Indianapolis Leader, Volume 2, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 February 1881 — Page 2

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PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY by BAGBY Sc CO., OFFICE, 13 MIIXEITS BLOCK Corner Illlaols and Market Bin. J. D. BAGBY, Business Manager. Kntered as second-class matter at the Poatofflce at Indianapolis, Ind. OF SUBSCRIPTION. Sing! Copy. 1 year .tZ.00 months 1.00 . j months .50 1 month . , .20 Clnbs of six 1 year, each copy ... 1.75 " ten, lyear, each copy 1.50 011110 D t DPD mT found on Ilia at I 11 1 0 lArhliGeo. P. Bowell A Co.'a Newspaper Advertising Bureau (10 Spruce St ) where advertising contract may be made ror It In NEW YORKSabaerlbe for the Leader. Let every colored man who favors the elevation of his race subscribe for the Lead er; and let every white man who believes that slavery was a crme against humanity and that it is the dutv of the ruling race to aid the Negro in his struggle for moral, social 1 11 1 .1 Ai J- 111 - - - ana intellectual eiev&uon uo likewise. In Virginia a man may marry his first cousin, but not his deceased wife's sister. Fudge! WiscossiN has repealed the law making it a misdemeanor to call any person a "d d scoundrel." Twixty-thbee THotSAKD persons hold the National debt in England. In France 4,000,000 persons are creditorsof the Republic. The Baroness Burdett-Coutts has given her last maiden entertainment. She alters her name and halters a husband shortly. The Capitol'at Albany, N. YM has cost so far $11,507,896.06. The last figure shows with what particular exactness the accounts are kept. Johs Brown's Soys, a large and wealthy Philadelphia concern, failed on Saturday for $750,000. Over 700 workmen have been thrown out of employment. We wonder how many of them voted for Garfield, good times and big wage3. The Treasury Department has recom mended the repeal of taxation on six items, which yielded altogether in 1830 a revenue $10,090,605, as follows: knv -h-V S 2.270.421 Friction matches......-.......... - 3,561,300 Patent medicines or preparations, per(nmprT rosmptlcs Qt? ...... 1.836.673 Bank denosita 2.347.568 Savings Banks deposits 6,163,207 Bank capital-..- . 811,436 Total ........$10,990, 605 The Committee of Ways and Means has agreed to reduce the taxes as recommended, except on bank capital. CABINET OFFICIALS IN CONGRESS. Indianapolis Sentinel. Senator Pendleton, of Ohio, is anxious to have Cabinet Officers in Congress, to partici Date in debates and answer questions. The Committee to which Senator Pendleton's pet measure was submitted has reported favora bly. The bill provides as follows: That the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the 2avy, the Secretary of the Interior, the Attorney General and the Postmaster General mall be entitled to occupy seat on the floor of the Senate and House of Representatives, with the right to rarüdpate in debate on matters relating to tne business of their respective Departments, under auch rules aa may be prescribed by tne senate ana House respectively. Sec 2. That the aald Secretaries, the Attorney General and the Postmaster Oeneral shall attend the sessions of tae Senate on the opening of the alttlnes on Tuesday and Friday of each week, and the sessions of the House of Representatives on the opening of the sittings on Monday and Thursday cf each week, to give information asked by resolu tion or In reply to questions which may be propounded to them, under the rules of the Senate and House, and the Senate and Ilouse may, by standing orders, dispense with the attendance of one or more of said officers on either of said days. The report of the Committee, whica was signed by all of its members, discusses the propriety of the measure in all its bearings. The Committee entertains no doubt of the constitutional power of Congress to pass the bill. "They believe," says a Washington dispatch, "all the provisions of the bill to be clearly within the letter and spirit of the Constitution, and in entire harmony with the structure and framework of the Govern merit. The power of both Houses, or either of them, to admit persons not members to their floors, with the privilege of addressing its members, can not be questioned, as Chap lains. Territorial Delegates, or contesting members are now admitted and heard. The act of 1789, organizing the Treasury Depart ment, provided that the Secretary 'shall make report and give information to either branch of the Legislature, in person or in writing, as may be required, respecting all matters referred to him by the Senate or House of Representatives, or which shall ap pertain to his office Alexander Hamilton's great report on the public credit in 1790 was, after discussion, required to be made in writing, because the details were so numer ous that, delivered orally, they would not remain in the memory of his hearers, but the power and the propriety of requiring the personal presence of the Secretary were not then, nor have they at any time since been called in question. The bill now proposed only per mits and enjoins all the Secretaries to do, aC convenient times, that which the act of 1789 required and permitted the Secretary of the Treasury to do at any tune. It does not vio late the constitutional provision that 'no person holding any office under the United Staki shall be a member of either Ilouse during his continuance in office.' The head of a Department reporting in person and orally, or participating in debate, becomes no more a member of either Ilouse than does th Chaplain, or the contestant, or his counsel, or the Delegate. There are numer ous instances in the history of the Govern ment when the President, attended by one or more of his.Cabinet, attended the sessions of Ccngress in both Houses, and laid before them papers which had been required and information which had been asked for. The Committee further say that they do not share the apprehensions of some persons that the effect of this introduction of the heads of Departments upon the floor would be to increase the influence of the Executive on legislation. The information given by the Secretaries would be more pertinent and exact, and perhaps the recommendations

would be presented with greater effect; but, on the other band, the Members of Congress would also be put on the alert to see

that the influence was in proportion only to the value of the information and the sug gestions, and the public would be enabled to determine whether the influence wira exerted by persuasion or argument. Xo one who has occupied a seat on the floor of either House, no one of those who, year after year, so industriously and faithfully and correct ly report the proceedings of the Houses, no frequenter of the lobby or gallery can have failed to discern the influence exerted on legislation by the visits of the heads of Departments to the floors of Congress, and the visits of Members of Congress to the ofiices in the Departments. It is not necessary to say that the influence is dishonest or cor rupt, but it is illegitimate; it is exercise! in secret by means that are not pubi c by means which an hoaest public opinion can not accurately discover, and over whlcti it can, therefore, exercise no just control. T.V open information and argument provided by the bill may not supplant these secret methods, but they will enable a discrimin ating public judgment to determine whether they are sufficient to exercise the influence which is actually exerted, and thus disarm them. "In respect of the claim that it is bringirg the executive power into too close relations with the legislative, the Committee contend that the President, and he alone, is the con stitutional Executive. The Secretaries were. by the first Congress, made heads of Depart ments, charged by law with certain duties and invested by them with certain powers to be, and by them in the Administration, confided to them. They were in no sense Ministers of the President his hand, his arm, his irresponsible agent in the execu tion of his will. They are the creatures of law, and bound to do the bidding of the law. This bill will not change their legal relations, either to the President or to Con gress. If experience shall show that the Secretaries have not the time for the service thus imposed on them, they should be relieved of some of the routine duties now required of them in their offices." The bill is an experiment, and may not strike the House as the right thing to be done, and the fact that it introduces English and French methods of legislation into Congress is well calculated to make the average Congressman hesitate. OBITUARY. THOMAS CARLYLE. A brief cable dispatch announces the death of Thomas Carlylo in London on Sunday morning. Advices for some months have been to the effect that Mr. Carlyle's death might be expected at any time. From 5 o'clock on Saturday evening until his death he was unconscious, and the action of his heart barely perceptible. He suffered no pain for thlrty-&ix hours before his death. He will be buried at Kcclefechan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, where he was born, in December, 1793. He had consequently entered upon his eighty-sixth year. Mr. Carlyle was undoubtedly in the very front rank of the authors and thinkers of the centu ry. Says a critic: "Ills descriptions of campaigns and battles are exceed by nothing in military literature. Alluding to his history o! the 'French Revolution and that of 'Frederick the Great," the same critic says that viewed as a series of pictures these two histories have certain ly no superior, perhaps no equal, aud their effect In this regard is enhanced rather than diminished by the idiosyncrasies in the manner whicli he has chosen to adopt, but he lacks that soundness of judgment which forms the still higher requisite of a great historian. He had a sort of liking for Benjamin Franklin, because he taught the Ameri can people how by frugality and labor a man may buffet the waves of fortune and swim straight to prosperity and success. Mirabeau and Danton he eulogized, for their rude force; Robespierre was only a contemptible sea-green coxcomb playing the part of a ruler. In Bonaparte he sees only thegreat high way man of history, whose habit was to clutch Klug r Kai-er by the throat and swear that if they did not stuud and deliver he would blow their brain a out, and who did a profitable trade at this sort of thing until Wellington learned the trick and sue ceeded in clutching him. "Men who knew Carlyle best, some of whom had heard Coleridge talk, said they never knew what table talk could be until they had Il.tcied to Carlyle, seated, pipe in mouth, undet .n awn ing in the yard of his modest home. Cuille's works have been issued from time to time i al most every shape and form. Ills complete urn ks were published in London a few years sine, in thirty volumes. Among hU best known works we name "Sarter Resartus" "'The French Kevo lution," "Frederick the Oreat'Heroes and Hero Worship," "the Letters and Speeches of from well," besides many others. He wasacomribu tor to the Great British Revews, and in I&0G Rector of Ediuburg University. During the recent war with the South he openly avowed his belief that the war would end the Republic. The New York Court f Appeals has de oided that local authorities may tax the premium value of United States securities, The Assessors of New York hold that only the par of bonds was exempt, and that the holders were liable for the current value of the bond above its face. A case went to the Court of Appeals. The following is the de cision: In this case the par value of the United Sates bonds owned by appellants was allowed to be deducted from the assessment roll, leaving the premium subject to taxation, and the Court of Appeals sustained the action of the Tax Co nun is sioners, saying: "The statute (act of Congress, February 25, 1SC2) refers to them as bonds, etc., and does not refer to value beyond what they import on their face. The right of exemption is 'limited by the principle that State Legislation, which does not impair the usefulness of capabil ity of such instruments to serve that Government, is not within the rule of prohibition.' (National Bask vs, Commonwealth, 9 Wall, 3T3.) They were Issued by the Government at par, and for the most of them payment was received in a greatly depreciated currency, and we can not sup pose Congress in the enactment Intended to ex tend It beyond the amount for which they were issued. If the construction is doubtful the de cision should be against the exemption. It is a universal rule that exemptions are to be strictly construed." Some one traveling in England, saw a tavern sign, representing a man carrying his own head under his arm, lettered, "An Honest Lawyer," and asks the meaning. An ex change says that "a famous cynic replied to this question once witli a shrug of his shoul ders and a clear intimation that the only honest lawyer was one a head shorter than any who are living!" The valentine business is likely to be unusually large this season. One New York house has already manufactured 3,009,000 comic valentines, and its presses are still at work. The comic valentine is an abomination and a vulgar nuisance, and the sooner people are taught to let them alone, the bet ter it will be for all concerned. SPARKS. The bullion In the Bank of England Increased C47,000 the past week. The National Guard, of Greece, has been called on to be ready for duty. Letterwood, of I-ondon, has eutered for the walking match in New York. A statement of the Imperial Bank of Germany hows an increase of 5,93),0U marks. A crowded meeting was held at Manchester, ast night, to protest against coercion. Greece will not accept any compromise restricting the rights acknowledged to her by the treaty of Berlin

C03IPULS0KY EDUCATION.

Speech of lion. John W. Ryan, of Delaware County, In the Lower Ilouse of the General Assembly. Upon the important matter of compulsory education Mr. liyan says: It has been said of the United States, bv one who well understood Republican Institutions and was wonderfully familiar with all questions of Governmental policy, that it was "a Govern ment o: tne people, by the people, and for the people:" and there la. per haps, nowhere In political literature a clearer or better definition of a pure Democ racy. If. then, we be indeed a iure Democracy and have the ideal Government among Nations. as we trunk, we snouia weil consider which of our institutions best tends to the security of its foundations, promote its interests and foster its benign iniluences, and whether we be not over continent of our stability, and are not carelessly relapsing into that stage so fatal to the Republics of old whether we are not becoming so lulled by our greatness and wealth we are neglecting tne I ersitent development of civilization and intelli gence by and through the operation of which we nave attained our position among .Nations as tne crieatest of the earth, and whether we sufficiently regard the foes popularly deemed insignificant, yet which insidiously work and deter, aud slowly destroy us. To the success and perpetuity of a Government of the people, for the people, these things are fundamental, and. therefore, necessary. A high degree f National intelligence, universal honesty and disinterested patriotism. If there be universal intelligence of a superior character. there will be a corresponding degree of moral honesty and devoted love of country, Without the first, there can not be the second neither the third, except under stress of great national peril. There can be no popular government of great litrcugtn or powers oi endurance without a nign degree of intelligence among the governed. Men who are profoundly instructed in the science of government and the wants and best interests of 00,iwo,(XX) of free people, and capable of govern ing ana legislating profitably to tnat people, will not be selected as governors and law makers, unless there be intelligence among the masses to comprehend and Tecognize the necessity and determine the choice; especially so In a land where promotion to placets so easily secured by the use of money and other improper means. Men judge each other and determine of their ability, qualifications, character, standing1, etc., by comparison, and as a rule each man's standard is himself, and it is easy to see that amntelhgent and educated constituency makes its selections by a higher standard thar the class whose moral sense is so null and stu id as to be insensible to any other inntiences man ttio:e which appeal to its passions. prejudices and greed. There is. and can be no mustioii, but that two causes exist in Indiana which determine the result, to a considerable ex tent, of every recurring election held in the State. either general or local. One of these causes grows out of the other. It is well known that in every voting Precinct in the State, at least where there exists anything like a close division of party sen timent, otner means than appeals to a sense of good citizenship and the public welfare are re sorted to most successfully to determine the result: and some of the means resorted to are such as to disgust intelligent and patriotic citizens to such an extent tnat many oi them eschew politics entirely, and by w ithdrawing their votes and iulluencu contribute to the unfortunate result. This element, in greater or less numbers, exists in all communities, and is drawn, in the main, from the ignorant and illiterate, and lie fact itself at once suggests the remedy, because If the Intel ligent citizen is beyond the reach of such means. by making intelligence universal you extirpate a daugerous and turbuteut element. A government by the ieople involves a consent on the part of the people to be governed by another jart of the people, and to that end such a degree of education and intelligence is requisite as will enable the citizen to distinguish between Kood and bad government aud cheerfully niaiuUuu and submit himself to proper and judicious control and to the lust requirements of a wise administration of nub ile affairs, not because, by reason of the power of tne government, ne is compelled to, but because he is able to see and comprehend that it is to his own best interest to do so; and so it finally resolves Itself into the prop osition that the permanent success of popular government depends upon universal intelligence. We have a large claa of people, native and foreign, wbc themselves know so little of the advan tages and pleasures of education, they can not be left with .safety to the care of the moral and intellectual training of their young. They do not mean to be unkind, tney uo not mean to be harsh or unjust to their children. They simply do not know; they can not rightly determine what they do not know and can not comprehend, and when we take, for such purposes as mental and moral culture, tcnijwrary control of their children iroin mem, tney should be sympathized with and made to know it is for the greater good of the child. There are grave State reasons for not wishing to allow the children of these people to grow up as ignorant and illiterate as their fathers, these persons, caring little for educa tion themselves, make slight, if any, effort to se cure it to their childnii, who are left to crow ud the embodiment and new promulgation of the ignorance, bigotry and superstition of their progenitors. Such pepU, us a class, are always rest les. thoughtless. unsteady and impressible. Sei. dr.m the owners of property are so identified with the country or its interests as to attach them to It. or render them supporteis of it, from the ties of citizenship. Such an element can always be led by appeals to their passions, prejudices aud their religion, buc h an element when times are prosperous, mouey and employment plenty, are quiet uioneiiMve ana lor me most part tractable ml contented. Hut revert) the conditions. a.nri tuiselement calls ud his old world methods, and with ttie aid oi native ignorance becomes a roar in, turbulent multitude, destructive alike to themselves and every luterest which lies in their bloody, MiioKtnc path. Perhaps little can be done in the way of re forming or inclining into trie minds of these a'uut citizens new ideas, or ratner the American i loa, that useful citizenship depends upon the ability of the citizen to comprehend, and his willing!. ess to carry out under any and all cir cumsiuncvs tue principles oi KepuDIlcamsm One thing, however, can be done, and that thing or its etiivalant must be done to repress the increase of those representing tbese inimical doctrines. We can lay hold upon the young the children of these citizens and compel their attendance, along with the more intelligent childreu at the Common Schools where a lair education can be imparted; and at the same time, that mixing up and leveling process take place which al together starts the embryo citizen along in life s natu ii the true course of American citizenship. 1 his w ill not do to be left entirely to parents for it la well known, that, as a rule, illiterate parents neither comprehend or care for education, either for themselves or their children, and then again a large class of citizens are ever ready to parade their own want of thrift and indolent poverty as an excuse for pressing their children into the dally physical labor which deprives them of all school privileges, auch a class is a daily menace both to the peace and integrity of the country, its prosperity and the steady methods of business It Is the class which always, when times are hard, raises the howl of the Commune and demands a division of property. There is still another class of religious sectarians who believe according to the teaching of their Churches, the education of the youngshould be confided entirely to parochial schools or schools controlled entirely by the Churches, yet supported by a division of the public funds, and because that is contrary to the spirit of our Institutions, and can not be, and it being impossible for thtsj people to sustain a school on private account, the children are kect out of school, and become the victims of the blind and fauatical bigotry of their parents. It is the Interest of the State that all her children become self-supporting, intelligent, thoroughly Americanized men and women, and furthermore these children's rights should be respected and justice should be secured to them, and humane legislation should provide them what their parents in many cases have neither the inclination or ability to do. The Stute of Indiana, since framing the first laws providing a system of Common Schools, has acted on the well-received theory that It is not only the State's duty to provide a system of practical education for all her people, but that it was good itolicy and public economy to do so, and one of the chief problems now occupying the minds of those most deeply interested in the subject of popular education is how to make it universal as a system, and make it equally beneficial to all, it being a conceded proposition if one or a portion of the children are entitled to and do receive such benefit, all should. To meet this difficulty, a system of compulsory attendance at school wo many consecutive weeks during each term of the public school has been resorted to in most of the countries of Kurope, and many of the States oi this Union, and everywhere put in operation has produced results in every way far beyond the exectations of its friends. It has, I believe, been attempted a few times in Indiana, but has always lcen met by such a furious storm from some quarters as either to defeat it outright or frighten its advocates into its abandonment, and one of the chief and, as I believe, most potent arguments produced by those at enmity with such a measure, has been the fact that in many instances of poor and inflrm parents, the compulsory feature of tho bill will work great outrages and hardships by depriving such people of the aid of the dally labor of the child or children they may have. This, of course, is true to some extent, as it is true of any measure whatever, which has for It object the affecting of largo classes of persons. Some of the humanitarians when the civil war broke out argued and urged that it were better to let the Union stand dissolved than sacrifice so many lives as might be necessary to maintain its integrity. The interest of mankind cried no, let the war go on to the greatest god to the greatest number. So I say pass this bill, for we cannot say that the hopes, prostKM-ts and future of half the school laipulation of Indiana must be neglected and destroyed because forsooth the enforcement of a measure which brings them into the schools will inilict suffering and some hardships open here and therein each County. Now and then an infirm parent whose danger of real suffering, under our w ise provisions for the support of the poor, is so trilling as not to weigh a feather against the humanity of a measure which confers lasting blessings aud benefits on so manv. But putting this matter in the strongest light claimed for it by the enemies of this feature of the bill, still it- is no valid argument agalnt the bill. There is another side to the question as they put it. It at once becomes a question which of two interests, one of which must suffer, it shall be. As a question for the State to decide on grounds of policy and the best for the public good, ihe state elects to foster the child because of the prospect of its greater future value to the Slate; and again the Important fact is either lost sight of or ignored, that while less than one half of the children In the school age are in the schools,

that proportion receive their own share of the

school funds, and also the full benefit of tne portion which rightfully belongs to those who tor so many reasons are kept out of the schools, aud their young lives trampled down oeneatn op pression's curse. The parent claims support from the child. The child's necessities cry aloud in its own behalf. Which shall we heed? Which has the greatest claim to our sympathy and humanity? Which is best fitted in the struggle for existence to meet the foes in life's battle, the eight year old boy or girl or the parent with a lifetime of experience in his favor? It may be said with justice and with force, if a man with a lifetime of experience and full of years has failed to put himself beyond dependence upon his infant children, it is the strongest argument that well could be made against wasting two or three freh young lives in the support and further main tenance of the worthless existence. Again tne fact of the failure cf the. parent's life argues vehemently and forcibly against permitting such incompetence and worthlessness to have charge and control of children to bring them upas worth less to themselves aud society, as ne nas proved. The 3o0.000 schoolchildren which the Suiierlntendent of Instruction says are not in our schools, say to us, in the piteous pleading of soft-hearted ciiiidnooo, tne state has undertaken to provide conditions under which the youth within her borders may nave free education, wnysnouia we be excluded? These children say the Mate has admitted and committed herself to the nrin ciple of the free education of her young, and she can not now recede, but must go farther and pro vide tne conditions under which this class shall have equal benefits and privileges with their more favored fellow s. The child of poor or innrm parents is not responsible lor its condition ot helplessness, nor for its parents' poverty or infirmity. Of choice it would have ordered neither, and to make it in any wise responsible, oreouitel it to bear the buiden, is barbarous. The argument which denies to a child this privilege of emancipation from ignorance and its consequent calamities was the slave-drivers' argument in the old days for the continuance of African slavery, and is inconsistent with the genius of American liberty, as well as in cufiict w ith the first section of the eighth article of our State Constitution, which says the "General Assembly shall i iovide by law a general system of Common Schools, where tuition shall be with: Mit charge. and equally open to al'.' There Is not in this case even a moral obligation resting on these children to maintain their iarents. An obligation presupposes some suit;.bl consideration, and theie is none whale. er here: the father has given his child nothing but life which, iustead of being expanded into a glorious heritage, prove often a burden and sometimes a curse, which the enemies of this bill would em bitter by keeping its helpless little possessor where its advancing life becomes an increasing ioid oiten to ena in sname, crime or a penniless help lessness uo better than its parents. It is not only crime agaiust society, but positive inhumanity to the child to take advantage of its young, fresh affections for its parent., and utter neiptessness in tneir nanus to compel it to a nonuace and slaverv which leaver it nl the threshold of life at that stage when the real struggle for existence comes to it, stranded aud wrecked: left far behind those who have been its playmates provided for by the State, and out of the public beneficence equipped for the light, with the crushing and cursed reflection that while the btate nas provided for his fellow, no more worth v than he. it ha consigned him to ignominy and a fate which had destroyed him. Our friends who see so much interference with the right and liberty of the citizen in a measure which, without the parent's consent sends away to school the boy or girl to lay the foundation of success in life by the acquisition of a fair education from the factory, the field, the wood-chopper's ax, where it earns twenty-five cents per day and contributes it to the support or a in oi an agea or innrm parent, can see no interference with "liie, liberty ana the pursuit of happiness" in thus handicapping that child in the race of life with ignorance, illiteracy and the want of the means necessary to honest independence. Every indigent parent should sing daily peans of gratitude thst he lives in a State which so generously and bountifully supplies to the child of his loins what he himself could not. Put these children in the schools, for, indeed, there can be no more pitiful sight iu this world than the hopeless despair which ignorance, want, pri vation, neglect aud brutality have written on the once fair young face of the half-developed boy or girl whoe youth has been blasted and very growth stunted by being compelled to walk iu the treadmill of daily, unremitting toil to support a pair of parents poor and old, whose own ignorance, want oi energy ana limit have left uiem at tne last end of their cheerless, wretch ed lives a charge unon childhood. But all cause of objection to the bill on this grouna is tuny met ana removed by the provi siou which allows either the maintenance of infarm persons by the public, or the payment to such parents the per diem valuation of the child's service w nne it may be in the schools. A measure im poses no hardships upon a people which, without complaint, taxes itself 2 per cent, on the whole valuation for a lailroad, or assesses a belt three miles wide through their farms to construct a road at a cost of thousands of dollars per mile While in the one case they create and maintain a corporation which binds them hand and foot and grows to such giant proportions as to threaten the very nie oi the Nat on. while universal educa tion and the morality and religion which it fosters is the life and bulwark of societv aud the safeguard of republican institutions. The statesmen and legislators who w ill have to grapple with the encroaching jower of these giant corporations are the boys of to-day, and if we exject them to be fitted for these high responsibilities we must educate them, with their consent, if we can. without it, if we must. Against this method on the principle involved in it the objection on the grounds of cost is not tenable, becaue if the principle of Common bchools as in force in this blate is the true one, and If that then is no longer any question, then it is worth all it may cot to maiiitHin it and make its application within the tetate universal; and li is illogical to say the conditions thall not be made such, that every child shall not have equal opportunities with every other. It is profitable to the State to educate her children. It ii a well-known fact that the illiterate and ignorant are not. as a body, of themselves and uncontrolled, capable of steady industry and economy. They live, but add nothlug to the prosperity of the State or their own substance. Their wants are few and easily supplied; they are not calculating; they do not know how to think and manage; they have no ambition, and are not urged to a better state of living. Give them education and their wants Increase, with that increase comes tho use and application of means for their gratification: they begin to take thought for the morrow. a:d are stimulated to labor aud save, and in every department of labor they oierate with more success. Common laborers withsr.ch an education as our free Common Schools can give are found, by actual experiment, to be worth to tho State, on an average, ;0 per cent, more than if illiterate and ignorant. The projeriy in the state is under obligation to educate every child within its borders. This Is a law of m dtri civil rationSwitzerland, Germany, Ei glat.d. Fiai t niid Scotland are obeying with profit and i e ce thi law. It removes from society one t.f it-gicatcsi dangers masses of ignorant, unreasoning and prejudiced laborers; and, lastly, it ad is f.om 50 to 100 per cent, to the producing power of a people in times of peace, and double its objective force in time oi war. In an elaborate paper prepared bv Professor J. R. Kobens, of this city, much fault is found w Mi this bill and the principle contained in it. ai-d n 1 understand the Professor arhtht his chief objection to the measure in it interference with the liberty of the citizen, are its invasion of the sacred rights of family government. The Irofessor should have known tnat the principle of compulsory education was very nearly concurrent wish the institution of the family and have its origin in the theory, that while - the family was the proper theater for the moral training of the child, the compulsory idea of education was found necessary as a supplement to other In order to the i.sitlon of citizenship. In the days of the old Jewish dispensation, Joshua, the son of Gainalti, had introduced a system of compulsory education ; School Hoards were established for each District.and every child more than six yetrs of age, was obliged to attend the annual schools. Indeed every well ordered family practices the principles of this bill, in compelling the attendance of their children at school. And the State does only in a long way with reference to all children, what a wise parent does for his orrn compels their attendance at school, and It would seem to require no argument to prove if it is right to establish free schools it Is right ta secure the benefit of them equally to all. 1'erhaps a more practical answer to the Professors, while creed is found In the fact that last year 14,S12of the school children of his County, did not attend the public schools; and, in the further fact that in twelve years, or from 1X68 to 1880. while the school population has increased nearly 200,000, the attendance at school is w hat it was twelve years ago. la Republican Sparta, nearly 3,000 yean ago, Lycurgus compelled the education of every citizen. Twenty-five hundred years ago Solon, the Athenian law-giver, made the education of the citizen compulsory. Charlemagne, in the Century, required the children of all persons participating In the affairs of Government t attend school, so that jmiwit might be in cultivated hands. In China, the oldest civilization that has come down to us unbroken, the educated alone carry on the Government. The Intelligence of a country must and will rule it, and until the whole people are educated there can in no true sense e a Government of the people, by the ieople. In 17'. France established a Hcpublic on universal suffrage, but the majority of the voters were Ignorant, and the lie public, after deluging the whale land in blood, in the short space of seven years became a despotism. She repeated the experiment in IMS, but then more than one-half of her citizens, though white, could not read their ballots, and four years after, or in 1852, by an overwhelming majority, they ch e a military desot. Spain enacted the bloody farce, aud her ignorant rabble in a few months exchanged the Republic of Castellar for the Monarchy with a ltourboti. These things carry the conviction that the success of popular government depends upon the intelligence of the teople. Assuming that our people are not greatly different from those of other countries and other ioc Uitle8, there is no reason to opiiose the measure on the ground of any ill consequences likely to result from the penal features of the bill, in the first fdace, the continued non-attendance of such a arge portion of the children of the State, for such a length of time, demonstrates that neither oppor tunities, solicitation, or tne inconveniences attendant upon ignorance and Illiteracy, are sufficient to Induce an increase of atteudauce of the children of school age, and w e are reduced to one of two extremities either to submit quietly to the present order of things and allow the discrimination against one-half of the children of the State, whereby thev lose all chances for an education, or devise such means as will enable us to secure this great right, and perform this high duty to these rising citizens. In the second place, the history of compulsory education In other countries teaches that the Instances are very rare in

which prosecution of parents had to be resorted to, and that, too, in countries where thoower aud middle classes are very much poorer and more dependent than the corresponding classes

in tne American Mates, in the large cities oi England and Scotland, particularly London, Liverpool. Birmingham. Manchester, Ediuburg. etc., the reports made by the proper officers to the School Boards show that the instances are ex tremely rare in which anything more is necessary n case of refractory parents than a vmt of the proper officer of the school to explain and talk with the parents, with reference to the purposes and advantages of education to the child or child ren. In the third place, It has been attempted In this bill to soften and so arrange the penal features of it that they bear as lightly as is possible with their effectiveness and form, guaroing the matter in such manner as to render it unprofitable for any one to seek to use the penal features of the bill for the gratification of mn lice, or the purposes of speculation, by cutting1 off fees whereever possible, and reducing necessary costs to the very minimum. in the fourth place, it will not be controverted that intelligence is a great aid to mankind in all the relations of life, and as these children have to be reared and maintained, is it not better to educate them as we maintain and rear them than to allow them to grow up in ignorance, to practice all the vice and crime consequent upon ignorance and illiteracy? If it be said it costs more tocomel this attendance and maintain these children in a kind of exemption from all kinds of labor while attending school, the answer is, tne cost is at least no more to educate. It costs the parent and tax-payer so much to raise and maintain his child; it costs him no more to send him to school meanwhile, because he Is compelled to pay his proportion of the tax whether he send or not, and if It even cost some more thus to maintain and educate him, you thereby make him self-sustaining and accumulative, and not only safe against pauperism and crime, but a con tributor to the general wealth and prosperity ami l.HTcase his value more as a citizen than tne makii cc:ets. The inagnanimltv of a people which freely and willingly taxes itcelf to build a State House at a cost of sf (jOO.000. and has freely poured out the million and a half for the construction of this splendid temple, in order that credit aud renown shoiild be reflected upon the State, ought not to stultify itself by refusing provision for the care and t uituie oi the children, out of tne sweat of whose lucesand the tears and pains andpriva ti. iisi f whose toil the taxes which built them his ceeu gathered. If it be aigued that the compulsory feature of the bill is oppressive aud restrictive of personal liberty, and therefore illegal, it may be conclusively auswered, this State has settled the right of the question to be, that she has the power to pass all law s necessary for the protection of life, liberty and the rights of property, and to punish crime, and it would be lutile to argue against the rights of power having authority to pass laws for the punishment of crime, and the invasion of any of these rights agaijist the power to pass such laws, and make such regulations as would tend to prevent what it has the right to pui ish. Again, the State and Courts have acted upon the theory that it was not in contravention of the bill of rights pass laws creating reformatory Institutions, wheu the youth can be held in enforced counuement for other reasons, aud on other grounds than that for the punish ment of crime. The principle Involved in the creation of the Reform School for Boys, the Female Reformatory for Women and Girls Is the same as the principle in von eu in mis um viewed irom tne Mauupuuu of the opposition. So it is the same principle which authoitaes the State to provide for another ciass i ncipiess citizens me insuue. x nuiiniaiii the bill is neither restrictive or subversive of the right of liberty and voluntary locomotion The measure is protective and enabling, and assumes the callow, uninstructed, undeveloped child should be cared for, protected, developed and matured into the fullj fruition of the purpose of his creator, and the hopeless, piteous spectacle of SOO.tiOO children excluded fr m the school room and deprived of the glorious. invigorating, happifying waters of the fountain of knowledge should be sufficient to call every man, who loves his children, remembers the dreary probation, it may be, of his own loylcss childhood, actively to the support of any meas ure which promises amelioration to tins most neglected and unfortunate class; and now, Mr, Speaker.appealing through you to the Members of this Assembly, wniie l Know it is hard lor sucn of cultivated philosophy to put its ear Another feature of the bill, I believe, promises real benefit to the school population of the Mate, and that is the rigid restriction and strict adher ence to a Plain, simple, practical, short course of study in f.ie Common Schools. The idea seems to have prevailed in the minds oi the originators of the Common Schools that the generality or masses of the youth of the State could devote com para tively few years to the acquisition of education. aud therefore they Ehotild have opportunity to matte the most practical use of it by not suffering any abridgement of it or unnecessary division of it by being compelled to study merely ornamental or showy branches. To. these ends the system contemplates the thorough and faithful teaching cf the fundamental principles of practical knowi edge, and hence the course of study in these schools has never been varied from the eight common branches, until within a few years past certain interests have succeeded ia procuring Legislative leave to introduce other branches and vary the course of study. The course of study in the eight branches prescribed in the law faithfully pursued and thoroughly mastered, wil make better scholars, broader, more practical minded men and women, than any graduate of any so-called High School In Indiana. These schools are for the masses, who should have the full benefit of their greatest possibilities, unuei the wisest and greatest possible practical manage ment. The opponents of this bill, and the principle contained in it, cry out against its inquisitorial leature as a violation 01 Facrca lamny iujnts, at outrage that should not be tolerated that school officer should eo into the family with view to rescue the child. Laws, are passed and euforced everywhere by which humane Societies are authorized to take by violence helpless children from the custody of their drunken and brutal parents. Is the parent who compels his child to grow up In a land of schools an ignorant, illiterate animal, rlnally to be turned loose on society, to glut his animal passions at any cost to human life and human rights any the less a monster than he who, crazed and maddened with rum, brains him or cripples him for life? Shall it be said, in a land w nich makes it penal to neglect the wants and necessities of a brute, that the wants and necessities of the children shall not be protected from the course of life and influence which brutalizes them? These sickly sentimentalists and false philanthropists tell us you must not coerce. Professor ltoterts says: "The times are not ripe for laws of this kind." I invite his attention for a few moments to some figures, drawn from official sources, which tend to inculcate different ideas: Total number of children of school age In the State, white and colored, May, 1879...-70S.101 Average daily attendance 15,8'J3 Out of Common Schools dally 392,308 The last annual report of Superintendent Smart tells some sorry tales. On page 197 It is shown that iu 16S, or twelve years aso, w Ith a school piulatioii iu the State of 5'J2C5. the average daily attendance for the Counties in each District w lu re schools were taught was thirty-four souls. Now. i.i ISN), after twelve years, w hich was under she management of tne non-interference idea, we have a school population in the State of 703,508, or an increase of 110,000, while the average attendance in the Districts is Just what it was twelve years aio thirty-four souls to each school. Iu this connection it must be borne in miud that the school facilities have kept pace with the increase of population. In lfeCS there were in the State 8,403 school houses. In 1880 there were y,617. Allowing sixty-live pupils to each school house, aud deducting a small per cent, for those attending Private schools, and we have school houses and teachers enough to accommodate every child in the State. Why, let me ask Professor Roberts, do not these suierior facilities exhale "enough of their aroma from the circumambient air to turn the Ieople's heads and change their hearts?" Ict us din again into the books lain upon our desks to aid us in our duties with reference to the schools. On page 188 of the same volume we are shown that In a ieriod of ten years the increase of school population In Indianapolis has been the enormous sum of 116 per ceut., w hile her average school attendance as a district has stood still for twelve years. To put it plain, the number of childrcu out of the Public School in Marion County, where Professor Roberts resides, is 14.M2. Certainly the time is very nearly ripe for such a law as this. But again: By the last census it is shown that in Indiana there were 3t),5I3 adult persons who could neither read nor write. The Superintendent's report for 1X78 shows also that there w as at that time 2,714 minors between the age of ten and twenty-one years in the same deplorable state. In all, 42,'2')1 persons in Indiana w ho can neither read nor write. Tbese are sorry facts, aud If our Common Sehtxil system, after forty years of active trial, can make no better show ing of result. I urge upon you the necessity of some change looking to its improvement. In the light of these fac it will not do for us to fay we have provided all the necessary facilities for the education of these children, and if they do not avail themselves of them we are not responsible. They must not be left to the choice, for all know that when perfectly untrameled the normal condition of the average boy and girl is rather to fall into the early ways of indolence than seek the paths of learning. This twelve years failure of the law to gather in the children demonstrates it will not do to leave it to the choice of parents. We must compel. The Superintendent s report, page 2f.", shows there was expended on the Ikimmoti Schools of the State for 1W0, t9,0G5,251.23,or 2.88 for every child of school age in the State; 3Jl,5-l ) being out of the schools, their portion of this money, or in figures. S4.532,tiJ7.8rt, is lost to them each year, and those children w hose parents value education get the benefit of this collosal sum in addition to an equal sum justly their own. Yearly these little fellows, who hew the wood and draw the water, and toil early and late during the hot uns of long summers and shiver through the bleak rigors of sunless winters at the corn-shock, the feeding rack, or the ax handle, the while the Churches gather money to send Bibles to Hindoo people, a tract to Hottentots, and Legislatures vote large appropriations, these neglected childten help together to support institutions of learning, whose aching sight and tear-dimmed vision is never blessed with a sight of their interiors. Mr. Speaker, these are awful facts, and these facts the friends of these defrauded children hold up to you as the painful arguments in favor of your interference in their behalf. Shall we be dumb to the moving eloquence of these mute appeals? God, in the w ise dispensations of His Providence, treated man in His image. He made no distinctions. Why should we? In contemplation of law and American Republicanism, these children are all equal, whether born in a palace, or their eye first open

amid the squalor and wretchednefs of a t

hovel, and the aruumeut airainst eatherluff them all together in our Public Schools because of this alleged disparity, is the cry of an aristocrat, an enemy of his kind, and unworthy a man who claims citizenship in a land, the keystone of whose political foundation is the Ieciaratlon oi Independence. This bill has been assaulted in the public prints of this city on the ground that if a law. it would contaminate the good children by compelling their association witn the joer little wanderers the measure proposes to reach. This is the cry of the class-supremacy element of society, and it is sufficient to say to them, the Common Schools are for the beneht of the poor: and if tbeilch do not desire the association they afford, they can send them to swell institutions on the sea board w here the courses of modern society ate taught and practiced. Men say to me, the teachers oppose the bill. Why should thev? It is no bu-ii.t ss of theirs; the schools are created for the childten. and not for them, and they are for th j K-h.a.ls and for the enforcement of such laws as .nie b them not to dictate legislation r to-Si.no 1 Hoards. Such is the burden of many songs w hich have been sung, and the key-note oi them all is the law would impose more labor iisii and tax additionally the intellectual qna.ificatioi.s of teachers. Bvmanv who discuss this measure, their old' rtions are put upon the ground that the rights oi ihe family are invaded, and the authority of the pareut to control absolutely the destiny and future of the child is ignored." The other side of the question, or the inherent and superior lights of the child, is either ove: looked or ignored. Bancroft, the great historian, says: "The universal ity of the intellectual and moral powers, ami tt.e necessity of their development for the pregte-s of the race, proc aim the great doctrine of the natural ngnt oi every human being to moral aim intellectual culture. It Is the giory of our fathers to have established in their laws the equal claims of every child to the public care of its morals aud lis luinu. rioiu uns ii ini-ipie vv uiaj uciuvu the universal rmht to leisure, that is. to time not appropriated to material purposes, but reserved for tne culture oi tne moral anecuons auu tne mind. It does not tolerate the exclusive enjoyment of leisure by a privileged class, but, defending the rights of labor, would suffer none to sacrifice the higher purposes of existence in unceasing toil for that which is not life. Such is the voice of nature; such the conscious claim of the human mind. God has made man upright that he might look before and after, and He calls upon every man not only to latior, but to reflect. Nature claims for every man leisure, for she claims for every man as a witness to the divine glory manifested iu the created world. The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree iu which the intelligence ot the common mind has prevailed over brute force and wealth; in other words, the measure of the progress of civilization is the progress of the people. Every great object, connected with the benevolent exertions of the day, has reference to the culture of those powers which are alone the common Inheritance." Apoealine to the humanltv and sense of jus tice of this Assembly, while I know it is hard for the pride oi cultivated philosophy to put its ear to the ground and listen reverently to the voice of lowly humanity. I plead with you to listen to the soft, sad murmuring and childish yearnings of the 300.000 children out of the schools, many of w hom, without your intervention, are doomed to wander up and down the earth, homeles. helpless and despised. Thev call to us: "Give us this day our daily bread, and lead us not iuto temptation ; save us from our hard task-masters." And think what will be your answer when the aw ful question comes to be asked of vou: "Am I my brother's keeier?" Rescue these children from the aw ful fate which waits upon ignorance, and you will have builded for psterii to reverence a monu ment, to vmir tncmorv more shaoelv than marble. more ecduring than brass, which w ill be the daily iribute which springs spontaneously from grate ful and overflow ing hearts. RESÜ31E OF THE WEEK'S NEWS. WASHINGTON AND CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. On Wednesday in the United States Senate, a message was received from the President trans mitting the report of the special rouca commis sion and outlining an Indian policy lor tne tuture Mr. Mcl'herson made a favorable report on the bill to appropriate $100,000 to equip a vessel to search for the Jeannette iu the Arctic regions. The Morgan electoral count reso lutions occupied a large portion of the day. and were finally adopted. The House passed on W'ednesday the District of Columbia appropriation. The Legislation appropriation, setting aside 17,181,000. was reported favorably. Ihe Speaker presented a message from the President, accompanied by a recommendation from the Secretary of the Navy, that S2O0.UO0 be appropriated for Naval stations on the American Isthmus. 1 he apportionment bin coming up, Mr. Cox entertained the House with flow erv tributes to our institutions and our progress, The Senate on Thursday took up the Morgan resolution on the electoral count, wnicn was dis cussed by Messrs. Conkling. localis, Blaine and Edmunds, A vote developed the absence of a quorum, when an adjournment was effected. The House on Thursday took up the apportion ment bill. Mr. Cox offered an amendment fixing the number of Representatives at 307, while Mr. Sherwin. of the Census Committee, favored 3U1. The delwite then assumed a iolitieal cast. Mr. Thompson, of Kentucky, declared that the second section of the Fourteenth Amendment could notite practically enforced by legislation. Mr. White denied that there was a property qualification in force in Pennsylvania The bill went over without action. Mr. King introduced a bill apprupnuit'g JJ.'O.OOUfor ihedis tribution of seed corn. The Indl.ui appropriation was reported with the Senate amendments, which wore tmri-ed to. The Senate parsed the House bill appropriating f2fi,tiO0 for a National Museum, on Ftiday. The refunding bill was reported by Mr. ltaatd, who said he would call it up early i.ext week. Mr Lopau tried to call up the Grant rctiiem.-nt 111, but was acain iinsutTcessf itl. lie whs t-oua'lv un fortunate in trying to secure coubideratfoii of Ida franking privilege resolution. The Morgan electoral count resolution was a (rain taken up on Friday i.i th Senate, ai-d Messrs. Edmunds, Thurman aud others K4x-ke on the subject. Mr. Hoar proposed an amei.dn ent. a4.-ltr,v tl.A mstit.i A i1 tliat ft ikü Hull- nl f&-uiif5 uic niiu ..in. a. -J w.. ...... vi Congress, without delay, to institute lin-nntrw to execute due and orderly performance 1 1 sii uuty in the future. This was agreed to, and tne reso lution passed without opitosition. The pension bill w as discussed, but not acted upon. Senator Logan made a speech iu opitosition to the rider proitosing a change in the machinery of ine Tension umce on rioay. Friends of Senator Allison declare th it the Treasury iHirtfolio is in his hands, but that he honestly desires that James F. Ilson should en ter the Cabinet, and leave the Senatorial field clear. In the United States Senate. Saturday, a resolu tion was passed inviting the Government and people of France and family of Lafayette to join the people of ihe United States in theYorktown Centennial celebrations, and S20.000 were appropriated for the purpose. Consideration was resumed of the pension appropriation bill, and Mr. Logan continued his criticism of the sixty jmnrenn bill. Several bills wpre paused of a cenI eralcharactcr, and the Senate adjourned. in the House, Saturday, the principal leature was the debate on Mr. Cox's appropriation, which began in a temj-crate manner, but closed in a storm. The Senate concurrent resolution for counting the Klectoral vote was passed. On Monday, iu the Ilouse. the river and harbor appropriation bill was discussed et length, without action. More new bills were offered. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS NOTES. The order placing General Ord on the retired list was issued Saturday. Earthquake shocks were felt in several places in New Hampshire Saturday. The mercury in the Chautauqua Iake region of New York stood at 32 below on Friday. It is said Bismarck does not favor the proposal of France for an international conference on the silver question. 'Recent advices from South America state that the Peruvians have been successful In several engagements. Four thousand weavers are on a strike at Hyde, England, for an advance of wages, and 11,000 looms are idle. Samuel Hazlehurst & Sons, operators In flour and grain, of Baltimore, have suspended. Liabilities, JIO.O'JO. Ctamlctta proposes to visit Vienna soon to learn the view s of Austria and Germany in regard to his candidacy for President of the French Republic. In Northern Vermont the mercury on Friday became useless as an indicator of temperature. A spirit thermometer at North Sheldon marked 4.V below. It is understoed that Gortschakoff. the Russian Chancellor, will resign in April, when he will have completed his twenty-fifth year of service in that capacity. William II. Vanderbllt has paid the entire cost of transfening the obelisk, iedestal and steps fr.'ni Alexandria to New York, and erecting them in Central Park. Rev. J. L. M. Curry, of Richmond, Ya.. has been chosen General Agent of the l'eabody Educational Fund. The available income for the coming year is over SW.OOO. A Member of the Maine Lcci. slat lire named Thomas B. Swan has been swindling the public through the mails, having received thousands of dollars In answer to circulars. Thomas Rogers, who took part in tho Irish Rebellion of I71M and who settled in Toronto when it was nothing but a cluster of log cabins, has breathed his last at River Beaudett, OnL A mail coach was robbed of all the mail and express matter from Ouray, Lake City and Silverton, Friday, near Del Norte, Col. Of the live passengers, only one, 'hartes l'eck. was robbed. A mee.ing of the National Committee of the Union League of America w ill be held in Washington on the 2d of March, and a public meeting of the entire League will be held the following day. Two brothers named John and Henry Russell, living near Kendallvllle, Ind., got into a friendly tussle, but John, becoming mad, struck Henry with a stick of stove-w ood, killing him almost instantly. Mrs. Sallie Keene. of Philadelphia, became insane in watching over her only child during an attack of small-pox, and hanged herself when the learned from the physician that it could not survive the week. An insurance conspiracy of deep interest has been unraveled at Evansville, Ind., by a detective employed by one of the Companies involved. J ulius A. Coleman, a prominent young lawjer, induced Charles II. Lucas to insure his life Uf

tl?,000 and make feint of having been drowned in the river. The prelim in ties f the fraud were duly carried out, but Lucas a -d his minor accomplices were soon captured, t okmau was admitted to bail in 3.000. Henrv Um, the oldest person in Indiana, who claimed to have been a U dy st-rvsnt to General Atercer during the Itevol-.niouary War, died at Mount Vernon, on last Thursday, at the estimated age of 123 years. A Cape Town dispatch savs Kirg Caffee has formally declared war against Kngland and sent the Golden Rl to Governor Usher as an emblem of the fact. Much anxiety Is felt iu England over this fresh trouble in Africa. Charles Hill. shackled convict, enroute from from Vigo t unty Jail to the Indiana Penitentiary, on Saturday, jumped from thetrnin while goitg into Indianapolis, and secreted himself in the wilden ess of freight cars. John Brown's Sons, of Philadelphia, have f d'td Lial ilitics, threc-quartcisof a million. The firm t xp rts, with time, to pay twenty-five

cents on the ooliir. Over 7-0 men are thrown out f tmilojment by the failure. Cathartt.e Miller and Geortrc Smith were executted at WLli.unsn)rt. Pa., in the presence of about l.'iOspectatom. On the tcaffold the woman uttered pien Ian shrieks Smith rnndo a declaration that his paramour rirht promised the murder. The House Committee on Naval Affairs instruct ed Representative Whitthornc to have iuertod in the sundry civil bill an appropriation of S.hki. ouo for the establishment of coaling stations on the A met ican Isthmus. This is in accordance with the recommendations of the President. 1 wo memlers of the Post Band at Fort Adams. Newport. K. I., broke through the ice. Fndav evening, and were rescued by Miss Ida Lewi, keeper of the Lime Rock Light Houfc, as they were disappearing for the last time. This makes seventeen lives rescued by Miss Lewis. Jaexson Goodrich, a farmer in Bone Township, Indiana, having lost forty sheep through the assaults of dogs, got out his gun and ammunition and killed twenty-three canines in a single raid. He seems to think there are enough left alive to transact all necessary business iu the Township. Saturday, at Elkhart, Ind., the Elkhart Knitting Factory was seized on a chattel mortgage by the Elkhart National Pank, amounting to 10.000. There are other liabilities. It i understood that S. S. Strong will assume the liabilities and go on w ith the work. General Gran t presided at a meeting Saturday night, in New York, in the interest of the World's Fair of 1883. Addresses were made by several gentlemen: $322,000 were collected for the enterprise in six days. Three gentlemen present contributed $5,000 eaeh. The railroads are expected to give a million. The Bishop and clergy of the Archdiocese of Boston have issued an add i ess to the people of Ireland, asserting that any movement which seeks by legitimate means to rescue the Green Isle from enforced poverty has their sympathy, but hoping that no resort to arbitrary jowcr would be considered. A party of citizens of Augusta, Ark., lynched three men on Thursday w ho attempt d an outrage on a worthy young lady. The mob rallied at the Jail at midnight, gagged the guards, and took the prisoners acros the river for execution. The victims of Judge Lynch are said to have been sons of wealthy planters iu Monroe County. A new railroad is anno'ti.eod from New York to Chicago, by way of Cleveland. The Cleveland and Chicago branch will be 310 miles long, and its St. Louis branch will begin at Fort Wayne, and be only 325 miles long. It is intimated that it will cross the Alleehany Mountains instead of going to the north of them. Th- death of Thomas a-lyle, the great author, essayist and the John lv i-x of letters, in his eighty-sixth year, makes genuine distress in thoughtful circles. The g eat old man, living nearly a century, and w iking to the last, hat laid more hobgoblins by the heels, and lifted uj more neglected heroes than any man of oui century- In the death oi t'arlyle and ieorg Eliot within a mouth of each other, British lit erature has been literal knocked.t.ffits pint Mr. Carlyle died peacefullv on last Saturdaj morning in London, lie ws b ra in Scotland n IT'.O, and will be buried at hut birthplace, a small town in Dumfriesshire. ELECTRIC KTCtilNGS. POME9T1C. Nothing new was devtl .j ed In the Whittaker Court Martial yesterday. The Maez Lithograph Company, oi Buffalo, yesterday made an assign mei.t. The death of General IMe, at New York, was from acute pncumoi.Lt. The spinners of Fall River. Mass., have decided to strike. The w ca trs w ill meet on Friday night The receipts at Washington yesterday from internal revenue were tJj'J.oüö; from" customs, $."00,380. William Neal, sentenced to be hanged at NewCastle, Del., on Friday, has beeu respited uutil June 10. The Nevada Senate yesterday adopted a memorial to Congress to pass the iteaau inter-State Railroad bill. Subscription books for stick of the new Merchant' TelegTaph Company were opened at Buffalo yesterday. The Erie Railway has again reduced rates for emigrants from New York t Chicago for 3: Cinciunati, S-.50; St. Louis, aud other places in proportion. A party of laborers at Port Jarvis. N. Y., went upon a soree TuemUy nijrht. One was frozen to death and three had tneir hnndi and feet frozen w badly mat they were amputate! 25 YEARS' EXPERIENCE! THE Indian Botanic Physician LATE OF LONDON, ENGLAND, The moot uncceMful mtarrb, long and thront doe tor in America, is prt!in'iit!y located at the corner of Illinois and l.otiiiatia stnet, It dinnpi.Il Indiana, where lie ill antD all d:1, n? tell the complaint withutit nuking a ringle question. &V"CnsultatioQ Free, in either German or Etilih PKK MAW f 1ST CT'KES I Pr. Reeres warrant a pimau nt cure of tta following diseases: Pile nl tumor, itching at protruding, cured wttlmit p in or instrument; cancer cured in all their forn. a Mhout the knife or eickim'm of the patient. Tli I'ortor hat cured bun drd of tlö dreadful ikr of the human body, which hit baffled the -- mutated ckill t.f agea. Ills remedied excel anyth in. kuowu to medical ecience. He defies the wonl l M' g hini a raw wlu rt there is sufficient vitality to -.tin the jt m, that he eaa not cure. Any Kr, n winning farther Inf urination or treatment, hImuI J nie hl u a rail. Kheuniatism cured and warranted to stay cured in eer) case. 411 farms of Blood an I HUla Dleate ttr Ir inniiruil A nrel ! Such si tetter, salt then in KcrofuU or syphilitic sores, strictnres, seminal -ki. or K'rniatt.rh(ia, primary and aecomUry plii.i, gouorrlKra, or chronic Tenereai, kidney or mn arv dicejices of eithri ex, yonng of old, no null, i . I ad. He challenge a companion with any phtrician in America in cur ing these diseases. L. ! n at.) km1 restored. The Doctor can refer to bundreda ii.uh aftected h"eredU their present existence to tela :. nr. d by him. All moles, birth-marks and 'r t k a i. moved. Also, ail the various diseases of lh- je and ear. FOR THE K OS LY! A lady, at any period of lift-, from childhood to the grave, may, if ill, stifle- mm u. or mure of the fol lowing diseases, whnl,-e l.ttr will p.-oi tively cur: Liver complaint, u.iit: uon of the ftou.atti, nervous weakneea, Im. Ii-. etc., pr lavnus ot the vagina or womb, 1 i c n l oa or lutes, autver ion, retroversion, ant ipl ii, r tr pl. xi u, r ulceration of this organ, sick Ii dache, ih-uinatinin and sciatic pains. iJrcpsy pt luiaiieutlj cured in a short time without tapping. Call or write to fr- ftlr, er. IHInofsi and LoulsjiNua sure vim, litlnnaHlla Indlauw. Privat medical aid. All diseases of a secret nature rx-edily cured. If in trouble call or rite periectlj confidential. ANT CASE OF. WHISKY HABIT CUEED IN TEN DAIS.

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