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THE JOURNAL. ,1, Z.8ASXX3,? C. T. SASCCCX. Frepriatar. LC4l StporUr. f7"iTiTfi tf W Offirt at Xrw Bm,2i. C Bfetmd-eLi matter. FOE A UU5DBED "i- - CENT DOLLAR. C&rlUIa'a 8pwk at Xf aphis Atgo- UlaC Ik Ilea u4 AroMcaU r tk rr StiTtr Kaa. - Mr. Carlisle ipoke in part as fol low: : W NOW HATS PRACTICAL BIMET- 5-': -" V V?? ; .; aujsm, It ig contended by a largo number of tho advocate of freo coinage perhapa a majority of them that the effect of their policy would be, sot to abolish the present standard - . of raiae and substitute the single ailrer standard in ita place, bat that it TO old asUbliah What they call bimetallism and a doable standard. I confess my inability to under stand vhat ia really meant by a doable etiiidard or measure of value; the idea ia incomprehensible to my mind, because I cannot conceive how it ia possible to have two different legal and authoritative measures of ' the same thing in use at the same .'time, as, for instance a pound -weighing sixteen ounces and a pound -weighing eight ounces, or only half ' as much, and both de clared by law to be legal pounds. I agree entirely with Gen. Jack son' Secretary of the Treasury, who said, The proposition that there can be but one standard in fact is self-evident." The proposition to establish and maintain two different measures of value to be in use at the '. same time, and to be applied to the same things at the same time, em bodies physical and metaphysical absurdity, and this is so evident that the ablest thinkers and writers upon the subject have been at last forced to abandon it. We can ail understand how it is possible to have an alternating standard and circulation, sometimes gold and. sometimes silver, and the monetary history of the world proves that this ia just what happens when ever " the two metals are freely coined in any country and made full . .-legal tender. - Yalues will always be measured by the Jcind of money in - actpal circulation, no matter what the law may declare, and, therefore, if the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 should drive out gold and substitute silver : and paper redeemable in silver in its place, we should have a single silver standard and actual silver monomet--: allism. : Instead of using both gold and 8lfpr, as we do now in larger amount than ever before in our his tory, we should instantly expel the ."i? more valuable metal from the coun . trf and make te other the sole basis cf pur currency. We have now practical bimetallism the use ' ' of both metals as money; we should . hve then practical monometallism the use of only one metal as mon ey.' This is neither speculation nor prophecy, but conclusion based ' on - facts established by the experience of all nation in all ages. XXPORT PRICES WILL NOT KISE. ' All who haTe been or may be in duced to give their support to the revolutionary free coinage policy upon the assurance that it will give . . . v the country more money for use in . the transaction of business will be ' greatly disappointed, for they will find, when it ia too late, that in ; stead o baring more money they -will have lees, and that it will be depreciated in vajne besides. - TEe act providing for the pur chase of ai)rer bullion and the issue pf legal-tender Treasury notes in rayment for it was passed on the 4th dJ of July, 1890, ani the purchasing clause of that was re pealed November 1, 1893. While it remained in force, - United States Treasuy notes were issued to the . amount of $155,931,003, and there were many people who believed that this was making a material and per manent- addition to the volume of pur currency; but the official records show that during the same time the iSt export)! of gold from this ooun . try amounted to 1103.419,491, so that the real addition to our circu lation accomplished by the issue of nearly 1156.000,000 of new notes was about fifty-two and a half mil lion dollars during a a period of more than three years The mere apprehension that the government wen Id not be able to maintain the " parity of the two metals under the - policy inaugurated by that act not . only discredited the new Treasury notes themselves, but the whole vol ' m of our currency, and gold went out about as fast as the new notes same in. TJHTRCSTWOKTHT CI KKEX Y. t . While, therefore, it is not at C certain that free coinage would .timatolT snake any considerable all dition to our circulation, it ia abso- lutely certain that it would give us a -. . depreciated and fluctuating curren . cy, and the question is whether the producers of cotton, wheat, corn, . beef , pork, oil, lard, cheexe, aud ' other exportable articles will be ben- Refitted injured by such a result. -'J-. It ia an axiom in trade that the . '. pricee of ' exportable products are fixed in the foreign market where - the surplus is sold, and are fixed in the currency of that country accord - : ing to ita nominal value there. If - sold in England, for illustration, the ' pricee are fixed and paid in pounds, shillings and pence,, and not in dol , lars and cents, and consequently it makes no difference to the foreign . purchaser what kind of currency theproducer has at borne. 7m character or value of currency : ' " ute l tk producing country does ' not mjfecS the' price of the article abroad to any extent whatever, for the purchaser there trades in his own V market and uses his own currency in . measuring values. The establish ' -, ment of a silver standard here could t not possibly increase the price of coUon or wheat or any other Amer . ican product in Liverpool, London, Paris or Berlin, whatever effect it "anight have upon the nominal price . ; in thin country. . ' THICHIAP MOSEY ARGUMENT. One of the most effective argu . ment made by the advocates of free '.;.' coinage in some parts of tbecountry, : at least, is th Ue people are in ;1 debt, and that it is the duty of the Ejvernment to relieve them by such gislation as will enable them to procure cheap monev for the pur ' . pose of discharging their obligations, and in support of this argument the mnost exaf srerated statements are made as to the depressed and suffer ig condition of our farmers, wage eamera, and othe producing classes. Thia argument concedes that under 4he proposed system of free coinage at the rate of 16 to 1 all the various kinds of currency in use by the peo ple, including the silver dollar itself would be worth lees than it ia now, for, of course, if this is not to be the , result money would be no cheaper ; thiin it is now. ; To a&jcrt that the iK-oplo uro in j debt is simply to say that they hara ' traded with each other on credit that one part of our fellow citizens,! relying upon the integrity and ti-j nancinl standing of tlioir neighbors and acquaintances, have lent them money on time and sold property to them without (kniauilini; immediate payment in c;ih, ami that in this way they have enabled many people to carry on a useful business and live in comfortable homes who otherwise conld not have done o. If it is a crime to lend money to a man who wants to pnreh.ise it, and 1uik no ready money to pay for it, let tho perpetrators !o properly punished, but let us not involve tho whole country in confusion and disaster and immolate the innocent and guilty alike in order to punish the real offenders. If our people are in debt they owe each other, and, con sequently, about as many would be actually injured as would be ap parently benefitted by scaling the obligations down to a silver stand ard. NO DISTINTT DEBTOR I. I deny that there is anv such thing as a distict in this country, debtor class' " in for while nearly everv one owes some debts, large or small, nearly every one has also some debts owing to him; in other words, he is both debtor and credi tor. The laboring people, as a gen eral rule, owe very little at any one time, while their employers are always indebted to them, because wages are not paid in advance; and besides, many of them have small deposits in savings and other banks, in trust companies, in building as sociations, and large numbers of them have their lives insured for the benefit of their wives ami children, and consequently they are creditors of the banks and insurance com panies Here, then, are about 21,000,000 of our people, generally poor, or at least people of moderate means, who have given credit to these great cor porations and companies, and, in my opinion, it would be a grjeyous wrong to adopt any policy which would deprive them of the legal right to demand and receive iust as good money as they paried with when they made the deposits in the banks or paid the premiums on their insurance policies. SCARCE MONEY NOT THE DISTURB ING CAUSE We have an abundance of money in this country for all the purpose of trade, and the disturbances and hard times of 1893 and 1894 were not caused by a scarcity or con traction of the currency, but by a contraction of credit resulting from a loss of confidence in the stability and value of currency, So far as the mere volume of our currency is concerned, we had then aud have now an ample supply for all neces sary purposes, but under the exist ing system it is not properly distri buted and is not sufficiently elastic to meet all the changing require ment of business at different periods of the year. THE GOVERNMENT AS A BANKER. The United States should go en tire out of the banking business by the withdrawal of its rarbitary and compulsory issue of notes and afford the people au opportunity to supply their own currency based upon their own means and credit, thus enabling every community to utilize its own resources when necessary, and adjust the circulation from time to time to the actual demands of legitimate commerce. In what way this shall be accomplished is a ques tion which has already engaged the serious attention of the people and Snblic authorities, and it will no oubt continue to be investigated and discussed until a plan is formu lated which, if not perfect, will at j iwv no i c nil? uioiib vi i irrri ng a i cat improvement upon the existing system. In the meantime our highest duty is to preserve the present standard of value, maintain the parity of the two metals, and keep all the money in circulation among the people, whether it be gold and silver coins, or paper based upon them, equal in purchasing power, so that no discrimination will or can be made between those who receive silver or paper and those who receive gold. A great government should do nothing to discredit its own obli gations or diminish the value of the money in the hands of its citiz ens, nor should the people of a great country ever consent to the adoption of a policy, through ex perimental financial legislation or otherwise, which would vitiate the obligations of their contracts, in terrupt the regular course of their business and destroy the founda tions -upon which their industrial aud commercial systems have been constructed. The spirit of conservatism is still strong among our people, and not withstanding the delusive promises and selrish appeals that are now largely influencing their opinion iu some parts of the country, the truth will ultimately prevail and I have no doubt of the result when the time for final action comes. REPLIED TO CARLISLE. Senator Blackburn Speaks at Lawrence bart; for Free Silver, Lawrenceburg, Ky., May 2o. Senator Blackburn, who was adver tised to answer Secretary Carlisle here to-day, was greeted by a large audience. He spoke substantially as follows: They were not satisfied to let Mr. Buckner, Mr. Brown and myself win this battle on itsmerrits, but they imposed a man who is greater than is "John the Baptist," to drive back this silver craze, as they call it. Now understand that what I am going to say about Mr. Carlisle will oe said in the kindest terms possible. I do not mean to complain of Mr. Carlisle for coming here to his own State to sneak. He has the right to come. It was not nece&sary for him to apologize for coming. I do not know in what capacity the gentleman came and spoke, whether he came as a repre sentative of this grand old Common wealth or as Secretary Carlisle, of Treasury. Bnt God knows I am not! willinc to believe he came in the ! capacity of Secretary of the Treas- i urv to dictate to his people what to ! do'about this all important question. , But no matter how he came or who he is, I have the right to answer him j and that is what I am going to do. ; It was called sacrilege for me to reply j to so great a man, but I would reply j to the President should he come , down and take issue against me. I Applause. No man can get so1 big in mind or person that he can not be met. Mr. Blackburn went on to ohow what he termed Mr. Carlisle's incon sistency in saying in Covington that he had never been for free silver. If the speech lie made in 1ST may not be called a free silver speech, what was it? 11c let this speech go for seventeen years without saying anything ngainst it. and now lie comes out and savs it was not a sil ver speech. Well, then, we will lx' lieve Mr. Carlisle and not his speech, and I will go on and give you a little proof that is proof. On the Tth day of November, 1877, Mr. Carlisle, while sitting by my side iu the House of Representa tives, voted for the Bland bill, which, as you all know, was a silver bill out and out. 1 do not ask you to take my word on this vote, but look on pages 14.1 and 144 of the Jour nal of the Fifty-fifth Congress, Book No. 193. Only five years ago the Sherman bill passed. I voted against that bill. So did Carlisle, yet he is mak ing the same old speech that Sher man made then. Now I know you will say showing his inconsistency does not answer argument. 1 know that, and I am now going to answer argument, every point of it, 1 thought when the mightly Carlisle came they were going to throw new light on this subject, but they did not. He did not advance a single new idea. First he made the asser tion that if you have free coinage of silver you will put tbecountry on a silver basis, aud drive all the gold out of the country. This is not true. We have tried it once, and when we quit, wo had three dollars to every dollar in gold, more than when we began, lie says this coun try would be the dumping ground for all silver bullion, lie is off there, for ours is the only nation under the snn that has silver. The speaker went into every point of the Carlisle speech, and was gen erally applauded. Mr. Blackburn then paid liis respects to the Admin istration. "I am greatly handiaip- Eed,"hesaid, "hut let me answer Ir. Carlisle, and all the rpst take the stqmp aud 1 wjll win this race in spite of the combination."' skbb.taryTrkham DEAD. The Chief of President Cleve land's Cabinet. Died Tuesday Moraior at 1:12 O'clock of Pleural aad Pneumonia -Particular? of Ills Illness and U. ath, Washixgtqjt, May 28. Dr. W. Johnson, the physician who been in daily attendance 014 w. lias Mr. tho Gresham, has just given out following statement of the case: secretary Cresham s illness baa been an acute pleurisy with effusion, beginning on May 1st. frm May 13th his condition was favorable and his speedy recovery was confi dently expected. On May 25th symptoms of relapse appeared, due to the development of acute pneu monia. Ilis present alrrming con dition is due to weakness of the heart's action and there seems to be little or no hope of his recovorv. Dr. Prentiss, one of the Secretary's physicians, said at 10 o clock that the Secretary might live through the night, and possibly until the forenoon tomorrow. At 8:30 o'clock a telegram was sent to Judge Otto, of Philadelphia, telling him to come to the bedside of the Secretary, as he was dying. Judge Otto was a comrade of the Secretary in the late war. A telegram was also sent to Secre tary Gresham'a son, Qtto Gresham, at Chicago, informing him that the end was near, and to hasten to Wash ington without delay. President Cleveland, who is at his villa at Wood ley, a few miles from the White House, has been kept fully informed of the Socretary's condi tion. The Arlington Hotel in the cor ridors and at the private entrance is crowded with distinguished officials aexiously awaiting news from the sick-room. At 11 o'clock the physicians of Secretary Gresham ceased their efforts to revive him, as his system was entirely too weak to respond to their efforts. He died at l.l'l a. m. During the day the Secretary lay in a stupor, which was the founda tion for the report that he was "resting easily." As soon as the physicians, however, realized that the end was approaching, the heroic measures usual iu such cases, were adopted. Notwithstanding their efforts the patient sank rapidly. The physicians in attendance were Messrs. W. W. Johnston and Pren tiss of this city, the latter having been called into tho case within the past few days. This evening Dr. Vantteussellaer was also called in and it wag he who performed the operation of injecting the normal saline. At lo o'clock tonight the physicians acknowledged that they considered the case a hopeless one, but they did not relax their efforts. The Secretary, who has been con scious during his entire illness, seems to have been more concerned for his wife thau for himself. He realized that the end was approach ing, hut his constont suggestion made iu feeble whispers to his daughter was: "Iook out for your motlier; give her all your attention: don't worry about me." The news of Secretary Gresham's relapse did not become known until six o'clock this evening, at which hour his niece, Mrs Fuller, wife of Capt. Fuller, of the Army, was sent for. It spread rapidly and by S o'clock scores of persons prominent in public life had called to express their sympathy. Among tho early callers wero Secretary and Mrs. Lamont. Mr. Thurber, the Presi dent's private secretary, also arrived at an early hour, and was requested to notify the President that the Secretary of State was rapidly sink ing. He did so, and later in the evening communicated the fact that the President was detained at Wood ley by illness; that he desired to come to the city as soon as the in formation of the Secretary's serious condition was made known to him, but that he refrained from doing so at the advice of his physician. The members of the diplomatic corps, who are extremely punctilious in matters of this character, called dur ing the evening and left their cards. Other callers were Chief Justice Fuller and Associate Justice Harlan of the Supreme Court, Assistant Secretaries Uhl and Adee, of the State Department, Col. H. C. Cor bin. Assistant Postmaster-Generals Maxwell and Jones, and Comptroller r ckels. 500 EMPTY Fir. tor sale l.y J. W. lbls. Hound Hoops, Mksic. dlw wit m5. GREATEST SILVER MEETING Ku-t Held in thr States. : u t lit-1 n Addrrssrrt by Krjan, MeLawrin and A lien Carlisle II audit il nlth .Io;s Off. .1 At h-o.N, Tens., .May ''.". --The greatest silver meeting vet held in the South was that v 1 1 i 1 1 o. cnrn-d here ttnlav, when ."..oon 1 h-moei at from West Teniiess Mississippi, and West were present to hear W. of Nebraska; Senator Mi re. North Kentucky .1. Bryan, Lawrin, of Mississippi ; " l'ri ah of Mississippi, and .lohll Allen. . W. McCar- mack, of 'lennessee. A Madison coiintv bimetallic league was formed in the morning with P. Ct. Murray, a leading manu facturer, as president, and a vice president for every prei-incl in the tKMiuty. Ine speaking took place m Tabernacle. Mavor Curruthers sided. Hon. .1. 'V. Little, of kansas, spoke tirst, and lion. r he i -.1. Bryan received an enthusiastic come when introduced by Thomas II. Paine. In the course of the speech Omaha editor said: "I have the speech delivcrc wel lion. the 1 bv Mr. Carlisle in litis city yesterday; alno the one delivered by him at Covington, Kv last Mondav even ing ami 1 nave compare tl It-Ill with the soe.'ch delivered bv him on Feb- ruarv '21, 1 s , S in the 1 louse of i: ep- resentativ es, and 1 am reminded of tho language used by laid in lamenting the death of Saul: 'How are the mightv fallen.' Mr. Bryan devoted himself prin cipally to demonstrating the incon sistency in Mr. Carlisle's utterances on tho silver question and that so reoentlv ivs iu 100 he silver coinage man. was a He then fre prr ceeded : "Wo do not deny to Mr. Carlisle the right to change his opinion, but it has been more than a change of opinion: it has been a change of heart, Mr. Carlisle at that time was the Moses of the common people: he is now the commander-in-chief of Pharaoh's army, lie was then the courageous and zealous leader of the masses in tho effort to restore the gold and silver coinage of the Constitution; he is now the foremost champion of the very forces that he then denounced with eo much vigor. "In li is denunciation of Senator Sherman at that time, Mr. Carlisle stated in substance: First, that the interests of tho idle holders of idle capital are different from the inter ests of the struggling masses; second that Senator Sherman sympathizes with the capitalists rather than with the masses; and third, that Senator Sherman, as a public official sworn to do his duty, would be governed by his sympathies and, therefore, coin only half as much money as he would coin if his sympathies were with the straggling masses. "History bore out the prophecy made by Mr. Carlisle, because Mr. Sherman and his successors never coined more thau the minimum amount. Senator Sherman and Mr. Carlisle are now in hearty accord. Has Senator Sherman at last become the champion of 'tho struggling masses, or has Secretary Carlisle bo come - the champion of the 'idle holders of idle capital?' " Mr. Bryan discussed various phas es of the money question ; quoted frequently from Secretary Carlisle and answered his arguments by arguments formerly made by Sena tor Carlisle or dy statistics. He closed by saying that Secretary Car lisle had deserted the struggling masses for whom he formerly spoke, but even without his leadership, they would be able to cast their bal lots for the restoration of the gold and silver coinage of the Constitu tion and that the present efforts of Secretary Carlisle, instead of retard ing the movement, would make his former speech familiar to the Amer ican people, and show the danger of entrusting our financial policy to the "vile holders of idle capital,'' cr to their representatives. After arguing the inconsistency between the utterances of Mr. Car lisle in 1S78 aim his recent speeches, he said the opponents of free coin age had for years shielded themselves behind ambiguous phrases, and have pretended to be adherents of bimetallism. It has for that reason been difficult to make the issue clear and distinct. Since Mr. Cleve land and Mr. Carlisle have now pro nounced for glod, there is no longer any need for doubt or concealment. A universal gold staudard would be a crime against mankind. Our na tion, as a debtor nation would suf fer much more than England from a gold standard. The speaker quot ed from a memorial presented yes terday to the Chancellor of the English Exchequer, regretting the growing agitation in favor of bime tallism. The United States should take the lead for the restoration of silver. The ratio of 10 to 1 is tho most practical one. If it it should be fixed differently, 'H to 1 by inter national agreement, it would con tract the metallic money of the world one sixth, increase the debts of the world billions of dollars, and decrease the market value of the property of the world. "I believe the United States is large enough to afford au unlimited market for all the silver that would come to it, aud maintain the parity at the present ratio. It is absurd to speak of the silver dollar as a cheap tloJJjj-, and then complain that freo coinage would enrich the mine-owners. Mr. Cleveland and his associates seem to be trying to run the Democratic party on the financial policy of John Sherman " "The agitation now going on will aoon be over, aud the Democratic party will rest again in undisturbed possession of Democratic principles, and will present an almost unbroken front in favor of the gold and silver coinage of the Constitu tion. S eretary Carlisle Hanged in ElHjry. St. I joris, Mo., May 25 A special from New Orleans says that Secre tary Carlisle was hanged in etligv in Natchitoches Thursday night on account of his anti-silver speech. A negro appeared on the streets in the evening, carrying around a placard announcing that there would be a hanging at the bridge at 8 o'clock. A large number of people assembled, imagining that there was to be a lynching. They found instead the effigy of the Secretary of the Treasury hanging from the bridge. Natchitoches is a unit for free silver but some of the people regret the effigy business. CO Fh 0 K ICATF.S A l)J 0 1 K N . K.tlcariN lake ,st ij Hie Cltisin:; KxMreise lOO.OOOIOff-red t Ustab lh a iiifiiiori.il Assotiatiou Hen. liorduii U'-l Ipoted Iftit sTtiN, Mav 1. The ( onft crate Veteran reunion is who have beirinuinu iver, been to !e .1 the four The iu m and lelegati tere t e. 'lays, are he I'cxas dl isimi 'or the first In iad t lie audilor r this morning:. electetl d.iu. II. II. 15oolle t sue ce 1 (leu. Ih is- as Ma ior ( o-ner: of the Slate divisiens, ami seleete I lallas as the Ida, , fur t lie lit-t State reunion. The State meeting then ad iolirned. and the 1'liited Confed erate Veterans, as a bod v. were . nil- ed to order by ( Jen. John 11. ior- don. Dr. Jones invoked divine hlessino- oil t he llleet 1 II LT. Col. Lee, of the Federal ailllV. Secretary of the Shiloli l'.attletie'hl Association, was, iutrodufcd. lie was greeted with loud applause. The yt II," he .-aid with a smile, sounded familiar." lie made a short address, expressing his pleas ure at being permitted to greet the old Confederates whom he respected so highly. He invited them to at tend the next reunion of his Asso tion, the mission of which, he said, ua.s peace on earth and good will to men. Ho paid u high tribute to Albeit svtlnev Johnson. lie came fresh from t he J . A. It. an ass u ret I the Veterans ol the kindly feeling entertained toward them in that jilarter. A vote of thanks was tendered Colonel Ijcc for his address. The chairman then laid before the hotly a letter from Cclu-ral Sfhotield to ( 'oin m,ander John li. Cordon, fxpres.-ing hi.-: appreciation of the cordial reception given him in Hous ton. He said that when the comman ders of the great contending armies agreed on a conference in lSiio the world was astonished at the terms of the convention. There was to be no punishment meted out to the Confederates, but they wero to be defended so long as they maintained loyalty to the tlag of the Union. Those expressions meant not only to terminate the conflict, hut to pre vent any conflict among the sections thereafter. The Union (ieneruls in that con ference did not question the fidelity of the Cenerals whom they had lately met in conflict, but somo of the people of the North hail mis givings. These misgivings had now practically passed away and he wished to assure the Veterans of the warmth of esteem in which they were now held. He stopped here on the invitation of General Gordon ami had been delighted with his reception. A vote of thanks was tendered General Schofield, and theComman-tlor-iu-Chief was authorized to ex press to him the sentiments of the organizations. A letter received from Chas. B. Kouss, of New York, a private in the Confederate army, was read, offering to give 100,000 towards the establishment of a Memorial As sociation under the auspices of which an illustrated history of the war shall be jmblished and the re lics, etc., collected and preserved at one central point A committee of one member from each State, to be selected by the State, was appointed to confer with Mr, Kouss on the subject. Greetings were read from Lucy Gee 11 ill. daughter of General A. i Hill. The Veterans were invited to attend the dedication of the Confed erate monument at Chicago. A resolution to establish a home for the poor children of the Confed erate soldiers was referred to a spec ial committee. The nomination of a Commander was then taken up. Major (J. N Stubbs named Gen Gordon for re election. Gen. Stephen 1). Lee said the typical living soldier of to-dav was j. 15. Gordon, and he moved his re-election by ncelamation, which was done amid great cheer ing. Gen. Gordon advan:ed and said: "Onlv the Searcher of all hearts knows the depth of gratitude which this act awakens in this heart. Of all the honors possiole to men, I would rather have a place in the hearts which vou have opened to me today thau to wear all the hon ors the earth could bestow, and, the Gotl of Liberty beiug my helper, I will go to tho grave feeling that the last, the brightest and noblest epitaph that could be written over my deatl body, when you carry it to the grave, would be; 'Here lies a Confederate Soldier. God bless you, my comrades, and make me worthy of this unparalled tribute.' General W'ade Hampton was then electetl Commander of the Depart ment of tho Army of Northern Virginia. The vote was enthusiasti cally given by acclamation. A committee has been appointed to see to the establishment of a benevolent society to take charge of agetl Veterans. The Convention then adjourned without day. FREE C01XAUE VOTED DOWN. Oregon Repulican Clubs Decide to Stand bv the Parly's Present Atti tude. Portland, Ore., Mar 24. The Oregon League of liepublican clubs decided to stand by the party's present attitude on the financial question. The meeting was called for the purpose of selecting dele gates to the national convention at -Cleveland. The ticket nominated to urge free coinage at Cleveland was defeated, and a delation favor ing the maintenance of the present attitude of the party on the finan cial question will be sent. A resolution was submitted to instruct Uie delegates to demand a free silver resolution at Cleveland, bnt it was tabled with great enthu siasm, after which the convention adjourned, clubs were delegates. Two hundred and four represented by l.doO CONGRESS kNl) THE SABBATH. The (Question of Sunday Sessions Be fore the Northern Presbyterian As sembly. PiTTsm Ki;, May iT. The com mittee on bills and overtures re ported on a request for an action upon a complaint against congress because recently it continued its sessions on Sunday. The assembly atl vised the complainants to have resort to petitions addressed to the congress itself. Objection was made by Judge Wilson of Philadelphia to the state ment of the committee that no cir cumstances could ever justify the congress in meeting on the Sabbath, and the wording of the assembly's deliverances was changed to accord with his objection. ; SOME "SOUND MONEY" VIEWS. 1'iifct From the White H nil Sr. A i ft'ereiit standard Compared to lo Changing Length of Yardstick Confusion ai Firsc all tlu tame aTter X itter Adjust Themse'.ve. Special .lot kn L Correspondent. A gentleman connected with the administration here and a close student of finance made this s tate ment of the monetary situation to your correspondent ester, lay: vine silver tiiiostion is to mv i hu'gdy- a discussion of !-;is if there wero an the dry goods trade t 'yard-stick to a measure standards, igitation iu change the of eighteen or twenty inches in length instead of thirty-six. What would be. the difference between such a vard and that now is use. After the adjust ment had been made all around and people become accustomed to the, new yard stick things would bo in practically the same, position thev ! were to start with. "W hile the trail- sitioii wvs being made, those who! nau ciotns tine tnem by contract m so many yards would sulTer becaii.-e thev would get shorter measure. ! and on thw other hand, those who had the yards to nav would train so i ...nv.il uj lli.tiug LilCIl IllUt ULOIIlLfft 'lessened a little, but in the end. j iad lost and debtors gamed, ami the whole dry gOOtls trade injured by the uncertainty and dishonesty of the operation, no body would be materially helped or injured by the new condition, l'riees would adjust themselves ti the eighteen inch yard ami all would go on as before. Now our standards of value are inucli tlie same thing. A dollar is simpiy our yarn buck ny wnicn wejjt, measure wealth material things. MM. - 1.1. . 1. ! i - . : .-. i ne weauji ui me worm is noi in lis coined money or its evidence of j ; indebtedness that is only a small part of the world s wealth the part that is used in facilitating exchanges but the real wealth of the world i.s m houses, lands, railroads, farms, orops, goods of all kinds, and it is comparatively little importance' just now how long a yard stick we use in measuring off the value of these things, so long as we know what tho yard stick is and treat debtors and (ucditors alike in its use, The gold standard has given to the world a uniform dollar. While commodities in certain instances cheapen by reason of improved pro cesses of production and greater competition the gold dollar contin ues to represent about the same amount of human labor and human exertion as applied to the average sphere of production. There is no more sense in scaling down the standard of value because certain commodities have grown cheap than there would be in tinkering with the yard stick because cotton cloth was being more easily made as im provements in looms were discovered and applied. Free silver would noi mean what its advocates expect. It would tem porarily relieve debtors at the ex pense of creditors and a general financial panic would ensue a "loss of confidence" panic. IJ tit free silver does not mean silver freely distri buted. The same commodities would have to be given in exchange for silver that are now given for gold, and if cotton, for instance, brought more in silver dollars under the silver standard, these same dol lars on the other hand would buy correspondently less of the things which the farmer must have in ex change for his crop. Free silver would not increase tho sunshine, or temper the storm, or improve pro cesses of production, or change the law of demand and supply, or lessen the rate of interest; since that, too, will always be regulated by demand and supply and prosperity makes a demand for the use of wealth which will keep up the rate of hire of wealth, as in other things. Free sil ver would work no panecea, would bring no permanent or pratical improvement in the condition of anybody, except tho silver-mine owners, and the dangers aud disad vantages of the policy are well known and clearly seen. The greatest fundamental of suc cess in a nation as in an individual is a reputation for honesty, and in no way can we discredit ourselves and our investments before the world so quickly as by tempering with our standard of value, and thus allying ourselves with the poor er nations of the world rather than the richer and stronger. Let us continue to use the standard of the civlilized nations of the world, and, thus give a guarantee to those whp ! would favor us with loans whojCL vve need them, that our obLigaAio.'ns honestly incurred will be fuifl' met, ami thus we shall go on to. a. lusting prosperity among the uAtijons of the earth. 1 lie Small Rppnb) Ie t Combine. Vashint;to,v, May 27. Accord ing to atl vices received here the treaty recently concluded between N icaragua aud aud Honduras is the first Step toward tho formation of a Central American nation out of the cseveral small republics Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Salvador and Costa Rica. The first treaty forms a defensive alliance in case of foreign war :md an onensivc alliance against coeqi- mon enemies. It obliterates com mercial frontiers so that ioceign goods once admitted to one count ry arc free to enter the othor Wilde in Convict's fciark. Loxnox, May 1 1. Oscar Wilde and Alfred Taylox who were sen tenced on Saturday for heinous crimes, are Hiow in Pentonville prison. Their hair has been crop ped and both have been made to don convicts' clothes. They will be allowed to see friends four times a year, on condition of good behavior. Rebel Leader Marti's Buria'. Havana, May 27. A dispatch from Santiago de Cuba says that the body of Jose Marti the rebel leader, arrived at that place by train yes terday. It was escorted by a force of TOO Spanish troops for forty-two miles, prior to its beiug placed upon the train at San Luis. The escort was attacked four times by insurgents, who endeavor ed to rescue the body from the cap tors. The rebels were repulsed each time. The body was buried at Santiago de Cuba at 8 o'clock this morning after if had been identified. It is often true that rich young men who begin their fortunes where their fathers left off, leave off where their fathers began, . THAT MKMI'IIIS ( OWi; Tl Hun liy l'tilii it i.tn-. anil KiiMiit' Moiiths Mint -IJis-a: i-fh ti 1 Wai.t A no . lit' r 1 im n' .on. A I. A NT . ..I. , Mav T Mt i.'s lanta th-h-g;ui.ii I" li ( 'll rrclic V t ' Ml '. el: . i. l I i this afternoon and M : : ic will. I i em I I ' I 1 I : d I lolne their nade be urn v that call.- al tl; .He 1 in aim icr the mil. a -SI I 1 1 1 The A:l.,l:!a u.-le;.,;, porter.-: of lie- !, I. lie i.ll ad in i nist i a t ion and 1 1 m men t uf dis.-atisfa--lioii a phis convention wa.- :v turp: i st; here. 1 1 -. i lelegal'-s cm;. lain t ha atlair was -a ' and irn llobcdv had al.y .-how an v a r ir u 1 1 1 f 1 1 1 ilia' -oi .1 We ll lice- M em wit h a n In the aved - 1 nit the e 1 1 1 i re el that ; a 1 1 f f I U. '. d wit h program me. n. em hers of were Mr. o and C A. A. II. Cox I he pre-arrang Am. 1 1 ir the I u'oii i i llellt the Atlanta dt i ::! a T. I'.. N.-al. I.'. T. Mat Collier, bankers: am and 11. T. Inma: . I lie 1 1 issat I -: act , elegation is e. pre.- :i :,e I Jeorgia .-e. i in I lie lno e- ret ii in t i i p to all. 'tiler eoliVell- pcriuit a full naiicial question be dominated bv i ment I i Atlant a: n on to to call tion which would d isciission of t he I ami which would ' ( ine.-s men ins! e is ohiiiiifd bv A i ...... , d 'f p'.lt iciaii.-. e members of in that mil. a lo open his i.cechcs made It the al I j1Km Wil oel lllilt- mouth, tie; only I being those ol ( ongressni; n Josiah h'ichard tchin-s. J'atterson, til leiincs see. j Clark, of Ala! ulna. d C of M l.-.-l-.-l( ii. N ot h ill l he s yd i i i"i ic t wards the caliing of i he in w Con vention further than the announce- ! ment that it will l.c held and that will be a business men's conven tion. .Members of lIic Atlanta dele- L option i:i interviews on I he su bject ulmiltnat Hie 1 1 10 emeu c lsumier . . . . i wav aI1( at the cull for another j conveiitioi i has been decided on. This tf i was agree. 1 upon in con with delegates from other feience States, who d i.-cii--e. i the matter on the return trip. FIRST CONFEDERATE KILLED. He Was Henry L VyaU, or tlu First North Carolina Resijnout. The "Hrief Sketches of North Carolina Troop.,"' say.-: The very first life hist in. the final direct struggle over secession was on the Federal side at Fort Sumter in an accidental explosion, after the fort had surrendered, April Li. lSn;i. Put the first Confederate, to be kill ed in line of hat tie was Private Henry Lawson Wyait. a soldier in Company A. First, North Carolina Itegimont... Lni.an.try. His life was lost in the battle known as that of "Pig' Bethel."' fought June- (". liSol, near Yorktowii., The conflict at Pig JJethe,! was the first land battle- of t lie war. Though on a minor scale, it was a brilliant victory for the Southern arnLs. The Confederate troops engaged belong ed to the command of Ceneral John P. Magruder, the infantry force be ing chiefly the first .North Carolina Regiment, under the immediate command of Colonel I). 11. Hill, who was afterwards a lieutenant general in the Confederate service and who has been quite universally regarded as the hero of the battle. The lieutenant colonel of the regi ment, was C. C. Lee, and the major was James II. Lane, both of whom subsequently rose to the rank of brgadier general in the Confederacy. The regiment passed into history as "The Bethel Pegiment" of North Carolina troops. The Federal troops engaged in the action were under the immedi ate command of Ceneral P. F. Uut ler. Henry Lawson Wyatt was a. son of Ishani and Lucinda Wyatr. Henry had learned the carpenter's trade, and was working in Tarboro, 7S'. C, when the war broke ous his father having moved from Pitt comity, X. C, in ls.ji;. Young Wyatt was cue of the very first men to enlist a soldier for the Southern cause when the Gover nor of North Carolina called for volunteers in Api'iJ, 18dl, after the Lincoln proela&uition declaring war against the Soutnern States. He entered the .Kdgecombe: Guards un der commsuid of Captain John L. Pridgers. I'ifty-foiu- day; after "he was msisfernl into the son ice, Honiv Wyaiti fell iu battle, at the age of 'i'U He was buried near the foot, of t6- Oornwallis, monument, York town, Ya. Young Wyatt lost his life under circumstances of great g-allautrv and heroism. In the beginning of the battle in which he fell the sharp shooters of the enemy occupied a house hetwoerj the ty.o opposing lines, hlue an 3 gray. A call was made for volunteers to advance across the Liitervenir g distance. through as oa&ii thiid '-MO yards wide, and fire the build ing. Corporal Geo. W. Williams. Privates Henry Lawson Wyatt. Jolm H. Thorpe, Thomas FaJlon. ao d Kobert H. Bradley responded U the call and attempted to perform the duty. They hid proceeded but a short distance- into the licit! when Henry Wyatt fell with abiiilU't in bis brain ta a. volhcv fired from the build ing. B.ues and (irays .Hi rch Together. PoiiT.sMtK i n, 'a, , May 1".'. To dav was observed as Confederate memorial day. Se veral thousand neoiile were present to hear an ad- dross by Rev. J. P. city. The blues aul together. l-'unstoii of tlm irravs marched A Mott by Frai cis Joseph. A German authoress who i-collecting autographs 'for an album lor girls aud luui valuable contributions by the Empercr William 1 ami Fred erick has o;taine.l the following motto from the Kmperor Fran cis Joseph... who is not known to have givei: isiieh ;iuthographs be fore. It is writL-m in a ch ar, bold hand and runs tlais-r '"Take vonr duties j lie siinic of ttiwurtl the seriously iau rt'iUirc .lenient others, failings Joself."- b ti t be of your neighbor. l.ont.loL News. Fniaz M Easily, Quickly, Perma.tentl Rest a; Weakt.eii, Kmtiitne it) DebUtly, and all th train i ot evils ira-a early errors or 1 latar exoea ses, toe renuits or ovarwork, sicicr.eas, worry. eto. Full stre agth, devel OT)innta&d "tone iriven to 3everv organ Riid portion of the body. .Simple, nat- l .ml motliiTa Immmll. W' Ale improvement seen. Iriii In p imnnsslhlp. 2.000 references. Book, explanation and proofs mailed (sea led) tree. ERIE MEDICAL CO., Buffalo, N.Y. I ICB 77 7ir OCR COUNTRY NEIGHBORS HAVE TO SAY. "(iitmleis." I very often heal' some badly plaining about something, would like to say a word along line. If the human inhabitant! oill aml this ; of this earth were divided with a strict reference to t heir habits, we would have a class called grow lers. Growl ers seems to be the best name we can find grumblers is too mild a term. I hey are a t lass w hose com-l pany is not desirable. If you are going on a pleasure trip be sure that you have none of this class with yoo; for. if you call their attention even to the sublime works of nature they are ready to find some fault and sav that there is nothing beautiful there they have seen that many a time. The habit of fault-finding is f?o deeply rooted in them that it seems a jiart of their very nature. It is always too hot or too cold, too wet or too dry. If we have a drought, they say they would be glad to i;ee it rain a week, bnt let tho rain des cend for a few hours and it looks to them like so much wet weather will ruin everything. Let them become offended at some ' imaginary injustice, and they go around growling about the way they are treated in this world, and seems I to believe that thev have more trouble than any one else. lint I suppose such people are necessary to make a complete human family. So 1 reckon its all right, or i it wouldn't be so. I Correspondent. N KWI'OKT'S SCHOOL. A Public Met-tUua: Resolutions and Movements for its Continuance. At a called meeting of the citizens ! of Newport ami vicinity, at the j Academy, F. II. Hill was called to. the chair and A. O. Newberry was' appointed secretary. The chairman j stated that the object of the meeting j was to indorse Mr. Mewborn's school , ami to make arrangements for its: continuance. After remarks of approval by many of the citizens, Dr. L. V. Perkins offered the fol lowing resolutions which were unan imously adopted. Whereas, G. W. Mewhorn has successfully established in our midst the best school ever known in the village, and has by his untiring devotion to the interest of his pupils and' his arduous labors and wise counsels met the approval of the friends of education, .we feel that he should meet the encouragement from all classes and conditions of society, whose interest he has shown himself to have fully at heart, bv extending free tuition to the indi gent boys and girls of the com muni fcy. Mr. Mewborn's high moral character, superior school govern ment and ripe scholarship places his school before the public in a superi or light, and we consider it the chief pride of the community in which it is located. Therefore, Resolved, That we endorse with great pleasure Mr Mewhorn as a wise, prudent and pains-taking teacher; impartial in atl ministration of the laws of his echool. loved by his pupils and re vered by all who understand his su perior methods. We regard him as n gentleman of the highest moral type and one well qualified to im part lessons of wisdom and morality tt those entrusted to his care. TJesoIved, That we view with - . . i. scorn ana uiaignaiion any eiiori, ou tlu? part of any one, to make dis paraging remarks, in public or pri vate, of the school or the methods employed for aiding the pupils to advance in the various branches of literature, and in the development of every variety of talent. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be presented to Mr. Mewborn and that a copy be sent to the Nkw Bkusk Journal and also to die Beaufort Herald for publica tion. A building committee was appoin ted to take the work in hand of en larging the Academy, by adding two new rooms, one for music and drawing, and one for telegraphy, stenography and kindred branches. E. H. Hi ix, President. A. 0. Nkwiiekry, Secy. dii:o. At his residence on Queen's creek, Thursday night, May Kith, at 10 o'clock, Wilber Hatsell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bryant Hatsell. He seem ed to be perfectly ready to tlie. lie Kaid he was going right to heaven and didn't fear death at all. After several weeks illness with all the skill and kind treatment of sev eral physicians and the diligent nursing of a loving wife, mother and sisters, the Great and Allwise Being in his wisdom and mercy saw fit to remove him from among our midst, and the community at large tleem if. indeed a irreat blow to lose such a noble and benevolent young man. He leaves behind, a loving wife, three little children, his motli er, father and brothers, sisters, and host of tlear friends. Ami vet while it is hard to part vith those we love when we know osie has led the life of such an up right man as Wilber has, we should comfort ourselves by feeling that our great loss is his everlasting gain and remember that we are taught that: Plessetl are t he deatl wlm-ii inc in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, s.Mth ihe snirit that thev may; rest from their labors: ant their works do follow them, and ( Kind friends forbear to weep, Since death has lost his sting, Those Christians that in Jesus sletq Our God will with him bring. O. J. P. Monthly lifpiiit of the Truit Bible Hand. Reader's Organized tho 1st Sunday in nril ;ind reported the 1st Sunday ;,. TVT . v to the pastor of Iruit liait- ..... i tist church, '. W. Rose, as follows: (Chapters. ) Mr. Thomas M. t'aton, Mr. I'urry Fulcher, Mr. J. 15. Morton, Mr. N. L. (Jiuskiiis, Mr. (iilbert (iaskine, Mr. Win. 1). ('aton, Mr. E. A. Purify, Mr. Eugene Trice, Miss Bell Stapleford, Parthia Stapleford. loo 1 .'! :.'." : : i ',s 1 " :!!." IH! -.':;s :,s v ;o MO 40 ; liti ' oOO 379 It. I Miss Sudie Price, ;JIrs. t'larisy I pock. JJiss Martha Whit ford Jjss Bessie Thomas. Miss Anna Thomas, Mis Jennie Thomas, (Miss Julia D. Everington j Miss Anna W. Simpson, If Miss Eflic A. Simpson, j Miss Esley Ilolton, J Miss Minnie A. ( laton, Miss LuMa C Thomas, JtfiifiS ilattie Price, J. W. JASI'KIi COiii:-.M' MKt i: Tin llhrli I !!( N llll ! I 11 v Crow l'ro-M !i an il! wind t li.it w nohoi I v anv od, a, i!c i a larg winter use ii ,-uolle lime thi Of tilt KO III I I an. I tion ring. ll I ha I I in I er 1 he hi few el He coll hi li". per I'' ate. a ll I oi l he ri it, .- during the ia - e i veil I he "at t he fish 0 c.-cape t he e cans.- has down lit ic 1 h I mi be r as have done. e ce Whol peop V ill. aboc, a c were be rmil i ia iu semes kept from lie.ow. 1 h the tinib.., lilting in t-auie men they t as mm would it 1 1 IT U ISt yet it has given those to get t iinber lown ahovi t hat a chance oald not otherwise ha e done M Thus we realize l ial hi 1 lie sari e 'iws us ill. wind that we thiiiu blows sonicbod else go. The thing is t ii i ned if up ) i I' dl. If n't ri rln. ami will ami i ! Wt be i i; t ho' u, II all !.- come I lio a i n pan :ii d th I us not give up m de. woH on., wax- we try to I 1 V -'Hue a M fail--. other way. If o try somei hmg el Though I lie i i little gioomv. let T I' it i 1 I. ls a a I enough Ior t hem 1 1 good crop, duly all wi end. mproi u e u 1 1 pan o and make a o oil r i ho'e 1 1 r 1 1 L in I he SMALL HUT EFFECTIVE, Was tho liMV Mi mac nt lianir.t .: oil cr t i i.i.n.i hut in. t tho Merri too ore Dr. '.Toctive ui ('(.iHiucr l hell V'Ml tako a -.Hit to liavo them Ii;rce'b l leusunl i'elletH, in the c:;cniy--(:it':se. ml Us an li:ipi:ri.".Llt Binall i.roviiifl tl.cv have xjunl etrenpth and oflioary. Yon find what vou want in these little liver l.iili of fir. Tierce. They icy're In a put up in a lxtter wny, and tiipy art! f letter way, than tht- 1:ul o old fashioned Pills. What you want -nhrn you're "all out of sorta" fjrunipy, thi -k-heatled and take a gloomy view of life, is (heso rkt8 to clear up your system aDtl start your liver into healthful action. Sick Headache, HilitniB Headache, Constipation, Indicestton, Bilious Attacks, and all derunRenient of the liver, stomach and IkjwcIh, are presented, relieved, and cured. Put up i: sejiled f l.-iss viuls, una always frenh end reliable. James William Chato. F.sq., of OrorQetown, JTi.-eays: "My wile tliink.i your little 'Pal lets are the greatest jillle out." Are jon fioiiii to Faint pur Dwellifii this Sprioi ? Ifsonfew ( lungs should inter cut you: 1st. The QUALITY of Taint, to be nsed- 2nd Its Covering Capacity. 3rd 4th Its Curability. ITS COST. i j - a iiin.'- ) L- r;i j il Jiaz U-f' I III vp vou ever lnard o! I ) N i MAN MAKI'INK. Purr- Paint. ' I he net mil e .si l which i- le-i than 1.25 ' per e;il,)n y 11" n.it all or semi lor a C"iy of their (In ii-niitec. Af'r.r usiirg Iheie jviinls once ymi will ii'-e no otlnr. 'j ). c vHiT-ry & co. Agents for LONGMAN MARTINEZ Pure Paints. Do You Need.... 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New Berne Weekly Journal (New Bern, N.C.)
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