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WEEKLY DEMOCRAT A WOMAN'S WoFiS The sympathy of Uorklnjmeu From the New York Herald. DEMOCRAT TWENTY-SECOND YEAR. DAVENPORT, IOWA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 18 TERMS: $2.00 PER ANNUM wuum 1 iouna in nis snug studio among no end of charming paintingsengaged in painting more. It is quite bewildering to one so unschooled in art to be left alone with an artist among his pictures. You can admire them you do admire them thoroughly, but don't know how to do it in the right words.

It don't do. before an artist to say that you are "charmed," "delighted." "amazed" more than eight or ten times right along as each succeeding picture is exhibited because by the twentieth time you get those stock expressions off, ho will begin to think you a confirmed idiot. But just what to say about the light and the shade, the tone and the treatment, the combination and the the consternation, and all that, and while you feel the need of saying something you wish at the same time you were dumb as a bolt, and that he knew it. some lliougbt for Honest ItlCIIAKDNO BHOT1IEUS D. W.

BICUABDSOH. J. J. RICUAKD30S Olllco, 40 Main bot. 2d and 3d.

RATES OF SI IS KlPTlO. copies i each: Hub of ft. I each; t'luoe of ovr 5 and under each; Olutia of over 31) aud nnili-r tf, 1.15; Clnh of 50 or over. l.oil each. ui iountv.

Iowa, an crmovof 1 i cents each atcnter. to iay Club iretwra allowed 10 per cent, on thee ratee" All autmcrlptiona are stopped when pay expires SOUTH ENGLAND. iwoniDir Third Clan Cars ih MtD Artist-Art Crltlclsm-Al Torquay. Special Editorial Correspondenco of tha Democrat XXV. Torquay, July 8, 1877.

And now I find myself away down in Devonshire even down in the charning village or, may-be, city of Torquay, two hundred and twenty-fivo miles from London whither you may come by rail In about sis hours for the trilling sum of twenty-aine shillings, and go back again without paying a penny a ride of four hundred and fifty miles for a tnlle more than six dollais and a half. But this, mind you, 13 third class. This third class riding on some of these railway lines is worth attention. It was a tolerably long ride fur this country, and I said to myself on entering tho Paddington Station yesterday morning, I will go through third class. I will start that way anyhow, and if it is something not to be endured by the ordinary American constitution, I will CO up higher at some intermediate station, and piy tho difference for I have alivays held it to be true that to possess one's soul in a tolerable degree of peace while upon long railway journeys, the belter coach you can get the better.

Eutering tho station, there was not a singlo customer at tho ticket fct.m.l. That strengthened uiy moral courage not a little for I do not care to travel unite alone. At tho second class stand there wa3 a pretty largo attendance of seekers after mileage, which led me to inter tkt the lower grades were the most popular and ou reaching the third class stand, around ou the other side, there tho people were assembled full force. That was tho popular party, for a certainty, and with the multitude would I ride away to the happy realms of Devonshire. Placing mysclt in the rear of a line of forty, in pood time I stood in turn before the lightning ticket simmer, and was elected tor a third class trip.

My election was not confirmed, for nbout seventy-five miles out our train ran down a railroad smash-up, and in the changing over to a train on the other side of tho wreck, wo were obliged to enter a first class car, in which we managed to get along the rest of the distance. But about these third class cais. They are not so bad after all. Though the compartments are narrower than those of the first-class, yet they are provided with comfortable cushions on tho seat and back and ride very easily. Sometimes it is said one gets into rough society, and perhaps they do, but my companions were more than an average lot.

One was a gentleman going down to Torquay to take a cruise with somo friends in his fine yacht; then there was a young clergyman and his wife, two London merchants and their wives going down for a couple of weeks recreation; these and some well dressed and very gentlemanly young people going off for a foot tramp in the mountains of Wales made up tbc occupants of the compartments. And so I said to myself, if this bo third class company, and wo go at about one half the price of the first class passengers, why not travel thisway? That is the question. The way to Devonshire by this route lays along through some of the choicest farming country of beautiful Old England. I have had many hundred miles of English railway riding this summer, and it is seldom indeed that you find yourself outside of the range of a good farm-isg country or where the eye docs not wander out into views that are pleasant and even picturesque. You are running through the greenest of fields surrounded by tho most carefully trained hedges of hawthorn or privet tho former all aglow in the early summer with mingled white and pink blossoms perfuming the air; along and across the brightest of brooks and the gleaming surface of quietly flowing rivers, cultivated even to the water's edge; along by substantial stone walls that are fringed, draped, and festooned with tbe glorious mantle of delightful, never fading English ivy along past groves and clumps of trees and bushes, farmsteads and factories, low roofed cottage homes, the windows and doorways of which just peeping out of their mantles of ivy, honeysuckle, and beautiful blooming trailing roses; alone by the rich pasture meads glorying in their handsome herds of thrifty sheep and robust cattle along, and along, let your eyes loose from cither windowand everywhere will they rest joyously on some pleasant, peaceful, quiet picture of English rural life.

Everywhere will you see splendid trees of oak, or elm, or beech, or some other fine variety that do not seem to have been planted at all, but rather to have sprung up in all sorts of places by the hedge rows, in tho corners, sides and middle of fields along the road, by the brooks, lanes, and garden grounds, and then left to grow upwards and round outwards into magnificent rotundity cf foliage, just as trees will do where they hayc abundant room for expansion and a fair soil to root in. But how docs all this compare with what you have seen in America? I hear some one say. My dear questioner, I am not here in England tJ write about America at all but incidentally to write of England. I don't like the too liberal use of comparisons. I don't like the American nor yet tho English idiot whose tongue is everlastingly wagging in the praise of his own country to the disparagement and blotting out of every other country.

When I fall In with a fellow countryman of feel llko spanking him with my boot and sending him home; or if he be of the British persuasion of making him to myself a total stranger. No American or English gentlemen are of this stripe; hoth are content in the admission that both countries have most excellent features; both have wide room for much improvement in many things; and moreover, that all the good things of this beautiful world ate not found iu one place. I am thoroughly charmed with much that I see in old England, and from those views raw my daily comfort. If, indeed, I should see some things that, may-bap, are going wrong, and should brawl about them in society, or even talk to my lords and tho Commons about them, ten chances to one I should not succeed in bringing on a speedy chance. I like my American Eagle very much, altocethcr toa much to be continually rustling him up to ily him at the British lion.

They are both Tight good specimens of the animal kingdom in the world's menagerie so may they continue many centuries to come. Resting in that hope, let me stop and hunt myself up, and get back upon the trip to Devonshire. Away vou go at a thundering rate out of the city. But not in a hurry. London is not a village.

You travel miles from any point in any direction before you get beyond the city beyond the suburbs and fairly out to gra9S It is wonderful tho mighty expanse of this li; tie British capital. It was onlv the other day that I bethought myself that my frien I Richard Smethain had given me a letter of introduction to his artist broth in London. 1 had the time to go, ar I said to my noble duke him of the coat and silver buttons the nobly Had hotel porter, that I would ao toJn. 1 Park Lane, Stoke Newington, and cou; he direct me? He said he could. That it was close by; that I would take a bus to somewhere and then another to somewhere else, and then take the trams to such a place and leave them for other trams for another place, and then walk ten minutes and take some more busses and some more trams and I would be there.

Then he took a rest. I followed his directions with the most fervent accuracy and precision, and I got there. I tnmit 11 musi nave Deen a good long ten miles; and after finding the good gentleman, and asking him quite im- mediately if he did not livocloso upon the outer limits of the cltv, he said yes, or rather that when he took up his abode there fifteen years ago, he was within ten minutes of the gTeen fields of the farmers but London had been growing a great deal in that direction since he had lived there. I was dumb. I had not the heart really to inquiro the exact distance it had grown out beyond his place.lest in my ambitioua rashness I should be tempted to seek out and discover the outer limits of that immense city and get lost like Livmgstone, and like him, have to be hunted up by some daring Stanley.

It was a delightful visit, I had with Mr. A I How a Slanderer waa Trassdr 1- Keot.fcco."'"'- Sigourney (Iowa) Neiw. Mr. Wm. Holland, of EnglUh Riv was shot and instantly killed bv White on Monday about th! hour of aoon.

9 The circumstances leading to petration of the deed, as far ot we can learn, are about as follows Miss White is a young lady about eighteen years of age, the daughter of Godfrey White, of that township and half Mster to Fred White who is well known throughout the country. She has alwiys borne a good name and aside from (certain assertions derogatory to her character said to have been sent afloat by Holland, her virtue has been unimpeacbed. Holland was a manied man and the- father of seven children. He was posessed of but little property, and was dependent for the sup port of his lamuy ny wora jurnumed by tbe neighbors. He has from time to time been in employ of the girl's father and by him frequently furnished with sustenance for his family in advance of his labor.

In return for these favors he is said to have circulated the statement that Miss White was not a virtuous girl and that he had had on different occasions criminal intercourse with her. Several attempts were made by her friends and relatives to clear np the scandal, but Holland although denying that be had ever made such charges could never be inducsd to sign any statement branding them as false. An engagement of marriage between Miss White and a young man of that neighborhood, was, on account of these reports, broken on. On Monuay Miss White went to tbe house of Thos. Yokum, where Holland was harvesting.

After dinner, and before the rest had left the table Holland got up and went into an adjoining room. Miss Wbite followed him and presented him with- a paper which she asked him to read and sign, lie gave her an evasive answer and started out of the room. As be left she drew a revolver and fired, ine ursi snot passed through his heart and he fell dead. She then stepped up to where he was lying and emptied the other cham bers of the revolver in his head. Alias White was arrested and waived examination and her bond fixed at $9,000 a part of which was still to be raised when last heard from.

Ohio DemooralK State Convention. Columbus, July 25. Tbe Democratic State Convention met at 11 o'clock. Attendance large 735 delegates. Temporary organization effected, with Hon.

W. P. Noble as chairman. The usual com mittees were announced and the convention adjourned till Columbus, July 25. The Ohio Demo cratic State Convention this afternoon cbose Hon.

J. F. McKinney for Chairman. R. M.

Bishop, of Hamilton county, was nominated for Governor on the sixth ballot. The committee on resolutions then submitted the platform as follows: Strict constitution; home rule; supremacy of civil over military power; equality of all citizens; no sumptuary laws; opposition to subsidies; public lands for actual settlers; common schools; it regards the in stallation of Hayes despite the majority vote for Tilden as a most dangerous en croachment on popular rights; depression of industries due to vicious republican legislation; demands tbe repeal of the resumption act; denounces demonetization of silver; demands a law restoring silver to monetary power; favors a retention of greenbacks and opposes further contraction; congratulates the country upon the pacific policy of local self government, so long advocated by Democracy and adopted by the administration, which nas produced harmony in the South; trritf should be for revenue only; the government should issue all circulating medium, paper or metal, always of equal tender and incontrovertible; and condemns the use of federal troops to interfere with elections and politics. Gen. Jabez W. Fitch, of Cuyahoga county, was nominated for Lieutenant Governor.

TI1K GALLOWS. low a Louisiana nurderer Met his Fate New Okleanb, July 25. Jules Guidrv. a white man. was hung in Lake Charles, this State, to-day at 2 o'clock, for the murder in 1875 of James Beale.

Guidry mounted tbe gallows with a firm step. Ho then turned to a friend and said "I am firm." To the sheriff he said "Tho fall will not be enough. I want a real breakneck fall, about ten feet," upon which the sheriff lengthened the rope, which did not seem then to satisfy the hardened culprit. Guidrv now took the rope iu uib uauus ana examiueu li.ajune and tried if it would work easily am said itgiyT Tnrsheritf- brgsh wrrtinvm arms when he talked very loudly, saying. "I don't care to die.

I am a man. Friends, I am about to die for a crime which I not regret. I would do it again. I don't care. I am a man." The rope was ad justed about his neck and the black cap drawn over bis face, when he exclaimed derisively, "1 can see through it." Tbe sheriff drew the noose closely around his neck and he exclaimed, "That is too tight put the knot on the side of the neck." Before the cap was put on ho bade adieu to his friends and tbe priest, and said to the crowd "God bless you all I don't care to die." Then looking at the sheriff he said, "I can see you.

You are going to cut the rope." A second more and the ax severed the rope, the drop fell, and Guidry died without a struggle. Deattafaad Destruction at Oeadwovd. Washington, July 26. The following telegram was received to-night Deadwood. D.

July 20. Hon. Geo. McCrary, Secretary of War The Agency Indians are murdering citizens and destroying property in all parts of the country. Twenty ranche men are already dead.

Beth Bullock, Sheriff of tbe Territory, has no arms or amunition. Can such disposition of troops be made as will give the Black Hills settlers some protection. (Signed Jno. C. Penninoton, Governor.

The dispatch was referred to Lieutenant General Sheridan. Deadwood, D. July 20. A large mass meeting was held here for the pur pose of organizing for home defense against the Indians. The County Com missioners have issued a proclamation offering a reward of $250 for every Indian killed or captured in the limits of the county.

Troubles la Koutn America. New York, July 20. Advices from Ecuador, South America, state that the damage done by the late eruption of Goto Paxi amounts to over a million dollars. Many lives were lost and over 1,500 head of cattle destroyed. A.

letter from Costa Rica says that Gen eral Thomas Guardla, commander of the forces on 14th had deposed of President Herreda and taken possession of the government of CoBta Rica. Herreda was confined as prisoner in the capitol. Tnalsmnrderers. Hmrrisbcro. Jnlv 9tt of Gilas Morris indicted as accessory be- in tne muraer 01 David Lowson has been concluded the Inrv rn.

turning a verdict of guilty of murder in uisv uegree. ine trial of Mrs. Lowson. the third party charged with complicity in the murder of her husband, bas been deferred until August. John Bright oa England's Policy.

Lostjos. July SO. John BriirhL sneak ing in Bradford yesterday, at a banquet after the unveiling of the Cobden memorial statue, urged that to preyent Russia irom approaching Constantinople would be to debar her of one of the commonest rights of beligerenu. England had no aily in this matter, and ne sometimes feared our demand wouid provoke European combination, which would baffle aud us. Tne lateraatloaal Ckamsoashl 'Vdo.

X', nn was tbe closing one of the second competition, 01 marssmen to win places 10 tvmii- airainet ftm fi.minm tpam for in ternational trophy and cbampiowbiP of ine world. The best eini scores total of 1,609, whereas tbe best eight 1 rind. Ireland. and Scotland made only 1.5o7 competition at t'mDnap last. yer as t3 who Jo py lu jegal doneintbestHkesand Ue opinion lt, railroads, ex-to stand without redress.

We wish to call the attention of honest and respectable workingmen to an impor tant distinction which it does not become them to overlook. It is one thing to sym pathize with strike and to wish the strikers success; it Is quite another and a yery different thing to wish success vo a mob or to men wno engage in lawless ac tions. An orderly strike may deserve the vmDathv of the whole community. We believe if the train men who have struck work bad contented themselves with this, and with a presentation of their grievances to the public and to the stockholders of the companies, they could nave camea the sympathy of the country with tnem, and undoubtedly public opinion would in such case have been inclined to force tbe railroad managers to come to an amicable arransement with their people. Every- thine shows that these are thoroughly or- pan ized.

and that tbey had it in their power by a general strike to put the com nanies and the public to such inconven ience as would have caused a universal demand for an arrangement. But all this vantage grounds they have forfeited by their lawless conduct; and to day, as matters stand, they do not de serve the sympathy or help of any honor able or intelligent workingmen anywhere. It is a fatal blunder they have made, and the less excusable because there is now abundant evidence to show that tbe strike was prearranged and was to take place eiuiultaneously on most of the great lines So general a stoppage of wotk, so great and widespread a demonstration could not fail to have been effective had it been carried on in a peaceable and legitimate manner. If the men have been wronged, as they profess, tbey would have adver tised their cause to the public in a manner which would have gained them universal approval. As it Is they nave set at defiance not only tbe laws, but the conservative instincts of the country.

Gov. Robinson rightly says in his proclamation, "the law recognizes and protects the right of all men to refute to work except upon terms satisfactory to themselves, but it does not permit them to prevent others from working who desire to do so. Unless the state is given up to anarchy and its courts and laws to be defied with impunity its whole power must be nsed to suppress violence, maintain order and protect its citizens in their right to work, and the business of tho country from lawless interruption." We repeat, therefore, our warning to honest and respectable workingmen not to let their sympathies to go out to wrongdoers. Tho men who are blockading roads, burning cars, attacking troops, breaking open and sacking shops, throwing stones into moving trains, are not strikers; they are rioters; it is not a strike, but an insurrection, and it has not a-hope of success. It may still cripple the railroad companies and disable ibem from paying fair wages; it may put the public to great inconvenience, loss and expense; but it will be crushed out; and when tbe end comes after all the disgrace such anarchical attempts bring upon the country and upon its workmen, what good will have been accomplished? It is not a st rike, therefore, but an insurrection.

A workman who strikes is an honorable man the law protects him in his right to strike. But these men who burn cars, who kill sheriffs, who blockade roads, who riot, they are not strikers. They are aiming a savage and ruthless blow at the public peace and order. If they had iustice on their side in the beginning tbey have cast away all that, and are now simply engaged in an attempt at anarcny. iney nave no claims, as we have said elsewhere, to the sympathy of honest and respectable workingmen, or of reputable citizens anywhere.

BEH HAXX1DAT. His Fortune and What Became of It "Irs. llalllday'a Singular Will. Another curious will contest has just been commenced. It is a case of daughter against father, and the father is a man once known all over the continent, namely, Ben Halliday, who made a fortune by running stage coaches across the plains to California before the Pacifio Railroad came along and knocked the reputation of at least half dozen eminent Christian statesmen all to pieces.

The railroad knockod Halliday 'e business all to pieces, too, but, in one way or mother, he had accumulated an immense deal of money eight or ton millions, his friends eaid so be came to New York with his family and spread out in style of royal magnificence that is, his family did, for Ben himself had no special desire for anything in that linn. His wife and daughters embraced the Roman Catholic faith, day soon became a conspicuous person-met in thn moat XaabiiaiableoL J3urJJor Bbe was at the head of pretty much every fair, festival, concert or other project to supply the the church with funds, and her own purse was always one of the first to be opened. Her daughters, both blooming with young womanhood, were also conspicuous in these affairs, and being handsome, talented, and prospectively very rich, of course they had plenty of admirers. Halliday purchased a magnificent country sent in Westchester County, and laid out a fortune in improving it. It was estimated to be worth half a million.

To gratify his wife he bad a handsome chapel built near tbe house, and religious services for tbe family were frequently held there. Mrs. Halliday and her daughters made a tour of Europe, traveling in tbe style of princesses, and on reaching Rome they hired one of the finest old mansions in tbe city, and entertained visitors in a way that suggested wealth without a limit. This was kept np for several months, and the travelers then returned. I believe it was while they were abroad that one of the daughters became a countess by marrying a Frenchman who had a title, and hardly any thing else.

The second daughter also married a Frenchman, bnt whether here or abroad I do not remember. Both, with their mother, reappeared in New York society, and became more conspicuous than ever. The Countess Pourtales Gorgier and Madame de Buisnier were names of some note on Murray HilL Their owners had previously been known only as the daughters of Ben Halliday. So much for the bright side. The dark one soon followed.

Trouble came into the family circle. The marriages did not tarn out quite so happy as had been expected. One of the daughters the one who had married a Count died, leaving one child. Mrs. Halliday herself died soon after.

She must have had a strong prejudice against Frenobmen, though being the mother-in-law of two, for in her last will she declared that if her surviving daughter should ever become a widow and marry another Frenchman, or a descendant of a Frenchman within two generations, she should forfeit all claim to any part of the mother's property. This will, however, was not admitted to probate, but another one, made two years previously, whereby Mrs. Halliday gave all -her property to her husband was admitted. The daughter now wants the probate of the first will set aside, with a view to establishing her rights nndnr tbe second, and the father is necessarily the party against whom the suit is brought. But Ben Halliday is no longer a rich man.

All his great wealth has melted away. The magnificent country seat was sold some time ago to pay taxes. True, it was purchased by parties supposed to be acting in his interest, but the mortgages on it represented nearly every dollar it is now worth. The Mutual Life Imrorance Company holds one of $100,000 and August Belmont another of the same amount. Although the property was once valned at 8500,000, it would now bring yery bttle if anything over the mortgages of 200,000.

Soon after the death of his wife and daughter and tbe breaking np of his home. Mr. Halliday, desiring some occupation to distract his thoughts, went into speculation. Lock and the circumstances of the time were against him and ha lost heavily. Like hundreds of others, he was caught in the ebbing tide and before he could get out almost bis whole fortune was gone.

The laet time I heard of him previous to the commencement of his daughter's suit, be had gone away from New York altogether, intending to close his days among the miners of California and Nevada, They were bis friends twenty-five years ago, when the accumulation of his fortune began, and when be found himself down in the world again he thought it best to return to them, let MroiccTB. A new way to take tad medicine is being advocated by Dr. Mott The process is to place a solution of the desired strength in a thin glass tube, the bottom of which is smaller than the top. The tube is then placed in a Teasel containing a mixture of chopped and salt, and revolved there for twenty minutes. The frozen mass is tasteless and easily swallowed, and don't require "to be shaken before token.

Wheat Prospects. It is believed by experienced operators in wheat who are in direct coaamunica tion with the large growers that after enough has been threshed and marketed to pay the harvesting expenses, taxes and store bills, the amount forwarded to mar ket will be greatly lessened unless prices advance considerably above what they are at present. Several reasons will contribute to effect this. 1 st. The high price of wheat in Europe is likely to continue, ana to advance rather than decline, even though the war should now terminate.

2 J. The collapse of banks has fright ened many farmers into withdrawing their savings and investing in the crops of their poorer neighbors. Cocsequently there is a sprit of speculation growing up amone the farmers which wiil eventuate in wheat being held in the country where it costs nothing to hold it instead of the cities where warehousing add insurance must be paid. 3d. England, in her stubborn dcterm ination to break down prices of American wheat last year, consumed her home grown supply so closely as to reduce her stock lower than ever known before, and now there is an uneasy feeling aoout the adequacy of the supply.

Cargoes are snapped up quickly and go at once into consumption. Bread is dear in England. California, India, Turkey, Itussia and France are not to be relied upon for the usual amount furnished to Great Britain and the home crop now nearly ready to harvest is below the average in quantity and quality. Xcgro Emigration. It is stated that the Libcrian Exodus Association of South Carolina, is a great success already, some 3,000 residents of Charleston being set down as intending emigrants to Africa, in addition to somo 30,000 or 40,000 from the State without.

The large majority arc laborers and me chanics, and w.th hardly an exception they arc blacks, the mulattoes fighting shy of the movement. The friends of the scheme have an idea that because the whites look with disfavor upon the pro ject they have some sinister design In view to the detriment of their race. It is just to say, however, that somo excellcn colored men are earnest advocates of the measure, and really believe that they see the brightest future for their race in it. It must be added that the movers in the matter have shown cood common sense in proposing to mako their settlements on the rising ground inland, some twenty-five miles distant from the sea-coast, where there are the advantages of a rich soil and healthy, climate. The movement is very popular among the blacks, who imagine they are being badly treated in the South.

The whites oppose the exodus because it will take away many valuable laboring men. The prospects for the betterment of the emigrants in Liberia are not very flattering at present, though it is possible they will do better there than in America. If such be the result, the emigration of colored people will be very large and few will regret the inauguration of the movement not because the country will be rid of them, but because everything that tends to improve the condition of the colored race wiil be welcomed and encouraged. ISecoinlns Alarmed. At a meeting of tho Des Moines Protective Association held several days ago, a series of resolutions was adopted declaring it to be the duty of all persons who value their personal liberty to do all in their power to "protect themselves and interests against a band of degenerated and depraved persecutors" (ibe prohbi-tltsoniste).

Further they declared: Evolved, That we fee I assured the public in general will treat all euch willful and malicious miscuicf makers with utter contempt and indignation. We earnestly call on all business men and fair minded citizens of this city and county for their co operation in subduing this lanatical and forcible warfare. Keeolred, That we hereby bind onrselvee to stand hy our friends and to oppose our euenufcB at the ballot box. irrespective of party. We understand a similar position has been assumed by all the liquor interests of the State, and that a determined war will be waged against the temperance people.

The liquor men have been aroused this year principaly by the aggressive designs of the temperance party and by tho fact of the Republican party of the State taking a formal stand for prohibition. The license men feel that if they arc to avoid being crushed to the earth, now Is the time for them. to put in some effective work. Perhaps they are right. One of tho reasons assigned why prohibition is practicable in Maino is the unstable and homeogeneous character cf its people.

In 1870 the population of the State wa3 less than ten years before. In 1830 Its population was in round numbers 533,000, in 1800 It was 023,000, in 1870 it was 62G.000. In 1850 tho foreign born population was only 31,000, in 1800 it was 37,000, in 1870, 48,000. There is but one other Northern State so stable. homeogeneous and so little growing, or rather so growing backwards.

In Iowa, where, according to the census of 1875, there were 203,501 foreign born inhabitants, a different state of things must exist, and it is not to be expected that any measure inimical to the foreign classes can be enforced as In Maine. Remember, that the soldiers of the army now relied upon to protect life and property are absolutely without a dollar's worth of pay, so far as the United States Trcasurv is concerned. So much for Democratic economy. Davenport Ga zette. As the House passed the army bill, as the Senate rejected it because of a very necessary provision that it contained, and as the President could have provided an army appropriation by calling Congress tozethor in June, it will hardly be bo believed thit the army is suffering be cause of "Democratic economy." The Democratic house has heretofore made liberal appropriations for the army, the "economy" consisting mainly of the lopping off of useless perquisites, and not in the cutting down of necessary expenses.

The Georgia Constitutional Convention has adopted a bill of rights that does eredit to the intelligence and patriotism of the people of that state. The bill recognizes all races of citizens and pledges all protection in their right; of citizenship. Imprisonment for debt, find whipping for crime are prohibited, 'phe bill declares that the right of changing the constitution or form of government is the sole and inherent right of the people of the state. Tub Stale ticket nominated by the Ohio Democrats is a strong and very pop ular one. All the nominees are men of capacity, high characters, clean records and what is as good are all new mei in politics.

The platform which the conven tion adopted is not any better than the Iowa Republican platform. Tbc dema- foguery and ignorance that has assigned as the cause of all tbe hard times the efforts of the government to redeem its promises to pay, shines forth in both, and in both is equally deserving of condemnation. And now the Republican Governor of the great State of Illinois has been com pellcd to call for troops to quell the riots in Chicago. The Republican papers that have been ridiculing Gov. Matthews, of West Virginia, for asking federal aid.

should turn their sarcasm on Cullom. Now that the strike has nearly run its course, the most important topic of consideration for a timo will be as to the liability of city and state government, for damages incurred by reason of the riots. In the states or Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ne York, Jand New Jersey laws have been passed clearly covering this question, and indisputably making the cities or counties where such destruction of property occurs responsible for all loss thus caused. The New York statute passed in 1355, provides that "whenever any building or other real or personal property' shall be destroyed or injured in consequence of any mob or riot, the city or county in which such property was situated shall be liable to an action, by or in behalf of the party whose property was thus destroyed or injured, for the damages sustained by reason thereof." The Pennsylvania law is practically to the same effect. By section 1 of article J82 of the Public General Laws of Maryland (vol.

1, p. 385) it is provided that "if la any county or incorporated town or city of this State any church, chapel or convent, any dwelling-house or any house used or designed by any person or any body corporate as a place for the transaction of business or the deposit of property, shall be injured or destroyed, er if any property therein shall be taken away, injured or destroyed by any riotous or tumultuous assemblage of people, the full amount of the damage so done shall be recoverable by tbe sufferer or sufferers by suit at law against the county, town or city within whose jurisdiction such riot or tumult occurred." A similar statute exists in New Jersey. Iu all cases where this Question has been tested, the courts have upheld tho principle in the above laws, and always rendered judgment against the corporations. "The impoitant says the Cincinnati Enquirer, "for the oruing Republican Convention (in Ohio) "will be whether to indulge in a platform and no candidates or candidates and no platform." Chicago Times "Every day adds more testimony to provo that civil service reform of the Uayes pattern is a humbug which cannot be too soon abandoned by a Cabinet both incapable and unwilling to reconcile its practices with tbe President's theory." Tlie City Council ud a Delegation ISUMlua in en talcs Trip np tbe N. VI.

Mr. John E. Henry, manager the D. N. W.

road, having very kindly placed a special car at the disposal of the City Council for a trip to Fayette and re turn, for the purpose of taking a look at the country along the line of road, and to afford them an opportunity to get ac quainted with the business men of the towns on the line, they, with a number of business men of the city who they especially Invited, together with representatives of tho press, left at 10 o'clock last Wednesday. The Democrat representative sends us tho following: SPECIAL DISPATCH. Aldermen Sears, Laverenz, Knappe, Marks, Skinner, Scott, Burdick, Jones, Klug, Kunkel, Col. Henry Egbert, J. II.

Freeman, J. L. Mason, ex-Mayor Rose, O. S. McNeil, J.

R. Nutting, J. P. Dosh, J. M.

Eldridge, Nicholas Kuhnen, L. Schricker, II. Sieg, ex-Mayor Donahue, Aug. Steffcn, A. C.

Fulton. B. B. Woodward. W.

Downs, L. Rose, A. J. Montague, J. J.

Humphrey, Judson Smith, D. II. Hariwcll. Dr. Worlev.

Z. Krack. J. M. Glaspel, II.

C. Marsh, of the Gazette, C. II. Playter, A. F.

Richard son. of the Democrat, Chaa. Whitaker. The above is a complete list of the excursion- lata taJFayeU At EldridgB Junction the whole party was treated to a barrel of ice water, and a short speech was made Dy J. M.

Eldridge. The country looks re markably fine. The barlev, oats and rye crops arc harvested and in slack, and farmers are busily engaged in reaping wheat. The corn crop is looking very fine, and an immense crop is certain. Tbe excursionists were welcomed along the line by the citizens, and a grand good time is being had.

The train is in charge of tho genial conductor, D. Burgess. A generous dinner was served at Massillon. The excursionists returned home on Thursday afternoon, in the best of spirits, after having enjoyed a very pleasant trip indeed. The members of the party testified their appreciation of kindnesses received by presenting handsome purses to Conductor Burgess and Engineer Kincsbury, by the passage, by the busi ness men, of resolutions of thanks to the ity aldermen for the invitation to ac company the excursion, and by the adop tion by the Alderman of a card of hearty thanks to Manager Henry for the free use of the car.

Tbe members of the party ill enjoyed their jaunt immensely, and had a quiet and pleasant time at rayette. he country passed through was rich with abundant crops, and the promise of a large yield of all farm products inspired the excursionists with the, ieeli- there waM bepeace and plenty in the near future. CAltillT AND JlCliKB Possibly some of our readers will recol lect the knife, cutting assault by Tom Cooper in Schindler saloon, the evening ot the 30th of December, 1876 when ho inflicted two very dangerous wounds on the neck of one Joseph Seng The details in brief are as follows: On tho night in question, Cooper was talking with Schindler in his saloon, and in his company were three others named Newton Cooper, Thos. Anderson and James Williams. Seng was seated at a table by himself, in another part of the room, but heard the conversation going on between the men named.

Tom Coop er was telling Schindler how he at one time had mashed Seng. The latter, bear ing this, remarked that he had never had any trouble with Cooper, whereupon the latter came over to where he was, pulled out his knife, and made two desperate thrusts at him, cutting fearful gashes on the right and left sides of his neck, from which, as was stated in the preliminary examination, a stream of blood as thick as your finger flowed. All four of the men were arrested on a warrant, taken be fore Justice Hoffbauer, but examination postponed for two or three daws, because prosecuting witness was not able to appear, In the meantime Tom Cooper made his escape from Marshal Dowell's custody, and on the preliminary examination, there be ieg no evidence against the other men they were discharged. The papers were sent to the grand jury.and on the testimony ot Seng, an indictment was found against Tom Cooper at February term of District Court for an assault with intent to com mlt murder, ind a bench warrant issued for his arrest. On one or two occasions since, his whereabouts were discovered.

but when officers were sent to arrest him he seemed to be advised of it, and left for other points. On last evening Sheriff Leonard heard that he had been in the vicinity of Columbus June tion, and was going to Mascatine. He telegraphed Sheriff Jewett, to arrest him if found and received an answer saying "he is in jail." Sheriff Leonard then re quested that2he be sent here, and this morning Sheriff Jewett, with his prisoner arrived here and turned him over to Sheriff Leonard, who put him in a cell, where he will have little chance to escape before the next term of District Court. KASIilO KOTBH. Black satin tlippers with silvered heels are the novelty for house wear.

Black lace mitts are worn with all kinds of dresses. Embroidery appears on nearly all summer dress toilets. Plaided and plain hosiery is more fashionable than striped. Grenadine is full dress for matrons, but not for young jrirls. Tbe most fashionable lawn dresses are moonlight blue and torrel green.

Handkerchiefs and neckties for morning wear are trimmed with colored torchon laces. Narrow bands of black velvet ribbon worn around the hair in Grecian stylo are coming in vogue. Navy blue percale, trimmed with white embroidery and Clovis lace, is the costume of tbe moment. The new colors aro called 'moonlight blue" and a "sorrel gteen." Narrow bands of black velvet worn on the hair are very fashionable. Deep colors have superseded the pale shades so long fashionable.

Black satin shoes covered with em-broiueries are very fashionable. As to scarfs, instead of remaining where they began this season that is, under the stomach, they have left even the waist, and now are spanned right over the shoulders, rising and rising an inch every morning. Deml-toilctte is very inexpensive and consists in woolen grenadines, prints, white linen, torchon cloth, or colored lawns. The polonaises are either allowed to flow, a new style called lache, or they are raised according to the rules of a perplexing science. A new coiffure of natural hair has been produced, called the "multiform," from the many shapes it is canable of taking, all of which are simple and extremely grace.

In fact, it seems capablo of taking on a stiff or awkward appearance. The "multiform coiffure" is accompanied by an instrument which enables ladies to dress it over readily, and with little expenditure of time so that additional expense is not required to keep it in order. Handkerchiefs, neck-ties, collarettes, and the like are in great profusion and Infinite variety. New collarettes are round, with a standing ruffle of lace fronting a double plaiting of crepe lime. They are very soft and pretty, made of all lace, eienciennes, or duchesse.

Simple ruffles are very convenient wear for summer. French muslins of all kinds are verv fashionable this year, embroidered in large white dots. One in particular was made with two flounces edged with torchon lace; the upper jube is fastened on and draped at tbe back, forming a jabot, trimmed with lace, and black velvet bows; simple basque edged with tho lace, trimmed with bows, finishes a costume which is not only new but possesses the rare merit of being becoming to all, both young and old. Says May fair: "More silk will be worn this summer and autumn than usual. A word tho fair they adulterate silk now with jute.

Dresses of this material, I or rather of these materials, look very beautiful and possess tho much-desired virtue of Btanding by themselves, but they wear greasy and go to the maid much sooner than they should." FATING TUB P1PEU. Suit for Damisra Brought Asralnst tlie 'iiy of IMilabursu. From tho Pittsnurgh Commercial, July U. Already the interesting question as to 'who is to pay tho piper?" has been asked in a legal way. Yesterday Maj.

A. M. Brown entered proceedings In behalf of Mr. Smith, pawnbroker, against the city for Mr. Smith's establishment was cleaned out by the rioters on Satur- ay evening, and he wants to be paid for it.

the law in such cases is thus ex plained by Maj. Brown: Tbe county is liable for all damages resulting from acts of mob violence, and that for all claims for damages awarded bv tho courts must come out of the county treasury. Tho railroad company is generally supposed to be liable for all loss sustained by ship pers irom tru fo farriers tbMrare insurers: but iLseems that a provision exists in tne law wmcn says that "acts of God and enemies of tho state make their liability as in-suiers void," and the shippers can come on the county for every dollai's worth of freight destroyed by the rioters. The railroad companies also can colleo from the county every dollar of their los if they are so disposed, but it remains a question as to whether they will resort such measures, as it would in the end inevitably react against them. These dam ages will be collected just as all other debts against the county.

A mandamus will be issued by the court en the county treasury, and if no funds are availablo from which to pay the debt, then the county commissioners will be compelled to levy a special tax, just as was done somo years ago in regard to the railroad indebtedness of the county. When the county comes to pay $10,000,000, the pecuniary value of the not will be under stood. It a id of Tramps at Cedar Rapids. By a special dispatch from Cedar Rap ids, Iowa, we learn that between 7' and 100 tramns took forcible possession of a train of cars on the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern railroad, between Burlington and Cedar Rapids Wednesday afternoon, and landed in tbe latter city shortly before Light. The greatest excitement prevailed among the citizens.

owing to threats having been made ot sacking tbe city. Abont 40 of the tramps were arrested by the police and quartered in the lock-up over night and again re-leasca in the morning. A public meeting of citizens was held, and an organization of 400 to 500 special police organized to be prepared for duty at the alarm signal. The citv firemen were all sworn in as special police, to act during the pre valence of tho great (numbers of tramps in the city. In order to prevent violence, the city authorities were compelled to furnish a free dinner at the city ball to all tramps, for which they promised to leave tbe city.

Between 200 and 30O revolvers have been sold to the citizens within the last 24 hours, and tho demand is greater than the supply. Senator ConkllnK In London. (Geo. W. Smaller' letter to the New Yirk Tribune.) Mr.

Conkling has been here for a week seeing a good deal of London, and from several different sides. -The Londoner regards him with some astonishment and a good detl of admiration. He has already made a reputation as a talker. He employs his extraordinary conver-ntional powers In defending th pUuuuu c--4-i-fn of which he has been a pillar iluiiiii the past eight years or more. You niuv ju.lse of the effect by the remark of an rmiuent Englishman, which I take I- ave to quote, that he had never heard t.nl.itnit a defense of a thing in itself n-IMe.

But Mr. Conkling will take n-i he is able to make himself listened t. for an hour at a time in companies where sustained conversation Is usually voted a bore; his wit, his fund of stories, his laree manner, his force of personal character, not to add his distinction of appearance, carry him through everything. Few Americans have been seen here of late years who have made so distinct an impression in so short a time. The prolonged visits of Gen.

Grant and the Emperor of Brazil have together almost exhausted, for the moment, the Englishmen's power of receiving fresh Were it not for that, Mr. Conkling would already be a lion. He was known here, it must be said, as a politician of a school which is heartily disliked; but the dislike for the school quite vanishes (for the time) in admiration of its most accomplished disciple ana leader. Ths whole body of troops now in the South, excepting those in Texas watching the Mexican frontier, does not exceed ten or twelve nunarea men. jen.

Augur, in the Department of the (Ta.lt, has but two regiments of infantry, numbering about six hundred men, and Gen. Ruger, in the Department of the saoth, has twelve com panies of artillery and one regiment of infantry, In all less than six hundred men. A Sr. lions authority nays that a Texan will wear out three pair of boots in time taken to wear oat one parry, and bo ha rides and Saves a dollar be-gidfis. CLIMTOM.

Strike or tne Saw Mill Men -Excitement on Streets Proclamation All Saloon Closed. From Daily 27th alt. It had been anticipated for the past few days that a strike was impending among the saw mill hands of Clinton. The Democrat stated last evening that the employes of the various mills had demanded an increase of 20 and 30 cents a day all round, and the answer of the various companies to this demand was promised Wednesday evening. It was i the effect that the mills would not accede to the demand, as the depressed state of the lumber trade made an increase of impossile that logs were scarce, and it was only with difficulty that mills were kept running at alL To many, especially those with families, this answer was satisfactory, and they were willing to continue at work, but the majority, it appears, regardless of reason or consequence, were not satisfied, and excited discussions were held on the streeU.

At 7 o'clock yesterday morning, many of the men resumed work as usual, but the disaffected gathered at the corner of Twelfth street, and after a turSulent debate, decided to strike at once, and compel all the others to join them, or at least prevent them from working. Mayor Flourney, seeing the impending danger, issued a proclamation, ordering all the saloons to be closed and no liquors to be sold until further notice. The crowd numbering at first but about 100 men and boys, commenced piling up obstructions on Lamb Son's horse railroad, in an attempt to stop the transfer of lumber. The Herald thus reports subsequent action of the men They then started, beaded by a crowd of veiling boys and irresponsible parties, for the boat yard, where active operations began in shape of the forcible stopping of work, the crowd intimidating the few lumber pilers and shovers, unhitching the draft torses and compelling the men to join in" About a quarter before eight the crowd was joined by a party of about a hundred Riverside had struck work at the lower mills and bad come up town to join the strikers here. The crowd was constantly augmented in numbers, and at eight o'clock, numbering about three hundred boys and men, they began the grand march through the mill yards to compel those who had gone to work to stop.

They had little dituculty in doing this, as the employers had given orders for work to cease whenever the crowd appeared, so as to avoid any difficulty. The march was taken up through the yards, the work at the various mills stopping as they appeared; the mills of W. xoung U. LtniD ce sons, ana the Clinton Lumber being successively stopped. Tbe Union Works and Clinton Boiler Works next succumbed, although Mr.

Alfred made a speech citing the good wages paid to his men. his re marks eliciting cheers. The men there were told they need not Quit, but it was deemed advisable, in the excited state of popular feeling, to quit, so tho work was suspended. The crowd then marched in an inegular column towards Lyons, but at the court house they were met by the in formation that the mills and inufactur- ing establishment in Lyons were closed. whereupon tbey retraced their steps and proceeded to Curtis Bros.

Co's. sash factory which had been spared coming the men desiring here as at the Lnion Works and other establishments, to con tinue at work. It was thought best to top, however, so by ten o'clock the manufacturing business of Clinton was suspended, and the army of workmen, boys and outsiders, now numbering upwards of a thousand men, were on the streets or gathering around tbe corners and in groups about th'c city, discussing the day's events and its probable consequences and termination. At the Clinton Lumber vjo s. mm a speech was made by Henry Sill, who oAitripfl to auinmA t.hn leadershin of the crowd ana who henceforth largely diicctci 1 tueir luovcuiuuis.

About this time, Mayor Flourney issued another proclamation, as follows: MAToB'sOraics. I Clixtoh, Iowa, July 26. 1877. Jo tie Citizens ofClintm: Whirias. Home of the employes of the mills in the city have struck for an advrnce of wages and WasBKie.

There is reaeon to believe that the vicious element of the community wlU eeize thle opportunity to destroy property. Therefore. I. bv virtue of the authority vested in me as Mayor of the city of Clinton, call oil all good citizens to aid in enforcing the lawa and ordiuaucea and in suppressing disorderly conduct All acts WUl dj promptly aetecteu ana puuipucu JOHN J. rUJI'KNII, jul- By this strike fifteen hundred men and boys have been thrown out of employment, which will entail a loss upon them of between 2.0C0 and $3,000 per day, In wages, alone.

Taking this view of the matter, should this strike continue for any length of time, how many days will it take even at advanced wag- to make up the loss. By this strike, says the Herald, the workmen will lose the most, as there is not a mill owner who Cannot sell his logs to better advantage just now ban his manufactured lumber, and he can afford to let the mills Bland idle all summer. But can the workingman afford this? Let this plain nneation be discussed and let all the jmtnts bo-cart fully Considered. i THE LOWKK UAI'IU. The Keokuk Gate City of Tuesday brings intelligence of the partial comple tion of the improvements in tbe Missis sippl above Keokuk.

Says that paper: From the authorities in charge of the Rapids Improvement we learn that the canal will be so far completed as to admit ot the passage of boats in about two weeks. The Government steamer Montana ill be brought down here from Rock Island and will be the first boat through tbe canal. The Engineer Corps will prob ably have some sort of a demonstation in connection therewith. It seems to us that it would be eminently proper for our citi zees to unite with them in celebrating the even, in fact, it would show a deplorable lack of interest on their part to neglect to do so. The work has been going on now about nine years, and the eyes of the peo ple of the entire Mississippi valley have been turned npon it.

Millions of dollars have been spent upon it, and when com pleted it wilt be the most important im provement of the kind in the United States. The canal is located at Keokuk, the money has been spent here, and it oc curs to us that our citizens should unite with the Engineer Corps in celebrating so important an event as its completion. The time is short, and whatever is done in the matter must be done at once. We Bug gest, therefore, that our citizens get to gether and arrange for a suitable demon stration on the occasion of the passage of the first boat." Heavy Cnlrs.30 Failure. Chicago The failure of the well-known iron firm of A.

B. Meeker was announced this mornine. Tbe firm has for years been one of the leading pig-iron establish ments in the country. Mr. Meeker was the organizer of tbe Joliet Iron an Steel Company, its first President, and is at present the President of one of the lead ing blast furnace companies In the Lake Superior iron district.

He is also said to be largely interested in a number of iron mines in Missouri. Tbe pig-iron trade, and losses sustained from connection with various railroad enterprises caused the failure. The Eldora Herald gives its opinion of the duty of the coming Democratic State Convention in these words "Old war horses most take a back seat, and men alive to tbe issues of the day should be put forward forthe leading ogees." The big crop of strawberries and the fine yield of early vegetables, with good prices, have relieved the stringency of the ume in New Jersey. PKKSOJ IL The ex-Queen Isabella of Spain, has tbe most valuable collection of laces in tbe world, one of her shawls being worth $20,000. The Chief Justice of Pennsylvania is before the courts for breaking the game law for shooting pheasants out of the season on the Fourth.

Of twenty-three persons who left New Haven, for the Black Hills, all but three have returned, and those three have gone to Texas. Catherine E. Lacbenmever, when worth $40,000 six years ago, married her bookkeeper. He now lives with another woman in New York on the proceeds of her money, and she lives on charity. A writer in the Economist sums up the lnfluenco of the sewing machine on political economy.

It has reduced the working hoars of English sevtlag women from eighteen to twelve, has added fifty to one nunarea per cent, to their wages, and has immeasurably increased their "comfort, health and independence." The Richmond (Va.) Whig says there Is in that city a young girl wno two years ago was left $100,000 by her parents death. She married a spendthrift who soon made away with her fortune and then deserted her going to Europe, wh'ero be is now. The girl she is scarcely more than eighteen may be seen almost any day peddling pins and notions on the streets of the city. Jennie Lind, now aged fifty-six years, became In March last, the delighted mother of a little girl baby. The mother of the baby in this bright manner: "She is a perfect image of health and happiness.

Sho laughs and crows in a way to delight all sympathetic hearts. We have given her a littlo Katharine among her other names, but we call her Jenny, I need not say in honor of whom." Mr. Justice Miller and Matt Carpenter were always at loggerheads in the United States courts in Wisconsin, and on one occasion Mr. carpenter playfully ob served of the Judge's railing that he had seen such a ruling in a Pennsylvania court where the other side bought up the Judge with a half a bushel of beans. The court gave Matt one minute whereinjto apologize, and he apologized in a neat little speech, concluding with the statement that if be bad said a bushel of beans instead of a half a bushel be would have been dammed before be wouid have recanted.

Well-Known Authors and What Titer Live On Interesting Figures. From the Printers' Circular. Longfellow is indepentent in circum stances, probably worth $100,000 to but the greatest part of it has come to him through his wife, long since de ceased, who was rich in her own right. Emerson has not made, from his re markable little volumes, over $20,000 Ho has gained nearly as much more by lecturing; and yet, by excellent management, which one might not expect from the high idealist, and by a serene philoso phy of a practical sort, he continues to live on his small property. Bryant is often cited as an instance of I a rich author.

He is rich, but not by 1 authorship. All the money he has directly I earned by bis pen, outside of his journal, would not exceed, in all probability, notwithstanding bis estate is estima ted at $500,000. Hawthorne was poor to his dying dav. and might have suffered but for his appointment to the Consulship at Liverpool by his friend. President Pierce.

Lowell is independent in circumstances no thanks to his fino poetry and essays, however. Whstticr, like most thrifty New En- glanders, owns his own house, and beneath its bumble roof, it is said, he has sometimes subsided he is a bachelor, you know on $500 a year. Holmes is well oil from his knowledge of medlcine.by marriage and inhemtance, but not by poems, lectures, novels, nor Autocrats of the Breakfast Table." All that he has written has not brought him $25,000. J. G.

Holland is frequently named as an author who has amassed wealth. His books have sold as largly as any American writer, and, whatever mav be thought of nis ability, he still has a vast constituency. sen sete'Timv'De' 3lK most of this he got by his partnership in the Sprinirfield Republican. George William Curtis is dependent on his salary from the Harpers; so is Mr. William D.

Howels dependent upon his editorship of the Atlantic; Brete Harte, T. B. Aldrech. James Parton. J.

T. Trow bridge, R. II. Stoddard. T.

W. Hlgginson. mainly upon fugitive writing. Wales and Ills Female Friends. The Orleans club on the Thames is not calculated to Improve the morals of the upper ten.

The names are before us of the ladles who were present at a private party. given there by the prince of Wales, lhey were all married ladies, and their hus bands were not Invited, and had not the courage to resent the insult thus offered to their wives. I regret to say that the ladies in Question are members of an amateur dramatic society which has recently added lanre sums to charitable tieasuries. The ladies were entertained by his royal highness so merrily that the men in the regular club dining-room had to complain of the noise. One of the guests was specially invited bv the prince on account of her clever conversation.

The fair guests smoked cigarettes in the drawing-room after dinner, and one of them sat upon two chairs in the most approved masculine style. The other day a divorced member of the club took down to dinner a divorced lady, at which some of the leading members were greatly scandalized. "The Orleans club" is. nevertheless, one of the "fastest" establishments in town, or rather out of town, for it is beautifully situated on the Thames, its velvet lawn, and its drooping trees being objects of admiration to boating parlies floating by on these pleasant summer days. The house is furnished in the most luxurious style, with sleeping apartments for bachelors and rooms for married people.

The prince of Wales has cast his patronizing eye upon a new lady, Mrs. II who is just now the talk if not the envy of several of the distinguished lady guests who dine at the Orleans club. If there is a Count Gram- mont about making notes our children will have a spicy book fur their edification when time has just put back the pre-cnt generation and scandal is dieni-fied by becoming historical. London L'orretpondence of York Timet. The strike mob revolt at Pitts burg will entail great loss upon the people of Allegheny county.

Under a gen eral Pennsylvania law, the county will Lave to pty th Hteses ersed rty thf noil, which must have exceeded $5.000,000. It appears this principle of accountability of states and corporations for property destroyed because of inadequate public protection, has been frequently tested. In 16:, at the time of the draft riot. cw YorU City bad tj pay millions of dollars damages to property. In 1544 the city of Philadelphia had pav ail the losses.

amounting to millions, caused by what is called the Native American riot. The New York Tribune otiice was gutted in 1913. Tbe city paid Horace Greeley sev eral thousand dollars damages. In 141 the I'hilantAropitt, a Cincinnati Aboii- paper, was moboea. lne city looted toe bill.

In of 1 ennsvlvania, jiew York and New Jersey, lawa are alreadv in existence which render public corpora- ations liable for all all Buch damascs. The aggregate length of railroads in the United States is miles, not including 14,359 miles of double track and siding. This gives one mile for 5T7 inhabitants of the country. IUitroad authorities assert that to make the business profitable there be a population of 50 to a mile of road. If this estimate be correct, we have too many mile of railroad or too little population in the country to make railroading in general profitable.

The number of miies of road has nearly doubled in the last ten years. In 1S7 there was one miie of road to every 025 souls of the population in 1T6 there was one to every 577. The result of this disproportion is the depressed condition in which so many roads are placed. Last year there were 76 companies, representing 11.423 mile of road and an aggregate capital of $755,843,050, being wound np by legal process, showing bow disastrous the building or these roads must have been to those who furnished the money for the work. Labor.

The strong arm of the government may be lclied upon in this country to put a stop to any attempt to overthrow law and order and establish anarhcy in their place if the issue should ever be really forced upon us. But the heads and honest hearts of an intelligent people form a power which may be just as safely relied upon to avert such a contest. We are not a nation that has been struggling for years between absolutism and communism, where class is arrayed against class, and where the sense of wrongs rankling for centuries in the breasts of the laboring population breaks out at last and makes the horrors of the old French Revolution possible. Our government is a govern ment of the people, and not of a favored section of the people. The honest work- ingman who relics upon his hands for his daily living is just as much interested as the millionnaira in the preservation of the public peace.

He helps to make the laws which protects his civil rights and the rights and lives of all who are dear to him. Anarchy would be just as dangerous to him as to the possessor of millions. We are, in fact, a nation of workingmen. only differing in the description of our labor and in the remuneration we recieve, and tbe laws under which we live are framed for such a condition of society, If we sweep away those laws and substi tute license in their place we deprive a laboring population of their protection and give ourselves up to the worst tyranny in tne woria, tne tyranny or a mob. An unusual depression of trade for the last four or five years has made us all suffer.

Its most deplorable consequence has been the forced idleness it has entailed on honest labor. Capital has been timid to invest hence manufactories have ceased or contracted their work building and improvements generall ave slopped, and in every line of business retrenchment has been enforced. Thousands have been thrown out of employment, and other thousands, a little more fortunate, have been compelled to submit to reduced wages or lessened profits. As a partial compensation the cost of the necessaries of life has been materially reduced, so that it really is possible to subsist and clothe a familv now tor much less than was required three or four years ago. Everybody has been recently looking for a speedy revival of trade and better times, and not without reasonable justification.

Our currency is getting into a healtby condition, our exports are largely increasing, and there is a fair probability of an active movement in produce this autumn. Under these circumstances we Insist that a general strike on the part of labor, and especially any marked demonstrations of lawlessness and violence, aro the very worst things that could happen for the honest laboring classes at this time. Our hope of returning prosperity and of the full employment of labor is mainly based on the expectation of restored confidence on the part of capital. How can this be looked for if the laws are set at defiance and capital finds itself at the mercy of a mob Every honest laboring man, whether employed or unemployed, should set his face stronglv against riotous demonstrations, and aid in enforcing respect for law and preservation of tbe public peace. At a time of excitement like tbe present bad men strive to work on the Dassions and sympathies of the laboring classes for the purpose of creating a riot so that they may profit by it.

They live by dishonest practices and not by honest labor, and while workingmen are induced to believe that they are striking for their own right 8 they are, in fact, affording theivea an opportunity to plunder The honest laborers of the country should bear these facts in mind. Any one who advises them to put themselves outside the pale of the law is tneir enemy and not their friend. Their hopo for the future is in restored confidence and reviving activity, and these must necessarily be postponed by lawlessness and violence on the part of the working classes. 2V. T.

Herald. Charleston Newt and Courier "For our own part we regard it as the essence of poetic justice that the success of evil machinations of tho wicked politicians who were struggling to retain their deadly grip upon the vitals of the republic should only have resulted in their own undoing, and have proved the blessed means of restoring to the country that feeling of fel lowship and brotherhood among the people of which they had deprived it, and which is tho only foundation of true national greatness." Tub Secretary of State has notified the officials of the Atlantic cable companies who are now engaged in perfecting the amalgamation of all the companies, that-if the consolidation takes place, the cable companies will not bo permitted to use tho shares of this country. Tho Canadian government has served a similar no tice. It is to be hoped that tho projected monopoly will thus be prevented. St.

Louis Globe-Democrat "It is an appalling and ignominious descent to find the chivalry, which once aspired to rule tbe country, now occupied with the squab bles of the political kitchen, and unable to rise to any loftier level ot administration than merely settling a quarrel between the cook and the housemaid." New Orleans Timet "It has long been endent to intelligent observers that the Republican party South was only held together by the cohesive power of public plunder. When this was taken away the soul of the party had left tho body. It was deprived of any excuse for longer existence. Its attempts to maintain itself were only a weakly fight against fate." Senator Wallace, of Pennsylvania.Ja most acute politician, says that the only auestion ot the political result in the October election in that State will be the sizo of the Democratic majority. The Republicans are dispirited throughout the State and do not appear be desirous at present of making much of a cam? aign It is doubtful if the State convention which will be held September 5th indorses the President.

13 The Democrats of New Hampshire charge the Republicans of the Legislature with an outrageous gerrymandering of the btate to prevent the election of Democrat ic members of the Legislature, and In such a way that long journeys of from 20 to 40 miles will be necessary in order t3 reach the polls on voting day, while in one in stance, that of the town of Jackson, the inhabitants will have to travel 70 miles to vote at certain elections. Smcx the decision of the court cf ap peals that none but hotel-keepers in New York can sell spirituous liquors, there has been a rush to get into the hotel business. Thus far 1,100 anplicationa hare been made, and each applicant has three beds some of them on the roof and some in the cellar. New Orleans Time "In Mississippi the Republicans claimed to have a major ity of 30,000 rotes, but tbey quietly tak down their sign and shut up the political shop. Declaring that they have abund ance of capital, they virtually proclaim themselves bankrupt by their acts." Ex-Tkeasureb Casdoza of South Carolina is charged with misappropriatin public funds daring his administration and is held In for appearance October.

Ths Springfield Republican thinks that the Maine Repubicaa Convention will 'dodge the administration." I have so often been disgusted myseii Dy neanng an criticisms or pic ture gallery exclamations, from people who could no more criticise a painting than I could, and who couldn't tell a Murillo from a Mohawk, that Defore a picture I have learned to be measurably silent. It was a favorite pastime with me in the Italian galleries, when my eyes and braintecame dazed with old masters, to quietly mope about to listen to the Idiotic drawl of a fresh American or British importation, about the pictures they were looking at. Ninety-nine times in a hundred, each painting is either "de llcious" or "exquisite." Scarcely more or less. If those two adjectives were each no bigger than a grain of mustard seed, there has been enough of them dropped in Florentine galleries alone, to have buried the entire city from out of sight. It is a passing pleasant ride from Lon don to Torquay.

But as I have written so far already, and ridden so very little, suppose we take a rest! I could tell you that the road takes you out through Beading, and then through a quantity of smaller towns like a flash; on to Bath, and to Bristol, the once home of the gifted Cbattcrton and Robert Hall and the philanthropic George Muller one of nine and twenty cathedral towns of England full of commerce, smoke, and dirt; I might tell you that Taunton, Bridgewater, and Exeter are on tho way and that the latter is another cathedral city, and that Dawlish and Teignmouth are quiet little places also; but I havo not taken their census, and it would do you no good if I had. At all events It was a pleasant ride, und I am now writing in one of the most delightfully situated winter watering places in the world, and sometime may tell you of it more particularly. My tourist.friend, tho Baron, resides here, and no has the contract on hand of showing up his native place, and I doubt not ho will succeed admirably. D. N.

It. I'KOn TIIK IMIIAN COUNTKY. Special Correspondence. CAK? OS SjUMOAY CltllK, HKA1S ToWorK KIVKU, M. Jul 2d, 1S77.

Since I wroto you the last letter wo moved to this creek, and have been encamped hero for the last ten days. Oa the 17th ultimo, the mail carrier from Tongue river to Fort Buford was attacked by a band of ten or twenty Indians in the bed-land near Mountain Sheep Butte, and about 33 miles from Tongue river, on the north side of the Yellowstone. The mail carrier, quite a young man, fought them through ravines till night, killing one of them, and at night managed to get out, and on foot walked 25 miies to Cedar Creek where we were camped. lie lost his two ponies an-l tho mail bag, which contained a large mail for our regiment, the 7th Cavalry. The other day Lieut.

Baldwin, of the 5th Infantry, came back from bis mission to Fort Peck, on the Missouri river, and reported that Sitting Bull, with 2.5UO Indians, 1,500 of them warriors, is in the Britisn Possessions, and 40 miles inside tbe lino that he bad no intention whatever of returning to our soil. He also reported that all is quiet north of the Yellowstone to-' the boundary line. General Miles, tbe commander of the forces, had an interview with Gen. Terry, at Buford, and returned here on the 23th of June. Nothing is known positive of the result of this interview.

It was first rumored that there will be no warlike operations nortn of tho xellowatone, but on tbe 30lh Lieut Jciome, of the 2d Cavalty, sent in a scout from tho north (he was on a mission to Sitting Bull's camp), In which he brought news that Sitting Bull is crossing back into United States territory, and is going to tho Musselshell, between the Yellow-atone and tho Missouri river. There is a rumor that tho Indians killed two of the mounted police of Canada. Gen. Miles visited our camp to-day for tho first time since bis return. General Miles is a handsome young man, a thorough soldier, and a man that has the high esteem and confidence of all those who have had the honor to servo under his command.

Since ho left an hour ago, we learned that we have to be for an expedition to start to-morrow. The direction we are going is still a mvstery, known but to Gen. Miles. Ibavenodoubt that in a short timo we shall bo able to tell where we are going. At my next chance for a mail I shall inform you where we are going, and will keep you informed of all that will interest your readers.

Woman's Account of 1.11 In and some Gossip About Her Original Owner. Writing from the Washington races, she says: We have been having our annual races here the last week, and although our track docs not quito equal the Jcromo or Pimlico of our own blessed land, nor yet the Derby of merry England, yet the im provement each year is very noticeable to the observation of those least interested. This year we have had Lulu, who trotted against Great Eastern, easily winning tho three beats, although she broke several times the second time round. Her record stood, 2:22, 2:26. not as well as sue has done, but very creditable, notwithstanding.

LUXtj's MASTER. I had the pleasure last summer cf meeting her original owner. Col. Crockett, whoso historic name suggests the Blue grass State as the place of his birth. Col.

Crockett resides just about seven miles out of Bock Island, 111., on a large, bree-zy farm, where he devotes himself to raising blooded stock of all kinds, his specialty, however being horses of the famous Hambletonian breed. The Colonel is a gentleman of the old school, and although his hair shows the snow which the chill of years surely casts upon mortals past their prime, and Time's footprints have made themselves in his face, and somewhat bent his stalwart frame, yet he is tbc courteous host, the Southern gentleman, and no youth tilled with tho blood's first wine can evince more sparkle or enthusi asm then lie when discussing studs or hay ing them brought out for inspection of his guests. I saw Lulu's half sisters, one a light bay colt, the most exquisitely formed littlo crcaturs 1 ever beheld. Its clear cut head, its slender, arching full, large, inquiring soft eyes, its alert ears, its slender dainty limbs, suggested gazelle. Its sister was a coal black two-year-old, and as firey as a Mazeppa.

It was buile in the same long-limbed, slender, arched stylo of its sister, only its eyes flashed a more furious fire, and the man who brought it out for inspection, holding it by a scarlet rein, had to keep a respectful distance, as the magnifi cent creature curveted this way and that, showing her cilky mane and flowing tail, or sprang at him with her forefeet raised above his head as if to crush his insignificant mortality to the ear'h. These two cells received the blue and red ribbons at the Kock Island county and the Davenport State lairs last year. Col. Crockett, suffering from the sudden turns of fortune's vari.iblo wheel, sold Lulu several years ago for $20,000, while to-day, I suppose, her lowest valuation would be The Colonel's family are charming, those I have met of them, Miss "Tee" belonging to that peculiar class of feminine beauty strictly American, and best appreciated by those who know her most intimately. Were I a poet I mean one of the Tom Moore, or Bryonic, or Burns tvne I would certainly be tempted to paint the glones of her eyes and skin in colors oi immortal verse.

Such eyes are only seen occasionally in one's search after tho beautiful in life large, clear.soft, expressive, and rivaling the hue of tho English violet. It is as good as settled that all the railroad, express and fast freight companies will refuse to acknowledge liability for loss of property in transit by the strikes. There will be a ludiclal deter mination of this question at onee; and whichever way it is settled, the result will be the bankrupting of many companies firms and tightening of business to an xtensive degree..