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pdblisued every saturday : by : BAGBY Äc CO., OFFICE. 123111.1X118 11LOCK Corner IlllnoJ und Mnrkt kiJ. D. BAGBY, Business Manager. tittitJ u MCond-eU matter t thaPoatofflcs at Indianapolis, lad. 1IBM3 OF SUBSCRIPTION. Copy, 1 year. ..ÜOO 1.00 month.... tt a 3 month.!-. 1 month. .50 .20 1.75 1.60 Gab of till year, each copy M ten, 1 year, each copy mTTI C D 1 DP Ii my '""d on file at Lnlo lAl Ml Geo. P. Rowell A Co.'e Newspaper Advertising Bureau (10 Spruce St ) where advertising contract may Im made for It in NEW T0RK Maberll ror the Leader. Let every colored man who fa vor the elevation of hU race subscribe for the Leader; and let every white man who believes that slavery was a enne against humanity and that it u the duty of the ruling race to aid the Ktfgro in his struggle for moral, social and intellectual elevation do likewise. "The Weekly Keview" is the name of a new paper published at New Albany, by Bov. E. D. Bassett, A. 0. Vance, and others. From its personal appearance, we are glad to say that it bids fair to take respectable rank in the journalistic field. We received some days ago an invitation to attend the fifth annual reception of the Eclectic Club, Trenton, N. J., of which R. Henri llerbert is President. We extend our hearty congratulations to the "Eclectic," and regret very much our inability to be present at its reception. May its '.shadow never grow less. - "The Conservator" has arisen, phoonix-like, from the ashes of the .Republican Advocate, Chicago. -i-lConservator,,-isa short name, easily handled, and thus is Tue Leader's advice as to the abroviation of names bearing fruit. "The Conservator" is now under the management of A. F. : Bradley, Esq., with A. T. Hall, Jr., as local editor. It is ably conducted. George Beard has retired from journalism. PRESIDENT OA3F1ELD. President Garfield and family left .their home, near Mentor, early Monday morning, and arrived in Washington the following morning at 9 o'clock. The Presidential party were met at the depot by the Inaugural Reception Committee and a large concourse of citizens. The entire party were taken charge of by the Committee and escorted to the Biggs House, with the exception of the President's aged mother, who went directly to tho -White House, and became the guest ot Mrs. Hayes. Since his arrival, General Garfield has spent most of his waking hours in consultation ith leading politicians, presumably with reference to the composition of his Cabinet. - Greater preparations have been made this tiuie to make tho inaugura'on a day of display and pageantry . than ever before. Itisprobablo that more peoplo will witness the ceremonies than ever assembled in Washington on any similar occasion. A ball at night will wind up the ceremonies. At this writing we aro not able to state the composition of the Cabinet, but it may be possible for us to give ... the names before we go to press. " A "CONUNDRUM" A. ' 8 WE RED. The Indianapolis Sentinel "Conundrnmmer" proposed the following among other "conundrums" this yJ week : "Why don't Senator Bruce of Misfiissippi get out of tho Republican party?" " We suppose of course that the solution is open to anyone who is of a mind to "take holt." This "conun- - drum," we think, is one which may ' be solved very easily. Indeed, we think that every intelligent reader of the Sentinel can find a very ready so.V.lution for it. We fancy that in answer to this truly profound "conundrum," they will say, "Why - should any man 'get out of the party with which in sentiment, opinion, i and sympathy, he cordially agrees?" c And, especially, why should heleavo f that party when, besides being ropresentative of his political opinions, it has conferred such honors upon him " that fOrthe past six years he has occupied anjofficial station, which is regarded as beins; but one grade lower than that of Chief Executive of ; the Nation? And why should he - '"get out of" that party when it has yet more honors in store for him and ' Otner intelligent iuuu oi ma racur . r a. av - a, . - Now wo think we have givon a few - m t u : J c 01 loo answers wuicu auy rcauer ui the Sentinel micht civo to this alla. i tir IXapor wiiii. tuuuuurum. jjviuro voaeluding, however, we desire to ans

wer it in a different manner. The style of our answer is not original with us,Jyct it is quite common in political argument. It is this: Why don't Senator McDonald "get out of the Democratic party? He. certainly has a valid reason for leaving it, while Senator Bruce has no reason whatever, so far as the

public knows, for leaving the Kepub-! lican party. At the close of six years of earnest service in the Senate, the political portion of which was unflinchingly devoted to the interests of the Democratic party, Senator MoDonald was stabbed, slain abandoned, by the party which he had honestly, faithfully ind efficiently served. Instead of saying to him, "Thou good and faithful servant, come up higher," his party in representative caucus assembled, summarily deprived him of his official leadership, and refused to give him the complimentary honor of an endorse ment of his services by means of a re-nomination for the Senatorial vacancy. And then, to add insult to injury, instead of conferring the laurels they refused him upon tho brow of some equally tried and true leader in the party, they recognized and honored as their leader a new man in their ranks; a man who, when Senator McDonald was the embodi ment of tho forlorn hope of Demo cracy in the darkest period of its existence, was doing valiant service to both politically and physically destroy that party. Thus we see that Senator McDonald would be justified in leaving tho Democratic party, bocause that party has left him. Senator Bruce is regarded at home and abroad as tho leader of his party in Mississippi and the South. Again, we answer the Sentinel "conundrum" by asking : Why don't Senator McDonald "get out oP' the Democratic paity. I ' i J m THE. OBELISK. The United States of America has got an obelisk, and do mistake. As a curioaity it is worth all it cost, and more too, and since we have transplanted it from Egypt it is in order to know as much about the ancient wonder as possible. Egypt haa been celebrated for her obelisks and pyramids, designed to perpetuate the names of her kings and their conquest. These ancient kings were ambitious that their names should live after thev wer dead, and they succeeded remarkably well. They had the granite, an abundance of cheap labor, and went into the obelisk business with a wilt that knew no such word as fail. But in the marck of centuries the power of Egypt declined, and her conquerors, without an exceptin, took a fancy to her obelisks, and one by one they were removed to aber lands. The Assyrian Monarch carried away an obelisk to grace his triumph, and set it up in Nineveh. The Romans were not satisfied until they had appropriated fifteen obelisks, twelve of which, now remain in Italy as meruentovö ,f Roman conquests in Egypt Constantinople has an obelisk. The French and the British have their obelisks, for they too. had Egyptian wars, and now America Laa an obelisk, not a trophy of ar and conquest but as a token of friendship and good will entertained by the Government of Egypt toward that of the United 8tates. The value of the New York obelisk is briefly stated by a Cairo correspondent of the New York Herald, who has translated the letter of Dr. Brugsch Bey, the eminent German Egyptologist, for the benefit of American readers. This renowned savant, who has mastered the mysteries of Egyptian hieroglyphics, tells us that the obelisk, "by its inscriptions and the names of the king which it bears, marks three distinct epochs in history. "Thutmes III. (about 1G00B. C), the Alex ander the Great of the Egyptians, the great conqueror, had extended the boundaries of Egypt in the south as far as Central Africa, and In the north as far as the Euphrates River. He had also brought under his scepter Arabia, as far as the Indian Ocean, and the Lybian races who dwelt on the shores of the Mediterranean. Never had Egypt been grander or more powerful than during the reign of this Pharaoh. "The name of Ramses II.(about 1300 B. C. marks the period of Egypt's struggle against Asiatic preponderance and the commencement of her decline. Egypt had ceased to conquer, one merely defender herself. "The mention of Usorkon I. (about 033 B. C.) recalls to our minds Egypt subdued and subjected to the princes of a dynasty, the foreign origin of which is clearly indicated by their names. Thus, Usorkon, for instance, represents the Egyptian form of the Assyrian name 6argon. From this period the decline of the ancient Egyptian Empire draws to an end," and that "archaeological science now proves that this ancient block of granite is, in all probability, the most re markable monument of the sojourn of the Jews in Egypt which the world to-day posesses Or late there is no little confusion in the religious world. Tilings are getting badly mixed up, so that it is difficult to distinguish orthodoxy from heterodoxy. In confirmation of this condition of creeds and dogmas, it is said by a New York contemporary that "a few weeks ago Rev. Mr. Miln, a Congregational Minister of Brooklyn, was installed overthe Unitarian Church in Chfcago which Rev. Robert Collyer had left But then a Rev. Mr. Stiles, a Universalis preacher, slipped into a Brooklyn Congregational pulpit Yesterday Dr. Chapin's former congregation was ministered to by a Rev. Mr. Slicer. a Brooklyn Congregationalism and last week Rev. Mr. Chambre, formerly a distinguished Universalist in New England, was ordained as rector of an Episcopal Church In Boston. The Unitarian preacher at Leicester, Mass., unable longer to conscientiously call himself a Christian, wasinformed that the funds of the Parish could not be used to iay the salary of any but a Christian minister. Rev. Heber Newton, one of the most talented and devoted of our Episcopal clergy, recently pronounced a eulogy on Dr. Chapin, and spoke in terms ot cordial sympathy of tha distinguishing feature of hit theology; afid when renonatratd with for

appearing to sanction Unlversalism. replied that most of his congregation were of the same mind as himelf. - Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix recently stated that many of his people did not believe in endless punishment. ' The trial of the Messrs. Adams by the Prenbytery of Western New York shows how that body is disturbed, and Rev. Mr. Pentecost formerly a popular aud successful Baptist clergyman, finds himself In more congenial quarters in the Congregational ist fold. The

late Professor Diman, of Brown University, could have been settled over a Boston Uni tarian congregation had he been willing to do so, and Professor Swing stands so near the door of Orthodoxy" .that it is hard to tell whether he is in or out of the fold. It is remarkable to note that while there is a tendency for the orthodox to become liberals, there Is a tendency for the liberals to become orthodox. The two are crossing the lines." It is well to be liberal, and it is often found that upon close examination there are more agreements than disagree ments among clergymen. This fact is a sign of the times worthy of notice. A story comes from Western Kansas of a woman and an' infant child rescued in the nick of time from , death by freezing. A woman, whose husband was sick, visited the town of Rosedale to collect some money. She was delayed and belated, but started for her home. On her way she was overtaken by a snow-storm. She wrapped her Infant child snugly and struggled on through the blinding snow. . Night overtook her. Sue saw a light in th distance, aiid with all her strength sought to reach it, but her feet became numb with cold and her child became burdensome. She struggled on until she was completely overcome with weariness and fell unconscious. In this condition she was boon discovered by the man whose house she was endeavoring to teach. When consciousness was restored, she described the sensations attending freezing to death as follows: Thousands of colored lights danced before her eyes; the roar of a thousand cannon was resound lng In her ears, and ber feet tingled as if a mill ion needle points were sticking into them as the walked. Then a feeling of drowsiness came over her. A delightful feeling of lassitude ensued a freedom from all earthly care and woe. Her babe waa warm, and light aa a feather in" her arms. The air was redolent with the breath of spring; a delightful melody resounded In her ears. She sank to rest on downy pillows, with the many cold red lights dancing before her in resplendent beauty, and knew nothing more until she was brought to her senses. We have accounts of how it feels to be drowned and hanged, bnt to freeze we think is preferable. Those who contemplate suicide might do well to pay some attention to the freezing method. The various Stated require 1,279 Senators and 4,470 Representatives to transact their business, as follows: aen. koi. Alät)&iil& i t1c a nsfn tnin.31 Calif orn la 4ft Colors o 6 Connecticut... -21 I & w &rc , ... 9 11 rid & 24 Georgia: -.41 Illinois............ 51 Indiaua ..50 JO rT ftwMMM 0 Kentucky -..... Louisiana 36 Maine ..-. - .-34 ÄCarj land 6 Hasacbusett8 .40 iMirhigan 32 Minnesota ...22 Mississippi .33 Mtasonri.... 34 Nebraska-.... 30 Nevada sm 7 N'ew Hampshire -12 New Jersey .21 orlli Oarollna. -0 3 fa iOaa . 37 Oregon..'..... 89 Pen ns j Ivania - Rhode Inland 36 5outh Carolina 8S Tenneaee - 25 Texas 31 Vermont ........ .... 30 Vriu! a i .. . ..44 West Virginia 1 25 Wisconsin -33 lUO 93 80 49 246 21 53 lf8 153 100 lob 125 100 12Ö 151 M 240 100 47 107 143 84 50 379 fO 12H 120 111 60 201 72 124 75 93 212 1S2 65 100 Delaware manages to get along with nine Senators and twenty-one Representatives, while Rhode Island has thirty-six Senators -four more than New York and seventytwo Representatives. The New England States seem to regard a superabundance of Representative talent a necessity. A California woman sued the Green Mountain Gold Mining Company to recover $30,000 for the loss of her husband, "who was killed while in the employ of the Company. The Jury gave her $8,000. The defendants moved for a ne,w trial bocaaae the Judge instructed the Jury that they could consider not only the pecuniary loss to the plaintiff, but the injury sustained by her in the loss of her husband's society. The case was appealed to the Supreme Court, which said: , We think that the social and domestic relations of the parties, their kindly demeanor toward each other, the society, were parts of "all theclrcumstanoes of the case" for the Jury to take Into consideration in ertlmatlng what damages would be just, from a pecuniary point of view, especially as there is nothing in the c&-e to show that the Jury were Instructed that they mUfit give damage by way of solace. The California idea is a good one, and ought to be universally adopted. This thing of estimating a man, a hueband, a father, who in all the relations of life is regarded aa an honorable citizen, as the value of a horse or a mule might be estimated, is not enough, and the Supreme Court of California hit the nail on the head when it gave value to the "society" phase of the bubject. PERSONA 1m Senator Edmund is confined to his house with a severe cold. The Syraceee Journal thinks that President Hayes leaves off like an nnflnihhed novel. Gzxebal Sax Cary has turned evangelist and hopes to rival Moody. His present field of labor is Tennessee. Chiit Jcstick Folgkr, of New York, who, It is said, will go into the Garfield Cabinet, is sixtythree years old. Lawrence Barrett and his wife will spend the summer In Germany, where their children are being educated. Petitions to General Garfield, asking him not to have wine in the White Uouro, are circulating by the hundreds. The wife of Judge Cliflbrd is said to have tged so fast since the affliction of her hnsband that her friends scarcely knew her. . Representative Bouok, of Wlaconaln, is the only member of the Houaeof Representatives who wears a blue coat and brass buttons. Becretary Goft's wife and two daughters arrived In Washington a few days ago, freth from Europe, where the young ladies have been study lng. ' Gordon, of Georgia, who left the United States Senate to become attorney for the Louisville and Nashville road, has gone Into railroading on hit own hook. Tue Astors own 200,000,000 worth of city property of New. York and their announcement of a 10 per cent, advance In rente May 1 has set the fathlon for all landlords. A tender little trait of Dickens Is mentioned in a story of the, rehearsal of an adaptation of the "OirtoM CaroL La order to make Tiny Tiro -4 pitiBiiinfB.. lit? Stirling ha 1 offered a set of Irons and 'bandages for the sup

posed weak leg. "No, Stirling, no," said Dickens. '-this won't do; remember how painful it would be to many of the audience having cripdied children." ' It is stated that Mr. Colfax was asked recently what he would no if he were to be offered a place

in the President's Cabinet. Schuyler replied. "Well, I should smile," and suited thelaction to the word In tae old familiar way. . At the solicitation of Republican leaders in Wisconsin who are ojposed to Cameron and Keyes, Hon. Luther 8. Dixon, who was trhlef Justice of that State for fifteen years, has indicated his readiness to tene a3 United States Senator. ParaiDEWT French, of the New York Police Board, marshaled all the Captains of th force at the Central Oöce on Thursday, and informed them that the' evidence necessary to convict gamblers mubt be obtained,' under pain of sum mary dismissal. ' . Bishop Jesse T. Peck, of the Methodist Episco pal Church, is visiting the Methodist Churches in the vicinity of Newport, B. I. The venerable divine, who is nearly eighty years of age, will soon retire and take up his residence with his family at Syracuse, N. Y. Wirxx Interviewed upon the reorganization of the Democratic party, Horatio Seymour declared that success would come from a firmer adhesion to principle, and that the next candidate for the Presidency should be a man whose bisslnebs relations would draw votes from the Republican party. It is curious to notice the number of rich men either in the Senate or going into it Hale, Piatt, Cameron, Daviä of Illinois, Mahone, Miller, Alli son, Fair, Sherman, riill, Pendletou, Brown all very rich, and among them one bonanza king. Washington's society under Garntild should boom. Blaine speaks most kindly of the Southern peo ple, so one of his Democratic friends tells James R. Randall, author of "My Maryland," and means to visit the Southern cities. "His evident intention," says Mr. Ransdall, "is to cast off the garments of a servile partisanship and attract the partial eye of all the States." A little anecdote of Mr. Carlyte describes him as looking at Holman Hunt's picture of "Christ in the Temple." He admired the faces o( the doctors of the law, but added. "I dislike all pictureof Christ; you will find that men never thought of painting Christ till they had begun to lose the impression of Him in tiieir hearts." Pius IX. was one of the simplest of men. aud the directions in his will for bis burial are singularly characteristic. These provisions said: "My body after my death shall be interred in the Cnnrch of St. Lorenzo, under the little vault which is near the stone known as 'the gridiron,' which still preserves the traces ot the blood shed by the illustrious Levite at his martyrdom. The cost of the monument must not be over 400 crowns." (About S2o0.) Carlyle's rich humor and startling paradoxes were the great charm of his talk, though Luttrell once remarked that it would be curious te see how it would go down if he spoke English and attended to conventional rules and manners. He once at a large party addressed a distinguished man of lettors in theword3: "What you have been saying is the weariest trash under the sun. It sickens the heart of raon tollsten to ye." And doubtless this frankness was doKTved, if discourteous. A Cleveland dispatch asserts that Garfield's memorandum book contains only thirteen name from which to select a Cabinet. A Washington telegram states that thus far only Blaine and Allison are certain of portfolios. It It said that the public have overlooked one eiemeu that is sure to be recognized in the Cabinet the Union Army. General James B. Beaver, of Pennsylvania, is named as the representative of the crippled veterans. John Jacob As tor is the only applicant for the mist-Ion to Paris or Berlin. Carlyle ordered that his funeral should be a strictly private one, and his wiehe were obeyed. His plain coffin was inscribed tIiply with his name and the dates of his birth and death. On it were laid wreaths of white flowers. In profound silence the coffin was lowered by relatives only, into the grave, within a stone's throw ef the house at Ecclcfechan wherein Its inmate first saw the light. It was a dull day, and the snow lay in the Churchyard. The people of the country side assembled quietly about the place, and for an hour before the burial the village bell tolled slowly and sadly. Mrs. Lily Lanotry with face in repose Is rather a fine-looking woman, with heavy features and a targe mouth but not remarkable at all. But when she begius to talk and becomes animatedthen the features of this Galatea grow radiant, her eyes flash, the heavy look disappears, half a dozen bewitching dimples come and go and the large mouth smiles lu exquisite curves. Mr. Langtry is an Irishman whose father aud grandfather sent ship- between Liverpool and Belfast since a hundred years ago. Mr. Langtry Inherited their fortune aud was brought up te no profession. A Washington correspondent says the Huntington portrait of Mrs. Hayes is life size, and rep resents her standing in a garden or conservatory beside a beautiful fountain. Her dress is of ruby velvet; In one hand she has a loose 1 unch of tea roses, and with the other hand nhe holds back the heavy folds of her train; a slender chain of gold, with pendent cameo medallion of President Haye. Is . ber only jewelry. The position is graceful, the surroundings appropriate, and the face, with its firm, sweet, womanlinese, will charm visitors long after the loved Lucy Webb has passed away from earth, when her gentleness, conscientiousness and rare tact will be things of memory, or linger like legends in the midst of the coming years. John I. Mitchell, the new Senator-elect from Pennsylvania, is about five "feet ten inches high and rather stout His face is round and full and always wears an expression of good nature. lie wears chin whiskers, whih are light in color, has a handsome month, and he will be known as one of the good-looking Senators. He is a fair speaker, and though he would not be called an orator, he always ppeaks to the point. At times, as on one occasion when he had a wordy encounter with Speaker Patterson, when a Member of the Legislature, he shows that he has great force of expression. Among his friends Mr. Mitchell is not regarded as a hard worker. Indeed, he is said to incline rather to Indolence. Hehasthehabi of running his hands through his hair, which give, his head a bushy appearance. Tue Nashville American says: "We certainly wih that our Republican friends may have a pleasant time at the inauguration, and that nothing may mar their enjoyment or ruffle the feathers of harmony. At the same time we are not without capacity for enjoying a little confusion if they insist on embroiling themseves. They have not hesitated fifteen years after the War to declare that a man who was a Confederate is unfit to apappear in inaugural procession, and when men thus make asses of themselves the sensible world. Republican and Democratic will not feel any sympathy with them if they get into water so hot as to scald the hair off the entire occasion. It Is strange how impossible it appears to be to get up anything in this con u try without having the fools and idiots excessively represented." The Sentinel wonders whether Longstreet or Mosby would be welcome at the inaugural. . No where is etiquette more rigidly observed than in the old United States Senate Chamber, which is now the gloomy United States Supreme Court Chambers. Its frigid solemnity, it was once remarked, was sufficient to give a polar bear the ague. After Justice Waite had assumed the gown this strictness became even more rigid than before. An attorney presuming to address the Court while wearing hla overcoat was rebuked for his disregard of the dignity of the Court.' This system did not please Senator Carpenter, and he ouce took a method to express his contempt for such conventionality that, for audacity, exceeds anything on record. Appearing in the Chamber to deliver an argument, he arose, seemingly to address the Court, but, besiuting, he advanced into the august presence of the mighty nine and, addressing the Chief JusUce, requested him In tke blandest manner to hand him a pinch of snuff from the snuff-box which lay on the elevated desk before him. Before the Chief Justice could recover from his surprise he was holding the snuffbox extended toward the complacent Carpenter, while a suppressed titter ran "through the assembly and a smile rippled over the solsmn countenances of more' than one ot the Justice on the Bench." "Thank you, Judge," said Carpenter, and then he proceeded with his argument. '

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Ills Eminent (Jnaliflcations for a Placo in Garfield's Cabinet. The Claims of the Negro Race Upon the Republican Party for Recognition.' Th Colored Voter "ot Likely to Elect Kepublicans Much Longer Without Having a Fair Share of the Spoils A. ltinging X.etter From Democrat, Indianapolis Sentinel. Can any one give a reasonable excuse for all the talk that 1st golug ou now about the proposed. appointment of the colored Senator, Bruce, to a Cabinet office? is there auv liue In the Constltu tion as ameuded, in the Civil Service rules, iu the precepts 01 tue Republican party or in human nature that puts a pn mium on the colored race? I am in favor of giving them an equal chance in the battle of life, of defending and protecting them, but 1 am not in favor of placing them ahead of the white man. The white race in this country counts about 45,0 0.000, the black race something over 4.000.000. What is there in the black man that should give him precedence over the white man? Certainly nothing. Yet those who advocate Mr. Bruce's appointment to the Cabinet do lust this thing-they put the negro aoove nis wnite nrotner. senator Bruce is an ignorant man. with no more capacity for high public office than any one of a dozen head-waiters in the country. He can not write the English language, he can not speak it, and he knows notnmg 01 governments or public attairs. That he is so wantiug in capacity to understand and act upon great questions is no fault of his, for he has not had decent advantages, but there is no reason that the Government should reward him with a great office on that account. What would the peopie of this country think if Mr. Garfield should appoint a white man of Mr. Bruce's men tal calibre? THERE 13 NO OCCASION FOR APPOINTING A NEGRO TO THE CABINET. Washington (D. C.) Republic (Radical). The raper from which the above infa mously unjust and unprovoked article is tauen is eauea oy OXE EAMSDEL, A STALWART REPUBLICAN, and for many years the Washington editor of the ew lork Times. The Repubüc be ing published at the National Capital, assumes to speak for the Republican party a sort of Sir Oracle, as it were. To those who are personally acquainted with UO B. K. BRUCE, it is not necessary to say that the article above quoted is unjust, malicious and vin dictive, and inspired by a mean-spirited envy, as it is an insult to the entire colored voting population cf the whole country. It should be read by every member of his race. and carefully compared with the expressed sentiments of distinguished Democrats who know Mr. Uruce well, who recognize his merit, and have the courage and maznanim ity to do him justice, regardless of politics, race or color. TESTIMONY. Senator Lamar, who is the peer of any American, Mas said m a recent interview: I believe that the selection of Senator Bruce for a Cabinet position would eive as much satisfac tion to the Southern people as the selection of any white Republican in the Southern States. Mr. Bruce's conduct in the Senate has been such as not to aliunate himself from the Southern people. He has not joined in the abusive warfare upon the South, which many of his Republican colleagues in the Senate Chamber have constantly pursued. He is an intelligent man. and the best representative of his race iu Ttublic life. No one will dout thl soundness of the democracy of Conriv-naan Chalmers, bin eleton, Money and MultAw, of Mississippi. who have been abused without stint by the Kamsdel class of stalwarts. These gentle men, in a late interview, stated: General Chalmers said: "Se&ator Bruce in the Cabinet would be as satisfactory to the people of Mississippi as the selection of any Southern white Kepuoiican for such an nocor that I know. Mr. Bruce resides in my District. He is a straightfor ward man. He secured his election to the Senate in oppositioa to the efforts of carpet-baggers to defeat him. When he was Hhenff of my County ne periormea nis duties in a thoroughly non-par tisan manner. He has represented tho State in the Senate instead of a political faction, and has Invariably 6hown a disposition to be of assistance to Uemocraw as well as Kepublicans, when he could do so without goiug directly against his party." Mr. Money says: "It doesn't make anydiffereuce to the Southern people what Southern Republican is put in the Cabinet. Senator Bruce would satisfy the Southern Democrats as well as any one. He has shown more consideration for his political opponents than a majority of the Southern Republicans. My relations with him are pleasant, and I have always found him willing to do anything for us that he could do without flying in the face of his natural party affiliations." .: Mr. Muldrow says: "I had rather see Mr. Bruce in the Senate than any other Southern Republican I have heard named. He is the best representative of tho colored race that I know, and his political action In Washington has been such as to raise him greatly lu the estimation of Southern Democrats. Mr. Singleton says: "Senator Bruce evinces good administrative talents In the manner in which be manages and advances the interests of the people of Mississippi, and, as we do not expect the appointment of a southern Democrat to a Cabinet office under the coming Administration. I know of no Republican that would treat the South better than Senator Bruce. He would make an excelleut Secretary of the Interior or Postmaster General." This comprises the Mississippi delegation iu Congress, with the exception of Colonels liooker and Manning, and the latter is understood to admire Senator Bruce as much as do any of the others. The Post (Democratic) of this city said editorially: There Is no other Southern Republican whose appointment to a Cabinet position would be acceptable to so many people of both parties in the South as that of Senator Bruce. It is desired by the Republicans of that section with a nearer approach to unanimity than the meation of any other name would inspire. Tho white people of the Southern States most of whom are Democrat are heartily in favor of the movement. Thev thluk it would be not only just but expedient. They would have increased rewpect for General Gartield if he should show himself possessed of moral cjourage enough to do right by his biack political brethren. General Garfield is fully aware of the fact that he owes his election to the colored vote. He and his friends know that the loyalty of the blacks saved tbem from defeat in Indiana, Ohio and New York. Iu fact, it is undeniable that but for the devotion of the colored brethien the Republican party would have gone out of power and out of existence long ago. It remains to be seen whether the black Kepublicans are again to be put off with a cold lunch on the back stoop, or invited to the family table te feast on the vians which bu t for them would be spread before another political party.. To this I take pleasure in adding my individual testimony. I had Senator Bruce for a traveling companion from Indianapolis to Washington duriu the last campaign. I found him rich in practical information drawn from his own experience and observation, and a thoroughly well-read man, conversant wkh the : history of his . country, and, one who . had wellmatured ideas as to its needs, its capabilities and possibilities; of its manufacturing, agricultural, educational and its social interest. Senator Bruce has traveled over Europe, and, from his conversations, I was convinced that he closely observed and studied the inside wcTkingsof foreign governments. I do not know that the editor of the Republic has the capacity to criticise the intellectual acquirements of a gentleman. It is charitableto assume that he has not, for if he has he is deplorably deficient in honesty and truth, or never came near enough to Senator Bru?e to. observe even his shadow. SENATOR CnrcE'g STANDING AS SENATOR. - I will undertake to say that there is not a member of the Senate who suspects Senator Bruce of ignorance, or who doubts his ability to write and speak the English language, lie has tilled his place in the Senate, and performed difficult Committee work, and argued questions of economy and public polity with as much ability as any representative of the people from any section; and he will retire from the Senate as highly respected by his brother Senators for statesmanship, integrity and gentlemanly deportment as any man who has filled the place of Senator. . '. . SENATOR BRUCE SOCIALLY. It is bnt stating - facts to say that , both Senator Bruce and his young wife have won the highest respect of the very . best people in Washington social life, and they are received on equal terms with other Senators and iheir families, and lose nothing by comparison with the most gifted and accomplished among them. - Senator Bruce is a broad-gange conservative man, in the best sense of the word, as applied , to statesmanship. He posesses a ' well-balariol '.'"mind; and takes hold of " questions oi magairads, a&d grts to th. boUoaef

them. His utterances in the Senate have been characterized by sound judgment,

good common sense and fairness to an eminent degree, and his manly course has derated the whole colored race in ' the esti mation of all thinking men. There is no better representative in either House of Congress of American middle life than is Senator Bruce. A REPUBLICAN ESTIMATE. "Senator Bruce has no more capacity for high public office than any one of a dozen head waiters In the country, quoth this stalwart editor of the Republic. Let colored men everywhere remember that this is the manner in which their representative is spoken of by leading Republicans after the election 18 over alter the colored voters of Indiana and New York gave those pivotal States to the Republican party and secured the Preeidency for Uarneld. Once upon a time, in the British Parliament, a member with more land and money than brains attempted a similar thrust to the above by referring sneerinsrly to a member who had come up from the lowest walks of life as "the former drummer boy member." In his quiet, dig nified manner, the great (Jobden arose and said : "My Lord, was I not a good drum mer boy T Can anyone tell why this un provoked Insult to a million 01 colored voters? Is It not a mean, cowardly way of dodging violated promises to the colored people made before the late and former elections? A REPRESENTATIVE MAN. The Republican leaders know that in Senator Bruce the colored voters in this country have a representative in every way competent to till the highest position in the power oi the incoming Administration to bestow, in the Cabinet or elsewhere, and they have no reasonable excuse for not properly recognizing the vast party services rendered them by the solid colored vote at the late election. They want the colored man's vote, but not his presence in the Cab inet because he is a colored man. lie has the ability, the character, but Radicals don't want him in "high public office," hence these villainous slanders. It takes no prophet s ken to fortell the future. I predict that if this stal wart editor's attack on Senator Bruce is per mitted to go unrebuked by the incoming Administration the time ha?, or soon will. arrive when the Democratic party will secure, as it should secure, TUE COLORED VOTE IN INDIANA and elsewhere, and thereby gain control of the uovernmeut. it is beginning to be appreciated by the intelligent colored leaders that when Senator Garland was Governor of Arkansas a few years ago he apiointed, and the Democrats elected to office, over 300 colored men in that State. They also re member that to-day, in the entire North, there are not a nail dozen colored men in office through the votes of white Radicals. They begin to realke, as never before, that thev have blindlv voted for and trusted Radical leaders about long enough; that Rad ical professions for the colored race are all forgotten when his vote is polled The Republic says that "those who advocate Mr. Bruce's appointment to the Cabinet do just this thing they put the negro above his white brother. If the editor of the Re public is a "white brother," then ari they justified in doing "just this thing," for the Creator of the Universe has set them the example. To mention Senator Bruce and this libelous "white brother," on the same day of the week, savors of blasphemy. In honest and manly and intellectual attributes they are as far apart as the antipodes, and the good God has made them so. BRUCE IN INDIANA. Indianians will not be slow to remember the sensible as well as effective course pursued by Senator Bruce in the last canvass in that State. For some inscrutable reasou the Central Committee billed him for the Ohio River Counties, where he was almost sure to have large numbers of Kentuckians to hear him. Senator Bruce eurprised'hi auditors many of them prejudiced, perhaps as much as he surprised the men who had sent him there. He had no bloody shirt to wave, and left the outrage mill for others to grind. As a result he ennobled his race and gained the respect of all who heard him. A white Radical who had performed half the good for his party that Senator Bruce did in the Indiana canvass could have demanded almost any reward he chose, and his demand would have been acceded to. Senator Bruce deserves a PROMINENT PLACE at the hands of his party because of his honesty and ability; because he represents about 1,000,000 voters, upon whom his party pretend to have an absolute quit claim; because his voice and conduct have always been on the side of peace and harmony between the races, and because of the long line of unfulfilled promises made to his race by the leaders of the Republican party. He should be appointed to a place consistent with the dignity of his present position, or the Radical editors and speakers should forever hush their criminal falsehoods in regard to being greater friends to his raco than are the Democratic party. This is what a Democrat thinks, and one who claims no position under the incoming Administrtation for members of his own party, but who wonld be glad to see a Radical President surround himself with the most honest, capable and consistent men of hi party, "without regard to race, color or r.evious condition of servitude." Index. . Washington, D. C. February 28, 1&S1. The Naughty but Nice Church Choir. IPeck's Sun.J You may organize a Church choir, and think you have got it down fine, and that every member of it is pious and full of true goodness, and in such a moment as you think not you will Und that one or more of them is full of the old Ilarry, and it will break out when you lea6t expect it. There is no more beautiful sight to the student of nature than a Church choir. To 6ee the members sitting together, demure, devoted and pious-looking, you think that there is never a thought enters their mind that :s not connected with ßingini of anthems, but sometimes you get left. There is cne Church choir in Milwaukee that is about as perfect as a choir can be. It has been organized for a long time, and never has quarreled, and the congregation swear by it. When the choir strikes a devotional attitude it is enough to make an ordinary Christian think of the angel band above, only the male eingers wear whiskers, and the females wear fashionable clothes. You would not think that this choir played tricks on each other during the sermon, but sometimes they do. The choir is furnished with the numbers of the hymns that are to be sung, by the minister, and they put a book-mark in the book at the proper place. One mcrning thev all got up to sing, when the soprano turned pale as an ace of spades dropped out of her hymnbook, the alto nearly fainted when a queen of hearts dropped at her feet, and the rest of the pack was distributed around in the other books. They laid it on to the tenor, but he swore, while the minister was preaching, that he didn't know one card from another. One morning last summer, after the tenor had been playing tricks all the spring on' the rest of the choir, tho soprana brought a chunk of shoemaker's wax to Church. The tenor was arrayed like Solomon, in all his glory, with white pants and a Seymour coat. The tenor got up to see who the girl was that came in with the old lady, and while he was up the soprana put the shoemaker's wax on the chair, and the tenor sat down on it. They all saw it, and they waited for the result. It was an awful long prayer, and the Church was hot, the tenor was no iceberg himself, and shoemaker's wax melts at 98 Fahrenheit. The minister finally got to the amen, and read a hymn the choir coughed and all rose up. The chair that the. tenor was in stuck to him like a brother, and came rightalong and nearly broke his suspenders. It was the tenor to bat, and as the great organ struck up he pushed the chair off his person, looked around toeeo if he had 6aveJ his pants, and begun to sing, and the rest of the choir came near hurt ting. The Uaor was calltd out on thm strikes by the umpirs, and tha alto had to sail in, and while she waa singing ih tanor Ujaa . to fnl cf tilt fcu

to ice what was the matUr. When ha get his hand on the ihoemak-r's warm wax ids heart emote him and he looked daggers at the soprano, but he psit on a pioiM Wt and pother mouth ready t hii- ' H.,i1 the Fort." Well, tho tenor hat dv. n on n white handkerchief, before he went home, and he got home without anybody feeing him, and e has been, as the saying is, "laying" for the soprano ever eince to get evt-n. It is customary in all first-clas cho:r for the male singers to furnish car f'y for the lady 6inger6, and the other day the tenor went to a candy factory and had & peppermint lozenger made with about a tea? poo nful of cayenne pepper in the center of it. On Christmas betook hislozpnger to Church and concluded to pot even with t' prano if he died for it. Candy hid l n ba?sed around, and just before th h tan was given out in which the soprano v aa to sing a solo, "Nearer, My God, to Theo," the wicked

wretch gave her the loaded lozenger. She put it in her mouth and nibbled off the edges, and was rolling it a9 a iweet morsel under her tongue when the organ struck up and they all arose. While the choir was tirmishing on the fir.t part of the verse and getting scored up for the solo, she chewed what was left of the candy and swallowed it. Well, if h Democratic torchlight procession had marched unbidden down her throat she couldn't have U.-en any more astonished, bhe leaned over to pick up her handkerchief and spit the candy cut, but there was enough pepper left around the 6el vage of her mouth to have pickled a peck of chow-chow. It was her turn to sing, and she rose and took the bock, her fM filled with tears, her voice trembled, her face was as red a a spanked lobster, and the way she sung tha; ol hymn wm a caution. "With a weet tremolo she sa?ig "Xetrer my God, to Tbee," and ths congregation was almost melted to. tears. Aa she stopped, while the organist got in a little work, she turned her head, opened her mouth and blew out her breath with a ' whoosh," to fcool her mouth. The audience saw her wipe a tear away, but did not hear the found of her voice as she whooshed." bhe wipod out some of the pepper with her handkerchief and sang other verses with a good deal of fervor, and the chior pat down, all of the members looking at the soprano. Sbe called for water. . The noble ton or went and got it for her, and after she had drank a couple of quarts she whispered to him, "Young man, I will get even with you for that peppermint candy if I have to live a thousand years, and don't you forget it," and ihey all sat down and looked pious, while the minuter preached a most beautiful sermon on "Faith." "We expect that tenor will be blowed through the roof some Sunday morning and the congregation will wonder what he is in euch a hurrv for. His Breakfast Order. 31 r. Setemup came down . stairs to a 10 o'clock breakfast with a vacant countenance, and a backward tendency in the hair that made his two eves 'ache. He eat down at the table, and, picking up a knife and fork, glared in uneasy wonder at something in the platter before him. It had evidently been fried in butter, aud was intended for food. .Mr. Setemup harpooned it with his fork, and lifted it up bod dy, gazing at it with ever Increasing wonder. "What under the sun," he exclaimed at at last, "is this thing?" Well," replied his patient wife, with just a shadow of a sigh, it looks like your new soft-felt hat, and that is what I thought it was, but you pulled it out of your pocket when you came home this morning, and said it was a porter-house eteak, and you wanted it broiled for breakfast, iou needn't give me any of it;. I'm not. hungry.". And Mr. Setemup, who was just wild to know what elee he said when he cam home, and what time it was, fur the life of him didn't dare ask. "Whenever young ladies learn so to a pin in their apron strings that it scratch a fellows wrist, there will be marriages. Turner's Falls Reporter. stick wont more t t 25 YEARS' EXPERIENCE ! THE Indian Botanic Physician - LATE OF LONDON', ENGLAND, The moot uccrful catarrh, loog and tbroatdoc tor in America, Is permanently located at tbs eorner of Illinoi and Lonioiana atrtata. Indianapolia Indiana, where be will examine all di , n tell the complaint without asking a aingle question. Consultation Free, in either Geriaa or ZngUafc PKBMANF AT CUBES! Dr. Reeve warrants permanent aura of tk following diseases: Piles and tnmort, itching aal protruding, currd without pain or Instrumente; Cancer cared in all tbeir forms without the knife or icknett of the patient. The Doctor hat cored hun dredi of this dreadful canker of tha humaabody. which ha baffled the accumulated aklll of afe. Hit remedies excel anything fcbowu to medical science. 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A lady, at any period of lif, front childhood to tb grave, may, if ill, autre r in on or mora of the fol lowing diseases, whkh .the Doctor will positively cure: Liver complaint, indication of the ttomach. nervosa weaknee, long dmmaea, ete., prolapeua of the vagina or womb, leucorrhoea or white, toterer -ion, retroversion, antiplexloB, retroflexion, er ulceration cf thit organ, tick headache, rheumatism and sciatic pains. lropey permanently cured in a bort time without t'P1"C. . . L Cnll or write to tlVe !. cor. llllaiofa and j. Ioiualauo ; at re to, , tauStaaapwlls Indiana. - ' '-. . '1 . f ' ' 1 , Private medical aid. All diaeaseaof a eecret nature apetdily cured. If la trouble call or write perfectly confidential. avy; cask or whisht habit craxi) is - TSH DATA. t 1 J

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