Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1880 — LETTER ROM WASHINGTON! ! [ARTICLE]

LETTER ROM WASHINGTON! !

A Merry Christma®, dear reader. Auditor Nowels and Treasurer Adams are dome Indianapolis this week. The brick work on Duvalls livery building is approaching completion. John P. Dunlop has charge of the work on the I. D. & C, this side of the Kankakee.

M. F. Chilcote, Esq., and Cleik Price made a flyinj vi.it to Keutlaiu) the other day. A Vermont Yankee was sent to South Carolina to hunt up census frauds, but he llnds that the flirt count was correct. Mrs. Thomas McCoy wilt entertain the ladies oi the Thalian Dramatic Club or Lafayette, during their ei-. gagetnclit in Rensselaer. The Demorats of the Tennessee Legislature seould elect the United States Senator; they have a majority of four on joint bailot. The hoy aircs ed for complicity in a burglary and held for bail, gave lhe bailiff having him in charge the sljp, ami he is still at iarge. Delphi Timer: The 1. D.& C. Company liuvc purchased two secondhand standard gauge engines of the Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis railroad.

The noun and south portions of the I. D. ■<& C., now in process of cou BtMiciion between tills ami Chicago, we are inf umed will eonnecc at the Kankakee within sixty days. Ex-Auditdr H A. Barkley is a happy father. The little strauger enter ed tliis sinful world Saturday of last week. It is a “nsule inhabitant,” and doing well. We wish the parents joy. General Ord will reside permanently in San Antonia, Texas. His friends In that city say that “the fact of his eapmioitl of Hancock’s cause greatly Influenced Mr. Hayes in ordering his retirement.” A great many Republicans in lowa apparently are not in favor of admitting colored men to the Legislature. The majority for the constitutional amendment having that purpose in view was less than half that cast for Gailielu. - The willcf the late James E. Brown, of Kittanniug, Ph. bequeathed $25 to every widow in Kittanuing and $25 to every wife who ahull become a widow this gift te Le made to include those Kittauniug girls who shall hereafter become wives.

Justice Wood was appointed by the Pi evident successor of Justice Strong on tlio United States Supreme Bench. It is ptobnblo the Senate will not con firm it, as he is unpointed from Georgia when, us a matter of fact, he is a citizen of Ohio A mob took a negro from the Brazil, Indiana, jail, last Sunday week, and hung him for raping and robbing his employer’s wife. If this hanging had been done in the South, what a howl would proceed from the throats of Northoi n radicals. The New York Heru'd, which is by no means friendly to the Democracy tardily tells this truth: “We owe a good deal to tncDemo cratic Mouse and Senate. It is due to the Domoents to say that their management of our legislation for four years has done a great deal so *a isfy tiie world that we are a homogenous Union.” Delphi Times: Colonel Yeoman, Receiver of the I D. & C. ra lroad’ has contracted with John K. Fry for the construction of an engine house, to be located near the site of the old one, which burned last spring. Th® building is to be 83 feet wide and 60 feet long, one otory high, and airantred to accommodate two engines. The structure, when completed, will cost cbout S4OO.

It now turnß out after a careful compilutiou of the vote for President that Hancock has a majority over Garfield. The foflowiug are the fig ures on the total vote cast: Hancock, - - - 4,^38,641 Garfield, - 4,432,128 Hancock’s plurality, - - 0,518 Total vote, - 9,194,857 "Weaver’s vote, - 324,088 The result is that Garfiold is in the minority 330,001, on the popular vote polled. The Cincinnati Enquirer, in commenting on the resuit, says: ‘‘Now deduct one million negro votes that he received in the South, and two hundred thousand that he received in the North, and it presents the astounding fact that Garfield is elected President of the United States on a White vote of - 3,329,415 And a white vote against him 4,753,000 We are no prophets, but if a reac action among white people doesn’t tak- place in tnis country before long, we will he mightily mistaken. All fanaticisms have their day/‘ With this state of facts we are not surprised to know that the “gentleman of color” understands his im portance to the Repuulican party, and that inis class is now moving for the repeal of all laws in the States that prohibit their marriage ane social standing with the “white trash” of this Dation witn a big “N.” Where is tho young American thal is not proud of the rapid strides of modern Republicanism?

Correspondence of Tun Sentinel. V aShingtof, Dec. 20.1880. Mb. Editor —It was no part of my plan, when I wrote you I would next be heard from at Washington, to allow a week to intervene before that engagement was met. It has, howtvi r, and what apology have I to make? Simply this, that I rather expected Fraud Huyes’ vale would have been more inspi'ingof comment, and that not as many members of Congiess would have delayed au appear ance until after the holidays. You are saying mentally, “llur.*, H has been borrowing hope in anticipating that the interloper in the White House would furuish a text for eomnient to eke out a letter.” Well, he did, and several, and if they bad not been already discoursed of in tHe usual and deserved contemptuous phrase I should descauL lather freely upon them. Think of the knave, the rifler of another man’s oflice and the purloiuer of another man’s salary, havng the effrauiery to indulge in mouthiugs about honest elections, honest counts, ami correlative topics! But there, I won’t branch out further on mat ihiitii, or my pen would be made to wander away over au endless sea of Mss. It took me some days to get lhe lay of the land, and I was too much broki ri up to write jcu earlier*

and that’s the whole of it, without more ado. Now don’t say it was ruin f or beer, for these I esobewed long since, and one has only to spend a week in Washington to find a motive for giving John Barleycorn, uuder whatever guise, a wide berth. A mi respondent iu these days of ‘piping peace” is not expected to furnish news. Lightuiug and steam, winging their courses to the uttermost parts of the earth, have rendered that impracticable. The weekly correspondent who would eke out hie preset iHeel space iu an undertaking cf tiiut kin would be a slow coach indeed. Tne work of Congress, even Lo details, at e Hashed broadcast on ih* iuslant of its completion—nay, m advance of it quite often by the intelligent anticipation of the übiquitous cliiel whose missiou it is to load these messergCiS of inter-com-rnuiiiouUou from hour to hour, or • lay lo day. Many of the conespond«uis, among whom you Know I am not numbered, indulge the pleasant diversions of speculation about the present and imagiimiy forecasts of iho future, thus keeping up a lively interest and anxiety more often the fruits of fertile invention, or based ui**u too slender foundations, a partially overheard sentence, the meetings and conversations of two or three notable characters, and the whisper

iugs of the political Jenkinses. Sometimes they Hit, and then, oh, how they plume themselves upon superior wisdom and acuteness, even as the Adonis of the Senate, the lord-!y-apeiug Roscoe Coukling. They have no other resort to fill the bill aud earn their wages. Of such stuff is the regular correspondent made. And how thousands careful y ponder on their outgivings, and build upon th« hopes they excite—how public opiuion is thus unconsciously created, schemes accomplished; characters exulted or damned, and shaped. Ah, these Bohemian quill drivers are made a power by the pto idle press which duplicates their faetß and tictions by the million and scatter them as he full winds do the leaves. T4ie recent controversy projected by Coukling, Arthur, and Noah Davis, in which they attempted to impale Senator Bayard on the horns of slander and falsehood has fallen miserably short of Lhe design. They sailed in to shear the chevalier Bayard and come out shorn. Not since Conklings locomotion whs accelerated from Canon diet by the near propinquity of a shot gun, and Arthur’s from the New York Custom House in and through the first fever of Hayes and Bhermau’s fervor for civil service reform, has there been such popular agreement to enjoy their discomfiture. Conkling’s bullying propensities roosts much lower, and his spaniel, Arthur, as well as that Davis, are eating the leek of humiliation.

The new Senator fiom Georgia makes a bad start, by appearing in the role of an advocate for national education. The system he supporis, t o be maintained by the Federal Government, is one of the most insidious dovioes of the advocates of centralization, Tne common school system® supported by the States have been largely diverted from their original und beneficent design of furnishing rudimentary instruction to all children. I speak more particularly for ruy own State. Pennsylvania, where it is under the direction of a wicked sham of a State Superintendent.— From what I learn of tnatiu vogue in other States, however, I imagine it is no exception, The taxation for school purposes in Penusylvan.a is something immense, outrnnuing all other forms of government expendi ture. The original system has Deen perverted into furnishing inferior in structiou to the poorer children and an impractical and mere showy sort of learning to a few who should rely on parental resources for their uncommon education. How it may bs in your State I know not, but in my own I know this to be true. It justifies the misgiving, whether even the States have not transcended in this matter, and assumed functions that are the responsibility of the famiy and the church. Uneasy spirits that are always reaching out after the unfathomable and unattainable are only happy as agencies of somethihg impracticable. With a passing remark that my prediction that the committee ©f one hundred reformers (?) in Philadel- I phia wouid ultimately ee detected in ; co-operation with ihe old ringsters j and robbers, is being already verified, • in this: that the chairman of the reg- ■ ular republicans and the “business”! republicans, have already arranged i for consultation. Sic transit, & c. j

Miss Mattie McCoy is at home ftr the holdays. Miss Maggie Cowdin, of Michigan City, is at present enjoying the oompanionship of old Rensselaer friends. Mrs. Querry, in the 77th year of her age, died Dec. Ist, at the residence of her son in law, Lewis Davisson, Esq., in Barkley township. The best preparation known in market for restoring gray hair to its original color is Halt’s Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer. Try it! Miss Ora and Maftez Delos Thotnp son, E. I. Phillips, Elmer Dwiggins, Vic. E. Lc ughridge and Louis Hollingsworth, returned from Ann Arbi* to spend the holidays at home. . -**• Mr. Dehaven, of Newton county has rented the interest of J. D. Hopking iu the Rensselaer Mill. So soon as the river opens Messrs. Savler & Dehaven will be giad to meet all old customers.

The performances oj the Town sends last week were well received bv good audiences. The people of lieneselaer are fortuuate in having been entertained by such talent us compose the Townsend and Scott Troupes. The wife of James W. Smith, of Barkley township, was thrown from a wagon,Thnrsduy of last week, aud suffered a broken arm. A child she was holding in her arms at the time of the accident escaped unhurt. Dr. Loughridge furnished the necessary relief. The firm of Fending & Jost has been dissolved by mutual cousent, J. I. Purcupile purchasing the interest of Mr. Jost, The new firm of Fondig & Purcupile assume the liabilities of Fendig & Jost and will collect all debts due the same. Early settlement is desired. — Prof. Hooper is drilling 3 company of amateurs preparatory to presenting the Drama" Among the Breakers,” and a Farce, entitled “The Widow’s Victim,” at the Opera House during the second week in January, tho pro ceecJs to be applied to the purchase of an Organ for the School House. Miss Claire Scott and her excellent aegntants performed betore Re.isselaer uudiguces three evenings of the present week and gave very general satisfaction. The performances of Miss Scott and Mr. Coburn, particularly, elecited the applause of tnose present. The Company deserves success.