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* r . 4 < • * • ' r,'v V* -r % +. v ','x^ «»• ,4 , • • r fe EX-REBELS FALSIFYING HISTORY.! m-,-:..: j Jackson, Cleveland's late minister to1 Mexioo, in attempting to defend his recent , rebel speech in glorification of Jeff Davis and secessionism deliberately falsifies his­ tory as follows: "Ithas been my conviction all my life that the model government would be reached on ;this earth through local sovereignty as op­ posed to the centralization of power. It is .•my conviction, therefore, as it has always been, that when the solution of the problem of human government is found it will be found in a lodgment of local sovereignties, in local commonwealths. It was the tri­ umph of tbis principle of whioh I spoke in my addresa. It was for this principle that Mr. Davis fought and against this principle that Mr. Lincoln fonght. Mr. Davis repre­ sented State sovereignty. Mr. Lincoln stood for a centralized nation. When my prediction comes true, if it should come true, that the true principle of successful government is local rights lodged in local sovereignties, in that triumph Mr. Davis would take precedence by virtue of the tri­ umph of the principle of government for which he fought." A greater amoynt of falsehood than is contained in the above could hardly be crammed into the same number of words. The platform on which Lincoln ran in 1860 expressly disclaimed any intent to inter­ fere with the States, and emphatically pledged the Republican party to "the main­ tenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic ^institutions according to its own judgment exclusively." What could be more ex­ plicit? Accepting withe at reserve or qual­ ification the Constitution as it then stood the Republican party disclaimed any right or intent to interfere with slavery in the Slates, and in language which it is impos­ sible to misconstrue affirmed that the so- called State sovereignty about which Jack­ son prates should remain "inviolate." On ml occasions Mr. Lincoln reiterated these pledges, and no man was ever firmer bound than he to respect the rights of the States. In claiming to the contrary Jack- Bon simply displays monumental ignorance or a willful attempt to falsify the plain, . indisputable facts of history. Deploring the existence of slavery inside the States, the Republicans, in I860, re­ garded the evil as one fot whioh they were not responsible, and which, under the Constitution, they could not cure. Pledg­ ing themselves without reserve to maintain the constitutional rights of the States, they proposed only to resist the extension of slavery into t! e Territories and over the national domain in opposition to the will of a majority of the people of the nation. Assured immunity from interference inside the States, and with slavery and State sov­ ereignty as well established in the South as constitutional guarantees could make them, the Jeff Davis secessionists proposed, in defiance of the will of the majority, to extend African bondage over territory be­ longing to the nation, and it was here that the Republicans met them, saying "thus far, and no fartLer." But the Republican , party was no firmer pledged to the doctrine of freedom in the Territories and the pre­ servation of the Union than it was to "the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and t specially the right of each, to order and control its own domestic institu­ tions according to it* own, judgment ex­ clusively." Facing threats of secession, Mr. Lincoln, during the period between bis election and inauguration, made the one request that no attempt to dismember the Union should be made until "some act violative of the rights of the States should be done by thejneom- ing administration," well knowing that no such act would be peipetrated. The Duff- Green letter recently published shows how shrewdly Mr. Lincoln avoided the trap set for him by Buchanan ahd at the same time how emphatically he reiterated after his election the Republican pledge to maintain the rights of the States and the Republican denunciation of armed invasion of a State. The Southern Stales bad nothing to fear from outside interference with their do­ mestic concerns, and the assertion that thdy rebelled to resist such interference and to protect their constitutional rights is an abominable falsehood. They rebelled be- 'cause opposition was made to the extension of slavery over national domain and the rule of the country contrary to the will of the majority. What is the meaning of the recent attempt in the South to distort the plainest f acts of historic record and indoc­ trinate the rising generation with monstrous political falsehoods? The rebellion of 1800 was without a shadow of justification and was inaugurated withoutfthe semblance of a decent pretext. Yet political liars and falsi­ fiers like Jackson are proclaiming that Jeff Davis, not Lincoln, was the rightful Presi­ dent, and that the slave-breeding Confed­ erate StateB seceded only because their constitutional rights were assailed by the Republics* Administration.--Chicago Tri b une. 1 -- Gnawing a File. Senator Ingails felicitously describes the present political employment of the Demo­ cratic party as that of a gnawing file, said file being tho Cleveland alternative. He rightly defines the situation when he de­ clares that that party has no man available to put against Cleveland in convention, and runs little risk of turning out a false prophet when he says the Democratic Con­ vention will nominate Cleveland by ac­ clamation as its candidate in 1888. The recent Presidential tour, if conducted for the purpose of brightening the prospects of the Democracy, has hardly resulted in revolutionizing popular sentiment. It en­ abled the people to see for themselves that, while a bluff, rotund, good-natured man, President Cleveland does not offer personal refutation of Ingails' rather scathing charge that he is the low-water mark of the Presidential commonplace. Those who came immediately into con­ tact with him were willing enough to ad­ mit that the President "is a very fair sort of everyday man," but no one was impressed by his mental force or breadth, or by any obvious inherent or acquired qualities that seemed to fit him for the exalted office to which luck raised him. No great amount of discernment is necessary to discover in public sentiment an uneasy discontent with the existing order of "things, and a general eagerness to re-establish the dig­ nity of high official trust. No part of the people ife so thoroughly dissatisfied as the Democratic party. The leaders of that po­ litical body have been disgruntled for three years, and have chafed under the hand conditions to which they rather blindly subjected t' eutselveg. They view with disgust the mistakes and errors of an ad­ ministration that in the very nature of things was incapable of conducting gov­ ernment satisfactorily upon the popularly approved basis established by the People's party. The Democracy is iu the situation of foreign mercenaries hired to put down a revolution of the people; they will fight with a sort of bull-dog pugnacity, but with­ out heart or enthusiasm, for the retention in office of Grover Cleveland. But, as Sen­ ator Ingails says and others perceive, if the Republicaus are beaten it will be their own fault. They will not be beaten if the con­ vention acts wisely. The battle will be fought iu convention this time, and if the will of the people can there outweigh the schemes of selfish pol­ iticians, the. Republican party will achieve a victory ot the polls as great and as sig­ nificant as that of 18t>() by which it came gloriously into power. After that event Senator lnealls may extend his simile by applying to the Democratic party the full force of the old hard-shell Baptist text: "And they shall gnaw a file and flee into the mountains'of Hopsidam, where the lion roareth and the whangdoodle mourn- eth for its first born."--Chicago Inter Ocean. The Apotheosis of Treason* Why should not the old rebel battle- flag's, symbols of insurrection, be brdught forth, when, with the approval of Presi­ dent Cleveland, it has been proposed to returu the captured rebel flags to rebels? We ask President Cleveland himself to ex- ?lain what means the cry, "Long live our resident," that greeted Jefferson Davis at Macot^ CrO.? Are there then two Presi- V dents in this country, and is the allegiance of oar people divided? Let no Democratic paper again speak of the "bloody shirt," when secession is paraded openly through* out the South.--Albany Journal /O, Hensmental GalL mth brazen assurance, the Boston Globe says: "The Democratic party is the most thor­ oughly national political organization that has ever existed in this country. It flour­ ishes in every State, and in no State is the percentage of majority against it a large one. On the other hand, in many States the Republican party is practically extinct. In a whole section of the Union it consists in the main of a mass of voters whom, if white-skinned and living in Massachusetts, men like Senator Hoar would certainly insist upon disfranchising. Yet, even with this body of easily led voters, traditionally at­ tached to it, the Republican party in the South can scarcely be said to exist." What determines tho nationality or sec­ tionalism of a party? Does the question turn on the doctrines and practices of 'the organization, or en its success in nullifying the Constitution, violating the laws, and usurping power by violence and fraud? Plainly, the Boston Globe holds to the lat­ ter opinion. Hence its claim that the State sovereignty organization which still olinga to the dogmas of Calhoun and Jeff Davit is a national party because it has succeeded in usurping power through organized politi­ cal crime and now governs the nation in the interest of a minority section. If na­ tionality is embodied in the idea of stamp­ ing out equal rights and making the vote of an ex-Confederate equal in political power to the votes of two or three North­ ern men, and so giving the ru'.e of the na-; tion into the hands of a sectional minority! then the Democratic party may have some claim to a "national" title. That organiza­ tion is national only in its appetite for national spoils. Its supreme ambition it to usurp control of the Southern States and, with the aid of the vote of New York City, corner the Presidency and pension State sovereignty bigots and ex-rebels on the National Treasury, in pursuance off usurped minority rule.--Chicago Tribune What Mr. Cleveland Meant. A reader wants to know what President Cleveland meant in the following portion of his speech at Montgomery, Ala., last week: "We know that you still have tho prob­ lems to solve enveloping considerations concerning you alone, questions beyond reach of Federal law or interference," and with which no one but you should deal." It is very plain what the Democratic President meant. He meant that he in dorses the Southern or Confederate method of disfranchising the blacks, of killing them when they attempt to vote, of im­ prisoning them upon trumped-up pretexts and selling their labor to the highest bid­ ders,of using violence and fraud to disfran­ chise the majority, and of carrying every­ thing in their own State without legard to law, humanity, or decency. He meant that he wished them to understand that they could go ahead in this way without any in­ terference from him as President, and with him protecting them as President from any sort of outside interference. This is what the Democratic President meant, and it was xerf shameless in him to say it, and yet/Sis he gained the presidency by reason of such viole^e and fraud he could say nothing less. Theopfly wonder iB that he did not have the prudence to say it pri­ vately instead of in the public manner that he did. For him thus publicly to indorse the Southern methods of violence and fraud, and to select the former seat of the Confederacy as the place to do so, are very significant facts. It was fair notice to the Democrats of the South that the Demo­ crats of the North will stand by them what­ ever they may do.--Des Moines Register. Jackson's Infamous Utterances. The Albany Journal call# attention to the fact that not a single Democratic paper in this country has disapproved the in­ famous utterances of Cleveland's ex-Min­ ister to Mexico that the day of final trip umph for the secession cause will come, and that "in that triumphant procession Abraham Lincoln shall not move as the rightful President, but Jefferson Davia, the so-called traitor leader of the so-called lost cause;" or the equally infamous decla­ ration at the dedication of Lee's monu­ ment, that the name of Lee should ride down the years side by side with that of Washington as "the twin rebels of the South." More disloyal words than these have not been spoken since the close of the war, and yet not a Democratic paper can be found loyal enough to denounce them. Even a Democratic President but yester­ day was talking platitudes to the men who, applauded these infamous utterances about the beauties of sectional harmony. So long as such things can happen there con be no harmony between patriotic men and those who are engaged in them. Union men can never let the sectional issue rest when they are taunted and insulted in Ibis manner. Let Dakota Come In. Apart from all considerations of party, it is desirable that Dakota should be ad­ mitted either as one State or two; and the Democrats may as well reflect that their chance of carrying one of the proposed States in the coming Presidential election is better than of carrying the whole State, if it should come in without division. The question cannot fail to be brought before Congress early, and should be decided on its general merits, without exclusive re­ gard to politics.--Springfield Republican. The Cardinal Sin of the Democracy. The damnable Bins of bribery and fraud in elections are high crimes against our system of government. The men who conspire against the franchise by bribery and fraud are guilty of treason, and should be punished accordingly. Public opinion shonld be fanned to white heat against m?n occupying positions of respectability and influence who resort to such methods to defeat the will of the people.-- Wash­ ington Republican. The Grand Army HM the Flow. With Rebel yells still ringing in the air, with the frenzied kisses of Rebel devotion still fresh on the hem of Jeff Davi9' gar­ ments, with the Rebel bloody shirt flying at full mast, perhaps it would be just as well to hear less about the loyal bloody shirt in the North for a. season. In short, the veterans o' the Grand Army of the Republic should have tne floor.--Sioux City Journal. Gorman's Grip on Cleveland. "It was," says the Boston Traveller, "in the last days of the campaign of 1884 that Gorman, for the Democratic National Com­ mittee, raised, according to hearsay, $150,- 000 to effect a change in New York against Blaine." And it was thus that Gorman got a grip on Cleveland, which the latter has not been able to relax.---Yeic York Mail. The Voice or the Whole South. The East Mississippi Times voices the sentiments of the people of the whole South when it says that, "notwithstanding the wail of the fanatic who would deny him the right to express his opinion, the name of Jeff Davis is as dear to the South­ ern people to-day as it ever was, and time will only add to its luster."--Memphis Ap­ peal. The Same Old Crowd. The braggart Colonels that assembled to do honor to Jefferson Davis, that reviled the < Union flag and lauded the rebel rags, are the same ones who were hunting theii holes when Gen. Sherman made a call down in that section of country some year; ago. They are representative specimens oi Mr. Grady's New South.--Peoria Tran­ script. How TO teach chickens to eat sunflowei seed--hull a few seeds and throw then down with the unhulled seed, and some ol the chickens will learn to eat them in a few minutes., and this will teaoh the balanoe. NOVEMBER 11. FwjpaMkioM for-the Hanging of the An­ archists and Frecautiona an Outbreak. The Tramp of Armed Men--The Citizen ̂ SfMlttJ Prepared for Bwafc We Trouble. CmajLoo, Hov. 5. The poUee Sttftngeaienfr tar the protec­ tion of the city until al.er the execution ot tk* anarchists are practically com­ pleted.. The varloas station*, especially the precinct stations, have a notable appearance of vigilance an I readiness. Thu police are a splen­ did aetof men physically, and there is no ques­ tion that they are efficiently armed. Each man has a club, a revolver, rifle, bayonet, and forty rounds of ammunition, while extra arms and ammunit.on art) in readiness. Capt. Kchaack, of the Chicago police foroe, Is the man who has relentlessly panned the anarchists from the hear the fatal bomb was exploded in the Haymarket Square. To him f J J, NATIONAL FINANCES. Tho National Debt Reduced V Jlearly $41,000,000 in the Last Four Months. More Gold in the Treasury than Ever but Silvi LIBERTY OR DEATH. Three of the Condemned An­ archists Renounce Exec­ utive Clemency. Op«aLetters from Llngg, Engel and lucher to the Governor if Illinois.. CATT. SCHAACK. , chiefly belongs the credit of unearthing the great conspiracy and bringing the conspirators to justice The Captain expects to have no rest until the seven nnarchist» are dis­ posed of, either by the hangman's nooBe Or executive clemency. He has accom­ plished an immense amount of work iu the last few dn>«, but sticks to his post in spit* of tatigre t::at would wreck qp ordinary man, and in spite of dark threats hurled at him. Tho Captain receives all callers, but is prepared for surprises and armed against them by a brace of glittering Colt's revolvers, ever at bia band. "There have been threats," said Capt. Kchaack, Hist evening, "made by persons whom I believe to bo capable of causing trouble, but I will say that if they attempt it there will be more dead bodies on the streets of t hicaf{o than there were 011 the night of the Hayumrket massacre. I think the Mayor and Chief of Police have done the rlcht thing in their early and wise disposi­ tion of tho police force. " At Judge Gary's home on Ontario street, am­ ple precaution is also taken. Kver since the trial of the anarchists a year ano, a trusty offi­ cer has given tho Judge's residence special surveillance. Since the decision of the Supreme Court two officers maintain the watch. The same protection is oxtendod to the home9 of State's Attorney Grlnnell and Captain Schaack. CITIZEN SOLDIKUY. The citizen soldiery are wide-awake and are nightly be ng pot through their paces. There is no splutter or unnecessary excitement attend­ ant upon thfir preparations and precautions. While as yet they havonotreoelved any instruc­ tions with reference to the impending execu­ tions, still they feel that they must be in readiness to answer promptly. Arms and am­ munition have been carefully inspected and within twenty minutes fully 9) per cent, of the civic luilitia of Chicago would be in shape to answer the call to arms. Not only are the armories bring guarded nightly, but all the public buildings as well. At the city hall and oonntv building twelve policemen are detailed to do sentinel duty. The Board of Trade is also closely watched t>y city a. d special officers. The powder magazines have not been forgotten, and are care lull y looked after. . AT THF. J All,. Behind every door and in front of every win­ dow stand armed sentinels, watching the move­ ments of those who enter the jail bnilding by day or night. The men thus detailed represent two full companies--one from the Chicago Ave- nne Station, the other (rom Harrison street. Tho Grand Jury room, on the upper lioor of the Criminal Court building, is used as a bar­ racks for one of these companies. The ante­ rooms on the lower floor, leading from the main court room, supplies a retreat for the other company. During spare moments the men are drilled in squad*, and are fast attaining a pro­ ficiency rivaling that of the regular troops. Each package undergoes the careful scrutiny of Deputy O'Neill, who. by long experience, can locate contraband goods on a moment s inspec­ tion. It has been often noticed that the only paokage that Mr. O'Neill is actually afraid of is rWashingt n special.] The statement oi the Treasury for the month just closed presents several points of interest The castoips receipts are o*,0jc,u0) more tuan for October. l>*Su, and nearly to,030,0v>0 more during the first four months of tue fiscal year than during the sumo portion of the previous fiscal year, 'lhe internal roveaue receip:s show a gain of for the month and more than for th3 four months. Toe miscellaneous receipts show more diminution for October, and a trilling increase for the fiscal year current. The ag»;re,ate receipts show an increase c/ for the month an d over $'/5,5m,0 j0 to." the last third of the fiscal year. Toe surplus re\euue for the month wa* $11,- 500,000, und for the four months a little more than yv'.UiOj.Ojo As compared with the sauio month last year, the ordinary expend­ itures for October show a decrease of f2,}0>»,0C0, and as compartd with the same four months of last year the ordinary expenditures since July 1 have fal.en ofl more than #8,000,tJO >. Tension payments snow a fa liiiR off of more than SI,'>00,i OS for the month, but an increase of con­ siderably more tnan ? v> >0,000 for four months. .For the last four months the payments have aggregated but a few thousand less than The interest payments show slight reductions. The total disbursements show a red uction of over 53,00',0/0 fjr the month and an iL«rea e of mora than for tho four months '1 he reduction of the national debt, or the to;al debt less cash in the Treasury, was for October and S10,73G,03"> for the four months. The roduction of nearly $17,00",oUU in the net debt during October was effected by a redemption of over 85,000, 0J of bonds and an increase of SU,4,'9,v%) in tho cash balance or so- called surplus in the Treasury. The reduofcion in the principal of the interest-bearing debt during the last four months has been 544,545,- W. and the surplus has increased ueaily $11,- 500,(.M) since bept. JO, and nearly $10,000,000 since June Hi:. The transformation of the Treasury's silver into gold is going on with marked rapidity. NVhen tho present administration came iu the stock of gold was low und running down, and the stock of silver was large and increasing, and there was no very great difference be­ tween the amounts of gold and silver held in the Treasury. The last Republican Secretary and the lirst Democratic Secre­ tary for some months were afraid to pav oat gold for bonds lest the gold should be exhaust­ ed and the Treasury be compelled to force sil­ ver payments on the Government creditors. Since the administration began the bold policy of redeeming t-onds freely, the gold has nearly doubled, though disbursed liberally, and the silver baa fnl:on otT a third or more, though forced upon no one. The Government now holds in cold -considerably more than it ever owned beforo--an increase for tho month of more than 5lo,mx>,OOJ, and for four months of nearly &ir,oou,ooo. The silver owned by tho Government is 568,18^571--a decrease of nearly S-V>0 >,0 i) for the month and of more than S1VW0.0.0 i" f00* months. Slnoe July 1 the Government's gold has increased more than Sis,000,000 and its *toek' of silver has decreased mor < than 5fl.\0>» ,00J, The circulation of silver has lncreusod, both in tho form of certitlcates and iu the f >rm of colni. The outstanding silver cert ln ate^ have incroased for the month ^,3ly,l;lJ, and for four months fl«,o'J5,!>40. The silver dollars in circulation have in­ creased $y,V44,'J61 for the month, and 57,084,478 for the four months. On the other hand, the net redaction In the circula­ tion of national banks was */7 for the mouth and J. 0,4H.54rt for twelve months. While nearly >no.OJ t of national bank circulation was surrendered and destroyed in October, 82^,5x1 was issued to new banks (ind was issued to banks increasing tiieir circula­ tion. The outstanding national bank ciroula- tion amounts to t2/l,>*H1'2?41 of which SlG'J.'ili,- 0ti7 is secured by the deposit of bonds and 8l02,.-»8»',2 t< is represented by lawful money de­ posited with the Treasurer to redeem this por­ tion of the national bank circulation. How little silver is being paid into the Treas­ ury is shown by the fact that th » percentage of silver certificates iu tho receipts of the New York Custom House has fallen off from 16.!i in January to St. 1 in October. The gold certificates formed about ;i per cent, of the tot»l in July, 18*), which is about the time the redemption of bonds was resumed, and since September, 1896, the gold certificates have fonned never less than two-thirds of the total and most of the time about thiee-fouxths. For tbe last three months they havo been nearly four-hfths of the whole. Tlie piesout surplus, if calculated as it was under previous administrations, would be SISo, 881,80:1. Following is a recapitulation of tbe pablio debt statement issued on the 1st Inst., oents omitted: nrTERKST-BEAKDfQ D1BT. Bonds at per oent.... .t 330,544,600 Bonds at 4 per eent .'*4f... 788,447,550 Refunding certificates at 4 per oent. 155,030 Navy pension furxl at 3 per oent.... 14,000,000 Pacific Kailroad bonds at 6 per oent. 64,023,512 MBS. PABSONS' BASKET. that brought in daily by Mrs. FarsoAs. Mr. O'Neill is rather touohy upon this point, bat al­ ways Adds that vigilance is the watchword just at present, THE 8CAFFOT.DB. The material for additional scafTolds was brought to the jail yesterday afternoon. It con­ sisted principally of well-seasoned hard tim­ bers. partly finished, and requiring but a few touches to complete them into perfect working instruments of deatb. NINA IN A SAOK. Nina Van Zandt came to the jail yesterday with a badly rallied temper. Nothing seemed to suit her, and even the visit of Spies' sister to the jail increased her wrath. The two rarelv speak with one anotber and each is said to bo jealous of tbe other's visits. Not finding an o]>- portunitv to vent her ill-temper on others Nina assailed her old enemies, the reporters. Going up to Jailor Folz she said : "Why are these nasty reporters allowed to clamor around here and listen to everything? They ought to be kept out of here." Mr. Foltz's only reply to the young lady was to inform her that in his opinion tbe reporters were more entitled to be present than herself, and that if any one were to be excluded he was afraid it would have to be her. With a look which the reporters now oall "a withering glance" she brushed by the scribes and rented her spite by picking nervously at the hard iron caging which kept her loter a prisoner. RAILINGS OF THE ANARCHIST OBOAN. The Arheitrr Zritunfl, tbe org>n of the an- arohists, prints a long editorial, of which tbe fol- 1 lowing is an extraot: j "The request of our eight comrades for a writ of error has /been refused by the Federal 8u- gre tne Court., For a hundred years the United tates enjoyed the reputation of being a free country, tfp to a short time ago such a reputa- • tion was certainly most justifiable. But lately a few possessors of the colossal riohes pro­ duced by the common people usurped a crim­ inal power to pervert and misinterpret the laws croated by tbe fathers of this republic in good faith and a progressive spirit. They splatter with mud the name ol the repnblio. The 8u- i preme Court atr-Wa#hington, the German Im­ perial Court at Leipsic, and the martial courts at 8t. Petersburg stand on tho same level. The Justice which is being distributed under the auspices of Jay Gould, Vanderbilt, et al. wears not only a bandage over her eyes, but also a watchword on her breast, which reads • . •The public be d----d.'" j The article quotes from Ben Butler's speech where h» sard that every ore of the jurors was prejudiced against the anarchists. It accuses , the judges of having been led merely by the desire of setting a horrible example to the 1 working classes to keep tbeiu easier in Bubmis- I sion. It warns the judges that he who sows | the wind must reap the whirlwind, and closes: "Heretofore the working people believed In the existence of justice and equality in this country The cruelties of their enemies will" open their eyes. Our comrades will seal with their blood the truth that liberty and justice : can hardly raise tbeir h- ads in this country, I However dear to us may be the life of our com- ' rades we must give them np, consoled by the hope that this human sacrifice will hasten the , day when the masses will learn to understand : how thev were being fooled and what a hum- I bug haa beeu made of jusWJU.* I Total 18,641.570 DHBT BEARING NO INTKBE8T. Old demand and legal-tender notes 4346,738,121 Certificates of deposit Gold certificates Silver certificates Fractional currency (less $8,375,934, estimated as lost or destroyed)... 7,215,000 99,684,783 160,713,957 6,943,916 Principal 1621.295,707 TOTAL DEBT, Principal .*1,666,526,614 Interest.. 6,550,100 Total »1,675,076,715 Less cash items available for reduc­ tion of the debt V 879,628,306 Less reserve held for redemption of United States notos 100,000,000 Total 9 879,625,306 Total debt less available cash items *1,295,451,436 Net cash in the Treasury 56,758,704 Debt less cash in Treasury Nor. 1. 1887 11,988,692,701 Debt less cash In Treasury Oct. 1, 1887 1,255,526,896 Decrease of debt during tne month S 16,833,695 Decreaso of debt sinoe June 30, ltfcr; 40,786,035 CASH IN THE TREASURY AVAILABLE FOB TUB BB- DOCTION Of PUBLIC DEBT. Gold held for goid certificates actu­ ally outstanding 906,684,778 Silver held for silver certificates ao- tually outstanding 100,718,957 U. B. notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 7,215,000 Cash held for matured debt and in­ terest unpaid 11,493,813 Interest prejtaid not accrued per department circular No. 90 0(kS,99!l Fractional currency 1,372 Total available '... 9379,825,308 RESBBTB FUND. Held for redemption of U. S. notes, aots January 14, 1875, and July 12,1883 9 108,000,000 Unavailable for reduction of debt: Fractional sliver coin 9 24,469,135 Minor coin 51,400 Total Certificates held as cash.. • Net cash balance on hand. 94,519,535 36.47U.652 56,738,704 Total cash in Treasury as shown by the Treasurer's general acoount. .9 497,383,901 ALASKA. Aa Interesting Report by GOT. Swtaeford . on the Affairs of the Territory. A. P. Swineford, Governor of Alaska, In his annaal report says that the white population is principally confined to the southeastern (taction, embracing the so- called "thirty-mile strip" of main land, geographical division, which inclades less than one-twentieth of tbe whole Territory. The population of the Territory is esti­ mated as follows: Whites, 5,000; Creoles (principally white*, 1,800; Aleuts, 2,300; natives (partially educated and civilized), 3,500. Total civilized population, 12.100. Uncivilized natives, 2ft,fOo. Total popula­ tion, 39.4(H). All the Creoles and Alents can read and write either in the Russian or their own langnage, while not a few of the natives other than Aleuts are to all intents civilized. The Governor sa.vs that $10,- 000,000 is a conservative estimate of the value of all taxable property in the Terri- tory, exclusive of the Alaska Commercial Company's establishments on the seal islands. The report says that very little has been accomplished, or, indeed, attempted in the way of agricultural development. This, notwithstanding there is a very consider­ able acreage or tillable land in southeast­ ern Alaska, with a soil that produces a most luxurious vegetation, the fact being that no one comes into the Territory with the be­ lief that either the soil or the climate is adapted to agriculture or horticultural pur­ suits, but the few experiments which have been made leave no room to doubt that all Principal ..91,041,770,749 Interest:. 7,762,943 Total.................. 91.019,532,985 DEBT ON WHICH INTKHKST HAS CKASSD SINCE XATunrrr. Principal 93,460,105 Interest. 181,465 fChlosRo telegrauM George Eagel, Louis Lingg, ttB<J'Ailo!t)h Fischer, of the group of death-sentenced anarchists, have written open letters to Gov. Oglesby, refusing any commutation of sen­ tence short of liberty, and declaring undi­ minished faith in the principles of anarchy. The letters are subjoined. The writers asked that they be printed without change, lhe underscoring in the text follows the manuscript: M°°£ C;A«NTT JAIL. CHICAGO, NOV. 1. 1887. Illinois- 8l6*by' Governor.ol the State ot BKAB SIR--I am aware that petitions are be­ ing circulated and signed by the general public asking you to commute the sentence of death which was inflicted upon me by a Criminal Court of tbfo State. Aucnt tlxis action of a sympathizing and well-meaning portion of the people I si lemuly declare that it has not my sanction. As a man of honor, as a man of con­ science, and as a man of principle I cannot accept mercy. I am nof,fuxltu of the charge in the indictment-- of murder. I am no 711 unf rer. and cannot apologize tor an action of ichu-h I knote 1 urn intHMeitt. And should X ask "inercv" on account of my principles, which 1 honestly belie. e to be true and noblo ? A«.' I am no hvpo- erit, and have, therefore, no excuses to offer with regard to being an Anarubist, because the ex­ periences of the last eighteen months have only strengthened my convictions. The ques­ tion is. jim 1 responsible for the deitJi oj the at the fuiyotarketf and I say «<), un­ less you assert that every Abolitionist could have been held responsible for the deeds of John Brown Therefore, I could not ask or ac- cev>t "mercy" without lowering myself in my self-estiuiation. If I cannot obtain j-ustife from the authorities and be restored to my family, then I prefer that the verdict should be carried out as it stands. Kvery informed person must, I should think, admit that this verdict is solely due to class*' hatred, prejudice, the intlaming of public opin­ ion by the m tlicious newspaper fraternity, and a desire cm tho part of the privileged classes to check lhe progressive labor movement. The interested parties, of couisc, deny this, but it is nevertheless true, and I am sure that coming ages will look upon our trial, conviction, and execution as tho people of the nineteenth cent­ ury regard the barbarities of past generations --as the outcome of intolerance and prejudice againtt advanced ideas. History repeats itself. As tho powers that be have at all times thought that they could stem the progressive tide by exterminating a few "kickers," so do the ruling classes to-day imsgine that they can put a stop to the movement of labor emancipation by hanging a few of its advocates. Progress in its victorious march has had to overcome many obstacles which seemed invincible, and many of its apostles have died the death or martyrs. Tho obstacles which bar tbe road of progress to-day seem to be invincible, too; but they will bo overcome, nevertheless. At all tim^s when tbe condition of soeietv had become suchtbuta large jiortion of the people complained of tho existing injustice, the ruling classes have de­ nied the truth of these complaints, but have said that the discontent of tho portion of the people in question was due only to the "perni­ cious influence" of "malicious agitators. To­ day sgaiu some people assert that the "d--d agitators" are the cause of tho immense dis­ satisfaction among the working people! O, you people who Bjiouk thus, can you not oa tciJl you not read the signs of the times? Do you not see that the clouds on the social firmament are thick­ ening? Are you not, for instance, aware that the control of industry and of the means of transportation, etc., is constantly concentrating in fewer bunds ; that the monopolists--i. e„ tbe sfcarka among the capitalists--swallow the lit­ tle ones amoug them; that "trusts," "pools," and other combinations aro being formed in order to more thoroughly and systematically fleece the people ; that under the present sys­ tem the development of technic and machinery is from year to yoar throwing more workin^'inon ou the wayside ; that in some parts of this great aud fertile land a majority ot the farmers are obliged to mortgage their homes in order to satisfy tho greed of monstrous corporations; that, iu short, the licii are constantly growing richer and the |>oor poorer ? Yos ? And do you in t. comprehend that all these evils find their origin in the present institu­ tion of society wbioli allows one portion of the human race to build fortunes upon the mis­ fortunes of others: to enslave their follow- menV Instead of trying to remedy these evils, and instead of ascertaining just what the cause of the widening dissatisfaction is, the ruling clauses, through their mouthpieces, the press, pulpit, etc., defame and misrepresent the cliar- actcr, teachings, tuid motives of the advocates of social reconstruction, and use the ritln find elub on them, and, if opportunity is favorable, send them to the gallows and prisons. Will this do any good? As an answer I may as well quote the following words with which Benjamin Franklin closed ids satirical essay, "Bules for Kedueing a Great Kmpire to a Hmall one," which he dedicated to tho Kn- glish Government iu l7'iC: "Suppose all their the kickers'j complaints to be invented and promoted by a few factious demagogues, whom if you could catoh aud hang all would be quiet. Catch and liaug a few accordingly ; and the blood of the martyrs shall work miracles in favor of your purpose--1. e., your own ruin." Bo, I eay, society may hang a nurnbor of dis­ ciples of progress who have disinterestedly served the eause of tbe sons of toll, which is the cause of humanity, but their blood will work miracles in bringing about tbe downfall of modern society aud in hastening the birth of a new era of oivillzation. Magna est Veritas, et prevaleblt I ADULI'H FIHCKKH. 1.INOG WANTS I.IBBKTY OB DKATH. I.ingg is as defiant as ever. His letter is as follows: To Mr. It. J. Oglesby, Governor of the State of Illinois: Anent the fact that the progressive and liberty-loving portion of the American people are endeavoring to 1 wo vail upon you to interpose your perogative in my case, I feel im­ pelled to declare, with my friend and comrade, Tarsons, that I demand either liberty or death. If you are ruaily & servant of the people tie- cording to the Constitution ot the country, then you will, by virtue of your office, uncondition­ ally release me. Keferring to the general and inalienable rights of men, I have called upon the disinher­ ited and oppressed mosses to oppose the force of their oppressors exercised by armed enforcement of infamous laws enacted in the interest of capital -- with force in order to attain a dignified and manly existence by securing the full returns of tbeir labor This--aud only this--is the "crime" which was proven against me, notwithstanding tbe employment of perjured testimony on the part of the btate. And this crime is guaranteed not only as a right but as a daty by the Ameri­ can Constitution, the representatives of whioh you are aupj/osed to be in tho Htate of Illinois, llut if yau are not the representative of tho Constitution, but, like tbe great majority of othce-holders, a mere tool ot the monopolists or a specific political clique, you will not en­ croach upon the thirst for blood displayed by the extortioners, because a mere mitigation of tho verdict would be cowardice and a proof that the ruling classes whioh you represent are themselves abashed at the monstrosity of iny condemnation, and, consequently, of their own violation of the most sacred rights of the people. * Your decision in that event will not only judge me, but also yourself and those whom you represent. Judge then! Louie LINOG. COOK COTOTT JAII,, 30, b1, 1887. P. 8.--In order to be sure that this letter will come to your official notice I will send you tbe original manuscript in a registered letter. L. L. KNGRI, PROTESTS AGAINST COMMUTATION, Engel is quite as earnest and emphatio as Lingg, though perhaps net so cynical. He says: A LETTKH TO GOV. OGLESBY. Dear Sir: I, George Engel, citizen of the United 8tates and of c hicago, aud condemned to death, learn that thousands of citizens peti­ tion you, as tbe highest executive officer of the (state of Illinois, W commute my sentence from death to imprisonment. I protest emphatically against thiB ou tbe following grounds : 1 am not aware of having violated any laws of this country. In my tiiui belief in tho Con. stitution which tho founders of this Kepublie bequeathed to this peoi>le, and which remains unaltered, I have exercisod the right of free speech, free press, free thought, and free as­ semblage, us guaranteed by the Constitution, and have oritieisod the existing condition of society aud sucoored my fellow-citizens with my advice, wtiich I regard as the right of every honest citizen. The experience which I have had in this country, durin] the fifteen years that I have lived here, concerning the ballot and administration of our public function­ aries who have become totally corrupt, has eradicated my belief in the existence of equal rights of poor and rich, and the action of the public oulcers, police and militia, have pro­ duced the firm belief in me that these condi­ tions cannot last long. In acoordance with this experience I have taught and advised. This I have done in good faith of the right* which we are guaranteed by the Constitution, and, not being oonscious of my guilt, the "powers that bo" may murder me, but they caunot legally punish me. 1 protest against a commutation of my sentence, and demand either liberty or death. I renounce any kind of mercy. Re­ spectfully, GEORGE ENOEL. WHEN you put in your wheat this fall, first plow the land and mak> the seed bed as fine as possible hy harrowing it well. Then broadcast one bag of super-phosphate over it, drilling in the wheat next. Early in the spring broacast another bag of super­ phosphate, and use a smoothing barrow over the young wheat, and by so doing you the cereals, except corn, can be grown to , ^nll give the wheat a good start and largely perfection in many sections. _ _ increase the yield. THE-"CLEVER FELLOW." The Man Wh® Is Kvery body's Frlwwl kal His Own--A Familiar Character aa Everywhere Found. He is an American institution. His: habitat is the country village. If you should go gunning far him in the win­ ter you would find him in the village store which kept the best fire. If yon went trapping for him you would set your trap in the cracker ba|rreL If you wanted to creep tip and catch him in the summer, you would find him on a salt barrel in front of a store on the Bouth side of the street if it did not rain. Summer or winter you will lind him smoking cheap tobacco in a clay pipe, unless it is election time, and th'ep yon will find him smoking a cigar which would blister a tomato can. He carries his hands in his pockets. His trousers are worn out around the delta. He gets his hair cut so seldom that when it is cut there is a wide mar­ gin of pallor which makes bim look sis though he had had a long run of fever. Why do we call him a clever fellow? Becauso he never hurts anybody. He never stirred around and got the start of anybody and made a big trade. He never gets interested in politics and ar­ gues until some one wants to destroy him off tho earth. His information on general subjects is large and compre- lieusive. He is the village and subur­ ban- directory. He remembers when the mercury went down to 25 once l>e- fore. It was January 25, 1863. The snow was four feet deep that winter, and lay on the ground until spring. He is authority on the genealogy of every family in the village. He will take out his pipe, reach around and scratch his back, and say: "Jim Smith's first wife was a Simmons. Come up from Solsville way; the Sim mouses that kept the. tavern, and the oldest boy fit into the Mexican war. He hadn't but one leg and got a pension and be­ longed to the Methodist Church aud boarded mostly at old Kipper Brown's, an' he peddled essences an' thread an' suspenders and lied a wart on his nose." Thus he can goon for hours* and give you solid facts about every family in the vicinity. In tho romantie realm of love he rules as a very Cupid devoid o>f bow and arrows, and olothed in a suit of blue jeans and a stale smell of tobacco. Would you know who took Araminta out riding, or who pulled down the blinds at Belinda's abode, you must consult our hero. Many and rich are the jokes he cracks from his throne on the codfish box at the store, and hot aro the blushes he evokes on the oheek of the adolescent youth. He is handy and willing to help everybody only himself. Is a cellar beiug dug, there you may find him with his hands in his pockets, his back against a tree, and a pipe in his mouth helping to dig a oellar. Wisely and carefully does he expectorate every time a shovelful of dirt falls at his feet. Has the merchant a cask of molasses to roll into the cellar. Then on the long rope way back out in the middle of tho road, you will find the clever fellow with his hands out of his pockets and his pipe laid away, ready to lower on tbe long rope, and if he gets partially asleep and the rope jerks him forward on his node, it will add interest to the scene, and make the village look lively. He is also great when a horse or cow is sick. He always has a recipe for a sick horse. He suggests salts, or soap, or bleeding under the tongue, or alum, or a half pound of soda. You never saw such a willing fellow, and the gravestone peddler or drummer who owns the sick horse is so grateful that he wants to knock the clever fellow through the side of the barn. He will sit up all night with a sick cow and smoke, am], the cow generally diea. His ideas on art are more than twenty laps ahead of Raphael or Pidias. He comes out strong when somebody is having a house painted. He will help carry the ladders and mix the paints, and then sit on the top board of the fence across the way and roll out a whole treatise on the harmony of colors. Everybody in the village calls on him for help. He carries the paste when the circus bills are put up. He bosses the digging of the hole when the Re­ publican and Democratie poles are re­ spectively pat up. He gets an ear blown to rags and his face full of pow­ der firing the anvil on "the Fourth." In fact, he is indispensible everywhere except at home. He is not a general and sweeping success at home. His ideas on art have not yet eliminated the straw hats and old coats from the windows at home. Good judge of architecture as he is he yet conveys his smoke out of his house through a six-inch stove-pipe in the roof. A very poor prophet in his ad­ vice to children, his own poor brats go barefoot until their feet look like alii- * gator hand-bags. Handy to help every­ body else, his own wife splits up the woodshed door to cook his dinner, and when he gets back to his seat on the salt barrel and commences in epicurian style a dissertation on chicken salad you will see crumbs of oornbread in his whiskers.. For this clever fellow, with all his eleverness does not get rich. He has too much to attend to. He has no time. The interests of the whole vil­ lage rest on him, and his personal affairs must suffer. He is always turn­ ing a grindstone to sharpen some one else's ax. Came from Fighting Creek. Jack Collins, the light-weight, played with a theatrical compfcny last spring, and as a natural result was left stranded in one of the upper counties of this State, having only enough cash in his pocket to buy a nickel cigar. He sat on the hotel veranda smoking this and thinking how far off Detroit was, when a man drove up in a buggy, jumped out of his vehicle, and said: "Young man, it is needless to inform you that I am from the head waters of Fighting Creek, and that 1 am going to give you the worst mauling any human being ever received. I'll give you two minutes in which to pay." Collins was in the mood for a set-to, and he instantly hoisted sail and went in for all he was worth. In three min­ utes the man who lived up the creek struck his flag. When allowed to get up he asked: "Did it tire you any?" "Not a bit, sir." "Could you do it any day in tbe week?" ;.i\. "Yes, or any hour in the day." • •',> "Yes, I guess you ootiid. Do JtfO, want to leave town ?" "I do." ,• "Where for?" "Detroit" "All right 1*11 go and pay your bill and then buy you a ticket I am an' awful fighter, I am, but when I-can't lick a man I hire him to leave the town, and that keeps me boss. Here's $5 extra if you go this afternoon." And it was on that chap's money that Collins got back home without patting up his watch.--Detroit Free Press. ILLINOIS STATE HEW& Vj-The town of Ogden has dispensed wifli its only policeman. --A Medical Protective Aaaoetatien bM been formed by the doctors at Lincoln. A1H--sea are being fetmed by ftran in every township in Champaign County. --Decatur real-estate dealers will shortly form a syndicate for the- purpose et pur­ chasing and laying out an addition to ft* city. It will be known as East Park. --Plans are being perfected by the young men of Jacksonville for the erection of a handsome Queen Anne dwelling, costing $8,000 to $9,000, with a view to improving the style of architcetn-- of that eity. --The other day, as- Mr. Slansfield Baldwin, of Jacksonville* was hauling wood, he fonnd a blood-red owl about the size of a hall-grown chicken. The day being bright, he captured the bird and put it into his pocket, Intending to bring it to Dr. King to be mounted, but unfortunately it escaped. Mr. Baldwin says it was tbe only owl of the kind be ever saw, and kl regarded it as a great curiosity. -- A company of Bloomington gentlemen is being formed for the purpose of estab­ lishing a new mowing-machine factory in that city. It will start with a capital et $30,000. --Alderman Lester Green, who has been in the coal trade in Bloomington for seven­ teen years, has confessed judgment to tike amount of $2,500. It is supposed that bis total liabilities are $6,000,. with assets of about $7,000. --Apropos of the talk abeut church te- fluences in the schools of Pittsburg, the case of tbe village of Iveedale, Champaign County, interesting. The only school in the town, the public school, supported entirely by taxation and drawing its pro rata of State school funds, is taught by nuns exclusively. Some of the Protest­ ants murmur at such an arrangement, but they are powerless to help themselves. Mo.«t of the children of proper age are at­ tending the school. --Samuel and Joseph Taylor, mine op­ erators near Belleville, wsxe reoently killed by a runaway horse. They were driving about five miles from Belleville when their team ran away. Joseph was thrown oat and crushed, and Samuel* in attempting to jump ont got one of his feet caught and was dragged a mile aud a half. He was dead and mntilated when found. Joseph Taylor had charge of the Alma Mines, and Samuel was one of tbe best known cial' men in the southern part of tbe State. r-Joseph Miller, aged 23 years, son of Stacy Miler, a saloonkeeper in Daitrille, Was arrested recently by tbe Sheriff of Fountain County, Indiana, charged with murder in the first degree. Sept. 21 last Joseph Harter, aged 50, was shot and killed in a saloon row at Covington, tbe county seat of Fountain County. That night Oliver Fitt, of Danville, was arrested for the crime and baa since been in jail. Tes­ timony has just been produced before the grand jury directly charging Miller with the shooting. Tho trial is set for the third Monday in Novembeai --The Chicago Times has been sold toa syndicate, of which the chief members are Clinton A. Snowden, for many years man­ aging editor of the Times under Mr. Storey, and James J. West, boaineas man­ ager of an evening publication in that city. Negotiations looking to a purchase have been going on for some time, and were only brought to a culmination recently. The instruments have been signed and de­ livered. Terms were made with tbe widow of Mr. Storey and his heirs. It is understood that Mr. Snowden will be ed­ itor-in-chief, assisted by Joseph B. Dun- lop, as managing editor. The latter was city editor under Mr. Storey. . --The Pope County Circuit Court, sitting at Oolconda, has disposed of an extraor­ dinary number of ejectment suits brought at this term by non-resident claimants and their guarantees against farmers whose titles were in some respects deficient but who bad been living, as they believed, upon their own land for, in many instances, over a quarter of a century. In each of these oases the occupants were ousted, notwith­ standing the fact that they had gone into possession even before patents were granted to the grantors of the claim, and who in each case had failed for years to pay any taxes upon the lands which they now claim. Two of the cases so determined will go to the Supreme Court to be tested. --The notorious "Bobby" Adams, who has boen out of prison for several weeks on a vacation to Minneapolis on a writ of habeas corpus to appear as a witness against his pals in the Minneapolis Poet- office robbery, has returned to Joliet prison. It is expected that "Bobby" will soon receive his reward in the shape of a pardon. Eighty-three new convicts ar­ rived at Joliet prison during the month of October, it being the largest number reoeived daring any month in the year. The following criminals have been placed behind the ban: Hany White, Frank Wilson, William Johnson, and Henry Preston, who composed a gang of burglars operatipg at Cambridge, 111., and who re­ ceived three years each; Wally Johnson, third-term convict; Elvyn Bradley and Charles Scott, a year each, from Bockfotd; Frank Rupert, third term; Joe Glaze and . Frank Shook, from Tuscola. Glaze re­ ceived a twenty-year term. ̂ --"I'm a rip-roaring anarotist from ' way-buck, and I'm loaded with bombs!" shouted a red-nosed man recently on Clark street, near Harrison, at Chica­ go. Then he grabbed a lamp-post, swung around with his arms at full length, and yelled, "Whoop! Look out for me. If I let go, off go the bombs and away goes tbe buildin's round here." Just then a big policeman came out of tbe Harrison Street Station back door. He stopped when he reached the cheerful anarchist "Look out!" yelled the revolving gentle­ man. "I'm a human bomb, and if you touch me I'll explode, and away you'll go. I'm a bomb." "A bum, is it, ye he?" ejaculated the policeman. "It's little I thought that I'd become a bum-thrower, but I'll try it once for luck. * And fce did. He caught the inebti ited anarchist with a hip-lock and threw him half-«ay across the street. Then he took him into the station, where he told hi* great joke to the desk sergeant. " Sore, aa' you're a royal sucker," remarked the sergeant, as he fished a broken knife and four buttons out of the prisoner's clothes, "lou wasted your strengththiowiag sheeted bam.afljHr