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[UMtrutfi fHaindealci 1. VAN SLYKE. Editor ami Publisher. escape. While wandering m the marshes (of Bar-el-Azrak the elder brother ! climbed a tree to survey the surround- f ing country, and perceived a huge boa- constrictor crushing lii* brother to death I in its coils. Having lost hi? fellow fu- j gj^jve iu this terrible manner, he strog- * " IIIVEBPOOI. is abont the - size of Chi- j gled onward through the great swamp sago; Manchester is as large as Cincin- I for seven weeks, at length reaching the nati ; Newcastle as l>etroit ; Bristol an j Egyptian outposts, where he was kindly MOHENRY, ILLINOIS. SHALL THE MONEY BE PAID? A Question for the People to Answer in November. Milwaukee. THE Houston Pout (Estimates the cot­ ton crop of Texas for this year at 1,250,- -000 bales, or one-fourth of the entire crop oi the United States. HawMwre Tkaa One Billion Mian Will Be Legvll)- Stolen bjr the • . Ex«R«*i»elK if Hancock Hectedi received and forwarded to Cairo. The Chedive not only relieved his want, but paid his passage from Alexandria to Paris, where, as his note-book observes, he thought he could find a living j "But," he concludes, "here, as else-I THE New York Herald has an article j where, one must be of some use in order -an the clothing trade, which shows that j to live--and I, alas ? have learned noth- New York stands first and Chicago j ing • I prefer a violent death to perish- second in the business of making and ing slowly by hunger." ^selling men's furnishings and garments. : -• i, . = J ILLINOIS NEWS. The Well-Contrived Plana of Southern Democrats A Startling: Zshibit for Northern Voters. [Washington Letter to New York Times.] There is one question with which the people of the Northern States will be brought face to face before the end of - - - rest#. such losses are to 1 jtev. with all accomp. U tnithg District Courts fo t , sons are allowed ail"n such claims to thei/'"K his f1 wlvta for adjudication. It ^tUer fleldjfhat this bill is very dange* |IOme, e# tendency. sferred, to the ^and per- hpresent taken for is. A Demo- ail to fill the ith men who ith the local >f this kind. By it innumerable» th settlement to the lL' cratic President coW0*16 benches of these c<kr>* would be in sympath, feeling in regard to cr.ses The impartiality and justice of the loyal Court of Claims would be ^exchanged for the prejudices of local juries and Judges, who would decide whether^ the claimants had been " loyal" or not. , The passage ; of this bill would probably soon folli >w the election of a Democratic President. House resolution No. 4,471 was intro­ duced Feb. 2, 1880, by th4 Hon. P. B. Thompson, Jr., a typicll Kentueky Democrat, and the survivor of one of the tliis Presidential campaign. They will , l>e asked if they will place everv branch j deadly family feuds eier known in ^ 1 * 1 T* lx,'. r. iltA f/^11 All-l.. of the Government in the haijds of men So tiREAT was the heat in Brighton, ' MxrolTplN col~~ hag U7 frame !ind! England, on Saturday, Aug. 14, that a | fifteen brick school houses. table-cloth in a drawing-room in Clin- GEN. HASKEL, and the salvation army toifville was set on fire by the sun's ravs have commenced work at Cairo, concentrated through a decanter of water. At Cheltenham on the same day, so great had been the heat that a child, who have shown a desire and an inten­ tion to compel them to pay the war losses of the South. It is useless to as­ sert that this desire and intention have not been shown; the proofs are given below. The recent session of Congress was a session of masterly inactivity on aged & months, which was left under a small tent while the mother was at work at the Biddings, was found dead at 1 o'clock from congestion of the brain caused by the excessive heat. • THE aggregate stock of proper names is so limited that they are duplicated in almost every town, much to the annoy­ ance of traveling men who frequently find their letters opened by resident parties of similar names and with initials the same or so nearly the jjauie that Postmasters are unable to pr$^nt such -occurrences. If they would lift**' their mail indorsed transient by the writer it would obviate the difficulty and remove much cause of complaint oi' oflicial negligence. THE Kansas City TIU K H says : "The 'death by drowning of the little 4-year- old son of the late James H. Brown, who was hanged at Huntsville two months ago, renders the family extinct. Just previous to the hanging of Brown, his wife, once an inmate of one among the best families in North Missouri, shot and killed herself. Following this the unhappy hushand paid the penalty of possessing an ungovernable temper by hanging for the commission of a cruel murder. Then, to close the scene for­ ever, in this strange fatality, come the sad tidings of the death of the last mem­ ber of the family in the person of little Willie." DR. J. MARION SIMS, who has re­ turned from Europe, tells a New York reporter: "There never was anything in the world that excited such an inter­ est aw Tanner's fast. Everywhere I went in England, at the tables of tfie aristoc­ racy, among all kinds of peojeJe, np>thjng •ease was talked of.'Tffst u was Tanner s task, and then Tanner's subse m< feast. The subject pervaded all djfc When I was in Paris I sent 1;*"" egram to encourage him. ^ lvoni fled he was an honest mi # 80,1 P made mistakes. I would table Him go to the park every da^\e<* *,OI^id not have let idle visitors go w every day, and so use up his nervous energy. When I went to London the 4ay after I sent the cable telegram I found that half the people did not be­ lieve in the fast simply because of the way in which it was conducted." ONE dealeivin Elgin slaughters and | ships to Chicago 200 calves per week? THE Rock Island glass-works have , _ __ started one furnace, and another will be j the part of the Confederate Brigadiers | in operation shortly. ' and their subservient Northern allies, i JONESBORO is boasting over the com- j Presidential election was approacliing, 1 pletiou of a grain elevator with a capac-j and it was necessary to be as wise as : ity of 100,000 bushels. serpents and as harmless as doves, to I THE Episcopal Society of Elgin have 11?11 .suspicions, fast growing in the commenced the erection of a church on land donated by Mr. Borden. MRS. NANCY J. WILKINSON, of De­ catur, a victim of undue religious ex- , citement, has been adjudged insane. 1 A COMPANY of 150 persons left Bloom- ington, the other day, for Kansas, to select and purchase railroad lands. A CIG AR dealer at Springfield is taking] a poll of his customers by selling them "Hancock cigars'" and "Garfield ci­ gars." j THE Clear lake property, near Spring- j field, has passed into new ownership, i and ice-houses will be at onee erected ' with a capacity for 25,000 tons. North, that those who led the armies of the Confederacy were striving to do by- political strength what they failed to do by the sword. Having obliterated, in many of the Southern States, local self- government, and having secured control of Southern elections by fraud at the polls, they sat in Con­ gress, biding their time. At Cin­ cinnati they sprung to the front with the sure promise of a solid South at their back. The soldiers of the Confederacy joyfully accepted a Union soldier as their nominee, knowing that they could have secured no better mask. They re­ turned to their States and assured their followers that in support­ ing the Democratic nominees they would DciUNo'a heavy thunder-storm, light- j be supporting and advancing the priuci- ning struck the barn of Charles Gibbs, [ pies for which Lee and Jackson fought, in Freedom township, La Salle county, { Success in the election, therefore, would killing eight head of horses. j mean the success of those principles. THE County School Superintendent j The majority of the Northern Demo- reports only thirty-five persons in San- ; crats are ignorant of the real views of gamon county l>etween the ages of 12 i those who vote the same ticket in the and 21 years unable to read and write, j A STARK county farmer had contract- I ed to deliver his oats at 20 cents, but • when the price advanced to 25 cents he j sold to another party, and has now been • assessed damages in due process of law. IT is a singular commentary oil the South. The average Southern Demo­ crat to-day hopes for Democratic success as a vindication of the rebelliou ; as the means by which he can completely dis­ franchise the despised negro; as the opening of a door to the treasury of the United States, through which he may go in and grasp the money wliich shall pay Industrial University orillinois that not | him for all that he lost from 1861 to 1865. one in fifty of its graduates who attend i Samuel J. Tilden, an able financier, to learn the science of farming ever turn felt com,)elled to announce to the coun- tlieir attention to that branch of mdus- > ^ry that he w:is not in favor of the pay- try- J ment of rebel war claims ; by that act A HORSE, buggy and harness, valued j he gained the undying enmity of many a at $250, were stolen one night last j Southern Democrat. Winfield S. Han- Timmens, of county. This stolen in that week, from George Waynesville, De Witt makes the third horse vicinity within a month. STEPHEN PALMER, of Fulton county, missed sheep, and after eleven of them and Table Grove, some of his many days found one young !juv the Pi^lAr i J close' reckoning, they must have live ! fourteen days without food, water or light. As the sheep were handed up ou the floor, all but three went out at the window as'lively as ever. Sheep and Hogpw. The last official assessment of slicep Illinois shows considerable increase over that of the previous year. The re- cock has not followed his example. Some years have passed since Mr. Til­ den made that announcement. That it was not in accord with Southern desire and intention has since been shown in Congress. Many bills, introduced by men who served in -tljg Confederate now lie on the ta^== * the com- jfithe House army. activity which CftniJRY.-- ^BFilow the hoped-for electii ^^mocratic President. Some of <((l 4f were intro­ duced at the extra session, but the wis­ dom of the serpent caused their consid­ eration to be postponed. But there they are--seed which will bear fruit if the Executive Department of the Gov­ ernment goes into those hands from wliich it was taken by the people in 1860. House resolution No. 3,843, introduced this to say concerning the sheep indus try of the State : " The interest in sheep husbandry has been growing for some years, and the I assessment for 1880 shows a larger num- • ber of sheep in this State than in any j year since 1874, and more than in any j previous year, excepting the period in- l tervening between 1873 and 1874. The t ratio of increase in the number of sheep | during the past six years has not been i uniform, but the profits of this industry ; of late years have been satisfactory, and | the future prospects for remunerative | prices for wool and mutton are such as I to inspire confidence in the future of a third fid- i sheep-breeding. The assessment this . , ,, , i season shows 964,696 head of sheep, an He and one of his brothers, only j increase of m^ head over tbftt 0lf\he less powerful than liimself, were i previous year. wont to bear upon their shoulders a! "The proportion of sheep heretofore wooden platform, shaped like a bridge, ' footed for market each year according to I „IA previous estunatesof authorities is about while a cart full of stones, drawn by two ; ^ per cent of f ho total linmlKT (jf sh horses, was driven over it The other i assessed, and this rate has been used in day, when the jail in which he is con- i determining the number of fat sheep fined was undergoing a visit from the i that wiH be marketed during the pres- municipal Prison Inspector., tU. Her- ; cules volunteered to give the authorities j alKi there will be 192,939 fat a specimen of his powers, and, upon re- ; sheep prepared for the market this -ceiving their permission to do so, picked j season, an increaso of 18,626 over that up with his teeth a heavy mahogany ta- I Prev lous ^ear ble, nine feet long, belonging to the j to ^ heavier, of better quality, and Governor, and balanced it aloft for near- l more profitable for the feeder. This in- port of the Agricultural Department has T oV i won u V V' %7 £ ™ f. . , X1 . , Jan. 26, 1880, by the Hon. Van H. Man- this to sav concerning the sheen indus> jjing, of Mississippi, formerly a Colonel JOSEPH POSPISCHILL, who is now a prisoner in the Austrian fortress of Ofen, on conviction of highway robbery, is said to be the strongest man living. One of the feats for which he was re­ nowned was to support in the air, with his hands and teeth, a table upon which two gypsies danced, while <lled. in the Confederate army, is entitled "A bill to reorganize the Supreme Court of the United States." It provides for the appointment of twelve additional Asso­ ciate Justices, thereby increasing the number of Justices to twenty-one. To a Supreme Court thus reinvigorated by new material drawn from the Democratic party, and in great part, doubtless, from the Southern wing of that party, the solid South could safely appeal for the ultimate settlement of all questions aris­ ing from the late rebellion and under the constitutional amendments. This bill is before the Committee on the Judiciary. After the election of a Democratic Pres­ ident it would be easy to pass it bv force of a majority in Congress, and the ap­ pointment of the new Justices by the Democratic President and Senate would carry the scheme to a successful termi­ nation. House resolution No. 3,847, intro­ duced Jan. 26, 1880, by the Hon. A. J. Warner, Democrat, is entitled, " A bill to relieve the Supreme Court, to estab­ lish the Superior Court of the United States, and abolish the Court of Claims." It provides for abolishing the Court of Claims and transferring its jurisdiction and records, books, papers, etc., to a Superior Court thereby established, to iy half a minute. "The sheep marketed of late are said | consist of five Judges (one of whom shall be heavier, of better oualitv. and ! be designated the Chief Justice), to be appointed by the President, by and with TIME is now supplied to street clocks, public offices, hotels, and private dwel­ ling in Paris, like gas or water, from a central station, by means of compressed j hogs in the State has just been footed uir conveyed through underground pipes. 1 UP>ant^ shows an increase in the number Ai ii ,, . | on hand for this season's market, when At the central station there is a reservoir 1 ...... . . » j crease in weight and the improvement i in quality furnishes unmistakable evi- [ deuce of the increased attention given I by breeders to the improvement of the | breeds of sheep." ! The late assessment of the number of the advice and consent of the Senate. This court is to have an appellate juris­ diction with the Supreme Court of cases from inferior United States courts, in which the amount in controversy d(»es not exceed $10,000. The passage of this bill, which was referred to the Commit­ tee on the Judiciary, could be safely postponed until after the approaching , j compared with the same date last year, | election. If a Democratic President of compressed air, and for the first twen- , Qf 209,193 head. The capacity of swine- | should be elected, its passage would tear ty seconds of every minute, as given by •a standard timepiece, a current of the •compressed air is allowed to flow through the pipes to the receiving clocks. By means of a small bellows, which is ex­ panded by the transmitted air, the works of these clocks are kept going at a practical uniform rate. The street mains are of wrought iron, jiltout one and one-sixteenth inch in diameter, and these are connected to service pipes of lead, one-half inch in •diameter, while the different stories of a breeders of this State to increase the ! number of head appears to be limited ! only by the probable demand. With : the exception of 1872, 1873, and 1874, j there has not been as large a number of j hogs previously assessed in this State. I The numt>er of fat hogs assessed May 1, 1880, is 3,133,557, and exceeds that I of any previous year, excepting 1872, j 1873, 1874, and 1878. The number of I hogs assessed in 1879 was 2,799,051, or j 334,505 less than this season. } The best data at command show that | during the last three years 70 per cent, i each year of the total number of hogs | assessed in tliis State have been mar- down another bulwark set up for the de­ fense of the Government against unjust demands, and substitute for it a new tribunal, whose Judges, appointed by a Democratic President and confirmed by a Democratic Senate, would be drawn from the Democratic party. Southern claims would receive distinguished con­ sideration in such a forum. House resolution No. 3,353, introduced Jan. 12, 1880, by the Hon. J. Proctor Knott, Democrat, of Kentucky, is en­ titled " A bill to repeal an act entitled 'An act to restrict the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims.'" This bill de­ serves especial attention, because it was building are supplied by rubber tubes, | keted, and the same per cent, has been ; introduced by the Chairman of the Com- used in determining the number of hogs I mittee on the Judiciary, and, therefore, one-eighth inch in diameter. Any num­ ber of clocks can be actuated in this way within a radius of two miles from the •central station. feeding for the 1880 market. In 1879, 1,984,294 fat hogs were marketed in thi* State, and shows 2,193,487 head of hogs for market this season ; an increase of over 1200,000 (209,193) head in favor of this in Paris, driven to suicide o-" se^.on" , , ,, , . , . . The condition of hogs throughout the , wrote down his story, ser >»£ ' State, with few exceptions, is much A NEGRO «heer want, it in a tin box, secured the box to fcii parson and drowned himself in the Siene. It appears from his statement that his father was an African chief, tributary to | above an average, and there is less com- | plaint than usual of diseases affecting swine. j The value and weight of the hog-crop for this season wdl be largely influenced the Negus of Bbyssinia, who, having j by the extent of the present corn-crop, risen in revolt against his suzerain, was | which will n^t be up to an average in » * --• i the elder of whom was the suicide, were vaiied throughout the State during the captured by the Negus, but contrived to ' latter part of Julyand most of August. may be regarded as in accordance with the views of the majority of the com­ mittee. The majority of that committee consists, of course, of Democrats, and four of these Democrats served during the war in the Confederate army. An­ other occupied a legal position under the Confederacy. This bill vests in the Dis­ trict Courts of the United States which have jurisdiction over the territory where such claims originated, the author­ ity to adjudicate all claim of "loyal citizens in States not in rebellion" for stores and supplies taken by or furnished for the use of the armies of the United States, and for use and occupation of real estate, use or loss of vessels, engines, animals, or other personal property, etc. All claims now on file in Washington for that State. It has the following appar­ ently-harmless - title :' "A bill for the ! benefit of citizens of States winch did j not go into reliellion, and who have j claims against the United States Gov- j eminent." This bill aims at the settle- | ment of the claims persons who Were not ! not loyal, but who did not take up arm? against the United States. It provides j that all accounting officers, courts and ; commissions having authority over" claims of citizens of States not iu rebel- ! lion (in tliis bill the word "loyal " does j not apjx>ar before the word " citizens ") ! shall not disallow any claim upon the i charge of, or on aooouut of, the dislov- I alty of such claimants, "unless such j proof 4 as will convict such claimant of [ treason' against tha United States Gov- ' | ernment be made against the claim." J j This opens the doof to all sorts of rebel j j sympathizers who for want of sufficient ; j proof or lapse of tjnic could not l»e con- ; vict-ed of treason. [The bill w:is sent to j the Committee on phe Judiciary. J House resolution No. 3,131 was intro- j dueed Jan. 7, 1KSC|. by the Hon. W. D. ! Hill, the Demociat who publicly dc- : clared to an audie tee in front of a Wash­ ington hotel last i inter that the Demo- i crats intended to inaugurate their can- j didate for Prcsi ent whether he was elected or not. t is entitled, " A bill to abolish the C<: .irt of Claims, and to enlarge the juris [iction of the Circuit Courts, and for other purposes." It abolishes the Con rt of Claims, transfers that court's duties and jurisdiction to the Circuit Court >, aud repeals all lim­ itations of the til ;ie wherein suits upon claims can be brought. In place of these statutory limitations it establishes a limitation of six years from the pas­ sage of the act, and provides that "any person or persons " having disputed or unsettled claims sjgainst the United States, either in l*w or equity, under tlie constitution and amendments there­ to, and laws of tlie United States, ex­ cept for infringements of patents, may bring suit therefor n gainst the United States in the Circuit Court in the district where the cause of action arose, or where the claimants re­ side, which court is empowered to hear, adjudicate, and determine all such claims in the same manner and with the same force and effect as is now allowed be­ tween private individuals* r corporations in any of the courts of the United States. It also provides that in such suits the prevailing party shall lie til- titled to recover of the defeated party just and reasonable costs, and that judg ment in favor of a>luint iti' shall be certi fled by the court fo the {Secretary of the. Treasury, and he paid by hiui out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. The language of this bill is worth consideration. Any person, loyal or disloyal, in any State, may bring suit upon a claim in his Circuit Court, and it shall be settled as a claim of John Smith against William Brown would be. If a Democratic President should b(- elected, it is probable that it would not be long before the Judges of this court in the South would be ex-Confederates in sympathy with the so-called "lost cause," a cause to be regained by Demo­ cratic supremacy. House resolution No. 4,365 was intro­ duced Feb. 9, 1880, by the Hon. John F. Phillips, of Missouri. It provides that claims for Quartermasters' stores and subsistence taken for the mse of the Union army in the late war, and for use and occupation of property, over which the Quartermaster General, Commissary General, and Third Auditor of the Treasury now have jurisdiction, shall be transferred to the Circuit Courts, to which jurisdiction over them is given. By these bills aad such as these li ive the 'Democrats of the Forty-sixth Con­ gress endeavored to complete the judicial machinery for the settlement of rebel claims. These bills plainly show the intention of the mighty Southern wing of the party to secure the adjudication of all such claims in courts situated in the States lately in rebellion aud surrounded by the influences known to exist there ; in courts which would hardly dare to withstand the unrestrained expression of Southern political sentiment, and which might be in sympathy with that sentiment, and by juries from which would be carefully excluded every man who does not believe in holding the Government responsible for the losses and damages resulting from the late war. And every successful claimant woidd have his costs against the old Government which allowed him to be so badly used. Should appeals be taken to to the Supreme Court, provision has been made for such cases by the addi­ tion of twelve brand-new Democratic Judges to that court. The claims, hav­ ing passed into judgments, are made immediately payable on presentation the Secretary of the Treasury from a permanent indefinite appropriation, un­ limited as to time or amount, and requir­ ing no further supervision by treasury or by Congress. There remain to be considered many other bills introduced at the recent ses­ sion, or the extra session, and bearing upon this subject. House resolution No. 5,385 was reported, March 27, 1880, from the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service, by the Hon. M P. O'Con­ nor, Democrat, of South Carolina, and placed on the House calendar. Its title is, "A bill for the judicial ascertainment of claims against tlie United States." It provides that " any citizen " of the Unit­ ed States who may have a claim, legal or equitable, against the United States, of which the Court of Claims would not now have jurisdiction, may file his bill or petition in said court, and prosecute the same to judgment; that the act shall not apply to claims that arose prior to 1861, and that claims may be Sled within two years. It also provides that claimants may prefer claims for proceeds of captured or abandoned prop­ erty in the Court of Claims within one year from the passage of the act. In this bill no provision is made against disloyal claimants. Provision is made, however, for those who are now prevent­ ed from suing by their disabil­ ities. Several bills similar to this were introduced--among them one (House resolution No. 5,455, March 29, 1880) by the Hon. Joseph J. Davis, of North Carolina, formerly a Captain in the Confederate army, and one (House resolution No. 381, April 21, 1879) by tlie Hon. Philip Cook, of Georgia, for- merly Brigadier General in the Confed­ erate army. The bill last mentioned j seems to have been the original one of j the series. It was introduced by one I ex-Confederate soldier, referred to the ; Civil Service Reform Committee, and j from that committee reported to the ; House by another ex-Confederate sol­ dier. A similar bill was introduced by i the Hon. Mr. Money, Democrat, of j Mississippi, and referred to the Com- i mittee on the Judiciary. In the Senate the same bill was iiitrodiwed Dec. 3, t 1879, by the Hon. John W. Johnston, j Democrat, of Virginia, and referred to ) the Committee on the Judiciary. In ] none of these bills is there any provi- ! Bion against disloyal claimants. Mr. ; Houk, of Tennessee, Republican, intro- j dueed a bill, April 21, 1879. which made , it lawful for loyal residents of the re- j ' bellions States to prefer claims for prop- | erty taken by the Union army, but it contained the most stringent provisions agaiust claimants who had aided, com­ forted, countenanced or encouniged the rebellion. If a Democratic President should l>e elected tliis bill may not be heard of again, but the others just men­ tioned will undoubtedly be pressed to a passage. * " House resolution No. 1,(>40 was in- troduced April 21, 1879, by the Hoii^iT. B. Culberson, of Texas, formerly a Colonel in the Confederate oiiiiy. It provides for reopening the Court of Claims for one year to claimants of capt­ ured and abandoned property, and gives the right to sue upon such claims to those claimants whose claims have l>een rejected by that court on the ground of j disloyalty. The passage of tliis bill j would give ;ill these persons another i chance, and throw open the door to all 1 others of their class who have not pre- i ferred their claims. , House resolution No. 4,876 was intro- , dueed March 1, 1880, by tlie Hon. W. ! M. Lowe, of Alabama, formerly a Colonel ' in the Confederate army. It provides j for a return by the United States of the ! tax collected on cotton sales in the re- ' bellious States in 1866-'67-6S. ; House resolution No. 321, which was j i introduced April 21. 1879. by the Hon. j ! Eppa Hunton, of Virginia, formerly u j i Brigadier General in tlie Confederate ; army, and which is now in committee ; j of the whole, provides for a return of I 1 the money received by the "United States j [ from the sale of land sold for direct taxes ' iu insurrectionary States. House reso- I i lntion Fo. 2,066, which was introduced j June 2, 1870, by the Hon. George D. | 1 Tillman, of South Carolina, who served i through the war in the Confederate army, provides not only for the return I of the proceeds of the sale of such land, but also for a return of all the rent 1 derived from the land since its sale. ! This bill is before the Committee on the | Judiciary. House resolution No. 349, j introduced April 21, 1879, by the Hon. A. M. Scales, of North Carolina, form­ erly a Brigadier General in the Confed- | erate army, provides for refunding all ' the money collected as direct taxes in the i insurrectionary States under tlie act of i Aug. 5, 1861. House resolution No. 446, which was i introduced April 21, 1879, by the Hon. | O. R. Singleton, who was a Representa- ! tive in the Confederate Congress j throughout the war, provides for the ap- • propriation of $S75,000 tol>eused in pay- I ing disloyal mail contractors in the se- i Btaies. bill -wan referred to { the Committee on Postoffices and Post- I roads, the Democratic majority of which ! includes several men who were promi- i liont officers in the Confederate army. House resolution No. 21, intr<tdueed ! April 21, 1879, by the Hon. John H. 1 Reagan, of Texas, formerly Postmaster ! General of the Confederacy, rejwals sec­ tion 3,480 of the Revised Statutes, which ; forbids any officer of the Govern ment ; to pay any account or claim to any per- ; son not known to have l»een opposed to I the rebellion and in favor of its sup­ pression. By this bill the prohibition is I removed. The bill was referred to the | Committee on Judiciary. 9 In addition to these and other simi- ! lar bills which might lie cited, numer- ] ous private bills for relief were in- I troduced to pay for losses occasioned by the rebellion, the sums called for 1 amounting to several millions of dollars. 1 Let us see what would be the result of ! the passage of these bills. Claims for the proceeds of captured and abandoned j property have been filed in the Court-of j Claims and tlie Treasury Department I amounting to more than $30,000,000, i which are now barred by statute. If | either of the bills conferring jurisdiction on the Circuit Courts, or reopening the ! Court of Claims, becomes a law, the I claims of that class presented will prob­ ably exceed $50,000,000. 1 The internal-revenue tax on cotton, 1 which it is proposed to refund by House | resolution No. 4,876, and other bills, | amounts to $68,022,000. The amount appropriated by House resolution No. 416 for Southern mail contractors is $375,000. The amount required for payments to disloyal claimants, now prohibited by section 3,480, Revised Statutes, will doubtless be very near $1,000,000. The amount of direct tax collected in the Southern States, which it is pro­ posed to return by the House resolution No. 319 and other bills, is $5,153,000. The following classes of war claims would be presented under House resolu­ tions Nos. 3,353 and 3,131 and other bills, giving jurisdiction of all claims against the United States to District and Circuit Courts in the Southern States: Stores and supplies taken for the use of, or destroyed by, the armies of the United States. Cotton and tobacco used or destroyed. Use of, damage to, and loss of steam­ boats and other vessels. Use of, damage to, and destruction of railroads, engines and cars. Rent of, use of, and damage to real estate. Property taken, occupied, damaged, or destroyed by the United States as a military necessity. Property seized and used or destroyed by United States sol (hers without au­ thority. Property destroyed by the enemy on account of military occupation by the United States. Property captured by the enemy while in possession of or employed by the United States. The probable amount of these claims has been variously estimated from $600,- 000,000 to $2,400,000,000. An examina­ tion of all accessible information on the subject indicates that it would exceed rather than fall short of the mean of these extremes--$1,5,000,000,000. None of these classes of claims are excluded by the Fourteenth amendment to the constitution, which covers only "any debt or obligation incurred in aid of in­ surrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or eman­ cipation of any slave." The business men of the Democratic party in the North will not hasten to tne support of measures advocated by their Southern brethren which look to a payment of these claims and a great increase of the national debt. *. IfASBY. Mr. Xasby, Imiditin? ibe Example of Wade Hampton, JIskM a Speech at tbe Corner*, Which IN Intended for Purely Southern Conmmntinn-( Northern Keporter Hears II, and It lit . Published In Indiana - The Trouble Kewttltlng Therefrom. CONFKI>JUT X ROAD*,) (which is in the State uv Kentucky), v Aug. 2"! } I sigh ez did the late Henry A. Wise, uv Virginny, for a kentry in wich ther ain't no noosepapers. Noosepapers hev bin the cuss uv Dimoerisy, and the one thing that stands in our way. Noose­ papers and free skools are wat kills the Dimekratic party. They can't git along together nohow. Wat the Dimoerisy wants is a secksliun in wich ther aint no noosepapers, ceptin them wich is publisht by authority, and whose con- tenso are soopervised by a eommitty be» fore publicashen. Two weeks ago we hed a meetin at the Cross Roads, to reconsile a differ^ ence that hod onfortoonately sprung up in tlie ranks uv the Dimoerisy. The trouble wuz this: The Corners hed ishood its bonds to build a Court House and ft marlut house and other improvements wich Bascom hed took, he bein the principle capitalist. He bot em up ait about 10 cents on the dollar, and holds to em to­ day. Now comes the trouble. Tlie citizens uv the Corners don't want to pay the bonds at all. They hold that they liev the bildings, but that ther is some legal flaw in the contrack, wich don't compel 'em to pay, and they perpose to take ad­ vantage uv it. Immejitly ther wuz a split among the citizens. Them wich holds the bonds insists that sutliin should be paid onto 'em, and them wich don't hold 'em, but wich hev to pay taxes, insists that they shan't pay anything. The question hez gone into politix, and the result is two tikkcts liable to be nominatid, and the Dimekratic party dividid. It wuz my dooty to pervent this, and I called the Corners together and made a speech to 'em. I hed the meetin-house dekorated the same ez I alluz do on im­ portant occasions. I hed on the pulpit the skulls uv the Fedrel soljers from Bui! Run, the thigh-bone of the Fedrel soljer starved at Andersonville, and tlie 1 skeleton uv the nigger killed at Fort Pillow. 1 " Friends," sed I, " in the presence uv : these reliks I implore you to pause. ! Wat is bonds, wat is taxes, compared to I a Dimekratic triumf ? Yoo are quarrclin ! over purely lokle issues. Before yoo di- ! vide and endanger a Dimecratic triumf, consider wat Lee wood hev done, wat Jackson wood hev done hed they bin in yoor places. Remember that the prin­ ciples we are fitin fur to-day are the principles they fit fur, that the idees underlyin the Confederacy did not die with the surrender uv Lee, but that they are in eggsistence now, and that this eleckshun decides whether the South or the North triiunfs." I went ou in tliis way an hour, and finally got tlie people satisfied to settle the matter without any trouble, and went home feelin good. Now wat happened ? There happened to be prewnt that niie a Cousin uv a fanner in the naberhood. who is the odetor uv a radikcl paper in Injeany. That feend took down in short-hand my entire speech, and he sent it to his pa­ per in Injeany and published it in fall, with illustrashins uv the bones uv the Fedrel soljers, and everything connected with the meetin'. And the Republikin press uv the North is usin' it to show l that the old rebel sperit ain't ded yet. | Tliis is what bothers me. What rite j hez that man to send a speech North | that wuz intended solely for the South? 1 I didn't want that speech publisht in j Injeany. It wuz intendid for Southern consumpslien only. It wuz made for the ! Corners, and for the Corners only. It | is a trubble with Dimoerisy, that yoo j hev to hev speeches for every different lokality. Ef I make a speech at the Corners I don't want it sent up into In- ! jcany or Ohio, and red there, for Dimoc- | risy at the Corners and Dimoerisy in the i North is two distink things. | I don't know ez it will do me eny good to deny it, ez Wade Hampton does, for the cussid speech wuz reported in full, and is kerrect. But it is raisin blazes with us. It is bein yoosed to show that we nv the South hev not lost eny uv our old ijees, and the worry uv it is that it docs show that very thing. Hereafter when I make a speech I shell lie shoer that ther ain't eny re­ porters or noospaper men present, cept­ in such ez are in our intrest. Hereafter I shell hev the report uv my speeches revised by myself afore they are printed, and I shell know wher they are goin. Then things will be safe. Tliis trouble hez worried me more than any tiling door- ing the campane. PETROLEUM V. NASBY (in trouble). Congress to show that it M not impossible for a.* " man to act with a Cangre«<iona) majority, andi yet to KEEP HIS 8ELF-RE8PECT AND THK RESPECT OF HONORABLE MEN.-- York World. ̂ How the Rebels Control Legislatmk « The New York Times prints a table showing that seventy-two out of ninety- five members «f CongrnsB from the* States lately in rebellion served in tbet rebel army. Thirty-eight per cent, of all the Democrats in Congress, North and South, are ex-Confederate soldiers^ These figures do not fully represent the! extent of the rebel influence in the leg-T lslation of the country. Legislation m prepared and shaped in the committees, of Congress. It is important, therefore,: to know how the rebels are represented! on the committees. The Time* sum­ marizes the facts thus--in the Senate : The rebel Gen. Gordon was Chairman of the Committee on Commerce. The rebel Gen. Maxey is Chairman oft the Committee of Postoffices and Poafc Roads. The rebel Capt. Coke is Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs. , The rebel Col. Withers is Chairman oi the Committee on Pensions. The rebel Gen. Cockrell is Chairman^ of the Committee on Claims. The rebel Col. Harris is Chairman oi the Committee on District of Columbia. Senator Garland, who was in Jeff Da>» vis' Congress, is Chairman of the fW. mittee on Territories. The rebel Gen. Ransom is Chairman of the Committee on Railroads. The rebel soldier James E. Bailey is Chairman of the Committee on Educa­ tion and Labor. The rebel Gen. M. C. Butler is Chair­ man of the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment. The rebel Gen. Morgan is Chairman of the Committee on Rules. The rebel Col. Lamar is Chairman of tlie Mississippi River Committee. ' The rebel Gen. Morgan is Chairman of the Electoral Count Committee. In the House : Ex-rebel Postmaster General Reagan is Chairman of the important Committee on Commerce. Col. Atkins, of the rebel army, is Chairman of the Committee on Appro­ priations. Gen. Hunton, of the rebel army,, is Chairman of the District of Columbia Committee. Gen. Scales, of the rebel army, is Chairman of the Indian Affairs Com­ mittee. Gen. Whitthorne, of the rebel army, is Chairman of the Naval Committee. Col. Muldrow, of the rebel army, is the Chairman of the Committee on Ter­ ritories. Col. Cabell, of tlie rebel army, » Chairman of the Committee on Kaii> ways. . Mr. Goode, of Jeff Davis' Congress, m Chairman of the Committee on Educa­ tion. Mr. Stephens, Vice President of tho Confederacy, is Chairman of the Gem> mittee 011 Coinage. Gen. Vance, of the rebel army, Is Chairman of the Committee on Paten' Gen. Cook, of the .rebel army, Chairman of the Committee on Publis Buildings. ' Gen. King, of the rebel army, is Chafe* man of < the Committee on Interocoanls Canal. , Thus the rebels preside over thirteefc of the most important committees of tljK Senate, and twelve of the most iinpos- tant committees of ike House. The e$»- rebels constitute a majority of the mocracy in ten of the principal Senati* committees. nt& A 'tiaitor Story. 1- A month later I visited Lake J**# with Judge Emmons, of Jacksonville The judge was a wouderl'ul marksma^ as full of fun as a magpie; but lie wqp getting old, and his eyesight was failini One day we killed a monster on the ed of a marshy canebrake. He had splei did teeth, and the judge wanted to se­ cure them as mementoes. The painty? of tlie boat was tied to the reptile's leg^ and we towed him across an arm of ths lake to solid ground. A small ax was borrowed from the house of a "cracker?* near by, and we concluded to decapitate the prize, boil the head aud remove the teeth. The body was so large that we could not draw it upon tlie shore. JL stake was cut and pointed aud drives through the jaws of the reptile, pinning him into the mud. The water was prob­ ably two feet deep. The judge drew out a slieath knife, and was about to malfe an incision when he was cautioned by * barefooted negro who stood 011 the bank watching the operation with curious evefc. "Better git shut o' dat ah gatah, shuah,** said he; " 'twell he be done gone dead." "Oh, good Lord," exclaimed the judge, "lie's beeu dead an hour. If he was alive do you reckon he'd allow us to drive a stake through him." "No gatah am dead till de sun am gone down," the darkey observed. The judge laughed and passed me the knife. I inserted tlie blade in a bullet hole near the shoulder, and cut a gash iu the flesh, following the trend in the diamond-shaped scales be­ neath the skin. Judge Emmons stood, near the monster's tail. Tlie knife penet% trated the qnivering flesh, and was.- Democratic Estimates of Garfield. si,auiet| ̂ th bk**l. 1 „ , , i i the tail shot from the water and the Perhaps there has never been a mem- | • ^ was kll(K.koa fully ten feet. The ber of Congress who commanded so j ^tiie raised his head, stake and all, an& much admiration and respect from liis'"j sailed out into the lake like a submarine. ) battery. Judge Emmons lost his glasseu, | but was fortunately unhurt. The inci- dent, however, convinced 1dm that it ' was dangerous to fool with a dead alU- I iTator until after sundown.--Florida Cor- I k/""' ^ ^ • SHM. political opponents as Gen. Garfield during his long Congressional career. Out of the long list of Democrats who have either been his confreres in Con­ gress or in a position to watch his ac­ tions in that body during the eighteen or twenty sessions he has served, there are but two or three who have condemned his conduct or impugned his motives, and these exceptions are men who were formerly in Congress as Republicans, and now speak of him with all the mal­ ice characteristic of tlie renegade. On tlie other hand, some of the strongest testimonials to Garfield's ability and in­ tegrity have come from Democratic sources. The Cleveland Leader has collated some of these Democratic eulo­ gies, which bear the marks of sincerity rather than compliment, from which we reproduce the following: I will tell von whom I think the Republicans FOB US ALL. Personally, I consider him the BEST MAN voa ooul'l nominate. I rt-iVr to Gen. JAMES' A. GAI1FIEL1), of Ohio.-- Thos. A. Hendricks. I have been his devoted friend for many years, and I ftm resolved that I never will be­ lieve that he does not deserve the affection I have bestowed npon him. If he would carry the principles which regnlate his private life into his public conduct, HE WO®LI) MAKE THE BEST CHIEF MAGISTRATE NYE HAVE EVER HAD.--Judge Jet* Black. In the midst of the organized carnival of corruption which has been going on now so many weary mouths and years at Washington, it is reallv satisfactory to catch glimpses now and then of HONESTY FOU HONESTY'S SAKE, and without consideration of party. Gen. GAllFIELD, of Ohio, is a Republican of Republicans, but it is his simple due, which we gladly pay him, to admit that HE HAS DONE MOBLE THAN ANY OTHER SINGLE MEM­ BER OF HIS PARTY dazing the late leaaion of Divisible Bank Notes. Considerable comment has appeared recently with regard to the advisability of reviving, for the convenience of com­ merce, the fractional currency. The facilities afforded by the new system Uf registering packages by mail for making purchases of small articles from a dist» tance makes it very desirable that there should be in existence some circulating medium of smaller denomination tbaft the dollar which may be sent by mail. Maj. Powers, Chief Clerk of tlie TreasK urv Department, proposes to meet this 'demand by issuing greenbacks of th* denomination of $1 and §2, which niaj- be divisible into halves and quartered TTia plan is to have the face of the not* printed as at present. The back would have divided into four sections^ each bearing a separate obligation ufe the part of the Government for its r*H demption. These may be issued as the# are called for, and mav pass in their complete form until the holder finds o<»-. sasion to cut them for the purposes off change, when their tendency will he toward the treasury for redemption aft mutilated currency. By an order off the Treasurer, issued by Mr. Bpinnet^ the regular greenbacks now current ate redeemable when cut in two or moie pieces, the amount being proportionate to the size of the pieces presented. II Congress should authorize tlie adopti«a of Maj. Powers' proposition, it witt merely legalize tliis long-standing prae- tice.-- Wathingtom Got, Chiemgo