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• " f - . : • . '-si ; • . V- . j * :>:W< -• SvyirV; * ®he pc|cnr5 |laindealet ~~ jTvAN 8LTKR. PtmtJBKKR. ffe« ITOFLEKET, ILLINOIS. HH555SH5H9 IDE NEWS CONDENSED. THE LOUISIANA COMMTOtOX. THE commission wu in executive session ny* of the day on the 18th. but nothing as to the natnre of their deliberations was allowed to leak ont. They sent a long cipher dispatch to the President relating the result of their conferences up to date. They stated that they found tit" Nirtholls party indisposed to make any concessions, while the P&ckardites were ready to enter into an arrangement for a Joint Legislature to determine the pending questions; but, this being rejected by the Nicnolls party, the Packard party desire tne President to decide which is the tegai Governor. The commission received a dispatch from the President, but de­ clined to make known its contents. NBW ORLKAXR dispatches of the 16th state the Nicholla Legislature adopted the pro­ position of the oornmisHian to unseat seven members seated on contest, and install an equal number of members from the Packard Legislature, thus ghing to the former body a log*l quorum, and a small Democratic majority in both branches. The Nicholls Leg­ islature also adopted resolutions rec­ ognising the obligation resting upon the State Government to carry out in good faith the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments to the constitution of the United States; guaranteeing to the colored people complete protection and equality in rights and privileged of person and property, and the en­ forcement of the laws without discrimination on account of color ; and proffering the olive branch to all political enemies. ADVICES of the loth from New Orleans, are to the effect that Packard had flatly refused to accede to the terms proffered by the Nicholla Legislature; ex-Gov. Warmoth had seceded from the Nicholla Legislature and again joined his fortunes to those of Packard, carrying with him a few colored members ; and, upon the whole, the prospect of an amicable settlement of the disagreements was regarded as exceed­ ingly slim. THE Packard Legislature, on the 18th, form­ ally defeated the proposition submitted from the Nicholls body through the commission, and the latter were officially notified of such action. The commission reported to the President the failure of a?l attempts so far at an adjustment, but added that they had not wholly abandoned hope of bringing about a peaceable settlement of the-matters in dispute. SEVERAL members of both branches of the Packard Legislature seceded on the 19th and joined the Nicholls body, thus giving the latter a legal quorum. A caucus of the former was held, at which resolutions were adopted bit­ terly denouncing the commission and the Presi­ dent for sending them to Louisiana. Packard addressed the caucus, expressing a determina­ tion to continue the contest to the end. The members of the commission expressed the opin­ ion that the end was drawing nigh, and that in all probability a few days more would witness Nicholls in undisputed possession of the guber­ natorial office, including the State House. THE EAST. THE verdict of the Coroner's jury investigat­ ing the cause of the deaths of the two Jewetts, in the recent "bombshell" tragedy in New York, was to the effect that the elder Jewett lost his life by the explosion of the hand-gren­ ade thrown by Orville D. Jewett, and that the latter died from the effects of a pistol shot fired by himself. No LITTLE excitement has been produced in New York city by the publication of the confession of William M. Tweed, revealing the operations of the notori­ ous ring of which he was the head. Tweed says he has suffered much and suffered long in silence, and has borne the burden of what others should have shared. Afflicted with dis­ ease, feeble from age and confinement, and ill at ease in mind, he seeks for the rest and relief he so much and so sorely needs. He adds that the only basis upon which he has a right to apply for leniency and pardon is, that he will make a complete surrender of his property and full disclosure of his criminal companions. The proposition is a long and exhaustive docu­ ment, and assumes the nature of a confession, which goes back as far as 1867, when the ring first began to assume form. It gives in detail the story of various conferences between the writer, Peter B. Sweeny, Richard Connolly, Henry Genet, A. Oakey Hall, and others, fey which Tweed was elected to the State Senate, Connolly Comptroller in 1867, and Hall Mayor. Jan. 1, 1869, Tweed, according to the story, transferred to State Senator Wmslow in person $200,000 to secure the charter of 1870, which gave to the ring the control of the city through the support of several influential Re­ publican members of the Legislature., The confession gives the circumstances of the di­ vision of the spoils between himself. Sweeny, Hall, Connolly and JVoodward. It implicates Garvey, Ingersoli, uaviasou, HVatson, and a majority of the Board of Supervisors. Mayor Hall's proportion was 10 per cent. He shared throughout in all the profits. He was in full collusion with the fraud in its various details, and was fully aware of the fraudulent nature of the contracts presented for his signature. Hugh Hastings, of the Commercial Adver­ tiser, is mentioned as having received a check for $20,000, and checks for smaller amounts at various times. Tweed says money was also paid to Judge Purser, of Ne w York city A formidable band of counterfeiters has beea broken up in Pennsylvania. Among those ar­ rested is Hon. Thomas W. Marion, an ex-mem­ ber "of the Pennsylvania Legislature. He sold a quantity of counterfeit money to one of the agents of the service, and he represented he had frequently addressed the State House of Bepresentatives when he had his pockets full of the bogus stuff. A YOUNG man named Levi Thomas met with a frightful death at a coal * mine, near Wilkes- bwre, Pa., the other day. He endeavored to rtep aboard the carriage of the elevator, which ne evidently thought was in waiting to descend, When he was precipitated into the shaft, strik­ ing the bottom 1(00 feet below. His remains were so mangled as almost to preclude recogni- THB President has selected Bedloe's island, In New York harbor, as the rite for the location of the grand French statue entitled "Liberty Enlightening the World." THE, SOUTH. HEAVY rains have seriously injured the grow- fng crops in South Carolina... .Twoyoung men, named Jones and Wakely, fought a duel at the- day- The seconds loaded the pistols with blank cartridges and nobody was hurt, though the two principals were badly scared. All the parties were ar­ rested and lined. THE office doors of all the State officials in he Capitol building at Columbia, 8. C., have been sealed up, and will not be reopened until the Supreme Court decides the question as to who are the legal officers. A TKBBIBLT destructive tornado swept over the village of Lavergne, Tenn., a few days ago, sweeping everything before it. A little . girl lying in bed with her brother had her brains dashed out, while he escaped with a few bruises. A negro man and a negro boy had their thighs broken. An old lady was carried forty yards amid timbers, deeply gashed in the back of her head, and had her arm twice broken, while a piece of somj unknown sub­ stance went entirely through her wrist, making a ghastly wound. She died the next day Others were rescued from underneath logs which laid heavily across their bodies Sticks of timber were blown three^ quarters of a mile. Rails irom fences were blown four feet into the ground Hie suits of Myra Clark Gaines, for several millions of dollars' worth of property, situated in New Orleans, have ended after a struggle in the courts of the land for over forty years. From one court to another the case has been chased--prosecutrix, defendants, lawvers and Judges growing old in the contest--until a week a^o, when a final decision was rendered by Dis­ trict Judge Billings, of New Orleans, in 'favor of the woman whose tenacity of purpose has poshed the matter to this termination. THE W!C«T- BY a cave-in at a mine Yuba county, Cal., a few days ago, seven men, B. F. Henderson, Jame? H. Monk, Michael Sweeny, David Hoth- am, Mieliael McWilliams, Thomas McDonald, and Samuel Sleeman, were instantly killed. Six others were more or less injured A dispatch from Deadwood City says that 100 of Crazy Horse's band of Indians have taken the field again. The cause of this renegade movement is supposed to be the deception practiced by Spotted Tail in representing that oiily Luc ai ms uuioii by theni in the Custer H^ht would be demanded of them upon their surren­ der at Red Cloud, when, in reality, the Govern­ ment demands of them all arms and ponies. ADVICES from Southeastern Kansas state that the grasshopper eggs have failed to germinate. Farmers are jubilant in consequence, and a big crop of everything fexcept locusts is looked for in that region Advices from Camp Sheri­ dan report the arrival there of a large number of the hostiies of Crazy Horse's band. They were fairly loaded down with arms, even the women and children carrying pistols, but had little ammunition, and were in that condi­ tion of physical emptiness in which the gentle savage most readily turns to thoughts of peace. They were supplied with provision.;, ana thep entered the camp with great parade. THOUSANDS of Indians are availing themselves of Gen. Crook's plan of amnesty tuid disarma­ ment at Bed Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies. ... .The Chicago Daily Courier, after many ups and downs, has been laid away in the sepulcher of dead newspapers. SEVERAL persons have been arrested in the Black Hills for manufacturing bogus coin. It is believed large quantities of counterfeit gold coin have been turned out there... .D. M. Rich­ ardson, match manufacturer, of Detroit, has failed. Liabilities, $200,000. WASHINGTON . IT is said ex-Congressman Rasson, of Iowa, will probably be appointed Minister to Spain. ....In view of the certainty of a European war, it is not unlikely that Horace Maynard may be retired from Constantinople, and a very much broader man put in his place. MAJ. RENO, recently tried by court-martial on a charge of insulting the wife of a brother offi­ cer, and sentenced to be dismissed from the service, has forwarded to the War Department a request for delay in the presentation of the case to the President, claiming he has addi­ tional evidence which will tend to a mitigation of the sentence. The request has been granted.... A delegation of Friends called on the Presi­ dent, a few days ago, and presented a petition from the Universal Peace Lnion, asking him to continue the Indian peace policy. The Presi­ dent said that he was in favor of peace every­ where, as fully expressed in his inaugural ad­ dress, which indicated what his course would be for the next four years. He, however, was not .so far advanced as the Quakers, and there might be occasion sometimes to resort to mili­ tary operations. IT has been determined at the Treasury De­ partment to issue an order prohibiting the pay­ ment of ten hours' wages for eight hours' work on Government jobs hereafter. This determi­ nation is in conformity with the decision of the Supreme Court that the Eiglit-Hour law consti­ tutes merely a direction to Government officers, not a contract with Government laborers The President has appointed ex-Congressman John A. Kasson, of Iowa, Minister to Spain, vice Caleb Cushing, resigned. A WASHINGTON dispatch says: " Department officers do not agree in the popular belief that the extra session will be a Bhort one. On the contrary, the indications are that a great deal of business aside from the Army bill will de­ mand the attention of Congress." The Grand Dukes Alexis and Constantino, with the Rus­ sian Minister and others of the royal party, called upon the President one day hut week, and were hospitably received." POLITICAL.. IT is given out from Washington that the President does not intend to recall Mr. Pierre- pont, but that he will remain at the Court of St. James for some time to come. THE official canvass of the vote cast at the recent New Hampshire election reveals the fact that the constitutional amendments were all adopted except those striking out the word "Protestant" from the Bill of Rights, and pro­ hibiting removal from office for political causes. The amendment abolishing the religious test as a qualification for office had a narrow escape, receiving but thirteen votes over the requisite two-thirds. Gov. WADE HAHPTON, in a speech to the negro militia at Columbia, 8. C.: "I want you to remember one fact: that I recognize in your race the right to enjoy precisely the same rights enjoyed by every other citizen of the State. Negro equality is to be maintained. I recog­ nize your equality, and I intend to uphold it. As soon as we can get in harness I will enroll you in the militia, and will take great pleasure in commissioning such officers as you may designate. When the Militia Biw is enforced, and when the military of the State is all en­ rolled, I want the only emulation between the companies to b£ as to who can obey the laws best, who can be the. best soldiers, and who can best protect the public peace." GENERAL. JOHN F. TRACY has resigned the Presidency of the Chicago, Bock Island and Pacific rail­ road, on account of ill health ...Gen. G. W. Custis Lee has brought an action for the recov­ ery of the celebrated Arlington estate, near Washington, formerly the property of Gen Robert E. Lee. It was forfeited to the Govern­ ment during the late war, by the non-payment of taxes, and turned into a national cemeterv. Twelve persons are known to have lost their lives by the burning of the Southern Hotel, in St. Louis, namely: The Rev. A. R. Adams, of England; George Frank Gonley; Henry Hazen; Mrs. W. S. Stewart: Charles Tiernan ; Andrew Eisman: H! J. Clark and wife ; Kate Reillv, Kate Dolan, and Mary Moran, servants ; William Felix Munwter, of England. The latter was a suicide, commit^ ted under derangement brought on by intense excitement. Mrs. Scott, mother-in-law of Andrew Eisman, and Frankie McClellan. the actress, who was dangerously injured, are slowly recovering. One, two, or three.others had broken limbs or were otherwise more or less hurt, but the above list comprises all. who are known to have been killed. IT is said that the large fortune of John F. Tracy, late President of the Rock Island rail­ road, estimated as high as $4,000,000, has been swept away. He has been afflicted for some time with softening of the brain, and his un­ fortunate stock speculations are attributed to this cause. THE amount of grain in sight in the United States and Canada is stated as follows: Wheat, 8,641,036 bushels; corn, 10,044,059 bushels; oats, 2,570,306 bushels ; rye, 798,626 bushels ; barley, 2,223,965 bushels. HON. ASA B. FOSTER, the railway king of Canada, nas suspended, with liabilities of $2,500,000--B. A. Hill and R. W.' Martin, New York gold brokers, have failed; liabilities, about 875,000 each. BE careful and examine every piece of coin you receive, if you don't want to get sold. The Treasury Department at Washington reports that the counterfeiting of coin is rapidly in­ creasing. A number of arrests for manufact­ uring and shoving the queer have lately been made in the West. Some of the new counter­ feits are said to be exceedingly well executed. More than 3,000 tons or American fresh beef were ghipped to the other side of the Atlantic in March, representing probably 11,- 000 or 12,000 head of average cattle. The for­ eign demand exhibits a steady '""-Tawn from month to month, at a ratio that will probably take from the herds of Texas and the West at least 200,000 animals during the current year. FOREIGN. A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch says that, at a grand oonncil of war, the Russian Cabinet had decided to accept the Turkish circular as a oomplete rejection of the protocol. Roumania has called out her reserves, Turkey has de­ clined to renew the armistice with Montenegro, and is pushing her forces toward the Dabube, Russia nas called in all her fur- loughed soldiers, and everything betokens war. .... Reports from Servian sources represent that the Turkish forces in Bosnia are threat­ ened with starvation, and that there are appre­ hensions of a massacre of the Christians ir the Moslem savages become desperate through pri­ vation. IT looks as if England has ab andoned all ex pectation that a European war can be averted, as well as any intention to interpose further diplomatic effort in behalf of pacification. Lord Derby recently addressed a note to the British representative at Constantinople, in which he stated that the divergence between the views of Russia and the Porte appeared so wide as to render further dis­ cussion useless, and that he could not see what further steps England could take to avert the war 'which appeared inevitable. The Paris Momteur (semi-official) declares it is the inflexible resolve of France to remain neu­ tral. A PARIS telegram to the New York World says the defiant attitude of Turkey is explained in private letters from Constantinople. The Ottomans are rendered confident by assurances that Poland, the Crimea, tho Caucasus, Persia, and even India will furnish moral and material aid against Russia in the course of the impend­ ing war A dispatch from St. Petersburg says: " The war feeling here is intense. There never was such a popular war as this one will be. We have no brag, no bluster, no ex­ citement in the streets, ho processions, no singing, no shouting, but a quiet resolution is depicted on every faoe, and is manifest in every­ body's language." THE friends of the Tichborne claimant made a formidable demonstration in London the other day. A procession numbering 60,000 marched to the office of the Home Secretary and presented a plea for the pardon of the great fraud The Czar of Russia has left for the front. He will, however, confine himself to inspecting the troops, and will take no active part in the campaign An order has been issued by the Berlin Government requir­ ing the immediate return of all conscripts or recruits of the Prussian army now residing temporarily abroad. In obedience to the sum­ mons a number of young Germans have left England to join their regiments Teimvson, poet laureate of England, has for the second time declined the honor of knighthood. NEWS comes from Italy of a growing discon­ tent among the commercial population with the policy of the Government, and a movement is on foot against a too close intimacy with Rus­ sia, whose competition in the Mediterranean is feared The Cabinets of Vienna. London and Paris have notified Roumania that the privileges she enjoys by virtue of the treaty of Paris would be considered null and void should she actively co-operate with Russia. IN debate on the budget, the other day, the Italian Finance Minister expressed the hop* that the Eastern war would be localized, but intimated that, in the event of the Russians marching on Constantinople, complications might arise which would involve the active participation of Italy in the straggle The European powers are defining then- posi­ tion in regard to the Turco-Russian complica­ tions. France will observe the most rigorous neutrality. Italy declares that the situation can only be considered grave when the Rus­ sians march on Constantinople. Official Aus­ trian papers say that the Government will only remain neutral so long as its interests in the East are not menaced. Germany's position is well known. It now remains for England to define herself. The Sewing-Machine Monopoly* A number of lobbyists representing an immense sewing-machine combina­ tion interest have made their appearance in Washington. Their object is to pro­ cure by some means not now apparent a renewal or extension of the patent upon the feed motion. The patent has already been extended and will expire on the 8th of May. It was the original inten­ tion of the great sewing-machine pool to go to Congress and purchase an act en­ abling the patent office to again extend their monopoly, but the excitement of the electoral count prevented them from putting this plan into operation. The enormous benefits to accrue to the pub­ lic in the event the sewing-machine pool fail to get an extension will be seen when it is considered thai the manufacturing cost of an ordinary $65 sewing machine is about $6.25, while an $85 machine from the Bridgeport shops costs in the frame ready tor shipment some­ thing under $10. As thing are now, a $65 machine is put to the local agent at •£25, and the agent gets $40 for his time and labor in selling and instructing. An $85 machine costs the agent $35, so on up to the fancy full cabinet pearl-in­ laid article which costs the customer from $150 to $200. The same rate ap­ plies in about the same proportion to all machines in the combination. The breaking down of the monopoly which sustains these ruinous figures will enable any machine shop in the country with proper appliances to- turn out sewing- machines with the lock stitch and wheel or ratchet feed. - Competition will thus bring down the price of machines to a legitimate figure, about one-half the present rates.-- Washington Cor. Chi­ cago Times. France's Debt. The public debt of France is the larg­ est of any country in the world, amount­ ing to $4,634,500,000, while the sum nec­ essary to be annually raised by taxation to meet the expenditures of the Govern­ ment largely exceeds that in any other country. Tne sum asked for the cur­ rent fiscal year is 2,785,616,713 francs, or about $557,123,342. This is about $200,- 000,000 more than the annual expendi­ ture of Great Britain, and about double that of the United States. It speaks well for the resources of France and for the administration of its finances that, notwithstanding the enormous burdens necessarily imposed upon the people, the country is in a fairly prosperous state, and the paper currency of the republic is at par with gold, and the Bank of France will not exchange it for gold ex­ cept at a premium. , AT the opera: " Is not the music," gently suggested Miss Dartle, who her­ self slings a mild mezzo-soprano in pri­ vate life, "Is not the music rather high?" "Well, yes," rejoined Bmootlichin, to­ ward whom she had arched an inquiring eyebrow; "perhaps so, but then you know ' The Flying Dutchman' was al­ most always at C." BISMARCK is 62 years old; so is Lord Granville. Prince Gortschakoff is 79. Lord Beaconsfield is 72, and Mr. Glad­ stone 68. President MacMahon is nearly 69. The Pope will soon be 85; the Archbishop of Canterbury is 66; Dr. Pusey 77, and Dean Stanlev 61. Gari­ baldi is nearly JO, Lord Russell 75, and Jules Simon 63. TURKEY AND RUSSIA. Text of the Former's Note In Reply to th« Protocol--Turkey Will Stand Firmly bjr the Treaty of Paris, and Will Disarm when Ruuia Sets the Example. The Turkish note in reply to the pro­ tocol of the European powers, the text of which is transmitted by cable, uses very strong hmguage. The five points of Count SchouvalofFs declarations are answered seriatim, as follows: In reply to the declaration of His Excellency the Russian Ambassador, the Bublime Porte, on its side, notifies to the signatory powers the following declaration: 1. Adopting toward Montenegro the same line of conduct which brought about the pacifi­ cation of Servia, the Sublime Porte sponta­ neously informed the Prince, two months ago, that it would spare no effort to arrive at an uadui'HUMiuiiiK with him, even at the price of certain sacrifices. Considering Montenegro as an integral part of the Ottoman territory, the Porte purposed the rectification of the line of demarcation which secured advantages to Montenegro, and it henceforward depends en­ tirely upon moderate counsels, which the Porte hopes will prevail at Cettinje, whether thiB affair may be considered as terminated. 2. The Imperial Government is prepared to apply all promised reforms, but these reforms, in conformity with the fundamental provisions of our constitution, cannot have a special or ex­ clusive character, and it is in this spirit tuat the Imperial Government in its full and entire lib­ erty will continue to apply its instructions. 8. The Imperial Government is ready to re­ place its armies on a peace footing as soon as it shall see the Russian Government take measures tothesam^end. The armaments of Turkey have an exclusively defensive character, and the re­ lations of friendship and esteem which unite the two empires inspire the hope that the St. Petersburg Cabinet will not, alone in Europe, persist in the idea that the Christian population in Turkey are exposed to such dangers from their own Government that it is necessary to ac­ cumulate against a neighboring and friendly state all means of invasion and destruction. 4. With regard to disturbances which might break out in Turkey and stop the demobiliza­ tion of the Russian army, the Imperial Govern­ ment, which repels the injurious terms in which this idea has been expressed, believes Europe is convinced that the disturbances which have troubled the peace of the provinces were due to foreign instigation ; that the Imperial Govern­ ment could not be held responsible for them, and that, consequently, the Russian Govern­ ment would not be justified in making the de­ mobilization of its armies dependent npon such contingencies. 5. Concerning the dispatch of the special envoy to St. Petersburg to treat on the question of disarmament, the Imperial Government, which would have no reason to refuse an act of courtesy reciprocally required by diplomatic usages, perceives no connection between this act of international courtesy and disarmament, which there was no plausible motive for delay­ ing;, and which might be carried into effect by a single telegraphic order. The following is the concluding and most emphatic section: Maintaining, with other friendly states, rela­ tions regulated by international law and treaties, Turkey cannot allow foreign agents or repre­ sentatives, charged to protect the interests of their compatriots, to have any mission of official supervision. The Imperial Government, in fact, is not aware how it can have deserved BO ill of justice and civilization as to see itself placed in a humiliating position without ex­ ample in the world. The Treaty of Paris gave explicit sanction to the principle of non-interven­ tion. This treaty, which binds together the ¥owers which participated in it, as well as urkey, cannot be abolished by a protocol in which Turkey has had no share ; and if Turkey appeals to the stipulation of the treaty of Paris, it is not that that treaty has created in her favor any rights which she would not possess without it, but rather for the purpose of call­ ing attention to grave reasons which, in the interests of the general peace of Europe, in­ duced the powers, twenty years ago, to place the recognition of the inviolability of this em­ pire's right to sovereignty under the guarantee of a collective promise. With regard to the clause which, in the case of the non-execution of the promised reforms, would seek to confer upon the powers the right of recurring to ulterior measures, the Imperial Government perceives therein a fresh attack upon its dignity and its rights; a measure of intimidation calculated to deprive its acts of any merit of spontaneity, and a source of grave complications, both in the present future. No consideration, therefore, can arrest the Government in its determination to protest against the views enumerated in the protocol of the 31st of March, and to treat it, as far as Turkey is concerned, as destitute of all equity, and, consequently, also, of all obligatory char­ acter. Exposed to hostile suggestions, to unmerited suspicion, and to violations of international law, Turkey feelt that she is now contending for her existence. Strong in the justice of her cause, and trusting in God, she' determines to ignore what has been decided without her and against her, resolved to retain in the world the place which Providence has destined for her. In this regard she will not cease to encounter attacks directed against her with general prin­ ciples of public right and the authority of the great European act which pledges the honor of the powers that signed the protocol of the 31st of March--a document which in her eyes has no legal claim to exact compliance. _ She appeals to the conscience of Cabinets which she has a right to consider ani­ mated toward her by the same sentiments of equity and friendship as in the past. Imme­ diate and simultaneous disarmament would be the only efficacious means of avoiding the dangers by which the general peace is threat­ ened. The reply which the Imperial Govern­ ment has made to the declaration of the Am­ bassador of Russia furnished the powers with suitable elements for bringing about this re­ sult, which they most assuredly will not seek to obtain by persisting in imposing upon the Ottoman empire sacrifices of rights and honor to which it will not consent. PRESIDENT HATES. He Defines His Policy and Intentions--A Free Talk with the Press Agent. The President has submitted himself to a formal interview, and is reported as follows by the Associated Press agent at Washington: The President said, in the course of the con­ versation, that he had no concealments regard­ ing his Southern policy, which, however, had been foreshadowed in oral and written utter­ ances, and in this connection he adverted to the gubernatorial campaign in Ohio in 1875, which resulted in his election over Gov. Allen, the people of that State having a full knowledge of his sentiments on national questions, including, of course, those which related to the South. The opening speech of a gubernatorial candi­ date is generally considered to be the keynote of a campaign, and in such a speech, as early as the 31st of July of that year, at Marion the freely and distinctly expressed his opinions. Tlns'speech was published at length in all the Republican and many other newspaperss, and therefore, his views were generally known. In that s|>eech, after congratulating his fellow- citizens on the complete triumph over those who sought to destroy the Union, and the £rand results of the war, he alluded to the com- mg together again of Northern and Southern men in a spirit of harmony and friendship, in­ cluding those who had fought against one another, and, as a prominent feature in this evidence of good feeling, he, on that occasion, spoke of the kindly manner in which Vice President Wilson was received on his visit to the South. In this era of good feeling and reconciliation, he further said there were still persons who talked of bayonets, and who sought to revive the prejudices of the past. This was much to be regretted, but there was enough to fill every heart with gratitude, the house being no longer divided, and all its inhabitants having a fair start in th? race for life. In this and in all his other speeches he earnestly condemned the reopen ing of old issues between the North and the South, assuming that the time had come for complete reconciliation. The President, in further conversation, referred to the fact that the National Republican Convention which nominated him for the Presidency passed a resolution sacredly pledging the Republican party to protect every citizen of the United States in all his civil and political rights, and declaring that permanent pacification of the South should be effected by removing all causes of discord. The spirit of this resolu­ tion was in perfect accord with his own views previously expressed, and he repeated them in his letter of acceptance of the nomination, and more fully elaborated them in his inaugural address, consistently maintaining * policy of reconciliation and local self-government apart from military support; and. when he entered upon _ the duties of the Presidency, he intended that this policy shouid not be one of sentiment merely, but of actual administration. He spoke with emphasis when he said: "My belief is that this course tends to give good government to the Sonth ; it tends to secure peace between sections and between races and parties at the South, and it tends to secure the rights, inter­ ests and safety of the colored people. There­ fore, I am iu favor of Ihe policy. I uu nut, know whether I shall succeed in carrying it out, because there are Northern and Southern men who, in various ways, may possibly thwart me ; but of one thing I am confident, namely, I think it my duty to try to carry out the policy, and I am going to do it." ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE. THUKSDAY. April 12.--SENATE.--The follow­ ing bills were passed: To protect by levees lands subject to overflow, and for draining swamp Iimtio; amending the Free School Inw in regard to changing boundaries of school districts which may have a funded indebtedness; prodding for the appoint­ ment of public guardians for counties, who ahull have cure of the interests of minors who have no guardian, relative, or friends in this State; amend­ ing Fee and Salary act, so that in the city of Chica­ go the Council may give additional compensation to the Judges of inferior courts of record sufficient to mage entire salary $6,000 par annum; for payment by the State of expenses incurred in procuring arrest and conviction of persons murdering citizens of this State within the limits of another State; to prevent any except County Clerks from issuing marriage licenses The Insurance Committee re­ ported a bill to provide for securing safety appli­ ances and protection against fire in the construc­ tion of hotels Just prior to the noon adjourn­ ment Senator Dearborn presented to T t tiny. Slmman a fine gold-headed cane in behalf of the employes of the Senate. The Lieutenant Governor responded in fitting terms In the afternoon the consideration of the Revenue bill was resumed The vote adopting the Hamilton amendment in re­ lation to the assessment of intangible property was reconsidered, and the amendment referred to a special committee, consisting of Messrs. Hanna, Whiting, Hamilton, Hunt and Joslyn. HOUSE.--Bills passed: To provide for taxing bridges crossing navigable waters on borders of the State: providing for interchange of Judges of Cir­ cuit Courts, so that they may hold court for each other; amending Insuranse law so'that mutual fire insurance companies may extend their charters; the new Appellate Court bill; bill for the apprehen­ sion of vagrants, vagabonds and tramps; the Southern Penitentiary bill The bill requiring tha investment of the endowment fund of the Indus­ trial University in the United States, or State, or county, or school-list bonds, was put on its passage, and, failing to receive the emergency vote, was re­ considered and referred to a special committee. FRIDAY, April 13.--SENATE.--The Senate passed the following bills: Fixing the height of fences at four and a half feet; making warehouse receipts and bills of lading negotiable; to protect purchasers of lands sold under decree of court where sale has been declared illegal and void; in re­ gard to affairs of railroads; for the annual election of judges of election; increasing amount of capital stock re­ quired in organizing fire insurance companies Senate bill 114, providing for a reassessment of cap­ ital stock for 1873, 1874 and 1875, was made the special order for Wednesday next Senator Glass- ford, from the Penitentiary Committee, made a re­ port as to the condition of the Joliet penitentiary, which was highly creditable to the management of that institution and its internal economy A flnelv- painted portrait of Lieut* Gov. Shuman was received this morning as a present to the Senate from ftftv leading citizens of Chicago Adjourned till Mon­ day. HOUSE.--The following bills were passed: The bill allowing railroad trains to ran at eight miles per hour Instead of four; reducing fees paid by cities to County Collectors to 1 per cent, on the amount collected; providing for investing endow­ ment fund of the Industrial University, as amend­ ed, by striking out the provision allowing invest­ ment in bonds of other States; providing a mode of forming or changing school districts in newly or­ ganized townships A long discussion was in dulged in on the Hickey Cook County Commission­ ers bill, but no final action was had.... At the after­ noon Bession a bill was introduced looking to the safety of guests at hotels, by the different modes of fire escapes. MONDAY, April 16.--Both houses QF the Legislature met this afternoon, bat, as there was no quorum present in either branch, an adjournment was taken until to-morrow. TUESDAY, April 17.--SENATE.--The Senate considered the House resolution of censnre of State Swamp Land Agent Isaac K. Hitt, and from the re­ port of the Judiciary Committee exonerated hint from all charges or insinuations of malfeasance, and the resolution was tabled... .The Northern and Southern Insane Hospital Appropriation bills were considered and ordered to a third reading, as was also the Appropriation bill for the Institution for Feeble-Minded Children. HOUSE.--The special order, House bill 396, to re­ peal the act of 1867, establishing a pplice force in East St. Louis, and the act amendatory thereof, and to appropriate $50,000 to pay moneys advanced for certificates issued under said act, was taken up, After argument tho enacting clause was stricken out and the bill killed The resolution authorizing the Secretary of State to negotiate for the purchase of the portrait of bhabbona, the noted Pottawatomie chief of Illinois, was taken up and killed.... The bill making appropriations for the State Board of Agriculture and county boards passed The bill fixing rates of advertising at 10 cents per line, sad the bill authorising the election of two poiice magistrates ia cities of over 29,CSS population, where the same is not already provided l>y -law, were de­ feated... .The bill making » jury in County Court in civil cases consist of six men, unless either party tthul! ilesiiand a jury of twelve, was passed, without the emergency clause,...... The bill to repeal tho act eeteblfehing State Normal^ University was lost....TJho|bill ap­ pointing a commission to investigate the hog cholera was ordered to a third reading. It makes the Presi­ dent of the Board of Agriculture, the chemists of the two Normal Universities, and the Veterinary Surgeon of the Industrial University as such com­ mission, and appropriates $5,000 for the expenses of the investigation.... The Appropriation bill for the Deaf and Dumb Institution was ordered to a third reading. WEDNESDAY, April 18.--SENATE.---The bill to establish a historical library and natural history museum was amended by striking out the pay of assistant curator and reducing the item for expenses of removing specimens from $4,000 to $2,000 per an­ num. The library and museum are to be established in the west wing of the Capitol, and to contain the State geological collec­ tion, the extra specimens from the normal museum, and a historical library. The bill was ordered to a third reading.... The Industrial University and the Blind Asylum bills were also ordered to a third reading.... The afternoon session was devoted to consideration of the Revenue bill An evening session was held to consider Senate bill No. 114, for the reassessment of capital stock. Mr. Whiting made an elaborate speech against the measure. HOUSE.--The bill providing for reporting and publishing the proceedings of the Supreme Court was taken up as the special order, and after a long debate was defeated by a vote of 74 to 44....Several bills were ordered to a third reading A resolution was adopted calling on the Secretary of State for a statement of expenses of each county of the State. Tweed's Chances of Escape. The impression is gaining ground, among persons well informed as to the (irogress of the negotiations for the re-ease of William M. Tweed, that he is destined to spend a much longer time in the Ludlow Street jail than his friends imagine. A gentleman who was formerly intimate with the " Boss " stated to the writer yesterday that the Attorney Gen­ eral has, from sources not connected with Mr. Tweed, got hold of information which positively implicates in the ring outrages parties who now h61d their heads high in the State and county. The possession of these facts has shown the Attorney General that "the broken- down old man " lias been trying to bam­ boozle the prosecution into liberating him without exposing his colleagues; and there has accordingly taken root in the mind of that official and his assist­ ant, Mr. Wheeler H. Peckham, a deter­ mination to wring from the ex-Tammany chief a full confession of his dealings with members of Assembly and other public men. --New York Herald. * • THE S01,\cr*« WEED. IIMHSRIIUIM of Hard Times In thte Connmp. tion of Tolxnctxt Cigars. [From the Boston Commercial Bulleton.} Next to abandoning the use of tobacco altogether is the adoption of some cheap* er substitute for cigars. Every smok%- js aware that no decent weed call oe liau for much less than 10 or 15 cents;, but, as 10 or 15 cents are not pieked up. so easily nowadays, your inveterate smoker must of necessity make some' compromise, by way of economy, Tliie.< of late has been effected by the use of cigarettes. Retail dealers state that- their trade in this line has increased 200 per cent, during the past year. • They believe that the habit of smoking tobao-- co in this form is resorted to as a matter- of economy, as is also plainly shown by the fact that old customers who were wont to purchase cigars of a superior quality are now content with those of an inferior grade. Cigar manufacturers, oa the contrary, deny that cigarettes ar taking the place of cigars, and, while ad­ mitting the great increase in the sale of cigarettes, regard it as a fashion among- smokers, and not as a matter of economy. They further declare that the greatest, economy is shown by the trade in the I purchase of inferior cigars. The high- priced cigars, once largely sold, are now- manufactured in smaller quantities, ow- irg to the hard times. This does not include the very finest quality of Havana cigars, which were heretofore obtained almost exclusively abroad. Their man­ ufacture is now carried on in this coun- try, and to a great extent has usurped , the trade formerly confined to Havana and Key West, because here they can be made and sold much cheaper. The manufacturers at those places are said to have become greatly alarmed at the increasing trade in fine cigars in this, country. Domestic manufacturers affirm, in relation to the prevailing custom of cigarette smoking, that it is injurious, because certain poisonous ingredients, are used in preparing the paper of which the. outer covering is made. Statistics, at Washington show a very large de­ crease in the manufacture and importa­ tion of cigars this year in comparison, with that of the previous year. Accord­ ing to the Bureau of Statistics, the total number of cigars and cheroots upon which the internal revenue tax was paid during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876, was 1,828,807,396. This is a del crease of nearly 98,000,000 cigars front the year previous. The amount of t cigars, manufactured and imported in this country during the year 1875, reached nearly 2,000,000,000. The value of the imported cigars consumed in the United States during 1876 amounted to 82,289,- 712.89 and of snuff to $18,470. Healthy Exercise. Playing billyards iz better exercise, no* doubt, than clrinkin whisky, but old fash­ ioned sawing wood iz better than either. Yu kan earn 25 cents sawing wood in the same time you are spending a dollar- playing billyards. If yu haint got any- wood to pracktiss on, yu can cum and pitch into mi pile. I will furnish the saw, and the cider, and i will play on the accordian while yu are butchering the wood.--Josh Billings. A Graveyard Joke. , A man noted for his close-fisted pro­ pensities was showing an old coin to a neighbor, when the latter asked t "Where did you get it ?" "I dug it out of my garden," was the reply. " It is a pity you didn't find it in the cemetery," said the neighbor. "Why so?" asked the coin owner. "Because, you could, have saved the hole to be buried in,"" was the somewhat mnexpected reply. Telephonic Mysteries. In a New Jersey house the other morn­ ing there was an echo like that of a hand gently nickel-plating a bov with pain, and another echo which spoKe of a mouth stretched from ear to ear and two legs, paddling the air. When the fond mother was asked why this was thus, she simply replied that she was teaching her darling the mysteries of the telephone. The excess of receipts over expendi­ tures for the nine months ended March 31, 1876, was $96,379,722, while the cxcess of receipts over expenditures for the last nine months is $87,053,010, showing the actual falling off in revenue for this year thus far over the same pe­ riod last year to be $9,326,682. THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. 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