The Demitratic Watchman. BY Y. OBAX MEEK Terms, $2 per Annum, in Advance BELLEFONTE, PA Friday Morning, May 21, 1889. Seward's Ville BeII.—A Dead Repub lic and a Live Monarchy. 4, A British diplomatist, who visited Mr. Seward, on one occasion, during "ilie earlier part of the war, asserts that the American premier boasted to him that he possessed greater potter than µHy king,or emperor of Europe. To illustrate and prove the truth of this not idle Ipast, Sea ard eaitl : "My lord, ou observe that little bell within my reach. Now, sir, I can ring that little bell four times and have any four pen sons I please arrested, within fifteen minutes, time, in any four quarters of this great country, and sent on their wri to Federal prisons. If, my lord, ‘ou lime that time, I will-illustrate I" :Nay mg which, the ambassador signify his desire to observe the workings c.f t kr principle of A nteritamhbertys. utt di r Red Republican rule, Mr. Seward rang the hell four at brief inter %id-, being at each interval immediate- It upon by a voiceless automa ton, to each of whom lie gave a slip of paper, upon which had been w ritten the names of prominent Dermarats, with their residence, and the indorse ment "Arrest and forward to Fort ',a lai, ette. NV v. A. SEtv Ann, Secretary of ESE Remarkable as ' it V. ill appeal to the reader mho is not posted in the details of the int-ids Aorkings of the machin ery of power, Mod', set in motion, so thoroughly and elleetually, instituted that reign of terror %Inch filled this broad land midi an undefined but no less real cause of alarm, at that expira tion of die fifteen minute/4 front the Ohs appearance of the first roicelet autoni awn, lie reappeared and deli% ered into the F.errefftr!'il hand a Lirtef telegraphic tae.aingo otrieli read. "Wlll II Fete•• Secretary of State • 'lnformation just reel led at thia depart went is here Lt tran4rilitted to you of the arrest 01 at --- ordered' 1)) ) our e~uvlcu y at a.IO (614 alternoon. (Segued [Awn NI Stanton. ` , ..eeietar) of \\•ar Agrun, ramie tht• automaton tind he alOl pa( 3 and aff.llllll, and twain Ni won icr that the and assadur trout a EurApean monarchy expressed ins •urpn-e, when I.IWIT before his eyes i yas enacted what, to ha% e been exe ruled in I ;rent Britain. would hart tak It, lots ,d wile And /11s strictest and C 1014144( formality of law But such. is I the truth—the American Jacobin ex 1 t reused, lt the tight of usurpation on e, a power w lin h no l'onntitutional 1 motreht Ilt rtlrOpf. would ha% c dared to u n lidge„,in itt.t einergene) whateter Nor does it a.lomimli 111, CS hp base felt the strong hand of usurpation, that the ambassador who witnessed the per tiorinaniT or our Republican Secretary, .diould hate pondered the probabililieri likely to 011 ow such a bold strok pot ter in England, where, under Alag ito Chitt In, even• man's ionic is his ens ile, and where to be arrested, a specific , 1 , harge must he made by a citizen be h 4.e it law officer, a civil law warrant i-sued, it fair and speedy trial hieing guaranteed. Ile replied "Sir: Her Majesty possesses no such roller. - Were she to attempt the arrest of a c•itvcu «cthnnt wet rant of law, the onsequenees would doiditless in%olve the kingdinn in a popular uprising" True, England is only a hateful mon. areby, which the tens of thousands of our thou cry Fourth-ad my orators have taught the people from tens of thous ands of stands to regard as a desi)ot. ISM, &OW/ by a royal personage, and compared with which our land was an earthly paradise. And yet—and yet, the law is secure in England, and nn• easy would lie the crowned head which would dare to trample the rizhts of the humblest of her subjects. . oh, will the people never learn what they have lost, and are losing, and by whom and what set of toed ? In the name of human freedom, God, and your children, 3e yeomen of Penn sylvania, awake!—awake to realize your true condition, and whithervay ye are going! 4 There to hope only when the people I awake. Remember that "eternal vigi lance is the price of liberty," and that 'rye loose it, eternal slaver • .14 your doom I • , What it wits when Sewrd rang his little:hell, it is to-day. Mortally, there is no longer any law in thin country which is tabulwark that inay not be thrown down, and from bad we are go ing to wori• - e; from ruin to ruin; from decay to death ; front republicanism to monarchy , front liberty to pilIN from whiint hope to hopelesa despair; front heaven to hell ! Arise!(' Awake! As a WATCHM AN of the night of yi.ir political 'gloom, we appeal to yon and cry aloud : SWEEP. EMS! AW ! Signs of the Times These are not propitious of good to the people. One of the signs of the times is that . the people—those who toil and pin duce something—are getting poorer, while the wealthy are becoming mil. lionsi res. Another sign of the times is that la bor and honest industry are being re ga7l7 with dislike and aversion b, the rising generation, who proinNe to become drones and paupers• Another is that politicians distrust the peitile, and, by law and the intim ence of unscrupulous and corrupt means, hedge themselves in from the vulgar eye. • Another is that the vdry government of the people, Is changing, or prc par ing to change, from popular republi canism ton select and power-rt.!) nlg archly, uitli overgrown wealth tut the corner stine of the new empire Another is that there is a %%ide spread apathy by the people : O.M. very effect intended by the party of re% 0111 hornets to be brought about—concern nag the affairs and administration of govmunent. Ti“. is certainly the most dangerous sign of the tunes. Another is that the spirit of projli pricy in the use of the public moneys has readied the point of national bank ruptcy and general business lent oral ization, no thorough and Inmwtroos Its to alarm e% en the pLiblio plunderers in power. Anuther is that a p.oit of Intent tempt 19 flll4MlLad amid t.Le peQ"ple fur he goNernment of our f.ithers, 111 m, alas, prostituted to the exelitsile uses and ends of a vile and despicable par That contempt 19 alike the fruit of urongs committed and endured in the name of the government. Another is that the friends of repute liango%ernment and the (bionics of ustaliationand change are disunited and not as determined as they aboltdd be lo resist the common CIle1113 : try all means, by nature and 111111111 skill pliteeJ in 'their hands. At-alter et that public morals are so fallen and the Standard of tarsoaal oh ligamat e.O 10%, that the people fear to mist c% en theinsel veo Another 1. , the timtviken idea t th tt go‘tintint.eit and go' ernors are a, reme do for all ills and a panacea for Jill' sounds, and that it.' pia ere 1111 1•e en large,' and contracted according to the exigencies and emergencierl of the 0111(.0. Another is that the triumph of par tt to the ailal and ,'end of patriotuqn stud the o,,,hition of et en tillentlOn But t.hv extend and Illustrate the lark side of our national lope? They are outtoprerent, here, there, every where. Alan! if the people would on Iv awake, and behold thee , . Jiff surround mg, not only thetneelyes ne a free two plc, but our Atneracan common human tv was n conflict of Federal and State authority at Imuinville the o:her day. A negro named Conley wan tried, convicted, anti sentenced to death for murkier, in th'e State Criminal Court of Jefrernon county, under the laws of the Commonwealth of Ken Lucky, which II.) not permit the ac cused to give testimony in his own be half, be he white or black. The Sher ' itr was ordered to execute tlfe murderer ; but in the attempt to perform his du Ities, a mandamus from the Federal Ihn tract conrt wan served upon lion, to straining and forbidding the execution. The reason of this in, that in the Fed end Courts the right of negroes to give testimony in their own behalf in per mitted under the Civil Rights law,. and an the negro murderer bad been denied this, under the State law,• a new trial was granted. The question Its it now stands, given a decided advantage to negroefi in the comminaion of crime, for if a white man is on trial he can not testify in hin own behalf, but a ne gro can, and of comae will swear_ him self clear t What a happy state of af fairs thin Radical patching up has brought about -4-. A large armed expedition left \'ork a few days ago on board the Arago Mr Cuba. The go% ernment knew all about it, and permitted it. 'Chi's is a fine comm'ent on the consis• holey of the Republican pirates iu po4er. "We believe" they are mak ing a great fuss about someclaimilt daipages on aceount of a similar per mission by the British cabinet a few years ago in the shape of the "Adaba• ma" craft. What adeloctable position this country will• be placed in, in an administration of four years of piracs, if e. t. Mdge who -doot I, to , lel Velo One Radical Gone Home Radicalism is in mourning. Its un der lips hangs down like the flap on a pair of broad fall pants. Ita great soul iusheth 'brill tears like dirty suds from a:washerwoman's kettle. It sighs, it sorrows, and, like Rachel, "refuse's to be comforted " 'lt has lost one of its leaders—one of its lights—Jons HEN RY For, clerk in the Executive Deparb ment at Atlanta, (ta p correspondent of the New York Tribune—keeper of a negto paramour, and general o%erseer of radicalism in that region. The At. lanta C‘istitution, of the 10th inst., gives the evidence of the wench—his paramoue— w•honm he. attempted to shoot before killing himself; it is as follows Epsy Ilart teatifled that on Tuesday last she went to a picnic. On Saturday - night )Ir Foy returned home from a picnic and commenced quarreling with her, accusing her or going to the depot to meet another man Foy was drink ing, and kept. up quarreling with her about; this other man all night, and charged her with'heing in the room with hint. Foy continued to drink durinsg the night and Sunday morning, and to quarrel with her , witness told him, as they could riot agree, they yid better separate Foy replied that he Was not going to separate About eight o'clock Sunda) morning, w itne. , 4 started to get up out of bed ; Foy struck her on one side of the fire and pushed her hack on the bed Wttnesg asked htm whet he meant Foy said he had n right to knock her down, and stepped to a table near by and took a drink Fos , then tried to force wit ness to drink \V tness •refwed, when Foy poured the liquor in to her mouth and, over her face while Fhe was yet in bed Foy would not let witness get up. - Witness said she was compelled to get tit+ and go with her mother to church Foy said that that WWI not the reason ,the wahted to get up She wished to get up to go and meet the WWI he was quarreling about. Foy locked the dour and took out the key Witness then got up, when Foy asked her if Ole was still in the notion of has trig- the other Mlle Witness said she had !Weer spoken to him Foy replied, "you are a liar,' and that he had sever al is it 110$1W9 ;. but on boxing asked who they were, would not give their names Foy then took a pistol front under the Ite;nl 4 f ill& bed, 1.1.1 i ono of his hands around the waist of witness and shot her in the Fide, remarking "You and [this other man spoken of] just help yourselves Foy then shot himself twig s, and '•I have shot myself. Come and kiss me, I am thy trig " A in,o4; 1444 pariers woe found Chrl7,l ll= WASH INtiToN, April 18 'Still MY DEA H. have already pre,s ed to the extent of my ability a colored man for Georgia. I should be glad to see Mr Turner made Minister to Hayti, but a colored man has'already been sent there, Mr Dumas, of New Orleans, on my recommendation Tour. truly, BEN.; FTi ER •J ff Foy. , Atinnta " The U. S eminent 1111,, I,l' propriated •.?5,11 - 101) to he expended look ing at the Sun in Liberia, next August, during the eclipee State News logi. count) Loa • medical lucid!) of Om Lancaster Intelligencer. writing' editorial notes - of his Ist. trip South --Dena& galley. Woatmoreland vounly, to moving (or a rallruad to connect I.lgonla and Latrobe —W H Reltwarta has mounted the tripod. and nnw t.olda forth as "ye local" of the Altoo na - Vuwfirafor. —Fresh shad are worth from CO to leo per hundred in Lancaster Up here they Void about 75 cents each —A Free Trade League hair been formed in Philadelphia Wa hope It may hare the moat unbounded nueeess —Father LAIRD. Of the Greensburg groats a candidate for Recorder of Westmoreland county Hope he'll make It --Lancaster city was tirkled witita row ri few nights efnee--the first alio of lifo In that de bilitated town for some time --Jona!! Ludwig waa killed at Allentuvin a few day ago, by a negro named Junrn Peter von Another victory (or Radh7aliant —Mr Joe 1). Pyott, of Lameaster, le shortly to mishit., the duties of editor of the Way. (V.v.., it nigger rose rag in LrOnesdsie Newport, Perry county, is to blest with two now churches , the present summer,—one a Methodist, the other a German Reformed --The Pennsylvania railroad company alll mate a nemtwanual "divy" of S per cent in the anth Instant Wunld like to be to that —The Columbia Herald auggeets lion Dome E Iliester, of [ammeter county, for the Demo cratic nomination for Governor Ile could beat Geary —A brakeman, by the name of Dippery, on the Cerjtre and Mifflin county railroad, had Alm leg broken by being caught by the cowcatcher the oilier day —Gettysburg la begloninglo turn up its f)(41<1 at other small towns because a hotel to being built there to accommodate summer boarders at the springs. —On Tuesday of last week a mad dog was shot in Lock Haven. Won't the Chief Burgess of Bellefonte please Issue his order requiring that the dogs about this place 11 rnuuletiL --The Selinsgrove 7\,n and Perry County /),,,u,,rut ore both having now ofliceo bunt.— Werkiimn ell] commence on a new three story hrlek for the Watcusss on the 17th Instant. —The Mmdrose Democrat give■ an account of the poisoning of an entire family in that county by inking baking node, which had been rill.t.ed unit auger-of-Iced Onc pf the fitfully died —The flintily of Cyrus &Weer, residing near Willfantsblirg, Blair county, Were poisoned lust week by eating canned rhubarb, but have all slues recovered. They rued eating that rhu barb, we'll bet. —The Altoona Multoeur le urging the nonal matkop of Hon. TOAD. HANVI, AS a cantildate for tho Loginlntim.. from that county. itadlcaltem onkt lotto to uatol tct. k in Muir.-.ld) , If he ..,—,11111,•nol, —There are five Democrats who want to be prothonotary, ten who would like to be treasu rer, eight after the sheriffnlity, six for poor directors, and No for 1111E10 4,04, over in Bedford county. —The editor pf the Lewistown Democrat wail' to Nell a copy of Webster's Net ionary From the general appearance of his paper, wo always thought he hadn't muchThilerest in die nontries or books of any kind. —On Saturday night a tiro occurred at Mc- Keesport, Pa., which destroyed a square of the business pOrtion of the town The National Hotel, Pr littlin's residence, Hill's drug store, Seybold's hardware store and residence were destroyed, The lons is estimated at 11114000 insured for SIS,OOO —Philip (labia was convieled in the Illolr county court, week before loot, of tPonmit and battery, a ith intent to commit R rape upon his little atep•daughter, a child only nix yearn old Three years In the penitentiary/n.10)1, halam e of eternity In h-1 would have been a proper Fentenee In that 11140. -Th. Franklin county Republican commit tee luiv eho•ou A Reltofichl delegate to the State Conn cotton, lend instructed hem to veld for Geary for Governor. ?leaver county 11101 done the rune This Is'pretty gdod evidence that the Radkohl of theme le o counties demie the election of a Democrat. --Three-fourtha of the delegates lo the Rad ical State Cois‘ention, from yhiladelphia, are instructed to vote for'fleitry 'rho trio bean ties who run the 11,publienn, on Bishop street, arid control the mongrel organltation in this county, 'will halt to swallow him, at last —A little boy by the name ol II ohb,whilo out fi.hing the (101.1.1' day in the neighborhood of Chamber.tairg, got his hook caught in hi, jaw and, before ansistanee could be procured, died fit eo9vtilsiom , lie war carried ton tog honwe-, and wind sant to ha parents, 'who none brutal enough to rt fume to go and Met. their dead ehOd Ile decently 'Opt red In• atrangera,llls parents refusing to go to the fit nem' It would hardly auffielent punish. inert for 91101 unfeeling wretches to chain them up for hash for a cheap boarding Ins-,o Late Publications Prrzns' Musics', Mo'mut fir May is at hand, and well sustains the proud Idle it liears—The prtnee of Musical Monthhe., - for if there is any one pert ishenlAidapted to suit the N autn lit all lovers of muse, professional or nma teUr, it is certainty this Mansine. The May number COTSICY to ue oocr. flowing with choice new nitviir. W hen 1111161 C furn it , lied NU %%hat intuncian can afford to be n ith out ouch a publication ? $4 worth of good 7»unic cannot be picked up ei.ery day far 30 cents,, and ne feel justified in etting that a subscription nt $3 a ill give RA ?Midi music (and good inueic, tool as you tan buy tor s.7at This vat cable Mngn7tne-ia publui l beil by .1. L. PETERS, I9S Itroadisa), Nea York (I'. Box 5429.) THE I.lDT's FRIENt TOR JLAE.—The steel plate for this number is the beau tiful, saintly face or Isabella, one of Shakespeare's characters. The col ored fashion plate gives a rich and tasteful bridal dress, and others of the latest style; and a number of well ese clued wood-cuts illustrate the most tureeque varieties of the present mode For Orsic, we find, appropriately for June, " Roses Fair Its Jenny's Cheek." The literary department looks attrac e and highly interesting The In. dies Hill find among the Illustrations two patterns of Bathing Dresses. Pubs Indust by Deacon h; Peterson. 319 nut Street, Philadelphia, at $2.50 a year I which also includes a large steel engrav rig 1. Four copies. FIN e copies band one gratis), .$B. LITTLE. WOMEN; or, MEG, JO, BETH. and Aar. l'art Second. By Louisa M. Alcott. With Illustrations. Boston . Roberts Brothers. For sale by Duffield Atalmead, Philadelphia. This hook appears to be still more delightful than the first, which had a very uncommon charm about it. The author would to gratified if she could see the eagerneas with which this con , tinuation of her story is welcomed by young girls, tired of the commonplace, sentimental, feverish stuff that makes the rinse of light reading. The dif er. envy is like coming out of it close room knto the cool, fresh air. The book is fragrant as n flower in its simplicity and purity , one to be seized upon as a treasure by the young reader, and us healthful as it is charming. BEA LITI CS RISII LIFE.- -By W. Steuart Finch. Boston : Roberts Bro thers. For sale by Duffield Ashinead, Pbiladelphia. This is one of the ':handy Volume Series," which the publishers are is suing iin season for summer tourists. The present volume is 'teat and pretty, good typography—a very important item—and interesting contentd, true stories of Irish lift.. "Alice McMahon" is a good specimen of the stories. BEST BROIL FOR Er ERY•BODY.—The new illustrated edition of Webster's Dictionary, containing three thousand engravings, is the best booA fn' every body that the press has produced in the present century, and should be regard ed as indispensable to the well-regtda led home, reading room, library, and place of bitsiness.—Golden Era. —The Hearth and Home, Yettin• gill de Bates' new paper, started on the Ist of January last, - is proving itself to be one of the best household papers in thi:. country. It is beautifully printed, highly instructive, and of more than ordinary interest, weinll; t t tame:- and torellabb.. No. 37, ritrh , New \'‘.l k. Our Fashions Urn twill UM IS An old bachelor dill up the following, /Lome. for there Is no other 'sped. nien of the grains how Who would dor rte rum mit the unpardonable crime of 0 riling such plain truths about the fashionn of this fastest of all fast ages Ind be not only writes 11, but has the audaeity to put it in verse It is my opinion that he has eel truly forgottn how, In his youinadays, lie balanced his bead between the ion telding clogs of Ids stand.up collar, and bow his sister•—well, never mind about the pant Just imagine thin fellow Heated at his dingy 0 indow,—perhaps on the fourth floor of some cheap lintel,—gnsing flown on the bitty tllollllallirare Aloallei 111111 al ail the elllllOll - Of taiehelordom Ills table in the Munition reerptacle of eigai stumps. burnt !notches, old letters, soiled rollers, Ai. In yondm corner a loot keeps ennilainv with a spittoon, while its niste nits in the embrace of the boot-kick op posite The veiling in festooned with voile elm —a regular spider's paradise And there he nits and gases upon the gay and happy throng of youths mud maddens who promenade up and IloWa the street, and, goring, he ironies "II Remo+ to oo• lhi• go In tlu•ne flayn IntoPt up mont queer, In nun ow sic i !In 11111111 We !Mope How funny tln•y appear, Their holr they in limey xhaix»t, I've Inugherl 1110 laughed again ' Per soul Law ylierrthew • girl Al Appear With elitoloton On tile 7%11 0110Lul an '411,1 1.01.11 - would dnre V. ex ',rum+ hinpn•lf lbw. Evidently Par never In. leunk propn•mg, and therefore !MY MI real of hearing' Nu•' in ont•nneed en pllatll obby by the 1111) 11114 Of a 1.11. d 0110 dun • t Neetll lo vary 0110 hit .111li he way, 1.1,4 ,1111,111 I 111011111(114. M 149 4tylo :OW hail it link I.lnet lilt 'I hat I.•ally 111100 1111.1.1111ie 1,,a4 t1,1k11., than a ,a1•110.ge I , if lh Ur 1.4 . 1111111. 1:111) ti n 4011.4 I tLrtr Flll4 nppritr % t, .m the brain " Now, MI Editor, I tun II hover U 14.111,11; I know people at t• pr.. 00 lo Laugh at flay (aslilorim of to ;11t). 4 .1 if lilll ling into pi illt, and in v.•,wo al than mill h liar tilde lump as tin follow log • I ..sta lier hums aulk . 411 , 1 ..dar, d, utigdilluil• IV, I know, 'tut it I did she need not t h., bark up at sir Nei, For alien she parsed beyond my sight I laugh ed and laughed again T........i0a queer these girls appear with Orr (VIII 011 the brain " Jil4l. here, 41olibtleav, memory railed up au image of ' the loved of other glaym," anti, a• he gaze, on •mnu• fair voung fare that tot,) to wear it amuet outdo for him, long year...ago, him 11114111? el la Win.4•1114/11, a. , In en uhmee.l by the hot two hue. lie Fay% well, tills t. A 1 . 111, , 11.1 teeth, false Ira, r, 101 d oh, Fl‘l..e colors rumen 1.11111 put 011 with 1 erlige , 1011 6now 11111 let diem witqa wliatti'er they will, retitiiii Ftrance 1. In VAIII, tnd they are really eliarntlng with the fii.hion on the brain " NON, 11.111410. , the •igenitii will oqiji,y the hi ve I•hagely,'• av they expremi It, and nay "tii. a I hp. the Oils •' Itut, In all prrrhahttfty, "a dapper rent In havender Oita" te,sed that dingy *tallow niiit lien, itreaftett via ?Writ, for we tiro! Cillo author'a thoughts turned in an ratlrt lv different ilireel not We 111101 glue hen ..edit for honenty, for he aparea not even tile own net lie ...ITU., the teal, In all alike I.lati n 'lt Remits to me the Rents these d aye IM•en lip most awful queer, 'ln pant• n.. very, rifrf, tight, flee ninny they appear ! Their vont+ have ntich nittirnely rod. I littighe.l and laughed again Iv, nee }Wig lower With fader on the brain ' IL• IA tiorlPAt and illy nuntwk e I.t•trn 'l.a.t night I loot la hey 14,1110, rigged rip gith wad mu. Five dollars' vrorili of beaver on fate pennies gorth of Irvine. With "fixity." all r•f latest rot he Inn-led n fan cy vane, I).‘ •ry 11110•4 r 1110 . .1 gt•rilli 1/105.••11 Nah Lrn4rr MI lII,' Inclined thin frittlenr (fur he •rein• to fear n 01,01 4 .1 liven In 1,1114 k 11/0,11, fill - that num Lealu•r down there I, Just enough to •ell it man alit , kind of it hat he aunty lie that as it tnit),, he 11C,It• to the pohil Ll•lert again "Wtth s Mekerm tr.:rata...l Just a In park n tuft beneath each ear, Chln-whiAkern and A mottAtnehe, too, of emtree they all appear, 41hene'er I meet them on the Atrset a 10111 ii I can't restrain nee lion queer these genie Appear wit 11 liar tier on the brat, " A pretty plain .ay of talking, I should Nay Wonder if certain young Men In (re n will not be enabled to -nee thermielres w It her, ace them , ' again memory seen./ to hare pteturiA' hint a young man again,and his mood seemstto have become softened, for tie • (01, well. this In curious world, young men are attl for show, They upend their earnings on their hut he, he litre Ji tog 'Fa /tor Luw, But let them went whale er they will—rentott •ttate And t , 1$111," 14101 the f,r, 4, 11.t1, And ton. • 11/111 gI lug lin i erla for leee-ev end I.wh tailing Deem tie not draw /a far 1,1111 pert-m, ertaln young tethee rani gentlemen of your n.•rpr.un. (Knee , We will Irene t/•rn to Alllnkinee Yourm truly, Taxes on Sugar, Teti, and Coffee In 1808 there were 30,600,000 pound,' of tea imported into this country The duty open it was about thirty vents a pound, which would ho $10,000,000 In addition there was a tariff of twenty ve per cent en value, which would be p to $6,000,000 more. The total an nual tree duty in $16,000,000. The taxes upon tea are m orn than equal to the cost of et in. China,with the exportation from there, added. When a person buys a pound of tea, half of the price goes to the merchant, and half to the Government We imported, last year 260,000,000 pounds of coffee. The duty, at 6 cents per pound, amounted to $12,600.000. We also imported about 200,000,000 pounds of sugar in 1888. The duty was 4 cents 11 pound, and amounted,' n the ag gregate to $8,000,000. Thets,„upon tea, coffee, and sugartho people of the United States are taxed, thtough the cuskerp house alone, $35,000,006. This is ,r‘l to nearly $60,000,000 in greenbacks. If theGo v ern ment would ableilishthe Na tional Banks, call in their .rculation, and issue greenbacks in thejithstead, It *add save more than half of this op pressive tax. Those who are In favor of cheaper tea, coffee and sugar, phould insist upon the abolition of National Banks, and the supplanting of their notes arsenhacks. Then, with that saving t),tvee could admit tcn,rolrce and Huy:a fr, a 'atth , with hill kith. -1., Ow l'",1•1111 . 1. - Ell9lll • Mom, Radical Viotories. Citizens Whipped and Huhg by Federal Sol diers. Radical peace to the South is cut hss tha wolf gives to the fold. Our bineted liberty and form of government to the contrary, we are now living under th,, hugest and most merciless despotism on cite fuco of the earth. Acts are daily por petrated by subalterns in every portion of the South, that the Czar of Haigh t woi id not darodo, even in Poland, and i;;) ilting in detail, that K ing Th , odore himielf wolud hesitate in their cou th ,,,,. Firm. It is useless for us to go into the de. IR Is of tpd outrage provoking the presidia's. The tale is told in the 'load ing, ambat is the o.d, old story of wrong and oppression. reiterated. It is melets to say, too, that no one believes the man so severely tpuniehed to have had the re in dest connaition with stealing of th e horses, which the soldiers claim to hate. lost. II is most probable (drew was that ho was n good Confe !crate soldier durin g h war, and an - ardent bolter of Red cac ism after the war. This is the same crtsesthat we partnilly reported last week. It was then stated that he was probably drowned, but it i•eems the commander deceived the C. • bid States Marshal, and %served hi victim fur further torture. The fact, are briefly thesq, as far ON WO can learn The a ddiers. whits , encampednt Martin ii i ,le . y lost two horses. They suspected or intended In suspect Mr Roberts of Mho crime, although be lived seven nudes list tint, and was found quietly adeep when arrested. They at once arrest . ! him, and next morning took him idong with them on the march, and then hi. sufferings commenced He either did not know, or would tell nothing of the horse., and they hung bun, ns the eon , - tnimiler himself expressed to the Unit. , l S Marshal, '•until he was black in the tutee " Farther on they again hung him, so citizens report, betlire reaching Suds-, den When in Gadsden the eery e , of the poor man were so unstruhg that Le did hot ',now for some time his nioAt inti mate friends. After leaving the town the United States Marshal was sent for, and with the deputy Sheriff and other, went in pursuit. On overtaking the ' command, they were informed that the man had escaped at the last creek which led to the supposition that he was mur dered Afterwards, near Walnut Grove, citizen , report he was again hung and whipped until bus cries rang throughout 1 the camp Farther on, citizens report 1 that he was tied behind n wagon and compelled to follow on foot These re rated confirmations of groan outrage I continued to como in with every arri%id, I the Masonic fraternity at last made 'up a purse and started a lawyer (Mr Seal,. t , hewd off the command and SllO 011 t a 1 writ of Anbeaa corpuß This lawyer I- I now in Huntsville, laying the matter before Colonel Ritter, who, says the Huntsville Adrocaie, will and ought to investigate it. Mr. Roberta hums at bast I been rOlOl/11"41. or made hi., easel,. , MINI parties now in town who stayed mgt. , before last at the house of a neighboi ..f his, report that his mind is almost d e ... troyed by the agony of his situation the inst. few days Certain it is, even if he was released,. that no greater indignity has ever been practiced upon a ['IWO] and no clearer exemplification of th , t. runny now reigning in the South ha ! e% or occurred in this V iCill i ty. Gad i,i,i, 4 A Inhume ) Time., 0 Ecclesiastical Tyrranny In the town of Staunton, Va , the' is a hir L 4o Methodist congregation, coin , PSI ql entirely of members of the South ern branch of the Methodist Church I c tho same place there are probably a halt doz-n white n en, including a preach , ' belonging tic the Northern Methodist- Ity a military order, the lifethodbik Swinton have been compelled to gue ui their church ex cry other Sunday to Ow , half doi.en white inert, and with their large congregation, go wandering about in Poiret] of a place of worship A me , dcte.table piece of secular and ecelesucdi. col despotism has not occurred since the dark ages. The like of it can not Is. louml to-clay outside of Poland \\- talk of thecruel old times when wen pc]. m.cuted each other on account of their o - 'winos faith, sonic men groan in 51,101 over alleged ecclesiastical tyrrann Spain and Italy, and yet, in our own hind, such abominations as that at Staunton scarcely provoke A passing comment_ Our'own country is lauded, as the hone• sof religious, as well as political irec. dont, and, in point of fact it has ate mt as much of one as th'e other We do not arraign the military man Icy whom Ow execrnble order was issued to turn a hug (0•Igr( wition out of it , own r hor , h rails • he in simply this inattlament In the handh , of hniaorwrit•ra, to whose "-c , can the Sc milwrn horetieetave been ha, dn,l over by the Northern I tuoisit The Northern Methodists are rer•ppowo hle, and sorely responsible, for such tin ehristhm, persecuting acts, and so long ns they continue, the cause of religr , ll I u tr.• r+ rirl We regret to arraign any religanu , finonnatlon before the bar of public "Wh im), but assaults upon religion' freetiow merit public acorn and conderanatoo. —Baltimore Statesman. HORRIBLE NATI( FROM HYDROI'II O DlA.—Chicago, April 27.—A horrible death from hydrophobia occurred here yesterday. flte victim was a young man named Win. Goodwill c, of this city. A few weeks ago a friend brought into the shop a little dog picked up in the street. Gotodwillie, in fondling it was bitten in the thumb. Little n otice was taken of the wound, which healed over. The first symptoms of hydro phobia appeared on Sunday morning, when he arose and attempted washing himself. Thesigbt of water threw bon into paroxysms. Medical aid was mune mooned, but the malady increased tints ing the day, and at night he foamed al the month, snapped aff members of het family, and was seized with convulsions. Every few minutes he realized, during, his lucid Wet-vale, hie situation, and begged hie friends to keep away for safe ly. 'Y esterdaraftornogin it was determ ined to try the effect of a sulphur vapor bath. The patient was listniviiireol bath for half an hour st itnipet of one hundred and e- When taken out n 101 , I . o "'= e 1101 . . n 10 " VIM! 111 1101'10dt • 101 ,1 `. 11% lenv•s it wile and ehildiea.
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