Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1882 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

~Hon. OhaiteTß. Patterson, Demoerst, ■» elected Speaker ot'th- he? York assembly Thursday of la t w It is said that the Taunton loconm tive company made in 1881 a probequal to 75 per eent. ot the capital stock. What has become of lhe 1)111 to re " tire one Grant with the full pay of General? Can it be possible < hati. e great national mendicant has been forgotten? ■ A Repub! ‘•■hi member of Congresp interviewed,in Washingtc n, according to a special f.om that city,-thinks tnat the Democracy of Indiana wdl win easily in this State this year.

Senator Henry G. Davis of Wes Virginia, was in early life first a rai< road brakeman and later a conductor He started a small private banking establishment at Piedmont, W. la, and from that has grown the National Bank of which be is President. He is now a millionaire. Thb Kendalville Standard, Repub lican, administers u sharp but will merited rebuke to the R pubLeai; atay-at home patiiots: ‘The men win promised,” says the standard, to i much for the soldiers after the wa should be over, seemed to have r tired from business.” ‘•The President,” remarks a con temporary, “is slowly weeding out the half breeds, like a man who cut his dog’s tail by the inch, so as no l to surprise the dog.” Yes and the half-breeds are enjoying the enter tv.inment quite as much as the deg (So says the Indianapolis Sentinel, ano very correctly. •‘Blaine isn’t safe.” He was tin clearest headed man at Garfield’s bedside, and during the tryii g months following the assassin’s shm made nc mistakes. He was the Republican leader in congress for many years, and his v. ork stands. Still, his name now makes a stalwart s teetl chatter and his brass medal rattle. -.“The grandest s >n of the grandest state of die grandest Union God’s sun ever kissed with its loveness,’is the bit of linked sweetness long drawn out by Samuel Foster at the recent Grat t Ciub dinner in Albany and applied to Bosco Conkling- This is the dog that worried the cat that caught the rat that lived in the house that Jack built. The l ist Legislature, in its transcendent wisdom, passed a law, whio < was approved by the Governor, whereby the Attorney General is allowed to charge thiity per cent, for collect lag money due the State. At the lowest calculation the Attorney General's office is worth from s2'\'Ho to $25,000 a year. Here is food fd reflection I

The course pursued by protection is!s and slaveholders is the same For a protective tariff is only a modi fled from of slavery. Let us see slavery consist of a system of law which authorizes one class of citizens to take and appropriate to their own benefit the labor of other persons, A protective tariff is a law by which the manufacturers of pro tective articles are enabled, in the form of a tax, to take a portion of the labor of another class of citizens and appropriate it to their own use"Wher. in do they differ on principl? And yet our people who. when they once saw the inconsistency and the blighting power of slavery, hesitated not to expend four billions of money and a million of noble lives for its destruction, submit tamely without resistance and without inquiry to th* yoke of the protectionist, who is every year filling his coffers with th* labor and sweat of tne people, for which he gives' no more return than the meanest slave-driver gave to his ha>f clad and half-fed slaves.—lowa State Leader (Dem.)

Senator Vooibees some time since jntiodueeda resolution inquiring by what au hority the postmaster at Cincinnati issued an order conferring appointments in the service only upon applicants between the ages of twenty and and thirty years. The Republican committee on Postoffices, to whom the resolution was referred, sought to smother it, but the Hoosier Senator has demanded in open Senate an ex planation of their course. There P more in order than appears at flrtt glance. The pretenses of the Repub lican party have long soared above their practices. The orga ization in it wordy platforms has appeared a t the self-appointed guardian of the “brave soldiers.” Every declaration of "principles” duiiug the past twen ty years has containe i the *mt st ful some adulations of the “boys in blue,” and effusive pretenses of gratitude and promises of political reward liowwell these promises have beet kept the histoy of the past decade and half shows. Thisoraerof the Department to which Senator Voorhees 'efers is a case in point. There armow very lew men under the age ° r Thirty eight years who saw service in tne Union army, and consequently every soldier is cut off from his promised reward. Great is the Republican partv.! Those who declare that protection b-neilts workingmen by enhancing w g s make the declaration for the purpose of hoodwinking the people. The deception has Tiltherto aided monopolists to pocket millions, ai d ft Is therefore not surprising that

they couti nv.e to practice it J. S. Moore, Esq., the well-known polical economist, writes to the Now York Evening Post, embodying statistics from the census and calculations based upon the statistics by which itjls shown that in the manufacture Of iron and steel protection er - riches the monopolist, but does not enhance wages or benefit thewoik 1 ngmen. Mr. Moore says: 1. There were in 1880 1,005 establishments in the United Stares wording iron and steel. 2. There was invested a capital of $230,971,884 (real and personal) in the bU g were employed 140,978 hnnds in ihe mauufarttiie ot iron and 4. These 140.978 hands received $55,476,785 in wages. 5. Tne total value of _tne whole production was $296 557,685. Now the $55,476,785 total wagepaid on the $96,557,685 worth of finished product represent a trifle lesss than $lB 75 wages on ev*-ry SIOO fin ished goods- In other words, if we deouct the $55,476,685 wages from the finished product of $293,557,685 we get a sum of $241,880,900. Now, a simple protection of 23 pet* cent, on the above amount would yield the sum of $55,458,607, or only SIB,QOO less than the whole wages paid. In short if there is any truth in figures, it must be clearly seen that such an euchancement of 23 per cent, on the manuractued product gives the American iron and stee; producers the advantage of paying for the whoie labor. Bt’.t as it might be objected that the price ot the American good’s is not enhanced to u.ylr.ng like the extent cf the tariff, It us look at one of the largest of the tne al productions —namely, steel roils. In 1880 we paid $1,478,658,53 duty on 52,809 tons an ’. 521 pound of steel rails, which was s‘2-S a ton. The cost of these 52,809 tons of st el rails was $1 613,700,90, whi< h is as near s pos-i----$31.37| per ton. Thus the duty ot S2B a ton added brings the price up to $59,374. without freight or charges Tbl average price of steel rails in 1880 was over S6O. Hence, the full pound of flesh as to the tariff was ot - tained and, what is still more, the avridge duty oa steel rails was, if calculated ad valorem, 89.93 per cent, or nearl 90 per cent. All tnese official figures as to the price of steel rails abroad, the duty collected and percentage, can be beiified from ‘Commers and Navigation” of 1880. page 532. It will be seen by tne staements ol Mr. Moore that protection, such as the present tariff provides, enables the manufacturers of iron and steel to tax the people to about the full extent of all they pay out for labor, leaving them the entire profits of the business.

The Hon. Jesse Spalding, the new Collector of Customs at Chicago, signal’zed his advent into office by summarily removing all the inspec tors and clerks in the Chicago Custom House who were suspected o having been opposed to tae Grant movement for a third term. The “Dutch” suffered severely, but wha L third-termer cares for them? For Wedding Dresses, call on J. ¥• W. Kirk. Sample room with F. J Sears & Son. The Indiana news, of January 24th charges that Judge D. P Baldwin, the attorney-general of the state, is making outrageous profit out of hi 6 office, on account of the law. which allows many opportunities for fee grabbing. The news says: “Attorney general Baldwin is allow ed by law $2,500 a year, with S6OO for deputy hire and $lO for each ease in which he appears for the state, be sides a per cent, on all collections made. It is the last term that makes his profits. He has lynx-eyed de puties in every county in the slate, who are constantly on the lookout for commissions aud dereliction of County officers. For instance, very frequently County Clerks neglect to pay over to the Treasurers in the proper time judgment which go to the credit of the school fund. When notified of this by the depnty the money is of course promptly paid and the Attorney General gets 20 per cent.for thi alleged collection. Like wise when Justices of the Peace neglect to settle in time, and the cases are numerous, the money goes to the State instead of the county, and the Attorney General gets another large f?e. The worst feature of the whol« business, howeve , is ths loss of the county fund. For instance: Marion county has paid to him since the Ist ot January, 1881, in two instances, over sl,l*oo. The State Tiassurer has no record of tnis collection and can not have under the present interpre tation of the law, until the Attorney* General’s term expires. The money properly belongs to the general school fund, and should be expended for the schools. Atty. General Baldwin has the principal, and piesumably is getting interest on it. What is true of Marion county must be true of other counties like Marion, Allen. Wayne, Tippecanoe, St Joseph, La. port, Vanderbnrg, Clark, Knox, and a score of others, that might be nam ed, the aggregate must reach a large sum. Some estimates place it as high as $30,000 now in the hand of Attorney-General. On this amount he gets his 6 per cent, amounting to $5,000, and interest on the rest, paying of course some to deputies for hunting out the cases. It is thought chat Judge Baldwin in this manner is making at least $15,000 a year out of his office, and, while probably there is strictly no illegality in his scheme, it was clearly a thing not anticipated when the law was passed.”

Remember! J. V. W. Kirk can get you any thing you want in the shape of Dress Goods. Persons desiring to borrow money on real estate security, should see Frank W. Babcock. He can furnish any sum fromssoo to SIO,OOO, on shor notice and for any desired time. Hemlock for building and furniture p irposea is being largely used in portons of the Northern States.

Delinquent School Interest will Le advertised next week. ANY SUM FROM SSOO 00 to SIO,OOO on first mortgage real estate security on five to ten years’ time. Frank W. Babcock. Rev. A. W. Wood, of Clinton vermillion county, Ind., recently concluded a six weeks protracted meet Ing during which ho took 86 persons into tho church, a large number of whom professed conversion. Rev Wood paid a visit to the coal miners in that vicinity and so pleased were the workers in black diamonds, that a minister bad visited them, they made up a purse and presented Rev. Wood with a suit of fine cloths. Attorney Gener 1 Baldwin holds that there i* no law requiring him to pay into the State Treasury any money collected by him for the State until his term of office expires. The law, as he construes i , allows him thirty per cent, for collecting money for the State, and then further gives him the right to hold the seventy per cent, of the State’s money until he is ready to go out of office. We ques Cion whether the Legislature ever contemplated such a construction. A little girl at Chari-' Crockett’s. It remained but a little while, then took its departure for the spirit land. We sympathize with the parents. The post-office at this place ha been advanced from -ith to 3d class, andj Mr. James appointed by the President to continue as P. M. Ther» have been planted in Kai. - sas rearly IO",6'00 acres in vaiios kinds of trees. The cotton wood leads, and the black walnut occupies 6,000 acres, from which heavy returnare expected within ten years.

Senator Vance struck the nail fair ly on the head when he declared in the Senate, Tuesday, that the pres ent tariff was “the fruit of the most unwise and selfish legislation that ever stained the pages of history.’’ Correct! And the Republican party is responsible for it. The ordinary conversation of an Irishman has a large amount of wit in it. A year or so ago we teok a black thorn stick to a celebrated house in Dublin to have it mounted. It was a vertible “shillalah,” and quitworthy of ornamentation, and in the proper hands at the proper time was capable of doing good work in the cause of liberty. The young glil who waited at the counter took it ovingly n her hands, fully appre dating its beauty, and then expressed her opii - ion by saying: “Oh, sir, that is a fine argument to convince a man with, isn’t it ?”

A gigantic seaweeed which grows on the cost of ndi has sometimes been mistaken for i sea serp nt. Capt, Taylor, master superintendent of Madras, relates that about fifteen years ago while his ship was anchored in Table Bay, an enormous mon* ster, as it appeared, was seen drifting, or advanceing Itsself round Green Point, into the harbor. Itjwas more than 100 feet in length and moved With an undulating, snake like motion. Its head was crowded with what appeared to be long hair, and the keeh-sighted among the affrighted ocservers declar- d they could see its eyes and distinguish its features. Ine military were called out, and a brisk fire poured into it at a distance of about 500 yards. The creature becoming quiet from the appearant effect of its wounds, boats went off to examine ana complete its destruction, ween it was discovered to be seaweed.

Take a convenient quantity o£ dry granualted sugar: place it in a pan having a lip from which the contents may be poured or dropped; add a very little water, just enough to make the sugar a stiff pi s e two ounces of water to a pound of sugar be ing about the right proportion; set it over the fire and allow it to nearly boil, keeping it continually stirred; it must not actually come to a full toil, but must be removed from the fire just as the bubbles denoting the boiling point is reached begin to rise. Alftfw the syrup to cool a liitle stirring all the time: add strong ess ence of peppermint to suit the taste, and drop on tins, or sheets of smooth white paper. The dropping is per formed by tilting the vestel slightly, so that the contents will slowly run out, and with a small piece of stiff wire the drops may be s r iked off on the tins or paper. They should then be kept in a warm place for a few hours to dry. If desired a little red coloring m.vy be added just previous to dropping, or a portion may be drooped in a plain white form, and the remainder colored. There is no reason why peppermint should alone be used with this form of candy, but confectioners usually confine themselves to this fla or Any flavor may be added, and a great variety es palatable sweets made in the same manner. If desired, these drops may b • acidulated by the use of a Itttle tartaric acid and flavored pineapple orjoanana. In the season ot fru ts, delicious drops may b» made by substituting the juice of fresh fruits, asstigiwberry, raspberry, etc, for the water, aud otherwise proceeding as directed.—Confectioner and Baker.