Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 August 1877 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS DAILY NEWS: SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 25,1877

THE DAILY NEWS. iT*lmaa« VIM * isATUBDAT. AUQUal 25, 1177. JOHN H. HOLLIPAY, Pioptrarot. The Daily News hu tha largest circulation of any paper in Indiana, and is read in nearly every town and village tributary to Indianapolis. Tax presidential party has got back to Washington for a week’s rest. Tax way the Russians are pouring out men and money prophesies a war to the last ditch. Tirx Nation reiterates and emphasizes Its charges against Judge Dillon in connection with the Iowa Central road. Senator Moxton’s condition is evidently a critical one. The advices about him to-day are unfavorable. He passed a very uhcomfortable night.

Tnx Greenbackers are humped up all oyer the country with Sherman’s speech on thdr knees, conjugating the resumption act, may can or must, might, could, would or should be executed.

Lew Wallace's method of fighting Indians is to turn white men into Indians. Then after they have killed all the aborigines, more white men will have to be Indianized to kill them. Where -will the thing stop? The plague has broken out in Russian Pdind, and the German frontier is closed. A French transport with 130 cases of cholera on board is in quarantine one hundred miles below Suez, and is not permitted to pass through the canal.

Secbetabt Schubz is pushing the investigations in bis department with all the energy and earnestness he has, and m general howl is beginning. About the time congress meets you can look for a general onslaught on the secretary. The idea that a man should really attempt to reform abuses shocks a good many interested people, and a determined effort will be made to put the secretary out of office.

The atrocities that are perpetrated in the east are a strong call for intervention from some power that cares more lor humanity than for a lew more acres. The Chicago Times contends that the only power in -the world guiltless in this, is the United States, and that it is the clear duty of this government to make its influence felt, that there may be an end to this women and children campaign, that one at least, and possibly both sides, are engaged in.

William, the democrat’s candidate ior governor of Maine, has less difficulty in recognizing the president’s title than his Hooeier namesake. The Maine Williams interprets the fraud plank of the platform on which he was nominated “to apply to the action of the "Louisiana returning board, and no"where impeaching the president’s title "to the high office he occupies, which "was recognized and became valid by "the decision of the tribunal, which "'acted under anthority of law, to which "‘all parties and all states through their "‘senators and representatives in con"gresa had given their deliberate con"sent.” That has the ring of common sense, honesty and decency in it, and we commend it to democratic candidates everywhere.

The American star-gazer these bright nights can took at the red planet ^iars with a large sense of ownership. As announced by telegraph the other day, it was discovered at Washington that Mars has a satellite, perhaps a pair of them. For two centuries Mars has been the more studied of the planets, and the existence of moons was never suspected until Professor Hall, of .the naval observatory, with an American telescope, made the discovery. It was Aral seen Thursday night of last week. Friday night its revolution was roughly calculated at one day and eight boors, and on Saturday night it appeared in accordance with this calculation at 1 p. mi, this time with a companion satellite, it was thought. The existence of the first satellite is rendered certain, with a revolution of about 30 hours, a diameter probably of 100 miles, and a distance from Mars of 14,000 or 15,000 miles, which is only about one-sixteenth of the distance of our moon from the earth. Mars is brighter now than it has been since 1845 or will he again for half a century. Tnx Turkish outrage bureau gets in its work this morning and Russian atrocities are held up for the world’s indignation. When a Turk goes into the outrage business it may be relied upon as a fearful success. The truth of this business as we believe it to be is that neither party to this fight is more than half civilized, the Turks considerably less than this. But the Russians are far enough along in the scale both of civilization and military organization to be guiltless of organized atrocity as a part of their system of warfare, and we believe they are. There are donbtless depredations and with a Russian success the christi&n (sic) population of the region rises and revenges itself on the Turkish. Bat that the Russian soldier

does this hav not been proven nor will be we think. That the Turk doee is notorious. It ia his way of fighting. Whereever he sets his hoof desolation m »rks its track. The Indians of our frontier are humane in comparison with the Turks. Their vileness and cruelty are part of their religion. A Bashi-Bazouk is nearer a fiend incarnate than anything that has being on this earth. No animal equals hinL Thi Sentinel pretends to be worried because The News advocated what it pleases to call the “cow-pasture park ‘•swindle.’’ The Sentinel itself does not believe its drivel about “steal’’ and “swag” with which it charges this paper in that connection. The News believed the Southern park to be a good thing. It believed the price asked and paid just and equitable at the ruling rates of property then. It is worth as much for park purposes to-day as it was when it was purchased. That it has since depreciated ia no more the fault of this paper than that all values have depreciated. It was to be a poor man’s park, a workingman’s park. A park in the section of the city in which more workingmen live than any other. A place easy of access to them when their day’s work was done. It was in the interestfof the workingmen that The News advocated the 'purchase of this park. Can the Sentinel ahow as much that it ever did for the workingmen? The News has nothing to take back in connection with the Southern park. As to the weekly News, which is another spastnprodncer for the Sentinel, it is just what is claimed for it, no more, no less. There are no misrepresentations concerning it. Everybody who advertises in it knows just what he is getting.

avrPBBsaiiie rum MjAvm trad* For some years, at least ever since the Cuban revolt broke out, there has been no trade in slaves on this side of the Atlaatic, where the infernal business received its chief support. The slave depots and barracoons of the west coast of Africa, the endless wars waged for prisoners to sell for slaves, the horrors of the "middle passage,” and the occasional swift vengeance of national cruises, have passed away. Ever since the sagacious Dom Pe8ro, of Brazil, crushed the traffic in his dominions, it has been losing the vividness of its horrors, and now that Cnba can buy no more, and slavery is gone from this country, it has faded out entirely. But in the east of Africa, about the great lakes at the head of the Nile, it has lost nothing. If any thing it has grown worse and wider in late years, at least till Sir Samuel Baker’s last expedition, charged with the especial service of breaking it np. The wars, treacheries, cruelties of the west have been repeated all over the . region from Gondokoro to the Albert and Victoria N’yanza, and maintained a system go pervading and well organized that it has been, regarded as impregnable in its. taatne°ses protected by impassable swamps and deadly miasmas. But a late cable dispatch says that Egypt has concluded a treaty with England for the complete suppression of the slave trade. The native traders will be tried by coart martial as murderers,‘and the foreigners given over to the^own courts. British war ships may capture any slaver under the Egyptian flag. All private slave trade is to be stopped inside of seven years in Egypt and within twelve in Soudan and the sonthern provinces. This is well as far as it goes,but those who have kept track of the khedive’s civilizing and humanizing operations for the last ten years know that he is not remarkably successful in doing what he proposes. Baker was amply provided, by negotiation, with men, arms and vessels, with military authority and civil jurisdiction, to break up the traffic throughout the whole of the high Nile region, but the ‘treaty provision could not be solidified into a fact provision. The khedive couldn’t see te everything in the affairs of the kingdom himself. He had to trust a great deal to the almost absolute direction of men he thought honest Hardly one of them wanted to see the slave trade destroyed or impaired. It paid him handsomely, and the consequence was that Baker got nothing he was promised, or got it too late to do any good, and waa batiled, disappointed and cheated from the very outset. He accomplished something, but more by his own enorgy, and his knowledge of the natives, than by the help of the government. He credits the khedive with honorable motives and conduct, but denies them to every minister and official of the court, except one. Here is where the trouble will lie in the execution of the recent treaty. It will be thwarted at home by the men sworn to execute it. There is a diabolical power of corruption in that traffic that can be found in no other, not even in “whisky ring” thefts” or “Tammany ring" frauds. Turkey engaged long ago to abolish the Circassian slave trade, aud nominally did it, hut Circassian and Georgian women are in the market yet about as numerously though not so openly as before. Spain abolished the traffic in Cuba, but governors general made great fortunes by winking at it, and they winked perseveringly. Brazil baffled the emperor for a time, hot he is not the sort of a man to stay beaten when he is right—and he is seldom wrong—and he finally killed it. In this country we had constitutional and statutory provisions

against it, but everybody knows that within a few years before the rebellion slave cargoes were several times landed on our coast and sold to planters. It was even boasted of, and the government defied in some cases. It is a hard thing to kill, and the treaty may not do it.

THR MTSTRRT UP RBHUMPTIOM. The resumption of specie payments, which has been wrapped round and bored through with so many subtleties of political economy and philosophical disquisition, that it is hardly more intelligent to the average reader than the Greek “Digamma,” or the “Correlation “of Forces,” is aptly illustrated and anmystified by a story of a Frenchman we once encountered in a collection of humorous anecdotes. He had deposited a considerable sum of money with a friend In New York, and heaMtg rumors of his possible failure he whtand demanded his money. “Why,” said the friend, “your money is paying a “good interest; you had better leave it “where it is. If yon take it into your “own hands you will, most likely, get “no interest at all.” “II ne fait rien, it “makes no matter,” replied the depositor, “il taut zat I ’ave ma monnaies.” “Well,” said the friend, “if you must “have it, all right; I’ll get it for you at “once. “Vat you say; you vill “gif me ze monnaie toute “suite.” Certainly, whenever you “want it.” “Bien! zen I no vant it. If “you ’avegot it I no vant it; but if you “ ’ave not got it I must ’ave it.” This is the whole mystery of resumptien. Let the nation have the same assurance the Frenchman’s friend gave him, that it can have real money whenever it wants it, and it will never want it. There is not one man in a thousand who would prefer a gold dollar to a paper one, if he could turn one into the other at pleasure. Resumption does not mean a specie circulation. If it did there would be a much more serious objection to it than any of “inflation” or “paper coin” theories. Nobody wants to carry about a load of metal when he can put the same value and the service into his vest pocket. As Secretary Sherman said in his recent speech, “Resumption is accomplished “whenever a paper dollar has the same “purchasing power as a gold dollar.” It is not the conversion but the convertibility, of paper at its face into gold, that makes resumption. .We had in this state, for m any years a state bank whose notes were convertiole into specie at the pleasure of the holder. But it was a rare thing to use or see gold coin here. It could be had if wanted, but nobody wanted it It was unhandy, more easily lost, more likely to be depreciated by wear. All advantages were on the side of the paper, except one, actual or intrinsic value, that is, value created by labor; and so long as the paper was convertible into this actual, labor-created value, there was no advantage at all on the side of specie, and a great many on the side of paper. So it came that nobody used gold or wanted it. And so it will come again as soon as the same relation is established between the two. This fact is an answer to the Journal's inconsiderate remark of yesterday: “We fail to see “ how he proposes to float $360,000,000 “ of greenbacks and nearly an equal “ amount of national bank notes at par “ with about $200,000,000 in gold, which “ is the utmost he can expect to accu- “ mulate for the purpose.” When these greenbacks and national bank notes are at par, they won’t need any “floating.” They will float themselves, and all that is necessary to keep them at par is such a provision of specie as will meet the usual demands of business. Experience has proved, and bank issues were almost uniformly based upon the estimates before the national system waa introduced, that one dollar of specie to three of circulation will meet all ordinary, or even unusual, demands for resumption except panic “runs.” In the general course of business there can hardly, by any possibility, be a third of a bank’s circulation presented so fast that it can’t convert its assets fast enough to keep even with the other two-thirds. This, even when specie is wanted, and when convertibility is reasonably sure nobody will want specie. “All the king’s oxen and all the king’s “men” can never drag in a specie circulation to displace a convertible paper circulation. General confidence in this condition will make it easy for Mr. Sherman “to float” his $600,000,000 of greenbacks and national bank notes with $200,000,000 of gold. And if there is no general trust in such a condition of the currency it is not at par. The equality of value is a mere chance, a speculation that can not he held a positive condition or settled relation.

The Tnrf. At Poughkeepsie Dick Swiveller won the 2:26 race (or $2,500, in 2:24% Hopeful won the free lor all race in 2 18% Lucille Golddust was distanced by lameness. Rarus did not start. At Friendship park, Pittsburg, Blackwood Queen won the 2:50 race in 2:42. Lacy won the free for all race in 2:25 Shaker Boy, in harness, won the match pace in 2:35, beating Dolly Varden under saddle.

P«ct«eeo-Wi)f jflnjf ton. The San Francisco Examiner announces that an error in the election returns of Kern county baa been discovered which reverses the supposed result of the elaotion for congressman and goes the seat to Wiggiogton, democrat, by live majority.

Death at E. t. Fletcher.

»«▼. Elijah T. Fletcher, second son of late Galvin Fletcher, died at his residence in this city, last evening, of dinfest of the kidneys, from which he had suffered many years. Mr. Fletcher had just complsted his fifty third year. He was born in this city, graduated at Brown univenity, and began his ministry in the Mathodist church at Providence, R. L, and ended it, in conasquence of delicate health, at New Albany in 1862. During his mini-try he was pastor of the Meridian street chorch in this city, then Wesley chapel. He was not fitted for tbs hard work of the Methodist ministry, either by his physical . constitution or tastea In good health, he was remarkably genial, witty and fertile in anecdote and illustration, and his writings partook of the same characteristics. His love of the beautiful in natare, in art and in literature was his leading -passion, and his quick appreciation, cultivated taste and high literary acquirsments made him one of the most agreeable and entertaining of compsniona For several years he was literary editor of the Journal of this city, but increasing business cares and failing health cumpeiled him to resien the position. For ten years he has given np all but tbe most urgent business, and devoted his failing strength to literature and to tbe vain effort to recover his health. During bis last months be was a confirmed invalid, requiring the constant attention of his devoted family and friends to render tbe burden of disease bearable. His intimate friends will loag remember his many acts of kindness, his sunny die position and bis worth of mind aud character. Mr. Fletcher was twice married, his first wife being Miss Eunice Allen, of Providence, R. I., who died in 1855, and his second Mrs. Carnahan, daughter of Daniel Yandea of this city, who with his

ton Allen survives him.

THE EASTERN WAR. Atrocities on Both Sides—The Contest (or the Passes. Only the Russian outposts at Rchipka pats have been driven back. The Turks are within 100 yards of the enemy, and are bringing up their siege guns. The population of Giurgevo have been ordered to leave because of the cannonade between Rastchuk and tbe Russian batteries on tbe north bank of the Danube. On account of the numerous accidents on the overworked Roumanian railroads, an agreement has been made by which the railroads pay 4,000 francs for every soldier hereafter killed, and 12,000 francs for every officer killed. Accounts of the battle before EskiDjama are very fragmentary and conflicting. The numbers engaged do not appear to have been very great, although tbe battle was stubbornly contested. A Vienna special says the Russians numbered 7,000 and tbe Turks 14,000. The fight lasted from Wednesday morning till Thursday night, and a renewal of it waa expected yesterday. The most horrible atrocities are reported on both aides, and outrages of every conceivable kind are practiced. Men, women and cbiidrea are slaughtered, burned alive and outraged in every possible way. A story of unusual cruelty comes from the Turkish minister of for eign affairs regarding the people of EskaSaghra, who surrendered to the Russians. In the village of SoftHiji but one woman and her two eons escaped alive.

Cla.y’» Bottom Friend. [Washington letter.] There is to be seen the venerable old whig gentleman, who made an oath and kept it, that he Would never cat bis hair or shave his beard till Henry Clay was elected president He hobbles around with a crooked cane, and an old brierwood pipe in his mouth Get into conversation with him and ask if ha has lived long in Washington. “A great many years, sir,” he will answer, morcsely, as if those many years were not pleasant to remember. “Have you any recollection of the public men of the old regime?” “My memory is very good, sir,” he will reply, as if be wished it were not "Did you ever know Henry Clay?” He will lift his battered hat at the sound of that name; will straighten his age-crouched figure, and taking you solemnly by the hand, he will say in a profound tone of voice: “Excuse me, sir, for any exhibition of feeling at the mention of that name. Henry Clay waa my bosom friend.” And unless you deprive him of a listener he will talk of Henry Clay till his tongue tires.

Coal Miners Petition the Conrt. The coal miners in the vicinity of Lasalle, who struck July 27, appeared in the United States court yesterday morning and filed a petition representing their grievances, which were, that after having arranged with H. B Plant, receiver of the Northern Illinois coal company, to mine coal for seventy-five cents per net ton,and to receive full work, they were nevertbelees given but three days’ work per week, and had greatly suffered in consequence; that the scales were inaccurate* and the powder furnished inferior, and that under these circumst&ncesthey couldonly make about $25 per mouth. They therefore ask that the court arbitrate upon and adjust their grievances.

Cong-ree* on tbe Silver Qneatlon. The Chicago Inter Ocean having addressed a circular letter to the various members of congress, asking them to indicate their position on the subject of the remonetization of silver, has received replies from 197. Of these 231 favor repealire the law cf 1873, and restoring the dollar of tbe fathers to its old place in tbe coinage. Fifteen favor remonitizatiou, with conditions attached. Eighteen oppose remonetizing, thirteen are undecided, and two decline to answer. These answers represent every state, and include thirty-one senators and 166 representatives. Of the latter 113 advocate the measure, end thirteen oppose it.

National Board of Trade. The national board of trade yeeterday adopted a resolution asking congress to take steps to secure an international monetary convention to establish a permanent valuation between gold and silver. Another resolution recommending to congress the consideration of the propriety of re-establishing tbe silver dollar of the weight and fineness existing at the time of the passage of the resumption act as a unit of money value, was lost for want of a two-thirds majority, ths vote standing 16 to 11. Resolutions asking increated postal facilities were laid over under ths rules. The board then adjourned sine die.

Cheering Buainesa Prospects. ■ The Chicago Timse has a review of the fall trade, which shows that business in nearlv every line ia more active than at any time since tbe panic. There is an unprecedented rush in the chief staples, ana a general revival in trade in the northwest is apparently near at hand.

Not ante every heart i* God’s rood rift Of simple tenderness allowed. We meet With love in many fashions when we lift First te ear lips life’s waters bitter-sweet. Love comes npon us with resistless power Of curbless passion, and with headstront It plays around like April’s breese and show-

er.

Or calmly flows, a rapid stream, and still. It comes with blessodues* unto the heart That welcomes it arirbt, or—bitter fate! It wrinrs the bosom with so fierce a smart. That lore, we cry, is crueler than hate. And then, ah met when love has ceased to

bless

Oar broken hearts err out for tenderness!

We long for tenderness like that which hung

Abont nr, lying an our mother s breast; A selfless feeling, that no pon nor tongue Can praise aright, rineesilence rings it best; A love as far remeved from passion • heat As from the cbillnees of its dying fire; A love to lean on when the failing teet Begin to totter and the eyes to tire. In youth’s brief heyday hottest love we seek: The reddest rose we grasp—but when it dies God grant that later blossoms, violets meek, May spring for us beneath life's autumn

Ged crust some loving one be near Our weary way with simple tends

to bless erness!

“8CHAPS.”

Yicksburg, M’si, has to pay tan cents for a glass of lager. The red ribbonera are taking a fresh hold in Michigan. There are three thousand prisoner! In the Texas prisons. Nearly all of the Minnesota wheat tests sixty pounds per bushel. Grammarians ought to be interested In the conjunction of Mars. Scratch a Russian general, and yon are pretty sure to find a German. The price of steel rails remains at from $45 to $48 per ton, and iron at $33. On account of low water in the river, Richmond, Ya., is on short water supply. The crop cf dried peaches in Georgia this year is estimated to be worth $1,500,*

000.

Boards of arbitration to avert duels and settle affairs of honor are becoming popular in Georgia. Madame Celeste is going to play the boy in ‘Teveril of the Peak,” at a London theater. She is over seventy. All narrators of fish stories shall have their part in tbe lake where it is too hot for bass and sea serpents.—£World. The immense crops in Minnesota have produced an extraordinary demand for land, and hundreds of people will open new farms next vear. Doesn’t the manner in which Russia is wollopiug Turkey kind of remind you of the way in which we croahed the rebellion during the first year?—[Easton Press. The moon looked through a rilt in the cloud. “Not just yet, John,” sighed ahe. A cloud passed over the moon. “Now, John,” and a smack reverberated from hill to hill, and finally died away In the labyrinth of a cow shed.—[Daily Derrick. General Hooker, who voted for 8. J. Tilden, makes no secret of his satisfaction that Mr. Tilden was not elected. “Fighting Joe” says that Mr. Hayes is doing pore for the people than Mr. Tilden could by any possibility.—[Boston Transcript. In the Mount Anburn cemetery, Boston, is a lot containing five stones, one at each comer and one in the center. The latter is inscribed “Our Husband,” aud the others respectively bear "My I Wife,” “My II Wife,” “My III Wife," and “My IV Wife." The late Lewis Brooks, of Rochester,left about $600,000, but no will, so that his estate will probably be divided between his two brothers. The charitable institutions to which he was such a frequent and generous giver for years will suffer by the suddenness of his death. A novel libel salt was brought in England recently. A man who didn’t like his neighbor sowed mustard and watercress on his own grounds in such a way that when they grew the words “Whitehead is a scamp” were seen. The coart decided the act to be libelous, and that vegetable had no right to grow In that style. The story goes that Yon Moltke recently said to a prince who asked for an opinion on the Eastern war, that “the Russians will vanquish Turkey as soOa as their commander-in-chief is found to possess the G’s which are necessary to every general.” “And which four G’s do yon mean?” asked the count’s questioner. Moltke replied, “Geld, Gednld, Geni and Gluck” (money, patience, genius and good luck). A clergyman, a widower with seven grown up daughters, left home a few days ago for a neighboring city, and wrote back that be bad some news that would surprise them—he had just married a widow with six children. The seven grown up daughters had an awful time time till he returned—alone. One of them mastered up courage to ask, “Where is our mother?” “In heaven I hope.” ‘ Bat I mean the widow with six children that you married?”.. “Oh, I married her to another man." Tbe demand in Germany and England for specimens of the Colorado beetle is so large that artificial supply has been stimulated. It is said that at a sugar factory in Cologne a specimen of the sugar beetle, which bean a strong resemblance to the the raving insect of Canada and Colorado, was discovered. A model was straightway made of the interesting creature, which, incloeed in a neat box, was offered for sale to a carious public. The demands have been so namerons that the beetle can hardly besnpplied fast enough, no fewer than 19,000 boxes having been exported to England. EG Tbe Sitting BuU Comm 1m I on. Gen. Francis A. Walker has declined the appointment on the Sitting Bali commission. Another not named has been reqoeettd to serve.

Howard One Day Behind and Beating. General Howard ia last one day behind the Indians and is waiting tor supplies.

SHERMAN ON RESUMPTION. Ho Thin It a There will be ne Dlfftcaity in Accomplishing It ml the Fixed Time. (Cleveland Cor. Cincinnati Commercial.! I met Hon. John Soerman at the Union depot, where he waa about taking the train on hie return from Pat in-Bay to Mansfield, On being reminded of the opinion expressed by him in an interview with your correspondent in tbe fall of 1875 in regard to the feasibility of resuming specie paymenta in accord an cs with the term* of the resumption act, if only ths rignt man were in the office of secretaof tbe txeasnr;, and that, too without the eidpf additional legislation, Mr. Sherman replied: “There is no difficulty at all abont il Yon see that we are aconmalsting'the gold in the treasury for th« purpoae—five millions a month, and the premium on gold eii the time going down.” Ccrrespondent—It is certainly a great satisfaction to have a man at the head ot the department who believee in the practicability of reenmptioQ under the act. Tbe business ot tbe country has suffered long enongh from suspense about the currency. But I suppose that you have noticed that tba New York Herald declared that the national banka will so conduct as to render your task impossible? Mr. Sherman—That is a mistake of the Herald’s. The national banka are abundantly able to take care of themselves. Correspondent—The Herald thinks that tbe banks will embarrass yon by returning the greenbacks for coin, and keeping np the process as fast as the greenbacks are returned to cironlation after resumption. Mr. Sherman—They can not do that, as they will be required to retain a proportion of the greenbacks as part of their reserves. Of courses an element of faith ia necetaary. There is the bank of England. with thirty-fiva million pounds sterling (one handred and eighty million dollars) circulation for which the bank is not required to keep a dollar in coin. Of course she keeps coin for her own protection. Correspondent — Yonr accumulation of coin is a steady increase then? Mr. Sherman—Five millions a month, and I have the next two months already provided for. The rate from the first of May last nntil the first of January, 1879, will give us one hundred millions—ample to resume on. Correspondent—If only now we could get the one and two dollar greenbaoke into silver dollars. Mr. Sherman—That will very likely be done, I think. I have no doubt congreas when it meets will authorise it. Of course the legal tender quality of the silver shouldbe limited to the seme extent as the legal tender of the greenbacks is limited—that is, so that the importers conldn’t flood ns with silver in payment of customs dues. Correspondent—Ths amount of coinage mightperhape be depended upon to regu* Mr. Sherman—We must take care aud keep our credit unshaken. Tat present provisions of law in regard to custom dues lies at tbe basis of onr system for discharging our obligations, and the people are not interested in having that disturbed; but after all that is a question foroon* gresa to determine. Yon will notice that when each questions are before congress, that body, after turning them over awhile, is apt to come out somewhere near right with them.

Great Anxiety, York Tribune.] Mr. Hendricks has been heard from. He writes from Paris to a friend in Indianapolis that the railroad strike was a startling movement;” that he was “greatly concerned about it for several days,” and that be is “sure it must have given Gov. Williams great anxiety.” He is right there. Uncle Jimmy was dreadfully anxious till he rescued his son-ln law from the grip of the unsmypatbetic postal clerk.

A Cheap Medium. [New Irleans Times.] If tbe people of the west are so resolutely bent on a cheap circulating medium, why don’t they adopt confederate money? It may not be a very loyal sort of cash but it Is cheap.

Tbe More of It. INew York Time*.] Tbe more the inflationist shrieks and rants and talks and acts communism, tbe more will capital stay back and contraction go on.

A Valuable Crop. [BloompiKtoB Courier.] The crop of watermelons in Lawrsnce county average 2,000 to the acre, and they are sold at an average of ten cents each.

Forcible and Independent. [Wabash Plaindealer.j Ibe Indianapolis Daily News is a live and spicy journal, and not a little forcible and independent in its utterances.

Muat Come From the Sell. (Richmond Telegram.J Sherman may contract and Peter Cooper expand, but the real increase mast come from the soil.

READ THIS. IP Xj IE -A.S 333 REMEMBER that I buy most of my goods CHEAPER than any other jeweler in Indianafiolis, and that I will sell at THE LOWEST PRICES. XT. 3£. Herron, JEWELER, 16 West Washington Street.

Carpets. TW0-PLYS, 25 to 50 Ct*. Per Yard.

We are now receiving an elegant new line ef Carnets direct from manufacturer*, including

BODY BRUSSELS. odvt o lAMSTET^-pu^. gT0j 150 PIECES NOW IN STOCK.

In coloring, doign, and artistic pattern err new good* excel anvthing beretefore offered. Call and tee them. No trouble to shew goods.

ADAMS: MANSUR & COf

BUTLER UNIVERSITY.

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