Indiana American, Volume 9, Number 25, Brookville, Franklin County, 24 June 1870 — Page 1

rCBLlSHKD KVRY FRIDAY BY C. n. Ill N G II A. It , Proprietor.

Office U th National Bank Building, Third Story) TERMS Or SU1SCHIP TIBS: $2.50 PER YEAR, m aovakcc. gS.OO " " I KOT PAtO IW AOVAKCK. ,' postage en papers delivered within this County. The Canal Debt. Our raiders are aware that the payment of the Wabash and Krie Canal debt is likely lo become one oF the most important Questions connected with oar (State politic. It is an immense swindle, and if successful, will saddle a debt of millions of dollars upon the people of the State, which they are under no more obligation to pay than are the people of Ohio. It will be remembered by those who are familiar with the Internal Improvement en. terprises of our State from 1836 to 1846, tbat in 1836 the State issued some ten millions of dollars in bonds, which were sold, and the proceeds applied to the construction of the canal. Fifteen hundred thousand acres of land were granted by Congress to aid the State in its construction. The work proceeded till 1845, when the proceeds of the bonds and about half the lands bad been expended, and the Canil was opened to Lafayette. At this juncture some parties proposed totakeitoff the hands of the State and complete the work, provided the State would pay one half the bonded debt, and give them the Canal, and the lands remaining unsold about 800 000 acres. Id 18.6 the State accepted the proposition, and the contract wis embodied in what is known as the Butler Hill. It provided that the Internal Improvement debt of the State should be bonded, one half re. dcemable by the State, nd the other half ly the Canal Company; that the ('anal with all its rights and privileges, and the fW,tl00 acres of land should be transferred to the Tiustecs of the Company. Under this arrangement the old bonds, cxct"'t about three hundred, of a thousand didlars each, were surrendered. The Stat las paid her half of them, principal and interest; but the Canal Company has not paid a cent of cither principal or interest'ihese bonds, payable by the Company, dcrieciated until they could be bought lor five and ten cents on the dollar, and passed into the hands of New York bankers. It will be readily seen that the State is! under no obligation whatever to pay these bonds which the Canal Company aMinied to pay the parties having taken them with the expre.-s understanding that the Company, and not the Stale, should le responsible to them for their payment. Notwithstanding this, the present holders of these bonds propose to saddle them iion the State, if they can secure a Ieg. islamic that will aid them in the under- j taking. The mutter wil be certain to j come btlVie the next Legislature. Our! arty las txptcsstd ltseit in the State )!atloriu against the payment cf these tonds, and in favor of an amendment to the Constitution expressly prohibiting it. 1 ut the Petnocratic patty is ominously j silent upon tiie suiject, ana prmme:ii Pemocrats, it is said, are committed to their payment by the State. Hclmont is largelj interested in tl. em, which is enough to secure the active sympathy of the Democracy of the State. One of the most prominent Democrats in Indiana, and now upon the ticket as a candidate for Attorney-General Daviess V. Ilanua said, in the Senate in 1SG7, in the d is eussion of a proposed Amendment to the Constitution prohibiting the resumption f any liability on account of these bonds ly the State: "Such an amendment engrafted on the Constitution would stultify the State, lie desired that the Slate should lake no steps looking to the repudiation of her debt. The question should bo hit open. It may be that the State in the futuic wll be enabled to make some sort of settleuieut of this debt." It will be seen that Mr. llanna treats these bonds n the il,ftf ikr iVf, and proposes to keep the iietion open, to enable her to make some sort ot a settle, tnent ol it. A nice scheme ttulv! What do tax-payers of Indiana think of a prop osition to lasten a debt of eight or ten ! tr-iliioiis of dollars upon them, which has I long since, so far as the State is concerned, I leen honestly settled? They will visit' retribution upon any party, or any set of mem. Hut undertake to carry out such a indle. We call the attention of the Jeeplc to this question, and urcc them to elect men ol stiict integrity for the Legislature, and to keep a sharp watch over them then the subject comes up for their etion. Ureensburg Standard. The President's Domestic Life. viracc tireenwocd, in a lelter from " shington to the Tribune, speaks thus a I I'tesideut Ura tit's domestic hie: It is (UTprisio; to observe how few marks of mtness or heavy care the face of Prcsi- : eiK iirant presents, alter more than a Jrr ol burdensome official responsibility nd wctrin-.etit of, to him, unprecedented tvtiBnen.eut and labor. Slill fresh looking cdortable, quiet, self possessed, strong til and ,,f nerve is he, a man who wps hi own counsel, amid "a mulltitude l tviuncellors,' who can keep silent amid jle 'eternal blathering,' interviewing, and lpiisitun of the talkiugest and askingest 'I'ital in the world. Vet no man is planter, kinder, or gentler in private l,, than President Grant. I think it uKUt to be known, for it is a good thing w know, that the domestic liTe of the on,ctic life of the President or the UntCJ States is singularly happy and beauti- . noble example for Americau somes. I have this liom the best authority, iiu-iius mid nave oi iai oeen IJw at the White House, and who, day day, have been witnesses of the har0oJ and loving kindness of its inmates, "Toiled ly prosperity, flattery, fame, and that White House stands like "pht-hsuse, suroed about by a sea of upry office-seeking, nd more hungry otiosity, but what privacy they can 5re is doubly sweet to that merry and "wtionate unlycircle, who find nothing Uer in their exalted position, in State '"oers, b8 anj receptions, than the . r old love that united them in their 016 00 the Western prairies; and which J wisely brought along; with them, thir chief houscholdgod. No one

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VOL. 9, NO. 25 J can deny to the President and his wife rare propriety and evenness of manners, alike without a touch of arrogance or superciliousness. Under their marvellously changed condition or life, remain yet the real man and the real woman marvellously unchanged. This is a difficult topic to treat of just here, where genuine old-fashioned hern-worship gives way to sycophantio subserviency or blind party animosity, and where honest, respectful loyalty toward rulers and magistrates, 'and all having authority over us, is 'an exploded idea.' A Protective Democrat. At a late St. Louts meeting in the interest of protection, Hon John Hogan, an ex-member of Congress and a Democrat, made one of the principal speeches. The Democrat says: . He laid out the frame work of a very fine structure, and filled ii up with material as old as Methuselah. He said no one would deny that government tnust be supported. No one opened his mouth to deny this axiom. Mr. Hogan proceeded to t?ll in what manner the government must be supported. The grand foundation was revenue what Kossuth called "the sinews of war." 1 his revenue might be obtained in three ways first, by direct taxation; secondly, by internal revenue tax, thirdly, by a tarifi upon imports. In this country we have tried all these plans at one time we had direct taxation, at an another interval revenue taxes, and again we derived our revenue from the tariff. Now we have a duplex tariff from internal revenue and from imports. The internal revenue business was very distasteful to the speaker, and all his gushing affections were lavished upon the protective taiiT. Mr. Houan said lie was a Democrat, and as such was charged with departing from the Democratic faith in supporting a tariff for protection. lie asked if that was an a nti. democratic principle, and went on to assert that Jefferson, Madison and even Washington were protectionists, and that for forty years from 1SU0 to 1840, with an interiegnuru of four years, the Democratic party ruled the government. During all that time there were protective taiiils enaeiei by Democratic Congresses, approved by Democratic Presidents, and carried out by Democratic executive offi cers, and American industry flourished and labor was protected by the imposition of duties upon foreign gowds. The first law passed by Congress was a protective tariff law. lie fore the war, this country had a monopoly of the growth of cotton, and he attributed that monopoly to the protection afforded by the (iovernmer.t to cottongvowinjx. The "price of cotton was reduced from thirty cents a pound lo five cents a pound, and yet even at this rate our cotton-growers continued to enjoy the monopoly, and lo thrive by it. Prom this fact Mr. Hogan drew ibe inference that every other branch of industry could be built up by protection. The iron of Missouri could be made profitable by placing a heavy duty on foreign iron. At first the pioneers in the business would make money, but others seeing how money was to be made, would enage in the same business, and competition would spring up. The little duty imposed on steel had induced the steel manufactures ot Sheffield to sell in this country at a lower price than it was sold in Sheffield. Alter giving some statistics of the growth of inn manufacturers in this country, Mr. Hogan pitched headlong into the internal revenue sjstcm, and was bitur upon the government for i Bering to capitalists belter inducements for the investment ol their means in bonds than in ihe manufacture of iron. W hile government bonds are exemi-t from taxation, no internal revenue tax is imposed upon everything else, and consequently the value of money was kept up to a high figute. In Luropc money and labor are cheap, and wo must make the Hi cheap in this country by placing heavy duties upon imports. He said we were the heaviest taxed people on the earth. He wanted the internal revenue tax reduced Ml per cent and the deficit made up by addition al duties on imports. If we do this, and let in such articles as we want, we shall have revenue enough. As lor public debt let posterity pay it. Posterity has never done anything for us; we leave posterity a country, and posterity should shouldct Ihe debt, lie wanted coffee U come in, because he was fond of cotlee. He would disciiminate in lavor of those articles thai we want to fill up the country and devel op its resources. I-or tlmty years lie liad entertained those views. An Illustration. At a certain college the senior class was under examination tor degrees. The professor of natu ral philosophy was badgering in optics. The point under illustration was that, strictly and scientifically speaking, we see no objects, but their images depicted on the retina. The worthy professor, in order to make the matter plainer, said to the wag of the class: Mr. Jackson, did you ever actually see jour father?' Hill replied promptly: 'No, sir.' 'Please to explain why you never saw your taiher!' Heeause,' replied Mr. Jackson, very ravcly.'he died before I was boro, sir. A thrilling tale the rattlesnake's. An Iowa girl wants to die, but she prefers to be 'smothered with kisses.' Thfl Siamese twins must ham one con solation they connot sue each other. W'hittter, being asked for his autograph, wrote, 'The name is hut the shadow, which we find. Too often larger than the main behind." Ponch's 'He smole a ghastly smile,' and 'Many a wink he wunk,' have been imitated by a minstrel wit, who said, 'lie sneezed a snooze, and eaid that I buozc it.'

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THE UNION. THE CONSTITUTION, AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS

Orer the Bars. 'Twa milking time, and tha eowi came ap From the meadows sweat with clover, Andetood ia the lane, while pretty Jane Had aniet chat, with the drover. Sach a quiet 'chat, that it scarcely seemed That a single word was spoken; Whileamagio spell with the night dews Tall, And the rjthmoftong was unbroken. The cattle stood at the lovers' aide, Without any show or Taxation, As though impressed that a fire-bar rest Was a part of their rest-oration. And as Jane listened to notes that earn Right ander the bars and orer; Her heart took wing, like a silly thing, And nestled up close to the drover. She heard him say that his home was poor, That he'd nothing but lore to give her; Aad aha smiled content, as though Leva had spent Every arrow he had in his qeiver, She smiled content while the evening air With the voices of birds was ringing; And her lips confessed that a lowly nest Should never prevent her singing So over Ihe bars the lovers lean, In the joy of s wee, communion; And their looks declare that povtrty ne'er Shall be a bar to their union. Ob, sweetest music, go thread your rhymes, Now under Ihe bars and overt Where pretty Jane, in the fragrant lane, Bewitched the heart of the drever. Seeds of Kindness. Are we sowing seeds of kindness? They shall blossom bright erelong; Are we sowing seeds of disoord? They shall ripen into wrong. Are we sowing seeds of honor? They shall bring forth golden grain; Are we sowing seeds of falsehood? We shall yet reap bitter pain. W hatsoe'er our sowing be, Reaping, we its fruits shall see. We can never be too careful What Ihe seed our hands shall sow I.ove from love is sure to ripen, Hate from hate is surete grew. Seeds of good or ill we scatter Heedlcfsly along our way; Cut a glad and or gtievous fruitage Waits us at the batvettday. Whatsoe'er our sowing be, Reaping, we its fruits must sea. Is It ."Vulgar to Work?' The New York Star complains of a numerous class of persons among us who have got it into their heads that it ia vul. gar to work. The editor thinks it is a question which should occupy the thought of our law-givers, our reformers and all honest men, how this terrible growth of idleness and scorn of honest labor may be btessed. Hespect for labor must be incul cated in the minds of the young. As we have said, about half the wcrld endeavors to live without it; and of those who do work, it is safe to say that half do so only from necessity, and not from the conviction that work is honorable and idleness degrading. They work mere to live, and strive to win wealth that at someday they may turn their backs upon the degrcdatian of labor. There is no gospel more needy of preachers than the gospel of labor. The pulpit, the platform, the press, the school, und above all the household, should be made places in which the dignity of labor is constantly laught. Parents should bear in mind that they who educate a chtjd to idleness, educate it to crime. Further on, we are told it is one of the miseries of our land that the apprentice system is dying out. The few masters who will take apprentices (the Star says) find it diflicult to obtain them. Hoys consider themselves too fine to learn trades. "Mechanic" has a vulgar sound to the ears of Young America. The master mechanic has hardly a response to his advertisement for bright, capable boys to learn a trade, which once acquired, is sure to afford steady employment and comfortable wages; while lawyers' and brokers' offices are besieged by hundreds who must work for years for a pittance, with little hope of advancement, and no hope of learning a business on which they can rely for even a decent support. Castor Oil. Castor oil may be readily deprived of its terrors. Heat the bottle which contains it. Rinse the cup in boiling water so as to get that also warm, and when the dose is poured out it will be almost as liquid as water. A few drops of brandy or of peppermint added to it will cover the oder, and ihe patient can swallow it with a large degice of comfort. Christian Union. in ai A fashionably dressed lady, so modest that she would not say 'leg' for a fortune, went into a dry goods store and inquired for 'bleached cloth' Several pieces of sheeting were offered for inspection, but failed to suit. 'Perhaps,' said the lady, 'if I should tell you what I want it for, you would know better what to give me. It is to be used Tor reposing robes." The man threw down another piece, hastily summoned a second clerk, and rapiidly vanished in the distance. Thare haint been a bug made yet in vain nor one that want a good job. There it lots of human men loafiog round blacksmith shops and cider mills all over the country, that don't seem to be necessary for anything but to beg plug tobaoco and sware and steal watermelons, but you let the kolery break out once and then you will see the wisdom of having jist such men laying around: they help count. L c The poorest men are those who hare nothing to do, and the most unhappy are those who make happiness their chief aim of life. The most ignorant are those who know best of themselves, and the most noble are those who are most honest. The greatest are those who feel themselves to be the least, end the best preaoher is he whose lire moat nearly iceemblca the life and example of Christ.

BROOKVILLE, IND., FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1870.

A Russian Wolf Hunt. While connected with the American Legation in Russia, I received a very pressing invitation from Count Potowski to visit him at his castle in the conotry, about twenty leagues from St. Petersburg, were he promised me Bome rare sport in banting wolves. We started off one cold, clear afternoon, in a trokia (drawn by three horses abreast, and large enough to give ample room to three persons besides the driver) for the scene of our exploits, carrying with us a half grown hog which was to serve ua for bait. We reached onr first destination just as the sun was sinking in his snowy bed, and the full round moon was rising to silver over the. Then the hog was taken onf and attached to the Irokia .by an iron chain, from four to six feet long, and the horses started forward at a brisk pace over the level, glistening plain. The heg began to squeal, and the Count turned to me with a laugh: 'How do you like the sport, Mr. King ston?' he said. 'I think 1 shall like it better when I see something to shoot, and this screeching brute getshis sharp tones a little modified.' I replied, half stopping my ears. 'You will have other noises to take off your attention presently," said ihe Count. 'Do you think we shall be fortunate enough to draw out any wolvea in this way?' I asked. 'Give me half an hour,' rejoined the Pouat, -and if I don't show you mure wolves than you would care to face afoot, then consider me your debtor for what you please.' After going some distance, our hog, greatly to my relief, changed his tune from his shrill, ear-piercing squeal, into something resembling a mournful whine. The sun went down, and the moon arose in full splendor, pouring over the white, polished snow a brilliant light, that, by refraction, was rendered almost daisling 'Hark!' cried the Count, as a long, low, peculiar howl came sweeping over the plain. 'Did I not tell you fo? There is another, and another! We shall soon have work before us. '8ee!' he almost immedi ately added, pointing away to the left. There they come!' I looked in the direction indicated, and saw, dimly in the distance, what appeared to be two or three small, moving shadows; I looked to the right, and behold more of the same kind; and on all sides we now heard those long, dismal growls by which one wolf calls to another, and I knew they were gathering in fotce, and would soon be around us. Our chained hog continued his plaintive cries, and the wolves fell in behind and pressed forward till they came up within titty yeards, where for a lime their timidi ty seemed to hold them. As their n umbers increased, which they did every minute the beasts at times appearing to spring from the earth in a mysterious way their boldness increased also, and they cradually drew nearer and nearer, snapping, snarling and growling, and so I righteninsr our horses that the driver had much difficulty in holding them down to a reasonable pace. 'Now then, gentlemen,' said the Count, 'let us begin the sport, and heaven send us a safe deliverance from its perils!' With this he tired two shots at the row of fiery eyes behind us. A sharp yelp followed, and one of the animals began to limp and fall back, whereupon the others, perhaps smelling and getting a taste of Lis blood, sprang furiously upon him, tore him to pieces and devoured him iu almost the time it takes me to tell it. In two minutes more the hungry beasts were pressing forward more eagerly than ever. 1 fired next and brought down another, which was also torn to pieces and devoured in less than a minute, and then the furious beasts again drew neater and in still larger mi mbers. Prom this moment the animals increased with startling rapidity. Por more than an hour we loaded and fired as fast as we could, and for every one we shot, it appeared o me as if there were half a doxen to lake its place. Emboldened by numbers and a taste of blood, they pressed up closer, till we could almost reach them, the foremost bounding around and snapping at the poor hog, which was now terrified to death, and exerted itself to the utmost to escape from their sharp fangs. Up to this moment I had been so busily engaged, and so excited wiih the sport, as to give no thought to our own danger, but now I confess I began to feel very uneasy, not to say alarmed. Where had all these beasts come from? and what was to be the end of the gathering? It seemed as if all Hussia had poured them out on one spot. There must have been a thousand perhaps five times that number for I could not count them. They had arranged themselves in the form of a crescent, the centie of the aro resting on Ihe hog, and the two wings reaching forward lo the rear of the horses, which snorted with fear, and required all the skill of the driver, to hold them. It was a wild, impressive sight, with just enough danger to make it sublime. The heaven? were clear, the moon round and full, the plain almost a dead level, the snow as white as milk, bright and glistening, with here and there a thin light covering, over a hard crust, that flew up in fleecy clouds, like the fine spray of a waterfall, and over ibis we were dashing, with three fiery horses abroast, and a black rolling cloud of wolves to the right, left and rear of us, in Ihe form of a crescent, their keen eyes looking like ao many little balls of fire. We were al! standing up, loading and firing, the Count directly to the rear, and his friend and myself to the right and to the left. As I have said, I had begun to feel somewhat alarmed for I saw that should any accident happen, such as the falling of one of the horses, or the upsetting ot the troika, we could scarcely hope to get off with life, but I did not like to mention my feara to persona who had so much ex perience aa my companions. At last, seeing that matter. wen etead-

ily becoming worse inatead of better, and that, great aa waa the number of our foes, they were atill increasing, I ventured to aay 'Count, these ravenous beasts are pressing tip very close. ... 'Indeed they are,' he replied, taking a survey of the whole scene. 'They are getting pretty well up forward too,' be pursued, with an anxious glance toward the horses. 'I confess I don't like that. What do you aay, Paul?' he added, addressing the diver. My lord, I find it tery difficult to manage the horses.' 'Do you think we are in any serious danger now, Paul?' '1 don't like to see the beasts creeping so far forward, my lord. 'Nor I; and 1 think we had belter knock over a few of tbe foremost.' We now, by the Count's advice, directed our fire at the two forms of the crescent; but though we shot down the foremost with great rapidity, and continued to do so until our guns became heated, I could not perceive tbat it thinned them in the least, or bad any good effect. It broke their regularity and threw them into some confusion, it is true; but this, so far from being an advantage to us, I fancied worked against us, by causing them to become bolder and press up around us still closer. 'By my faith!' at length exclaimed the Count, in a tone that betray ed some degree of alarm, 'we must get out of this soon, or the beasts will be upoo us! I never saw so many in my lilc, and I have shot until I am tired. Let me see? We must have fired some three huudred times apiece; and allowing that only every other shot has been effectual, we must have brought down, say, five hundred wolves; and yet they are here; closely up around us, more numerous than ever, a countless leirion! One trip, one stumble, one tilt, and we tire gone! How now, Paul, my brave tad how are you going to get out of this?' 'By giving the horses their heads and letting 'hem take a steady turn lo the left, so as to change the position of the whole body of pursuers at once.' 'Are you sure of the aniti als?' 'I think 1 can trut ihem.' 'And the troika, Paul?' 'I shall do my best, trusting to heaven, my lord! I think the risk far less than riding as we are. 'Then save us at your will, Paul, and look to me for a handsome reward when you have put us safe within the castle gates. The next few minutes were exciting beyond anything I had ever experienced iu my life. .-. . . I The driver shook the reins, gave a peculir chirp and whistle, and our noble steeds, as anxious to escape as ourselves. npd awv like thi wind. 1 fairlv held my breath, feeling that a crisis had come involving lite and death. Away, away we flew, Ihe keen air cutting our faces, the light gnow blinding our eyes, and Ihe littie iricka bounding over the glistening surface like a gallant boat on ihe foaming crested billows, i watched ihe dark rolling clojd of living animals, with their lolling tongues and eyes on lite, and saw with a fee ing of joy that I cannot express, that they were slowly bent perceptibly falling behind that we were gaining on j iuem. ii i ne nooie norsea couiu out noia at this speed and no accident should befall us! We were all breathless with the intensity of feeling the single chirp or whistle of our driver being the only human sound that issued from our party. Gradually ihe horses began lo turn, slowly turn in a broad circle to the left, so as to flank that burn of the crescent. As we came gracefully around, so in a measure to face our snarling pursuers, surprise and fears for the moment threw ihem iuto confusion. Impulsively they parted and sutf ered us to pass through their dense ranks and gain a homeward start before getting clear comprehension that we were actually escaping aud leaving them bohind. Then, with loud, angry yells, they laid down to chase, but were no match for our fleet coursers that every moment widened Ihe space between them and Ibeir foes. U, how i loved tho noble brutes that were so gallantly saving us! 'lira vol' at length bursts in a yell from the excited Count; 'bravo, my noble steeds, and bravo, gallant driver! this night's work shall be remembered to you all! Ilia word of rejoicing were instantly changed to a cry ol dismay, as one of the horses stumbled, staggered, pitched forward, aud came down upon his knees, checking up his companions and almost hurling ihem upon their backs. The no bie brute, as if he knew that death lo us all was ihiealeued through hiui. made a Iremeudious struggle to regain bis tooting and pace; and witn success, thank God! or this lale wouldu't have been told. In another halNiour the ravenous wolves were far behind us, and and hour saw us safe within tbe casile gates prayers of thanksgiving. uttenug The next day we rode out upon the snow plain, and found it was strewn for miles with the bones of the wolves we had slain on that, to me, ever memorable night. Covering up the Scar. When an eminent painter was requested lo paint Alexander ihe Great so as to 41 ve a perfect likeness of the Macedonian conqueror, he felt a difficulty. Alexander, in his wars, had been struck by a sword, and across bis forehead was an immense scar. Tbe paioter said, -'If I retaiu the scar, it will be an offence to the admirers of the monarch, and if I omit it, it will fail to be a perfect likeness what shall I do? lie hit upon a happy expedient; he represented the emperor leaning on his elbow, with his foretioger upon his brow, accidentally, as it seemed, covering the scar upon his forehead. Might not we represent each other with the finger of charity upon the scar, instead of representing the sear deeper and blacker than it actually is? Might we not learn from heathendom a lesson of charity, of humaa kindness aad love? fLondou Preaoher.

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From Ihe Milwaukee Wcsla. THE MYSTERIOUS VAUSE. The Story of a Traveler's Trouble aa Related by tiimaeir. This morning there came to us a legal gentleman of the city, who, contrary to his usual practice, bad lost bis temper Indeed, he seemed to be ao very much ont of bumor tbat we thought something ont of the usual course very far out bad transpired to trouble him. Said the gentleman, and he said it very briskly, and as if he meant it: "I want you to give those baggagemen thunder. Tbe centleman surprised us: we at tempted to explain to him tbat baggaue men were oti the whole a pretty good set of fellows that tbey bad their trials. and grievances like the rest of mankind, and tbat if they occasionally lost their temper it was not entirely their fault; but the legal gentleman broke in upoo us with the exclamation that he didn't care about their temper. ' Tbey are a confounded stupid pack, and they ought to be Licked, every one of them." We stopped him as soon as we eould, and then asked him what under the aun was the matter. "I'll tell you," he said, "and then if i you don't say that I owe these baggage- . grudge for the trouble their care lessness has caused me. I'll not say anoth er word." "A few days ago I had my valise packed and went off lo Madison to attend a case. Upon returning my valise was given me by the baggage master the iufernal scoundrel and 1 went home. My wife desired to take it to look after my clothes, but as there were some important papers in the valise said Bhe must wait. Now, whenever 1 had returned before, she always look it from me as I went in, and, woman-like, she seems to have thought there was a secret about the valise confound the baggage-man. Well, just as quick as my back was turned, off went the valise to the chamber, and into it went my wife's fingers. Ten minutes later there was a scream echoing through the house that would have aroused a nightwatchman from his dreams. I rushed up stkirs, and what do you suppose I saw confound the baggage mau! There was my wife stretched on the floor in hysterics, and there was my valise wide open on the floor, and showing very tlaiuly the following table of contents: "An empty whisky-bottte. "1 wo packs of cards. t noiogrpiis oi lour young ituics ma. t.a" a "a ongni to oe asnamea oi tnemseivea. 'A lady a shawl. -' wnoie apotnecary a scop on a small Scale. ' ' "Three dim novels. "Two blood aud thunder papers. "A dice-box. "A lol of dice. "Another pack of cards. "Two faro chips. "And I don't know how much more of just such trash. I do know that the valise my valise was full ofjut such traps, and my wife had seen Ihem all and then gone off into hysterics, "1 tried to bring her back to her senses, hut if.hi n. h--k rr nmi..h to open her eyes, she pointed sort of spasmodically at ihe valise, and then with a double yell went off again. 1 tell you 1 was mad. I just walked up and down that apartment and I cursed a blue streak. 1 think if I had met that baggageman then I should have fully impressed upoo his mind the belief that he had been visited by a collision. Tbe maid put my wife to bed, and 1 went down street swearing. When I came bock the room was locked, and I was locked out. Tho maid looked at me as though I bad been doing something wicked, and the children slunk away as though I wanted to eat them confound that bagagemao. "I finally got the door of the room open, and asked ' my wife what ail this meant. She burst into tears and pointed at ihe valise. And do you know that it took me all day to make hr believe that it was all the fault of that confounded baggageman, who had none and changed hand-trunks forme! I could not do it until 1 had gone to ihe depot and spent hours in hunting up my own baggage, aud even then it took a new bonnet and a velvet cloak lo entirely dispel the cloud which that baggageman had brought into m houe. And what do you think he said? Why, when I told him all ihe misery his carelessness had caued me, the fellow laughed fairly laughed aud said tbey looked so much alike." Daniel. As a general rule our Member of Congress draws good bouses when he speak; in this city, but on Saturday evening he spoke to a limited number of his fellowcitizens. He accounted, or apologized, for the empty benches by a happy allusion to the rope-walking show and other attractions. It is but fair to state the court room was insufferably hot, and that tbe doors and windows being blocked up by earnest seekers after pure air, the body ot the house was so suffocating thai few could endure it. Dan commenced by making love, very ardently, to his constituents, aud took occasion to conciliate those gentlemen who are suffering from bis overshadowing influence, by a solemn assuraco that ho should make but one more race for Congress. He then "went for" Ihe Fifteenth Amendment, expressing thereon the same views that be utteied a lew weeks ago in his 'key-note' speech at Indianapolis. He had home very cruel things to say of the colored people, and j said them in a cruel way, whereat the house came down with immense applause. Rome came in for its due share of attention, and from that he branched off to foreign citizens of various nationalities, lo whom he made love in bis moat winning way. Alluding in his leceut assertion' in Congress iu rvguJ to tb K.puUucau

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He proinb-ed to brine the matter up in the House agaiu on Li return tr Washington, on which occasion he will be likely to get another Having. From this" theme Dan glided to 'dollars and cents ' and occupied a long time in rebaahiag hie old, and familiar utterances, with little new matter, on the subject of finance. Then ihe 'land.grab business came) in, and Daniel verbosely explained hie action there on, showing that be bed voted against the Northern Pacifie Railroad bill. On this subject he look grounds directly opposed to the position to which that organ has commuted itself and tha party. e desire to do strict justice to nnr po- -itical opponents, but in all fairness and candor it must be confessed that this iueting was a failure. The attendance waa' slim. Few Democrats of any prominent - were there. Thiee or four llep iblicans looked in, a shoit lime, to see what vii going on. lucre was no chance tor any effort towards proselyting. In fact, D..a made bis trip from bia post of dutv to Terre Haute to talk to a few men whose votes he would have been just as sure of had be staid away. So fiat an affair ia sufficiently dignified by what we have already written, and further meutiou of it, in any shape, would unduly magnify its import. Icrre Haute Express. A Startling Possibility. The sun is beginning to be an object ot great anxiety to many scientific men. Spots on that orb are not at all uncommon, as may be ascertained by any one who will take the trouble to look at it ' through a bit of smoked glass. But these phenomena have of late assumed iq appearance which astouishes astronomers, and is calculated to alarm that class which fancies it can detect portents of the future in tbe heavens. There are great gulf now to be seen iu the sun, each much larger than this earth which we think of so much cou-equence in the universe. ' They increase at a prodigious rate, and sometimes seem destioed to work a convulsion similar to that which has undoubtedly overtaken other solar systems. Sune as vast as that which lights and warnie ibis world have been shattered to pieces, or disappeared, aud only the philosopher iu his roving ((lance over the sky has detected the change.- The inhabitanta of other planets would not notice the disappearance of Ihe planet we inhabit, any more than we can see a speck of sand carried off by the wind on tho seashore. It is not a mere theory, but an ascertained fact, that the sun is always in highly fluid condition, ai one recent writer describes it, "a hurricane of flame, the disturbances of which might, perhaps, be best represented to our imaginations bj the occasional explosion ot a planet or two of nitro-glycerinc." It is, moreover, subject to magnetic forms," produced, aa many suppose, by the movements of tbe planets around it. The great disturbance - which is now going on was predicted months ago by scientific meo. That we are much more coucerneJ in the event thau many people suppose, is quite certain. Self-registering magnetic instruments have revealed the fact that whenever a spot breaks out on tbe aun, tbe earth thrills under a mysterious magnetic influence. In one case a few years ago, it is upon record that telegraphic machinery was set on fire, aud ihe pen of Bain's telegraph was followed by a flinif," at tbe very instant a sudden burst of light showed itself in the sun. ' Iu the telegraphstations at Washington and Philadelphia, ? the signal-ineu received strong electric hacks. t Iu fact, the electric condition of the earth was changed, though by what precise agency none can fully explain. We are at once lost in a region of eonjee lure, aud can only feel that the fate which was foretold of old for the earth may at any moment overtake it. The forces are all in existence by which, in the solemn language cf Holy Writ, Ihe "heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat; the eaith also, and the works that are therein, .-hall be burned up." Once in every eleven years the sun exhibits ihe stupendous phenomena which are ai present engaging the attention of philosophers. In 1859, "chasms and abysses," similar to those which are now iep ned, were seen by many observers. I heir recurience was predicted for 1870. Great distutbances in tbe world have usually accompanied these outbreaks, though why it should so happen ie another of the unfathomable mysteries of the univere. In 1818, there were magnetic storms, and' we bad the French revolution. Again in 1859 they occurred, and we saw wars and rumors of wars iu Europe. The eleetrie condition of the atmosphere ia thought to exert a greater influence upon tbe ruin da of men aud nations than many are willing to believe, or than any one is able to explain. Tbe telegraphs denote the changed condition of the earth, but they canuot indicate the extent ut the change. In the language of the astrouomer, whose description of ihe sun we have juet quoted, "the pens of all our telegraphic wires may some day trace iu fftuie a handwriting more ominous of human destiny than the haudwriting which, during beUhaxzjr's feast, I raced a warning uu Ibe Wall ' of the fall ot the Babylonian dynasty. - N. Y. Times. Josh Billtngt buyi.. - When a young maaj ain't good for a.tvinio: elne, I iikuUwaee him carry a g' Id-lie. .del . ll he can't bo a vane. Iu Utiu . ii.ir l. ...e uiiddlvl