Indianapolis Leader, Volume 3, Number 43, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 June 1882 — Page 2

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PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BT BAGBY Äc CO., OFFICE. 11 KILLER'S BLOCK Corner Illinois and Market ftta. Entered as second-class matter at the Postoffics at Indianapolis, Ind. TEBSH Of SUBSCRIPTION. 8ingl Copy, 1 year . ..00 . 1.00 3 moot La. .50 .20 1 month Lioba of ilxl y ear, each copy .. ton, 1 J ear, each copy 1.75 1.60 THIS PAPER mar be found on rile at wn. V. Kowell A Co' Newspaper Ailvrrtismfr Bureau MJ Spruce St.). where advertising suiitracu mar be made lor it IX 'EW YOttK. OFF Id A L AXXO USCEMEXT. National Colored Press Association, THIRD SEASON, Washington, 1). C, June 27, 28 and 20, 1882. TWO SITTINGS DAILY. OHDEll OPIIXEKCISEH. FIRST DAY JUNE 27th. 1 Call to Older. 2 General Business. iJ Subject of Discussion Social Science. 4 Ca-sie Its use ami abuse. Virginia Star, Richmond, Va. The Lodge, Xewberne, X. C. Golden, Epoch, Helena, Ark. The Three States, Cairo, .Ills. Special Legislation Its History and Results. Atlanta Blade, Atlanta, Ga. l'rogiessive American, N. Y. Lousiana Republican, N. O. La. Sun, Sedalia, Mo. Mechanical Art vs. Professions. National Tribune, St. Louis. Citizen, Austin, Texas. Star, Golddboro, M. "Weekly Mansion, Little Rock. Wealth, IJo.t best attained, Statistics. Louisianian, New Orleans. Siivan'iah Echo, Savannah, Ga. Colored Patriot, Topeka, Kan. Weekly Defiance, Atlanta, Ga. SECOND DAY, JUNE 28th. Relit ion and Education. KELIGIOX, Our Denominations Number Membership Property. American Baptist, Louisville. Christian Recorder, Phila. Georgia Baptist, Augusta, Ga. The Messenger, Jackson, Mich. Press and Pulpit. Tne Sentinel, Trenton, N. J. The Elevator, San Francisco. Nat. Monitor, Brooklyn. Carolina Enterprise, lioldsboro. Relation of Church and "State. Missionary Messenger Chatham Virginia Argus, Woodstock Va Knoxville Bulletin, Knox.Tenn. British Lion, Hamilton, On. EDUCATION. Shall we advocate Mixed Schools. People's Advocate, Wash., D. C. The Globe, N. Y. North Western Review. . Freeman's Journal, St. Louis. ( )ur Graduates Number Whence Whereabouts. The Bulletin, Louisville. Weekly Review, Cincinnati. Sunday Item, Wash., D. C. Knights of Wise Men, Nashville Colored Institutions of Learning Statistics. Christian Recorder, Phila. Virginia Baptist Companion. Mobile Gazette, Mobile, Ala. Gate City Press, Kansas Citv. THIRD DAY, JUNE 21. POLITICS The Republican Party and the Negro. Ind'pla Leader, Gazette, Cairo. The Democratic Party and the Negro. New Era, Progressive American. The Colored Man as an Independent. New York Globe, Conservator. The Negro as a balance of Power. St. Louis Advance, Virginia Star. The Negro and the Chinese Question. " Bulletin, National Tribune. Political Honors conferred upon the Negro, Statistics. Sentinel, Trenton, N. J. Ohio Falls Express. Question of the Day. Progressive American, Louisiana Republican. Future of the Negro in the South. Ijouisianian, People's Advocate. ' Should migration from the Soufh be encouraged? Weekly Review, Denver Star. The above order of exercises is herewith submitted to the Colored Journalists with the hope that it will meet no 'uncharitable reception. We have tried to be fair in our assignment and hope our co-laborers will accord us sincerity of purpose. We desire each colored editor to take the best of care of the duty assigned him, and those who have no assignments we desire to take any subject mentione-d or select one for the basis of a fifteen minutes essay. Sincerely hoping that something worthy the talent engaged in Negro Journalism will be evolved at the coming session, we remain, Fraternally, Your Committee, F. I BARNETT. T. THOMAS FORTUNE. E. LINDSAY. The dead lock in Congress is broken, and business will proceed with dispatch tlurin" the remainder of the session. So far the Contributions to the Betty and the baby" fund amount to ( about $7.000. That was not a bad shi't alter all. - The Supreme Court of the State of Ohio has decided the J)nd liquor -tax law unconstitutional. The main points of the decision will be found elsewhere in our columns. By a recent discussion of Secretary Teller, 9,000,000 acres of valuable farming lands have recently been thrown open to settlement in the Turtle mountain region of Dakota, "and there is consequently great excitement among adjacent frontiersmen to get into the newly opened district. Two railroads are projected, and the land is being rapidly taken up by the settltra.

It would bode good for the colored people, if they were numerously represented among these enterprising pioneers. Dakota has the finest kind of farming and stock lands, and is bound to be a flourishing commonwealth ere long.

The contested elction case from the second South Carolina district was settled last Wednesday, and resulted in the unseating of Dibble, who was never elected, and the seating of Mr. lackey , the choice of the jxiople. Thus ; another vote is added to the Republican majority in the House, and Southern Bourbons are given to understand that in order to send a man to Congress they muse first elect him. The fiist authentic records of the worlds hisrtory begin with events about the mouth of the Nile River, and the Egyptians are yet busy making history. There is trouble between the Khedive and his ministry owing to some point of disagreement, anel the country seems in imminent danger of anarchy and civil war. Infact such a conclu sion has only been averteel by the firmness of the representatives and fleets of the European powers, particularly France and England. If our Democratic friends are not cdreful in their haste to grapple on to a winuing issue, they might accidentally fly fair and square into the place of simon pure JelFersonian Democracy. The rock-bottom foundation of republican institutions is that the people must rule. They are the fiual arbiters of a last resort in the decision of any great constitutional principle. Deny this right, and you deny the first essential of Democratic institutions. Therefore our friends of the other party should make haste slowly, least they box themselves up. Decoration day was very appropriately observed throughout the country last Tuesday. The graves of the departed dear ones of twenty years ago were made green with the flowers of Spring by the loving hands of friends and relatives, in whose mem ories they are ever present. This cus torn of annually strewing the graves of our fallen sol liers with garlands, is a valuable one, and serves to build up and strengthen the spirit of national patriotism and unity so essential in a coun try of such vast and varieel extent, interests and people as ours. There are thousands of unmarrieel colored laborers throughout the South and East barely making a Jiving, who could, if they would, go west, enter government land, and in ten years become practically indepenelent of the world as farmers and business men. Why tlon't they go? Many are too firmly attached to home; others care nothing for anything leyoud apparent present ease; but the great trouble is that the real value of money and projerty is not highly enough appreciated. XI . '. 11. inheriting improvident nanus, as a necessray sresult of slavery, and not beiug properly brought up and instructed as to the necessity for adopting different methods and habits in life, they plod along in the same old way as their parents did before them, content to have the present necessities of life, and giving no thought to the future. The young men, the bone anel sinew of the race, should wake up to the necessity of abandoning the old ways anel becoming progressive and aggressive, like the balance of our population. CUKKKNT MO fES. You.no Darwin, who intends to prepare bis late father's biography, is mentioned as peculiarly fitted for the task both by edacation and personal knowledge. He has been his father's colleague in many of bis recent scientific researches. Governor Crittenden, of Missouri, feels good because "there Is a healthier feeling" in that State since the death of the distinguished Mr. James. Mr. Crittenden says that travel has increased, the people now feeling more secure wbUe riding on the rail. It was Dr. OUver WendeU Holmes, we believe, to whom, as he waited for a proscription, the druggist said: "That is my son, sir, fitting by you ; don't you think he looks like me?'"4 Well, yes," replied the poet, "1 think I can see some of your liniments in his face." New York Evening Post. The Count do Paris, in a letter of recent date to General B. C. Norton, of Boston, wrote: "I see with pleasure that the new trial of our friend, General Fits John Porter, is likely to terminate favorably for him in a short time. He has been a victim of great Injustice, and this tardy reparation is well due him." Mas. Tiiomtkins. the aunt of General Grant, who recently died in West Virginia, bad a son who served In the Confederate Army uiider Lee, and first met his cousin when Lee surrendered at Appomattox. This son since the war has been one of the devoted followers of General Grant, and w as-numbered among the S06 at Chicago. Stilsox IIctchins. editor of the Washington Poit and Concord (N. II.) Union, writes: "Mr. Tilden said to ns some weeks ago that he would not accept the . Domination for Governor this year for a fee simple to the State of New York, and that he had no more intenUon of being a candidate for President in 188-1 than he had of becoming an applicant for tne throne of Russia." It is reported that George Bull, of Philadelphia whose wife was brutally assaulted last summer by a guide in the Adlrondacks, is about to be Indicted by the Hamilton County Gaand Jury for alleged complicity in the shooting of the guide. If this step is Uken, it wlU be at the instance of certain other guides, whose ill-will Mr. Bull Incurred by expressing his suspicion that they were in complicity with the brute who committed the assault. Mrs. Bull died last week. A. H. Stephens' ankle is fast recovering fit m the wrench given it in hid recent accident. Curi ously enough, the similar fall which he had two years ago brought a compensation with It, A tumor had been forming for some time on one of his knees. It bad grown serious enough to demand surgical attention, and an operation for it bad been determined on. The fall, however, gave nature a chance to remove it. It burst and went completely away

WASHINGTON LETTER.

Lydia Montrose, the Coming ActressRemarks on Racial IntermixturesFlipper, Wliittaker and West Point The Congressional Blockade Miscellaneous Notes. Washngton, D. C, May 29th. She has come at last the colored actress, I meitn. Her name is Lydia Montrose, a teacher in the coloreel schools of New Orleans. She is ofthat shade of racial intermixture known as octoroon, and is said to be a lady of not only great personal beauty, accomplishments and refined manner, but endowed with all the native grace, talent and powers to fit her for the tragic queen. I say that the colored actress has come at last, for the reason that Miss Montrose, if succeseful, as it seems she will be, will be the first prominent actress in this country known to have Negro blood in her veins. There have doubtless been many successlul actors and actresses of modern and ancient times who hael us much and more Negro blooel than has Miss Montrose, but as a rule owing to the prejudices of the times, they have almost universally kept the mat ter of their mixed blood a secret. There are scattered all over this country thous ands of people who know that African blood courses through their veins and those of their children, vet they are recognizee! and thoujrht to be pure cau casians. Doubtless many of them have distinguished themselves in politics, literature, business, the professions: and not a few have doubtless earned extinction, if not glory, as leaders in the late rebellion and of the partv opposed to the bestowal of equal rights on the Negro. These latter were fearful lest their mixed identity might be discovered, hence their zeal in the rebellion and the anti-Negro crusade. In a country like this where race prejuelice is so strong, there is abundant excuse for a man of sufficiently fair complexion, though of mixed origin, to assume to be white. It is of doubtful moral bravery, but immensely advantageous to the inelividual concerned. As a Negro a man's opportunities and aspirations are restricted arbitrarily, but a3 a white man there is no restriction but that of nature. A white man has opportunities everywhere, a coloreel man has not; anel herein lies the self-justification of many who have probably reluctantly severed their identity but not their sympathies with their earlier associations. The Africo-Caucasiaii racial intermixture exists in Europe as well as in America. Italy, Spain, Portugal and other Mediterranean countries have a strong sprinkling of African intermixture. Negro slaves in large numbers have iK'en in the past taken to all of these countries, especially Spain and Portugal. This intermixture is plainlv observable in the faces anel features of our Italian, Spanish and Portuguese immigrants, many of whom are very elark. There were many Negroes in Smin during the Moorish occupation of the Peninsula. Large armies of them were brought over to assist the Moors in their long and gallant but fruitless struggle to retain their foothold in Europe. Many remained and toelay their blood courses through the veins of many of the proudest and haughtiest of the Andalusian and Aragon ian aristocracy. The conclusion arrived at generally by thinking men that it is only a eiuestion of time when racial intermixture in this country will bring our national race up to a uniform type in features, complexion, etc., is doubtless a true one; and is just what has happened in the countries I have spoken of. While it will to some extent be absorbed, yet the Negro will leave his impress in unmistakable characters on the amalgamat ed people. Our dark-hueel Italian peanut scorchers are perhaps fair samples of the typical American race of the iu ture, as they are partially the product of a similar blenehug ot blood. the case of Lieutenant Flipper, of the 10th Cavalry has been transfered from the hanels of Judge Advocate General Swaim to the President. Gen. Swaim approveel of a part of the Judgement of the court-martial that tried the case, but recommended a milder sentence than dismissal from the army. Even the finding of this evidently partiisanly biased court against Lt. Flipper docs not accuse him of anything dishonorable, anel it is evident that the whole thing is a workcel up scheme of the West Point faction to get him out of the army. They will not succeed, if President Arthur surveys this case with his usual calm judgement and discretion. The movements of ex-cadet Whittaker since the final disposition of his case are? noted with considerable interest by reporters. I noticed a short time ago that he was in Chicago, then in New York City, and now I hear that he is to enter the lecture field this week at Buffalo. Whether guilty or not of self mutilation, Whittakcr can be justlylooked upon in no other light thai as a victim of the caste prejudice, hatred, tiud intolerance that rules at West Point, and which is yearly nourished and given new life by large appropriations from the treasury. If adjudged guilty, he ought to have been reinstated and allowed to finish his course, with an admonition to mutilate the ears or head of somebody else next time. The country would like to see Whittaker succeed at something. Few people, indeed none whoareanimateel with the instincts of genuine manhood, desire to see anybody, however lowly or black he may be, fall a victim to such a senseless and soulless fishmonger aristocracy as that which pervades the West t)int coterie. Plow-boys, clerks, mechanics apprentices anel poor boys from every lowly station in life, find their way to West Point doubtless predominate in numbers over those who come from our so-called upper ten circles. All of them are pauper or charity . pupils, being supported and educated at public expense. Now just why they ghouldjbecome so intensely

too-too" and exclusive, is one of the I

- a things that seem strancre indeed. Genuine soldiers are not generally marked by such peculiarites. Tis true they are generaly considered fine catches by rich young ladies, but that is no argument m favor of their inherent supenority. They have freauently been dis1 , 1 i 1 I tanceel in tneir race ior mairimoniai wealth and ease by some Luropean fanery barber, traveling under the as- " .-IT sumed or stolen name and title of a de funct or transported Italian count, hence it cannot De said that they are any great shakes in the social world when brought in contact with transatlantic riffrnfP. liiere have doubtless been many prolonged and animated rivalries fur the 1 1 1 1 a e . P I nanus anu nearis oi numerous oi our hanelsome American heiresses between I West Pointers and the French and Italian barbers alias counts, on the principie that when Greek meets Greek then comes the tug of war war from the ixiut of the blade to the tip of the hilt. The uniform buttons, straps, military hat, erect cariage, sword, army prestige, etc., m the absence ot brains, doubtless frequently overmatches the superior sense and tact of the tonsorial counts, but not always. Unless there is a change at West Point, the time will come,, and soon, when further support of that institution by the government will be sisted. strongly rerut n . ä Vfc 1 a . i meiact tnat .r resident ivrtnur recently attended the races here, is attract ing some attention. It is recalled that he is the first President since Buchanan who has gone to the races. He likes fun and there certainly can be no harm in seeing blooded equine stock test their metals as to fleetness. It is just the kinel ot exciting pleasure which an over worked presielential mind needs. At this date (Monday) the Congress ional blockade, dead-lock still continues, with no definite appearances of being raised soon, though it may be dissolved in a day or two. Owing to the peculiar character of the House rules, the slender lfepublican majority is not able to pro ceed with the consideration of business in opposition to Democratic filibuster ing. The most prebable solution to the matter is that the majority will -under Speaker Keifer's elecisions so amend these rules that filibustering and dila tory motions will be choked off, anel the legitimate business before the House proceeded with. The Democracy know that when the matter comes to a vote, Mackey will be given the seat illegally held by Dibble, hence their enurt to prevent the mat ter coming to a tlirect issue. There are, besides the Mackcy-Dibble case, six oth er contesteel seats held by Democrats which will pretty surely Ikj filled ere long by Republicans and Greenbackers. These cases are all from the South, and lwsides materially reducing the size ot the Democratic minority, the unseating ot the present members will reverse anel defeat the fraudulent action of Southern ballot-box stuffers and venal governors, who experienced no com punctions of conscience in assisting to defeat the will of the people by certifying to the election of these fraudulently counted in Congressmen. the recent 'municipal ejections in Virginia indicate that the Keadjusters have not lost any strength since the last election. The gains have been in their favor rather than against them. It therefore seems pretty certain that tne uid Dominion has been perma nently wrenched from the grin of the 4Solid Southcrs," and has taken a firm stand against sectional politics. As the only hope of the Democracy to capture the general government in the last two presielential campaigns has elependeel upon the solidity of the Southern states, this of Virginia together with impend ing dangers elsewhere, would seem to indicate that that party must rely on something else to get at the flesh pots. Although it was not done, there was strong talk among the Pennsylvania Independents the other day of putting some prominent coloreel man on their State ticket. Isaiah C. Wears, an interesting Philadelphia orator, and others were spoken of. There is a larger colored vote in Pennsylvania than in any northern State; vet it has never received any respectable recog nition in the way of patronage from the party managers. Probably thisslight feint towards the proper recognition of the colored element by the Independents will cause some tangible action on the part of the regulars hereafter; at least it is to be hoped that it will. The coloreel schools of Washington gave an exhibition of their proelucts m drawing on the 19th and 20th, at Sumner Building. This branch of instruction is under the charge of Prof. Hunster, formerly of Springfield, Ohio. The exhibit showed very commendable progress among the pupils of all grades; that of the special class being exceptionally good. Several of the teachers conducted public recitations during the display, which closed by the award of a prize to one of the pupils for excellence in the work. I cheerfully concur in all my muchesteemed friend "Toussaint," of Dayton, say 8 about the beauty of his city. It lias frequently been my good fortune in going to and fro through the Buckeye realm, to spend considerable time there in "stop overs," and I know theie are few cities in the country which equal it in beauty and in the substantial solid appearance of wealth and business prosperity. Many thanks to Toussaint for his kind invitation to visit Davton. I shall be glad to avail myself of the proposeel "fair show among the ladies," whether it results in making me a Beneelict or or not. I suppose my friend has long ago fallen a victim to the Benedictine fever. TliP crrrti im tlri rr ovorniana nf TTnWfirrl University Law School occurred Mon day evening, t olio wing are the names of the graduates: Emma E. Gillett, Pennsylvania; Ruth G. Havens, Connecticut; L. O. Posey, South Carolina; James Fields, Virginia; R. S. Smith, Florida; post graduates: W. Richards, Tennessee; J. II. Parker, Tennessee;

C. II. Lemos. Virginia: L. A. Lewis.

r 9 J South Carolina. The authorities here are negotiating with an expert hangman somewhere in New Jersey, who has conducted several necktie matinees, to assist Guiteau in his hual exit, June oO. Ihe death watch is now kept over the assassin, , . 1, anu ins every movement scrutinized to prevent his cheating the callows of its just deserts. ., ww Since I ljegan this letter the House has changed its rules so as to shut off dilatory motions of the minority. It is quite probable that all the contested election cases now ready will be dis posed ot before anything else is done. Hon. J. K. Lynch is advertised to deliver an oration at the elecoration of -..11: I . 4 l . - ' soieuers graves at Arlington, Virginia Hon. 1. II. .Nelson, of Terre Haute. delivers the decoration address at Cumberland, Md. Judge A. J. Dumont, naval officer at New Orleans is in the citv. E. R. B. THE POND LIQUOR L1W. The Main Points of the Decision of the Su preme Court of Ohio Declaring lt Uncon stitutional. Colcmsus, O.. June 1. The Supreme Court to-day gave an elaborate decision, de claring the ror-d liquor tax law unconstituft ...... . -w. nonai on tne ground tnat it was in enect a license. I lie decision sums up the case and closes as lonows: The powv r to license certain classes of business, i mj ose a charge therefor in the form of a tax and enforce the payment of the tax as a condition precedent to the law ful prosecttion of the business is well settled. This relates only to emplov nients wl ich, in one form or another. impose burdens on the public. Such tax can not be imposed for general revenue, for the only mode of raising such revenue. whether lor btate. County, lownship or ruu mcipai corporation purposes, is louna in the twelfth article of the Constitution. It could not be employed as a mode of taxing property wilaout reference to tue uniformity and equality referred to in Section 2. Ar ticle 12 of the Constitution. That eminent counsel also made this remark with refer ence to the license under consideration in that cae, indicaiing the nature oi and limit to such taxation. The burden thus devolved on public officials requiring, per haps, an increase in their number and compensation for the benefit of exhibitors of shows or performances, may justly authorize a charge beyond the mere expense of ruling up a blank license. With respect to the traffic in liquors, however, the power to license is, as we have seen, expresMy denietl ; but in relation to sucn tratnc express power is granted to provide against evils resulting therefrom. A license is a right granted by some com petent authority to do an act which with our such licen-e would be illegal. A tax is a ra e or sum oi money assessed on the jerson, property, eta, of the citizen. A license U issued under the police power of the au thority which grants it. If the fee required fir the license is intended for revenue, its exaction is an exercise of the power of taxa tion. z: lue very ac which imposed this tax re pealed the previous law, which forbade the traffic ar.d declared it illegal. Thetiade then became luwlul whether taxed or not, and this law imposing the tax did not declare the trade illegal in case the tax was not paid. So far as we can perceive a failure to pav the tax no mora """den the'4 i1'el thai would a like failure of a fiTored party to pay tne tax on nis iaim render is cuiuva'ion illegal? The State has impose i the tax in each case and made such provisions as have been deemed needful to irsure its ayment, but it has not seen lit to make the ailure to pay a forfeiture of the right to pursue the calling. If the tax is paid the traffic is lawful, but if not paid the traffic is equally lawful. lhere is consequently nothing in the case that appears to be in the nature ot a license, ine Btate has pro vided for the taxation of a business which was found in existence and the carrying out of which it no longer pohibits, and that is all. In Pie über vs. the State. 11 Nebraska, 547, where a similar question arose and the exaction was held 'O be a license Youngblood vs. Sexton was citeel. The definition of a license which it contains was stated, and the Court added "Within the definition a mere tax upon the tr the, unless its payment confers some right that otherwise would not have ex is ted, cm in no sense be properly cdled a license. An euun iias oeen maue o snow that the oanal provisions of the statute simply provide a mode of collecting a tax, and moreover that etving the bond and pay ing the money is aim'v the performance of a condition upon which business may be done, the condition, it is said, not being different in principle from regulations as to the daya and time of clos ing the place of business, putting in or re moving screens or the like. But we think the provisions of this statute are of a differ ent character. They impose conditions pre cedent to the lawful prosecution of such business, rson-comphance with the statute renders the prosecution to any extent wholly illegal, and hence the act falls within the definition of a license law stated in the cases to which we have referred. No unrestricted license to traffic in intoxicating liquon has ever been granted in this state, and the restrictions and conditions imposed by this statute and the acts in connection with which it must be construed in no way affect the character of the privilege granted or render it any thing else than a license; so it is objected that ttiere is no provi-ion tnat a dealer shall be a person of good character, but character is not a necessary element in a license, and therefore inhibited, must, be determined from the whole act The Constitutionality of a statute depends upon the operation and elTVct, and not upon the form it may be made to asume. Attention has been directed to the fact that the statute in question provides that nothing in this act shall be "construed or held to authorize or license in any way the sale of intoxicating liquors." No doubt construction placed upon a statute by the Legislature will in many cases have controlling weight (schooner Aurora Borealis vs. Dobbier 17 Ohio, 125), but finding that the statute in its operation is simply and only a license law, in violation of the Constitutional inhibition, the prevision as to the manner in which the act shall be construed is wholly megatory. Finally it is urged that even if the section provided punishment for ner-jom-pliance with the requirements of the statute should be held to be unconstitutional, still that other parts of the act may stand. But as Blackstone ob?"rves: "The main strength and force of a law consists in tne penalty annexed to it." It is not to be supposed that the Legislature would have enacted this statute without such clause, and hence the whole act fails. Counsel for the defense insist, furthermore, that the law is in conflict with various other provisions of the Constitution, but the view adopted in this case renders it unnecessary to enter upon the examination of the quest' on t presented. On the other hand, counsel for the relator contend that notwithstanding the inhibition against licensing auch traffic, the business of a dealer in liquors maybe taxed, and' they rely on xoungblood vs. Sexton supra, but the questions involved in that proposition is not before us for decision in this case. Rev. Robert Colter, of New York, goes to the circus, and he doesn't care a cent who knows it. He recently spoke in his Ch rch upon Emerson, ana when he rose to begin his lecture said: "I see P. T. Barnum sit ting in a back pew of this Church, and I invite him to come forward and take a seat in my family pw. Mr. Barnum always gives me a ijood seat in his circus, and I want to give him as good a one in my Church." Air. Colyer is a brave man, and doesn't believe that going to a circus is sinful.

FRAGRANT FLOWERS

Gently Placed on the Graves of the Departed Heroes. The Decoration Ceremonies at Crown Hill Yesterday Afternoon, In Which Thousands of Take Part. Citizens An Oration by Judge Livingston Howland Features of the Occasion. J. "Soldier rest! thy warfare o er; Sleep the sleep that knows no breaking; Dream of battlefields no more. Days of dauger, nights of waking." Decoration Day can hardly be regarded as a holiday. It is more in the nature of a grand faneral. Rarely is there so general an observance of a holiday, and certainly no holiday ia so decorously observed as' is the day on which, in every village, town and city of the Nation, the graves of the patriots who died lor tne preservation of the Republic are deco rated . with wreaths and flowers fitting emblems of the love that the people still feel for the brave, glorious company who have "joined the pale caravan" in their strangle for human liberty. All honor to the martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the benefit of the generations of millions who follow! And as the years roll by may the memory of their deeds rnd sufferings be as the perfume of attar of roses, growing sweeter as time passes, softening the hearts of a grateful people with each returning an niversary. and making us better and more charitable toward each other, and more tenderly solicitous for the welfare of the sister empires of the world. One beautiful idea of decoration Uay is the oblivion of party lines and the absence of party strivings. The bitterest of political enemies meet upon that day, and the warm. fervent hand-grasp is indication enough oi the absence of ill-feelings and bitter recol lections. The great party leaders recognize the sentiments of the hour, and with bowed heads over the to rubs of those who fell that the Nation might live, they make a mutnal covenant that, come what may in their great struggles for supremacy in the advocacy of their opposing political principles, never aeain shall we be a divided people. May the God of 2ations grant it! The weather was all that could be desired. A few light clouds were floating overhead, and what sunshine there was was not un comfortable. The crowd was remarkably emlerlv. Business was very generally sus pended for the afternoon, and many a clerk and bookkeeper took in the holiday. The public offices and banks were all closed. The proceasi n consisted of two divisions, one resting on Market and the other on Ala bama street, as heretofore given by the Sen tinel. The marching procesn was rather dilatory, but finally it reached the train at the Missouri street crossing of Washington street. Ihe Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St, Louis and Chicago Road furnished eleven coaches. which were so filled that it was found necessary to attach two more coaches for the accommofla'ion of the crowd. The arrance ments might have bi en better than they were, as it was nearly 3 o'clock before ' the train left Washington street The train once being under way it was but a few min utes until the place of landing at North In dianapolis was r. ached. All along the route the excursionists were greeted with waving of handkerchiefs by parties aloDg the wayside Dase-ball clubs, boating par ties, carriage parties and entire families from their doorways smiling and bowing as the train rolled along. The number of people attending such a celebration as the one in question can hardly be estimated. Carriages and express wagons were to be seen in profusion, and these were the chief means of conveyance. It was re marked that such a general attendance was never before known. A large number o people from every portion of the County, and some from Hamilton and other Coun ties, were in attendance. The number at the Cemetery is generally estimated at from 10,000 to 20,000, and some even placed the figures beyond that AT THE CEMETERY. Upon arrival at the place of speaking in the Cemetery, the band rendered some very excellent music. Judge Howe then an nounced the exercises in order, the first be ing prayer by Rev. II. J. Tal bolt, of Meridian Street Church. The prayer was a very a p propr.ate one, being simply addressed, with out any attempt at dramatic effect. The reverend gentleman offered up a prayer for the Nation, and an especial blessing on the oercises of the hour; for the families who bad come again to pay the annual tribute to the loved ones who had battled for their country: for a continued grateful remem brance by the living of the honored dead: and, finally, a blessing upon the speaker of the day. "Pleasant Memories" was then rendered bv the band, af er which Judge Howe in troduced the speaker, Hon. Livingston J. Howland, referring to him in his connection with the Thirty-seventh Regiment during the War. Mr. liowland spoke as follows; ADDRESS OF HON. LIVINGSTON J. HOWLAND Comrades and Friends It is unwritten law in America that where two or three are met together there must be a rpeech. My private judgment would nave lavorea silence nere. certain ills that if speech be tolerable at all it must be plain speech and for a purpose. Mere declamation would be presumptuous aud profane. Nor is this the place to repeat the story of campaigns, to recount victories, to explain defeats. Constitutional questions, policies of reconstruc tlon, theories of Slate and National Government, it would be folly to approach. These are dry bones of contention In this olace lie the paths of peace. We cau do r.o good nor harm to the men in whose honor this day is set apart They are beyond our ptaises and our censures. Far better to have remained away if we cine not here for our own good. Tola decoration of OUR SOLDIER8' GRAVES. beginning spontaneously, has cetUed down into a stated observance. There U always danger that oft recurring ceremony, by simple repetition, may loee its fine Mgnincance. and fall away to meaningles formality. Once the spirit has eone from the body of observance it is a dead. body, ready for buiial. This floral service renewirg iu youth with the generations, ought to remain a living Doay, always joung. ever ircsn, immortal with the li'e of its first spirit. Cut off from the fountain of its life, moving witb only automatic motion, the singes of its decadence will be rapid to inanity and ultimate extinction. The letter killetb, the spirit maketh alive. We can not hern make better use of words than In reviving the spirit aud reanlm-iUng the purpose which inspired and impelled the great Army of the North, some of whose members have long rested in this lovely spot. Whati the lesson of their life and death? To what duties does this visit to their graves admot lsh us? Cau we more fitly honor these men than by thinking on these things? The thought at once presents itself that these men fought and fell to sustain a Government of law. The occasion for their service was organized rebellion, armed resistance to established order. To meet tint resistance, to crush that rebellion, this was the primary purI pose of tne eiovernmentj-and of those who rushed Ho its support Allother thinss were incidental. In the prosecution of this common purpose con sequences were not regarded. Individuals in that army represented every shade cf opinion on questions of policy. They differed on the tariff on the state's rights, on slavery; oa this question they were of one mind THE GOVERNMENT MUST NOT FALL, order must be re established. On this alignment the great array, from flank to flank. touched elbows and advanced invincible. Slavery went down, State Governments feu amid the shock oi battle, but it was over, not against these thing, that the hosts of the patriots marched la the attainment of this su preme purpose, every obstacle was remorelealy struck down, simply because it obstructed. The way was to be cleared, and many thinra that were are no more forever. This I Judge to have been the spirit of the Army of the Union, the spirit of respect for law. of loyalty to established order. This was the spirit that inspired the whole army, that gave it life, united movement aeereKate strength, the only spirit that dwelt In its body and in an its mem' era. we can with certainty impute no other purpose to the men upon whose graves we hare to-day strewn flowers of remem brance. Ith our act to-day we ratify their act of long ago. Witb e-ch occurrence of this day w hare re-pledeed allegiance to the principle for which they died Have we been true in faith and practice? That is a question that confronts us as a people. This is a good place to ask and answer it. DO WE REVERENCE THE LAW and enforce lt as we ought? Certainly the answer must be "No!" The later tendency has been away from the way of safety. We are drifting Into dangers, as lt seems, all unconscious of or indifferent to the fact To me the present state of J

public sentiment Is quite appalling. The manner in which such things as lately shamed and dishonored us at Kokomo and GreenaWrg, are spoken of by houest men and virtuous women, on the Street, in the shops, in drawing rooms and Churches, is incomprehensible, bewildering. On this great question the tone of the press is simply disKUStiig. Men, with smile and nod. discuss these horrors as they would a street broil or a family scandal,

'O yes. It s too bad. but it can't be helped" "What else can we expect?" and more of the like. Guilty absent, ill-concealed approval every where. Why. these were simply crime of horrible atrocity, combining all the elements of murder, burglary and treason 1 Life taken without right, locks broken at midnight, war levied against the State, and men say. "Well, Well!" At every arrest of one suspected of aciimea hideous uprcar is raised for Immediate vengeance, without Judge or Jury. The papers teem with speculations as to what the mob will do. Will they let the law take its courser - wui they take the law into their own hands? Ihe possibility of the law taking them into its hands is apparently never thought of. Quiet, orderly submission to the law is esteemed a wonderful concession to unreasonable prejudice, the voluntary surrender of an undoubted right to kill at discretion, a lat number of the Advance, a paper published at Chifwsp; calling itself a "progressive journal," contains a leading article entiiied. - "LYNCH law coming," written in in almost chuckling tone of levity, arraigning the Courts and Judges, and closing with tne cneenui prediction, tnat at no distant day lynch law will be fashionab:e in every ctate west of New England. This Is no exceptional ca'e. These leaders of public opinion all over the land are preaching contempt of law. Intolerance of restraint, heroic resort to private violence. The 'journals" seem ia conspiracy to hound us into anarchy. What blank insanity is all this talk of lynch law! Lynch law is no law, absolute negation of ail law, auarchy, chaos. I know the stock argu ments: the wicked lawyers, stupid uourta, pliant Juries and all that. Tell me this: Who makes the law in this country, which governs Coun 8 and lawyers and J u riet? Whence come the Judges aud the Juries? From the people. Can a community that can not Impanel au hon est Jury collect an honest mob? With the same material to begiu with, with an open trial, and . upon evidence hea d in the light of day, is a jury more lively to go wrong man an unknown rabble, masked aud marchiug in midnight dark ness to execute its arbitrary will let us not call it judgment! How credulou are we of the pre tensions of these men ! That they mean well to community, that they are not bad men. we hasten to grant. Law and reason alike Impute to murder a bad m tlve, a corrupt heart. Why should we be so swift to accord to men whose deeds proclaim them malignant savages, the attributes of patriots and sge6? You nay that life Is beld too cheap, that the law d tea not protect lt. 1 say mobs can not dolt. Mor violence is but this same individual violence under combination. only more secret, owardly aud dangerous that is all. lt propagates the very evil it pleads la its own justification. Can we inculcate individual respect for law by tramultag it under toe feet of moijtsT Do not be deceived . This it not a question of temporary resort to violence for self-preserva tion, it is a question of resolvli g society into its- original element and abandoning all pretense ot orderly ad minist ration of the law. If " this is to be our courte, let u do it openly, and honestly bid every man look out for himself. We have spent four years of bloody conflict, many precious lives and untold millions of treasure, for the cause of order in thu land: shall we in childish petulance castaway what we have bought with such a price? No, no; this will not do. We make Judges and Courts and Legislators and laws If any or sJl cf these are wrong, let us seriously try to make them better. Nobody seems to think ot this. With all power in our hands shall we before the world confess ourselves unfit for self-government? Shall we throw up our hands and surrender unconditionally? Thai's what it means. If we have not the Intelligence to frame an efficient criminal cole, if we have not the virtue and firmness to administer it, lei us at least have the pride not to too hastily admit it. My friend, the trouble is deeper than the Courts and codes and Juries. The fault is the foundation upon which all these things rest and are supported. We want A HEALTHIER PUBLIC SENTIMENT. We want better defined ideas, more steadiness of purport. We want less savagery toward aroused men, less maudlin sympathy for convicted felons, less childish Tage, more Intelligent courage and firmness. We want leas clamor oefore trial, fewe'r petitions for pardon after sentence. I venture, could we read them, the muster rolls of the Kokomo and the Greensburg mobs would show us names that are also appended to petitions for the pardon of worse men than th.y slaughtered. Dou't misundersUmd me. lam no advocate of existing abuses. 1 d not deny theirexis tenee. It is a questlou of treatment. Criticism, discussion, even clamorous demn1, are legitimate and proier, but monocracy is political pestilence aud death. Committers of safety mean a reign of terror. the . executioners of to-day to become the denounced of tomorrow. Safety can not be referred to a Committee. It lives op Iron the atniospnere of omnipotent law. Mob law is exceptional now. How shall we endure wbeu lt becomes ' fashionable V Woe be unto us when the scattered fires of lawless violence spread aud btc me confluent. Whither shall we flee from the conflagration? Let us appeal from the mob to the best wisdom of tie wisest. Society tends toward disiutfg ration. We are granulating into classes and factions. Our land is filling witb comlustibies. We must be careful with our mache. Nver In oor history were moderation ai.d cool judgment more invaluable, never was the duty more in perative to keep ha'ids off each ether's thioau lt u no time to coddle mobs and lionize scoundrels. We can not trust the element that from all our Presidents selects Lincoln and Garfield for assassination. It lacks judgment as well ascoi scier.ee. One monopoly we must sustain the monopoly ot the Courts in the administration f justice We cau not afford free trade In executions We can not to erate murderers as agents of the law, though commissioned by Governors and sheltered by pardons. Let us emphasize it 6trongly toat we have no place here for hot-bloc ded brotherhoods, nor for ccld-blocdtd Nihilists. What we need is brains, not biood. This day ought, to become a standing protest against the spirit of the Commuue, an annual pilgrimage to the shrine of liberty, but liberty established and restrained by law. We come to this place bearing flowers. In tne course of nature the flower is followed by the fruit: so should this occasion of sentimjnt fructify into hearty, honest action. It is for the dead alone to rest. From us who yet live tne obligation to lab t Is to be lifted only at the end of life. These men have done their part: ours, in great measure, remains to be done. If we would have a Government of thr law and of the people, remember it is possible only while the people respect the law, and while the law is worthy of respect. To these ends toe earnest efforts of all good men should be consttntly directed and patiently exerted. We must have education, not of bx)ks only, but in the active duties of citizenship. We need not fear the overpoweriug it fluei.ee of wealth, of which so much is said of late, if as a people we are unpurchasable. There can be no buying without selling. It Is childish to cry an auction and to become indignant at the bidders at our sale. The people can make their will effective in th law aii'l upon its administrators, but it must be at some sacrifice of party servility. We ought to learn, and we must yet learn, that revolt against the caucus U )e4 revolutionary than is open defiance of existing law. Then the suffrage of A FEEE PEOPLE being the only mode of expressing Its will, we must have free e'.ec ions and honest returns. The greatest criminal iu an elective Republic is he who tampers with the ballots. If ever illegal violence is excusable, it is wtien it spends its force ou one who trifles with the political life of a representative Government, With a new declaration of Inrtf pendence. against the power of patronage, at d with ignciai ce amorg electors reduced to its fossible mlt.imuin, so that the people, in tbelr aws and InsUtutiors. will see and recognize the werk of their own bands and respect and uphold it. we may hope for perpetuity of order, for longlife and national propeiity; without these things we may expect nothing but turbulence and decay. Inspired anew with higher aspirations by this day's communion with the spirit of patriotism, humbled by the associations of these sur. roundings, encouraged by the example and the triumph of the men whose memory we have honored, let us now leave the dead to their ex ceeding peace, and hopefully turn again our faces to the "living present" THE DECORATIONS. The decorations were prepared on a grand scale. From the carriage-way to the large flag-staff in the center of the grounds was prepared an avenae between rows of costly tropical plants. These were furnished by Messrs. Weigand, Berterman Brothers, Reiman and II. Henckel, florists of this city. It is claimed that the past four days weie required to haul them to the Cemetery. Similar avenues were arranged from the flag-staff toward the east and touth, the last mentioned being placed among the rows of buried soldiers. Seven hundred and forty wreaths of evergreen, together with bouquets of flowers attached to green staves, were furnished, one for each grave to be decorated. At the close of the address of Judge How land these were distribu'ed among the members of the procession. The line of march was then taken through the avenues of flowers and plants to sweetest strains of music by the band. The graves were deco rated according to custom, and the masses soon returned t their homes well pleased, no doubt, with the exerc ses of the day, and certainly with renewed recollections and onder memories of the brave boys whose glorious sacrifices have once more been honored by their tributes of flowers. NOTES. The two crippled sailors attended the serv ices yesterday and plied their trade. The grave of senator Morton was one of the objects of interest yesterday. The col ored people flocked around it in great numbers. The decorations of his grave were simple and beautiful. The beautiful monument at the head of General Jefferson C. Davis' grave was an object of interest to hundreds. T ere were a number of beautiful wreaths and tastefully arranged bouquets scattered over his tomti by friends and strangers.