Indianapolis Leader, Volume 1, Number 17, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 December 1879 — Page 2

THE IMAPOUS LEIDER BAGBY & CO., Publishers. I INDIANAPOLIS, - - INDIANA TO SUBSCRIBERS. If you fail to receive your paper, notify this ofllce at once. RESUME OF THK WEEK'S NEWS.

United States currency outstanding at tala date $362,784,119. Congress opened on Monday. It has not fairly got to work yet. Mrs. James P. Läse, sister of Mrs. Senator Yoorhees, died on Saturday In Lafayette. The president and cashier of an Allegheny, Pa., bank were jailed for conspiracy November 27. The Russian minister has been recalled from London. No successor as yet has been named. John Barrett, a 12-year-old boy, was drowned in the canal at Cambridge City on Thursday. Orer $1,000,000 bullion was withdrawn from the Bank of Enzland on Friday for the Untied States. The New York lottery dealers will sue Postmaster James for not delivering letters addressed to them through the mail. It looks as if more trouble might be expected from the Ute Indians. The work of the peace commissioners is at an end for the present. W. II. Vanderbilt made an Immense sale of New York Central railroad stock last week. It amounted to $:JO,000,000 or 20,000 shares. John R. K. Dunn, an old and respected citizen of Spencer, Ind., died there last week. He was the first white child born in Owen county. The grand jury at Ogden, Utah, have found four indictments for polygamy. The jury reported great difficulty In obtaining truthful testimony. The Mississippi xirer commission appoint ed by the president, under the recent act of Congress, met at Memphis, Tenn., on Thursday, to begin tbeir duties. Parnell, the great Irish agitator and protector of Ireland's interests, sails for America shortly. His reception here promises to be very enthusiastic among his fellow countrymen. A squad of 16 deputies, raiding towns near Atlanta, Ga., was surrounded by a large force of armed mounUineers, and forced to surrender a prisoner alleged to be the leader of the moonshiners. The deputies surrendered without a fight, but one of their num ber was wounded and left In a fence corner for dead by the mountaineers. The deputies left the county. The house of a Mrs. Tichner, at Norwich, Conn., took fire on Thursday last. The neighbors ran to the house and found Mrs. Tichner sitting in a chair burned to death. One-half of the town of Owensboro, Greene county, was burned on last Thursday. Burcham'i Hotel and the greater portion of the mercantile establishments were burned. The Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Lafayette railroad has been ordered to be sold by the United Statescircuit court. The time of the sale will be fixed by the master commissioner. It is stated that the bill providing that the public printer shall be elected by both Houses of Congress will be passed. The patronage of the office amounts to $1,500,000 annually. The Grand Opera House of Toronto, was burned on Saturdty morning. The janitor, his wife and child, were burned up. Loss $200,000. Said to be the finest theater on this continent. The circulation of National bank notes is increasing at the rate o! $3,000,000 per annum, and the administration is now trying to solve the question of how to retire the legal tender notes. The president, cashier and all the directors of the First National bank of Butler, Penn.. were arrested by direction of the solicitor of the United States treasury for false statements, frauds and perjury. King Alfonso of Spain and the Arch duchess Marie Christine of Austria were married in Madrid on Saturday. Three hundred thousand people axe attending the rejoicings, incident to the occasion, which will extend through lour aays. Crowley, who was on trial at Chicago last week for throwing pepper into a railway messenger's eyes and robbing him of $10,000, a few months ago, goes to the penitentiary for seven years. The jury disagreed in the case of Gillen, his accomplice. Alfred Roberta accidentallylahot and in stantly killed a man by the name of Bildenback, at Syracuse, Ind., on Thursday. There is no explanation (riven, except that the former had a gun in his hand and the latter was leaning on a fence, and the gun went off. A London special says that the condition of Ireland excites great and real uneasiness. Many Irish landlords era leavicg the country under threats of assassination. The Gov ernment is determine! to put strong meas ures in force at once to maintain public order. The six days' bicycle race at Chicago was concluded Saturday night at 11 o'clock, the core standing English Cann, 855;Stanton, 810; total, 1,065. American G. Hsrrison, 868: Ratland.800: totai.1,658. So the English men won in spite of the 100 mile handicap they allowed the Americans. GENERAL NOTES. Charles Reads, tne novelist, has made 1175,000 by his pen. General Grant's father died at the age of 80 and his mother Is still living. Gkxiral Bin Butlxb, in paying his cam paign bills, finds a little Item of "118,000 for printing." Secretary Thompson, of the navy, goes to bed at 939, and he is a good talker, especially on theological subjects. Hxnrt La wa Sil wth, a fall-blooded Sioux Indian and a son of a leading chief of the Yankton tribe, has been ordained paster of the church at Yankton. Mks. SA dt used to be a Roman Catholic, but eonclndes to spend her remaining days as a Baptist. She is 91 years old, and was immersed the other day at Sardis, W. Va. Professor Leeds has read a paper be Tore the New York Academy of Sciences showing that analyses of taffy candy discloses lamp black, aniline, fusil oil and Chromate of lead. Thx greatest taxpayer In the United States, If not In the world, is Mr. Blackwell, the North Carolina tobacco manufacturer, who pays a tax of 1520,000 a year, 110,000 a week, or over 11,428 per day. Shipbuilding on the Clyde was never so active as now, 70 vessels being on the stocks In the 35 building yards. Twenty-three new keels were laid last month. The French Transatlantic company is having eight aew steamers constructed there. California apples are not seen in the markets of the Eastern States, and It is not generally known that good varieties of that fruit are produced on the Pacific coast; bat the fact is that they are very fine and are monopllzlng the market of New Zealand. The Cincinnati Enquirer: "Senator Bayard may organize his personal boom on a non-

sectional basis, bnt he will And that the opposition to him will be sectional In the most exasperating way.' His fight against the silver dollar will not be forgotton in the West." One of the most remarkable results of the late election in Virginia was that In which an old politician, who had been frequently elected to the LfgMtUure, was defeated by bis former slave. Senator David Davis is still ill. The Bloominstou (III.) Pantagraph says that he "mourns with the grief of a strongman the loss of one who for over i) years was all that a loving and trusting wife could be, and who brought to his heme that peace and bliss that wealth and honor could not give." A friend of Chief Justice Chase attributes his death to the fact that he had not practiced law for 21 years when he became chief Justice, and found himself eo deficient among the profound old Judges associated with him, that be studied day and night to remedy his defects and brine himself up to the fit standard, and under this mental (it rain he broke down. Tiik Boston Pont: "Even the Republican arithmetic man can not ruaxe out a satisfactory electoral vote for bis side without Including New Jersey and Indiana. By what violent process does he propose to lift those States out of the Democratic ranks, where they have always been, Just to make his political ledger balance?" Leading Southern men who have recently arrived lu Washington say that the Northern Democrats must select the hi ad and tail of the presklectnl tieftet, and the Southern States will come np to the scratch with 138 electoral votes. They only ask thtlr Northern brethren to carry New York and Indiana, and they will do the rest. Jay Goclim check for 1300,000, which was given to Commodore Garrison on the purchase of the securities of the Missouri I'aclno railroad a few days ago. Is said to be the largest check ever drawn by any private individual in this country. "That amount," said Gould to the commodore, when tuetyttle bit of paper passed between thetu, "U only a portion of the money I made lu my operations in ," naming a certain stock now apparently on the down grade. A romantic young couple, llvlug lu Lisbon, N. H., went out lor a drive, aud in returning were carried by their ruuawey horse Into the Ammonoosuc river. It was so dark that they dared not turn arouud. The horse swam across with them, but the water lu the deepest part encircled their nec lis, though they stood upod the buggy sen. The opposite bauk being too steep for the horse to ciluib, the couple got ashore over the ahalts aud rescued Uie horse by cutting hlui loose. At New Philadelphia, O., a huge dog, In attempting tJ scale a high fence into a yard missed his calculations and lauded at the bottom of the well, (to fett deep. Tne family thought the water rather "rlley" next morning, but could not account for it. About noon the hired girl, upon looking into the well, discovered a pair of gleaming eyes staring at her from the bottom. Help was obtained and the dog drawn up. lie trus in the well about 15 hours, and kept alive by swimming all the time. Mu. KrcKUEo.v, it appears, "makes no bones of taking what material he wants from the sermons of others. Dr. Ar in I tage is quoted as saying that he heard Mr. Spurgeon preach a beautiful sermon oue day, and at Its close the famous KnUhruuu announced to his congregation that half of the discourse he had Just preached he had got from Jukes, an exoellent

English divine, adding: "Next Sunday we shall be indebted to him for two-thirds of the sermon which you will hear." And he fin ished with a commendation ol the book to his people. II. C. Lon, of Delaware, who recently mar ried for fun, has done the thlag again in a serious way. in 1975, when ho was only 18 years old, he was walking In Philadelphia with Miss Lucy Roblnsou, a young miss of 15, when he proposed that they should be mar rled. Sue agreed, and In ten minutes the Joke was carried Into effect, lie took, her to the house at which she was visiting, and they did not meet again for a year or more. They sub sequeutly became award that the Jooular mar rlage was binding, anl.&sboih had formed other attachments, a divorce was applied for and granted. Onk of the Indies of the harora of his high ness, tho ex kbedlve, has doped from Naples. The Plccoto quotes the Corrlera del Msttino, eondrmlcg the report: "It may be regarded as true," It says, 4 fjr the Quedura has discov ered the nest of the doves at Fogla, but when the discovery was made they were already married according to the civil law. The lady, It is said, is French, and the acquaintance was made In a somewhat romantlo way. The gentleman, a Slguor D'E'la was palotlug in the neighborhood of the khedlvo's house, when from a distance he caught slight of the lady and was conquered Some suspicion having been awakeneJ, the artist was prohibited from painting any more at that spot, and full two months have passed since the Journals reported that an artist had been driven away with some violence by a boatload of the ex-khedlve's retainers. An intercourse by signal, however, was renewed and after a good deal of telegraphing the lady disappeared." You Are Mighty Right. CrswfordsTllla Journal. Tho .Review proposes to have all tho colored citizens of Montgomery county use their eliorts to drivo back colored refugees who may see proper to come here. If that paper expects the colored people of Montgomery county to join the Democratic party in a mean and conternptiblo prescrip tion of their own race, through the mean and sordid motives to which it appeals, it will find itself very badly deceived. There may be white Democrats who would attempt to drive the poor fugitive, in search of a peace ful home, back to the blood-hound and the shotgun of the Mississippi bulldozer, but it will search creation over in vain for a negro mean enough to assist him in his inhuman attempt. The same spirit would have placed Zach illiams, Harn oodfork.Lem Gipson, Eph Wheeler, Aaron McCrea and Dick lliatt bacK into slavery, Jo Fisher and Geo. Vilest to Germany, and George Markley and Ben Silvers to the btatcs they- camo from. Such a theory is Know Nothingism gone to seed. Like3 Our Logic. Christian Recorder. "To-day' exclaims the Sentinel, "if there were no negroes in Indianapolis, the price of white labor would be at least one-third higher." "Why, bless j'our idiotic soul, if there were no white people in Indianapolis, negro labor would be at least twothirds higher. If there were no newspapers in Indianapolis, the Sentinel might have a comfortable circulation. If there were no Republicans in Indianapolis, tho Democratic party might have a ma jority. This is logic gone to seedbut it is the kind that abounds in the pre judiced pate of the writer of the above quotation. Indianapolis Leader. This is the logic of the Indianapo lis Leader, one of the spiciest of our exchanges. Locke himself could not beat it.

' Whatsoever a Man Soweth that shall He neap." How true are the words above, and how fully does the farmer, planter and gardener understand the truth of it? No farmer ever sows wheat and expects to reap a crop of barley; reither docs he sow oats and expert a

crop of rye; hut he expects to sow and to reap only of such as ho has sown. The stock-raiser expects only fiom certain kinds and grades of stock he will have only a corresponding grado or kind. The full breed will produce a full breed, while tho mixed and mongrel kind will bring the same. The same is true of tho elements. ' Heat gives off heat, while ice will give of! cold. The honest, the upright, tho good and the truo will give off liko qualities, while tho evil, tho depraved, the low and the vicious produce tho namo evils. Tho parents who are healthy and strong, generally have strong, healthy children; while parents who are weak morally, socially, intellectually and physically, goncrally their children will show at once all these marks upon their bodies and minds, or upon both I How often and how terribly are parents made to feel and to trenv bio when they know tho many dread evils they so continually are bringing to bear upon their children. Look at the scrofula, consumption, and scores of other diseases preying upon their vitals, while impure and poisonous blood courses their overy vein. God says, "I will visit the iniquities uf the fathers upon their children, even unto the third and fourth generation of them that hato rao, and keep not my commandments." Then are not theso ills in most cases chargeable to parents? Is it not a fearful thing for parents to bo thus entailing misery upon tho unborn? Should you rest content till you have rooted out the very seeds of disease from your own bodies? While it is criminal to disoboy any law, is it not more criminal to disoboy tho laws of nature and of life ? Is it not criminal to drink and fill your body with disease and your heart with murder? And he who thus destroys his own mind and body; can he become the father of strongbodied and strong-minded children? Like begets liko. The stream cannot riso higher than its source. Can the idle, vicious, indolent and baso produce that which is perfect ? As certainly as bad colds and coughs, neglected, will bring on consumption and death, just that certainly aro we to blame if wo do not euro theso evils. Then aro parents not to blame for their own weakness and ignorance, when they know full well, that they are not a blessing oither to themselves or to the world, and that thev are continually thrustinrr thous ands into life without boing able to help society take caro of them ? Can tho wicked and vile of earth estimate tho dread calamities being entailed upon the world by such a wretched class of beings as those who hato God and keep not his commandments aro continually raising up? Is not the liar, the thief and tho drunkard but the children of liko parents? Does not the drunkard often inherit his love for strong drink from drunken parents ? History teaches us that nearly all of our good and great men, have had the best women on earth lor mothers. George Washington was tho son of a religious and pious mother, rrofessor O. S. Fowler, the great American Phrenologist, says that "it is not so much what parents do, as it is what thev are. that controls their ottspring." While we can hide our faults from others, we cannot hinder the young from partaking of all our natures. Then should not parents cease to do evil ; cease to poison your hearts aud minds, and cease to murder those poor bodies, given us for wise and good purposes, and learn that whatever we sow, that' shall we also reap. Kot only God but the vile sinner hi rcself remembers all his sins that he has committed. Though scores of years may have elapsed, this sin will never be effaced from his mind, and the remembrance of it will continually fill his mind with fear. Such being the fact, how all-important to the young, that they carefully avoid all sin, and strive to be right in all things and at all times. Those who commit theso awful crimes and sins in youth, breaking away from all parental restraint, profaning tho Sabbath and indulging their evil passions, are laying up a treasure of sorrow and pain for all coming life, here and hereafter. Tho seed you are now sowing will pro- j 1 .1 , ... ?A A IIA i II uucctue outer iruu oi wmcn wcsnaii forever and ferever be compolled to eat. The poet, Keble says : "We scatter seeds with careless hand, And dream we ne'er shall see them more ; Bat for a thousand years their fruit apDears. In weeds that mar the land or healthful store. The deeds we do, the words we say, Into still air they seem to fleet, We count them ever past ; But they shall last in the dread judgment day, And we shall meet." The boy who is disobedient to his parents, reckless of his reputation, idle at all times, slow and careless, loßienng vulgar tastes, who is proane, drinking ana smoking, who practices corrupt reading, and cor rupt thoughts filling his mind, it but i

PETITION TO

To the Hox. J. D. Williams, Governor of Indiana : To the Hon. J.D. Williams, Governor of Indiana: Sir We, your petitioners, represent that William Nelson, a citizen of the State of Indiana, of the county, of Vigo, is now confined in the Prison South, at Jeffersonville, by the decree of a Vigo county court, for the alleged crime of marrying a white woman. We

respectfully represent to your excellency that the law under which William Nelson is confined is a relic of pro-slavery legislation, dictated by Southern slaveholders, previous to the late war ; that the said law is in conflict with the amended constitution and laws of our country, and entirely at variance with tho genius of our free institutions. We therefore respectfully ask you to exercise your prerogative by releasing William Nelson from the penitentiary and restoring to him his liberty, of which he is unjustly deprived, and your petitioners will ever pray.

sowing the seeds of shame and sorrow for his manhood. Tho scriptures teach us that they are true, and they tell us this, lie ure your sin will tind you out." "As ye sow,, so shall ye reap. Alpha. Tho Trio parent, the teacher and tho The parent is defined to be The child: tho father or the mother of tho child. Tho teacher is one who instructs tho child. Tho child is the son ordaughterjof a parent. Wo havo now arranged all of tho parts of our trio, and are ready to sing each one performing his part as directed. To escape all possibilities of a discord, each should lirst execute his part alone, beforo all uro allowed to sing together honce the parent shall take tho soprano, tho child tho alto, and tho teacher tho bass. The school board shall beat time. The parents part runs as follows: Truthfulness my child; obedience to all in whoso care you may bo placed; politeness to all whom you meet; .honesty in all of your dealings; a prompt attendance in the Sunday School; a fer vent love for the church; remember thy Creator in tho days of thy youth; love and serve God, votir continual preserver. The child's part: 1, As the truthfulness of you father, so 1 shall be; 2, my obedience depends upon your orders and tho desire you have to see them promptly performed; :i, my politeness will germ from that thrown out by tho way in which you and father speak to each other and about your neighbors; 4, tho honesty is dependent upon the payment of your just debts, and if unable to pay them when asked, your answer to your creditors as to the timo of their final settlement; 5, my attendance upon tho Sunday School will depend upon tho time you lio in bed on Sunday mornings; G. my love for tho church can be produced by having family prayer, and your love for tho church and your pastor; 7, if you remember your creator in tho days of your age, I shall certainly imitate you whilo 1 am young, so nearly as I possibly can; 8 my love for God is increased, according to the God you show mo in your ways, actions and conversation. The teacher's part: 1. The teacher teaches tho child what truthfulness is, and what happiness there is for one who always speaks tho truth how his future success depends upon the acquisition of this habit of speaking the truth at all times. To do this, the teacher should be truthful himself 2. That the obedience to the laws of one's country lessons tho number ot jails, State prisons and gallows. 3. No one is truly educated who has not yet learned politeness; for it is tho very soul of a refined education, and is the line of demarkation between barbarism and civilization. A Your living depends upon your honesty, for no one will give you employment unless you prove yourself to bo an honest boy or girl. 5. The Bible is the foundation of all just laws, and its principles should be learned early in life, as they will be needed in your old age. Here the bass is allowed to rest or sing at pleasure, and as many to whom we sing desire our silence, we will give the benefit of our option at tho rests of six, seven and eight. But on Sunday our divine can ably sing these parts, that are forbidden the teacher by many. We are now all ready to sing together but just at this point, when half through the fourth and filth measures, wc hear a discord. We stop to see where it is. In looking around, we behold a Dante, Thomas Payne and a Bob Ingereoll. Payne declares that the Bib'e is a branch of ancient mythology, and Ingersoll says that Moses made moro mistakes in the composition of the piece we are trying to sing. Well, what shall we do? The Board says to the teacher, "sing as far as the sixth, then rest, and let parents and their ministers sing as best they can" hence, we are seen in the ninetecth century in this pre dicamentdifferent churches singing different parts to the same people, (Americans), and all singing at the same time. How will this piece end? No one stops to consider, and I imagine myself seated by a mill pond, enjoying (?) the sweet (?) and varified notes cf the inhabitants thereof. Vincennes, Ind. -Non Dum. Evansville, Ind., Dec. 1st, 1879. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Leader: I beg leave to give to the many readers of your excellent and instructive sheet, a brief history of the life of Gen. J. 31. Shackelford, as far as my acquaintance with him will admit: I have been personally acquainted

THE GOVERNOR OF INDIANA.

with him for twonty-fivo years. I have ever known him to bo a truo r l x i t menu 10 mo oppressed nice; i never know him to strike one while ho had them in his charge. He is held in the highest regard by tho colored people ot Kentucky; whenever they near of his coming to Kentucky, they shout for joy to meet him. In my acquaintance of twenty five years with him, 1 never know him to begin a thing without first giving it duo consideration, whereby ho has over prospered. If ho bo elected for Governor of the Stato of Indiana, ho will do nothing to interfere with any business whatever, unless it bo contrary to tho statutes of tho Stato. Although he was a slave-holder, ho bore arms to liberate them. Gen. J. M. Shackelford is a man of inrtuenco and unrivaled eloquence. His ability to act in the capacity ot Governor is unquestionable, and if overy colored man of influence will use every exertion to place General Shackelford at tho head of tho ticket, they will gain an everlasting benefit to the State. Respectfully, Our Imm grants. GreDcsitl Bnnner. It is true that a largo majority of tho colored immigrants from tho South aro poor, but why? It is because they nave been cheated out of their labor and their prosperity for years. They come to us with hands that are able and willing to work, and all thev ask is employment. Having been robbed, they aro without money, and need a few days entertainment, and perhaps some clothing to protect them from tho rigors of winter, but when they find homos they will tako caro of themselves. No raco of people show a lower rato of public paupers than they, and it is an insult to good sense and common fairness to call them such. Give them Fair Play. JNorth Carolins R'iiiblican. The new postoflico at Italeigh, the finest building in the city, was finished off by colored men. Tho entire contract was awarded to Ellison and Irving, both colored. The Indianapolis Leader, a paper published bj' Messrs. 13agby & Co., in the interests of tho colored people and of the Republican party, comes to us regularly. It is a spicy journal and should receive a wide-spread and hearty support. Kokomo Gazette. (Crowded oat laat week.) Cleveland (O.) Nows. Mr. L. W. Turner, a colored gentleman, connected with this paper, the Voice, is a man of experience in such matters, and I should like to see him editor of some good colored paper in this city. A colored man was found one day last week in a very bad condition, in an old barn, so sick as to be unable to leave his straw bed. This was on Herald street. Some of the neighbors notified the superintendent of the Bethel, to which place he was soon afterwards carried. It is seldom that uch a thing as this occurs here. It is hoped that the colored military company here, which is progressing so finely now, will not turn out to be another failure, because there has been already two such failures in this city. The Barnet and Cleavland city guards were in a flourishing condition at one time, but where are they now. This oitv is in need of a well drilled and organized company, such as it is hoped the present one will be On the morning of the 21st of Novem ber about 15 couples of young people of this city met at Mrs. R. illiams', of Blair street, and from there went to Mr. J. Stanley's residence, on Harmon street, the 21st of November being Mr. J. Stanley, r.'s twenty-first birthday. When the muse was reached it was found that he lad gone to attend the meeting at the A. VI. E. church. He was immediately sent for. In the meantime the dancing had commenced and was continued until nearly two o'clock. As was expected, a de lightful time was had by all. Non Nolo. Paris Items. Rev. Hutchinson left for Mattoon last Tuesday. Mr. T. Porter is occupying his new store room on North Main street. Mrs. James Pettiford has been ill for some time, but is much better. Miss Eliza Mitcheni,from Areola, w vis- j iting her parents in this city. Mr. James Moody has retired from bus iness. He is a 'professional" now. Miss Nettie Morris was the "best look ing lady' at the festival Thursday night Quite a number went over to Terre Haute last Thursday, to attend the "social hop." The members of the A. M. E. Church will give a grand fair and festival two nights, during the holidays, at the Opera Hall. The festival given for the benefit of the Baptist church last Thursday night, was a success. Some twenty or thirty dollars were cleared. Mr. Morris, "from the North," was visiting friends in this city, last Saturday and Sunday. He left Monday. Look out for a change in the weather. Misses Mary and Fannie Carter, of Madiaon Indiana, will b here, during the

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holidays. They will he the guests of Mrt. Troy Porter, on East Court street. The Literary Society meet at the second Baptist church. Subject for debate: Resolved, That intemperance is a greater curse than slavery: Affirmative, James Goitis; negative, John MMdleton. Q. Cum blr. Brazil News. Mr. John Pa tin v isnn Ilm sirk Hut 1 1 J MiasCvndia Hurnpr in not PYnfwtM to ,ui8SUnuia liarper IS not expected to ! live. Times are lively with the coal mines here. Brazil Idear. is building a P. O. Very good The young men's literary society is to be reorganized. Mrs. Mary on the mend. Hill has been sick, but is Mrs. Dickerson is visiting relatives in' Ft. Scott, Kansas. Rev. Jno Mitchum of Terre Haute was in the city on business. Mr. Bennet Steward's barber shop was robbed the other night, no arrest. Mr. rhillin Taylor and Thomas Jefferson of Coal Creek, are in the city. Mrs. Fishia Browning of Terre Haute has been visiting friends in the city. Mrs Burton Stewart has returned from Noblesville where she has been attending her sisters funeral. Mr. John Pappy has completed his barber shop, and it is without exception the finest in the city. Logansport NewsIn last week's items instead of Prof. Palmer it was Prof. Colman. R. P. Brown says that he wants to go back to Chicago, for he had lots of fun. Don't forget The Leader, and the place to get it. Miss Rhoda Turman is your agent. . Mr. S. Parker, the fat man, says he contemplates starting out for a female pernonator in the Spring. Mr. C. V. Brown contemplates going to Kansas City on or about the 15th of next month. He will make it his future borne. Mrs. C. II. Parker has been quite ill. We hope she will soon be up and in our midst again. Her son George has been very sick with the diptheria, out has recovered. The A. M. E. Church will give a festival on the 11th of December under the management of the board of trustees, who want to raise money to complete their church. All are invited. The Rev. McSmith's sermon of last Sabbath eve was quite interesting. His text was 2d chapter of Titus. 14th and 15th verses, and reads as follows: Who gave Himself for us that He raicht redeem us from all iniquity and perfidy, unto himself, a peculiar people, zealous of good work. Oreencastlo News. The zing-nag was well attended last Thursday. T. H. Johnson is able to be on the streets again. Thanksgiving day was duly observed by our citizens. Mrs. Ellen Jones has been quite sick, but is slowly recovering. The Literary Society was largely attended at the last meeting. There was another cake walking at Hinten M. E. chapel last night The Banner is a terror to the Yazoo Democrats in this section. Step in at Burks' and see the splendid display of holiday goods. Miss Mattie Horney, of Bainbridge, spent Thanksgiving in our city. Sam Bush and Sarah Bridgeman are the champion cake walkers of the day. Tthirty-seven emigrants arrived last Thursday and Friday, from North Caro lina. Doiiivan's Tennesseeians were greeted with a large audience. The performance was excellent. The great demand for colored help here among our farmers sorely troubles the i a zoo Democrats. Shipley, our popular jeweler, has just re ceived a large and splendid stock of jew elry fer the holidays. bam imsli wants to know how many revolutions the fly-wheal at the rolling mill makes a minute. John IIen8ing. go soak your cranium in cool water; get your muddled brain set tled and then come again 1 Tom Ecton, you must not act so rude as you am at tne aepoi, or you win De presented with a leather medal. John W. Cain, one of our most industrious young men, is to visit Long Branch and Boston, lie will stop over at Indianapolis on his return. Last week an article was published in the Star, written by some Yazoo Democrat, and signed by one Luther Monroe, a colored chap, who came out from Virginia some time ago, to help fill the places of the miners who were on a strike at Brazil, Clay county. It was all right, I suppose, for him to come, but he thinks it a terrible wrong for the oppressed and suffering people o4 the South to come north, where they can procure labor and get pay for it, and be protected in their rights. Now, we would say to Mr. Monroe, that all the immigrants we have had the pleasure to meet and converse with, are his superiors in every respect, and if bis sympa thies are with the lazooites, let him pack his traps and go back to the land of shot gun rule, as this community can spare him and all others of his stamp. All who have arrived have procured places and gone to work like men. and still there is room lor more. kovzr.

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.

The Resumption of Specl8 Payment Commented On at Length. A Pew Worda About the Marked Bawd in the Business of the Country. Legal Tender Hole flfot Acordlus; Lsw, and N boa Id Be Abollftbe!. to The MormoNt, Civil Service od Man Other Matter DIscums!. Fr.LLW-ClTIZENS OF TIIK BlXATE AÄD IlOCSE or Rkpresentativim The members cf the Forty-Hlxth Con grew have assembled in their first regular session under circumstances calling for mutual congratulation and grateful acknowledgement to the giver of ail good for the large and unusual measure of national pro perlt y which we now enjoy. The most interesting events which have occurred in our public affairs since my last an nual ruessaKe to cxmgress ure connecteo. witn the financial operations of the Government directly affecting ihebualnes luuresu o. the country. I congratulate Congress on the successful execution ot the resumption act. At the time fixed and in the manner contemplated by law, United HtnU notes began to be redeemed In culu. Mince the lt of January last they have been promptly redeenud on presentation, and lu all bust net transactions. I publio and private, in all parts or tne country they are received and paid out as the equlva ,en(olcoln Tbedemsnd upon the trVasun uuno anu privsie, in ait pn.ru oi n: country. pon the ireanury for gold and silver in exchange for Uu ited Hllt noles UkN uuen comparatively small. anu ins voluntary dejxit of coin aud bullion lu exchange for uoies has been very large. The excess uf the prtclous inetals depNltedor exchanged for United htaies notes over the amount of United HUiU-s note redeemed is about 1 10,0 m) at. The rehu nipt Ion uf specie payments has been followed by a very great revival uf business. With a currency eqlva'eul in value to the money of the commercial world, we are enabled to enter upon an equal competition with other natlous in tnuie and prouuctlon. The increasing foreign demand lor our manufactures and agricultural products has caused a large balance of trade lu our favor, which has been paid In gold, from the MofJuly Ust to November lr, to the amount uf about 5tt,UUtl.OlH). HI nee the resumption of specie payments there has aUo been a msrked and KTatli)ing iinpiovementuf the public credit. The bonds of ihe Government bearing only 4 per cent, interest usve been fold at ur above par. sufllclent In amount to pay oö all uf the national debt whlcu was redeemable under present laws. The amount or internd taved annually by the process of refunding the debt, since Maich 1, 177, 1st 1117,177. The bonds sold were largely In small sums, and the number ot our cltlens now holding the public securities is much greater than ever before. The amount of the national oebt which matures in l-s than two f ears Is f7Wi, 121 ,7i ), of which A),0.io,mxj bear nterest at the rate or 6 jt cent., and the balance lulu bond bearing tt per ceut. Interest. It is believed that this part of the public debt can be refunded by the issue of 4-per cent, bonds, and, by the reduction ol luterest which will thus be effected, about IU,ui0,UiW can be annually saved to the treasury. Tosecure this Important reduction of interest to be paid by the United Htstes, further legislation U required, whlcu, it is hoped, will be provided by Congress durli.g Us present sendon. The coinage of gold by the mints of the United Htates during the at fUcal year was fJ0,UKti.V12. The coluage uf silver dollars, sine the passsge uf the act for that purpose, up to November 1, 1K7, was IVM.-. of which 12,700,jM have been lssned from the treasury and are now in circulation, auu f z.-imiou are still In the possesion of Ihe Government The pendency of the propcsltlou for uulty of action between the United Htatta and the principal commercial nations of Europe, to enect a permaunt syteru for the eqnsllty of gold and silver in the recognized money of the world, leads me to recommend that Congress refrain from rtw legislation on the general subject. The great revival of trade, Internal and foreign, will supply, during the coming year, its own Instructions, which may weU be awaited before attempting further experimental measures with the coinage. I would, however, s'.rougly urge upon Congress the Importance of authorizing the secretary of th treasury to suspend the coinage of sliver dollars upon the present legal ratio. The market value of the silver dollar being uniformly and largely less than the market va ue ol the gold dollar, It la obvloualy ltipractlcab!e to mslntain them at far with each other if both are colued without tin It. If the cheaper coin is forced into circulation It will, If coined without limit, soon become the so e s audurd of value, and thus defeat the desired object, which Is a currency ol both gold and silver, which shall be of equivalent valu. dollar for dollar, with the universally recognized money of the world. The retirement from circulation of United States notes, wtlh the capacity of legal tender in private contracts, is a step to be taken lu our progress toward a safe and stable currency, wblch should be accepted as the policy and duty of the Government, and the Interest and security of the people. It Is my firm conviction that the la-ue of legal-tender paper money based wholly upon tne authority and credit f the Government, except in extreme emergency, 1 without warrant in the constitution, and a violation of sound financial principles. The Issue of United States notes during the late civil war with the capacity of legal tender between private individuals was not authorized except as a means of rescuiug the country from imminent perU. The circulation of these notes as paper money, for any protracted period of time after the accomplishment of this purpose, was not contempla ted by the framers of the law under which they were Issued. They anticipated the redemption and withdrawal of these noles at the earliest practicable period consistent with the attainment of the object for which they were provided. The policy of the United State, steadfastly adhered to from the adoption of the constitution, has been to avoid the creation of a national debt, and when, from necessity in Urse of war, debts have been created, they have been paid off on the return of peace as rapidly as possible. With this view, and for this parpobe, it is recommended that the existing taws ior tne accumulation oi a sinaing fund suffielent to extinguish the pnblic debt within a limited period oe maintained. If any change or ine oojecta or rates or taxation is Ueemed necessaty by Congreaa, it is suegc 8ted that experience has shown that a duty can be placed on tea and coffee, which will not enhance the price of those articles to the consumer, and which will add several millions of dollars annually to the tr asury. The continued deliberate vlo'ation by a large number of the prominent and Influential citizen of the Territory of Utah of tbe laws oft be United wtates lor toe prosecution and punn-h-ment of polygamy demands the tteutlon of every department of the Government. Thin Territory lias a population sufficient to en;ltle It to admission as a State, and tbe general interests of the natlou, as well as the welfare of the citizens of the Territory, require Its advance from the territorial form of government to the responsibilities and privileges of a State. This Important chanee, will not, bowever, be approved by the couutry while the citizens of Utah, in very considerable number uphold a practice wblch is condemned as a crime by the laws or all clvl.lzed communities throughout the world. The law for the suppression of this offense waa enacted with great unanimity by Congress more than 17 years ago, but has remained until recently a dead letter In the Territory of Utah, because of the peculiar difficulties attending its enforcement. The opinion widely fjrevalled among the citizens of Utah tbat the aw was in contravention of the constitutional guarantee of religions freedom. This objec Hon is now removed. The Supreme Court of the United States has decided the law to be within the legislative power of Congress, and binding as a rule of a Uon for aU who reside within the Territories, There is no longer any reason for delay or hesitation in Its enforcement. It should be firmly and effectively executed, if not sufficiently Ftrlncent in Its provisions It should be amended, aud, in Aid ot Ute purpose in view, I recommend that more comprehensive and more searching methods for preventing as well as punishing this crime be provided. It necessary to secure obedience to the law, the enjoyment and exercise of the rights and prlvlh ges of citizenship in the Territories of the United States may be withheld or withheld from those who violate or oppose the enforcement of the law on this subject. The elections or tne past year, tnouen occu pied oniy with State offices, have not failed to elicit in tbe political discussions which attended them all over the country, new and decisive evidence of the deep Interest which the great body of citizens take in the progress of the country toward a more general and complete establishment, at whatever cost, of universal security and ireeaom in tue exercise of the elective franchise. W hlle many topics of political concern demand great attention from our people, both in the sphere of national and State authority, I find no reason to qualify the opiniou I expressed in my last annual message, that no temporary or administrative interests of government, however urgent or weighty. wlU ever displace the zeal of our people In defense of the primary rights of citizenship, and that the power of public opinion wlU override all political prejudices, and all sectional and State attachments, in demanding tbat aU over our wide territory the rame and character of citizen of the United States shall mean one and the tarn thing, and carry with them anohauenged