersede the necessity of my entering into these considerations, and I willingly avoid either vague or intricate inquiries. It is only certain plain and' practical traits of such legislation that I desire to recommend to your attention in any legislation providing for a silver J WCM coinage regulating its value and im parting to it a quality of legal tender. It seems to me of great importance that congress should not lose sight of its action Rs operating in a two-fold capacity and two distinct directions It the United States government were free from a public debt, Its legislative dealing with the question of silver coinage would be purely sovereign and the government be under no re straints but those of constitutional power, and thepublio good as affected by the proposed legislation, but in the actual circumstances of the nation with a vast public debt distributed very widely among our own citizens aud held in great amountsalso abroad, the nature of the silver coinage as af fecting this relation of the govern ment to the holders of the pub lio debt becomes in any pro posed legislation of the highest concern. The obligation of the public faith trauscends all questions of profit or public advantage; otherwise its unquestionable maintenance is the dictate as well as the highest expedi ency, aB of the most necessary duty, and will be carefully guarded by con gress and the people alike. The pub lic debt of the United States to the amount of $729,000,000 bears interest at the rate of 6 percent, and $703,000, 000 at the rate of 5 per cent,, and the only way in which the country can be relieved from the payment of the high rate of interest is by advantage ously refunding the Indebtedness. Whether the debt is ultimately paid in gold or silver coin is of but little moment, compared with the possible reduction of interest one-third by re funding it at such reduced rates. If the United States had the unquestion able right to pay the bonds in silver coin the little benefit from that process would be greatly overbalanced by the injurious effect of such payment. If made or proposed against- the honest convictions of the public creditors, all the bonds that have been issued since February 12, .1873, when gold became the only unlimited legal tender metallic currency of the country, are justly payable In gold coin, or in coin of equal value. Dur ing the time of these issues the only dollar that could be or was received by thegovernment in exchange for bonds was the gold dollar. To require the public creditors to take in payment any dollar of less commercial value would bo regarded by them as a repu diation of the full obligation assumed. The bonds issued prior to 1877 were issued at a time when the gold dollar was .the only coin iu circulation or contemplated by either the govern ment or the holders of the bond as the coin in which they were to be paid. It is far better to pay these bonds in that coin than to seem to take advantage of the uuforseen fall of silver bullion, and pay in a new issue of silver coin. The power of the United States to coin money and to regulate the value thereof ought never to be exercised for the purpose of enabling the government to pay its obligations in a coin of less value than thatcontemplated by the parties when the bonds were issued. Any attempt to pa j' the national indebtedness in a coinage of less commercial value than the money of the world would involve a violation of the public faith and work irreparable injury to the public credit. It was the great merit of the act of March, 1869, in strengthening the publio credit that it removed all doubt as to the purpose of the United States to pay their bonded debt in coin. That act was accepted as a pledge of public faith. The govern ment has derived great benefit from it in the progress thus far made in refunding the publio debt at low rates of interest. An adherence to the wise and just policy of an exact observance of the publio faith will enable the gov ernment rapidly to reduce the burden of interest on the national debt to an amount exceeding $20,000,000 per an num and effect an aggregate saving to the United States of more than $300, 000,000, before the bonds can be fully paid. In adapting the uew silver coin age to the ordinary uses of currency in Che every day transactions of life, and preserving the quality of legal tender to be assigned to it, a consider ation of the first importance should be so to adjust the ratio between the sil ver and tho gold coinage which now constitute our specie currency as to accomplish the desired end of main taining the circulation of the two me tallic currencies and keeping up tbe volume of the two precious metals as out intrinsio money. It is a mixed question for scientific reasoning and historical experience to determine how far and by what methods a prac ticable equilibrium can be maintained which will keep both metals in circu lation in their appropriate spheres of common use. An absolute equality of commercial value from disturbing fluctuations is hardly attainable, and without it an untimed legal tender for private transactions assigned to both metals would tend to drive out of circulation the dearest coinage and disappoint thepriucipal object propos ed by the legislation in view. I ap prehend, therefore that the two con ditions of a near approach to equality of commercial value between the gold and silver coinage of the same denom ination and of a limitation of tbe amounts for whioh the silver coinage is to be a legal tender are" essential to maintaining both in circulation. If these conditions can be successfully observed tbe issue from the mint of silver dollars would afford material as sistance to the community in the transition to redeemable paper money and would facilitate tbe resumptionof specie payment and itB permanent es tablishment. Without these condi tions I fear that only mischief and misfortune would follow from a coin age of silver dollars with" the quality of unlimited legal tender even in pri vate transactions. Any expecta tion of temporary ease from an- issue of silver coinage to pass as a legal- ten der at a rate materially above its com mercial value, is, I am persuaded, a delusion. Nor can I think that there is any substantial distinction-between an original issue of silver dollars at a nominal value materially above their commercial value and the restoration oftbbsilverdollar.atarate which once was, but has ceased to be, its commer cial value. Certainly the Issue of our gold coinage, reduced in weight ma terially below its legal tender value, would be any the less a present de basement of the coinage, by reason of its equalling or even exceeding in weight a good coinage, which at some past time had been commercially equal to the legal tender value as signed to the new issue, in recom mending that the regular of any silver coinage which may be authorized by congress should observe these condi tions of commercial value and limited legal tender, I am governed by the feeling that every possible Increase should be given to tbe volume of me talic money which can be kept in circulation, and thereby cause all possible aid afforded by the people Id the process of resuming spe cie payment. It Is because of my conviction that a disregard of these conditions would frustrate the good results which are desired from the pro posed coinage and embarrass with new elements of confusion and uncertainty the business of the country, that I urge upon your attention those considera tions. I respectfully recommend to congress that in any legislation pro viding for a silver coinage imparting to it tbe quality of legal tender there be impressed in the measure a firm provision exempting the public debt heretofore issued and now outstand ing from payment, eithor of princi pal or Interest, in any coinage of less value than the present gold coinage of the country. The foregoing topics we select from the message, presuming them to be of the greatest interest to our readers. The length of the message is such that we could not publish the whole of it without great inconvenience. CRIMES AND CASDLTIES. At Athens, Ohio, on the 27th ult. Dr. J. W. McWhorler was malicious ly shot dead by his brother. Robert Lelse, of New York City, President of the Security Life Insur ance Company, convicted of swear ing to false returns, has been senten ced to five 3'ears in the penitentiary. Frank Rande, the notorious outlaw, has been lodged in jail at Galesburg, 111. The grand jury has found two indictments for murder against him. At Bridgeport, Conn., on the 3Qth ult., David Stilman and wife, aged invalids were found murdered in tbeir own house. Wm. H. Vanderbilt recently while driving one of his fast horses ran over an old man, injuring him, it is thought, fatally. On the 29th, ult., a son of Congress man Kelley, of Pennsylvania, while riding in a street car in Philadelphia, was without known provocation, shot by a drunken negro, though probab ly not mortally. At Northhampton, Mass., on the 29th ult., M. Davenport fatally stab bed his wife and a man named Pratt, of whom he was jealous. Joseph Green, of St. Marys, Ohio., suspecting that his wife and George Dire were too intimate, left home to be gone some time, but returned sud denly and unexpectedly one night, finding Dire at his house, as he ex pected. The latter ran away without his clothing, Green after him, and firing at him shot another man seri ously. At Ada, Ohio, on the 23th ult., a young man named Thos. Bastaber. telegraph operator, put a bullet in his brain while drunk. His lady love had infarmed him that he must stop drinking or cease his attentions to her. He chose not to quit his drunk enness, and being enraged at the young lady sought to kill her, but fall ing to find her concluded to kill him self. This was much the better end ing of the affair. Jas. T. Aikens, while giving an ex hibition with a stereopticau at Toledo Ohio on the 28th inst., dropped dead on the stage. Supposed cause, heart disease. At Topeka, Kas., on the 28th ult., a little daughter of John Nevlns, while playing with matches had her cloth ing set afire and was burned to death. Des Moines, Dec. 1. In August, 1874, a lewd woman named Ella Bar ret, was murdered in her room in this city and her effects plundered. The oircumstancea were atrocious, the wo man being found with her head hack ed In a frightful manner. It was evi dent that some important papers were taken from ber trunk, as well as asum of money and jewelry. Last spring four negroes in this city were indicted I for the murder. In tbe course of tbe trial of tbe first prisoner, Andy Smith, the fact was developed that there was an unknown white man in terested in the murder, but who, has nntvAt heen learned. The jury in the Smith case have just returned a a verdict of murder in tbe firstdegree. The trial of the other three will com mence Monday. Two years ago Lyraam Blackman, a farmer living near Birmingham, Michigan, deeded his farm to his son Henry on condition that he should support his parents and sister. He failing to do this his father started for Pontiac to get out tbe necessary pa pers revoking the deed. In his ab sence Henry quarreled with his moth er and sister, whioh resulted in his shooting and killing them both and setting fire to the house and barn. He is now in jail at Fontlac. The Kearney Press says: "McLain, the murderer taken from Kearney to Lincoln on Tuesday, and around whom the walls of the peni tentiary have closed for the re mainder of his natural life, makes the one hundred and fourteenth criminal nnw mnflned within that InstUu-' tlon. A good aotion performed In this world receives its recompense in tbe other, just as water poured at the root of a tree appears agaiu above. In fruit and flower. MISLEADING THE PUBLIC. The Truth Aboutthc Bank of England, and a Comparison of its Workings With onr Treasury System. CniCAGO, Nov. 21, 1S771 To the Editor of tbe Inter Ocean. The opponents of the repeal of tbe resumption act are constantly making statements whioh mislead public opin ion, and, if understood, would defeat the ends aimed at. I find the follow ing In the New York Times, publish ed in the self-styled, "Old Reliable." It says : "Conniderlng that the coin re serve of the Bank of England Is at present only $50.0'j0100a, and that on this slender foundation of bullion (gold and silver) rests some $3,000,000, 000 of banking liabilities in Great Britian." The above is very nearly a true statement of the finances of England. It then continues: "It seems tolera bly obvious that if congress would on ly keep its hands off the finances. there is nothing to preveut the Treasury make ample preparations to resume in 1879." Suppose tbe author had giv en the following facts: 1. The Bank of England is a pri vate corporation, backed up by gov ernment, while the United States Treasury Is not. Consequently, no parallel can bo drawn between the two. 2. That the premium on gold In England is as high as it is in this country, for the interest rate of the bank Is 3 per cent above that of other chartered or private banks In that country. The reason for such excess is stated to be, by the directors of the Bank of England, as well as by the London limes and other papers, to prevent the gold being drawn out of England. So long as the Bank of England can float its promises to pay, printed on watered paper, at 1J or 2 per cent, it is entirely satisfactory ; but the moment the holders of theBe promises to pay present them and de mand gold, particularly so if the gold is for America. money becomes scarce, and the rate of interest goes up to 5 or 10 per cent. This Is a power per fectly despotioover the business Inter ests Ensland. and sustained by the English Government; a power that would not be granted in our country to the most honest administration we ever had or ever will have. 3. The United States Treasury, with $100,000,000 in gold In hand, could not make a successful stand against the manipulation of gold op erators, unless the coin power of our present legal renders was made a fact, so that duties, taxes, or other dues to government, could be paid In them the same as coin. By "gold opera tors" I do not refer to the Gold Board of New York, whose members were but parasites on such mammoths as Drexel, Morgan & Co., Rothohilds, and other money kings. Either of those firms could at one fell swoop, aud no doubt often would, take all the gold and put it out of sight, that our Treasury might bold for redeem ing its legal tenders. If John Sherman had the power to day to put the rate of iuterest up or down, as his private Interests might dictate, do you think the people would remain passive, as does "John Bull." and veil, "Great is the Bank of England ?" Still that power is the power of the bank, nothing more or less. The issues of the Bank of England are to all intents and purposes the le gal tender of Great Britian. Gold Is no more currency there than silver is here. The business of the country is done on credits, by checks, drafts.and bills of issue, and so long as no cog wheel in the machinery stops, it is lovely ; but let one wheel work a lit tle stiff from want of grease, and the life blood, gold, becomes clotted, and a tonic of 5 per cent, has to be taken in order to work off the clogged iTnnse. The issues of the Bank of England are based nn the debentures of England, which arp seldom above 95 per cent, bearing 2J per cent, in terest. The issues of our banks are based on this country's debentures, always worth 100 per cent, bearing 5 per cent, interest. In the former, none but English invest; in the latter the whole world invests. The ultimate of one they doubt, of the other no doubt ex ists. "Old Reliable' writes a labored editorial on the extract from the Times, and brines forth, "There's the rub." The editor has not found out yet, where the majority stands, and f course is a Ieetle afraid to say, "J to:u you so." But he has seen a man whom he thinks has recently seen n "double eagle," and the editor re marks "this is a 'straw'of very great importance." Germany demonetized silver, is bankrupt with gold. To keep what she has she destroys all commercial inter eets by exorbitant intertsts. While France, with gold, silver, and green backs as money, is becoming rich yearly. German3' and England are becoming poorer every day. Whose example should we follow the one successful to the many, or the impov erisher of the many to the enriching of the few France or England. A. A. A. T, -A-- BATH is now proprietor of tho litjIMMarM, and is prepared to accomodate the public with GOOD, FRESH, SWEET Gentlemanly and accomraodatinf? clerks will at all times be in attendance. Your palronaze solicited. Remember tho place the old Fascoe snop, Jiain-st., BrownviUe - Nebraska. NDEETAKE Keeps a full ltns ot BURIiL CASES & CASKETS CONSTANT.? ON ItAXV, . 5G Main Street, BKOW.N VIIJJSEB LEGAL ADVERTISEaTENTs. PROPOSALS FOR FORAGE. J. Heaaqtrarlers Department or tbe .natle. Office of Chler Qunrter master, Omaha.-Neb. Nov 2?,-1877. Senledproposrals, In triplicate subject to" the itsaaf conditions, will bo re ceived M this office tnitll 12 M., on Saturday, December 29; 1S77, ht which time and placo they will fte opened in the presence of bid ders, for furnishing and delivering In quan tities as required Up to Jane SO, ISJS, at Omit ha Depot, Nebraska, or at stations on tho Union Pacific Railroad, east from Kearney Junctlon. two million (2.000,000; pounds Corn and one milllorrCf.OOO.OOO) pounds Oats. Proposals for quantities less than the whole required, will be received. ?r. ferencc will bo Riven to articles of domestic prodoctlon. The contract will be let xfltti the proviso that the quantities contracted for may bo Quartermaster or the Department at any' time within forty-Aye days nl er date of con tract. Bids should state the rate per l'V) ponnds not per bushel and shonld be endorsed on envelope "Bids for Forage.' The right to reject any or all bids Is reserved. M. I. LUDrXGTON. 2lw4 Chief Quartermaster. nOMMISSIONERS' SALE OF J REAL FSTATE. Nutlce Is hereby given that by vlrtno of an order of sale issned oiit of the District Court of Nemaha Comity. In the State of Nebraska, and to us directed as: referees and commissioners, in the casd' hereinafter named, upon an order and decree rendered by the said Court. In a certain ac tion pendlmr. wherein Mahlon Smith andr James A. Smith, by Abner A. Warren, their next friend and general guardian, and "V11 HamSmith.areplaintins.Rnd Charles Camp--bell. William Campbell. Cynthia A. Pascoe, Margaret E. Clark and James A. Campbell, are defendants, we will offer for sale at pub lic auction, at the door of the Court House in Brownville. in said county, on Monday, December 10, 187T, at 1 o'clock p. in., of that day, the following real estate In Nemaha County, Nebraska, to wit: The north west quarter of section No. thirty-five (35), In township number six (G), north of range number fourteen (14), east,, containing one hundred and sixty (1G0) acres. Terms of sale. cash. DAVIDSON PLASTERS.-) Referees WILLIAM . uuuvEii, v ana com E.M. McCOMAS, J missloners. J. H. BROADY, Att'y for Plffs. November 5. 1S77. 20w4 II JJLIU OZL PAINTINGS, Frames & Wall Pockets, A T AUCTION. Wednesday, Thursday & Fridayf DECEMBER 5th, 6th and 7th, 18T7. I am pleased to announce to my old friends and acquaintances of Nemaha County, that I will be in Brownville as above, with a epand Exhibition of Genuine Oil Chro mos, Oil Paintings, Fine Frames, &c, being a part of a large bank rupt stock shipped here direct from the East, to be closed out at public auction, COMB JUAJRLY, and have full stock to select from, as the Entire Stock will posi tively be sold to the highest bid der, without reserve or limit. Tbe citizens of Broviiiville nnd vicinity vriil find this de cidedly the best opportunity ever presented to them to ob tain choice works of art at their own prices. I-adics especially invited to attend exhibition and sale. J". W. BLISS, alias the Live Yankee. D. B. COLHAPF, Manufacturer of FINE CIGARS 59 Main Street, Brownville, Nebraska, Orders From Neighboring Towns Solicited. Meat Market. BOI3T&; BBO. BUTCHERS, BROlVIf VIMMB, NEBRASKA. Good, Sweet, Fresli Meat Always on hand, and satisfaction guar antied to all customers. The St. Joseph. r I THE LARGEST AND BEST PAPER IN THE WEST. A 40-COLUMN PAPER, FILLED WITH ZLsnE-WS, Itllscelljineoua ana General Iteadlngv BESIDES A Full Eeport of the Markets, .uk juinjiam ior one year tor One Dollar&Tweniy-Rre Cents Sis MoatBj for 75 Cent. THE DA3ELY HEEAL3 I S9.00 Year. Scndmonejr to tho Leading Paper In the- .. .n, i uiiut ui yuanjmco oruer, to TXACY &:co.. SJtf St. Josopi, Ho. I buy my be by Jake. OPIUM .-.,. iT,- ttasta vVv m MUM wfieofjera r k l li hm r l i kgjpt P5 gg - o ' r'' "r "5 " ' S3 IdonH. lt3ii .'"V.1J -