Indianapolis Daily Herald, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1866 — Page 2

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DAILY HEEaIlD.

OFFICE--HERALD BUILDING), 18 1-3 East Washington Btvoe**

SATURDAY MORNING, JAXUABY C. The Case of the Southern Stntoo. The ease of the Southern States evidently rests now, uith tliemselves and Coagresg. The President has surrendered to them their powers of self government, except to the extent that the thieving, meddlesome, lawless but unlawful Freedmen’s Bureau creates disturbance by its fantastic tricks of tyranny. We trust this expensive nuisance will be got out of the way as soon ns possible, and the lawful State authorities be allowed their just jurisdiction and powers in their domestic concerns. The Southern States, then, having now their Governors and Legislatures, elected by their several peoples: having their own Judges; in short, being, except us we have said, in the negro department, in the exercise of all the functions of independent States in the Union, the President would seem to have become functus officio, if wc may me the term, on the question of their representative relations to the Union. The United States Courts exercise their judicial Amotions in those States, and the executive officers their functions. The executive and judicial relations of the South with the Union ere restored. They now

exist.

It alone remains that their representative relations be restored with Thad. Stevens’ squad of fanatical disunionists, called Congress. This relation is, of course, not very desirable, nor of much importance to the Southern States, but still, for the sake of Union, the harmonious whole of our common- country, all truo friends of the confederacy, both North and South, desired to see the representatives from the Southern States in their seats in the National Council. Will not that bo a glorious day which shall witness the vacant Congressional chairs reoccuplcd? But it is fob Congress to admit or reject the Southern Representatives. The President has done his part; he can not command, he can only advise Congress. He can veto bills passed by Congress for the further humiliation of the South, bills imposing conditionsj but he can not admit the members. There can be, therefore, no conflict between the President and Congress on the mere question of admitting the Southern members, because the President has nothing to do with that. Those members must be admitted, if at all, by votes, not proclamations, nor talk. There may be a conflict of opinion, between the President and Thad. That exists now, and will probably continue, but that does not necessarily produce a public rupture between the two, because they have not to aet together In the same sphere. The public rupture on the question of admission, will be in the Republican representation in Congress, if it occurs. The President may take a side, in sympathy, and may manifest it by his personal influence and bis appointments. If Congress concludes,on the reassembling of that body, to admit the South without conditions, why,«that will be an end of conditions, except as a matter for fanatical party agitation, and sectional irritation, hoping to impose them, after years of such agitation, as they accomplished abolition. If Congress concludes to refuse admission to the Union, till the Constitution is further tinkered and mutilated; as it will take a long time for such changes to be adopted by three-fourths of the States in the Union, where the Southern are already admitted to be, by counting them on the nnti-slavury amendment, the Southern members will not be seated this session of Congress; and what may be the condition of things another session, who can tell ? Specie Payment. There is no law suspending specie payment. But a Republican Congress, by the usual tricky method of that party in reaching ends, authorized the issue of treasury notes, and then declared that they were gold and silver so that banks could redeem with them and sell their gold and silver to go to Europe, without suspending specie payment! Now, Mr. Secretary McCulloch proposes to take up all these legal tenders as fast as he cau draw them from the vaults of the banks, now hoarding those bearing interest (which they got generally at a bargain) to use instead of gold and silver in redeeming their own paper. When this is accomplished, wc shall have returned to real specie payment and circulation, because the banks will be compelled to procure it for the redemption of their bills when presented there-

for, by the people.

But the return to specie payment, though it will benefit,us by giving us a better, more stable circulation, will not help us much in the reduction of prices. It can not do it, because prices are now made up, to a great extent, of taxes added to the natural fair price of the article, and as long as the taxes continue, the price must continue, and that will be forever, unless the people should be irritated or forecd

into repudiation.

The people of other countries feel that they are taxed as heavily as they can bear, that is for a long period of time. High taxes might be paid for.a year or two without the people being crushed. But in our case, there is to be

no relitf by time.

The United States have now by far the largest debt and ttie heaviest taxation of any nation in the world. In foreign nations, when you have named their national debt, you

have named all.

Not so with us. Wc have our national debt, three thousand millions; then we have our State and municipal debts; really parts of the public debt to the amount of two thousand millions more, making tn all, our public debt five thousand million dollars, or about one thousand millions of pounds, and this at an average of six per cent, interest, while European na-

tions pay but three per cent. o

This mokes our annual Interest more than double that of Great Britain, the next highest

taxed nation to ourselves in the world. NATIONAL DEBTS STATED IN POUNDS.

Countries. National Debt. Population.

United States . £1.000,000,000 United Kingdom . 790,006,000 Netherlands . . .. 83.000,000 Hamburg 4,600,000 France . . 400.000,000 Portugal . 30,000,000

... 107.000,000

•224,000,000

. .. 26,000,000

- rgesideat Jahuson. In casting about for a candidate lor Presldaft in 1H69, no Republican names Andy Jqhnson. He is thrown overboard by the Republicans, completely, Anally. They desire to hang on to his coat tail and to use him while he remains in power. To this he may consent. If he d6os he will show himself less a man of spirit than we had taken him to be, and will go out of office with the contempt of all sensible men. Johnson, if ho has a particle of discernment, cun but see that the Republicans despise him in their hearts while they flatter him with serpent tongue. It will be recollected that while the Republicans in the late objectless but wasteful extra session of our Legislature refused to pass a resolution introduced in favor of punishing Mr.. Jefferson Davis, late President of the Confederate States, still they likewise failed to pass a resolution indorsing the course, or approving the sentiments, or even expressing personal respect for the President of the Federal Union. Johnson is played out with the Republican party, so far as hopes for the future are concerned, and the sooner he understands it the better; the sooner, if he is a man, will he cease to be led by them only to be used, betrayed and deserted. Colfax is steadily cutting Johnson’s throat, and denying it. The Extra Session—One purpose of It. It was announced, a few days ago, that the State officers had borrowed of the First National Bank, of this city, the money to pay the January interest on the State debt. This was just at the close of the extra session. It thus appears that the extra session consumed the money in the treasury, and forced the State to borrow money to pay Intarest, thus charging up interest on interest to the State. Thus we *<» Illustrated the grcnt.bonefit, at least, if not the purpose, of the extra session. In fact, it very thoroughly cleaned out the State Treasury. ^ ^ From Vorsey’* Frets. The Distinguished Dead of 1805.

JANUARY.

14. TliomasCliurcli Brownell, D. P., Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut, at Hartford, Connecticut, aged 86. 16. Edward Everett, statesman, at Boston, Massachusetts, aged 70. 23. Joseph Pierre Proudhon, French radical

philosopher, at Paris, aged 66.

26. Perl Mehemet Pash

a, Grand Admiral of

the Turkish navy, at Eyoub, aged 92. —. Joseph Desire Court, historical

at Paris, aged 66.

painter,

Mouseau Sayfettl Pacha, Turkish Minister of Finance, and ex-Governor of Trikula and Damascus, at Constantinople, aged 79.

FEBRUARY.

13. Thomas Holliday Hicks, United States Senator from Maryland, and formerly Governor of that State, at Washington, aged 76. 16. Nicholas, Cardinal Wiseman, Prince Archbishop of Westminister, England, at Lon-

don, aged 62.

17. George Phillips Bond, Professor of Astronomy, and Director of the Observatory at Harvard College, at Cambridge, Massachusetts,

aged 39.

21. Field Marshal Viscount Stapleton Colton,

Item the MflwOtoe (WU.) Fun, D*. if. etum«« Soldier’s wife th •« Hired Man ^ lean Huafcant and <

t ef (he Guilty-

reeta

Fergiven.

V

THIS DEAD TEAR* BY HENRY W. FAXON.

town

sktoa, Portage county, where he has a little farm, and an interesting family. When the tocsin of war sounded its dread alarm. Bartill’s couragdtand patFlottom Induced »» to enlist in his country’s service. His little farm was deeded to his loving wife. Huts ten, with whom he also left consihcniblo^Boupy, and he proceeded to the wars. During his absence the wife loaned three hundred dollars of the money left her to one Nels Gasmer, receiving his note therefor, but nothing occurred that Johnson heard of to arouse any suspicion jis to the infi-

delity of his wife.

“ When this cruel war was over,” Bartill Johnson, with the other u brave boys,” came marching home. He was mustered out at Madison, and in getting his pay received a check on the First National Bank of this city for the amount of one hundred and fifty-nine dollars and seventy cents. Everything now went on very smoothly until a few weeks since, when the wife was taken sick. This continued some days, until on Sunday, the 17th inst., she asked to be taken to a physician at Stevens Point. Her husband, thinning only of her comfort, consented, and procuring aeon-

other children, the eldest of which waa a girl about eight years old. Alter the wife had departed on Sunday morning, Christian Hendrickson, a farm hand.* - asked Johnson to go into the woods with him hunting, which he consented to do, taking the only gun there was himself. They returned at noon, nothing unusual having occurred. After noon Hendrickson proposed another hunt, himself to carry the gun, Johnson refused. Hendrickson seemed angry, but went alone, and It was well. Hendrickson had not been gone very long when the eldest child was taken with a severe sickness, and exhibited unmistakable symptoms of having been poisoned! This was subsequently proved to nave been the case, Bartill Johnson began to suspect something! All was not right. As soon as he could leave his home Johnson proceeded to Stevens’ Point to see his wife, having first discovered that all his money, checks and notes had been taken. Upon his arrival at the village he learned that his wife had been seen In company with Christian Hendrickson on the way to Milwpqkqe. His suspicions were confirmed. His wife bad deserted him, and taken his bard earned ’• greenbacks " with her to support her in her ini-

quity.

He immediately telegraphed to the chief of police of this city, who was on the lookout, lu due time the parties—Christian Hendrickson and Kursten Johnson—arrived in this city, and proceeding to the La Crosse House, on West Water street, entered on the register, “ Bartill Johnson and wife.” While here he requested Mr. Varbe'n, the proprietor of the hotel, to accompany him to the Frst National bank. This he did; and while there Hendrickson presented the check above spoken of, and demanded the money, Mr. Verhein telling the cashier that he was Barfill Johnson—and he knew nothing to the contrary, as his name had been entered upon the register in that manner. The money was paid, and Hendrickson, saying that he could not write, requested

Verhein to do it for him.

The twain were now prepared to continue their journey, and hud not a smaller matter

21. Field Marshal Mseount Stapleton Colton, their Journey, and hud not a smaller matter K. C. B., Baron Combcrmere, at Clifton. Eng- j interposed, they would undoubtedly now be i—-""-I o-J far from here. Unfortunately for them, just as

! they were about leaving for Chicago, officers | Shaughnessey and Fuss came around and In-

land, aged 93.

— Herr Narbut, Polish historian, aged 82.

MARCH.

!• William Cannon, Governor of Delaware, at BrldgevUle, Delaware. 10. Charles Auguste Louis Joseph, Duke de Morny, President of the Freneli Senate, at Paris, aged 53.

APRIL.

2. Richard Cobdeu, M. 1*., radical reformer, at London, aged 60. 15. Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, assassinated at Washington,

aged 56.

20. Valentine Mott, M. D., LL. D., at New

York, aged 80.

1. Rear Admiral Fitzroy, of the British Navy, committed suicide at Sydenham, Eng-

Navy, committl land, aged 50. 21. Hon. J<

30.000. 000 20.000. 000

3.000. 000 222,000

86,600,000 4.000. 000

Spain” ... 107,000,000 le’ooolooo Austria . 224,000,000 36,000,000 Belgium 26,000,000 4,500,000 Bavaria .. ... 26,000,000 4,600,000 Hanover . 7,100,000 1,800,000 Brunswick . 1,500,000 278,000 Saxon v 9,500,000 2,100,000 Denmark 12,000,000 2,600,000 Greece . 4,000,000 1,070,000 Russia . . 231,000,000 76,000,000 Prussia . 42,000,000 18,000,000 Wurtemburg . 6,000,000 1,700,000 Oldcuburg ... . 600,000 294,000 Brazil 15,500,000 7,700,000 Chili . 1,500,000 1,400,000 Norway 1,500,000 1.500,000 Sweden 1,700*000 3,700,000 It will be remembered that our interest will average six per cent. European nations pay three. Groan on, loorkiroj men; your officers are fat. High salaries, ijig fees, with right in . the of fleers W to fill the jails with the poor, at the county’s expense, to force payment; sixty thousand dollar jobs on the treasury, etc.

Tl»e -Negro*

A great deal is said, now a days, about the disposition of the negroes to work. We here have hod ox|R‘rience on this point. We know how they work here, and we presume they work elsewhere about as they do here. A negro is, of course, a negro wherever he may be. The negroes are able to work, and do work, and will work more or less. They like to work in town and cities at irregular labor, rather than at steady labor in the country. There are better and worse among them. The worse, perhaps, preponderate. The better will work, take care of themselves, and survive. The worse, will work little, steal much, live mean and in rags, gradually perish, so that, as a race in the United States, they will steadily diminish relatively to the whites. And when they become diffused through the whole United States, and their places in the South are supplied by white Northern and European laborers, as they will be, the South, and the whole country can get along with them, if we do not Invite turmoil and anarchy, by giving them the right of suffrage, thus Mexican, izing our Republic. If the negro should not vote in Indiana, neither should he in the South; for, ’the negro in the South to no bettor than the negro in the North. And we shall never open the polls to him here, till we are prepared to have our elections turned into worse farces and tragedies than they are now. JLftd What are they now? •

Jeremiah Clemens, Kx-Unlud Senator at Huntsville, Alabama, aged 50.

26. Charles IVaterton, naturalist, at Walton

Hall, near Wakefield, England, aged 83.

vitod them to the police Station. They were i discovered, and in the clutches of the law!

They could do naught but submit.

On Wednesday tne Sheriff of Portage county, having been notified, came down, with • Johnson. The truant wife confessed, entreated for forgiveness, and was forgiven. Hendrickson. who had destroyed the peace of his family, was taken back to Stevens Point in irons.' Let him receive punishment sufficient

for his crime, ,

From tb* Chicago Tim**.

niracnlous Escape (ram Death.-The Evils of the Tenement System. The feelings of horror occasioned by the West Lake street tragedy, in whieh six men lost their lives, has hardly hud time to abate, before We are again called upon to-record another in. ttnceln which eight human beings narrow!/ escaped losing their lives from nearly

the same cause.

Patrick O’Brien, a painter and grainer, re-

to this city with h!s wife and six

4**1/ ItViSZ Tv taiXVAAVAVAy A ■ 1VA y yjHJ.

30. Hon. John Catron, Associate Justice of 1 c *utly _ the United States Supreme Court, at Nash- > » malf children, hoping to secure employment ville, Tennessee, aged *6. I »nd a home. He succeeded in obtaining work

Dfeep in the dim And misty aisles and sepulchres of the Past. tne white tombstones mirk the

mounds

Ratoed o’er the buried years. Time, gray ami

grim,

Sits silent—wcavteg the shrouds of ages. Around him lie the now unheeded years,

Big with the memories of deeds long lapsed;—

Of centuries of Cfhne, of Blood, of Wrong,

Mingled with tears and joys—with hopes and With the meek history of our Saviour—with

His perfect love and walk, and with

Salvation sweet: with prophesies and thoughts Too vast for comprehension; with that power

That rolls abroad the skies in endless blue,

Blazing with lights defying thoughts aifd

mind—

Illuminatingall the avenues to Heaven! And with Time, brother of Space—illimita-

ble—

Those twin confusions to our early thoughts,

Proving an omnipresent Deity! To Time, the dying year is but a gram

Of sand to the vast shores of oceans. Silently He gathers in the husks of all our joys— The ashes of our pains. These, the years that

die,

We think—but do not die—for each is but A separate feature of the vast design An overruling Providence hath displayed, To mock each sense and lead our souls To worship. Hark! upon the gale The wintry demon bears a doleful sound— The funeral tones of Death. The Y'ear to dead— Gone with the mouldering relics of nnnumbered worlds To rot beside Antiquity. To be forgot, And withered in thought, though sadly filled With tenderest recollections. To he Forever dead, though frighted with the souls souls Of those, who, as the fleeting breath passed out -

And unlamented.

his mission

For the Dead Year!

How hard to die, unwept

heart

The Year hath wrought

To us he breught festivity and Joy And if, amid our pleasures, oft th<

Earth’s sorrows

bow

ere came ,

unforeseen, we could but

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JUNE. 6. Sir John Richardson, naturalist, at (irosvenor, England, aged 76. 8. Sir Joseph Paxton, architect, at London, aged 62. 10. Lydia H. Sigourney, poetess, at Hartford, Connecticut, aged 74. 23. Rear Admiral Dupont, United States Navy, at Philadelphia', aged 61. JULY. 4. Alonzo Potter, Episcopalian Bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania, at San Francisco, Califbrnla, aged 64. 11. Richard Hildreth, historian, American Consul at Trieste, at Florence, aged 58. 16. Madam Eliza Jumel Burr, at Washington Heights, New York, aged 91. 23. Arthur Tappan, an original Abolitionist, at New Haven, aged 79. AUGUST. 4. William Edmonstone Avtoun, author and Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lcttres in Edinburgh University, at BiackhllK near Elgin, Morayshire, Scotland, aged 58. 27. Thomas Chandler Halliburton. (••Sam Slick,”) at Isleworth, England, aged 68. 29. John Brough, Governor of Ohio, at Cleveland, aged 53. 8RPTKMBKR. 2. William Rowon Hamilton, Astronomer Royal of Ireland, at the Dnnsink Observatory, county of Dublin, aged 60. 5. Joseph Bonaparte, Prince of Muslgnano. celebrated as an ornithologist, at Rome, aged

29.

12. Hannah F. Gould, Poetess, at Newberryport, Massachusetts, aged 74. 18. General Christoph Leon Louis Juchault dc Latnofieiere, at Rome, aged 59. 15. Johann Frederick Eucke, astronomer, director of the Royal Observatory, Berlin, at Berlin, aged 72.

OCTOBER.

18. Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston, Prima Minister of England, at Brocket Hall, Herts, aged 80. 28. Joseph Emerson, Worcester, lexicographer, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, aged 81.

NOVEMBER.

9. Jacob Collamer, United States Senator, at Woodstock, Vermont, aged 73. — Dr. Heinrich Barth, African traveler, in Africa, aged 44.

DECEMBER.

9. Leonard I, King of Belgium, at Brussels,

aged 74.

18. Thomas Corwin, ex-Unlted States Sena-

tor, at Washington, aged 71.

30. Henry Winter Davis, ex-member of Con-

gress, at Baltimore, aged 48. M ■ ■

Escape of a White Bap fra as the In-

dians—A Starr of Captivity. Lieutenant Thomas E. Sallee, of the thir-

teenth Missouri cavalry, communicates the following deeply interesting statement, from Mound Station, Colorado Territory, to the St.

Louis Democrat:

“ On the 27th of November, 1865, a small boy, supposed to be about twelve years of age, of rather dark complexion, black hair ami black eyes, come into a ranche, near Mound Station of the overland stage line running from Atchison, Kansas, to Dover City, Colorado, about one hundred and seventy miles east of Dover. He could speak very little plain English, but by signs could easily be understood. 1 being in command of the military at Mound Station, on hearing of his arrival, immediately brought

him to my station.

“He is nowhere, and is learning to talk very ast. He informs me that the Sioux Indians ‘have had him captive for manv years, but he don’t know anything about his parents, but

oses that they were killed by the Indians e time of his capture. He neither knows his name nor where he was captured. He left

suppi at tni

the Indians on tho 24th inst., eighty south of this place, on the Republican river,

miles

eig]

. ibfi<

three thousand in number. He luckily made hts escape on a pony, but running his pony to death the first night, he was then compelled to take it afoot fbr three days, arriving at the ranche on the evening of the 27th. All that he had to eat alter leaving the Indians, until he arrived at the ranche, was one crow that he found dead, and a piece of a dead ox. He says

Indians ha

the Sioux

sve two white women and

several negroes captive now. He is a good

looking and intelligent youth.’’

A Sharp Clergyman. Emigration to the State of Michigan was so peat (luring the years 1886 and 1886, that every louse was filled every night with travelers wanting lodging. Every traveler there at that vill rein

great noust

strange Brown, an eccentric Methodist minister, stopped one night at one of the hotels in Ann Arbor and inquired if he could have a room and bed to himself. The bar keeper told him he could unless they should became so full as to render it necessary to put another with him. At an early hour the reverend gentleman went to his room, locked the door, retired to biz bed, and soon sunk into a comfortable sleep. Along toward midnight he was roused from his slumbers by a loud knocking at the door.. “Hallo I youthen,” he exclaimed, “what do you want now?” particular stress on the last word. “You must take another lodger, sir, in with yon,” said the voice of the landlord. “What! another yet?” “Why, yes, there’s only one in here, isn’t there?” “One! why, here’s Mr. Brown, and a Methodist preacher, and myself, already, and 1 should think that enough for one bed, even In Michigan.” The landlord seemed to think so, too, and toft the trio to thair repose.

:ig work

at the Union stock yards, but was obliged, from the scarcity of houses, *to place bis family in two small rooms in the rear of a grocery store on Harrison street near Desplaincs street. On Tuesday evening, with his family,

nr

l|)a«ajuie9 WVI X7X7V. family, in all

eight persons, he retired to a very small room off from the main room, which served for the

dining room and kitchen.

Before retiring to rest they had been sitting around a small cooking stove, in which was a

one of the children crying, when he perceived a strong smel I of gas in the room. 1 ie attempted to rise, but found himself nearly overcome with the fumes of the gas which was emanating from the stove. He succeeded in crawling to the door, which he opened, and was partially relieved by the fresh air. He then struck a light, and on going into the inner room a sight met his eyes which made him recoil with hor-

ror.

On the bed from which he had Just risen Isy his wife with her head thrown back, gasping for breath, and writhing in fearful convulsions. Two of the youngest children lay beside her, all presenting tho same dreadful symptoms of distress. Turning to the lied on which lay the rest of his children, he found them in spasms, their little bodies trembling and convulsed with the effort to breath. Horror stricken and nearly frantic, he rushed out to a neighbor’s house, telling him “ for God’s sake come in, my children are all poisoned.” The friend followed him in, and on coming from the fresh air into the poisoned atmosphere of the room, staggered back, faint and sick. Recovering himself he went in, and, with the assistance of tho husband, brought the sufferers out to the pure air. This, however, did not revive them; they still continuing deathly sick. The neighbor started immediately for a doctor, and soon returned with Dr. Clark. By this time the mother and children breathed easier, but were still prnnounced to be in a very critical condition, their lives seeming to hang but by a slender thread. They were all laboring in a state of asphyxia, and the efforta made by the lungs to throw ofl' the gas were painful to witness. The doctor at once proceeded to relieve them by everv means in his power, and soon had the satisfaction of seeing the mother comparatively easy, and out of danger. The youngest, a year old on New Year’s day, was the next to recover consciousness and give signs of returning strength. As the efforts for the resuscitation of the remainder were continued, one after another began to grow easier and to suffer less. Yesterday morning, the condition of all the sufferers had materially improved, and they were all thought to be out of danger. Had they remained but a few moments longer in the vitiated and poisoned atmosphere, that room would have been transformed into

another chamber of death, and a whole family would have been discovered lifeless and still. The oldest child, Peter, is but eleven years James, eight; John, six; Ellen, five; Tho three; and the youngest child of a year, i

old;

five; Thomas,

three; and the youngest child of a year, all of them strong, robust, healthy children, to which fact may be attributed their almost miraculous preservation from a truly horrible death. It is really a matter of surprise, not that occasionally a person is suffocated while asleep, but that more arc not. In the use of different kinds of coal from which exudes noxious gases, the greatest care is necessary, to prevent the stifling vapors from, escaping into the room instead of by the chimney when the draft Is shut off. In the miserable tenements occupied by a large portion of tho people of this city, where ventilation is imperfect, and, in many cases, almost entirely absent, with such poor arrangements for fuel as are in the power of the needy, the only wonder is that such calamities occur as seldom as they do. Yet what cau be done? Poverty can not be alleviated; tenement houses will exist in all large cities, and therefore the danger is una-

voidable.

A Girl~Detekminf:d to Lead a Life of Shame.—Sarah Fisher, the young woman who attempted to kill herself at the Piozetta, by taking arsenic, had been found by officer Curran, and was brought up to be confronted with her parents. The latter, worthy people of Waterford, were anxious that their daughter should go with them to the home from which she had been absent for over a year. The latter petulantly refused. Her face flushed with auger, and she bit her lips with feminine rage. “I won’t go home,” sue screamed. Justice Neary told her that this was the only opportunity to escape from the life of a common prostitute, and her parents besought her to give some reason for refusing to go home. “ Because I don’t choose,” was ail the answer she made. The justice said he must send her to the House of Reftige: but Randall’s Island had no terror for one who had braved death by

agonizei

mother. The latter burst out in a flood of tears, and there were few dry eyes in the court

room.— Troy (JV. F.) Times.

4m’

Thk hardened murderer, Wilson, hung at Genesse, New York, on the 22d, refused to entertain any clergyman or receive spiritual advice. The Sheriff had caused his photograph to be taken as he was on his way from the jail to tbe gallows against bis protest. For this be told the Sheriff, as he stood with the rope about his neck, that “he would take bis (the Sheriff’s) picture d—d quick if he had the Ct power.” He died like a brute, without lookmg for sympathy from any one present, wii- 2 son confessed that he did not bear his truename, and refused to disclose it or tell hit history to even hit eounsel. He did, however, confess that he killed Hon. Burr Barton, at

y last, and also that he killed

Syracuse, In May last, and also that, a Mrs. Lewis. In Lancaster, Ohio, about one ▼ear ago. He hinted at many other erintem but disclosed no particulars. He gave his body to his booniel. who sold it to a surgeon

And thank th8 overruling Power, that Hope — Bright^ed and smiling Hope—throned on the The universal angel of mankind. Who sits, next to Balvation’s sell, the white— Robed emissary of Heaven, alone remained. I^t us rejoice, that the dead Year baa left With us, dear friends, and faith ineffable, And that we still mar ask No fairer Fate, If, gaining wisdom up to age, from youth, We can but learn that inevitable truth, That God is Great 1 Proa tho Bottom Doily Voioo. A NOTH KR XKA«EI»Y. A Waauua's Throat Cat by Her Has. band la Baotaa-Caajngal Cabapplneee, Jealbusy aad Harder. About fouro’doek yesterday iternoon, peBlackstone House, street, had their atby the breaking of a pane of glass in the window of the third story of the above mentioned house, and accompanying the crash saw a woman with her throat cut. Notice was immediately sent to Station No. 1. when officer Fletcher went into the house ana up into the room. There he found a woman with a frightful gash in her neck, and a man standlngiiear her with a bloody razor in his hand. The man upon observing the officer, declared his intention to “ finish tbe job,” and while making a motion to use the razors thir' time upon his own throat, was prevented froi . doing so by the officer, who seized Mm by the arm, and, with aid, conveyed him to the sta-

tion house.

Here he waa unable to speak. He waa covered with bis gore, and with bloody hands sank to the floor, unable to articulate. It was discovered that he had cut his throat in a frightful manner, the gash being about six inches in length, and entering the windpipe. Dr. Moore was called to render medical assistance. In a short time he became conscious, and seemed to be sensible of his dreadful situation, and expressed a knowledge of the horrors attending the conception of his bloody deed, and the coot atrocity of ita execution. He told the surgeon he did not want to live, but wanted to ale. It appear* that the man's name is Lewis Frederick Simmons; that he is twenty-eight years of age, and was in the employ of Mr. Atwood, oysterman, 23 Providence atreet. On Saturday night, Mrs. Simmons engaged a room at the Blackstone House, bringing with her a little girl about three years of age. About eleven o’clock yesterday, a man was noticed to knock at the aoor of her room, and was answered with: “ Lewis, I do not want to let you in, for fear you may nave a pistol, hut if you profolse you have got nothing to hurt me with, I will let you tn.” Simmons replied that he had no weapons. He was accordingly allowed to enter. No unusual sounds were heard in the house as coming from the room occupied by Simmons and his wife, nor was it known that he had cut her throat until the discovery was made from the street. When the officer went into the room, he found Mrs. Simmons lying upon a lounge, bleeding profusely from a gash cut on the left side of the neck, about five inches long, and partially severing the windpipe. The carpet near the lounge was bathed in a pool of clotted blood, and the window immediately opposite and the floor in several places was reddened with human gore. The woman was able to speak, and realized ber terrible condition. Her husband, it appears, cut his own throat slightly, and 1 then drawing the razor across bis wife’s throat, ; applied it to bto own with a steady hand, as if ! determined to go into eternity at the same time with his wife. The woman gave the alarm by breaking tbe window. Doctors Maghill and Foley were summoned and soon arrived. They rendered the unfortunate woman all the assistance possible. The gosh was pronounced a serious one. but it was their opinion thst she might possioty live. The woman in this case belongs to Wellfleet, and is about twenty-eight years of age. The old atory of jealousy on the part of the husband is the cauae of the occurrence. She had not lived with her husband for some time. From some knowledge of ber history, gleaned from a police officer,It seems that she had refused to partake of hit bed and board on account of his ugly, and dangerous disposition; she was afraid to live with him for fear of personal violence. Her fears have been too sadly realized. A few days since tho woman thought of going to her parents, where she might get out of his sight, for, like the hunted slave before the sleuth hound, he was on her track. Other reports, apparently well founded, would show that her character for chastity was bad. She had, previous to stopping at the Blackstone House, been boarding at 231 Hanover street, and at times made her home at various and questionable places. Her child, a fine looking daughter, has for some time been under protection at the “ Home for the Little

Wanderers.”

Last evening the woman was Iving quite comfortable, and the man was still alive at the city hospital. It to possible, bat not probable, that they may both recover. This attempt at murder and suicide caused considerable excitement at the North End. M ■ A Remarkable Family Gathering.—a remarkable Thanksgiving gathering took place in York, Maine, at the residence of Daniel McIntyre, Esq. Four generations were present. The venerable grandfather is eighty-two

We would invite the attention of the Trade to our ftall assortment of Winter Boots and Shoes. Our Stock consists mostly of the very best grade of Staple Work that can be found that is adapted to the wants of the Western Market. We are the sole Jobbing Agents in Indiana for the sale of J. W. Brigham’s celebrated Custom Work, at Factory Prices. Our Goods are all Warranted, and will be sold at the lowest market

rates.

Established in 1 899.

DisBolution of Copartnership.

il i

THE

CHINA TEA STORE, . IV*. SO Bate* House, INDLAJST-A-TPO LI S. TTAVISO JUST RKTORSKD FROK THE EAST IX 'With ao nnmually choice lot of Tea*. eomUtlng of IMPERIALS, GUNPOWDER

mn* FIB* OF FiTZHUGH, PATTOOH k CO., wa* ■ (Utolred on tho 38th d»y of December, 1865, by the withdrawal of Lee M. Fftzhogh. All debt* due the fins will be paid to Webb, Pattlaon * Co., who will pay all debt* due by the firm. . LU M. FITZHUGH, W. 8. WEBB, A. K. PATTI SOS. Wn. NEEDHAM

JEWELRY.

Oolong-

TTOTJTSrO HTSTSOIsr, and Japan,

We are enabled to offer greater Inducements than ever,

both in price and quality.

We have, also, 300 Caddies, running 2, 4, 6,8,10, U and 20 pound* each of Tea, Just tbe thing for family

UM.

A discount of 10 per cent, will bo made on the boxes. THE CHINA TEA STORE, !Vo. 90 Bates House. H. H. LEE.

THE WHOLESALE

ZDIRTST Q-OOIDo

—AND—

NOTION TRADE

Will b» continued under the firm name of

Jenison, Nelson &. Co.,

(Successors to W H. Talbott A Co.,)

No.24 East Washington St.

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, WBOUC8AM A3TO BITAIL DKAUCBS IK

WATCHES, JEWELRY,

Silver and Plated Ware,

[WAVE constenUy on hand a la-ge and welt selected IX stock of fine

WEBB, PATTISON & CO., Go , d and silver Watches,

PURE SPICES. Wo have Just received from New York, a lot of pure

Ground Spices, consisting of

Genuine English Mustard,

Pure Ground Cluuuusou,

Clovao, Black Popper, Bod Popper, Atopic*, Hut-

nogs, African Ginger, Jamaica Ginger, etc.

We warrant tbe above Ground Spices strictly pure,

and at the lowest prices.

"tee’s Baking Po*der” 1* thought by many tbe best in tb* market. It Is free from any deleterious effect, and Is perfectly pure—truly tho “ housewife’, friend ” Try

U,ladi*e.

We keep Stevois’ best Java and Rio Ground Coffees Lor*ring’s Ssgars, old Government Java and R]o Coffee

at tho

“CHINA TEA STORE,”

No. 3 Atword’a Block,

South Meridian St-, Indianapolis. and dSt

IVo. 90 Bates Hoa

deotdte

R. H. LEE.

Vjfiri ESPECIALLY lSTITT. THK ATTENTION OF VV the Trade to the following kinds of work:

26 Cases Men’s Arctic Overshoes; 25 Cases Men’s Rubber Overshoes, 25 Cases Men’s Buffalo Overshoes;

26 Cases Women’s Arctic Overshoes; 25 Casas Women’s Rubber Overshoes; 26 Cases Women’s Buffalo Overshoes; 5 Cases Women’s Fur Lined Balmorals; 8 Casea Ladles’ Calf Fur Lined Polish Boots,

(a nice and desirable article;)

5 Cases Ladies’ Flannel Lined Polish Boots; 20 CaaeaWomen’s A Calf Flannel Lined Bat’s; 10 Cases Misses’ A Calf Flannel Lined Baimls;

fl Cases Women’s Dutch Kip Balmorals; CORNER ILLINOIS AND MARKET STREETS, NO. 63.

60 Cases Men’s 17 Inch Kip, full stock, Boots; ,

25 Cases Men’s 17 inch Kip Lumberman’s Tap | Wedding Slid ClmStmaB CakCS

Sole Boots;

CONFECTIONERIES, ETC.

GO TO

CUNNINGHAM’S.

100 Cases Men’s Calf Boots; 100 Cases Boy’s Boots, all kinds.

EVANS, MAYO & CO., 127 Stouth YIeridlan Street, TIST DIANA. FOL.IS, HSTX5.

BOOTS AND SHOES AT WHOLESALE. dreSS dSteod

A.ISJI3 CA.3STDXES.

IS STORE bsa been neatly fitted up, sad new pre- _ sent* a fine appearance. His table is not quite , and can accommodate a few more Day Boarder*.

GROCERS.

Wholesale Grocers.

TV laTi

THE ICE CREAM MAN Hoa turned his attention to getting np Wedding and Ball Sapper, on the most reasonable terms. He has a* rent* to pay, and flamers hlmaelf that b* can furnish any thing lu his line cheaper than any other house la lUpCake* Iced and ornamented with neatness sad dispatch. decS d3m JP. HfiY-yiT ES, MauufaclDrer and wholesale and retail dealer in all kinds of CONFECTIONERY, No. 40 West Washington St.,

T0USEY, BYRAM & CO.,

*

South Meridian Street, HO. 9 ALVORD’S BLOCK. Indianapolis, Indiana, WIOUliAlA MAJLKUM I>RY »OOI>» AND YANKEE .NOTIONS, Offer to the trade a superb stock of PRINTS, DELAINES, Ticks, CJuutou Flannels, Drills, Red White and Cray Flannels, t Jeans, Satinets, Shawls, White Wool Blankets, Batting, Cotton Tarns, And a full Has of DRESS GOODS

Of American and Foreign Manufacture

FINE GOLD JEWELRY

Of the Latest Style*.

DTJBDETX GOODS

Of all Patterns.

Pure Coin, Silver and Plated Hare,

In Oreat Variety.

And Yankee Notions.

declStf

hair intermixed with hto black locks or whiskers. He carries on his farm in person; last summer worked with the hands mowing in the field, and now performs all the duties connected with the care of two yoke of oxen, live cows, one hundred sheep, etc., etc., assisted only by a young lad. He reads his newspaper regularly without spectacles. His bigger and better half is hale and hearty, weighing two hundred and twenty-five pounds. Tney have had twelve children, eleven of them being alive; ten of whom were present at the Thanksgiving feast; one, not having quite reached bis growth, measuring six feet three inches while standing In stockings, with lots of grandchildren to make granumother’s goodies disappear somewhat rapidly.—Proriaence Press.

NOTICE.

stoned, having purebassd tbs entire stock of tb* firm «f ORMSBT k ROBERTSON, Clothiers at No. US South Illinois street, Indianapolis, lad., will cootlaao tho basin*** at tbs same place in bis own name, where ho would bo ptoasod to maet all his *M friends who may desire clothing, and ho hopee, by boaooty and fair dealing, to moot a continuance of the patronage of tho patrons of the old firm. JOHN. L. ORMSBT. Having sold oar entire stock of clothing to tbe above, we feel safe in recommending him to the pablic, and we hope our former patrons will continue to do bu'toess at tb. same old stand. GEORGE W. ORMSBT. dtl2-d3w JOHN G.JROBR8T80H.

WANTS.

IML

PER YEAR! Wo wont agents - — everywhere to aoll our mwovun (SO ihlaw. Three now kinds. Under and upper

toed- Warranted five years. Above salary or largo commlnion paid. Tb* oxlt .aid in Doited H^Whe&AWiW’ GrorerBisserTfCo^ “ RVwtRz tt 11 NOD, \jrwV®* gp JBwWPp BIBRCr flw O. | end Bachelddr, Another ohsep machine, are infringement*. Circulars free. Address, or call upon Shaw k Oark, Blddelord, Main*, or at Vo, m Broadway, Vew

Lombard’s Block, Chicago, III.; »o. 174 West Fourth ft., Cjadnaatl, O., or Vo. S Spaulding’s^ fadtrere, BufiMo,

vrsn&Ts.

CIGARS, ETC.

prar™ •'.“ d-'W. 71'1’^AftV

call on McGaw, Hllaeie street.

ELLIOTT, RYAN & 00.

49 toomth JlerldlAB Strewt.

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA,

WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

GROCERIES & LIQUORS

rg HAVE JUST RR0K1VKD AN ENTIRELY new and well assorted stock of all kinds of

GEROC IE K/IIES,

tom I tablet to tit la Trade.

Which w# will tell on as favorable terms as any establishment tn tho West, having been bought at the recent doeline la prices.

All Ctooda Warranted to Keepmnd Made off Pare Sucmr. VNAKILUf and Parties supplied with all kinds and F stylo of Cakes and Candies. dec* d3m

MERCHANT TAILORS.

GROCERIES, ETC.

WM. SWR rajJBT.

B. F. ORAM—AD.

Watches, Clocks and Jewelry

Repaired, and warranted by the proprietors, they being practical workmen. GEO. M. JKN1SON, H. L. NELSON, JonSdtf ALEX. F. JkNISON.

TAILORS.

MERCHANT TAILORS.

WM. SWE1NHAKT Sc CO., IVIer’chant Tailors, AND DEALERS IN RENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS,

R B. ALVORD & CO.

£•« tl South Herldtaa Street, anmpmtis, Ind.

ladl-

Wholewale Dealers la

Dealer* or* Invited to call and

EXAMINE OUR STOCK

Befbre ParcliaatBg.

We ttaaraatee all Article* Mold to toe K^aal te Samples..

Orders Promptly Filled.

Wt have just rocalvod

An Assortment of Goods

Suitable for tho

OhrifstmwR

C. A. ELLIOTT, J. B. BTAN, T. F. BTAV.

ELLIOTT, RYAN * GO.

decU dlmlstp

WANTED.

$80,00 Per Month.

W A. T 15 1^

CIGARS, TOBACCO, ETC. WALLACE BROS., Wholstale Dc alert and Manafactarm’ Agents for the aalc of C I G- A. IR, S , ■.ear and Manufactured Tobacco, BROKERS, —AMD — Gen’l Oommission Merchants, AOKITTB FOB New York Ci|far■ 5 Pittsburg Soaps; Bergman’s Soaps and Candles; Kaufmann’s Bitters; Hickey’s Plug Tobacco; Virginia Plug Tobacco; Missouri Plug Tobacco; Hanna’s Fine Cuts; New York Teas; H. G. O. Cary’s Shoo Polish; Belcher’s Syrups; Great Western Coal Oil Company; Catherell ft Co.’a Cigars and Smoking Tobacco; • St. Louis, Indiana, Hominy Milla.

VV store at Vanufoctnrer*’ Pricos. 47 toomth Delaware Street, deett dtw

GROCERIES & LIQUORS,

No. 1 Alvord’s Block,

(Termer Meridlam amd Georgia Sts.,

PAINTINGS. ETC.

Holiday Presents -ATH. LIBBER & OO.’S, Nm. 91 Nortto Pemmsy 1 wmmlm St. Ftme Palatine*, EaAraYlmgv* Utkograptoa* tPheteffira phv* » Battably Framed. MIRRORS OF ALL STYLES AND SIZES. AI*BUm*-A I*arge Variety. Frames, of Different Btyloo maftSlmwo, •a hand er as ado tm erdcr.

A LLof

(Lzr

.£.1

LL of which w* oflbr at fair prices—a* low a* tb* son* goodaean b* boaght, dther to OtodniMtl or,

H. LUtBBB ft CO.,

1 Building, No. U North Foaaoylvania street,

doc 4 dim

FOE went.

01'

owM

Dwelling House to Rent,

mk

a. a ALroao. t. a. ALVOBU. na* ofTLauare, Late of A. ft H. Schnnll.

dwisdtx

Indianapolis.

GROCERIES.

1. a. oaousLOHD. A 0. OAIXA.

w. j. onxBana.

DOUGLAS* KAOUIBI. J. m. CALDWELL.

Crossland, Maguire & Co.

WHOLESALE

a- o oee/S, Cer. Meridian and Maryland Sts.,

novltdtf

INDIANAPOLIS, END.

COMMISSION MERCHANTS.

are. w. ■■suvona, jab. i~ snAuswrea, wa. r. watsou. GEO. W. DEBEVOISE Sc CO., STORAGE, FORWARDING AND Geni Commission Merchants For tho Purchase aad Bale of GRAIN, FLOOR, LARD, BACON, DRIED FRUITS, SNBDB AND PBODDCN GNNERALLT, IVo. 4L D0Ti.i8ia.x1 a. St., Opposite east end Onion Depot, INfDEdJVAPOLlS, KVMAINA.

L^ 1 Ate^/SVwtete*^* > OreBors, IndlaaapoUa. Dretea'im*, Icq-, Gob. Freight Agon*, B*U,B.B„ ’“ffigtLdto. Nsq., Gre. Freight Agm^T .H.ft K. ‘iLCtorTMlto feoretar?. J#fl*rt**vtn#B.L,Jofftr-

TOBACCO.

STOLWORTHY & PIERS0S,

THE ONLY

F-A-SITIOlSrABLE

MERCHANT TAILORS

IN THK CITY,

Are now offering their entire stock at

Greatly Reduced Price*,

To make room for their heavy invoice of

SDRIIVO GrOODS.

ALL soou and examine their ftr.e stock and leave your measure at I*o. 17 Vorth Meridlam Street. decBO dim

CLAIM AGENCY.

WAR CLAIMS.

NATIONAL WAR' CLAIR AGENCY. (.Authorized by Government.) K LL CLA88IS OF WAR CLAIMS PROPERLY APJ\. plied for and promptly obtained. An efficient Agent at Washington City. Business transacted by mail. Parties having claims will write, stating all facts, and papers, with instructions, will be forwarded to them promptly. Toucher* bought or collected. Office opposite Theater, next Masonic nail. No. 79 West Washington street, Indianapolis, Indiana. J. W. BLAKE, (La‘eCoI. 4Cth Ind. VoU.) Attorney and Authorized Government Claim Agent. docS dim

HOTELS.

AVELINE HOUSE, Corner Calhoun and Berry Sts., (Orrosrre Court Hods*,) POST WAYrVE, IXDIAXA.

H. C. VOX, - - doc* dim

- - Proprietor.

SHERMAN HOUSE, Opposite Eaton Depot, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Margesa & Co., Proprietors.

PROFESSIONAL.

Mr. JOHN M. KITCHEN

rWruroiB to glv* hit entire time and tho preetio* ef hisprofesaioa. All per* tehtea for rervtere am requested to mak «rvS2A>TSs: -*•“•■•"'-’•

attention to

All persons indebted

requested to make Immediate

jaaldft*

> 147 North Pennsylvania street.