Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1884 — Page 3

THE CAMPAIGN.

Disgusted Republicans Deserting Blaine for Cleveland. The Hew York Conference—A Body of Solid, Practical Ken. ■Gov. Cleveland as the Friend of the Workingmen. Pauper Labor Preferred to that of Skilled Mechanics in Blaine’s Mines. FLOCKING TO CLEVELAND. Independents, Members of Tammany, and the German! Announce Their Coarse. {New York telegram to Chicago Dally News, IndJ George William Curtis has a very strong leading editorial in Harper's Weekly indorsing Got. Cleveland as a Presidential nominee. It says: The argument that In an election it Is not a man. but a party that is supported, and that the Democratic party is less to be trusted than the Republican, is futile at a time when the Republican party has nominated a candidate whom a great body of the most conscientious Republicans cannot support, and when the Democratic party has nominated a candidate whom a great dy of the most venal Democrats practically bolt. Distrust of the Democratic par.y springs Irom the conduct of the very Democrats who madly oppose Gov. Cleveland because they know that they cannot use Mm. The nomination of Gov. Cleveland is due not so mm h to the preference of his party as to the general demand of the country for a candidacy which stands for precisely fcfce qualities and services whLh are associated with his name. Gen. Roger A. bosom friend of Gen. Butler, to-day declared for Cleveland, and said he would work for the success of the Democratic tioket. At the coming conference of Independent Republicans the principal business will be declaring for Cleveland and Hendricks, and denouncing Blaine. Joseph A. Parrish, leader of the Pennsylvania Independents, telegraphed from Philadelphia tonight that a large delegation from his State would attend the New York conference, prepared to pledge the Independent vote to the Democratic nominees. Edward Kearney, the millionaire sachem of Tammany Hall, has formally declared his allegiance to Cleveland and Hendricks, and will use his power to compel an indorsement by Tammany. A number of Tammany district delegations have ratified the Democratic ticket, and it is believed that Tammany as a body will indorse the nomrntions. Senator Daly said to-day that -Cleveland could easily carry New York State by at least 70,000. The Germans throughout the State are vapidly perfecting an organization against Blaine. Col. Roehr, leader of the German Republicans of Long Island, has come out for Cleveland, and the great brewing interjests are in league to defeat the Republican ticket. It is expected that Germans and -Germau-Americans generally will formally withdraw from all Republican organizations -on Long Island during the present and the following week. A meeting of the Tammany Committee of the Fourteenth District was held this evening. Mr. Henry Bischoff, Jr., said: “Newspapers have intimated that the Tammany Democracy will not support the nominees. We have rested under the imputation of iaving been false to the party. It remains for us now to put the slander at rest. ” The following was adopted unanimously: Resolved, That we, the Tammany Association •Of the Fourteenth District, frtve to Cleveland and Hendricks our hearty support. Resolved, That we denounoe as a traitor and tmflt for association with honest Democrats any person who, professing to be such, fails in his hearty support of the nominees. The members of the New York Produce Exchange voted yesterday on the nominations for President, with the following result: Cleveland27o; Blaine 140. The Produce Exchange has heretofore been overwhelmingly Republican in sentiment. The Knights of Labor in convention have signified their intention to work for Cleveland. They have nothing against Blaine, but the Republican State Legislature during its last session defeated every bill presented in the interests of workingmen. The Knights are preparing to get even with the party. [Trenton (N. j.) dispatch.] Jndge Dixon, of the New Jersey Supreme tlonrt, who ran for Governor last fall on the Republican ticket against Abbett, is for Cleveland. Judge Dixon has always been liberal in his politics, and has more than once cut the ticket when the nomination did not suit him. Dixon’s change will have great influence throughout the State. [Boston dispatch.] George W. Flagg, Secretary of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee, has resigned, owing to his inability to conscientiously support Blaine and Logan. Senator John F. Andrew, prominently named as the coming candidate for Congress in the Fifth District, announces that he shall bolt the Republican ticket and support Cleveland. He will resign his membership of the Republican ward and oity -committees. The roll of “pharisees,” “dudes,” “hermits,” etc., at the Independent Republican headquarters in this city contains at thi9 •early stage of the canvass more than six thousand names of men who have enlisted to vote against Blaine. Most of these, if not all, have heretofore been Republicans, •and most of them live in Massachusetts, though the other New England States are represented in the list.

INDEPENDENT REPUBLICANS. The Great New York Conference—A Body of Solid. Practical Men. [New York dtapatoh to Chicago Times.] The appearance of the assemblage was most convincing proof that the nomination ■of Blaine has disgusted thousands of men who haveheretofore acted with the Republican party, and ttaht the defection from the list of Republican voters next November will be so large as to make Cleveland’s election an assured fact, despite all factious opposition that may exist within the Democratic lines. The conference was made up of men whose names ■are known and respected throughout the Republican party, and who openly denounced the Republican nominee for President, and pledged their best efforts for the reform Governor of New York. There was no mistaking the tone or temper of the conference. It was not a mere assemblage •of sensitive gentlemen who can never be satisfied with the action of any party, but it was a body of solid, practical men from all iparts of the country, who only turned upon the nominee of their party when absolutely forced to it by self-respect. The'fact that they did not pronounce upon any of the national issues but that of administrative reform was offered by them as proof positive that they were driven out of the party ranks and did not go of their own accord. In the rows of delegates, which ranged from wall to wall, were some of the best known men in the country. Away in front, the white hair and mobile features of Rev. Edward Beecher could be seen, and not far from him was President Julius Seelye, of Amherst College. Scholars, politicians, olergymen, journalists, bankers, merchants,

and the representatives of almost every class elbowed each other. The stage was set in a forest scene, and on it was arranged rows of comfortable camp-stools. In front was the Chairman’s table, and in the place of the orchestra were the tables for the reporters. At one side of the stage was Hie statue of a woman with a dagger in her hand, suggestive of the men who will kill their party before it suffers dishonor. Of the 715 tickets sent out to representative men in various sections of the country, 459 were presented at the door. Besides the holders of these tickets was a large body of Independents whose names were not known to the committee until they announced themselves. So great was their numbers that the standing-room was exhausted and even the stairs became impassable. Men like John Foord, editor of the Brooklyn Union-Argus; Prof Rice, of Columbia College; George H. Putnam, and Benjamin H. Bristow were seen on all sides. They were all enthusiastic, and the slightest allusion to the objects their cause had in view called forth thunders of applause.

THE LABORER’S FRIEND. How Gov. Cleveland Has Looked After the Interests of tha Workingmen. Walter N. Thayer, President of the Workingmen’s Assembly of the State of New York, has prepared the following important statement: I have been informed that a statement has been published to the effect that while in Chicago, at the recent National Democratic Convention, I stated that I could pledge the vote of the workingmen of this and other localities to Gov. Cleveland. I wish to state that no snoh expression ever fell from my lips, and that no Interview with me was ever published in which I mede such statement On the contrary, I stated that no man could pledge the vote of the labor element of New York State, or of any portion of it, to any candidate, nor did any man have sufficient influence to cause it to be cast against any candidate. 1 stated that ft any man pretended to pledge the workingmen's vote to any candidate, he did so with nt any authority. I stated that I had no authority to speak for them on political questions, nor had any one else. I was asked what mv p< rsonal preferences were, and I said that I preferred Gov. Cleveland. When asked my reasons, I expressed them as follows: The Workingmen’s Assembly of this State has, since I have been at. the he»d of that organization, succeeded in passing through the Legislature the following bills: Abolishing the manufacture of hats In State Prisons; creating a bureau of labor stat sties; the tenement-house cigar bill, twice; the abolition of convict contract labor: the lien law, and the conductors and drivers’ bill, seven In all. Of thtse measures. Gov. Cleveland signed five and vetoed two—viz., the lien law and the conductors and drivers’ bill. As to the lien law, it is generally acknowledged now that he did us a kindness in vetoing that bill because, through errors of our own in drafting the measure, the bill as pa-sed would have been a positive injury to us. The conductors and drivers’ bill I think he should have signed. So the record shows that we have sent to Gov. Clevelond six perfect bills, and ha has signe'd live and veto d one. On this recoi dI am not prepared to condemn him. If the Governor does us five favors and commits bat one eiror i feel that he Is entitled to my support. In addition to the labor measures prepared by our organization, Gov. Cleveland has signed a bill Introduced by Senator Fassell, wnlch makes workingmen preferred creditors in case of assignment or failure of the firm or corporation by which they are employed. Recognizing the justice of the measure and its gieat benefit to the wwking classes, I asked Gov. Cleveland to sign it, and he did so without hesitation. So, to sum the matter up, he has approved of six bills favorable to our interests and disapproved of one. By hs record on legitimate labor measures I judge him, and on the strength of that record I shall support him. I do not wish it understood that I am voicing the sentiments or preferences of any one but myself. I have no authority to speax for the workingmen on political subjects.

AMERICAN CITIZENS ABROAD. Republicans expect that many IrishAmerican votes wjjl be cast for Blaine in the hope that he will show a willingness to twist the British lion’s tail. They can, says the Boston Herald, trust Cleveland better than Blnine. When Cleveland was Mayor of Buffalo a meeting was held there to protest against the inactivity of the Government in behalf of the rights of Irish-Ameri-can citizens arrested in Great Britain. Mr. Blaine was then Secretary of State. Mr. Cleveland said: It needed not the statute which is now the law of the laud, declaring that “all naturalized citizens, while in foreign lands, areentitled to, and shall receive from this Government, the same protection of person and property watch is accorded to native-born oitizens,” to voice the policy of oor nation. In all lands where the semblance of liberty Is preserved the right of a person arrested to a speedy accusation and trial Is, or ought to be, a fundamental law, as it is a rule of civilization. At any rate, we hold it is to be so, and this Is one of the rights which we undertake to guarantee to any native-born or naturalized citizen of ours, whether he be Imprisoned by order of the Czar of Russia, or under the pretext of a law administered for the benefit of the landed aristocracy of England, We do not claim to make laws for other countries, but we do insist that whatsoever those laws may be. they shall, in the Interest of hnman freedom and the rights of mankind, so far as they involve the liberty of our citizens, be speedily admi istered. We have a right to say, and do say, that mere suspicion, without examination or trial, is not sufficient to justify the long imprisonment of a ci izen of America. Other nations may permit their citizens to be thus imprisoned. Ours -will not. And this, in effect has been solemnly declared by statute. We have met here to-night to consider this subject, and to inaulre into the cause and the reasons and justice of the imprisonment of certa nos our fellow-citizens now held in British prisons without the semblance of a trial or legal examination. Our law declares that the government shall act in such cases. But the people are the creators of the Government.

M,.VINE’S LETTER. We were warned several days ago that Blaine’s letter was about ready to launch; that, in fact, it was “a big thing.” It has come. It is not formidable except as to length. There is a plaintive tone throughout, and the burden of it largely is: Protection! Protection! Protection! Mr. Blaine tries to evade the issue by refusing to consider the present iniquitous tariff system inaugurated, and held in position by the Republican party. He rather begs the entire question by addressing himself to some sort of an ideal protective system, which may be changed as circumstances change. Burning questions to-day, however, are: Why has not the Republican party adjusted tariff taxation to the changed condition of the country? Why does the iniquitous war tariff continue to exist and grind the people? It is in perfect accord with Mr. Blaine’s erratic character to consider some sort of a roseate, Utopian scheme in connection with this tariff matter. The country will be relieved (?) to know that he does not propose to open up the guns of the country on England the day after he is inaugurated. There is a class of mischief-makers who will doubtless be very much disappointed because Mr. Blaine rather thinks it desirable to preserve Peaceful relations with foreign nations, nstead of painting the White House red he doubtless will content himself with its present conservative color. At least he will agree to preserve the peace if the country will give him the Presidency. There is no telling what he Will do then. He is too erratic and unreliable to trust with the Presidency. The experiment might prove an expensive one. The most mischievous and partisan suggestions, however, of Mr. Blaine, arefonnd in his threat to array a solid North against the South, as was done in 1881, unless some assurances are given that at least some of the electoral vote of the South will be secured to him whether the people of that section of the country elect bo to do or not. The spirit of that part of his letter is but the outgrowth and continuation of the desperate resolvo that deprived Mi. Tilden of

the Presidency, and elevated a weak bat willing tool of the Republican party to his seat. Bat the people will have no more of that The. methods and appliances of Februiry, 1877, will not again be tolerated, and had Mr. Blaine not been over-sanguine of the hold the Republican party his on the throat of the body politic he would not have thus defied the public before the snake was even “scotched." — Indianapolis Sentinel.

CLEVELAND AND THE LABORING MEN. "It there are weak points in the record of any man they should, of course, be developed and investigated before he is taken up as the candidate of a great party. But to say that I have ever failed to embrace every opportunity offered me to elevate the condition and subserve the real interests of the workingman, and to protect him in all his rights, is false. This, however, is but evidence of the readiness of some persons to make careless statements when engaged in a struggle, and of others to accept such statements as facts instead of ascertaining the truth from the record. Understand me; I do not profess to be infallible on this or any other question, but I do claim that no sincere and honest workingman can examine my record and find from it anything which tends to show a lack of sympathy with and care for the true interest of those who labor. I am sometimes afraid that at least a few of those who pose as friends of the workingman do not keep themselves fully informed as to what is done for them by way of legislation. As an illustration, I see it stated in the papers as coming from one who professes to be especially the friend of the workingman, and claiming to be a leader among them, that I vetoed a bill preventing contract labor by children in the reformatories and institutions of the State. In point of fact, this bill was promptly signed by me, and no other measure touching this question has been presented to me. "—Recent Interview with Gov. Cleveland , in New York Herald.

BOYCOTTING BLAINE. Six Thousand Union Printers Against the Tattoed Candidate. A recent dispatch from New York says: The Boycotting Committee of Typographical Union, No. 6, held an important meeting to-day at which it was decided to send delegates to every large city in the country to work among the labor unions against Blaine and the New York Tribune. This State will be thoroughly canvassed first, alter which the delegates will divide their numbers, sanding emissaries to the East and West. They have a very large fund, and will add to it by assessments. The union printers employed in this city have 6,300 votes, half of which are registered in New York, 2,000 in Brooklyn, and the remainder in Jersey City and the suburbs. Last fall the Tribune. discharged union men and emp oyed “scabs,” and since that time the typographical organization has waged a war agafeist the paper.

NO FUNDS FOB BLAINE. Wall Street Favors Cleveland—A Great Source of Republican Revenue in Peril. [Washington telegram to Chicago Daily News.] A gentleman who has an extensive acquaintance among the business men of New York said to-day that Blaine’s managers would experience great difficulty in securing funds from the merchants and brokers of that oity for the prosecution of his campaign. “Heretofore,” said he, “it has been the custom to go down in Wall street and in a few hours raise several hundred thousand dollars for the Republican candidate. This year you will notice a great change. The discontent among business men over Blaine’s nomination is widespread. The other day I rode up town with A. M. Kidder, a prominent Wall street broker. Mr. Kidder told me he had always voted the Republican ticket, and that four years ago he contributed SSOO toward the expenses of the campaign. This year he should not subscribe a penny. Further than that, he intended voting for Cleveland, and so would ten of his thirteen employes, all of whom were reared in the Republican faith. I asked him why he objected to Blaine. He replied that Blaine was a demagogue and trickster. If elected to the Presidency, the first and lasting effect would be the unsettlement of values by the terrible uncertainty as to the results which would follow his belligerent and aggressive policy. What we need is a safe, conservative man at the head of the Government Cleveland would make an excellent President for that very reason. I should regard the election of Blaine as not only a national calamity but as a national disgrace. ”

NO HELP PROM BLAINE. The Poor Mast Look Elsewhere—Advance In Wages Can Only Come When Speculation Is Squelched and an Investigation Is Made. [Prom the New York San’s financial article.] The workingmen of large corporations mußt be delighted by Mr. Blaine’s profession of faith. Having their wages constantly cut down, frequently paid in scrip and no pay at all, they (or rather the simplest among them) must hugely enjoy the platitude about wages being unjustly reduced “when an industrious man is notable by his earnings to live in comfort, educate his children, and lay by a sufficient amount for the necessities of age.” The tacit promise implied in this verbal rubbish is that Mr. Blaine, if he is voted for, will take care of the “industrious man” compelled to live upon “unjustly reduced wages.” But the mass of intelligent workingmen will be anxious to hear how ,Mr. Blaine is going to do it before they vote for him upon the strength of this promise. They have learned by this time, as well as any unconcerned observer, that their position can only grow wove so long as this present way of conducting the business of corporate institutions continues. There is no more hope for a rise in workingmen’s wages than there is for a rise in investors’ incomes as long as the railroad and Wall street magnates are allowed to continue their practices of plunder and roguery. Mr. Blaine is not the man to inaugurate a policy of investigation into matters of this kind, and even if he did so he could not be trusted. Nothing short of a thorough legislative investigation into the condition of the banks and corporate institutions of this country can restore public confidence and revive business. In any other civilized country one-tenth of any of the iniquities which are being constantly committed here would have started a Parliamentary investigation which would not close until every culprit was landed in jail.

ALL BOSH The Talk About Organized Laboring: Men Opposing: Cleveland a Weak Invention of the Enemy. Mr. John F. Hogan, of Brooklyn, a member of the International Typographical Union, who, at the annual convention of that body, held in New Orleans last month, was elected one of the delegates to represent the printers of the United States and Canada at the next session of the Federation of Trade Unions, to be held in Chieigo in October, for over twenty years has been identified with labor organizations throughout the oountry, and is considered an authority on all matters pertaining to trade unions. On being interviewed in reference to the rumors that organized workingmen

were opposed to Gov. Cleveland, Mr. Hogna Baid: “All this talk about organized labor being opposed to Gov. Cleveland is simply a weak invention of the enemy. No man who is at all posted on the peculiar ways of professional politicians, aad those of Tammany Hall in particular, will be deceived by such transparent trickery. Messrs. Kelly and Grady, and others, who live solely by political skin games, fear the honesty of Grover Cleveland, aud hence anxiety about the ' poor workingman’ is lugged into the campaign as a reason for selfish opposition to a man whom they can not use. If Gov. Cleveland had allowed Mr. Grady to be Governor (which he wanted to be practically), Tammany Hall would have shed never a tear for the ‘poor workingman.’ No, no, my friends, men who have sense enough to belong to trades unions are not to be duped by political scalawags of any party." “Then you think there is nothing in these stories about organized labor being opposed to Gov. Cleveland?" “Nothing but lies. The scheme originated with those of the Democratic party who wanted to kill the Governor in the convention, and now the Blaineites have taken it up, and they will sound the changes on that note until election day. You see, as I said before, this was the only hole that Tammany Hall could crawl through as a pretense for opposing au honest man like Gov. Cleveland. Political pirates never want a square deal, while honesty and reform and reduced taxation aae the heartfelt hope of every trade-unionist, be he Republican or Democrat."

BLAINE’S METHOD IN THE* MINES. Pauper Labor Preferred to That of Skilled Mechanics In Blaine's Mines. [New York dispatch.] Henry Richards, a Pennsylvania minor, arrived here to-day to visit friends. He is well posted, and says that in parts of West Virginia and Pennsylvania Blaine aud Elkins own a lot of mines in which human beings are treated worse than dogs. “They mu their property on the principle that no Irishmen or skilled mechanic need apply,” said Mr. Richards. “Blaine claims to be a friend to the Irish. It is a positive fact that in Blaine’s mines no Irishman can get work. Blaine employs pauper lubor— Italians and Scandinavians who work for sixty cents a day. In the mining regions of Virginia and Pennsylvania there is a decided opposition to Blaine. Not one laboring man in a thousand will vote for him. ♦He is unworthy of their support. He has been a monopolist all his life. He is a monopolist now and will ever be. He considers sixty cents fair remuneration for a day’s work in the mines, and when he cannot get men to work at that rate he imports paupers who will work for almost anything.”

THE FIVE-CENT FARE VETO. The Republican organs are trying to make a good deal out of Cleveland's veto of the bill reducing the faro on the New York elevated roads to 5 cents, by citing it as a proof that he is a monopolist at heart and destitute of sympathy with the working classes. The fact is, the bill was not in the interests of the New York working people at all. The fare on the elevated roads from 6 to 8 o’clock in the morning and from 5 to 7 in the evening has always been but 5 cents. It is between these hours that the working classes do their riding. The bill was in the interests of the rich ; it would have been of very little value to the poor, and there were strong legal reasons, that have been approved by high Republican authorities, why it should have been vetoed.

WILL BE ELECTED AND INAUGURATED. The Democratic convention has proved itself worthy of the confidence placed in its judgment and good sense. All that malignity and vituperation could bring to bear against the nomination of Gov. Cleveland was employed by Tammany in ju6t the same manner as that notorious organization did with Tilden eight years ago. The result was the same in both instances, and it may be expected that the parallel will be carried out on the day of election. There it will undoubtedly cease, for even with such a reckless political freebooter as the Republican nominee that party will hardly venture to repeat the Presidential steal of 1876. New York Telegram (Ind.).

NOT A TATTOOED CANDIDATE. As between Cleveland and Blaine, no Democrat will hesitate and no Republican ought to. Cleveland is not a tattooed candidate. In all the offices he has held he acquitted himself creditably and came out unspotted. He made a good Mayor. He makes a good Governor. Who can doubt that he will make a good President? He has made mistakes, .no doubt, but who has not? Unlike Blaine, he has never made a mistake by which his integrity was compromised. If he vetoed the 5-cent fare bill, it was not for the purpose of claiming a reward from the elevated railroad corporations. Unlike Blaine’s, his record is a clean one, his character unimpeachable, his principles are known and sound. He would make a safe President, both for the business interests of the country and the maintenance of friendly relations with foreign powers.— New York Truth (Ind.).

A BOLD AND STRONG NOMINATION. In nominating Mr. Cleveland the Democratic party has done a bold thing, but whether their courage is the courage of discretion it would be premature to say.' Mr. Cleveland will prove a strong candidate, but will meet with strong opposition. In making Gov. Cleveland their candidate, his party has been deaf to the mandates of the self-seeking politicians in whose path the Governor has stood “like a stone wall,” and has made an effective appeal for the independent vote of the country. —New York Commercial Advertiser (Rep.).

Campaign Notes. Gboveb Cleveland seems to be a very discouraging subject for the campaign liar to tackle. Henby C. Platt, a Republican leader at Niles, Mich., hvs signed a call for the organization of a Cleveland and Hendricks club. Kelly and Butler are nice men to prate about “monopolists.” Kelly is a political monopolist, and Butler is worth anywhere from $10,000,000 to $20,000,000. "Happily,” says Mr. Blaine, “the farmers of America are intelligent.” Yet, notwithstanding this assertion, Mr. Blaine went right on with a letter of acceptance which shows he takes them for fools. Mb. Blaine can’t see why the United States should not compete with the world for South American markets. But how can it do so when, according to Mr. Blaine, it can’t compete with anybody else in its own home market? Mb. Mulligan, the hero of the Mulligan letters, is living a quiet life in Bosion. It is believed, however, that he will yield to the excitement of the campaign and blossom forth as a leader of Mulligan zouaves, if a sufficient Blaine contingent to form a company can be found in Boston.

PLAGUE’S PICTURE

Drawn by a Visitor to the Cholera-In* fected Districts of Marseilles. The Air Laden with Gases from Streams Reeking in the Foulest Filth. A special cable dispatch from Marseille? to the New York Times gives a graphic narrative of scenes and incidents of the cholera district by an eye-witness. It says: Passing along the narrow and squalid Rue Caisserie, over oue-half the shops were seen to be closed at every crossing. From a tenemeut region on the hi.l above a stream of fetid water flowed across the street and pluuged down a precipitous descent on the other side through dark lanes crowded with towering rookeries swarming below with idle men and children playing in the filthy gutters, the women meanwhile swashing the water about with their brooms, under, the evident impression that they were cleaning something. Each glimpse of any one of these streets is enough to turn tha stomach of any healthy man. The smell through all this quarter, in which during a space of twenty minutes we met three laden hearses, was bad enough, but the smell was indescribably worse when we had driven across town to two of the most afflicted quarters of all Marseilles—Cnpelette and the adjoining quarter. In order to reach them we crossed the old Bhip canal, which was filled to the brim with reeking water and had its surface thickly covered with garbage and refuse of a decidedly miscellaneous and revolting kind. Finally we got on a street known as Toulon road, a wide thoroughfare without a shade-tree. Its gutters ran rivulets of drab-colored water which had overflown from the canal where it was dammed now and then by heaps of rotting vegetables or worse substances, including dead cats and dogs. Four out of every five houses were found closed. Those which remained open were mainly estamiuets, where, under dirty awnings and on dirty sidewalks, men and women sat drinking, or were already reduced to stupor by previous drinking, and junk-shops in which filthy people wero sorting rotten rags in au unspeakably vile atmosphere. Festering filth was around them, and a tropical sun beat fiercely down upon the scene, blinding the eyes as its rays were reflected from the White road, across which in the Quartior Capeletto courses a stream the size of a mam sewer in New York, winding its way uncovered among the houses on its journey to the sea. The stream was laden with the sewage of the vilest of the Marseilles quarters—Capelette and the adjoining —which have furnished much ' over one-half of the deaths that have occurred at Marseilles, and it is an interesting fact that the largest proportion of them were Italians. The wharfs all along the water front were found to be crowded with quarantine shipping, most Italian and French, and picturesque sights were the Mediterranean sailors, among whom were many negroes, lying about in the shade. At the beginning nineteen-twentieths of the patients received at the Pharo failed to recover. For the last fortnight matters have so far improved that only two-thirds of those received have died. This excessive mortality at first was largely due to the fact that most cases when received developed into a hopeless condition. The highest number that have been in the hospital at any one time is 110, and the largest number reoeived in any one day is thirty-seven. There are two chief doctors. The treatment, both here and at Toulon, in the first s ages, is twenty drops of laudanum with three grains of other, with ice in the mouth to stop the vomiting. In the second stages the patients become very cold. From ten to fifteen grammes of acetate of ammonia, the same quantity of alcohol, and two injections of morphia are given daily. If the patient can not breathe, artificial respiration of oxygen is produced and the limbs are rubbed with turpentine. Ihe third stage is the coffin. Delay iu placing the bodies in the coffins is made necessary by the fact that violent post-mortem action of the limbs takes place, caused by n terrible reaction after death, in which the temperature rises from extreme cold at dissolution to 120 after it.

Of many pathetic sights the most painful that I saw occurred in the female ward, where one room was mostly occupied by children. A nun held in her arms by an open window a dying babe 18 months old. Its three sisters (the oldest being only 10 Jears) lay on beds near by their parents, oth of whom died the same day, and there was small hope for any of the remaining children save the oldest. A dozen children in all were to be seen here, some of them in a state of recovery. Late at night I drove with my courier outside the city to the Cemetery St. Pierre to see the burial of the three patients whom I had observed in the Pharo hospital in the afternoon. After a brief burial service, intoned by a pale young priest who looked badly scared, three boxes were hurriedly lowered into a trench eight feet deep by twenty feet long, and a goodly quantity of lime was shoveled on top. It was a ghastly trench and there was plenty of room for more coffins. It was a weird and saddening sight. There stood the tall white houses. The dead still wore their tawdry trinkets, and the whole was lighted up as in a picture by Rembrandt by the fitful glare of three lanterns. Those gaping trenches were big enough to hold their thousands. A concierge showed me a burial permit. Across the face of the document was written: “Cholera—urgent,” and there was a requisition for some disinfectant. The same correspondent visited Toulon, and thus depicts what he witnessed: If in a sanitary sense the condition of Marseilles was frightful, that of Toulon struck me as simply murderous. Although Toulon has a background of mountains, the city itself is situated on a flat plain, four feet only above the level of a tideless sea. The consequences arising from imperfect drainage, with a natural want of slope, are that the sewers have only a fall of eighteen inches; so, with a sluggish movement, the filth of the town drops into an almost stagnant sea. What is worse is that at the points where these drains flow they are only covered with plank, aud the filth, disgusting to the nose, impresses itself on the eyes. You not only then smell but you see the public garbage of Toulon. Just fancy people living in this city of quite 80,000 inhabitants without the faintest glimmer of common sense in regard to common hygiene 1 Toulon must be inhabited by people who utterly ignore every precaution which health requires. Their habits both in their houses and in the public streets are indescribably filthy. The plain English of it is about this: That it is impossible for people who live on fruit, who drink all kinds of poor fluids, who sleep in dirt and nastiness, who breathe an air polluted by the sewage of the town itself, and rendered doubly poisonous by excreta leffby the training-Bhips, to escape cholera. Dubino the last six months there haw been sixty-two suicides in San Francisco.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Well-borers at Wabash developed a gas vein which bids fair to illuminate the city. —The Franklin College catalogue shows that the total number of students for the year just closed was 1%. —Mrs. Eunice Morse, who had resided in Angola almost since the foundation of the town, died there recently, at the age of 90. —W. F. Burget, a heavy saw-mill owner of Carroll County, has quietly ass'gaed his property and disappeared, leaving scores es creditors. —J. W. Curtis, a fanner living southeast of Wabash, while harnessing a horse, was kicked by the animal in the forehead. His skull was fractured. —John Nofsinger, a pioneer of Wabash County, and ono of the oldest citizens, died at fiis home near Wabash City, after a lingering illness. While shooting fish from trees Along the Wabash River, near Loganspoit, the 15-year-old son of Georg i Martin fell from a tree and sustained fatal injuries. —The Old Settlers’ Association of Clark County will ho d a meeting at Charlestown on the 7th of August. Dr. N. Field, of Jeffersonville, will deliver an address. —William Watson, a bricklayer of Vincennes, was fatally crushed by the filling of the walls of the old St. Rose Academy, which he wns assisting in pulling down. —An old lady named Akers was run over by a passenger train on the Big Four Rond at Lafayette, and ho badly injured that Hhe died soon osier. She was aged 80, and a stranger there. —A separator and stacker belonging to Helvie & Richmond took fire while at work near Anderson, and, together with a large quantity of wheat, was entirely consumed. Loss, $2,00!).

—Seymour sots a good examplo to liberality in the matter of church building. L. D. Carpenter recently donnted $5,000 in cash to build a Baptist church there, and tothis was added $9,000 more. —The Rev. G. W. Walker, aged 75 years, died at Evansville recently. Ho bad been a member of the Indiana Conference fifty years. During that period he had been appointed to nearly every station in Indiana. —ll. J. Goulding, of Haymour, died of sunstroke at St. Louis. Ho was for three terms Marshal of Seymour, and wns a member of the Masonic, Odd Fellows, and Knights of Fytbins orders. Ho bad recently been connected with the Iron Mountain ltnilroad. —While Nathan Moms, a miner, and James Jones, a mine car-driver, were riding through an entry in the Seeleyville mine, in Vigo County, the loose slats overhenjl fell upon the car, burying it and its passengers. Jones called for help and miners removed the slate. Morris, when taken out, was dead, and Jones is badly injured. —For some lime past Harrison Adams, at Elizabethtown, has been annoyed with annonymous notes threatening to destroy a house owned by him, and occupied by Mrs. Duval. One night recently the threat wns carried out by placing dynamite in the woodshed, blowing it to atoms and scattering it in every direction. The house in which Mrs. Duval lived and one or two adjoining houses were badly broken up, but no one was hurt. —James Von Euton, formerly bookkeeper nt McKean’s Mill, Terre Haute, shot himself through the head while under a feeling of despondency caused by continued ill health and the loss of his situation. His relatives feared he would make an attempt on his life, and he had been closely watched. His father left him for a few minutes, and when he returned found him lying on the floor, with a bullet in his brain. He was 40 years of age, a widower, and leaves two children. —ln order to increase the supply of water for public use, the Fort Wayne Citjl Council had arranged to purchase, for $16,000, the feeder of the old Wabash and Erie Canal. The purchase was enjoined, and the matter was to be heard in chambers in the Circuit Court. Meantime the Water Works Trustees engaged a man to drill for water in the bottom of the supply basin. Recently a vein was struck at the depth of seventy-nine feet, which discharged freely over the top of the pipe. It is believed that the flow will reach 600,000 gallons a day, enough, with the present supply, for all necessities, without purchase of the canal. —Elijah Wallace, an old farmer 80 years of age, living in Morgan County, near the Putnam County line, died recently. The old gentleman was known to be pretty well-to-do, but the extent of his fortune wns not realized even by his own children. Being taken suddenly sick, and told that he must die, Mr. Wallace called his children, ten in number, to his bedside. He then s 'nt his wife for a fruit jar that was down in the cellar among others of a similar kind. On opening the can the fnmily were astonished to see $5,000 in gold and in greenbacks. The old gentleman gave SSOO to each of his children and told them he had more laid away, the whereabouts of which only he’ and his wife knew. After his death his wife disclosed more fruit jars in which were found the almost incredible sum of SIB,OOO. —MaryJ. Turley, a young married woman who resides in Ervin Township, Howard County, was found in a dying condition in her home, with a bullet through her head nnd an empty revolver by her side. It was supposed she had committed suicide. The Coroner held an inquest, and from the evidence presented concluded that her husband, William J. Turley, had shot her, and. ordered his arrest. —Cornelius Shugart, ex-Representative from Grant County, died at Deer Creek, i