Indianapolis Leader, Volume 2, Number 1, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 August 1880 — Page 2

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PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY . BT BAGBY Äc CO., OFFICE, 12 MILLFJrS BLOCK Corner Illinois and Market Sts. J. D. BAGBY, Business Manager. Entered as Mcend-claas matter t the Poetofflc at IndiaDapolis, Ind. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ' Single Copy, 1 year K 0 6 montba ............. 1.00 3 months .,.......... 1 month.............. .20 Clubs of six 1 year, each copy.... ............... 1.75 " " tea, 1 year, each copy 1.50 THIS PAPKK SS . 'SBAVliS Newspaper Ad?ertising Bureau (10 Spruce St ) where advertising contracts may be made for it in NEW YORK. PAY Ul "We hope that all of our subscribers who are in arrears for their subscription will send us the money at once. We need it to defray the neccessary expense of our paper, and we trust that our friends will recognize this fact, and forward at once the money due us. . Our city subscribers, and those in neighboring cities throughout the country will please take notice and govern themselves accordingly. REPUBLICAN TICKETS. National Ticket. FOR PRESIDENT, JAMES. A. GARFIELD, of Ohio. FOR VICE-PRESIDEXT, CHESTER A. ARTHUR, of New York. State Ticket. FOR GOVERNOR, ALBERT G. PORTER, of Marion. FOR LIEUTEN'AXT-GOVERXOR, THOMAS IIANNA, of Putnam, FOR JUDGES SUPREME COURT, Third District BYRON K. ELLIOTT, of - - -Marion. Fifth District "WILLIAM A. "WOODS, of Elkhart. FOR SECRETARY OF STATE, E. R. IIAWN, of Crawford. . FOR AUDITOR OF STATE, ED. II. WOLFE, of Rush. FOR TREASURER OF STATE, ROSWELL S. HILL, of Clay. FOR ATTORNEY-OEXERAL, DANIEL P. BALDWIN, of Cass. FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, JOHN M. BLOSS, of Yanderburg. FOR CLERK OF SUPREME COURT, DANIEL 31. ROYSE, of Tippecanoe. FOR REPORTER OF SUPREME COURT, FRANCIS M. DICE, of Fountain. Marlon County Ticket. Sheriff Henry C. Adams. Clerk Moses G. McClaix. Treasurer John L. Mothershead. Recorder Jacob L. Beiler. Judge of the Criminal Court James E Heller. Prosecuting Attorney "Wm. T. Brown. Judges of the Superior Court Byron K. Elliott, L. C. Walker. County Commissioners John H. Smith. Geo. F. McGinnis, Archibald Glenn. Surveyor H. B. Fatout. Coroner Allison Maxwell, M. D. State Senators George H. Chapmax, Flavius Vajj Voriiis. Representatives Thomas McSheehy, J. S. niNTON, Jonx "NY. Furnas, Vinson Carter, I. N. Cotton. Subscribe for the leader. Let every colored man who favors the elevation of bis race subscribe for the Leader; and let every white man who believes that slavery was a crime against humanity and that it is the duty of the ruling race to aid the Negro in hia struggle for meral,social and intellectual elevation do likewise. Cadet Whittaker is to have a courtmartial at his own request. Our candidate for Congress in this District will Peele Mr., Byfi eld's persimmons, and don-t you forget it. President Hayes and General Sherman made speeches to the Ohio Soldiers' reunion at Columbus, Wednes day last. : A crowd of masked men went to the house of Joshua Mack, an inoffensive colored man living near Columbus, Ind., and after maltreating Mack; made him promise to leave the County. He has made up his mind, however, not to do so. Thus ia the Sentinel's savage appeal bearing fruit. Hon. Stanton J. Pecle, the' .Republican candidate lor Congress in this District, is a young, able, energetic and successful lawyer at present. He made a good soldier when Democrats were trying to destroy the country, and he will make a good Congressman for the purpose of blocking the game of Southern conspirators next year. Near Atlanta, Georgia, last weeki another of those horribly brutal murders for which the South is noted was enacted. An old colored man named Joe Thompson an5 his family were peacefully sleeping in their quiet cabin-home, when suddenly, at the dead hour of night, while all were sound asleep, the house was surrounded by an armed mob of "poor white trash," led by a rowdy whom old man Thompson had prosecuted for an assault and battery. Thohou&e was quickly broken into, and a general assault began onjthe whole family. The two old people were beaten almost to death, and the son and daughter were murdered outright in cold blood by the dastardly, cowardly roughs. Such is Southern hospitality, generosity and liberality toward the Jsegro. When he flies from such treat-

like the Sentinel, and statesmen like Dan Voorhees, say that ho is a mercenary pauper, coming North simply to vote the Republican ticket and take the bread out ot the mouths of "poor white laborers!" The Southern Negro is living between two fires the one kept up by tho long-haired, inhuman, brutal Southern murderer and robber, and the other by his Northern Democratic apologist. Surely to live and multiply under such circumstances, is truly wonderful: But the Negro is not easily exterminated. Ho was able to survive two and a half centuries of the most infamous slavery tho world ever saw, and ho can surely survive a century of Southern bulldozing and Northern abetting.

The following is a portion of tho despairing yell indulged by The Sentinel last Mondav. It seems to indicate that tho Democracy feel that something heavy is goii g to drop, and that they are going to get hurt As usual when anything untoward happens to a Democrat, or to Democracy, "a niger done it." The Sentinel bourbons feel that the State is slipping from their lingers, and they want to place tho blame as usual on the negro. What a cross the Negro has to bear in this world for the benefit of the Democratic party. Surely, his reward ought to be a thousand fold when ho reaches the shades of tho New Jerusalem. But hear tho Sentinel: White men by thousands were tramping along all tho highways of the State, vainly seeking for work and wages. Their wives and children were fighting starvation. A beneficent God had vouchsafed seed-time and harvest. Food was abundant, but the white laborers of Indiana were too poor to purchase. Wage?, at . best, were down to a starvation level. There was a cry for bread, for clothes, for shelter. The poorhouses were full to ovetflowing; the jails were crowded. Crime had increased, and penitentiaries had not cell-room. ' There was Lunger and poverty. The sheriff's hammer was telling in mournful numbers that mortgages were being foreclosed. The music of machinery was hushed; industries were paralyzed; the Republican curse was abroad in the land; the poor were in rags, houseless and homeless; public and private charities were exhausted; there was mendicancy everywhere. In this cheerless winter of dis content, when Indiana had thousands of famishing poor, men and women, pleading for work, the managers of the Republican party conceived the idea ot importing into the State thousands of pauper negroes from North Carolina. They came in mid-winter (for it was necessary to calculate time), without proper clothing,withoht food,without money; they came in one long stream of pauperism, of filth and destitution; they came to graves in an inhospitable clime a mass of humanity enduring all the agonies of privation to vote the Republican ticket. A starving, freezing negro would do for twenty-five cents what was worth a dollar, and take his pay in food fit only for swine; and while he was engaged the white laborer had to retire, until he, like the pauper negro, frenzied by hunger and the waitings of his helpless wife and children, was forced to compete with the pauper negro for work at any price. ' But such scenes throughout Indiana had no effect upon the Republican mancgers. They had determined to "everlastingly get away with the Democratic party" by importing "buck niggers," and they were going to do it if the bones of negroes and white laborers bleached in the storms of winter Qn every foot of the way from North Carolina to Indianapolis. Time was when Democrats did not talk in this st3le about the coming of Negroes. Has the Sentinel forgotten that Democrats formerly went to Africa, and through murder and robbery oft he foulest kind, brought away her dusky sons and daughters, the former to be "hewers of wood and drawers of water," and the latter to bo the mothers of children sired by white Democrats of tho South? It has been less than twenty years ago, if our memory serves us correctly, since Gordon, a Democrat, was tried, convicted, sentenced and hanged by a Republican Administration, in the face of loud and long demands from the Democatic party for his pardon, for bringing Negroes to this country against their will. And these Negroes, too, were to be used as laborers to the detriment,-' according to the way the Sentinel argues, of tho "poor white laborers" oi the South. If our contemporary will, only think about these - matters; take a retrospective view, as it were; it will discover its own inconsistency, and cease violating the earlier traditions ot its party. THE LEADEB. VOL. II. To-day we present to our readers the first issue of Vol. II. of the Leader the last issue having completed our first volume of fifty-two numbers When The Leader was launched upon upon the journalistic sea, there were many misgivings in tho minds of our readers as to the permanence of its existence. On every hand wo were met with the remark "I subscribed for a colored paper, and it went down soon after I paid my money." To all such we gave the assurance that no one would ever lose a dollar by subscribing for the Leader. To-day we reiterate this assurance, and to the doubting Thomases if there still be such wo have only to say the Leader came tostay, and it will stay. From the first issue the Leader has steadily gained in favor and circulation. The universal testimony is that it fills a want. The Leader has found a place and a home in the affections of the people which it shall be our highest ambition to deserve and. retain. The Lea

der commences the second year of its existence with brilliant prospects. The good people of bur neighboring States of Ohio, Michigan and Illinois are giving a genuine test of their appreciation by their increased subscriptions. Tho people of our own State are doing nobly. But not all is done that should be done. There are hundreds of people, not yet subscribers, who ought to subscribe and pay for tho Leader, and thus encbuiage an enterprise fdr the elovation of the race. v We cannot better state the Leader's position than by quoting from a statciaeut made in tho first issue :

"The Leader will present to its readers, in the best style possible, tho latest current news local, State and National, political, literary and religious. "Though the special organ of the colored people, the Leader will nevertheless tako a lively interest in everything that pertains to the public good. - ' "In politics tho Leader will be Republican, believing that the best interests of the colored : people and of tho whole country will bo best conserved and advanced by the success of the Republican party, and the grand principles upon which it is founded. Believing in a strong central government, we shall spell Nation with a big N. Wo shall demand the rigid enforcement of the constitu tion and laws ef the United States, to the end that the humblest citizen of Mississippi or Louisiana shall be as free and unlrameled in the exercise of his political rights as tho proudest citizen of Massachusetts or New York. The Leader believes that tho whole power cf tho general govern ment, civil and military, should be used, if need be, to crush the political bandits who attempt to carry elec tions by forco. "We shall rebuke discrimination ON ACCOUNT OF COLOR WHEREVER FOUND, AND DEMAND FOR COLORED MEN 4 THE FULLEST RECOGNITION TO WHICIf THEIR NUMBERS AND WORTH ENTITLE THEM." THE SENTINEL, JIM-JAM8. Our esteemed contemporary, tho Sentinel, has got , them again the jim-jams. It is none of your Hoosier whisky jim-jams, either, that brings such dreadful visions and frightful horrors to the troubled, brain of our Democratic daily hand organ; it is the genuine old North -Carolina, tar heel, Negro j-j's, with all that the word Negro or "nigger" implies to a sacred Democrat, that marches and counter-marches before the diseased imagination of our unfortunate neigh bor. ' We are sorry for the Sentinel because of its frequent misfortunes in this respect. Only last winter it wa! seized with a very . severe spasm of this same dreadful malady, and grave fears were entertained for its safety, but, unfortunately for itself, it re covered, only to be ' stricken down right here in the August heat by the same fell destroyer, n Its ill-fortune in this respect is truly pitiable. For several weeks past premonitory symptoms of. the return of the old trouble have been apparent in the Sen tinel editorial columns. On IastMon day the disease assumed a virulent character and tho victim burst forth in a terribly frenzied tirade of abuse against the "pauper Negro," etc ; The mellifluent periods of bottled up Dem ocratic eloquence, let' loose on this be casion were, in the language of Nasby, "trooly techin;" and we. have no doubt that many a good old hard-shell-died in-the-wool-mossback has shei great volumes of briny tears upon reading the pathetic wail of our afflicted neigh bor. We assure the Sentinol that it has our sympathies in its heroic fight against ruthless destruction at the hands of the "North Carolina pauper negroes." We ask it to cheer up again and be bright, always remembering that be yond this vale of tears and Borrows there is a land not made with hands, where all is joy and. peace; a land where no "pauper Negro" will impu dently take the bread out of the mouth of "poor white laborers;" no, indeed, there'll be none of that "on the other shore." All will be happiness there, and "poor white laborers" will be fed from the public crib, while no Necroes need apply, Therefore, dear Sentinel, we beseech .thee, cheer up and be gay and happy as you "use to was. The cordial and enthusiastic man ner in which the people of Cincin nati and Evansville are taking hold of The . Leader, is gratifying indeed. With such support throughout the country, The Leader will be a power for good in the land. " We give considerable space to Cincinnati and Evansville news this week. Depugh and Rienzi are two of the most, brilliant writers in the country. The Leader congratulates jtself on securing their services.

ACCOMPLISHED FACT Dr. Tanner's fast. Alabama bulldozing. . ' Chicago census manipulating. The Democratic split in Virginia. The defeat of General Weaver. That Dr. Tanner and some other

doctors disagree. f The early demiso of the National Greenback party. The certainty of a solid Southland a solid North in November. That National Democratic defeat in November is in accord with the eternal fitness of things. That Mr. Tilden is the Mrs. Gummidge of American politics. Tho elimination of tho Third Term from American politics. Tht there is a God in Israel and bulldozing can not last alwa8. The suppression of free speech and tho rulo of the mob in the South. -That tho bottle is mightier than the pen with whisky ringstcr McDonald. That Cincinnati, the glorious old h topped city, is the noblest lioman of them all. TUE LEALER THINKS. That sensible Nationals will vote the Republican ticket. That our Rienzi will rouse "ye Romans" of the Pocket. That tho Greenback majority in Alabama failed to materialize. That the Negro press is coming to the front like a little man. That McDonald, tho champion whisky-ringster, is also a champion liar. That (xeneral Weaver is the "lone lorn creetur" in tho presidential race. That Chicago would better look out. St. Louis has "got it in for her" in 1890. That the National Greenback party is dead, my lords and gentlemen, dead. That Chastine Cox and Pietro Balbo'are having a nice time, now, training for angels. That the Southern shotgun policy will "kick" disastrously to the North ern Democracy this fall. That if General . Hancock is a prudent man he will not resign his commission in the army. That the Maine election will be hot shot and dire contusion to the Hancock and Weaver ranks. That the Nationals can safely claim Texas by as large a majority as they had in Alabama. That 100,000 Democratic majority in Alabama means 10,000 Republican majority in Indiana. That the October election will be a "deadener" and tho November elections a "paralyzer" to Democratic hopes. That Hancock's order No. 40 is good, doughface, toadyism; but 'it is not1 good Unionism under all circumstances. That Cox and Balbo j have clapped glad hands on the other shore, and know what "the sweet by and by" means. That negro journalism in Washton is . somewhat Frenchy arising, probably, from its recent severe Chase-ening. .That the Negro journalists of Washington ought to be thankful to William CaWin Chase for breaking the' monotony of their uniform prosiness.' That Cincinnati is the "boss" city of the West, notwithstanding the St. Louis and Chicago bluster. There's nothing mushroom about it ; it's solid as a mountain of rock. That if good sense prevails at the Press Convention at Louisville, there will be no unseemly and foolish struggle for chairmanships, assistant secretaryships, etc., which has made "colored" conventions,- generally, the laughing stock of , the community in which they are held. The following are the names of the delegates to the State Convention which convenes in September, probably at Indianapolis, for the purpose of erecting a State Grand Master, Grand Lecturer, and other State officers: Lincoln Union Lodge, Messrs. R. Wells, Bcnj. Thornton and S. McClure: O. P. Morton Lodge, Rev. G. M. Turner, Wm. Brown and Wm. Christy. What ttajor Hlmpsoa Thinks of the Leader. UftdUon Star. The Leader, a paper published at Indianapolis, edited by a colored man for colored men, comp to us in a new dress and very handsome. A brave little black man who was a gallant soldier, Sergeant R. B. Bagby, is tho editor, and no makes a good paper. No family of colored people should be without The Leader. It not only deserves patronage on account of its aims and surroundings, but it .merits it on account of its intrinsic value as a newspaper.

EVANSVILLE DEPARTS! E NT, Concluded from first page. The real thief avoids arrest by yelling "Stop thietl" , The Cur-ier claimed, lately, that seventy-five colored men had come up - to thi 4 place on Saturday on the steamer Maggie -Smith, for the purpose of voting this fall, and that the town will soon be known as "Nigger-

town." ' The nervy little Evening Tribune, by investigation, found that the at time mentioued there were not five passengers of either color on board. This Broddingnag lie of the Cur-ier demands respect. NEW HALL AND LODGES. It was our pleasure to visit the place of meeting of the two Lodges of G. U O. of O. F. lately. At an expense of some three hundred or more dollars they have fitted up a lodgo room and attending suite of rooms that is worthy ot the most extravagant nraisc. It is mnered with O I iJ a delicate blue, stationed, elegantly adorned and ornamented with tho insignii of the Older. The floor is coverod with an elegant Brussels carpet, with ; matting on the outer edges. ,Light is furnished by two largo chan deliers and twelve iras lets, it is a thing of beauty. Even the stall where the goat is kept is nicely arranged for that animal s comlort. The brethren seem to love their lodge room, and well they may, for it is a little palace. Tho Order intends to organize a State Grand Lodge on the 10th of Septem ber. Delegates have already been selecfed. From Vanderburgh, 1,702, the following: r. Cooper, Chas. Bur rows, W. H. Beecher; lrom Pride of Hope, 1,972, A. C. Horn, W. N. Cur ry and D. Rouse. The Order should by all means hold their session in this citv and in this excellent Hall. On behalf of the brethren, we invite you The Masons are still in the ring, and wo suppose arc arranging for their coming Grand Lodge. The K. of M. W. are alive, and kicking with the strength of asUirdy younster. THE U. B OF F. GRAND LODGE, is in session now. The ses sion was opened .Monday 12, in regu lar form by tho Grand Master Charles Asbery, all the officers were present. They were visited by Ex- S. D. D. James T. Amos of Kentucky. It is conceded by all that never was a ses sion that promised to do the work that this will. Everv one knows what ought to bo done, and have gone to work with a will. We predict that tho order will be given an impetus in thisbtate that will be of lasting bene fit. At this writing Dr. T. N. Watson one of the leading lights of the order is offering a constitution for subordinate lodges will be one of the most important events of the session many other reforms are expected. We heard little canvassing for office, and as yet no rings offensive, defen sive or grab-ensive have been formed. After the opening of tho session the following committee on credentials was appointed, consisting of the fol lowing names: Ed F. Horn, Evans rille; M. E. Vand Burin, of Indiana polis; C. Miller, of Jefferson ville. The committee reported the following brothers as being eligible to a seat within the bar of the Grand Lodgo of the State of Indiana: Asberry Lodge No. 1, Evansville, sends JSd 1. Horn, Wm. Spottswood, Wm. Mor ton, Wm. Kodjers, James Olden. Gibson Lodge No. 2, Indianapolis, M. R Williams, delegate. Friendship Lodge No. 3, Indianapolis, ijeverly Cary and Doc Wilson, delegates. St. Luke No. 4, New Albany, send3 Herbert iluckins. Enterprise No. 5, Evansville, Louis Whitledge, and Asbury W. Curtis. St. Joseph No. 6, New Albany, Frank Welch. - Harrison Lodge No. 8, Charleston, G. "NV. Claybrook. ."ioung Men's llope No. 9, Evansville, N. Simpson, .Sillier Harris, C. Woods, J. Mas son, h. Horsey, doo Jlubbs, J. Lloyd. St. John No. 10, Indianapolis, M. L. Van Buren. , .TEMPLE!. . I Bethel No. 4, Evansville Luther Asbury and ueorge Uuckner. St. Mary Temble No. 3, Indianapolis C. Alcl'eeters. Debora Temple No. 3, Indianapolis Thos. Poole. i Mt. Carmel No.l, Evansvilla J.Masson, W. Hogers, W . Nelson. Western Star Temple, New Albany B. F. Mitchem. Golden Temple No. 5, New Albany B. D . JU.itcb.em. Mt. Olive Temple No. 8, Evansville H U. McCrary, Uutter, Joe Green. Finance Committee M. L. Van Buren, Luther Asberry, Frank Welsh. Grand Council Dr. Wilson, Indianapo lis: G. llockings, New Albany: Clark McPhoeterii, Indianapolis; Charles Miller, Jef ferson vale; Green C. Calhoun. Lvansville. General Business Committe B. Carey, W m. Spootswood G. AV. Clay brook, C. Miller, Frank Welsh, Ed. F. Horn. i Appointed Officers R. S. G. slaughter; G. Wm. Nelson; Sentinelg, E Frazier and Wm. Cutler; Marshals, W. Curtis and G. Jlitcheil. The following are the leading officers: ' Charles Asbery, Y. M.; G. W. Clay, brook, D G. W.; Dr. T. M. WTatPon. G Secretary.; T. N. Mithem, Assistant.; Henry ui;vfttry, a. a.; r. wasningion, ii. .bee turer. mi Ml TV'1 ..it mey win ciose rriaay witn a parade, and a picnic at Edmonds Grove a few miles down the River, We will give aresumeof the business done next week. . SOME BAD TIIINgS. It is absolutely awful to see little girls, from 12 to 15 years of age, who are full-fledged women of the town. Evansville has more abandoned girls, who walk the streets for aliving, than any city under tho canopy above us. All shapes, sizes and colors are prominent. In this connection two scoundrels, supposed to bo white, attempted to outrage a respectable colored woman Monday night. Albert Hart, colored, with his wife, lives about five miles from town. Hart has been away from home, and left a colored man named Munell and wife to keep his wife company. Two white men called for something to eat about 6 p m., and asked to remain all night. They were refused, and left in good humor. About 12 o'clock Mrs. Hart was awakened by feeling her limbs eoized roughly. She began to scream,

and Munell and wife rushed into the

room and saw the two rascals still -i holding Mrs. Hart. Munell seized a chair and began his work, and the two whito villains fled. If this had been a white woman and the two men black, the Democratic 'press1 would have been howling yet. We report ANOTHER OUTRAGE. About half-past five p.m. a barouche containing six young white roughs drove up to the house of a colored family at the sand-pit, a colored colony, and, alighting, began to break the windows and forco tho doors that tho two defenseless women inside had closed. The six devils entered and commenced beating one. of tho wo men, the other escaping, bhe returned with a cun, at which the scoundrels ran to the barouche and made good their escape The women are respectable, and an outraged public demand satisfaction. They will get it yes, in their minds. ''Wharwuzde police? One came after tho outrage, and "thinks he will be able to bring threo of tho offenders to justice." Colored men should ficht tire with fire. If we allow this to bo done once it will bo done aain. THINGS TO TALK ABOUT. The Knickerbocker club, a new so cial organization of our foremost col ored men, gave a moonlight picnic and German at the salt wells NVednesday nigUt. Everything was elegantly arrangeu. uooa music was iurnisnea, and a delightful time was had. There were several delegates present, and about forty couples of Evansville's ton were in attendance. A. C. Horn blew in his week's sal ary while entertaining a young lady Sunday evening. Is Dr. T. N. Watson married? Miss Fannie White, a lovely young la ly of Owensboro, is visiting Miss Alice Bailey. Mr. James Ambrose says he heard the chickens singing "Am I Born to Die?" The'ffood men are coming. Mr. Goins, an old former resident of this place, is back. He has been living in Daviess county about fifteen years. He is 77 years of age, and having lost his wite and daughterlately, the old man got lonesome and has come to his former home, lie has a son, Bryant Goins, on the police ftrce. Wherever you see Sam Johnson, look there for a white sporting house. A young society man, in sending his card for a young lady, desired to "escort her to the picnic to be given by the Negro club." The White-ribbon club of the A. M. E. church gave the pastor $22 Sunday night. The concert will be given Tuesday night two weeks we suppose Turner Mall the place. It will be the event of the season. Viele Hall, formerly a Catholic church, is the headquarters- of the Young Men's Republican club. The colored Baptist congregation worship there on Sundays while their church. is building. Tho old j church walls have heard strange doctrines in their time; but their ears, if "walls have ears, were never saluted before with the free doctrine of Republicanism and regeneration. A man can hardly tell what changes may occur in this life. Miss Hattio C. Goodrich was in the city Sunday. She spends the remain der of the summer with Mrs. Charles Jackson, at Princeton. Mr. Charles Jackson is here. , He says that a certain newspaper-man was compelled to sell his paper in order to get back home. Nearly every man had a Leader iri his pocket Saturday and Sunday. r. n William Marshall and I. Jones had such a peculiar expression on their. faces Tuesday that everyone was wondering what had happened to them Monday night. We were asked what Mr. William McCutcheon was doingwith that bundle about 1 o'clock Tuesday morning. Mr. Aaron Flowers is the. gentleman who will deliver and collect for the Leader for the Evansville office. He obtained 82 Harnes in one day. The Leader is booming. You sent to this city a large bundlej and your agent was compelled to telegraph for another two hundred. You sent word that your edition of 3,000 was e3c hau8ted. Thisshows the worth of a paper. Rienzl CINCINNATI LETTER. To the Editor of the Lemden The sun is hung out with such force and power at this season that I find it difficult to exert myself except under the spur of necessity. If your readers complain of the infliction of this letter, I trust they will reserve their maledictions for the head of the editor, who is responsible for it. PoliticR and Masonic affairs absorb everybody's attention this week to the exclusion of everything else.' The former affords such a grand opportunity for so many otherwise insignificant andi competent men, an opportunity to swagger and "strut their brief hour upon the stage" and to boast of their importance because of a certain mysterious "'fluence with tho boys." Our county convention met last week and nominated an excellent ticket; so strong in fact that I observe many sagacious Democratic candidates declining to permit the use of their names before the convention of their party which meets to morrow. Until the nomination of Hon. Benj. Butterworth in the first district for Congress, two years ago. Democratic fraud made it next to impossible for the Republicans to carry it. Since then the Republicans have been able to hold their own and now regard it as their own. Butterworth is an untiring ;ind able worker., I remember that shortly after his first nomination Hon. Milton Sayler, his opponent,

and General Durbin Ward discussed the situation together.

"Of course, you'll be elected, Milt, said Ward. "That's understood; but 1 know Butterworth ßince he was a boy, and I tell you he's hell. Why, ho'll know every man, woman and child in the district before the campaign is over and bo in every house before you get started. I tell you, he's hell; but, of course you'll -be elected." 1 he result showed that the General did know Butterworth and that ho was an active man in getting around. "Milt" may run again and find that "Ben" with his added knowledge of the ways of politics is "heller." Of Gen. Thos. L. Young, tho candidate of the Second Cincinnati District I need say nothing. Neirly every colored man knows him per-, sonally, and no doubt even the one or two"who propose voting the Democratic ticket will give him their suffrage. Both candidates addresbed a colored picnic to day, given by the A. P. A., for the benefit of colored orphans. Mr. Clark, (P. H.) is also advertised to speak, and I am sorry other engagements will prevent my j attending and sending you a few notes of their remarks. The Grand Comn andery Knights Templar is in ßeesion at Springfield. Constantino Commandery with a number of ladie passed through here Monday, on their way from JSew Orleans. They stopped over long enough to be entertained by Zerubbabel and Cyrene Comraandenes of this city. Wilson Commandery ,Louisvil!e, pass ed through last night. The grand parade takes place to-morrow, ar-d a large excursion, in charge ol Sir Knights ot Cincinnati, goes trom nere this afternoon. The Grand Chapter and Grand Lodge meet in Circleville, next week. Your correspondent will try to furnish a few notes from each place. The rapid increase ot the circulation of the Leader here is as remarkable as it is gratifying. Your agent told me last week that he ordered 400 copies, and had before their arrival secured subscriptions for fifty more. This is certainly encouraging and proves the interest of our people in colored news. DEPuon. Home Makers. It is a prevalent idea that woman, and she alone, must always be the home-maker. This is her business, it is affirmed, while that of man necessarily lies outside. It is his part to provide the means of support, hers to supply - a well-ordered, gladsome, refreshing, peaceful home. There is much truth in this view; but like many other truths, it has been run into the ground from the failure to perceive the other side. A home, like a person, has a dual existence; it has an outer and an inner life; it is formed by the circumstances that surround it and the characters that dwell within it. There is the house with its appurtenances, its opulence or poveity, its comforts or inconveniencies, its loaded table or frugal board, its neatness and thrift, or disorder and waste. This is the outer life of the home. To this both man and woman equally contribute. The division of labor, as usually maintained, is, upon the whole, quite equitable. IÜ3 lies outside the house, hers within; but both are equally important, equally honorable, equally remunerative in the true sense of the word. Neither his earnings, nor her care, would alone make and keep the home, even in its outer life, while united, they supply all its need?. Any shrinking on either side is fatal. If the man, through self-indulgence of any kind, fail to do his part, the woman will be over-burdened, and the family comforts curtailed or destroyed. If, on the other hand, she, through love of pleasure or lack of discretion, neglects the wise ordering of her household, or slides into fashionable extravagance, the result will be equally disastrous. Whatever be the resources, or the style of living they adopt, it requires all the abilities and painstaking of both in their respective spheres to maintain this external domestic life with prudence, comfort and consistency. It is, however, in tbe inner life of the home that we must look for its purest and most permanent happiness; and here also do we find man and woman to be equally necessary and equally responsible. Not the house, L however richly furnished and judiciously ar ranged, not all the labor and thought of the man in earning and the woman in managing, however praiseworthy each may be, can alone secure a happy home. They are indeed, indispensable, but not sufficient. Not only must hand and brain construct the home, but heart must inspire it. There must be love, patience, self-sacrifice, sympathy, contentment, courage to bear, firmness to endure in a word, all the qualities that go to make up character. If these be absent, so is happiness, however congenial and satisfactory may be the external home. ; Just here a fatal mistake is frequently made. The bu.y man. wearied with toil and harassed, perhaps, by the events of the day, comes home to find rest and refreshment. He feels that his labors a V road should be recompensed by comfort, ease and freedom from care at home. This is, perhaps, natural ; but he forgets that the wite and mother, if earnest and conscientious, has had her trial and labors also, and is probably in need of rest and sympathy quite as much as he is. The home is, perhaps, so peaceful and cheery that he takes it for granted that its constant inmates must be so too; and thus his thoughts become centered in what his home ought to yield to him, rather than in what he shall do to make a happy home for the family. The truth is, that home happiness is not a harvest for which one part of the household is to labor, that another part may enjoy. Each one must plant the seed, and water the ground, and destroy the weeds, and then each one will take of the bounteous crop. Aa the husband and wife both contribute to form thfl external home, they must equally unite to fill it with the living presence of unselfish affection and thoughtful kindness. If either fail in this if one be always striving to make the home and the other only to enjoy it, disappointment is inevitable. The children, too, sh'ould be encouraged and trained, from their earliest years, to contribute their share toward the home. Every boy and girl can add to the family joy in a multitude of ways, which will open rapidly to view when they are sought. The little kindnesses to one another, the willing deference to parental wishes; the plans laid for cheerful winter evenings, pleasant surprises, and cheerful re-unions, small gifts of handiwork to grace the familiar rooms, with hundreds of other natural outpourings of affection and gratitude, will bind children to their homes and make them centers of happiness, far more than can ever he the case when they are merely recipients. It is the good we do much moro than that which is done for us that promotes our highest enjoyment; . and each member of the household who would taste the keenest delights of a happy home must constitute himself or herself, in the best sense, a "home-maker." The receipts on 'Hospital Sunday" in London this year were $152,500, which is an increase of $20,000 over 1879. and is the largest amount ever received. All denominations contribute to this fund.