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JVEIFS > * X1 > NOTES. A Record of Proceedings in JJoth Mrancliet oftlie tT. S. Congress. SENATE , March 6. The senate was not in BCFsion , having adjourned from Friday un til Monday. HOUSE , March 6. Immediately upon as- Bembling the house went into committee of -jK wholo on the state of tho union for general debate. Mr. Millard addressed the committee on the silver question. Mr. Rowell submitted an argument in opposi tion to the suspension of silver cninageand in favor of the double standard of value. . Neither business honesty nor commercial necessity > requh-ed a suspension of silver coinage. Such suspension would result in n great shririknge of values. It would be in the interest of the stron-j against the weak , and amount to a crime. Other speeches in opposition to tho suspension of silver coin age were made by Messrs. Peelo of Arkan sas , Lo Fevre of Ohio , Glass of Tennessee , and Toole of Montana. The committee then rose and the house adjourned. SENATE , March 8. Senator Plumb intro- ; duccd a bill to amend section 5192 of tho [ revised statutes so as to include the cities of Kansas City , Omaha , St. Paul Minne apolis and Indianapolis among them whose national bank transactions may consist hi part of balancing one association by another. Among the petitions presented were a large number from local assemblies of Knights of Labor favorfng the building of the-'Hcnnepin canal. Plumb , in present ? ing somo of these petitions , said they all seemed to emanate from some central source , as they were handsomely printed , and while greatly respecting the bodies that sent the petitions , he presumed there must be some private interest behind this move ment in the interest of the Hennepin canal. Vance offered a resolution directing tho committee on civil service i-eform to report forthwith the bill before them providing for the repeal of the civil service laws. The resolution , at Vance's request , was for tho present laid on the table. Stanford an nounced the death of Miller , of California , and , out of respect to the memory of the deceased senator , moved an adjournment. HOOSE , March 8. Henley offered for ref erence a resolution for the appointment of a sub-committee to inquire into the alleged evasions of the Thurman act by the Union Pacific Railroad company and to deter mine whether , by reason of any violation of the provisions of that act , the corporate rights , powers and franchises of the com pany have become forfeited. Morrow arose and said : The melancholy duty devolves on me to announce tho death of Senator A , . John F. Miller , of California , who died in this city to-day , after a prolonged illness. Congress will undoubtedly set apart somo day hereafter for the purpose of 'giving ex pression to the sentiments entertained for tho character and great public services of Senator Miller. I offer the following reso lutions : That the house has received with profound sorrow the intelligence of the death of Senator John F. Miller. Thai.out of respect for his memory , this house do now adjourn. SENATE , March 9. Under the head of un finished business the senate took up the res olutions reported by Edmunds from tho judiciary committee. These resolutions , among other things , condemn the attorney \ general for refusing to transmit to the sen ate papers called for by the senate , and declare that refusal to be a violation by tho attorney general of his official duty and subversive of the fundamental prin ciples of the government and good admin istration. The resolutions also condemn the discharge from the government service of ex-union soldiers. The resolutions wero read by the chie ? clerk after which Edmunds addressed the senate. In conclusion he said it did not seem to him that the senate could fail to get the papers on the ground that the statute 011 thesubject had become obsolete , or gone into a state "innocuou- desuctude. " [ Laughter. ] The president himself had sent to tho senate G43 in stances of obedience to that law. G43 nom inations made under it , and Edmunds f 'f therefore took 'it that the law was still in force. The committee on commerce re ported the bill authorizing the Central Mis souri railway to consructa railroad bridge across the Mississippi river at or near Alton , III. . The bill was read tho third , time and"passed. Puch obtained _ the floor and tho senate went into executive session and soon adjourned. HODSE , March 9. The house passed tha bill requiring the Pacific railroads to pay the cost of surveying their lands and to .take out patents thereto. On behalf of the committe on labor , James called up the bill to prohibit any officer , ser- v vant or agent of the government to hiro or contract out any labor of prisoners incarcerated for violating the laws of the United States government. The bill was passed yeas 249 , nays 8. The Indian appropriation bill vas then considered without final action. % SENATE , March 10. The land grant for feiture bill was taken up. An amendment offered by McMillan was rejected after somo debate. The chair laid before the senate resolutions from the judiciary committee concerning the relations of the senate and president. Ptigh said he had expressed his views fully in the report made from the ju diciary committee by the minority and tho main object ho had now in addressing tho senate was to reply to the senator from Vermont. It was to prevent , if it was in his power to do so , which he admitted was a difficult undertaking , the senator from changing the.character of the question be- tween"tho "senate and president. The real character ol that controversy could bo misunderstood or misrepresented , as it has arisen from facts apparent uponrecord arid reported by a majority of the judiciary committee. Pugh related the facts con nected with the Duskin case and said tho senate resolution did not call for public or official documents , but for private docu- ' menta and papers relating exclusively to an official act of tho president in the sus pension of Duskin as district attorney. Tho senate adjourned , leavingtheEdmunds resolution as the unfinished business. HOBSB , March 10. Rogers , of Arkansas , from tho committee on Pacific railroads , reported tho bill requiring tho Northern Pacific railroad company to pay the cost of surveying its land. Plared on the house calendar. The morning hour having ex pired-pending action , the house went into -'uttee of the whole ( Townshend in tho on the Indian appropriation bill. SENATE , March 11. Hawley , from the committee on civil service reform , reported adversely the Vance bill for the repeal of j the civil service law. Logan , from the i < . . w.-/ of the committee on military af- ' .lairs , submitted its views on the Fitz John Porter biH , which is the same as that pre sented by the minority in tho last congress , with the addition of the Logan matter in reply to the Grant article in The North American Reviewjustifying the conduct of Porter. Thobill for the forfeiture of apart of the land granted to the state of. Iowa in the construction of railroads was debated and laid over. Senator Stanford intro duced suitable resolutions regarding the death of Senator" Miller , wHfch were adopted and , after executive session , the V. senate adjourned. 1 HOUSE , March 11. In committee of the whole Weaver quoted from the report o ! tho superintendent of Indian schools tc show that at the Shilocco school there was no law available to protect the school froir incursions of Indians or raids of cowboys. The cattlemen grazed their herds on the school farm and defied any one who at tempted to interfere with them. A race course had been laid out on the school farm and horse-racing and whisky sellinj had been introduced , and it was safe to say that more drunkenness could be seen at that school than at all the agencies in the Indian territory. If this was true of the school generally then he pronounced the industrial school a farce and a shame , and a blot-upon ourcivi ization. Hethemvent on to advocate opening to settlement the Oklahoma and Cherokee strips and reser vations to the southwest of Oklahoma. On motion of Morrow a resolution was adopted authorizing the appointment of a committee of seven members to join n similar committee on the part of the senate to accompany the remains of Senator J.F. Miller from Washington to California. SEN-ATE , March 12. On motion of Plumb , the senate resumed consideration of the bill to forfeit the lands granted to tile state of Iowa in aid of-railroads. Plumb opposed the amendment heretofore offered by Stoner , withholding from the operation of the act certain of the hinds as to which suit is now pending in the United Stnt'es supreme court. The bill itself , Plumb said , provided a perfectly impartial tribunal for the settlement of tho rights of all claim ants. Tho bill was a bijl for peace. He feared the amendment might prove to be a Troibau horse. The amendment was re jected , and after considerable debate the bill was passed. Discussion then took place on resolutions reported from the judiciary committee on the relations be tween the president and senate as to the right of the senate to have papers and in formation relating to suspensions from office. HODSE , MH rch 12. Weaver , of Nebraska , asked leave to offer the following preamble and resolutions : Whereas , Nearly evccy congress embraces one crank ; and whereas , the present congress is no exception to the rule ; and whereas , it should not bo in the power of an idiot , insane man or crank to prevent the consideration of any measure ; therefore , be it resolved , that tho rules of this house be so amended that it shall re quire at least two members to object to tho consideration of a bill. Tho reading of tho resolutions was greetod with applause , but Springer objected to it on the ground that it was not respectful to the house. The houfae , at its evening session , pnssed forty- five pension bills and at 10:10 p. in. , adjourned until to-morrow. THE IXCKEASK I.AHOR STRIKES. Master Workman I'mcilrrly Stales Ilii Ylctcs to a llfjitii-lcr. Philadelphia dispatch : Grand Master Workman Powderly head of the Knights of Labor organization , is in this city at tending a mooting of the general executive board. Powderly , upon being asked whether he did not think that the increase in the number of strikes just now was owing to the knowledge of an increased power by the organiztions of labor , said : "I doubt it , and I think that I can speak for the general executive board. They do not think that it is wise to inaugurate so many strikes unless it can be shown that there is an extreme necessity for them. If many of the men who are striking would display a little more common sense and use a little more patience they would get all they are striking for and save their time and money in the bargain. If they would exercise proper moderation in their negotiations with their employers and sub mit their claims firmly made and properly represented , to arbitration , I am free to say that I am sure that nine out of ten cases which end in a strike could be as sat isfactorily arranged without resorting to such extreme and generally doubtful expe dients. Indeed , in nine cases there would be no necessity for a strike. There is a feeling now that labor must be recognized by employers ; that tihe employer must lis ten to the employes , and the time has come when the shopman , mill owner , and manu facturer in every department of trade must be ready to listen to tho demands of his men and to yield to them when these de mands are reasonable. Organization , dis cipline and tho realization of the right and the might in the case had brought about this change , andthese advances on the part of the employer should not be fre- pulsed by hasty and inconsiderate action on the part o ! workingmcn. " "Arbitration , then , and not strikes is the theory of the order ? " said the reporter. "Yes , arbitration always when it is pos Bible , a strike only as a last resort ; but when that point is reached , strike hard , strike in earnest , and never surrender ex cept to just concessions. Why , this board , " pointing to the members who were listen ing , "has since the first of January settled by arbitration 350 cases , which would otherwise have resulted in strikes without tho gain of a single point by the strikers. The Knights of Labor and other organiza tions in sympathy with its plans , consti tute at the present time the most powerful organization of workingmen ever known in the history of the world , Its strength is increasing every day and its influence is felt every day in every branch of trade in this country. It is dangerous to abuse this powerIt can always insist upon just demands carefully considered and thought fully digested. It cannot afford to fritter itself away on every "little pretense of wrong ; hastily formulated and pigheadedly insisted upon. The growth of the power of labor should be an occasion for calm deliberation and moderation. Working- men should be careful to see to it that they do not sap and undermine their strength by extreme demands and unreasonable assumptions of inmortanco and cower. " SCOriLtE , TELE PERSECUTED. Anotlier Suit Against lite Laicyer of Guiteau Jfotorleti/ . Chicago dispatch : From presen tlndlca- tions it would seem that t'ae courts of Chicago will never see the lastof the Scoville-Howe troubles , or that unfortunate , Geo. Scoville will never recover that peace of mind which he enjoyed prior to the advent of the assassin Guiteau upon the political horizon. Some time ago an execution wus issued against Mr. Scoville , who is a lawyer with a good practice , at the instance of his divorced wf e , Frances M. Howe , sister of Guiteau , who claimed that he owed her several hundred dollars for back alimony. Scoville has now filed a statement showing that from 1SS3 to March of the pres ent year , he has given her amounts aggregat ing twelve hundred and twenty-five dollars , or over one hundred dollars more than the decree required him to pay. Then the ex-husband goes'on to complain that his ex-wife obstinate ly refuses to lire in a Krtain house , and to sub-let rooms for lodgirgs so as to reduce the rent. To make matters worse , Scoville retali ates upon his former wife by filing a petition asking the court to give him the custody of the child Berthawlio has been in the mother's care for some time. Mrs. Howe has been or- dered to answer this petition within ten days , and as she is devoted to the child , sensational aevelopments may be expected , if Judge Mo- ran should order her to surrender it to the lather. POLITICS jr.VJ5.VGIivl.yO. Hartington and James Decline to fcad the Opposition to Gladstone. London telegram : Lord Hartington and Sir "Henry James have disappointed tho whigs . 'nd tories alike. Their speeches the past week have been expected with eager interest in the belief they would consent to head tho opposition to Gladstone. Both declined point blank. Neither will attempt to construct a cave. Hartington would not discuss projects yet to be revealed , but exhibited a dread of home rule and a mis trust of Gladstone. It is clear , however , he cannot sunder old ties since he made a vigorous onslaught on tho tories for their treatment of thnIrish question , and desired to exculpate Gladstone. He rejects all in vitations to join Lord Salisbury , and will not lead an independent movement. The week has been full of rumors of cabinet schemes and consequent resignations. Many declare the government will collapse next week , but this is not the opinion of tho cabinet themselves. Chamberlain , however , is yet to be reckoned with. It appears Gladstone has definitely decided on a sweeping measure of home rule. This favors the notion that he leans to Morley rather than to Chamberlain , and hence there is a prospect of a difficulty. But the fact is neither has greatly in fluenced him. He has his own strong views and has drafted whatever there is with the help of Lord Spencer and. Sir llobert Hamilton , consequently the scheme is sure to be thorough , but immediate legis lation is unlikely. The probability is that a declaratory resolution in favor of giving an independent parliament to Ireland will be propo "cd. If the government keeps to gether the resolution will be carried and legislation postponed till next year. Meanwhile the land question may be tackled. Gladstone does not see his way to tho Giffens plan of wholesale appropria tion. To add 8200,000,000 to the debt is extremely repugent to his financial concep tions , even if the country would stand tho enormous yearly charge involved , which is very doubtful. This is the puzzle of the Ir ish question to the liberals when they think of their constituents. If Gladstone can satisfy them here he will gethis majorityin the commons in spite of Chamberlain's op position. If that should come about , .Icsse Collings declares Chamberlain will never consent to an Irish parliament. Thisshows Chamberlain is still cherishing the scheme of national councils , altogether exploded. PIZOJEnV-EA'T JtE.V AXD WOME1T. It is reported that Christine Nilsson will retire from public life next year. Jay Gould's daughter does not spend two-thirds of her § 5,000 pin money. Theodore Tilton is living quietly in France , and will not return to America. Bismarck costs Germany § 18,000 a year hardly up to a big railway officer's pay here. Edison on the day of his marriage trans ferred to his wife $1,000,000 worth of real estate. Mrs. Langtry is cast for tho part of Hel en of Troy in a Greek play in London in next May. Mrs. Gen. Sheridan is very punctilious about returning calls. She devotes a por tion of each day to this purpose. The widow of General Santa Anna is in Mexico spending her declining years in a rocking chair smoking cigarettes. The late William F. Weld of Philadelphia was the richest man that ever died in that cfty. He was worth § 53,000,000. Bismarck has been reducing his weight. His doctors say by the Banting system , but the New Orleans Picayune thinks Ii3 has probably lost the combination of the beer vault lock. Miss Cleveland has her quiet receptions as well as public levees , in which one can see her and have a chance for a pleasant talk , without feeling that one must ; "move on" and let somebody else come in. Pierre Lorillard has been elected to the presidency ofthe Monmoulh Park Racing association in place of G. L. Lorillard , de ceased , James Galway has been elected to fill the vacancy in the board of directors. Mrs. Langtry seems to be attempting to revolutionize the present craze for gorgeous apparel on the stage , as in her now piece , "Enemies , " an adaptation by Mr. George Coghlan , the brother of George Coghlan , the dresses are all very plain ansimple. . Whether she will succeed is to be doubted. XEWS XOTES iy BRIEF. Ben Brown , a colored Nashville mur derer , has been sentenced to death. David Snow , a prominent citizen of Cam- den , Ark. , shot himself through the brain. Money and seed potatoes are being fur nished the sufferers on the islands west of Ireland. Edward Hogan was mysteriously mur dered at Quincy , 111. He was a Hannibal & St. Joseph train man. The British government has decided soon to attach to the colonial office an emi grants' information bureau. The Greenwood , Ky. , miners have given the legislature two weeks to withdraw the convicts from work in that section. A Grafton , W. Va. , fiend attempted to poison the poison the family ol F. H. Ross by putting strychnine in vessels containing sugar water. The application of the Illinois Central railroad for an injunction to restrain the Chicago , Burlington & Northern railway from using the Illinois Central right of way has been denied. All the unions connected with the build ing interests of St. Louis have decided in favor of the eight hour plan , and have given the members instruction to consult with their employers on the subject and re port at an early day. The committee of the academy of science having the matter under consideration has reported definite proposals for the estab lishment in Paris of a hospital to be'called the "Institute Pasteur , " which shall bo open to the world and is supported by in ternational donations. The production of cut nails and cut spikes in 1885 were 6,696,815 kegs of 100 pounds each , showing a falling off of near 100,000 kegs from 1884 , and over 100,000 kegs from 1883. The decreased product in 1883 was largely due to the many western manufactories being closed seven months by labor troubles. THE STEWART ESTATE. Alex. Stewart , the Vermont farmer , who claims to be an heir to tho estate of A. T. Stewart has filed a complaint in the United States court in New York in an equity suit against Judpe Hilton to recover $100.000. Stewart hao been adjudged , a lunatic in Vermont , and the net 'is brought by hia i guardian , Benjamin F. Fieldcn. I P t I'OTJIICALANI * PERSONAL A OTES. The apportionment bill now before the Iowa legislature tacks a strong republican county to Gen. Weaver's district. Senator Evarts promises that his speecli on tho coinage question , when it comes , will be a speech for the wholo people. The fact that Senator Mahone occasion ally gives republican dinners and does not invite Senator Riddleberger is attracting notice in Washington. Joseph Cook doesn't readtho Sunday papers on Sunday. He reads them on Mondnj' , however , and the Sunday papers come out just the same. The Boston Herald says the president's ' 'attitude toward tho senate" is that of a 250 pounder , with hands on his hips and a look on his face which plainly asks : "Well , what are you going to do about if. " The prohibitionists in Georgia arc push- ins ; the war into the counties of that state which still permit the sale of liquor , and it is believed that at the next election tho piesent dozen of "wet" counties will nearly Jill go "dry. " Prof. John Avery , of Bowdoin college , a gtadimtc of Amherst in 1861 , who is familiar with many languages , is compiling a dictionary of a language existing in the feouth of India , with which , it is said , no other American is familiar. Mr. Cleveland pays little attention to anything about Washington city. He said , to Colonel Lament the other day : "I think uhen we get through with our white house work we had better remain over for two or three days to visit the town. " Senator Ingalls , of Kansas is quoted as defining Senator Evtirts as a "political arclucologist who has made subtle explora tions into this subterdnean recesses of the constitution and the inner consciousness of the founders. " The British houso of commons now re grets that it gave Mr. Bradlaugh so much prominence by refusing him a seat in that body. He proves to be a weak and silly debater , and utterly incompetent to grasp political questions of any magnitude. TJIE O3LUIAS AXT > President Cleveland transmitted to con gress a communication from Indian Agent Potter of the Omaha and Winnebago In dians , with a petition signed by 210 heads of families of the Omaha tribe , and com munications from thft commissioner of In dian affairs and secretary of the interior. The petition is signed by the Indians by af fixing their marks , and states that the Omaha Indians , having received patents to their lands and being desirous of making further improvements of their farms , and needing money for that purpose , therefore ask that the money due them under the treaty of 1854 , amounting to § 90,000 , be paid them within the present year. A draft of a new bill accompanies the com munication , which appropriates § 90,000 to be paid the Omaha tribe in two annual payments of15,000 each in lieu of their present installment , to enable the members of the tribe to further improve their condi tion by the purchase of btock , agricultural implements , etc. Commissioner Atkins writes that the Omahas are a , steady , in dustrious and sober people and number 1,1 ! ) 1. ' Mr. Atkins urges the passage of tho bill. COXE TTKO.VG ST $78,278.33. A special from Vincennes , Ind. , stys : An examination of the books , concluded this afternoon , shows an approximate shortage against County Treasurer Hollinsworth of § 78,278.33. Everybody is dumbfounded and mortified at this gigantic expose. Hol linsworth was a prosperous and wealthy farmer when ho took possession of the office. What ho has done with this im mense sum of money puzzles everybody. The conjecture is that it has been squan dered in margin gambling and in a woman affair , over which Hollinsworth has had one suit in court. Ex-County Treasurer W. W. Berry has been installed in charge of the treasurer's office. WHISKY THE PRUfCIPAZ CAUSE. Everett S.oSmith , a well-known composi tor and secretary of the Nashville Typo graphical union , committed suicide in Spring park , that city , on the night of the 6th , and was found dead Avith a bullet through his heart next morning. He left a letter ascribing his woes to whisky and con fessing that he was behind with the funds of the union , of which he was secretary. During the early part of the afternoon ho mixed freely with his friends , and , it is siid , drank heavily , though not of sufficient quantity to make him drunk. Later in the evening he disappeared from the streets and was seen no morebyhisacquaintances until his remains were brought to tho undertaker. THE MARKETS. OMAHA. WHEAT No. 2 60 @ 62 BARLEY No. 2 45 @ 50 RYE No. 2 40 @ 50 Conx No. 2 mixed 23 @ 25 OATS No. 2 26 @ 27 BDTTEK Fancy creamery. . 30 @ 35 BUTTER Choice roll 13 @ 16 EGGS Fresh 10 @ 11 CHICKENS Dressed per Ib. . . 8 @ 10 TURKEYS Dressed perlb. . . . 8 @ 9 DUCKS Dressed per Ib 8 @ 9 LEMONS Choice " 400 @ 450 APPLES Choice . 250 @ 300 ORANGES Mesina 2 00 @ 4 00 BEANS Navys 1 25 @ 1 50 ONIONS Per bushel 90 @ 1 00 POTATOES Per bushel 55 @ 60 GREEN APPLES Per bbl. . . . 2 75 @ 3 24 WOOL Fine , per Ib 14 @ 16 SEEDS Timothy 2 25 @ 2 50 SEEDS Blue Grass 1 30 @ 1 40 HAY Baled , per ton 5 50 @ 6 00 HAY In bulk 6 00 @ 7 00 HOGS llixcd packing 3 85 @ 3 95 BEEVES Butchers 3 10 @ 3 50 SIIEEP Heavy grades 2 73 @ 3 75 NEW YORK. JViinAT No. 2 red 96 @ 9G1 WnEAT Ungradcd red 90 @ 92J CORN No. 2 45 @ 48 % OATS Mixed western 37 @ 40 PORK 10 00 @ 10 50 LARD 6 35 @ 6 38 CHICAGO. FLOUR Choice winter 440 FLOUR Spring extra 3 70 WHEAT Perbushel 85 , CORN Per bushel 40i OATS Per bushel 32 PORK 10 35 LARD 5 85 HOGS Packing &shipping. 4 25 OATTLE Stockers 3 00 SHEEP Western 3 00 ( of 3 80 ST. LOUIS. WHEAT No. 2 red CORN Perbushel 35j | @ 36 $ OATS Per bushel 30 @ 30 HOGS Mixed packing. 3 90 @ 4 20 CATTLE Stockers & feeders 300 @ 320 SHEEP Common to choice 2 50 @ 3 50 KANSAS CITY. SVHEAT Perbushel 72Jj@ 74 SOUK Per bushel 28J { @ 29 DATS Per bushel 27 @ 29 CATTLE Exports 5 00 @ 5 30 Boas Good to choice. 4 00 @ 4 25 SHEEP Common to good. . 2 75 @ 3 75 THE JEST. In a tavern quaint and"old Of a gabled German town , "Where the ulgkVwind up ana down Through the winding streets blew cold. Gay travelers chanced to meet Around a bountiful hoard , Where the fire that leaped and roared Flamed out on the silent street. > Aa Ihe wine they freely quaffed , One rubicund stranger guest Related a merry jest , And. the company loadly laughed. But just as the mirth had died A weird sound , undefined , Was borne on a gust of winl From the arras at their side. And he on whose lips a toast Was lingering , paled with fear , " \Vhile aghast , all hushed to hear Ihe laugh of a listening ghost ! Clinton Scollard. ANOTHER EPOCH" OPENED. The Passing or a Generation. Beginningwith the canvass of ISoG and ending with that of 1880 , fifteen candidates contested for the presidency , who belonged to the generation which brought on. or carried tlirougb. tho war , Buchanan and Filmore ; Lincoln , his three rivals in 1860 , Douglas , Breckin- | ridge and Bell , and his sole opponent in 1864 , McClellan ; Grant , and tho men whom lie defeated in 1868 and 1872 , Seymour and Greeley ; Garfield and Hancock , the candidates in 1880 , are all dead. There remain of the whole list only Fremont , no longer a "path finder ; " Tilden and Ilayes. The conspicuous men of Lincoln's cabinet are mostly dead , like Seward , Chase and Stanton , or in the retirement of old age , like Simon Cameron ; "the war governors" are nearly all gone , or where a stray one , like Curtin , of Penn- elvania , lingers , no longer powerful ; the great leaders in congress before , during and immediately alter the war , like Charles Sumncr , "Henry Wilson , William Pitt Fessenden , "Ben" Wade , Oliver P. Morton , Thomas A. Hen- dricks , "Thad" Stevens and Schuyler Colfax , are either dead or remain only as political relics , like N. P. Banks and Lyman Trnmbull. In congress to-day sit but a few men who sat in that body before the war , and of these few John Sherman and John A. Logan alone re tain a commanding position , while Secretary Lamar is the only man in the cabinet , whose political record dates back of 1861. There is something remarkalbe about the speed with which the political gen eration of the rebellion period has passedfrom the stajre. The contrast with the generation of the Revolution ary era renders it more noteworthy. It " is now barely twenty-one years "since Appomatlox , and yet nearly all the leaders in the struggle arc physically or politically deceased. The Revolu tion ended in 1783 , but it was not until 182o , forty-two years later , at the ex piration of Monroe's second term , that the country ceased to elect presidents who had entered public life before or during the long contest which began in 1775. The senate to which Monroe ad dressed his last annual message in December , 1824 , contained several men who had been soldiers in the Revolu tionary army nearly half a century be fore , like Ruins King , of KCW York , John Chandler , of Maine , and j athan- iel Macon , of North Carolina , and it is easy to sec that the proportion of men still in active political life who "were actors in the revolution was , even at that long remove , quite considerable. This was due in no small measure to the youthful precocity of these surviv ors , "the Senator Macon of 1815 to 1828 having been only a boy of 18 when he left Princeton College in 1775 to enlist in the patriot army , and the President Monroe of 1817 to 1825 , but 18 years old when he joined the revolutionary has entered upon another epoch as dis tinct from the last as that which begun with the inauguration , of John Quiney Adams , the first President who was not of the Revolutionary day , in 1825 , and which eyded in the organization of par ties upon new lines. New York Eve ning Post. Ifo Sinecure. Dr. Pighead visits Mr. Coldham , the great pork manufacturer. "Well dear sir I don't , my , see that there is anything really wrong with ' you. Go to bed early , don't drink any thing stronger than coffee , and you'll te all right in a week. " "What , you are not going to give me any medicine ? " "Certainly not. You don't need it. " "Bot you get your $25 just the same. " "Yes.Just so. " "Well , I don't think it is a square deal. Sposin' you bleed me , put a.mus tard plaster on the back of my neck and gimme a dose of salts. Everybody that works for me's got to earn his sal- Humbler. .BONDS OF THE CONFEDERACY , London Sp ° culators AVlio Anticipate Reaping 1'ortuiics from tuo Worthless Paper. A Washington corresp'ondont , writing to the Pittsburgh Tost , says : It has been often noticed and commented upon that at this date , when the war has been over for twenty years , and the Southern confederacy is known only to the history of the past , that in London confederate bonds are hold at a value , even though the value is so low as 1 of 1 per cent. Timid people of the North , who have read tho speeches of Logan and Boutelle in the Congress' tonal Record , or who have heard John Sherman upon the stump and still be lieve in the vengeful iictions that sur round the bloody shirt , may'perhaps take these bond"quotations as another evidence that the South is unrecon structed still , and that it only keeps up a semblance of loyalty to get approp riations for the Mississippi river. At lirst blush it does seem strange that the securities of a dead confederacy should have a value except as relics. A bond is presumably good for nothing if there is nothing behind it , and why should London bankers , who have the reputa tion of being "the most conservative financiers in the world , invest in these bonds , even at so low a rate as half a cent on the dollar ? The truth is that , although the Southern confederacy has passed out of existence for all time , and the war is only being carried on in the halls of congress and upon the stump , there is in existence a large amount of money deposited in European banking- house's credited to the confederate states , and no one had the authority to withdraw when the confederate govern ment expired. This amount is variously estimated at from $250,000,000 to $500- 000,000 , and it certainly is not less than the first-mentioned sum. During the closing months of the war all the money that the ollioers of the confederacy could scrape together was sent to London , Paris and Brussels to pay for equip ments : arms , and ammunition , and it is a well-known fact that a Belgian firm had completed on the very day that Lee surrendered , an order for 150,000 stands of arms for the confederates , the maney for which was readas soon as they were placed on shipboard. All this vast amount of money is somewhere. The European bankers know where it is if anybody does , and " as long as this money" in existence confederate bonds will have a nominal value , even though the government that issued them lias forever passed from view. How they expect to get hold of it and convert their bonds into available assets is known only to them selves , but that they expect to accom plish it some time and by some means in very patent. It may be asked , why does not the United "States attempt to collect it for damages sustained during the rebellion ? In reply it may be stated that Benjamin H. Bris'tow , when secre tary of the treasury , conceived this idea. He sent special agents to the European capitals to find out where tho funds of the collapsed confederacy had. been deposited and in what amounts. They were very successful in obtaining the objects of "their mission , and their reports are now in the secret archives of the treasury department. When the matter was broached at a cabinet meet ing Pierro.pont , then attorney general , suggested that if the United" States as sumed to collect the assets of the late confedracy it would then become liable for its debts. That settled the matter , and no further attempt has ever been made in that direction. If anyone has a right to the money it would seem that the original purchasers of the bonds should receive it , but as the bonds have long since passed out of first hands and are now in the hands of speculators it is a matter of little conse quence , from the standpoint of justice , what becomes of it. Crippled Brakemeii. One has to be among brakemen for 3 time to realize how many of them are crippled. A man with ten sound fingers is almost an exception. Their hands and faces are like the limbs of the little Jelly-boys , perfect calendars of distress. Of course if a man loses a leg or an arm , so that he is of no further use , he must leave the service unless a place can be found for him as llagman or caller. Accidents , particularly in the winter season , are numerous. If it is the mere loss of a thumb or a crushed foot the chances are that it is not heard of outside of the company's oflice , bub all such accidents of a serious nature that occur in this state mu t be report ed to the Railroad Commissioners. It has been calculated from figures thus obtained that 70 per cent , of train hands employed on the road for five years become crippled. A railroad manual estimates that 1,100 railroad employes are injured every year in the United States while in the discharge of their duty. In ten years this amounts to quite an army of cripples. Whether or not a brakeman gets any remuner ation for time lost by accidents met with in coupling trains depends on the chance of his proving that he was using his coupling stick at the time , or rather the probability of the company's prov ing that he was not using it. If the man was not using a coupling stick it is con sidered a violation of the rules , and he muse live as best he can until he gets well again. If it is otherwise , he gets half pay until he is able to resume work , on consideration that he accepts it as a quit claim of possible damages against the company. Sometimes , if the casa is very destitute , he gets a wooden leg New York Times. A New Boy Evangelist. A new boy evangelist has appeared in St Louis. His name is Louis Myson- heimer , and his age is 22. His pulpit manners are described as unique , not to say ludicrous. "One moment he is calmly reading a passage of Scrip- tare , and the next will be upon a seat out in the body of the church exhorting the people to turn from their evil ways ind be saved ere it is too late. " "What are your terms ? " asked a re porter of the "evangelist. "I have no terms , " was the answer. "I require no salary. The preacher xnd the Lord attend to that. I go by he sixth chapter of Matthew. "
