Indianapolis Leader, Volume 2, Number 12, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 October 1880 — Page 2

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ftntere x wcoBd-rltoa matter at the Poatoffice at Indianapolis, Ind. TBM4 Or SUBSCRIPTION. ' ' 6 months................. ...... 1.00 .60 .20 I month. CI ab of eixl yr, each copy.., " ten, lyear.'each copy.., 1.75 1.Ä0 THIS PAPKK fÄÄI Newspaper Advertising Bares (10 Spruce St ) where advertising contract way be made for It In Nh YORK Nnbrrlte for lUe Lradrr. Let every colored man who favors the legation of hi race subscribe for the Leader; and let every white man ' who believe that alaverv was a crme against humanity and that It is the duty of the ruling race to aid the Necro in hia struggle lor moral, social and intellectual elevation ao likewise. iir-1 i pay "We hope that all of oür subscribers who are in arrears for their subscription will send us the money at encc. "We need it to defray the neccessary expense of our paper, and we trust'that our friends will Tecognize this fact, and forward at once the money due tu. Our city subscribers, and those in neighboring cities throughoutthe country will please take notice and govern tneraseivea accoraingiy, REPUBLICAN TICKET. National Ticket. , 1 a FOR PRKSIDEXT, ? . JAMES. A.GAKF1ELD, of Ohio. FOR VICE-PRISIDEXT, CHESTER A. ARTHUR, v- of New lork. tpnUieaa . Electoral .Tleh et For Tb State at Large. WILLIAM AV. CURRY. JAMES 31. SHACKELFORD. District Electors. First District FRANCIS B. POSE V. Second District ADEN (r. CAVINS. Third District NICHOLAS R. PECKINPAUG1I. Fourth District JOHN W. LINCK. Fifth District WILLIAM P. McNARY. Sixth District ' BENJAMIN S. PARKER. Seventh District WILLIAM WALLACE. Eighth District ARED P. WHITE. Ninth District JAMES TULLIS. Tenth District WILLIAM D. OWEN. Eleventh District JAMES O'BRIEN. Twelfth District LINDLEY M. NINDE. Thirteenth District HENRY G. THAYER. Garfield and Arthur represent the free North. Vote for them. Vote for James A. Garfield, the soldier, statesman and philanthropist. Garfield and Arthur have always been friends of the Negro. Vote for .them. ,. Once more. to., the breach, dear comrades, once more, and the citadel is ours. . A vote for Hancock and English; is a Tote for the Old Slave Holders of the South. ' Hancock and English represent the bulldozing Solid South. Vote against them. Handcuff and lock up all the "cypher" statesman of '76, and the Morey letter forger will be in limbo. Everything goes but the Demo cratic party, and next Tuesday it will "go" to meet the ex Confederacy. h If you do not want to be ruled by northern copperheads and southern slaveholders, voe against Hancock and English. Hancock says he is opposed to 'Nigger domination," and we believe Niggers are opposed to Hancock domination. Vote against HV.ncock. Hancock is tho candidate of the infamous New York rioters of '63, and , of the men who followed the business of kidnapping colored children be- . i fore the war. Vote against them. ; Burnt children are afraid ,of the fire. Democrats bet very heavily on 'Landers, but you don't take any of them in on Hancock. They are not swine, and know when they have enough. Juniper berry tea is quite soothing And solacing to a shattered and disordered nervous system, superinduced , by an over-indulgence in betting on :. Democratic majorities. We advise - our friends of that political persuasion to try it. i The North Carolina bulldozers have ! eauted the arrest of Samuel Perry, tsq., who wilVbo remembered as the leader in the exodus of last winter from that State, which scared Senator Voor heet out of four years of political growth. He is at present employed

in the Treasury department &i Warri

ngton. These N. vx-n-Nc are mad because .Indiana went Republican, and want to.take their spite out on Perry. Uncle Sam will have something to say about this, and wo do not think he will allow his son Sam. to be imposed upon. BEAD THE FOLLOWING. General Garfield to B. A. Hindale: "lou know that I have always said that my whole public lifo wan an experiment to determine whether an intelligent people would sustain a man in acting sensibly on each proposition that arose, and in doing nothing for mere show or demagogical effect. I do not know that I ever cast a vote of that latter sort. Perhaps it is true that the demagogue will succeed when honorable statesmanship will fail." These are the words of a statesman. Vote for Garfield and Arthur. THE GUY PJLWKUS PABTxV The Democratic party is truly a Guy Fawkes, dark lantern eoucero. In '7G, its leaders under the hypocritical cry of Tilden and reform, tried to purchase its way to power. To facilitate this scheme, a secret cypher system was devised, under cover ot which the most unblushing and shameless attempts were made to purchase electoral votes. This year the cry is Hancock and free trade, and, in order to succeed, the part has entered upon a whole sale scheme of forgery, the infamy of which was never before witnessed in American politics. It ought certainly to bo beyond the reach of possibility for a party with such a disreputable character to get control of the Na tional Government. Let every Re - publican and every honest Democrat see that his vote is cast against it. Defeat it now and it will remain de feated for a generation to come. UARNUM'8 FORGERY. Chairman Barnum of the Demo cratic committee, tho mule buyer of '76, has procured from some paid vil lain a clumsy forgery of General Garfield's handwriting, in the shape of a lotter purporting to be from that gentleman, advocating tho wholesale importation of Chinese to this coun try. No honest man in the conntry believes that Gonoral Garfield wrote the letter, yet the majority of the Hancock ijewspapers continue to ravo about it, jut as if they did not know it was a base and infamous forgery. It was first brought oat in tho columns of the Truth (?), a New York penny paper run on buccaneer principles, and which was bought up some months ago by Mules Barnum, Esq. It is generally believed in New York that the forgery was committed by a man in the employ of that paper. Mr. Chittenden, a wealthy mauufacturer of New Jersey, has ' offered a reward of $5,000 for the arrest and conviction of the scouidrel, and it is not altogether improbablo that the infamous villain, whoever he may prove to be, will be hunted down and punished for his dastardly crime. VOTE! VOTE! 1 VOTE!!! We do not mean totrll you t vote three times, but we do mean to tell you three times to vote once. It is highly important that every Republican vote in the State be polled next Tuesday. Let us not by any feeling of fancied security, allow the rebel Democracy to steal the State, after having thrashed.them so beautifully as we did intheStatctcloction. The Democrats are holding secret meetings and reorganizing tho old Knights of the Golden Circle, who tried to liberate rebel prisoners and raise a Northern copper-head rebellion, during the recent civil war Every colored voter ought certainly to feel a vital interest in giving these old fire-in -the-rear Democrats an overwhelming and stunning defeat next Tuesday. They are making desperate efforts all over tho State to regain what they lost on the 12th., aad every Republican, white or black, who fails to cast a Republican ballot next Tuesday, will be assisting them just to the extent of his vote in accomplishing their aims. Every Democrat who enters this reorganized copper-head Circle, pledges himself to gain one vote at least to the Democracy, so wo warn every Republican against allowing himself to be prevented from voting tho Republican electoral ticket. Every means in tho power of a desperate and reckless set of politicians, will be used to secure Republican votes for the Democratic ticket, and in the event of the failure of this plan, they will attempt to prevent Republicans from voting at all. Bogus Republican tickets will be peddled at the polls by Democratic agents, and no dishonest means imaginable will be left untried to destroy the Republican majority. It is very important, therefore, that every Republican bo sure to vote, and to vote the correctly printed, straight Republican electoral ticket. The Arnes of Garfield and Arthur on the

tickets is a mere formality, but be

sure that the names of the electors, as printed in thin issue of the Leader, and no others, are on your ticket. Don't fail to vote at any and all hazard. Let nothing but death prevent you from driving the last .nail into tho Democratic coflln with your bal lot. THE 8ENATOBSHIP.. The . question as to who shall be the successor of Senator McDonald, who steps down and out of .the U. S Senate, March 4th, is beginning to agitate the political waters in our re-. deemed and regenerated Hoosier State. Tho names of General Harrison, Colonel Thompson, General Streight, Colonel Cumback, General Coburn, Marshal Dudley, Hon. John C. New, Hon. x..S. Orth, and others, have been mentioned in connection with this exalted station. When tho choice is to come from such a list of able and upright men, we may all rest assured . that Indiana will in a measure regain the prestige which she lost when the :Democracy came into power. - The lamented Oliver P. Morton gave Indiana a prominence and power in National affairs, during his career in the Senate, that she never before or has since enjoyed ; and it is gratifying to know that our last few years of obscurity under Democratic domination, is to be relieved by sending a man to the Senate who will not be a toady to and receive orders from the 'Southern brigadiers. We need a man in tho Senate who will represent the Union and not the Confederate element of this State. Such a man we haven't got there now. It is openly charged, by the Democrats, and certainly not denied by us, that the colored voters were respon sible, in a great measure, for the great Republican victory in October. As parties are at present constituted, the colored people hold the balance of power in Indiana. Be it said to to their honor that they used their influence to perpetuate the great party of freedom. Lot no colored a, r man falter in November. General Grant is doing some very effective campaign work for the Be publican ticket in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. He is ro ceivea ana listened to uv immemse crowds, and his short, terse, and pointed spoechos are having a marked effect on the doubtful voters m that State. Look out for another Appo mattox for the Democracy in the East next Tuesday. An arithmetical problem : If Lau ders is beaten by 7,000 majority, and the Republicans carry both branches of the Legislature, thereby gaining a U. S. Senator, and elect eight out of thirteen Congressmen by what majority will Bill English an I Hancock be beaten in November? Let every good Republican place it at the highest possible figure, and then go to work and bring it up to that point. rsui isngiisu is trie man, who in CongrehH, said tliut if Republican principles prevailed, ' Fred. Douglas Pompey Smash, or some other big buck Nigger, all redolent with the peculiar odor of hi race, would soon bo demanding admission to this houso as a member of Congress." Vote against English and Hancock. 'I know General Garfield well. The colored people and every other people, for that matter, may trust him implicitly, lie never betrayed a friend, ho never used his influence to place a man beneath him on ac count of the color of his skin. In purity of lifo, in honesty of purposo and nobility of action he has no superior in public life." Senator B. K. Bruce. THE LEADER THINKS THAT. After all leap year i what did it. The Hancock and English roose is cooked. Telegraphing it to the boys was not a profitable business. Kentucky Democrats should vote only in their own Stato next Tuesday. Senator McDonald's shoes will not be so hard to fill as those left by tho late Senator Morton. Kennard Philp, the Morey let-' tcr forger, has good democratic congressional or gubernatorial timber in him. Mdme Bernhart has arrived just in time to witness a great tragic and historical scene, the dying gasp of Democracy. Democratic remorse for the sinfulness of betting on Landers, is sharper than a serpents tooth and keener than a Damascan blade. The colored Baptists of Texas, Arkansas and Northern Louisiana, numbering about 100,000, have determined to build a college for. the education of ministers and teachers, in the city of Marshall, Texas. They are making a vigorous and successful eft'ort to raise $10,000 for the purpose among themselves, and they are hoping that a lik amount mav be contributed through tha Amriaa fiaptlst Home Miction tfoeiety.

0IN0INNATI DEPARTMENT. Hack llnraiigne. One of tho Leader's correspondent "from Walnut Hills, Ohio, is just awfully anxious to impress upon the world at large an idf of the immensity of that suburb or village on the outer edge of the ' Paris of America" and he, she, or it, has our hearty wishes for

its llnal (yes, very final?) success. However, this correspondent is righteously and fearfully indignant; because the 4,Valnut Hills, Ohio" items are sometimes honored by being mixed with the Cincinnati items. We can appreciate this indignation fully, especially when the other "Walnut, etc." correspondent was pleased to make use of a Cincinnati incident under a " W ahmt Ullis, tio" heading. Please call an indignation meeting at once. Cincinnati young men, like railroad com panies, like to "pool" quite young. Next to being a graduate, stump-speaker or masher, the hij,het ambition of a young man is to become noted as a pool or billiard player, and to parade the streets with his mouth and pockets full of nickte Havannas the proceeds of a game. Heretefore the colored young men who were desirous of enjoying a game of pool, were compelled to frequent saloons, but now Mr. Richard Hocan of West Fifth street, having moved the bath tubs from the n-ar of his popular barber shop, devotes the space to a pool room. From the fact that his place has been crowded over since it opened, we would judge that the young men prefer a place wher intoxicating liquors are not sold. "A want long felt" has been satiated by the establishing of a flrBt-class colored hotel and restaurant in this city by Messrs. Graves and Dandridge. Tho' a oolored man will be taken in at nearly all the hotels in the city, yet it is not everyone who can pay the high rates charged and at this colored hotel, splendid accommodations, good food, and prompt attention will be given at a merely nominal rate. Messrs. Graves and Dana. ridge: with the able assistance of their hand some clerk, Miss Douglass, merit the patronage of all visitors and travelers. The German Literature and Dancing Club met last week at the residence of Miss Lilia Adams, and the election being held, Mr. Thomas A. Triplett was choeen President. Mr. Chas R. Hawkins, whose Presidential term has just expired, has been a true, faith ful and able omcer, and the German unite in rendering thereunto Charley the praise which is Charley's. Mr. Harry Grimn is to be the guest of the German at its next meet ing, and this, as "Phila 7 said, because Harry will soon depart to resume collegiate studies at Wilberforce TJniversitv. The hotels of this city have employed a large number of voung colored men, who are very gentlemanly and well drossed. At the Emery, Mr, Al. Johnson (the handsom est man in town) has about eighteen young men under him, and at the Grand Mr. Augusus has twenty two, and the Gibson and Burnet have nearly the same as the Grand. The churches fully appreciate these young men. who with such open heartedness and generosity, walk up to the contributing table and deposit freely and without a desire for "change." Cincinnati and ludianaoolis uro indeed sifter cities, both having the proud honorable distinction of having elected a colored State Representative. Hut to Indiana, the achievement is now notable and the honor greater, because not many years ago it was unlawful for a colored man to enter the State. Happily all that is changed, and the man, .who on eutering the State, was compelled to have a passport and give bond, will now occupy a seat in the very Legisla tive Halls, which once debarred him. Yerilv, we can say, ,lGlory be to God in the highest." We sincerely hope that the citizens of Indianapolis will render unto Mr. Hinton the cordial support and sympathy, that a man of bis rare abilities and long experience in public service, so well deserved. Tbe society of the Immaculate have gotten a pretty firm foothold here, and under ihe able management of Mr. Richard Hogan, success is bound to follow. A great number of young men bare expressed a desire to join and no dubt, by the New Year this so ciety will be greatly increased in number. Huverley's ''One Hundred" are announced to be here at Pike's next week and everyone seems rejoiced, because Mr. Sawyer is with the company, and we all want to see him. Oh, dear Sawyer, thrice, yea, thrice more welcome are you!. Cornel come to my buzzoom ! Uy the way, Pike's will be crowded by our colored citizens, in spite of the elections. HAfK. Several of the young men will cant thoir first vote, Tuesday. Miss Haiti God in b arhing in LVvingtn, Ky. The gallant bid. Greenbrier, of Cleveland, spent Sunday in our city. Miss Susie King, of Clermont county, is visiting friends in our city this week, Mrs. William Buckner and children have returned after a pleasant visit to Portsmouth. Mr. Charlie Roxbourgh, of New Orleans, La., was visiting friends here this week. We know a young gent who is happy to hear that Miss Wellen has returned. Mrs. Lina Roxbourgh, of New Orleans, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Wallace Sheltoni of Barr street. Tuesday is the day for the election. . It is hoped that every colored man will vote for Garfield and Arthur. Several of our young gents want to be bankers. Boys yo'i had better take the Family Bible to the polls, Tuesday, to prove your age, as they say we will make it interestig for thenigg.. Vote early and ee that your friends vote. Mr. Edgar Watson has returned, after a pleasant visit to Boston. Mr. Birnie Chappee left Sunday evening for Detroit, after spending a week in our eity. George Stevens is tbe happiest maa in town. It is a nine pounder. Johnny Baltimore, Sr., of Chicago, is visiting his father in our city. Mr. Loyd Johnson is home from his eastern visit. Walnut If Ilia (Ohio.) In the Commercial of October 21st, I read "Boston, October 20 Mrs. Lydia Maria Child, the well known authoress, died this morning, at Wayland, Mass., aged seventy eight years" How many read that death notice without further thought of the great philanthropist who shall ever live in the hearts of her countrymen. Lydia Maria Francis was born at Medford, Mass., Feb. 11, 1802. Her father, Convers Francis, was a baker, who lived first in Cam t rid fie, then in Medford. He was a man of strong antislavery convictions, and it is presumed that he influenced the later career of his children. He married Susannah Rand of which nothing very remarkable has been recorded more than that shJwas tinman potsessing, "asimpie, loving heart, aud a spirit busy in doing good." Six children blessed this union, of whom Lydia Maria was the youngest, and Convers next in age. Her mother died in 1814 and the family mfcd for a time in Maine. Convers Francis, in 181, was ordained' over the First Parish in Watertown, and there, in 1821, ' occured an incident which determined his sister's whole life. Dr. J. G. Talfrey, in ihe "North American Review" for April, 1821, had written a review of the poem of 4Yamovden,'Jkin which he pointed ut the use to which irly American history

might be applied for netitLu purios. Lvdia read this article one Sunday after returning lroiu morning service, and before attending the afternoon meeting,- wrote the first chapter of a novel, under the title of 'Hobomok; a Tale of Early Tinirs, by an American." The success of h r first effort encouraged her to publish, the next year, "The Rebels; or, Boston before the Revolution." This was in advance of its prede

cessor in vigor, variety and animation of style. She taught a private school in Watertown, from 1825 to 1828. In 1827 she established the ''Juvenile Miscellany," a children'i magizine, which 6ho continued for eight years. In 1828, she was married to David Lee Childs, a lawyer ot Boston.. In 1829 Mrs. Chill published the "Frugal Housewife." This proved no "popular that in 1855 it had reached its thirty-third edition. A "Mothers Book" followed in 1831 and in fourteen years, there had been eight American editions, twelve English edititons and a German translation. The ."Girl's Own Book," was published the same year. The "History of Woman" appeared In 1835; this series was interrupted at the fifth volume by the failure of the publishers, but she compiled tor this the "Biographies of Good Wives," the ''memoirs, of Madame de Stael and Madame Roland, those of Lady Russell and Madame Guion, and the two volumes ot u Woman." In 18.33 "The Coronal" was published, and the same year her "Appeal for That Class of Americans called Africans." Knowing something of the pulse of the American people at that time she says in the preface to the book: "I am fully aware of the unpopularity of the task I have undertaken;, but though I expect ridicule aud censure, I can cot fear them. A few years hence, the opinion of the world will be a matter in which I hate not even the most transient interest; but this book will be abroad on its mission of humanity long after the hand that wrote it is mingling with the dust. Should it be the means of advancing, even one single hour, the inevitable progress of truth and justice, I would not exchange the consciousness for all llothchild's wealth or Sir Walter's fame It iä known to all readers of American history that these were times "which tried men's souls." Miss Martineau in her article, "The Martyr Age in America,' published in the "London and Westminister Review," describes Mrs. Child as "a lady of whom soci ety was exceedingly proud before she published her 'Appeal and to whom society has lieen extremely contemptuous ever since." She adds: "Her works were bought with avidity before, but fell into sudden oblivion as soon as siie had done a greater deed than writing any of them." Undaunted by opposition and public opinion, in 1834 she published the "Oasic," ana near the same time, an "Anti-slavery Catechism," and a small book called "Authentic Anecdotes of American Slavery," and also "The Evils of Slavery and the Cure of Slavery ; the first proved by the opinions of Southerners themselves, the last shown by historical evidence." . , In 1836, '-Pbilothea" appeared with her nauit?on tne title-page, and inscribed to her brother. This work was Mrs. Child's first attempt to return (bearing her anti-slavery cross) into the ranks of htrrature. One of her sisters writes Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, re proved her for "wasting her soul's wealth" in such radicalism, jnd "doing incalculable injury to humanity, ' and takes satisfact.on in the fact that "the bitter feeling engendered by the strife have prevented the merits of this remarkable book from being appreciated as tney deserve." In 1841, jlr. and Jirs. L-hud were engaged by the Amer ic&n Anti slavery Society to edit the "Ahtislavery Standard." On account of the ill health of her husband, Mrs. Child attended to the editorial duties alone for two vears. .... ... . alter wnicn lor eignt vears more she assisted ner nueuana. inuring tnese years she was a member of the family of Isaac T. Hopper, the well-known Quaker philanthropist, whose biography she afterward wrote. In 1843 she edited an Anti-slavery Almanac but in her letters to the "Boston Courier" she is foard to be enthusiastic, descriptive and fanciful. In theso letters she is thought to nave reached the climax of ber purelv literary career. The two series of "letters" appeared in 1843 and 1845. These were followed in 1840 by "Fact add Fiction." In 1853 she gave to the public "Isaac T. Hopper; a True Life." In 1855 "The Progress of Religious Ideas Through Successive Ages" was published in three volumes. On this work she labored assiduously with little pecuniary reward. She spent eight years in producing it; the cause ot its pecuniary failure being attributable to its opposition to the general religious convictions of the people. But in the words of an eminent writer, "It may have been that it was too learned for a popular book, and too popular for a learned one." In the workhhe expresses great candor; yet there is noirrevcranco but no prejudice in favor of or against the Cbri&tian religion. "Autumnal Leaves; Tal's and Sketches in I'roce aiid Rhyme," were given to the presi in 1857. It is probable that this great woman felt that the aatumn of her life had come, and that her work was almost done, but the short and brilliant career of America's noblef t son awoke her fjom her dream of peace. As soon a the wires told of the arrest of John Brown, she wrote to him and asked if she might not come to him and nurse him; she also wrote to Governor Wise, and made all necessary preparations for travel; but in the meantime Brown's wife arrived, and Captain Brown replied, declining her otter, but soliciting aid for his family, which she gave. Governor Wise alo responded reproving her for lending sympathy to a prisoner. The letter was courteous but diplomatic. She replied and was surprised soon after to see her letter published in the New York Tribune. She wrote to the editor: "I was much surprised to . see my correspondence with Governor Wise published in your columns. As I have never given any person a copy, I presume you must have obtained it from Virginia.'7 Soon after this Mrs. M. J. C. Mason, of Virginia, wrote to Mrs.' Child her fepiatolary effusion," beginning thus: MDo you read j'our Bible, Mrs. Child? If you do, read there, 'Woe unto yoa hypocrites,' and take to yourself, with twofold damnation that terrible sentence; for rest assured, on the day of judgment, it shall be more tolerable for those thus scathed by the awful denunciation of the Son ot God than for you." In conclusion this member of a Southern family adds, "No Southerner ought, after your letters to Governor Wise, to read a line of your composition, or to touch a magazine which bears vour name in its list of contributors." Mrs. Child wrote a dignified reply refusing to dwell on the language cfher correspondent, and only "wishes her well, both in this world and the next." She wrote, however, at length, on the subject. The series of letters embracing three hundred thousand copies. !She persevered in th? hearing she had gained through these and in 1800, printed two tracts "The Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Law," and "The Patriarchial Institution," and also 'The Right Way, the Safe Way, Proved by Emancipation in the British West Indies arid Elsewhere " Fifteen hundred copies of the tt last named book she forwarded at her own expense to persons in the slave States. Between 1803 and 1808, she published ''Looking Towards Sunset," "Freedmen's Book,' and "A Romance of the Republic." This bojk is considered in some respects, her best fictitious work. For many years she has lived at Wayland, Mass., in a house bequeathed tö her ky her father. God blessed her with a long lite and allowed her to see the sin, against which she so nobly fought with her pen, wiped out. Would that we dared . to. trespass upon the patience of the readers of this journal long enough to give in full a letter addressed by this noble woman to the last anti slavery festival in Boston, in 1868. But we can add nothing to what has been writ

ten u vievaie ner in tL public uuna. no i encomiums we might pass could heighten I

the halo which already surrounds htr character, reputation, and writings, and to-day a grateful people thank God that ''her weight of conscience turned the scale, from her in-1 clination to literature and the arts, toward reform. Piccoi.a. I By another Corrrwpondcot. "The melancholy days havo como." Mrs. Philip Tol liver, of TJrbana, and -Mrs. Nancy Valentine of the city, attended religious service on the Hill Sunday night. " Mai. Gen, Hancock Dear Sir: Beware of the Ides of November. Miss Susie Washington, was married on Wednesday night at the First Baptist Church. Avondale. Rev. Mr. Clay oftv eating. Mr. Wraign, wielderof the ''Free Lam e' Dear Sir: I move if I can get a second that we organize a State colored teachers institute. -uiss Jooster tmsiev. one of our most mtelligent young ladies is assistant secretary onuo -ueiuouisfc ounuay-scnooi. i Maj. Gen. Hancock Dear Sir: That on next Tutsday you will be elected by ; an overwhelming majority to remain in your present position, isathe "fervent prayer of the Walnut Hills correspondent of the Leader, Miss Mary Bryant of McMillan street. Mi fVrriA Por- m i.a hs I Avondale, were at Sunday-school last Sunjv j streets, for the purpose of organizing a Wowan b uuepei juission. Walnut Ullis was represented by Jlrs. M. E. Cruitun and Mrs. juiia uroaaie. The bundav-school of the First Bantist Vnurcn, of Avondale, is doing; well, ha vine a regular attendance ot 45 scholars. The officers - are as follows: SuDerintenient. John W. Webb; assistant, Mrs. Susan W. bcott; oecretary, James Norris; treasurer, Kobt. btith; librarian, Miss Carrie Brad ford. - - r resident j ames A. Garfield Dear Sir: The readers of the Leader on the Hill do not believe that you are the author of that 'Chinese letter," the Cincinnati Enquirer to tne contrary, notwithstanding. But Gen eral please hear this: When you elect your cabinet do not forget the Walnut Hills' correspondent of the Leader. The intelligent face ef W. H. Mendell, is often seen m the 'little church nround the corner. He takes the Leader of course. Mrs. W . H. Coleman, of Lima, and Mrs. Anna Demons of Dayton, were, in the city last weeK tne guests ol Jttrs. George reter son. Miss Hortense Parker, of Ripley. Ohio, a young lady ot nne talents and very agree able manner, passed through Cincinnati. last month en route for iouth Hadley. Maeg. to resume her studies at the famous ML Holyoke Female Seminary. She speaks wen oi tne reader. The far-seeing W. H. Seward said that no man can be elected President who spells negro with two g's. Do vou hear that Mai. Gen. Winfield Dcott Hancock., jrhoebusl what a name. It were well if the young people "would heed the excellent advice given them the other evening by Miss Hattie Peyton at tne temperance meeting. Mrs. Gao. Moss was at Church last Sun day. If the agent will call at his residence on Lane street, Mr. M. will take the Lead er. "I don't believe in nigger domination." Gen. Hancock, you said that, and you know .. j:j i ai - i mmjuu uiu, tuiu mere is no use in you ae nying it. And we American citizens of African descent don't like "Democratic domination," and this is the reason why on next luesday we are going UT'elect vou to stay at home. . The Leader continues to grow in -favor among all classes. Some of our most intel ligent people complain because of their inabihty to see the aent. The Temperance society will give a grand dinner at the A. M. E. Church on Thanks giving day. The Leader is hereby cordiall v invited to be present. . - ' ' T ' If next week's Leader does' not contain something of unusual interest to the people on the Hill, then it can be put down as fact beyond Question that this "Deneil shovei" was for once in his life greatly mistaken. . i . , , ,.t .-. -,. , Still another. The lnembers of the Garfield and Arthur Club of the 2d Ward feel that you have done them great injustice by givin? the credit of getting the colored voters at' the polls, early on the morning of the 12th of Oetober, to Mos6r. Whitlow, Baltimore, Washington nnd Bryant, when. Mr. Jos. H. Early, Frcsiueut, ' and William fcullavon, Secretary of the Club, and a few other members and the ministers of the churches, de serve all the credit. There isn't but one of these gentlemen a member of 'the Club. They say you fellows do the work and we get the credit. Now, I dont think that is right; the men that do the work should have the credit. Please correct that mistake that was in your last issue concerning this. Subscriber. Togles, Japanese and Chine. S (Fannia Roper Fendge in Independent. -Several orient nations, ' the Japanese - and Chinese especially, have many rare and beautiful carvings in ivory, called Net Suke, or togles. These are handed down In families from generation to generation as precious treasures heirlooms of birth and dignity that money can not buy and they are nearly always memorials of strange or interesting events of family history. In size the togles are extremely, minute, generally not more than an inch and a half in length, plum-shaped, and the delicate carving of most exquisite workmanship. But so extremely petite are the figures that time and study are required to enable one fully to grasp" the artist's idea, although in the end he feels himself more than repaid by the numberleas beauties that are gradually unfolded to his perception. One exquisite togle, preserved in a nob's family, represents a said catastrophe of more than a century and a half ago. , The principal figure of the carving is that of a lady, robed in a graceful bathing-suit, the pretty bare feet iust peeping out beneath the long, full drawers. She has been attacked by a huge octopus, that is in the act of coiling one Ice 5 arm around the ludy's neck, and is endeavoring with her right hand to disengage herself from the monster's unwelcome embrace, while with the left hand, about the wrLst of which another arm of the octopus is clasped, the terrified victim is furiously tearing at the mouth of her murderous foe. The remaining arms ot the monster are twined variously about the body and shoulder? of the tortured victim, in a way that reminds one very vividly xf the unequal contest between the , dying Laoceon and the serpents, while the agonized look" he turns upon his innocent children is reproduced by this oriental artist in the face of the unfortunate heroine of the togle legend. The apparent writhings and contortions of the hideous sea-monster, as he keeps hit hold on the sufferer, the color of. hia body and the gleam of the terrible eve are all so lifelike as to produce a painful 'consciousness of reality; while the features f the lady, the delicate contour of face and form, and, more than all, the terror-stricken expression of the lovely eyes awaken the deepest sympathy.-. The long, beautiful t hair, lenotted in the peculiar fashion of the Japanese, its ebon blackness in striking contrast with the gleaming white of the ivory comb, that rises as a dainty coronal above the crown; the parting of the coral-tinted

ups, ana m uij p?any ieio witmn, r very marvels of beauty, and euch so wob-

drously true to life that en can scarcely believe they have all be-n curved out Jl the same ivory and afterward tinted w'uli such absolute fidelity bv thee wonderful artists. Another of these togles represents a wed ding scene; the bride a lovely little eight-year-old fairy, with eyes and nair lC8Utilui as an hourrs, and the groom an aotiiMici graybeard, old enough for the child's gran.!father. Every detail is vividly brought out. from the rich, bright colors of the crimson flowers that deck the dainty hnde, and tne innocent smiles of the pretty child, tblit seem pitiful enough to those who know of the dreary lifeot servitude that is to follow hard upon the weddme festivities, t lt ensual-looking Lothario,-w ith his ?upeib silken robes, embroidered in silver and adorned with bright ruby buttons in great pr&fusion.red being the bridal color in China and Japan. Une Chinese tole in post .! -.on an old tea merchant, has descended to Lim through m&nv venerations of his familv. und whs. perhaps, meant in the beginning, as a gentle reminder ol the niial reverence due trom children to their dead ancestors, la tn rear is a perfect Chinese altar, such as are found in the dwellings of all rich men. Above is the portrait of a venerable locking old man, with bald head, gray moustache. nd spectacles the oriental lasnton, witn biz round classes: and spread out over m sla &rw umberleM tiny cups and vases of painted porcelain, the tint of .ery ügur and flower vivmiv brouent out.aj n rintd the tombs of hU parent and n the fainilr altar, in the hope thh.t the souls of the departed will condescend to imbibe the fumes of some of the good things get before them by their dutiful children. On each side the portrait are suspended painted lanterns; and just below,' vases of smoking incense, witk the Chinese character of. God, painted on white silk," placed in a conspicuous posi tion in the center. This toge ig about tw inches square and carved, as they all are, out of one solid piece of ivory tea, coin-. iweetmeats, and all; &nd the tints, so true ij life, are produced by aprooes known only to these deft oriental artists. But, of all the togles I have ever seen. the one that most interested -ik was ex1 quisitely carved of rose-colored ivory and I designed to portray the grotto of a mermaid, tne interior is octagon-snapeu, cacu nue uuj. a single inch in length; and its concave ceiling thickly studded with . gleaming pearls. The robes of the dainty mermaid, who reclines upon a couch of ßea-foam, no words can describe, 60 incomparably loveVr are they in the transparency that reveals the perfect contour of every dimpled limb. Her maidens, five in number,their garments fairly incrusted with flashing jewels, kneel revertntly before their queen, their joined hands lifted high above their betids, with the most graceful poise imaginable. This is all one sees at first, even with eareful scrutiny. But, ai tho eye becomes accustomed to the minute carvinc. a tiny form is eee in the rear that of a maiden, with j long, dripping hair, and the countenance of I an angel. Her white robes have the clinging oorAif rS rr a inet tnron f'mm t na Vfltfir V'. V"V JUB. .WAV.. . . v " V " , and the "delicate form lies limp and lifeless. amon the flowers of which the mermaids have formed its fragrant couch. This exquisite carving commemorates the death by drowning of a fair young girl, in her tenth year, an only and much-loved daughter and the betrothed bride of a royal youth. There is, combined with this lustrous beauty of the scene, a tender, subdued air, quite in accord with the 6ad event it memorializes; and the observer, mute with loving sympathy, gazes as' in a dream, upon a spectacle that would afford almost a life-long tudy. In these wonderful togles one scarcely knows which one to admire the ingenious conceptioa of the artist or his perfect execution;; the exquisite carving or the warm, live tints that make the scere so real. Their rarity, too, adds to the appreciation; for the number of both carvers and painters who able to do this minute work is extremely small, in consequence, togles (nne ones, at lea ar xeTJ scarc? and "expensive, being ?f Worn found except in old aristocratic famlhe- or 4 I jemember ever seeing one of any considerable merit offered for sale. a Lie u?c oi n gocu uiagiui uiu givs j;icaily adds to the enioyment of these togles, and is, in truth, almost indispensable to a full conception of the exquisite coloring and rare symmetry of the hunmn'forms. 25 YEARS'- EXPERIENCE ! THE Indian Botanic Physician - liATK OF LOXD0X, F.M1LAMI, The moat' eucct-Mful catarrh, lung aud throat doctor in America, f permanently located at the corner of Illinois and Louisiana Irteta, Indianapoll. Indiana, where h will exaniina all dieaet( nj tell tha complaint without atking a aingU queiiio. wG)iiiultatkm Free, a either German or CnU.U. PEtt M AN Ell T CUKES ! 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