Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1878 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS: TUESDAY, JULY S3, 1878

SUMMER SILK. SUMMER SILKS AT LOW PRICES TO CLOSE OUT BALANCE OF STOCK.

WHITE GOODS BARGAINS at the BBE-HIVE this week in all makes of White Goods. Close & Wasson, BEE-HIVE.

Tapestry Brussels75c, Extra Supers75c, Two-Plys25c, PER YARD. Web*?*placed on sale W to 80 piece*each of the above goods that ve offer at low than cost to eloMioat. On examination you will find the goods Cheaper and better than anything ever offered before in the State: Great Bargains in All Lines of Goods.

Adams, Mansur & Co., 47 and 49 8. Meridian St Bingham, Walk & Mayhew, JTES'V^ZESIalElIEl.S, 12 ,E. Washington St. JUST RECEIVED, HEW AHD ELEGANT AS30ETMENT OF SILVER COMBS, BAffGLES, BRACELETS, HAIR ORHAMENTS, These Goods are all the rage. Call and see them. SIGH OF THE STREET CLOCK.

THE DAILY NEWS. TUFS JAT. JUliY 28, 1878. The Indianapolis News has he largest circulation of any daily paper in Indiana. Disbaei.i got the garter yesterday. Cockty expenses must be reduced. ScBScnrPTioJfn to the four per cent. loan are increasing. The banks are beginning to send in greenbacks to the treasury for silver dollars. The soldiers’ reunion at Newark, Ohm yesterday was s’ crushing success. The president left at night for Washington. The English pailiament will discuss the liberal resolution antagonizing the government on the same day of the total eclipse—the 29th inst. Bostoh sees another piece of rascality in business affairs that eclijwes Bugbee’s exploit. The treasurer of the Boston Belting company had issued the company’s notes lor $600,000. They punish rascals of this kind in New England. Sbcretaky Sherman's attorney tells the Potter sub committee that on account of the refusal of the main committee to allow the secretary to summon witnesses he has adopted another line of investigation which does not include proof of intimidation, and therefore the permission of the sub-committee is declined. They all seem to be hard to suit. The New York Herald in a timely and able article emphasizes the necessity of the militia Jjot only being drilled to maneuver, but drilled to shoot. It thinks that a mere military organization, although it may represent the arm of a sovereign authority ot a state, is but a weak member if it he not trained in the use of the ride. That is a weapon available for the disturbance of the peace as well as the preservation, and the skilled use of it by the militia, is as neeeseary as the organization of rank and file. The Herald claims that more skilled’ marksmen can be found in the New York militia than in the regular army. Creedmoor was worth millions of dollars to New York city in the riots last year. The Herald does not go too far when it urges a compact militia system for all states and a regulation which shall provide for tlfie practice. Conversion of Greenbacks into Bonds. When the rebellion commenced it was not expected that it would be of long continuance or that it would produce any profound changes in the condition of the country. Mr. Seward proclaimed that it would be ended in ninety days, and that yrai the period of the’first enlistments of Volunteers. Hence all the earlier financial provisions of congress were also temporary expedients. And when, after a year had been passed, it became necessary to relieve the constant financial strain by larger provisions, the notion of a speedy close of hostilities dominated them. This fact should be remembered not only to explain what was djne but to mitigate condemnation for the mistakes which were made. No doubt if those in authority could have seen the end from the beginning they might have conducted differently, saved money and life in its progress, and left the finances! in better condition at its close. It ia easier to criticise blindness after the lact than to foresee and prevent it. When the act of February, 1862, was passed it was intended to be a comprehen»ive financial system. It not only proposed the issue of United States notes as legal tender and their redemption, but also proposed the funding of the floating debtWhen this act first passed the house it made the greenback a tender for all demands due the government, customs as well ( aa other taxes. But in order to sustain them It provided that they might be con-

verted into &-SW six per cent, bonds at the option of the bolder. It was held by Mr. Stevens and others that this would sustain their credit, and bring them back to the treasury in sutlicicnt quantities to. meet current expenses. But the senate took the ground that if this interconversion went on, the government must have the more coin with which to pay its interest, and hence amended the bill excepting customs, pledging the collection of that in coin, for the purpose of paying interest, and finally the principal. But the war did not end as expectedThe provisions of this full .were soon exhausted, and numerous others were called for. In 1863 the demands on the treasury were pressing, the conversion of notes into 5-20 bonds was slow, and, in order to hasten this process of loan, the privilege was limited. Mr. Chase said: “It soon became clear that voluntary conversions would supply only a small proportion of the sums required for the disbursements of the war.” But when the privilege of conversion was limited subscriptions increased, and final I j the whole loan was taken. If, now, this privilege of conversion had only been suspended during the war. and restored at its close according to the terms of the original lawj there is no room for doubt but that the financial problems of to-day would be different. The greenbacks, would long since have been con. verted, specie payments restored, and the fiat nonsense slumbering in embryo. It is somewhat ludicrous to hear greenback men condemning the repeal of this privilege, when its retention would cost them their entire hobby, and not one of them would favor its restoration.

The Impudent Vice. In the whole range of human infirmities and abuses the most impudent, and, in proportion to its diffusion, the most mischievous vice, is gambling. So far as the individual affected is concerned it is worse than drunkenness. It roots itself not only in the natural love of excitement, as drinking does, but in the passion of acquisitiveness, one of the strongest and most easily perverted in mortal nature, as drinking docs not. If one makes a man a brute the other makes him a villain, and between the two the advantage is with the brute. In point, too, of external respect for the law and public opinion, the advantage is with the drinker and the agencies that he deals with. Saloons rarely attempt an open violation of law. Gambling in some forms does it all the time. Not the professional gambling of the “green cloth” and the poker table, though that is as impudent as a tramp at a kitchen door, in spite of the law which makes its pursuit felony, but gambling expressly prohibited by a half dozen sections of the misdemeanor act. When an election is pending who pays more attention to section 28 of that act, which punishes—threatens but don’t do it—election betting by a heavy fine, than he would for the scolding of an old woman? Who cares for the act of 1859 which prohibits the dealing in lottery tickets and the “transmission of money by anybody to lottery schemes, by mail, or express or otherwise? ” It is but the other day Uiat the Journal made rather conspicuous an announcement that its agent in some town up north had won $30,000 in a lottery; that is, had violated the law by sending money to the lottery agent. Section 28 says that “Every person who shall by playing or betting at or upon any game or wager, either lose or win any article of value, shall be fined in any sum not less than the value of the article so lost or won, nor exceeding twice the value thereof.” That is comprehensive enough to cover all forms of betting, but match games of billiards for $50, $100, $500, are publicly announced, publicly played, and largely reported. Trotting matches for hundreds and thousands of dollars are made as freely as if they were commanded instead of prohibited by the “betting upon any wager” of the statute. If those words are not sheer waste of language, they make all kinds and form of betting illegal, ami punish them by a fine equal to the 1)61. Pool selling is as rank if not as rascally gambling 'as faro, roulette or poker. It does not pretend to be anything else. It is impudently honest enough to assert itself in its true character without any disguise. It says, “Here is a place to bet your money on chances that you can examine and decide for yourself.” It is lot. tery without tickets, faro without box or cards. It is gambling; it is “betting on a game;” it is “a division of property to be determined by chance-;” it is a violation of at least two statutes, those of ’52 and ’59Not a mere technical or constructive viotion, but a plain and complete violation in every element of lawlessness. But it confronts the law and the public on North Illinois street as defiantly as its older relatives once did in Vicksburg, and brought their votaries to an extemporized gallows; as they did in San Francisco, and brought more to a handy hanging; as they did here thirty years ago and brought on a demonstration of public wrath that sent every scoundrel of the black-legged variety out of the town with a whirl that made his head swim. Section 29 prohibits the tent or use of any house or shed or arbor or booth for gambling purposes, but what do Chapin & Gore care for that, though it makes the limits of the fine five hundred dollars? Who is going to disturb them? Not the officers of the law, who are all candidates, wt^may be sure of that. Suppose the decent and honest citizens get together in a public meeting, as they did thirty years ago, and decide to vote against every candidate who is a present officer, whether judge or prosocutor, who does not use the full power of the law to put down this impudent and defiant lawlessness. A good big meeting of that kind at the court-house would insert a large sized flea in the ears of some of these official gentlemen. CUmb the Golden Stair. [Wilmington (Del.) Journal.] Bayard will not cease to represent Delaware in the senate till this nation displays its good sense and public virtue by calling him to step up higher.

CI KUKNT COMMENT, Bwton advices say the Massachuseetts republicans will defeat both the demo, rats and Butler in the fall campaign, unless the democrats unanimously support Butler, which is out of the question. He will be nominated next month by the greenbackers,and it looks ns if he might get 50,000 rotes for governor —35,000 democrats, lu.000 republicans .and 5,000 independents, workingmen, etc. The New York Sun is so far blinded by spite as to advance this monstrous projvosition: The power to prohibit carries with it the power to command. If the president has the right to $ty to an officer “Von shall resign from a ’ political organization as a condition of retaining your office,” he has ihe same ripdit to say to him “You shall join a particular political organization as a condition of retaining your office.” Grant will not allow himself to run for a third term, according to the Philadelphia Record. The same paper, recognizing the reality of the Grant movement, says a friend of Grant’s “who .has a reputation extending over the whole United States, and the mere mention of whose name would be a gimrantee to the whole people of General Grant’s intentions and feelings,” said that Grant had written him that “he did not desire to be president again.” Now that is just where Grant shows his wisdom. He stands a considerably better chance of being president of the moon than of the United States of America. This same man added: “I think the trouble is just here. The politicians do not know who to nominate. They are afraid of their own leaders, so in their desperation they have fallen upon General Grant I think they will be mistaken in their man, for when the proper time comas he will give notice to them that they must seek some one else.” There is talk of Senator Edmunds as a presidential candidate. A block of Kennebec ice in December would excite more enthusiasm than that frigid and austere statesman. He couldn’t be more cold and distant tf he had been trellised up on the northwest iide of Charles Francis Adams.—[Washingson Post. Must we have a ‘Ted hot” demagogue for president? The Post seems to settle itself after mentioning that Edmunds is not a gusher, as if that ended it for him. It has nothing to say about his ability, probity, purity or any of the qualities it would require in a man who wanted a position in its office. Will Lord Derby and Lord Salisbury fight a duel? That is the latest phase of the Turkish question. Salisbury declares in the house of lords that Derby told a falsehood about the cause of his leaving the cabinet and Derby says he did not.—[Philadelphia Bulletin. Men don’t fight duels in England. Society would close its doors on any who should, and were there a man killed the law would punish the murderer. They have no plantation manners over there.

Ro he had a brother-in-law, too, in a snug office all these years! Sly man, that Butler. -t-[N. Y. Tribune. “Pa has learned a good deal since he has been abroad and would make a still better president next time."—[Fred Grant. Our opinion is that President Hayes knew what he was about, and moved none too quickly for the country’s good.—[Boston Congregationalist.

The attempt to rebuild industrial prosperity upon this fiat make-shift must end in failure. The attempt to construct a political party upon a false principle will only bring its authors into ridicule. How contemptible then is the man who in his heart dispises tins popular infatuation and yet spreads his sails to catch the vagrant wind that drags the

ship of state away from its safe anchorage.

[Philadelphia Record.

The managers of both the old parties begin to unden-tand that the financial question will be the controlling question in the fall campaign. Their - recognition of the fact is the more significant because accorded reluctantly and in spite of the preparations made for the adoption of different tactics. The new party may or may not be as formidable as its friends declare it to be. But no man with his eves open can doubt that the issue on which greenback organization rests is to-day the Aaron’s rod of American politics.—[New York Times.

MORE IRREGULARITIES. Another Reputable Business Man Disgraced. The announcement yesterday afternoon of the resignation of John G. Tappan as treasurer of the Boston belting company, a position he had held since the organization of the corporation, thirty years ago, and the statement that he used "the credit of the company in the interest of private speculation, was a surprise in financial circles of Boston, where Tappan was regarded as a man of most exemplary character and unimpeachable integrity. The corporation had a paid up capital of $500,000, and its reputation under Tappan’s management had become such that its paper was readily discounted and even sought as among the safest offered for discount. Its capital stock was 5,000 shares of $100 each and early in the year rt sold for $175 per share, whilst the last auction sale was $125 per share. Upon the resignation of Tappen E.^S. Converse, treasurer of the Boston rubber shoe company, was chosen successor and found the affairs in such a condition that he called a meeting of the stockholders and creditors, to-day, at which it was stated that Mr. Tappan had issued notes to the amount of $500,000, and it is also held for $28,000 on outside endorsement as treasurer, the proceeds of which have not been received by the company. Total liabilities of the company are $839,000; nominal assets $',180,090; notes payable as above stated $628,000. Mr. Tappan, to make good the losses to the company, the responsibility for which rests with him, handed over to the creditors his entire property of the nominal value of $1,100,000. In consequence of the condition of its affairs the company has suspended. The Suffering Poor. [Lafayette Courier.] We saw them in conference at Indianapolis, and we learn since that the senator and the editor have been closeted at Terre Haute. Voorhees is to send Smith to congress. The nationals of the eighth district meet at Gosport next Wednesday, and Major Smith will be their choice for congress. Voorhees will then withdraw Mr. Hostetler, who has no show of success anyhow, and the nationals and democrats will combine on Smith as against General Hunter.

A Great Mural Question. [New York PWt.l The currency has got into a shape where the treatment of it has become a great moral question. Shall the government pay its demand debt? As a question of morals this is the whole of it. The republican party can well afford, as a mere matter of policy, to be defeated by supporting the full and prompt and final payment of the government notes. It will make itself a victim for the Potter’s field if it pursues the opposite course.

A Balloonist Killed. A balloonist named L. D. Atchinson, while making an ascension at Elmwood, Illinois, Saturday evening, was killed instantly by falling a distance of 200 feet.

INDIANA NATIONALS. Interview u tth Judge Tipton, Chairman of the State Committee. [i Indnnati Geaette teller.] “In 1876 we seemed beset with traitors. We hud a traitor at Vhe head of our ticket. Then Gen. Buss, chairman of the state committee, sold ns out, and later, Weary Olleman, his successor, abandoned us, taking Walcott-with him. Rush sold to the democrats and Olleman and Walcott to the republicans. Russ is now getting the price of his perfidy in the shape of the office of adjutant-general on Gov. Williams's staff, with a salary of $800. Olleman and Wolcott got their pay in cash when the sale wns made, Olleman taking the lion’s share. Wolcott got about $5,000. How do I know Olleman got money? Because after he sold he had money, going to the centennial and exhibiting it in other ways. Before that he didn't have funds enough to pay his fare to Irvington. He sought the jamition to sell us out. Walcott lifted a mortgage off his farm, but he takes no nhasure in the relief it brought him. With Olleman and Buss he’s branded. “But this year we have no such perfidy or opposition to contend against. Our folks are faithful and true; they know how to organize, and are doing it as well as the old parties. Besides, we have two ably conducted daily papers and several weeklies, whose circulation extend all over the state. I undertake to say that nearly as many Suns go out of Indianapolis every evening as there are copies of The News, and this is saying a great deal. In Terre Haute Major Smith has made the Express a great power. Vigo county is essentially National. We shall carry it t^is year by a round majority, crippling, if not defeating Mr. Hunter.” In response to the question, from what party will the nationals draw most largely, Judge Tipton remarked that it was impossible to say. “We shall injure republicans more in some localities, ana in others we shall hurt the democrats. In republican counties where the organization is a little loose, or where county affairs have been run by a ring until people are dissatisfied, we gain a solid foothold at once, and cut into their majorities very deeply. The same is largely true of democratic counties. It is true democrats are somewhat different in their make up. The great mass of them ding to party, and even if they cut loose they are inclined to go back again before election. Still this is not as true now as it was five and ten years ago. They see we have a party that is come to stay, and they’re more inclined to stay with us. Very likely, therefore, take the state even, we shall draw as many, or nearly as many,' democrats as republicans.”

Dolug Up Men’s Linen. [New York Evening Post.l Some time ago. my husband used to complain that his linen collars did not set nicely in front. There was always a fullness, which, in the case of standing collars, was particularly trying to a man who felt a good deal of pride in the dressing of his neck, as it spoiled the effect of his cravat and often left a gap for the display of the collar baud of the shirt or a half inch of bare skin. While talking with a practical shirtmaker one day he mentioned his annoyance, and inquired if there was any way of relieving it. “Yes,” answered the man, “the fault is with your laundress. While doing up your collars she stretches them the wrong way. Damp linen is very pliable, and a good pull will alter a fourteen-inch into a fifteen-irfeh collar in the twinkle of an eye. She ought to stretch them crosswise, and not lengthwise. Then in straightening out your shirt boson^he makes another mistake of the santo sort. They, also, ought to be pulled crosswise instead of lengthwise, particularly in the neighborhood of the neck. A lengthwise pull draws the front of the neckband somewhere directly under your chin, where it was never meant to go, and, of course, that spoils the set o your collar. With the front of your neckband an inch too high, and your collar an-inch too long, you hare a most undesirable combination.” The speaker was right. As soon as my husband ordered the necessary changes to be made in the methods of our laundrsM wonderful difference manifested itself the appearance of that most important part of his clad anatomy, his neck. List me commend the shirtmaker’s hint to other distressed men. # ■ — After Suffrage for Thirty Years. [Elizabeth Cady Stanton interviewed.] “The efforts of the advocates woman’s suffrage have not, then, been altogether fruitless?” “By no means. They have led to the intellectual development of women themselves. Women have been led to a study of the constitution and the laws, and have been given clear ideas of the full meaning and glory of our institutions. The saddest thing to me about the whole matter is the fact that the largest amount of ridicule that we have met with has been thrown at us by women themselves. This has had a good effect on us, however, for it gave us more courage and enabled us to see more clearly the justice of the cause in which we were engaged. The discuasions that have grown out of the woman suff rage movement have done much in bringing people back to a careful consideration of the fundamental principles of our government. The outlook is very hopeful. We annually hold a convention at Washington, and we have no trouble now in getting a senator’s ear. We go before committees and make our arguments before them. At the last session we spoke to a committee for four hours and we were.invited to continue the arguments on the following day. Senators Hoar, Christianey and Sargent, among others, are very friendly to us.”

He Climbs a Tree. [Cincinnati Star.] A late number of the London Times contains an article headed “Another tall Yankee lie.” It is all about the marvelous marksmanship of Dr. Carver. The following feat especially stumps it, viz., the shattering of a ball tfirown directly at his head by a man thirty yards distant. The Times wants to know what becomes of the man who throws the ball.

Death Rate in Chicago. There were 405 deaths last week in Chicago, being 179 more than the week previous and 147 more than for the same week last year. There were 44 deaths from sunstroke, 115 from cholera infantum, 49 from convulsions, 15 from diarrhea, and less from other causes. On Wednesday, which was the hottest day, there were 106 deaths. Crops in the Northwest. From a summary of over 200 reports received by E. P. Bacon & Co., commission merchants of Milwaukee, from points in Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota, in the past three weeks,.the damage to the wheat crop by the late storms and excessive heat averages 17 per cent, in Wisconsin, 27 per cent, m Iowa, and 27 per cent, in Minnesota.

Beacomt fie Id’s Elastic. The queen has conferred the order of the garter on Lord Beaeonsfield. The investiture took place at Osborne Yesterday morning. f -*> 4

It Won’t Here. ! [Rhiisdelphla Beconl.

“E. W. B.”—A note to the Chief Jones will stop it.

.mayor

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Life. FlttMIng ulong together. Patiently hualsutd and wife Are quietly bearing •. them The sorrowful buttles of life. For life is • sorrowful burden, When poverty, want and owe Are hovering over th< hearthstone, CMtingdark shadows there. For lurking within those shadows Are sorrow and shame and siu, And the wile and the huaiatud shudder. As they see them come treopbig in; For they do not hide in the corners; They stand by the Hule beds, And seem to grow larger and darker Over the shining heads. And poverty clatehea the hand of want And links it with that of sin; And hunger holds out hi* long gaunt arms To gather the children In; And the hearts of husband and wife grow faint, But they send up an earnest prayer For strength to baflle the demons dark. Whose shadowsseem everywhere. ^ Foprayingand hoping, and toiling, By day and far into the night. Grim poverty’s demons are banished By thcglesm of prosperity’s light. Now. plodding along together. Old, tired and gray, Husbusd and wife are waiting The dawn of a heavenly day. Hopefully, cheerfully waiting, For the children all are grown; Save one in the churchyard lying ’Neath a mound with violets strewn; And they whisper to one another, He will call in His own good time. But. oil! that we too at once may hoar When ihe bells of heaven chime. —[Mrs. Lxckesck.

SCRAPS. The last republican daily paper in Mississippi has suspended publicatihn. J. C. Ayer left $20,000,000 for his Ayers to fight over.—[Turner’s Falls Reporter. A prominent physician says children under five should have a daily bath this weather. Ten to one that Charles Reade wrote that red-hot letter to a Cincinnati man with his right hand. Mr. Groesback sailed Saturday for Europe, Prof. Walker is already there, and Gov. Ee-nton sails to-morrow. Miss Stevens, the American beauty, so well known in London society, is to be married to Captain Arthur Paget. The arsenical fumes from a semi-extinct volcanic crater, near Naples, have been found curative in consumption and scrofula. Aberncthy used to say that “of the large quantity of " food a man swallowed, onefourth supported, and the rest he kept at his risk.” In San Francisco there are said to he about 302,000 people, but the whole church going population, both Catholic and Protestant, is only 45,000. One Palmyra, Wisconsin, man has shipped seventy-five tons of cheese ao far this ijeapon. Much of it went direct to England. General Martindale, a leading republican of Indiana, and editor of a republican paper in that state, says the republican party of Indiana is for Grant for a third term.—[Washington Star. Alexander II. Stephens told a Sunday school in Augusta, Ga., last Sabbath that the first taste he ever had "for reading was inculcated in a Sunday school, when he ’ was a boy about nine years old. i One delegate to the congressional convention of the national party, held at Fort Scott, Kansas, last week, being too poor to pay his fare by the railroad, mounted his horse and rode 100 miles to the gathering. W. W. Story sings in Blackwood: “I at the banquet of the gods have sate.” Why, yes! bless yout; soul, Story, we thought it was you, and wondered at the time how you got in. Why don’t you come around and make yourself known to a fellow when you meet him at such pi aces ?—[Ha w key e. The old Mexican lobby, who are anxious for a bout with Mexico, are again putting in an appearance in Washington, They assert that General Ord’s first movement across the Rio Grande will bring about a collision with Diaz’s forces, and that the alternative will then be. left this government to either swallow the insult or fight. It is proposed in Chicago that colleges and normal schools shall have a professor of current - history and business news, whose duty it shall be to teach, students to understand all the news of the day As given in the daily papers. Each day’s news, it is proposed, shaH be read and discussed, any points in it which are not thoroughly undferstood being explained by the professor. Under recent decisions by the secretary of the treasury there will necessarily soon be a large quantity of gold and silver moving about. For its transportation by express the governmeht would have to disburse large sums of money. The question has been raised whether this coin can not be sent in United States postal cars, as through the mails. Under such an arrangement the government would have to pay about one-seventeenth of what the cxpressage would be. Mr. Samuel F. Cooper, U. S. consul at Glasgow, transmits to the department of state a report on trade in Scotland. Wages are steadily declining—laborers receive 50 or 75 cents a day; miners 8 to 12 cents an hour; mechanics $7 a week; printers $S. On railways, conductors are paid $5 to $5 a week ; switch tenders $5; engine drivers 10 to 14 cents an hour; firemen 6 to 8 cents an hour. The cost of living is about the same as in the United States; whisky considered a necessity, costs 300 per cent" more in Scotland than in the United States. Beer is comparatively cheap. Kentucky Expert*. - [Louisville Poat.] While the Courier-Journal complains of the action of Hooaier republicans, what shall be said of the conduct of the CourierJournal’s party in Kentucky? The democracy of this state have gerrymandered the legislative and congressional districts so that it is almost impossible for the republicans to elect a candidate. Here 125,000 democrats elect ten members of congress, and 90,000 republicans elect none; or to state it differently, wh3§! 90,000 republicans can not elect a member of congress, it only require* 10,250 democrats to elect a congressman; 125,000 democrats elect thirtyseven state senators, while the 90,000 republicans only elect one. The CourierJournal should turn its gigantic intellect to the mote in the eye of its party at home before bothering itself about the beam in the optic of t’other fellow. People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

Tribute to The New*. [New York Tribune.] Newspaper exposure* have done more of late years tosuppre*s gambling in its most offensive forms than all the courts and legislature* put together. The Porte want* More Money It Is said that the porte will shortly appeal to all leading foreign capitalists for aid in developing the resources of that country. Foster Declines. Hon. Charles Foster declined the nomination for congress in the seventh Ohio district. I

THE BKPtBLICAN CAMPAIGN. M Voluntary RnbsertpUon*” Corning in Fast —The Work to be Done. I Washington letter.) The secretary of the committee, George C. Gorham, say* that there has never been a time when contributions were more cheerfully or more generally made. The large portion of the republicans who receive government salaries have already contributed generously. Words of encouragement and of approval of the committee’s call upon them often accompany remittances. The committee has been put into the hands of the printer the speech of Miles Gardiner, of Ohio, on the subject of the Potter resolution, which embodies Alexander Stephens’* and Postmaster-General Key’s letters. A large number of Senator’ Windom’s circulars, containing his views on the appropriations of last session, will he widely distributed. Several curt replies to the a.mmittee’s circular from southern postmasters have led to inquiry. In regard to one of them it was ascertained that the postmaster was appointed upon the recommendation of a republican member. He was also backed up by a petition of the people, and the appointment was made by the preceding admiuiatration. Mr. Gorham says that the present postmaster-general has thrown no obstacle in the way of the committee. After the last half of September, the committee will send all the prominent speakers of the party into Ohio and Indiana, and then in October, the men who have been laboring in Maine, Ohio and Indiana, will join the others in a general campaign.

THE INDIANA CAMPAIGN. flow TUden’s Managers Run it in 187fl. [Indianapolis letter to Cincinnati Gazette.] “The fact is,” said a prominent democratic worker to-day, “The state was covered with New Yorkers, trained and schooled under skillful workers. They worked for pay, so much a mouth, and sttent their time as directed by heads wiser than Manson’s or Fuller’s." Indeed, the work was run on such a gigantic scale that no one man could attend to it. The United States presidency was believed to hang upon Indiana and the state of New . York, and all that brains could accomplish was done. I undertake to say that if F’uller or Maneon were put upon the witness stand, neither of them could tell the twentieth part of what was donej and as to criminating the party or any individual in it, it is idle to think of such a thing. Our friends did not do this work to he discovered. It was a secret then and it is a secret now. Tilden’s paymaster was here six weeks, and to my knowledge he held communication with less than a dozen men. He wouldn’t get acquainted with people. It wasn’t his business. Gov: Hendricks was ignorant of the work, and wished to be kept in ignorance. He knew of course that everv effort was being made to carry the state, bujt he knew nothing of the details. If put upon the stand to-day he couldn’t tell anything more than is known to the public generally,”

An Enterprising Agriculturist. Hugh Hastings’s latest story is that an old subscriber wrote to him to stop his newspaper on account of its hostility to Governor Tilden. Hugh replied by’letter: “My antagonism began in my youth when, from the window of Erastus Coming’s store in Albany, I saw old Moses Tildeh and his son come into town from Ijebanon to sell herbs, and that boy, Ham., was pointed ont to me as the chap who sold Job Gould, the herb doctor, grated turnips for horseradish. I think Ham. Tilden has het-DiSelling turnip for horseradish ever since.” The subscriber renewed.

A Repentant Shiner. * - [Indianapolis correspondence Cincinnati Gazette ] Dr. Bartlett doesn’t intend to leave Indianapolis nor the pulpit of the Second church. His people are pleasant and his salary large enough lor a modest man. Flxit Dr. Bartlett. Dr. Withrow, during his pastorate ef Park street church, has added 250 to its membership, has cleared off’ all its debts, and has not the slightest idea of a change. Dr. Withrow left for Chicago to-day noon. Exit Dr. Withrow, and may heaven forgive your correspondent for discussing a mare’s nest of preachers. Fatal Boiler Explosion. Tlie boiler of the engine attached to a threshing machine at work on the farm of Ben Wee sell near Belleville, Illinois, exploded yesterday, killing William Dexter of Centerville, Mr. Jones, a neighbor of WcsseJl, and the engineer, name unknown, and mortally wounding a man named l.ong, from St. Louis; seriously injuring Mr. Wefsell and his brother and another man, name not given. The accident is attributed to the incompetency or carelessmss of the engineer. * gA True Rill. [Cliicago Times. J The democrats of the western and southern states have gone back to the Pendletonism of 1868. In Indiana, in Illinois, in Missouri, in short, everywhere in the west and south except in the single state of Michigan, they demand substantially the same thing. And yet when people call them inflationist* and repudiators, they, get angry, and swear, and call (>eopfe liars.

GRANT AND BI&MABUK. Tba Meeting »»>• Two U Borliu. [New York HmM totter ] Tit* general saunters into the < Aim yard and the sentinels eye him a moment car. ionsly and then p e ent arm*. His vi*tt had been exieotwi, hot certainly an expresident of the United State* would eot in a carriage and six and not quietly < foot—throwing away a half-smoked t ig „ .as he raises his hat in honor of the salute, Ik advance* to the door*, but before he haa time to ring two servants throw them open, and he passe* into an open marble hall. Of all prince* now living this is, perhaps, the most renowned—this of BismarckSchinhausen—who comes with a stringing, bending gait tl rough the opened and opening doors with Doth hands extended to meet the general. You note that time has borne heavily on the prince these past few years. The iron gray hair and mustache are almost white; there is weariness in the gait, a tired look in the face. But all the lines are there that are associated with Bismarck; for if ever manhood, courage, intellect are written on a man’* face by hi* creator, they are written on? this face of the German chancellor. The prince wear* an oifieei* uniform and on taking ti e general’s hand, say* he is “Glad to welcome General Grant to Germany. The general answered that there was no ’ incident in his German tour that more interested him than than this opportunity of meeting the prince. Bismarck expressed surprised at seeing the general so young a man, but on comparing ages it was found that Bismarck was only seven year* the general’s senior. “That,” said the prince, “shows tha value of a military life, for here you have the frame of a young man, while I feel like an old man.” The general announced that he was at that period of life when he could have no higher compliment than being called a young man. By this time the prince had escorted the general to a chair. One of the prince’s •first questions was about General Sheridan. “The general and I,” said the prince, “were fellow campaigner* in France, autfwe became great friends.” General Grant said that he . had had letter* from Sheridan quite recently, and he wa* quite well. " “Sheridan,” said the prince, “seemed to be a man of great ability.” “Yea,” answered the general, I regard Sheridan a* not only one of the great soldier* of ou.r war, hut one of the greatest soldier* of the world—a* a man who is fit for the highest command*. No better general ever lived than Sheridan.” “You are so happily placed,” said the prince, “in America ihst you neod fear: niwnr*. What always seemed so sad to | me about your last great war was that | you were fighting your own people. This i* always *o terrible in war*, so very ) hard.” .“But it had to be done,” said the gene- :

ral.

“Yes,” *aid the prince, “you had to save the union just as we lia'd to save Ger-

many.”

“Not only save the union, but destroy slavery,” answered the general. “I taippoBe, however, the union wa* thq., real sentiment, the dominant sentiment.” .

said the prince.

“In the beginning, yes," said the general, ‘ bul a* soon a* slavery fired upon the flag it was felt, we all felt, even those who did not object to slaves, that slavery must be destroyed. We felt that it wa*’ a stain to the union that men should he bought and

sold like cattle.”

The prince naked the general when he might have the pleasure of seeing Mrs. Grant, The general answered that she would receive him at any convenient

hour.

“Then,” said the prince, “I will come tomorrow, before the congress meets.” Both gentlemen arose, and the general renewed the expression of his pleasure at having seen a man who was so well known and so highly esteemed in America. “I alior-Smlug” Invention*.

[UliRidttlphis Hecorti,]

According to government statistics in 1860 there were 52,009 tailors, or one to every 445 inhabitant*. During the next twenty years sewing machines came in demand, stitl tens of thousand* were sold in all parts of the country, yet the number of tailors did not decrease, for in 1877 there" were 104,679, or one to every 301 of the population. In the meantime the manufacture of sewing machines had given employment to 17,372 hands, and they were fold through the agency of 3,152 * dealers. The same facts are true of the textile industries. While the employment of machinery ha* increased, so also ha* the employment of labor. In I860 the total number of hands employed in textile mills 181,550. Their combined wage* f

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tied to $37,301,710, and the value of their ^reductions to $196,410,400. Ten

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The Frencly Method. American readers may recollect the fatal accident to the elevator of the Grand Hotel, Baris, last winter, which involved the loss of three lives. The courts have acquitted the manufacturer of the aparatus, but sentenced the engineer to a month’s imprisonment and 200 francs fine, and declnredfthat the proprietor of the hotel is civily responsible. German Politic*. A Berlin dispatch says the national liberals admit that they expect to suffer losses in the approaching elections for members of the reichstag, but think they will retain a majority in that body. It is said Count Hatzfeldt will succeed Prince Henry VII of Keusfe, as German ambassador at Constantinople. . Tilden’* Revenge. [Chicago Tiiuo*.] Our* unhappy chief executive get* no repose. He i* hurried about the country from pillar to post, and isn’t permitted to enjoy himself at the white house during the pleasant summer months. Tilden i* there nearly as much a* he. Death of Sam Rasa. The Galveeton News’s Round Rock says: Sam Bass, the notorious train robber, died Sunday, and was buried yesterday. His last momenta were eaay. He refused to inform on hi* accomplice*, saying that it was against his profession. Fire at Cattetteburg, Ky. Nearly all of Catletuburg, Ky., was burned yesterday. About five square* were burned, upon which were all the hotels and business houses of the town. The total loss is estimated at $200,000, with very little insurance. Congressional Nomination. The fifth Ohio district republicans nominated Hon. Wm. Alien, of Darke county, for congress. • - „ • *

rears later the number of hand* employed ii.ad advanced to 256,328, the wages paid amounted to $79,401.867, or double the amount in 1860, and the-value of the productions had risen to $395,158,505. F’tirthcr testimony to the fallacy of the labor argument is borne by the labor census of 1870. In 1860 in all the manufactories of the United States a total of 958,079 were employed. In 1800 the num 1,311,240, while in 1870 there were no les* than 2,053,990. In 1850 the wages paid amounted to $236,759,474, in 1800 to $478,878,960 and in 1870 to $775,584,342. Thee figure* show that notwithstanding the immense amount of machinery wliich was brought into u*e in the United Bute* in these twenty years the number of hands employed had doubled and the amount of wage* paid had quadrupled. . In these twenty years also the population had only increased from twenty-three to thirtyeight and a half million*, or about 07 per cent. The western farmer* whose machinery has been threatened with destruction furnish themselves another reply to the “labor-saving” argument. They say that they are nnable to get the number of hands they require, although they are offering from two to two and a half dollar* a day, while scores of idle tramp* pass their farms during the day. When them worthies are solicited to lend a hand they rejoin with a contemptuous refusal, while in many esses they have demonstrated their acquaintance with the anti-machin-ery theory by burning and destroying

farm machinery.

The Poor ot New York. It is not generally known that the state of New York supports more paupers, in proportion to its population, than the kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; hut such is the fact. There are at present supported in the charitable institutions of that state 43^095 persons, who receive indoor, and 144,833 persons who receive outdoor relief; also 264,457 persons who receive medical relief. In all, 412,485 per-, sons supported more or leas by the state. This, in a population of 4,500,000. • In Great Britain and Ireland the average

32,000,000. This would make the pauper population of the state of New York one offt of cretY eleven, and that of (1/eat Britain and Ireland one ont of every thirty-two inhabitant*. The cost ol the support of the New York paupers ia much greater in proportion than that of the British. For a series of years the British paupers have cost the state about $30,000,000 per annum, or an annual charge of 4e 9^ on the average population.