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American citizen., 1881-04-30

als and in law. Democratic Senators
must vote in reference only to the mer-
it and qualifications of nominees. If
any Southern Senator be in doubt as to
what his oath of office demands of him
in this matter, we commend to him the
decision of Virginia court of the Olden
time, in the case of the Commonwealth
vs.. Callaghan. which is to be found in
the Virginia Cases vol. 2, p. AGO.
If any Democratic Senator is think
ing only of New York politics and of
the mere party relations of this serious
question, the Democrats of New York
must frankly tell him that nothing but
injury to the Democracy of New York
has come or can come of coalitions with
Senator Conkling. The past is eloquent
on this subject. Such coalitions are
necessarily demoralizing and degrading
to all who are parties to them. Such
coalitions can have no other basis than
the spOils of office. Democratic con-
trivances with Senator Conkling have
benefited only the Republicans. Mr..
Tildcn finally came to grief through
them and SO did Mr.. Kelly, and what
is more important, so did the Demo-
cratic party in New York. The Democ-
racy of New York City warn Democratic
Senators in Washington to make no
Secretary Blaine, or Senator Conkli1g,
or Senator Robertson! Let them not
initiate the immoral conduct of which
Senator Conkling and Senator Dawes
and the Republican caucus have been
guilty in their corrupt and stupid CO.
alitiOn with the debt-shirking Malone!
The result of that immoral coalition has
been to fasten on the Republican
Senators the responsibility of confirm
ing or rejecting the nominations of
the President. Now let those Senators
face that responsibility! Senator Robert
son is a more honorable and deserving
Republican than Senator Conkling or
Vice-PresidentA Arthur, in the opinion of
New York Democrats, but New York
Democrats desire no coalitions, alli-
ances, bargains or understandings
either with Robertson, Blaine, Conk-
ling, Arthur or Garfield. The Republi-
can leaders defeated General Hancock
partly by the use of money and partly
by immoral coalitions with unworthy
Democrats in which Senator Conkling
and Vice-President Arthur were the
chief Republican conspirators. 1t is
high time that the false lights which
Senator Conkling displayed to certain
Democratic Senators, and with the help
Hayes were thwal ted, should be under
stood, now that a fraudulent President
is no longer in Office. The Democratic
voters of the United States have not
forgotten that it was this same Senator
Conkling who insolently endeavored to
fasten upon Senator Bayard the absurd
and monstrous charge that the Senator
from Delaware had stated an untruth
respecting the intention, purport and
meaning of a speech made by himself
during the last Presidential canvass
about the scandalous Republican Gus
tom-House conspiracy against Phelps,
anything else in his checkered career
compels cautious people to inquire
carefully into the evidence for any
declaration which may be made by SEN
aUUr ConkIIng as To rTesIuenJ UarDeiu
and his undertakings. y World.
American citizen., 1881-04-30
House Rents in New York.

House rent is always one of the most
perplexins features in city life, but at
present the advance is driving multi
tudes almost to desperation. "What
shall we do to keep roof over our
heads?" is the general exclamation.
On May day they must move. and how
small proportion of the number have
secured new abode! The rest are
tramping the streets in fruitless
search, which only reveals the wide ex-
tent of the difficulty. Wherever they
may go house hunters are staggered by
the enormous advance. All that can be
said, however. is that if the people will
live in New York they must take the
consequences. High rents, with sewer
gas and streets reeking with mud. are
classes was recently held for the pur-
pose of denouncing the. landholders,
but this has not helped the case. The
only way to escape the greed of the lat
ter is to buy a house, which, to nine-
tenths of our population, is as easy as
paying the National debt. 1t would re-
quire the entire earnings OF a book
keeper or mechanic for twenty years to
purchase second-class dwelling.
Hence, these men who almost invaria-
bly have families. resort to tenements,
and pay from fifteen dollars to twenty
dollars per month for a set of rooms.
The rush up town now taxes the l. road
to its extreme capacity, and even this
does not afford sufficient relief. The
rate of rent among the better classes
may be inferred from the fact that the
first floor of handsome house in Twcn-
ty-fourth Street was recently let Cfur-
nished) for twenty-eight hundred dol
In, haQ In m IA Q
supplied by caterer, and finds this the
best way of supporting his family.
Three weeks of painful anxiety re-
main. and at the close what a coming
down will be witnessed in vast num-
Der of instances! Many a respectable
family will for the first time be COM
PEELED to occupy tenement apartments.
with loss of caste forever.--M y Let-
ter to Cincinnati Gazette.
American citizen., 1881-04-30
Democratic Duty and Republican Re.
spOnsibility.

1t is to be hoped, and indeed to be
assumed, that the Democrats of the
Senate before they act as a party and
as Senators on any pending nomina-
tions will decide upon certain general
rules of action by which they will be
governed in dealing with all of Presi-
dent Garfield's s future nominations.
What would have been the Democrat
ic rule of action if the Democrats had
retained control of the Senate9
What has been the traditionary policy
of Senate when in opposition to the
Executive?
Clearly the Government could not 60
on if a Democratic Senate were to re-
ject the nominations of Republican
President for no other reason than that
the nominees are not Democrats. Can
Democrats vindicate any different pol
icy when they are in a minority, or
when through Republican dissensions q
Democratic minority holds the decisive
votes? At this moment the Executive
tween Republican Senators and the
debt-shirking Senator Malone the COM
mittees of the Senate have been organ
lied under Republican chairmen. The
Democratic Senators are in a minority
on the committees and in the Senate.
When the nomination of Senator Rob-
ertson comes up before the Committee
on Commerce what will be the duty of
the Democratic minority if nothing is
successfully alleged against the personal
character of Senator Robertson, and
against his fitness for the office to which
he has been nominated, and if the only
objection made to the confirmation is
that Senator Conkling and Sub-Senator
Platt. one or both, were not consulted
by the President before making the
nomination.? Are Democrats to aid in
making it rule that n President cannot
nominate man to the Senate for an
office without the permission of the
Senators of the State in which the duties
of the office are to be performed or from
which the nominee is taken? Will that
be wise precedent?
Democratic Senators will not fail first
to inquire what the Constitution says.
% He shall nominate and (by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate)
shall appointn' There is no qualitica-
ton or condition in that peremptory
command. No Senator has any Con-
stitutional power in this matter but to
advise about a confirmation and consent
to a confirmation or refuse to consent
to a confirmation. No Senator has any
Constitutional right to interfere with a
nomination. The President may advise
with any one whose opinion he may
deem valuable, but no Senator can on
his oath of office rightfully vote to re-
iect a nomination simply and solely be-
cause he was not consulted about it,
nor can Democratic Senators on the
Committee of Commerce vote under n
bargain with or a promise made to Sen
ator Conkling by which such Democrat
ic Senators came under reciprocal OBJ
legation to Senator Conkling that they
would reject the nomination of A. if
Senator Conkling would work to reject
the nomination of B. Senators have a
delegated authority and they hold SOL
emn trusts in this business, to violate
which trusts would be criminal IN NOR
American citizen., 1881-04-30
A Destructive Tornado.

THE cyclone of yesterday did a great deal Of
serious damage. Commencing about one mile
north of Hernando, Miss, it struck Mr.. Riley
steam gin, completely disfguring it and carry
ing away n wagon and team, the driver in
cuded and land ng them some distance of in
a ditch; also taking his blacksmith shop and
carrying it baf mile and landing it in Mrs,
Gort's pond on her place. 1t struck Frank
Howard's house. carrying it nearly fifty yards.
but not seriously injurng the family 1t next
struck l.. RobcrtsOns house, tearing it COM
plctcly down. None were hurt. From there
it swept on to Mr.. NewcOme's place, striking
Jim Hunters cabin, killing Liza Evans and
stunning two children, who have not spoken
since. The house was torn to pieces, and fallen
trees are covering it. Near Dan Glovers, on
the Banks place, the house was blown in pieces,
killing one child and wounding the man and
his wife dangerously. He is not expected
to live. 1t next struck Mrs. Humphreys,
sweeping her house away and wound
ing two of her children. From there
it reached Bots Lackland's, blowing
his house down on him and his children, but
none were seriously hurt. 1t next demolished
the house of a colored man on the Keith place,
dangerously wounding his wife. 1t next took
in its course Hank Danns. blowing down all
the buildings and seriously wounding his sis
ter. On Johnston's place 1t overturned cabins
and disocated a coored mans arm. 1t then
struck Johnston Co.'S and Lacklands stores,
goods for miles. DIR. Lauderdale's dwelling
house was made lumber pile in six seconds.
He and his wife were dangerously wounded.
Three hundred yards further on negro cabin
was swept away. Lauderdalc's gin house was
blown down, and beyond that another cabin
and John Chamberlin's stables and out-houses
were demolished. His dwelling was moved
but not blown down. Tho storm next struck
Mr.. Hams dwelling, tearing half of it to pieces.
W. l.. Glenn's dwelling and cabins were blown
fiat. VIII Johnson's cabin was treated in like
manner. Crossing Camp Creek Bottom it
blew down Ben Harwelrs house, instantly
killing him. His wife and child escaped un-
hurt. Deputy Sheriff Skies Johnston was
caught by the tornado while riding. He was
blown OF his horse, which was carried in the
air and both its legs broken Men were blown
all over the fields like barrels, and nearly
beaten to death against the ground Mr.. X.
NJ. Banks held TO a stump and was whipped
against the ground so vigorously that he en-
tirely forgot the simplest prayers taught him
in childhood. Many farms were totally de-
molished. Mr.. Glenn says he saw a man in
buggy WIS blown two miles and lodged In q
tall tree. In Camp Creek Bottom houses were
swept completely away, killing chickens, rats
etc. The trees are tagged with calcocs and
domestics blown from stOrehouses. The track
of the tornado was about one hundred yards
in width. Furniture of every description is to
be found in its wake. 1t is truly n distressing
scene TO follow the route of the cyclone, which
was due cast.-McmpIris, Tenn, tApru I3l Spe-
cidt 10 Chicago Times.
American citizen., 1881-04-30
One Month OF GariIeld-And What of
OF That Month";

General Garfield is entitled to fair
trial. Such, we believe, was the pre-
vailing and general sentiment of the
people of the United States when, on
the fourth of March, the new President
took the oath of Office and entered
upon its grave and Onerous duties.
Such, certainly, was our own feeling;
and such is our feeling now. When a
candidate is fairly elected President
of the United States we think there
ought to be so far an abatement of par
tisan opposition to him that all men
will wish him well, will wish him a sue
ccssful Administration, as, indeed, it
seems to us from patriotic motives they
are bound to desire.
One day has yet to elapse before Gen
eral Garfield will have completed the
first month of his administration. BY
his works he shall be judged. That is
all his friends can demand; and that his
political opponents. deferring to the fair
spirit of the times, will unhesitatingly
concede.
What, then, have been his works,
thus far, by which his measure may be
takenP
He told the country in his inaugural
address that he thought the tenure in
subordinate offices should be rendered
more permanent by law. Now. he GER
t,inIv cannot have meant that t;x;ty of
tenure in Office should be effected by
positive enactment. but that. until TINS
made permanent, he would go on reck-
lessly removing public officers upon
mere whim or personal preference.
and without any reason whateveri
General Garfield would have felt pro-
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fosImaster!
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hoIlinatioh' that senators ana repre-
sentatlves were to De consulted in max
.ng reoeIal aPpolntmen5s, mas Deeh
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American citizen., 1881-04-30
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

NEAR Ozier, N. NJ, on the 22d, pas
senger coach jumped the track and rolled
down an embankment, $50 feet. Mrs. C.
Dcctodedat, James Lynch, ID. G. Brewer, G..
Hall, l.. 1saacs, ID. G. Wilson, d. c. Shoeles
and one unknown were killed. George In
man, George II. Page, ID. r. Brewer, N.
j. Brewer and several others were wounded.
THE residence of S. Ball, Mayor of
Salinas, CAL, was burned the other night.
Mrs. Ball and two children were suffscated.
A DAUGHTER of John Haley lost her
life by the upsetting of a boat at Charlestown,
w. Va. She was attending a funeral at the
time.
JOHN GUYMPHER, a Hungarian who
had been asleep for some three weeks at the
Allentown, Pa, Poor house, jumped out of
a window the moment he awoke, falling %
feet, and will probably die from his injuries.
Thirty masked horsemen recently
took colored man named Louis Whitaker
from the Jail at Gadsden, Fla, and hanged
him TO a tree. Whitaker was charged with
numbering white man.
A TwELvE-YEAR-OLD son of III. ID.
Root, of Reading, o., hanged himself with
a halter because his father threatened pun
ishment il he persisted in playing with an
old musket.
Is. w. IIExT and John Conner, re-
spectacle citizens of Miller, Ga, quarreIed
about five cents, the latter receiving a death
wound from his antagonists revolver.
AT Boston, Mass, on the 23d, James
Tracy was arrested for inflcting wounds up
on Mrs. Elizabeth Pape from which she died
soon after.
The town of Greenville, Plumas
County, CAL, burned on the 23d.
AT Bartwell, N. c., Henry Hill, col
ored, was hanged for numbering Thomas
Skelton, the Jailer OF Hart County. Andrew
Pell, also colored, was hanged on the 22d, at
Monticello, Fla, for the murder Of j. III.
Whitaker in December last.
REV. ii. THOMAS, of Ozark, Ark, re-
Gently committed suicide by taking lauda-
mum. He had for ten years been afflicted
with blindness, which was gradually grow
ing worse, and which drove him to despair
and death. He leaves widow and eight
children.
VIM. M. GREENLEAF, a grandson of
the President of the Franklin Insurance
Company, was arrested at Denver, Colo,
on charge OF forgery.
A DISPATCH from Lemberg, Austria,
says a ferryboat crossing the Dneistcr River
upset and sixty three persons were drowned.
Another account puts the number at thirty.
A STAGE bound for Ell Paso, Texas,
was stopped and robbed, sixty miles west OF
San Antonio, recently. The two robbers Sc
cured rs cents.
American citizen., 1881-04-30
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Edison, the electrician and invent
or, has been elected Professor of Dynam-
ic Electricity at Oberlin College, Ober-
lin, Ohio.
Probably the longest pastorate in
this country was that of the late Rev.
Laban Ainsworth, Of Jaffrey. N. H.
IS years and months. He died March
II, 1858, at the age of 100 years.
The Baptists of Russia have sent a
missionary to Bulgaria. The sale of
Bibles has recently been very large in
Bulgaria, and there are signs, it is said,
of deep religious interest.
"A bill affecting the English clergy
has been introduced in the House of
Commons by Sir Gabriel Goldney and
Prof. Thorold Rogers, who propose to
remove the disabilities which prevent
clergymen from being returned as men,
bers of Parliament.
The little Congregational Church
of Albuquerque. New Mexico, have
secured lots and are trying to raise the
means to build house of worship on
them. If they succeed, it will be the
first Protestant house of worship in the
place and the first Congregational
Church in the Territory.
In connection with the Baptist anni-
versaries at Indianapolis in May,
general conference will be held, at
which, among others, the question:: 'Is
the holding. at an early day, of Gen.
eral Conference representing all the
Baptists of this continent, desirable?"
will be discussed.
There is in Edinburgh, Scotland,
Sunday Science School, attended, from
November to July of last year. by an
average of sixty pupils out of an en-
rolled number of ninety-two artisan and
other youths who could not, owing to
prolonged business hours, attend even
ing classes on week days.
The New Jersey Legislature has
appropriated 5000 for instruction in
industrial, mechanical and agricultural
pursuits to every city and town that
will raise as much more for that pur-
pose. The subject has attracted atten-
tion in other States, but with the ex-
ception of few industrial schools in
Boston and one in st. Louis, New Jer-
sey IS the first to take practical step
in this direction. Its results will be
watched with much interest by those
who are by no means satisfied with the
present outcome of school instruction.
American citizen., 1881-04-30
WIT AND WISDOM.

"A switchman should not be unflag-
ging in his duties.-Detroit Free Press.
The first sign of spring is the feel
ing that your hat is shabby.-Boston
Transcript.
Thousands of people who never
read the Bible in its old form are kick
ing up fuss about its being revised
Boston Post.
Twill gin sling do a man any
goodP" asks a correspondent. Yes, il
he slings the gin far enough.--Cans-
bridge Tribune. ,-J. ..-
IA kiss for a blow is q very pretty
motto. particularly if the blow comes
from the hand of pretty girl. Web
ster Tribune.
The newest thing in wraps-the
baby.--Last words of dying billiard
player" Oh, carom me out. "--Los0eu
Citizen.
To be interesting in conversation
the depth of a mans mind should ex-
ceed the length of his tongue.-M o.
PicGyune.
The Portland Evening Post has had
a tussle with the possessive case and
got licked. 1t says 'Lady Eastlake
emphasizes the presence of one fine
trait in the character of the late histor-
ian of Greece's wife!' Portland AdUer-
tiser.
-Four of the Apostles, Peter, An
drew, James and John. were fishermen.
But they never wrote twenty-four
page magazine article to tell how they
caught just one trout. aud they didn't
lie three pounds on it to make it five
FOUNDER. Hence they are little known
and held in rather low repute among
modern fishermen. burlington Hd,ok-
eye.
"A brief conversation between two
youths of eighteen, which was over
heard on Boston Common the other day
has been printed. 'Are you working
at the same place you used to?" asked
one. No." replied the other, THAT
was too hard. I've got another, where
l don't get as much pay into five dollars
a week, but don't have anything to do
except sit around the store"
To say that Jones' nose is a rouser
would be stating it mildly. 1t stands
out on his profile like good deed in a
naughty world or a lighthouse on a
house on beach. And Jones is sensi-
tive about that nose. Seeing n strange
young man gazing at him the otherday,
Jones became uneasy, until he finally
broke out with, "Well. what are you
staring at? Do you see anything re-
markable about mep" "Nose, SIR"
was the rather equivocal reply of the
young man, as he lodged around the
corner.-Boston Transcript.
The -Doux:--
"Ah ah!" sud Jones. "a billet doux!
know from some sweet maiden fair;
Methinks IL beurs perfume now,
Straight from the breath of kisses rare.
know its rash
"It's sacriege to break the seal
OF this white envelope that wraps
And yet to see who It's so leal,
l fain will open it-Perhaps
I've male n mash!'
1t read: " Dear Sir-You owe this bar
An Y. and must have my pay;
You We hung me up TOO long, by far;
And I'll not wait another day
I'm talking cash."
-Petroleum World
American citizen., 1881-04-30
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

APRIL fs.-The reassembling of the Senate
after its three days recess was marked by no
change in the situation. The usual routine
motions were gone through with I'm a peTfunc-
tory manner. The speakers of the day were
Messrs. Dawes. salisbury, Burnside and
Beck. but, with the exception Of some sharp
sparring between Dawes and Beck. the ora
torfcal display was without especial inter
est.
APRIL 19.-As n step toward breaking the
existing deadlock, Senator Blair offered n res
olution declaring that, in the judgment of the
Senate, the public interests require Congress
to be convened in public session Immediate
ly. Mr.. Blair in support of his resolution,
American citizen., 1881-04-30

The President nominated Gen. James
Longstreet, now Minister to Turkey, United
States Marshal for Georvia.
American citizen., 1881-04-30
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.

The importation of American pork
into Turkey Is prohibited.
American citizen., 1881-04-30

Hon. ROWLAND +. TRowBRiDGE, late
Commissioner Of Indian Affairs, and for sew
cral terms Representative in Congress from
Michigan, Is dead, aged 60.
American citizen., 1881-04-30

An order is issued by the Post-office
Department declaring postal cards unmail-
able with anything but the direction on the
address side
American citizen., 1881-04-30

THE failure of the Senate to confirm
the nomination of Stanley Matthews as Su-
preme Court Justice leaves the Court with
bare quorum, and the absence of a single ac-
tive member now compels adjournment.
American citizen., 1881-04-30

The effort to displace John Kelly as
head Of the New York Tammany organiza-
fion at the recent election failed.
American citizen., 1881-04-30

The Presidents mother, it is re-
ported, finds the excitement of the
White House too trying for her. and will
soon return to Mentor.
American citizen., 1881-04-30
TIE Rock River flood has caused in

THE Rock River flood has caused in
caIculable losses. The lower part of Ster-
ling, H., including the Fair Grounds, is
submerged, and the distilleries, with hum
dreds of cattle, are on an island, the water
crowding dangerously on all sides. The
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad track for
five miles is completely covered with water
and much Of It is washed away. Two iron
bridges at Elgin City have been swept away,
the ice-gorge in the Fox River having broken
and carried away the dams at Carpenters
vile and Dundee.
American citizen., 1881-04-30

The United States Courts it seems
have no Jurisdiction in the Missouri land
fraud cases, and the accused parties willbe
proceeded against by indictments in the
State Criminal Courts. Lindsay has already
been indicted, and some Of the others will
probably meet with the same treatment.
American citizen., 1881-04-30

The unprecedented rise in the Des-
PLANES River caused the breaking Of the
canal and the inundation of the entire dis
trict along Archer and Blue Island Avenues,
Chicago. A similar state OF affairs exists in
Joliet and other towns along the canal. The
losses, both to the State and to individuals,
are very serious.