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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-04-05
POLITICAL POINTS.

1t is now stated that Gen. Garfield, of Ohio,
is getting ready to run for Speaker of the new
House of Congress.
Wade Hampton, the dispatches from Wash
ington report, has had lengthy interview with
the President in regard to South Carolina af-
fairs. The conversation, we are told, was of a
free and general character, and related primarily
to the question to the probable condition of the
State in case the troops should be withdrawn,
there being no discussion of Chamberlain's
right Or title to the Governorship Hampton
claimed that there was an imperative necessity
for speedy action, as the planting interests of
South Carolina are in absolute danger of des-
truction by reason of the present unsettled
state of affairs, the labor system being now in
process of disintegration. Business he said,
was paralyzed and credit almost entirely
destroyed throughout the State in
consequence of it's present unsettled condition.
Hampton pledged the President that in case
mob violence, and that only legal processes
would be resorted to to establish the suprema-
cy of his Government. He said he possessed
both the purpose and the power to protect all
persons and classes alike in their legal and con-
stitutional rights. The President, in reply,
stated substantially that it was his purpose to
carry out in good faith the promises of his in
augural address, as he was deeply anxious to
bring peace and quiet to the distracted portions
of the country, and he was satisfied this result
would be attained in very short time. Accom-
mittee appointed by the Charleston Chamber of
Commerce, which had accompanied, Hampton
to Washington, also called upon the President,
and read an address setting forth the condition
of affairs in South Carolina and pleading for
the recognition of Hampton.
The President, says Washington dispatch,
has informed gentleman who is related to
him by family ties, and who comes we'll recon-
mended for certain office within his kinsmans
gift, that his connection with the Hayes family
is an objection to his appointment and On that
account it is refused to him.
The Louisiana Commission left Washington
for New Orleans on the Sd inst. 1t is predicted
at the capital that the action Of the admins
tration in the South Carolina case will tend
largely to simplify the work of the commission.
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YandeI'bilt'S Daughter.

Arbitrary as the Gar, he was wont to
govern in his private affairs with a rod
of iron. The husband of one of the
daughters Of the Commodore being I'M
fortunate in business, many years ago,
she went to her father for assistance,
which was refused in a manner more
forcible than elegant. She abruptly
withdrew to fight for complete independ-
ence. Next morning the New York of
those days was highly surprised to read
the following advertisement, specially
displayed:
Mrs. - desires to state that she has excel
lent table board and accommodations for fami-
lies or single gentlemen. Refers to her father,
G. Vanderbilt.
That advertisement appeared exactly
one time, for the Commodore realized
the situation and advanced backward
promptly, and there was no more dissen-
sion in that branch Of the family forever
afterward. -ButaJo Commercial
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the amendment to the State constitution abol-
ishing the religious test for ofice-holders has
been adopted by small majority and here
after Catholics will be eligible to Office in that
State.
West.
j. Clark Swayze, editor of the Topeka (Kan-
sas) Blade, was recently shot and killed by
John w. Wilson, editor of the Topeka Times
The New York Herald has received by tele-
graph from Tucson, Arizona, what purports to
be a ue copy of the original order concerning
the N ountain Meadows massacre. 1t confirms
the general belief that Brigham Young, the
head of the Mormon Church, was the arch
instigator of that most heinous crime. The
order was found among the papers of the late
Hon John Titus, at one time Chief Justice of
Utah and Arizona Territories
South.
The Tennessee Legislature has adjourned
without making any arrangements for the ad-
justment Of the State debt
The President sent another dispatch to Gen.
Augur, at New Orleans, last week, notifying
him that the true intent and meaning of all
previous orders is that he is to let things alone
and allow no violent change to be made by
either party in the existing situation.
J. Ross Stewart (colored), a member of the
Louisiana (Packard) Legislature, has been ex-
PEELED from that body for endeavoring to in
duce other members to join the Nichols Legis-
lature. Stewart made speech. before leaving
the State House, declaring he had only re-
NAMED there for the purpose of creating dis
sensions, etc. After making this speech he was
expelled.
Gov. Nichols, of Louisiana has appointed P
B. S. Pinchback member Of the State Board
of Education. A number of other colored men
have been appointed by Nichols to responsible
positions in the State.
Two Deputy Marshals and six men recently
made raid ON illicit distillers in Watauga
county, N. G., were fired upon by the crooks,
and two men Of the posse killed and one of the
Marshals wounded.
A New Orleans telegram states that two
members of the Packard House of Representa-
tives have seeded and joined their
fortunes with the Nichols Legislature
Another has resigned his seat. The
proceeding, it is claimed, gives the Nichols
Legislature a quorum.
A Charleston 6. CO. telegram says: "The
news of the determination of the Cabinet to
withdraw troops from the State House in Co.
lumbia causes unbounded joy here. kilograms
from various points in the interior of the State
say the news is received with impromptu meet
ings, salutes of cannon and other demonstra-
tons of popular rejoicing"
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

| Secretary Thompson declares that he intends
to use his utmost exertions to keep the ex-
penditures of the Navy Department within the
appropriations. 8r.8
Ten millions more in the old $40 bonds have
been called in by the Treasury Department, in
terest to cease on the 9th of June. An equal
sum of AZ per cents. will be issued in exchange
for the retired 6s -.
| The President appointed as Postmasters VIM.
A. Denny, at Vincennes, Ind. Luke E. Hemin-
way, at Moline. H., and John L.. Hauser, at
Fond du Lac, Wis Up h&@@3L@4e 944 ~ts
The regulations allowing the United States
Treasurer to furnish silver coin on certificates
of deposit of the Assistant Treasurer and ma
tlonal bank repositories has been modified to
permit the shipments of silver directly to the
parties making the deposit. The expense of
the transportation is paid by the department. to
points in the United States reached through es-
tablished express lines by continuous railway or
steamboat communication. The deposits are to
be in sums of not less than 81 1000 or it's multi
pie, and not exceeding $4,000.
Wade Hampton and D. H. Chamberlain az
rived at Washington last week. in response to
the invitation of the President, for the purpose
OF having a conference with the administration
in regard to the political complications in South
Carolina. 5*
Richard @. Mccormick has been appointed
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, vice
Conant, who goes to London to become Chief
OF the Syndicate Bureau.
The Secretary of War has ordered the with
drawal of the troops now stationed in Alaska.
The colored people are strongly urging the
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THE LOUISIANA COMMISSION.

The commission appointed by the Presi-
dent to visit Louisiana is constituted as fol-
lows:
Gen. John NJ. Harlan Republican,, of Ken
lucky, Chairman.
Gen. Joseph R. Hawley Repubican), of
Connecticut.
Hon. Charles B. Lawrence (Repubhcan), AS
sociate Justice of the Supreme Court of ILL
nois
Wayne MacYeagh (Repubican), of Pennsyl-
vania.
Ex-Gov. John G. Brown (moderate Demo-
craft, of Tennessee.
The commission will at once enter upon it's
work It is understood that it's mission will be
to endeavor to induce both parties in Louisiana
to agree to some sort of a compromise that
will end the political disturbances in that I'M
happy State. If the two parties cannot be
brought to peaceable agreement, upon the
plan to be suggested by the administration, it
is said the President will withdraw the troops
from the State, and leave Packard and Nichols
to settle their affairs in their own way.
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MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGs.


The amount of grain in sight in the United
States and Canada is as follows Wheat 10, 141, :
700 bushels corn, II, 499,354 bushels; oats,
2,950,O0O bushels rye, 1888, 052 bushels barley,
3,002, 9O8 bushels
CONGREGATIONS are reported at Tell City, Ind,
and Clinton and Enfield, N. c., the loss in each
instance being round $780, 900.
R. H. Macy, the well-known New York fancy
dry-goods dealer, one of the largest in the city,
died a few days ago in Paris, whittier he went
with his family about two months ago for the
sake of his health.
The Grant House, at Wheeling, w. Va, has
been destroyed by fire; loss, 100000.
Advices from Liverpool, received at New
York March 81, state that ex-Mayor A. Oakley
Hall, of New York. has arrived there in the
teamer Victoria, from Boston.
The race at San Jose, CAL, between Rarus
and Goldsmith Maid, March 81, was won by
the Maid in three straight heats. Time 1925,
1864 and 2:187l, in none of which did the
Maid lead more than half a length.
New York papers state that nine vessels of
the Long Island fishing fleet, which left for
tho Newfoundland banks in November last, are
now overdue, and grave fears are entertained
that the vessels and crews of 100 men are
drowned. 34 Elht85ja al r.
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Buried Nations.

The whole channel Of the Mediterra-
mean must be strewed with human bones.
Carthaginians, Syrians, Egyptians, Sid
onians, Persians, Greeks and Romans
there they lie, side by side, beneath the
eternal waters, and the modern ship that
fetches freight from Alexandria sails in
it's whole course over buried nations. 1t
may be the corruption Of the dead that
now adds brightness to the phospho-
rescence Of the waves. All told me in the
East that q superstition exists on this
subject, which represents the spirits of
the departed lowering, whether on land
or water, over the spots where the ruins
OF their tabernacles are found so that
in blowing the Mediterranean we sail
through armies of ghosts more multi
t l6linous than the waves.
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section 5, chapter A. of the general laws OF 1871
The people CT the State Of Wisconsin, represented
III Senate and Assembly, do enact IS follows
SECTION l. Section s. chapter IL, OF the general
laws OF 1871, is hereby amended by adding after
the words shall be fully paid" in the ninth line
thereof the following words, viz: unless by con-
sent OF SAID Commissioners" so that said
uon VIII read as follows: Section ). All the
taXaoIe property in any school district obtaining
loan under the provision of this act shall stand
chafgCq Tor the payment Of said loan and the in
teFest lhefeon at the time and IN the manner herein
before specified, and the boundaries OF said school
district shall not be altered as to exclude there
from any land included therein at the time of
making said loan, until the loan hereby authorized
shall be fully paid, unless by consent of said Com
nllssloners; provided, such consent shall in no
way release any security for loans of school
money, and it shall be the duty of the Town Clerk
OF any town In which joint school district obtain
ing loan as aforesaid shall be situated on or before
the second Monday in September in each wear dur
ing the continuance OF said oan TO make and trans
NIT to the Secretary of State certified statement of
the equaized valuation of real and personal proper
~ belonging to that part of any such jont school
district lying within his town, according to the last
assessment roll of said town. and It shall be the dutv
of the Secretary of State at the time he shall certify
to the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors the amount
of State taxes, also to certify TO the Town Clerk of av
town in which any school district " part of district
snail he situated, having obtained loan of money
under the provisions of this act the amount that shall
be due or to become due for the year. of principal
and interest of said loan, and the Town Clerk of said
town shall thereupon insert the amount so certified
in the assessment rolls of said town a tax upon
said school district or part Of district without any
further other authority, to be collected and pail
over to the Town Treasurer of the town where the
schoohouse is situated, out Of the first money col
lected by him belonging to said district or part of
district, and 10y said Town Treasurer paid to the
| County Treasurer, and by the County Treasurer
paid to the State Treasurer upon said loan
SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after
its passage.
Approved March B. 1877
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: A Rich Mans Estate.
drowned.

The property Of the late Oliver Ames,
estimated at S., 100000, is disposed of
by his will, in Massachusetts, as follows:
To the town Of Easton, $3.50, 900, of which
$4,000 is for highways, $4,000 for
schools, and $50, 900 for public library
at North Easton; to the Unitarian
Church, $4,000, of which $40, 900 is for
a parsonage; to his wife, $500, 600; to his
daughter Helen, $500, 900; to his son, F.
L. Ames, and wife as trustees. $50, 900
breach OF their children; to his sisters,
$50, 900 each; to his son, Fred L., all his
interest IN the shovel works and all the
residue, after few small requests to his
wife, son and daughter. 80.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.


The London Times perceives in the present
interruption of England's negotiations with
Russia the possibility of an antagonism which
may develop into great conflict, and, evil
IDENTIFY regarding the negotiations as practi-
caly at an end, says the eyes of Europe once
more turn to the members of the triple ALI
ance.
One of the Khedives American officers, Col.
Mitchell, went little 700 far in the late Abys-
sinian expedition, Ind is now prisoner,
chained to negro soldiers, and suffering terri
bly,, in the enemys country. Negotiations for
peace have not yet been brought to a successful
issue.
A cable dispatch states that on the anniver-
sary of the Emperor of Germany birthday a
military riot occurred at Mayence between
Prussian and Hessian soldiers, in which several
were killed and forty wounded
For the purpose of encouraging home indus
try the Russian Government has determined
to prohibit the use of imported locomotives
and other rolling stock on the railroads of the
country. Hitherto this material has been
largely imported from Germany. Subsidies
are to be allowed the Russian manufacturers
and articles for use in their business will be
relieved from the payment Of duties for the
present. 1
Rome dispatch announces that the Pope
has completely recovered his health.
Austria is no more inclined than France to
interfere in the interminable wrangles OF the
Pope and the italian Government The Papal
Nuncio at the Austrian court has been informed
byCcmt AndraSsy that, while the imperial Gov
eminent is deeply interested in the welfare
of the Holy See, it is conscious of the necessity
of avoiding international embarrassments.
The Princess Charlotte, eldest daughter of
the Grown Prince Frederick William has been
betrothed to the hereditary Prince of Sake
Weiningen.
Count Henry Won Arnim has become blind
through erysipelas, and is not likely to survive
long.
Germany has concluded commercial treaties
with Peru, Nicaragua and Guatemala.
Official announcement is made of the signing
of the protocol by the powers.
A cablegram states that land slip has oc-
CURED in the Mont Gents tunnel, resulting in
blocking of railroad trains and the interruption
of traffic.
The Princess Charlotte, eldest daughter of
the Grown Prince Frederick William, of Ger
many, has been betrothed to the hereditary
Prince of Saxe-Weiningen. r.@
A Berlin dispatch says that Count Henry Won
Arnim has become blind through erysipelas,
and is not likely to survive long.
The proposed protocol has been signed, but
it has produced no apparent effect on pnblic
feeling in the European capitals. There is
nothing in the document Of any vital force,
and the apprehensions excited = by the
belligerent attitude Of Russia are in no degree
allayed. By the signature of the protocol, the
other powers merely send their advice to Con-
stantinople, and that form being fulfilled, they
retire from the field of active participation in
the Eastern question, and leave Russia and
Turkey face to face, to adjust its problems as
they may.
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The Detroit Tree Press says that, as
the fast mail train over the Michigan
Central road was nearing New Buffalo,
Albert j. Hirst, a fireman on the Chi
cago, Burlington and Quincy railroad,
was riding on the locomotive and noticed
that a child about four years old had
fallen on the track a fewrods ahead of
the approaching train, Quickly he went
through the cab window and along the
side of the locomotive to the bottom step
Of the pilot or cow-catcher, and reaching
out he lifted the child from the track to
the locomotive, saving its life Although
the locomotive had been slackened up in
it's speed as much as possible, the force
Of it's progress was so great that Mr..
Hirsts right hand was in some way bad
ly smashed, although the child was com
paratively uninjured.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE FosrER-MATTHEws LETTER.

THE FOSIER-MATTHEW LETTER.
A good deal having been said about the let
er of Stanley Matthews and Charles Foster
ouching the Presidents Southern policy and
he withdrawal of troops from South Carolina
and Louisiana, the Hon. John Young Brown,
of Kentucky, at the request of these gentle
men, has given publicitysto the document. 1t
as follows
WASHINGTON CITY, Feb. 27, 1877.
GENTLEMEN: Referring to the conversation had
with you yesterday, in which Gov. Hayes policy as
the status of certain Southern States was dis
used, we desire to say that we can assure
you, in the strongest possible manner, of our
great desire to have him adopt such policy as
will give to the people of the States of South
arolina and Louisiana the right to control their
wn affairs in their own way, subject only to the
constitution of the United States and the laws
made in pursuance thereof, and to say further that
acquaintance with and knowledge of Gov.
ayes and his views, we have the most complete
onfdence that such will be the policy of his adj
ministration. Respectfully,
(S1gned) Hefl STANLEY MATTHEWS,
CHARLES FOSTER.
To the Hons John B. Gordon and John Young
Brown
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name of John NJ Langston for the Commission

name of John NJ Langston for the Commission
ership of Agriculture.
Secretary Thompson is rapidly discharging
all the superfuous help in the Navy Depart
ment.
The issues of national-bank notes for the
month of March were 81, 979, &c., of which SO
per cent, namely: 81, $50, $50, in greenbacks,
were destroyed, leaving outstanding a legal ten
der circulation of 1862, 649, 2O4.
A Washington dispatch of the Cd inst says
g The most important action of the Cabinet on
Saturday was taken upon the South Carolina
case. This was a virtual agreement that the
troops shall be withdrawn from the State
House, but left in their barracks in Columbia,
for the purpose of maintaining order in case of
disturbance. The administration is doing
nothing but what is absolutely forced upon it.
Negotiations are constantly going on. Mr..
Chamberlain has submitted new piibosi-
ton, which he thinks will suit every on It
is that commission shall be selected by the
two sides. to be composed of five members,
each side to select two and they to select a
fifth"
The President has intimated his intention of
spending the greater portion of the summer at
the capital. He has refused number of invi-
tations to go to the seaside.
Six companies Of artillery left Washington
for New England posts last week, leaving six
companies in garrison at the arsenal.
The Cabinet finally decided, at meeting
held on Monday, the I'd inst, to order the
withdrawal of the troops stationed in and
about the State House at Columbia, S. G. 1t
was determined however, at the request of
Gov. Chamberlain, to delay the exc
cution of the order for several days.
Chamberlain, in response to a ques-
ton what he thought of the
action of the administration in removing the
troops, said: cit ends the struggle, and
makes Gen. Hampton practically Governor. "
Both of the gubernatorial claimants left for
South Carolina on the day the decision was
reached. Chamberlain addressed long letter
to the President, giving his views of the re-
suits he expected to follow the withdrawal of
the troops, detailing at some length the state
Of affairs in South Carolina, and mildly pro-
testing against the action of the administration.
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DOMESTIC NEWS.
East.

The breaking of dam at Staffordsyille,
Conn, the other day, let loose a tremendous
flood upon the mills and manufactures located
in that thriving region, sweeping into general
ruin buildings, bridges, tenement-houses etc.,
and causing damage at first estimated among
the millions, but at last accounts placed at about
100000. 8H
About 1000 persons are thrown out of en-
ployment by the Stafford (Ct.) dam accident.
The disaster is a severe blow to the prosperity
that vicinity.
The complete count of the vote cast at the
ecent election in New Hampshire shows that
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Another s. Jim BIudSOe."

John Hays "Jim Bludsoe" has been
emulated by an engineer in Arkansas
with somewhat better luck than the
original jim He held the'nozzle of his
burning steamer, the Gov Garland,
agin the bank till the last galoot-
one-got ashore, and then went ashore
himself, badly but not dangerously
scOrched
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Four years ago Mr.. Henry G. Bowen
subscribed $500, in five annual install
ments of 500 each, to the Bethel Mis-
sion of Plymouth Church. Last year the
church communicated him, but it's
treasurer has sent over for the annual
800, which Mr.. Bowen promptly paid.
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Amended to the debt stateme

Appended to the debt statement is the follow
ing: ''The large reduction of the public debt
as shown by this statement, arises from the
cancellation and destruction of the balance of
per cent. bonds of the funded loan of 1881,
held in trust for the payment of awards made
by the Court of Commissioners of Alabama
Claims as provided by the fifteenth section of
the act of June %, 1874 viz, 81, 1000, the
balance of the original investment of $15,-
100000, and 81 $500, representing the &C
crued interest thereon"
Coi'aoge.-The coinage of the minis of the
United States during the month of March was :
Gold, $5,873, 900; trade dollars, $896,OOO sill
yer change, 81 674, 0O0 total number of pieces
struck 8,515, $50; total value, gold and silver,
$8, 443, 900.
ReUeaue Recejpts.-The Government receipts
of internal revenue, last month, were S59,250,-
297 against So, 1913, 252 in March last year. yr
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LAWS OF WISCONSIN.

Where a superfuous word is found in the en-
rolled act it is printed in the text but in itac and
found necessary to sustain the sense of the context
or where one word has been obviously mistaken for
another, the word supposed to be proper is supplied
but in brackets [thusl.
PEqEp D0vTE Caora+arv IF State