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THE ST. PAUL GLOBE, THURSDAY MORNING, MAT 15, 1879.

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STTl^lZTHmrsUAirMAY 15, 1879.

• ' G A T I I " says Garibaldi makos a fool of himself as soon as ho gets within reach of paper and pens. Wo didn' t know " G a t h " had so conspicuous an imitator.

M E . GAIUIELD wants tho government to issue rations to the negroes of tho South. Is U not enough to have all the officeholders of tho llbpviblioan party pensioned off by the government, and must the country con­sent to pensioning all tho voters a* well?

SECRETARY MCCRARY has done a very sensi­

ble thing iu deciding to releaso tho Ponca Indians in accordance with tho decree of Judge Dundy. I t is quito probable that this decision v. ill work a revolution in the treat­ment of tho Indians tha t is greatly needed just now.

A TSLV, YUI.K manager, who has just real­

ized tho baiuUoine sum of * 17,000— his o\j-n figures—fiom the production of the "Black Crook," at ISibloV, has just decamped, leav-the ballot uupaid. The name of the icllow 13 Shorn, but he had hotter not como up this wav on a shui in ' tour.

T H L (iioeubackers in tho H o m e aro doing far better than we expected thetu to do. On nearly all questions at issue between tho two parties a majority^of them have stood by the Democrats with a fidelity that is greatly to their credit. Wo can only regret that so few of them wcro elected.

ANOTHER '"commission" is to be appointed to look after tho levee3 of tho Mississippi-These commibsion-j aie getting to bo rather expensive luxuries, and it is protty nearly t ime that they were dispensed with. Besides being expensive they aro cumbrous and in­efficient, and the work they are organized to accomplish is rarely well or expeditiously done.

form, at the polls, is a s tanding menace to tho citizen—a throat that if ho fails to voto as ho is desired to vote by tho authorities at Washing­ton, he will bo placed iu duress. A military force is not a par t of onr system of govern­ment except so far as it is omployed to repel foreign invasion and secure domestic tran­quility, and tho presence of troops in any State, except for such purposes, is a wanton invasion which ought to be repelled.

Scarcely less at variance with our system of government is the law which gives to fed­eral officials supervision over eleotions. I t is a pernicious doctrine, calculated to in­crease tho power of the central government to the .verge of absolute despotism. I t is no par t of the duty of the government to exer-ciso such control, and besides is wholly un­necessary. During our whole existence the States have performed that duty and per­formed it well. Frauds upon the ballot box have been dotected and punished rigorously, and the people have been fully protected in all their r ights. What, then, is the reas' n of the change tha t has been made? But one can bo imagined—a desire to unduly increase the authority of the fed­eral government and make th3 States sub­servient to it. This is fraught with the great­est danger. I t is aimed at the idea that the people are to govern the country, and will eventually lead to tho building up of an oligarchy at Washington that will assume the control of all tho individual affairs of the people.

The jurors ' test oath when enacted ^ns sim­ply a piece of petty spite, and has already been declared unconstitutional by a learned judge of the supreme court. I t s effeefhas been to exclude from the jury box all per­sons of intelligence in the Southern States, and to put li t igants at the mercy of the most ignorant and vicious of the population. I t has done its worst work, however, and a few years, at most, will correct it entirely.

In seeking tho repeal of these obnoxious laws tho Democratic party has suffered de­feat. But it has not been a defeat of which it has reason to be ashamed. In the debates that have taken place the leading orators have presented the most cogent reasons for their action, and can now appeal to the people in the confident assurance of being sustained. They have been moderate in discussion, have presented a united front, and have sought to do nothing that was not inspired by the highest motives of patriotism. They can afford to rest on such a record unti l such tiuio as tho people may bo called upon to entor their verdict in tho promises. What that verdict will bo does not admit of a question. _

T H E C O U R T S .

Supreme Court. Only one cause was heard by this court yes­

terday, but that was an important one, as fol­lows :

No. 82. The Winun.. & St. Peter Railroad company, respondent, vs. Tho St. Paul & Sioux City Raihoad company and Charles H. Bigclow, appellants. Tho caso was argued at length by Thomas Wilson, Esq., for respondent, and by E. C. Palmer, for appellants, and taken under advisement by the court.

District Court. [Before Judge Wilkin. |

JUKI CASES.

Case 75. Thatcher Blako vs. Tho Chicago, St. Paul & Minneapolis Railroad company. Case tiicd and submitted to the jury, with in­structions to bring in a scaled verdict to-day.

THE CALL.

May 15th—Court cases 21, 22.

for revising the work of the stenographer. Upon the 12th of Ootober B . B . Nixon and three others were allowed $112 fov ex­penses of a t r ip from Washington to St. Louis, and only pu t in a bill for Sfi>36 for coming back Patterson and son remained in St . Louis six days and made u p a hotel bill. Thoy put in a bill of $45 for carriage transportat ion through St . Louis, and the bill was paid. Patterson and son also ox-, pended (or said they did) $115 for news­papers and telegraphing while in St. Louis. The perfect muck of thievory ruu by •'Honest J o h n " in the closing days of his Congressional career shows what he must have done in South Carolina when his opportunities wore better.

T H E L A S T V E T O .

T H E B U L G E I N A V H K A T .

Probate Court. (Bcforj Judge O'Gorman.l

In the matter of tho estate of Frcdciick Theobald, deceased; petition of executors filed for license to sell real estate at private salo. Order made for hearing June 30th, 1879, at 10 o'clock A. M.

In the matter of the guardianship of Charles A. and Francis J . Curran, minors; Jane Curran was licensed to sell tho real estate of said minors.

In the matter of the guardianship of George W. Ebcrt, minor; petition of guardian filed for license to sell real estate. Order made for hearing July 8th at 10 o'clock A. M.

In the matter of the estate of IsraelG. Lash, deceased; report of commissioners filed.

In the matter of tho estate of Peter Groh, deceased; petition for letters of administration filed. Order made for hearing June 10th at 10 o'clock A. M.

Tim Pennsylvania legislature is making a reputation for itself, that is to endure for all time. The developments of tho present bribery investigation show that nearly every member was approached with tonders of money if thoy would vote for the riot indem­nity act. AVhile some declined the proffer others accepted it, and a good many radical statesmen stand a good chance of serving tho balance ol their t enns in the penitentiary.

Tut: proposed paymont ol arrears of pen­sions by tho use of the ton millions of n serve held in tho treasury for tho redemption of iractional currency bids fair to become a law. Thore is now but litllo fractional paper cur­rency outstanding, the greater part of that unredeemed being lost or destroyed, and therefore thore is but littlo use for tho fund. I t ought to bo utilized in the mannor pro­posed, and that without delay.

I T is astonishing how soon tho reputedly lich men of Now York become poor when tho aa^ssor comes around. A low weeks ,igo both Vanderbilt and Belmont sworo that thoy had not a dollar's worth of per­sonal propoity liable to taxation, and now Cyrus W. Fiold, has followed suit. Ail of them ha\o been loported to bo worth their millions, but if thoy aio so pitiably poor as they seek tho public to understand, it may bo necessary to raise a public contribution for then).

TUI; DEMOVUATIC DEFEAT.

I t is useless to deny that the Democratic parly has been temporarily beaten in tho contest which piaotically closed by Mr. Hayes' second veto mes­s a g e I t Las been beaten not by the peo­ple or their representatives, but by men who do not understand what tho people desire. I t has been beaten by a man who occupies tho highest office in the nation without sanc­tion of the people who heretofore have desig­nated the incumbent of that office, and by a set of mon who have been notorious for years as obstructionists and porverters of the constitution and the law3. But the dofeat is not irretrievable If wo only have patience and moderation, t ime will surely sot all things oven.

The contest has befln one of tho most memorable in tho history of tho republic-I t has been a conflict between free govern­ment nnd despotism—a strngglo for suprem­acy potent with grave resulls. During the days of tho war and tho reconstruction period that succeedod it, laws were enacted that portended great danger to free institu­tions. I n times of national disturbance li­cense is too apt to havo free rein and ex­pediency to usurp the place of law. I t was so in tho case of this country. Measures were enacted that , it was thought, were de­signed to protect the people in their r ight to a free exercise of the suffrage, bu t that were in direct antagonism to the perpetuity of free institutions. The constitutional amend­ments abolishing slavery and forbidding any discrimination in citizen rights on account of race, color, or previous condition of ser­vitude were both necessary and proper, and none are now found who desire to change them iu any respect. Bnt there were other laws passed under the au­thority granted by theso amendments to enact legislation to properly enforce them that menaco tho entire structure of the gov­ernment . I t was sought by Congress to re­peal some of these obnoxious and destructive laws—the authority granted to tho executive ' to use troops at the polls in defiance of the constitutional provision on tha t subject; the law giving to federal supervisors of elections and deputy marshals authority to arbitrarily arrest persons suspected of desiring to exer­cise tho right of suffrage illegally, and to as­sume general control of elections for Repre­sentatives in Congress; and that requiring jurors in all oases at the South to take what is known as the iron-clad oath. The first is manifestly an unrepublican law. The pres­ence of armed men, wearing the federal uni -

TIIE NEGRO EXODUS. A general movement is on foot in all parts

of tho country to raise a fund for tho relief of the negroes who are now on their way from their S. uthern homes to the promised land in Kansas. Tho newspapers are filled with accounts of the poverty of the emigrants, and tho imagination of tho writers is tor­tured in depicting the terrible sufferings they will have to ondure before they can become self-supporting in the country to which they are Hocking.

While the GLOBE is not willing to acknowl­edge itself lacking m charity, or indifferent to tho sufferings of any living being, it is constrained to give warning that t he surest way to encourage and increase pauperism is to heed tho appeals tbat are now being circu­lated. We do not think that the emergency demands the exercise of any charity whatever. The hegira that is now i n progress from the South is absolutely causeless and inexcusa­ble. Not an individual of the thousands who are rushing pell-mell for Kansas can give any reason for his conduct. Ninety -n ine out of every hundred aro ignorant of the character of the country to which thoy are go lng, and apparently possess less in­telligence than tho average animal. They leave homos where they have been kindly treated and been able to earn a cemfort-blo livelihood for a frontier life which none of them aro qualified to fill, and whoro they must iuovitably become a public charge. Thoy have no wrongs to complain of. A few have given currency to the most dis­tressing relations of diabolism practiced upon them by the whites of the South, but those were so evidently suggested by the men who interviewed them, or were tho resnlt of an afterthought tha t they havo received no credence whatever from any sensible person. The fact remains and is patent to every reasonable man that thoy left their homes blindly, and are rushing blindly to some imaginary land that flows with milk and honey. I t is to be regretted tha t the movement has received any encouragement whatever; i t will be more to be regretted if the people of the country, through mis taken notions of charity, shall contribute to what every person must see is bound to be an immense army of paupers.

I t is acknowledged on every hand that an average of three hundred dollars will be nec­essary to maintain a family on a farm in Kansas or anywhere else until a crop can be raised. This is in addition to what may be necessary to purchase domestic utensils, agricultural implements, and horses and cattle. None of the negroes have a dollar, and few of them havo the capacity to earn a living on a farm, for their support will therefore have to be converted into a per­petual fund. They will never become self-supporting, but will constitute a public bur­den that will have to be borne for years to come. I t is a mistaken phi lanthropy, tha t induces any man to contribute i n the slightest degree io the present emigration. I t is an encouragement offered to pauperism—only this and nothing more.

T h e plantation negroes of the South are not a desirable accession to the population of the Northwestern States. For the most par t "they are a lazy, ignorant, good for nothing set, who pre­fer to live upon what they can steal rather than upon what they can earn. Those who have como North are represented as the lowest and most depraved of their class, lacking in everything but brute instinct. We can pity the communi­ties into which they are pouring ; we have no sympathy to waste upon them. If phi l ­anthropy is to take any form at all, i t ought to be directed to stopping the mad hegira. I t can be productive of no good to the colored race. Tho cliniato of the North is uncon­genial, and the avenues of industry are al­ready filled to repletion. As farm laborers they may fill a want for a few weeks in ev­ery year, but for the rest of the t ime they and their families will have to subsist on charity. I t is a crime to permit a continu­ance of this folly—a crime upon the negroes, and a still greater outrage upon the com­munities tha t will be compelled to suffer by their advent.

Municipal Court. TBeforo Judge Flint. ]

CRIMINAL.

The City vs. Nick Schultz, assault and bat­tery; fine of $19.20 paid, and prisoner dis­charged.

The City, vs. F. A. Pierce, nuisance; jury 'drawn and trial set for May 17th.

T«he City, vs. Christian Johnson, drunken­ness; fine of $5.85 paid, and prisoner dis­charged.

The City, vs. William Horan, drunkenness; discharged.

The City vs. Charles Johnson; drunkenness. Fine of S3 paid, and prisoner discharged.

The City vs. Mary Denier; assault and battpry. Execution of sentence suspended.

The City-vs. John Allen; disorderly conduct. Committed for foul teen days.

The City vs. Easton Burgett; disorderly con­duct. Committed for thirty days.

The City vs. Emanuel Harris, Henry Miller and Edward Wright, disorderly conduct; com­mitted for fourteen days each.

The City vs. James Daly, assault and bat­tery; continued until to-day.

CIVIL.

Frederick J . Hoffman vs. William J . Par­ker, action for restitution of premises. Motion to dismiss signed and submitted.

John Ahem vs. Maxfield& Co., action to re­cover for goods alleged to have been sold defendant. Trial continued by agreement of counsel to May 23, 1879 at 2 r . M.

John S. Prince VB. Steel «te Mclntyre, gar­nishee disclosure; continued to June 18,1879, at 8 p. ai., to be taken at office of Comfoit & Cary.

Court Kotcs A decision was rendered by Judge Brill yes­

terday iu the case of R. B. Galusha, adminis­ter, vs. O. B. Turrell et al., judgment being granted in favor of the plaintiff.

The following decision was granted by Judge Brill yesterday in the case of It. B, Galusha, administrator, vs. W. It. Marshall,et al . : Plain­tiff is entitled to have lot 4 of block 22, of St. Paul proper, Bold to satisfy the amount, together with the sum of $50 attorney fees, costs and disbursements, and to execution against defendant Marshall for any deficiency, and in case any surplus, the defendant and the St. Paul city railway is entitled to th same.

An order was made by Judge Brill yestcrdaye changing place of trial, with §10 costs to dc -fendant, in the case of Warder, Mitchell & Co. VB. Andrew Giasholm and others.

fiKANT'S HOUSES.

Description of the Beautiful Arab tliren to Ulysses by the Sultan.

A correspondent writes from Constanti­nople: I n March last, when Gen. Grant , in the course of his cruise in the Vandalia, came to Constantinople, his first visit was paid to the Sultan. Immediately after this interview his majesty charged Munir Bey, tho master of ceremonies, to present the General with an Arab horse from the impe­rial stables. Accordingly a number wero led out, and one chosen and set aside for him; bu t owing to some misunderstanding the gift horse was not sent, and the Vandalia sailed without him. Recently, the question having been revivod, the steed in question was hunted up among the five hundred and seventy horses which compose the imperial stud. He was found, and, accompanied byl another horse, also for Gen. Grant , transferred to tho care of the Ameri­can legation. Arrangements have been made to send them in a few days on the Norman Monarch, a steamer of two thousand tons ca­pacity, which will probably sail direct to New Haven. They a r e i p be housed on deck, pro­vided with canvas belts to swing in, in rough weather, and treated as saloon passengers. So it is to be reasonably hoped tha t the end of their thir ty days' passage will find them both sound in l imb and wind. One is a dappled gray of fair size, and hav­ing all the traits characteristic of the Arabian blood—small, well set, restless ear3, wide pink nostrils and large, soft eyes, waving mane and long tail, reaching almost to the gronnd, and a skin of such delicacy that the stroke of a lady's whip is sufficient to draw blood. The other stallion has all these points. H e is a glossy black, with a white star on his forehead and white hind feet. When the long forelock falls over his fore head the large black eyes have all the expres­sion of a Bedouin woman's . Their gait is perfect, be it either the rapid walk, the long swinging trot or the tireless stretching gal­lop, while a rein of one thread of silk is enough to guide their delicate mouth . Let one of those Arabs, in the mad rush of a charge or a flight, lose his r ider, and tha t in­stant the dooile steed will s top as though turned into stone. These two horses are of the famous Saktan race, the purest Arabian blood, only found in-and near Bagdad. The dapple gray is appropriately named Djeytan (The Panther), and the black Missirli (The One From Cairo), which cognomen he de­rives from the fact tha t he was bought at Cairo, al though foaled a t Bagdad. For breeding purposes as well as for saddle horses their blood and gentle temper arc high recommendations, and I have no doubt tha t our great general will be highly pleased with the sultan's gift.

Monday's Markets in Chicago and Mil­waukee.

( [Chicago Times. | I n board of trade circles wheat was the

center of interest on yesterday. Notwith­s tanding tho freo delivery of Keeue's grain on May contracts on last Saturday, the market was unusually buoyant. Continued dry weather, unfavorable reports from certain sections of the West about the growing crops, and rather improved market reports from the East and Europe, all combined to assist the clique manipulating the trade to shape the course of affairs. Being favored in al­most every direction by just the influences they desired, the managers had no trouble in working u p and continuing throughout the day a strong bullish deal. The feeling, in a word, was one-sided, and the advance eBtab lished over last Saturday's prices amounted to 3 j ^ c . On last evening No. 2 spring closed at 98%o for the option seller May; 99%c for seller J u n e , and 99 %c for seller July. The clique is still in full control of the market, and able under ordinary circumstances to swing the trade to suit the interest of its members . The Keene wheat delivered on last Saturday generally round its way back into the hands of the clique.

[Milwaukee Special, j Despite heavy shwwers in the northwest,

followed by warm, favorable weather, the wheat market bounded upward again lo-day; J n n e opening at 9 7 ^ cents and selling as high as 98J4 cents a t the noon board. There was little doing in May, but there were heavy orders from Chicago to buyJJune and July. T h e principal feature of interest is the change in July; that option being at a dis­count all last week but is to-day at a pre­mium. Tha t result may be partially ac­counted for by the fact that William Young has suddenly turned his attention to July and is known to have bought very largely of July last Fr iday and Saturday in Chicago. The marke t was active and was somewhat excited over reports from Chicago that a genuine corner seemed to be developing. I t has also been discovered here that there ia just now a line of shorts out of over one mil­lion bushels. Some believe tha t they are merely in the nature of straddles between the Chicago and Milwaukee markets, for the best founded belief is that this market has at least a million of shorts out that the dealers now find it difficult to take in. I n addition to tho May wheat held by Smith and the Youngs, it is believed, upon pre t ty reliable information, tha t their books will now show over a million bushels of J u n e and at least half a million of July; and they are undoubtedly ^actively buying both these months , al though Mr. Smith tried to weaken tho market a little to day by selling about 100,000 Juno and July. The reporter fails to discover any firms here who are short to any extent,—although there m m t be some,—and so i t is reasonable to suppose that the line now out is mainly held by Chicago parties for it is cortain t i n t t he country is buying and not selling a bushel. Men of the best judgment , on the basis of former experiences, believe tha t every month until August is cornered, and that the r ing has money enough back of it to carry the deal to a successful close. The market has attracted more attention to-day, from business men generally, than any time since Smith and the Youngs took the May wheat on tho 1st mst . Inspector Holland in­formed the reporter t o d a y tha t the quality of receipts was beginning to lower again, and tha t the inspection- to-morrow would show that. The inspection to-day was: Six cars of No. 1; thir ty-three cars of No. 2; sixty-six cars of No. 3; forty two cars of No. 4; eleven cars rejected, and eight cars condemned. The lower grades continue to be in demand on shipping orders. Cars ar­rived to-day, 141, against 121 last Saturday. Receipts, 78,210 bushels, against 74,350 the same day last year. Shipments were large, aggregating 164,910 bushels. Stock in storo, 2,258,000 bushels, against 190,30.5 tho same day in 1878.

At the foronoon board tho market was very excited, Juno changing hands lively at 79c and closed with sellers a t 99j^c. Ju ly sold at 99)40. The amoi?-it of wheat char­tered for shipment to-day aggregates 181,000 bushels. Wm. Young predicts that tho bulk of wheat in storo will bo moved out before J u n e 15.

TOM A L L E N .

PATTERSON'S r L U N U E K .

A Few Specimens of "Honest John's" Fi­nanciering While on a Trip to Indian Territory.

[Washington Special.] Fur ther investigation of "Honest J o h n "

Pat te rson ' s celebrated committee, sent to investigate the possible chance of stealing Indian country, shows the most extraordin­ary stealing ever reported in a small way, as the work of a Congressional band of highwaymen. "Honest J o h n " took testi­mony for seventeen days and expended $13,273. Only $1,200 of this was ex­pended for witness fees and mileage, and $1,037.50 was given to two friends of "Honest J o h n ' s " for simply copying and abstracting laws relating to Indian Terri­tory. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad secured $3,061 for carrying around this precious gang for seventeen days. Some of the i tems in Pat terson 's bill are models for coming highwaymen. For ex­ample, $828 was paid the stenographer, a n d another genial friend was paid "*

Ptohablhly of Dis Comlua Here to Fight J'tri/cr.

A dispatch from St. Louis s ays : -""It is now more than probable that Tom Allen, tho renowned pugilist, who has all along been the recognized champion ef America, will recross the Atlantic for the purpose of contesting Dwyer's claim to the title, in which event Tom will encounter the only man in the world but Mace, who has a ghost of a chance to win. Johnny ' s initial perf armance in the orthodox circle with E l ­liott proved so satisfactory tha t he will have no trouble in finding backers, and Allen's friends on this side of the Atlantic, as well as Tom himself, would doubtless be pleased to handle some of the Brooklyn boxer 's stuff. Your corresponent yesterday called on a gentleman who has been behind Allen in all of his American battles, to ascertain whether any thing was being done toward bringing about a mill. The party re­ferred to state that a match between the men, provided Dwyei; would make it, was a mere question of t ime. Johnny, who is as gentlemanly a boxer as ever pulled over a shirt , while popular with his own set, has a great many enemies, especially in politi­cal circles, and they will do their u tmost to have Allen come over, he being regarded as the only man competent to '.'down" Dwyer. Allen's backer states tha t his brother is now in England, and that there is hardly any doubt tha t Tom will accompany him on his re turn to America. Allen, unpopular as a man, has a host of sporting friends here who admire his fighting capabilities, and they are willing to make the match for as much money as tne opposition desire.

There is no donbt f i a t Allen would like very much to re turn to this country, bu t should he come he would have to pay some $3,000 of forfeited bail money, besides standing a good chance of going to jail for three or four months for fighting Goss.

Windom's Independence of King Caucus. [Chicago Times.]

A slightly amusing feature of Mr.Windom's speech in t h e Senate, yesterday, was h i s re­buke of the Democrats for their obedience to caucus orders. Some of the Democrats , he said, were unwilling to attach political legislation to appropriation bills, bu t "King Caucus issued his decree tha t there should be no stragglers from the lines," and the or­der was obeyed. The Minnesota Senator en­tirely forgot tha t he was himself obeying the commands of a caucus, and tha t caucus de­crees are so potent in the Republican ranks tha t even the President of the United States is constrained to violate h i s promises in obeying them. Caucus domination i sn ' t a good subject for Republican Congressmen to preach on just now.

How It Was Received in Washington—A Few Individual Opinions.

[Washington Special (May 12) to Chicago TimeB.] Comment upon the President 's latest

veto is not very pleasant. Even the Re­publicans have a sort of derisive contempt for the man who renounces his own con­victions and desires merely to please his party's leaders. The Democrats profess to be better pleased with a veto than they would have been with the approval. Of the many talks had by the Times correspond­ent to-day, the clearest and most emphatic analysis of the situation was expressed by

A VERY CONSERVATIVE JURIST,

whose opinions are based upon something more than mere political considerations.

"What do you thing of the veto message?" " I t is rubbish—mere specious reasoning,

unworthy of rebut tal ." "What effect will i t have?" "Oh, it gives the Democrats an issue

whore they had none before. Clearly tho Republicans aro put upon the footing of ad­vocating the placing of troops at the polls. I t all comes from tho rapid growth of the national idea in the Republican party. The election laws were not known before 1870. They are a mere expression of the idea that

STATES HAVE NO RIGHTS

tha t the federal government aro bound to respect. Senator Edmunds , in advocating this extreme national idea of government, only expresses t h e prevailing opinion among Republicans, I havo no donbt but tha t the Republicans intend to use troops to help carry tho Presidential election the next t ime. Their present position is proof enough of that . Hayes himself is not personally in favor of abusing his powers. Hayes h im­self is a weak man, who has now gone clear over to his party, and henceforth he will only be the recording clerk of the Republi­can caucus, and

A WEAK EXECUTIVE

in tho hands of bold par ty leaders is infinite­ly more dangerous to the insti tutions of the country than would be a strong, unprin­cipled man in the same place."

"Do you know that Evar ls is largely re­sponsible for this message—that he was one of the most active in persuading the Presi­dent to change what he calls his m i n d ? "

" I am no t surprised, even when I look at Evarts ' record. H e is a man of no convic­tions—a mere

SPECIAL PLEADER.

I t was natural for h im to act as counsel for the powerful combination tha t was brought to bear upon the Pres ident ."

" D o yon th ink the veto message will have t h e effect of shortening or lengthining tho session?"

"Nei ther . I th ink it will have no effect tha t way. The Democrats expected it. The future programme, as I understand it, is quite simple. The legislative bill, a3 i t passed the House, will probably be com­pleted in the Senate this week. After that is vetoed doubtless tho extra legislation involved in it will be presonted separately. I th ink the repeal of the test oath for jurors will become a law. The silver bill now pending in tho House will be passed by the Senate

EEFORE ADJOUBNMEMT.

I am sure there will no t be a failure of sup­plies for the government. There are too many Domocrats in the Senate against any such plan for that to succeed. Ei ther the regular appropriat ion bills will bo passed in due season, or else thore will be an exten­sion of the present bill."

The same gentleman went on easily dis­cussing the situation. He thought that , now the Democrats had tho decided advantage, they would show the country before thoy go away that

THE CHARGE OE REVOLUTION

was absurd, and that the issues of the com­ing Presidential campaigu could now bo ac­curately defined. I t will be a fight between the advocates of the monarchical or national idea of the centralization of moro power in the federal government against those who believe that the States havo r ights without assuming any superiority, bu t rather co­ordinate jurisdiction.

Walks and talks with both Republicans and Democrats were productive of very mo­notonous results. Perfect contempt for the matter of the message among the Democrats and perfect satisfaction among the Republi­cans at the President 's course, regardless of reasons, wero to be found upon overy hand.

SENATOR M'DONALD

thought that tho tendency now would bo to push mat ters so as to t ry and got away by the 1st of June . He is, of course, pleased with tho political effect of tho message.

SENATOR BAYARD

had no spocial criticism to pass upon this last executive paper, which was even a more wanton abuse of tho veto power to subserve mere partisan ends than the ono preceding it. Tho reasons given for tho last veto would deceive no one. The issuo was squarely made, and he was glad to see tho Republican party committed publicly to what ho. be­lieved to have been its private policy for some time.

ANOTHER PUBLIC MAN

said: " I solemnly believe tha t the party in power never intends to give u p its control of the government. If beaten at tho polls it will try desperately to sustain itself in other ways, regardless of our institutions. I t will t i y and lash the North into believing that it is the only party with which the government can bo safely trusted, and thereby secure countenance and support for the most law­less usurpat ion."

JUDGE BUOKNKB,

of Missouri, said i t was the meres t ovasion in the world, and tha t Hayes ' pretext was too weak for any man to respect. I t was simple nonsense for h i m to assert tha t under the vetoed bill ho could not enforce national laws on election day.

GEN. EWING

said it was a demagogue document and he only wondered tha t Hayes did not quote from the Okolona States. I t only needed that to complete it. There was nothing in i t worth considering.

ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS

said that i t was an evasion of the wholo is­sue, and that it furnished the Democrats all the material they wanted if they would only use it wisely. I t pu t Haj res and his party squarely in favor of the doctrine of military control of elections. Ho advocated now a moderate policy upon the par t of the Demo­crats—to pass the appropriat ion bills and go home. The Democrats had now gained all they could have asked for in the way of po­litical advantage.

MR. WHITTHOENE, OF TENNESSEE,

said he was in favor of passing the regular appropriation bills, but not until after the passage by the Democrats of the legislative bill, the silver bill, the income-tax bill and the treasury-note bill. The Democrats knew tha t all these mesures would be vetoed by Hayes, and he thought the best th ing they could do would be to have h im veto them and then go before their constituents with the issue tha t the administration refused to allow anything to be done for the relief of the country.

Louis Women's National Suffrage association. Tho following officers were elected: President, Mrs. Vire imaL. Minor; first vice-president, Mrs. Eliza J. Patrick; second vice-president, Mrs. Mary O. Todd; t hud vice-president, Mrs. Phoebe W. Cozzcna;secretary, MiBB E. B.Buck­ley; treasurer, Miss Maggie Baumgartcn. Sev­eral speeches were made by both ladies and gentlemen, and much interest is taken in the movement.

G L O B E L E T S .

T H E AMERICAN'S ADVANTAGE.

Why our Wheat Can Be Sold in England Cheaper Than English Growth.

[London Economist, j The main advantage of tho American

farmer seems to lie in the cheapness with which he obtains his crop. I t is somewhat surprising to find that the wheat grown in the far West still pays as much freight be­fore it can be placed in the English market as tho rent charge amounts to a t homo. The average yield of an acre of land in England is thir ty bushels, against thirteen in the Western States. Tho American farmer must, therefore, cultivate two and a half acres be­fore he can sell as much produce as is grown on a single aero in England. This , how­ever, he does a t an incredibly smart outlay. Tho difference in tillage is mo3t striking. An English farmer accustomed to drive three or four horses painfully over a stiff clay, can scarcely imagine tho ease witn -which a light plow runs through the rich loam of a Western State. I n northern Minnesota tho Red River settlement is jus t being opened up . A furrow may be drawn for fifty miles across this alluvial prairie without meeting a bill, a tree, or a stone. Various estimates of the cost of labor for tillage and harvesting have lately been published. If these are correct, an acre of wheat in America can bo culti­vated for about one-half the expense and labor of cultivating an acre in England. We do not , however, place implicit reliance on such estimates. The American farmer, as a rule, does his own work, or the greater par t of i t . T h e amount of wages paid in actual money is comparatively small. If he culti­vates fifty acres of wheat, and has grown sons, he may manage without any help, except at harvest t ime, when he hires an extra hand for a month. If he has no family to assist him, he will proba­bly hire a hand for a year at $12 or $15 a month . I n ah cases board and waees are included, the hired men sit t ing down to meals with tho farmer and his family. We may fairly estimate, then, tho capital of $12 required by an English farmer to cultivate properly a single acre of land will not more tnan suffice to purchase and cultivate the two and a half acres which will yield the same amount of wheat in America. Up to this point neither competitor has a decided advantage, and, if anything, the difference is, in our opinion, on the side of the home agriculturist. But the heavy yield in Eng­land is only obtained by the application of costly manures, and tho outlay is spared the American grower. At present only the richest lands are cultivated, and the earth yields her increase without any assist­ance at his hands. Of course this will not last forever. I n twenty years ' t ime all the more fertile laud will be taken up, and even those will be exhausted by successive c ops. I n California the average has already fallen from twenty to fourteen bushels. I n the Atlantic States it has long been necessary to revert to a rotation of crops and tho ap­plication of fertilizers. But until this stage of exhaustion is reached in the Western States, the English farmer will require something moro than the set-off of freight against rent charge. This protection tho Americans themselves gave him unti l recently. The Morrill tariff im­posed an oxcessivo duty on iron, and the construction and maintenance of railways was thereby rendered so costly that it was necessary to mulct the producer in freight. Also, the cost of living Wtis artifically raised by duties imposed on every article of manufacture. Pr ior to the war compari-tively free-trado policy oxieted in tho United States. Had this been continued, agricul­ture in the Mississippi Valley would years ago have achieved the prosperous position it has s<t length reached by the collapse of the manufacturing industries in the Eastern States. The prostration of overy branch of manufactures has been so great that practically the tariff has been in abeyance for the last few years. Should these revive, the cost of living will again be raised, and to tha t extent the for-mor protection restored to tho English pro­ducer. But this contingency is too remote to arrest tho impending fall in rents . I t lies entirely at the option of the landlords whether this shall be wholly given in abate­ment of rent or partly take the form of se­curity of tenure and protection to the occu­pier 's capital. For the sake of the country a t large i t is to bo hoped thoy will choose the latter alternative.

The Issues Between Parlies. [Cincinnati Euquiicr.]

This veto, if tho veto comes, will, more distinctly than any other yeto in our history, draw tho line of demarcation botween the Democratic and Republican parties. The great vetoes, the Jackson bank voto, the various vetoes touching tho policy of internal improvements, all tho vetoes do not present such an issue as this will present. Such an act on tho part of the President, not his own act, but the act of his party, will s tamp the two political parties in this country—the Democratic party and the opposition—as thoy havo not been labeled before. The Democratic party appears with the Declara­t ion of Independence and the Constitution in its r ight hand, and the Republican par ty appears with the Federal bayonet in its right hand. This is tho contest. I t is one phase of tho war upon local self-government —upon the rights of the States. And shin­ing out from among the declarations of tho supreme court of the United States comes this from that t r ibunal when Salmon P . Chase was Chief-Justice: "Tlie Constitu­tion in all Us provisions looks to an inde­structible Union composed of indestructible States." I t is about to be announced by this veto, and by conduct in harmony with it, tha t the Republican policy looks toward a Republican Union composed of destructi­ble States.

New W o m a n Suffrage Movement . S T LOUIS, May 13.—As the result of the

woman's suffrage convention held here last week, quite a number of ladies interested in procuring the ballot for women, and placing hem en an exact equality with men in regard

to the rights of citizenship, met -here to-night and organized the St. t

Louibiaua Const i tut ional Convent ion .

NEW ORLEANS, May 13.—The constitutional convention adopted the section relative to limitation of nower of the government pro­hibiting the legislature from passing local and special laws in certain cases, including re­mitting fines, penalties and forfeitures, or re­funding moneys legally paid into the treasury.

The committee on State debt have sent a cir­cular to each member of the convention asking an answer to the following questions as early as possible: First—What is the present finan­cial condition of the people in your parish? Arc they not involved in individual debt? Second—What is the financial condition of your parish as a parish ? Third—What is the present condition of your incorporated city or town? Fourth—How does the pre-ent value of real estate compare with that of former years? Fifth—How do your people regard the present rate of taxation, burthensoinc or otherwise? Sixth—Please give any other information in regard to finances or labor t iat may occur to you. Testing t h e Const i tut ional i ty of Virginia 's

' Anti-Miscegenat ion Act.

RICHMOND, Va., May 13.—The miscegenation case of Edmund Kinney, colored, and Mary SnsanHall, white, confined in the Virginia penitentiary for violation of the State statues prohibiting white and colored citizens to inter­marry, was before the United States circuit court to-day, Judge Hughes presiding, upon a writ of habeas corpus. The chief ground al­leged in the petition is that the act of the leg­islature of the State of Virginia making i t a penal offence for white and colored citizens to intermarry is contrary to the constitution and laws of the United States and void, and that the marriage having been celebrated in the District of Columbia and valid there, must be held to be valid throughout the United States. Decision reserved.

A Boston firm displays 200 kind* of grena­dine.

Mr. McCrary, secretary of war, is a Blaine--man.

Tho empress of llussia is a confirmed i n ­valid.

Detroit pays $7.40 per cord for cedar paving blocks.

Lips arc a noun, hut they often make a con­junction.

There is snow fifteen feet deep on Monnt Mansfield, Vt.

To be a siiccess in New York a lecture must be fashionable.

The merchants of Utica are " r u n n i n g " «ach • other on muslins.

Indianapolis claims to rank next to Chicago^ as a packing center.

Glovcrsville, N. Y., manufactures annually 1,200 pairs of gloves.

A callous sheriff at Adrian, Mich., pounced on a bridal trousseau.

A number of convicts iu the Ionia, Mich., workhouse have measles.

A Clinton, Ia . , haunted house has a ghost "resembling Dick Dcadeye."

Last year 51,592 Obioans were married, and 1,997 divorces were granted,

The Michigan legislature omitted an evening session so as to see "Pinafore."'

Bicrstadt is at work in Paris on a pictnic; which he expects Congress to buy.

Within the past year eight Mormon girls have married colored men in Salt Lake.

A stylish Boston theatre has velvet easy chairs, with antique lace tidies on them.

A Sioux City, l a . , boy rides to Echool on a donkey—his dinner pail hung on his ear.

August Belmont is a German Jew. He came to this country as the agent of the Rothschilds.

Bismarck's Boswell, Dr. Moritz Busch, is to be the new consul general of Germany at Pcsth.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles J . Bonaparte, of Balti­more, are among the recent arrivals at Atlantic City.

A daughter of Theodore Hook, the famous wit, is said to be keeping a lodging house in London.

The West Woolen company of Pitthfield, Mass., has suspended. The liabilities are $75,000.

Tobacco or snuff dipping is said to be quite a prevailing vice among the Rhode Island fac­tory girls. s

Senator McPherson, of New Jersey, is rapidly improving his health at the Bot Springs of Arkansas.

Wholesale raids upon villages by the tramp brigade have begnn to form a feature of our modern civilization.

Senator Logan has written several plays which, however, have been performed only at amateur entertainments.

Niepcc, who discovered the principle of photography, is to have a monument at his na­tive place—Charlon-sur-Soane.

Young ladies will petition Congress to pabs an enabling act, to enable to old folks to go to bed at 9 o'clock on Sunday evenings.

Boynton, now that he has finLhcd his trip down the Missi&aippi, will make a voyage down the St. Lawrence, and will try to shoot its rapids.

The Madrid A'poca says the news of King Al­fonso's approaching marriage with the Austrian Princess is well received in Spain, and by the powers.

Mrs. Commodore Beaumont, who is a great favorite in Washington, will leave on the 20th for Portsmouth, N. H., where she will reside for three years.

The empress of Austria, is one of the most beautiful aud youthful looking women iu Eu­rope, and at her silver wedding seemed more like a bride than a grandma.

Mr. Archibald Forbes, the well-known Eng­lish correspondent, has started f i r the scene of the Zulu war, under a larger salary, it is said, than any other journalibt has ever received.

llochefort announces in the Journal d<- Gvneee his room to let, with possession at an early date. He is hotly urging Blanqui's seating, hoping himself to bo amnestied in the same fashion.

Scnor Zorilla, the Spanibh premier under King Amadous, has been pciiuittcd to icturii to France, from which country he was expelled iu 1877 by M. do Foorton, and iu 1878 by M. Dufaurc.

Mr. Gladstone read the lessons, on Eaalei morning at the Cbuich of Shireoaks, near Worksop. His statute by Theed has been erected in the place of honor in the Manchester Town hall.

Ex-Gov. Lawicucc, of Ochic Point, Ncwpoit, is in Washington with his son. Ilia former daughtcr-in-law has married the jouug diplo­mat who caused her beparation ironi General Lawrence.

Dr. Dollingcr, according to the last icpoits from Rome, despairing of the success of the old Catholic movement, has offered to make peace with the Pope, but is not willing to ac­cept the terms that have been indicated to him.

The Duchcb8of Edinburgh is visiting all tho London theatres and making herself very gay and gracious in society, by way of atoning for the cold and haughty manner she at first ex­hibited in England, to her great loss ef popu­larity. ,

The death is announced of M. Michel Etiennc, editor of the Vienna Ncac Frcie Pressi, Garr-betta's near and dear friend, and a capable and courageous journalist who had asserted and suffered for asserting the freedom of the presB both at Paris and at Vienna. ~

The Prince of Wales resenting being made a show of in a procession at Hunstanton, where they "pocketed" his carriage and went on at a walk, sent the managers in the front rank word to open out and tiot, and when the cere­mony he came to attend was over posted home by the shortest cut instead of driving through a number of streets.

The Paris public executioner (Monsieur de Paris, as by polite usage he is called), M. Roche has died suddenly of apoplexy, at the age of 55. His successor will probably be his first aide-de-camp, who bears the rather inappropriate name of Berger (a shepherd). The place, much coveted, is well paid—8,000 francs a year, and perquisites on every job.

The Victoria Cross has been awarded to the late Lieutenants Melvill and Coghill, of the Twenty-fourth regiment, for their heroism in saving the colors of the regiment, There is a precedent for this posthumous honor in the case of Colonel Booth, of the Forty-third, who it was announced would have received the Bath had he survived the Maori war.

Mile. Adelaide Montgolficr, a daughter of the inventor of balloons, is still alive at the age of eighty-nine. She owns a large for­tune and has presented the Museum of the Aeronautical Academy with a copy of the large mebal executed by Houdon, and rep­resenting her father and uncle, who was associated with him in the invention of bal­loons. This medal was executed to com­memorate that event.

Maggie Benson, better known throughout the country at "Baby Benson," was taken ill a t Newport, Saturday, with typhoid fever and lies in an exceedingly critical condition. In company with her mother, Jennie Benson, she has traveled as a variety performer throughout the world. She is about 11 years old and of somewhat frail constitution, yet, with the best of instructors, she gave promise of making an exceeding brightly woman.

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