Daily News, Franklin, Johnson County, 1 March 1880 — Page 2

DAILY NEWS

SEAMAN, LEWIS A CO, PuBUstrni^p

Publication Offlee, 501 4 Ohio Street, cotmii Fifth. VoLtrm 1.. Entered at the Post Office at Terre Haute, Indiana,

MONDAY, MA&CH lt 1880.

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RESULT 07 TOO MUCH KEABJTEY. "B? fools in haste and repent at leisure." in the experience of the San Fntncisco people. When the municipal election was going on last year in that city, they had ample notice of the sort of fellows the Kearneyiies were and how they had managed, to gather- into their faction all the element* of misrule but instead of dropping all their party differences, which were of no consequence compared with the present danger, aud instead of uniting agaUiKt the common and greatest enemy to the peace and safely of the city—tliey held to their meaningless party names and cricH—divided themselves and were subjugated in detail. Now they wish they hadn't, 'l'heir city is threatened every hour of every day and night by gangs of marauders, who are the cronies of their Mayor. Sheriff and .fudges, and with whom these officials sympathize. Pretending to counsel adherence to law, some of these functionaries are indulging in the most insidious advice and encouragement to the rnobites. Practically they are led by 1 he Mayor and the Sheriff as well as by the blatant demagogue, Kearney. The single element of safety lies In the fact that the Mayor out there does not have control of the police, and so tin? miscreant, Kalloch. who is Mayor now, will, if a collision comes, present the strange spectacle of the chief magistrate of a city mar shalling a mob in the attempt to enforce his view of a mob-dictated law, while he will lie opposed by the police of the city under lawful leadership, and possibly by the militia of the State. The Ban Franciscans are doing now what they ought to have done at the election last year—they are dropping party and uniting for selfprotection.

THE GERMANS AND QRANTAre the German voters, as a class, opposed to the nomination of General Grant? Certain persons who claim to speak for them—notably Herman Raster, editor of the Illinois Stats-Zeitung, and Fred. Ilassaurek, of Cincinnati—say that they are, and that if Grant is the nominee of the Chicago Convention, the German Republicans, almast to a man, will bolt the nomination, and either vote for the Democratic nominee, or if he is objectionable, they will abstain from 'voting altogether. If these gentlemen speak correctly, which we very much doubt, why are Germans as a class opposed to General Grant? There is no utterance of the Gen cral that can be tortured into disrespect for them. Grant lias never made distinc tiou between citizens on account of uativ ity. Like a wise man, he acknowledges that the place of a man's birth is an acci dent over which the person has no control He has consistently taken the ground that every citizen was equal before the law and should bo protected whether he be native or foreign born. It is wrong and foolish to divide our citizens into camps on account of the accident of birth.

"00VSSH1QENT SERVICE

The President has nominated, and the Senate will doubtless confirm, James Mitchell to be Collector of Customs at Yorktown, Va. He is one of the Collect ors who does not collect. He occupies an office in the corner of a grocery store in the thriftless village, but has absolutely nothing to do, although his is the oldest customs office in the country. In 1878 one collector out in Iowa, turned over $1.95 which he had collected for the Government, and another In Illinois collected the sum of $3.88, but the Collector at Yorktown does not appear in the Treasurer's accounts except as the drawer of a salary. To a live man. bom and brought up out side of Yorktown. the position of Collector of that port would be about equivalent to banishment to Patagonia, but the holder of it Is an object of envy in the eyes of other residents of the place.

A GOOD MOYX

The Baltimore & Ohio railroad company have laid the plan for the formation of an insurance company for the benefit of its employes. The plan of the company leaves no doubt of success if a hearty cooperation on the part of the employes themselves is secured. It contemplates not only benefits to be paid in case of death, but also in sickness and when disabled by accidents and in addition to the education of children of employe*. and the payment of an annuity when such age is reached that the employe is no longer capable of service.

THK NVW York Herald's Irish relief fund now exceeds $$5*MW0.

A man has been convicted in the U. S. District Court, in Philadelphia, of using the tfnited Stales ma2 to further a fraudulent sdheme. He Advertised that he would fmrnish about $5 wortlr' of things for a few centaj and, although the offer bore upon its face the evidence of fraud, several thousand letters "to him"" enclosing money were received and stopped at the poetoffioe in a single week, His eotrvic tion and punishment may serve to deter other rascals from practising a similar game, but the business is not likely to be entirely broken up until the gullibility of mankind is considerablv lessened.

THE Republican Central Committee, of Mongomery, "recommend that in the several townships of the county, a poll be opened on the day of the township conventions [March 13] for the purpose of ascertaining the choice of the township for Congressional candidate." As Montgomery county has two candidates, Messrs Peirce and Kennedy, the plan ought to be satisfactory to the friends of each.

REPRESENTATIVE YOUSG, of Ohio, is preparing a bill, which he will present to the House to-da}', providing that the Gaiigers and Storekeepers of Internal Revenue shall be allowed 30 days' leave of absence each year, with full pay.

llRANonKTH, the pill maker, whose death was chronicled in the DAIT,Y NEWS a few days ago, left a family of seven daughters and six sons. Wonder if his pills had anything to do with it?

THE Crawfordsvillc Journal verifies the statement of the DAII.Y NKWS, that Hon M. D. White, of Montgomery, will not be a candidate for the Republican Congressional nomination.

VANOEKBII.T, the railroad king, has sent to the Treasury $5,500,000 in United States 4 per cent, bonds for registry. He had previously had registered $26,000,000 in this security.

VEWI.Y, the world moves! The colored physicians of Tennessee met in Nashville and organized a State Medical Association, with Dr J. M. Jamison as President.

For State Treasurer.

Clinton Herald.

We wish to press the claim of Western Indiana, and especially of Vermillion county, upon the Republicans for a representative upon the State ticket. We have, undoubtedly, in the person of John H. Bogart, one who is eminently qualified for State Treasurer. As a county treasurer, he has proved himself the ablest and most popular in the State. He is a man who has Jived a pure, patriotic and beneficial life ft man whose character has never been tarnished by the slime of politics one whose every business transaction benefits some of his fellowmen, and who is honored and loved. These are no idle words we speak them through the highest respect that one man is capable of holding for a tme man. They are our honest opinion, but they are the unanimous opinion of every good citizen of Vermillion county. And want it distinctly understood that we intend pressing our claim upon the Republican party until they, by their expressed will in convention, say that he is the man for the place, or that the Republican party has no use for such honest men.

Cheap Telegraphy.

The American Union Telegraph Company has reduced its rates to all points in Canada and the maritime provinces from 25 to 50 per cent, below those formerly charged by the Company and the Western Union schedule. Hereafter the tariff from all American Union offices inMassachu setts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New York to points in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia will be 50 cents from Philadelphia to the same points the rates will be 60 cents per message of 10 words, and from Baltimore and Washington 75 cents. The tariff from points in Vermont to the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec is reduced to 30 cents from other New England States and New York State, 40 cents from Philadelphia, 50 cents and from Baltimore and Washington, 60 cents. This reduction is the first indication to the public of the cheap telegraph which has been expected from the American Union, and is offered as an evidence that the Company is not in accord with the Western Union, as has been supposed by some Twenty-seven branch offices have been openea in New York city.

John Sherman.

The Democratic opposition to Sherman's nomination has its root in the feeling which Hon Demas Barnes, formerly a Democratic member from Brooklyn, clearly put in a recent interview, as follows:

In the Bast we Democrats look upon Secretary Sherman as the most formidable of the possible Republican candidates. He would poll his party vote, and upon a platform or a conservative administration of National affairs, with its civil and commercial interests always paramount, -would draw an independent class of business men who are guided in voting by their business interests, and who would nof vote for the soldier Grant or the bitter partisan and born politician Blaine.

Pontal Cartf*.

The postal agency at Springfield, Mass., shipped $3,438,500domestic postal cards in January, the largest month's business ever done. The international card does not have so great a demand as was expected, and but a small part of the country have ordered a supply. New York took 1,000,000 when they were first put oat, and has sold but 20,000 so far, The agency sent out 378,000 of them last month.

lake* a Reapsf Wftotaee t* Tkea. :f:" PriBcetoo Clarkua. -f The Democrats raise a hnid cry about negro emigration into this State, and yet oppose a registry law which will insure a fair election.

Tfce Gravel K»ai Meettag.

8pe€Mdbe$.fFei«|na^ atth« ^vel road meeting Satuixjb^fcy 0°^ E- McLean, J. M* Allen, Dr Swafforti, G. A. Power, C. W. Barbopr, D. 8. Donhaxa^ Herman Hul

The opinion of the

Me«£it£g seemedtD beUiat-tlie-beet plan wasto go ahead under the present gravel road law, ai\d tlj£.fQjlowing resolution was adopted^.

Resolved, That it is the sense of this meeting that Vigo eounty is in great need of gravel roads, and that we recommend to the citizens of the various townships of our cotmtv to at pnce jadppL. the method prescribedoy t&e statutes now in force, for the construction of such roads and we recommend the appointment of one citizen of each township to appoint a committee to prepare a petition and make the necessary preparatory preparation to the construction of such roads,

The meeting adjourned to meet at the Court House on Saturday, March 13. We copy from the Express report of Col McLean's remarks, some paragraphs to the point:

I undertake to say that there is only one fair and honest way to construct gravel roads, and that way is pointed out byjthe statute of the State—by a tax levied upon the lands that are directly affected in value by it. I don know of any other way. We hear some talk about issuing bonds for that purpose. In the first place the statute provides that the Board of County Commissioners have no authority to issue new bonds for any purpose as long as there are any outstanding bonds which have not been paid. I understand we have a bonded indebtedness in this county of $65,500 in round numbers. There has been money in the treasury for the last year sufficient to pay off these bonds, but the holders have never presented them for redemption. After the collection of the April installment, our tax duplicate—I am authroized to say to this meeting, there will be in our County Treasury, over and above the amount necessary for the payment of these bonds, a balance or surplus of $50,000. I don't suppose It to be practicable for the County Commissioners to expend that sum for the improvement of these roads.

There is only one w£y I see and that is by the way laid down by the statute, and that is by levying a tax. I understand the law to provide that the Commissioners appoint two or three Assessors to assess the benefits to all the land for two mile9 on each side of the road to be improved, and where there are more than one road the assessment is divided or equalized. I repeat that the tax levy is the only fair and honest way of doing this work. Of course iu some individual cases it may not work out all right, but on the average it is about the best Taw for all citizens that I know of.

I own land in this county, I believe in four townships. The question may be asked me: "You are in favor of gravel roads—how much are you in favor of it?" That is the question to be asked. I am in favor of it to the extent of $1 per acre on every acre in Vigo county. We have in this county about 252,000 acres of land. An assessment $1 on every acre would realize $252,000. It will cost to build a grave) road 1ft feet wide and about 14 inches in the center and tapering to about nine inches, on an average of $2,000 per mile. Consequently with a tax of $252,000, or $1 upon each acre, we would realize enough to construct 125 miles of gravel roaas, and that amount in addition to what each township would repair would be sufficient.

The speaker^ after detailing the many advantages of having good roads, closed as follows:

I believe that this county can afford to adopt some general system looking to the construction of these roads I believe that every dollar expended will add ten fold to the farms by which they are constructed. Why is it that Vigo county to-day is behipd every county in Indiana in the condition of our roads? It is the fourth county in point of population and wealth, and I believe we have the fourth largest tax duplicate In the State, Terre Haute is the third or fourth city in the State, but to-day we are behind Parke, Putnam and nearly every county east of here, flPthe matter of good roads. It is time we were waking up on this subject.

THE LOUISVILLE CANAL. Intemttnf Facta CtDMinlBt tt. The House Committee on Railroads and Canals last-Friday reported unanimously to the House a favorable report on Congressman Willis' bill abolishing all tolls on the Louisville and Portland Canal. It is the intention to bring the bill up for action to-day, and enter amotion to suspend the rules and pass it, and the chances for its passage are very favorable..

The report of the Committee touching the subject sets forth that the Louisville and Portland Canal was built by a private company in 1825, at an expense of over $1,000,000. The United States was an original stockholder to the amount of $238, 500. The first boat passed through the canal on the 22d of December, 1880. The United States appropriated its dividends to the purchase of toe stock, and at the close of the year 1856 it owned t&e whole property except five shares, worth $500. These five shares were afterward bought, and on the Utfh day of June, 1874, the Government assumed and has ever since retained the sole management. From the year 1831 to 1872, inclusive, the amount of tolls collected was $5,157,247. The tolls, which were then 50 cents per ton, have been reduced to one-fifth of that amount, but with this reduction over $300,000 has been collected, thus swelling the grand total which has been paid to pass an obstruction of less than two miles on the Ohio river to over $5,500,000. The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, the merchants and stearoboatmen of Louisville, Pittsburg and throughout the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys, have often protested against these tolls. At the annual meeting last October, at Cincinnati, of the National Board of Steam Navigation, resolution was presented that the Louisville and Portland Canal be made free from all tolls.

Similar efforts have been made for half a century. As far back aa the 4th of March, 1831, the House Committee on roads and Canals reported a bill to make the navigation of the Ohio River free to all. On the 31st of December, 1845, the House Committee on Commerce presented similar bill. On February 27, 1851, the

Senate Committee on Roads and Canals reported to the same effect In 1852 and 1856 the House Committee presented bills for the same purpose, but hone of these, although* ably supported,* ever became laws, although theobjebt which they sought was ia accord with theutctioaM the State of Kentucky through her Legislature, and also with the Boara of Trustees of the Canal Company preliminary to the surrender of the property. The treaty of Park. 'oeKotiated in WfcSrthe treaty of Spain in 1796, the ordinance of 1797, and many subsequent acts of Congress provide for the absolute freedom of the Mississippi River and its tributaries, and dedicate them to the world as great national highways, to be kept forever free from any toll, tax or duty of any kind whatever.

By an act of the Kentucky Legislature of February 21', 1843, the Canal Company was authorized to sell the shares owned by individuals to the State of Kentucky or the city of Louisville for the purpose of making the said canal free of toll. On the 14th of December, 1867, Hon. James Guthrie, then President of the Canal Company ,3n reply to a note of General Weitzel's, declared that the object of the trust which the CompanjT held was to make the canal sufficient for the requirements of the Ohio River, and finally to make it a free canal.

This canal, of which the Government is now the sole owner, is the lock and key to the whole system of river navigation from the headwaters of the Ohio to the Gulf of Mexico. Over 30,000 boats and barges, representing the commerce of 14 States, annually pass through its locks in descending anti ascending navigation of the Ohio river. The number of tons which these boats carried through the canal during the year 1879, was 999,610. General A. Weitzel reports that the receipts of this canal tor the last year amounted to $99,613, being $34,449 in excess of expenditures, and $52,020 in excess of operating expenses. The expenses during the year were $65,163, of which sum $18,150 was applied to permanent improvements, leaving $46,998 as the expense of operating the canal. These operating expenses will soon be greatly reduced by the substitution of madiinery for man-power in the lifting of the gates The report of the committee, after reoit ing the fact that millions of dollars have been spent upon public works elsewhere, without any toll or charge upon them, say that they can see no reason why Congress should withhold in the case of the Louis ville and Portland Canal the benefit of that policy which has been so fully pur sued to the advantage of commerce at every other point in the Union.

••-•-The notice below has been printed for several weeks past in the city papers but the responses have not been so mi merous as the committee hoped. They desire to make the list as near complete as possible by the 80th of May, Grand Army Memorial Day: To the Relatives and Friends of Dead

Soldier*.

One of the primary objects of the Grand Army of the Republic is to perpetuate th memory and history of dead comrades those who died in the service, as well as those since the close of the rebellion, To carry oqt this provision of the association it is desired by Morton Post, No. 1, of Terre Haute, to have a complete record of the military history of all who may be buried ip the vicinity of this city, and particularly those in the city cemetery. The undersigned have been appointed by the Post a committee to compile and prepare such record, and we desire it to be as lull and correct as possible, as it is designed for preservation as a permanent record. We, therefore, call on the relatives and friends of any soldier buried in this city to furnish us the following information Name in full where born age at time of death branch of service, as infantry, cavalry, artillery—company and regiment rank date and manner of death

If killed in action, give name of battle if wounded in service, when and where, and any other information of interest as regards the soldier's military history. If convenient give the section and number of lot where buried in the city cemetery which will aid us in designating the grave by number on a map or the cemetery, so that our memorial aay decoration service can be properly performed. It is to be hoped that this call will be responded to The men of 1861-5 are rapidly passing away, and we, their survivors, can honor their memory by preserving a record of their services. The military history, of every member of our organization is a part of the record of each post, and we want to add that of our comrades who "went before." The information asked for can be given in person to either of the committee, or sent through the mail,

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