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passenger traffic, paying dividends (af- without obtaining permission. asked Will this prosperous condition oi industry continue after the capital thus seek GOVERNMENT BANKING. after an absence of fourteen years, during which they had heard nothing of him. He had been in Texas, among the Indians, and has made a fortune. The exodus committee in Kansas has distributed over one hundred thousand negroes and turned ten thousand into other states.

Southern commercial centres tender unlimited means to check the movement westward, but the colored people can not be retained. Chief Justice Shannon, of Dakota, furnishes interesting details of the condition of affairs in the submerged district, and DAVID DAYIS LETTER. Senator David Davis, of Illinois, has written the following letter: Washington, April 8, 1881. Dear Sir: I am much obliged for the friendly expressions in your letter. In my judgment the best hope for the country is through the reconstruction of parties.

Our politics has become degraded into a shameful scramble for the spoils of office. For weeks past the Senate, which is supposed to represent the best intellects cl both sides, has been engaged in an unseemly struggle for small places. And now, at the very start ot a new administration, the Republican actions are arrayed against each other over the patronage. Great corporations and consolidated monopolies are fast seizing the avenues of power that lead to control of the government. It is an open secret that they rule states, through procured legislatures and corrupt courts; that they are strong in Congress, and that they arc unscrupulous in the use of means to conquer pre judice and acquire influence.

This condition of things is truly alarming, for, unless it be changed quickly anil thoroughly, free institutions are iloomed to be substituted by an "oligarchy, resting upon a basis of money and corporate power. Every farmer in the west is bound hand and foot by the manacles of monoply. Corporations prescribe the value ef his hard labor, and his crop is absolutely at their mercy. Who proposes on either side, to protect Ihejust rights of the great agricultural community with its twenty, rive millions of population Corpoiations not only levy toll upon the industry of the farme but every blanket with which their children i.re warmed, every plowshare that turns the soil, and the necessary articles of household economy, are taxed by an exorbitant tariff for the- profit tf rnoneipoly. How can resistance be successfully made against corporate power, when both the great parties are ergam'zed and run as close corpoiations? Leading newspapers, recognized as Republican and Democratic organs, are owned and directed by grasping monopolists, to subserve their selfish schemes, and to restrain opposition to them in either party.

Their only politics is greed of gain. One party retains possession of the government tor a quarter ot a century by methodB which would long ago have condemned it to a crushing defeat, but for the errors of Democratic leaders, always committed at the worst trine. For long years past the Republican party has existed upon sectional agitation and by the follies of its opponents. IN A NUTSHELL. HOME HAPPENINGS.

The street-car men of St. Louis have decided to demand shorter hours of The boiler-makers of Pittsburg1 have struck. The molders in all but three founderies in Cleveland are on a strike. It is said that the Canadian Government will reduce the canal tolls two-thirds. New York is felicitating- herself upon a very abundant crop of strawberries in the region from Savannah to Oswego.

The exports of breadstuffs from the United States during the nine months ending March 31, were valued at $204,692,100. Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, a "Washington lawyer, has filed an application for an appointment as minister to Brazil. The Michigan house defeated the senate bill to prohibit pool-selling at races and athletic contests.

On a telegraphic hint from a friend in Omaha, S. J.Tilden subscribed $250 for the relief of the Dakota sufferers. No less than seven cases of garroting were reported to the police of Indianapolis on Sunday. The election of officers by the Tammany society resulted in a victory for John Kelly. War broke out between the American and Mexican residents of El Paso Texas.

Six men have already been killed. Contracts have been awarded for the completion of the Knoxville and Ohio road to the Kentucky state line. The Indianapolis street railway averted a strike by voluntarily advancing wages 10 to 15 per cent. The laborers of St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, are on a strike, and troops have been asked for to quell prospective disturbances.

The April reports received at the Agricultural Bureau shows an increase of nearly 4 per cent in the area sown in winter wheat. Wheat-seeding will commence Monday on most of the large farms south of Fargo, Dakota. A. B. Cunningham, an agricultural capi talist, drew $1,900 from a bank at Richmond, and lost it on the way home.

Forty-four coarse-grained Mormon missionaries are coming eastward for a campaign among- the miners in "Wales. The Cleveland street-railway conductors demand $2 25 per day, and the drivers $2. Thirty lodges of Maricopa Sioux surrendered at Fort Keogh, on Monday, with fifty-seven ponies and sixteen guns. The Massachusetts house defeated a bill to prevent any person being restrained from voting or being compelled to vote against his choice. On the plea that fresh evidence of an important character had been secured, the governor of Massachusetts has reprieved Stearns K.

Abbott for two months. A son of Secretary Hunt has been nominated revenue collector for the district of Idaho and Montana. Impressive ceremonies will take place at the unveiling of the statue of Admiral Farragnt in "Washington on Monday. Charles Duffey, a traveling salesman for Enos Richardson dealers in jewelry in New York, was robbed in a Baltimore hotel of about $10,000 worth of gold chains. The carpenters in New York have made a demand for $355 per day, and it will be ffenerrally complied with.

William Casey, an inmate of the penitentiary at Joliet, hanged himself in his cell, where he was undergoing solitary confinement. ter deducting all expenses cf bier salaries. etc.) to ihe extent 61,681,470. Then the telegraph vampire tskes about $12,000,000 more, one half of which goes as proht. Then comes the mnster'vampire known as the DanKer.

lie consumes round numbers more in talaries, dividends, profits, etc. Then comes the insv-rance vampire too fre-QueftJy overlooked which takes snother $100,000,000 slick tnd clean each. year. Then the various boards cf-tr ad that buy your products at the loweet possible figure3, "corner them," force up prices, sell tbem to the consumers, snd pocket the difference. Why, if you will take a ride with us around Chicago we well shew you hundreds palatial res'derces, elegant carriages, all of which was made on 'change by a get of tbarfcs as guilty cf robbery as though they had plundered your hen-roost ine much they make it is hard to estimate, $5s 0,000,000 each jear is a low estimate.

Then comes the most gigantic and destructive of all the usurer. In one form or mother they take Dot lesa than each year cut of the products of labor. F. But at you not goin to stop scme-whre, Mr. Editor! E.

S. You had better ask, If these various vampires are ne going to stop somewhere? And it you will add these various robberies and extortions together, perhaps you will atk if the poor farmer is not going to stop somewhere and think? F. I begin to think that there is indeed fomething out of joint somewhere. I begin to fee and lealize who it is that ia picking the poor farmer's bones. E.

S. Let our last injunction to you be: Keep onthir.Hng! The remedy will suggest itselt. GreeDbackitm, whatever it may mean, is the remedy. The remedy, whatever it may be, is Greenbsckism. The solution of the problem ia the aim and object of Green actum you may call it by whatever name you choose.

Solve the problem in your own way, but solve it. F. I vs ant to lhank you fcr the time you have spent in these talk3, and at the same I want to tell you that I have been reading some of documents that you gave me. They are eye-openers, Mr. Editor, and that's a fact Before I go I want about a oiler's worth of them to hand out to some of my nei ghbors.

I Imve concluded that it won't do any harm to know something about the surjeet If I never happen to meet you again, I as-mre you that I tliall never forget the tervie tbif have- The Chicago Westfn (MfcJl. has this: "The latest man who has be-e-n made happy through the use f-f thi- vahi b'e liniment is "Mr. James A. Cnlnn, Librarian of the Uni-n Catholic Library of this citv Tho is Mr. Coi-Una )n- eiorsement: Union Catholic Libuabt Association.

Chicago. Sept. 16, 18S I wish to add my testimony as to the merits of St. Jacobs Oil as a cure for rheumatism. One bottle has cured me of this tr-'uiblcsome disease, waich gave me great deal oi bother for a long ti'ne; but thanks to the remedy 1 am curea.

This statement is unsolicited by any one in its interest. James x. Conlan, Librarian. Nordenskjold has ordered a vessel to bo built at the mouth of the Lena, whence he will set out in on another voyagre of discovery in the Arctic seas. By going; overianu tnroun siue-ria to the mouth the Lena, he hopes to "steal a march" on the brief open season.

Liquid or Dry. Some people prefer to' purchase medi cines in the dry state so that they can sro for themselves that tbey are purely yege table. Others have not tLe time or eiesirc to prepare the medicine, and wish it already to use. To acominoebitc each class the proprietors of Kidney Wert now oiler that well-known remedy in both liquid and dry forms. Sold by druggists everywhere.

Truth. The United States jrovernment will soon publish the '-Records of the ar, a worse mnnir. nearu seuu-u-u thousand tx The unpreeedented demand for Frazer's Axle Grease has brought into the field a number of competitors, all of whom un consciously acknowledge the worm uie Frazer bv sayinar. this is equally as good." The wonderfully increasing sale of the Frazer is proof that the public stick by a reliable article, when known io be such. Every package marked Frazer.

A Dutchman, describing a pair ol horses, said: "Dey was exactly alike specially der off on." There is Happier 31 an -in Rochester than than Mr. William M. Armstrong. With a countenance beaming with satisfaction he remarked recent- l.r pas ntrs linnn lfl mODriewrs Warners Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, saved me." It A man it Bucks county. Pennsylvania, has just ended a law suit of forty-two years' standing, and recovered six cents damages.

Ltd i a E. Pinkiiam's Vegetable Compound has clone thousands of women more good than the medicines of many doctors. It is a positive cure for all fe male complaints. Send to Mrs. Lydia E.

Pinkham. "One touch of nature," etc. Street preacher: "I now ask, brethren' what can I do to move you what shall I do to move you in this world of 'Any: "Send round the 'at, guv1 nor that'll move' em." I'v. mmmm The Czar has countermanded the order for the erection of additional fortresses on the German frontier. The bey of Tunis expresses fears of a rebellion if the Arabs learn that the French cross the frontier.

Lord Dufferin has arrived at Berlin and had a conference with Bismarck. His mis sion relates to the Greek frontier question Dr. William Howard Russell, better known as Bull Run RusselL" the special correspondent of the London Times, has sailed for the United States. The Rotchschilds refuse to loan money to Italy for the resumption of specie payments while the difficulties with France remain unsettled. The powers of Europe have received a circular note from Russia proposing a conference for the purpose of adopting common measures against anarchists.

Ayoob Khan is concentrating his entire force to guard against an attack from Turkestan. It is expected that the Ameer will enter Candahar in May with more troops, and at once proceed against Herat. Gladstone says the British Government will not adopt an apologetic tone in the coming debate on the Transvaal question. Peace was concluded to save England sheer blood-guiltiness. Having been short of honest material for sensations, a correspondent at St.

Petersburg sends out the startling statement that the candles and tapers procured to burn around the bier of the czar, in presence of the royal family, were found to be filled with nitro-glycerine. A Nihilist manifesto, announcing the approaching death of Alexander III, has been received by all the Russian Ministers and court officials. The Czar still lives at the diminutive chateau of Gatchira, guarded by six cordons of soldiery. He is never seen outside of the inner circle. Lord Beaconsfield died a few minutes after 5 o'clock Tuesday morning, lie retained consciousness to the last.

His transition from sleep to death was so quiet and peaceful as to be almost imperceptible to those around him. He fully expected to die, though his friends were hopeful, and asked to be buried beside his wife in the graveyard of the parish church of Hugh-enden Manor. Dean Stanley has offered a grave in Westminster Abbey, but it is probable that his own wish will lie respected. A cast of his face was successfully taken Tuesday. WINEOM'S WAY- The tallowing circular, issued by Secretary Wicfom, April 11, explains itse-f: Treasury Department.

Washington April 11, 1881 By virtue of the authority conferi ed by law upon the secretary of the treaeury, notice is hereby given that the principal and accrued interest on the bonds herein below designated will oe paid at the treasury in Washington, D. the first day of July, 1S81, and inter-eft on eaid bonds will cease on that day; provided, however, that in case sny of the holders ot said bonds shall request to nave their bonds continued during the pleasure of the government, with interest at the rate of 3 per cent per annum, in lieu of their payment at the date specified such request shall be granted if the bonds are received by the secretary of the treasury aa or before the 10th day of May, 1881, viz: Six per cent bonds, acts of July 17 and August 5, 1861 coupon bords, registered bonds, 109,838,600. Tola), $140,544,650. Six per cent bonds, Fctof March 3, 1863 coupon bonds, registered bonds $45600,250. Total, $55,145,700, aggregating 195,690,400, and being the entire amount issued tinder the above mentioned acts which remains outstand ing.

The reouest above mentioned should be in the form substantially as herewith prescribed, and upon the surrender of the bonds with such request tne secretary oi the treasury shall return to the treasury registered bonds of the same loan.withthe fact that such bonds are continued during the pleasure of the government, with interest at three and a half per cent per an num stamped upon them in accordance with this note. Unon receipt of the bonds to be contin ued as above provided, the interest iheie-on to June 1, 1881 will be prepaid at the rate the bonds now bear, and after that day semi annual payments of interest of the continued doms win vs iuwe uy checK from this department, as tne case of other registered loans. All bonds whether inter aea ror payment or to be continued, should forward ed to the "Secretary of the Treasury, Loan Division," with a letter of transmission, setting forth the purpose for which they are transmitted, and if to be continued they must be accompanied by the request above reterreu to. Kegistered bonds lor redemption or io be continued should be assigned to the secretarvof the treasury lor redemption or continuance, as the case may be, and when parties desire checks payment or registered bonds, to be drawn to the order of any one but the payee, they should assign them to the secretary ot the treasury tor redemptien on account of here insert the names of person to whose order the check is lo be made payable. The deDartment.will pay no expense of transportation on bonds received under the provisions ot this circular, our me oonus returned will be sent by prepaid registered mail unless owners otherwise direct.

William Windom, Secretary. The following is the form of a re-quest for continuance REQUEST. (Date.) To the Secretary op the Treasury: Under the terms of circular 42, issued by the Secretary of the Treasury April 11, 1881, the undersigned owner of the below described United States six per cent bonds, hereby requests that their payment shall be deferred, and that they be continued during the pleasure of the government to bear interest at the rate of 3 Per centum per annum, from July 1, 1881, as provided in said circular, and in consideration of such continuance, the undersigned hereby waives all right or claim to interest on said bonds in excess of 3 per centum per annum, on and after of July 1, 1881. Here describe bonds.stating whether registered or coupon, giving the date, au-thonzine act of denomination, serial numbers and amounts. Signature and postoffice addreps.

Note. In case the above request is signed by the officer ot a bank or other corporations, it should be accompanied by the usual resolution, authorizing such of ficer to act for the institution. The form of request, prepared in blat.k form for use will be furnished upon application by the secretary of the treasury. A young man went Into a restaurant she other day, and remarked "Time is -nonev," adding that as he had half an 'iourto spare, if the proprietor vras will ing, he would take it out in pie. Member of this department relieved of rheurratism bv the use of St.

Jacobs Oil, savs Geo. W. Wallinar, Superinten dent Police New York, in one of our ex changes. Kanms Uify Mail. A Cuban correspondent says that the only things which thrive in Havana are yellow fevr, small-pox, lie3 and lot teries.

Do Jfot Despond. Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure will drive oil the wont attack of "blue ing employment shall have been investedT Can prosperity be kept up under the various vicissitudes of business, the failure or super. abundance of crops, or the falling off of a foreign demand for agricultural products? This question is of much greater Importance than any temporary prosperity and needs careful attention that we may not be misled, but the answer is full and satisfactory to those who will examine the subject. This continuance ef prosperity depends on whether a market can be found for the products whether this increased product will be an over-production, or whether it will be taken up, paid for and consumed by a prosperous and advancing people. In answer to this, I may say that we must not depend on any increase in the foreign de mand; for the advantage which producers would get from low rates of interest may be neutralized as to foreign markets nytne higher rates of wages which they would pay under the new 6ystem.

But we may depend with certainty on the home market. The great army oi laborers whose labor is in demand, and who are therefore paid good wages, will be able to buy and consume the products of their own industry. Take the instance of a farmer with a farm worth $10,000, on which there is now a mortgage cf $5,000, with ten per cent interest. As now situated, he must pay $500 a year out of his products for interest alone. If that interest was reduced to four per cent, he would have $300 more to spend in tools, cloth in furniture, labor and all the necessaries and conveniences of life.

If his aggregate product from his farm is now $1,000, he has but $500 to spend in food, clothing and other necessaries for his family. Under the new financial system, he would have a net income of $800 The difference of the two systems, when applied throughout the country, would make an aggregate of billions in the home demand for agricultural and manufactured articles. There is no reason why this prosperity should not continue as long as the system 5s kept in operation. The debts of the farmers would be generally paid up, the profits, not hoarded as now, but distributed among the people, and thus the prosperity would rather Increase than diminish with the lapse of time. Fo falling off in foreigndemand could affects us, for we should he dependent only upon ourselves.

Godin, the founder of the Social Palace of Guise, who has done more than any one else to solve pratically the social problems of the day, and whose works extibit the ins-ight, not only of a close observer, but of a man of large remarks upon this subject: "Everywhere, in France, in Germany, in England, in the cited States, the chiefs of industry, the manufacturers, the cultivators, are seeking markets for their products. They do not see that the consumers are at the-very of the factory and the farm, and that the too restricted portion of the profits which is allowed them alone hinders them from furn 'shing to productive, never failing markets." This, as I conceive ia the moral bearing of the proposed system of government banking on the prevailing corruption. It is vi-dent that the system would be equally efficient in diminishing poverty and crime. L. Bristol.

Vineland, N. April 51881. A FINAL INTERVIEW WITH THAT FARMER. From the Sentinel We' give trTis week a final interview with that farmer. We presume our patrons would like to read it.

Fabmbk Being taken sick the night after mv last interview with vou, I was obliged to stay a few duys in Chic ago with some friends, and therefore concluded to give you another call before going home. Edtiob We are sorry that yeiu have been sick, though we do not re gret that it results in another interview, for we find that many of our readers are not a little interested in our talks. You promised last week that you would tell me something about the "vampires" that are consuming the products of the farmers' work. I realize that farmers are having a hard enough time in the world, and I have ho doubt that there is a screw loose somewhere. E.

Yes, there are a good many screws loose. It is in the power rf trie farmers by their votes to have things pretty much their own way, but they don't seem to realize it. More than onehalf of the population ot the United States are farmers. Together with the mechanics, the sans and laborers, they create all the ma terial wealth of the country. All that is eaten, worn and used for shelter in the shape of houses, is created by these classes.

The natural supposition would be that they would enjoy the greater part of their own products. But how is it? "Who and what are the vampires that step in and consume and carry oft the greater proportion I guess they don't get away with the "greater proportion ot it, though I presume they get away with a good deal. E. You will see for yoursen, per haps, when we come to examine me iacis in the case. In the first place the United S'ates gov ernment took last year $333,526,610 in the shape of taxes every dollar ot which directly or indirectly came cut of the big pile ot products which was created by labor.

F. Yes, but the government must be supported E. S. Admitted, but we want to show you who furnishes that support, we want tn show vou where a slice of your created wealth goes to. What the government takes it pays out to the bondholders to pay interest on the public debt, the United States judges who render decisions favorable to corporations to Congressmen who legislate in the in terest of vampires, to presidents (at $50 000 per year enough to pay 300 farm hands) who are influenced by bankers and corporations rather than by the great Industrial classes.

After the United States government, cornea the state taxes. These amount to $56,379,679. Next comes about $1,000,000,000 oi mu nictpal and town debts, the Interest ot which is not less than $60,000,000 with other items ot local government that 'will swell the figures to $100,000,000. After th tJ then cemes the "Sl-road vanlplre, Which took last year $400 000,000 for fmiirht trafflo. and $150,000 for Corruption in politics seems to be the great danger which threatens the existence of the Republic.

"We have on the one hand vast monopolies wieldinr a capital of hundreds of millions, large manufacturing establishments which, though not monopolies, can control the means of subsistence of those who live by their labor, privileges of immense value to be gained by influence with the ruling powers, and contracts, subsidies, offices and remunerations of every sort the prizes of successful political scheming and of influence -with the masses; but, on the other hand, we have a needy population dependent on daily labor for daily bread, ignorant of the tendency of measures advocated by one party or the other, and with neither time nor capacity to correct that ignorance, knowing- only, in times of panic or industrial depression, that something is wrong, but without the faculty or opportunity to comprehend the nature of the evil or the true remedy for it, and ye standing as a basis of political power, and called on periodically by their votes to pass upon measures of vital importance, regarding which even the highest minds Lave taken opposite grounds. It not wonderful that the wealthy class and aspirants for oflice should seek to influence by any corrupt means the votes of those who can bestow such prizes, or that the needy clasa should seek to gain temporary relief for themselves without regard to the general interest of which they know so little. When such minds as Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill and John C. Calhoun on one side, and Henry C. Carey, Daniel Webster and Henry Clay on the other, have taken opposite grounds on a question like that of the free trade or protection, which lies at the very basis of public policy, and on the true solu tion of which all industrial interests are dependent, when some of the great men just mentioned have themselves taken opposite grounds on that very subject at different portions of their lives, it is not strange that the masses of the voters of the country ehould be 'gnorant on the subject, and liable to be influenced one way or the other by the har-rangues of ignorant politicians, or the bribery cf interested monopolists.

How to infuse a spirit of honesty and truth at least, if not the intelligence, into a politi cal system so permeated and reeking with all the elements cf ralsebocd and corruption is the great problem of the present day; and the only solution hitherto proposed ia the education of the masses. In some of the states this metbtd has been pursued for sev eral generations, but, while we do not rely on the statistics which have been brought forward to prove that the education of New England has added to the mass of crime committed there in com parison with those states which have not cultivated the intellec tual faculties of their rising generations, it is certainly not too much to say that there is far more of political corruption and control in New England row than there was forty or fifty yeaTS ago. Education has certainly not raised the standard of political morality, whatever it may have been that has lowered it. It is vain, therefore, to relv upon popular education to give any such degree cf intelli gence to the masses as will enable them to judge cf the real bear-in gs cf such political measures as are brought forward by one party or the other. The only feasible project seems to be to strike at tfce very source of this corruption, and if possible seek to di minish the control which the great corpora-tifns, manufactories, ere, now exercise over all in their employ or who wish to be in their employ.

If we can make labor independent of capital, if, instead of the laborer seeking employment of the capitalists, it should be th( who is trying to find laborers whom he can hire in other words, if the demand for labor is greater the supply, the ballot will to all intents and purposes be free and untrammeled, with at least a possibility of intelligence in its exercise. The great point, therefore, in order to di minish political corruption is to make the voter independent, and thus to give him the epportunitv for an honest, intelligent exercise of this sovereign right to pass upon political men and measures through the ballot. "The borrower is a servant to the lender." That is the case now, when the lenders are soulless corporations engineered by a few individuals exercising aristocratic powers for the mere purpose of am -ssirg wealth thmugh the oppression of those whese ne cessities compel them to apply for loans. It will also be the case if the gcverr mentywith a wise providence for the interests of industry, should, in some appropriate way, organ ize a system of lending money at a low rate of interest, so that the producers of the country may no longer be dependent on the grefc3 cf usurers for the supply of the life blood of commerce, and, inetead of giving their forced allegiance to a power which crushes them, will be held in willing bond age to this great Republic. Then shall patriotism be the animating principle of a happy people, and men will, from a feelirg of thankfulness for direct benefits received, as well as from the natural love of country, devote their lives, their fortunes and, more than all, their sacred honor that honor which compels them to cast an honest vote for the good of their country.

I therefore propose this system of government banking, with loans to the people on good security at a moderate rate of interest, as the best remedy that can be devised at present for the prevailing political corruption. Let us look as minutely as possible atlhe necessary working of this scheme, In order that we may not trust too much to the gen eral effect of the feeling of gratitude among producers for the benefits received in the shape of relief from usurious interest and a full supply of the circulating medium of commerce. When the government offers to lend money at, say four per cent, it Is obvious that the present hanks and money lenders of all classes will not find that demand for their money which there is now. A large portion of the debts to individuals and the present banks will be paid up. Capital will be seek ing investment.

New railroads will be built, and put in operation; many new buildings will be erected; factories no'v idle will be set in motion; new industries mining and other enterprises of all kinds will receive a vast impetus. Labor will then be in demand. It is scarcely too much to say that all who are willing to work can find employment. The desired effect will be produced; the demand for-labor will be greater than the supply, and the workman will become, independent of the employer. He can afford to cast an honest vote'and he will do so.

By this simple means this great mass of political corruption under which we are now suffering can, to a great extent, be purified, and honest intentions and an hon efit exnression of them substituted for that subserviency which now compels the laborer to vote at tha of his employer, or to sell his suffrage for the pittance which will supply his daily bread. But th question will Immediately -re-echoes General Sheridan's appeal for relief. About $75,000 or $100,000 will be required to aid the sufferers. A damage of $20,000 was inflictea by fire in the match factory of Gates Brothers, at Fiankfort, N. Y.

Sixty women will be robbed of employment, as the intricate machinery can not be replaced for many weeks. The revenue cutter Corwin is to sail from San Francisco, in search of the Jean-nette, on May 1. The experience of Captain Hooper and the speed of his vessel force the belief that something will be achieved. It is said that the Canadian Pacific syndicate has decided to construct the road almost due west from Portage la Prairie, moving it one hundred and fifty miles nearer to the boundary line than was intended. Abe Buzzard, the leader of the famous Welch mountain gang of thieves, was arraigned for sentence at Lancaster, and given thirteen years at hard labor in the penitentiary, with solitary confinement.

Joseph, a younger brother, got four years. A fire at Point Claire, on the Grand Trunk railway, destroyed a venerable Catholic church and another nearly finished, besides a summer hotel. A man named Davoust was killed by a falling ladder. The total loss is Ex-President Hayes, in a letter to a western journalist, admits that when he became president he was not a total abstainer from intoxicating liquors, but for the last three years has refrained from the use of stimulants, and will continue so to do. The Hon.

A. H. Stephens recently took Senator Brown, of Georgia, to Bladensburg to show him the dueling ground there. He said there was no knowing how soon he might have occasion to use it, if the practice of misconstruing Senatorial remarks should continue. Leon Chatteau has arrived in New York from France on business connected with a company organized in Paris to import American live stock.

Its capital is francs, and the first shipment will be made by its agents next month- M. Chatteau has also formed another company to import all kinds ot American products. He believes our silk goods will find a large sale throughout France. The class of immigrants arriving this season is far above the average. A steerage nassene'er who came from France re cently had $10,000 in gold belted around his waist.

One German banking house in New York has cashed drafts for over for immigrants who arrived by the last three steamers. Patrick Ryan, who was adjudged insane bv the court at Erie, was one of the partv who attempted to seize Earl Spen cer, lord lieutenant of Ireland, and was at one time only prevented by a sunstroke from blowing up the largest magazine that country. The newest railroad war broke out at Bennet's Station, near Pittsburgh, where the Evergreen narrow-gauge attempted to lay its track across that of the "West Pennsvlvania road. Sheriff Hunter has Al right to enter Pittsburgh trom the noiln-west is involved in the struggle. Whitelaw Reid will next week be replaced on the New York Tribune by John Hay for a term of four years.

After his marriage to Miss Mills. Reid will sail for Eu rope, and on his return will enter the political field, declining the tender of the Berlin Mission. Mayor Means, of Cincinnati, has abol ished the detective system, retaining only Stephen Mead on the jiolice force, tie has given notice to every theatre that if any performance be given on Sunday he will arrest and prosecute the actors and actress es, under the fetubbs bill, besides nabbing the managers. L. L.

Gilbert, a Pittsburgh lawyer, lost in a Chicago hotel, on Monday, a mortgage for $20,000,000 which had been quietly executed by the Pennsylvania Railroad company. A deter-tive secured the aid of an Italian rag-picker, and, after a tedious search the precious document was found in a junk-shop on Van Buren street. The Canada Pacific syndicate has ordered twenty thousand tons of steel rails, to be delivered this summer. Land to the amount of three hundred thousand acres has been sold, the price being $2 50 per acre, one-half the purchase money to be refunded if the territory is cultivated within three years. No bonds will be issued until the road shall have been nearly completed to the Pacific coast.

Specials from interior points in Wisconsin report alarming floods. At Fond du Lac the river has become a raging torrent, and part of the city is already under water. At Watertown and Racine, Rock River has risen several feet, causing a break-up of the ice, which is rushing down stream in large masses. Several bridges have been swept away, and railroads washed out, and aa the river is still rising much more damage is apprehended. Miss Helen M.

Freeman is under arrest in New York for throwing pepper in the eyes of Howard S. Ingersoll and cowhid- ing him. The affair took place last Decem ber. Miss reeman alleges that she called at IngersolFs office in responce to an advertisement for a book-keeper, and that he grossly insulted her, whereupon she took the law into her own hands. Ingersoll claims that it is a case of blackmail.

A Brooklyn jeweler whose store was recently robbed of $6,000 worth of watches, effected a compromise with the thieves and recovered most of his property, while the police were investigating the case. The first advance was made by the robbers through a gentleman of good stand ing, and it was agreed that $2,100 handed to him would cause the stolen property to be left at the express office. 1 he thieves broke faith by retaining some gold pins and a diamond, but promise to restore them. District Attorney Bliss and Detective Perkins, of St. Louis, are in Pittsburgh, consulting with the federal authorities in regard to the Missouri land frauds.

It is conceded that the prosecution in these cases in the United States courts will fail because of an act of congress legalizing the issuance of land patents without evidence of land cultivation. No less than twenty-three citizens of Pittsburgh are implicated in the issue of fraudulent deeds, who will be arreBted as soon as the evidence can be secured to convict them. FOREIGN NEWS. Emperor William, of Germany, is suffering from a cold and sore throat. Six Russian political prisoners will be tried by military coui-t at Moscow, in April.

The Italian cabinet crisis ended by the ministers withdrawing their resignations The Japanese national exposition at To- kio, attracted sixty-five thousand visitors the opening fortnight. Dervish Pasha, with 10,000 troops, at- tacKea ana defeated the Albanians near Uskop. No Russian lad between tSaasAS i and 18 year will nOlu There are hundreds of thousands of pure and patriotic men in both organizations, who are rendered wholly powerless by the machine management of each, and who are politically enslaved by leaders that secretly unite whet ever a venal object is to be gained by combination. Regular nominations dictated by professional politicians, and the irresponsible caucus, directed by a few ambitious leaders, control national, state and muoi-nicipal politics. They putup candidates, construct platforms, and proclaim patriotic principles in fine phrsses, which are mere sham.

Practical reform is impossible on sny large scale while one hundred thousand offices, and a patronage represented in some five hundred millions of annual receipts and expenditures, are offered as a prize of success. The party in possession, disciplined and led like a regular army, Vi! ii whic-h. i.1 somewhat crippled by the bitter rivalry ot its chiefs. Unfortunately for the Democratic party, a prejudice exists in the northern mind, that it was hostile to the Union during the civil war. The fact that tens of thousands of Democrats, many of them, too, from, then si aveh old in states, nobly volun teered their services tor and offered up their lives in defense of the old flag does not effect that belief.

While that preitid ice exists the chances of the Democratic party for success are limited, however patriotic its purposes may- be. it tne mere name snouiu oe abandoned, the Republican psrty wouia die from the want of an opposition that now serves to keep it alive. A national party, founded on harmony between all parts of the Union, real re form of abuses, economy in public expenses, rigid accountability ol officers, honest civil service.lree and fair elections, upTight observance of all constitutional obligations, and, and maintenance ot the public credit, would be giaeuy wel comed by the people. Republicans and Democrats seeK to oe emancipated from the vulgar despotism cf the machine which is common to both parties. There are cheering signs that the end of this domination draws near, in the popular demand for good government, without respect to parry.

Una rule must be overthrown, or it will stop the wheels of progress and destroy the foundation of social order. These opinions have long been enter tained without the least desire for con cealment. With, high respect, David Davis. Knlns of tlie ltank Squeeze IChicago Daily News. The effects of the action of the bankeis in forcing President Hayes to veto the Refund ing hill are evident in the increased failures during the three months of the current year, For that period the fa-lures were 1,761, and the liabilities 124,447,250.

TM3 would be at the rate of nearly $100,000,000 per annum, and shows what a change in the mercantile and financial situation the ereed of a few men, who think they are the whole country caused. The failures for the first three months of 1880, were 1,432, and the liabili ties only $12,777,074. So that the liabilities of the bankrupts of 1S51, were nearly double those of the bankrupts of 1880. Let the people bear these facts in mind- The people of the United States pay about $100,000,000 interest money per year to lot of untaxed bondholders. They nav about t75.00O.00O for the support of Result: There are 4,438,206 persons upward of 10 years of age in the United States unable to read or write! About midnight, just after the acci elent in the Consolidated Imperial mine Nevada, the wife of Matthew Winnie was found on her way to the works.

She said she had been awakened just before by her husbanel, who came all mangled to her and told her he had been killed in the mine. She got up dressed herself, and started to ascertain the truth of what she was only too well eonvineed was true. Ihere had in re ality been a fearful accident. Mr. Win nie was indeeel killed, and the tremb ling woman went back to her children and her desolate home.

Sprtng brings the blossoms. Autumn brings the 'ruit and also colrls, for which nothing superior to Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup has ever been offered to the public. It always cures. 1'rice cents The city of London officially estimates 4.1.

1 i 4 1 nUrSa charities At $22,600,000 'resident me mmneapous and St. Louis road, announces that his company will build nearly two hundred miles of track this season. The president has nominated General Longstreet to be marshal for Georgia and Phillip H. Emerson to be associate justice of the supreme court of Utah. The manager of the Chestnut Street Opera House, Philadelphia, has been instructed to begin suit against Anna Dickinson for refusing to appear as Claude Melnotte.

The Mescaleros are camping in large numbers at Seven Rivers, on the borders of Texas and New Mexico, and have already commenced to run off cattle. John Stephenson, an eccentric character who had been highly educated, died at Oxford, in a hut in which he resided alone for years. The new po master general promises to reform the e. -stem of letting mail contracts, and to make the department self-sustaining within two years. Captain Blakoslee, the postal thief, when arraigned at Cleveland, made a detailed confession of his many crimes, attributing his fall to strong drink.

He was jailed in default of $5,000 bail. The Texans are wild with enthusiasm over the advent of a party of Chicago capitalists, representing $50,000,000, who have broken ground at Dallas, for the Chicago Texas and Mexican Central railroad. Thomas G. Boone, who died at Alton, 111., was a veteran of the Mexican war, a captain in the federal navy during the rebellion, and a pilot on the Mississippi for forty years. A report made to Commissioner Raum indicates that Deputy Marshall Henry Seagraves, of Nashville, was murdered for assisting in locating illicit distilleries in Sumner County.

It has been discovered that Joseph Bitt-man, chief salesman of a grocery house at Saginaw City, has for years been steadily embezzling money, until the defalcation reaches into the thousands. Thomas J. DeJarnette, who killed his sister in a brothel at Danville, to protect the honor of his family, has been acquitted on the ground of temporary insanity. W. F.

G. Shanks brought suit to recover $250,000 damages from the American News Company, of New York, for circulating copies of Truth alleged to contain a libel against him. ine jury awarueu Dim The steamer Zealandia brought to San Francisco four boxes of Australian gold bars, valued at $98,750. This is the ffrst vmHimment of the kind, and it has gone to the mint for coinage into double eagles. Some months since a monkey escaped from a museum in New York and bit ofl nf the nose of a little girl.

An action for $50,000 damages was brought by her guardian, and the jury awarded $3,500. The naval officers composing the Jean nette relief board advise that the steamer Mary and Helen leave San rancisco on June 1, reaching Herald Island by August 15, and wintering off Wrangell Land, in order to make sledge journeys to the east coast. Two explosions of nitro-glycerine at the Dittman powder works at Binghampton, ft. were followed by the ignition of ten nnda of sporting powder. No lives were lost.

The shock was felt forty miles away, and buildings were shattered and treB uprooted in a wide circle. The New York Central, Ene, and Penn sylvania roads have subscribed $450,000 toward the world's fair, while $1,000,000 aroM th am mint expected from them. The fate of the scheme will doubtless be set tied next week. A coalition has been formed by the Chi Milwaukee and St. Paul, and the Chicae-o.

Burlington and Quincy Railroads, to forward nassenerers and freight direct between St. Louis. St. Paul and Minneap- Carbohdale, has mm.