Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 July 1878 — Page 2

BUCK C ASHMERES. IRISH LINENS.

We ire offering BARGAINS

in these goods.

Ginghams, Shirting Cheeks, Cottonades, all selling at abont Half Value at the sale at the BEE-HIVE. CLOSE & WASSON.

Tapestry Brussels, 75c. Extra Supers, 75c. Two-PIys, 25c. TTajrcl. W« hav« on Mile » to 50 plecMMchof the »boTe rood* that «• oSer at leaa than cost to close out. On examloatlen you trill And the goods cheaper and better than anything erer otiared befera in the State. Great Bargain# in All Lines of

Goods.

ADAMS, MANSUR & CO., 47 and 49 South Meridian St.

A Few Remarks About the weather Just now would bo Tery appropoe, but not feaUngablo to do the subject justice, Ire merely say that a good ICE PITCHER or WATER SET is a great comfort In tlmea Uka these, and for the best Una olthaan, and the lowest prices, go to Bingham,Walk&Mayhew’s, 12 E. WASHINGTON ST. (Sign of the Street Olook.) naJPlease observe our Window.

THE DAILY NEWS. SATCRRAT, JULY 18. 1878. The Indianapolis News has the hugest circulation of any daily paper in Indiana. R&iCMPTiON is inevitable. County expenses most be reduced. Prices have {alien half, more than that in some instances, except the prices of expense in the management of county affairs. For a fortnight or more there has been a wife or husband murder, in most cases followed by suicide, reported on an aver-

age of one a day.

Masonry in Vigo connty celebrated its fifty-ninth birth-day in Terre ifaute yesterday. It was a “high time” in every reapect. The thermometer stood 102° in the shade. The Berlin treaty, of sixty clauses, and the longest ever known, will be signed today and given M the world. When Disraeli goes back to ti e “tight little isle” with that in his pock : there will doubtless be an earl’s coronc t set upon Ids bold and massive brow. It wi|l strike most people that if men like Kearney can find money enough to live in idleness and go jaunting over the country, they can find enough to go to work like good men. Such as they are leeches on honeat industry. Honest workmen should repudiate them. Thebe must be a ‘good many Mark Tapleys among the Canadian Orangemen. In the "face of the depressing influence# which operated to make peaceful citizens of them yesterday it ia rumored they will go away and return with many more like themselves on the 16th inst., and the last state of things shall be worse than Uhe first.

They had better not.

CoaailiatioB. . There ia a lesson not far to read nor bare of encouragement to the supporte* of the president conciliation policy, Ife yesterday's events at Montreal which though happily bloodless, ia the preparation to meet them, paralyzed the business of the Dominion for days, causing untold loaeby inaction and costing thousands of dollars in actual expense which otherwise would have gone into the channels of trade. The origin of this tronblo lies back in a civil war two hundred years ago, and would have become as legendary as Clontarf if the enmities of the battle field had not been perpetuated by spiteful leglslion. limerick and the Boyne, Barsfleld and Schotnberg found their counterparts in parliament and private life, in oppression and ostracism, resistance and endless riots, and it is only within fifty years that there has been any attempt at conciliation on the stronger side or disposition to accept it on the weaker. The hatred of five generations had become hereditary and instinctive, and grudging concessions, far short of justice, had to make headway against this inveteracy. Fifty years of a steadily growing sense of justice and the slow abolition of the worst feature of the old tyranny, have made changes, but inborn antipathies are hard to uproot, and still they break out at times as they did on yesterday at Montreal, a year ago at Toronto and in New York and in Belfast a few years ago. If the surrender of Limerick had been followed by a mere adhesion to the express terms of the treaty, the bare good faith of belligerents, and this by the clemency of liberal conquerors, there can be no donbt that much of the bitterness that has rioted so brutally on almost every Orange day until this one would have been worn out of the first generation and wholly obliterated in the n«xt. But proscription, social exclusion, all forms of legal disabilities were poured upon the Dish in a steadily swelling stream for half a century and left undiminished for nearly a century more, and lawless organizations sprang up in a resistance not always separable from brutal bloodshed and barbarous treachery, as they will the world over till the end of time, when no other resistance is possible. And of course these exasperated enmity on the ether side, and both eventually grew worse. The cruelties of resistance, however, have disappeared with the extremity of exaction, and now a vast deal of the enmity that once shot agents and middlemen and burned barns and grain stacks, escapes in parliament in such fiery rhetoric as O’Gorman’s, who “evoked the God of battles” when the government proposed to tax whisky shops in Ireland. (Some wag said he meant the God of bottles.) A similar policy here would have produced similar results, but worse by all the difference of identity of race, immediate contact, necessary intercourse and more general intelligence. No such policy was ever dreamed of here, but there was a suggestion of it in much of the legislation that followed Sumner’s lead, and the executive action in pursuance of it, and in some measure we had its consequences in the kuklux and %hite league bands and local persecutions of white and black opponents. As long as force was used on one side there was sure to be retaliation On the other. These Orange riots in Canada have ibeen a direct outgrowth of the English policy that fol* lowed the revolution of 1688, and it is a lesson that if a nation wants to be rid of the enmities of a civil conflict .it must wear them out by forbearance and not expect to crush them out by force. The English soon wore out the bitterness of their first revolution, and “roundhead” and “cavalier” were as little regarded in a few years as “cow boys,” “whigs” or “tones” were in this country by the time Washington died. Hatreds were not perpetuated by public policy, and President Hayes has acted on the same principle in his treatment of the late rebel

states.

How could a more barefaced deception or fraud be devised than the one of nominating Voorhees and Hanson, the salary grabbers. —(Bedford Journal. One equally as barefaced and more hypocrital ia tha nomination of J. Peter Cleaver Shanks, a co-pArtner of Voorhees and Manson in the salary grab, by a party which gets so virtuously indignant at a similar action on the part of its opponents. The manner Jn which the tramps were handled in Iowa and Wisconsin, as related in The News of yesterday, ought to be full of encouragement to those who believe in the capacity of the people to manage their own affairs, and ought to be chronicled as “giving the lie” to the corruptionists who are misrepresenting us as a people threatened by the bad elements of society in a way that makes salvation a cry for “Grant.” These miserable charlatans ignore the law-abiding spirit, which somewhat dormant though it haa been in the past, bound to inaction by the encrusting elements of .official violation of the law of the land and highhanded assertion of personal will, is atill strong, ready and able to assert its majesty. They ignore the disposition of the real mass of the people. No society evjy laid a disturbance of the magnitude of tMJuly riots a year ago, as this society cid. If the Grant managers think they can incite the tramp and communistic element into frightening the people to the protection ol military methods they are widely mistaken. Any such concerted movement would call up a million farmers^ alone who would sweep the land as bare of such pests aa if lightning had struck them. In twenty-four hours after the tramps in Wisconsin on Thursday “struck” a train for a free ride, they were corralled at Madison and sentenced to a sixty-day job of breaking stone op the itreets. The course ol society was not interrupted, no blood w^i «hed i and no guilty man escaped. It was amatchlees ex ample of the assertion of the dignity of a free people,

What is Fiat Money! „ The greenback organs are very loath to come to a clear and exact definition of what they mean by fiat money. They demand the unconditional repeal of the. resumption act, declare that government paper money ought to be perpetual, insist that legal tender is the only real money, and resolve that government can “create” money, etc. While allowed to deal in glittering generalities they wax eloquent, soundly abuse “capitalists,” and howl like demagogues about the wrongs of labor. But when asked to dismount from their stilts and come down to the real business of discussion, by pointing out specifically what they propose, they squirm dreadfully. We have lying before us three definitions of this fiat money given by three of our exchanges in answer to direct demands. The new Delphi Sun, which has not yet had time to exhaust Its illumination power, says: Fiat is a command emanating from the highest source of authority; a decree of the supreme power; a“let it be done.” Godsaid “let there be light,” and there was light, and the fiat light lias been legal tender for all God’s creatures from its first issue until the present time, and, from appearances, is likely to so continue until God himself reverses the decree, or He, as the supreme power, ceases tO'exist. Just so it is with the government of the United States. Congress, is the supreme power, and if it decrees that gold shall be money, a full legal tender for all debt* public and private, gold becomes fiat money. If congress should promulgate the same ddtree in regard to silver, or steel, or brass, or paper, each and all become fiat money. And each of these different commodities,' so decreed, would continue fiat money until congress should reverse such decree, or being the supreme power of the land should be destroyed and cease to exist. Have oar readers from this the slightest idea wherein the money proposed by the greenbacken differs from that they now have? The only intelligible point to this answer is, that the government is as unlimited in its power over human affairs as the Almighty is over material affairs, and aa God created light by his fiat, so can congress create values by its fiat. And in fact some such assumption is essential as the basis of their theory. SiZ? people

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS: SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1878.

only need to have it atated In order to see its absurdity. The Richmond Indejiendent, which has »little more practice In equivocaUng, answers thus: Did you ever see any money that wasn't fiat money? Gold is not money till the fiat of the government makes it so; it is no-

promise to pay coin or anything else, but it Is a full legal tender for all debts, public and private, which will make it payable not only In coin but in everything that is bought and eold. It is too comprehensive to be limited

to one article.

The word “money” comes from the Roman mint, and signifies primarily coin. Gold is not coin until it is 'Stamped, and this, the Independent thinks,iwfiat money, But the dodging of its paper fiat money is apparent. It Is not to promise anything, but is to be payable, not only in coin, but in eyerything bought and sold. But who ia to issue it? The government. And who is to pay for it in corn, or potatoes, or hats? If the government is, then so far, well. If the fiat money is redeemable in hats, coats and coin at the government treasury we see where its value comes’from. But why refuse to promise, if it is the purpose to pay? The fact is there is no intention of paying, and it is not the government, but the peopla who are expected to give coin or corn for it. But it is to be a “legal tender.” YesThis is an easy way of confiscating debts. But why not do so direct by abolishing the execution laws, getting rid of all the expense of courts, etc? But it is receivable for “taxes.” Still greater folly. For why tax the people to get money for the government when it can “create” it at will? But the older and abler Terre Haute

Express says:

The nationals mean by fiat paper money the old fashioned greenback, improved to this extent, that i|/shall be received for all government dues, 'and paid for all govern-

vent debts, and that the not attempt to enforce tbe

larsof paper can be redeemed in one of cointhat the greenback shall not be redeemable in any other kind of money, bnt shall stand as a token of the power and credit of the gov-

ernment.

The design of the greenback need not be changed in any manner, except to say that the money will be received by the government for all dues and paid for all debts. We deny that the greenback is, or has ever been, a promise to pay coin. We deny that the government has been a cheat, a liar and a robber for 16 years by making a promise which it did not keep. The greenback dollar has always been pure fiat money. The assumed promise of redemption in coin has nothing to do with its value. It is worth today twelve cents more than the silver dollar. If the promise of redemption r gives it its value, how does it come that it is worth more than that in which it is redeemable? The “old-fashioned greenback” without its promise, without its redeemability! Hamlet with “Hamlet” left out! Against the denial of the Express that the greenback is a promise to pay coin, is the law which provides “for the redemption or funding thereof;” and whidfjirovides that all duties on imported goods shall be paid in coin, and shall be applied to the purchase or payment of one per centum of the entire public debt of the United States each year. Is the greenback a part of the debt? If not, how does it represent “the creditof the government?” The truth is, by “fiat money” the paper maniacs mean a paper which is of no intrinsic value, promises nothing in exchange, is never to be paid, and whose sole purpose is to pay debts without cost to any one. It is simply a scheme by which the government may swindle its creditors, and which will enable private debtors to do

the same.

! government shall lie that three dol-

CUKRKNT COMMKNT. A Florida rattlesnake six feet long spent half an hour charming an alligator twice his length, and then struck the’gator with all the

tail.

p a fatal blow with !

This has been going the rounds as a vagrant item. Who that does not see, it is a charming fable as pregnant with truth as any AJsop ever wrote, and portrays up to date the state of affairs between Conkling and Hayes. For further particulars see New York custom house removals. * The appointments of Merritt and Burt recruiting collector and naval officer at New York, vice Arthur and Cornell removed, are universally commended in that city on personal grounds. They are wholly unobjectionable, both experienced officers, and command the respect of the business community. These appointments were made in pursuance of a program decided upon by the administration several months ago, when the senate rejected the nomination of Roosevelt to succeed Arthur and Prince to succeed Cornell, but confirmed as surveyor of the port General Merritt, who has just been appointed collector. The new appointments are in the line of the civil service policy of the administration. Senator Conkling’s friends and admirers deem this action a direct thrust at him, intended to cripple him in the race for re-election. General Merritt thinks the appointments |have no political significance whatever, and that the general effect will be to consolidate the party, unless a direct war should be made on the administration. IraB. Wright, the defaulting treasurer, goes to Concord for fire years to meet the other ex-members of the legislature already there. Tbe “best circles” are becoming well represented in our state prison.—-[Springfield Republican. Tbe season is becoming fatal to big rascals. A In an address on co-education results the Rev. Dr. Hill, ex-president of Harvard college declared that the matte? of superiority or inferiority of one sex as compared with the other had nething to do with the question, but said that dissimilarities established by nature herself and life-long in their effects, could not be ignored. All the earlier edneation can best be imparted in common. Beyond this, Dr. Hill does not believe coeducation desirable, for .woman’s tastes are more (esthetic than man's. The annual meeting of the New Hampshire women's suffrage association was held in Concord last week for the first time in five years. The delegates expressed the usuaj opinion that “all that was needed was to arouse the people.” Strong effort will propably be made, next fall, to prevent the return of Gen. Banks to congress. For several elections he has owed his success to certain men who have support, ed him simply as a choice of two evils, not because they admired him or his principles. But the time has now come when they hare

determined to cat loose from him If possible and try to elect a man who will better repre-

sent them and the district.

Two years ago most of onr people seemed I think it ngfent crime todi»W th* orders

of party leaders and ringttmsters, but to-day. you Can not pick up a paper anjrwhere in tbe < Mintty, edited or cob trolled by colored men, [but what yon see that the colored men are

t

their ticket; supporting a democrat for one office and a republican for another. We are certainly glad to see our people becoming independent thinkers.—[Knoxville (Tenn.) Examiner, edited by a negro. The man who does not see that the democratic party of the west is tending towards repudiation and communism is vary poorly gifted with mental vision. The fact is

proved

every < are willing to allow the communists to rule their party. It would not be difficult to guew how long the government would last under the sway of such an organization.—[St Louis Globe Dem-

ocrat.

There are hundreds of millions of dollars now lying idle. There is now twice as much currency as anybody uses. It lies idle and unproductive. How could it possibly be made productive by increasing its quantity? —[Richmond [Va.) Dispatch. THE POTTER . COMMITTEE. Kellogg, In Washington, and Weber, In New Orleans, Give Some Important Tes-

timony.

Senator Kellogg continued his testimony before the Potter committee at Washington yesterday, denying point blank the testimony, of Anderson and Weber as to a peaceable election in their parishes, and the existence of violence and intimidation, and submitting letters to him from D. A. and E. I* Weber, the first relating to intimidation of negroes by rifle clubs, and tbe other to an attempt to assassinate him by a vigilance committee. As to the returning board he testified that none of the members, to his knowledge, ever intimated a disinclination to sign the returns, and that no money was ever paid dr such signatures. A loan of $20,000 he ade in Chicago he declared was made for private purposes, part to set his broth-er-in-law up in business and part to pay his own debts. He knew of no assurances given members of the board that they would be “taken care of,” except the general understanding that in case Hayes was elected Louisiana would also be republican, and that they would not therefore incur democratic hostility. Kelley, a police officer on duty at the state house, was said to< have been the man who signed the names of the electors to the electoral returns on the second certificate that was sent to Washington on account of irregularity in the first one. He has disappeared in company with one Kennedy who was an employe of the senate in Washington, and who got leave of absence through Kellogg’s efforts. But Kellogg said he had no consultation with him as to his pur-

pose in leaving.

At New Orleans, before the sub-com-mittee, E. L. Weber testified that his absence from the state legislature was to elect Pinchback as senator, who paid him $1,000 for expenses. He submitted a portion of the $10,000 of warrants on the state treasury which he received from Twitchell to carry through a bill appropriating $600,000. He couldn’t get his collaterals cashed on account of the collapse of the Packard government. He said that 19 Packard senators were interested in the half million scheme, and Packard had promised that the bill when passed should become a law. The witness stated that he was a member of an association in*the senate in 1876 and 1876 which included Governor Antoine, T. C. Anderson, Twitchell, Burch and others, for corrupt purposes. There were 19 of them. ! They received $30,000 for passing the levee bill and $20,(K)0 for passing the state house bill. Each member of the association received $2,000

of the money.

Republican Campaign Plana. [Washington dispatch to Philadelphia Press.] Ex-secretary Chandler has been in conference with representatives Hale and Gorham, of the republican congressional committee upon the best plan of campaign to be pursued in the fall. The plan projioeed by the ex-secretary is to concentrate the main strength of the campaign in such states as have a reasonable prospect of republican success, and to co-operate in such congressional districts as may be gained by determined effort. In New York it is in-

aa far as

raanaabnmd Orava*.

tended to manage the campaign ai possible for the election oi a legislature in the interest of Conkling; in Pennsylvania in the interest of .Cameron; in Michigan

for Chandler. In Indiana and Connecticut a strong effort will be made to secure republican successors to Voorhees and Barnum. The members of the committee will not exert themselves in Florida, Louisiana, Alabama or South Carolina, as they regard this as a useless task under the present reign of terror over the negroes. A disposition is felt to give some attention to Arkansas should there seem to be any possibility of securing the return of Senator Dorsey or any other equally influential person. In Iowa, Colorado, Wisconsin, Kansas, Nevada, Vermont and New Hampshire the local committees report their ability to carry on the campaign without assistance, other than the supply

of documents.

Murderers Hanged. Hiram Kooks, colored, was hanged at Princess Anne,Somerset county, Maryland, yesterday, for the murder of John Tyl^r, colored, aged eighteen. Foots died proclaiming his innocence. Mike Shaw, the wife murderer, was hanged at Milledgeville yesterday. His neck was not broken, and the body writhed fearfully for six minutes after the fall. The Turkish Finances. Tbe congre.-s resolved that an urgent recommendation, virtually amounting to a command, should be made to the sultan to institute an international financial commission to guard the rights of the holders of Turkish bondk, and to re-establish the finances. It was also decided that commissioners should proceed to investigate the disorders in Rhodope. ^ Poverty Stricken. [Elkhart News.]

the presidency in 181 of the republican party must be poor indeed, when it is necessary for them to go back to the “old war record” to find a candidate. National Campmeeting. The thirty-fifth national campmeeting is in session at Clear Lake, la. One hundred ministers, of various denominations, are present, and n large number of lay attendanta and excursionists. Bishop Peck preached a powerful sermon yesterday. Cyprus Enthused* The inhabitants of Cyprus received the news of the intended occupation of their island by the English with enthusiastic joy, and have telegraphed their thanks to England. Clinton Connty Philosophy. [Frankfort Banner.] A broadcloth coat is no index to the true state of m man’s affairs in times like these. It is more likely to be a reminis* eence of happier days.

Yon hillside with US shafts of jclesralng wh!U, Borne lovsiYa.. ■)«* llto's tall and Ubor d0M. ^ I I Bat there are grave* over who*# slumbering mould No polished marble Mar* Us stately hmd. Atid where no fragrant flowers above unfold h ■ To waken pity for the quiet dead.

Buried from sight, _ „ As only ean be made by Wood and team— Bom* early lovs ttmi crowned us la our yonth. And made life glorious for a short sweet honrSome cherished promise, robbed of strength and irotliy Crushed in the morning ol Bs new-born power. Hera Is tbe spot where memory has engraved The form and face of one we called a friend. One for whose welfare we would e’en have braved Censure and heartache to the bitter end. But M was not wisely done and so we draw Before the treachery of the smiling eyes A heavy veil. The cold world if it saw. Would proffer pity In a thousand lies. Bo life goes on. •We lay the forms away Of things we loved not wisely but too well, And in the lapse of yean we learn to stay The fretful chanting of their funeral knell. W’e learn to smile, before tbe smiling throng, Although the adder’s fangs be deeply set;

And thus we learn to envy theealm rest Of those who sleep beneath the ailent sod. Bound with life’s galling chains, we know ’tls best To bend onr heads and pass beneath the rod. And when we see some mourners heavy clad In robes of black, haggard, with tear-dimmed

We know their live* would bo more bright and glad Could they but reason —It la life to die. Mourn not the slumbering dead, hut rather say, Blest are the sleepers. Yesura may come and go; Heads that are brown and gold may turn to gray; But they are done with earth and team and woe. Somewhere, we know, beyond the world of stars. They will at last- have found sweet Lethe’a stream; Some time we’ll meet them at God’a Judgment bar. Where life Is love, aad love one long true dream.

SCRAPS. “ ’Tis very hot.”*—[Hamlet. Colic ia the currant question. Senator Edmunds is making a trip through Canada with his family. Senator Blaine’s taxes on his property in Augusta, Me., amount to $1,103. A French mayor has been sentenced to six months for ballot-box staffing. Time is nigh for the inconsiderate man to be amputated by the harvester’s sickle^ America is now shipping coal to Italy. Our anthracite sella in Genoa at 40 francs

per ton.

Three thousand teachers are up in the White mountains discussing the moods and tenses. The arrests of pickpockets at the Paris exposition thus far number 180, including fifiy women. About 360,000 acres of heavilv timbered Virginia land Was recently sold by auction for an average of one cent an acre. They call him “Apollo Potter” now, because every time he calls a new witness he strikes a fresh lyre.—[Philadelphia Press General Pleasanton appears to have departed entirely from public notice. “Blue be the glass above thee, friend of our early

days.”

John B. Gough, the temperance lecturer, sailed for England on the steamship Scythia, Wednesday. He gqes mainly to rest his throat. The Cimbria and her Russian passengers are still in the Southwest Harbor on the coast of Maine.^The new cruisers will not ail be ready for rnree months. The last and best sky rocket is called The Jim Blaine. It goes up all of a sudden, bursts all of a sudden, and comes down heavily.—[Detroit Free Press. California expects to realize $50,000,000 on her wheat crop this year, an increase of $26,000,000 on the receipts of last year. California crops are raised mostly by irri-

gation.

Coney island, once so disreputable, is now the popular resort for high and low from New York and Brooklyn. It is reached by four railroads and visited by from 50,000 to 100,000 every Sunday. “May the Lord preserve your eyesight,” said a beggar woman to a man with a small nose, who had just given her a gratuity. “Why?” he asked. “Because,”said she, “you’ve no nose to hold your spec-

tacles."”

The experiment of a republic in Europe —and a Celtic republic—can no longer be considered doubtful, since it is universally acknowledged that France Is to-day the most prosperous, as it is the m ist peaceful, of continental countries. The importance of Baltimore as a point of export is steadily increasing. Heretofore the export ox live cattle has been mainly confined to New York, Boston and some of the ports of the Dominion, hut Baltimore is now adding cattle to the num-

ber of her exports.

The bureau of engraving and printing seems to have been finally fixed upon the government, and the plans for a building, which the first appropriation is $300,i, are receiving their final shape at Washington. The engraving and printing of paper money is the! function of this

bureau.

An observer in London writes that the Grecian simplicity of hair dressing is tyranically the vogue. At operas and theaters, where bonnets and hats are prohibited, the hair of budding belle and bouncing dowager are alike free from rolls, puffs, wads and frizzes. This makes a homely woman winning, and a pretty one demurely rascally to look upon. The intensity of the heat demands the exercise of the greatest caution on thejpart of those whose duties require them to be exposed to the heat of the sun. First and foremost is the keeping of the head cool. Workmen should carry a damp cloth or sponge in their hats, and there should be on the part of all moderation exercised in the use of ice water and spirituous drinks. It is estimated that the ceaseless clatter of the elevated railway in New York haa depreciated property in Sixth avenue $10,000,000. Neither business nor residence property upon that avenue can now be sold or rented at any but the merest fraction of what would have been counted a fair price two months ago. To add to this perplexity, the city isVpending $20,000,000 on the bridge, which will enable people to go over to Brooklyn and build up her suburbs. A bevy of English maids were imported to run the genuine British bar established in Paris when the exposition opened. To guard them from the city’s temptations, they were not allowed to go out nights, and were driven to and from their boarding house morning and evening. The strict regulations proved impracticable, and, after many had packed their trunks for home, the manager was glad to keep the rest by granting them an occasional Sunday out. Yonkers New York, had a fourth of July orator who said: “And while the heart of our nation continues to throb, while tbe hollyhock of liberty dissimulates its fragrance over the aria of oar domain, while the gratitude of the freeborn tons of soil—I mean sons of toil—** calls the heroism of those who bought and fled—excuse me, I should have said fought and bled—for us, so long will we treasure the noble heresy bequeathed to us by our bat-riodc posterity.”

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of Tha Indianapolis Now*.]

Paata, July 1,1ST*.

Next following rite English buildings on the street, you come to an enterprising structure wldch at first glance you’d take for one of the many colored board partitiona erected around excavationa, or the boss “aide show” wi A Dan Rice’* circus. Color—heaven#—auch maaseaof red, white, blue and green were never seen outside of a fourth of July and St. Patrick’* procession. Do you remember the way country railway stationa are built? A long low front of pine boards straight ap and down— the joining of them lathed with Ain atrip* nailed on outside! Well, to represent the great American republic—which poeeeeaaes a multiplicitr and variety of public and private baiiaings, aa handsome aa can be found anywhere in Europe—the genius selected by the body calling itself Ae government— fixed upon this stupendous nideosity. It is a front perhaps of 60 feet long and 20 feet high. Above Aia main front Aere ia perched anoAer of exactly Ae same proportions. On every square inch of this there is plastered shield# on green, white, blue, orange, pink, and indeed more colon Aan I can name, Interspersed with stars, bars, stripes and what not of a spread eagle sort The mam will, for Ae building is but a shell, is brown, or would be if it were not struck by this lightning of daub and color, and the grain of the pine showing through this ghastly smudge suggests nothing so much aa the stationa of which you may see a dozen on Ae Panhandle,, or any one of the million roads running through the “Meridian city.” The observant Frenchman at first supposed it was meant to represent an exaggerated gypsy cart—I don’t know whether you have them in America, but the resemblance is striking—supposing , one cart put on lengthways on the top of *the other, Ae lower being twice as long as Ae upper. The ~ ’

car, genera

slatted as I have described

ary thing. Americans in Europe have many occasions to blush for their country and ihe scandals covering the so-called administrations of the past ten years, but I doubt whether all of Ae past and present put together have lowered us in general estimation so much as Ais ludicrous

being twice as long aa me upgypsy wagon ia a soil of rail ally paintea in a gaudy way and, I have described Ais extraordin-

evidence of an utterly tasteless peqnle. The person responsible for it, I am ^Nd, has fled homeward, #nd well he may

Hurrying from this hideous sight the visitor is, in a step or two, before Ae Sweden and Norway front—a sturdy edifice of pine, wrought into imposing outline, though every timber seems to be of natural size and reminding an American of the log mansions of old times—though of course much more elaborately designed and ornamentally finished. After the northern nations comes Italy, with a facade radiant wiA *he colors that have made her history famous; with plaster models of her poets, painters and warriors, and sketches, stone and bronze, of a thousand years of glorious efforts in literature. Then comes Russia, wiA a facsimile of Ae house of logs built on an island in the Neva by Peter the Great, before St. Petersburg was founded. Though not unlike the Sweden and Norway front just passed, it is thoroughly an expression of Russian feeling and sentiment. Since it is the same country almost as Sweden and Norway, and naturally Ae materials if not the form of building must be similar. Austria present* the next front of * an imposing sort. An imitation of marble, black and white, with panneled heads of her great singers, from Mozart to Strauss, with msrble tablets of her great generals, from Wallenstien and Prince Eugene to the Arch Duke Albrecht, the double monarchy, Austria-Hungary, makes a very impressive niche in the long line of nations. The next that will arrest attention is Belgium for the general proportions ana profuse attention to detail*, which marks her front. Built of sdlia granite, marble and brick. This little kingdom ia the recognized leader on the whole line of nations. It ia impossible to beliehe Aat a structure ao solidly built ia intended only for the duration of Ae exhibition. Its granite walls and towers would stand till the crack of doom—or as long as any mortal thing, if it were so

deuired.

The Swiss front is an airy chalet—very pretty and characteristic. Spain presents a section of the Eecurial; Portugal an exquisite church front, and the other nations which make up Ac sum of the world, leas extended but equally characteristic types of national tastes and conditions. The Japs, for instance, have a plain wall with a map of Japan and Ae plan of Jeddo and Tokio, their great cities. China a sort of silhouette monogram of Ae celestial character of the country. If you bear in mind that as you walk down this international row, from west to east, on vour right are the national fronts, on your left the art galleries, which are simply long glass-covered pavilions, taking up the whole length of Ae paralellogram, save where the Villa de Paris breaks in in the center to relieve the monotony of things. On each side of the galleries, in fact surrounding them on three sides, are blossoming shruba and green sward. The Villa de Paris is a mostbeatiful edifice about as large a* Dr. Bayliss's church, ornamented in the richest rennaissttnee decorations, built of brick and covered with the most exquisite color. On its several walls are represented the glories of French mechanic and decorative arts, while within, the city displg^s many oi her art treasures, all of her scientific, mechanic, engineering and industrial achievements. To tell Ae wonders of this one superb building alone would require six whole issues of The Nows, and eager as you are to give vour hundred thousand readers all, I doubt whether you care to have me do it? Walking through this charmingly arranged villa, every public work in the city of Paris is outlined in plaster, wood, colors and silhouette, so that you can tell how the fifty square miles, more or less, taken up by these two millions of thriving busy-bodies supply them solves with gas, air, water, and the thousand and one things that render Paris so agreeable in summer and so tolerable even in winter. But here 1 am though, running in the rapidish way, not half way through tbe first street of the main fair. Have patience, however, and I’ll go more rapidly in the general departments; for of course it will be impose Ale to do more than glance atlhe millions of object* that fill the exhausting space of the Uhamp de Mars. RoaBUtoor^

INDIAN TROUBLE*,. Bad Faith U»* Cmmm am

Emperor William’s Condition. Emperor William’* physicians hare issued another long statement in regard to hia condition. They aacribe Hia Majesty’s relatively alow progress toward recovery to the great loss of blood and appetite, to the shock to hia system and to mental depression. His attainable degree of strength is not yet regained. Hia power of locomotion is small. Hi* bands are helpless, and he can only eat with assistance. The pbyaicigna, however, are confident of his recovery by the influence of time and exercise.

[Corraaiwedetare oi Th» IndiaaajtoUs NewaJ WsamxoToa, July ti, MTS. It is getting to be a conspicuous fact, if it has not been auffidently ao for many year*, that Aere is something terribly wrong in Ae manner in whigh our governnicut ha* managed Ad Indiana. Witboo* going into tedloua detail* *rd statement' let us glance m eo ~ . vhich shook arrest universal ateenuon, and make the as would be dictated by common sense common honesty. To cite a minor fact the Indian oflk here in Washington openly declares that there is not Ae truA there is proclaimed to be in regard to Ae Indian uprisings and Ae great panic on Ae nor A vert bor-j der. More hostile* are announced aa being on the war path in certain localities Aan there are men, women and children^, in Ae tribes named, and it ia Aerefore im- f

[Dsattna Union.] Voorhees wants “Lincoln^* dogs” to vote for him. Hydrophobia!

there is someAing vitally wrong, and tbe Indian office, or Ae war department, ol boA, should promptly place Ae indisputa-c hie facts before Ae people. The Indian office ia also in receipt off advices from its agents stating that tribe* announced in dispatches from Ae field as. being in arms against the government, are on their reservations and peacefully employed. n That Aere is trouble on Ae plains and in the northwest can hardly be doubted. There are raids, and murders, and warlike uprisings that are a terror to Ae settlers, and injurious to the country. What is the cause? Those who have examined the troubles wiA care are ready to boldly declare Aat they are caused principally by the non-fulfillment on the part of our government of treaty obligation, and solemn compacts, forced upon tbe Indians in many instances, and disregarded by the vlry party in Ae agreement who was the most persistent and • dictatorial in making the terms set forth— terms Aat compelled tribes to leave their homes and the associations of their youth, abandon all that made their simple Uvea pleasant and happy, and go to new homes among strangers m strange lands, where their untutored souls would cry out in wails of agony in consequence of their loneliness and desolation. And Aus the Indian, compelled to move from one reservation to another, from one violated treat]) long meet wit spot on earth he can can ms own ana settle upon with assurance of not being encroached upon and again shoved further

away.

These things become exasperating, and the consequence is that the “red devils,” as Aey are pleasantly called, go in quest of scalps and revenge, and it is no wonder Aat they do, and that terrible outrages are perpetrated. The KlamaA Indians, it will be remembered, fixed upon General Canby, Dr. Thomas and Col. Meacbam and others, and two noble men were brutally murdered, and Col. Meacbam, now the Indians’ most energetic and resolute friend, was bored aa full of holes as a hat rack. And yet the outrage was not as gross that perpetrated upon the same Modoc Indians, almost in sight of Ae same spot, by Ae notorious Bon Wright, under a flog of truce, whereby forty Indiana were ruthlessly and infamously massacred. Thousands of instances of the white man’s perfidy might be cited, and can be ascertained by Aose in quest or information. Let me cite one 1 heard told this last spring at a little convocation bf some representative Indians and their friends in Washington. A few years ago there was a small band of Indians known as the Neetaccas living on Ae coast of Oregon beyond the Cascade mountains. They numbered about one hundred men, women and children. They were peaceable, well-disposed, worked for farmers near during harvest and other times, built good houses, and generally minded their own business. They occupied a comparatively small tract of land sloping to the sea, which, on the land side, was bounded by an almost inaccessible barrier of mountain cliffs and overhanging rocks. Here they had lived, Aey and their ancestors, for many years, until every view of the ocean, every rock and dale, had its tradition and association, and here they expected to live, working up to a higtier plane of life, and becoming “like white

men.”

In 1876 the government instructed certain agents to move these Indians to a reservation on the Salmon river, 40 miles down the coast and, qf course, they refused

' 1 Ben. Himpeon, surveyor-gqn-jd, a man well known by the

to go. Gen. Ben. Himpson, surveyor-gqp-eral of Oregon, a man well known by the Indians and much respected, waa requested by the secretary of the interior to see the chief of the band, called William, and secure a peaceable removal. At one of i the interviews, after some talk and deliberation, chief William said to Gen. .Simp-

son :

“I have heard all yon bav6 said. I understand what you mean. You have talked very strong. I am only an Indian, but I can think for myself. Here I was born. My people have always lived in peace. I have long since made up my mind that I must live like a white man. You see my people are all dressed like white people; you see our houses are like white men's bouses. No man ever gave my jteople anything for nothing; we nave worked for all we have; it is ours, and this country is ours; we never gave it away; here we five, and here we die. You have no right to come to my country and ask me to leave it. I will not leave my father’s p-ave." Gen. Himpson, however, convinced the chief Aat he must go, peaceably if he would, otherwise, if it came to the worst, the troops should be brought into requisition. Gen. Simpson pledged his word that Ae promises made to them, in regard to furnishing material for builaing house* in lieu of those they left, provitL^, iog tools, seed, and subsistence for a certain time, should be aacredlr kept, and promptly fulfilled. When the removal took place one old woman, leaning oq a staff, came to Gen. Simpson and addressing him in her own language implored him to let her stay, as she waa of no value to her children, and to bnry her alive, saying she would soon die anyhow, and did not want to be buried in a new place. The appeal was persistent

he himself would see Aat her bones were

buried by those of her ancestors. General Simpson came to Washington,

reported the success of his undertaking, told of Ae promises he had made, as au-

thorized to do, and urged a fujl compliance on the part of the government, but to this day no partof those promises has been kept, and it does not appear likely that Ae agreement on Ae part of Ae government will ever be regarded. White men took possession of the booses and ground* the Indians vacated, but to their honor, be it stated, paid the Indiana for the improve-

■are otber instances still more flagrant than this, and Aey are Ae principal caosps of the troubles wiA the Indians m Ae northwest. Irreoulus.

Easier Urea "To floe Naples.” - . , : , [Tore Haute Expreaa] The Indianapolis New* ha* called Ben. Butler a fool. There is nothing now left for Ben Butler to do but to torn hia faoe to Ae wall and die.