The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-01-18
Another Mammoth Indignation
Meeting.

Another Mammoth Indignation
Meeting.
LOUISVILLE, January 1.-THE public
meeting at the court house, last night
called 10 protest against the recent &C
ton of the military in New Orleans, wa:
the largest gathering here for many
years, and was continued until midnight
Speeches were made by Hon. Boyd Win
chester, Hon. Isaac Caldwell, DR.. j
Lawrence Smith, and others. A letter
was read from Governor Leslie, in the
course of which he said. 1t would be out
Of place for me, in a letter like this, to
attempt a discussion of the wrongs tc
which refer. The aroused country is
Judging and denouncing with that intui-
tive sense of right which makes the
voice of an intelligent and virtu.
Gus people as the voice OF God
The public journals are thoroughly dis,
secting and exposing the plot against
liberty, which they involve; able voices
will be raised in your meeting to define
and denounce the ursurpation acts and
vindicate the rights of freepeople. But
while will not discuss them here, / can
not close without reminding you of the
most alarming fact in the history OF
these usurpations, and that Is that
Congress acknowledged them in
their very inception to be viola.
tive of the constitution, and yet failed
to rebuke them or provide against their
repetition, and that the chief executive,
in his recent message, justities them,
however unconstitutional, on the ground
of expediency, and does not hesitate to
avow his conviction that if it could be
done, the outlawry of the most respect
able citizens of Louisiana and their sub
lection to the tender mercies, not of q
jeffrey, but of
An American Haman,
would be the best solution of the prob
lem in that State. I feel grieved,
as you no doubt will, that such
an apology for military sa-
trap and the. expression of the
sentiment threatens with subversion the
American system of government. Who
can tell what the lust for power may not
hereafter attempt and accomplish? The
blow is now felt by the PROSTATE com
monwealth. of Louisiana; but the time
may come when other states now free
and rejoicing in their strength may be
struck down by the strong arm of the
Federal government or stand paralyzed
in the sight of Federal bayOnets. 1t
was
Resolved, That the right Of self govern
ment by the representatives ola free .peo-
pie, is the blood of the Republic.
The peaceable and legitimate exercise of
this right under the sanction of Il written
constitution, according to the forms OF
law, cannot be invaded except by the eN-
ercise of despotic power.
Resolved, That we hold it to be the
duty ofthe Federal Government to re-
dress the wrongs so recklessly inflicted
upon the much injured and oppressed
people of Louisiana, and restore to them
the full and uninterrupted exercise of all
their constitutional rights. 1t it time for
the American States 10 assert their true
relations to the Federal Government
and it is the high duty
and blessed privilege of American
people toproclaim once again their pris-
tine faith in free institutions and their
undying devotion to the cause of consti-
tutional liberty.
Resolved, That we have witnessed with
proud satisfaction and profound sympa-
thy the wise and patriotic stand taken by
the representatives of the people OF
Louisiana. Their heroic patience in the
past, and their magnanimous forbearance
In the present trying crisis challenge
our respect and admiration, and we are
happy to assure them that they have
the generous support of wise and
patriotic men Of all parties and in every
section of the Union.
The SUNS Distance from tho Earth
by Recent Calculations.
NEW YORK, January 1.-THE World
publishes cable dispatch from London,
saving the first computations made at
Greenwich, of data obtained from Obser-
vations of the recent Transit of Venus,
have welded result somewhat different
from what was expected from the calcu-
lations made independently give SUI
parallax, as being, respectfully, 800
seconds. 945 seconds, 925 seconds and 92O
seconds; the mean being "a seconds. The
computation was made by Prof. .. Hen
rice, p. D., of University College, Mr..
Fred Cathrie, of the Royal School
of Arts, and Messrs. Dunkin
and Ellis, Assistants at the Royal
Observatory, Greenwich. No calcula-
tions have yet been completed at Kew
observatory. The computation as given,
is made only upon the basis of external
and internal contacts, as reported from
different points Of observation, and may
be considerably modified when the pho
tographic and micrometric measurements
are taken account Of Based on this dis
match. the World remarks on authority
of an American astronomer: "Say that
the suns paralax has been ascertaincd to
be q24 seconds, that is to say that the sun
is distant from us about 22,333 SEMI
diameters of the earth or 8S, 443, I27 miles.
This was G,926,274 miles less than the
distance made out by Eneki from the OBJ
seryatorv of the last transit, and 5000
900 or 100000 less than the results OBJ
tanned by the most recent measurement.
If this ratio were constant, we should re-
quire 1,440 years to overcome the entlre
distance and tall into the sun. But 1t Is
certain that our centripetal would be
vastly accelerated continually as we got
closer within the sphere of the suns at
traction, unless his forces should be pro
portionately decreased, or his volume re-
duced. 1t is also probable that we should
consume very much less time than Is
above given in making the tremendous
journey.
Destructive Fire In Baltimore.
BALTIMORE, January l7.-lhe Two
upper floors of the fve-story iron build
ing of the Consolidated Real Estate Co.
of this city burned out last night. Loss
on building, $4,000. John Slater, job
printer, occupied one Of the destroyed
floor and Rickets, type founder, the other.
Loss unknown. The lower floors were
occupied by offices, among them the
Amazon Insurance Company, OF Cincin-
natl, and were flooded and damaged by
water.
nurdersfn Connecticut,
NV HAVEN, January l7.-John b.