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Tiik efTort of the Hon. L. I). Sher
wood, of tlie House of Representative!,
to reduce the pay of members of the |
Legislature is praiseworthy, hut entire
ly useless. It cannot be done. Let
them have the pay, but lock up the
Hall and keep them from stealing, and
the people will he satisfied.
Cot,. JOHN C. BI RCH, of Tennessee,
has been elected Secretary of the Sen
ate ; H. J. Bright, of Indiana, Ser
geant-at-arms; ex-Congressman Sby
bor, of North Carolina, Chief clerk ;
11. Bailey Peyton, of Virginia, Ex
ecutive clerk, and Rev. Joseph U.
Bullock, of Virginia, Chaplain.
J. SIMPSON AFRICA, the Democratic
candidate for Secretary of Internal
Affairs last fall, and J. BLAKE WAL
TERS,the present cashier of the Treasury
department, are favorably mentioned
as candidates for State Treasurer. The
material is good, and the Democracy
would commit no blunder in the choice
of either.
A Nt'MßEit of citizen* of Cincin
nati have made serious charges of an
unfair election, returning Butterworth
and Young to Congress, and demand
investigation. A committee has been
raised and investigation ordered.
Their CIU-H; will doubtless bring to
light some of the working of the Fed
eral election laws, and if the state
ments of the petitioners arc establish
ed, may send Messrs. Butterworth and
Young back to try their hands again.
THE New York Tribune * PEAKING
of the Democratic organization of,
Congress, says: " The noble work of i
seating Democrats in the chairs to
which Republicans were elected, will i
now go on with beautiful celerity and ;
regularity," and then adds. "There
are abundant precedents for it."
Well, yea, the precedent*! for this .
kind of procedure have been very I
numerous in the last fifteen years, and
their character of a very aggravated j
kind. But we trust the demoraliza
tion of the past docs not and will
not reach to any alarmiog extent the
party that now controls in Congression
al representation. We hope we shall
have honest elections, and that the
honestly elected will be seated, what
ever their political affiliations. But
no more troop polls or 8 to 7 commis
sions to seat fraud*, if you please.
A new instance of the sincerity
professed by the present administration
for civil service reform comes to light
in the recently announced appoint
ment of William A. Herron, to the
position of pension agent at Pittsburg.
There is no reason for a change of
officials in this case except that Mr.
Hayes desires to provide for a person
al friend, whom he finds in the gentle
man named. Against the present in
cumbent, Major McGregor, who has
filled the place for many years, no
charges of any kind are made. In
deed it is conceded that he is a compe
tent and faithful officer and has al
ways performed his duties with entire
satisfaction to every one. He was also
a soldier of the late war, and bears
upon his person the marks of three
wounds received in battle. But all
this weighs * nothing when placed in
the balance with personal favoritism;
and such is civil service reform.
A Democratic Majority.
Since the change of political power
from the republican to the democratic
wide of the Seuate of the United States,
the first test of party strength on n
political question between the mem
ber* of the two parties in that body
occurred on lost Friday. A resolu
tion, introduced by Senator Wallace,
that required the Secretary of the
Treasury to furnish the Senate a state
ment in detail of the accounts of the
marshals of the Uuited States in cer
tain states for the employment and
payment of deputy marshals in con
; nectiou with the elections of lost Oc
| tobcr ami November, furnished the
' opportunity for a skirmish between
the op|M>sitc sides that the republicans
could not permit to pass unheeded.
The statement required bv the reso
lution, it was well understood, would
l>6 used by the committee to iuquirc
into election frauds. This committee
wa appointed ut the last session and
was known as the Teller committee. !
Its investigations, under the direction '
of the republican majority of which
it was composed, were confined to the
southern states. It was continued in
existence, and now with a democratic
majority, under Mr. Wallace as chair
man, instead of Mr. Teller, it pro
poses to find out something about elec
tion frauds iu some of the northern
states. The resolution was no sooner
called up than t'onkling ami Kdmunds
came boldly to the front with n writ*
of amendmeoU designed to impede
the investigation and baffle the demo*
crats in their intentions to expose the
deputy marshal abuse to the country.
The republican senators named, reiu
forced by Blaine, took the floor in
support of their amendments evident
ly intending to provoke an angry
and prolonged discussion. The strug
gle, however, was of short duration.
Throughout it Mr. Wallace bore him
self like the able and accomplished
parliamentarian that he is. and uuder
his leadership a determined and unit
ed majority soon convinced the opjK>-
sition that they were uo longer the
dictators of the senate. The result
was a sad lesson to them, for they
learned to their sorrow that a strict
party vote in the senate does not now
score as it did during eighteen years
of uncontrolled republican ascenden
cy, and that republican omnipotence
in legislation has come to lie a thing
of the past. The chagrin of the lead
ers at their first defeat was but illy
concealed. Possibly in time they will
learn to bear it with a l>ettcr grace.
No DOUBT many of our well-mean
ing Republican friends will regard
Democratic senators as exceedingly
inquisitive, even unkind, in making
demands upon John Sherman for infor
mation which they believe the people
of the United States have a right to
know. The inquiries will neverthe
less continue to he made, and* the
crnAy Secretary will be obliged to turn
the light upon mauy hidden things
that yet remain iu the dark before a
Democratic congress lets up on him.
Besides responding to senator Wal
lace's resolution in relation to the
army of deputy marshals paid out of
the National treasury to corrupt and
control the elections last fall, he will
also find an agreeable task in answer'
ing Senator Saulsbury upon the con
nection of the treasury with syndicate*
and )>anks in the negotiation of gov
ernment bonds. This inquiry invol
ve* a question of several millions of
dollars in the way of interest and
double interest unlawfully paid to cer
tain pet banks and bankers, and upon
it the public may as well be enlight-
I ened.
THK thieve* about our Legislative
Hall at Harrisburg have been plying
their vocation this year a* usual. We
have authority of Mr. Hewit, the Re
presentative from Blair, for the asscr*
tion that "of f23,580 charged in the
Auditor General'* account* a* paid in
the present House for stationery, only
$6,000 worth wan honestly used, the
remainder being fraudulent It ap
pear* that nothing in the shape of
moveable property ia aafe in that
neighborhood, and Mr. Hewit directs
attention to the fact that SIB,OOO of
curtains have been stolen from the
chamber since last winter."
What has become of the resident
clerk placed in charge of the cioamber
to guard the property in the recess?
Could he not tell how the property got
out of his custody ?
THE ASOELS* TRACK.
PKDWATRt* TO H4LLIK.
By my ■tin. at ths window, shr Urril long—
Tills laMin of flvi ysam old,
With thr wlusoms nll and h"*rt of song,
Aud hair of sunny gold.
As hs i>rattlxl unjust hfurn us stood
A mountain, towsrlng high,
With Call, dark plus* and wnallh of wood.
That st'in*d to touch tli sky.
" Look, look," —h*r wltful syss turnsd to ms—
" l.'nt that lli* 1 angola* track 1
Ths i ki!i Is worn twos ly thHr f*?t I s*s—
Ths rsst of tlis hill U hlark.
Yss—that I licit t ish slrsak In and out of ths trsss
Mint sursly 1m ths wny
That thsy trass) from hoavsu, with g*ol thing., I*l as
Toll ms, U'ut it to, I j-ray*
thsy taks up our tint to ths tiod ahovs,
By ths vrry muis |*th, too?
It cannot l> f*r to that hm of loss—
Ju.t —bow i-lusn ths bins.
Why It almost H'U on ths In* to|. grssn.
It I. only a it<<p or so
From ths dusty road. 1 bars oftrn ssn
My |Uymats farther go."
| answorssl "That road, like a ribbon of broan,
Ull over ths aids >f ths hIU,
Aiwiigat moss*-# and ferns frmn lae to crown,
Winding in and out at will.
With ths shadow, upon It, Hut merrily play
Athwart from Mi to right,
Il**ri not angel*' f>t |>rinu. No ihsluwnl way
I. theirs— It la glorious light; '
k And th.lr tread li too gentle, w*U this I know,
To brat down ths growing grass.
Softer far than the t<, of the wind thsy go,
Nor rnorv a b-uf as they |m
ar only mark, which ths log. hare mads
That ars hewn on ths mountain . |*wk,
And *enl rti.hlng down to the .|*u glada,
Fast as ths lightning's streak. '*
Oh' l>*.utiful Uflry! I wondering Untight
How the |aast and lh. |rwent •••sii;
Alike—as a glimpse of the Udder 1 caught
That Jacob aaw in Ids drtatn.
While | uiiMel uii the l"a.n We lauo, I stuiled
To think in what vartd ways,
fc'eil out of tle ni<mitli a tiny child,
"Tboi ha! par fee test praise." f. A. H.
Encroachment f Federal Bayonet* on
the Bight* of tin- People.
From lb. Ifttsburg Orttl..
'•Trisl by an unpacked ami impartial
jury, elections frw from intervention by
tl><- army and the |>eron of tho riuson
•ecuro against arrest at the poll, by the
millions of Federal p. w>-r! Thrau. are
smong tlu mo.t sacred privilege* of free
men, and wo may b<- sure that the I>arty
wbicb su.lains and protect* thi-m will It
self la> protected snd sustained by tlic jh*-
ple.'—.Yew York Sun.
Fiine after time the CW/ic bos shown
that it was the province of the ikriuo
cratic party to check the encroachments
of tho Federal |iower ti|ion individual
liberty snd to slay it from irrasping
power beyond th constitutional limit.
It i* n<lt l>ec*ue Hetnocrata in the South
have so much to complain of the i w;ual
ity to which thoy have heretofor.,
subjected at the polls, for notwithstand
ing the federal bayonets and the mali
cious legislation ol the late Republican
Congress, they have swept the field,
and have no fear* that Mr. Hayes would
attempt to rob them of their dearly won
victories. But they are determined
once and forever to blot out Irom the
statute l>ooks such iniquitous legisla
tion. They will have no such prece
dents to stand as menaces in the future.
Frauds at the elections ought surely to
lie punished, but for the insignificant
offences of this sort which have been
perpetrated in the North as well as in
the South—and by Republicans as well
as Pemocral* in both regions, they will
not tolerate the employment of troops.
I.el the local authorities deal with such
things in local elections, but in Con
gress only, not the Executive, is vested
the priviiegeof adjudging between con
testants in a federal election. If the
election# proceed so riotously as to j>a*
beyond control of the State authorities,
then tho Constitution provides for the
National interference; but it needs no
special enactments. All that is now
wanted is a repeal of these lgws which
are at once a disgrace to the country
and contrary to the spirit of the age.
I.itlle by little tho iHsinocracy have
been adjusting sfl'sirs and restoring this
country to the basis u|M>n which it was
originally established. They represent
to day a majority of hundreds of thou
sand* of the voter* of the oountry—and
yet when they are about to expreas the
will of that majority, we are met with
the cry of the Republican*, "you can't
do that, we have the veto." True, true,
we must accept the fates for the present,
but still it occssionslly grate* very hard
upon the majority, when they consider
how that veto power was obtained by
the Republican*. The love of peace
and the love of country only have re
strained the people of this country from
violently deposing Mr. Hayes ftom the
Presidential chair. He may keep it
now, but the people will see to it that
that trick U not perpetrated upon them
again, and it ill behoove* the office hold
ing clique to oppose the just measures
for reform sought to be inaugurated by
the representatives of the people in
Congress assembled. But don't lot the
strain U|ion their |>atience become too
! great, for something might break.
Tut New York Aw* print* a table of
the reward* paid by Mr. Hayes to the
men who counted him- in, in liOuiniana
and Florida. This pention roll includes
ihe name* of one hundred and thirteen
individual* who did Hajrea service in
variou* ways in the two Htates. Their
rewards range from the sl7,fioo a year
paid Noye* and Stoughton each for re
presenting the purity and grandeur of
American institutions at the French and
Russian court*, to the petty S9OO a year
swarded to the smaller fry villains as
Custom House gangers. The sum total
per annum which these men receive,
who made theoounting in conspiracy
successful, is 1207,715, which will amount
in the four years that Hayes wilf remain
a* the <U /acta President to $1,070,860.
This is the price of tttp stolen Presiden
cy, paid directly to thbae concerned in
stealing it, from the Udited States Trea
sury, on the order of lis Frauduiency,
as rewards for services rendered and
secrets guarded-—the price of the Na
lion's dishonor—and the Treasury of
the Nation supplies the i%oney.—7>rMM
Democrat.
Raw sens are never offead for the re
mains of men politically .■ad-
Hlgiis of the II in PH.
From lb* llsrrteliurs Palriul,
The incroaaing activity in commercial
ami industrial allium allbrds a cheering
sign that the oountry i* slowly but
surely recovering from the stagnation
ol recent years. The Now York Timet
has been collating reports of the pros
pects of spring business in nearly all
}>ortions ol the country. With few ex
ceptions theso reports show that the
farmers and merchants are looking
hopefully to the future and in almost
all departments of industry there is
renewed activity. The iron industry of
Pennsylvania, which has been so much
prostrated since the crash of 1873, is
daily improving. Within the lost thirty
days the price of pig iron under the
still' demand has advanced $1.50 a ton.
In New York the great iron and steel
establishments, the "Onondago" nnd
"Sanderson," which have an annual
business of a million dollars, report that
they have orders which will give them
full employment for a long time. In
some of the great manufacturing estab
lishment* of New Jersey the men are
working overtime so as to meet Ihe
rapidly accumulating order*. The man
ulai'turing towns of Connecticut, Hart
ford, Merrden, New Britain, Collinsville
with its axes, and Wdlamatilic with its
woolen and linen manulaclorie* aie all
busy. In the west and northwest the
number of acres under cultivation has
considerably increased. The south, too,
shows cheering signs of the improve
ment in trade and industry.
While business activity is steadily
progressing the emigration of super
numerary workingmeii to the west is
making progress. It is estimated that
a million and a half of men have emi
grated Irom the east to the west and
south within the last two or three years,
and the movement seems to be on the
increase. In Boston and New York
asMx-iation* have been formed to assist
emigration with money and other aid.
The workingtiien have themselves taken
the matter in hand and have formed co
operative unions for founding colonies
in the west, without waiting for Hen
drick B. Wright's promised loan from
the government. By thu relieving the
east of its sujM-tfluous working popula
tion the condition of its industrial peo
ple is improved. There is greater de
mand for their labor at belter wages.
Report* from Kuropc show that asso
coitions have been formed there to en
courage immigration to the south and
west of this country, and especially to
Texas. The Mcnnonitc* in Kansas have
in-t with great success in founding their
colonies.
Not only is emigration from Europe
to this country increasing, but the capi
talist* of the old world are recognising
the superior advantages that are offcrol
here lor in vestment in industrial under
taking*. The Ixindon Iron re|K>il* that
an association of English capitalists are
building great iron work* in .South
I'ittsburg, Tenne*ee, and will soon be
gin manufacturing operation*. Anoth
er English company i building similar
institutions in Toronto. These are not
solitary operations but are signs of the
difficulty of cotn|>eting in England with
the iron manufacture of this country.
Another sign of the limes is the exten
sion of the list of exportation* of Amer
ican products. Th recent attempt of
the Reading railroad company to intro
duce anthracite coal into Italy and
Switzerland ha* met with much success.
Anthracite coal of the best quality is
delivered in (ieneva at $lO a ton, anil is
acknowledged to be chea|>er ami Wller
than the French snd Herman cos).
In the revival of business, the absence
of the spirit of wild speculation which
marker! the period that closed with the
crash ol IXT3. is one of the most favor
able signs of the times. Trade is re
establishing itself on sounder and se
curer foundations, and the supply is
regulated by a healthy demand. Re
sumption in putting an end to fluctua
tions in the currency and seeming a
steady measure of value has coniribtiied
no small share to the improvement in
business. Currency Is in sufficient sup
ply for the demand* of regular and
legitimate trade and among business
men there is a general indisposition to
disturb the existing monetary system
unless it be to stop the excessive coin
ago of depreciated silver. If distrust
ing influences do not intervene confi
dence will soon le fully restored and
the business of the country will improve
until it ia placid on a secure and more
pro|>erous looting than ever.
' ♦ M I
Rank Robbery.
Till TIIIXVEA onTAIW RXoraH Movxr TO
rsr rox mi raoi;Bi.B.
Ik# PttM>rf OHMfi.
A bank robbery w'a* successfully car
ried out in this city on Thursday, the
particulars of which have finally leaked
out, notwithstanding the strenuous ef
forta of tho officers of the bank ana of
the detective* to keep the matter quiet.
The modoperandi was this: In the
same building in which the bank ia
located ia the office of an insurance
company. The president of the bank
ia alao one of the principal officer* of
the insurance company. It is the habit
of the clerk* to go to dinner about noon,
leaving only one or two persons in the
bank for some time. The thieves evi
dently understood these facta well. On
Thuraday, a littla before one o'clock in
tha afternoon, two men drove up to the
bank in a buggy. One remained in the
buggy white the other went into the
bank and told the prsaident that there
was a man outside who wished to see
him about some insurance. The presi
dent went out to the pavement to see
the man in the buggy, leaving no one
in the bank but the caahier and the
atranger. The latter engaged the at
tention of the cashier, and a third man,
a partner of the first two, slipped in
quietly and gathered up all the money
he could conveniently reach. Alt three
then left before the robbery was discov
ered. The bank offiera refuse to state
the amount stolen, even to detective*,
but insist that the amount was not targe.
The officers have not even the alighteet
clue aa to who the thieves are.
The relations between the bank and
"front office" do not appear to ba of tha
moat pleasant character but the presi
dent informed a reporter that there
oould not have been leas than four con
cerned in the job. Two men were in
fron. of the bank at different time*.
The one who did most of tho work ia a
little fellow with stubby fiery rod whisk -
or*. Ho wore brown overcoat and a
suit of grayish blue. The individual in
the luggy was of dark complexion and
black whiskers, The bunk and insur
ance company ref.-rred to iu the Arti
zans, corner of Third avenue and Wood
street.
A Family's Narrow Escape.
From ths Brsdfor.l Era.
Alonzo tJilson, a contractor in the
employ of 8. L. Wilson, resides on the
Worth man farm, to ward the head wa
ters of Oil Valley, A pathway leads
from the house up the hillside to a tank
directly aliove. About ten days ago the
oil was overflowing from the tank. One
night last week, after the family had re
tired, Mr. fiilson was awakened Irom his
slumbers by a strange feeling of suffo
cation. As soon a* he became thor
oughly aroused his practiced sense*
told him that gas from crude petroleum
was rising. A bright gas fire was burn
| ing in the stove. Mr. Gilson stepped
! out of the bed on the floor. His feet
j touched a greasy liquid. He had step-
I ped into crude oil. He shut off the gas
I from the stove, and called to the men
who were sleeping up stairs to extingu
ish the light which was burning. When
I the lights and fire had been extinguish
>ed an investigation was made. Mil hud
run down the hillside, crept under the
rear door, and covered tin* floor for an
inch in depth. In passing over the
snow it had beccmed sligotly chilled
and the ga was not generated rapidly
after it backed uii in the house. Had
iit been thoroughly warmed the gas
would have been fired by the red
hot stove. Had the oil on the floor of
the house been fired the sleeping family
| must have perished. It certainly was
a narrow escape.
Work Hoon to Begin on the New Peni
tentiary.
frvtn III* llUftf.f.£<|<<ti Mtrtzitrf.
M<**r. NoUn and llart, two of tin*
CoromiiMoner A|j>oint*i to aid eel a
file for the Middle Penitentiary, spent
a couple of day* in our borough this
week. They were accorupanied hy Mr.
Morrtaon, of Jy>ck Haven, who haa the
contract for building the reservoir and
laying the pipe. The contract (or do*
ing that work wu first awarded to
Meftr. ( ollon A Co., of Philadelphia,
for $5,165, that being the |owist hid.
The refused, however, to comply with
the terms of the contract, on the ground
that they had put in their bid believing
that the pipe wa.* to be furnished by
the .State. When they learned that the
contractor is to furnish all the pipe,
they 'backed down." The cotmimiori*
em then decided to *cr<pt toe next low
et bid, which waa by Mr. Morrison, and
teing about more than the hid of
Msfturs. Col) on A. Co. Mr. Morrion. the
contractor, is an elderly man, robust in
t*|earance, and pleading in manners.
He says that wotk will he commenced
on the reservoir as soon as the ground
will he in proper condition for it.
The Postal Appropriation Hill
The main feature in the po#toffee ap
propriation bill as agreed U|ou in con
ference snd a it will pas* both houses.
■is the provision for reclassification of
tnnil matter, which is retained, but not
s fixed by the Senate. The original
provision for four classes of mail matter
remains, but the Senate's method of
paying railways far mail trsns|>ortstion
according to the sjeed of trains and the
space occupied is rejected, and the
present system retained. All newspa
per-sand |>eriodica)s may lie sent through
, the mail* at two cents ja*r pound, and
' sample copies may be sent free. The
Postmaster'tenera! is authorized to
compel railroads to furnih bun a re
port of th business in order that he
| may determine what amount of com
penaation is fair for carrying the mails.
! Newsdealers may mail to regular pa
: Irons, an<l instead of (40(1,000 for fat
! mails, the sum of (150,000 was agreed
Ufion. The Brazilian steamship amend
ment was stricken out. Th Senate
receded from it and the Mouse receded
from its objections to the classification
part after the changes noted at<ove were
made. The clause in regard to the reg
istration of newspapers was stricken out,
hut the clause making it a penalty for
publishers of newspa|>ers to submit to
the department false evidence as to the
character of their publications wsa re
tained. This really give* the depart
ment power to compel a registration of
newspapers if it may see fit aa a matter
of administration. The authoiity to
the Post master tienerai to put into
public use double postal cards and
double letter envelopes was alao stricken
out.
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A barmen! of (Hiss.
tnm lbs Asa Frsactsr.. Chronic I*.
In the basement of the residence of
H, Isaacs, Mission street, is now being
woven the most wonderful fabric of
which the voluminous history of unique
feminine apparel furnishea any account.
It is the material, a* flexible as the finest
of silk, for a lady'a dress, and I* being
woven by Prof. Oreiner out of innumer
able colored strands of glaas, first spun
by himself. The strand consists of in
numerable aoftly glistening threads,
finer than the finest of floss silk. These
stands are spun of all colors, and are
then washed in a solution or water and
! beetroot sugar, which toughens them.
The weaving is done on an old-fashioned
hand-loom, the warp being nineteen feet
long, and the woof tour feet, eo that the
material will cut to splendid advantage.
Only about ten inches a day can be wov-1
en, and the whole piece will not be com
pleted until tome time in April.
Tus Seicnftfc America* ha* discovered
that striped stockings are not the only
articles of wearing apparel that are
poisoned. It claims to nave seen wool
en, silk and cotton goods which contain
arsenic in dangerous tpiantiUe*, and
gives several instance* in which death
has occurred from their use, Professor
Nichols, of the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, al*6 reports the eiamin
ation of a lady's dree* which contained
eight grain* of areenio to the square
foot. *
August Hunt, paying teller of the
Xeokenics and Traders' Bank, haa com
mitted suicide at New Orleans.
A Few Furl*.
grow. M Washington P*.
When the Republican party had full
away in the Capitol neatly all the offi
ce# of any considerable iinj>orlance were
•riven to men who Mood at the rear.
Moat of the "colonel*" and "captain*"
on the pay roll* of both Henate and
l!ou*o got their title* in the home
guard aervice or a* honorary member* of
the Mat!'* of atate executive*. A lew
crippled soldier* were employed as mes
senger*, and the fact of their employ
ment was noisily proclaimed to the
country a* indicative of Republican
gratitude to the nation'* brave defend
er*. Hut the valuable and honorable
position* were, a!mo*t without excep
tion*, bestowed upon men who had een
no service and who had made the four
year* of war the harvest time of their
live*.
A* it win at the Capitol no it wan in
the department* and *o wa* it in the
custom*, internal revenue, postal and
Indian branches of the public service.
Here and there a soldier waa given *orne
trivial position, and hi* appointment
wa* advertised a* an example of Repub
lican gratitude, while the office* of hon
or and profit were lavished on men who
not only had been excused from sacri
ficing anything for their couutry, but
had accumulated a competency through
the facilities for money making that the
war afforded to the thrifty and the
sje-culative.
I'erhap* the bcxt illustration of this
may be found iu the case- of Morton,
who wis* honored with the title of "sol
diers' friend," and who really waa a*
considerate of the soldier*' interest a*
any leader ol his party. In the list of
Morton's ap|*inteet, in his state and in
this city, there were numerous military
titles. A lew of the owaers of these
title* had earned them at the front.
Hut the great miM of the recipient* of
the immense patronage that Morton
dispensed were bogus military designa
tions. A "general," two or three "colo
nels," a brace of "major*" and a squad
of "captains," who danced attendance
on Gov, Morton at lndiana|Kilit during
the unpleasantness, were quartered in
the best pla< <-s at Lis disposal, and some
of them hold those places to this day.
A collector-ship worth JlO 000 a year
was given to. and i* still retained by. a
man who rrfuaed to take an honorable
fighting command, but applies! for and
received an inferior stall ap(iointment
at the rear. And this man is by no
means an exception to the rule.
Now that the ]>emoeratic party ha*
control of Congress and the official po
sition* pertaining to both hou*ea, the
Republican papers are raising a howl
about the "wrongs of tb|>oor soldiers.'*
and are falsely accusing the Democrat*
of discriminating against the men who
fought under the stirs and tri|>e*.
We undertake to say that, in it* solic
itude for the soldiers, the Ih-mocratic
party can safely defy comparison of iu
record with that of any other party that
ever held power in tin* country. There
i* no interest of the soldier that the
Democratic party has not uniformly de
fended. no just claim of the soldier to
which it ha* ever turned a deaf ear.
At the Capitol, and wherever else the
Democracy ha* had patronage to le
--stow. jiowcr to vote pensions, bouotie*
or adjustment of any fair demands, it
has uniformly been the firm and faith
ful friend of the soldier*. Such ha#
!>cen it# record in the paiL Such are
it* act* to day. Such will be it* course
in time to come. The Democratic party
is the party of the people, and a such
it is bound by every tie of interest and
svmpathy to be true to the ciliteu-aol
dieri of the Republic.
Conviction of Riotos* Alli-ghenv Mine r*.
PITTSBvaoH, March 22.—Sotne three
weok* ago al>out three hundred miner*
who were out on a strike at California,
a town on the Monongahela, about
sixty mile* from here, drove forty min
er* from work in the mine* of J. K.
| N'eel, i>aying that "if all the men were
1 not given work not a ton of ooal abould
l>e mined." Sheriff Work, of Wahing
ton county, with a posse of 150 men,
raided the mining town* and captured
seventy-fiTe of the rioter*. They were
charged with conapiracy and riot. Fifty
of the men were found guilty to-day in
the Washington county court. They were
Philip Aldndge. Alexander Hate*. John
Bate*, laaac Rrewer, Robert llrewer,
William Brewer. John Crawford, Wil
liam Courtney. William Davia, Arthur
Ihxon, .tame* I>agger, .1. C. Alexander,
Conrad Gillon, Morgan Uaaper. William
llenahall, Van Hartman, David Hart
man, John Henahall, Mike Hartman,
George lluieman, .lame* Hoover, Wil
liam Hager, Martin Jeffrey*, John Jef
freys, -lame* Johnaon. Richard Moore,
John Nicelow, Mechli Pastoriua, John
Pyle, Allen Robert*, Charles Roberta,
William Robert*, John Roaael, Cbarlea
Rex, Alfred Shutterlv, Peter Hhovelin, a
William Simpson, William Smothers, *
Robert A. Tray, I>avid Thorns*, S. Rent
ley Walker, Jame* Walker, Thomas J.
Walker, John Wood*, Charles Oaten*,
David Truxall, John C. Wilson and
Same* Wataon. It is asid that moat of
these men are of the worst type of Mol
lie Maguirea, and have organised a num
ber of stubborn strikes in the Monon
gahels regions. The result of the trial
will be greatly beneficial to the mine
owners.
legislating Against Tramps.
TBI BILL WHICH HAS TAUtD TBB lOCK.
The lltoiw at Harrisburg, on Tuesday
of last week, by a voto of 123 to 50, p***
ed on third reading an act for the pun
isbment of tramp*. It provide* that
any |>er*ou arrested and convicted of
being a trump abali be imprisoned at
solitary confinement and hard labor for
a period of not ieaa than aix month* and
not more than eighteen month*, and
any tramp convicted of trespass, carry
ing firearm*, threatening violence, or
kindling fire on the highway or upon
any one a land without the permission
of the owner, shall be imprisoned in
the manner above stated for three
yean. The act exempts minora under
sixteen years of age, also blind, deaf and *
dumb, and maimed or crippled persona
from its provisions. The bill now goes
to the Senate for concurrenee.
Incendiaries burned the entire wwt
aide of the busineee portion of Tyler,
L., on Thursday.